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The Act of Creation, by Arthur Koestler
The Bloom and The Buzz
The Act of Creation.
by Arthur Koestler.
Macmillan. 728 pp. $8.95.
Arthur Koestler's immense and splendid work may itself be regarded as a creative act—in terms of his own comprehensive formula. For it is an attempt—in general a highly successful one—to make a novel and original unity out of two incompatible "matrices" or contexts: science and art. It would be more correct to say, however, that they have usually been assumed to be incompatible by those who have thought about the subject at best vaguely, while of late they have been further wrenched apart by those who have looked at it more closely, but wrongly. The discussion arose in education where both "Science" and the "Humanities," through their spokesmen, often self-appointed and thinking in terms of the achievements of their specialty rather than of its values, have been inclined to prescribe a course in one or the other as a way of fitting you into whatever collective future is anticipated.
Mr. Koestler is not the only thinker or writer who has realized in the past few years that neither science nor art can be wholly understood in terms of collective usefulness or social and psychological engineering, or indeed in terms of actual results and achievements—works, products, and books. But if others besides Mr. Koestler have seen that the scientist like the artist is a mind and a uniquely personal combination of attitudes, no one else, so far as I know, has shown signs of anything like Mr. Koestler's degree of insight into widely various fields of knowledge. This insight provides him with copious and imaginative illustration, not to mention a detailed and embittered acquaintance with his psychological enemy: the insidious philosophy of Behaviorism and computerism to which all of us could so easily surrender in our sleep.
What Mr. Koestler's book is about is creativity and uniqueness—the way that we are, in fact or potentially, free beings, not automata—or more justly, the way that some beings have been able to emerge, at least from time to time, from their conditioned habituality. But the book is not in itself a philosophy or counter-philosophy: it is not even exactly a psychology of aesthetics. Rather it is an attempt to discern a pattern of behavior that runs through the whole living universe and is most representatively human in art and science. So you might call it a new myth—in no derogatory sense, but as a premonition of what might become a science.
The theme which has engendered this literally magnum opus (of a remarkably aerated texture in spite of its size) occupied Mr. Koestler for years. He produced what was in effect a first volume, Insight and Outlook—mainly the aesthetic thesis—promising to follow it up in a year or so with another, containing the physiological and psychological backing: actually this has taken about fifteen years. During the interval, Mr. Koestler has absorbed and digested a vast and solid body of biological knowledge and understanding which he has injected under the skin of his original thesis.
The common pattern which Mr. Koestler discerns in original scientific discovery, in painting and in music, in poetry and fiction, in both comedy and tragedy, can be seen at its most primitive in the anatomical structure of a joke. Here are the two incompatible "matrices" or contexts, in uncomplicated visibility. I quote an example, not because it is by any means the best joke (a venerable chestnut, as Mr. Koestler says, worn out by analysis), but because of its compactness:
A convict was playing cards with his jailers. On discovering that he cheated, they kicked him out of jail.
"It can be analyzed," says Mr. Koestler, "in a single sentence—two conventional rules ('offenders are punished by being locked up' and 'cheats are punished by being kicked out') each of them self-consistent, collide in a given situation." This is the bisociational pattern which Mr. Koestler now proceeds to track down and illustrate, not only in the mind and works of man, but throughout the living universe:
When two independent matrices of perception or reasoning interact with each other the result . . . is either a collision ending in laughter, or their fusion in a new intellectual synthesis, or their confrontation in an aesthetic experience . . . the same pair of matrices can produce comic, tragic or intellectually challenging effects. [This conversion is performed by] a simple change of emotional climate—the fat man slipping . . . on the icy pavement will be either a comic or a tragic figure according to whether the spectator's attitude is dominated by malice or pity . . . in between these two is the emotionally balanced attitude of the physician . . . whose primary concern is to find out the nature of the injury.
In earlier pages, Mr. Koestler gives a generalized version of his bisociational concept, so as to provide a structural formula for the whole book and bring all its sections together:
The word "matrix" means any habit or skill, any pattern of ordered behavior governed by a "code" of fixed rules. . . . The exercise of a skill is always under the dual control (a) of a fixed code of rules (which may be innate or acquired) and (b) of a flexible strategy, guided by environmental pointers—the "lie of the land."
The chief significance of this structural concept of matrix and code emerges when Mr. Koestler pursues his bisociational creative pattern into the non-human cosmos. Here the quality of matrix and code is developed into the concept of the hierarchical organization of all living organisms, individual and social—a concept which Mr. Koestler carries, with copious illustration, right down into the myriad varieties of motility among the minor organisms ("The lowliest creature and the highest, the moment it is hatched or born, lashes out at the environment"). The central nervous system, in other words, is not a repetitive machine—it allows local autonomy, free play on the periphery.
This holistic and purposive idea of living behavior is aimed again at the Behavioristic foe—nowhere, however, in this book, it must be emphasized, treated as an Aunt Sally, nor as an excuse for dead-horse-flogging. Mr. Koestler places himself, that is to say, on flexible terms with his opponents, in whom he is widely versed, and some of whom indeed, in the later developments of experimental psychology and learning theory, can be shown to be just about on his side. That rats running mazes can acquire a kind of "insight," a map in the head, is conceded by a number of experimentalists. (This is often much clearer when the Behaviorist language is translated: Mr. Koestler is good on the Michelin-tire disguises of technical jargon which, when deflated, may emit a breath of common sense. For instance, Hull on rat-motivation—"That stimulus associated with reinforcement could become at once both a drive and a reinforcing agent. . . ."—which Mr. Koestler boils down to "A rewarding experience can be at the same time an incentive and a reward.")
In attacking Behaviorism as—much more than a scientific method—an insidious evolutionary philosophy with enormous moral implications about our real potentialities, Mr. Koestler reaches to the lowest biological levels to trace the roots of choice and freedom, and claims that all organisms are in fact over-conditioned for flexibility and sensibility in reacting to environmental stimuli.
He comments that 20th-century psychology of all kinds has mostly taken the "detensional" view of motivation, according to which the reduction of painful stimuli either from inside or from outside is what powers the machine. But while he himself regards this picture as "depressingly correct up to a point"—meaning, I take it, that most of us most of the time are habitual automata and copiers—he claims that here he starts from the point where the doctrine is no longer true. He is writing, in short, about geniuses, the actual examples of the original's break with habit, either his own habits of thought, or the unobserved and unreflected assumptions which he has picked up from collective existence.
This is illustrated with great precision and insight from the scientists—notably Kepler and Darwin. The descriptions of the fumblings and the errors which went on in their mental top-storeys during the prolonged incubation period before the "Eureka!" moment, the dramatic and apparently spontaneous breakthrough into realization, make exciting reading; convincing too. And Mr. Koestler is excellent and very illuminating on the real history of ideas, for instance on the "linear" illusion that science, at least, makes a straight progression. He has a melancholy list of mistakes, cases of "snow-blindness," when the best qualified missed the most obvious conclusions—and of the collective resistance to innovation of scientific "establishments" of all sorts. Though, unlike other "churches," the scientific establishments have not usually garbled the founding Word, they have often conveniently mislaid it—or even buried it with dark rites.
To show us the scientist as a real human being reacting to a real and very haphazard world of buzzing experiences is the main intention of the book. But although Mr. Koestler is so much better—as well as more heartening—on the subject of a pleasurable motivation than the psychological schools he attacks, his own view has limitations. He allows, and rightly, a large place for curiosity—from rats in mazes to scientists (including no doubt experimental psychologists). But the reward which is also the incentive for both scientists and artists is our old acquaintance, the Freudian "oceanic feeling" (a mystical sense of oneness with something-or-the-other). I just don't believe that this is a true description. In my view, there is a real and quite special disinterestedness in any true act of creation; it is also an act of vision which is extremely convincing and reassuring to the seer about the nature of reality, about what is there, and hence it is peculiarly satisfying.
