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God answers prayers
jmac demanded proof of God being there to those who call out to him in the closed 'Is God Evil' poll. If I may I'd like to share a little about a close friend of mine, Adam.
At three years of age I think it was Adam still couldn't talk or use the toilet, so he was taken for prayer healing and as soon as he was brought home he did both like he was doing it for...well months at least. He prayed for someone and they arrived as soon as he did. He turned to God for help and it came at the most unexpected time. He has prayed for answers to questions he had about God and the Bible and they had been answered more satisfactory than religious experts had been able to. He prayed for him to be able to let go of sin and his computer was taken away, it stopped working. Again seeking God he prayed for it to work, not being able to cope with it broken, and the computer was fixed.
God answers prayers. There's hard evidence of it. And aside from that in the year and a half Adam had been in religion he has matured greatly. He is happier, and it's clearly not blind faith. He will question the acts of God and religion and even take the church to task on certain issues, such as the high pressure to give money (in comparison to other churches he has attended).
As for why God does not answer some prayers, such as with the Middle East, I don't know. I do know however that it had been prayed for for weeks and the simple answer of free will that theologians explain away is really BS. But I could try and find some other explanation for it.
Coincidences happen, miracles do not.
Funny, because I remember that scientific study that was done recently that showed that patients in a hospital who were being prayed for had about the same percentage of complications as those not prayed for.
There were three groups: one that was not prayed for, another that was prayed for and not told so, and another that was prayed for and was told so. About half of all patients, regardless of prayer or not, had complications.
No, god does not answer prayers.
Unless there's some actual scientific (not pseudo-scientific) research proving God answers prayers, I'm not going to believe it. Sorry, Nance (I had this really good buddy named Nancy once so the "Nance" has become a habit:o).
Set 2000 Christians up with identical computers and set 2000 atheists up with identical computers. Have all the Christians pray for their computers to break down and see if they do at a higher rate than those used by the atheists. Then I'll believe.
And just as a side note: Think about all the times, as you said, prayers are not answered.
I don't pretend to have all the answers, far from it, but I do know that I have seen God work. Why it has not been successful for other I don't know, but all the bull**** of God answering prayers, being able to spin this fantastic story with ****ing terrorists, ****ing nukes, ****ing explosions, everything like has been said, well it's only bull**** if it's not true, and if seeing prayers answered is not evidence I'd like you to tell me what you would accept as evidence.
There have been people claiming to see aliens, ghosts, every matter of crazy ****, and I don't believe them just because they say they "saw" those things.
This sounds like those Christians in American Idol that claim 'God' made it possible for them to participate in the contest and helped them.
What did God do? give them a $1.95 bus fare?
Bull**** if you ask me.
for those who kisses it ass , and if they are luckey. But you know I should'nt have said that for one of those modderators close this theard. The reason probably they don't want no god bashing for those good christians. I thought this was a free expression forum.
God does not have membership at LF, so as long as you don't bash a member, feel free to bash whatever god you wish. In fact, a classic Senate thread is "Why is it ok to bash christianity?" -though "bash" was edited to read "criticize" before the thread died out.
People from every other religion ALSO claim that they have witnessed miracles, seen prayers answered and felt god.
Does that mean that there are lots of gods out there?
Or is everyone just feeling the same god?
In which case, how do you know it is YOUR god answering the prayers, not the hindu god, or the muslim god, or the god of war, or the giant spagheti (how do you spellt hat word??) monster?
What about some poor 3 year old kid, trapped in some rubble somewhere, crying for help? Will he only get help if he prays to god? He's not old enough to pray or even know about god yet. So he has no chance. But some 90 year old pedophile priest.. he'd get help because he says the right words?
If god has spoke to you then wonderful.. but if he hasn't spoken to me then how can he expect me to believe in him?
If he speaks to me, then i ignore him - fine - hten he can be p***ed. But otherwise he should darn well treat me the same as everyone else.
Those luck guys in the olden times had it easy! God kept popping up and showing that he existed.. so they could choose what to believe based on some actual evidence. But god hasn't shown up in person for over 2 thousand years now.. so he's obviously not that bothered about us believing in him.
Surely its about time for him to commit genocide again? He's way overdue and we have all stopped believing in him long ago.
Herbert et al (2006) concluded that prayer had no effect on a study group of 1,802 patients over a period of about 10 years. The group was comprised of patients that underwent by-pass surgery in 6 different hospitals. Another conclusion that Herbert et al arrived at was that of the patients they studied who were certain that intercessors would pray for them was the highest rate of complication.
There is no "hard evidence" that supports the notion that prayer works. A once cited study in the Journal of Reproductive Medicince (Cha et al 2001) has been shown to be fraud. Tales of "faith healing" simply don't have any basis in reality that goes beyond coincidence, placebo, or out-right deception.
There are many, many anecdotes of the credulous who tout the validity of faith healing and healing through prayer, but ignored are the significances of coincidence and placebo and undo significance is placed on "hits" and "misses" are completely ignored. Forgotten and out-right ignored are the "misses" -the times when someone's health was prayed for and the person never recovered or died. The body has the ability to heal itself and even the most serious diseases can go into remission, so the laws of chance dictate that some of the prayers must coincide with these natural healings and remissions.
Never, however, will you ever see a person who is blind because of a missing retina or crippled because of a missing limb see or walk again. Never will you see diseases and dibilitations "healed" via prayer that cannot heal by the body's own immune system going to work (often in close concert with medical treatment!).
Prayer is bunk. It assumes that religion has some basis in reality and not simply a mental condition.
Benson, Herbert; Dusek, Jeffery A.; Sherwood, Peter Lam; et al (2006). Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: A multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer. American Heart Journal, 151 (4), 934-942
Cha KY; Wirth, DP; Lobo, RA (2001). Does prayer influence the success of in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer? Journal of Reproductive Medicine, 46, 781-787.
So everything here is coincidence? Okay, what type of evidence do you want before believing there is a God?
Which god? Humanity has had many over the last hundred thousand years. More than was ever recorded.
But evidence need have only the quality of being reproducible and falsifiable. As far as "everything" being a coincidence, I don't recall every commenting on "everything."
For example all the good things that have come from Adam praying and turning to religion, it is all passed off as coincidence. Once or twice I can accept but half a dozen times? What about how he is a lot happier now, or that before he became religious his life had little direction and now he has a car, a job and is working out his life, is that all coincidence as well?
Could it not be that Adam had it within him all along? Personally, I find it offensive to transfer the credit of accomplishments to supernatural beings. Lots of people have health, cars, jobs etc. Lots of people get these things after periods of hardship. Surely, you don't assume that someone who is experiencing hardships in life are destined to stay in their hard times unless a god intervenes? How, then would you account for the atheists or people who believe in different gods than yours who overcome?
Prayer probably does work for a lot of people in that it creates a psychological situation that allows them to self-motivate or find inspiration -but this doesn't imply that there is truly a god that is intervening or responding. In that sense, prayer is successful and more power to those that it works for.
