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A future Pastor and Christian Apologist
A future Pastor and Christian Apologist
Edit: double post saying I'm editing a double post.
It was just a fucking apple man, we're sorry okay? Please stop the madness
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(20-08-2012 10:41 PM)Erxomai Wrote: Edit: double post saying I'm editing a double post.
okay Erxomai is on time out for the next 10 posts! .. go sit in your corner.. go!
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A future Pastor and Christian Apologist
(20-08-2012 10:49 PM)ddrew Wrote:(20-08-2012 10:41 PM)Erxomai Wrote: Edit: double post saying I'm editing a double post.
It's not my fault I wasn't expecting that last hit to send me to the stars...
It was just a fucking apple man, we're sorry okay? Please stop the madness
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Welcome! I hope you stick around to discuss, even if we have heard it. (Example below- we've heard it, and everyone likes to put, in their own words, the sense you've missed ) It's always fun to see the responses made to wiggle non-sense into reason and truth
(20-08-2012 10:10 PM)TrueReason Wrote: I thus find theistic or at least deistic belief to be the only plausible explanation for the origin of the universe, as there must be an ultimate, non-contigent cause.
Why? Why must there be?
No, seriously.
Since the dawn of biblical time, Rainbows MUST be a sign, the earth MUST be flat and the earth MUST be six thousand years old. But now, we know the truth of these outrageous ancient and mythical explanations.
Guess what. Just because we don't yet know how the universe has come to exist doesn't mean anything besides we just don't know. There doesn't even have to be a why or a purpose. It's beautiful just the way it is, amazing in fact.
If and when we do find the answer, it could possibly be something very simple.
I can tell you how and why christianity came to be. Based on social and emotional evolution, it was a very functional means. It is passé now, with all of our truth and knowledge.
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(20-08-2012 10:49 PM)ddrew Wrote:(20-08-2012 10:41 PM)Erxomai Wrote: Edit: double post saying I'm editing a double post.
Well done ddrew. Several times I've had to say, "Erx, park uranus in the naughty chair!"
Humankind (a total misnomer)
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... I love how you religious types always have usernames reflecting your certainty
Anyway, hope you stick around for a while. Feel free to start threads and ask questions or indeed answer them with the Truth and Nothing But The Truth, even the same tired old questions, as far as I'm concerned. Real time discussion is a lot more fruitful than picking over old threads. But we might link you back to previous discussions if we feel the need...
Also you might get a few curveballs thrown your way...
Also realise that... being one of the younger members of the site, thar be dragons where you tread Basically there's a bunch of people here who've seen a lot of life. So be careful what you're certain about
I'd like to know, what do you think of
a. abortion ?
b. being gay ?
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I welcome the civil, measured tone of your debut post. But underneath the civility I sense more than a little youthful arrogance, which I hope you'll outgrow. For example:
(20-08-2012 04:56 PM)TrueReason Wrote: If someone is influenced by the arguments I present, I will count it an honor and a privilege, but my expectations here are not to convert everybody. I just want to have some civil discussions with people from the opposite side of the spectrum.
Notice what you haven't said: If you are influenced by the arguments we present, will you also count it an honor and a privilege? Or is that simply outside the realm of possibility for you, since you already have the absolute truth?
Quote:Feel free to ask me any questions about Christianity.
So you can enlighten us concerning a subject we know nothing about? What makes you think there aren't people here who know a helluva lot more about Christianity than you do?
I'm also wondering about your education. You say you're about to earn a BA in pastoral ministry, but your writing skills have grown rusty from lack of use. What have you been doing in your courses? Your teachers don't have you write???
As for a place like Biola, what you'll get there is indoctrination, not education. I used to teach a course with a major critical thinking component, and I recall having a couple of students who had transferred to my university from Biola. Neither one of them could think critically worth a damn. Small sample set, I know. But it certainly seemed that what they had gotten at Biola was poor preparation for life outside the Christian goldfish bowl.
You also mentioned debating. Keep in mind that debating has little to do with truth-seeking. It's a game, a sport. It's all about scoring points. If you study at Biola with William Lane Craig and his ilk, you'll improve your debating skills, all right--through sophistry, half-truths, and sometimes outright lies.
By the way, did you ever ask yourself why places like Biola have "Apologetics" departments--academic units devoted to defending the faith against critics? I wonder why MIT and CalTech don't have similar departments to help future scientists defend the principles of physics and chemistry and biology and astronomy.
Religious disputes are like arguments in a madhouse over which inmate really is Napoleon.
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(20-08-2012 09:55 PM)TrueReason Wrote: Yet that still doesn't provide an explanation for the origin of the universe. So let's say God needed something to cause him, so what? Something still needed to cause the universe that was outside of that universe. So, before we deal with problem of what caused God, we must deal with the most immediate problem which is, what caused the universe? And that is the question I pose to you.
