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Vaccination of persons at risk for complications from influenza and
pneumococcal disease is a key public health strategy in preventing morbidity
and mortality in the United States. During the 1990-1999 influenza seasons,
approximately 36,000 deaths were attributed annually to influenza infection,
with approximately 90% of deaths occurring among adults aged ≥65 years.1 In 1998, an estimated 3,400 adults aged ≥65 years died as a result
of invasive pneumococcal disease.2 One of the national health objectives
for 2010 is to achieve 90% coverage of noninstitutionalized adults aged ≥65
years for both influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations (objective no. 14.29).3 In 2000, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) broadened
the universal recommendations for influenza vaccination to include adults
aged 50-64 years in addition to adults aged ≥65 years. To assess progress
toward achieving the 2010 national health objective and implementing the ACIP
recommendations, CDC analyzed data from the 2002 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS). This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which
indicate that influenza and pneumococcal vaccination levels among adults aged ≥65
years and influenza vaccination levels among adults aged 50-64 years varied
widely among states/areas and racial/ethnic populations. Innovative approaches
are needed to increase vaccination coverage, particularly among certain populations.
BRFSS is a state-based, random-digit–dialed telephone survey of
the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population aged ≥18 years. All
50 states, the District of Columbia (DC), and three U.S. territories participate
in the survey. Respondents were asked, "During the past 12 months, have you
had a flu shot?" and "Have you ever had a pneumonia vaccine?" For the 2002
BRFSS, the median state/area response rate was found to be 58.3% (range: 42.2%-82.6%)
by using the CASRO method.4 A total of 247,964 persons responded,
of whom 59,954 (24.1%) were aged 50-64 years, and 51,082 (20.6%) were aged
≥65 years. Respondents who reported unknown influenza (0.2%) or pneumococcal
(2.7%) vaccination status were excluded from the analysis. Overall vaccination
levels were estimated for the 50 states, DC, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S.
Virgin Islands (USVI). Data were weighted by age, sex, and, in certain states/areas,
race/ethnicity to reflect the estimated adult population. SUDAAN was used
to calculate point estimates and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Multivariable
logistic regression analysis was used to assess factors associated independently
with receiving vaccination.
In 2002, of respondents aged ≥65 years, 66.4% (95% CI = 65.6%-67.1%)
reported having received influenza vaccine during the preceding 12 months.
Vaccination coverage levels ranged from 32.2% (USVI) to 76.6% (Minnesota),
with a median of 68.4%. Among respondents aged 50-64 years, 36.4% (95% CI
= 35.7%-37.1%) reported having received influenza vaccine during the preceding
12 months. Vaccination coverage levels in this age group ranged from 15.9%
(Puerto Rico) to 49.0% (South Dakota), with a median of 38.4%. The proportion
of respondents aged ≥65 years reporting ever having received pneumococcal
vaccine was 61.8% (95% CI = 61.0%-62.6%). Vaccination coverage levels ranged
from 25.1% (Puerto Rico) to 72.5% (North Dakota), with a median of 63.0%.
Substantial variation in vaccination coverage by race/ethnicity was
observed. For respondents aged ≥65 years, the estimated proportions of
influenza and pneumococcal vaccination for non-Hispanic whites (69.0% and
64.8%, respectively) were more than those for non-Hispanic blacks (50.6% and
44.5%, respectively) and Hispanics (54.8% and 44.4%, respectively). Similar
patterns were observed for influenza vaccination among adults aged 50-64 years:
37.9% for non-Hispanic whites, 29.8% for non-Hispanic blacks, and 29.7% for
Hispanics. These differences were not explained by variations in education
level, sex, self-reported health, diabetes status, asthma history, and regular
source of health care. Other factors associated independently with higher
receipt of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination included having a regular
source of health care, having diabetes or asthma, having less than excellent/very
good self-reported health, and having an education level higher than high
PM Wortley, MD, Immunization Svcs Div, National Immunization Program;
N Jain, MD, EIS Officer, CDC.
The findings in this report indicate wide variability in influenza and
pneumococcal vaccination coverage across states/areas and marked differences
in vaccination coverage by race/ethnicity. Influenza vaccination coverage
levels among adults aged 50-64 years were <50% in all reporting areas,
substantially lower than levels among adults aged ≥65 years. In addition,
both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination levels among adults aged ≥65
years were substantially below the 2010 national health objective of 90% coverage.
Estimates of influenza vaccination coverage among adults aged 50-64
years were low despite the revised ACIP recommendations in 2000. The universal
recommendations were broadened to address the prevalence of high-risk medical
conditions in adults aged 50-64 years, of whom approximately 29% have one
or more chronic medical condition. Age-based strategies for vaccination have
been implemented more successfully than patient-selection strategies based
on medical conditions.1 Efforts are needed to increase awareness
of the revised recommendations among health-care providers and the general
public. Information regarding the adult immunization schedule is available
at http://www.cdc.gov/nip.
Factors predictive of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination were similar,
and having a source for regular health care was the factor most associated
with receiving either vaccination. After adjustments were made for known potential
confounding factors measured by BRFSS (i.e., education level but not direct
measures of access to care, which were not available), non-Hispanic whites
remained more likely to be vaccinated than non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics.
Strategies for addressing these disparities are being assessed by the Racial
and Ethnic Adult Disparities Immunization Initiative (READII) through a 2-year
demonstration project.5
Vaccine production for the 2003-04 influenza season is proceeding on
schedule, and projected production and distribution schedules will allow for
a sufficient supply of influenza vaccine during October-November. Influenza
vaccination may proceed for all persons at high risk and healthy persons,
individually and through mass campaigns, as soon as vaccine is available and
should continue until supplies are depleted. Pneumococcal vaccine should be
offered all year to adults aged ≥65 years and other persons at high risk.
The findings in this report are subject to at least three limitations.
First, influenza and pneumococcal vaccination status was based on self-report
and not validated. The validity of self-reported pneumococcal vaccination
is lower than that of influenza vaccination.6 Second, the median
BRFSS response rate (58.3%) in this survey was low. BRFSS results have been
compared with results from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a
household-based, face-to-face interview survey with higher response rates.
Comparisons show similar trends and subgroup differences; however, BRFSS vaccination
estimates are consistently higher than NHIS estimates.7 Finally,
because the survey is conducted during a 12-month period, questions regarding
receipt of influenza vaccination do not reflect a single influenza season.
