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Will the Husk Car Crash Force Restaurants to Crack Down on Staff Drinking?
Spoiler: Probably not.
That's the idea laid out by a story in USA Today, anyway. After some after-shift drinks at Charleston's Husk resulted in a restaurant employee causing a fatal car accident, and the subesequent ruling that the restaurant's parent company was responsible, restaurant owners are, in theory, cracking down on staff drinking. The problem is, there isn't much evidence to support the claim.
The president of Neighborhood Dining Group, the company that owns Husk, says they've had a zero-tolerance policy in place since 1991. "I don't believe that staff should consume alcohol in the workplace, period."
And yet, the attorney representing the crash victim's family says, "In depositions, the majority of non-management employees ... drank during or after their shifts." And anyone who's ever worked in a restaurant knows this isn't exactly "news," since it's a very common practice.
Anyway, Neighborhood Dining Group introduced "an even harder-line policy" that includes sercurity cameras, but that's about as far as the story goes. The National Restaurant Association refused comment; there's little else to indicate that any restaurants have toned down staff drinking. So, whether this tragedy will actually cause restaurateurs to reevaluate staff drinking remains to be seen. Given that it's a huge part of the industry's culture, we're going to go out on a limb and say it won't.
Restaurants crack down on on-the-job drinking [USAT]
Earlier: Owners of Charleston's Husk to Pay $1.1M in Drunk-Driving Settlement

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"The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Melissa Gorga has been filming the show for quite some time and it sounds like she is eager to sign up for another season, so she can keep getting a paycheck. And it sounds like she is willing to risk the family peace for it. But who can blame her for that paycheck? According to a new Wetpaint Entertainment report published on Jan. 16, "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Melissa Gorga supposedly gets less than Teresa, but still quite a bit of money for filming the show.
Melissa supposedly earned an impressive $350,000 last year for being on a reality television show. And while it seems like quite a bit, but it sounds like she is far from the biggest earner in the Bravo empire. Apparently, her sister-in-law get a reported $650,000 annual salary. NeNe Leakes from Atlanta is the highest paid star, getting around $1 million.
It sounds like Melissa will keep filming the show with Teresa, as they are getting along somewhat. The two haven't made any crazy headlines lately, but it sounds like they could fall back into the dramatic relationship they had last year.
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Which couples who meet on social networking sites are most likely to marry? Nearly 7% of Americans married between 2005-2012 met on social networking sites. How those couples compare to couples who met through other types of online meetings or the "old-fashioned" way in terms of age, race, frequency of Internet use, and other factors is explored in an article in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking website.
In "First Comes Social Networking, Then Comes Marriage? Characteristics of Americans Married 2005-2012 Who Met Through Social Networking Sites," Jeffrey Hall, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, describes the characteristics that are more common among recently married individuals who met online via social networking sites (SNS), according to the April 3, 2014 news release, "Which couples who meet on social networking sites are most likely to marry?."
How will trends change? It depends on various groups of people using social media more frequently as time passes
"Facebook use grew dramatically during the 2005-2012 time period studied," says Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCB, BCN, Editor-in-Chief of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, from the Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, CA. "It will be useful to continue to observe how these trends change as various groups of individuals become more frequent users of SNS," says Dr. Wiederhold.
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is a peer-reviewed journal published monthly online with Open Access options and in print that explores the psychological and social issues surrounding the Internet and interactive technologies, plus cybertherapy and rehabilitation. Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking website.
Public exposure and an increase in corrections to the scientific record
You also may be interested in another study, according to an April 3, 2014 news release, "Public exposure leads to an increase in corrections to the scientific record." Individuals who wish to identify potential problems in the scientific literature can either choose to report their grievances privately (with the expectation that the issue will be appropriately handled) or they can post their accusations publicly.
Clearly there are many reasons for dealing with unproven and potentially damaging allegations privately, however a new study suggests that when this route is followed a much smaller percentage of the allegations result in a correction to the literature. Individuals who wish to identify potential problems in the scientific literature can either choose to report their grievances privately (with the expectation that the issue will be appropriately handled) or they can post their accusations publicly.
Clearly there are many reasons for dealing with unproven and potentially damaging allegations privately, however a new study suggests that when this route is followed a much smaller percentage of the allegations result in a correction to the literature
The study, "Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action," published online April 3, 2014 in PeerJ, was conducted by Paul S. Brookes, an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in upstate NY. Brookes examined the status of nearly 500 scientific articles which were submitted to an anonymous blog which he ran during 2012, devoted to highlighting potential problems in published life sciences articles.
Some 274 of these papers were blogged about, describing their problems in detail. However, allegations on a further 223 papers never saw the light of day, due to the blog being shuttered by legal threats in early 2013. Comparing these two sets of papers for which concerns were voiced, for example, 'public' and 'private' sets – revealed striking differences in their current status.
Despite all the problems having been reported to the journals in question, on average the publicly discussed papers were retracted or corrected 7-fold more than those for which the allegations were never publicized. This was despite similar properties between the paper sets, including the number of alleged problems per paper, the impact factor of the journals they were published in, and the number of lab' groups they originated from. Brookes says, according to the April 3, 2014 news release, "Public exposure leads to an increase in corrections to the scientific record," that "although a lot of people have assumed that shining more light leads to more action, no-one has actually tested this hypothesis".
In addition to more corrections and retractions, the blogged-about papers saw more combined action on the papers of particular laboratory groups. In other words, if a laboratory group had one paper with problems requiring action by a journal, this was associated with more actions on their other papers. Brookes suggests that editors may be more inclined to act on a paper if they see the sum-total of a particular lab group's problems, whereas an isolated paper may not be deemed important enough to act on, if corroborating evidence about other papers from the same group remains hidden.
Brookes was quick to highlight some important caveats to his study. First, the small sample size, focused mainly on image data in the life-sciences, makes it unclear if these findings are generalizable to the scientific literature at large. Second, due to the nature of the data collection, and the fact that the raw data set for the study is essentially a list of problems which could be interpreted as specific allegations of scientific misconduct, the study is unlikely to be repeated.
The study has some important implications for the burgeoning field of "post-publication peer review", which encompasses a number of initiatives, some of which allow their users to leave anonymous comments about any published paper
These efforts and a number of blogs on the subject have drawn criticism, but results such as those of Brookes' study suggest that these approaches can result in a greater rate of corrections to the scientific literature. Brookes described the current system for post-publication peer review as a work in progress, stating, according to the news release, that "there's a need for this type of discussion, but the jury is still out on exactly what the best system is, who should be allowed to comment, will they be afforded anonymity, and of course who will pay for and police all this activity." For further information see, Brookes PS. (2014) Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action. PeerJ 2:e313.
Prescence and anxiety during virtual social interactions
You also may be interested in another study, "Sense of presence and anxiety during virtual social interactions between a human and virtual humans." In that study researchers found that virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) has been shown to be effective in treatment of anxiety disorders.
Yet, there is lack of research on the extent to which interaction between the individual and virtual humans can be successfully implanted to increase levels of anxiety for therapeutic purposes. How would a human interact with virtual humans in a virtual reality encounter? Another issue is the boundary between what can become reality and what's only virtual reality. If science fiction of the past becomes reality of the present and future, how do images such as costume and appearance change virtual reality into real human actions?
Why do mass, school, civilian, terrorist, and mall shooters frequently wear black?
And in still another study, "men in black" often represent secret government guys sent to find other people, ET aliens, or act as bounty hunters. Is it because blood on black clothing can't be seen so quickly? Or is it about the concept all around us in film, video, and literature where many successful films and pieces of literature play with the concepts of light versus dark, as well as themes of the wounded hero, the outcast, and the devil. Or if the police profile males wearing black, can they be accused of profiling by costume?
Viewers still have TV images of terrorists wearing black before they behead captured American journalists or soldiers. Black clothing on men and women is supposed to represent elegance, such as wealthy people dressed in black, perhaps with touches of white clothing, jewels, and conservative attire at meetings or fundraising events, such as "black tie" events where men wear black business suits and women wear black cocktail dresses and jewelry. People used to show up at the opera dressed in black. These days, black costumes on males signals something else than elegance and conservative attire.
So why do some individuals wear black when doing nasty deeds?
Or is it that animals and plants that die turn black before they go to dust. What's with this black costume concept and those about to do criminal acts or take on a challenge? Batman wears black, not Superman. And pirates fly a black flag with a skull and bones, at least in the movies. Black costumes on perpetrators and mass shootings is what people see more often on TV news and in films associated with males in black clothing or costumes complete with weapons as attire.
The latest study names the theme of black costuming with the following characters: Darth Vader and Darth Maul in the Star Wars movies, Neo in the film The Matrix, firing his weapons in flowing black leather with dark sunglasses, Sauron, the ringwraiths, and the orc hordes in the Lord of the Rings, Stephen King's character of Walter (the Man in Black) in The Dark Tower series, J.K. Rowling's Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters in The Harry Potter series, Batman in the movie the Dark Knight, Todd McFarlane's character Spawn, adorned in red and black surrounded by flames, Brandon Lee in The Crow, The school shooting in season one of the television show American Horror Story, Bram Stoker's Dracula (or any vampire for that matter; see Lestat and Marius from Ann Rice's novels, the Twilight series, etc.). Not mentioned in the article, is the latest TV series, "The Vikings" that opens with the image of a black crow eyeing the audience, the study notes.
On the spiritual side of the big picture, nuns and priests wear black representing spirituality, but brides usually wear white, representing purity, and various monks in other religions such as Buddhism wear orange or yellow, and some brides in India wear red. So what with the males in black (like the mysterious men in black in movies about government guys following characters in films on unexplained phenomenon).
The point of the article is whether males in black might be pointed out as perhaps potential shooters before they commit mass violence?
In many recent incidents of premeditated mass shooting the perpetrators have been male and dressed in black, and may share other characteristics that could be used to identify potential shooters before they commit acts of mass violence, says a new article, "Costuming, Misogyny, and Objectification as Risk Factors in Targeted Violence," recently published in the journal Violence and Gender.
What about females in black, such as the popular "little black dress" a woman can wear to a variety of social events, especially popular in San Francisco. The little black dress can go almost anywhere. The article, though, is about risk factors and males in black apparel. It's like the grim reaper in black is compared to Santa Claus in red with touches of green, and white. At weddings white tuxedos are becoming more popular than black tuxedos, which show up at funerals, but usually not as a tuxedo, but a business suit. And executives usually wear grey or navy blue business suits rather than black for business meetings or job interviews.
Risk factors related to the antihero, dark-knight persona adopted by these individuals are explored in an article in the journal Violence and Gender, a new peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available on the Violence and Gender website.
In the article "Costuming, Misogyny, and Objectification as Risk Factors in Targeted Violence," Brian Van Brunt, EdD and W. Scott Lewis, The NCHERM Group, LLC (Malvern, PA), suggest reasons why persons who commit mass shootings are drawn to dark popular culture imagery, how these cultural factors may contribute to the violence, and what risk factors could be useful to law enforcement and behavioral investigation teams seeking to identify individuals who might be preparing for an attack.
"'Objectification' of victims and 'costuming' are specific offender behaviors that will give threat assessment teams throughout the world greater insights into the motivation of mass shooters and just how ceremonial their preparations are," says Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Violence and Gender and Senior FBI Profiler/Criminal Investigative Analyst (ret.), according to the April 3, 2014 news release, Dress and behavior of mass shooters as factors to predict and prevent future attacks. "The value of this information in being able to identify these offenders beforehand based on their behavior so that we can prevent future acts of mass murder is very significant."
Violence and Gender is the only peer-reviewed journal focusing on the understanding, prediction, and prevention of acts of violence. For further information check out the article, "Costuming, Misogyny, and Objectification as Risk Factors in Targeted Violence," by Brian Van Brunt, EdD and W. Scott Lewis, The NCHERM Group, LLC (Malvern, PA), suggest reasons why persons who commit mass shootings are drawn to dark popular culture imagery, how these cultural factors may contribute to the violence, and what risk factors could be useful to law enforcement and behavioral investigation teams seeking to identify individuals who might be preparing for an attack.
You may also wish to see, "Why Were Young Males Behind Recent Attacks on Schools and Public Gatherings? A Roundtable Discussion in Violence and Gender (04/02/2014)." Or on another note, you may want to check out, "Which Couples Who Meet on Social Networking Sites Are Most Likely to Marry? (04/03/2014)." Another fascinating study is "Playing with heart and soul…and genomes: sports implications and applications of personal genomics." (Wagner JK. (2013) PeerJ 1:e120.)
Through research papers, roundtable discussions, case studies, and other original content, the Journal critically examines biological, genetic, behavioral, psychological, racial, ethnic, and cultural factors as they relate to the gender of perpetrators of violence. Led by Editor-in-Chief Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD, Forensic Behavioral Consultant and Senior FBI Profiler/Criminal Investigative Analyst (ret.), Violence and Gender explores the difficult issues that are vital to threat assessment and prevention of the epidemic of violence. Violence and Gender is published quarterly online with Open Access options and in print, and is the official journal of The Avielle Foundation.
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking and Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.
Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 80 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website. The publisher of these journals is Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News.