Another 'coincidence', since people seem to hate it being called evidence, is that quite a few people that Adam really likes are religious. Cammy from Street Fighter (she is shown to be a Roman Catholic). Aeris from Final Fantasy (the church and her peaceful attitude, not to mention the Ancients deal, makes her either religious or highly spiritual). Spirit from Wing Commander (her dialogue suggests she is religious). Shawn Michaels, he turned to religion after he had to retire because of back problems, and he was able to wrestle again four years later and still does to this day. He has become a lot more open and easier to get on with from my understanding, he even sought peace with the man he 'screwed', or deviously beat, Brett Hart. Long story short he was involved in a plot to make Brett lose when he was meant to win. And looking at these four characters or people, and others along similar lines, the fact they are religious is not the point, these are four people who are basically good, honest, open people.
Oh I love this god answers to prayers thing, it's amazing. All who thinks god answers to prayers let me give you a bit of perspective.
Why of all mighty why would god listen to a single humans everyday prayer?
Why would god listen to Adam's prayers when he doesn't listen to, for example the Libanesee people's prayers? or the million people in the world with AIDS?
If god did listen to Adams prayers that would make him the biggest @sshole ever. What people doesn't understand is that if there was an all mighty god who listened to prayers then there is millions of other people in the world who has plenty worse problems than you who should be getting their prayers heard first. But since they still haven't gotten their prayers heard then there is no god, if he isn't a complete bastard.
Every year billions of people around the world read their horoscopes in papers, on tv, on phone lines etc..
Which means that every day 550 million people get about the same prediction.
Maybe that they will quit their job, for example. Now of those 550 million, maybe 0.01% actually DO decide to quite their job that day. That is still 5.5 million people.
Now to the one or two of those five million people who quit their job, then read the horoscope that is going to look pretty magical.. but it is no such thing. Its just the law of averages.
Now every day 2.1billion christians pray. Something unexpected or unexplained is bound to happen to one of them. It doesn't prove anything unless it is statistically provable across a big number of people. Which people in this thread have show it isn't.
One day I was stuck on a level in driver3. I had literally replayed it over 100 times. I then said "I swear to god, if i don't complete this level this try i'm going to smash up this CD and go to the developers and kill them all!". (I was quite mad! ;) ).
The next try I completed it no problem.
Following the logic of your example that would mean that go responded to my "prayer". I think you'd agree its a strange one for him to decide to answer.
My first comment has to do with surveys... and I'm not just talking about the ones concerning prayer. Complete and total crap, all of them. Can you really take 1 or 2 thousand out of more than 6 billion and expect accurate results?
Now, on to prayer. I will openly admit that I believe in God. I believe He listens to every prayer uttered by every human on the planet... all 6 and something billion of us. I also believe He answers every single one of those prayers. Yes, I just said that. See, the problem we're running into here is that we make the mistake of thinking that, if God is going to answer a prayer, He's going to answer 'yes'.
So tell me this; do you answer yes to everything? No? Wow! Neither do I! The mistake here is that we mistake God's 'no' or 'perhaps later' for not hearing us. I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason. If your puppy gets sick and you pray that God will heal it, and then it dies that night, God didn't ignore you. Maybe, if He'd healed your puppy, you'd have chased it out into the road the next week and gotten yourself killed. Maybe, by letting your puppy die, God saved your life.
Ok, so that example's rather silly, but the point is that everything happens for a reason. Just because you can't hear God say 'no' doesn't mean He didn't say anything.
One final thing that ran through my mind. Earlier, someone mentioned that God doesn't just up and speak to us anymore (can't remember who). They complained that, back when Jesus lived and earlier, God spoke to the people all the time... or something along those lines. But how many people actually heard the voice of God? Sure, there were a few incidents in which God's voice was heard by crowds, but mostly, it was a select few. Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah, Moses... come to think of it, the numbers thinned out rather rapidly after Adam and Eve got kicked out of the Garden of Eden.
At any rate, you can call God whatever you want, but He does hear you. He does answer you. But He's not one big 'yes' man. He's not a gigantic vending machine in the sky that you make a demand of and get what you want. Don't make the mistake of thinking He is.
And think of this: if God really is everything you may have heard (omnipotent, omniscient, ect.), do you really think that a Human, bound by time and space could understand His thought processes?
Oh, dear... I've rambled again. But I hope I've made some good points. I'm gonna keep my eyes on this thread... I'm interested to know your thoughts on what I've just written.
No that's good, I think that is along the lines of what the experts teach, I'll have to look it up. I'm not really in a position to add anything to it because I am not some know all priest, but I do think that is pretty good.
As for people saying things like 'God's a ****ing bastard and so is everyone who follows him', they don't deserve an answer. If that is how they dispute what is presented to them then in my view they immediately lose all creditbility.
In which case i don't understand your logic. The results of a study of a few thousand people are definately more accurate than the annecdotal evidence of one or two stories.
What you are basically saying is that god's answers change nothing. Or they change such a minute number of things that asking him to change anything is pointless. That kind of makes sense.. because if there is a god (and no-one is saying we can prove that there isn't only that there is no evidence either way) then you'd have to figue he'd planned everything out that way for a reason.. so your uninformed pleas wouldn't change much.
Though, if, as you say, god is unlikely to ever change his plan simply because someone asks him.. and the scientists back you up on that.. then it does rather make nancy's initial post invalid.. and make the whole process of prayer rather pointless too.
PS/ @Nancy: don't go and ask some so-called "expert" or "know all" priest. Think for yourself. THere is no way that any expert or priest can know the mind of god any better than you or me. Any answer they give is only going to be their guess, based on no more evidence than we have.
I'll tell you something toms, I'll tell you, Adam had approached religious experts on a number of topics and for a lot of questions can you guess what their answer is? 'I dunno.' And really when people run up against a brick wall like that it can be hard. I know it's hard not just for me but for those who are devoted Christians.
And you don't have to worry about Adam either, like I said it's not blind faith and he will question what he doesn't think is right.
It's been proven that many forms of prayer/meditation positively impact one's health.
However, no matter how much someone prays, they will never grow a new leg.
Really it works exactly like placebo?
We both know that praying/meditation helps. How have you come to the conclusion that it works like placebo?
It's the same effect that it has on the mind.
So is all your research based primarily in the criticism section under wikipedia's faith healing article?
Most people know that the faith healers you see on TBN are shams, just like the rest of the programming and the station itself. In fact most of the criticism of faith healing in this article centers around TBN...which is a discredit to the cynics because it focuses on supposed healers rather than the power of prayer...which has shown much more useful.
I for one don't have a solid opinion on this as I haven't done much research in this area.
So as for a concrete opinion, I can't give one. Though I'm willing to bet it's a little more complicated than the placebo effect.
My religious beliefs tell me that we're mere mortals at the will of the lord, we can ask but only he can deliver.... for reasons unrelated to our suffering or miopic concerns.
Plenty have suffered and died begging for the lords grace....even atheists.
But perhaps here's a better article:
"[the placebo effect] is the phenomenon that a patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective treatment, since the individual expects or believes that it will work."