While Mr. Koestler has produced an extremely vivid and comprehensive account of the origins of originality, then, he seems to be somewhat weaker on its evaluation, on what validates discoveries and performances and puts them in a scale of values and gives them their rightful place in the worlds of knowledge and appreciation. This is too big a book in every way, however, not to have discoverable weaknesses. And we should be endlessly grateful to a writer who can manage to be stimulating on nearly every one of 700-odd pages. Mr. Koestler's "myth" is a splendid pair of spectacles for looking at a vastly enriched psychological landscape.


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Trash Talking
Hi guys and gals I have been a lurker here for a while and have decided to make a first post.
My question is a simple one.
Is it OK for a fighter to talk trash before a fight. I would like to hear all responses for the pros and cons of this.
And secondly is it OK if the fighter that was getting the trashed talked to says NOTHING until after the fight.
Lets say fighter A is talking trash and really taking low shots at fighter B. Now they both fight and fighter B wins. Before the fight fighter B never once said anything back in retaliation but after the fight fighter B decides to unleash with a verbal barrage of insults.
Do you guys think its bad sportsmanship to do so ?
If fighter A trash talks he better beat fighter B. If he doesn't, fighter B has my backing to say whatever he pleases. Usually, though, if fighter B hasn't engaged in trash talk, he's probably a dignified human being with belief in himself and probably won't need to put down his defeated foe.GET A RED BELT OR DIE TRYIN'.
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Take the recent example of Chael Sonnen and Anderson Silva. Sonnen talk ****, got his ass beat, but is sure as hell to return and talk more ****. Because that's what he does. I think he has reached the point that scientists call "Critical Faecal Saturation", or CFS, this is where it becomes impossible to not talk ****. As soon as you open your motherfucking mouth, Bam!, **** comes flying out. Nothing Chael can do to stop it, really. Yes, Anderson did try to ram his fist down Chael's throat to stem the flow, but that was a temporizing measure. There is no true cure for Chael's CFS.
Now, for motherfuckers who don't have CFS and talk ****? Eh, who gives a ****. Say what the **** you want. Free speech and all that.
And who talks **** after a fight? That's fucking pointless. It's like fucking your girl, bussing off 2 or 3 orgasms inside her, and then putting on the condom. Fucking horse is long through the gate, it's pissin in the wind. Anyone who does that is a fucking idiot.Originally Posted by Goju - joe
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To piggy back on what q- dot said, the amount of trash talking is directly proportional with SDS, or small dick syndrome
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When said fighters are pro it's sad, if they are amateurs its fucking retarded.
just stfu and get it on.
I once had a fight against some 'ghett0 dude', guy came in with one of those pro boxing jackets, facing off nose to nose, except that didnt work cos he came to my shoulders as in height..hehe
did I mention this was just a casual amateur match?
God it felt good when he got knocked on his ass...
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Got it. Thanks.
Really, we don't pay you guys enough.
Good morning, commenters:
If history is our guide, this story might provoke the usual assortment of wide-ranging social commentary that you all seem to enjoy.
For what it's worth, I'd ask you to give it a rest this time. You may have your thoughts about young people or class or neighborhoods, and God love you for that.
But this much is true: Some folks here are trying hard at Doing Something. They don't deserve to be collateral damage in some off-topic carpet bombing.
Want to get something off your chest again? Hang on, we have lots of stories coming your way that may be more on topic. Then, lock and load.
Just don't take it out on this group, please. It's a beautiful morning. Go outside for a while.
Thank you,
Lovely story. Thank you, Janet.
Let me take that one. Post-Standard readers know that the senator put in a good word for the airstrip project because Dave's written that at least three times. Glad you're reading the paper so closely.
We'll be there. Can't wait.
Great pictures, Warren. Thanks!
Thanks for passing that along. It steals your heart.
Thank you, Sgt. You said it better than I could.
Guy, you and I know all these arguments. We see both sides yelling at each other all the time. I'm hoping just this once that people could show the restraint that the supporters of this bill showed.
This may be too much to hope for, but can we not turn the comments on this story into some free-for-all about abortion?
The supporters of this bill and the subject of this story worked very hard to separate this change in the law from that contentious issue. It'd be nice if we could honor that spirit and do likewise here.
Trust me, if you want to battle it out, your chance will come soon on this website. But these parents have a story to tell and it's compelling. Just once, could we play nice here?
I'm reluctant to climb into these discussions, and not endorsing any opinions in this corner. But let's just be clear. Mr. Fitzpatrick does not - by any stretch of the imagination - counter "several, if not most, of the points presented in the PS' article." His letter is a welcome addition to the discussion, but he makes four contentions about the editorial that followed. His letter doesn't address the story, which was substantially based on the court records of the case and not interviews with Gristwood.
The Court of Claims case was decided this June.
It's all over. Amy wins by a knockout. The rest of you can go home now.
Great stuff, Mike. Keep it coming.
You're right. Why we'd do a story is beyond you.
Speaking only for myself, I'm looking to do stories that open your mind. You seem a little tense and it's not good for you.
Stick with us. We'll get you to loosen up yet.
Stay thirsty, my friend.
Great story, Donnie. What an impressive response by everyone involved.
You've posted the same comment four times this month. The newspaper doesn't have a PILOT. You've been told that.
By the way, when are you going to show us your birth certificate?
All the best,
I don't think it's desperate at all. It's a beautiful 2,000-person venue in the summer time. Why play some cornfield or ski slope or indoor club? Besides, it's a payday between stops in New England and the Midwest.
Bright Eyes is actually on a big tour that's doing well.
All credit to a smart promoter trying new places for great music.
I'll post with my real name.
Melinda writes a lot about the best of local arts, the overwhelming bulk of it positive. You tell me how to write a positive story about an orchestra that shut down its season, kept the money for shows not performed and can't predict its future.
1. If she didn't clap last night, it's because she's working. Our basketball writers don't clap at games they're covering, and our City Hall guy doesn't clap at council meetings. They're working.
2. Last night, she posted early a story with the background and some early observations. She stayed to the end and posted a fuller story later.
If you don't like the story, make some point about it. If you want to get personal, have the courage to identify yourself.
If nothing else, you can call me at the newspaper, 470-2200, and tell me all your upbeat story ideas about an orchestra that isn't playing.
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I have a enemy, that has a waypoint walking system, and i want it to patroll at each way point stop.
So i have some flags, that tells if hes walking or patrolling. If he's walking it will call the walkingscript, otherwise it will call the patroll script. I have a problem with de patrol script.
I want the patrol script to turn my robot to his right, around 90 degrees and then turn around 90 degrees do his left, all from the start position he was facing.
Any ideas of how to make this work?
{ lastRotation = position.forward;
Its not working
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You can use state machine for this.
answered Sep 21, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Alexey Elyakov
I already have that, with some boolean flags. i need help with the rotating script!
Sep 21, 2010 at 11:47 PM gilson
As told my geometry teacher, if problem not solves, make larger drawing. IMHO, best way is make more clear state machine WITH SUBSTATES and for each state/substate make separate function, describing actions. After this i think everything will fall into place. Designing behaviour of you robot brings more fun, than complete script.
And sorry my English.
