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Reprinted from The Journal of Rational Recovery,
Volume 9, Issue 5, May-June, 1997
Used with permission; all rights reserved.
For a number of years, [my wife] Lois and I have been aggressive critics of Alcoholics Anonymous and its recovery group movement because we believe strongly that AA is a primary cause of mass addiction in America. We know that hearing open criticism of the 12-step program is enormously helpful to people who have struggled in recovery group bondage, and we also believe that the recovery group movement is harmful to American society.
It is understandable that we have gained quite a reputation for AA-bashing. Many perceive Lois as a mild-mannered, cheerful person who is much more reserved about attacking the addiction system, and that I am a grumpy old meanie with an ax to grind. Personalities aside, we are equally devoted to the destruction of Alcoholics Anonymous, the recovery group movement it has spawned, and its business arm, the addiction treatment industry.
Oddly, we have not, until now, taken a public position on the much-asked question. In spite of our outspokenness, we avoided the "C"-word, i.e., "cult." It has seemed needlessly inflammatory to say that Alcoholics Anonymous is a cult — until now.
Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure? is the title of a book by Chaz Bufe which examines the history, development and current practices of AA with that question in mind. Bufe applies seventeen criteria commonly used to define a cult from an academic viewpoint, but he equivocates, noting that AA does engage in some, but not all, typical cult practices. He concludes that AA is cultish in some ways but does not truly deserve the label, cult.
Academic inquiry into the possible cult identity of Alcoholics Anonymous is just that — academic. Therein lies a chief weakness of the Bufe book. For decades, millions of people have suspected, believed, or known that Alcoholics Anonymous is religious. Anyone can see that it is, yet an entire nation accepted its sophomoric disclaimer, "Not religious, just spiritual." Recently, however, federal courts have asserted, "AA is unequivocally religious." They only looked at AA's doctrinal literature, and unhesitatingly declared what is obvious to anyone. No academicians determined that AA was religious; no academicians are going to divert the river of public cash away from addiction treatment into worthy projects. No academicians will steer the nation away from its unholy union with AA, nor will academicians solve the crisis of runaway, mass addiction.
For the record, here is our position: Of course AA is a cult! AA is not only a religious cult, it is a radical cult, an evil cult, a widespread cult, and a dangerous cult. AA has become an engine of social decay posing as a noble, altruistic fellowship. Its perverse philosophy of sin-disease and deliverance by faith in a heterogeneous deity contradicts the fundamental values of a free society, but is uniquely appealing to people addicted to substance-pleasure. AA is a cancer on the soul of the nation, producing no pain to the populace as it eats away at the foundation of society. Its victims are its members who become grateful to their captors. AA is causing the problem is says it helps. Its 12-step program suggests nothing on how to quit an addiction except to stop trying, and its members love the cult more than any newcomer. Each cult member shares a vision of a better world resulting from propagating the steps — not from the effects of abstinence upon society. The AA cult has infiltrated our federal and state bureaucracies and now nests in every social institution, setting policies that funnel new members into its craw. It expands for its own sake, and cannot change from within. Therefore, it must be destroyed by forthright public education and expose.
Lois and I rarely tell callers that AA is a cult; they tell us that it is. We look through a window into the soul of America, a window that is not available to others. At the national office, telephone calls are continuous every day, many from callers who have been trying to get through for days. It appears that our phone lines are two or three deep with callers at any given time, although we cannot determine how many are attempting to ring in at any moment. The calls are primarily from readers of Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction, calling to say thanks for making the vital information on planned abstinence available to them. For the most part, they are recovered as a result of reading about AVRT [Addictive Voice Recognition Technique], after which they pop out of the trance induced by 12-step and psychological recovery groups.
Here are some telephone snippets from callers all over:
"I knew from the start there was something creepy about those people." "They aren't of this world; they're way out there." "I kind of got a shiver during one meeting when they were putting one guy down for arguing against the powerless concept." "When they said my family also was diseased, I knew something was wrong." "When they started this thing about anything being my Higher Power, it felt wrong, like it was going against something very important inside of me." "After I stopped going to meetings, no one I knew from the groups would have anything to do with me, even though I wasn't drinking." "My brother quit drinking by going to AA, but he's become so weird. I hardly know him any more, and almost miss the way he was when he was drinking. At least he was sincere, and could talk about something besides himself." "Our son went to a treatment specialist for drug addiction, and now he says we are satanic child molesters." "I've been telling my husband that the meetings aren't helping, that he now calls his binges relapses and feels less guilty afterward. He admits he is drinking more and more often, but says relapse is a normal part of recovery. When he goes to meetings after a relapse, though, he feels ashamed and depressed." "A year after I quit drinking, my wife went to Al-Anon with a friend. Now she won't communicate with me unless I go to AA." "The counselors at the treatment center were poorly-educated and acted like robots reciting every word." "I heard one man say, 'I pray to God every day that I never get the idea that I can run my own life.' When I heard this, I felt sick inside because I felt unable to leave the group."
These comments, and the sometimes lengthy stories they tell us, are convincing anecdotal evidence that Alcoholics Anonymous is a cult. AA exudes cultism. It looks like a cult, acts like a cult, and sounds like a cult. It is a cult that has risen meteorically from its origins as a splinter from yet another radical cult, the Oxford Group. They found dark niches in society — our jails, hospitals, and dead-end missions — to pronounce the drunk diseased and beyond the expectation to quit drinking or using. They invented the malleable Higher Power, the alcoholics' deity-of-convenience, to sanction them and guide them along the cult's thin ledge of tentative sobriety, and they are directed to constantly seek new members to justify their own cult affiliation.
AA is not a cult because it meets certain objective criteria established by academics; it is a cult because it appears to be one. Social and behavioral scientists do not often make new discoveries, they typically exploit discoveries by quantifying, describing, referencing, and analyzing discoveries made by common people. They know little of the real phenomena about which they expound, each building upon the ignorance of their esteemed colleagues. AA has thrived on account of everyone's hesitancy to say what it is that they see, i.e., the Emperor's New Words. Therefore, it is time to call AA a cult, and wait for the academicians to catch up.
To help them, I will apply the seventeen academic criteria of cultism chosen by Bufe, and reach a clear, unequivocal conclusion based on the daily experience of the national office of Rational Recovery:
As predicted in [my 1980s book] The Small Book, the federal courts now refer to AA doctrinal literature, the steps themselves, as "Exhibit A" showing that AA is "unequivocally religious." AA is intensely religious; what religion would call for 90 meetings in 90 days? What's going on here? "The Big Book" [AA's text Alcoholics Anonymous] is regarded as divinely revealed, sacred scripture within the step-cult; all disagreements are settled by citing passages from it. Gaetano Salomone's extensive, ongoing analysis in JRR [The Journal of Rational Recovery] shows the purely religious identity and origins of AA. One of his unique contributions is his comparison of the surface structure and the deep structure (what you see and what you get) of the 12-step religious conversion program.
Families split apart based on AA membership, just as religious conflict often disrupts family ties. At least one Methodist church has gone belly-up to "those people who meet in the basement," who arose to conduct Sunday services with a teddy bear affixed over the altar where the image of Christ had been. The Church of Serenity, as they called themselves, worship using a special Bible written for alcoholics.
[A woman] called two days after reading The New Cure, excited that she would never return to AA, of which she said, "Now I know why I always felt uncomfortable at the meetings. They say that the step program is not religious, but spiritual, but they place no value on religious worship whatsoever. They claim to respect all religions, but believe that no religion is adequate to solve problems of alcohol or drug addiction. To me, this means that AA believes itself to be superior to Christianity when addictive 'disease' exists within the family. They diagnosed my entire family as codependents or enablers who must enter their plan of salvation, as if they were sick. This was extremely disruptive, but I continued meetings and gradually replaced church connections with the recovery fellowship. Although they claim there is no conflict between churches and the program, in reality it is impossible to maintain both. From AA, I learned to look at God differently from the teachings of my church. After attending step meetings, I was spiritually self-conscious while worshiping at my church, because my perception of Jesus Christ in church was radically different from the Higher Power I was, in effect, worshiping at recovery meetings. I could not express this problem at meetings or at church, but Rational Recovery has reunited me with my religion by showing that drinking is not a disease; it is sin, and AVRT is the nuts and bolts of Christian repentance."