As a system, Christianity is about as easy as anything could possibly be to disprove. All one has to do is point out the pathetic position of the Yahweh Sabaoth dude, which I shall leave for last. Meanwhile :
1. Actually, before one deals with what caused the universe, unless one is going to commit the Genetic Fallacy, one will have to deal with what caused causality. If one's god caused anything, that means causality was already in place, in the structure of (the universe?). or wherever, or in whatever she exists. If she "caused" anything, including causality, how and why is causality already a part of the structure of reality ? That explanation must be done without invoking Infinite Regression, or the Genetic Fallacy. (Something is not true, just because I define it to be true, with no evidence). ("The moon is made of green cheese, because that is the nature of moon-ness, or moon-head").
We do not know how this universe came into existence totally, yet, but not knowing the answer to that, does not justify an Argument from Ignorance, and permit one, with no evidence, to cook up an answer that lets one sleep better, just because one needs to sleep. Saying "everything needs a cause, except my god", is the Fallacy of Special Pleading.
2. Apparently, not only is this one not going to convert everybody, he's not going to convert anybody.
3. The universe does not have to disclose to us, here and now, all the details of it's origins, just because brains demand that of it, right now. That, however, does not justify my cooking up an explanation, to suit my needs, in the absence of any evidence, simply to achieve satisfaction, right now, or because I demand it, right now, like a two-year old.
4. We know from Relativity, (Einstein), Uncertainty, (Heisenberg), Complex matrices, (Dirac's spinors etc.), that the universe is not intuitive. Therefore what appears to my brain as "logical", ("everything that is has a cause"), is not necessarily a trustworthy view, in light of the advances of the three non-intuitive discoveries above. If the universe is not intuitive, then the only thing one can trust, is evidence.
5. Biblical scholars know that Genesis was written by humans around 575-550 BCE, and that those mostly illiterate people, and the Judean priests who did the first assembly of the texts in Genesis got them mostly from the Sumerian myth systems. We know where they got them, and how they changed them, and in general, why they did that. We also know that humans have inhabited the planet ever since they evolved from their ancestors, around 200,000 years ago. That means that for at least 200,000 years the details of any "creation event" would have to be recalled, or made up, by illiterate, totally ignorant creatures, who had not the slightest idea what "accurate" or "historical" meant, and that they accurately transmitted those "facts" to each succeeding generation, for 200,000 years, or for 4.5 billion years, (when they were not around yet).
6. All of Christianity, is built on a fallacious interpretation of the Sumerian Choas myths, which Yeshua NEVER said a word about, ("original sin"), but was grafted later onto the growing cult, first by Saul of Tarsus, then developed later, by church "fathers", who admitted, many times, that deception was something they employed, and was justified, if it promoted their ends, and ending with Augustine's final exposition of the "original sin" business, hundreds of years after Yeshua was dead.
7. Actually the religion "Christians" profess to practice is really Paulianity, as Saul of Tarsus changed radically the apocalyptic preaching of Yeshua ben Josef, (if he even existed, as a single person), and the development process is quite evident in the early texts, both inside and outside the New Testament. For example the Pauline literature changes it's various concepts of what is or was the "ignorance" of the un-converted, and that idea changes radically, depending what one is reading, of Paul's. If the original concept is valid, ("inspired"), then why is a second one also "valid". Can't he make up his mind ? Can't god make up her mind ?
Saul also grafted onto the growing cult the "salvation" paradigm, which is totally absent from the Gospel of Mark. Yeshua never said a word about himself being the "sacrificial offering" to the eons-long pissed off deity, who first a.) set up the pay-back scheme/need, and then, b..) (while remaining an eternal/timeless being), "sent" her "son", (in TIME), to assuage her pissed-off-ness, instead of just saying, "I forgive you", and then "became appeased" by Yeshua's death, even though she was "immutable", and obviously *changed* her outlook, on things.
8. In the end, arguing with Christian theists is a waste, in general, as they do not come to a discussion in good faith. As evidenced by WLCraig, in the following video, he beieves because he believes. Not because of anything convincing. He comes to the discussion in bad faith. The deconstruction of a faith position is a complex thing, and many things have to be changed, for the faith position to change. It is not simply a matter of argumentation.
This one said his god essentially is a utilitarian concept, to fill in, for himself, the "gap", (god of the gaps), of how the universe came in to existence. That seems to be a really poor reason for "landing" on the Judeo-Christian god, with whom there are so many problems, and who is so inconsistent and so impotent, and mean.
a. More science courses may change that situation.
b. Even if they don't, if that god exists, she is not going to like the fact that the only reason he accepts her existence, is that she fills a (gap) need. It implies if the gap were to be filled in any (other), way, then "pooph", she disappears, because the need disappears. That is the most backwards, and risky, reason for belief one could possibly imagine, and there are so many other possibilities, one could imagine...only one of which would displace the god. Actually I think this makes him a deist, not a theist ??
