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The Cruelest Loss
For An Author of Best-Selling Books on Self-Help, the Sudden Death of a Child Forces the Heartbroken Healer to Heal Herself
Success and self-awareness, though, are no shield against pain. Last February, Beattie suffered the greatest heartbreak a mother can know when her 12-year-old son, Shane, died from injuries sustained in a skiing accident.
Beattie has endured adversity before. Growing up in Minneapolis, she was 3 when her father left home. At age 5, she was sexually molested by a stranger. She recalls blacking out on whiskey as a 13-year-old, and by age 22 she had become so deeply addicted to drugs that she gave up custody of her first son, John, now 20, to her first husband's parents. As a recovering addict and alcoholic, she married David Beattie, an alcoholism counselor, in 1976 and bore Nichole, now 14, and Shane, but the union, foundering under the weight of David's drinking, ended in divorce in 1986.
"I don't think my writing about recovery has made this grieving any easier, "says Beattie, who bases many of her ideas on her own experience. "When you're going through this, you're a private person, a mother. The feelings are just raw." Beattie, who recently moved back to Minneapolis from Stillwater, a charming river town 45 minutes away, spoke about Shane's death with correspondent Margaret Nelson.
SHANE WAS PART OF MY NEW LIFE, A MIRACLE of God after all the horrible years I'd been through. He made me smile from the moment he was born. Even before they cut the umbilical cord, he squiggled up and started nursing.
On the morning of the accident, Shane woke me up to go to his school basketball game. He had me sit in a special seat, pulled it out a bit from the other parents', and during the game he'd come by and pat me on the shoulder, so pleased, so proud. It was very sweet. After the game, we stopped at a pancake restaurant. We just talked about regular things; I don't even remember what. It was just special being together. That's the last time I talked to him.
When we got home, it was time for Shane to go skiing with Nichole and her girlfriend Joey. The skiing was Nichole's birthday present to Shane, and he was excited. He liked being with the teenagers. I stayed at home to baby-sit Brandon, John's son. About 9:30 that night, about the time I was expecting the kids home, the phone rang. It was the Afton ski patrol; they said there had been an accident, but don't worry, these things happen. Then they called again and said to meet them at Ramsey Medical Center in St. Paul. I got in the car, and all the way over, 40 minutes, I kept thinking, "Be cool. It's gonna be all right." But there was a part of me that knew it wasn't okay.
They took me into a room that looked like a chapel and were real serious: "Wait here. Is there anyone you can call to be with you? What is your religion?" Just like in the movies. Only this was my baby, and I couldn't handle it. Shane had been going down one of the ski trails, and he'd collided in midair with another skier. Somehow his skull had been badly fractured and his brain injured beyond hope.
When I walked into his room, there was this powerful feeling in the air, like, "No, no, this is too terrible." He was hooked up to a respirator, his eye was black and blue; he was so pale, so quiet, so unlike my always-on-the-move Shane. A few weeks before, he'd talked me into going sledding on the hill across the street. When I got down to the bottom, there he was, lying real quiet, all sprawled out. I went over, and he jumped up and said, "Psych! Just kidding, Mom!" In the hospital, I kept hoping he'd roll over and say, "Psych! Just kidding, Mom!" But he didn't.
I called Echo Bodine, my best friend of 19 years, and then other friends kept arriving. Shane's father, David, had just gotten off a plane from a Mexican vacation when Echo called him. Nichole and Joey, who had seen the ski patrol trying to help Shane, accompanied them to the hospital. As people came, I felt the room filling up with enough love and support—maybe 50, maybe 70, people were there by the next day—for me to accept what was happening.
For all purposes, I think his brain waves stopped Saturday night, but the doctors said they'd do more tests Sunday. Sometime Sunday they told me there was no brain activity; there was nothing they could do. I said, Give me some time with this. I can't handle this now."
About 11:30 Sunday night, the doctors said they wanted to turn the respirator off. I started screaming. I felt this horrible rage. I kicked the door. I screamed, "Goddamn it, he's my son." At midnight Echo and I both fell apart. We sat on the floor and cried and cried. Then, somehow, we came up with a plan. We wanted to give all the people there time to say goodbye to Shane, time to make their peace with his death. He was one of those kids who got to people, so it was important for people to have some time with him.
At 2:30 Monday morning Echo and I went in. It was so hard, so painful, I can't describe the pain, the sorrow. But I knew he was gone. I cut off a lock of his hair and held him. The moment they turned off the respirator, it wasn't like he took a last breath, it was more of a sigh. I felt defeated. There was nothing I could do in that last moment but love him.
We decided to have the funeral on Friday. I didn't sleep much that week. Echo and I held hands and kind of walked through it together. My wonderful daughter had her support system too, her friends, and we were in constant contact: "Are you okay, are you getting what you need?" But we couldn't give much to each other. We were in too much pain.