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A method and a system for requesting and retrieving information from distinct web network content sites. The method includes providing a client adapted to send a request that contains a user profile, adapting a server, upon receiving the request, to retrieve data from the content sites that substantially matches the request, and delivering the data to the client. The method is useful in both the Internet and Intranet environment. The invention also relates to a system of requesting data from distinct network content sites. The system includes adapting a client to send a request that contains a user profile, and adapting a server to retrieve data that substantially matches the request from the content sites and deliver that data to the client. The system is useful in both an Internet and Intranet environment.
1. A method of requesting and retrieving information from distinct Internet content sites, comprising:
retrieving by a server of a first set of content data from said content sites;
sending a request from a client, wherein said request contains a user-modifiable user profile;
ranking said first set of content data based on said user profile;
adapting said server, upon receiving said request, to retrieve a second set of content data from said first set of content data, wherein said second set of content data substantially matches said request;
delivering said second set of content data to said client; and
configuring the client to prompt a modification to the user profile.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. The method of
providing a network browser adapted to send said request to said server; and
adapting said network browser to incorporate said user profile in said request.
5. The method of
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10. A system of requesting and retrieving data from distinct network content sites, comprising:
a client adapted to send a request, wherein said request contains a user-modifiable user profile;
a server adapted to retrieve pre-determined first set of content data;
wherein, upon receiving said request from said client, said server ranks the first set of content data and retrieves a second set of content data from said first set of content data that substantially matches said request and delivers said second set of content data to said client;
wherein, upon receiving said second set of content data from said server, said client prompts a modification of said user profile.
11. The system of
12. The system of
13. The system of
providing a network browser computer program adapted to send said request to said server; and
adapting said network browser to incorporate said user profile in said request.
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates generally to web browsing and more specifically to the retrieval of information from the Internet using the world wide web.
2. Description of Related Art
The World Wide Web brings the vast amount of information on the Internet to the public's attention. A problem today in web browsing is that browsing is essentially flat, with no semantic meaning applied to query and search mechanisms. Between the client, an application program that establishes connections for the purpose of sending requests from a user, and the server, an application that accepts connections in order to service requests by sending back responses, there exists a bandwidth problem of not being able to get information quickly enough to the user on the client end to do meaningful operations.
Search engine servers have been developed to allow a user to transmit a request from a client to retrieve data. Search engines rely on a user formulated query to retrieve data. In this case, a client transmits a request to a search engine server to search content sites (e.g., other servers) on the Internet for information based on user-selected "keywords." The search engine searches the web and retrieves data that matches the keywords, then transmits the matching data to the client.
The problem with the typical search engine model is the difficulty in paring down the retrieved data to data that is meaningful to the user. The wealth of information available on the Internet usually translates into a tremendous amount of matching data delivered to the client that the user must sort through to find the most meaningful material. One tool that has been developed to limit the information to particular clients is through server-based filters. Using these server-based filters, users subscribe to a service and the service delivers user-queried data to the client. The specificity of the data is determined by the user through preselected content sites such as news, sports, weather, and stock market updates. The user-selected information is stored on the service. These services typically deliver the entire content site to the server which delivers the same to the client (e.g., all stocks) or further filters the data delivered to the client (e.g., specific stocks). A problem with this system is the user still sees the entire content sites or, in the case of further filtering by the service, the user does not determine in what is delivered unless the user changes the user's selected categories of data.
A method and a system for requesting and retrieving information from distinct web network content sites is disclosed. The method includes retrieving by a server of a first set of pre-determined data from said content sites, sending a request from a client, wherein the request contains the user profile, and adapting the server, upon receiving the request, to retrieve a second set of data from the first set of data, wherein the second set of data matches the request, and delivering the second set of data to the client.
The system of the invention includes a client adapted to send a request that contains a user profile, and a server adapted to retrieve a first set of pre-determine data. Upon receiving the request from the client, the server is adapted to retrieve a second set of data from the first set of data that substantially matches the request and deliver the second set of data to the client.
Additional features and benefits of the invention will become apparent from the detailed description, figures, and claims set forth below.
FIG. 1 presents a block diagram of and system of the invention.
FIG. 2 presents a flow chart of the method of the invention.
FIG. 3 presents a computer program that is a GET request to deliver a user profile to the server with the request, wherein the GET request is in the form of a URL encoded GET request.
FIG. 4 presents a computer program that is a POST request to deliver a user profile to the server, wherein the POST request is in the form of a URL encoded POST request.
FIG. 5 presents a computer program that is a POST request to deliver a user profile with the client request, wherein the program is a POST request that presents a binary profile.
FIG. 6 presents an example of a form user profile.
FIG. 7 presents an example of retrieving a user profile for a request wherein the user profile is in the form of a plug-in.
FIG. 8 presents a flow chart of the construction and organization of the matching server aggregate database.
FIG. 9 presents a flow chart of a matching server adapted to retrieve data from content sites that correspond to a client request that contains a user profile.
The invention relates to a method of and system for requesting and retrieving information from distinct network content sites. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth such as specific configurations, programs, and systems. It will be obvious, however, to one skilled in the art that these specific details need not be employed to practice the invention. In other instances, well-known systems or methods have not been described in detail in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the invention.
FIG. 1 presents a block diagram of the invention. FIG. 1 shows a client 110 that is an application program that establishes connections for the purpose of sending requests to a matching server 120. The client 110 contains a user agent that initiates the request. The user agent is, for example, a browser, editor, spider (web-traversing robot), or other end user tool that can service different requests by a user. Typical browsers include NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR™ or INTERNET EXPLORER™. The matching server 120 is an application program that accepts connections in order to service requests by sending back responses. In the case of a browser, a request is sent in a typical protocol, for example, hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). Other protocols include Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ("SMTP"), Network News Transfer Protocol ("NNTP"), File Transfer Protocol ("FTP"), Gopher, and Wide Area Information Service ("WAIS").
The HTTP protocol is based on a request/response paradigm. A client establishes a connection with a server and sends a request to the server in the form of a request method, Uniform Resource Identifier ("URI"), and protocol version, followed by a Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extension ("MIME")-type message containing request modifiers, client information, and possible body content. The server responds with a status line, including the message's protocol version and a successor error code, followed by MIME-type message containing server information, entity meta information, and possible body content. Most HTTP communication is initiated by a user agent, e.g., a browser, and consists of a request to be applied to a resource on some origin server. URI is the generic term for a coded string that identifies a (typically Internet) resource. There are currently two practical examples of URIs, namely Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and relative URLs. Client requests using an HTTP protocol typically make requests using a URL. The URL is sent to the server and the server returns a document specific to the HTTP request, typically in Hyper Text Markup Language ("HTEL").
The invention contemplates that the matching server 120 walks various content sites (e.g., servers 130-160) on the Internet (or other linked network) to retrieve a pre-determined aggregate of data. FIG. 1 shows matching server 120 retrieving data from content site A 130, content site B 140, content site C 150, and content site D 160. The pre-determined data includes, but is not limited to, data based on broad interest categories, such as sports, leisure, travel, finances, as well as more specific information including, but not limited to, demographics. The matching server 120 digests this information in an organized format to expedite search requests directed at the pre-determined aggregate data.
Next, client 110 initiates a user profile request 100 to matching server 120. The matching server 120 applies the user profile request 100 against the pre-determined aggregate data. The aggregate data that matches the client request is returned to the client 110 by way of an HTML document. The client 110 is then instructed to review the retrieved data and may go to various content sites 130-160 for more information through links in the HTML document returned to the client or to request that the entire contents of a particular content site 130-160 be delivered to the client 110. Alternatively, the user can modify the user profile and execute a new search.