Theists cannot even provide for us, one property of existence which does not require time, (spacetime), to be be in place already. Thus their god cannot possibly be the creator of this universe, or any multiverse, as she cannot be the creator of the conditions required for her own existence.
Insufferable know-it-all. It is objectively immoral to kill innocent babies. Please stick to the guilty babies.
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(21-08-2012 02:02 AM)cufflink Wrote: I welcome the civil, measured tone of your debut post. But underneath the civility I sense more than a little youthful arrogance, which I hope you'll outgrow. For example:
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(21-08-2012 05:19 AM)Bucky Ball Wrote:(20-08-2012 09:55 PM)TrueReason Wrote: Yet that still doesn't provide an explanation for the origin of the universe. So let's say God needed something to cause him, so what? Something still needed to cause the universe that was outside of that universe. So, before we deal with problem of what caused God, we must deal with the most immediate problem which is, what caused the universe? And that is the question I pose to you.
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This lingering cold weather is the result of some weird atmospheric shift out of the Arctic, but few things beat the pants off a nip in the air like a hot bowl of venison chili!
It's still in the 40s up north and a chilly 50-ish in parts of the Southeast. Dadgum! Our irises and redbuds and such are blooming here in Alabama, turkeys are gobbling and we're still telling the kids to get a jacket or hoodie in the mornings.
Soon, of course, we'll want a 48-degree day and cool north breeze. Summer's heat can do that.
But for now, a bowl of hot chili, maybe with some jalapeno peppers and cornbread, and it's all good.
Venison Chili
2 tbsp. olive oil
4 lbs. ground deer meat
3 medium onions, chopped fine
1 (48 oz.) can tomato juice
2 (8 oz.) cans tomato sauce
2 (6 oz.) cans tomato paste
3 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. paprika
1/2 tsp. red pepper
1 tbsp. salt
black pepper, to taste
2 (15 oz.) cans kidney beans, drained
On medium-high heat, in a heavy saucepan heat the olive oil and then add the deer meat, browning until done. Reduce heat to low temperature and add the onions, tomato juice, tomato sauce, tomato paste, chili powder, paprika, red pepper and salt. Stir well to mix the ingredients. Add the black pepper to mix well. Cover top with black pepper and stir well. Cook over low heat for about six hours, stirring occasionally to make sure it's all good. Add the beans about 30 minutes before you're done. Serves about 12

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Example: Trial during an initial session of PTD or CTD to teach naming
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Example: Trial during a subsequent session of PTD or CTD to teach naming
PTD and CTD are similar except that the delay is gradual for PTD and immediate for CTD. For students who are not able to wait for a prompt when they are unable to independently perform a skill, PTD may be a better choice as a prompting strategy because it will decrease errors.
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If there are any subjects you have not completed at the required level, you can take them as supplementary courses or as a summer supplementary course (conditional Admission) .
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Like quota 1 applicants, quota 2 applicants must have passed a qualifying examination, and they must also fulfil the specific admission requirements above.
Quota 2 applicants are individually evaluated on the basis of:
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In the academic regulations, you can read more about the content of the individual course, the structure of the degree programme and the demands the programme places on you as a student. You can also read about the types of exams and the exam requirements.
The diagram below shows you how the programme is structured. You can click on the different courses to read the course descriptions.
The Bachelor's degree programme in cognitive science is based on lectures, practical exercises in e.g. programming and statistics, group discussions, independent study and experimental projects. At lectures, you learn about the central issues, theories and methodologies in the field of cognitive science. In connection with practical exercises, you apply this knowledge in connection with classroom discussions, data analysis and modelling exercises, as well as in designing and carrying out your own research projects. As a university student you will be spending a large part of your studies on independent reading, preparation and exercises in e.g. programming and statistics. You will also be part of a study group, where you will work on presentations and projects together and discuss your subject.
Follow the academic activities at the Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics .
You study cognitive science because you're curious! The degree programme is anchored in a vibrant research environment. Almost every day, you get to participate in research seminars and learn about fascinating new discoveries. For example, is it possible to tell if someone's depressed based on their tone of voice? And can computer games help teach autistic children to talk?
Here is an example of a typical week in the first semester of the Bachelor's degree programme in cognitive science. As you can see, you will be spending much of your time preparing for classes and lectures, and meeting with your study group. This is why cognitive science is a full-time degree programme, even though you don't necessarily have scheduled classes every day.
