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Prevalence of Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) in Patients With Frozen Shoulder
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Hadassah Medical Organization
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Idiopathic Adhesive Capsulitis, Frozen Shoulder is a condition in which there is a limitation and significant pain at the shoulder and it is increases with shoulder movements. The causes are not clear. The prevalence of this condition is four times higher in diabetic patient compare to the general population.
The relation between frozen shoulder and impaired glucose tolerance remain unclear.
Our hypothesis is that patients with no diabetes and that suffer from frozen shoulder have a higher prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance than the general population age matched.
|Frozen Shoulder Impairment Glucose Tolerance
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Crossover
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
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|Study Start Date:
|April 2009
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|January 2011
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|January 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|30 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
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|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
people that were diagnosed with frozen shoulder at the last three years and are not diabetic.
Inclusion Criteria:
- age 30-60.
- previous Xray that eliminates other disease of the shoulder.
- previous US that eliminates tendon shoulder rupture
- shoulder movement in all directions, with limitation in the external rotation (at least 50%)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosed Diabetes (pregnancy diabetes includes)
- Taking Hyperglycemic medications (like Steroids)
- Fracture or operation in the shoulder before the diagnosis of frozen shoulder.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00926094
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|June 21, 2009
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|May 11, 2011
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
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Nestle sees food price pressure easing
Zurich: Nestle expects pressure from the high prices of basic foodstuffs to ease in the second half of the year, helping it meet its sales growth target in tough markets, after first-half results beat forecasts.
The world's biggest food group said underlying sales rose 6.6 per cent as volume growth ticked up, which analysts said was unique in the sector.
Growth was driven by strong demand from emerging markets and price increases, as the company managed to pass on the soaring cost of its raw materials to consumers.
Net profit rose 8.9 per cent to 5.1 billion Swiss francs (Dh19.19 billion, $5.25 billion) on sales of 44.1 billion francs, up 7.5 per cent year-on-year, with 3.7 percentage points of the rise in underlying sales coming from price increases.
Analysts surveyed by Reuters had forecast on average a net profit of 4.9 billion francs and sales of 43.8 billion francs.
Nespresso, Nestle's fastest-growing big brand, posted "high double-digit growth," although analysts noted that contrasted with first-quarter growth of "around 20 per cent".
Nestle also announced that changes to accounting of its pension liabilities would hit net profit by about 360 million francs from 2013 and increase financing costs by 250 million, although it would have no impact on underlying performance.
Nestle also reported solid performance in Europe, despite its weak economy, as the company sold more affordable goods like its Nescafe 3-in-1 soluble coffee, KitKat chocolate bars and new peelable banana ice cream.
Analysts had on average forecast 6.3 per cent sales growth.
"A very solid set of numbers for what is a class act in the space," said Jon Cox, analyst at Kepler Capital Markets.
The Vevey-based company, which is a big consumer of raw materials such as coffee, cocoa and milk, said input cost pressure resulted in an increase of 50 basis points in the cost of goods sold.
World food prices surged in July after falling in the previous three months and could rise further, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The agency bases its price index on a food basket including cereals, dairy and sugar.
Nestle said it expected commodity price pressures to ease in the second half, helping it meet its long-term target for underlying sales growth of 5-6 per cent this year despite the tough business environment, especially in developed markets.
The worst US drought in over half a century has pushed up grain prices sharply, but cereals only make up a relatively small part of Nestle's raw material costs and the company is well hedged against other commodity prices.
Nestle is maintaining its outlook for input prices to rise in the low to mid-single digits for the year, Chief Financial Officer Wan Ling Martello told analysts, without giving details.
While cocoa prices are surging, coffee and sugar prices are down on expectations of a good harvests in top producer Brazil and milk prices have also been falling.
First-half sales grew 12.9 per cent in emerging markets, compared with just 2.6 per cent in developed markets, with volume growth in Europe practically flat although the company still saw some expansion in the continent's troubled southern nations.
Strong emerging markets also helped Unilever avoid the recent profit warnings by its French and US peers Danone and Procter & Gamble, although it did warn of tougher times ahead due to difficult economies and volatile input costs.
Nestle shares rose 2.5 per cent to a new all-time high of 61.15 francs by 0946 GMT, compared with a 0.7 per cent increase for the European food and beverage index. Analysts contrasted Nestle's performance in Europe, where it saw 2.4 per cent organic growth, with Unilever's fall in sales in the region of 2.2 per cent in the second quarter.