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Really in this city, not liking hops is more of an issue. We just tapped our keg of Black Raven's Wisdomseeker Double Ipa. I just had a glass and it is delicious. I assure you this one will not last very long. So let your boss know you are leaving early, or get a sudden case of the Tuesday's, find some way out of the office, or the house.
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Although the calendar says it's May, it may still feel like winter with the chill in the air in Chicago. You and your family can shake off the last of the winter doldrums by participating in an assortment of events in and around the Windy City the weekend of May 3 and 4, 2014.
You and your child can learn about butterflies through the program Wee Wonders: Amazing Butterflies at Sand Ridge Nature Center (15891 Paxton Ave., South Holland) through the Forest Preserves of Cook County. The one-hour event starts at 10 a.m. on May 3, 2014, and is geared to preschoolers and kindergarteners.
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo one day early through the Piñata Party at the Lincoln Park Zoo (2001 N. Clark St., Chicago). Participants will create piñatas for zoo animals, then get to see the animals tear apart the craft. Two sessions are available on Sunday, May 4, at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. The fee is $13 for nonmembers, and registration is required.
With Family Sunday at the National Museum of Mexican Art (1852 W. 19th St., Chicago), you and your child can explore the museum's exhibits and create art of your own. The fun starts at noon on May 4, and registration is required.
Hop aboard your hovercraft and head to Star Wars Day at the Oak Park Public Library (834 Lake St., Oak Park) on May 4 at 2 p.m. for crafts and a costume parade. The Midwest Garrison will make an appearance, giving you and your child an opportunity to meet favorite Star Wars characters. For additional Star Wars appearances, check out the Midwest Garrison's website.