The variation in influenza and pneumococcal vaccination coverage observed
among states/areas suggests that opportunities exist to improve vaccination
coverage. Although systems-based approaches (e.g., standing orders) have been
effective in increasing vaccination coverage levels, these strategies are
not implemented widely.8,9 To increase vaccination coverage levels,
states/areas should promote these and other evidence-based strategies. Low
provider reimbursement might be a barrier to vaccination; however, in 2003,
Medicare increased its payment rates by 94% for administering influenza and
pneumococcal vaccine.10 Influenza vaccination coverage among adults
aged ≥65 years has leveled since 1997,7 and unless substantial
efforts and innovative approaches are undertaken in collaboration with public,
private, and community partners, the 2010 national health objective might
not be achieved.
This report is based on data contributed by state BRFSS coordinators.
References: 10 available
Public Health and Aging: Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Adults Aged ≥50 Years and Pneumococcal Vaccination Coverage Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years—United States, 2002. JAMA. 2003;290(20):2656-2657. doi:10.1001/jama.290.20.2656
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My daughter was asked to give a little talk on Sunday. Her assigned topic was "the birth of Jesus, and the second coming." Strange combo for a four year old. My wife came up with a great strategy for helping with these talks. [Read more…]
My daughter's Christmas talk (or, how to help a 4-year-old speak in Primary)
I see you
"Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion." (Mosiah 12.22)
My son is almost two years old. We play a game when I'm getting him dressed to keep him from trying to roll away. I take my time as I pull his shirt over his head, leaving his eyes covered, asking "Where's Dorian?" He's surprisingly patient with this game. Eventually, as his turtle head emerges, his eyes invariably lock onto mine like magnets and he laughs. He's found again.
It's a common phenomenon—little children seem to believe they can't be seen when their own eyes are covered. Psychologists have explained this as egocentrism. A child can't yet view the world through any other perspective than their own. If they can't see, nobody can. This is how I've thought of Dorian's game until this morning. [Read more…]
Catharsis and empathy in David Bazan's "Dark Sacred Night"
At first glance, David Bazan might seem as unlikely an artist to release a Christmas album as Neil Diamond, not least of all because neither are Christian. Religion seems to have played a very small role—if at all—in Diamond's career, whereas Christianity has been a central theme in Bazan's discography from his Pedro the Lion days to his present solo work. But Bazan "broke up" with Christianity in 2009 when he released his album "Curse Your Branches." Why a holiday album now? [Read more…]
Book Review: Peter Enns, The Sin of Certainty
The Sin of Certainty is a confessional book about how biblical scholar Peter Enns came to understand "belief" and "faith" less in terms of facts and knowledge, and more in terms of trust and love. Many Christians, Enns says, place being "correct" about God at the center of faith, which sets them on a shaky foundation that sometimes results in crisis and loss of that very belief. Enns speaks from personal experience here. He's encountered what he calls "uh-oh moments," times when what he thought he knew no longer seemed viable in the least. Such moments may be God's way of inviting us to a more nuanced, closer relationship, breaking down the barriers of certainty in order to let faith flourish within our messy human lives:
"I feel it is part of the mystery of faith that things normally do not line up entirely, and so when they don't, it is not a signal to me that the journey is at an end but that I am still on it" (154). [Read more…]
A few more white guys talking about Black Lives Matter
The Deseret News just published a column by Ralph Hancock, a Harvard-trained BYU professor of political science. Hancock suggests black people in America would be better off if they could learn to see the world through his white male eyes. "Black stories matter," the headline says, and the substance of the piece is that the biggest problems facing black people are ultimately their own fault, or at least the solution to their problems are chiefly in their hands. [Read more…]
For the church in Russia, sustaining doesn't mean agreeing
My wife served in the Russia, St. Petersburg mission. Her body left Russia but her heart stayed there. We had the chance to visit a few years ago and it was an amazing trip. Without her connection to Russia through the church I'm sure I never would have visited, and I never would have experienced the heft of that incredible country.
Now our missionaries in Russia are facing new restrictions due to a new anti-terrorism law Vladimir Putin recently signed. From the Deseret News:
"The law creates a broad definition for missionary work, and will restrict any such activity if it is not undertaken by individuals who are affiliated with registered organizations. Additionally, the locations where such work can unfold would be restricted to houses of worship and other related religious sites, critics claim."
Impaled on history like a butterfly
Another black man in America was shot and killed by police yesterday. I involuntarily witnessed the slaying just before turning off the bedside lamp last night because it showed up in my Twitter feed, a video already playing, and I knew how it would end but couldn't stop watching and couldn't sleep and felt sick and felt angry. I personally know too few people of color intimately enough to reach out to them directly for solace. And really, it would be pretty unfair of me to do that anyway. So I go to James Baldwin, an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who was an incredible and thoughtful writer, and who died in the eighties.
So I chose his 1965 piece, "The White Man's Guilt." [Read more…]
None of us with perfect knowledge, or all of us with love
From the Church's new Doctrinal Mastery materials on "Acquiring Spiritual Knowledge":
Invite a student to read aloud the following account shared by Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Ask the class to listen for how a young woman acted in faith when faced with a challenging situation:
"Recently, I spoke with a Laurel from the United States. I quote from her email:
"'This past year some of my friends on Facebook began posting their position on marriage. Many favored same-sex marriage, and several LDS youth indicated they "liked" the postings. I made no comment.
"'I decided to declare my belief in traditional marriage in a thoughtful way.
"'With my profile picture, I added the caption "I believe in marriage between a man and a woman." Almost instantly I started receiving messages. "You are selfish." "You are judgmental." One compared me to a slave owner. And I received this post from a great friend who is a strong member of the Church: "You need to catch up with the times. Things are changing and so should you."
"'I did not fight back,' she said, 'but I did not take my statement down.'
"She concludes: 'Sometimes, as President Monson said, "You have to stand alone."
* * *
A different version of her experience might read something like this: [Read more…]
Joseph Smith's First [re]Vision and how historians think about the stories people tell
"That quilt shows all the different versions of Joseph Smith's First Vision."
I was caught flat-footed, a fifteen year old kid alone in a homely bookstore at the edge of Nauvoo, Illinois. She was a sweet grandmotherly type dripping with pity. If I doubted it before, it was now clear I wasn't in an LDS bookstore despite the temples and angel Moronis gracing book covers all around. I stood in front of a nine-squared quilt hanging on the wall, each square depicting familiar but odd scenes. I understood the shopkeeper's message loud and clear: Surprise! Joseph Smith made it all up.
