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Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
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Getting Started
"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me."
That quip by Miriam Amanda "Ma" Ferguson to her Texas constituents last century actually reflects a common attitude toward the Bible. While of course most people know that it wasn't originally written in English, they also think that the ancient text is conveyed pretty accurately in the familiar English quotations: "The Lord is my shepherd . . .," "In the beginning, God created heaven and earth . . .," "Thou shalt not covet . . .," "Let my people go . . .," and so forth. Most people think they know what the Bible says because they've read it in English.
But they're wrong.
Sometimes the familiar English is just misleading, obscuring the focus of the original or misrepresenting an ancient nuance. Other times, the mistakes are more substantial. But the errors are significant and widespread.
This book is a straightforward exploration of where things went awry, how we can recover the original meaning of the Bible, and what we learn from better translations. As we work toward answers, we'll travel a fascinating path that meanders through history, metaphor, sociology, ethics, the law, and even such obscure topics as zoology and Babylonian mathematics, in addition to our primary tools of linguistics and translation theory. Modern linguistics will guide our understanding of ancient Hebrew, and translation theory will help us render what we understand in English.
Because the familiar English translations are, well, familiar, we'll use them as a reference point, looking at where they succeed and, perhaps more importantly, where they fail, starting with an appreciation of the magnitude of the problem.
The majority of English translations stem from the King James Version of the Bible (KJV), first published about four hundred years ago. Named for King James of England, who commissioned it in 1604, the KJV is a literary classic, a volume so central that, like Shakespeare's works, it helped shape the very language in which it was written. But a lot has happened since the early 1600s. English has changed over four centuries. Our understanding of the past has improved. And advances in translation theory and linguistics have opened new doors into antiquity.
Like medieval scholars trying to understand Egypt without carbon dating, or a doctor two hundred years ago trying to fathom the Black Plague, Bible translators throughout most of history have been working blind, struggling—though of course they did not know it—without the numerous benefits of twenty-first century knowledge.
Some people initially don't like the idea of mixing modernity and the Bible, because, as they correctly point out, the Bible isn't modern. Nor, they observe, is the Bible scientific, and they therefore wonder why a book like this one introduces linguistics, history, archaeology, and other modern approaches as we probe the Bible. But the matter is more nuanced than that. Even though the prophets who commented on the Five Books of Moses were unaware of modern literary theory, for example, we can still use that framework to help us understand what the prophets were doing and how they wrote. For that matter, they may not even have known about the rhetorical devices they used in the poetry, but we can nonetheless use our modern understanding to understand their ancient work.
We might compare the situation to that of a Renoir painting found languishing in a garage somewhere. Even though the painting is a nonscientific work of art, we'd use science to determine its authenticity. And if it were authentic, we'd use more science to clean it up and to recover as much of the original as possible. Depending on the state of the painting, we might want cleansing agents, infrared photography, or even a complete reconstruction. These modern nonartistic steps would restore the older art. Similarly, modern science, rather than turning the Bible into what it was not, helps us retrieve what it was.
Because the KJV is so widely used, and because it has been so central in English translations of the Bible, we'll start by looking at that translation more closely. When we do, we'll find three main sorts of shortcomings. The first problem is that English has changed in 400 years. The second is that the authors misunderstood some of the Hebrew, so they didn't always appreciate the meaning of some parts of the Bible. And third, their conception of translation was seriously flawed, so that even when they did understand the Hebrew, they were not always able to convey it properly in English.
These problems are not limited to the KJV. They afflict other translations, too. The proportions differ, with more modern versions from last century offering (obviously) more modern English but frequently and surprisingly sometimes doing an even poorer job of translation. First things first, though. Let's look at the KJV and see how it actually blurs and distorts the meaning and beauty of the Bible.
Not surprisingly, the English of the twenty-first century differs from that of the seventeenth century.
Some of the changes in English are obvious, such as the verbs in "Abraham clave the wood for the burnt offering" (modern English demands "cleaved" or, better, "split"), "The LORD God of heaven . . . which spake unto me and that sware unto me" ("spoke" and "swore"), or "God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do" ("has" and "shown"). Similarly, the fifth plague in Egypt is called "a very grievous murrain" ("murrain" is a disease of cattle and sheep) and the sixth "blains upon man" ("boils," perhaps), both times using terminology that modern readers find foreign. Isaiah 31:3 warns, "He that is holpen shall fall down" ("helped").
While these obsolete words give the modern reader the mistaken impression that the Bible, too, is obsolete, they also red-flag their own shortcomings. Words like "clave," "blains," and "holpen"—and many more like them—don't mean anything in modern English. So they don't convey the wrong meaning of the Hebrew so much as they sometimes fail to convey any meaning at all.
Other changes in English are more subtle and insidious, because the older words still exist in modern English but with different meanings. The KJV translation "I shall not want" had nothing to do with desire but rather with lacking, so "I will lack nothing" is the real point. Moses is called "meek," but to indicate humility, not powerlessness. The "vail under the taches" that adorns the Tabernacle might now be called a "curtain." (And "taches" are clasps.) On its face, Proverbs 28:21 seems odd: "To have respect of persons is not good." But "respect" meant "to be partial," and the point was to avoid favoritism.
Similar changes include "let," as from Isaiah 43:13, "[God] works; who can let it?" The text there uses "let" not in the modern sense of "allow" but, rather, its opposite, "hinder" (a term preserved in tennis but otherwise rare nowadays). "Prevent" (from the Latin praevenire) used to mean "go before" or "precede," which is why Psalm 59:10 reads "The God of my mercy shall prevent me" in the KJV, while now we would say, ". . . will go before me." The beautiful imagery of Song of Songs, "the flowers appear on the earth . . . the voice of the turtle is heard," now wrongly suggests a turtle; the animal is in fact a bird, now called a "dove" or a "turtledove." And modern readers do not immediately think that a talking donkey is the same as a talking ass.
In addition to changes in the meanings of English words, we find differences in what linguists call "register," such as how formal language differs from informal, spoken from written, casual from stiff, etc. (We cover this more in Chapter 3.) The authors of the KJV purposely chose formal but not archaic English, English they would have called modern (though now linguists classify it as "Middle English" or "Early Modern English"). Twenty-first-century readers who encounter the lofty, archaic English of the KJV wrongly conclude that it was meant to reflect lofty, archaic Hebrew. It was not. Back then, "I shall" was standard, while "I will" was used only for emphasis. The word "thou" was intimate, sometimes used in contrast to "ye." Verbs like "goest" were commonplace. The effects of these changes combine in sentences like "Who told thee that thou wast naked?" which was originally no more formal than "Who told you that you were naked?" Similarly, "draw not nigh hither" is just "come no closer."
So far, we've seen cases where the KJV had the right translation for its time, but English has changed enough to make that translation wrong for our time. But while the scholars and theologians who worked on the KJV did a surprisingly good job, they were not perfect, and sometimes even in the seventeenth century the English in the KJV was wrong.
For example, Leviticus 25 deals extensively with the "jubile year," now spelled "jubilee." It's the fiftieth year of a cycle, a year in which to "proclaim liberty throughout all the land." (The concept proved so compelling that the forgers of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia co-opted the line.)