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~30000 sales for mahindra 2 wheelers in Oct, translates into price of KM (Kinetic Motors) at around 30 but due to merger with KE, the price of KE is depressed. Loss making entity with huge debt and FCCB conversion due next year, has really cheated the small investor of KM by merging itself with KE
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was purely playing Mahindra 2 wheeler game and was betting big on that but Mahindra 2 wheelers was a flop show and now after merger with Kinetic Engineering, I dont have any hope of getting my price back. I might book my loss once I get those shares in my demat !!
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The Church: Followers of Christ believers in 3 states suffer many likely preventable deaths
The Children: Three deaths in Oregon City this year reopen debate about religious freedoms
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Shielded by state laws that are among the most liberal in the nation at protecting faith-healing parents, the Oregon City Followers of Christ Church has amassed one of the largest clusters of child deaths recorded among the nation's spiritual-healing churches.
More than a fourth of the nearly 100 child and maternal deaths in the past 30 years among the Followers of Christ in Oregon, Oklahoma and Idaho were probably preventable with routine medical care. Dozens more probably could have been prevented, medical experts say, but spotty death investigations make the total impossible to determine.
The deaths of three Followers' children this year in Oregon City kindled new debate about whether Oregon's laws protecting religious freedom should continue to override the state's duty to protect every child's basic right to life.
An investigation by The Oregonian found:
Death rate noted as high
Children are dying from a lack of medical care in dozens of faith-healing churches in the United States, according to Dr. Seth Asser, who co-wrote a national study on faith-healing child deaths published in the April edition of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The Oregon City Followers are among the worst, given the number of deaths among their 1,200 members, said Asser, a pediatric intensive care specialist in San Antonio. He said the Followers were not included in the study because, until recently, they were so obscure.
"We felt that this study was the tip of the iceberg," Asser said. "I'm sure that there are other deaths out there and other churches that we don't know about."
By comparison, the Christian Science Church, which has a national membership of 170,000, had 28 child deaths between 1975 and 1995, according to Asser's study. Because the church encourages its members to go to doctors for delivery of babies, the mortality rate among pregnant mothers and infants is comparable to the rate for the rest of the nation.
There are also Followers churches in Oklahoma and Idaho with considerably smaller congregations and far fewer deaths than the Oregon City congregation.
The Idaho group has witnessed at least 12 childhood deaths and one mother dying during childbirth in the past 20 years. How many were preventable or whether there were more deaths is unclear -- record-keeping and death investigations were minimal.
In Oklahoma, where the Followers church blossomed in the late 19th century, three preventable childhood deaths have occurred since 1985. Oklahoma passed a law in 1985 compelling parents to treat deathly ill children, and since then two sets of parents have gone to jail for letting their children die.
Oregon law hard to enforce
Oklahoma is one of the few states that has passed laws limiting faith healing when a child's life is at stake. But in Oregon and more than 40 states, parents have some protection from criminal and civil prosecution.
Oregon law allows the state to take charge of a child who is known to be at risk of injury or death. But the state's laws are so vague and difficult to enforce that no consensus exists among prosecutors about when parents can be charged.
As a result, Oregon cases are rarely prosecuted, including the February death of an 11-year-old Followers of Christ boy who died of painful complications from treatable diabetes.
For decades, Oregon officials, Clackamas County law enforcement authorities and Oregon City residents have known of preventable deaths within the church. Records show that as early as 1965, legislators were told of Followers' children going to school with poorly set broken bones and of one case of a family removing its child from a hospital.
Other states have reduced child deaths in similar faith-healing churches by closely monitoring and educating their members. In Oregon, no consistent effort has been made to monitor or influence the Oregon City Followers.
"People treated the children of religious objectors almost as throwaways," said Terry Gustafson, Clackamas County's district attorney. "I don't think it was intentional on anyone's part. It just kind of worked out that way."
The resulting silence has left the Oregon City Followers to practice beliefs so extreme that one religion expert called them a museum piece of 19th-century fundamentalism.
Church members in Oregon City declined to talk to The Oregonian.
Most outsiders who know them characterize Followers of Christ members as hardworking, honest citizens who love and care for their families and friends.
The Followers believe they are the direct spiritual heirs of the Apostles and follow a literal interpretation of the Bible. When a child or adult is ill, the Followers reject medical care, instead asking elders and church members to pray and anoint the sick person with oil, according to biblical practices described in James 5:14. That verse states:
|"Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up."
Church members in Oregon City will see dentists and eye doctors, and they have been known to submit to oral surgery. Idaho church members are more liberal, saying it's the individual's decision whether to see a doctor. But many of them still rely on faith healing.
"Faith healing works. There is no question in my mind," said Russell Conger, an elder in the Followers of Christ congregation in Caldwell, Idaho.
The Followers' faith, he says, is "strong to the point of death. We put our bodies as a living sacrifice upon the altar."
A little boy's ordeal
Of all the Oregon City cases, the ordeal of 4-year-old Alex Dale Morris stands out.
The boy first complained of fever and congestion on Feb. 28, 1989. He was anointed with holy oil while church members laid their hands on him in an attempt to heal him through the spirit of the Lord. They prayed for 46 days.
On April 14,1989, acting on an anonymous tip to state child welfare workers, an Oregon City policeman visited Alex's home. The officer noticed the boy was sick, but the child appeared well cared for and told the officer he was "all right."
Alex Morris died 29 hours after that visit. An autopsy revealed an infection had filled one side of his chest with pus. Basic antibiotic treatment would have saved him, said Dr. Larry Lewman, Oregon medical examiner.
"It was a horrible thing," Lewman said. "The kid was getting sicker and sicker for days and days. At times, the child would have been overwhelmed with fever and pain.
"In this day and age, kids don't get this stuff."
Medical experts have similar concerns about the high maternal death rate among Oregon City Followers. The death of women during childbirth is a rarity in Oregon. The 1,200-member Followers congregation has experienced four maternal deaths in the past 12 years. Two women in 25,000 births have died during the same period at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland.
"Their population base is way too small to justify four maternal deaths," says Dr. Andrew Merrill, a Portland physician specializing in high-risk pregnancies, who reviewed death record information provided by The Oregonian. "These were probably healthy mothers who didn't have underlying disease who should have had healthy babies."
None of the women who died giving birth saw doctors. Instead, Lewman said, they were aided by midwives who sometimes made fatal mistakes. The women from the Oregon City congregation include:
Concern, but no prosecution
The deaths of Oregon City Followers' children periodically raised alarms among local officials. But no cases have been prosecuted.
Documents obtained by The Oregonian show that in 1990, Clackamas County prosecutors considered filing criminal charges against members of the church in three cases, including the death of Alex Morris.
But in each case, they decided not to file criminal charges.
In 1965, Rep. Richard Groener, D-Milwaukie, concerned after two Followers children died of meningitis in two months, pushed a bill through the Legislature that allowed juvenile authorities to seek courtordered medical treatment for any child denied care because of a parent's religious beliefs.
Oregon State Archive records show that Groener, now deceased, told the House Judiciary Committee the law was necessary because both children could have been saved with medical treatment. Groener also told the committee that children were going to school with broken bones not properly set and that a family removed their child from a hospital after a serious accident.
Groener's law is still on the books, but local authorities haven't used it. Typically, officials have reasoned that the deaths are protected by religious freedom exemptions in state and federal law.
Before 1988, few autopsies were performed on Followers children who died. Elected county coroners and appointed medical examiners usually wrote a sentence or two about each death based on information gleaned from parents and other church members. In many cases, the cause of death listed was their best guess, not a known fact.
Dr. John Shilke, the appointed chief deputy medical examiner in Clackamas County from 1976 to 1988, said he can't remember a Followers case he got "excited about" or whether he referred any cases to the district attorney.
As the person in charge of investigating natural deaths, Shilke said it was his job to be convinced that "a reasonable amount of care and attention" was given to those Followers who died. Shilke said he didn't agree with their healing methods but realized church members had the right to forgo a doctor's care.
Lewman became Oregon's medical examiner in 1987, and a year later he began reorganizing the state's medical examiner system. He appointed deputies in metropolitan counties to investigate deaths. His office near downtown Portland performed the autopsies.
In 1988, Lewman appointed George Coleman, Shilke's former assistant, to be his chief deputy in Clackamas County. Coleman said he was always concerned by Followers' deaths, especially those of children.
Coleman got to know church members, and they eventually began calling him at his office or home when one of the congregation members died.
"Although we had a great rapport, they were letting little children die," said Coleman, who retired last summer. "This is just abominable, I think."
Coleman said he shared his concerns with then-District Attorney James O'Leary. Each time, he was told that the parents had constitutional rights.
"I almost became a bore," Coleman said of his frequent meetings with O'Leary.
Under Lewman's direction, the death investigations of Followers became much more thorough, with autopsies performed on all dead children. Alex Morris was one of the first, and worst, that Lewman has seen. Lewman calls Alex his poster child for the problems within the Followers community.
The case's horror initiated a new round of discussion in O'Leary's office regarding the Followers of Christ deaths, according to past and present officials.
Dennis Miller was O'Leary's chief deputy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In April 1990, Miller wrote at least two letters to O'Leary urging him toward prosecuting Morris' parents.
In one letter, Miller included a list of 29 "suspicious" deaths involving the Followers of Christ, naming both adults and children. In one case, Gregory Lee Smith, 21, died of massive head injuries after a motorcycle accident. Church members took him home from the accident scene even though he was bleeding from the nose, mouth and ear. An autopsy showed skull fractures and internal bleeding.
"Parents can be held responsible for a child's death," Miller wrote to O'Leary in a five-page letter detailing his legal research of the issue. "Others preventing help can be held responsible. Those who assume care of the child, thereby preventing medical care, can be deemed to have assumed a legal duty."
Miller, who retired in February, recalls some discussion of the cases but said no heated debates ever occurred. He said his research was born of frustration that so many were dying.
Miller said even in the Morris case, from a prosecutor's standpoint, it would have been difficult to sway a jury.
"If a police officer didn't think anything was seriously wrong, why would anyone else?" Miller said. "These people are not trained in medicine. They are by and large young parents who are doing what they think is best for the child."
Miller thinks it's an issue for the Legislature.
"I don't believe in what they do," he said of the Followers, "but I'm not about to stand up and criticize and say that they can't hold that belief."
O'Leary, who retired in 1995, is traveling and could not be contacted for comment.
A world apart
Since the 1940s, the Oregon City Followers of Christ have worshipped in a onestory, tan church complex that looks like a small school. The two low-profile buildings sit well back from Molalla Avenue on a lot next door to an Oregon City fire station and just down the road from a Wilco Farmer's supply store. The spare church grounds are meticulously well-kept; rooms inside the church are simple, with few decorations and folding chairs and tables.
There, along one of Oregon City's busiest roads, the Followers of Christ successfully constructed a quiet lifestyle that has allowed them to get along well with the general community while maintaining a church family that is off-limits to outsiders.
The adults own a local grocery store, construction companies and a gas station. The children attend public schools, where they stand out because of their exemplary behavior and refusal to participate in sports, said Brad Smith, the well-known Oregon City High School girls basketball coach and teacher.
Followers allow their children" to play with non-church-member playmates until about age 10. Then they socialize only within the church, according to former members.
The Followers have earned the respect of many of the people who disagree with their beliefs. "They raise great kids. You won't find better kids," said Smith, who is as close to church members as anyone in Oregon City. "They'll make great citizens."
Yet they live in a world apart.
The only way to become a member is to be born into the group. They marry as young as age 15 and almost always before age 20. They socialize only among themselves and shun members who seek medical care or otherwise betray church teachings, even ostracizing members of their own families for breaking the rules or leaving the church.
Dean Nichols, 63, a former Oregon City mayor, left the church in the early 1960s. Five of his brothers and sisters are still in the Followers, none of whom will say anything more than hello when he meets them by chance.
For Nichols, and anyone else leaving the Followers, departing the church means departing everything they have known.
"It took me 12 years to get my wife and children out of there," he says.
"Worst in the nation"
Federal law is clear: Competent adults can refuse medical treatment for themselves, and the government can compel parents to seek treatment for their children.
"Freedom of religion has no absolutes," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in constitutional law. "The state's right in protecting life justifies infringement upon the parents' religious belief."
But that argument is, in itself, an absolute, one that justifies a majority of people imposing their moral viewpoint on a minority group, said Craig Carr, professor of political science at Portland State University. The argument, Carr said, ignores that these parents believe they would be remiss if they didn't raise their children according to the strict tenets of their religion.
