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Sydney - New Years Eve 2011Talk about concerts promoting the Rock Dust Light Star album in 2010 and beyond...
Sydney - New Years Eve 2011
Rob Harris tweeted on 12/11/11:
"It seems we may be playing a new years eve show in Sydney."
OMG - I'm feeling very excited that Jamiroquai could be performing in Sydney on NYE!
Looks like I might be planning a trip to Sydney, but hopefully this means JMQ might finally tour Australia. Fingers crossed!
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CosmicLea -didn't remember -where are you?
I'm surprised they'll hit Sydney! I imagine it's a lot to lug the equipment, maybe a small tour.
I was thinking the tour ends in December. \But I hope they are still travelling!
And maybe still have Hope, they'll hit the states.
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Lucky dog!!!!! cosmiclea...I'd be happy 4 you though.
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Giba7 - I'm in Melbourne, 12 hour drive or 1 hour plane trip to Sydney.
Haha thanx! But it doesn't look likely I'll be able to go. Had a look for accommodation on wotif.com yesterday and there's not much for NYE in Sydney and what is available is mega expensive! And the tickets for this event are expensive too ($A198).
Well, it looks like this is true anyway, Jamiroquai look set to perform in Sydney on New Years Eve - woohoo!
I'll see what I can do, I would really love to be there.
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12hr drive??....Rent a van (and sleep in the van) that's what I'd do...It would be soooo dreamy
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Yep, that would be the way to go!
But at almost $200 a ticket, it's still going to be expensive. And I just found out that it is an Over 18 years of age event - don't want to be away from my kids on NYE.
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Ahhh that's a good mum!....they grow up sooo fast..mine are 8 and 10 (I would probably get a babysitter for THAT night) how old are they? Ya, 200 a ticket is pretty steep. What an amazing show though, Pet shop boys, Culture club... both from my generation. I think I am going to send out a cosmic wish to the stars and buy a lottery ticket (I don't usually buy them but...)I'll treat you if I win!
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Curse_t -are you hanging out with the Black Keys? (sleeping in vans!)
Cosmiclea -$200? you'll be saving funds -no hotel! Or you could find a place 20 minutes out.
And even if it was an under 18 event, I would never bring my kids out, especially on New Year's Eve! Because I'd want to have fun!
I hope you can work something out to go, though.
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Yes and NO Giba7....No I have not been inside the Black Keys van but I have frequented a few vans in my day..most memorable was spending time with The Descendants back in 1991 outside a gig in Vancouver....ah the mind wanders!
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Ah, very disappointing not to seem them do a full Oz tour though. NYE is Sydney, no thanks.
Come on guys, complete the tour. You've done Melbourne a number of times before. The one at the Myer Music Bowl was an absolute cracker.
Please come back this way
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@curse_t - that is so sweet, you made me smile!
There is a competition to win tickets (I have entered):
To get guaranteed seating in the first 5 rows, tickets are $598! (And this is where I'd really wanna be )
But how's this for a line-up:
Gates : 2.00pm
Opening act Lyndsey Ollard : 4.00pm
Pseudo Echo : 5.00pm
Guy Sebastian : 6.00pm
Pet Shop Boys: 7.30pm till 9.00pm
Family Fireworks : 9.00pm till 9.20pm
Jamiroquai : 10.00pm till 12.00 midnight
Fireworks : Midnight to 12.20
Culture Club : 12.20 till 1.45am
Close : 3.00am
Bringing in the new year after watching a live Jamiroquai performance? I couldn't think of anything more perfect!
@honkin - Yes I agree with you, Jamiroquai, please come to Melbourne too, pretty pretty please!
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Fun times, eh? (did you get the eh?)
Check out this ad for TBK! I did call the # and it's Patrick's voice!
http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/2011/1 ... ecember-6/
As for Sydney, Jamiroquai's the best band to count the year down to!
Australia, certainly is way to far for me.
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Ouch! that was below the belt...this Canadian doesn't say "eh",..... but I must admit I use the word "yep" too much.
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Here's an advertisement about the concert:
Looks great - I better go buy a lottery ticket too!
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@curse_t -I hope I didn't offend with the "eh". Don't know if it applies to a certain class!
We actually say it sometimes, I mean we're just over the border!