Once, two days before the funeral, the pain was more than I could bear. I thought, "I can't go through this another minute. I need some relief." I wanted drugs. There was a message on my answering machine from someone from long, long ago who I knew could get me drugs. He came over and said, "Are you sure?" And I said, "Yes. I don't want to become an addict, but I want some relief, just a few hours of not feeling this pain." We drove around, but I couldn't think of what drug would be good. Finally I had him drive me home. I think I just needed the freedom to make the choice.
I wanted the funeral to be a celebration of Shane's life. So we brought some things from his room, and we played the music from Ghost, a movie I'd seen three times before he died—and maybe 80 times since. One thing I couldn't do: I couldn't face putting my son in the ground. So we got space in a mausoleum. I go over there now—it's just a mile or so from my new home—and sit on the floor and touch the marble. It gives me some peace.
Mornings are the hardest. I open my eyes, and it smacks me right in the face. Saturday nights are hard too. That's when it happened. But it is getting easier. More and more the moments of joy, the wonderful memories are crowding out the pain. I look back and realize that somehow I have moved into the future. The disciplines I learned in my recovery have been important. I set a goal of accomplishing two things every day. Sometimes one goal was just to get up and get dressed. Physical exercise is another thing that really helps me deal with the emotional stress. I take care of myself, and I surround myself with people who care.
And remembering the love between Shane and me has helped. I received a very moving letter from one of Shane's classmates. He recalled that I'd chaperoned a school field trip in December and that on the way home Shane and I had led the kids in carols, joking around like we always did. The boy said, "You and Shane had a real special relationship. I remember wishing my mother and I could have that."
Nichole and I are learning to think of ourselves as a family, just the two of us. And we've moved. After living in Stillwater for several years, I decided to move back to Minneapolis, to a neighborhood I'd always considered home. Our old house had too many triggers, too many hurtful reminders that he was gone. I don't want to stay stuck in this grief.
I feel afraid. This is all uncharted territory for me. Shane's death has shaken my belief system like nothing ever could. People say it was an accident, that Shane's life was ended prematurely. But was it? Is life so random, so hurtful? Or was this the way Shane's life was meant to be? Maybe he was meant to live 12 years; maybe this was his full life.
I've become the student, not the teacher. But in the weeks since his death, I've set aside some fears. Death doesn't scare me anymore; if Shane can do it, I know I can. More important, life doesn't scare me. I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afraid anymore. I'm more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think. What do I have to lose? Nothing except losing another child could hurt this bad.
I have to find the meaning in Shane's death. Maybe someday I'll write a book about this, because that's what I am: a writer and a mom.
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Dang i hope i dont run into this problem. I have a 90 bronco which has 80 amp alt. But im running 2x power to the re sx18 off a mb quart 1600 plus a 400 watt amp for my 6.5s. I havent put the bass amp in not knowing if i should at least upgrade my alt to athe 130 g3 alt first
So OP where is the gain on the amp set? Also what head unit do you have?
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An upgraded alt is ALWAYS a good thing to have in this hobby. But not having one is not the real problem here. Fix the issues... then see if you still want/need one.
Pics of where the gain is set at ? Did you use a dmm ? Unibody cars don't have very many good grounding points so I also agree this is prolly the issue most cars/ trucks can hold more than 750 rms with the exception of a few. But the alt is the best option only if truly needed
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The first thing that strikes you, apart from the racing stripes, is that this isn't a full length cooler. This is something we're always concerned about as the heat is expelled into the case and the less of that the better. With a good sized case and decent airflow this isn't a major problem, but with graphics cards just situated under the processor and heat rising any degree is one we could do without.
The rear view gives us our first glimpse of the huge heatpipes and how well laid out the board is.
Unlike the standard reference design ASUS' DirectCU cooler has a large amount of fins, two big heatpipes and a very large fan that should dissipate the heat far more efficiently than the standard one, and with the the size of the fan hopefully much quieter too.
Despite the size it's still well within a double-card depth, and has a nice little ASUS logo on the side, to go along with the one on the fan, and the one on the cooler shroud, and the one on the board. Nobody will be in any doubt about who makes this when it's in your show case.
Finally we have the three outputs on the rear of the HD5850 Top. One DVI-D, one HDMI and one DisplayPort, providing Eyefinity compatibility right out the box without needing adaptors.
One of the things the pictures don't do full justice too is how solid this thing feels. This is definitely a well built piece of kit.
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Details of India's budget are being explored: The Financial Times looks at India's plan to set up a bank for women, while Bloomberg looks at the potential impact of a smartphone tax on Apple (AAPL) and other device makers. India's Sensex stock index gained 0.3%.
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Russia's manufacturing purchasing managers' index remained unchanged in February. Russia's Micex 10 stock index has dropped 0.3% so far today.
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Is Hugo Chavez dead? Many Venezuelans think so, forcing the government to issue denials.
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Barclays analysts credited the Chavez victory to the "combination of an empathy effect due to President Chavez's illness and a high level of voter abstention," which may have been driven on the opposition side by "frustration among its supporters after the defeat in the presidential election seems to have reduced considerably the opposition vote."
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As she embarks upon her eighth spring campaign as the head coach of Rice Women's Tennis, Elizabeth Schmidt will look to take the Owls to an unprecedented fourth consecutive C-USA championship as well as a fifth consecutive berth in the NCAA Championship.
