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Happy Wednesday from Jacksonville.
Mississippi State has plenty of good memories here in Florida, where I've been for the last few days as part of the Southeastern Conference meeting of Athletic Directors.
It's a full house with all 14 schools here and it's one of the few opportunities we all have to join together and work for the common good. With the SEC Network coming (Don't forget to ask for it! - www.getsecnetwork.com), scheduling dynamics, a changing NCAA culture, cost of attendance scholarships and plenty of other items on a full and important list of issues in collegiate athletics, we've had a lot to discuss.
I regret that it's kept me away from Road Dawgs 2014, but I trust Coaches Ray, Mullen and Schaefer have made it fun as always. I also hope you've been able to meet Jeff Davis who has been doing a stellar job as the new executive director of the Alumni Association. While these meetings have kept me away from most, I will be making it to Philadelphia for the event on Thursday, so I look forward to a good crowd there.
As these events remind us, it's a wonderful time to be a Bulldog. It looks like the 2013-14 athletic year will see double-digits teams in the postseason for the second year in a row, quite an impressive feat from our 16 programs.
Combine that with facilities upgrades complete and in motion, as well as record numbers from the Bulldog Club, and it truly has been a banner 12 months for MSU.
A hearty congratulations to the men of our golf team and Coaches Clay Homan and Sean Covich for reaching the NCAAs for the second year in a row, another impressive feat for the program. The Bulldogs will be the only SEC team playing in the Illinois Regional, checking in as the No. 9 seed and competing May 15-17.
The top five teams from each regional will advance to play in the NCAA Championships. Best of luck to the team.
First off, I tip my hat to Coach Cohen and the baseball team for their hot play lately, moving into second place in the SEC West and third in the conference. The Diamond Dawgs have won seven of their last nine conference games, including this past weekend's sweep of Auburn.
This weekend, we host our final home series of the season, welcoming Tennessee to town for a big SEC match-up. The Saturday and Sunday games are both on television, so we hope to jointly send off our team into the postseason in fine fashion and showcase the best atmosphere in college baseball.
All of us in the Maroon and White wish good luck to Coach Nilsson's men's tennis team and Coach Brown-Lemm's women's golf team as they hit the road for postseason play. Our tennis squad takes on Louisiana-Lafayette in Austin on Friday for the first round of the tournament, while women's golf will be in Oklahoma for the central regional, play beginning tomorrow and running through Saturday.
Both programs have made great strides in recent years and we wish them luck as they compete this weekend!
In this space, I sometimes share letters from those across the country who write to tell me about their experiences with Mississippi State athletics. Over the last week, I received two which meant a great deal to me that I wanted to pass along to Bulldogs everywhere.
The first actually comes from someone in Baton Rouge who sent a note to President Keenum after interacting with the softball team, while the second comes from our very own campus and a student at MSU regarding some help from our football team.
Dear President,
I'm so honored to send you this email to commend the Women's Softball Team last weekend in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I'm a board member for The Dream Day Foundation located in that city however, my home is in Maryland. The foundation supports St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and on the first Saturday of every May for the past 20 years we hold a private function north of the city for the patients and families.
Our families and I were staying at the Marriott which happened to be the same hotel of the MSU Softball team. I had the pleasure of meeting Coach Vann Stuedeman in the lobby and jokingly mentioned that the team should come to our function tomorrow. She asked what the function was and I explained that we have 3 buses and a large police escort that arrives early in the morning to drive the kids to the function. Vann replied, "We can't attend the function but I'll tell you what we can do. If you tell me what time to kids are loading the buses in the morning I can ask the team to form a tunnel and greet them as they board."
The next morning I left the hotel at 6am to head to the function. When the police and families arrived, I inquired if MSU was there . . .they came alive with excitement and surprise when they answered.
At 7:15, on a game day, Coach Vann had the entire team and support staff lining the lobby and out the door. They cheered, clapped, gave high fives and took pictures with the kids. I'm told the excitement and energy was amazing. The police officers were blown away and the families talked about it all day. Coach sent me a text telling me that she believed they got more out of that experience than the kids and families. I replied with a lengthy text and asked her to share it with the team. I was so moved that on the eve of May 4th, I waited in the lobby for the bus to return from their game with LSU. I wanted to cheer them and thank them for their caring, compassion and support.
When the bus arrived, I walked outside, unknowingly just after Vann read my text to the team. The team members approached me individually, shaking my hand, looking me in the eyes and thanking me for the opportunity they had with the kids. I could barely hold back my tears of appreciation. Even when they entered the hotel and the families were walking around, they stopped to talk and share stories. It was amazing.
These are amazing ladies that recognize the importance of life and the opportunities before them. As I wrote to Coach Vann and the team, "many people have the ability to make a difference and decide not to but today each of you made a difference in the life of a child." I also wrote, "they may feel what they did wasn't a big deal but to the families and kids...it was huge." I know the families will never forget that experience and I hope the team doesn't either. I can assure you that I will never forget that. I've shared this story with our entire Board of Directors and anyone that will listen.
21 remarkable, beautiful, athletic and intelligent players with a staff who have a heart larger than most people rose up early after a late night game and yet a game to play later that day to greet total strangers in a time of their life with so much uncertainty. I can't express enough the appreciation to every person associated with MSU Softball that day.
They are ambassadors of hope and inspiration. They represent MSU to the highest of standards and I hope you can find a way to recognize their unselfish act of kindness and love.
I've already purchased my MSU Softball shirt and as long as Coach Vann is there . . ..I'm an MSU fan! And yes, I'll be watching the game on ESPNU Wednesday.
This is our website which I invite you to visit: http://www.dreamdayfoundation.org
With my deepest appreciation,
Brad Gentile
Board Member, Dream Day Foundation
The next letter comes from the President of the Kappa Sigma fraternity on campus.
Dear Mr. Stricklin,
I wanted to write and inform you about how thoroughly impressed I am with some of our student athletes. This past Saturday, the Kappa Sigma fraternity played the Sigma Chi fraternity in a full contact football game in Davis Wade Stadium. We can't thank you and the Athletic Department enough for allowing us to play our game on Scott Field and helping us take our philanthropy event to the next level.
This was the 16th annual Kappa Sigma Charity Classic and thus far we have raised over $880,000 through this event.
This year, through a combination of private donors, chapter fundraising and a donation from Sigma Chi, Kappa Sigma was able to raise over $94,000. This is a feat unmatched in Mississippi State fraternity fundraising history. The charities who benefited from this year's efforts were Habitat for Humanity, Reclaimed Project and John Clark Packer, a Kappa Sigma alumnus.
Back to the athletes. Evan Sobiesk, the Bulldog kicker and current Kappa Sigma active, helped coordinate several football players to voluntarily coach. (Needn't worry as we contacted Bracky Brett before we arranged the guys to help.)
Evan, Dak Prescott, Gus Walley, Damian Williams, Nick Fitzgerald, Ben Beckwith and Fred Walker all were instrumental in Kappa Sigma's victory in the game. Their desire to give up their already limited time for a charity event expecting nothing in return would be impressive enough, but the guys went beyond that. Dak wrote up a 16 page playbook for the team and several of the guys began regularly attending practice two weeks before the game. Their energy on the sideline on game day galvanized the team and legitimized the event. It could not have been a success without their selfless contribution.
Many times the work that our athletes do off of the field can be under appreciated, but I do not want this instance to go unnoticed. It is truly encouraging to see how genuine and thoughtful the faces of our university's football program can be. This would not happen without the infrastructure provided by Mississippi State's leaders and coaches. The example and vision that has been set by you is being played out before our eyes at events such as this year's Charity Classic.
With that, I wanted to extend my deepest thanks to you and our football players for the contributions made to make the 2014 Charity Classic an overwhelming success. It certainly wouldn't have happened without them. If possible, please pass my gratitude along to the football players and coaches. It is experiences like the last few weeks that make me so proud to be a part of the Bulldog family.
Walton Chaney
Kappa Sigma, President
Thank you to both for your letters, and thank you to the Bulldog coaches and athletes who created these special moments.
It's a warm, busy and fun time of year and I hope you all have the chance to enjoy it. And don't forget to wear maroon on Fridays!
- Back to softball, job well done by pitcher Alexis Silkwood and third baseman Caroline Seitz for both being named to the All-SEC Freshman Team this week. Congrats as well to senior Jessica Offutt for being named to the SEC Community Service Team.
- In other pitching awards, junior Ross Mitchell once again won SEC Pitcher of the Week following yet another complete-game performance. He's had the quite the career so far at MSU, with more to come.
- I want to specifically wish good luck to our football graduates who will be taking new jobs in the NFL with the draft this week. Your hard work has been a blessing to us and will be the foundation for success as your career begins. Congratulations in advance on making it so far.