Taking a placebo pill for relief from chronic pain - or praying to god for the relief - would have the same end result. You take the pill expecting it to heal you... and it does, because you expected it to. You pray to god expecting him to heal you... and the pain goes away, because you expected him to heal you.
I didn't ask for an hypothesis. I asked for the alleged "proof." I agree that the hypothesis you present is intuitive. But GSK said there was "proof."
Noah's Ark was found. If that is proven as fact then it stands to reason that everything else is as well.
Okay, after a quick check on Google there have been numerous claims, but no actual irrefutible discovery.
Say, whenever religion is portrayed in fiction it is almost universally Christinanity, not Judism or Islam or some other religion. Why not. What of Christmas and Easter, are these to be rejected or do you still keep them just so you can get presents?
Noah's ark was most assuredly not found.
Moreover, the myth of the Noachian flood was stolen by its Jewish authors from several earlier cultures, primarily the Sumerians.
I offer this comparison of the two stories, Noah vs. Gilgamesh:
1. At the end of forty days
2. Noah opened the window he had made in the ark and released a raven,
3. Which flew back and forth as it waited for the waters to dry up on the earth
4. Then he released a dove to see whether the waters were receding from the earth
5. But the dove, finding nowhere to perch, returned to the ark, for there was water over the whole surface of the earth. Putting his hand out, he took hold of it and brought it back into the ark with him.
6. After waiting seven more days, he again released the dove from the ark.
7. In the evening the dove came back to him and there in his beak was a freshly-picked olive leaf! So Noah realized that the waters were receding from the earth.
8. After waiting seven more days, he released the dove and now it returned no more.
--Genesis 8:6-12
1. When the seventh day arrived,
2. I sent forth and set free a dove.
3. The dove went forth but came back since no resting place was visible, she turned around.
4. Then I set forth a swallow
5. The swallow went forth but came back, since no resting place for it was visible, she turned around.
6. .
7. .
8. I then set free a raven. The raven went forth and, seeing that the waters had diminished, he eats, circles, caws, and turns not around.
--Gligamesh XI, 145-54
Lines 6 & 7 were left purposely blank to demonstrate the literary evolution of the story itself. As is common with ancient myths that find themselves transmitted from one culture to another as a meme, the adopting culture typically adds more than it subtracts.
Noah was a myth, created by a bronze age priests, borrowed from the literary traditions of an older, greater society.
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On Aug. 25, 2014 the US Open kicked off with a bang at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, Queens and Examiner.com was on the scene for this special evening as a guest of lead sponsor Heineken. The weather couldn't be more perfect and the energy was amazing at the park. Before the opening ceremonies, we headed to the Heineken House. The space is a little oasis overlooking the stadium. It has a really relaxing vibe. All of the tennis matches were live streaming on screens throughout the house. In our private cabana, we were served ice cold Heinekens and delicious sandwiches by Parm Restaurant.
When you first enter the Heineken House to your left, there is a booth that dispenses Heineken from the "Brew Lock System." As soon as the beer is created in Amsterdam it goes straight into a special capsule and it never touches oxygen or carbon dioxide, so when people drink it after it is transported all over the world it tastes super fresh - as if it was just created. The Heineken House also features a gift shop with t-shirts, sweatshirts, caps and other cool memorabilia. There was also a fun photo booth, where guests could pose with a giant racket or tennis ball. Guests were given a color print out and had the option to email the photo to themselves. In the back left of the Heineken House, guests can also buy Strongbow Gold Apple Hard Cider.
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We did one from the restaurant and we wanted to do one special, off the restaurant menu, so we took a classic from the restaurant and that would go well with the beer, which is the Italian combo, and then we wanted to do one that you couldn't get in the restaurant, which we only do once a year for our street fair which is the Mozzarella Grilled Cheese Godfather.
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2013 Massachusetts Softball
Saint Louis at Massachusetts (Game 2)
May 05, 2013 at Amherst, Mass. (Sortino Field)
Score by Innings R H E
Saint Louis......... 073 02 - 12 6 0
Massachusetts....... 100 20 - 3 5 3
Umpires - HP: Rich Silva 1B: John Stoodley 3B: Rich Milburn
Start: 2:20 pm Time: 1:45 Attendance: 345
Weather: 68 & clear; Wind East at 6 mph
LEMIRE faced 1 batter in the 5th.
2013 Massachusetts Softball
Saint Louis at Massachusetts (Game 2)
May 05, 2013 at Amherst, Mass. (Sortino Field)
Saint Louis starters: 18/cf Buschjost; 10/lf Friedman; 29/dp Bohning; 4/1b
Biggs; 13/ss Van Nostrand; 15/c Brand; 21/3b Everingham; 11/rf Harcar; 22/p
Kneib; 3/2b Roback;
Massachusetts starters: 33/cf MATTHEW; 4/ss DIAZ-PATTERS; 13/rf BETTENCOURT;
5/1b MEEKS; 12/2b CARBONE; 6/lf DELLA VECCHI; 24/dp WEBSTER; 22/3b ROGERS; 34/c
GRAY; 3/p RAYMOND;
Saint Louis 1st - Buschjost walked (3-1 BFBBB).
Friedman out at first 3b to 2b, SAC, bunt (0-0); Buschjost advanced to second.
Buschjost advanced to third on a passed ball. Bohning struck out swinging (1-2
KBSS). Biggs walked (3-0 BBBB). Van Nostrand flied out to cf (3-2 BKBBK).
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Massachusetts 1st - MATTHEW singled up the middle
(0-0). DIAZ-PATTERS grounded out to 2b (1-1 BS); MATTHEW advanced to second.
BETTENCOURT struck out swinging (3-2 FBKFBBFFFS). MEEKS singled to center
field, RBI (1-2 KBF); MATTHEW scored. CARBONE popped up to 2b (3-2 BBBKFF).
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Saint Louis 2nd - Brand walked (3-2 KBBBKFB).
Everingham doubled to right center (0-2 KF); Brand advanced to third. Harcar
walked (3-2 BBBKKB). Kneib struck out looking (1-2 KKFBK). Buschjost walked,
RBI (3-0 BBBB); Harcar advanced to second; Everingham advanced to third; Brand
scored. Friedman singled to left field, RBI (0-0); Buschjost advanced to
second; Harcar advanced to third; Everingham scored. Bohning homered to center
field, 4 RBI (2-1 BBK); Friedman scored; Buschjost scored; Harcar scored. Biggs
popped up to 2b (0-0). Van Nostrand homered to left field, RBI (3-2 BBBKK).
LEMIRE to p for RAYMOND. Brand popped up to 3b (1-2 KBK). 7 runs, 4 hits,
0 errors, 0 LOB.
Massachusetts 2nd - DELLA VECCHI grounded out to 1b
unassisted (1-2 BFK). WEBSTER flied out to cf (0-0). ROGERS out at first 1b to
2b to 1b (1-2 KBF). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Saint Louis 3rd - Everingham walked (3-2 FBBFBFFB).