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Tieri Erasito wins Fiji Junior Athlete Award
Tieri's award reflected her record breaking 2008 domestic season and her performances at the 2008 Oceania Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand and the Pacific Schools Games in Canberra, Australia.
Congratulations Tieri!!
Meanwhile Tieri's fellow Fiji Swimming Award winner, Douglas Miller is now at school at St. Josephs College, Nudgee, Brisbane and training under Matt Brown at the Brothers Swimming Club.
Both swimmers are looking forward to qualifying for the Fiji Swim Teams to the 2009 FINA World Championships, the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, the 2011 Pacific Games in New Caledonia and the big one – London 2012.
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Johnson Lee to play Mr. Q
Tuesday June 18, 2013 Hong Kong
Source: http://my.entertainm...-062100559.html
Hong Kong actor-celebrity impersonator Johnson Lee recently revealed that though there may not be another season of the popular prank show, "Office of Practical Jokes", for the time being, he is currently planning to make a live-action movie based on one of Hong Kong's famous comic characters.
As reported on HK Top Ten, the actor shared, "I'll be participating in a live-action version of "Old Master Q" in August. I have always wanted to try a comic adaptation a la Disney so that the families throughout world can watch it."
When asked what role he will be playing, the actor said that he will be playing the titular character, with sexy actress Ellen Chan and his agency's star, 9-year-old child actor Crystal Lee, to play roles in the film as well.
When asked if there will be a place for Miss Chan (Mr. Q's love interest) in the movie, Johnson answered in the positive but refused to clarify if Ellen Chan, whom he was rumoured to be dating, will be playing the role.
Meanwhile, when asked if his girlfriend Lukian Wong will be joining the cast, Johnson laughed and said, "If I have the right character, I can cast her and see how it goes. But I wouldn't just write up a character so that she can be in it."
Created by Alfonso Wong, "Old Master Q" is a popular Chinese comic that has been running in the newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong since 1962, and is still in publication today.
Johnson Lee to play Mr. Q
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I say he could look really good with a receding hairline, mustache and adding more wrinkles to play Old Master Q.


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State lawmakers: Arm campus police
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Two state lawmakers are reviving efforts to arm police at the University of Rhode Island following an incident in which reports of a gunman sent students running from classrooms.
Representatives Joseph Almeida and Doreen Costa said Friday that they will urge the General Assembly to authorize campus police officers to carry guns. Similar legislative proposals have failed in the past.
Rhode Island is the only state that prohibits public university from carrying guns.
URI was on lockdown for more than two hours Thursday after people in a lecture hall said they heard someone say they had a gun. Police found no gun or shooter.
"I certainly would not want to work at a police department that did not provide me with all of the tools of the trade that includes a firearm," said Chief Vincent Vespia of the South Kingstown Police Department.
South Kingstown officers were the first responders to the incident. They arrived on scene three minutes after the initial call. Campus police arrived in one minute but could not go inside Chafee Hall unarmed.
Only two campuses in the state have armed police officers, Brown University and Naval War College. Both are private institutions.
"Incidents can be over in a matter of a couple of minutes and response time is critical," said Capt. Joel Ewing-Chow of the South Kingstown Police Department.
Almeida, a former police officer, says armed campus police would be better equipped to respond to a real shooting.
URI President David Dooley says he's been asking for armed campus officers since he first arrived at the school.
"That's something we'll continue to look at. I'm on the record as supporting that move and I think this will cause us to have a look at it with even more intensity," he said.
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fotogrrl, just a few more things.
The product I use is for men - but they use it twice a day. My derm. recommended that I use it once a day so that I would get only the right amount.
The men's product is the foam and it is much easier to use than the women's product which is a liquid. It gets all over my hair by the way, but nothing bad happens.
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I've just completed my first Silverstripe site locally and am wanting to upload it to my host (Bluehost.com).
I'm getting 404 Not Found errors - "The requested URL /CityCareClinic/sapphire/main.php was not found on this server."
I removed "CityCareClinic" (the folder in WAMP) and I get errors saying it can't access the MySQL database.
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50Th Wedding Anniversary
this cake I made for my parents in law 50. wedding anniversary. 3rd and 4th layer are a blueberry-creamcheese-filled (heart shape pan of wilton) yellow cake made with spelt (cause of wheat-intolerance). everything covered in buttercream and than fondant. decoration is made of royal icing. it's finished with a satin ribbon (1st two layers are dummies).


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Update: Kourtney Kardashian has taken to her blog to give some more details on Mason's trip to the hospital this weekend.