To AA believers, AA doctrine must be correct, as it is written. No one may speak of the incoherence of AA doctrine, and group interaction is designed to prevent or contain skepticism. "Your best thinking got you here." "There's no one too dumb to get this program, but many are too intelligent." "Expect a miracle."
Few would disagree that [AA co-founder] Bill W. has become a folk saint, revered and idolized by the 12-step community. His home has become a shrine, and his personal memorabilia have become sacred artifacts. He is regarded by some as the reincarnation of Christ, guiding the world into the Age of Sobriety, a millennium comparable to the Kingdom of God spoken of in the Bible. AA lifers trace their lineage back to Bill W. through a genealogy of sponsors, and speak with great pride to say, "Bill W. was my sponsor's great-gransponsor." Core members of AA are referred to as "Trusted Servants," despite disclaimers that AA has no leaders. This image-making label endows such individuals with enormous moral authority, for they are, in fact, representing AA's lineage to Bill W. and ultimately to the Loving God AA obediently serves.
While AA appears to the casual observer as a nonprofit corporation that sponsors autonomous, community-level cell groups, it has evolved far beyond that level of organization. Its members, shielded by anonymity and presenting themselves as concerned addictions experts, have infiltrated federal and state bureaucracies, where they manipulate social policies and funding patterns affecting America's social service system. Hundreds of nonprofit organizations exist purely for the purpose disseminating disease-treatment propaganda and networking within communities to create political support for the 12-step agendas described in AA doctrinal literature. Now in possession of the American social service system, including the prisons and courts, the professional disciplinary and licensing boards, the medicaid and social welfare programs, and the military health care system, AA can be seen as a powerful hierarchy of professional AA'ers employed in positions of social responsibility. AA is a cult which has spread into a bureaucracy, which I call a "cultocracy," for the lack of a standard word to describe this anomaly. The funding for the AA cultocracy is not from the free-will donations of grateful alcoholics, but taken from each taxpayer by the force of national tax laws. The AA cultocracy enlarges AA's membership by using the authority of social institutions to force vulnerable people into their recovery groups, where they are indoctrinated under conditions that should interest Amnesty International. The penalty for resisting AA participation may be imprisonment, death from the lack of organ transplant, imprisonment as in parole and early-release policies, loss of social welfare and health care benefits, loss of child custody as in domestic court cases, loss of livelihood as in impaired professional programs, and loss of employment as in employment assistance programs.
It has been known for a long time that persons who test high on authoritarianism relate best to the rigors of the 12-step program and are more likely to become devoted, long-term members. The sponsor system assures social stratification, self-debasement, and gratification of the need for control over others. Beyond this, members achieve status and credibility based on time since last drink, so that someone with five years of sobriety might feel diminished in the presence of someone a decade sober. The result is a core membership of "true believers" whose identities are at one with AA.
Quitting drinking is not nearly enough to satisfy the demands of the step program. One must accept the god of AA, the Higher Power, as one's personal savior. Nearly all cults have God-control at the core. Jim Jones, David Koresh, and lately the HeavensGate cult are typical of other cults that have taken what they liked from legitimate religions and left the rest. Cults are usually Godly fellowships interpreting the word of God in a unique fashion, always undermining critical thought and making their members progressively more submissive to the will of God. AA's emphasis on God-control is total, as one AA'er pathetically demonstrated during a call to RR. He asked, "Does RR think I can lead my life independently?" The answer was, "Yes, if that is want you want." He said, "Since learning about RR, I pray for only one thing, that I never get that idea in my head. If that ever happens, I'm finished."
Reading AA's central document, "The Big Book," will show beyond any doubt that AA, despite some polite disclaimers, claims to have the ultimate truth. Anyone who has attempted to argue against AA doctrine during meetings will quickly find out that they are wrong, that the Steps are absolutely true, and to hold opposing beliefs is tantamount to a death sentence. [One person] called to say, "As soon as I told the group I was reading the new RR book, they started rejecting me like I had the plague. It was as if I had betrayed everyone present, or carried the seeds of their destruction."
No cult has succeeded in stigmatizing its members to the extent AA has. Even the HeavensGate cult, requiring uniforms and castration, failed to gain the support of the scientific community to support its bizarre concept of a rescuing UFO hidden in the tail of comet Hale-Bopp. AA has hypothesized the existence of a sacred disease, and found substantial support. Neither Ti nor Do, the cult leaders, obtained the sanction of organized religion to support their conceptions of salvation and heaven. When the 39 cult members died of their own actions which were predicted by cult doctrine, they were not seen to be victims of a hypothetical disease, but to a large extent they were seen as victims of a dangerous cult.
It isn't much of a stretch to imagine a more highly developed and better organized HeavensGate cult, in which a good number of M.D.'s and psychologists had become devout members. (Heaven knows something more bizarre than that has happened in the "addictionology" field.)
Throughout the AA scriptures, there appears to be no direct reference to an afterlife, but there is one higher state of being, akin to heaven or nirvana — serenity. Serenity is achieved by diligent step-study which leads to a spiritual awakening, an ineffable and divinely inspired religious conversion experience. Serenity is the state of personal salvation by faith, and is the highest aspiration within the world of the steps. From serenity comes all that is good, good works, good feelings, goodness itself. Serenity is simply divine, and towers above the religious experience of traditional, hierarchical religions. The general attitude of AA society to traditional religion is snobbish humility, once again reflecting the pervasive, inherent contradictions that permeate AA.
AA lore is replete with injunctions to devote one's life in every way to the cult itself. One may not take credit for abstinence or relief from despair; the only benefactor is AA or God, and the only proper attitude is gratitude. [The AA book] Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions sets forth Tradition One as, "Our common welfare should come first." AA presents itself as necessary to life itself: "...without AA we will perish." Any criticism of the Program or of AA is regarded as heresy that endangers the lives of AA'ers everywhere, and must be silenced by admonitions or mottos. Members dwell upon themselves endlessly, working steps on themselves, and attending [meetings] as part of methodical spiritual growth. Step meetings focus on philosophical minutia, and an endless stream of new books on step-recovery, many [published by] Hazelden, are found in bookstores for the struggling recovering alcoholics.
It appears likely that AA has destroyed the economic foundations of more families than addiction itself has. The incestuous relationship of the recovery groups and the treatment centers, where the referral traffic sustains the interests of each, has run up bills that no person or family can pay. Treatment centers have materials for credit applications and mortgage arrangements to pay for the re-admissions of chronic relapsers. If the services were in any way effective, the cost would not be exploitive, but treatment centers are acutely aware that only about five percent of those who come through the turnstiles will remain abstinent for long. Repeat business is the best business in the addiction treatment industry, but claims of "success rates" of 60 to 70 percent are common by the treatment centers.
AA itself has set a suggested limit on how much members can give at meetings (in 1990 it was $500 per year), but in the atmosphere of meetings this is akin to a pledge goal. In just one of AA's many districts, the amount actually sent to AA, not just dropped in the basket, in 1989 was $11 million.
The economic exploitation denied with, "No one makes a dime on AA." Not so.
Acclaimed libertarian talk-show host, Gene Burns, noted during a program on Rational Recovery in 1990, "AA has a proprietary interest in every living person who drinks too much." In our work since then, we have talked almost every day to people who say, "I finally quit because the groupers seemed to think they owned me." "They kept calling between meetings, and kept telling me I would go crazy or die if I didn't make more meetings." "At the meetings, they made me feel naughty for missing meetings." One man, depressed and frightened but apparently sober, said, "I need help. They're coming for me." Believing police or paramedics had been summoned, Lois asked, "Did you threaten yourself or someone else?" He said, "No, they've been looking for me. I'm at my sister's house and they just called and they're on their way over." Lois asked, "Who are they?" He answered, "The AA people. They won't leave me alone. They're on the porch." Lois told the caller he could send them away, but he said, "It's no use. I can't go against them when they are here," and hung up.
We receive many calls from people who have been securely abstinent for years, but are now required to enter treatment programs. This occurs with professional licensing programs, with drunk driver programs, and in child custody cases.