The invention contemplates that the matching server 120 works with the client user profile request 100 to pare down the data delivered to the client. The matching server 120 pre-selects an aggregate of data that is determined to be the most relevant to different sets of user profile requests 100. The matching server 120 does this by searching various content sites 130, 140, 150, 160 on the Internet or other network. A user profile request 100 is applied against the matching server 120 aggregate of data like a sieve, and only data matching the user profile request 100 is returned to the client 110. The invention contemplates that the matching server 120 need not match the user profile 100 exactly, but can accommodate a user's designated acceptable range of variability, i.e., a quality factor.
FIG. 2 illustrates a flow chart of the invention. In FIG. 2, a matching server 200 is developed made up of predetermined data that has been designated desirable to collect. Data might be designated desirable, for example, by the number of previous times the data has been accessed by users of a certain demographic. The matching server 200 organizes the data into a manageable form. For example, an advertising agency seeking to target ten different sets of customers would collect information to target all of the ten different sets of customers. Certain characteristics would be associated with each of the ten sets of customers. The database that would be collected and organized would be an aggregate of data determined by the advertising agency to be relevant to all of the customers.
Next, in step 210, a user wishing to retrieve information from the matching server, submits a user profile, preferably in the form of an algorithm that works with the algorithm the server used to represent the aggregate of the collected data. In step 220, the client then sends the user profile developed by the user to the matching server. At step 230, the matching server performs a search request on its database based on the user profile. At step 240, the matching server retrieves data from its database that matches the user profile. At step 250, the matching server delivers the results to the client. In the example wherein the matching server is developed by an advertising agency, profiles from the targeted customers would be delivered to the matching server, and the aggregate of data in the matching server would be applied against the desired profile. Data that matched the submitted profile would be returned to the client.
Based on the delivered results, the client prompts (step 260) the user to modify the user profile request. If the user wishes to modify the user profile request, the client can send the modified user profile to the matching server to conduct a further search of the content sites. If the user elects not to modify the user profile, the user may, in step 270, review the data and further act on the data by going to individual content servers 272, 274, or 276, or request that the entire contents of a server 272, 274, or 276 be delivered to the client through links returned in the HTML document. Once the user has the retrieved data, the user can end the session (step 280).
The user profile is intended to focus the retrieved results on meaningful data. One type of user profile is related to the demographics of the user. For example, the user profile might include the area code, zip code, state, sex, and age of a user. With such a profile, the matching server would retrieve data to the client related to the client's demographics. For example, if the user were interested in current events in the state of Oregon, the matching server would retrieve data and compile an aggregate database relating to current events pertinent to the user's age and area, e.g., Portland. Similarly, if the user sought information regarding retail purchases, the matching server would retrieve data relevant to the user's demographics. A demographics user profile is also very effective for advertisers that wish to advertise their goods or services on the matching server so that specific advertisements can be targeted at user's with specific user profile demographics. Other user profiles include, but are not limited to, areas of interest, business, politics, religion, education, etc.
FIGS. 3-5 illustrate program code for HTTP transmitted user profiles. FIG. 3 presents a user profile that is a GET method request. The GET method client request includes a request header containing header fields. In this case, the header fields include: (1) A method header field: Get <URL> HTTP/1.0; (2) an accept field, "*/*", indicating that the client will accept any type of data, e.g., text, graphics, etc; and (3) a user-agent field indicating that the user agent, in this case, is Netscape editor Mozilla.
For a simple GET method client request, the user profile is added onto the search request "GET data". The user profile in FIG. 3 would be "item 1 & item 2" where "item 1" and "item 2" are data that make up the user profile. FIG. 3 indicates a user profile that is two items of data. It is to be understood, that a user profile can take on much larger forms and be much more specific than that presented in FIG. 3.
FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate a POST method request made up of a request header with several header fields. The POST method sends data in a message body, not in the URL. Consequently, no data is appended to the URL. The POST method includes two new request header fields not seen with the GET method request: content-type and content-length. These header fields tell the server that there will be data following the request header. The content-length field gives the length in bytes of the message, while the content-type field specifies the MIME type of the message being sent to the server. FIG. 4 illustrates a widely implemented content-type for FORM data being sent to a server, namely:
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded This header indicates that the data is from a form and that it is encoded in the same manner as when appended to a URL. When an HTML FORM submits data to an HTTP server using the POST method, the FORM data are sent to the server as a message body that follows the request header. This message body is generally encoded in the same manner as when appended to the URL. This is contrasted with an HTML FORM that submits an HTTP server request using the GET method, wherein the form data is appended to the URL as a query string. In the latter case, the form data are sent to a query string part of the locator string, in the request header method field.
The content-length field specifies that the user profile is 118 bytes. By specifying a content-length, the server knows when to finish reading the POST request. The POST request and URL-encoded form is set forth below the carriage return line feed ("CRLF"). In FIG. 4, a demographic user profile is shown in text form. The user profile includes the area code, zip code, state, sex, age, and other information about the user. In FIG. 5, similar information is provided in a binary format. In FIG. 5, the server knows that there is a POST request of 418 bytes of binary code to be posted to the URL. To accept this type of binary information, the server must be capable of understanding binary format. The binary format allows the user profile to be submitted in a more condensed form.
FIG. 6 illustrates a user profile form 600 that can be displayed by the User-Agent (e.g., browser) to allow a user to complete a specific user profile that the matching server will accept to refine search requests to more meaningful data. The form 600 used in FIG. 6 is displayed on the client and allows the user to quickly and easily enter and modify the user profile. FIG. 6 presents a user profile form 600 relating to a user profile of demographics. The document form 600 may be in standard HTML text. The form 600 includes a document title and a document URL 620. The document title 610 specifies that the form is a user profile form. The document URL 620 specifies the query string.
The user profile form 600 includes a Search Type field 630 that allows a user to select whether the user wants an exact match of the user profile with the search data or whether the user will accept some lesser amount of exactness as acceptable for retrieved data. The user profile form 600 further allows the user to enter demographics specific to the user. In FIG. 6, the demographics include area code 640, zip code 650, state 660, sex 670, age 680, and some other identifiers 690. Once the user enters the appropriate data in the user profile form 600, the user is instructed to save the profile by a "Save Profile" 694 button. This allows the user to save his user profile and include the user profile in subsequent searches at subsequent times without having to repeat the steps of completing a user profile for each search. Once the form is completed, the user may submit the user profile by indicating its submission with the "Submit Profile" 696. In this case, the user profile will be submitted with the search request as either a POST or GET method request as specified above with reference to FIGS. 3-5 and the accompanying text.
The form 600 presented in FIG. 6 provides an easy way for a user to designate profile information. In this case, the user is not required to entirely imagine the user's own profile, but may rely on a form that is developed for the user to send such a profile. Such a form profile can be distributed in conjunction with the development of the matching server, so that the profiles sent to the matching server would contain only meaningful data for the particular matching server. It is to be understood that the user profile need not be submitted in an algorithm form that is completely compatible with the algorithm by which the aggregate data of the matching server is organized. For example, a GET method request with user profile information appended to the end of the URL. In that case, a targeted user can type any search data that may or may not be relevant to the aggregate data of the matching server. If a portion or all of the user profile was not contained in the database, the matching server would not return data related to that portion of the profile not contained in the database.