The Hebrew for "jubile(e)" year is yovel, a word that refers to a kind of horn, perhaps a ram's horn, and, presumably, is associated with the fiftieth year because a horn is to be blown in that year. (In Chapter 2 we learn how we know what the Hebrew means.) The Latin form of yovel, based on the Greek, is iobileus. By pure chance, that Latin word sounds like iubileus, connected to the verb iubilare, "to celebrate." That is, the Latin words for "yovel horn" and "jubilation" sound almost the same. Based on this Latin coincidence, the Hebrew word for a kind of horn turned into an English word that suggests celebration. The KJV translation is simply wrong.
(A similar process gave us the myth that the fruit Eveeats in Genesis is an apple. It's never called that, but the Latin word for "apple" is malum, a word that also happens to mean "evil." Because the tree from which the fruit comes is the tree of "knowing good [bonum in Latin] and evil [malum]," some people assumed that the fruit, too, must be a malum—that is, an apple. At least that mistake never made it into the KJV, but the coincidence still caused enough widespread confusion that most people think the Bible calls the fruit an "apple.")
The KJV didn't get just individual words wrong. The translators made mistakes about Hebrew grammar, too. The very common Hebrew word leimor, literally "to say," introduced direct quotation in an era that predated punctuation. But the authors of the KJV, not knowing that the word was the equivalent of quotation marks, translated the word as "saying." That's how we get the common but wrong "God blessed them, saying . . ." or "God spake . . . saying . . .," etc. It's so common that people who read the Bible find it familiar, but it's a mistake. (We talk more about "saying" on page 37.)
Another aspect of grammar is syntax—that is, word order. In every language tiny differences of word order can make a huge difference ("working hard" is not "hardly working"), but until last century researchers lacked a solid understanding of these matters. So it should come as no surprise that the KJV translators erred here as well, misunderstanding subtle clues with far-reaching implications. We'll see examples in Part II, particularly when we look at poetry and imagery.
Sometimes the KJV translators understood the Hebrew but rendered it incorrectly in English. One clear example comes from the snake in Genesis. The snake tells Eve that eating the fruit won't kill her. But the English reads, "Ye shall not surely die," rather than the correct "[You] surely will not die." That is, the KJV leaves open the possibility that Eve could die (you won't surely die, but you might die), while the Hebrew is more reassuring.
Another example comes from Ezekiel's famous vision of the dry bones, in which God tells Ezekiel to prophesy to dry bones in a valley, commanding them to re-form into people. Describing part of the reassembling, Ezekiel 37:7 in the KJV reads, "The bones came together, bone to his bone." Whose bone is "his bone"? The Hebrew simply means "one bone to another," a fact the authors of the KJV must have known, but—and again, we go into more detail in Chapter 3—the primitive state of translation theory (combined with the near lack of the word "its" back then) blocked an accurate translation.
Sometimes the point of the Hebrew was not merely to convey information but to do so poetically. While the KJV certainly possesses a certain poetry, it does not match the original Hebrew very well. Take for instance Job's humble admission that he is but "dust and ashes." Thanks to the KJV, that phrase has become an English expression. But the original Hebrew had two nearly identical words. The question of exactly how the words were pronounced when the Book of Job was written is a complicated one, but we can see for sure that the words for "dust" and for "ash" (it's singular in Hebrew) both have three letters, and the final two pairs are identical: ayin-peh-resh for "dust" and aleph-peh-resh for "ashes." The effect in Hebrew is difficult to reproduce in English, but a pair like "oil"/"soil" gives the right idea. "Rhyme"/"reason" is also similar to the original Hebrew effect. "Dust"/"ashes" is not.
We've seen examples of three kinds of problems in the KJV: The Hebrew was misunderstood. The English didn't represent the Hebrew. And the English, even though it used to match the Hebrew, no longer does because English has changed. Unfortunately, the KJV is not the only edition that suffers from these common problems.
The Bible shelf of most bookstores offers dozens of choices for the potential Bible reader. That's because we are not the first to think about the KJV or about translation, and many others have tried to improve on the flawed but familiar renderings, to correct the antiquated English of the KJV, to apply new theories, or to promulgate religious doctrine.
But even as newer tools to understand the original Hebrew became available, translators generally worked in the shadow of the KJV, either trying to emulate it or, occasionally, specifically trying not to. Some Biblical scholars grew up with the KJV, so they knew it best and unwittingly relied on it. Others, like Ma Ferguson, saw God's own work in King James's mission. And still others simply bowed to economic realities, betting that a KJV-based translation was more likely to sell copies. (The Bible remains the all-time bestselling book ever written.)
In other words, the general methodology has been to start with the KJV and either purposely keep as much as possible or (rarely) change as much as possible. But neither approach makes much sense. There's no sound reason to start translating ancient Hebrew by using a four-hundred-year-old English translation any more than, say, a study of a fifteenth-century Ming vase should start with a photograph instead of with the original.
So in the end, even though more modern translations address some of the shortcomings in the KJV, they are still tainted by it, and even suffer problems of their own. We discuss and evaluate various translations in detail in the Appendix, but for now here's a sample of what's available and why none of the current translations is satisfactory.
Excerpted from And God Said by Dr. Joel M. Hoffman.
Copyright © 2010 by Dr. Joel M. Hoffman.
Published in February 2010 by Thomas Dunne books.
All rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright laws and reproduction is strictly prohibited. Permission to reproduce the material in any manner or medium must be secured from the Publisher.


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Recording every second of your life just got a little bit easier. The Autographer camera, designed to be worn on your clothes or around your neck and captures up to 2000 images of your day so they can later be combined as a frame-by-frame remembrance.
The lens has a 136-degree view, the same as your eye, and uses five sensors to automatically capture what is happening around you.
The technology was originally designed for helping alzheimer's patients. The camera is priced at $650 and will be available to purchase in November 2012.
The mobile device has transformed from a decade ago with people relying on it to keep them constantly connected, and share most every facet of their life via social media.
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TIME magazine asked its readers from all over this great planet to take photos with their mobile phones and post them to Instagram using the hashtag #TIMEwireless. They received over 31,000 entries from more than 120 countries and the editorial team selected 288 to appear on the cover of the latest issue of TIME. We actually felt obligated to tag TIME on Instagram, but none of Social Irony's photos made the cut. However we have a few friends that did have their images published and a big congrats to you!
*This entire short was composed and image captured using the iPhone… at a comfortable cruising altitude of 37,000 feet en route to Hong Kong. Follow @socialirony on Instagram and tag your cool tech savvy photos using #socialirony.
Justin James Muir is the mind behind this non-profit book and exhibition A Book of Beards. It celebrates the gnarliest looking beards we've seen, as well as some of the most creative. Collecting images of gentleman with the burly facial growth, the book is a portrait gallery that could have been published yesteryear. Beautifully captured in crisp black and white, A Book of Beards is a great addition to your book collection. Proceed from the book will benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Instagram had its first makeover since the Facebook juggernaut purchased the photo-sharing app for more than US$1 billion. Update to version 2.5 is now available for iPhone. Follow us on Instagram @socialirony.
The Super Moon. As close as it will ever be. A mere 221,802 miles away.