I was surprised. My heartbeat quickened—it was my first encounter with an "anti-Mormon" in the flesh. I was a lifelong member of the LDS Church—a teacher's quorum president for Pete's sake! I'd read Joseph's account of the First Vision countless times. I'd seen the film showing barefoot glowing Father and Son floating above the boy from Where the Red Fern Grows. Multiple versions? I knew what she was saying couldn't be true. [Read more…]
Send a note of thanks to Richard Bushman
I started my first podcast from scratch six years ago after cajoling FAIR—now FairMormon—into sponsoring it (meaning they paid for the webhosting and the show carried their name). I started from scratch and I was thrilled when Richard Bushman agreed to be on that unknown show. He appeared in episodes 3 and 4. You can tell from the sound quality, if not from my nascent interview skills, what sort of popsicle stand I was operating at the time, but Richard's candor, gentleness, and intelligence is evident throughout. He played a pretty substantial part in my then-growing interest in history. I owe a lot to him, and I'm glad I've been in a position to let him know that.
Chances are, many BCC readers have been impacted by Richard's work, perhaps Rough Stone Rolling most of all, but also in many lesser known ways. Now's your chance to express your gratitude. [Read more…]
Chalk circles and honor
Karl G. Maeser was a pretty cool German. He was a Latter-day Saint convert, a key figure in establishing what became Brigham Young University. He believed in the importance of education and refused to disconnect it from moral formation. I think he was right about that. There's an old story about Maeser that used to inspire me:
"I have been asked what I mean by 'word of honor.' I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls–walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground–there is a possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!"
The underlying principle here is laudable. Our word of honor should mean something. We shouldn't give it flippantly. We should do the utmost to keep it. Trust is a key ingredient in human relationships.
So far so good. But the story can also be seen as absurd—even potentially insidious—if taken the wrong way. [Read more…]
David Foster Wallace's gospel according to Adam Miller
[The conclusion of my Adam Miller 2-part post extravaganza. Here's part 1.]
I was surprised to meet the same epistlatory voice Miller used in Letters to a Young Mormon in his latest book, The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace. The books are very similar and very different. Both are made up of a series of short, topic-focused chapters written in a friendly style. But rather than excavating Mormon scripture and thought as in Letters, he's identifying a "gospel" within the writings of David Foster Wallace, author of one of the best novels of our time, Infinite Jest.
Those who are familiar with Miller's theology (and perhaps Latour's too, as I outlined in a previous post) will understand why he's comfortable using the word "gospel" in his Wallace book when there isn't a trace of Jesus—except maybe for that one typo where he calls DFW's character Chris Fogle "Christ Fogle" (page 79; just squeezing Adam's shoes here). [Read more…]
What's Adam Miller up to in Letters to a Young Mormon?
Letters to a Young Mormon came out in 2013. It kicked off the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship's Living Faith book series. I was the greenie at BYU's Institute and it was thrilling to work on such an engaging and unique manuscript. We've published three more Living Faith books since then (I edit the series) and Miller kept on writing, too. His latest book is called The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction. It's a nice foil to Letters, so I'll risk spoiling some of the magic by dissecting it a bit here.
The best way to prove people who leave the Church wrong
I get a message every other month or so from a friend or relative who knows someone who isn't merely struggling with their faith but who has announced they're past that point. They are leaving the church. Their exit narratives, like our monthly testimony meetings, often follow a similar formula including a list of problems they've discovered in church history, belief, or practice.
I got another message today. Chances are good you've received one at some point, too. [Read more…]
I try to be politically correct. And I'm Mormon.
Or, how to stick up for political correctness when it gets ridiculed at church.
A few weeks ago in Sunday school I was chided for suggesting that Christopher Columbus didn't merit our unalloyed appreciation. I did it with as much diplomacy as I could muster, making sure to emphasize everyone was entitled to their own opinion. My observation was dismissed as the product of too much "political correctness" in the world. It wasn't the first time I'd heard "PC" being spoken of disparagingly at church—even some general authorities have spoken of it as something to be lamented if not rejected. But it was the first time my own observation directly provoked the disparagement. And it felt terrible. In the current political climate of the United States we're seeing compelling evidence that dismissing the idea of political correctness wholesale is a huge mistake. [Read more…]
Seeing eye to eye in Sunday school
The following activity verse could be used to teach children to be thankful for God's creations. It is taken from the Primary song "The World Is So Big":
The world is so big and, oh, so round,
[form a large circle with arms]
And in it God's creations are found;
Stars shining brightly through all the night,
[straighten and wiggle fingers]
Sun in the day so warm and so bright.
[form a large circle with arms]
The world is so big and, oh, so round.
God loves us all; our blessings abound.
[grasp arms and hug self]
(From Teaching, No Greater Call, Part F: Methods of Teaching.)
I'll get around to why I opened this post with an excerpt from the church's teaching handbook, but first I should explain that I was going to open with a simple declaration:
Teaching Adult Sunday school is a very difficult church calling. [Read more…]
Book Note: The Name of God is Mercy, by Pope Francis
The Catholic church is currently celebrating a Holy Year of Mercy, a time designated by the Pope to focus the church more closely on what he considers to be God's most important attribute and "the core of the Gospel message" (7). The Name of God is Mercy is an interview between Pope Francis and a Vatican reporter. It's conversational and not overly polished, with a few striking moments of candor.
For example, the interview begins with the Pope describing the process of inspiration that led to his Holy Year declaration: [Read more…]
Tips for Teachers: Pinch hitting with scripture highlights
It seems like too many times this year I've sat in a class (Elder's Quorum invariably) where the teacher confesses complete lack of preparation. It's a deflating experience. I look forward to reading some of yours in the comments!
Similar to the unprepared teacher is the absent one. I've had to pinch hit a few times this year. Luckily I'm a gospel doctrine instructor and so I've used already-prepared lesson plans. This is better than the usual go-to solution: reading straight from the manual and asking the class to share "personal experiences." "Does anyone have anything to add to that? No? OK, moving to the next paragraph."
But let's say you're supposed to pinch hit and you don't have old lesson materials you can reuse. What do you do? What have you seen done?
Here's one possibility: [Read more…]
Tips for Teachers—New Testament lesson 39: "For the Perfecting of the Saints"
Lesson 39 covers Paul's epistle to the Ephesians—although it may not have been written by Paul, might not have been an epistle, and likely wasn't originally for the Ephesians! One of this book's overall themes, however, reflects something that comes up in many of Paul's writings: the desire to unite a diverse group of people into a body of Christians. Truths don't seem to hinge on authorship here. It also has a rousing section on grace which segued nicely with one of President Uchtdorf's recent conference addresses.