The examples thus far presented a user profile and a browser that natively handles the user profile, for example, through a GET method or POST method request. The invention also contemplates that the user profile may be a client program that the browser does not handle natively. In other words, the profile is presented to the matching server in a MIME-type that the browser does not natively understand. In such a case, the browser requires an agent to transmit the profile. An example of this would be a "plug-in" software module installed on the client. Plug-ins are currently used in many applications to handle requests not native to the browser.
FIG. 7 presents a flow chart showing the use of a user profile in the form of a plug-in that works with a client browser to submit a user profile to the matching server. The flow chart shows that a user designates a search 700. The user then instructs the browser to retrieve the user profile in step 710, and the browser, using a POST entitled "Submit Profile", looks on the client for a plug-in to manage and submit the user profile to the matching server. For example, with a typical browser, the instruction to post the user profile is handled by a plug-in. On the client will be a plug-in that is activated to handle the POST request. Once the plug-in is activated, step 720, the plug-in manages the transaction between client and server. In step 730, the plug-in submits the user profile in the form of a request to the matching server.
FIG. 8 presents a flow chart of the construction of a matching server database of the invention. In FIG. 8, a matching server is designated. In step 800, a matching server is designated to construct an aggregate database. In step 810, a list of content servers is designated from which to collect data that will make up the aggregate data of the matching server. The content servers designated could be any or all servers in an Internet environment or select servers in an Intranet or other network environment. Next, in step 820, the matching server walks each of the content servers and collects information that will make up the aggregate database. Next, in step 830, the matching server builds an aggregate database that is a representation of the content servers walked.
In collecting the information that matches the query request, the server may collect different forms of information. First, the server may collect entire content site data, for example, entire files or documents on a particular content server. Instead, the server may collect key words from particular sites (e.g., files) on individual content servers, monitor how often such key words are used in a document, and construct a database based on these key words (step 822). Another way of collecting data is through the collection of content summaries (step 824). In this manner, rather than entire files or documents being transmitted to the server and ultimately to the client, only summaries of the documents or files are collected and presented. The summaries offer a better description of the content of the particular files or documents than the key words, because the user can form a better opinion of what is contained in the abbreviated document or file based on summaries rather than a few key words. The summaries may be as simple as collective abstracts or may involve the matching server identifying often used key words and extracting phrases or sentences using these key words from the document. Finally, the invention contemplates that titles may also be retrieved by the matching server and submitted to the client rather than entire documents or files.
FIG. 9 describes the relationship between a matching server and a user profile in the invention. In order to be useful in the invention, the matching server must be able to recognize a user profile, in whatever form (i.e., URL-encoded, binary, etc.), and apply the user profile to the retrieved data. FIG. 9 illustrates a flow chart of the operation of a matching server that recognizes a user profile and applies such user profile to content site data that the matching server has previously assembled. First, in step 910, the matching server constructs an aggregate database. The matching server, in step 920, designates a list of content servers from which to categorize matching information. The list of servers can be connected via the Internet or may be locally connected in an Intranet or other network environment to the matching server. The matching server walks the content servers and collects the relevant information. The aggregate may be organized, for example, in the form of key words 922 or document summaries 924 as discussed above. The invention also contemplates that the collection of aggregate data may be a continuous process. In other words, the matching server continually updates its aggregate database by continuing to search content sites.
Next, in step 930, the matching server receives a search request that includes a user profile from a client. In step 940, the matching server compares the data in the aggregate database to the user profile supplied by the client. The matching server then delivers the matching data to the client in step 950.
When assessing the database constructed by the matching server to the user profile, the matching server may require an exact match or a non-exact match. For an exact match, it is contemplated that each and every element of the user profile match that of the data collected in the query database on the matching server. If such stringent requirements are not necessary, the user may designate a lesser standard of stringency and retrieve data that is not an exact match to the query data and the user profile. In FIG. 9, for example, if the user profile contained ten distinct data categories, i.e., demographic specifics, a user might designate a non-exact match 934 and then only require a level of stringency 936 of between 20 and 80 percent matching. If the user demanded only two of ten elements of the user profile correspond to the retrieved data, the user might designate a non-exact match of 0.2 or 20 percent. Similarly, if the user wanted 80 percent accuracy, the user designates 0.8.
Instead of a match/non-exact match system, the invention contemplates that the retrieved data be associatively matched to the user profile. For instance, the user profile can specify as a profile increment "fruit". The matching server would retrieve matching data that includes the various kinds of fruits, i.e., apples, oranges, etc. In such case, the matching server must be intelligent to know that an apple or an orange is a "fruit". It is known in the art to employ various methods to accomplish artificial intelligence with computer systems, wherein artificial intelligence may be described as a system in which a computer is able to reach conclusions based on certain inputs after it has been trained or instructed in a certain set of rules or experiences. The most popular artificial intelligence systems are the so called "heuristic search" models as well as "associative memory" systems and "connectionist" models. An associative memory system, for example, solves a current problem by examining symptoms or characteristics of the problem and comparing those systems to previous solutions to the problem. The invention contemplates that an associative user profile may be implemented with known artificial intelligent systems.
Thus far, the invention is focused on a user-created user profile. The invention also contemplates that the user profile may be constructed by the client based on the user's search habits. In other words, an artificial intelligence system may be created to develop a user profile. In the same way that a system is trained to be associative with regard to matching profile elements, the entire profile may be trained based on a user's search habits. For instance, a user profile that relates to demographics can be trained by recognizing user habits relating to demographics. Where a user conducts searches focusing on the Portland area of Oregon, the user profile is trained to recognize the City of Portland, Oregon as a profile criteria. Similarly, if the user conducts searches of information for males of a certain age group or income, the user profile will be trained to recognize these criteria. Once again, the invention contemplates that the user profile be constructed automatically with known artificial intelligence systems. Similarly, the matching server would monitor search requests and create aggregate data based on such search requests to compare against the user profile. Such automatic profile/matching server is ideal for advertisers that want to target specific advertisements at specific profiles. For instance, an advertising agency matching server can construct an aggregate advertisement database triggered by demographics. The matching server could then deliver target local and/or national advertisements to particular user profiles. These advertisements can be designated to be returned continuously while a-user is logged on to the network.
In the preceding detailed description, the invention is described with reference to specific exemplary embodiments thereof. It will, however, be evident that various modifications and changes may be made thereto without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the claims. The specification and drawings are, accordingly, to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense.
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Colin Campbell on how The China Study demonstrates cause and effect.
Colins new book is fantastic I have listened to it two times and it just came out yesterday@ Get the audio version from Audible. easy to digest that way over adn over while you are working or diving. spread this to the other vegan and other groups.
I have used this book thousands of time to challenge meat eaters adn high protein eaters claims. The NEW book is really amazing ("WHOLE") be sure you get it...
In regards to Minger's claims about Dr. Ornish's and Dr. Esselstyn's studies being successful due to removal of processed foods, I believe this is misleading because these doctors did not appear to strongly advise their patients to reduce intake of processed carbohydrate rich foods until more recently, not when they first started reversing heart disease in the late 1980's.
I have made a couple posts regarding a number of populations who predominantly subsisted on organic pasture raised animal foods with little or no access to processed foods, including the pre-contact Eskimo/Inuit, the nomadic Kirghiz plainsmen, and the Nomadic Argentinean Gaucho who suffered from high rates of cancer and cardiovascular disease at a young age.