Friday night Mason ate some peanut butter and had a little allergic reaction to it. He threw up within minutes of tasting it and got hives on his face. I called 911 and the fire department came immediately. They suggested that we take him to the hospital, so we did. He was in good spirits the whole time and didn't even know anything was wrong. He even enjoyed riding in the ambulance. He's such a good boy!"
Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick had a major scare over the weekend when their 11-month-old son Mason suffered an allergic reaction to peanut butter.
RadarOnline.com reports that Mason and his mom were rushed to the hospital by ambulance on Friday night at around 10pm.
"Scott was terrified," says a witness of Mason's dad, who followed behind by car. "He was clearly pretty worried about whatever was going on, but Kourtney was far more in control of the situation."
According to TMZ the concerned parents called 911 when their son suffered an adverse reaction to peanut butter. Thankfully everything turned out okay – Mason is now "totally fine" and back home with mom and dad.


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This month, we've got some exercises to strengthen and tone the "jiggly wigglies." For a winning combination, remember to mix it up with a bit of cardio. Patt, 72, and David McBane, 76, of St. Petersburg demonstrate the exercises. (If you have arm or shoulder concerns, check with your physician before performing the exercises.) Sally Anderson
Triceps overhead extension on stability ball
Sitting or standing, hold a weight overhead. Keeping back straight and abdominals contracted, bend arms at the elbows, lowering the weight behind your head, keeping elbows close to your head. Slowly return weight to overhead by straightening the arms, never locking the elbows. Tips: Do not allow head to fall forward, keep looking straight ahead. You might want to sit in a chair with a pillow behind your back.
Two triceps stretches for the back of upper arms
Bring one arm across your upper chest to the opposite shoulder, using your other hand to bring elbow closer to shoulder. Hold stretch for 10 to 20 seconds, then repeat on other side. Tips: Do not try to lift arm above the shoulder. Take several deep breaths while stretching. Next, raise arm over your head, bending the elbow until your hand drops behind your neck, elbow pointing upward, using other arm to stabilize your elbow. Hold for 10 to 20 seconds, then repeat stretch on the other side.
Triceps kickback
Step forward with a bent right knee; back leg remains straight. Place right hand on ball or other support. Holding a weight in your left hand with palms facing inward, begin with your left arm at your side, elbow bent about 90 degrees. Extend left arm to the back until arm is straight. Moving from the elbow, without moving the upper arm, return arm to original bent position and repeat for desired repetitions. Tips: Lean slightly forward from the hips. Contracting abdominals and relaxing the knees will help to protect your back.
Flabby arms bugging you? The battle to remove arm "jiggles" ranks at the top of the annoyance list for many. The muscle responsible for all this hanging flab? The triceps.
Located directly behind the biceps muscle (itself on the front of the upper arm), the triceps muscle accounts for approximately 60 percent of the upper arm's muscle mass and extends from the shoulder to the elbow. It's actually three muscle segments, the largest of which, the long head, is positioned directly under your arm — the area that can do the most jiggling.
Aging causes the skin to lose elasticity for both men and women, but women are more vulnerable to underarm flab than men because they tend to have a higher percentage of body fat and less upper body muscle.
"The combination of more body fat and less muscle mass equals flabbiness," says Josh O'Brien, an exercise physiologist in the Sports, Rehabilitation and Performance Center at the Weill Cornell-affiliated Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
Aside from vanity, there are practical reasons for increasing the strength of this muscle. The triceps are involved with every activity that requires you to extend your arms.
Whenever you push anything, your triceps are working and they also help support and stabilize the shoulder and biceps. Their primary function is to extend the elbow, straightening the arm.
Because the biceps and triceps muscles work together for bending and straightening the arm, you need to strengthen them equally to avoid muscle imbalances that can cause pain and injuries.
If the triceps become weak, it's difficult to enjoy many of life's activities, whether it is playing sports, playing with the kids or simply reaching for something on the top shelf. It could also become difficult to get out of a chair, because you need strong triceps to help push up to a standing position.
Train your triceps
Just as with other muscles in your body, you can perform triceps strengthening exercises up to three nonconsecutive days a week; you need a day of rest between workouts. Strengthen triceps as part of a whole-body workout, including a cardio activity.
Some tips:
• Always warm up before beginning your workout: five minutes on a stationary bike, treadmill or just walking.
• You have a variety of resistance options: free weights, resistance bands, machines or cables.
• Your triceps muscles are fairly small, so you will not use as heavy a weight as you would for larger muscles like your chest or back.
• Make your movements smooth with a feeling of control; no fast jerky movements.