Much of my lesson focused on that perennial Pauline problem of promoting unity in diversity (you can see my entire lesson outline here). This post focuses on lesson 39 but really serves to provide three tips to help teachers hone their craft for youth and adult Sunday school classes. (More of my tips for teachers are linked here.) [Read more…]
Sins of immorality and misshapen creatures
Part 9 of my series, "Intellectual disability in Mormon thought…"
See also parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Next week is Disability Awareness Week at BYU, so I thought it would be nice to write a post on the subject. A few weeks ago I was asked to substitute teach for elder's quorum (I usually teach Sunday school). The lesson happened to be chapter 17 of the President Benson manual, "Keeping the Law of Chastity." While reading over the lesson I found a few good quotes to build the discussion around.1 While preparing the lesson I came across a certain manual balrog.
"Manual balrogs" are excerpts that seem troubling, confusing, or otherwise inappropriate for your particular class. The manuals instruct teachers to "prayerfully select…teachings that you feel will be most helpful to those you teach," and this particular quote was not selected for inclusion in my lesson:
"Purity is life-giving; impurity is deadly. God's holy laws cannot be broken with impunity. Great nations have fallen when they became morally corrupt, because the sins of immorality left their people scarred and misshapen creatures who were unable to face the challenge of their times."
Expanding on President Nelson's plea to sisters #ldsconf
President Russell M. Nelson's talk began with some personal reflections on the loss of his dear friends and fellow quorum members over the past year but soon turned to focus on the wives of two of them: Donna Smith Packer and Barbara Dayton Perry. This made me realize again how little I know about these women and how much more I'd like to know. President Nelson held them forth as exemplars of the powerful influence that strong and courageous women can have "not only on families, but on the Lord's Church, as wives, mothers, and grandmothers; as sisters and aunts; as teachers and leaders; and especially as exemplars and devout defenders of the faith." While much could be said about this engaging talk, I'd like to focus on the last point about women as "exemplars and devout defenders of the faith." [Read more…]
LDS.org updated the "Race and the Priesthood" gospel topic essay, and it's still pretty great
It's incredibly easy these days to update online content. It's also relatively easy to compare updated content to older content, especially with the help of that magical "Way Back Machine."1 (Check out lds.org in its original "Under Construction" phase, and its first full iteration. Pretty nifty but it needs more animated gifs.) When I was told the "Race and the Priesthood" essay on the Church's excellent Gospel Topics section of the website was updated it only took a few minutes to make a comparison using that website and Microsoft Word. But before I continue let me say if you haven't read the essay already, I urge you to read the whole thing rather than focusing on the parts that were updated merely to verify if they comport with your political, religious, or cultural sensibilities. Even if you have already read it, you might read it in full again because we could all use a refresher. So go here first: lds.org/topics/race-and-the-priesthood.
I'll wait for you, continuing when you get back. [Read more…]
We're in the LAST DAYS (just like we've always been)
Around the age of thirteen I became deeply interested in the Millennium. When I was in the seventh grade I hung a picture of the second coming in my room. It showed Jesus descending to (what now looks like) the deserts of southern Utah, flanked on the right and left by angels with long trumpets. Truth be told, I was actually more interested in the "signs of the times" than in the peace Jesus's millennial reign would inaugurate. The most vivid sign of all, for me, was that the moon would turn red with blood. Without recognizing it at the time, I was especially thrilled with the idea that some sort of complete upheaval was on the way, that "the world" and "the wicked" (usually synonymous) would get their just desserts while good church members like me would miraculously escape harm. [Read more…]
Joseph's rough stone rolls on
Something pretty incredible occurred this week for lovers of the Book of Mormon. People will be talking about it for a long while yet. For the first time ever, the Church made available full color photographs of the entire printer's manuscript (except for three lines which have been missing from the manuscript for a very long time). Of course, everyone's talking about two pages out of the two-part volume's apx. 976 pages: photographic images of the chocolate-colored stone Joseph is reported to have used for much of the Book of Mormon translation. (See Richard Bushman's reaction here.)
During the press conference, Assistant Church Historian and Recorder Richard Turley briefly discussed the decision to publish the photographs: [Read more…]
Overlooked "Gospel Topics" topic: "Gospel Learning"
While I was looking at the Gospel Topics Essays a while back I noticed a link that says "Seek learning, even by study and also by faith, which led me to a short Gospel Topic called "Gospel Learning." This Topic seems geared to help contextualize the Gospel Topics Essays for people who are unsettled by them. (See here for the difference between Gospel Topics Essays and Gospel Topics.) As usual, this Topic is unsigned, but at least part of it (the airplane analogy) borrows from Elder Marcus B. Nash's 2012 General Conference address.
How to (currently) find the Gospel Topics Essays (and Topics!)
A lot of digital ink gets spilled on recent Gospel Topics essays about race, polygamy, the First Vision, Mormon scripture, etc. The Gospel Topics page itself is occasionally updated without public announcement. News of the more sensational pieces spreads via back-channel whispers followed by blog post and Facebook discussions and perhaps a Peggy Fletcher-Stack article or two. Some people have been frustrated that many church members are likely unaware of the Gospel Topics because they haven't been highlighted in General Conference or in letters to local leadership. Newer church curriculum materials call direct attention to the essays, though. At the same time, they aren't featured obviously on the home page of lds.org, but you can find them currently in the menu options under "Scriptures and Study>Learn More":
Seasons of my imprecise, ambiguous, unfinished faith (a prayer)
The last few months of my mission changed my relationship to God in a very unexpected way. That's when it seemed to me God decided to go home early while I finished my full two years. I noticed God's absence most during personal prayer. What formerly seemed like a welcome opportunity to express gratitude and ask for assistance, or like an intimate confession or reunion, became to me like speaking alone to a bare ceiling.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…
Elder Nielson and the dawn of the prodigal #ldsconf
Elder Brent H. Nielson spoke about something I've been thinking a lot about lately: interacting with people who no longer associate with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Mormonism burrows deep. Its roots spread throughout our soul's soil. Disaffiliation can lead to heartache, anger, confusion, or shock for those who remain in communion with the Church as well as for those who don't. Pulling up roots is disruptive and messy. [Read more…]
A few confessions to people who've left the church
I have friends and family members who have left the church. A few actively removed their names from church records. Most of them simply slipped into "inactivity" and some even still consider themselves Mormons. I have some confessions to make about my various relationships with them. [Read more…]
When the Mormons met Darwin's Origin of the Species
Are science and religion mutually combative foes? The question's not a new one, nor is it necessarily more pressing today than it's been in the past. The turn of the twentieth century marked another period of intense cultural shifts, not least of all regarding widespread views about the relationship between the natural sciences and religion. [Read more…]


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Texas Homeowner Told to Remove Pro-Police American Flag From House
One man showing support for the police has caused quite a stir in his Texas neighborhood.
One man showing support for the police has caused quite a stir in his Texas neighborhood.
The start of the 2016 Hotter'N Hell Hundred in Wichita Falls, Texas featured a pretty rad flyover by a Texas Highway Patrol helicopter.