"That's why we have civil liberties in this country," Carr said. "So people who feel they have the right to be different are protected."
Federal courts have left it to the states to decide how to handle medical care for children of faith healers.
Only four states -- Hawaii, Nebraska, North Carolina and Massachusetts -- have no religious immunities in their criminal and civil codes, said Rita Swan, president of Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty, an Iowa-based child-advocacy group.
Six states -- Oregon, Arkansas, Ohio, Iowa, Delaware and West Virginia -- have religious defenses to homicide. Most other states include the defenses in different sections of their criminal, juvenile and civil codes.
In the past decade, more cases against faith-healing parents have been brought forward at the state level. But Chemerinsky said these cases in no way constitute a trend.
Oregon's exemptions from criminal prosecution for faith healers were strengthened last year when the Legislature rewrote the state's homicide laws, increasing the penalties for murder by abuse. Lobbying by the Christian Science Church helped get comprehensive immunities for faith-healing parents written into the law, which was also supported by the Oregon District Attorney's Association.
Immunities also exist in Oregon's civil codes, giving religious objectors the right to decline immunizations and metabolic testing, the latter of which detects disorders that will cause mental retardation and other harm if left untreated, Swan said.
"I consider Oregon laws the worst in the nation on this issue," Swan said about the wide-sweeping immunities.
In April, District Attorney Gustafson declined to file charges in the death of an 11-year-old boy who died of diabetes. Gustafson thinks Oregon's statute against criminally negligent homicide is poorly worded. She said the wording in the negligent homicide law is nearly identical to the state's seconddegree manslaughter charge, which includes religious immunity. Because of the contradiction, prosecution would be unfair, Gustafson says.
Among the state's top prosecutors there is disagreement about whether the parents of the 11-year-old could be charged. Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers, in a written opinion to Gustafson, said the religious immunity provisions do not apply to criminally negligent homicide.
But Myers, Gustafson and others agree the laws need revision so children do not die because of their parents' beliefs. Lawmakers predict a flood of bills addressing the issue in the 1999 Legislature.
Gustafson has vowed to recommend changing state law so that parents are compelled to seek medical care for their children regardless of their religious beliefs. She has also asked people to report possible cases in which Oregon City Followers children are sick so that police and child welfare workers can evaluate whether courtordered medical intervention is warranted.
Idaho, Oklahoma take action
Twice since 1980, Idaho officials have won court-ordered medical care for sick or injured Followers children.
Dave Young, Canyon County's prosecuting attorney, had one case in which a 16-year-old boy had life-threatening head injuries from a car accident. In the emergency room, his parents, Followers members, objected to a doctor treating the boy. The police called the prosecutor, who called a judge, who conducted a hearing at the hospital. The boy was treated and survived.
But beyond those cases, the Idaho Followers' faith-healing practices have gone nearly unchecked based on a state law protecting parents if their religion forbids conventional medicine. Officials in four counties where the majority of the 500-member Caldwell congregation lives said they don't understand the Followers' beliefs but are powerless to change their behavior.
The Oregonian found government documents detailing 12 child deaths in Canyon and Owyhee counties in Idaho dating to 1980. Five were classified as stillbirths. Of the remaining seven, doctors said that six probably would have benefited from medical care and that two of those -- cases involving a ruptured appendix and a visibly strangulated hernia -- probably would have survived with treatment.
Steve Rhodes, chief deputy coroner for Canyon County, said that his office does full autopsies on all the children but that his office can't dictate religion to the Followers.
"You have to have a pretty strong faith to let a family member die," Rhodes said. "I couldn't do that, not if it was within my means to fix it."
That misunderstanding is common among "worldly people," the Idaho elders said.
"If you don't have the faith, it's hard to understand," Russell Conger said. "It's hard to explain. Our physician is always there. He's always there through prayer."
Conger and Deacon Loyd Randolph said that Idaho Followers will seek medical help if they want and that no one will shun them for doing so.
"We try to live by faith," Randolph said. But "if one of our members wants to go to the hospital, I'll go with them. I have been there praying for them."
In rural Oklahoma, where churches are almost as common as road signs urging sinners to repent, Major County prosecutor Hollis Thorp said the Followers go too far.
Thorp lives in Fairview, Okla., a small town about two hours north of Oklahoma City. Since 1986, he has put two members of the Followers in jail for allowing their children to die. Now, he says, church members appear to be getting medical treatment for ill children, though only after the Oklahoma Legislature acted.
In 1985, Oklahoma made it a crime for parents to withhold medical treatment from a critically ill child. The law passed after a child from the Church of the First Born, an offshoot of the Followers, died in nearby Enid.
"I can't believe your Legislature hasn't taken action on that," Thorp said, referring to the Oregon cases. "There's no excuse for their children dying.
"If that many people were beating their children to death, there would be a march on the Capitol. It's not that much different."
Oklahoma's change in law appears to have had its effect. On a recent rain-soaked morning in his family farmhouse, Gary Wallace, an elder in the Oklahoma Followers, pointed to his granddaughter.
"Our little Annie Marie is under a doctor's care right now," for a thyroid problem, he said, as the child giggled under a pile of other children.
"We'd rather exercise our faith, but we follow the law of the land."
Mark Larabee and Peter D. Sleeth are reporters for The Oregonian.
Larabee can be reached by telephone at 503-294-5927; by e-mail at email@example.com; or by mail at P.O. Box 5029, Oregon City, Ore. 97045.
Sleeth can be reached by phone at 503-294-4119; by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com; and by mail at The Oregonian, 1320 S. W. Broadway, Portland, Ore. 97201.
[Roll call of death]
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The Oregonian compiled the following list of people believed to be Followers of Christ Church children and mothers who have died since 1955 by taking names from headstones at the Carus Cemetery and confirming them using documents from the Oregon City Police Department and the Clackamas County District Attorney's Office, and through interviews with the State Medical Examiner and former Followers of Christ Church members. This list does not include 15 confirmed stillborn infants from the church.
Cause of Death
|Dwayne D. Hickman
Not Available
|Nelson J. Lane
Not Available
|Morris (baby boy)
Not Available
|King (baby boy, twin)
Not Available
|King (baby boy, twin)
Not Available
|Leon W. Cunningham
|Fraser (baby girl)
Not available
|Scott E. Beagley
|Ross Dale White
Not available
|Otis Kip White
Not available
|Diana Elene Crone
Not available
|Rita Ann Hickman
|Brenda Kae Ingersoll
|Wright (baby)
Not available
|Dave Ray Wingerd
Not available
|Monte Dale Smith
Not available
|Karen J. Gorman
Not available
|Russell Darren Briggs
Not available
|King (baby)
Not available
|Jeannie Lynn Cunningham
Not available
|Robert Lee Brinckman
Not available
|Davey Briggs
Not available
|McLoud (baby girl)
Not available
|Cheryl Marie Smith
Possible congenital heart disease
|Tommy Smith
Probable heart condition
|Ryan Carl Crone
No determination
|Betsy Lee White
Erythroblastosis fetalis
|Lynnee Rae Smith
|Joan Kay Smith
Breech birth/respiratory failure
|Garland Wade Cepica
Kidney disease
|Denny A. Carlson
|Janelle Elise Keith
Pneumonia & meningitis
|Womack (baby girl)
Not available
|Justin James Hickman
Not available
|Lori Kay Shaw
|White (baby girl)
Not available
|Maria Deeann Smith
Not available
|Monica Joyce Smith
Not available
|Ashley Anne Rosenberry
No determination
|Chris Ryan Saxe
Presumed viral infection
|Ronald J. Johnston
Not available
|Lucas D. Smith
Not available
|Mitchell (baby boy)
Not available
|Brian Todd Stewart
Not available
|Christopher Eric Morris
|Mikass J. Rippey
Intrauterine pneumonia
|Cowan Mouser
Premature birth complications
|Alex Dale Morris
Pulmonary infection
|Jacqueline E. McLoud
No determination
|Matthew Travis Gorman
Aspiration of meconium/fluids
|Jonathan Michael Moore
Head injury from traumatic birth
|Steven Robert Mitchell
Not available
|Holland J. Cunningham
|Valerie Lynn Shaw
Renal infection complication
|Bo Phillips
|Wendy Lynn Painter
Not available
|Beagley (baby boy)
Not available
|Ulry (baby girl)
Not available
|David Cunningham
Not available
|Hickman (baby girl)
Not available
|Larkin (baby girl)
Not available
|Douglas Cunningham
Not available
|Cunningham (baby girl)
Not available
|MOTHERS (during childbirth)
|Melissa K. Smith
Infection during childbirth
|Jacqueline K. (and son) Beagley
Cepsis due to prolonged rupture of fetal membranes (baby stillborn)
|Janae McDowell
Intrauterine infection (baby stillborn)
|Cheryl Zirkle
Religious immunity and the law
OREGON: Updated in 1997, laws governing murder by abuse, manslaughter, criminal mistreatment and criminal nonsupport include clauses that grant immunity to parents whose children die if they are being cared for by prayer.
Immunity is not included in the state's criminally negligent homicide statute. But there is disagreement between Clackamas County District Attorney Terry Gustafson and Attorney General Hardy Myers about whether parents can be prosecuted with this statute.
Gustafson says that the wording of the criminally negligent homicide statute is identical to that of the second-degree manslaughter statute and that charging parents would violate their constitutional right to due process. She and others are pushing to have the laws changed.
Oregon is one of only six states that grants a religious defense for Murder, Critics of religious immunity call Oregon one of the worst states in the nation because its immunity provisions are found throughout the law.
IDAHO: As of 1977, laws regarding injury to a child say that a parent or guardian who chooses prayer as treatment will not be considered to have violated legal duties to care for their child.
OKLAHOMA: In 1985. legislators updated state law granting immunity to religious objectors The state now requires parents to provide medical care in cases in which permanent injury could result. Since 1986, two Followers members in Major County. north of Oklahoma City, have been jailed for failing to seek medical treatment for their children.
Followers' roots reveal
numerous splinters
Churches such as Oregon's evolved
from the Pentecostal movement
by Mark Larabee and Peter D. Sleeth
of The Oregonian staff
The faith-healing Followers of Christ is one of many churches that rose from the impoverished, energetic Pentecostal movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Many Followers preachers were healing evangelists whose churches frequently split about minute points of religious doctrine. The splits left Followers churches in Oklahoma, Idaho and Oregon -- Oregon City and Grants Pass.
The first Followers church is thought to have been founded in Chanute, Kan. One of its first members was Marion Reece, a plainsman, who fought Indians during the Civil War. Reece got his calling in Kansas before moving to Oklahoma, where he baptized many Followers.
His brother-in-law, Charlie Smith, also was preaching at that time. After an argument with other ministers, Smith moved west about 1920, first to Idaho and then to California.
In the early 1930s, Smith was on the circuit with a charismatic preacher named George White. White ordained five of his nephews to preach, including Walter White and Vern Baldwin.
Walter White and Baldwin preached about the miraculous intervention of God in the affairs of man. They used fear of God, tales of Armageddon and hardened showmanship to keep their flocks in line.
But their personalities clashed. In the early 1940s, Walter White left Idaho and went to Oregon City after a fight about women cutting their hair and adultery in the church.
Former church members say White was a prophet with a tyrannical side. From his pulpit he would rebuke congregation members, often making them stand and confess their misdeeds to the entire group. He captivated his congregation with powerful sermons, often slamming his Bible to the floor, shaking and clapping, and speaking in tongues.
"Walter became a Christlike figure," said one former member who asked not to be identified. "People believed the only way to get to God was through Walter White."
He settled marital disputes and discord among families. They hung his picture in their homes, often just higher than a photo of Jesus Christ. Some church members still have White's picture tip.
To become a preacher, a follower must be called by God.
Ernest Nichols heard a voice telling him to preach the Gospel in 1942, shortly after a life-threatening case of chicken pox. It wasn't a voice in his head, said his son, Dean Nichols, 63, of Oregon City. "I'm talking a voice like a loudspeaker."
But Ernest Nichols didn't answer the call until three years later, when he was growing grapes near Modesto, Calif He left the crop on the vine and packed his family off to Caldwell, Idaho, then the home of the largest Followers congregation.
Later, Nichols decided to move back and minister to Followers in California. In 1953, at White's request, he moved his small congregation to Oregon City.
During the next 11 years, Ernest Nichols and White would argue about White's strict religious doctrines and the way he treated people, according to Nichols' relatives and other former members.
Ernest Nichols thought White and the congregation had lost the true message of God. In 1964, Nichols decided to leave the church. Five of his children remained and never spoke with him again.
Nichols moved to Idaho for a time, stayed with relatives in Montana, then returned to Oregon City. He conducted prayer meetings in his home but never returned to the pulpit. Ernest Nichols died in 1980; his wife died five years later.
"Dad was never bitter," said Eileen Baldwin, Nichols' daughter and a resident of Meridian, Idaho. "They never gave up their love of God or their faith in him."
Today, a congregation of about 500 Followers lives in the Caldwell area west of Boise. Much like their Oregon City brethren, they gather Thursdays and Sundays to worship Christ at a small church bordered on two sides by freshly tilled fields. The building has no markings, cross or signs and looks like an old grange hall.
Russell Conger, 65, a retired carpenter and an elder for the Caldwell congregation, said the Followers believe in the power of divine healing, a tradition among his people that has been passed through the generations originating with Jesus Christ. He, another elder and two deacons use prayer meetings to teach the word of God. The Caldwell minister died many years ago, and no one there has received the calling. Occasionally, the preacher from the 200-member Grants Pass congregation visits.
In Oregon City, no one teaches the word of God because all the elders are dead and no one has received the calling. So services consist of hymns and silent prayers, former members said.
Followers in Grants Pass and Caldwell think the Oregon City congregation took a wrong turn sometime in the 1950s. Conger and other elders said they tried contacting Followers in Oregon City through the years to offer their services, but those offers have been politely declined.
Conger said he is always ready to anoint the sick and administer healing prayers. Through a trust in God, he said, faith healing works.
"It's a choice that we have, and it's a choice that we pass on to our children."