- Today at 3 p.m., our softball team will play (or did play, depending when you read this) Kentucky in the first round of the SEC Tournament, a big deal given the strength of the conference. Congrats to Coach Stuedeman's crew for their most recent win on Sunday at LSU in the regular season finale and we look forward to more wins to come.
- Our track and field teams once again deserve praise, this time for placing second overall in the Jace Lacoste Invitational at home over the weekend, including six wins.
It's a warm, busy and fun time of year and I hope you all have the chance to enjoy it. And don't forget to wear maroon on Fridays!
We appreciate what you do for Mississippi State Athletics and want to encourage you to get others involved. There are three things you can do to help the athletic department at Mississippi State reach its desired goals –
1. Buy Season Tickets
2. Financially Support the Bulldog Club
3. Get Others To Do The Same
Thanks for taking the time to read this Update.
Hail State!
Scott Stricklin


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Red Raiders Lose Lead, Fall 7-6 to New Mexico State
March 27, 2012
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech had its eight-game midweek winning streak snapped with a 7-6 loss against New Mexico State on Tuesday evening at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. The midweek winning streak dated back to last season.
Texas Tech (15-11) held a 6-5 lead going into the ninth inning before New Mexico State (22-8) started the inning with a single and a walk, which both moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt. Zach Voight then hit a sacrifice fly to right field to tie the game, 6-6. One batter later, Zac Fisher scored the game-winning run with a single to left-center field giving the Aggies the win.
Texas Tech reliever Trey Masek (1-3) suffered the loss allowing the game-winning run on one hit and a walk with one strikeout. NMSU reliever Tyler Mack (2-1) earned the win pitching 1.1 scoreless innings with three strikeouts and closer Scott Coffman pitched a perfect ninth inning with three strikeouts to notch his fifth save of the season.
New Mexico State led twice while Texas Tech grabbed the lead on three occasions during the opening six frames. With the score tied at five in the bottom of the sixth, Tech freshman shortstop Tim Proudfoot doubled off the left-field wall to score left fielder Brennan Moore to give the Red Raiders a 6-5 advantage.
Neither team scored in the seventh or eighth inning while the Aggies plated two runs in the ninth.
The Red Raiders left 12 runners on base, including runners in scoring position in the third, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth innings.
Junior second baseman Jamodrick McGruder led Texas Tech at the plate going 3-for-4 with two RBI, a double and a run scored with a walk. Junior center fielder Barrett Barnes hit his team-leading sixth home run of the season - 30th of his career - with a solo shot in the fifth inning over the center field wall. Barnes finished the game going 2-for-3.
Moore also finished with a multi-hit game for the second straight contest going 2-for-3 with two runs scored. McGruder is now batting .650 (13-for-20) over his last five games played.
The Red Raiders used six pitchers in the game, including starting pitcher Brannon Easterling who went three innings with two strikeouts while allowing one run on two hits in his second start of the season.
The Red Raiders will be back in Big 12 action this weekend with a three-game series at Kansas, March 30-April 1, with the series starting Friday (6 p.m.) and continuing on Saturday (2 p.m.) and Sunday (1 p.m.) from Hoglund Ballpark.

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Health Advantages Drinking Wine
|Drinking Wine Health Benefits
For as long as humans have been drinking wines, claims have abounded about wine's health benefits. Recently many scientific studies have shown benefits primarily to cardiovascular health, but also in the areas of antibacterial, mental health, and weight control. The key to all of these benefits is drinking in moderation. This is generally defined as 2-3 glasses at night with dinner. More drinking than this may cause detrimental effects including liver damage, and may counteract the positive benefits. With many wine varieties available in the market, choosing the right wine is slightly difficult
Red vs White
One of the major factors in receiving benefits from drinking wines is the exact wine you consume. Red wines have a higher percentage of polyphenols and other chemicals that may lead to increased health. Additionally, wines from the south of France and the Sardinia region of Italy have especially high levels of these chemicals. On the other hand, some studies have shown no difference in the health benefits of red and white wine. Alcohol in any variation, but still in moderation, has the effect of increasing HDL or good cholesterol, reducing blood clots, and preventing artery damage caused by LDL or bad cholesterol.
Researchers have focused the most time and money on the cardiovascular effects of red wines. Studies have shown a significant decrease in death due to cardiovascular events such as heart attacks among moderate drinkers. Chemicals called procyanidins, found in red wines, suppress a chemical that constricts blood vessels leading to a reduction in blood pressure. Studies on mice have also shown that red wine can act as an anti-aging elixir on the cardiovascular system. To get the most from these benefits you should drink slowly, as a significant portion of the good chemicals in red wine are broken down in the gut but can be absorbed directly in the mouth.
In 2007, a study showed antibacterial benefits of both red and white wines against Streptococcus. This study did not prove conclusively that drinking wine regularly would prevent or fight against bacterial infections. Instead, it showed a potential benefit that is worth further investigations.
Alzheimer's disease
Another 2007 study showed increased functioning in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease . Unfortunately, subsequent studies have not proved the efficacy in people living with Alzheimer's and more research is still needed.
Statistical analysis has shown that moderate red wine drinkers have better weight control. There are still significant questions about whether this is due to the wine itself or the type of people that tend to drink red wine.
Most physicians would not recommend starting drinking to receive the benefits of red wine. If you already drink, then drink in moderation and enjoy the possibility that you are helping your health at the same time you sip that fine wine. You should take efforts to study and choose a good quality wine from the umpteen wine varieties available in the market.


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Here are 6 principles to help you learn how attract financial abundance and create a wealthy mindset
We're very focused in our own work on learning about and deliberately applying the laws of the universe — specifically Law of Attraction — in order to attract abundance and prosperity in all aspects of our life.
Among the areas of our life we focus a great deal upon are financial abundance and wealth creation.
I've come to believe there is, in fact, a formula that can be applied which serves almost as a blueprint for a wealth building strategy.
A Simple Wealth Building Formula to Attract Financial Abundance
A simplistic view of the key components of such a blue print include the following.
- Your belief system and your relationship with money
- Your wealth building habits
- Learning to become your own advisor
- Becoming an active wealth builder
- Operating your own home based business
- Looking outside the box for opportunities
Your Beliefs When It Comes To Money
Your belief system and relationship with money are the first building block. Creating wealth is 90% mindset, so utilizing tools and adopting a set of daily practices focused on cultivating a prosperity mindset are vital.
Build good habits
Your wealth building habits are the steps you build into your regular routine focused on creating wealth. A simple example is to establish to habit of always setting aside a specific percentage of all income for wealth building.
Think for yourself
When we talk about learning to become your own advisor, what we mean is that fundamentally, no one will ever understand your personal situation as well as you do. So while advice is a good thing, it's up to you to learn about different vehicles and avenues so that you can have a meaningful conversation about them, direct your advisors, and make your own decisions.
Do something
Become an active wealth builder by actually doing something. If you were a wealthy multi-millionaire, what active wealth building might you be doing? How do you intend to become that multi-millionaire if you are not undertaking those things?
The benefits of a home based business
Establish your own home business. With a business you have the opportunity to leverage people, time and money. A home based business offers many tax breaks and over time can grow to more than replace your full time income. It is much more difficult to create substantial wealth when you are trading your own time for money in a conventional job. The more income streams you can create for yourself the better. Bob Proctor teaches the importance of the "MSI" — multiples sources of income.
Outside the box
Finally, be willing to look outside the box. Often the most lucrative wealth building techniques are those that are not generally known or understood by the masses. So pay attention to opportunities that come along and don't be dismissive just because you haven't seen in on CNN.
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Waterbury, J A; Horabin, J I; Bopp, D; Schedl, P (2000). Sex determination in the Drosophila germline is dictated by the sexual identity of the surrounding soma. Genetics, 155(4):1741-1756.
It has been suggested that sexual identity in the germline depends upon the combination of a nonautonomous somatic signaling pathway and an autonomous X chromosome counting system. In the studies reported here, we have examined the role of the sexual differentiation genes transformer (tra) and doublesex (dsx) in regulating the activity of the somatic signaling pathway. We asked whether ectopic somatic expression of the female products of the tra and dsx genes could feminize the germline of XY animals. We find that Tra(F) is sufficient to feminize XY germ cells, shutting off the expression of male-specific markers and activating the expression of female-specific markers. Feminization of the germline depends upon the constitutively expressed transformer-2 (tra-2) gene, but does not seem to require a functional dsx gene. However, feminization of XY germ cells by Tra(F) can be blocked by the male form of the Dsx protein (Dsx(M)). Expression of the female form of dsx, Dsx(F), in XY animals also induced germline expression of female markers. Taken together with a previous analysis of the effects of mutations in tra, tra-2, and dsx on the feminization of XX germ cells in XX animals, our findings indicate that the somatic signaling pathway is redundant at the level tra and dsx. Finally, our studies call into question the idea that a cell-autonomous X chromosome counting system plays a central role in germline sex determination.