9:00- 11:00 Lecture: Experimental Methods I 11:00 - 13:00 Project work 13:00 - 15:00 Practical exercises, Experimental Methods I 15:00 - 17:00 Independent study and practising programming
9:00 - 11:00 Independent study and practising programming 11:00 - 13:00 Lecture by guest professor 13:00-16:00 Independent study
10:00-12:00 Meeting in study group 13:00 - 14:30 Lecture: Introduction to Cognitive Science 14:30 - 16:00 Classroom instruction, Cognitive Science (presentation) 16:00-17:00 Independent study
10:00-12:00 Meeting in study group 12:00 - 14:00 Lecture: Cognition and Communication 14:00 - 16:00 Classroom instruction: Cognition and Communication 16:00-17:00 Independent study
9:00 - 15:00 Work on independent project 16:00 - ?? Friday bar
Your life as a student doesn't end when you close your books. The cognitive science programme is new, which means that you and your fellow students have a unique opportunity to contribute to creating a fantastic study environment from the bottom up. For example, you can start a debate club, a film club or a football tournament. You can also participate in the annual regatta in the University Park, and if you're keen on sport, AU has 18 different athletics clubs to choose from. As a cognitive science student, you will spend much of your time in the Nobel Park along with students from programmes such as cognitive semiotics, linguistics and English.
The students at Cognitive Science arrange their own Friday bar on selected Fridays. Furthermore, a group of students have started The Neural Network, an e-newsletter for students and others with an interest in cognitive science. The editorial team behind the newsletter also arrange the lecture series "Conscious" where special guests give their perspective on cognitive science.
While studying cognitive science, you have the option of taking a semester abroad, which allows you to develop your language skills while gaining a new perspective on your sbuject, for example by studying artificial intelligence or communication. During the last year of your bachelor's programme, you can take advantage of one of the many exchange agreements between Aarhus University and partner universities all over the world. Get inspiration, guidance and travel lust .
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The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, killing at least 106 people in the United States. Power outages now stand at more than 1.3 million homes and businesses, down from a peak of 8.5 million. Here's a snapshot of what is happening, state by state.
State's large utilities say they've met their targets on restoring power in an effort that was closely watched after extensive outages last year. Deaths: 3. Power outages: 35,000, down from a peak of 625,000.
Hundreds of thousands go sixth day without electricity, natural gas remains cut off to barrier islands, subway service to New York still suspended. Some schools reopen. Gov. Chris Christie says he got a hug from Bruce Springsteen at Friday's benefit concert. Deaths: 23. Power outages: 779,000, down from 2.7 million.
New Yorkers forced from their homes by the storm will be allowed to vote by affidavit ballot at any polling site in the state. Deaths: 47, including 40 in New York City. Power outages: more than 456,000, down from 2.2 million.
All polling locations expected to have power in time for Election Day, only a few by generator. Deaths: 15. Power outages: Fewer than 30,000, down from 1.2 million.
Newport officials say it will cost $2 million to repair the city's famed Cliff Walk, sometimes cited as Rhode Island's most visited attraction. Power outages: none, down from more than 122,000.
Red Cross and Southern Baptist Convention provide hot meals and send food and water to those without power after heavy snowfall. Deaths: 6. Power outages: 33,000, down from 270,000.
Other states with storm-related deaths: Maryland (4), New Hampshire (1), North Carolina (3), Ohio (2), Virginia (2).
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This lesson plan will explore the wide-ranging debate over American slavery by presenting the lives of its leading opponents and defenders and the views they held about America's "peculiar institution."
Sometimes, people will fight to keep someone else from being treated poorly. Disagreement over slavery was central to the conflict between the North and the South. The nation was deeply divided.
When children hear, write and recite poetry, they understand more deeply the qualities of verse — the importance of sound, compactness, internal integrity, imagination, and line. Working collaboratively on poetry provides a safe structure for student creativity.
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Stocks fell on Tuesday, retreating from last week's rally on the "fiscal cliff" deal in Washington, as companies started to report results for the fourth quarter.
After a 4.3 percent jump in the two sessions around the close of the fiscal cliff negotiations, the S&P has declined a bit, with investors finding few catalysts to extend the rally that took the benchmark to five-year highs.
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"We had a brief respite courtesy of what happened on the fiscal cliff deal and the flip of the calendar with new money coming into the market," said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama.
Shares of AT&T Inc dropped 1.7 percent to $34.35, making it one of the biggest drags on the S&P 500, after the company said it sold more than 10 million smartphones in the quarter.
This figure beat the same quarter in 2011, but also means increased costs for the wireless service provider. Providers like AT&T pay hefty subsidies to handset makers so that they can offer discounts to customers who commit to two-year contracts.
Fourth quarter profits are expected to beat the previous quarter's lackluster results, but analyst estimates are down sharply from October. Quarterly earnings are expected to grow by 2.7 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data. Dow component Alcoa, the largest U.S. aluminum producer, reported results after the closing bell, along with education provider Apollo Group .
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 55.44 points, or 0.41 percent, to 13,328.85. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 4.74 points, or 0.32 percent, to 1,457.15. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 7.01 points, or 0.23 percent, to 3,091.81.