Harcar hit by pitch (1-2 FFFB); Everingham advanced to second. Kroeger pinch
ran for Everingham. Kneib singled, bunt (1-0 B); Harcar advanced to second;
Kroeger advanced to third. Buschjost reached on a fielding error by ss, RBI
(1-2 FKBF); Kneib advanced to second; Harcar advanced to third; Kroeger scored.
Friedman flied out to cf, SF, RBI (2-2 KBFB); Harcar scored, unearned.
Buschjost advanced to second on a wild pitch; Kneib advanced to third. Bohning
walked (3-2 BKBFBB). Biggs reached on a fielder's choice, advanced to second,
RBI (0-0); Bohning out at second 2b to ss; Buschjost advanced to third; Kneib
scored, unearned. Van Nostrand grounded out to 3b (1-1 BF). 3 runs, 1
hit, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Massachusetts 3rd - Everingham to 3b for Kroeger.
GODIN pinch hit for GRAY. GODIN struck out swinging (0-2 KSS). MATTHEW out at
first 1b to 2b (0-1 F). DIAZ-PATTERS grounded out to 2b (1-2 BKF). 0
runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Saint Louis 4th - GODIN to c. Brand singled through
the left side (3-1 BKBB). Brungardt pinch ran for Brand. Everingham reached on
a fielding error by ss (1-1 KB); Brungardt advanced to second. Harcar reached
on a fielder's choice (0-0); Everingham advanced to second; Brungardt out at
third 3b unassisted. Kneib lined into double play 3b to 2b (1-1 KB); Harcar out
on the play. 0 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 LOB.
Massachusetts 4th - Brand to c for Brungardt.
BETTENCOURT singled to right center (1-2 KFBF). MEEKS singled up the middle
(1-2 KFB); BETTENCOURT advanced to second. CARBONE flied out to cf (1-1 KB).
DELLA VECCHI grounded out to 2b (1-0 B); MEEKS advanced to second; BETTENCOURT
advanced to third. WEBSTER doubled to center field, 2 RBI (2-2 BKFB); MEEKS
scored; BETTENCOURT scored. ROGERS fouled out to 3b (0-0). 2 runs, 3
hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Saint Louis 5th - KELLEY, A. to 3b for ROGERS.
Buschjost hit by pitch (1-1 FB). MENDOKER to p for LEMIRE. Friedman hit by
pitch (0-1 S); Buschjost advanced to second. Bohning reached on a fielder's
choice (1-0 B); Friedman advanced to second; Buschjost out at second ss
unassisted, interference. Biggs reached on a fielder's choice (2-2 KFFBBF);
Bohning advanced to second; Friedman out at third 3b unassisted. Van Nostrand
walked (3-1 BSBBB); Biggs advanced to second; Bohning advanced to third. Van
Nostrand advanced to second on a wild pitch; Biggs advanced to third; Bohning
scored. Brand reached on a fielding error by 2b (3-2 BBBKK); Van Nostrand
advanced to third; Biggs scored, unearned. Brand advanced to second on a wild
pitch. Everingham grounded out to 3b (3-1 BBBK). 2 runs, 0 hits, 1 error,
Massachusetts 5th - GODIN fouled out to lf (1-2
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A Christian music singer is urging residents not only to donate to her musical cause, but to also purchase her CD that the singer is charging a whopping $150 per copy for.
Reatha M. Fairley walked into a barber shop in Haledon NJ on a Saturday afternoon, carrying a white bucket with a flyer attached to the front of it. "You want to donate to the children's choir" she shouted to the barbers and customers waiting for haircuts. One person gave a dollar, to which Fairley handed the giver a flyer with a website that would shock even the Security Exchange Commission and give new meaning to the term, vulture capitalism.
The website reveals that Fairley is not only selling her music CD for $150 each, but also claims that the 11 song album has lyrics that come directly from God's mouth. There is also a section of the website where Fairley is asking viewers to sponsor a child, apparently a child connected to the choir of the 7 Wonders Praise Service located in Hackettstown NJ according to the site.
When Fairley was contacted about the matter she seemed reluctant to talk, "I can't talk about my work" she said. "If anyone wants to know anything, just get God's Messages, it will tell you everything." Without answering many questions, she went straight into promoting the CD. However, Fairley did give a reason as to why the CD was set at a price value almost equal to a box set.
"A lot of work went into making the CD. A lot of time and sacrificing." Between both time and financial sacrificing, she felt it was necessary to charge the consumer of her music $150 to which the website reveals that shipping and handling was also covered by this charge. A man named James Robinson was also credited as a producer of the album according to the site as well.
Fairley however at one point seemed to feel that the cost of the CD alone may have been a bit too high. One of her last words before hanging up was, "I can throw a cassette in with the CD too." That's correct, a cassette of the same music already on the CD. At least she keeps her '70s and '80s audience in memory.
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A Chula Vista firefighter arrested by a CHP patrol officer in Calif. was something that required a double-take, but wound up being the result of a communication issue. UPI reports Feb. 6 that the California Highway Patrol detained a member of the Chula Vista Fire Department after he parked his truck behind an ambulance in the passing lane of I-805 where an accident scene that involved injuries had occurred Tuesday.
The unidentified patrol officer instructed engineer Jacob Gregoire to move the engine truck or he would be arrested. Chula Vista Fire Chief Dave Hanneman said Gregoire answered that he was looking for victims and that he needed to check with his captain first. The firefighter appeared to be arrested by the CHP patrol officer and it was all caught on video. It showed Gregoire leaping over a freeway divider before placing his hands behind his back and being handcuffed.
Chief Hanneman said firefighter crews are trained to park their trucks to block-off oncoming traffic for safety.
Gregoire was seated in the back of the police car for a few minutes, but he was not arrested.. He was not arrested. Supervisors from CHP and the fire department met at the scene and Gregoire was released at that point.
"The CHP is going to investigate," Hanneman said. "I think a lot of this had to do with communication."
Joint training education will be discussed so such misunderstandings do not happen again in the future.
Hanneman added that this is not how both agencies normally work together.
Fortunately the firefighter was not arrested by the CHP patrol officer and everything was worked out. Even professionals in that position will have mistakes made on rare occasions.


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Here in Atlanta, it's already starting to feel like summer—80+ degree temps, sun-soaked days and shorter sleeves and hemlines to match. As cities nationwide gear up for the year's most carefree, fun-filled season, it's time to revamp your wardrobe with the hottest looks for the red-hot months ahead. Here's your pür and simple guide to three top trends you won't want to miss.
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This summer, designers from Gucci to Diane von Furstenberg show a taste for the exotic with bold tribal and ethnic print dresses of all shapes and styles. A visual tour de force, this boho-chic look plays well with strappy gladiators and scant accessories that won't steal its thunder.
Boyfriend Blazers
It's not often that we're told to shop a size up, but this summer, that's exactly what fashionistas are saying, at least when it comes to the boyfriend blazer. Purposefully oversized (implying that it was borrowed from that certain someone), this look works best with rolled up sleeves, shorts and leggings or capris.
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When a look most of us had written off as a fad suddenly resurfaces, we can't help but take notice. Such is the case of the playsuit/jumpsuit, which enjoyed considerable runway time this season courtesy of Roberto Cavalli, Etro and company. Wear it with a wide, solid color belt for instant bombshell appeal.