Thanks Chris. One point that Denise makes which I think is misleading is that the reason vegan doctors like McDougal, Esselstyn, Ornish etc have succeeded is because they had their clients stop using refined and packaged foods. Undoubtedly there are benefits from making these changes but that doesn't mean that eating meat is healthy. And isn't it true that with the WW1 & WW2 studies along with the China Study these populations didn't have access to tons of refined or packaged products prior to their dropping meat from the diet. Consequently the reflected health there relates only to animal product consumption and has nothing to do with refined grains or packaged products. I'm sure there are plenty of studies that show this as well, this just seems to be an obvious point she doesn't account for.
Look for exclusively breast fed studies. Beware of studies that assess fat content of breast milk over time since measurements are often independent of breast feeding frequency. The fat concentration will be higher with decreased breast feeding frequency as the baby integrates other foods in the diet, too. If (as in most studies) there is no account for the frequency of breast feeding, in addition to the actual contents, then the higher fat composition results from the emptying of the breasts, 70% as a function of breast feeding frequency, not as a function of the overall fat requirements of the growing baby. The data is distorted by the implementation of other foods in the diet.
Research continues to reveal that nutrient composition in breast milk tends to be relatively stable, regardless of diet. Types or ratios of fat intake are still important for the mother but the amount of fat intake does not affect breast milk fat composition. This is in contrast to popular paleo diet urban legends and businessmen, who emphasize the importance of consuming more dietary protein or fat for nursing mothers. Psychological stress experienced by the mother has a greater impact on breast milk composition than diet.
Human milk has the lowest protein ratios of all mammals, known.
As infants, higher cholesterol intake among breastfed infants resulted in downregulation of endogenous cholesterol production (Cruz, 1994).
You're right on the milk issue Paul, yes to all the questions! :)
As far as what paleolithic people ate, sorry I can't help you there.. I'm not really interested in what they did back then, I focus on what's ethical, healthy and sustainable to do/consume today.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- It took the Gator Bowl 10 minutes to announce it had extended an invitation to West Virginia after the Mountaineers' 15th straight win over Rutgers.
It took West Virginia 10 seconds to publicly accept.
"It's an honor and a privilege to go down and represent the Big East," said Mountaineers coach Bill Stewart after Noel Devine and Ryan Clarke each ran for a touchdown and JT Thomas had a game-clinching interception with 1:59 left in a 24-21 victory over Rutgers on Saturday.
It will mark West Virginia's fourth New Year's Day trip to Jacksonville in seven seasons, and its first since beating Georgia Tech in 2007. In a possible 2005 rematch, the Mountaineers could meet Florida State and former WVU coach Bobby Bowden in Bowden's final game.
"The Gator Bowl has a great tradition and relationship with West Virginia University," said Gator Bowl Selection Chairman Brian Goin, a WVU alum. "It's just been a super year for West Virginia."
After losing two out of three to South Florida and Cincinnati, West Virginia (9-3, 5-2) did not seem destined for a New Year's bowl. But beating Pittsburgh last week put the Mountaineers back in the hunt.
"After some of those tough losses, we could have easily shut it down," said strong safety Sidney Glover, whose third-quarter interception return for a touchdown opened a 21-3 lead for West Virginia. "Especially losing to teams we felt we should have beat, it's easy to shut down. But we didn't."
Rutgers (8-4, 3-4) will still make its fifth straight bowl appearance and is in the mix for any of four games. But the Knights were not dwelling on that.
"I'll just wait until [Sunday]," cornerback Devin McCourty said. "I'm sure someone will just text or call me."
The Knights were limited to 218 yards and just 65 rushing yards in falling to 4-31-2 against West Virginia.
"I was very proud of our defense and our special teams," Stewart said. "Our defense was phenomenal."
Rutgers quarterback Tom Savage was 9 for 27 for 153 yards and two interceptions. Mohammed Sanu caught six passes for 105 yards.
The Knights' defense allowed 278 yards and held Devine, the Big East's second-leading rusher, to 65 yards, while quarterback Jarrett Brown completed 10 of 20 passes for 116 yards and rushed for 36.
West Virginia opened a 24-14 lead with 8:44 left in the final quarter on Tyler Bitancurt's 41-yard field goal. Rutgers came back on its first play from scrimmage on Savage's 62-yard touchdown pass to Sanu, pulling the Knights within three.
West Virginia had the ball at the Rutgers 40 after Kent Richardson blocked a punt. But the Mountaineers gave it back when Brown dropped a low snap and Alex Silvestro recovered at the Knights' 47.
On fourth-and-6 from the 49, Savage's pass went off the hands of Sanu, and Thomas intercepted. Faced with a third-and-6 at the Rutgers 42, Brown appeared caught for a loss but stiff-armed defensive end George Johnson and gained 12 yards to seal the game for West Virginia.
"Coach always says I'm the best guy on the field when the ball is in my hands," Brown said. "He knew I would be one-on-one with a corner. In that case it was a defensive end, I just had to go get it.
"I did juke at first, he didn't go for it. So I had to bring out the stiff arm. That's the only thing I could bring out."
After a second quarter in which both teams combined for 3 yards, each side scored third-quarter touchdowns without their offenses being on the field.
Glover returned his interception 24 yards for a score, Joe Lefeged returned the ensuing kickoff 91 yards, and Savage scored on a 2-point conversion run.
San San Te added a field goal late in the quarter to pull Rutgers to 21-14.
Devine scored on a 6-yard run as West Virginia went 86 yards on five plays in the game's opening series. Rutgers responded with Te's 38-yard field goal.
Later in the quarter, West Virginia used another long drive to make it 14-3, as Clarke's 1-yard run capped an 80-yard march. Clarke rushed for 58 yards.


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - New Mexico softball defeated Georgia Tech, 1-0, and dropped a 10-2 decision to No. 2 Alabama on the opening day of the Hampton Inn Crimson Classic held in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Senior pitcher Kelly Ninemire highlighted the doubleheader after dominating the Yellow Jackets in the first game and picked up her second win of the season. After the opening day of the tournament, UNM is 3-2 overall and will play two games Saturday as the tournament continues from the Alabama Softball Complex.
Sophomore Samantha Hughes scored the lone run of the game in the first inning against Georgia Tech and was 1-for-2 at the plate with a run scored and a walk. Hughes leadoff the inning with single to center field and quickly moved into scoring position with her second stolen base of the year. She would eventually score on a throwing error by the Yellow Jacket catcher.
The Lobos collected four hits in the contest, including singles by senior Lindsey Elcess, freshman Gabriella Parra and sophomore Sara Loeffelholz.
Ninemire was solid for 6 innings as she struck out four Georgia Tech batters and was able to get of trouble numerous times forcing the Yellow Jackets to leave nine runners on-base. Ninemire improved to 2-0 with the victory and has a 0.54 earned run average. Freshmen pitcher Kyla Nelson recorded her first career save allowing no hits in the final inning and striking out one.
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UNM dropped a 10-2 run-rule decision in five innings against No. 2 Alabama in the afternoon game. The nationally-ranked Tide plated 10 runs on 11 hits in the game and improved to 7-0 this season. The Lobos, who fell to 3-2 overall, tried to rally back in the top of the third with two runs but the Alabama offense proved to be too much for New Mexico.
In the third inning, freshman Kim Holyfield hit an RBI triple to center field with one out to score sophomore catcher Erin Brandow. Brandow scored after walking to reach base. Moments later, Holyfield scored the second and final run for UNM on a wild pitch.
Offensively, the Lobos recorded hits from junior Analise Rubalcava and Holyfield. Holyfield highlighted the game going 1-for-2 with a run scored and an RBI.
Nelson took the loss for the Lobos and fell to 1-2 on the year. She pitch 4.2 innings allowing 10 runs including three unearned. Nelson had three strikeouts in the game and allowed four walks.