This kid's dream is to be a cop one day. His mom, who is currently deployed, helped him live a little part of that dream with a ride from the Plano police on his first day of school.
A San Antonio police officer has been suspended for ordering something to eat at Whataburger instead of helping his fellow officers.
Law enforcement agencies and citizens will gather Saturday to honor fallen Dallas PD officers
No child should be forced to take this kind of action.
A 73-year-old woman in Punta Gorda, Fla. is dead after she was accidentally shot Tuesday during police training.
Mary Knowlton was acting as a victim in a "shoot-don't shoot" exercise when an officer accidentally fired off live bullets instead of blanks...
You wouldn't think a police officer would make such a big mistake when it comes to doughnuts.


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Mouliere F.,French National Center for Scientific Research |
Gongora C.,French Institute of Health and Medical Research |
Ollier J.,French National Center for Scientific Research |
And 4 more authors.
Nucleic Acids Research | Year: 2010
Although circulating DNA (ctDNA) could be an attractive tool for early cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring or prediction of response to therapies, knowledge on its origin, form and rate of release is poor and often contradictory. Here, we describe an experimental system to systematically examine these aspects. Nude mice were xenografted with human HT29 or SW620 colorectal carcinoma (CRC) cells and ctDNA was analyzed by Q-PCR with highly specific and sensitive primer sets at different times post-graft. We could discriminate ctDNA from normal (murine) cells and from mutated and non-mutated tumor (human) cells by using species-specific KRAS or PSAT1 primers and by assessing the presence of the BRAF V600E mutation. The concentration of human (mutated and nonmutated) ctDNA increased significantly with tumor growth. Conversely, and differently from previous studies, low, constant level of mouse ctDNA was observed, thus facilitating the study of mutated and non-mutated tumor derived ctDNA. Finally, analysis of ctDNA fragmentation confirmed the predominance of low-size fragments among tumor ctDNA from mice with bigger tumors. Higher ctDNA fragmentation was also observed in plasma samples from three metastatic CRC patients in comparison to healthy individuals. Our data confirm the predominance of mononucleosomederived fragments in plasma from xenografted animals and, as a consequence, of apoptosis as a source of ctDNA, in particular for tumor-derived ctDNA. Altogether, our results suggest that ctDNA features vary during CRC tumor development and our experimental system might be a useful tool to follow such variations. © The Author(s) 2010. Published by Oxford University Press. Source
Unraveling cell type-specific and reprogrammable human replication origin signatures associated with G-quadruplex consensus motifs
Besnard E.,Functional Genomics Institute |
Besnard E.,Gladstone |
Babled A.,Functional Genomics Institute |
Lapasset L.,Functional Genomics Institute |
And 6 more authors.
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology | Year: 2012
DNA replication is highly regulated, ensuring faithful inheritance of genetic information through each cell cycle. In metazoans, this process is initiated at many thousands of DNA replication origins whose cell type-specific distribution and usage are poorly understood. We exhaustively mapped the genome-wide location of replication origins in human cells using deep sequencing of short nascent strands and identified ten times more origin positions than we expected; most of these positions were conserved in four different human cell lines. Furthermore, we identified a consensus G-quadruplex-forming DNA motif that can predict the position of DNA replication origins in human cells, accounting for their distribution, usage efficiency and timing. Finally, we discovered a cell type-specific reprogrammable signature of cell identity that was revealed by specific efficiencies of conserved origin positions and not by the selection of cell type-specific subsets of origins. © 2012 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved. Source
Arsic N.,French National Center for Scientific Research |
Arsic N.,Montpellier University |
Bendris N.,French National Center for Scientific Research |
Bendris N.,Montpellier University |
And 11 more authors.
Journal of Cell Biology | Year: 2012
Cyclin A2 plays a key role in cell cycle regulation. It is essential in embryonic cells and in the hematopoietic lineage yet dispensable in fibroblasts. In this paper, we demonstrate that Cyclin A2-depleted cells display a cortical distribution of actin filaments and increased migration. These defects are rescued by restoration of wild-type Cyclin A2, which directly interacts with RhoA, or by a Cyclin A2 mutant unable to associate with Cdk. In vitro, Cyclin A2 potentiates the exchange activity of a RhoA-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor. Consistent with this, Cyclin A2 depletion enhances migration of fibroblasts and invasiveness of transformed cells via down-regulation of RhoA activity. Moreover, Cyclin A2 expression is lower in metastases relative to primary colon adenocarcinoma in matched human tumors. All together, these data show that Cyclin A2 negatively controls cell motility by promoting RhoA activation, thus demonstrating a novel Cyclin A2 function in cytoskeletal rearrangements and cell migration. © 2012 Arsic et al. Source
P53 and p16INK4A independent induction of senescence by chromatin-dependent alteration of S-phase progression
Prieur A.,French Institute of Health and Medical Research |
Besnard E.,French Institute of Health and Medical Research |
Babled A.,French Institute of Health and Medical Research |
Lemaitre J.-M.,French Institute of Health and Medical Research |
Lemaitre J.-M.,Center Regional Of Lutte Contre Le Cancer Val Daurelle Paul Lamarque
Nature Communications | Year: 2011
Senescence is triggered by various cellular stresses that result in genomic lesions and DNA damage response activation. However, the role of chromatin and DNA replication in senescence induction remains elusive. Here we show that downregulation of p300 histone acetyltransferase activity induces senescence by a mechanism that is independent of the activation of p53, p21 CIP1 and p16INK4A . This inhibition leads to a global H3, H4 hypoacetylation, initiating senescence-associated heterochromatic foci formation during S phase, together with a global decrease in replication fork velocity, and alteration of DNA replication timing. This replicative stress occurs without DNA damage and checkpoint activation, but results in a robust G2/M cell cycle arrest, within only one cell cycle. These results provide new insights into the control of S-phase progression by p300, and identify an unexpected chromatin-dependent alternative mechanism for senescence induction, which could possibly be exploited to treat cancer by senescence induction without generating further DNA damage. © 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Source
Circulating cell-free DNA from colorectal cancer patients may reveal high KRAS or BRAF mutation load
Mouliere F.,Institute Of Recherche En Cancerologie Of Montpellier |
Mouliere F.,French Institute of Health and Medical Research |
Mouliere F.,Montpellier University |
Mouliere F.,Institute Regional du Cancer Montpellier |
And 30 more authors.