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The Rev. Dr. William Franklin Graham, Jr. KBE (born November 7, 1918 in Charlotte, North Carolina), commonly known as Billy Graham, is an American Christian evangelist. He has often advised U.S. presidents and continues to be ...Add to my favourites Get these quotes on a PDF
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
When I was still a teenager, I received Christ. The scripture says that he clothed me in a robe of righteousness because of the cross, and when God looks at me, he does not see my ...
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.


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The Chevrolet Camaro Performance Garage Concept may be based on the Camaro SS , but it's also a track-oriented muscle car that carries a host of performance components from the SS' big brothers: the Z/28 and ZL1 .
Safe to say, this is the ultimate Camaro mash-up, something that a lot of enthusiasts will be looking into if Chevrolet decides to drop the 'concept' label and send this car into production, even on a limited basis.
Not taking any shortcuts on giving the Garage Camaro Concept the modifications it deserves, Chevrolet Accessories added a host of new aero components on the muscle car. These components are highlighted by RS headlamps and taillights, a new rear spoiler and grille, blacked-out mirrors, a new rear diffuser, and, of course, a set of satin-black, 10-spoke Track Pack wheels.
There are also a number of "Chevrolet Performance" graphics on the muscle car, particularly on the windshield header and rockers, ensuring that the concept's characteristics are remembered by those who see it.
In addition to the aesthetic and aero upgrades, Chevy also spent a lot of time tweaking the Camaro Garage Concept's performance credentials, using components sourced from the ZL1 and the Z/28 parts pins. The short-throw shifter and the brake system were taken from the former. The latter's parts are well-represented too, including: "Shorty" exhaust headers, a 2.75-inch exhaust system, front ride/handling links, rear upper control arms, stabilizer bars, a Helical differential with an internal cooling system, brake ducts and racing-derived DSSV (Dynamic Suspensions Spool Valve) dampers.
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Justice: Do we really need a new dimension?Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake Jr. wants the General Assembly to create a commission that would develop a new level of appeal for some people convicted of major crimes. The proposal comes as the result of some people having served...
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Jill Stark is a senior writer for The Sunday Age. She is the author of High Sobriety, a book about Australia's drinking culture and how she survived a year without booze.
Caulfield kicks up its spring heels
Jill Stark Although more low-key than Flemington's hoopla, Caulfield is no slouch when it comes to style.
High sobriety
Jill Stark I was the binge drinking reporter. During the week I wrote about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends I wrote myself off.
Express checkout: home 4 hours after birth
Jill Stark When Sian Baird gave birth to her third child Seraphine five weeks ago, the process was so quick her husband Sam joked it was ''like a day at the office''.
Ban booze ads near kids, urge health groups
Jill Stark Public health campaigners are calling for bottle shop exclusion zones around schools and a ban on alcohol advertising on public transport.
Hep C net widens after raids on clinic, homes
Jill Stark, Ruth Williams and Rafael Epstein Victoria's chief health officer yesterday confirmed that screening of patients treated by a doctor suspected of infecting women with hepatitis C would be widened.


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Source: The Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
Based on ten case studies, the report explains what motivated a highly diverse mix of businesses to consider employee ownership as a succession or start up route.
Author: Ashford, Robert
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Syracuse University, Owners At Work
Publication Year: 2006
ESOPs are part of a broader approach to expanded capital ownership, broader prosperity, and economic justice known as binary economics. Binary economics was first advanced by Louis Kelso, who is also widely known as the inventor of the ESOP.
Author: Freeman, Richard B.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Centre for Economic Performance
Publication Year: 2008
This paper summarizes new evidence from the "Shared Capitalism" Project on the extent to which workers' earnings depend on the performance of their firm or work group in the US and advanced European countries and on the impact of sharing arrangements on economic behavior.
Authors: Roosenboom, Peter; van der Groot, Tjalling
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Source: Bowne, Routledge, Applied Economics - Vol. 38, No. 12, Pgs. 1343-1351
Publication Year: 2006
CFOs may wonder about the best ways to keep stock-owning employees committed to the company after an IPO. Research by corporate finance professors Peter Roosenboom and Tjalling van der Groot shows a decrease in insiders' stock ownership from 52.1% before the IPO to 34% afterward, an indication of the powerful financial lure a post-IPO stock sale presents.
Author: Kaarsemaker, Eric
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Source: E.C.A. Kaarsemaker
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What are the effects of employee ownership, and of the internal fit between employee ownership and the HRM system, on HRM outcomes and firm performance?
Authors: West, Robert; Zech, Charles
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Edwards, Inc.
Publication Year: 2008
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the internal financial control mechanisms employed by U.S. Catholic dioceses on one measure of their effectiveness – the amount of embezzlement that has occurred in the diocese in recent years. The study is based on data collected from a recent survey of diocesan chief financial officers.
Authors: Chertow, G.M.; Lee, C.P.; Zenios, Stefanos A.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Publication Year: 2009
How much are we-and should we be-willing to pay, as a society, for improving health outcomes? The authors discuss how making medical decisions based on their cost-effectiveness leads to profound ethical dilemmas.
Authors: McMillan, John; Lorentzen, Peter; Wacziarg, Romain
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Springer Science+Business Media
Publication Year: 2008
Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, this paper argues that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. It finds that a greater risk of death during the prime productive years is associated with higher levels of risky behavior, high fertility, and lower investment in physical capital, and that adult mortality explains almost all of Africa's growth tragedy.
Authors: Rao, Hayagreeva; Davis, Gerald F.; Morrill, Calvin; Soule, Sarah A.
Product Type: Journal Articles; Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Administrative Science Quarterly
Publication Year: 2008
The agendas of organization studies and the study of social movements are converging. Scholars of both fields contribute to a special issue of Administrative Science Quarterly dedicated to building stronger connections among scholars of social movements, organizations, and markets.
Author: Becker-Blease, John
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
Economists and legal scholars have discussed the proper role of a public corporation since at least the early part of the 20th century. The two major schools of thought that have emerged from this discourse are frequently characterized as shareholder primacy and stakeholder primacy, noting that shareholders are one of many stakeholders.
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- David Mansueto
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Some countries have a low "safety net". Do you think a "ceiling height" should also be established?
Many countries have established a safety net in which to prevent a certain population of people within a society to fall below a certain poverty line. Things like cash transfers, subsidies and public services are set up to support these people.
With the increased divide between low, middle and high income people, in real terms perhaps this safety net has not been lifted high enough to keep up. Often in tougher economic times certain programs and schemes that make up this safety net are reduced or given up completely in response to budgetary measures and debt.
There are many measures to try and maintain a certain equality amongst income distribution in a society such as a progressive tax system, however perhaps more is needed?
Perhaps a higher limit should also be established to try and close that gap in an aim to try to distribute money more evenly and direct excess money (if any) to re-invest in businesses and the economy.
In some sports a salary cap has been implemented for the aim to try and create a more even playing field amongst teams so that a single wealthy club cannot entrench dominance over players.
Could a similar idea be used to control income distribution within an economy? Opinions, ideas, suggestions and alternative examples of this idea would be very interesting to hear.