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How high can you get?
No, that is not the new state motto of Colorado. That is the question that was asked on-screen between each level of Donkey Kong, the 1981 arcade hit that saved the now-iconic Nintendo of America from bankruptcy. The coin-op classic turned 33-years-old on July 9, marking an anniversary for not one but two iconic video game characters.
An established name in Japan, Nintendo struggled to make a dent in the red-hot North American arcade video game market in the early 1980s. It was believed that Radar Scope, a spin on the space shooter concept that had proven popular stateside with titles such as Space Invaders, Phoenix and Galaxian, would be the game to change that. However, Radar Scope failed to catch on, leaving Nintendo's U.S. operation with thousands of unsold machines and looking into bankruptcy.
Eager to help pull the nose of the plane up, Nintendo's Japan headquarters sought out ideas for a new game that would run on Radar Scope hardware, allowing the American operation to convert the unsold machines into something that would sell them off. Enter a young artist named Shigeru Miyamoto and his game of Donkey Kong.
In an arcade full of space shooters and rows of Pac-Man machines, Donkey Kong stood out. First tested in Seattle-area sports bar The Spot Tavern, players looked past the odd game title and happily led a squeaky-shoed carpenter up a series of ladders an obstacles in the effort to save a young blonde woman from the clutches of a huge gorilla. The game caught on, taking Nintendo of America from bankruptcy filings to incorporation and quietly introducing a character that would go on to do even bigger things.
Mario was the name of the carpenter in Donkey Kong. Originally conceived as a character named Mr. Video and later briefly known as Jumpman, Miyamoto designed Mario as a hard-working everyman. The look of the character was due in large part to the hardware limitations available at the time. Overalls helped show the movement of Mario while items such as the mustache and hat helped show facial features against the black background.
A common misconception about Mario is that he was named Jumpman for the duration of Donkey Kong's short visit to the top of the arcade game earnings charts. While the cabinet instructions were designed and printed while the Jumpman name was still in place, Nintendo named the character Mario as the arcade cabinets were still awaiting shipment. Noticing a striking resemblance to their landlord Mario Segale, the character was renamed as the game went to market. The original sales flyer for Donkey Kong refers to the character as Mario as does the book The Winner's Book of Video Games by Craig Kubey, written just a couple months into the game's release. In the Donkey Kong chapter, the author notes that Nintendo called the carpenter Mario but had no name for the blonde woman in the game. She would later be named Pauline.
Donkey Kong and Mario would do battle once again in Donkey Kong Junior in 1982, marking Mario's one and only time as a villain. They would then go their separate ways for many years as Mario switched to becoming a plumber in 1983's Mario Bros., teaming with his brother Luigi for the first time, setting the stage for generations of games that would turn Mario into the most iconic character in video game history.
Miyamoto would also go on to become a video game icon in and of himself, creating classics such as Super Mario Bros. and the Legend of Zelda en route to gaining fame as the most successful video game creator of all time.
The original Donkey Kong arcade game sold over 60,000 units in North America. It would later prove popular as a home console title licensed by Coleco but fell from popularity in arcades by early 1983. By the time Nintendo would rise to it's biggest claim to fame with the Nintendo Entertainment System, most original Kong arcade games had been converted to later Nintendo arcade titles. It would see a brief resurgence after serving as the backdrop in a 2007 documentary film about two veteran gamers chasing down the all-time high score on the game. Most recently the game made a cameo on television comedy Enlisted.
Happy birthday to Mario and Donkey Kong and the legacies they made on Nintendo and the video game industry.
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Robert Goudie, Meritum Financial Group
Robert Goudie, Meritum Financial Group, provides financial advice and education for motivated clients who are committed to improving their financial situation providing them direction and certainty.
We ask the tough questions of Robert Goudie, Meritum Financial Group
Would you describe yourself as a technophobe or technophile?
Definitely a technophile, it still amazes me what technology has allowed us to do in small business to increase client services and to promote ourselves.
Who, or what, is your biggest inspiration?
My biggest inspiration in business is "common sense". All decisions have to pass a common sense test which is something I've inherited from my family.
What's your number one stress relief tactic (keep it clean!)?
Without a doubt exercise, it keeps me sane.
What's the smartest bit of marketing you've ever done?
My marketing changed many years ago from advertising to educating. I believe trust can be gained by educating clients which gives them the understanding and confidence to move ahead with our advice.
What's the one resource you'd never be without?
My staff – we have an excellent team and everyone has their own area of expertise.
What or who has the most grounding influence on you?
My father has been a great sounding board, and helps keep my feet firmly on the ground regardless of how enthusiastic I become.
What's the cheapest, most effective bit of marketing you've ever done?
Asking clients to refer me on to others that may benefit from the work we do.
What would be your advice to aspiring soloists?
Be passionate, love what you do and don't ever stop pushing yourself to improve.
How did your school report describe you (in three words)?
Very easily distracted.
Do you have a designated 'work' wardrobe?
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Elevate Fitness '10-Day Blasts' Get Porter on Right Track
Before and after pictures of Christine Porter show the difference an Elevate Fitness workout progra...
|Before and after pictures of Christine Porter show the difference an Elevate Fitness workout program can make.
Back in June, I just happened to see an ad on Facebook for a gym just down the road from my house. They were offering 10-day Summer Fitness Blasts on Monday through Thursday from 6-6:30 a.m. What a perfect time for this busy mom … get up early, go workout and be back before my kids even wake up.
I'm a full-time mom of two young boys, ages 3 and 4 ½, and some very active dogs (I'm a part-time dog trainer, too). I decided it was time to stop making excuses and give myself a wonderful birthday present and get back into working out. Why not, right?
I committed to do the first 10-day session with the hope of doing all five sessions. And I did just that -- rain or shine, sore or tired -- didn't matter. I showed up every morning, ready to work my butt off and enjoy my time away from home.
I didn't miss a single day, and I have the staff at Elevate Fitness to thank for motivating me to get out of bed and get moving.
Beyond the Summer Fitness Blast sessions, I wanted more, and so I've continued working out at Elevate -- sessions with Gonzalo and group classes when my hubby is home to watch my kids. I'm absolutely addicted to the way the trainers at Elevate teach and push you to do more than you think you can… but in a very good way.
Since I started working out at Elevate, I've lost about 10 pounds, dropped two pant sizes, and gained some good muscle. I've never felt so strong, especially my legs and core. But I'm not done yet. I still have more work to do -- and I can't wait to do it all.
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The law provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice; however, it does not register new religious groups that have not been accepted into one of the existing religious governing bodies on doctrinal or other grounds. The Government places some limits on foreign missionaries.
There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report.
The generally amicable relationship among religions in society contributed to religious freedom.
The U.S. Government discusses religious freedom issues with the Government in the context of its overall dialog and policy of promoting human rights.
Section I. Religious Demography
The country has a total area of approximately 190,000 square miles and its population is approximately 60 million. In a 1997 survey, over 99 percent of the population professed some religious belief or faith. According to government statistics, approximately 94 percent of the population are Buddhist, and 5 percent are Muslim; however, recent estimates by academics and religious groups state that approximately 85 to 90 percent of the population are Therevada Buddhist, and up to 10 percent of the population are Muslim. Estimates also indicate that Christians constitute about 1 to 2 percent of the population. There are small animist, Hindu, Sikh, Taoist, Jewish, and Brahman populations. No official statistics exist as to the numbers of atheists or persons who do not profess a religious faith or belief, but recent surveys indicate that together they make up less than 1 percent of the population.
The dominant religion is Therevada Buddhism. The Buddhist clergy or Sangha consists of two main schools, which are governed by the same ecclesiastical hierarchy. Monks belonging to the older Mahanikaya school far outnumber those of the Dhammayuttika School, an order that grew out of a 19th century reform movement led by King Mongkut (Rama IV).
Islam is the dominant religion in four of the five southernmost provinces, which border Malaysia. Minority Muslim populations also live in 74 of the 76 provinces. The majority of Muslims are ethnic Malay, but the Muslim population encompasses groups of diverse ethnic and national origin, including descendants of immigrants from South Asia, China, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Government agencies did not use consistent figures to describe the size of the Muslim population during the period covered by this report, but most estimates suggest that Muslims constitute as much as 10 percent of the population. There are approximately 3,200 mosques in 57 provinces, with the largest number (552) in Pattani province. All but a very small number of these mosques are associated with the Sunni branch of Islam. The remainder, estimated by the Religious Affairs Department to be from 1 to 2 percent of the total, are associated with the Shi'a branch.