It is commonplace for AA-dropouts to receive calls from AA members asking, "Haven't seen you for a while. Are you okay?" These calls are not from concern or friendship, but only to manipulate people back into meeting attendance. When the dropout makes it clear that he or she will not be returning, there is no possibility that the grouper will continue to associate or call for other reasons.
While some cults jinx or curse departing members with divine or karmic punishments, AA promises refuseniks hell on earth, either from inevitable drinking or using, or from a malady called dry drunk. The dry drunk concept is one of the most sinister mind-traps ever devised to retain errant cult members. Knowing intimately how addicted people cannot imagine a satisfactory life without the substance, and understanding well the insatiable appetite to continue drinking or using, cult novices are told that quitting drinking or using is useless since addicts cannot be happy, cannot cope with normal stresses of life, or will simply self-destruct after prolonged suffering and deterioration.
AA has a well-known reputation as "slogan therapy," but all cults use repeated phrases as an indoctrination technique. Like all cults, each and every slogan or motto of AA is an inversion of the truth or a platitude to cover an atrocity. The meeting structure itself forbids two-way communications, allowing for one to "share" whatever, with only marginal or no commentary from the group. Approval and disapproval are communicated slyly with acerbic comments from groupers, or nonverbal gestures and cues.
The fact that all newcomers suffer the same functional problem, i.e, ambivalence with repeated reversal of intent, makes them easy prey for seasoned old-timers who can anticipate addictive thought processes. Instead of freeing people from addiction by telling the simple truth they all must know, they exploit the weakness of newcomers to induct them into the cult. Each abstinent AA'er knows very well that drinking and using is a matter of free choice, and that self-recovery is not only possible, but commonplace. Acting out of loyalty and guilt, they repeat the official dogma, that AA is a lifeboat for all addicted people, and to leave the fold is tantamount to choosing death. So zealous has the recovery group movement become, that every single group insists, "Anything can be your Higher Power — a teacup, a doorknob, a stone." In their zeal, all respect for common sense and self-determination is abandoned in favor of coercive logic approaching absolute mind-control. "At first you come because you have to come," they say, "but later you come because you love to come."
No cult on record has achieved such sophisticated means of mind-control that the casual onlooker either doesn't notice or doesn't mind the coercion. This is accomplished primarily through the following means:
We hear daily from people telling about being detained in treatment centers, deprived of all reading materials except AA doctrinal literature, deprived of any contact with family or friends, and prohibited from using the telephone. When the facility is not locked, subjects are threatened with direct billing for services because insurance will not pay the front-loaded hospital bill if the patient leaves against medical advice. Moreover, resistance to treatment is recorded into medical records which are released in advance at the time of admission. The record becomes evidence for later repercussions in court and before professional boards. Family members are required to also submit to codepedency indoctrination as a condition of payment.
Ninety meetings in ninety days, an industry standard, makes the cult an all-encompassing environment, allowing scant time for anything but cult participation. Although the subject may sleep and eat at home, the effect of daily cult participation results in social disorientation to the extent that subjects feel as if they are at meetings while in their homes. When this bizarre, coercive arrangement is not mandated by a court, it is reinforced by the group (its established members working in shifts, of course), which constantly remind subjects that if they relent in meeting attendance they will self-destruct.
The fundamental deception of AA is that it is an organization devoted to helping people defeat addictions. AA is not about recovery, AA is about AA. The First Tradition, which values the welfare of the group over its totally dependent members, is a red flag that is carefully shielded from public scrutiny. The steps themselves deceive the observer, seeming to convey an antidote for the degeneracy of addicted people. Ominously, the steps contain not even a hint on how an individual might cease and desist from the use of alcohol or drugs, but only instruct the member to stop trying to quit and shift that responsibility onto the cult and its deity-of-convenience, any Higher Power of one's conception. This amorphous Higher Power, although called God, is entirely unique to AA, as it is intended to metamorphose into an Alcoholic's God that intervenes at the level of voluntary motor control. "At times, there is no human defense against the desire to drink," they explain, "but your Higher Power will protect you. Let go and let God." Submission to the will of the Alcoholic's God is the benchmark of working a good program, and is the antithesis of free-will, self-determination, self-will, i.e., denial. Since members are a self-selected group in the long-term grip of pleasure, continued intermittent drinking or using is the actual group norm, even though the stated norm is complete abstinence. Drinking bouts are then integrated as "relapses," "slips," or innocent symptoms of the group disease. This seductive, deceptive arrangement allows members to continue drinking, which they are impassioned to do, while appearing to be committed to abstinence. Essentially, AA is a drug-cult which holds various substances to be "desecrating sacraments" which are necessary for eventual cleansing of the soul. It is clearly not an organization devoted to teaching people any means to end substance addictions.
The "treatment intervention" is a surprise party set up to trap unsuspecting substance abusers at vulnerable moments. An emotional ambush, orchestrated by a professional AA'er, is planned ahead of time by inviting the subject's significant others, including distant relatives, old friends, neighbors, family members, present and former bosses, and anyone else who would maximize the intended humiliation to the subject. Each is told how the subject has the dread disease of alcoholism and is "in denial" — penetrable only by total embarrassment and tough love. They have rehearsals, each person dredging up examples of the subject's poor behavior or moral transgressions. Often, a van from the interventionist's place of employment, a nearby treatment center, pulls up just as the meeting ends, and the subject is led sobbing to the vehicle. We are not aware of any person who has been helped by this intrusive, brutal practice, including those who later give rehearsed, glassy-eyed testimonials of being gratefully intervened alcoholics.
We receive many calls from people who were deceived by addiction treatment centers as to the nature of the services provided. Many people who have had painful or disgusting experiences in AA ask specifically to have no further exposure to AA, and state they will not enter the facility if that is what is provided, some asking specifically for Rational Recovery. The admissions personnel, always AA members, lie straightforwardly, promising no AA, and then later explain that AA doesn't lend its name to any organization, but that the only thing that works with addictions is the 12-step program. Some hospitals even state that they offer Rational Recovery, and the patient later finds that what is offered is some form of cognitive, feel-good therapy, which they say blends with their 12-step program. (These agencies, of course, receive standard cease and desist letters from RRS, Inc.)
The endless inversions of truth, starting with the "spiritual-not-religious" deception, are a path of progressive self-betrayal culminating in collapse of critical judgment and surrender to the cult, i.e., "snapping."
The "intervention" is a graphic example of the AA cult's use of emotional brutality to get new recruits, but every meeting of AA is a guilt manipulation. Most AA escapees we hear from tell of the intense guilt generated during meetings, particularly while working the steps involving moral inventories and making amends. One disturbing but frequent observation is that of callers who have spent many painful years, even decades, in the revolving door of relapse and keep-coming-back, and who have been greatly inspired by learning about AVRT. In spite of renewed hope for secure abstinence, and even a sense of complete recovery, they are loathe to criticize AA in any way, or even to admit that they were misled by the step doctrine. "As long as AA helps some people, it shouldn't be bashed. There are different roads to recovery..." Many years ago, we recognized this aberrant defensiveness and included it under the list of signs of recovery group disorder, not unlike the classical nonchalance of cult members toward self-sacrifice.
AA now has a faction which believes that Bill W. was Christ reincarnated, that the original Jesus was an alcoholic who authored the 12-steps, that the Last Supper was the first AA meeting, that Old Testament prophecies predict that AA will rise as the dominant world religion during our times, and that the Age of Sobriety, actually the prophesied Kingdom of God, will commence on the year 2000. The book Mark as Recovery Story, by William Mellon, dovetails AA with Christianity through linguistic feats and Biblical re-interpretation, drawing out shocking assertions about the character of Christ and the nature of salvation. Galilee, Mellon asserts, had a good number of 12-step groups started by Jesus when he fled there following his mock-crucifixion. Yes, this is bizarre and offensive, but there's no business like cult business.
If by violence we include intellectual violence, all cults are violent, and AA surpasses most of them. Denial-hazing, in which any suggestion of self-determination is made into a symptom of the group's disease, is figuratively an intellectual "kneecap job," in which the legs are shot out from under newcomers with the intention of crippling them for life. Interventions are emotionally violent, and the entire pattern of predicting death and destruction for program-resistant members is a form of violence. Court-mandated AA participation is inherently violent, since court orders are backed by guns.