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Tab RasaJan 9 2014: Creating a cap in civilian life would be meaningless: those with the money and power would just find ways around it or ignore it all together. History has proven this with the communist and socialist experiments. Just look at Russia and Italy.
The better approach is to raise the lowest common denominator rather than lowering the numerators, to use a mathematical metaphor badly.
Jan 9 2014: (when positives are involved) Add fractions less than 1, multiply fractions greater than 1
when negatives are involved, do the absolute inverse- take the absolute value and if greater than 1 add it, else multiply it -
When one multiplies fractions less than 1, one gets at best the highest one, though when one adds them one can get more than the highest one...
BTW if one raises anyones level by x amount the overall level is shifted upwards ... evidently for the lowest ones a given level increase of x could seem to be quite significant where as to the higher levels it would seem to be quite insignificant. the argument to shift from the high to the low becomes mute for redistribution of wealth doesn't increase wealth it merely redistributes it. the better approach to raise wealth levels requires that we actually raise the wealth levels! Who do you think is better at making and managing wealth increases the wealthy or the un-wealthy? An argument at the individual level to increase one while decreasing another breaks down at the group level where every increase increases wealth and every decrease decreases it. Get the wealthy incentives to get the un-wealthy into the wealthy levels!
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CHRIS BROWN's recent Twitter feud with comedian JENNY JOHNSON is considered "verbal rape," at least according to a host on "The View."
Chris Brown's vulgar tweets during his controversial Twitter fight with comedy writer Jenny Johnson has been likened to "verbal rape" by "The View" co-host, Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
As previously reported, the "Don't Judge Me" singer-rapper—who shut down his Twitter account after the feud—sent revolting messages to Johnson suggesting that she perform sexual acts after she sent him an insult out of nowhere.
Hasselbeck described the tweets as "disgusting" on Monday's episode of "The View," and said:
"It seems like verbal rape to me."
She added:
"What he wrote should never ever have to go across any sort of Twitter feed… It was vile."
Her co-host, actress Whoopi Goldberg, disagreed with the term but said:
"Both were verbally assaulting each other."
Who do you agree with on this one?
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It's always interesting to see Japanese magazines write about Western sci-fi films because they focus on some really obscure choices.
I consider myself fairly knowledgeable when it comes to sci-fi movies and such and I have never heard of a Damnation Alley or Master of the World.
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Really great job, I quite enjoyed it.
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Really great job, I quite enjoyed it.
There is really so much more to the Lore than I knew, I'm learning a ton. So much that I'm almost kind of ashamed of how much I didn't know! It's nice to see Deathwing mentioned, since he'll of course be quite prominent soon.
Turalyon should come back. The Alliance *really* needs a strong, noble, awesome hero to rally behind. It really bothers me that most of the Alliance's greatest heroes have gone neutral, while most Horde favorites remain Horde-exclusive. We need someone loyal to the Alliance to look up to.


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Gender: Male
City: Southport
Stand: Bullens Road
Country: United Kingdom
First Game
Nottingham Forrest 1995
Favourite Everton Moment
Winning the FA Cup in '95.
Favourite All Time Player
Duncan Ferguson. What a number 9 should be
Favourite Current Player
Tim Cahill. Epitomises everything good about Everton
Favourite Manager
David Moyes. He's got red hair but we don't care
Favourite Game
Beating Liverpool 3-0 at home. DDDD Andy Johnson
Favourite Goal
For sheer technique and excitement, McFadden vs Charlton
Favourite Kit
One2One or 04/05
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Kopites are Gobshites


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One of my favorite, go-to recipes. Have shared it with friends too. Comfort food at its best, and healthy too. Good use for leftover turkey as well!
Chunky Chicken-Barley Soup
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kimca01 Posted: 01/24/13
Never submitted a review on this site but had to for this one as it's delicious and I've made it at least 5-6 times already. Freezes well in freezer bags then can defrost for a quick lunch in the microwave. I do cook it long to get the barley softer. Doesn't look like much but makes up for it in taste. Thanks so much for the recipe. (Also, for those on WW - it depends on how many servings you make it into but it's a good 4-5 point, filling meal!)
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Absolutely one of my favorite soups! Loved it the first time I tried it, and have been making it ever since. Delicious and healthy, quickly and easily prepared with a few on-hand ingredients -- what's not to love?
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School's almost out! Summer's almost here! The beaches are calling your name!
Wait, school's almost out? The kids are probably rejoicing about that fact, but you might be concerned about keeping them active, busy and entertained during their three months of freedom. Luckily, there's this thing called summer camp. And we think you should take full advantage.
We've got plenty of summer camp options around the entire county below. Click on the links for all the details of each camp, like specific camp descriptions, location and contact information. Extra points if you can find enough summer camps to keep your kids busy consistently throughout the summer!
If you know of any good camps we missed, let us know in the comments.
- What: YMCA Raintree Camp is the perfect place for young horse riders. Ride horses, learn to care for them and more at this horse-tailored camp in Julian for those ages 9-16.
- When: Six-day sessions run from June 17-Aug. 17.
- Cost: $560-$660
- What: Camp Science Safari and Culinary Creations are for the curious kids out there. Future scientists, fashionistas and chefs can get a taste of their future at these day camps.
- When: Sessions run from July 23-27; July 30-Aug. 7; Aug. 6-10; Aug. 13-17
- Cost: Average cost per camp is $225.
- What: Outpost Summer Camps is great for all North County residents, with offerings like rock climbing, sailing and more, all tailored for kids ages 3 to kids in 9th grade.
- When: There are three sessions offered at Outpost: June 18-July 6; July 9-20; and July 30-Aug. 17.
- Cost: Pricing varies anywhere from $155-$1180. You can see the breakdown of it all here.
- What: Rancho YMCA has plenty of choices to summer activities for the kids. From day camps, to extended camps to overnight camps, there's something that will catch your child's eye.
- When: Day camps run from June 11-Aug. 31.
- Cost: Prices vary on each camp.
- City of Santee Recreation Services has plenty of summer activity camps. Check out what they have to offer on June 22 from 5-6 p.m. at City Hall.
- East County YMCA boasts more than 100 summer camps to keep kids away from the video games during the long summer hours.
- Lemon Grove Recreation Services is bringing back summer camps with fun trips for the kids to places like the Chula Vista Nature Center, a Padres game and Soak City. Sessions will run June 25-Aug. 31. Call 619-825-3800 for all the info.
- The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center has a day camp for kids this summer that can cater to plenty of East County families.
- The City of La Mesa has summer classes that will keep the kids active, as well as their brains.
- What: The City of Oceanside offers plenty of summer camps, like skate, surf and swim camps, in four-day sessions.
- When: The sessions run from June 11-Aug. 17 in four-day increments.
- Cost: Prices vary from $70-$110.
- What: Mottino Family YMCA offers up summer camps for the kiddos. Register them for activities like bowling, surfing, swim and more.
- When: Camp start dates go from June 11-Aug. 20 and are available in daily or weekly sessions.
- Cost: $25 deposit plus anywhere from $155-$300. Discounts are offered for YMCA members.