According to government statistics, Christians constitute approximately 0.7 percent (438,600) of the population. Almost half the Christian population lives in Chiang Mai province. The remainder live in the Bangkok area and in the northeastern provinces. Approximately 25 percent of the Christian population is Roman Catholic. There are also several Protestant denominations. Most Protestant churches belong to one of four umbrella organizations. The oldest of these groupings, the Church of Christ in Thailand, was formed in the mid-1930's. The largest is the Evangelical Foundation of Thailand. Baptists and Seventh-Day Adventists are recognized by government authorities as separate Protestant denominations and are organized under similar umbrella groups.
There are six tribal groups (chao khao) recognized by the Government, with an estimated population from 500,000 to 600,000 persons, whose members generally are described as animists. Syncretistic practices drawn from Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism, and ethnic Tai spirit worship are common. The Hindu and Sikh communities have an estimated population of about 19,000 persons. Both are associated with small immigrant groups that arrived from South Asia during the twentieth century, although Brahman temples had been established in Bangkok as early as 1784. The majority of Hindus and Sikhs live in Chonburi, Bangkok, and Phuket provinces.
The ethnic Chinese minority (Sino-Thai) has retained some popular religious traditions from China, including adherence to popular Taoist beliefs. Members of the Mien hill tribe follow a form of Taoism.
Mahayana Buddhism is practiced primarily by small groups of Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants. There are more than 650 Chinese and Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist shrines and temples throughout the country.
Citizens proselytize freely. Monks working as Buddhist missionaries (Dhammaduta) have been active since the end of World War II, particularly in border areas among the country's tribal populations. In April 2001, there were approximately 3,100 Dhammaduta working in the country. In addition the Government sponsored the international travel of another 884 Buddhist monks sent by their temples to disseminate religious information abroad. Christian and Muslim organizations also reported having smaller numbers of citizens working as missionaries in Thailand and abroad.
Section II. Status of Religious Freedom
Legal/Policy Framework
The law provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice; however, it restricts the activities of some groups. The Constitution requires that the monarch be a Buddhist. The state religion is in effect Therevada Buddhism; however, it is not designated as such. When the Constitution was being drafted in 1997, the Constitutional Drafting Assembly rejected a proposal to have Therevada Buddhism named the official religion on the grounds that such an action would create social division and be "offensive" to other religious communities in the country.
The Constitution states that discrimination against a person on the grounds of "a difference in religious belief" shall not be permitted. There was no significant pattern of religious discrimination during the period covered by this report. The Government maintained longstanding policies designed to integrate Muslim communities into society through developmental efforts and expanded educational opportunities, as well as policies designed to increase the number of appointments to local and provincial positions where Muslims traditionally have been underrepresented.
The Government plays an active role in religious affairs. The Religious Affairs Department (RAD), which is located in the Ministry of Education, registers religious organizations. In order to be registered, a religious organization first must be accepted into an officially recognized ecclesiastical group. During the period covered by this report, there were seven such groups, including one for the Buddhist community, one for the Muslim community, one for the Catholic community, and four for Protestant denominations. Government registration confers some benefits, including access to state subsidies, tax-exempt status, and preferential allocation of resident visas for organization officials. In practice unregistered religious organizations operate freely.
Under the provisions of the Religious Organizations Act of 1969, the Department of Religious Affairs recognizes a new religion if a national census shows that it has at least 5,000 adherents, has a uniquely recognizable theology, and is not politically active. However, since 1984 the Government has maintained a policy of not recognizing any new religious faiths. This has restricted the activities of some groups that have not been accepted into one of the existing religious governing bodies on doctrinal or other grounds.
The Constitution requires the Government "to patronize and protect Buddhism and other religions." The State subsidizes the activities of the three largest religious communities (Buddhist, Islamic, and Christian). During the period covered by this report, the Government provided approximately the equivalent of $47 million to support religious groups. Included in this amount are funds: To support Buddhist and Muslim institutes of higher education; to fund religious education programs in public and private schools; to provide daily allowances for monks and Muslim clerics who hold administrative and senior ecclesiastical posts; and to subsidize travel and health care for monks and Muslim clerics. This figure also includes an annual budget for the renovation and repair of Buddhist temples and Muslim mosques, the maintenance of historic Buddhist sites, and the daily upkeep of the Central Mosque in Pattani.
During the period covered by this report, the Government also provided $66,000 (3 million baht) to Christian organizations to support social welfare projects. Catholic and Protestant churches can request government support for renovation and repair work but do not receive a regular budget to maintain church buildings nor do they receive government assistance to support their clergy. The Government considers donations made to maintain Buddhist, Muslim, or Christian buildings to be tax-free income; contributions for these purposes are also tax-deductible for private donors.
The Government actively sponsors interfaith dialog in accordance with the Constitution, which requires the State to "promote good understanding and harmony among followers of all religions." The Government funds regular meetings and public education programs. These programs included the Religious Affairs Department annual interfaith meeting for representatives of all religious groups certified by RAD. The September 2000 meeting in Bangkok drew 400 participants. They also included monthly meetings of the 17-member Subcommittee on Religious Relations, located within the Prime Minister's National Identity Promotion Office (The Subcommittee is composed of one representative from the Buddhist, Muslim, Roman Catholic, Hindu, and Sikh communities in addition to civil servants from several government agencies), and a 1-week education program coorganized by the National Identity Promotion Office and the National Council on Social Welfare. The latter event is held each December in celebration of the King's birthday. Representatives from every religious organization recognized by the RAD are invited to attend seminars associated with the event. The program also targets the general public through films and public displays.
Restrictions on Religious Freedom
Two branches of the Government investigated religious groups alleged to be engaged in cult activities prior to the period covered by this report. In 1998 the National Security Council and the House Standing Committee on Religion, Arts, and Cultural Affairs initiated an investigation into the alleged "cultish practices" of the Hope of Thai People Foundation after complaints were filed at the Religious Affairs Department by parents claiming that their children had isolated themselves from friends and family after joining the church. In January 1999, the House Standing Committee moved to consider a petition filed by a Senator requesting that the foundation's activities be investigated. In response the foundation filed a law suit against the committee chairman for defamation in May 1999. The law suit against the former chairman, now a senator, remained in litigation at the end of the period covered by this report. No further action was taken before the committee disbanded at the end of the parliamentary session.
In February 2001, Thai Falun Gong members voluntarily decided not to proceed with plans organize an international meeting in Bangkok, proposed for April 2001. Their decision was in part a response to unofficial indications from the Government that it did not favor such a conference. There were reports that the government of China had exerted significant economic pressure on the Government in connection with this issue.
The Government does not recognize new religious faiths outside of the seven existing groupings. However, unregistered religious organizations operate freely. The Government has not recognized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons).
The Government permitted foreign missionary groups to work freely throughout the country, although it also maintained policies that favored proselytizing by its citizens.
The number of foreign missionaries officially registered with the Government is limited to a quota that originally was established by the Religious Affairs Department in 1982. The quota is divided along both religious and denominational lines and is considered sensitive for this reason. The Government does not publish or release its quotas for particular religious denominations. In May 2001, there reportedly were 2,000 foreign missionaries legally registered, including 418 Roman Catholic, 996 Protestant, 150 Mormon, and 6 Muslim missionaries.
While official registration conferred some benefits, such as longer terms for visa stays, it was not a significant barrier to foreign missionary activity during the period covered by this report. Many foreign missionaries entered the country using tourist visas and proselytized or disseminated religious literature without the acknowledgment of the Religious Affairs Department. There were no reports that foreign missionaries were deported or harassed for working without registration, although the activities of Muslim professors and clerics were subjected disproportionately to scrutiny on national security grounds because of continued government concern about the potential resurgence of Muslim separatist activities in the south.
Religious instruction is required in public schools at both the primary (grades 1 through 6) and secondary (grades 7 through 12) education levels. Students at the primary level are required to take 80 hours of instruction per academic year in religious studies classes. Instruction is limited to Buddhism and Islam. During the period covered by this report, some parts of the country with large Muslim student populations did not have Muslim studies courses. Muslim students in these schools generally were directed to school libraries to participate in Muslim self-study courses.
The Constitution provides for, and citizens generally enjoy, a large measure of freedom of speech. However, laws prohibiting speech likely to insult Buddhism remain in place under the 1997 Constitution. The police, who have legal authority under the Printing and Advertisement Act of 1941 to issue written warnings or orders suspending the publication or distribution of printed materials considered offensive to public morals, confiscated a book in December 1999, written by a Phra Dhammakaya temple follower, that attacked a monk who is one of the chief critics of that temple. In December 1999, the police issued an arrest warrant for the author for defamation of character. As of June 2001, no arrest had been made in the case.