• As your strengthening routine becomes easier, add a small amount of weight.
• Vary the weight routine: Select two or three different exercises for the triceps.
• If your goal is endurance and strength, aim for one to three sets of 12 to 15 repetitions.
If you are 50 or older and have not been exercising, check with your physician before beginning any exercise program. Trainer Sally Anderson is happy to hear from readers but cannot respond to individual queries. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Carmelo Cuffari
Carmelo Cuffari is a Board-Certified Pediatric Gastroenterologist who did his pediatric residency at The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and fellowship training at Ste. Justine's Hospital, Montreal, Canada. Professor Cuffari joined the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in October 1, 1996, and has acquired a special interest in the study of immunosuppressant therapies in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). During his research Fellowship training, Professor Cuffari developed an HPLC assay that measures azathioprine metabolite levels and applied this technology in the management of patients with IBD. This research developed the concept of a therapeutic window of treatment efficacy and toxicity based on the measurement of erythrocyte 6-thioguanine metabolite levels. His research interests include the study of pharmacogenetic differences in azathioprine metabolism and its effect on patient responsiveness to therapy, and the clinical application of novel intravenous forms of azathioprine therapy in the treatment of IBD. Professor Cuffari runs the immunosuppressant-monitoring laboratory at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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SJU Welcomes John P. McNulty Scholars and Associates
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
by Amanda Sapio '13
PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 24, 2013) — Saint Joseph's University and Anne Welsh McNulty have awarded seven young women the John P. McNulty Scholarship for Excellence in Science and Math. Four of the scholars will receive four-year, full-tuition, merit-based scholarships and will participate in an intensive mentoring and research program. The remaining three scholars hold Associate positions, receiving partial-tuition scholarships, mentoring and research opportunities.
This years' fifth cohort of McNulty Scholars includes Jane Bukovec of Robbinsville, N.J., Valerie Jenkins of Mertztown, Pa., Karen Medina of La Libertad, El Salvador, and Marissa Tremoglie of Downingtown, Pa. The three Associates are Sarah Cooney of Mifflinburg, Pa., Courtney Hulbert of Chantilly, Va., and Elizabeth Storm of Wilmington, Del.
"McNulty Scholars are young women who dare to be the best," says McNulty, a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, who generously supports the program in honor of her late husband, alumnus John P. McNulty '74, who was head of Goldman Sachs' Investment Management Division, and served on the Management Committee. "John exuded energy, creativity and ambition. Through this program, we hope to ignite the same extraordinary spirit in others."
The McNulty Scholarship program aligns with the University's efforts to enhance women's professional success in the fields of science, technology and mathematics. "The scholars are immersed in a challenging learning environment designed to inspire them to seek and assume leadership roles at the top of their professions," says Christina King Smith, Ph.D., professor of biology and director of the scholarship program.
Despite the increasing number of young women who pursue an education in mathematics or the sciences, they are still consistently underrepresented in top positions in those professions. "John was a firm believer in the power of women to achieve greatness in their chosen fields," says McNulty. "He inspired them to take risks and challenged them to tackle problems creatively and enthusiastically."
The scholarship recipients will also hold internships in business and research settings, complete a senior capstone experience and attend activities to enhance their networking, marketing and communications skills. "Because hands-on experience is a critical component of success, the scholars engage in faculty-mentored research in mathematics, computer science, actuarial science or one of the natural sciences," says King Smith.
Each scholar is assigned a faculty mentor. Debbie Lurie, Ph.D., professor of mathematics and director of the Actuarial Science Program, will mentor Bukovec, an actuarial science major; Edwin Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, will mentor Jenkins, a chemical biology major. Jean Smolen, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, will mentor Medina, an environmental science major, and Julia Lee-Soety, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, will mentor Tremoglie, a biology major. For the Associate program, Eileen Grogan, Ph.D., professor of biology, and King Smith will mentor Cooney, Hulbert and Storm.
In addition, the upper-class scholars will serve as mentors to the newest cohort. "Mentorship experiences will help prepare the scholars to be leaders in these highly competitive professions that are so vital to the national economy," King Smith says.
John P. McNulty '74 is remembered for his philanthropy, strong leadership and dedication to Saint Joseph's. As an undergraduate accounting major, he served as student body president, and later became a member of the SJU Board of Trustees, managing the University endowment fund and leading the formation of the New York Council of SJU alumni, parents and friends. Throughout his life, he mentored many young associates and always challenged women to achieve their fullest potential.