- What: Sunrise Surf School will get your kids out on the water riding the waves in no time. Kids as young as 6 can participate, but note that kids ages 6-11 need to be accompanied by an adult. This might be something for the teens in your household. Overnight Surf Camp Weeks are available, which means date nights for you and your significant other.
- When: Sessions vary, but overnight camps run from June 11-15, June 25-29 and July 9-13.
- Cost: Group lesson is $60, private lessons are $90 and overnight camps are $700 for the week.
- What: City of Carlsbad has half-day and all-day camps for your young ones. Pick the best camp suited for your child and sign them up. Choose from basketball, laser tag, art and more.
- When: Dates vary depending on which camp you choose. Check the site for specifics.
- Cost: Cost varies depending on activities, but discounts are given to residents.
- What: Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA offers summer day camps to keep the kids busy during the day, allowing for a more productive day for you. Options are seemingly-endless, with choices like theatre, art, science, space camp and even half-day options for those who can't be away from mom to long.
- When: Dates vary depending on which camp you choose. Check the site for the specifics.
- Cost: Cost varies depending on activities, but discounts are given to YMCA members.
- What: City of Encinitas Parks and Rec offers to take the brood off your hands and keep them active with camps like j unior lifeguarding, seaside camp and more.
- When: Dates vary depending on which camp you choose.
- Cost: Cost varies depending on which camp you choose.
- What: Camp at the Aquarium has summer adventure camps that will keep the kids learning all throughout summer. Camps are divided by grade with fun activities like snorkeling.
- When: Four-day weekly sessions run from June 25-Aug. 24
- Cost: Prices vary and there are discounts for Birch Aquarium members.
- What: Young Architects Camp with LJ Historical Society is inviting future architects to come learn the principles of architecture and its role in the building of the community of La Jolla.
- When: Classes will run July 23-27 from 9 am to 3:00 pm.
- Cost: $350.
- What: Coronado Recreation Department hosts a plentiful amount of summer camps for kids of all ages, including rock climbing, golfing, swimming and more. You can download their summer brochure to see all the offerings.
- When: Dates vary for each camp.
- Cost: Prices vary for each activity. See the brochure for full pricing details.
- What: YMCA Camp Surf gets your kids on the beach and in the water. Choose from a day camp or overnight camp for kids in grades 1-7.
- When: Sessions run from June 18-Aug. 17.
- Cost: $195-$225 a week.


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Editor's Note: This is a corollary blog to accompany my column about how our marriage works after 15 years. Please read the other story too — preferably first.
Our wedding anniversary hits during a month with three family birthdays. We usually do not celebrate this date other than to literally pat each other on the back and say "Happy Anniversary." We do try to at least celebrate the five-year marks with a little more oomph!
For our 5th anniversary we went to New Orleans for a few days. We didn't have kids yet, and we had a fantastic time in the Big Easy. For our 10th anniversary, we had two kids. Rose was 4 and Walsh was almost 2. My parents babysat the kids so we could take a four-night cruise to Mexico. We hadn't been alone in four years! That was fantastic.
We didn't have time (nor did we want to spend a crazy amount of money) to take a trip for our 15th wedding anniversary, but Michael still wanted to make it special.
Michael secretly planned an entire 24 hours away from the kids. I didn't know the destinations or activities. I was told to bring a dressy outfit, casual day outfit and a swimsuit. He hired two babysitters, and we left Friday afternoon.
First stop – the car wash. I couldn't figure out why this stop was necessary, but then I was glad he made us. He took me to the new W Downtown Hotel and Residences, where of course they valet park. (Why won't the people in this town let you park your embarrassing car all alone!) The hotel was spectacular and the staff treated you like a star.
He booked the "Cool Corner Suite." ( I believe that was what the staff called it.) Two sides of the suite were windows so you had an amazing view of Atlanta. The décor was funky – plum walls with teal shiny accents, L-shaped couch, faux mink blanket on the bed.
We went for drinks in the hotel at The Drinkshop. We had read the review of the bar in the AJC back in January and Michael remembered I wanted to go there. It didn't disappoint. (You can't take photos in there.)
We took a cab to Ray's In The City where Michael had sent roses to be waiting at our table. I pretty much told everyone we met that we were celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary, including our waiter. After dinner, the waiter brought us champagne and the flourless chocolate torte on the house as an anniversary present. Both were excellent.
We took a cab back to the hotel and actually took a break in the room. We were so full (and I guess old!) we needed to rest. Then we headed back down to the Drinkshop for more cocktails.
It was hopping by this time. They had a DJ who was spinning some surprisingly old tunes. I talked to him as we were leaving, and it turns out he grew up in Gwinnett too and use to roller skate at the same place I did as a kid! (Michael is always aggravated by my ability to find people from Gwinnett.) I also told this waitress that we were celebrating our anniversary, and they surprised with a round a free drinks!
The next day we got up to work out. I didn't bring tennis shoes but had my swimsuit. I went to swim on their rooftop heated pool. It wasn't heated enough at 9 a.m. So I headed back the room. However, I didn't take the right key, and I was locked out of our room and the gym. I called downstairs to get someone to let me in. I waited in the hallway in a wet bathing suit and towel, and eventually a slightly suspicious worker let me in. (Really, how many people are breaking into hotel rooms at 9 a.m. in wet swimsuit and a W towel?) (No photo available of me locked out!)
Michael had a file of restaurant reviews and activities that he printed off of Access Atlanta. We went to brunch at the Thumbs Up diner on Edgewood Ave., and it was fantastic!
Then we went to the Margaret Mitchell House off of Peachtree St. I grew up in
Atlanta but had never visited the house. The tour guide told us lots of amazing facts I had never heard about Margaret Mitchell and "Gone With the Wind." There is also a "Gone With the Wind" museum behind the house. I loved all the scathing letters from Margaret Mitchell yelling at the producers of the movie about how they were screwing things up!
And then it was back to reality. Our house still stood. The children were clean and fed. The babysitters had done a great job, and we were greeted by lovely little squeals and hugs.
How do you celebrate your anniversaries? Are you patting each other on the back or making a big deal of it?
(One bonus shot that I just liked. This was Margaret Mitchell's desk when she was a reporter for The Atlanta Journal. They said she went to interview a woman who has just returned from Europe about ladies' hemlines. The woman apparently witnessed Mussolini's takover of Italy so Mitchell's story turned into an expose on the Facist takover of Italy!)
April 12th, 2009
11:49 pm
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April 13th, 2009
4:10 pm
I am trying to see if my comment will post. We had big travel plans for our 25th anniversary but ended up putting our dear Ole Yellar down, a 14 year old Labrador Retriever. He was so sick and I could not leave him home with the kids as we were all a wreck. I am treating myself to a trip to Montana for my 50th birthday, as it is the last of 50 states that I have not yet visited!
April 13th, 2009
4:11 pm
I am now finding this interesting, as it appears my comment did post and I am MAJOR computer challenged…must be a stroke of luck!