National Identity Cards produced by the Ministry of Interior since April 12, 1999 include an optional designation of the religious affiliation of the holder for the first time. The 1999 change in policy was implemented in response to the demands of parliamentarians who wanted easier identification of persons requiring Muslim burial. Persons who fail or choose not to indicate religious affiliation in their applications can be issued cards without religious information.
Muslim female civil servants are not permitted to wear headscarves when dressed in civil servant uniforms.
There were no reports of religious prisoners or detainees.
Forced Religious Conversion
There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the Government's refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States.
Section III. Societal Attitudes
The generally amicable relationship among religions in society contributed to religious freedom. The case of a March 1999 attack in Nonthaburi province was closed due to lack of evidence in May 2001.
None of the religious communities led "ecumenical" movements.
Religious groups closely associated with ethnic minorities, such as Muslims, experience some societal economic discrimination.
Section IV. U.S. Government Policy
The U.S. Government discusses religious freedom issues with the Government in the context of its overall dialog and policy of promoting human rights.


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College Hockey:Bulldogs and Irish Finish Series in Draw
Ferris State Takes Three Points on the Road from No. 8 Notre Dame
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The Ferris State Bulldogs followed up Friday nights victory by tying the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2-2 on Saturday night and securing their first three point CCHA weekend since the beginning of December.
Zach Redmond and Blair Riley had goals for the Bulldogs, and Mitch OKeefe was once again strong in net, stopping 33 shots.
I thought our goaltender had a strong weekend, said Ferris State head coach Bob Daniels. And in particular tonight I was pleased with our defensive zone coverage. I thought we were really good in our own end.
On Notre Dames side of the ice, Ian Cole and Christian Hanson lit the lamp, while Jordan Pearce turned in a solid performance between the pipes, stopping 27 shots.
In an identical start to last nights game, Notre Dame jumped out to a 1-0 lead with an early power play goal. This time, freshman defenseman Ian Cole ripped a one-timer from the just inside the right circle at 3:15 of the first period.
Cole was set up with a perfect cross-ice pass from Erik Condra, who recorded his team-leading 21st assist on the play.
I thought we played a better game tonight, said Irish coach Jeff Jackson. I thought we did the little things with the puck that we didnt do last night. Had we won last night, tonight wouldnt have looked so bad.
The Irish continued to carry the play, aided by four straight power plays, until a Ferris State shorthanded goal 11:32 into the period. With the Bulldogs playing two men down due to penalties against Jim Jorgensen and Matt Case, Zach Redmond was able to come through for his team.
Notre Dame defenseman Brett Blatchford fumbled with the puck at the point and then tried a desperation pass that Redmond intercepted. Redmond skated in all alone and beat Pearce with a quick shot from the right faceoff dot.
Notre Dame did not let the special teams setback throw them off their game, however. The Irish finished the period strong, outshooting the Bulldogs 14-8, and started the second period continuing their dominant play.
The hard work paid off for the Irish when Christian Hanson put Notre Dame ahead at 6:34 of the second period. Hanson corralled a loose puck in the left faceoff circle and took a shot that hit OKeefes stick and trickled past the goaltender to give the Irish a 2-1 lead.
Ferris State was able to answer once again just less than three minutes later, taking advantage of a nice bounce to notch a power play goal. With Ian Cole in the penalty box for holding the stick, Scott Wietecha took a shot from the point that went well wide of the goal.
However, Wietechas shot took a huge hop off the back boards right to the front of the net, where Blair Riley tucked the puck into an open net for his 10th goal of the season. Wietecha and Cody Chupp were awarded assists on the play.
After the Bulldog goal, the teams traded chances for the remainder of the period. Both Pearce and OKeefe were up to the task, however, matching each other save for save. The best chance came with just over three minutes to play in the period, when Ian Cole missed the net by mere inches on a one-time chance, a play that looked nearly identical to Coles first period goal.
The latter half of the second period also saw an increase in physical play as both teams began to scuffle after the whistle. After Mark Van Guilders boarding penalty, Teddy Ruth of the Irish and Justin Lewandowski of the Bulldogs received coincidental minors for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Later in the period, Zach Redmond of Ferris State and Christian Hanson of Notre Dame tangled with each other after Redmond appeared to swing his stick at the head
of Hanson. No penalties were called on the play.
Both teams had quality scoring chances in the opening minutes of the third period. Brendan Connolly had a breakaway chance turned aside by Pearce, and down at the other end of the ice Garrett Regan nearly had an open net chance on a rebound, but the puck slid just by the tip of his outstretched stick.
Justin Menke had a golden opportunity to put his Bulldogs ahead with 6:50 to play, when he found himself all alone in the slot. Menkes shot was right on, but a fully outstretched Jordan Pearce managed to get his glove on the puck, sending it caroming up into the mesh netting behind the goal.
Pearce was also excellent to end regulation time, making save after save on a flurry of Ferris State shots while the Bulldogs controlled the puck in the offensive zone for nearly the entire final 90 seconds.
Neither team was able to muster much in the extra five minutes. Perhaps the best chance came with 36 seconds left, when Irish defenseman Kyle Lawson walked around a Bulldog forward and fired a wrist shot from the top of the left circle.
The shot, through heavy traffic, was stopped by OKeefe.
Tonights game marked the end of the season series between the two teams, in which the Bulldogs prevailed, going 2-1-1. Ferris State continues their stretch of tough games next weekend when they host the Miami RedHawks, while the Irish look to get back on track as they make the long trip north to take on the Alaska Nanooks.
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The Nation's First Bi Governor and the Importance of the "B" in "LGBT"
See Tanner v. Oregon Health Sciences Univ. 157 Ore. App. 502, 971 P.2d 435 (1998).
Read our fact sheet:
All government employees are protected by the U.S. Constitution against irrational discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. In addition, some measure of protection already exists under Title VII based on gender, which has been held to include gender identity and expression.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and several courts have interpreted Title VII to protect transgender employees, and the EEOC has interpreted Title VII to cover sexual orientation discrimination. The Supreme Court has held that the EEOC's interpretations of Title VII are entitled to "great deference."
NO, Oregon does not have a criminal statute that punishes people with an HIV diagnosis specifically for nondisclosure of HIV status prior to sexual conduct; however, all states have general criminal laws—such as reckless endangerment and assault laws—under which it is possible to prosecute an HIV-positive person for nondisclosure of HIV status prior to sexual conduct.
YES, in recent years, there has been at least one criminal prosecution for HIV nondisclosure in Oregon.
NO, Oregon does not have laws that criminalize or enhance penalties for biting, spitting and/or throwing bodily fluids or substances (such as urine or excrement) if a person has been diagnosed with HIV, but that does not mean the state could not prosecute a person engaged in such activities under general criminal laws or argue for sentence enhancements based on the person's HIV diagnosis.
NO, Oregon does not have laws that enhance penalties for HIV-positive people involved in commercial sexual transactions, but that does not mean that a prosecutor could not argue for an enhanced sentence in such a situation based on the defendant's HIV-positive status, if the prosecutor has access to that information, or attempt to bring separate charges under an HIV-specific nondisclosure statute or the general criminal laws.
Any person. ORS 109.309(1).
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I Think I Know Jack.May 27, 2010 • 10:24 am 2 Comments
Jack Kevorkian neglected to factor faith into his approach to death. And paid the price.
by Paul Creeden
Editor's Note: Yesterday Gallup released a new poll that shows assisted suicide — often conflated with "aid in dying" or "Death With Dignity," as legal in Washington, Oregon, and Montana; or often called "euthanasia" by opponents — is the most divisive issue in the U.S., leading abortion, gay and lesbian "relations" and having a baby outside of marriage. Our aging population and a medical system ill-equipped for an unprecedented influx of seniors will likely keep assisted suicide divisive for the next few decades as laws and medical ethics struggle to redefine death in a new age of medical advancements.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian is the subject of You Don't Know Jack, an HBO film, which premiered on the cable network in April. Al Pacino plays "Dr. Death," as Kevorkian was dubbed in 1956 after he performed, in his role as a pathologist, a photographic survey of the pupils of dying patients. Kevorkian has a documented fascination with death and with helping people accept their deaths as an opportunity for medical advancement and he was reportedly fired from a pathology job in 1958 for suggesting that prison inmates be encouraged to volunteer their organs for medical experimentation.