Translational Oncology | Year: 2013
We used a novel method based on allele-specific quantitative polymerase chain reaction (Intplex) for the analysis of circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA) to compare total ccfDNA and KRAS- or BRAF-mutated ccfDNA concentrations in blood samples from mice xenografted with the human SW620 colorectal cancer (CRC) cell line and from patients with CRC. Intplex enables single-copy detection of variant alleles down to a sensitivity of ≥0.005 mutant to wild-type ratio. The proportion of mutant allele corresponding to the percentage of tumor-derived ccfDNA was elevated in xenografted mice with KRAS homozygous mutation and varied highly from 0.13% to 68.7% in samples from mutationpositive CRC patients (n = 38). Mutant ccfDNA alleles were quantified in the plasma of every patient at stages II/III and IV with a mean of 8.4% (median, 8.4%) and 21.8% (median, 12.4%), respectively. Twelve of 38 (31.6%) and 5 of 38 (13.2%) samples showed a mutation load higher than 25%and 50%, respectively. This suggests that an important part of ccfDNA may originate from tumor cells. In addition, we observed that tumor-derived (mutant) ccfDNA was more fragmented than ccfDNA from normal tissues. This observation suggests that the form of tumor-derived and normal ccfDNA could differ. Our approach revealed that allelic dilution is much less pronounced than previously stated, considerably facilitating the noninvasive molecular analysis of tumors. © 2013 Neoplasia Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Source


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$2,000.00 2 weeks ago
1999 cbr 900rr fireblade $2000 - $2000 (Oxford)
99 fireblade needs nothing verrrrrrry clean bike 34k clean title new tires brakes levers pegs undertail twobrothers pipe 2 grand this weekend takes it wont find a cleaner one for the money will sell for over 3k in 2 months
2 weeks ago
Worcester, MA
$6,450.00 3 weeks ago
1998 HONDA CBR 900rr - $6450 (Central nj)
I am selling my 1998 CBR 900rr, it has very low miles on it, only 2,900 .The bike is all original untouched except for a Micron slip on pipe. It is in showroom condition , garage kept on front and rear stands. Runs 100% and is a very rare find in this condition. I was planning on keeping the bike as a collector piece But unfortunately I have to let it go. Its currently on both stands in my family
3 weeks ago
Long Island, NY
$2,500.00 1 month ago
Honda Cbr 900rr - $2500
Red Honda CBR900RR 2ND owner. Has stage 3 dynojet kit with matching k and n high flow race filter that was all dyno tuned at Richmond super bike with Akropovic full exhaust. Has blacked out windscreen and royal purple fluids. Needs a Battery and tires but bike comes with brand new unused Bridgstone Battalax S20 EVO tires just need to be installed. Call or text Ryan
1 month ago
Fredericksburg, VA
$2,000.00 1 month ago
Cbr 900rr - $2000 (Woodward)
This is my 1996 cbr900rr. It has a D&D slip on exhaust. New front headlight. CUSTOM exhaust wrap, done by none other than yours truly!! Roughly 30K miles. The previous owner pulled the tach and speedo off it. It needs a new rear tire and also a front fender! It's not pretty, but it is very fun! I'm open to trades for another street bike so just let me know what you got!
1 month ago
North West Oklahoma, OK
$3,000.00 1 month ago
1997 Honda CBR 900RR Sportbike $3000
$3000 price reduced Turn key, ready to ride. Two Brothers Pipes Stage 1 jet Larger rear sprocket Gearshift upside down Under 25k miles This bike is in great condition. Garage kept and low miles. Never downed, original farings. Clean title. Text 813-679-3734 Tony
1 month ago
Tampa, FL
$2,799.00 1 month ago
1995 Honda CBR 900RR Sportbike $2799
Super clean for the age. I have meticulously maintained this bike and it runs and drives perfect.
1 month ago
Jersey Shore, NJ
$7,999.00 1 month ago
1996 Honda CBR 900RR Sportbike $7999
A true, collectors item.Rare mid 90`s CBR! Showroom condition with super low miles. Never down, never tipped over in a driveway or rubbed against a garage wall. One of the finest older CBR`s you will find. Please look at the pictures carefully so you can see its true condition
1 month ago
Catskills, NY
$1,800.00 1 month ago
1999 CBR 900RR - $1800 (Brooklyn)
Clean title and runs also comes with a set of white fairings
1 month ago
New York, NY
$2,400.00 1 month ago
1998 Honda CBR 900RR Sportbike $2400
I`m the second owner of the bike has fresh oil change. has after market 2 brothers muffler really loud.it has after market tail lights and turn signals it also has the steering stabilizer 200 to 400 dollars worth, new battery also aftermarket cbr grips. it has tinted windshield and also have a new windshield still in the plastic running light is red aftermarket. has 2 kenwood speakers with aux hoo
1 month ago
Indianapolis, IN
$2,800.00 1 month ago
1993 Honda CBR 900RR Super Moto $2800
1993 Honda Cbr 900 rr Fireblade. COMES WITH Joe Rocket Jacket Large/ Motorcycle Helmet all black Scorpion brand. The Bike runs great. 33k miles Clean title No dents/no scratches/ new tires $3,300, or best offer ***************************NO TRADES/ CASH ONLY********************** Call or text 559-909-1209
1 month ago
Fresno, CA
$3,300.00 1 month ago
1999 Honda CBR 900RR Sportbike $3300
1999 CBR900RR near mint condition. Bike is in exceptional condition, both visually and mechanically. One owner and the bike is a true museum piece and will make some new owner very happy.
1 month ago
Battle Creek, MI
$2,500.00 1 month ago
Honda Cbr 900rr - $2500
Red Honda CBR900RR dynojet kit with matching k and n high flow race filter, Akropovic race exhaust, blacked out windscreen, needs battery and tires but I have brand new Bridgstone Battalax S20 tires that go with the bike.call or text Ryan
1 month ago
Norfolk, VA
$2,500.00 1 month ago
Honda Cbr 900rr - $2500
Honda cbr 900rr red 16000 miles 2ND owner very clean I have brand new bridgestone battalaxe tires need to be installed. Bike has stage 3 dynojet kit with matching k and n high flow air filter. Ryan $2500 obo #cbr 1000 600 Honda #gsxr1000 600 Suzuki. #Yamaha R1 R6
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Richmond, VA
$2,500.00 1 month ago
Honda Cbr 900rr - $2500
Red Honda CBR900RR stage 3 Dynojet kit with matching k and n high flow race filter, Akropovic race exhaust, blacked out windscreen needs battery and tires but I have brand new Bridgstone Battalax S20 tires that go with the bike. Call or text Ryan
1 month ago
Fredericksburg, VA
$1,200.00 2 months ago
CBR 900rr - $1200 (lincoln)
Cbr 900 rr runs have all the body work for it. Some body work needs repaired. Do not have time for the project so selling to some one whom might. 1200.00 obo text me for photos.