April 13th, 2009
6:34 pm
What a fun anniversary! I fantasize about my hubby planning an entire event for us. I always do all of the planning. For our 5 year anniversary he got me diamond earrings. We have not had a "childless" trip yet. We are talking about going somewhere really special for our 10 year, in 3 years. It will take that long to save up the money! : )
April 13th, 2009
7:17 pm
Congratulations on your anniversary! We celebrated our 15th last September. I always told my husband for our 15th Anniversary, I wanted to go to Paris. In 2007 we adopted our children and Paris went by the wayside (for now). I figured for the next few years, the closest I'm going to get to Paris is at Epcot in Disney World. So, we'll take the kids there and I'll pretend I'm in France.
April 13th, 2009
7:21 pm
What a self absorbed, train wreck! The AJC cuts Jim Wooten but leaves this crap? yea, good luck with that!
April 13th, 2009
8:10 pm
I do not recall any memorable trips from my 5 years of marriage…the kids were too little and we had less money.
The current person and I are in the 'dating' stage — at least we say we are….The big question has been is it 'serious'. Yes we date only each other. We have some similar interests, and yet..
Like you said in Mayo/Mustard….He is athletic, I am a book worm. I want a hardback, he has a 'reader'. I have a 19″ CRCT and he has a 17″ Flat pannel. ( I do have the Flat Screen TV and DVD player). I was out scouting Target for the Hannah Montana CD (for the kids) and he was getting it for them on iTunes.
In fact, most people don't 'get what you see in him" Still when we have broken up it is not longer than 3 months, and usually less than 3 weeks. We call each other every few days while were 'broken up' and finally admit we miss the other. The last few 'dates' we have agreed we are content.
He does not comment on my 'hints' of marriage. He talks about possibly having a home together in the 'future' but does not define he word. He has things he wants to work on before owning a house, I am ready to buy one tomorrow (except for the mortgage loan paperwork!).
Does that make us serious?
I have received exactly 3 roses in as many years. A host of help on upgrading my computer, a shoulder to cry on, an ear to listen when I spout about the 'ex', advice on finances, support on what to do about children and aging parents. He still remembers our first date.
He is in many ways my best friend.
Does that make us serious?
However, to my knowledge we have never ever marked the anniversary of our dating. I seriously wonder if we did marry if we would do more than a pat on the back to mark the date each year. However, if we did, I know we would spend time doing the give and take that has marked our relationship thus far.
Did I get to mushy?
April 14th, 2009
10:19 am
My husband and I usually just exchange cards and go out to eat on our anniversary. We did go away for a weekend on our 10th and also our 14. We didn't go anywhere too fancy or spend a whole lot of money. It was so nice to get away and be together.
For our 10th, we went and stayed at the Chattanooga Choo Choo and slept in a rail car. There are lots of things to do in the city.
For our 14th, we decided to go to the Gatlinburg area. We hiked, went to Cades Cove, drove around in Cataloochee (until we hit a road closed sign). Lots of fun!
April 14th, 2009
10:50 am
For our 10th anniversary it was also my wife's 40th birthday. Trying to balance both delicately I surprised her with a night out for her and several of her closest friends – a girl's night out! I had all of her friends meet us (it was a surprise for her) at the Westin Hotel at Perimeter Mall; there, a limo picked all the girls up and took them to the Buckhead Diner for dinner, my treat. Then, after dinner, I have no idea what they did or where they went, but the story is they ALL had a great time – again, my treat. They all spent the night at the Westin (still my treat). I kept the kids (ages 3 and 1 – we went to Chuck E Cheese!). My birthday was the next day, when I turned 40. She got me a big screen TV!
Fast forward 15 years to our 25th anniversary when we were both turning 55. I had planned to take her to Paris, but her company was going through a buyout and they would not let her take vacation! She was even planning to retire, but they still would not let her off (she eventually retired 5 months later)! So, my romantic plans of a 25th anniversary in the "City of Lights" was kaput! She still has not lived that one down – and we still have not been to Paris – she says we can go anytime – I say you are only married once for 25 years! Oh well – so much for trying to add additional romance to our lives!


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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (October 25, 2012) – The Rutgers women's basketball team hosted its annual media day on Thursday Oct. 25 at the RAC. Head coach C. Vivian Stringer and members of the 2012-13 squad met the media and discussed the season ahead. Coach Stringer is entering her 18th year at the helm of the Scarlet Knight program, 42nd year overall and is only 15 wins away from becoming the third coach in the women's game to reach the 900-win plateau,
The Rutgers women's basketball team opens the 2012-13 season with a well-crafted balance of veteran leadership and youthful enthusiasm, a mix that most programs strive for. The Scarlet Knights return three starters in McDonald's All-Americans Chelsey Lee (Miami, Fla.), Monique Oliver (Las Vegas, Nev.) and Erica Wheeler (Miami, Fla.). This talented group of seniors is coupled with a deep pack of sophomores and freshmen, featuring two straight recruiting classes ranked third-best in the nation according to ESPNU HoopGurlz.
As the most senior member of the squad, Lee returns for her fifth-year following shoulder surgery that forced her to the sideline last season. A dynamic force in the paint, her rebounding and toughness on the defensive end was missed by the Scarlet Knights in 2011-12. She led RU in rebounding in back-to-back seasons as a sophomore and junior with over seven boards per game. Lee increased her offensive production in 2010-11 averaging a career-high 8.5 points per game with 16 double-digit scoring games and a team-best five double-doubles.
Also leading the Scarlet Knights in the frontcourt is Oliver, a two-time All-BIG EAST honoree. The most experienced player with 97 career games and 62 starts, she averaged career highs in scoring (11.8 ppg) and rebounding (7.3 rpg). The 6-2 center also averaged 1.8 blocks per game which ranked fourth in the conference. Oliver will look to add her third-straight All-BIG EAST accolade as one of Rutgers' cornerstones on both ends of the floor.
The other senior in the starting lineup is Wheeler who emerged as an outside scoring threat for Rutgers during her junior season. Ranked 10th all-time in career three-point field goal percentage, she was second on the squad with 39 made three pointers in 2011-12. She posted 11 double-digit scoring outings, including two 20-point performances. Wheeler also led RU on the defensive end, pacing the team with 52 steals.
Junior Alexis Burke (Bainbridge, Ga.), a transfer from the University of Illinois, will sit out the 2012-13 season per NCAA transfer rules. A no. 50 overall prospect by HoopGurlz and the No. 11 small forward, Burke was the Georgia Class 4A Player of the Year after leading Bainbridge High School to a 25-4 record. At Illinois, Buke appeared in 30 games last season making 12 starts with seven double figure scoring games.
The 2011 recruiting class, ranked third-best according to ESPNU HoopGurlz, featured four players ranked in the top-100 and the entire five-member group returns for its sophomore season. Each saw significant playing time last season in preparation for the inevitable – a larger role in the Scarlet Knights championship run in 2012-13.
Leading the sophomore class is 6-0 wing Betnijah Laney (Clayton, Del.), who made a splash in her Scarlet Knight debut. Laney earned a start in the season opener becoming the first true freshman since 2006-07 to start the first game of the season. She added 18 points in the contest which marked the highest scoring output for a rookie in their debut since 1996. An All-BIG EAST Freshman Team selection, Laney led the RU freshmen in points (139), starts (11) and rebounds (124).