The HBO film, in my opinion, portrays Jack Kevorkian as a man who sees human beings in their animal simplicity: living creatures like any other who have limited life spans and mechanical failures. He is a medical pragmatist with no tact, but his notoriety demonstrates the ways in which our understanding of death has been distorted. For example, the greatest barrier to easing his first euthanasia clients was his stubborn insistence on lecturing them on the usefulness of their harvested organs. Medical staff who had agreed in the 1950s to a demonstration of his Thanatron, a lethal-dose-delivery device he constructed for use by patients who wished to end their own lives, got him fired from a hospital job. If Kevorkian had simply demonstrated his simple machine — patient activated to deliver a lethal dose of potassium chloride after sedation — and not actively pursued the use of assisted suicide, perhaps the course of his struggle within the medical community would have been easier.
As an AIDS hospice nurse in the 1980s and 1990s, I followed the career of Dr. Kevorkian with considerable professional and personal interest. His defense of the right to choose a time and method of painless death — for capable patients who had no hope of recovery and no relief from excruciating symptoms — resonated with me. And not only because he did so in the face of intense public scrutiny. I was immersed in the care of terminal AIDS patients whom much of society had deemed expendable social outcasts, subject to suffering because of their sexual behavior. In my role as a hospice nurse, I was indeed providing the legal and conventionally acceptable service of easing the suffering of desperate, dying patients with narcotic medications which possibly hastened their deaths while easing their symptoms.
Jack Kevorkian's process is irreligious, though his primary detractors are not; God does not enter into his consideration of what life and death are about. He is a man who has been trained to heal and understand illness in a society which places religious boundaries on methods of discovery and investigation. He is driven by what is pragmatic, what makes sense for patients, in a medical establishment which does not always operate on that premise because it is often obstructed by religion, capitalism and/or litigation.
The abysmal ignorance of the realities of death in American culture fuels the frustration and headstrong attitudes of those few individuals, like Kevorkian, who work in the realm of death's processes and its aftermath. Kevorkian's anger is often portrayed as ego-maniacal rage, yet, as we see in You Don't Know Jack, the emotional trigger for his crusade was the experience of helplessly watching his own mother die an excruciating and prolonged death. Personal motivation, based on my past experience, is common among those who deliver hospice or palliative care, the medically conventional mechanisms for aiding the terminally ill in their last months or hours.
This is why I say I know Jack. I know what drove Kevorkian to work to fix a system that seemed sadistically inhumane to him. Most Americans continue to die in pain and isolation in hospitals or nursing homes. The difference between Kevorkian and me is that I chose to address that inhumanity in a more accepted way, inside the medical institutions where I've made my career; not necessarily a better or morally superior way, in my view. Kevorkian has paid a tremendous emotional and physical price for his advocacy, including ten years in prison.
So, if religion played no part in Kevorkian's judgement or actions regarding death, what part does religion play in Kevorkian's story? Over the course of decades he was publicly persecuted, though not successfully prosecuted, by Michigan lawyer Dick Thompson, who later co-foundered the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, an ultra-conservative Roman Catholic law school. Thompson was primarily responsible for making Kevorkian's mission a matter of public and political debate by taking the issue to "pro-life" groups, evangelical and Catholic churches and the media. Once "exposed" in the media, Kevorkian was condemned from pulpits of many denominations, and yet, being irreligious himself, seemed inured to the criticism of the religious. His focus remained riveted on what he saw as a right of practical and pragmatic self-determination as aided by a qualified medical professional and bound by a primary, ethical commitment to ease needless suffering.
This is where the divide exists between those who see themselves as the guardians of public morality through organized religion and those who see themselves as scientific practitioners, I believe: those who implement society's religious prohibitions and conventions have not been able to keep up with scientific and medical advancements. The custodians of various spiritual traditions, largely men of little science or medical experience, are divorced from the realities of death and dying in modern society, as are most of the general population. While these religious actors may be intimately versed in speculations about afterlife, their knowledge of the realities of life and death from a practical, scientific, or medical perspective are limited. Critics of assisted suicide and end of life planning have seldom had to face the technical and ethical challenges medical practitioners must consider.
Monolithic prescriptions, as offered by dogma and tradition, as to how people must die or what choices they must make in a scientific and secular age, such as home hospice care or clinically assisted suicide, are inevitably out of sync with individual and unique realities in hospitals, nursing homes and intensive care units. Kevorkian made this painfully clear to us all.
Modern health care professionals continue to become more irreligious or secular, in keeping with an overall trend in U.S. society . Many, while they may privately subscribe to a religious, philosophical or habitual belief system, are divorcing their professional lives and ethics from those systems out of pure necessity; in order to work in modern medicine and to meet the needs of a diverse patient group. As government-funded medicine becomes more widespread, prohibitions against insertion of religion into clinical choices also becomes more common.
From my own clinical experience, I am reminded of a day in a job I held in a Manhattan hospital in 1988, when I was assigned as a nurse to a married, female Hasidic Jewish patient. I attended to her with my best clinical knowledge and sensibilities. She seemed pleased and comfortable until her husband and several of her male relatives came to visit. They threatened me with violence for having taken care of her against their religious standards of decency, since I had to touch her without another woman present in order to deliver my care. In the end, because there was no other nurse available to tend to the woman, they relented. Their religious objection was simply irrelevant because their priority and mine was the patient's medical needs.
Hospice care is agreed upon by the patient and the provider as a contract for a clearly defined service, willingly consumed by the informed, terminal patient who abandons access to technical, life-maintaining (or death-prolonging) measures. During my hospice career, I encountered representatives of religious beliefs who actively encouraged my patients to leave hospice care by condemning it as sinful or inappropriate to their religious tradition. I also encountered religious people who judged my role in hospice care as immoral and unethical. None of this had any relevance to the performance of my duty as a hospice nurse, so long as my patients maintained their consent and contract for hospice care. I have found over the years that the relationship between the provider of medical services and the patient is more and more devoid of religious considerations in our increasingly technical, scientific society.
I see Jack Kevorkian is an avatar of the growing secular spirit of the medical community and of the times. Clinically assisted suicide is a hot-button issue, one intimately related to how we address end of life care, though it has been distorted by politicians and religious groups for their purposes. The debate is far removed from the reality of one person's unbearable, untreatable pain and one provider's expert ability to help. To Kevorkian, religion and politics have no place at all in the personal decisions of providers and patients who must together, in good conscience, alleviate intense end-of-life suffering. In civilized societies, as Kevorkian sees it, where religion and government are constitutionally divorced, there is no reason why qualified medical providers of clinically assisted suicide, who break no laws, should be demonized, prosecuted and imprisoned. Government and society have simply failed to recognize the irrelevance of monolithic religious attitudes toward the suffering of those for whom life no longer holds hope, comfort or meaning. Jack Kevorkian has led the way to this realization and has paid dearly for it.
Paul Creeden is an independent writer in Boston, Massachusetts. He holds a B.S. degree in Cellular Biology from Boston College and is a retired registered nurse with decades of experience in psychiatric and hospice nursing. His blog is called Buddha's Pillow. As a guest member of the Harvard Humanist Association, he co-facilitates The Humanist Contemplative Group and writes for The New Humanism, the journal of the H.H.A.. He is also working on an upcoming anthology with other writers in concert with AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts.


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Is it just us or is the pre-season ski and snowboard sale season starting earlier each year? It's not yet Labor Day, yet the sales have already begun. Ski season is beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
Case in point, Christy Sports Powder Daze in Denver started today and runs through Labor Day weekend with early access to ski, snowboard, associated gear, and discounted ski passes.
Winter Park Resort will be on hand at Powder Daze with its lineup of season passes, all discounted during pre-season. Winter Park is also adding an extra day to its Four Pass for a total of five days of skiing and riding with no restrictions for a four-day lift ticket price of $159.
To take advantage of the savings, all passes must be purchased in person at Powder Daze between today and Sept. 2. This will be the last time this special 5-for-4 Pass will be offered this season.
Those attending will also have the opportunity to take advantage of exclusive Winter Park Resort Ski + Ride School deals including a 5-Pack of transferable kids' lessons for $529 and two adult lessons and lift tickets for $199 (a savings of $350 and $119, respectively).
The Rocky Mountain Super Pass Plus will also be on sale, featuring unlimited skiing/riding at Winter Park, Copper Mountain, and now Eldora, six days at Steamboat, three days at Crested Butte, and five days at Mt. Ruapehu in New Zealand with no blackouts for $529. A Winter Park Resort pass with unlimited access to its Seven Territories is $399. If you're planning on purchasing pass products at Powder Daze, plan on using credit or debit cards only.
Powder Daze, the ceremonial start of ski season, will run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day at its new location at 8601 W. Cross Drive in Littleton next to Southwest Plaza Mall.