2 months ago
Lincoln, NE
$2,222.00 2 months ago
1993 Honda CBR 900RR Sportbike $2222
Just rebuilt all 4 carburetors at velocity. Need to be run bike sat for 5 years. It`s a beast. Gucci seat urgency. New plugs. Just needs a trip. New battery rear slightly stretched. Big back tier.
2 months ago
Hilton Head Island, SC
$3,000.00 2 months ago
1993 Honda CBR 900RR Sportbike $3000
Well taken care of, 1993 Honda CBR 900rr. 33k miles, runs great, need to sell fast, have no room for it anymore. call for info 559-909-1209
2 months ago
Fresno, CA
$3,900.00 2 months ago
Ecellent 1994 HONDA CBR 900rr - $3900 (southside chicagoland)
Clean and clear title on hand.The bike is chromed out-jetted out, 12 inch stretched out swing arm. The engine is in top condition and has new brakes,tires,chains, sprockets,cables, full D&D chrome exhaust system, as well as a fresh paint job and seat cover.$3900 or best offer.Contact ,Will, Thank you
2 months ago
Chicago, IL
$2,500.00 2 months ago
1998 Honda cbr 900rr - $2500
Selling my bike I don't ride much any more. Runs hard I'd take it anywhere in the country. 25xxx miles no leaks. or email
2 months ago
Champaign�Urbana, IL
$3,200.00 2 months ago
2002 Honda CBR 900RR Sportbike $3200
Knee is done.... riding is over 2002 954 is up for sale with ICON decay/Skull helmet / ICON Decay Jacket and Joe Rocket Jacket...
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I created an account and I've setup my application both on the console and on the mobile, I try to recognise an image and the returned result is "Error: Not enough credits to process task. Add more pages to your application's account.".
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I think it's because this is an account that I'm returning to using and back then I might have used up the 50 pages that I have allotted in the Free Trial section? Where can I check how many remaining credits I have?
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There are two registered applications for your e-mail account. According to our logs, you have already used the trial 50 free pages for the first one. If you want to continue using of ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK further, you should purchase any Volume Pack from here.
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Sunday it's time to play in the park and have a jol at the 4th annual Nantes Park Summer Festival in Athlone.
This free concert is a fun-filled family event and there is lots to see and do.
There will be performances by the Heideveld High School steel and marimba, Time flies, Cuddumbey, Chasing Time, Supernova, the Solms Delta ghoema/langarm band and many more.
Comedians Ashley Pienaar and Keenan Cerff will also be there to entertain the crowd.
Food will be on sale but no alcohol and drugs allowed at the venue.
As a form of entrance fee to the event, people can donate clothes, toys and tin food. This we will be donated in the form of Christmas hampers to various charities and needy families in the area.
For more information call 082 536 3651 or check out the Bridgetown Theatre Company Facebook page.


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Rome Postermania Snowboard - Wide
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About Rome Postermania Snowboard - Wide
Closeouts. More than just an outstanding true twin park board, Rome's Postermania snowboard offers a solid feel at speed and excellent edge hold thanks to QuickRip technology.
- Wide design accommodates larger boots
- FreePop rocker has a rectangular, flat camber section extending 4cm beyond the binding insert packs, with rocker in the nose and tail; it goes from throwing rail tricks to ripping powder without missing a beat
- QuickRip sidecut features two sidecuts with the same radius for a board that can be ridden slow and loose, or powerfully at higher speeds
- Carbon V Stringer technology adds response
- Pop Core Matrix core has two zones of lightweight wood and a responsive poplar body
- StraightBiax carbon laminate reduces weight for both consistent flex and improved pop
- SinterTrue base is fast and durable
- Made in Austria
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- Core material: Wood
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There are not so many hotel rooms in Diessenhofen, just 2, still everyone can find an offer to suit his choice. The most common offers in this city are hotels, they count 1 out of 2, and their prevalent location is central district. According to our practice, it is the most profitable to book a hotel in the south of Diessenhofen, as it is the location of the hotels with optimal cost and quality offers along with the cheap hotels. Taking into account the small size of the city, there is no need to dwell hotel reservation on the location: the road to the city center would take less then half an hour, so one can book a hotel in any district of Diessenhofen. The most populated with hotels district of Diessenhofen is the center, 100% of cheap hotel rooms are concentrated here. Diessenhofen is an ideal place for couple and solo, such travellers rate hotels there 8.0 out of 10 on average. The most appreciated amenities in Diessenhofen hotels are location and service. According to the visitors reviews, hotels in Diessenhofen has tasty breakfast, delicious food and great location. Take a look at our selection of the cheap hotel rooms in Diessenhofen to make a well-informed choice for your reservation!
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What is Ability Links NSW?
Ability Links NSW is a way of connecting people with disability, their families and carers in the community.
Linkers work closely with people with disability, their families and carers to support them to fulfil their goals, hopes and dreams. Providers are the organisations that offer services to people with disability and the community. Linkers work for these Providers.
There are a range of Providers around the state, you can use this website to help you find a Provider or Linker in your area.
Read more about Ability Links NSW here.
Who can use Ability Links?
Ability Links NSW is for:
- people with disability aged 0 to 64 years
- carers and families of people with disability.
Individual, clubs, groups and businesses can also access Ability Links NSW for information and support on inclusion of people with disability. There is no formal assessment process or referral that you need to meet in order to use Ability Links NSW.
A successful approach to building inclusive communities revealed
According to Urbis Director of Economic and Social Advisory Alison Wallace, who was responsible for the three-year evaluation of Ability Links, "The program model is a winner... In 25 years of evaluating government initiatives, I have rarely come across a program that has achieved so much in such a short space of time."
The program has been particularly successful in Aboriginal communities – more than a quarter of the people accessing Ability Links are Indigenous – a major achievement.
According to Urbis Chief Economist Nicki Hutley, the findings of the cost-benefit analysis and social return of investment is ground-breaking work.
Click here to learn more about the Urbis reports. Or click on the report images to download them each.
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When Brian first made contact with Ability Links NSW via their Central Coast office in Gosford, he talked about his desire to build and deepen his social connections in the community.
Brian was feeling isolated and disconnected from his community, with no family nearby and no social connections to friends or neighbours, when he was introduced to Ability Links by a support coordinator at the Central Coast Disability Network.
He felt that his situation was heavily influenced by his impaired hearing, and he was becoming increasingly frustrated and depressed.
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Maitland Park Bowling and Sporting Complex club secretary Philip Penfold has come to know Ability Links NSW through the valuable work the Maitland team has done in the community.
Armed with that knowledge, he came to Ability Links looking for support to create a more user-friendly, accessible and inclusive club.