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A look at some figures
Evolutionists generally believe that although the spontaneous generation of life from non-living matter was a highly improbable event, the amount of time available is long enough to overcome this problem. This fallacy is because they (and most of us, really) just haven't gotten around to some actual calculating on some of these problems.
The difficult thing is to conceive the size of some of the figures obtained. James F. Coppedge in the book Evolution: Possible or Impossible? has given some fascinating examples, one of which is here presented. Consider first this statement from the evolutionist George Wald writing on The Origin of Life in Scientific American August, 1954, p. 48.
"Time is in fact the hero of the plot. The time with which we have to deal is of the order of two billion years. What we regard as impossible on the basis of human experience is meaningless there. Given so much time, the 'impossible' becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One has only to wait; time itself performs the miracles."
This is the very first article in the Article Section of the first Creation magazine, called Ex Nihilo, produced by Dr Carl Wieland in June 1978, and published under the name of the Creation Science Association (an organisation he and others founded in 1977, three years prior to the existence of the ministry now known as Creation Ministries International.
Now using Coppedge's figures, let's look at the time it would take for one simple gene to arrange itself by chance. (Remember, natural selection cannot operate until a self-replicating system is produced). Of course, this gene by itself is still only a dead molecule in the absence of other genes and other complex chemicals all perfectly arranged in time and space. Nevertheless, let us use as many sets as there are atoms in the universe. Let us give chance the unbelievable number of attempts of eight trillion tries per second in each set! At this speed on average it would take 10147 years to obtain just one usable gene. What does this number really mean?
Let's look at Coppedge's example; assume we have an amoeba—and let's assume that this little creature is given the task of carrying matter, one atom at a time from one edge of the universe to the other (thought to be about thirty billion light years in diameter). Let's further assume that this amoeba moves at the incredibly slow pace of one Angstrom unit (about the diameter of a hydrogen atom) every fifteen billion years (this is the assumed age of the universe assigned by many evolutionists). How much matter could this amoeba carry in this time calculated to arrange just one usable gene by chance? The answer is that he would be able to carry 2 x 1021 complete universes!
This means that all the people living on earth, man, woman and child, counting day and night, would be counting for five thousand years just to count the number of entire universes which this amoeba would have transported across a distance of thirty billion light years, one atom at a time.
Coppedge's book makes fascinating reading in other respects and is one of the few works that really comes to grips with this matter of molecular biology and probability mathematics.
Evolutionists would have us believe that modern molecular biology lends its support to their world view, but the more information comes to hand, the more preposterous the whole idea of a naturalistic origin of life becomes.
Update, August 2012
Since the above article was written, 34 years of research into the structure of the cell has revealed even more amazing and intricate machinery. The idea that a living cell could form from non-living chemicals is becoming even more implausible with time.
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Evolutionists have missed the boat (ark of safety). Man is not a biological unit upon which they narrowly focus. Man is a spiritual unit dwelling fleetingly in a biological body which will expire, pass away & is of miniscule importance. They ignore the spiritual component which is of immense & lasting importance. [Followed by extensive Scripture citation without comment: Isaiah 14:12-17, 1:2-6, 18]
Right on! The actual number of years is larger, the largest known and any one of us can write it in a second: ∞ ....infinity. When does one conclude beyond doubt it is impossible, what is the mathematical number of impossible? It is a number known to natural man but not God!
Somehow I think that many people reading this article will reject it outright. Not that the information is not correct or compelling but rather they firstly do not like to be told the are wrong and secondly because they do not want to admit that all we see around us is created. So for some it does not matter how foolish evolution gets, they will find a way of believing it. It is difficult to change a mindset when it is so firmly ingrained.
The probability argument is a good one but also is not a nail in the coffin of evolutionary thought since it is often dismissed by evolutionists as irrelevant. They will say that at every moment events with extremely small probabilities of happening still happen. Thus, they argue, the high probability of an event not happening is not proof that it cannot happen. They will also deny that the Law of Biogenesis need apply in the distant past because we are here and that is proof enough that it didn't exist at one time long ago. However, by that argument they forfeit any right to refer to their storytelling as science. They are simply starting with the axiom of incredible amounts of time rather than the axiom of an Almighty God. Not to say we should not have ministries like CMI, for we must have an answer for the hope that is in us, but on an individual basis, an argument is pointless if the parties cannot begin with the same axioms.
Given the axiom/observation that life can only come from life (or a supernatural intelligence/ability) doesnt this mean that no amount of time or sets of combinations per second could ever produce a living cell, much less the finite length of time since the beginning of matter and the finite number of atoms available for chance combinations?