Here I must address the issue of character defects, the subject of much recovery group movement discussion. The 12 steps appear to be laced with something that makes people mean and arrogant. The more seriously people take them, the weirder they become, in comparison to their pre-cult personalities. They also appear more inclined to mistreat their fellow beings — all in the name of treatment or recovery, of course. One caller likened the AA cult indoctrination to vampirism, in which, once-bitten, one will go on to bite others.
The tens of thousands of people who have called us in despair have been mistreated by members of AA — by fellow groupers, by sponsors, by step-oriented counselors and therapists, and by stepping judges and physicians. The abuses are surprisingly similar and few in type, the most common being the insistence that AA is the only possible remedy for addiction, leaving the subject depressed and hopeless. The use of death threats is universal within the recovery group movement, drawing on the tone and passages from "The Big Book" which predict death for nonbelievers and dropouts.
The admonition, "If you don't (whatever) you will drink," is the foundation of the entire recovery group movement, and it is commonly understood that if you drink, you will end up "in jails, hospitals, and asylums." While there may be some statistical support for this prediction, it is not on account of anyone's failure to work the step program that one might drink. Indeed, it is far more likely that the prediction itself is more instrumental in a drinking outcome than not enough program compliance. The cruel irony is that when the prediction of drinking is accepted and acted upon, it appears to all that the drinking was the direct result of program noncompliance. Relapse is program compliance!
Chemical dependency (CD) counseling is a professional guild created by AA in order for its members to practice stepcraft in public institutions and agencies. Few CD counselors dreamed of becoming counselors until they joined AA and saw the chance to work a Good Program and get paid for it, so it is understandable that as a group they are poorly educated and do not demonstrate the skill and poise of trained professionals. Their philosophical orientation, at sharp odds with all of the health and helping professions, defines their clients as fundamentally defective, lacking in sound judgment, and riddled with character defects that add up to sociopathy. They see their clients, whether on the street, in their offices, in prisons, or in their homes, as not deserving the same measure of dignity and trust that would be afforded others, and always in need of more treatment or AA meetings. They manage dependent caseloads of files that are never closed, but at some stage of the disease of addiction, and they spend inordinate amounts of time on psycho-social fishing expeditions, interviewing and compiling records and evidence "assessing" and proving hypothesized pathology. Their counseling skills do not exceed the limitations imposed by the 12-step program itself, so they are unable to form genuinely therapeutic relationships.


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LTC (RET) Joanne E. McGovern is a highly decorated combat veteran with over 34 years of experience in disaster and humanitarian assistance operations that span the globe. Upon her retirement from the US Army she became the Chief Operations Officer for the Yale ESF-8 Planning and Response Program. She is currently a Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health, Environmental Health Science Department, where she teaches to courses in Medical and Public Health Emergency Planning and Operations together with Dr Sandy Bogucki.

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Cairns and Port Douglas Australia are also popular far-north destinations. A Port Douglas holiday involves relaxing at hotels, enjoying a Port Douglas restaurant, or using a charter boat to explore the reef. Travel around Port Douglas is made easier with a map of the area.
Cairns and Port Douglas Region [Port Douglas accommodation]
Hinchinbrook is another northern area worth a visit. Mission Beach lies between the reef and the rainforest, and is a whopping 14km long. Mission Beach Australia also has the advantage point of being right beside the reef. Hinchinbrook Island contains Australia's largest national park, while Ingham is a pleasant sugar-farming town.
The Hitchinbrook Region
Nearby Townsville Australia is an ever-growing city, with attractions galore. Relax at quality Townsville accommodation like a Townsville hotel, or check out the Yongala Wreck which dates back to 1911. Ayr is a nearby small town, in the heart of the sugar cane area. Magnetic Island is just off shore with a ferry service running daily from Townsville.
The Townsville Region [Townsville accommodation]
The Whitsundays
The Whitsunday Islands in the middle of the reef feature numerous attractions. Try Whitsundays diving, private yacht charter or Whitsunday sailing. Areas like beautiful Airlie Beach feature stellar accommodation, while Daydream Island and Hamilton Island are well worth visiting too. Boat charter Whitsunday will allow you to explore such islands as Hook Island, Lindeman Island, and South Molle Island.
The Whitsundays [Whitsunday accommodation]
The coastal city of Mackay lies between Brisbane and Cairns, and has the reef on its doorstep. Mackay is great for fishing, charter boat hire and rainforest walks and treks. The world-class Brampton Island resort in the nearby Whitsunday Islands is well worth a visit, or you could simply enjoy staying at a beach in Mackay Australia.
The Mackay Region [Mackay accommodation]
Capricorn Coast
The Capricorn Coast encompasses Rockhampton, Gladstone, Bundaberg and Yeppoon, and is home to breathtaking landscapes and gorgeous beaches. Rockhampton is the largest town, while the Swain reefs can be found east of Yeppoon, a popular village-like town.
The Capricorn Coast [Gladstone accommodation]


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Malaysian couple face jail for eating pork
Couple posted photo of them eating during Ramadan
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July 24, 2013
A non-Muslim Chinese couple who posted on Facebook a photo of themselves eating pork during the Islamic month of Ramadan face up to 15 years in prison in Muslim-majority Malaysia for sedition and other crimes.
"They were charged under the Sedition Act, the Film Censorship Act, and the Penal Code," the Malaysia Chronicle reported on Thursday (July 18).
Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee — also known as Tan Jye Yee and Lee May Ling — pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur.
"They have the potential to upload content that could stir anger," said Malaysia's Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail, demanding the man and woman be jailed pending their next hearing.
Tan, 25, and Lee, 24, are Malaysian citizens.
They allegedly posted a photograph of themselves earlier in July, smiling at a roadside restaurant while eating pork stew with chopsticks.
The photo included a caption greeting Muslims during Ramadan, plus their personal website address.
That website displayed several of their YouTube videos including "Vaginas," "Sexual Fantasies," "Gays and Homosexuals."
In court, Mr. Tan said the dinner photo was meant as humor and not as an insult, and he also apologized in a YouTube video asking "for forgiveness for offending Muslims in this holy month of Ramadan."
Full Story: Chinese Malay couple faces prison for posting photo of them eating pork
Source: Religion News Service
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Bangladesh's Islamist militant threat 'underestimated'
Militants have killed more than 30 people since early 2015
Time capsule discovered in Singapore's oldest church
Inside it were a prayer booklet, newspapers and some coins
Forest tree clearance 'threatens Christian community'
Activists vow to halt Bangladeshi government plan to fell trees near nature reserve rail tracks, help Khasia tribals
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Tilton School 71 Vermont Academy 67
Vermont Academy almost pulled off a comeback victory, but Tilton school proved to be too tough. Wayne Selden finished with 24 points 7 rebounds shooting 10-18 from the field. Brockton native Jonathan Joseph did a good job facilitating in the point guard position for the Rams. Terrance Mann finished with 11 points 6 rebounds, showing off a much more aggressive demeanor. Chester Victor gave Tilton a huge boost with 26 points going 11-19 for the game. For Vermont Daquein McNeil tallied 16pts 6rebs, while Richard Williams who received player of the game for Vermont went for 19pts and 6rebs.
Brewster Academy 88 South Kent School 55
In a blowout game from start to finish Brewster Academy dominated South Kent throughout the entire game. Chris McCullough showed why he's a premiere prospect leading Brewster with 21pts 8-12 from the field and 5 rebounds. Kevin Zabo was solid with 16 points and 5 assists. Martez Harrison put on quite the show finishing with 12 points going 4-7 from the field, 8 rebounds and 8 assists. Kamall Richards came alive in the second half for South Kent, ending the game with 14 points and 8 rebounds. Reggie Agbeko finished with only 7 points, but battle for a hard fought 16 rebounds.
Huntington Prep 55 New Hampton 47
In a hard fought game that was touted to be the game of the evening, turned out to showcase others as well as the top tear two prospects Vonleh and Wiggins. Super stud Andrew Wiggins showed why he is the consensus number one player in the country finishing with 19 points 10 rebounds shooting 5-11 from the field. Xavier Rathan-Mayes chipped in 12 points 3 rebounds in the win against a tough New Hampton team. Noah Vonleh was plagued with foul trouble only finishing with 9 points going 3-9 from the field and 5 rebounds. Tory Miller and point Travis Jorgenson tried to pick up the scoring slack for the Huskies. Miller finished with a double-double 20pts 10rebs, Jorgenson 13pts and 4ast.