For more information on Christy Sports Powder Daze and for a complete list of Winter Park Resort passes that will be available, visit www.christysports.com/powderdaze/denver


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The Biggest Loser, the hit show for fifteen years is gearing up for the new season. Jillian Michaels revealed new ideas for future seasons of The Biggest Loser. Her passion for the show is exemplified by her great ideas. "We are looking to have average contestants instead of celebrities" noted Jillian.
I asked all my friends across Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, etc. for questions to ask Jillian before meeting with her, and they had some great questions. One wanted me to ask her about having people with disabilities compete on the biggest loser. Jillian was thrilled with the question, and said, "We are trying to do just that, and there are so many liability issues to deal with. We would love to do a season with contestants with disabilities, we just need to work out all the liability issues. "
Another friend asked about incorporating farm fresh foods, growing your own veggies and farm to table eating. Jillian said, "At home my partner got me started growing vegetables raised beds and our daughter loves it as well." Jillian mentioned eating healthy and fresh is very important to her life coaching goals.
"My favorite part of the show is to find out the why, to find out what caused the contestants to be in their current condition, and how to help them overcome obstacles." Jillian commented, "I consider myself to be a life coach. " Through lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise, people can make big changes to get their lives back on track. "The contestants must learn to replace bad habits with good ones." I am sure there will be some surprises for the new season but Jillian's lips were as tight as her healthy figure.
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A Savoy tradition for many years, this is a walk around tasting of multiple interpretations of the great wintry dish from southwest France. Six chefs, six takes on pork and beans at its best, plenty of Cahors, winter greens and citrus sorbet to keep everyone's palate's refreshed and a roaring fire on the second floor. You'll think you were at a country inn in Vermont instead of in Soho. This year's participating chefs are Alex Raij of Txikito, Justin Smillie of Il Buco Alimentari*, Mike Laarhoven of Back Forty, Shanna Pacifico of Back Forty West, Seamus Mullen of Tertulia* and Matthew Rudofker of Momofuku*. $65 for the meal and beverages with a portion of the proceeds being donated to New Amsterdam Market, the public market project for artisanal producers in the old Fulton Fish Market area. Check out their website http://www.newamsterdammarket.org/ for more info. Monday February 25th 6:30pm-9:30pm. Click here to purchase tickets to the Cassoulet Festival.
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The New York City Health Department on March 5 issued a warning to people who may have handled or purchased fresh fish in the Chinatowns located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. A large number of skin infections caused by a bacteria on the fish have been reported. The infection is not contagious and can be treated with antibiotics.
NBC 4 New York is reporting that at least 30 cases of skin infections have been reported. All can be traced to handling raw fish in one of three Chinatowns in the city, those in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Fish from these markets that has been cooked properly is not infectious.
Iowa State University's Center for Food Security and Public Health says that the disease is known as Fish Tank Granuloma or Swimming Pool Granuloma. The skin infections are caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium marinum. The Center describes the illness as:
Signs of disease involve localized skin lesions, usually on the fingers or hands. They may be single nodule or ulcer or a series of multiple nodules. Skin lesions can heal on their own or persist for months. Less commonly the bacteria can spread in the body and cause joint and bone infections. Death is rare but occasionally occurs, most often in persons with weakened immune systems.
The Health Department describes how the illness is contracted as:
The bacteria can be transferred from contaminated live or raw fish or seafood into people's bodies through a break in the skin, like a cut. Some people infected with the bacteria had existing cuts on their hands when they touched contaminated live or raw fish or seafood. Others cut themselves while preparing contaminated live or raw fish or seafood (i.e. cutting a finger on a sharp crab shell or fish bone).
The Health Department suggests that individuals see a physician if they have symptoms of the illness or if they believe they may have been exposed. Early treatment with antibiotics reduces serious complications seen in longer infections.


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Cleveland packed full of fun and exciting events this weekend: festivals, football, music and more
CLEVELAND - Back to school commercials and sales are starting to pop up everywhere, which means summer is almost over. Get outside and enjoy one of the many exciting events and activities Cleveland has to offer this weekend before its too late.
Rascal Flatts and Sheryl Crow light up Blossom
Tonight, country music stars Rascal Flatts and Sheryl Crow will join forces for a blowout show at Blossom Music Center. Come on out and sing along with all your favorite hits including the Rascal Flatts latest single, "Rewind" that has put their name back in the headlines. Opening acts start at 7 p.m. and tickets are $50.
Twilight at the Zoo
The Cleveland Zoological Society will be hosting Twilight at the Zoo tonight at 7 p.m. featuring 18 live bands from multiple music genres including funk, folk, rock and reggae. The party will be rocking until midnight on Wildlife Way at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Tickets are $80 or you can block off 10 for $700.
The FEST
On Sunday, August 3, join 35,000 fellow northeast Ohions for the 14th annual FEST on Euclid Avenue in Wickliffe. From noon till 10 p.m. families and friends will have the opportunity to enjoy live Christian bands, BMX shows, games, delicious food, an evening mass and end the day with a breath-taking fireworks show. Don't miss out on this one-of-a-kind free family festival.
Twins Days Festival
If you have a twin, then you'll want to be in Twinsburg this weekend as the world's largest gathering of twins takes place Friday through Sunday for the annual Twins Days Festival. The event is open for all twins, identical, fraternal, triplets, etc. and their families. No matter your age, if you have a twin, head on out to Twinsburg this weekend and enjoy three days full of food, games and live entertainment.
Browns Family Day
The NFL season is right around the corner and now its time for you to get your first look at the 2014 Cleveland Browns under the direction of new head coach Mike Pettine. This Saturday, starting at 9 a.m. at Akron's Infocision Stadium , the Browns will be hosting Family Day 2014 offering football fans and friends a like the opportunity to enjoy a day full of fun activities including a zip line, inflatables and a face-painting stations before the team takes the field for an intrasquad scrimmage. Come on out for a look at stars Brian Hoyer, Johnny Manziel, Joe Haden and more.
Cleveland Gladiators Playoff Game
Attention all football fans, the Cleveland Gladiators are in the playoffs and need your help to continue their quest to bring a title home to Cleveland. This Saturday night, your league-record setting 17-win Gladiators take on the Philadelphia Soul the Quicken Loans Arena in a battle for Arena Football League glory. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. and tickets start at $10.
Celebrate Jim Thome with the Cleveland Indians
It's crunch time for the Cleveland Indians baseball fans. As the season begins to wind down, the Tribe are beginning to make their move toward a playoff run. Starting tonight, the Tribe will open up a three-game weekend series against the Texas Rangers at Progressive Field. Tonight is dollar dog night allowing fans of all ages to fill their stomachs with Sugardale Hot Dogs without breaking the bank. Saturday night, the Tribe will celebrate Jim Thome in the revealing of a replica statue as the long-time slugger returns to Cleveland. Both games will conclude with a fireworks performance. First pitch is at 7:05 p.m.
Lake County Captains 'Major League' Night
If you are looking for something a little bit cheaper, but still want to enjoy some of America's past time, then the Lake County Captains game is the place for you. Tonight, the Captains are celebrating the 25 year anniversary of the baseball classic movie "Major League". The first 1,500 fans in the park will receive a Jobu Bobblehead to celebrate the anniversary. The game will be immediately followed by fireworks.
Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement
On Saturday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton will welcome seven new members to their prestigious family, and they want to celebrate with all football fans. All weekend long, the Hall of Fame will be hosting a number of events including live entertainment, parades, pigskin run, beauty pagaents and of course a wide variety of food vendors. Head on down to Canton and welcome Derrick Brooks, Ray Guy, Claude Humphrey, Walter Jones, Andre Reed, Michael Strahan and Aeneas Williams as they join 280 football legends in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Richland County Fair
The Richland County Fair is back and ready to rock out this weekend with live music, tons of food, competitions and live sport entertainment to fill your weekend with smiles. The party gets started this Sunday at 9 a.m. on N. Home road in Mansfield and will continue through the week.
Medina County Fair
If you haven't already made your way out to Medina County Fairgrounds for the Medina County Fair , make it a destination for this weekend as the show continues to party trough
the weekend, offering all the opportunity to catch some live country music, check out a BMX show, laugh on some rides and close the weekend with some fireworks. Tickets are sold at the door and cost no more than $5.
Vintage Ohio Wine Festival
If you enjoy a fine wine or consider yourself a bit of a wine connoisseur, you may want to head out to Lake Metroparks Farmpark for the 20th annual Vintage Ohio Wine Festival . From now through Saturday evening, the festival will feature a wide array of wines from Chardonnay to Cabernet Franc to Riesling and a number of food choices only to end the evening with beautiful fireworks.
Movies Released this weekend
If you feel like heading to the movie theaters this weekend, take a look at some of the latest releases.