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Stanford women's gymnastics goal all season long has been to return to the "Super Six" and win it. The Cardinal has nearly reached their first goal as they qualified Saturday evening to the NCAA Championships for the second season in a row. Stanford produced a team score of 197.525, a season-high and took second place in the NCAA Central Regional to host LSU. The Cardinal are now one of twelve teams remaining in the hunt for the national championship.
The Cardinal was able to win the beam routine and finished no worse than second in all four of the rotations.
Senior Tabitha Yim finished second in the all-around with a score of 39.825. Sophomore Carly Janiga finished tied for third in the all-around competition with a score of 39.500. Junior Nicole Ourada finished fifth in the all-around with a score of 39.350.
On vault,the Cardinal were powered by Yim's 9.950, which was second best to only LSU's Ashley Clare-Kearney, who scored a perfect 10. Ourada finished tied for fourth with a score of 9.900 and senior Liz Tricase was also tied for fourth with a score of 9.900. The Cardinal finished with a 49.525 score on vault.
Stanford had a harder time with bars Saturday night but Tricase, the three-time Pac-10 bar champion finished with a score of 9.950 in the event, which was the best in the meet. Yim and Janiga finished tied for third on bars with matching scores of 9.900. The Cardinal finished with a team score of 49.150.
On beam the Cardinal won the event behind 9.950's by Yim and Kelly Fee, and a 9.900 by Janiga. The Cardinal finished with a team score of 49.500, two-tenths of a point ahead of second place LSU.
In the final event, the Cardinal got great floor routines by Yim and Ourada, which powered them to the berth in the NCAA Championships. Yim finished with a score of 9.925 and Ourada finished with a 9.875, which was tied for fourth. Yim finished alone in second place in the rotation.
The night was special in many ways for Stanford after the persevered after a tough beginning on bars. In what was a very intense atmosphere at the Maravich Center, the Cardinal showed their experience in coming away with the second place finish.
Yim on the evening added to her accolades after being named West Regional Gymnast of the Year before the meet.
The team score of 197.525 is a season-high for the Cardinal, who is peaking at the right time. The top five team scores for Stanford have come in the last six matches, and the team has been clicking on all cylinders.
Ohio State finished third in the competition with a team score of 195.125. Missouri finished fourth with a team score of 195.100.
Head coach Kristen Smyth was pleased with how her team responded Saturday night.
On Stanford's performance tonight...
"We put forth an outstanding effort tonight. I was so proud of how they stayed together in a tough enviornment. We hit 24 routines, which is always one of our goals. LSU is a great team. It was a great atmosphere. This was the first time this year we've been in an SEC atmosphere, so that always adds a bit and brings the best out of the kids, and LSU had a great night. We opened the door a little bit on bars. Going into Nationals, I feel really good about where this team is now and our chances for performing really well in two weeks."
The next stop for Stanford is a trip to Athens, Ga. for the NCAA Championships. Stay tuned to www.gostanford.com for more coverage of this historical meet for Stanford women's gymnastics.
2. Stanford - 197.525 (VT - 49.525 UB - 49.150 BB - 49.500 FX - 49.350)
3. Ohio State - 195.125 (VT - 48.775 UB - 48.900 BB - 48.675 FX - 48.775)
4. Missouri - 195.100 (V T - 49.025 UB - 48.750 BB - 48.600 FX - 48.725)