Worcester Academy 69 Wilbraham & Monson 62
In the beginning it looked like a struggling WMA team was going to pull out a big victory against AA power Worcester Academy. Before you knew it the steady play of senior statesmen Matt Mobley and Rene Castro helped to take over this game. Castro ended the game going for 15pts 5rebs shooting 6-8 from the field. Mobley who receiving player of the game honors for Worcester stat line read 17pts 4ast 4rebs Big man Darryl Reynolds added 10 points and 8 rebounds as well in the victory. Wilbraham and Monson was led by Curtis Cobb who turned out his best game of the season going for 13 points shooting 6-12 from the field. Goodluck Okonoboh was impressive on the offensively finishing with 11 points 10 rebounds adding 2 steals.


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From Collards to Kale, It's the Greening of America
By MARK BITTMAN
Published: November 12, 1997
NOW we know that anything can become trendy: dark, leafy greens have finally made it. You see kale, broccoli rape, dandelions, chard and more almost everywhere, and people are actually eating them.
''Until recently, we hardly ever served any cooked green besides spinach,'' said Rita Jammet, a co-owner of La Caravelle. ''After all, some of these greens aren't even French. But now we've got them in five different dishes. It seems people enjoy bitterness in a way they didn't before.''
It isn't just bitterness; greens with all sorts of unusual flavors are catching on -- peppery hot mustard and turnip greens, piercingly sweet chard, earthy collards.
''Everyone knows greens are healthy,'' said Emily Balducci, the publicity manager at Balducci's, ''but that didn't sell them in the past. Now, though, people are grabbing every green we bring in, and a new green causes as much excitement as anything else.''
Flash back about 10 years, to when people ate greens for three reasons. One, they were Southerners. Two, they couldn't resist anything that sold at three pounds for a dollar. And three, they would use any excuse to eat chunks of smoked pork, at that time virtually a requisite ingredient in cooking greens.
But as the years went by, Americans adopted the strong flavors of other cuisines; chili peppers, Gorgonzola, Indian food and Rhone wine are all mainstream today. Why not unusual greens, too? And as Americans came to appreciate them, they realized other benefits: greens have a long growing season -- year-round in mild climes and three solid seasons even in the Northeast -- a boon for gardeners, and for those who would rather buy produce from New Jersey than from New Mexico. They remain cheap, and of course, healthy.
But all of these factors are bonuses. Greens are strong, bitter and distinctive, juicy and powerfully flavorful in a way that you grow to love.
''I think that people simply want more character in their food, and greens have that,'' said John Schenk, the chef at Clementine. ''They're attention-grabbing, they're interesting to build around and they can take bold flavors: you can douse collards with garlic, vinegar and bacon, and you won't subdue their flavor. They never become refined, but that's O.K. -- they don't need to.''
Simplicity is the point of dishes like sauteed collards with vinegar, prepared by Chris Siverson, the executive chef at Flavors, or broccoli rape with orange and anchovy, a creation of Andrew D'Amico, the chef at Sign of the Dove.
''When you hear someone say, 'Wow, that was great,' about a dish like that, it's really rewarding,'' Mr. D'Amico said.
Mr. D'Amico and other top chefs serve greens with strong, complex preparations of meat, game, and fish. His broccoli rape with orange and anchovy, for example, is paired with a grilled chop and a mushroom risotto cake; at La Caravelle, squid is stuffed with wild rice and chard.
But greens can also be used in simple dishes. They can be a bed for simple grilled or sauteed fish or chicken, or a layer in a sandwich, with plenty of lemon juice. Cooked greens, thinned with water or stock, can be used -- with or without additions like garlic, raisins, pine nuts or anchovies -- as a sauce for pasta.
Almost needless to say, the most common method of cooking dark, leafy greens -- boiling them to death, until they are the texture, color and flavor of an Army blanket -- is the least advisable. But the opposite approach, a 1970's affectation that calls for steaming them until they are so-called crisp-tender, can be just as bad. Greens, like asparagus or pasta, should be cooked until tender -- no more, no less. Too little time yields woody, stubbornly chewy stems; too much time turns their flavor muddy and their texture mushy.
The most reliable cooking method is a brief immersion in boiling water; call it simmering, poaching, blanching or parboiling -- they all amount to the same thing. After a few minutes, greens become tender and bright, the signal that they are done. At that point, they can be served, or ''shocked'' -- plunged into ice water -- before including them in other recipes. One of the simplest and most appealing recipes begins with simmering and shocking and finishes with a quick dressing made of olive oil, lemon and a suspicion of garlic. How could anyone not like that?
This is not to say that simmering is the only suitable cooking method. As long as greens are young, with stems less than an eighth of an inch thick, they can be sauteed without any precooking. Braising works well for greens of any age, and since the greens absorb the flavors of the braising liquid, this is a wonderful technique. Greens braised in red wine, a recipe from Windows on the World chef, Michael Lomonaco, demonstrates this aptly. Mr. Siverson of Flavors even grills greens, then crumbles them into white beans cooked with garlic. And of course, when they are extremely young, any greens can be eaten raw.
Dark greens don't disappear into the background when seasoned, so it's important to choose those seasonings whose flavors offset the greens' stronger, often bitter taste. The choices begin with acidic liquids, like vinegar or lemon, lime or other citrus juices or zest, and continue with soy sauce, garlic, ginger, chilies, hot pepper sauce, olives, anchovies and so on.


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Terme Olimia, Slovenia
This spa complex on the banks of the river Sotla is considered one of the cleanest and ecologically intact parts of Slovenia. With a choice of accommodations , spa therapies and activities , it makes a great place to relax and unwind.
At a Glance
- Getting there:
- An asy drive from Ljubljana airport as most of the journey is motorway. Journey time of approx. 1 hour 45.
- Local currency:
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- Time Difference from UK:
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- Swimming pool:
- Indoor and outdoor
Terme Olimia
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As well as the spa and health side of the resort it also has a great waterpark. With 8 pools, the largest sauna world in Slovenia, a steam room, solarium and sports facilties there's plenty to do! There is also one section reserved for naturists. There are various accommodations you can choose from and also different packages - depending on what you would like to do whilst there.
The thermal waters of Olimia are not only drinkable but the minerals present mean it is good for your health -it is rich in calcium and magnesium - in the on site health centre it is used to treat rheumatic pains, exhaustion, skin diseases and general inflammatory issues.
Armonia Spa - This is the Spa housed within the Hotel Sotelia - here relaxation is combined with healing techniques from all of the world. Here you can book massages, facials, body treatments, anti cellulite treatments, pedicures and manicures.... see doing more for the treatments available and the prices.
Termalija - This area has pools and also houses the World of saunas - the biggest sauna complex in Slovenia (and there are quite a few on the list!) features 9 different saunas (Finnish saunas, 3 steam saunas, Laconium/tepidarium, 2 whirlpools, Pool and 2 naturist areas. There is also a spa & beauty centre with hammams, baths, massage,facial and body treatments and pedicures. Finally there is a pool oasis - with a kids corner. Access to the pool area is free to anyone staying in any of the accommodations.
Wellness Orhedelia - a new addition to the complex this relaxing day spa has only been open one year and has indoor and outdoor pools and jacuzzis, relaxation areas, saunas and steam rooms. There is also a restaurant and bar. It is 15€ per day, but is included in some of the packages. In the world architecture festival for 2009 this spa was ranked 11th
Multi-activity Holidays in Terme Catez
If you are staying at one of the hotels you can book a wellness package or put togther your own package choosing from the following list of treatments:
* massages
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* body treatments
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* baths
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There are plenty of other activities on offer too such as swimming, cycling, golf, walking, and fishing. See Doing More for details on all of the activities, spas and waterparks or contact us and we can tailor an activity program for you.
Aqualuna Thermal Park
A water amusement park - over 3000 square metres of pools, slides, chutes and artificial waves - great fun for all the family (open May - end of September). Unlimited access to this waterpark is included for anyone staying at any of the accommodations.