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NEW YORK — The Obamacare insurance exchanges got off to a rocky start Tuesday, with many websites meant to provide new access to the uninsured seeing delays or breakdowns. New York's exchange was swamped with 2.5 million visitors in the first half-hour, officials there said.
The U.S.-run marketplace meant to serve 36 states was unresponsive early Tuesday, with messages saying the site was dealing with "a lot of visitors" or simply "down." Federal officials are aware of the delays and working on fixing them as quickly as possible, said an administration official who wasn't authorized to speak about the issues on the record.
Of the 14 states and Washington D.C. that have their own exchanges, only four — Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Colorado and Washington, D.C. — appeared to be up and ready for business between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. New York time. After New York's website began displaying error messages, state officials began advising people on Twitter to call to sign up, and said wait- times at the state call center were about 10 minutes.
"The not-so-good news is the wheels aren't turning as quickly as they could," said Cesar Perales, New York's secretary of state, at a news conference in New York City. "We are doing something that has never been done before."
The exchanges, created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, struggled as the United States faced its first partial government shutdown in 17 years, borne of Republican opposition to the law. The shutdown didn't delay the opening of the new markets because they are funded largely through mandatory spending not affected by the budget showdown in Congress.
The federal exchange began posting error messages for at least 24 of 36 states as of 8 a.m. Washington time, Reuters reported. The Obama administration needs some breathing room, said Kathleen Sebelius, the HHS secretary, at a briefing with reporters yesterday. She compared the exchanges to Apple Inc.'s new mobile operating system, which the company upgraded days after its debut to correct a flaw.
"No one is calling on Apple to stop selling devices for a year or to get out of the business," Sebelius said. "It's a reminder that we're likely to have some glitches. We'll fix them and move on."
Would-be enrollees don't have to complete the process until Dec. 15 to guarantee coverage starting in Jan. 1. They may be dissuaded from signing up this month because the first premium payment to their insurer is due within 30 days of enrollment.
Still, the problems offer an embarrassing debut for a system at the heart of the Obamacare's efforts to cover more of the 48 million uninsured Americans. The exchanges are supposed to help consumers access federal subsidies and choose from a menu of private insurance plans that take effect Jan. 1, when the law requires all Americans to obtain insurance.
"We have built a dynamic system and are prepared to make adjustments as needed and improve the consumer experience," Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Department, said in an email. "This new system will allow millions of Americans to access quality, affordable health care coverage."
The Obama administration had warned of early glitches for weeks and even states that have cooperated with the law's rollout had downplayed today's debut, saying they wanted to avoid having their websites and call centers overwhelmed.
Maryland pushed back the planned 8 a.m. opening of its online marketplace until noon, according to a message on its website that said the exchange was "experiencing connectivity issues."
At the Community Clinic Inc. in Silver Spring, Md., clinic, "navigators" trained to help people enroll handed out fliers with details on the exchange offerings, or mad e appointments for people to come back later.
"It was supposed to be up," said Apoorva Srivastava, one of the navigators, "so there's not all that much we can do."
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I've had coffee with an ambassador who represents the elephant in the corner of the room.
It is a virtual elephant in a virtual room. But it is a room we're all in and the elephant threatens to squash some of us. Even in virtual rooms there's only so much space.
The ambassador's name is Andy Hobsbawm. We'll get to the elephant's name in a moment. Andy's something of a digital guru (in the Digital Hall of Fame, no less ) and one of the founders of the business EVRYTHNG.
He and his colleagues are concerned with developing 'the internet of things'. That's the elephant. They point out that we are at a point where everything significant that we buy could carry a digital signature to be uniquely identifiable and connected so as to create a web of things. The life of that bottle of water on your desk, or the shoe on your foot, can be trace-able, link-able, and thereby carry intelligence. About you as well as it.
It sounds a little far-fetched and yet it is already here. Andy's company is doing projects with the likes of Diageo, while the link between Apple and Nike+ is well established, enabling our running shoes to chat to our iPhones and computers and entertain the web with our efforts to get fit.
Anyway, Andy's business gives me a headache quite quickly as I struggle to imagine the implications of the humungous data generated by everything we touch. And then there's the data generated by mixing up the data with other data in order to create more data that predicts the future and reshapes our existence. Got that? Just a little scary, yes?
I don't mind my bike or my fridge talking about my habits but the implications of underwear or individual deodorants having their own Facebook page, or the web-of-things equivalent, is mind-boggling. What if - oh dear, how embarrassing - you don't appear to have a deodorant life? Too much information or not enough, either way as we become even more defined by our consumption this could get vicious. I can sense a lobby forming to say our rights are being eroded in ways that go way beyond what Google's done to us so far.
But never mind the encroachment, there seems an inevitability about the internet-of-things. It's going to creep up on us rather fast – elephants do move amazingly quickly – and then sit right on us. It could crush several aspects of the media and marketing landscape we know and love and earn our livings from.
The internet-of-things will change how we define and spend across media, what we think of as marketing, and how we conceive and design products. Just a few alterations to consider then.
Everything becomes media (once again, Marshall McLuhan's crazier statements become true). Everything will be developed and designed with a view to how it is no longer a dumb product but one that communicates. Endlessly. We will need to plan and control the interaction with a stream of information from the birth of the product through all its mediations unto its death. Us do part. Of course, in some cases, our death may come the sooner and that will be a little blip of data in the life of the product.
I'll finish by mashing this thought with something shared by Sir Martin Sorrell recently. He wrote that American consumers spend less than 10 per cent of their time on newspapers and magazines, but more than 20 per cent of marketing budgets are spent on these traditional media.
And these consumers apparently spend a third of their time on the internet and mobile while only 20 per cent of budgets are spent on those media.
Sir Martin concluded that things must change. His clarity with stats, and his position at the head of the mighty WPP, makes it seem inevitable. The pressure is mounting and at some point the spending – and thinking – will slide more rapidly from traditional to digital. But some of that digital media is already looking old. What the internet-of-things proposes to do is reshape aspects of the digital offer, adding a higher level of measurement, accountability and control that makes the case even more compelling to spend there. The future of media and marketing will look very different again.
Now I've forgotten to tell you the elephant's name. Feel free to propose one below. A delightful old media souvenir to the best suggestion.
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May 14, 2009
College Station, Texas - The seventh-seeded UCLA men's tennis team booked a spot in the NCAA Quarterfinals for the 32nd time in 33 years on Thursday, recording a 4-1 victory over unseeded Miami in a round of 16 showdown at Texas A&M's George P. Mitchell Tennis Center. Next up for the Bruins (20-4) is a meeting with second-seeded Mississippi (27-2) on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. (CST). *Note: The match has been moved up one hour from original 5:00 p.m. start time. The Rebels defeated host Texas A&M, 4-1 on Thursday evening.