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Why is GHC so much worse than JHC when computing the Ackermann function?
Mikhail Glushenkov <the.dead.shall.rise <at> gmail.com>
Hi all, This came up on StackOverflow [1]. When compiled with GHC (7.4.2 & 7.6.2), this simple program: main = print $ ack 4 1 where ack :: Int -> Int -> Int ack 0 n = n+1 ack m 0 = ack (m-1) 1 ack m n = ack (m-1) (ack m (n-1)) consumes all available memory on my machine and slows down to a crawl. However, when compiled with JHC it runs in constant space and is about as fast as the straightforward Ocaml version (see the SO question for benchmark numbers). I was able to fix the space leak by using CPS-conversion, but the CPS-converted version is still about 10 times slower than the naive version compiled with JHC. I looked both at the Core and Cmm, but couldn't find anything obviously wrong with the generated code - 'ack' is compiled to a simple loop of type 'Int# -> Int# -> Int#'. What's more frustrating is that running the program with +RTS -hc makes the space leak mysteriously vanish. Can someone please explain where the space leak comes from and if it's possible to further improve the runtime of this program with GHC? Apparently it's somehow connected to the stack management strategy, since running the program with a larger stack chunk size (+RTS -kc1M)(Continue reading)


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UK Defense Committee Draws New Rules of Engagement in Case of Military Cyber Attacks
The UK Defense Committee published a report in which it underlined the importance of cyber security defenses and the risks of having military communication technologies compromised if subjected to attacks.
With 650 million pounds ($1 billion) to be invested in cyber security over the next four years, the Defense Committee places a strong emphasis on the danger of cyber-attacks. Developing new and effective counter measures to prevent such actions is worth the investment and collaborating with security experts is highly recommended, said Defence & Space Co.'s Cassidian U.K. chief executive officer, Mo Stevens.
"There needs to be continued investment in research and government-sponsored collaboration opportunities to ensure the leading cyber security players share knowledge and experiences," said Stevens in an email to Bloomberg.
Acknowledging that cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, the need for stronger countermeasures and carefully planned contingency plans is dire, said Defense Minister Andrew Murrison.
"The UK armed forces and the equipment and assets they use are amongst the world's most modern and advanced, so of course information technology plays a vital role in their operation," said Murrison. "Far from being complacent, the MoD takes the protection of our systems extremely seriously and has a range of contingency plans in place to defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks although, for reasons of national security, we would not discuss these in detail."
The Defense Committee's report is described as "worrying" by Shadow defense secretary Jim Murphy, as it underlines how reliant on communication technology the UK military really is. With hacktivists and foreign militaries focused on infiltrating and collecting classified data, UK's Defense Committee report raises serious military security concerns.