Schmidt has posted a 114-60 (.655) mark in her first seven years and the Owls are only the third team in the 20-year history of Conference USA to win three consecutive titles. In addition, she has led four consecutive NCAA qualifiers into the round of 32, a first for any Rice tennis program as well as to four consecutive top 30 finishes.
Her 2015 Owls overcame another rugged early season schedule to rise back into the national top 30 heading into NCAA action in addition to putting a fitting cap on a spectacular opening year for the GRBTC by capturing the Owls first C-USA Women's Tennis title at home when they downed Marshall. He colleagues in the conference honored her for a third consecutive year with their coach of the year award, after she shared the honor in 2012. The 2015 season was capped by senior Natalie Beazant becoming an All-America for the second time in her career.
In 2014, the Owls face a rugged schedule that included defending NCAA champion Stanford, and emerged with a 9-7 mark against ranked teams, including a pair of wins over teams who were ranked in the top 20 at the time of the match. She led the Owls to a second straight finish in the top 20 of the ITA's final poll, ending the year ranked 23rd.
The 2014 season saw a pair of standouts, Dominique Harmath and Kimberly Anicete, who had anchored Schmidt's early recruiting efforts, complete their careers ranked in the Rice career top ten in dual singles wins. However, Schmidt addressed the loss of those two stalwarts by signing a pair of players (Lindsey Hodge and Savannah Durkin) who were ranked by Tennisrecruiting. Net as the 12th best class in the nation.
Schmidt's 2013 team Owls proved that their breakout 2012 season was no fluke, ending Tulsa's three-year reign as Conference USA Champions and earning the program's second automatic bid to the NCAA Tennis Championship. The Owls posted a 20-4 regular season mark, a career-best for Schmidt, including a 10-4 record against ranked opponents.
For her efforts, she was honored by league coaches as the 2013 C-USA Coach of the Year as well as being one of 12 coaches honored by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association as 2013 Wilson/ITA Regional Coaches of the Year. Schmidt earned the honor for the Texas Region and was one of 12 finalists for the Wilson/ITA National Women's Tennis Coach of the Year award.
Schmidt led the Owls to an 18-9 mark in 2012, earning Rice's first trip the NCAA Championship since 2006 with an at-large berth. The Owls earned their berth in part on reaching the C-USA title match for the first time in 20006 when the earned the league's automatic bid by winning the title.
The Owls then staged a pair of epic wins over two Top 20 programs (#18 Illinois & #16 Ole Miss) to earn a trip to Athens for the Sweet 16 in school history.
Schmidt's Owls have won 114 matches in her first seven seasons, including 44 wins in the last six years over nationally-ranked opposition and five in NCAA Championship competition. They have continued to excel as well in the classroom, consistently posting the best GPA in Conference USA.
in 2011, the Owls closed out the season with a 14-10 record while maintaining a national ranking through an entire season for the first time since 2008.
In 2010, Rice finished with a 14-9 record, which included wins over then #18 Arkansas at home and a thrilling, come-from-behind win on the road vs. then #27 VCU. The Owls finished with a total of six wins over ranked opponents, three at home and three on the road. Of their nine losses, eight came to ranked opponents and all but on came on the road.
Schmidt, who began her coaching career as an assistant at Rice from 2004-06, was named the program's third head coach on August 14, 2008.
In her first season as a head coach, Schmidt led the Owls to a 13-12 and reached the semifinals of the C-USA tournament after posting a pair of wins.
Schmidt returned to Rice, where she began her coaching career in 2006 as an assistant, after two seasons as an assistant at Notre Dame.
The Irish compiled a 50-13 record over the 2007 and 2008 seasons, including a program-best 28-4 mark and NCAA quarterfinal appearance in 2007. The Fighting Irish upended 13 Top-25 programs and ended the season with the No. 7 ranking. In 2008, the Fighting Irish went 22-9 and once again advanced to the NCAA Tournament and its recruiting class received a No. 3 ranking from TennisRecruiting.net.
Schmidt was instrumental in Rice's historic 2005-06 season, as the Owls reeled off three consecutive upsets to win the Conference USA tournament for the program's first-ever league championship. Rice became the first No. 7 seed ever to reach the title match of the C-USA tournament and knocked off top-seeded SMU, ending the Mustangs' 12-match winning streak. That earned Rice its first trip to the NCAA Championship since 1998, and the Owls finished 13-13 overall and ranked 66th in the nation (after peaking at 51st).
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Schmidt's first season at Rice saw the Owls go 16-9 - posting the most wins for Rice since 1997 - and crack the national top 30 before reaching the Western Athletic Conference tournament final for the first time ever and finishing ranked 51st.
Rice had several individual standouts during Schmidt's tenure - with four players earning all-conference accolades last season - but none more so than Blair DiSesa, who was the Conference USA Player of the Year and an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American in her final campaign, as well as the first Rice player since 1986 to earn an invitation to the NCAA Singles Championship. She was ranked as high as 31st in the nation.