New Mexico continues the Hampton Inn Crimson Classic Saturday at 11 a.m. CT against Middle Tennessee State. The Lobos enter bracket play Saturday afternoon and Sunday. The games will be available via gametracker on www.GoLobos.com.


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BRIDGEPORT, N.J. — NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died after an accident Wednesday night in a heat race at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway.
The 37-year-old Leffler, a two-time winner on the Nationwide Series, was pronounced dead shortly after 9 p.m., New Jersey State Police said.
Bridgeport Speedway is a 0.625-mile, high-banked dirt oval.
Leffler finished last Sunday at Pocono in his first NASCAR Sprint Cup start of the year.
From Long Beach, Calif., Leffler made 423 starts in NASCAR's three national series, but won just the two Nationwide races and one Truck Series event in a career that began in 1999. He also made three IndyCar Series starts, finishing 17th in the 2000 Indianapolis 500.
Leffler's last full NASCAR season was 2011, when he ran the entire Nationwide schedule for Turner Motorsports. He finished sixth in the standings that season and hadn't had a steady NASCAR ride since.
He had been racing sprint car events most of this year, including Wednesday night's race, which promised a $7,000 prize to the winner.
Leffler is survived by son Charlie Dean.
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As the sheriff of Oakwood, it's your job to protect the village from an impending swarm of zombies! Kill all of the zombies before they destroy the holy altar! Set traps or shoot them down, but don't don't get into close combat or the zombies will maul you. Pick up health kits to give your health bar a boost (top left), money to purchase upgrades after each level, and ammo to gun down your enemies!
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The Gathering church surrenders $9 million worship center
The Gathering, one of Sevier County's largest churches, has relocated to the Grand Majestic Theater on the Parkway in Pigeon Forge and sold its 30-acre campus and state-of-the-art worship center to a local bank in lieu of foreclosure.
A digital signboard at the entrance to the church parking lot on Middle Creek Road says it has relocated to a new spot across from the Titanic on the Parkway. Utility workers and others outside the church Wednesday referred questions to Citizens National Bank.
Transaction reports from the Sevier County Register of Deeds indicate the 32-acre property was transferred from the Gathering to Citizens National Bank Monday.
"The church did come to us and agree to voluntarily surrender the building in a deed in lieu of foreclosure," CNB President David Verble said. The transfer lists the value at $9 million, but Verble said that's the estimated market value of the property. The church surrendered the property in return for the bank forgiving its debt on the property.
A spokesperson for the Grand Majestic Theater, located at 2135 Parkway, confirmed the church had moved to that location and would have its first service there Sunday. Pastor Gene Wolfenbarger's blog, linked on the church's web site, also confirms the church is relocating. "We are extremely excited about this new direction," Wolfenbarger wrote on the site.
Executive Pastor Tom Weekly spoke to the Mountain Press about the decision, saying church officials decided to leave the campus where they moved in 2009 when they realized they couldn't continue making payments on the facility. The cost was estimated in 2009 at between $10 million and $12 million.
"During the economic downturn, just like many institutions, our income declined and the payments on the building didn't," he said. "Rather than default or have the bank default we honorably decided to return the building to the bank as an asset."
CNB had worked with the church on refinancing and other options, he said, but ultimately it was decided that the best decision was to surrender the campus.
Attendance at the church has actually been up, he said, and the congregation is looking forward to moving to the new location, where their church will be visible to the tourists who come to visit local attractions. "That's like an open mission field, 60,000 cars pass there a day," he said.
In some ways, the move is a return to the church's roots. After Wolfenbarger started the church in Sevierville in 2000, he led services in several theaters before moving into a refurbished fitness center on Chapman Highway.
The congregation grew rapidly over the years to the point that on Easter Sunday 2009, the church held its first service in a newly constructed, state-of-the-art worship center on Middle Creek Road.
Upon opening, the church included a book store, coffee shop and a sanctuary capable of holding about 1,000 people with theater-worthy lighting and big screen televisions for the congregation to watch the service. It included touches like hand-hewn wood on the walls and items with the lower-case "g" church logo on many surfaces.
The facility cost between $10 million and $12 million to build.
The Gathering faced some criticism at the time for building such a large, opulent facility, but church officials said it was done to honor Christ and to give the church the ability to reach a larger audience using the technology included at the building.
"The building and the debt was a good decision at the time, but because of the economic downturn so many people that supported the gathering were hurt and could not give as they had in the past," Weekly said.
In any event, the church was never just a structure, and the congregation is still intact, he said.
"The church isn't a building. It's the people that make up the congregation that make up the church and we have an awesome congregation."


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WALLA WALLA -- A new school-based health center has opened at Blue Ridge Elementary.
Located inside the elementary school, the center is available to students three afternoons a week, during school hours. Basic medical services are provided free of charge, regardless of whether students have insurance.
The Health Center at Blue Ridge is the second school-based health center in Walla Walla, but the first to be based at an elementary school. In 2009, the Health Center at Lincoln was established to serve students of Lincoln High School.
Holly Howard is executive director of The Health Center, the nonprofit that runs The Health Center at Lincoln and the Health Center at Blue Ridge. Establishing a school-based center at Blue Ridge was an early goal, she said.
Blue Ridge's center is inside the school, but runs separately from the school. The center receives no district funds, but received approval from the Walla Walla School Board to operate in Blue Ridge space.
The center staff will be working to meet the young children's basic health needs where it can be easily accessible, while supporting student learning.
Blue Ridge Principal Kim Doepker has embraced the Health Center at Blue Ridge for the potential it has in helping children learn more effectively. Doepker said two years ago her students had the highest rate of absences out of the district's elementary schools.
Students missing entire days of school for doctor's visits or staying home when they might be healthy enough to attend school are some of the concerns the center is looking to address. So is getting children preventative or early health screenings to prevent more serious illnesses from setting in.
"You cannot learn if you are not healthy and those primary needs are not met," Doepker said.
The center is expected to work in multiple ways. Children who are feeling sick can be checked right away by the center's registered nurse and nurse practitioner. Erica Rootvik is a registered nurse who works with Lincoln students in the mornings, and now heads to Blue Ridge for three afternoons a week.
Ellen Collette is an advanced registered nurse practitioner who comes to Blue Ridge from Adventist Health Medical Group pediatricts.
If a child needs more medical attention, Rootvik and Collette will coordinate an appointment with the child's primary care physician. If a child doesn't have a primary doctor, the center can help with that as well.
"By having the health center here, it just takes away one more hurdle," Doepker said. "It's a liaison. It's working together."
Doepker said there is also the hope of getting children and families more specialized care, when repeat illnesses might be the sign of something more complex, such as anxiety or mental health problems.
For Howard, after three years serving high school-aged students through the Lincoln center, the new Blue Ridge center has been an adjustment.
"They're little," Howard said about the Blue Ridge students. "It's just different. Parents are definitely a bigger element."
The Blue Ridge center is open to Blue Ridge students and those in the Head Start/ECEAP public preschool program only. Combined, there is the potential for the center to serve more than 500 children.
And because the students being served are so young, parental consent and communication is that much more important, Howard said. Students won't be able to use the center until a parent has filled out and turned in a consent form and health information packet. Packets were sent home in advance of the center opening to give parents the opportunity to return them in time for the center's opening -- more than 100 families have already done so.
Howard said the center also gives parents some freedom to know their child is being checked or treated for medical concerns, without worrying about taking a day off from work or jeopardizing their employment.
"It makes so much more sense to do it right here, where they spend all day," Howard said.