Fellow sophomore Briyona Canty (Willingboro, N.J.) showed flashes during her first season as a Scarlet Knight, appearing in 28 games, earning six starts. She averaged 2.9 points and 3.4 rebounds per game and tallied the most steals among freshmen with 31. Shakena Richardson (Neptune, N.J.), the point guard of the future, saw action in 29 games and the early experience in high pressure situations should prove invaluable as she looks to take over the reins as the floor general for Rutgers.
Rounding out the sophomore class is defensive specialist Syessence Davis (Neptune, N.J.) and 6-3 center Christa Evans (Jackson, N.J.). Davis saw action in 30 games with four starts as the 5-7 guard posted 30 steals, leading RU in steals six times, including two-or-more thefts in seven games. Evans helped sure up the frontcourt with the absence of Lee, appearing in 32 contests with four starts. She will look to add to that experience and provide the Scarlet Knights with quality depth off the bench.
Rutgers hauled in another nationally-recognized and highly-touted recruiting class with the addition of four ESPNU HoopGurlz Top-100 prospects for the 2012-13 campaign. It was the second-straight third-ranked group for the Scarlet Knights and third top-five class in the past five seasons.
Headlining this year's recruits is Rachel Hollivay (Columbus, Miss.), the No. 2 ranked post and ninth-rated player in the country overall. The 6-4 post and native of Columbus, Miss. was a five-star prospect coming out of high school. In addition to her scholastic exploits, she was also invited to Colorado Springs, Colo. on two occasions for the U16 and U17 National Team Trials.
Adding to a stable of guards is 6-1 wing Kahleah Copper (Philadelphia, Pa.). The No. 17 overall ranked player and fifth-rated win from Prep Charter where she helped the Huskies to a Public League Championship as a junior in addition to claiming Most Valuable Player accolades.
Ariel Butts (Columbus, Ga.), a 6-3 post and Precious Person (Jonesboro, Ga.), a 6-1 guard are the final members of the nationally-ranked recruiting class. Both Georgia natives, Butts averaged a triple-double as a junior at Carver High School in Columbus. She also appeared on the ESPNU top-100 list at 75th overall and as the ninth-best post player. Person was a four-star recruit (69th overall, 28th-best guard) out of Charles Drew in Rex, Ga. She helped guide her high school squad to the 4-AAA Championship and a state playoff berth.
On the new team and a different feel of this year: I really, really, really, enjoy this team. They're easy to work with, They work hard, and they just want to please. They don't worry about what happened before, and they're interested in starting clean.
I don't think anyone is going to outwork us. This summer they spent an awful lot of time going to amusement parks and cooking dinner for each other and recognizing what family means.
On having greater depth in the post position: We've always been thin in the post, and especially with the loss of Chelsey Lee last year, people would just come at Monique Oliver. If you look at our size this year, we have nice size.
We always play a tough schedule. We'll always continue to challenge ourselves against the best competition in the country. We don't mind where we play or when we play. Once we played three top-10 teams in eight days. We'll take you anywhere, it doesn't really matter. We measure the growth, not the wins, necessarily. Technically where the growth is, is what shows you're ready for NCAA postseason play.
On Monique Oliver recognizing her position on the team as a leader: It's to the point now that we're growing as a team and we understand that it's not about us as individuals, but about who can best do what needs to be done right now.
On playing time: With the exception of Alexis Burke who has to sit out for transfer rules … I expect to see everyone's name on the score sheet. Everyone's contributing every day in practice because they're not favoring each other. They're going at it. That can be difficult to understand that you go to war while you're on the floor, but then you can be friends afterwards.
Senior Forward Chelsey Lee:
On her readiness to play after coming back from her shoulder injury: I feel completely healthy. I'll be honest; I do get nervous sometimes when I set screens because some people just run through them. I just try not to think about it, because when I do, it affects the way I play.
It helps that I started practicing in December because I was so out of shape [after coming back from my injury].
On herself and Monique being the two key posts : I think this could be the first time in a long time, that we have a really dominant presence in the post. We have four post players, including the new freshman and myself, Mo and Christa, whereas before it was just myself and Mo having to watch our fouls. Now there's so many of us, we don't have to hold back while we're playing.
Sophomore Guard/Forward Betnijah Laney:
On growing as a player from freshman year to now: I'm definitely more comfortable now because I'm more experienced. I know what to expect from coach, and overall I just know more of what I'm doing. Last year it was new to me and I didn't really know what I was getting into, but now I know what to expect.
On hitting the medium range shot: It's definitely something I've been working on in the offseason. I'm confident I'll be able to come in and hit the mid-range shots throughout the season.
On the seniors who graduated and the new leadership: We definitely miss [the graduated seniors], but there also comes a time when people have to move on. I don't think we'll dwell on that too much. We have seniors that are definitely stepping up and taking ownership of the team.


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"It shouldn't come as a surprise that Colombia is the world's biggest producer of cocaine, providing around 80 percent of the whole planet's supply. In true entrepreneurial spirit, mom and pop coke shops, or "kitchens," pepper the countryside, churning out 345 tons of the white stuff last year alone. As a commercially-minded fellow who understands the pitfalls of a consumer-driven culture and the importance of production, I decided to spend a day as an apprentice with a cook in the Colombian village of San Agustin."
Morphine, an opium extract, was used as a painkiller and sedative, and sometimes a poison.
The continuing overmedication of the world.
Two graduate students who had no symptoms of mental illness wondered if she thought they should take a powerful schizophrenia drug each had been prescribed to treat insomnia.
Those Georgetown students exemplify a trend that alarms medical experts, policymakers and patient advocates: the skyrocketing increase in the off-label use of an expensive class of drugs called atypical antipsychotics. Until the past decade these 11 drugs, most approved in the 1990s, had been reserved for the approximately 3 percent of Americans with the most disabling mental illnesses, chiefly schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; more recently a few have been approved to treat severe depression.
Here are some highlights of the article:
1. Atypical antipsychotics are being prescribed by psychiatrists and primary-care doctors to treat a panoply of conditions for which they have not been approved, including anxiety, attention-deficit disorder, sleep difficulties, behavioral problems in toddlers and dementia.
2. In the past few years major drugmakers have paid more than $2 billion to settle lawsuits brought by states and the federal government alleging illegal marketing; some cases are still being litigated, as are thousands of claims by patients. In 2009 Eli Lilly and Co. paid the federal government a record $1.4 billion to settle charges that it illegally marketed Zyprexa through, among other things, a "5 at 5 campaign" that urged nursing homes to administer 5 milligrams of the drug at 5 p.m. to induce sleep.
3. In 2010 antipsychotic drugs racked up more than $16 billion in sales. For the past three years they have ranked near or at the top of the best-selling classes of drugs, outstripping antidepressants and sometimes cholesterol medicines.
4. "Antipsychotics are overused, overpriced and oversold," said Allen Frances, former chair of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine
Great article that goes more into detail about doctors prescribing medications for disorders that the medications have not been approved to treat. Take a few minutes and read it.
Ketamine: A New Treatment for Depression?
You may have heard recently that ketamine, an anesthetic medication, may be a promising treatment for depression. There have been no new drugs that treat depression in a unique way in decades, but ketamine works in a different way in the brain than traditional antidepressants.