Schmidt was a standout player at UCLA, earning All-America accolades in doubles in 1996-97 and finishing that season ranked 16th in the nation in partnered play and 38th in singles. She was a two-time participant in the NCAA Singles Championship and an all-Pac-10 selection in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
Schmidt helped the Bruins to a pair of second-place finishes in the Pac-10 - matching the best results in program history - and trips to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament in 1997 and 2000.
Three times a Pac-10 All-Academic honoree, she graduated with honors in 2000 with a degree in sociology. She was the 2000 women's recipient of the Pac-10 Postgraduate Scholarship, awarded annually to the league's top male and female student-athletes. Schmidt was twice honored with the ITA's Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award and won the regional Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award in 1999. She also completed her master's degree in public administration from the University of Houston in 2006.
Schmidt spent four years playing professionally, peaking at 137th in the WTA world doubles rankings (in 2003) and 380th in singles (in `02). She earned her only career title in the doubles draw of the ITF event in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2001, but also reached six other finals in doubles and advanced to the doubles semifinals a total of 23 times in her career. In 2003, she played in the doubles qualifying at The Championships Wimbledon.
Born Aug. 23, 1977, Schmidt is a native of Austin, Texas, and 1996 graduate of Westlake High School. She was a three-time state singles champion and a Prince All-American during her prep career, helping Westlake to the 1992 team state title. She compiled high school records of 120-6 in singles and 62-4 in doubles and was as high as seventh in doubles and 26th in singles in the USTA national rankings.
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When one team has 14 NHL Draft picks and its opponent has none, it should be relatively easy to figure out which team should have the advantage on game day.
Of course, hockey is a unique sport in which the most talented team doesn't always emerge victorious. That's why it would be a mistake to say Niagara is in over its head this afternoon when it plays vaunted North Dakota, which features two Hobey Baker Award finalists in Corban Knight and Danny Kristo.
A good-team defensive game, a red-hot goalie and timely scoring are all an underdog needs to pull off an upset over a talented foe in a one-game playoff. That's a formula for success in this sport that will never go out of style.
The Purple Eagles, who are making their fourth NCAA tourney appearance, do have a Hobey Baker finalist of their own and game changer in junior goalie Carsen Chubak. The Atlantic Hockey Player of the Year leads the nation in shutouts (six), ranks fourth in save percentage (.938) and eighth in goals-against average (1.91). He's shown the ability to steal games throughout the season and is itching at a chance to redeem himself on the national stage after last week's Atlantic Hockey semifinal loss in which he gave up a season-high five goals.
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North Dakota's top-scoring line of Kristo, Knight and freshman sensation Rocco Grimaldi has combined for 53 goals and 134 points. The trio is among the reasons UND boasts the nation's fifth-best offense (3.3 goals per game). Kristo leads in goals (25) and points (51) and is college hockey's active leader in goals (67) and points (160). Knight's 145 career points are sixth most among active players.
Grimaldi (13 goals, 35 points) may be only a freshman, but he's as dynamic a player as there is in the country. He's strong on the puck, creates lots of scoring chances and loves playing in big games. (He scored twice and earned player of the game honors for Team USA in its gold-medal game triumph over Canada in the world junior championships in Russia in January.)
The talent isn't only relegated to the front line as UND's starting defense features six NHL draft picks in Dillon Simpson (5-19-24), Joe Gleason, Derek Forbort, Nick Mattson, Jordan Schmaltz and Andrew MacWilliam. MacWilliam is a prototypical big-hitting, stay-at-home type, but the rest of them are great skaters, deft passers and gifted offensively. UND's defense corps' 97 points rank second nationally to Denver's 121. Niagara blue-liners rank 29th with 68 points.
UND's power play has slumped the past six games (2 for 22) but still clicks at a 20.5 percent rate, good for 15th in the country.
Chubak has received plenty of attention (and deservedly so), but as the top line of Giancarlo Iuorio, Marc Zanette and Ryan Murphy goes, so goes Niagara. The trio has combined for 98 points and 46 of Niagara's 115 total goals.
Iuorio has sizzled since his return from an upper body injury, recording nine goals and 14 points in eight games. He leads NU in goals (21) even though he missed 11 games, while trailing Murphy (36 points) for the team scoring lead by just two points.
The only good thing about Iuorio's absence was that Niagara found some secondary scoring with Patrick Divjak (8-14-22) and Chris Lochner (8-9-17) each recording 10 points over the 11-game stretch.
The Purple Eagles' defense yields 2.51 goals per game but sprang a leak in the conference semifinal loss to fellow NCAA-qualifier Canisius. Coach Dave Burkholder says the team's inability to transition from offense to defense and its failure to back-check or play with urgency vital for success played more of a role in the defensive lapses than the absence of senior captain and No. 1 defenseman Dan Weiss (lower body injury), who remains day-to-day/doubtful. He hasn't practiced since suffering the injury during the RIT playoff series. NU's defense needs to make tape-to-tape passes on the breakout. If it does that, Niagara has forwards who know how to play with the puck, which will be key against a starting defense that features five players 6-foot-1 and taller.