"I thought we played a good match," said UCLA head coach Billy Martin. "I'm always a little nervous seeing how we react to new conditions. I thought we came out and played very good doubles in the beginning and continued on it in the singles, although Miami gave us a great battle there. We hope if we continue to win, we'll continue to get a little bit better and a little bit more comfortable with the surroundings. Certainly I believe the opponents get better with each round."
UCLA captured the doubles point for the ninth time in a row on Thursday, moving out to a 1-0 lead following wins at court Nos. 2 and 3. After Haythem Abid and Holden Seguso notched an 8-3 win at court No. 3, the Bruins clinched it when Amit Inbar and Harel Srugo downed Miami's Christian Blocker/David Simon, 8-4 at the No. 2 spot. With Thursday's win, Inbar and Srugo improve to 14-0 on the season.
The Bruins continued to dominate in singles, quickly taking a 2-0 lead when Abid lost just two games en route to a 6-2, 6-0 victory over David Rosenfeld at court No. 2. It marked Abid's first NCAA Tournament win in two years, as he missed all of last year with a wrist injury.
Next to finish was court No. 5, where Miami's Christian Blocker downed senior Michael Look, 6-2, 6-4 to cut the lead to 2-1. The Bruins would answer right back, however, moving out to a 3-1 lead when Srugo dispatched of Carl Sundberg, 6-2, 6-3 at court No. 3.
Although Srugo's victory brought the Bruins within a point of clinching, all three remaining matches were close. Nick Meister was just going to a third set at court No. 6, and Seguso was on the verge of going to a third set at court No. 4. The only player with a slight lead was Matt Brooklyn at court No. 1, as he was leading 13th-ranked Daniel Vallverdu, 6-3, 5-2. Seguso, who fought off a set point in the second set tiebreaker, clinched the Bruin victory with a 6-1, 7-6(7) defeat of Miami sophomore Keith Crowley.
"Obviously, UCLA is a very good team," said Miami head coach Mario Rincon. "I think one through six in singles they are extremely even. In order to beat a team like that you have to play six great matches. They took it to us in doubles. I'd say our team was a little bit nervous at the beginning of the match. UCLA is a more experienced team. They have been in these situations and that played a part in it. Overall I feel that we didn't play a bad match. UCLA was just better than us."
Notes: UCLA improves to 11-0 all-time against Miami ... At 20-4 overall, UCLA has now posted its 11th straight 20-win season ... The Bruins extend their winning streak to 13 (last loss was Feb. 28 against Stanford, 4-3) ... Since the team format was adopted in 1977, UCLA has reached at least the quarterfinals in 32 of 33 years (exception 1988) ... With their win Thursday, UCLA's No. 2 doubles team of Amit Inbar and Harel Srugo improve to 14-0 on the year ... UCLA is 3-1 all time against Mississippi.
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1. (38) Rosenfeld/Vallverdu (UM) led (52) Look/Meister (UCLA), 5-4 Susp.
2. (80) Amit Inbar/Srugo (UCLA) def. Blocker/David Simon (UM), 8-4
3. Abid/Seguso (UCLA) def. Crowley/Sundberg (UM), 8-3
UCLA Wins Doubles Point - Order of Finish: 3, 2
1. (64) Matt Brooklyn (UCLA) led (13) Daniel Vallverdu (UM), 6-3, 5-2 Susp.
2. (49) Haythem Abid (UCLA) def. David Rosenfeld (UM), 6-2, 6-0
3. Harel Srugo (UCLA) def. Carl Sundberg (UM), 6-2, 6-3
4. Holden Seguso (UCLA) def. Keith Crowley (UM), 6-1, 7-6(7)*
5. Christian Blocker (UM) def. (100) Michael Look (UCLA), 6-2, 6-4
6. (107) Nick Meister (UCLA) led Ignacio Taboada (UM), 7-5, 1-6, 1-0 Susp.
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George R. R. Martin Previews 'A Dance with Dragons,' Next Season's 'Game of Thrones'
On July 12, author George R.R. Martin will release "A Dance with Dragons," the long-awaited fifth book in his fantasy series that kicked off in 1996 with "A Game of Thrones." Since the 2005 publication of the fourth book in the series, "A Feast For Crows," Martin has become the reigning king of fantasy writers–"Game of Thrones," the HBO series based on his books, has proved to be a critical and ratings hit, and as of this writing "A Dance with Dragons" holds the top spot on the Amazon.com bestseller list, with a four-book boxed set of Martin's work parked at number two.
The acclaimed author took the the time to talk to The Wall Street Journal about his new novel and the next season of his HBO series. "'A Dance with Dragons' is, if you want, the flip side of ['A Feast for Crows']," Martin said. "It's all the characters who were not in 'A Feast for Crows.' But it picks up the story right after 'A Storm of Swords' just as 'A Feast for Crows' did."
Here's a brief excerpt from our interview with Martin; check back in with Speakeasy to read more.
The Wall Street Journal: So I understand you're writing an episode of next season's "Game of Thrones" called "Blackwater."
George R.R. Martin: I'm just finishing that as we're speaking right now. I have it on the screen sitting in front of me.
A lot of people would like to see that.
It's done, I'm just doing the final touches on it and I'll be shooting it off to [executive producers] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss], the first draft anyway. Yes, it's episode nine of the second season.
Is it about the Battle of the Blackwater?
Battle of the Blackwater Rush, yes indeed.
That sounds great.
Well I hope so. We're trying. It's going to be enormously expensive. There's always the problem—when you write books, you can have everything be as big as you want, you can have all special effects budget in the world and you can have thousands of fighters and all that. But then when you actually put it on screen, it's a little more challenging. So if anyone has an extra couple of million dollars they could give us, we could make the battle even bigger.
With how well your books are selling, you could self-fund the battle scenes.
Yeah, well that's a thought. Don't tell that to HBO. I don't want that idea to go any further.
In the next installment, Martin talks about writing "A Dance with Dragons," and how far he's gotten on the next installments, "The Winds of Winter" and "A Dream of Spring." Follow us on Twitter at @WSJSpeakeasy and we'll let you know when we release our next story on Martin.


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Gold Is Testing a Major Target
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But is it a bottom?
The following are the latest daily summaries of my ongoing intraday coverage, providing context to interpret price action. Any prices listed are for a contract's current "front month." Their direction tends to correlate with any ETFs listed for each.
Today's Highlight:
Gold's extra double-digit slide fell neatly into the target created by last month's low. Bouncing immediately would help to form a bottom, but it would not qualify as that bottom. Meanwhile, crude oil has been bottoming for some time and need not further delay a recovery.
Dollar Basket
Dec Contract DX; (NYSEARCA:UUP), (NYSEARCA:UDN)
Thursday's pullback was shallow, but that's all it took to avoid confirming Wednesday's break higher. This doesn't prevent another break higher Friday — it's just not required.
Dec Contract EC; (NYSEARCA:FXE)
Thursday's bounce was shallow, but that's all it took to avoid confirming Wednesday's break lower. This doesn't prevent another break lower Friday — it's just not required.