"The stark reality of uncertainty with regard to earnings, plus the negotiations on the debt ceiling, are there and that doesn't give investors a lot of reason to take bets on the long side," Hellwig said.
With AT&T's fall, the S&P telecom services index was the worst performer of the 10 major S&P sectors, down 2.7 percent.
Sears Holdings shares dropped 6.4 percent to $40.16 a day after the company said Chairman Edward Lampert would take over as CEO from Louis D'Ambrosio, who is stepping down due to a family member's health issue. The U.S. retailer also reported a 1.8 percent decline in quarter-to-date sales at stores open at least a year.
Markets went lower as some of the first reported earnings were weak.
"It doesn't seem to be bouncing back, it might stay here or sell off a little further," said Stephen Carl, head of U.S. equity trading at The Williams Capital Group in New York.
Shares of restaurant-chain operator Yum Brands Inc fell 4.2 percent to $65.04 a day after the KFC parent warned sales in China, its largest market, shrank more than expected in the fourth quarter.
GameStop was one of the worst performers on the S&P 500 as shares slumped 6.3 percent to $23.19 after the video game retailer reported low customer traffic for the holiday season and cut its guidance.
Shares of Monsanto Co gained 2.5 percent to $98.42 after reaching a more than four-year high at $99.99. The world's largest seed company raised its earnings outlook for fiscal year 2013 and posted strong first-quarter results.
Volume was below the 2012 average of 6.42 billion shares traded per day, as 6.10 billion were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE MKT and Nasdaq.
Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 1,495 to 1,458, while on the Nasdaq decliners beat advancers 1,305 to 1,158.
(Reporting by Gabriel Debenedetti; Editing by Kenneth Barry and Nick Zieminski)


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Maimonides Medical Center residents are members of the Committee on Interns and Residents (CIR), a union representing house staff officers in the United States. Salary and benefits are discussed and arranged after a process of review and discussion in conjunction with CIR representatives. As a result, Maimonides offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package.
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The Latin-American studies minor is an interdepartmental program designed to help students understand the common heritage and problems of Latin-American countries as well as the differences that exist among them. The program will be helpful to students majoring in such subjects as anthropology, bilingual education, business, history, political science, and Spanish. For more information on this program, contact the Department of Modern Languages and Classics at 765-285-1361.
MINOR IN LATIN-AMERICAN STUDIES, 15 hours
The student must demonstrate competence equivalent to two years of university-level language study in Spanish or Portuguese. This requirement can be fulfilled by completing a two-year course sequence through the SP 202 level, or by testing.
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101 Introduction to Latin-American Studies. (3) Overview of the history, development and current trends of Latin-American countries from conquest through present times, focusing on economic, sociological, and cultural tendencies including the recent Latino migrations to the United States. 400 Study Abroad. (3-9) Study of intermediate or advanced Latin-American language(s), literature, and culture(s) in a foreign country where students are immersed within the Latin-American culture. May include seminars arranged during travel. May not be applied to foreign language majors or minors. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. A total of 9 hours of credit may be earned.


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LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A global rise in cases of the mind-robbing Alzheimer's disease is creating a chronic shortage of carers, with the number of old people dependent on care set to nearly treble to 277 million by 2050, according to a report by a leading dementia charity.
Half of all older people who need personal care have dementia, the report by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) said, and governments should make dementia a priority by implementing national plans and starting urgent debate on how to ensure long-term care for future generations.
Alzheimer's is a fatal brain disease that has no cure and few effective treatments. It affects memory, thinking and behaviour and is placing an increasingly heavy burden on societies and economies across the world.
Even now, the worldwide cost of dementia care is more than $600 billion, or around 1.0 percent of global gross domestic product, and that can only increase, ADI's report said.
As the world population ages, the traditional system in the United States, Europe and around the world of "informal" care by family, friends, and community will require much greater support, it said.
Globally, 13 percent of people aged 60 or over currently require long-term care. But between 2010 and 2050, the total number of older people with care needs will nearly treble from 101 to 277 million, according to the report.
Martin Prince, a professor at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry and author of the report, said health and social care authorities needed to recognise quickly that "people with dementia have special needs".
"Compared with other long-term care users they need more personal care, more hours of care, and more supervision, all of which is associated with greater strain on caregivers, and higher costs," he said in a statement.
"Their needs for care start early in the disease course, and evolve constantly over time, requiring advanced planning, monitoring, and coordination."
ADI says research budgets for work on dementia, its causes, treatment and care, need to increase ten-fold to mitigate the impact of the rise in cases. (Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)


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Kanom Krok is an ubiquitous street snack made in the cast iron kanom krok pan. This version is rich, custardy and consistent. Recipes vary wildly, but this one works every time. More important than the recipe, though, is having a seasoned pan and even heat. I use a charcoal brazier, but you can use a gas burner that is wide and has a low temperature setting.