No. 7 North Dakota (21-12-7) is beatable but historically, Niagara hasn't fared well against Western Collegiate Hockey Association teams. It has an 0-4 mark versus UND, which plays in a conference which has six NCAA participants.
The Purple Eagles need to stay out of the penalty box against the nation's 15th best power-play unit (20.5 percent). They need to be thorough on back-checks and alert in their own zone. They need their secondary scorers to step up and their defense to chip into the offense by making crisp breakout passes from their own zone and creating rebound scrums in the offensive end that could lead to goals. Most importantly, they need Chubak, who recorded four of his shutouts over a five-game stretch in the fall and who was sensational in the quarterfinal series-clinching win over RIT, to save the day at Van Andel Arena.
If all of that happens, and that's a lot of ifs, No. 14 Niagara (23-9-5) has a chance to play in the regional final Saturday against Minnesota or Yale.


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So what happens when one young woman decides she wants to become more involved with her community?
A party evolves in this case a bar mitzvah for Clyde the Cougar at the College of Charleston.
Thats right a big shindig of a party on Saturday night with plenty of dancing, food, libations and this years entire basketball team and coaches, both mens and womens. The students are calling it Boogey for a Cause.
Talk about an invite list. And an organizational feat.
Junior Elaine Prigal is finding her life is consumed right now as she helps the student-run Jewish Student Union/Hillel get ready for the party. This has involved everything from a photo shoot of Clyde at KKBE to running down items for the silent auction.
It came about because we wanted to help with team spirit and school spirit and do something good at the same time, says Prigal.
They will be introducing the new mens and womens basketball coaches, plus the teams for this year. The proceeds will go to the nonprofit ORTs Alyn Hospital in Israel, which accepts disabled kids from all over the world regardless of religion or country of origin and gives them the care and resources to get on with their lives.
Prigal says she has visited the hospital several times with her family, and this seemed like a great way to get other Jewish students involved in a good cause. There are about 600 Jewish students at the College of Charleston, about 6 percent of the schools enrollment. The JSU was formed in the 1990s as a way to present more Jewish activities on campus.
Fast forward to this week, and Prigal is eating and sleeping the event, says Marsha Alterman, Jewish student life adviser.
Im not sure shes even going to class, Alterman said Monday. Shes texting me at all hours of the day and night with questions.
Of course, its hard to go wrong with a big, cuddly Cougar dancing the horah to Hava Nigalia. And, yes, they do plan to raise the mascot up in the chair, although he might have to have a big one to accommodate his large, furry seat.
Many of the basketball team members have probably not been to a bar mitzvah, says Alterman. They might not know what all is going to happen.
The event is taking place 8-11 p.m. Saturday at the TD Arena in the McAlister Suite. Prior to the event at 7:30 p.m., there will be a VIP cocktail gathering for the sponsors with coaches Doug Wojcik and Natasha Adair, former coaches Bobby Cremins and John Kresse, and of course Clyde.
Local businesses like Dining With Sal, Hymans Seafood and Pearlstine Distributors are providing the food and drink, and other King Street businesses have donated items for the silent auction.
And just like any other good bar mitzvah, this guest of honor will have a great big guest card for well-wishers to sign for good luck in the coming basketball season.
So far about 200-300 people are expected, and you can buy tickets online at go.cofc.edu/jsuhillelstore. Student tickets are $18 with the promotional code PAWS, adults are $54, and alumni are $25 with the promotional code alumyad. And, yes, you can buy tickets at the door.
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By Tim Wildmon
Kudos to "Newsweek" magazine for giving a cover story February 13, to a subject almost ignored by the mainstream media and that is the persecution going on around the world of those who practice the Christian faith. The cover reads: "The War on Christians," and the author is Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Inside the magazine, the article is headlined this way: "The rise of Christophobia: From one end of the Muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith."
The article goes into great detail with one horror story after another from around the globe. Despite the promotion of political correctness in the United States, it is becoming clear to most Americans who are paying attention that Islam in not a religion of peace. It is, in fact, a religion of war, violence, intolerance and the physical persecution of non Muslims. These atrocities are being committed against Christians because they are considered "infidels" and therefore it is a Muslim's duty to defeat, in any way necessary, the infidel.
"We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring's fight against tyranny," writes Ali. "But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway – an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm."
It is interesting to note that the writer, Ali, is an atheist.
If there ever was a contrast in worldviews it is with Christianity and Islam. One of the most striking differences is that Christianity teaches, practices and encourages charity. Islam does not. It is the Christians from America that are doing the majority of the private charity and humanitarian work around the world. Just this past week or so alone I was reminded of three examples of this.
The first example is two young ladies from Saltillo, sisters Heather and Haleigh Moore, who are currently running across the country, from Louisiana to California, to raise money to dig wells in Africa through World Vision. They are motivated by their belief that God wants them to care about other people in Africa even though they have never met them.