Guardians of the Galaxy -- PG-13 -- In one of the blockbusters of the summer, in the far reaches of space, an American pilot named Peter Quill finds himself the object of a manhunt after stealing an orb coveted by the villainous Ronan. Starring Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper and more.
Get on Up -- PG-13 -- A chronicle of James Brown rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
4 Minute Mile -- PG-13 -- A former track coach decides to train a student with natural athletic talent. Tragedy strikes right before the biggest race of his life, forcing him to confront everything that has been holding him back.
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MEDINA — Interim Superintendent Dave Knight has told Medina school board members they must pay for their own hotels and food during this year's Ohio School Board Association Conference in Columbus.
"The district is planning on paying for your registration fee, but not your accommodations or your food," Knight said during Monday's board meeting.
The conference is Nov. 10 to 13. Knight said he came up with the idea in response to public concern over past district spending for professional development.
"In the past, maybe it wasn't watched as closely as it should be," he said. "We are watching how we are spending money."
Knight said the cost to the district to pay the conference registration fee for six or more people would be $1,650. He said he hoped the three board members who will be elected in November could plan to attend.
"In the past, we have always gone down there," he said. "It's a time for board members, especially new board members, to attend training sessions."
Also in November, the school board will ask voters to approve a five-year, 5.9-mill levy that would cost the owner of a $100,000 home about $206 annually.
Board member Susan Vlcek disagreed with Knight, arguing that making board members pay their expenses would limit the number of people who could afford to run for the school board.
"I've heard people say they would like to see diversity on the board," she said. "We ask a lot of anybody who is going to sit on one of these seats. I couldn't really endorse this as a practice going into the future.
Vlcek said the district should be encouraging board members to attend the conference.
"It's a big investment to take one or two, possibly three days off work and not get paid for it, and possibly incur our own expenses," she said.
School board members are paid $250 per month — $125 for each of two regular meetings each month — and donate 20 percent of their pay back to the district.
Under Ohio law, school board members cannot be paid more.
Board member Bill Grenfell said he would designate his 20 percent donation to pay the hotel and food expenses for Andrew Shea, the board's nonvoting student representative.
The district has been subject to increased public scrutiny of its finances after the board approved a new contract for Superintendent Randy Stepp in January that included an $83,000 signing bonus.
The controversy grew, fueled by the disclosure that Stepp's earlier contracts paid for more than a quarter-million dollars of educational expenses for old college loans. The payments were made with district money in a "carryover" fund held by the Medina County Schools' Educational Service Center.
The fund contains money left over after the district has paid for services such as nursing and bus driver training from the Educational Service Center.
At Monday's meeting, the board approved a resolution asking the Educational Service Center to return to the district $191,775.98 from this year's carryover fund. That would leave a balance of $25,000 to start the new school year.
Board President Karla Robinson said funds paid to the Educational Service Center only would be used for its services, per changes in board procedure in March.
Stepp was placed on paid leave April 8, pending the outcome of a special audit by Ohio State Auditor Dave Yost examining Stepp's use of the carryover fund. Two weeks later, the board voted to rescind Stepp's contract.
Stepp responded in May by suing the school board in federal court. The board has countersued, demanding the $83,000 bonus be returned.
The board asked the auditor in late May to expand the scope of the audit to include one month — Nov. 10 to Dec. 10, 2007 — of expenses from an American Express credit card Stepp was issued by the district.
School officials have declined to say why the audit was expanded.
A December 2007 billing statement contained $5,276.36 in charges. All but $524.09 of the charges were for 13 rooms booked at the Capital Square Hyatt Hotel in Columbus for Nov. 11 to 14, the dates of that year's annual Ohio School Board Association conference.
The only other charges on the December credit card statement were a Dec. 5 charge for $88.49 from the Blue Heron restaurant and a $435.60 charge for a Columbus Hyatt hotel Dec. 6.
Robinson has said she does not know when the audit will be completed.
In other action, the board approved a resolution saying both regular meetings and work sessions would take place at 6:30 p.m. in Medina High School's distance learning lab.
The work sessions now will be recorded and televised within three business days.
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In an interview with ABS-CBN News, Anne Curtis, one of the brightest stars in the industry, revealed that she is open to do a project with box office king John Lloyd Cruz this year. Said interview was posted on this website yesterday, Jan. 10, 2014 (Philippine time).
Incidentally, John Lloyd Cruz is doing a romantic-comedy series with Toni Gonzaga on ABS-CBN. In an interview with the movie press, John Lloyd compared Home Sweetie Home to the king of comedy's John 'N Marsha, a defunct situational comedy series that aired over the Radio Philippines Network from 1973 to 1990. Created by Adíng Fernando, the series starred Dolphy, Nida Blanca, Dely Atay-Atayan and Maricel Soriano.
Is John Lloyd ready to work with Anne Curtis this year? Anne had an intriguing incident with John Lloyd happened at a bar in Taguig City last month, based on the report, she was drunk during that night. Allegedly, Anne slapped John Lloyd and three other local celebrities including Phoemela Baranda. But anyway, said allegation was already cleared. Anne has already apologized to the persons involved. And now, she is scheduled to play the role of a mermaid in the upcoming TV series Dyesebel.
Several weeks ago, some people were speculating that the network will tap Kim Chiu or KC Concepcion to play the lead role in Dyesebel, but like what you read in print and social media these past two days, Anne was chosen by ABS-CBN. Her co-star Sam Milby and Gerald Anderson are also happy to know that they are included in the Mars Ravelo created comics character.
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Daytona Salvation Army rehab supervisor sexually battered patient, police say
Published: Friday, June 13, 2014 at 6:09 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 13, 2014 at 6:09 p.m.
A man who worked as a clinical supervisor for the Salvation Army in Daytona Beach is facing sexual battery charges after police say he blackmailed a drug rehab patient into a sex act.
Gerard Lucien Pepin, 62, was arrested Thursday by the Bay County Sheriff's Office on a warrant charging him with sexual misconduct by a psychotherapist and two counts of sexual battery, according to a release from Sheriff's Office.
The victim, who was 24 years old when the battery occurred in May 2011, told police Pepin had discovered she'd written a sexually explicit letter to one of the men in rehab, which is against the rules, according to a Daytona Beach police incident report.
Pepin told the woman he would not report her and that the letter she'd written "excited" him, according to the report.
Pepin called the woman into his office one day and said if she did not give him oral sex that he would report her for the letter, according to the report. The woman suffered a panic attack afterward and was persuaded by a friend to report the battery.
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Prabhu Ganesan Movies and Career Information
Dec 31, 1956
Actor and Producer
Prabhu Ganesan (Tamil: பிரபு கணேசன்) (born 31 December 1956) is a Tamil film actor and film producer. He is the son of Tamil thespian Sivaji Ganesan. A native of Tamil Nadu, he is the son of Sivaji and Kamala Ganesan. He has an elder brother named Ramkumar Ganesan who is a film producer, and two sisters, Shanthi and Thenmozhi. He did his schooling at Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore. He later pursued a BA in History at Loyola College, Chennai, an elite Jesuit college, from 1976 till 1978. He was active in sports. At college he was quiet and unassuming. He dropped out from Loyola in his second year. He married Punitha in 1981; they have a son named Vikram Prabhu and one daughter named Aishwarya Prabhu. Prabhu Ganesan has appeared in over 150 films. After his debut in the film Sangili in 1982, he made several films. Apart from taking the lead role, he has acted in several types of roles, including comedian roles and antagonistic roles. Ganesan frequently appeared alongside Tamil actors Rajinikanth, Kamal Hassan, and his father Sivaji Ganesan during this time period. He received a Best Actor Award in 1991. He appeared in Suyamvaram. He appeared alongside Rajinikanth in Guru
- Prabhu Ganesan Movies 2016
- Theri 2016
- Prabhu Ganesan Movies before 2015
- Ayan 2009
- Chandramukhi 2005
- Billa (2008)
- Asal
- Thillalangadi
- Aadu Puli
- Yennamo Yedho (Ennamo Yedho)
- Unnodu Kaa
- Movies Produced by Prabhu Ganesan
- Aasal - The Power of Silence 2010
- Chandramukhi 2005
- Delhii Heights
- Asal


text: Bongo boasts its very best in a brand-new, pocket-sized digest, brimming with classic Simpsons stories and loaded with laughs. This new quarterly series offers 64-pages packed with comic gems including the Carl Barks-inspired high sea adventure tale "Uncle Burn$!;" Bart's tricked-out version of Mark Twain's stories on the mighty Mississippi; a costume drama featuring Bartman; and a high-octane, vintage, Itchy & Scratchy short! It's a pint-sized package filled with giggles galore this August!