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Hiding out of sight under the 458 Spider's roof would be a crime because, let's be honest, it's a babe magnet. You'll have to keep below that near 200mph top speed if you want to be seen – though you can always let your wallet do the talking later on.
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The Cypriot government plans to sell part of its gold reserves within the next months, a decision that needs to be approved by the country's central bank, Finance Minister Haris Georgiades said.
"The exact details of it will be formulated in due course primarily by the board of the central bank," Georgiades, 41, told Bloomberg TV's Ryan Chilcote in an interview in Nicosia. "Obviously it's a big decision."
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades is trying to unlock 10 billion euros ($13.2 billion) of loans from the euro area and the International Monetary Fund. To do so, he must come up with a further 11 billion euros through measures including a tax on bank deposits of more than 100,000 euros at the country's two biggest banks, the sale of assets and gold and other tax measures.
An April 9 debt assessment by the European Commission said Cyprus had committed to selling about 400 million euros of "excess" gold reserves, prompting gold futures to fall the most in five months. In response to the disclosure, the Central Bank of Cyprus said it wasn't considering a sale.
Central bank chief Panicos Demetriades said last week that the Cypriot government didn't have the right to sell gold without his consent. He also signalled the administration hadn't involved him in the plan. The Cypriot central bank manages the country's gold stock, which amounts to 13.9 metric tons, according to the World Gold Council.
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Georgiades said the government fully respects the independence of the central bank and insisted on effective cooperation. The country needs to look into how it got into this difficult situation and "obviously some decisions of the central bank will be examined" by an independent commission, he said.
"There is an issue and it's actually a major issue," Georgiades said. The government will do whatever is needed to ensure "smooth and effective cooperation between all decision-making authorities," he said.
Anastasiades set up a commission this month to investigate the reasons that led Cyprus to the brink of a financial collapse.
Gold futures fell to the lowest since January 2011 on April 16 on increased investor concern that European governments may have to follow Cyprus in selling reserves, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a report yesterday. The price of gold advanced 0.7 percent to $1,377.21 at 8:01 a.m. in London, gaining for a second day.
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UNC Research Support Service Core Facilities and Resources
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These pages list our core facilities by areas of focus. These are brief profiles of the cores; to find more detailed information on each core, including location, contact information, and equipment lists, please check out the facility overview in each core facility listing in our searchable database.
The UNC-CH Center for BioInformatics promotes the use of computational tools for molecular biology, genetics, protein chemistry, and biochemistry research at the University of North Carolina. The center offers in-depth workshops on topics ranging from DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis to database searching, genomic predictions and molecular modeling.
The Center has also established a "help desk" that assists University researchers on the use of computers (PC, Macintosh, UNIX), and bioinformatics tools as well as providing expert analysis on database searching, phylogenetics, protein structure prediction, sequence analysis and molecular modeling.
Bioinformatics and Statistical Analysis Core, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, enhances the productivity of CIDD investigators and the quality of their research. The core assists IDDRC projects with study design, data management, and statistical analysis. Assistance ranges from simple consultation to answering specific data management or analysis questions,to collaborative involvement from the design stage through proposal writing, data collection and management, to the publication of results.
Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC): Image Storage and Analysis core serves to develop new tools for image analysis and to support the image storage and analysis needs of scientists who use the BRIC facilities. So far, this core has developed various novel image segmentation, registration, and multivariate analysis methods, with applications to brain (including MCI, AD, Schizophrenia, and neonate study), heart, breast cancer, and prostate cancer. The facility is open to all users and accepts work from external entities.
Lineberger Biostatistics and Clinical Data Management holds regularly scheduled walk-in clinics as well as in-depth consultations and data analysis services.
Research Support
The CHAI Core (Communicating Health Applications and Interventions), is a one-stop shop for researchers, with a strong focus on the technologies needed to reach out to today's study participants. Services offered include:
- Development of websites, including intervention and decision-aid websites
- Development of web-based/mobile applications
- Development of back-end databases for research content delivery and data collection
- Graphic design (including logo, print, and web, and mobile design)
- Usability and cognitive testing
- Design and implementation of formative qualitative strategies
NC TraCS Data and Analytics offers services to help investigators mine and manage large and diverse data sets using advanced statistical, mathematical and computational techniques.
Access clinical and administrative data from UNC Health Care systems:
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Clinical Research Support
NC TraCS Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) offers investigators a variety of research support services, including access to inpatient and outpatient examination rooms, a staff of highly-skilled research professionals, an investigators laboratory, nutrition research support, and an oral health research facility. In addition, CTRC staff can assist you with study budgeting, letters of support, and research coordinator orientation.