This would be so given the axiom, but a materialist/evolutionist would deny the axiom. He/she would likely argue that the axiom is unprovable and that even though today we only see life coming from life, it must have happened in the remote past. This is similar to the logic used in explaining some scientific reasoning, i.e. the fact that we have never seen a white crow does not mean that all crows are black, it only means that provisionally until a white crow is observed. So your argument has merit but is not I think a knockout punch.
Yes, it is very easy using fairly basic mathematics to demonstrate the theory of evolution is a whole lot of nonsense.


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Architect Dion Neutra To Bring His Famous Father's Work To Raleigh
Triangle Modernist Houses continues the 2012 TalkModern Lecture Series.
Dion's lecture is the second half of Triangle Modernist Houses (http://www.trianglemodernisthouses.com)'
A partner in his father's firm, Dion will share his personal and professional views of the sensitivity to the relationship of man and nature that he and his father called bio-realism.
"The Neutras sounded the environmental alarm in the 1950s many years before ecology, Green architecture, and Sustainable Design became buzz words for politicians and recently concerned organizations,"
Charlotte landscape architect Ted Cleary will introduce Dion Neutra before his Raleigh lecture.
Advance tickets to the lectures are $12.50. Tickets per lecture at the door are $15. $5 for NCSU students and faculty with identification will be admitted for $5.
To purchase advance tickets and for more information, go to www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/
The AIANC Center for Architecture & Design is located at 14 East Peace Street, Raleigh, NC 27604. For directions: www.cfadnc.org.
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I'm no bituminous expert, but one question hasn't been asked that might be important.... what size is the coal? A stoker (stoker means automatic) needs a particular size. If your coal is large chunks a stoker might not be something that you can use.
Infloor for sure! Outdoor boiler fur sure! I say that because bituminous isn't as clean as anthracite.
Maybe part of this story is how handy you are and how much work/money you want to put towards the project. Maybe a hand fed and a large hot water storage tank? Just dreaming out loud. If you can't automate it, but can't be there to tend it, maybe once every so often you have a big burn & heat a huge tank of water. That water would heat the house for several days. If you have 10 ton a year and it only takes 5 to do the job, what would it matter if you burnt 7 or 8 and lost 2 or 3 to inefficiency?
Interesting.... keep us posted & best of luck to you.


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The price of Olympic glory
So what is it that brings me joy? Politics? Bah. Sure I'll spend hours watching the live stream of Parliament, and I'll rarely miss a press conference, but that is as much because it is my job to watch such things as it is because I delight in the attempts of our political overlords to reach from the banal and trivial towards the intelligent and consequential.
But for pure joy, it is sport that makes my passions stir. From football to cricket to tennis to baseball I am a sport addict. I can't remember too much about my care for the political events in 1984 but I do recall listening to Greg Chappell's last test innings against Pakistan, not moving from my spot for fear that somehow my concentration had a minute impact on whether or not he would get dismissed.
Sport was my life in my youth, and of all sporting events, the Olympics rose above all else. I love the Olympics so intensely that I continue to hold a grudge against Channel 7 and Matt White in particular because during the Beijing Olympics instead of showing Steve Hooker compete in the final of the Men's Pole Vault, they showed a delayed qualifying session of the men's diving. And then after Hooker had actually won the Gold medal, Matt White looked at us poor suckers and lied as he threw to the delayed coverage of the event, suggesting it was live.
So yeah I love the Olympics and get passionate about sport.
Thus, it is a bit surprising that when John Coates comes out and issues the dire prediction that Australia's medal performance at next year's London Olympics could be our worst since Atlanta in 1996, and that we could finish as low as eighth on the medal tally, that I pretty much shrugged my shoulders and thought, eighth ain't too bad.
Coates, the Australian Olympic Committee president, has a history of sounding alarm bells that Australia will fall down the Olympic tally unless the Government coughs up more cash. Back in 2009 the Independent Sport Panel (known as the Crawford Review) came out with this heresy:
Australia has a long history of success in the Olympic Games, finishing in the top five at the last four Olympic Games. The expression 'punching above our weight' has been used so often (and with accuracy) that it has become something Australians expect.
That is not to say that Australia cannot continue to be a major medal winner at the Olympics. A place in the top 10 remains realistic. The Panel is of the view that we can do better than that. If the system is optimal, then it is not unrealistic to target a top eight result.
How did Coates react?
"The report is disrespectful of all the work that has been done, particularly since the 1980s, in getting us to where we are. This is an insult to some of our great Olympic champions.