Terme Tuhelj Water Planet this is another water park which is 25km away over the border in Croatia and entrance is also free to anyone staying at Terme Olimia.
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Hotel BrezaThe 4 star Hotel Breza has 154 rooms , restaurant, bar TV room, and a gym and thermal pool. It was the first hotel in the complex to be built and was completely renovated in 2009 and a new wing was added with more rooms. Read More
Hotel SoteliaThe Wellness Hotel Sotelia was built with nature in mind. The in house Spa Armonia has a range of holistic treatments and the atmosphere is designed to help you relax and feel comfortable. Read More
Aparthotel RosaThe Rosa Apartments area each slightly different and have a separate bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen area, and can sleep from 2 to 5 people depending on size of apartment. They all have balconies. Read More
Village LipaThe Village Lipa consists of 25 houses and 136 apartments. There is a a guest house with a restaurant and coffee house, a beauty centre and also a shop which sells groceries, newspapers, souvenirs and sportswear. Read More
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who comes to NAHAEC (Medical Billing Course.com)
for Certification?
A: Individuals who are looking for the training they need to begin a medical billing business or to gain employment as a Medical Biller in a doctor's office or hospital. We also have many doctors across the country who send their Medical Billing Staff to us for training.
Q: Are you Nationally Recognized?
A: Yes, we are. Our Medical Billing Course was actually the first of its kind to be developed and distributed in 1999. Our course is applicable in all 50 states.
Q: What is the Cost of the Course?
A: We have programs that vary in price depending upon your needs. You can view our course programs on our Courses Page.
Q: How long does the Course take to complete?
A: The course programs, on average, are 40 - 60 hours. Most students complete their course within 3 - 6 weeks. The course allows you to study at your own pace and does not include time restrictions. The time it takes to complete will ultimately depend on you.
Q: Can I take my Exams Online?
A: Yes and this is the recommended method. You may also choose to print and email or mail your exam to us. When you take them online, however, you can usually expect to receive your graded exam back either the same day or within 24 hours.
Q: Are the Exams graded by a Real Person or an Automated Program?
A: This is an excellent question to ask any course provider! Your examinations are graded by a real person. A self running exam program cannot interact with you and assist you with incorrect and incomplete answers like a real person can. We would never use a self running exam program!
Q: Is there a charge to take the exams?
A: No there is not. Everything you need to complete the course and get your certification is included in the cost of the course program. There are no hidden fees.
Q: Do I have to find a location to sit for a lengthy examination?
A: No. There are no certification requirements to
perform medical billing so there is no state examination "to sit
for." Anyone asserting that you must "sit for an exam" is not
being upfront with you. Once you have completed our
course program, you have already completed all the exams needed in order
for you to receive your Medical Billing Certification and CMBP designation.
Q: Who developed this course?
A: The course was developed by Medical Billing Business Owners, Practice Management Software Developers and Industry Related Marketing Specialists.
Q: Do you Provide References?
A: Absolutely, upon request! Simply complete the CONTACT FORM on our Contact Page letting us know that you would like to receive a list of Student References.
Q: I've noticed there are many other courses to pick from. How is yours different from the others available?
A: Our expertise is in the field of Medical Billing and operating a Medical Billing Business. Simply put, we know what you need to study. We are not an Education Clearinghouse or a Diploma Mill! You cannot come to us to receive a certificate in Real Estate, Black Jack, Plumbing or Astrology. The Educational Clearinghouse programs are unable to provide you with the direction and depth that our course does. We operate successful businesses in this field and we know what you need to know to be able to do this as well. In fact, many of our students come to us after completing expensive Educational Clearinghouse courses which left them "confused" and wondering "what to do next."
If you are considering a course through an "Educational Clearinghouse", give them a call and ask to speak to a "medical billing professional." When you are told they don't have any on staff, give us a call. We can talk billing!
Q: Why doesn't your course include Medical Terminology?
A: Because you don't need it. Medical Terminology is very complex and mind-consuming and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Medical Billing position or Medical Billing Business ownership!
Q: Do I need to become a Medical Coder to do Medical Billing?
A: No. Again, people are confused between Medical Billing and Medical Coding because the Educational Clearinghouse courses lump together billing, coding and terminology.
Q: What is the difference between Medical Billing and Medical Coding?
A: Medical Billing involves entering clinic and patient data into a practice management software for the purpose of submitting medical claims to insurances, post payments from insurance carriers and patients and run management reports. Medical Billing is a service that can be provided from a location other than the physician's office. This is why Medical Billing Business Ownership is attractive to entrepreneurs. More and more doctors are deciding to outsource their medical billing. Medical Billing is a viable and lucrative home or office based business.
Medical Billing Businesses receive their codes from their doctor clients. In fact, as a medical billing company, it is simply not your place to code services rendered. This is done within the doctor's office.
Medical Coding is not a position that will allow you to begin a business and work from home! If a doctor needs a coder, the coder is going to work within the office. Medical Coding is not a viable outsourced business! Medical Billing is.
If you want to offer coding consultations in the future, we recommend getting your billing business off the ground first. Your medical billing business is not dependent upon coding whatsoever and coding alone cannot offer you a home/office business income.
PR.GB Article: Often, what is Medical Billing is equated with what is Medical Transcription or what is Medical Coding when in fact, the three are as separate and as distinct from each other as night and day. Click here to read full article.
Our Advice: Don't trust a course that lumps Medical Billing & Medical Coding together. These courses usually only scratch the surface of each of these fields and simply don't prepare you well for either!
Q: Will this Course be updating to ICD10?
A. Yes. Remember that only HIPAA Covered Entities are
required to use ICD10 beginning with claims dated October 1, 2015.
All others are highly encouraged to use ICD10. Because of
this, our students will be trained using both ICD9 and ICD10.
ICD10 inclusion will occur August 2015 and will be available to all
of our students (past and present) at no additional charge.
Q: Why is your Course rated #1 by the Medical Billing Experts?
A: We begin and then build on the basics from Chapters 1 through 6. Chapter 7 "pulls it all together" by having you perform the actual day-to-day operations of a Medical Biller using a fully functional Practice Management/Billing Software Program. The software you will utilize is developed for the needs of a medical billing business and will have you entering clinic, patient, charge and payment information with ease and efficiency.You will not find another Medical Billing Course that includes this type of Hands On Instruction.
In addition to having you operate as a Medical Biller, Chapter 8 (Operating a Medical Billing Business) and Chapter 9 (Marketing Your Medical Billing Business) teaches you how to set up your business and how to get clients.
Q. Wouldn't I better off attending a local college?
A: Not if you wish to gain an in-depth, focused education in Medical Billing. A local college can provide you a degree in Health Information Management, but this degree only touches on Medical Billing. It does not provide you with the essential information/education needed to perform Medical Billing.
Q: Do you offer support?
A: Yes. We provide our students with Telephone, Email, Live Chat and a 24 Hour Online Student Support Forum. We will also schedule a meeting for you with a knowledgeable Billing Center Consultant, if you wish and when you wish.
Q: Do I need to purchase coding (CPT) or diagnosis (ICD) books for this course?
A: No, you do not. We provide you with the codes you will be using for the course as well as Internet Coding Look-Up Databases. Don't waste your money on coding books right now. They are updated annually so you will want to wait to purchase them after beginning your business and getting a client. If you are taking the course out of a desire to work within a physician's office, you won't need these books.
Q: Does Medical Billing require Certification?
A: No, it does not. Receiving certification is your choice but is a great advantage which lends credibility. Our course is nationally recognized and applicable in all 50 states. Taking our course will, most definitely, teach you how to perform the duties of a medical biller which provides our students with the confidence they need to get their start in this industry.


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When Austin Butler sets his sights on a goal, you can bet he'll achieve it. Not only has Austin maintained an "A" average in all his classes, he is also the only freshman on the Varsity Golf Team and the only freshman to start in the Junior Varsity Basketball team. But that's just the beginning for Austin Butler.
Austin's achievements go far beyond sports and academics. Austin is a regular part of the Love Modesto program where he cleaned parks, put together supply boxes for people overseas, and worked at English Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Oscar also volunteers at the Modesto Gospel Mission in special programs, and he recently went on a mission trip with Big Valley Grace to Mexico where he painted churches and ministered to young children.