Metabolic and Nutrition Research Core (NORC) offers a variety of nutrition research assistance for investigators, including:
Research Protocol development
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The model and Rob Kardashian just welcomed their baby girl, Dream Renee Kardashian, into the world on Thursday morning, but that didn't stop them from partaking in 2016's most popular social media craze.
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Children's Discovery Institute Awards $3 million in New Pediatric Research Grants
St. Louis, MO— March 1, 2012 – Life-threatening bacterial infections and brain tumors are just some of the serious health issues affecting children. Now, 12 Washington University School of Medicine research teams are preparing to ask – and answer – critical questions about these and other pediatric health problems with help from $3 million in new grants from the Children's Discovery Institute.
In one of the funded projects, Stephanie Fritz, MD, will follow 135 pediatric patients and their households for one year to identify genetic and environmental factors that influence the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a common strain of bacteria that doesn't respond to some antibiotics. MRSA is the most frequent cause of skin infections and invasive, life-threatening infections of the muscles and bones in children. Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of MRSA infections in healthy children in the community, but combating these infections has been limited by the lack of effective preventive measures. This research could lead to the development of novel methods to interrupt the spread of MRSA and to prevent infections.
Newly funded cancer-related projects will explore strategies to prevent nerve damage resulting from a commonly prescribed chemotherapy drug; genetic risk factors for brain tumors; and the ways by which an important cellular defense mechanism goes awry in brain tumors. Research projects focusing on cardiovascular disease will examine the link between congenital heart disease and brain development in infants, as well as the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome — a disease characterized by obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Projects related to lung diseases will explore the genes responsible for excessive airway narrowing associated with asthma and mechanical structures in the cells that line the airways important for clearance of mucus. Other newly funded Institute projects will examine genetic defects associated with autoimmune diseases; approaches to prevent sudden deaths related to insulin therapy; the genetic underpinnings of scoliosis in adolescents; and the characteristics of proteins implicated in type 2 diabetes.
"These projects represent the broad range of important pediatric diseases that the Institute tackles each year," said Mary Dinauer, MD, PhD, Scientific Director of the Children's Discovery Institute, the Fred M. Saigh Distinguished Chair of Pediatric Research at St. Louis Children's Hospital and professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine. "Collectively, this research could ultimately benefit millions of children in the United States."
The Children's Discovery Institute is a multi-disciplinary, innovation-based research partnership between St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine that has awarded nearly $29 million in scientific grants since its launch. The Institute encourages unique, productive collaborations among scientists at the School of Medicine, the university's Danforth Campus and Children's Hospital. Institute-funded projects constitute "discovery research" — preliminary studies that could yield new treatments in the future.
To date, Institute awards have resulted in significant progress in children's health research. Awardees have leveraged their initial "seed funding" to gain $69 million in additional funding resources from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other national organizations.
"Through a unique and extensive set of collaborations, Institute researchers have already made tremendous progress in advancing research on pediatric diseases," Dr. Dinauer said. "There is still a long way to go, and the newest round of funding will help these investigators provide important insights that have the potential to lead to new treatments."
Children's Discovery Institute Awards
February 2012
- Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi, MD, will investigate the contribution of fetal vitamin D deficiency to the development of metabolic syndrome and identify genes that predict the onset of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease.
- Martha Bhattacharya, PhD, will receive a fellowship to develop molecular strategies to prevent the chemotherapy drug vincristine from causing peripheral nerve damage, which results in pain and loss of nerve function.
- Megan Cooper, MD, PhD, will use next-generation gene sequencing to determine whether genetic defects in abnormal immune cells lead to the development of a range of pediatric autoimmune diseases associated with serious long-term health problems.
- Simon Fisher, MD, PhD, will study the mechanisms by which high insulin doses in children with type 1 diabetes can cause sudden death, and test novel therapeutic approaches to prevent this potential deadly side effect.
- Stephanie Fritz, MD, will receive a Faculty Scholar Award to track pediatric patients and their households to identify genetic and environmental factors that influence the spread of MRSA.
- Matthew Goldsmith, MD, and Christina Gurnett, MD, PhD, will examine the genetic basis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, the most common pediatric spinal deformity, to gain biological insights that could lead to the development of non-surgical therapeutic strategies.
- Paul Hruz, MD, PhD, and Katherine Henzler-Wildman, PhD, will study the structure and movements of glucose transport proteins, which carry the blood sugar glucose into cells, to provide a basis for designing drugs that improve the function of these proteins in type 2 diabetes.
- Cynthia Ortinau, MD, will use advanced neuroimaging techniques to test whether changes in blood flow to the brain associated with congenital heart disease impair brain development and neurologic outcome in infants, and assess the impact of neonatal heart surgery on brain development.
- Anand Patel, MD, will identify genes and molecular pathways responsible for excessive airway narrowing in response to allergen exposure or viral infection to offer insights that could lead to the discovery of novel treatments for asthma, the most common chronic childhood disease.