Is Mr Crawford suggesting the gold medals won in Beijing by Matthew Mitcham, Steve Hooker and Ken Wallace meant nothing to the Australian people? Is he telling us the gold medals won by our rowers and sailors count for nothing?
I will leave it to you to tell Simon Fairweather and Dean Lukin he's no longer a hero.
They are the ones who are entitled to feel that what they have done for their country doesn't count."
I will just give you time now to go and Google "Ken Wallace" to remind yourself of who he is. It is also telling that in the SMH article the second last sentence actually read:
I will leave it to you to tell [archer] Simon Fairweather and [weightlifter] Dean Lukin he's no longer a hero.
Coates then ended with this beauty:
"Now he is telling us eighth is good enough, or maybe 10th is good enough for Mr Crawford. I just don't think he gets it.
"It seems un-Australian to me to settle for something second best."
Surely by now "un-Australian" must be the Antipodean Godwin's Law.
So what was the result of this rant? Well the Government folded. When the response to the Crawford Review came out, here was the heading of the media release:
And included this:
The Rudd Government will also deliver a $324.8 million investment into the ASC funding base to create a secure platform to plan beyond Budget cycles.
In particular, this will assist in better preparation for major events such as the Olympic and the Paralympic Games.
Coates's reaction?
The only problem with this whole nice make-some-noise-get-some-money aspect is there seems to be little pause to stop and ask just why are we spending this money?
The Institute of Sport and the influx of money into the elite Olympic sport arena arrived following the 'embarrassment' of the Montreal Games in 1976 when Australia came home with no gold for the first time since Berlin in 1936.
The only problem was the 1976 Olympics were the ones where the East Germans and Soviet Union went full steroid. After winning 20 gold in Munich in 1972 (including robbing Raelene Boyle of two gold in the 100m and 200m) the East Germans in Montreal won 40. The Soviet Union won 49.
At Munich, Australian women won five gold medals in swimming (including three by Shane Gould); East German women by contrast won no gold at all. Four years later in Montreal, East German women won every individual swimming event except one, (and that was won by a swimmer from the Soviet Union). Clearly we were not losing because of lack of funding, but because the other side were taking a few doses of "swimmer's little helper".
Did lack of funding cause Australia to lose the Men's Hockey Final in Montreal to New Zealand? Did it cause Raelene Boyle to be called for false starting in the 200m semi-final?
Yes we did well in Munich - but we had a freak called Shane Gould. She alone won five medals - all individual (a feat no Australian has come close to doing - Thorpe in Athens won three individual medals). We also got a somewhat fortunate gold with Brad Cooper in the 400m Freestyle who came second but won because the US Olympic Committee stuffed up American Rick deMont's medical details and he wasn't registered to take Asthma medication, and thus he was disqualified.
The point being we probably did above average in Munich and then got hit with a wave of steroids in Montreal. In fact if you look at the position of Australia at the Olympics post WWII, you can see that once the era of doping took hold, we faded - AIS notwithstanding - until the end of the Cold War and the beginning of real out of competition testing.
The link between our position on the medal table and our hosting an Olympics is also pretty stark. If finishing outside the top eight (let alone top five) is un-Australian, then 50 per cent of the Olympics since the War have included an un-Australian team.
But let us assume that coming outside the top eight is a flop. Let us look at our performance at say Mexico City in 1968 where we came ninth. I mean we only won the men's 800m in a world record, took a memorable silver in the men's 200m, quinellered the women's 80m hurdles, got second and third in the women's 200m and also had Mike Wenden winning the 100m and 200m men's freestyle. Sorry - outside the top eight is no good.
You see focussing on the overall tally is all fine and dandy, but when Coates talks about needing to win medals he likes to talk about "heroes" - you know the athletes that inspire us all to take up sport and thus keep fit and lead to a healthier nation. He for example said:
"We know that good performances at the Olympic Games throw up role models which have good impacts on participation in sport…"
It is one of those statements that sounds logical, and so usually goes straight through to the keeper. When, however you start looking for evidence of such a link you find things slightly more tricky.
Back in 2002 (well after we had started on the path to spending big on elite athletes) academics at the University of Ballarat did a review of studies looking at such links. Here's what they found:
There is a common perception that sports people are viewed as role models and that they have a correspondingly positive impact upon individuals and the broader community in general.
It was immediately evident that there is very little academic or industry-based evidence to support the anecdotally proposed causal link between role models and sports participation.