The second example as my colleague Buddy Smith, who along with wife Carol just returned from a week long trip to Ecuador in central America where they participated with Operation Christmas Child in distributing thousands of show boxes of supplies to the people that who have little or nothing and who are dependent of American missions organizations. Samaritan's Purse (Franklin Graham) has distributed over 94 million shoebox gifts since 1993 around the world. All in the name of Jesus Christ.
The third example was when I was at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville couple of weeks back when the president of Gospel for Asia came up to me to thank me for the $153,314 American Family Radio helped raise for them last fall. Monies which was applied to buy all kinds of basic human needs for the "untouchables" on India. AFA/AFR has been participating in this project with Gospel for Asia for several years. Why do we care about the outcast people of India? Because Jesus told us to in the Bible.
There is no such comparable work done around the world by Islamic groups or organization because the Koran does not teach such charity.
Religion, more than anything else, affects the values and morals of a culture, a society, a country.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – During ArtPrize 2012, Leslie Narsisian often would keep one eye on her watch and the other on the lookout for parking enforcement. Sometimes, she had to flee her falafel cart to feed coins into an on-street meter before she got ticketed.
Today, there's no such worry for Narsisian since there are no coins necessary for the meter where she parked on Ottawa Avenue NW, and there is no uncertainty about the amount of time left on the meter.
She has a receipt with a printed expiration time and a credit card ready to swipe when the minutes run low.
"I don't have to carry $10 worth of quarters," said Narsisian, who runs The Pita Pitstop near the Grand Rapids Art Museum. "I also don't have to remember what time. I'm going to have to come back (later this afternoon), but at least it's printed on a piece of paper. I don't have to look at my watch and figure it out.
"These new credit card parking machines are going to make my life a lot less stressful."
Grand Rapids has started a 90-day trial of two multi-space meters on Ottawa, between Monroe Center and Louis Street NW. The solar-powered devices enable motorists to pay for their parking with dollars, coins or credit cards and get a printed receipt with an expiration time.
Next month, the city will install similar devices on the north side of Monroe Center, on either side of Ottawa. The 22 individual parking meter heads will be capable of taking credit card payments in another 90-day test.
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The two new meters on Ottawa take payment for nine parking spaces on the west side of the street. Customers punch in the number of their parking space, select a certain amount of time based at $1.75 per hour, pay for the time and get a receipt.
The meters provide more data to the city's parking department and also can hold more money, so they need to be emptied less frequently. Also, taking credit cards and dollar bills should make parking more convenient for customers, parking officials said.
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Some customers using the new meters Wednesday, Sept. 18, found them convenient, though more time consuming than traditional meters.
"To just plug in $4 worth of quarters would have been faster," said Patrick Collins, a Chicago man who had some trouble inserting dollar bills into the machine.
Still, Collins, who's in town for ArtPrize, said the meters "guide you through it step by step" in a more intuitive way than similar meters he has used in Chicago. And he didn't have to have $4 of quarters.
Ryan Hayes, who was downtown with his grandparents to check out ArtPrize, had to swipe his credit card a few times before the machine read it.
"There's a couple more steps, but you get the receipt," said Hayes, whose wife has an ArtPrize entry at Bistro Bella Vita. "I guess it's a tradeoff."
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Holocaust symbol demo appals Israel
Yellow stars and camp stripes, but in the centre of Jerusalem
Fury swept Israel this week, after members of an extremist Charedi group donned yellow stars and mock outfits from Nazi death camps for a rally.
On Saturday night, when Charedim gathered in Jerusalem to protest against what they termed "incitement" against them, a small group of anti-Zionist extremists known as the Sikrikim - loosely related to Neturei Karta - invoked Holocaust symbolism.
They claimed that the public backlash against gender segregation in the public sphere was akin to the kind of repression against Jews and Judaism seen in Nazi Germany. One protester, speaking to Israeli television, said that a "spiritual holocaust" was under way.
Such sentiments prompted outrage. "It was like someone physically hit survivors," said Elazar Stern, chairman of the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel.
Mr Stern, the son of survivors, said that the use of the imagery was a publicity stunt of the "lowest moral level." He elaborated: "The Holocaust was a unique phenomenon and when you use it again and again you cheapen it."
Protest at gender issue rejected as 'spiritual holocaust'
Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev said that the use of the stars and uniforms "violates Holocaust survivors and degrades the memory of the Holocaust."
There has been condemnation throughout the Knesset of the Holocaust theme. Likud minister, Yossi Peled, claimed that it represented a "loss of sanity." Kadima leader, Tsipi Livni said: "There is no protest that can justify this." And Defence Minister Ehud Barak, leader of the Independence faction, released a statement calling it "shocking and appalling". He said that it "crosses a red line which the ultra-Orthodox leadership, who are largely responsible people, must not accept."
Some Charedi leaders have joined the criticism. Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, head of the Zaka rescue organisation and a well-known, Charedi public figure, told Israel Radio that the Sikrikim had "started a fire in their home and now it is burning out of control."
One politician has begun drafting legislation to prevent the use of Holocaust imagery in future. Yoel Hasson, a Knesset member from Kadima, is working on a bill that will impose a fine of almost £20,000 on anybody who uses yellow stars or Holocaust outfits for protest or political purposes.