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April 6, 2012
TEMPE, Ariz. - The 23rd-ranked Arizona State baseball team, behind the arm of right-hander Trevor Williams, defeated No. 17 Oregon State, 3-2, on Friday night in front of 2,948 fans at Packard Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.
Williams (6-2) earned his sixth win of the season after allowing just five base runners in seven innings pitched. He gave up four hits and a walk to go along with three strikeouts, and did not let the Beavers reach third base while he was on the mound.
Deven Marrero provided the offensive spark for the Sun Devils (18-12, 5-6) with a two-run triple in the bottom of the fifth inning and Joey DeMichele added an RBI single in the next at-bat to give ASU the lead, 3-0.
Williams was replaced by right-hander Robert Ravago in the eighth after hitting the leadoff batter and surrendering a single in the following at-bat. Ravago allowed one hit and struck out one in the frame.
Right-hander Jake Barrett (5) pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn the save, punctuated by a called strikeout for the final out.
The Beavers (18-10, 6-5) scored two runs in the top of the eighth inning on a two-out, two-run single by Michael Conforto, but Ravago induced a flyout to keep the Devils[ lead intact.
Left-hander Ben Wetzler (4-1) took his first loss of the season after surrendering three runs on five hits and 5 1/3 innings.
The Sun Devils close out their three-game Pac-12 series with the Beavers on Saturday at Packard Stadium. First pitch is set for 12:30 p.m., with Tim Healey and Seth Dhaenens broadcasting the game live on KDUS The Fan Am 1060, and FoxSportsArizona.com streaming it live online.


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With the advent of legalized marijuana in Washington State, it seems that law enforcement officers have become somewhat perplexed by the idea of no longer busting the average citizen for measly pot possession, and have since been forced to focus their energy on cases involving real criminals.
A recent report from the American Civil Liberties Union finds there has been a significant decrease in misdemeanor charges filed against individuals over the age of 21 for possession of marijuana, ever since Washington voters approved it for recreational use. In fact, the report finds there were only 120 cases involving marijuana possession in 2013 as opposed to the 5,531 reported the year prior.
The ACLU's criminal justice policy advisor, Mark Cooke, said legal marijuana has eliminated some of law enforcement's busy work, which has allowed them to set their sights on actual crime. "The data strongly suggest that I-502 has achieved one of its primary goals -- to free up limited police and prosecutorial resources," he said. "The hope is that could free up scarce limited public safety resources to focus on more pressing needs."
Still, police say they want to remain diligent in their efforts to police marijuana laws, citing concerns over the potential risk for increased underage use the moment recreational sales begin later this year. As it stands, minors are prohibited under state law from possessing marijuana. However, recent data indicates that minor consumption of marijuana has been on the decline for the past two years – down from 4,127 pot-related charges in 2011 to 1,963 in 2013.
Despite legalization, Cooke says racial disparity is still prevalent in Washington. He says that out of the state's 120 possession charges filed last year, blacks still accounted for three times more than whites.
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Written by Chris Carter
Directed by David Nutter
If Aubrey was an episode that, with a few minor changes, could've run in any police procedural, this episode seems to go even further by being the first real one that has no supernatural earmarks at all. What makes it so effective --- and very unsettling---- is that the villain is one of the truly most ordinary, and therefore more frightening than a lot of the so-called thriller X-Files.
After years of police procedurals like Special Victims Unit or Criminal Minds, where the most horrid of serial killers is just another day's work for the agents in charge, its almost refreshing to see someone disturbed about some of the horrors that they're witnessing. It's even more refreshing to see it almost regarded as a joke when Mulder and Scully are, for once, called in on something because the agent in charge thinks its paranormal in origin--- and then get told that it's something far more 'mundane'. Indeed, mundane is almost too polite a word to describe Donnie Pfaster, a man who looks completely ordinary when we see him in the funeral of the teaser, who we never see kill anyone, who never seems to so much as raise his voice, even at the episode's climax. Carter originally wrote Pfaster as a necrophiliac, but Fox forced him to change the character to make him more palatable, and this may be one of the rare occasions I'm grateful for standards and practice's meddling. There's something more unsettling about what Pfaster is doing, and we can understand why Scully is so revolted by it.
Anderson's performance is one of the best she has given so far. Scully has prided herself on being someone who doesn't back away from the darkness, so its fascinating to see her disturbed by what she's witnessing almost from the outset, and have to physically pull herself up each time a worsening crime accelerates the process. Indeed, she is so bothered that she does something we never see her to: call for help by seeing an FBI therapist. Karen Koseff is one of the more intriguing characters in the series--- calm, listening, gently guiding Scully to safety. She makes such am impression in her brief scene, I sincerely wish the writers had used her more often. God knows Scully could've used her help a lot over the years.
There are two complaints that inevitably get made about this episode. First, there is the fact this is yet another episode where Scully gets taken prisoner. However, this is one of the rare episodes where the abduction is necessary, as much of this is coming to terms with what happened to her during her disappearance earlier this season. There is something powerful about watching her fight back from the man whose actions have revolted her since the episode started. Then, there's the fact that Pfaster's morphing into various form--- ending in that of a demon--- seems a superfluous action to make this case into an X-Files. However, for once the effects serve a story purpose to make sure that we see how truly monstrous Pfaster is. (Given how both effects would be terribly abused when the show eventually caught up with him later on, one can see the point--- but one can't blame Carter for that.)
Admittedly, this is an episode which starts a rather unfortunate pattern trying to establish Scully's stoicism after even the most horrible events. One can almost make a drinking game based on how frequently we hear her say 'I'm fine' when, like when she uses it after she's been saved, she is clearly anything but. But this episode is exceptional, because this time, even she's willing to admit she's not fine. Who would be after going through something as horrific as this?
This is one of the high points of Season Two, as every element seems to work perfectly. Carter's script seems to have the usual amount of purple prose during the voiceover, but he more than makes up for it with one of his best villains, and some of the more memorable supporting characters. I really wish we'd seen more of Moe Bocks, as he's the rare agent who seems like Mulder's type of guy, and who seems to respect him all the way through the episode. Bruce Weitz gives a great example of how good a lawman he could be without quirks. The direction is well done, and the cinematography is top notch, particularly in the scenes in holding.
Irresistible demonstrates how well the show could play when it dared to strip away the paranormal and look into the face of evil. For much of the remainder of the series, at least once a season Mulder and Scully would leave the world of the paranormal, and take a look at some of the darkness within the human spirit. (The sequel would not be one of those episode, alas, but what can you do?) The closing shots of Pfaster as a child are somehow more terrifying than the ones of him morphing, because it reflects how evil can seem utterly banal, and more terrifying than any liver eating mutant or alien conspiracy.