Dec Contract GC; (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Wednesday's post-close dive to 1240.20 was retested intraday Thursday down to 1235.80, fulfilling the outstanding 1240.00-1245.50 target. Thursday's 1244.00 close was testing the 1246.00 open, close enough to suggest the drop's momentum was waning. A reversal signal would be premature, but extending down immediately would make bottoming more difficult prior to extending down sharply.
Dec Contract SI; (NYSEARCA:SLV)
Thursday's 19.70 intraday low held a test of Wednesday's post-close low, recovering enough to end the day testing the open's gap around 19.90. That suggests the drop's momentum is waning, but it is far short of yet signaling momentum has reversed up.
30-year Treasury
Dec Contract US; (NYSEARCA:TLT)
Fresh lows down to 130-14 were recovered back into positive territory to at least 131-10. Closing back above 131-14 at any time would signal the drop had ended, still subject to confirmation from a second consecutive higher close.
Crude Oil
Oct Contract CL; (NYSEARCA:USO)
Early strength Thursday above 94.00 was already expected to extend higher intraday. Thursday's rally tested 95.00, needing at least one more higher close Friday to start signaling a multi-session recovery attempt underway.
Natural Gas
Oct Contract NG; (NYSEARCA:UNG), (NYSEARCA:UNL)
Fresh highs Thursday up to 3.74 were retraced back down to Monday's "lower prior highs," testing 3.67. This still raises suspicions that a durable rally is actually underway, let alone targeting 3.81. But the rally can get the benefit of the doubt so long as 3.63 holds as support.
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After owning the Agora Theatre and the surrounding property for more than 25 years, you'd think Henry "Hank" LoConti's decision to hand the cherished concert club over to MidTown Cleveland would be a heart-wrenching one. But to hear LoConti tell it, donating the property, which is valued at $6 million, to the neighborhood development corporation is his way to ensure the Euclid Avenue landmark has a future.
"We let it go because I'm very close to what is happening at MidTown," LoConti says. "I see all the changes, and this area where the Agora [is located] is just sitting there. Talking to [MidTown Cleveland executive director Jim Haviland], I got an idea for what the plans are, and donating the Agora and the offices to them works better for both of us."
In 1985, LoConti bought the one-time home of the Metropolitan Theatre as the new spot for his Agora Theatre, after the original location was damaged in a fire. With the property's large main theater and smaller ballroom, the Agora continued its tradition as a hot spot for live music. Indie rockers the Strokes, rap icon Jay-Z and classic rocker David Bowie are just a few of the big names that played the club during its run.
But after the House of Blues opened downtown in 2004, the Agora didn't attract the same level of talent, and it ultimately faded from the concert circuit. LoConti is convinced that with upcoming renovations such as new floors and the reopening of the Euclid Avenue entrance, the Agora can again be a vital live-music venue.
He says he'll be involved in overseeing the renovations and hiring someone to book bands. Plus, the people behind the Umami Moto food truck have just opened a new restaurant called The Hipp in the building to serve the neighborhood's lunch crowd. (See page 68 for our interview with The Hipp owner Jae Stulock.)
"By fall, we'll come back strong in terms of booking shows," LoConti says. "I want to get more shows into the theater. I hope most of the renovations are done by the time the building turns 100 years old in March of next year. I don't know of too many theaters that are 100 years old and still standing, especially with the history of this place."
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Finding the Katraasii Droid Ballet Studio in Mysteries of the Sith
I have been playing this game since 1998, and I only recently found out about the Katraasii Droid Ballet Studio on Wookieepedia. All it says is that you find it by following "a particularly slow-moving droid through the streets of Katraasii." I need a little more than that.
First of all, which Katraasii mission does this take place in? What kind of droid is it and where do I find it initially?
Hey, um... I'm about to play the Katraasii levels today, and I'd really like to know where this thing is.
Oh, never mind. I'll ask on Wookieepedia.
hmm... i don't know...are you sure it's on MotS?
well... if you find out something else, come and tell us about it, ok? ;)
Of course I'm sure! What other game features Katraasii?
hmmm... ok, it's definitely on MotS... but i don't remember that at all...
well, now i have to play it again (at least those 2 Katraasii lvls) to see where is that thing! lol
I found it! It's in Katraasii Space Port, Part A, in the area where the man and woman are performing on stage for three Ugnaughts. Soon, a protocol droid shows up and goes over to a door that you can't open by yourself. Once inside, the door won't open for you, and you'll have to locate a passage to the side of the door to get back out again.
That's awesome, man! to keep finding secrets in this game, i mean... :D
It certainly is, yes :)
Is there much in there? Like power-ups or enemies or anything?
Fancy taking us a screenie? :D
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Tip-off is set for 7 p.m., and the game can be viewed via video and audio streaming by HailStateTV subscribers, with Jim Ellis and Bart Gregory providing play-by-play analysis.
The Bulldogs (1-0) never trailed in the season opener as they used a dominating inside game to defeat Prairie View A&M, 71-56. Sophomore forward Gavin Ware posted his third-career double-double with 15 points and a career-high 15 rebounds on the night.
Freshman point guard I.J. Ready impressed in his MSU debut, scoring 14 points to go along with his two assists and three steals. Ready proved clutch in Mississippi State's decisive late-game surge, as he drained an important three-pointer and swiped a steal that led to more Bulldog points on back-to-back possessions and put the game out of reach.
Kennesaw State (1-3) enters the contest having played four home games in the first four days of the season. The Owls dropped games to Youngstown State, Eastern Kentucky and Florida International, but bounced back to rout NCAA Division II squad Warren Wilson 92-48 on Monday.
KSU, a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference, has never posted a winning season since joining the NCAA Division I ranks in 2005. The Owls are led by guard Delbert Love, who averages 15.0 points per game and is currently the third all-time leading scorer in school history.
MSU has never faced Kennesaw State on the hardwood and has not played an Atlantic Sun team since a 2010 matchup against East Tennessee State. The Bulldogs will also play defending Atlantic Sun Tournament Champions Florida Gulf Coast later in the season.
After Thursday night's tilt, Mississippi State will conclude its season-opening three-game homestand with a showdown against in-state foe Mississippi Valley State on Tuesday. The clash with the Delta Devils is set to tip at 7 p.m. at Humphrey Coliseum.


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If you look at census records from the 1920s and before, dorm residents in schools, seminaries, and institutions are referred to as "inmates." The term, then, was not limited just to prisons as today. How did the association of the word to prisons only, evolve? Has this evolved usage made the former, broader definition obsolete or inappropriate?
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Perhaps the simplest way to observe the evolution of inmate is to note the definitions that dictionaries have assigned to the term through the years. Here are the relevant ones that I have at hand.
From Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1756):
From Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806):
From Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828):
From Merriam-Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1864):
From Joseph Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary, Revised Edition (1873):
From Merriam-Webster's International Dictionary (1890):
From Merriam-Webster's First Collegiate Dictionary (1898):
From Merriam-Webster's Third Collegiate Dictionary (1916):
From Merriam-Webster's Fifth Collegiate Dictionary (1936):
From Merriam-Webster's Seventh Collegiate Dictionary (1963):
The definition of inmate has changed very little in the four subsequent editions of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary series.