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When I was in my late 20s and early 30s, much of my life revolved around fly-fishing for trout. Even though I worked a part-time job in addition to my regular job, I still managed to fish four or five times a week during the prime weeks of May and early June.
I also spent many hours at my fly-tying vise, tying flies by the dozen to ensure I always had the "right" pattern for any situation, and plenty of them. And on those occasions when I wasn't actually fly-fishing or tying flies, I was probably thinking about fly-fishing or tying flies.
To say I took fly-fishing quite seriously back then would be a decided understatement. I approached fly-fishing for trout almost as a religion. Not in the spiritual sense, of course, but rather as something practiced with much dedicated ritual and deep devotion.
Part of my zeal for fly-fishing during this period could be attributed to youthful enthusiasm and part to my having attained a fair measure of skill at fishing nymphs and other subsurface flies.
Nymph fishing easily produced more and bigger trout more consistently than any other method, and like most younger anglers, catching fish was mainly why I fished, so "how many" and "how big" played an important role in my overall fishing strategy. Even during a hatch, when trout were rising everywhere, I found I could hook many more fish on nymphs, so I was rarely tempted to fish a dry fly.
One thing that always baffled me back then were the "old guys" who would show up on the stream in early evening and simply sit on the stream bank while waiting for trout to start rising later on.
I understood that these anglers were, in fact, holding their preferred fishing spot in the pool, but I couldn't imagine being on the stream and not fishing, regardless if any fish were rising or not. Nevertheless, I honored angling protocol and wouldn't bother the water another fisherman had staked out for the evening.
Sometime during the decades that followed, I must have made the transition to "old guy" status, because one evening last week, I found myself sitting on a stream bank with my friend Shawn Bernecky, waiting for some trout to begin rising.
We had arrived at the stream around 6 p.m. and leisurely donned our waders and rigged our gear. The day had been brutally hot, so we surmised any insect activity that might provoke some surface feeding trout would probably occur very near dark.
Heading to the water, we were pleasantly surprised to see a few random rises at the tail of a long pool. Shawn and I separated and began casting dry flies in the hope of tempting a fish or two, but after nearly a half hour of fishing, neither of us had hooked a fish.
I had worked my way to the head of the pool and decided to fish the deep riffle there with a nymph. That change in strategy produced no better for me, so when I broke off my fly, I decided to join Shawn who was already relaxing on the stream bank.
By this time, we both were convinced any action we were likely to see would be in those last few minutes before dark, if at all. So we sat there, talking and enjoying the evening, until a few fish started feeding with just 10 or 15 minutes of daylight left.
When a nearby trout rose for the third time, Shawn stood up and said, "I'm going to catch that fish." And he did just that two or three casts later.
I quickly tied on a dry fly and moved downstream a few yards where I set up on several fish that were rising regularly. But somehow I managed to botch my first cast to them and badly tangle my leader in the process.
I knew there wasn't time to untangle the leader in the gathering darkness, so I clipped off the mess and retied my fly to what I had left. My confidence wasn't too high at that point, but I was pleasantly surprised to hook a trout on the second cast with that makeshift leader.
While Shawn and I continued to fish until darkness completely enveloped the river and the trout finally abandoned their feeding activity, each of us ended the evening with only a single fish for our efforts. But as we make our way back to the vehicle, I thought more about all the nights I have left a trout stream well after dark than how many fish this particular night produced.
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Israel will not host the Uefa Euro 2011 Under 21 Championships finals after being pipped to the post by Denmark.
Israel had been favourites to host the tournament as part of Uefa's policy of supporting emerging footballing nations. However, with Europe still expected to be in recession in 2011, the effects of the credit crunch persuaded the executive to select Denmark, which has larger stadiums, and being in the heart of Europe, will attract more fans, maximising revenue from ticket sales and advertising.
"The fact that we were chosen to compete with Denmark out of 14 countries who originally applied to host Euro 2011 was an achievement in itself," said Israel FA Chairman Avi Luzon. "But we must strive to improve our stadiums so that we will be chosen for future tournaments."
Despite missing out on the event, Israel will host the Uefa Congress in 2010.
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Three More Players Named to 2011 USA Walker Cup Team
Three more players have been added to the 10-member 2011 USA Walker Cup Team by the International Team Selection Committee of the United States Golf Association. The 2011 Walker Cup Match will be played September 10-11 at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club in Aberdeen, Scotland.
The players include:
Patrick Rodgers, 18, Avon, Ind.
Nathan Smith, 33, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Chris Williams, 20, Moscow, Idaho
Smith, a three-time U.S. Mid-Amateur champion (2003, '09 and '10), was a member of the victorious 2009 USA Walker Cup Team and went 2-0 in foursomes (alternate-shot) with partner Peter Uihlein. He also won the 2011 Sunnehanna Amateur.
Williams, who will be a junior at the University of Washington, qualified for this year's U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club. He also won the Sahalee Players Championship, the Pacific Coast Amateur (closing with rounds of 66-66) and was the 72-hole stroke-play medalist at the Western Amateur in early August, carding a 16-under total of 268 at North Shore Country Club in Glenview, Ill.