In the words of his nominating teacher, Austin "always stands up for what is right". And he proved that once again when his family recently adopted an 11 year-old girl. In spite of all the changes that this has brought his family, Austin treats her as if she has always been his little sister and offers her the love that only a big brother can give. It's no wonder that Austin won Big Valley's coveted Lion Award, which is given only to those students who exhibit extraordinary character qualities.
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UMass Picks Up First Win, 3-2, Over Central Connecticut
Sept. 21, 2004
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - The UMass women's soccer team topped Central Connecticut, 3-2, on Tuesday afternoon for its first win of the season. Adair Blyler (Charlotte, N.C.), Lindsey Fairweather (Kingston, Mass.) and Jenny Roehrig (Coram, N.Y.) scored for the Minutewomen. Roehrig's goal was the game-winner late in the first half.
UMass jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead on the Blue Devils as Blyler scored off a pass from Fairweather just 12:03 into the match. Just over a minute later Fairweather tallied a goal at the 13:24 mark for a 2-0 advantage. Junior Lindsey Belllini (Webster, N.Y.) was credited with an assiat on that goal.
Central Connecticut rallied back for two goals midway though the first half as Jess McCavanaugh and Sophie Hooper scored to deadlock the score at 2-2 with 10:28 left in the first half.
But Roehrig scored her second goal in as many games with five minutes left in the first half to give UMass the lead for good, 3-2.
The Minutewomen move to 1-5 overall while the Blue Devils are now 4-4.
UMass outshot Central Connecticut 20-16 and took seven corner kicks to their four.
In goal, Kristin Walker (Lincoln Park, N.J.) made three saves for UMass.
The Minutewomen finally return home after a four-game road swing, as they host Holy Cross next Monday, Sept. 27 at 3:30 p.m., at Rudd Field.
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Sophomore Emily Penttila and the 18th-ranked Green Wave will close out the fall at the Alamo Invitational.
Oct. 25, 2013
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NEW ORLEANS - The 18th-ranked Tulane golf team will close out the fall portion of its 2013-14 schedule at the 2013 Alamo Invitational, this Sunday-Tuesday, Oct. 27-29, at the Briggs Ranch Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas.
The tournament will be played on a par 72, 6,428-yard course and will feature an 11 a.m. tee time on Sunday and an 8:30 a.m. start on Monday, while Tuesday's final round will begin with a shotgun start at 8:45 a.m.
The 15-team field features five squads ranked among the nation's Top-25, according to GolfStat.com, including No. 7 Arkansas, Baylor, No. 17 Florida, Florida State, Louisville, No. 25 LSU, No. 5 Oklahoma, SMU, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas State, host UTSA and Tulane.
The Wave will be playing without the services of junior Gemma Dryburgh, who will be out of the line-up this week and representing her home country of Scotland at the 2013 Spirit International Amateur Championship, Oct. 28-Nov. 2, at the Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity, Texas.
The Green Wave's lineup for the Alamo Invitational will be composed of the sophomore trio of Silvia Garces, Madison Opfer and Emily Penttila, along with the freshmen duo of Belen Goicoechea and Olivia Winning. The event will mark the first time this fall that both freshmen will be in the Tulane lineup.
"We've had some strong individual performances so far this fall and it has really been a good fall for us overall," Tulane head coach Lorne Don said. "Our goal is to finish out the fall with a full team effort for 54 holes. I know we are capable of doing so because we've shown glimpses of it, but we need to do it for an entire tournament.
"We'll be playing without Gemma, but this gives us an opportunity to see both freshmen in the line-up at the same time. They will both have a chance to prove themselves we'll get a chance to see our depth. We realize we will be missing our leader, but it gives our players a chance to step up into her place this weekend," Don said.
Tulane finished 10th at the prestigious Dale McNamara NCAA Fall Preview, third at the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championship and sixth at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational.
Oklahoma is the defending champion after combining for a 16-under 848 total a year ago, while former Tulane two-time All-American Maribel Lopez Porras claimed individual medalist honors with a 7-under 209 effort.
Dryburgh, meanwhile, will have the honor of representing her home country next week. She will team up with fellow Scots Grant Forrest, Ewan Scott and Rachael Watton and the foursome will compete among 80 players representing 20 nations at the event.
Each group consists of two male and two female players from each country. Watton plays collegiately at the University of Denver, where she is coached by former Green Wave golf standout Lindsay (Hulwick) Kuhle (2002-05).
"I am very excited for Gemma because it is not often you have the chance to represent your country in international competition. We are very happy and excited for her and the opportunity she has in front of her this weekend. I guarantee she will represent both Tulane and Scotland very well," Don said.
The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship is a world class golf event. It features the world's best amateur men and amateur women golfers as they represent their respective country in team and individual competitions. The 80 participants enjoy an Olympic like experience from the Opening/Closing Ceremonies, international village and competing for gold medals.
The World Health & Golf Association and Texas Golf Association invite 20 countries from six continents to participate. Established in 2001, The Spirit is a biennial event that alternates tournament years with the World Amateur Team Championships.
"I am very excited to have the opportunity to play for my country in such a big international event," Dryburgh said. "The entire event is going to be great fun competing against some of the best players from across the world. Being selected to play for Scotland is a great honor that will never get old, but this week will seem extra special.
"My goals for this week are to win, but if not I would love for us to be up in the top five. I think a great goal for us is to be in contention throughout each round of the tournament. I am also very excited to meet some great people from different countries along the way."


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In a month he declared LGBT Pride Month, President Barack Obama is set to make another move towards the progression of gay rights. According to a report by USA Today on Monday, Obama plans to sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation.
Administration officials announced Obama's plan to sign the order, but did not disclose when the paperwork would be ready for Obama's signature. The order, drawn up to mirror a Senate bill designed to protect LGBT workers from employment discrimination, will add sexual orientation and gender identity to the federal law that already forbids discrimination based on a person's race, color, religion, gender and national origin.
The announcement also comes a day before the president is scheduled to address an LGBT gala in New York City sponsored by the Democratic National Committee. With this announcement, Obama will more than certain be greeted with an even louder applause because of his inclusion of LGBT issues in his two terms as president.
According to Think Progress, the protections of the order to be signed by Obama will reach over one million LGBT workers across the country. It will go down as the largest expansion of LGBT workplace protections in United States history. Currently, 29 states have no protections in place for LGBT workers and although there have been policies initiated by individual corporations, there are still a high percent of LGBT workers, particularly transgender people who have reported harassment or discrimination in the workplace.
Gay rights activists, groups and allies have pushed for Obama to sign this kind of policy as it would represent another step forward in the progression of LGBT equality in our nation. The White House itself has been pressing Congress to pass legislation, but resistance has forced Obama to move forward with an executive order.
Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, has already applauded the move saying, "The president will not only create fairer workplaces across the country, he will demonstrate to Congress that adopting federal employment protections for LGBT people is good policy and good for business."


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The VP El Madroño has 66 spacious 35 m2 rooms that include a bathroom, a mini-kitchen perfect for long stays or families, and a spacious studio with a small living area and queen bed or two twin beds to guarantee you a good night's sleep.
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The rooms kitchens are equipped with: a smooth-top range, microwave, cookware and a mini-bar where you will find courtesy beverages.
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While many retirees look forward to traveling once they retire, travel is not what is used to be (when is the last time you actually had all three seats in your row on the airplane empty?) and everyone should be sure to plan their trips and travels before they set out. This does not mean having a hotel reservation at every destination…..you may want the flexibility of staying longer at a new place…or leaving earlier if the weather is bad or the sights are not what you wanted. Whatever you choose, think about travel as a great adventure and begin to prepare…even while you are still working.
Before you begin your great retirement adventure, here are a few things to consider:
1) If you are traveling with a spouse or partner, are you interested in the same things? It is not a great idea to begin your retirement with one or both of you resentful of the other one's ideas. Has there been an honest conversation about what each of you expects to see and do? Is one of you a Type A traveler who wants to explore every nook and cranny of a place while the other prefers a more leisurely pace, with stops to walk on the beach or people watch in a café? Does he want to play golf in every new country and she want to see all the museums? Are you willing to set off alone for a day or two while the other person does what he or she wants? For the sake of your retirement…and indeed the future of your relationship… be sure you each state your expectations and agree on accommodating both points of view.