Ketamine blocks a chemical called glutamate in the brain, which is different from the action of many antidepressants. Most antidepressants work on the neurotransmitters, of which serotonin is the most well known. Ketamine can help put a patient to sleep for surgery or relieve a patient who is in pain by placing them in a kind of trance called 'dissociative anesthesia'. For this reason, the drug can also be abused, helping those who wish to leave reality; the drug can also cause hallucinations similar to PCP.
Magic mushrooms are said to blow your mind, but the hallucinogenic chemical psilocybin, the active ingredient, actually reins in key parts of the brain, according to two new studies.
The memorably vivid emotional experiences reported by mushroom users may flourish because the parts of the brain suppressed by psilocybin usually keep our world view tidy and rational.
And since the brain area affected by psilocybin can also be out of whack in mental health problems such as depression, the researchers speculate that the drug may turn out to be useful in treating mental illness.
The studies are among the first to use brain imaging to take a peek at the brain on psilocybin.
"Depression can be described as a particularly restrictive state of mind," Carhart-Harris told Shots. "People are stuck on how terrible they are. This seems to suggest that people can have a lifting of that negative thinking under psychedelics."
Interesting to see mushrooms, ecstasy, and LSD back in therapeutic use.
In 30 states, unintentional overdoses have surpassed motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of unintended death.
In the year 2010, 7 people died every day in Florida from prescription drug overdoses.
Some designer drugs legal, but just as dangerous as ecstasy
Drugs that cause a serotonin spike have a particularly longer-lasting impact, with the brain only returning to about 50 percent normal after repeated use.
rosy glasses,crimson pills
(by psyberartist)
This short film describes a scenario in which chemical cells are developed as a medical technology. The earliest generation of chemical cells are nothing more than a simple drug-delivery mechanism but successive generations accumulate more of the properties of natural cells until the fifth generation which is considered to be fully alive.
By: James King
The "Just Say No" generation was often told by parents and teachers that intelligent people didn't use drugs. Turns out, the adults may have been wrong.
A new British study finds children with high IQs are more likely to use drugs as adults than people who score low on IQ tests as children.
Researchers discovered men with high childhood IQs were up to two times more likely to use illegal drugs than their lower-scoring counterparts. Girls with high IQs were up to three times more likely to use drugs as adults.
"We suspect they may be more open to new experiences and are more sensation seeking."
Nicotine appears to be a potent "gateway" drug that enhances the effects of cocaine and possibly boosts the chances of becoming addicted, researchers reported Wednesday in a landmark paper on drug addiction.
The mice whose brains had been exposed to nicotine responded differently to the cocaine (exhibiting more characteristics of addiction) compared to mice who weren't exposed first to nicotine. Reversing the order of the drugs by exposing mice to cocaine first then nicotine had no such effect on behavior.
Single magic mushroom 'can change personality'
Use of psychedelic mushrooms led to higher openness scores on personality tests, and the changes lasted up to a year. Keep in mind these are controlled scenarios and nobody is advising anybody to go out and buy mushrooms. Read it in its entirety.
Users who had a "mystical experience" while taking the drug showed increases in a personality trait dubbed "openness", one of the five major traits used in psychology to describe human personality. Openness is associated with imagination, artistic appreciation, feelings, abstract ideas and general broad-mindedness. None of the other four traits – extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness – was altered.
[Participants] were told to lie on a sofa with their eyes covered and listen to music while focusing on an "inner experience".
Their personalities were screened after each drug session and also about a year later. Of the 51, 30 had a mystical experience, after which their openness scores rose, and remained higher for up to a year after the tests. The 21 who did not have a mystical experience showed no change.
People have been using mushrooms to expand their mind and have this kind of experience for a very long time. This could actually be pretty successful if it ever reaches the practice level. Do you think people would pay to go through a session where you take controlled psilocybin while you listen to music or go through a specialized openness training? I might. There are also possible therapeutic benefits as well. Therapeutic use has the ability to increase creativity and self-awareness.
"Psilocybin can facilitate experiences that change how people perceive themselves and their environment. That's unprecedented."
The length of the effect is what I think is intriguing. A lot of drugs produce short-term effects on personality, but something that can significantly increase scores on a personality test after a year is impressive. Could this be used as something a person might come in for at different times in their lives? There is still much to take into a consideration, including possible long-term usage effects as well as age and frequency of use.
It's also interesting how we are reexamining possible uses for illicit drugs. Recent research has also indicated that ecstasy could help in PTSD and anxiety treatment.


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On Wednesday, the ESPN college basketball hive mind released its consensus rankings of every high-major college basketball coaching job in the country. (We also named our best and worst jobs in every mid-major league.)
Naturally, this created no small amount of discussion among readers and commenters, discussion that we here at ESPN.com were already bandying about throughout the voting process.
Which got yours truly thinking: Now that we've ranked the best jobs in every league in the country, how would we rank the best of the best -- the jobs every aspiring coach spends a lifetime pursuing? Consider what follows my humble attempt to do exactly that.
For the sake of consistency, I'm using the same criteria we established for our initial voting, which was laid out in the rankings (see above link): "This is not an attempt to rank the programs or their histories. When voting, our 14 panelists were asked to take into consideration facilities, expectation level, athletic budget, wins and losses, recruiting base, fan support/pressure and all of the other factors that go into determining the 'best' jobs in the ever-crazy profession of college basketball coaching."
Based on that criteria, here's how I see the top 10 jobs in college basketball, from No. 10 to No. 1:
2. Kentucky Do you hear that clicking sound? That's the sound of approximately 4 million members of Big Blue Nation (give or take a few) readying their angry replies to their beloved program's placement at well, anywhere but No. 1 overall.
Indeed, that may be Kentucky basketball's greatest strength: its fan base. UK fans are like no other in the sport, and like few others in any sport. The connection between huge swaths of the Commonwealth and the program it cherishes runs as deep as any such connection possibly could. That intensity alone ensures that Kentucky, come hell or high water, will compete for national championships on a regular basis. Big Blue Nation won't settle for anything less.
That intensity also makes the job an unusually challenging one. Managing the expectations of an entire state -- or trying to live up to them -- is no easy feat. Few have ever done it better than John Calipari, whose media savvy and insane recruiting acumen have turned Lexington into the country's annual one-stop shop for future NBA talent. The Wildcats are coming off an Elite Eight, a Final Four, and a national championship in just three seasons, with a score of NBA lottery picks to show for it.
So why isn't Kentucky No. 1? To my mind, the only thing holding it back -- besides the memory of the pre-Calipari days, and the sneaking suspicion that few others could possibly do the job Calipari has done -- is the aging state of Rupp Arena, which is in desperate need of that $300 million renovation that is reportedly coming sometime down the line. Were it not for Calipari's play-for-me-and-go-pro genuis, would Kentucky have as much to offer the nation's truly elite prospects?
We'll find out eventually, I suppose, but for now, the question is almost moot. As I wrote above, the differences between jobs at this level are almost imperceptible. The point is, Kentucky is one of the truly great programs in the country, backed by the best fans in the sport. If you're a coach, and Big Blue comes calling, you say yes. It's really just that simple.


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