Rodgers will be an incoming freshman this fall at Stanford. He claimed the 2011 Porter Cup in a playoff and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Western Amateur after claiming the No. 2 seed in stroke-play qualifying behind Williams.
Previously, Patrick Cantlay, 19, Los Alamitos, Calif.; Harris English, 22, Thomasville, Ga.; Russell Henley, 22, Macon, Ga.; and Peter Uihlein, 21, Orlando, Fla., were named to the team that will compete against 10 amateurs representing Great Britain and Ireland. The remaining three USA players will be named later this month.
Of Williams' selection, UW coach Matt Thurmond said, ""About a year and a half ago I talked with Chris about working toward this Walker Cup. He sort of thought I was crazy, but here it is. No one can understand the immense energy and time Chris dedicates to his practice and training. Being selected to the Walker Cup, the pinnacle of amateur golf in America, is what happens when a talented person dedicates himself completely to being great.
"I'm so thrilled for him."
For more biographical information about the players, visit www.usga.org/news/2011/August/USA-Walker-Cup-Team-Bios/.
The captain of the USA Team is Jim Holtgrieve, 63, of St. Louis, Mo., who was a playing member of the 1979, 1981 and 1983 USA Teams, as well as the 1981 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion.
The biennial Walker Cup Match consists of 18 singles matches and eight foursomes (alternate-shot) matches over the competition's two days. The USA Team has won the last three Matches and leads the overall series, 34-7-1.
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The main difference between this 3rd fight and the second
JDS will not run from the takedown but look to punish with knees and uppercuts.. he knows that cain is not a top control lay and pray guy.. cain looks to punish. So Dos santos will not fear getting smoothered, he will look to finish since he can get back up even if cain does take him down.. i think cains boxing is slightly better than JDS but he has less finishing power so unless he can rock or gas JDS i think Dos Santos has a good shot at finishing Cain in the first 2gear rounds...
Rooting for Cain here but he cant just wrecklessly dive for takedowns this time around.. he is going to have top motch striking defense and creatively set his takedowns up...
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So you're saying Dos Santos would have feared a smothering by lay'n'pray wrestler, but because Cain is excellent at wrestling and control but ALSO puts a major beating while doing it, JDS has less reason to be afraid? :confused02:
However, in this context, I totally disagree. Cain is all about control. He never attacks unless his position is solid. Cain is one of the few guys who can mount a significant offence as well as blanket motherfukers.
Really, its testament to JDS abilities on the ground. Cain never managed to hold him down for too long. It was very impressive from Junior. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't stop being taken down over and over. If ever a fight deserved the "rinse & repeat" moniker, it was this fight.
I cant wait for this fight to be over with. If Cain wins I hope he finishes JDS because Im tired of thinking how lame it was he didnt finish him in the last fight when he was rocked for five rounds then told everyone months later " I was trying to punish him!!" .....yeah when you didnt hold the belt you were going to risk him landing a hard shot when he has already done it once before. Just so you can make a point.....Done with this.
If you believe JDS then he shouldnt gas this time but imo it was him being weary aswell from Cains offence.
JDS gassed against Roy, so it's pretty obvious he has gas problems.
But i believe he will avoid the takedown and punish Cain's head while he is on his knees.
That situation happened twice during the 1st of the 2nd fight and JDS just walked away.
This time around i think he will capitalize on the opening.
JDS tko rd1
Cain's style isn't really about holding his opponent down though, he will get to a dominant position and then strike, forcing his opponent to defend that, if the opponent wants to stand up, Cain doesn't do everything in his power to hold them there as he realises he can sap more energy by making them work to get up and then just slam them again.
If JDS has to get up from 10 completed TDs again then he's going to be tired no matter what. His arms will fill with lactic acid and he won't have the KO power that he needs to finish Cain.
You put it better. :hug:
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Mathis should "be forgiven if he's delivering the seasonal tidings with somewhat less joy than in the past. This is his sixth album of Christmas songs, which would be enough to tax anyone's goodwill. This effort mixes traditional and new holiday tunes. Among the older ones are The Christmas Waltz and Jingle Bells, while the recent compositions include Every Christmas Eve and Giving (Santa's Theme) from Santa Claus: The Movie. The arrangements—by Henry Mancini, Ray Ellis and Jeremy Lubbock—tend to big stringy orchestrations that are too much for intimacy and not passionate enough for majesty. (The background choral contributions are from the International Children's Choir and St. Michael's School in North Hollywood.) Mathis' singing is characteristically smooth, yet never very engaged. (Columbia)
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Another face sit for all you who love these! Seem to be in high demand my arse as i've had loads of offers from you to be in my next face sit video. Only the people who have got me gifts will be considered though. This one is a few all in one, make sure you do it though. To all my slaves, if i make a cd with videos and pictures on and put on e bay how many of you would buy it? Message me or comment to this vid to let me know. Any other tasks that you slaves want? Instead of me controlling your breath all the time. Let me know any ideas. X
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