The Health Center at Blue Ridge opens Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30-3:30 p.m., and is located in Blue Ridge's main office.


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Youth Voice: American Graduate Edition
In the United States, 1 in 4 students will drop out before he or she finishes high school. How does this statistic affect students in our community? WSKG is proud to share the powerful stories of local teens as part of Youth Voice: American Graduate Edition.
On American Graduate Week from March 11 to March 15, we heard from Evertech Alternative High School students, representing eight school districts in our area. The students share their personal stories: on being the first to graduate in their family, how they are affected when a classmate drops out of school, who is supporting them in achieving graduation. The stories first aired during Morning Edition at 7:30am and All Things Considered at 5:30pm on WSKG Radio. You can listen to their stories below.
1st Place: Bobby, Grade 11
Friday on WSKG Radio
"When I look into the world today, I see people struggling for food, people always in need of money, and I hear on the news how scarce jobs are." -Bobby
2nd Place: Thomas, Grade 11
Thursday on WSKG Radio
"If I drop out, or even if I get my GED, I would be throwing away 12 years worth of work." -Thomas
3rd Place Tie: Stephen, Grade 11
Friday on WSKG Radio
"Not because they want to boss me around or treat me like dirt, it's because they want me to succeed." -Stephen
3rd Place Tie: Jordan, Grade 11
Wednesday on WSKG Radio
"IF I WERE TO DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, I WOULD BE THE FIRST PERSON IN OVER 100 YEARS IN MY FAMILY TO HAVE DROPPED OUT." -Jordan
4th Place Tie: Jake, Grade 11
Tuesday on WSKG Radio
"Since I was ten-years old, that has been my dream. That dream is the only thing that keeps me wanting to graduate from high school." -Jake
4th Place Tie: Randy, Grade 11
Monday on WSKG Radio
"On the walk to school, I would plan my day out in my head as if I was setting my own daily goals." -Randy
"I want to have a nice life when I get older." -Lauren
"If the county changed the way they teach, there would be a lot less drop outs and a wealthier country because everyone would be working after high school." -Billy Joe
"I also feel like, as an American, it is my duty to graduate, so I can help my county not go further down the road of unemployment." -Tim
"When I got into the 10th grade, I finally felt accepted for who I am." -Shannon
"I didn't drop out because, in my mind, I knew that I was going to a school where I could start over and meet new people." -Brandon
"I didn't want to be the only dropout in my family and be a disappointment to my mom and dad." -Z.P.
"Dropping out of school wouldn't have made my life any easier. I understand that now." -Baily
"As I got older, I realized that without school, I'd be in the same exact position as my father." -Iggy
"My great-grandmother plays a roll in me wanting to graduate. She's 87 and hasn't seen any of my family members graduate yet, and I'd like to give that to her before she passes." -Dillan
"They open up and you laugh and share stories. That's what is keeping me in high school. This is what I want to do with my future." -Ashley
"I'm going to be totally frank here; nobody's motivating me to graduate, nobody but me, at least." -Donald
"Me? I'm going to finish the race." -Thomas
"I think I would be treated differently. If you drop out, people will think you are lazy" -Bill
"Stuck on some drugs, stuck on some guys." -Dakota
More American Graduate
On WSKG Radio at 1:00pm and 7:00pm
March 7th Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools Are Failing Black Students
March 14th Left Behind, Dropping Out
March 21th Schooled: Teens' Stories About Public Education
March 28th State of the Re:union "Summer in Sanctuary"
On WSKG TV
March 25th & 26th at 9:00pm 180 Days
The four-part limited series will chronicle the changing face of public education in the District of Columbia by exploring the challenges facing at-risk youth and the relationships between teachers, students and educational leaders at DC Metropolitan High School as they work towards the common goal of graduation. DC Met is produced by The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC).
March 26th at 8:00pm Tavis Smiley Reports: Education Under Arrest
The second in a series of education specials from Tavis Smiley Reports, "Education Under Arrest," looks at the connection between the juvenile justice system and the dropout rate among American teens and the efforts to end this link.


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KitchenAid Mixer & Blender, and electric kettle. The kettle has at least a twice daily workout for tea duty, the other two are permanently on the bench because there's nowhere else to store them, because I have a tiny kitchen. No, I don't live in NYC, but Brisbane, Australia. Small kitchens in small apartments with limited storage & counter space are a worldwide problem it seems Mr Kuban, and we single folk surely have a right to bemoan the fact, all the while envying the giant kitchens of others.


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2008 (Freshman): Eres was a walk-on for the Aggies in 2008.
High School: Eres was a three-sport star for St. Michael's High School in Sante Fe, N.M., playing football, basketball and track. Under coach Joey Fernandez, Eres and the Horseman football team won one state championship in his senior season in 2007 and they had three other semifinal appearances in his career. Eres played was a defensive back and wide receiver while he handled the punt and kickoff return duties. He was a three-time all-district and all-state selection. In basketball, Eres led the Horseman two state championships in 2006 and 2006 and they were a semifinalists in 2008. In his last three seasons, St. Michael's High School had a 76-13 record. Eres was a sprinter and competed in the triple jump on the track and field team. He was part of the runner-up 4x100 meter relay team and on the third place 4x200 team. He finished in second place in the 400 meter and had a long triple jump of 40 feet three inches.
Personal: Eres was born in Santa Fe, N.M. and is the son of Sally and Luis Eres. Both of his parents are graduates of New Mexico State University. He was an honor roll student in high school and is majoring in civil engineering at NMSU.


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Femfluentials: London's leading ladies
Sunday 02 August
Ellie Simmonds, Paralympic swimmer: A double gold medallist at the age of 17, she triumphed in the 400m freestyle and 200m individual medley, making up for the earlier disappointment of her Team GB Olympic colleagues, who failed to win any golds in the pool. Simmonds, who charmed the nation by winning gold as the youngest member of the Paralympic squad in Beijing four years ago, also collected silver and bronze. Full of spirit, she is a keen Tweeter.


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Ellsworth Simpson, 93, formerly of Justice, departed this life on Thursday, November 22, 2012, in Ohio.
Born August 3, 1919, at Man, he was the son of the late James Columbus and Mary Toler Simpson.
Friends may gather with the family at the Mounts Funeral Home Chapel in Gilbert on Friday, November 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Funeral services will commence at 1 p.m. at the Mounts Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Palm Memorial Gardens at Matheny.
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Gradkowski-Cody tussle part of testy practice
How are the Ravens jelling with so many changes?
Saturday's practice was the testiest session of training camp so far.
Center Gino Gradkowski and defensive tackle Terrence Cody got into a shoving match that escalated into a wrestling match about a minute later. It took a group of Ravens to pull them apart.
Gradkowski chalked it up to training camp competition. Gradkowski is fighting to be the starting center, while Cody could be fighting for a roster spot, considering how deep the Ravens are up front.
"I've been doing this 41 years, and I've seen about 85 of them (camp scuffles)," said defensive coordinator Dean Pees. "That's part of football. Guys are fighting for position. It's not like the 53-man squad's already been made."
Gradkowski was smiling after practice, saying that he and Cody were friends off the field.
"We did a good job competing," Gradkowski. "You go against each other so many times in a row, things are going to flare up. I think it's good, as long as nobody gets hurt. Tempers are going to flare."
Gradkowski is competing with A. Q. Shipley to be the starting center. Asked how badly he wanted to win the job, Gradkowski said, "It's the most important thing right now in my life. This is the biggest opportunity that I've had so far. I'm really excited about it. I really want to be the starting center."