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It's easy to think of cats as dumb compared to dogs. A lot of people generally assume dogs are smarter because we can more easily train them. People train dogs to find bombs, drugs, money and even food. They're assistance animals for disabled people. Does anybody train cats in these ways? There are a few assistance cats out there, but in general, no. So, on the surface, dogs appear smarter than cats.
Many of us have seen videos of cats figuring how to get out of cages, or otherwise solving complex problems. We may have even seen this display of intelligence in our own cats at home. Dogs might be smart, but can they solve complex problems? Maybe, but the stories don't make the rounds as much.
Cats' brains are smaller, as a percentage of body size, than dogs' brains and even our brains. That, too, could lead people to believe that dogs are smarter than cats. However, the size of the brain compared to body size doesn't always indicate higher intelligence. According to an article in Psychology Today, Neanderthals had brains larger than ours, and yet they couldn't adapt quickly enough to survive, and died out.
The Psychology Today piece also mentioned that cats have almost twice as many neurons in the cerebral cortex as dogs do. While that isn't necessarily a concrete indicator of overall intelligence either, it does mean that cats have a higher learning capacity than dogs. The cerebral cortex is the center of things like complex problem solving. So, is it any wonder that a cat can actually figure out how to open a door, a cage, or get out of a confined area on its own?
Joan Liebmann, a medical sociologist, wrote an article in The Huffington Post that discusses the issue also. She says it's more likely that cats and dogs have different types of intelligence, which makes it harder to compare them. So which is smarter? They're both very smart, in their own way.


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Hey guys,
I've just started a Carcharodons army that utilise a squad of scouts led by the awesome Telion.
Since my list currently does not sport a flyer, I decided to use my scouts as my anti flyer/long range support unit. Since Telion confers his stealth bonuses to the squad which boost cover saves massively, I've got a pretty durable long range shooty unit, with 3 sniper rifles, a heavy bolter and of course Telion with his nasty stalker bolter, and the option to use the weapon emplacement on the ADL.
Now, since Telion sports a brilliant BS 6, I was thinking the ADL would be better off with the Icarus Las over the Quad, especially against AV12 flyers. My reasoning here is that the Icarus is probably not going to miss, and with the high strength and low AP of the Las Cannon, there's a very decent chance that he'll be able to take care of enemy flyers on the turn they enter the board.
However I never see anyone talking about taking the Icarus Las over the Quad. Why is this? Is it because 4 shots is a hell of a lot less risky in regards to missing (as not every army has access to a fairly inexpensive BS6 shooter)? Or am I missing something?
Thoughts and opinions are welcome.


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Psychological and Spiritual
The Tsunami left shockwaves of fear, anxiety, stress and confusion in the hearts and minds of survivors . At this moment, they need the help of people who will listen to their plight, share comforting words and console their grief. They also need to be reconnected to the immense spiritual resources from which they can draw energy to heal the pain and suffering and to reawaken their lives with renewed faith and hope. After the initial shock and trauma when people recover and set about rehabilitating themselves, after about two months they revert back to a state of depression again. To prevent this is very essential that we continue with our psychological and spiritual healing in to the future.
To meet this need, Sarvodaya is mobilizing a group of 30 counselors and meditation teachers to implement a psycho-spiritual healing programme for the Tsunami survivors. At the planning workshop on psycho-spiritual healing held on 3rd January 2005 at the Sarvodaya Vishva Niketan International Peace Centre with the participation of religious dignitaries, meditation instructors, trained counselors including the President of the Sri Lanka Association of Counselors, it was decided to implement an immediate plan of action. Subsequently on 4th January 2005 a team consisting of two Buddhist nuns, one Catholic nun and 5 counselors are visiting the camps. Fully conversant with handling human stress situations, this group of volunteers are helping the survivors begin life afresh with renewed vigor, hope and aspirations, re-activating the depleted spiritual energies through religious belief and planting courage, determination and purpose in life. We await their report to decide on the practical steps to be pursued immediately. On 5th January 2005 another similar group of volunteers visited Galle and Matara. Both groups met on 9th January 2005 to review their findings and decide on the plan of action. This group will continue to visit camps and villages until the tsunami wounds are completely healed and eradicated from the minds of victims.
The American Psychotherapist Association will also work closely with Sarvodaya in sending a group of professionals to help build the capacity of the psycho spiritual healing group.


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Given $A$ and $B$ principal ideals with the sum $A+B$ also principal. How to show $A\cap B$ is principal? If $A+B$ happens to be the unit ideal then I see that $A\cap B=AB$ which is principal. I tried deriving analogous properties with $A+B$ equalling an arbitrary principal ideal. No headway there.
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Let $A=(a)$, $B=(b)$ and $A+B=(c)$. As $A,B\subseteq A+B$, we have $a=cx$ and $b=cy$ for some elements $x,y$ (if $R$ is unitary). Then, it reduces to the case $(x)+(y)=R$ (at least if cancellation is allowed).
Update: It follows also when we are not allowed to cancel $c$:
So, $c\in A+B$ means $c=cxu+cyv$. Then $A\cap B\supseteq (cxy)$ is obvious. For the other direction, if $z\in A\cap B$, then it can be written as $z=cxs=cyt$, so we have: $$cs=cxus+cyvs=cytu+cyvs\in (cy) $$ and hence $z=csx\in (cxy)$. -QED-


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Chisholm touches down in Africa
by Stuart Vose
International development coach welcomed warmly in Ghana.
International development coach Gordon Chisholm has received a warm welcome after beginning a two-week trip to Africa.
Chisholm was met on arrival in Ghana by representatives of club partners Asante Kotoko as he prepares for a busy schedule of coaching.
The former Sunderland player will spend the week with the Fabulous Lads, who won the Ghanaian Premier League title last season.
He will work with some of the club's young players, leading sessions with the under-18s as well as taking in a match.
Chisholm will also have an opportunity to watch the international game between Ghana and Zambia before departing next Monday to link up with another partner club, South African side Bidvest Wits.


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1st hummingbird of the summer
Every summer the 2 trumpet vines (Campsis radicans) in our backyard become a major, if not the main, nectar source for the local hummingbirds. I photographed this bird around 4:30 yesterday afternoon. It must be a ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) as that is the only northeast hummingbird. Since this particular bird didn't have a ruby throat, I suppose it was a female. Look how short its legs are.
It was the 1st hummingbird I have seen this year. Pictures from August 2006 are in this post.


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I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 and would like to make a virtual router for my Android Device which only connects to infrastructure networks and not adhoc networks anyone who has any tips please help.
Run this in a terminal:
Then, open a text editor program, for example gedit. Copy the following into it.
Don't forget to fill in the name of your network after
After all these, save the file as
Now, in your terminal:
Turn the Wi-Fi connection on in your devices and enjoy the fast network share!
you might also want to add dhcpd to assign address to your Android device. Alternatively you can configure iptables to use NAT
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