- Joshua Rubin, MD, PhD, and David Gutmann, MD, PhD, will examine genetic variations that increase the risk for brain tumors in children with the genetic disease neurofibromatosis 1, and investigate why these tumors are more common in boys than in girls, in order to improve diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for children with brain cancer.
- Gang Xu, DSc, will receive a fellowship to measure the mechanical properties of important structural components found in cilia — whip-like appendages on cells that propel fluid and materials in the airways — to understand abnormalities in the movements of cilia that are associated with pulmonary diseases.
- Zhongsheng You, PhD, and David Piwnica-Worms, MD, PhD, will investigate the role of nonsense-mediated messenger ribonucleic acid decay (NMD), a cellular surveillance system that blocks the production of defective proteins, in pediatric brain cancer.


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French doesn't just live in France, as anyone who studied the language at Middlebury's l'École française can tell you. While improving their linguistic fluency, students explore many facets of Francophone culture and identity, from cinema of the Maghreb to Créole cooking to Quebecois folk music.
If the French School strives to create an immersive francophonie in miniature, the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in Cameroon introduces undergraduates to the nuances of a country sometimes referred to as "Africa in miniature." Beyond the Eiffel Tower and baguettes, the students who choose to go abroad there get a genuine taste of life in Francophone Africa.
Every week at the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in Cameroon, students in Ariane Ngabeu's culture and literature class have a standing assignment. On Monday, they turn in a one-page reflection in French about what the week was like and what they experienced.
Ngabeu, director of the School in Cameroon, laughs when remembering the evolution in their responses. "The first week, they all said, basically, 'This is so strange! This is different.' It's all good, but very emotional! Then, afterwards, they really started to know what's what. They learn so quickly! They know so much about Cameroon now."
Describing experiences like riding in a taxi shared with five strangers to discovering that malaria is as common in Africa as the flu is in the United States, the students revealed a major shift in their perspective, a new sense of receptivity. As Ngabeu summarized: "They learned that in life you need to be ready for anything and ready to adapt to anything."
Yuki Takeda, a junior at Middlebury who is currently halfway through his study-abroad year in Cameroon, praised the synergy between learning in the classroom and soaking up the environment: "Through the Middlebury courses on Cameroonian culture and history, I've come to understand how this society became as it is today. And, as someone interested in development, I was shocked by the complexity of the problems facing Cameroon's people that I could never have understood without coming here. Living with a Cameroonian host family enabled me to immerse myself profoundly into the local culture and helped me to transition quickly to the life here—to things like 3.5 days of running water per week."
The school, which opened in September and binds students to the Language Pledge for French, considerably widens the range of opportunities available to undergraduate students interested in pursuing studies in Africa with the C.V. Starr program. Previously, the C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad offered only an Arabic-immersion program in North Africa, where the cultural context differs significantly from much of Africa.
Students each take two classes—one in Cameroonian culture and literature and one in African history—at the Middlebury Center in Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé. In addition, each student chooses two courses from a wide variety offered by the Université catholique de l'Afrique centrale (UCAC) or Catholic University of Central Africa, located outside the city. The university recruits students from all over Africa, so students in the C.V. Starr program benefit from a diverse student body and a wide variety of on-site activities and clubs.
According to Ngabeu, the exchange students have impressed the UCAC faculty with their integrity as well as their sharp learning curve. She recalls, "Early on, the students had trouble asking questions in French or expressing themselves, so the UCAC professors, not knowing about the Pledge yet, said, 'It's okay, you can say it in English.' But, the students insisted and they kept speaking French. Their professors told me afterwards, 'They're exceptional!'"
Studying French in Yaoundé and in Cameroon in general provides unexpected advantages, explains Paul Monod, acting dean of International Programs at Middlebury. "There are not very many people in the capital who speak English, so it's a good place to have an immersion program.
"Students have to cope with their French quite quickly and the integration is rapid, but it's not as challenging or as frightening as it would be in France, because French is a second language for almost everybody in Cameroon. There's much more tolerance for mistakes and for people who don't speak the language perfectly, even though the level of French is very good there," notes Monod.
Ngabeu and Monod are developing new opportunities for the school, as well. In the coming term, Ngabeu will offer a linguistics course focusing on an indigenous Cameroonian language. In the near future, students may be able to intern with a microloan firm or the medical branch of UCAC. In the meantime, students explore the community and learn more about the country through group excursions, like hiking trips to Mount Cameroon. Ngabeu also invites students to participate in traditional wedding and funeral ceremonies in Yaoundé and villages around the capital.
Ngabeu strives to open the students' eyes to as many facets of Cameroon as possible: "When I asked the students why they chose to come here, they each told me, 'Je veux vivre la différence, I wanted to live differently.' Hearing their attitude, I believe in this project, and I think that it'll really take off."


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