Maitland Park Bowling and Sporting Complex is a not-for-profit club which has operated in the local community for 115 years. Approximately 17 different user groups make use of the facility on a weekly basis. Click here to read the full story.


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[photopress:God_of_duality_sm.jpg,full,alignright]Through a set of experiments desribed in his latest book "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions", MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely shows how we live in two different worlds – one in which social norms prevail and one in which market norms prevail.
The social norms include friendly requests that people make, for example when a neighbor or friend asks you to move a couch or something. You do not expect to get anything in return right away, and they are usually warm and fuzzy. Most of the time they provide pleasure to both parties. Market norms on the other hand are cold and calculated, with exchanges being sharp-edged: wages, prices, rent, etc.
One of the experiments recounted by Ariely involves three groups of people who were asked to do a repeat task for 5 minutes – combining circles and squares on a computer screen. The first group was given $5 for the task, the second 50c and the third was asked to do it as a favor. The group that was paid $5 worked harder by about 50% compared to the group which was paid 50c. The group which was not paid, and which evaluated the request in their social framework instead of their market framework beat both other groups. He then repeated the test, but instead of giving money he gave the first group a gift of chocolates worth about $5, but without telling them that, the second group got a snicker bar and the third group was asked to do it as a favor again. This time all three groups achieved the same results, the same results as the original group which evaluated the request in their social framework. The last test was again with gifts, except that this time people were told the value of those gifts. The results? The same as if they would have paid people.
Another point he makes, supported by more experiments, is that once a person evaluates something within a market framework, they will continue to do so even after payments are no longer given. So it is a very bad idea to create situations in which both frameworks are mixed.
There are a ton of lessons to be learned by this, one related to giving customers incentives to help you. If you have customer support communities or innovation communities and people help you based on non-monetary incentives, like recognition, or a small gift every now and again, you could kill the dynamics of those community by introducing even tiny monetary incentives. Your customers will now switch their mindset to a market framework instead of a social framework. Now if people can be switched into a market framework and not return from that mindset, that also means that others can screw up the landscape for you. Say you have a tech support community and for some reason another vendor starts paying people for helping out – based on some of the experiments described in the book, this could actually change the perception of the value that you are giving your own community members back.
The fact that misplaced rewards and punitive actions can backfire has been a long documented fact. Many kids end up reading less than when they started when parents stop giving them monetary rewards for reading. Many more parents end up being later in day care centers that charge those parents by the minute for being tardy. Plus they no longer feel the guilt of being late because they now evaluate this transaction as a market transaction instead of as a social norms based transaction.


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HighQuality223 posted a topic in General DiscussionI list my favourite browser MMO's to play whilst waiting for WOT. Note: They are russian.Their communities are russian. Drako.ru - a simple concept that was developed and made extremely complex over the years.Different locations with different monsters, quests, shops, etc. that you have to kill,Once you engage in combat, its simple turn based fight where you can choose to use magic, summons, mounts, dragons, followers, potions, orbs and much more to your advantage.There are 3 types of attack, combat is pretty simple.Game is kinda competitive, its multiplayer, it hosts a variety of different events, battles and tournaments. There are many professions, abilities, armor and weapons to unlock.P.s. When I say many, I mean WAY more than FO has to offer.Take in account all the events, tournaments, and new content from updates, and this game will keep you interested for months for sure.There is an image of a dragon follower and player inventory down below to show you the amount of items this game has to offer. I might post more of browser MMO's that I have played in the past if anyone is interested.For now this is it.
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I wrote MOSTLY.Doesnt mean you have to be 1 class within that element, it just means youre generally a little better at being a healer if youre water or a tank if youre earth.If there were no differences between elements, then whats even the point of it? Them avatar references though.It took me a while to realize that.
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HighQuality223 posted a topic in General DiscussionI think there should be added some survival aspect to the game.Besides combat skills (swords, wands, bows, spells, etc.) to level, there should also be added something like a wildlife and survival skill.So, lets say youre in a dungeon and youre low on pots and other supplies.Usually you would either exit the dungeon, sit there for 5 mins and regen or try to get a pot to drop from a mob if you can.This would slow down progress of you or your party/group.So, survival skill would add tents, campfires, traps and other stuff.Tents would allow you to sleep, thus regening health and stamina/mana, campfires would allow you to cook food and regen faster.Also, being able to purchase a cooking pot or a pan to make more advanced food on the go would be cool too.If youre on a floor with a lot of mobs, you could place purchased or made traps for safety or to make a boos fight easier.To get more advanced tents, traps and being able to set up better campfires would require to level your survival skill.It would also add some misc. spells, like Remove Traps, Reveal Hidden Doors, Night Vision, etc.Now about wildlife, lets say youve set up a camp and half of your party/group is regening in tents or cooking food, setting traps, etc.You could buy a sickle and a bag of herbs, and go out to harvest herbs to brew pots.Also, harvesting berries, mushrooms, etc. for ingredients and food.You would also be able to chop trees, fish, and mine after leveling your wildlife and purchasing additional equipment (axe, pickaxe, etc.).Also, wildlife would let you avoid wild animals and even taming them at very high levels of this skill.To improve harvesting of food/herbs andand unlocking new items you could buy books, for example A Guide To Herbology, A List Of Edible Mushrooms or Edible Berries.At high levels you would get misc. spells like Pacify Animals, Find Herbs/Food, Camouflage, etc.This would add a lot of fun little things and some non combat related skill trees to level in the free time.Also, this would make game a lot more immersive and big boss fights in dungeons wouldnt be just pure fighting, you could set up camps for wounded to rest before or while the fight is going on.This in my opinion would add much more diversitycto the game and more options for new quests.Maybe when devs get the game up and running and start to run out of ideas, they could implement fun little things like these.
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What is your personal attitude to events that happened 400 years ago?
By the looks of this, http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/JohnsonJ.html there is not much call for his expertise right now is there?
John Johnson a.k.a Guy Fawkes
It gives drunken men a legal right to play with pyrotechnics once a year and burn a human efigy. I'm all for it.
No doubt that such a holiday would be welcomed in Russia. However, vodka-lovers use to mark virtually all possible holidays including capture of Bastilia.
This year the morons that run Russia now invented a new holiday
Really 4 November is a religious holiday. It is a day of Icon of Kazan's Godmother. 4 November negotiations had began but they were signed and the Polish surrender ... 7 November.
Guy Fawkes - The only man ever to enter parliament with an honest reason for being there.
I spy a Russian chav (Burberry scarf!)
That salute looks remarkably like... no, it can't be.
John Johnson - Guy Fawkes sh1t and I haven't had a drink yet.
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