Since 2001 the Australian Sports Commissions has put out a report into Participation in Exercise, Recreation and Sport. Its latest report in 2010 found:
The 2010 regular participation rate remains unchanged from 2009 (47.7 per cent). Between 2001 and 2004 the rate increased to 47.2 per cent, then declined slightly between 2004 and 2006, before increasing again in the period 2007 to 2008. The overall trend appears to be a slowly increasing regular participation rate.
This does suggest some sort of a boost in physical activity after the glories of the 2000 Olympics, but I am not sure if you could ascribe much of the boost from 2002 to 2004 to events in September 2000. Perhaps we were getting excited about the Athens 2004 Olympics? Nonetheless our trending decline in performance at the Olympics doesn't seem to have hindered our desire to be active.
In 2001 the total participation rate (ie not just "regular" which means more than three times a week) for exercise among 15-24-year-olds was 88.8 per cent; last year for this age group it was 87.7 per cent. Now yes, you could argue that without the role models of our Olympics athletes it would have been worse, but that requires a bit of faith, rather than data.
It reminds me of all the commentators who back in the 1990s would talk of every kid in Australia practising how to bowl leg-spin due to Shane Warne. Anyone seen that crop of leg spinners lately?
The Crawford Review indeed found this:
A commonly held view is that success in international sport creates increased interest which translates into higher levels of participation at the grassroots. However, while Australia has been very successful at the last four Olympics, there has also been a 'blowout' of adult and child obesity and little change in participation numbers in sport.
… Nor does hosting major sporting events such as the Olympic or Commonwealth Games guarantee sustained increases in participation.
So why again are we spending money on elite athletes?
The relevant outcome in the Office for Sport Portfolio Budget Statement (as part of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet) is:
Outcome 3: Improved opportunities for community participation in sport and recreation, and excellence in high-performance athletes, including through investment in sport infrastructure and events, research and international cooperation.
So both participation and excellence are accorded equal weight, but not actually linked. The Australian Sports Commission actually treats the two objectives separately:
Outcome 1: Improved participation in structured physical activity, particularly organised sport, at the community level, including through leadership and targeted community-based sports activity.
Outcome 2: Excellence in sports performance and continued international success, by talented athletes and coaches, including through leadership in high performance athlete development, and targeted science and research.
This seems right - we don't fund Australian films to help people to become filmmakers, no we fund them because governments view film as integral to our culture and know that it costs a shirtload of money to make a film that people will pay to watch. We fund film schools like the Australian Film, Television and Radio School to help people to become filmmakers.
Is fifth on the medal tally where we should aim to finish? We are 52nd in the world in population; we are 13th in GDP, we are 10th in GDP per capita. Seems to me anything better than top 10 is punching above our weight.
Given America, Russia and China are always going to beat us, the best we can hope for is fourth. If the home nation is of any decent size -as is Great Britain next year - then fifth is a more realistic best outcome.
But given the link between money spent and position on the medal tally is aiming for fifth worth it?
What do we give up to come fifth?
Yes we want to do well - but if this is for cultural reasons, then perhaps the funding for sport needs to be measured against and included the funding for other cultural activities. Would it be better we accepted just "Top Eight" at the Olympics at the expense of more money into painting, dance, music or writing?
Is the "balance" right?
We came fourth at Athens less than eight years ago, I must admit I struggle to recall many of the moments in which we won gold (there were 17 of them). Maybe we actually got a bit spoilt. Back in 1984 after the LA Olympics, Robert Kabbas got sponsorship for ANZ off the back of a silver medal. In 1988 we only won three gold - but the efforts of Debbie Flintoff, the Matildas and Duncan Armstrong feel more indelible because of their rarity.
Sports stars will always be rated more highly among the Australian populous than artists. It just is how we are wired. But the reality is that gold does not a hero make. It does not equal role models.
Australia, I would argue, is actually not a country driven by winning. Many gold medallists are quickly forgotten - those who become "heroes" usually do so not just because of their sporting success.
I think we are a bit better than just a winning-obsessed nation. Sure we want to be in the final - we want to have a chance to win - but as those who love the Olympics would know, the finals in athletics and swimming involve eight competitors.
Seems to me then, that aiming for the Top Eight ain't too bad.
Greg Jericho is an amateur blogger who spends too much of his spare time writing about politics. His blog can be found here.
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A group of teachers from Thailand visits Southampton Elementary School as part of the Khon Kaen Initiative Teachers Exchange Project to learn methods that can be applied to their own classrooms. Videojournalist: Erin Geismar (Oct. 1, 2012)
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