Evidently the biggest shift in popular understanding of the term (in the United States) occurred between 1864 and 1890, when the sense of "lodger" was supplemented with a new meaning: "one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison."
I note, too, that the terms roommate (dated to 1770) and housemate (dated to circa 1810) made their Merriam-Webster's debuts in the 1890 International Dictionary and the 1973 Eighth Collegiate, respectively.
As a way of referring to a lodger or paying housemate, I think, the term inmate is virtually obsolete today. That sense of the word has simply been overwhelmed by the meaning "incarcerated or otherwise institutionalized occupant."


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In 2000, a collaborative effort of biologists and computer scientists culminated in one of the key scientific achievements of the century—the complete sequencing of the human genome. Now researchers have embarked on a far grander research challenge: to understand the vast information processing system that makes up an organism.
Encoded in an organism's genome is all the information needed to build it from a single cell and then maintain it over time. This master instruction set is carried out via proteins that circulate and interact with other proteins, creating complex biological networks. EECS researchers, together with biologists, are trying to understand these networks and the flows of information within them and between them. "EECS is about systems-style thinking, and that's what's needed," says Berkeley EECS Professor Michael Jordan. "There are many different levels of scale, but they all interrelate—that's what leads to life."
At Berkeley, EECS faculty are engaged in several efforts to better understand the algorithms of living systems. Jitendra Malik, who specializes in computer vision, is using pattern-recognition tools to solve a key mystery of life: how embryonic cells, all of which contain the same instruction set, evolve into cells that perform vastly different functions. Jose Carmena is trying to understand and exploit the power of a particularly important cellular network, the brain. He develops brain-machine interfaces—devices that process brain signals and use them to operate computers or prosthetic limbs. Ming Wu has developed a sophisticated tool that enables researchers to move large numbers of cells with precision. And in separate projects, Jordan and Richard Karp are using combinatorial methods and tools of statistical inference to understand protein functions and interactions.
"EECS has all the right tools to understand complex biological processes," says Wu. "It has the optical engineering skills, the control, the pattern recognition, and the virtual reality, as well as the algorithmic tools to analyze data and interpret results."


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$e^{\frac{2}{x-1}\log\left|x-1\right|}+1\neq 0$
Since that this is an exponential function, this equation is verified $\forall x \in \mathbb{R}$? Or I have to consider the absolute value of the ligarithm?
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$e^{\frac{2}{x-1}\log\left|x-1\right|}+1\neq 0$
Everywhere the LHS is defined, the equality holds, since $e^{y} \geq 0$ for all $y$ and for all $x \geq 0$, $x + 1 > 0$. The LHS is not defined for $x = 1$ (since neither $\log|x-1|$ nor $\frac{2}{x-1}$ is defined there).


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The bride-elect, a customer specialist with Dominion in Akron, and the prospective groom, a customer specialist with Fyda Freightliner in Austintown, will issue invitations for a 1 p.m. ceremony Aug. 20 at St. Michael Church in Canfield, followed by an evening reception at Ciminero's in Niles.
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Robert Griffin III had plenty of success in college, so the Washington Redskins' rookie quarterback expects the trend to continue when he makes his NFL debut in Thursday's preseason opener at Buffalo.
"I'm not gonna make it too big to where I can't seize it, so go out, have fun and do what coach asks me to do," Griffin said Monday. "I think I'll be more anxious than nervous. When you're anxious you can't wait to go succeed. You just gotta go out and play the game. It'll be an eye-opening experience and I look forward to it."
The expectations are high for Griffin, for whom the Redskins (No. 25 in the AP Pro32) traded three first-round picks and a second-rounder to St. Louis to move up four spots and draft second overall in April.
Coach Mike Shanahan quickly anointed the 22-year-old Heisman Trophy winner from Baylor the starter and the face of the franchise, one that started 21 quarterbacks the past 19 seasons while only reaching the playoffs three times.


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Panama City-- The Bay District School building in Panama City turned into the hub of activity for national and international media following Tuesday's shooting.
National news channels had school board members and Superintendent Husfelt on their morning shows Wednesday. Husfelt's office in the Nelson building on Balboa Avenue turned into a mobile newsroom, with photographers, producers and reporters from all over the country using the space.
NBC Correspondent Mark Potter flew into Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport from Atlanta Tuesday night. Potter, a veteran reporter, has covered numerous shootings and reported from several crime scenes throughout his career. But he says this incident is extremely unique.
Potter says the way the school board handle the terrifying incident defines heroism. That's why he and the NBC crew are still in Panama City and will be staying until Thursday morning.
You can catch Potter's piece about the heroes in our community on Nightly News with Brian Williams at 5:30ct Wednesday evening.


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The WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2014 Induction Ceremony will be held on Saturday April 5th at the New Orleans Arena and tickets for that event go on sale today through Ticketmaster. The event is a part of the week long festivities leading up the biggest pro wrestling entertainment show of the year, Wrestlemania XXX at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Sunday April 6th. Tickets for the WWE Hall of Game 2014 Induction Ceremony are available through Ticketmaster at this link.
WWE revealed the big headliner for this year's Hall of Fame class this past Monday on 'RAW' and it's none other than the Ultimate Warrior.
Warrior is a former WWE Champion and one of the biggest stars of the '80s and early 90's. Coming up from World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas, Warrior became the first superstars to defeat the legendary Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania. His outlandish interviews and out-of-control energy made him a memorable star along with his monstrous strength.
Warrior had a very public feud with WWE for years, even bringing the company to court but in 2013 he made peace with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and company. Warrior is also known to be very outspoken and controversial with his real life opinions on the pro wrestling world, so it will be intriguing to see what he has to say in his acceptance speech.
When asked by fans earlier this week on Twitter what his thoughts about his upcoming Hall of Fame honors and the controversy surrounding it, he responded with the following tweet.
"Statement? Sure. First one to try to limit #WWEHOF speech to 140 anything - characters/words/pages//minutes/hours - gets clothesline." - Ultimate Warrior
There has been some rumors brewing that the Hulkster could actually induct the Warrior on April 5th. This would be another shocking part of this story as both Warrior and Hogan have feuded publicly and insulting each other in social media. Hogan was asked in a recent TMZ interview posted above this article, and he said he no longer has beef with Warrior. It appears time has healed wounds between Warrior and his former adversaries.
Another big part of the WM30 festivities is Wrestlemania Fan Axxess, a WWE produced event with live matches from WWE stars, autograph signings, Q&A sessions, and interactive exhibit. Fan Axxxess takes place this year on Thursday April 3rd to Sunday April 6th at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. There is more info at wrestlemania.com. Tickets for this fan fest go on sale on February 1, 2014 through Ticketmaster.
Pro Wrestling Examiner's Perspective: No matter what you think about the Ultimate Warrior, he is a big part of WWE history and is worthy of induction. Other Hall of Famers like the Million Dollar Man Ted Dibase have gone on the record in the past, saying Warrior is not worthy. You can not deny how popular Warrior was at his height and how he was for a period of time the second biggest star in the wrestling world during one of the hottest eras in the business.
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