2) Be realistic about your health. Do you get anxious if you think you can't get to a doctor quickly? Do you have health issues that may prevent you from going to high altitudes or very dry areas? If your partner insists on zip lining but you prefer a quiet afternoon in a hammock as a way to pace yourself, can you accommodate each other?
3) Travel should be about trying new things. Whether it is a food that is foreign to you or a shadow play or a Japanese opera, say yes before you say no. If you wanted the same old same old, why travel at all?
4) Don't put it off. If world travel is in your retirement plans, do not say "next year" or delay the travel. You know how your health is today; who knows when knees may begin to give out or other physical ailments may appear. And if this trip turns out to be what you hoped, you can always try another one next year!
I have just returned from traveling with some new retirees. Stay tuned for more tips and tales on retirement travel.


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SMART Technologies is a manufacturer of interactive solutions geared specifically towards educators including interactive whiteboards (AKA "smartboards") interactive projectors, short-throw projectors, document cameras, and interactive LED/LCD screens. They also manufacture a wide range of products for business professionals and government customers that uses special software called MeetingPro.
Top 10 Selling Smart Boards
Best known as smartboards. These are interactive whiteboards and screens.
LCD and DLP projectors for projecting digital media. Models range from small and portable on up to the largest auditoriums and gathering spaces.
Cameras used for presenting documents, books, and other objects.
Audio systems and accessories
Hardware for mounting interactive whiteboards, flat panel screens, and projectors
Audience polling devices.
Software that can enhance any presentation classroom.
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A DViT technology LCD screen with an e-LED backlight enables you to select, write and erase on the interactive surface.
Flexibility and choice for educators to support interactive learning and collaboration.
Powerful and innovative set of teaching tools designed to create collaborative learning opportunities throughout your classroom.
Increase student engagement, gain immediate student feedback and gauge the response of the class.
Combine your wall mounted short-throw projector with your SMARTBoard interactive whiteboard to create a complete interactive whiteboard system.
The 800 series offers a natural touch and writing experience, making it a great choice for every collaboration environment.
Simple yet modern replacement to dry-erase boards and flip charts, allowing you to save and share notes as they unfold.
These 55", 65" and 75" interactive displays are Ultra HD and enable students to contribute to on-screen content directly from their mobile devices, in real time.
Contains all of kapp iQ's collaboration features, plus even more ways to share ideas through SMART Meeting Pro™ software.
Bring levels of interaction within your business that are unmatched by other collaboration technology systems. Manufactured and supported by SMART.
Dual touch freestyle interaction, intuitive design and control make it easy for educators to create collaborative learning opportunities.
Smart Technologies is one of world's largest manufacturers of interactive whiteboards and they have coined the term Smartboard. Smart is also the leader in other innovative solutions for education and business, including interactive displays, student response systems, interactive tables, document cameras, copyboards, and much more.
An Important Note
"Smartboard" is a whiteboard by Smart Technologies, however, it has become synonymous with interactive whiteboards in general. Although many people refer to interactive whiteboards as smartboards, a "Smart Board" is actually a product made by Smart Technologies. It is very similar to the way people refer to any brand of tissue as a Kleenex, or any photo copier as a Xerox machine. For example, a board made by Hitachi is an interactive whiteboard, although people will commonly refer to it as a Hitachi smartboard.
Here at Touchboards, we sell all brands of interactive whiteboards and we help people find a solution to suit their application and budget. We like to refer to Smart Technologies' Smartboard as the "Toyota Camry of the whiteboard world." It is very popular, offers good value, and has a host of features popular within the industry. However, in reality, not everyone needs, or even wants, a middle of the road whiteboard. And in this case, we can help you choose a more economical product, or even a more sophisticated system.
Notebook Software
Interactive whiteboards from Smart Technologies will include one of its popular software packages Notebook, which was designed for use in schools; or Meeting Pro, made for corporate customers. Each is compatible with both PC and Mac. Using Smart Notebook software, teachers can share lesson plans and ideas with each other, all done through the Internet. Smart also hosts a website called SMART Exchange which allows teachers around the world to collaborate, and is categorized by subject, grade and even file type. Smart also has games for children which can be played on your interactive whiteboard. While all of these are great features, it is important to note that SMART does charge a yearly maintenance fee for all software. Below, please see our videos comparing two of our most popular alternatives to SMART:
The 600 Series
The 600 series boards are the interactive whiteboards designed by SMART for educational settings. They are available in two sizes 77" (SBM680) and 87" (SBM685). SMART also offers these in a variety of packaged options that include projectors. However, many of our customers find that these packages are a bit expensive. To solve this problem, we came up with some of our own packages that are less expensive and include better projectors. You can view these packages here
The 800 Series
While education is an important aspect of SMART's interactive whiteboard line up, they have also developed a series of boards specifically tailored for business applications. Much like the 600 Series, the 800 series is available in two sizes 77" (SB880) and 87" (SB885). SMART also provides packages that are bundled with Meeting Pro software designed specifically for business applications.
LED Panels
SMART also carries a full line of interactive LED panels in a variety of sizes designed for both educational and business settings. A favorite in many classrooms is SMART's interactive table, the 442i.
SMART Kapp
SMART has also created an intuitive and innovative copy board. The SMART Kapp, is a copyboard that through the connection of an iPad, Android, or other mobile device is able to capture and distribute dry erase notes instantaneously. Please check out our demo video below:
Using iPads and Other Mobile Devices
iPads, Android tablets and other mobile devices are becoming a key ingredient in the classroom. There are several ways you can utilize this technology with a SMART interactive product. Please take a look at our video tutorial below:
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Creativity is realized when a divine spark meets its conduit. That conduit presented itself when a stranger, a man described as homeless by the videographer, stumbled upon the set of a Christian music video. The stranger's encounter with musician Carlos Whittaker immediately impacted the set and the video shoot took an unexpected turn. What transpired is inspirational.
In the process of creating an electronic press kit and shooting a video for his song God of Second Chances, Christian musician Carlos Whittaker probably had no idea that years later his song would be getting a second chance of its own.
While performing his song for a video shoot in Atlanta, Whittaker's tune caught the attention of a total stranger. Appearing to be drawn in by the message of the lyrics, the dreadlocked man, who later identified himself as Danny, initially walked up to Whittaker and dropped to one knee with his palms to the heavens, as if personally accepting the glory of Whittaker's composition.
What happened next was remarkable. With a very distinct accent, possibly hailing from the Caribbean, Danny began to add vocal riffs, infusing his own reggae influence and inspirational lyrics. Whittaker graciously welcomed the stranger's musical advances and within moments the two musicians were heart deep within a synergistic jam that proves to be both a testament to their devotion and the epoxy of a bond that, regardless of how brief in passing, is sure to have a residual effect in the lives of both spiritual men.
In the notes accompanying his video on YouTube, Whittaker recounts his conversation with Danny, which is difficult to make out in its entirety on the video. "If you listen carefully at the end you hear me saying this to Danny," said Whittaker. "Keep trying to make it man. He looked me square in the eye, cocked his head sideways with a confused look on his face and said, 'Trying to make it? No man. I ain't trying to make it, I'm making it. Jah puts His soldiers everywhere. Jah says, 'Yea though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death. So He places some of us in that valley.'"
Originally uploaded in 2009, with the benefit of social networking, the inspirational video is currently enjoying a viral resurgence.


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Career Accolades: Three-time Ivy
League champion (2009, 2010, 2012) ... Played in 24 career games, including all but two games over his final two seasons ... Finished with 11 career receptions, 165 yards and two touchdowns.
2011: Played in all but one game ... Finished the year with seven catches for 63 yards ... Had a catch in each of the first three games ... First career catch in season opener against Lafayette (Sept. 17) ... Career-best four receptions and 30 receiving yards against Villanova (Sept. 24) ... Also had one catch each in wins over Dartmouth (Oct. 1) and Princeton (Nov. 5).
2010: Played in six games for the Ivy League champions ... Saw time at wide receiver and on special teams.
2009: Did not see any varsity game action.
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