I always wanted that dual-citizenship!
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@Giba7- offended I am not, .... just got to let the beaver out for a pee before I retire to the comfort of my igloo
@ CosmicLea. Well, I didn't win the lottery tonight. Guess I'll buy another next week.(Good thing this isn't my retirement plan).....MUST.. get.. to Australia for New Years even if I have to swim..
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@curse_t - We'll keep trying with those lotto tickets!
Giba - President Obama is currently visiting Australia (not sure if he has left for Indonesia yet.) He was here for 26 hours in total!!!
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I'll fly to Australia if I can go in Obama's plane.
Air Force One. (But I think I'll want Gary Oldman on it too)!
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Rob Harris has tweeted that Jamiroquai are only in Sydney for 2 days for the NYE concert.
So they won't be coming to Melbourne.
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Heres a cyber kleenex for ya! keep supporting the gov with the lotto tickets
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Thank you curse_t, I really needed that kleenex.
I haven't checked my lottery ticket from Saturday night yet!
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Jay Kay was interviewed on a morning television show here today (Monday morning) regarding the NYE concert in Sydney. He was via satellite from Limoges, France, where it was still Sunday night, before the JMQ concert there. I hope you guys will be able to watch it:
It was a great interview! Jay was in a cheeky mood!
He said he'll be the only straight performer there!!(referring to Culture Club and Pet Shop Boys). He also wants a "bevy of Australian beauties" to be there to welcome him when he arrives in Sydney!!
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Thanks for posting this CosmicLea, I like his statement of the only straight one there (referring to Culture club and Pet Shop boys) Hey! my granda used to own a Rover..coulda been a '74 too. It was a lovely british racing green with a cream interior. Any luck with the lotto
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You're welcome curse_t! I'm glad you were able to watch the video (sometimes it's only available to watch within Australia).
No luck with the lotto tickets yet. But I forgot to buy one this past weekend. Must keep trying!
I don't know if a winner has been announced for the competition to win tickets yet either. Fingers crossed!
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I love a straight funny guy!
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By Damon Vrabel
The Federal Reserve has been at the top of the news for a long time and it's getting a lot of attention now as it appears the next down cycle in the depression may be upon us. So what's the real reason the world listens so intently to an Ivy League bureaucrat like Bernanke? Of course, it has nothing to do with him. It's who he is accountable to–the international banking cartel:
Bank of America Securities LLC
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Jefferies & Company, Inc.
J. P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.
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HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
UBS Securities LLC.
Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc.
Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
Nomura Securities International, Inc.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
RBC Capital Markets Corp.
RBS Securities Inc.
These institutions are the current primary dealers of the Federal Reserve System. They have power over the entire economy, everything in "the market," very much a non-free market. They sit at the top of the world's monetary system, currently the Fed's debt-dollar pyramid, with a governmental license to what has been the most secure capital in the world–US Treasury debt–for a monopoly price that nobody else can get. And when it comes to global finance, the difference between the strongest banks vs. dying banks is just a few basis points in price (cost of capital).
These banks get first dibs on buying the servitude of the US population through the Fed/Treasury auction process. They distribute some of it to subordinate capital for a guaranteed premium, and they park a large amount of it on their own balance sheets as assets upon which they can speculate, trade, and fractionalize to create the rest of the money in the economy and put other countries, companies, and people in even more debt. So these institutions hold a monopoly position that even leviathan Standard Oil never dreamed of: a government-enforced usury license that generates trillions for their premium capital holders and senior employees and allows them to act as imperial armies sucking in more territory around the world as neoliberalism breaks down sovereignty.
This is why the country list above doesn't mean what some may think. The institutions aren't national. The list only indicates that the banking establishment has a permanent parasitic stake in those countries to churn their populations under the Fed's debt system. All of the listed institutions are global in nature. Together with hedge funds and their other buy-side buddies, they have power over nations. Like any corporate institution, banks drive earnings per share (EPS) by expanding and leveraging their balance sheets, which for banks means putting everything else in more debt. So these cartel banks work to expand their territorial control beyond their national borders to put other populations in debt. This is a mathematical requirement of exponential growth enforced by the private capital system. The eventual end state of this dynamic is one integrated, global banking empire. It's only a matter of time before their collective balance sheets (plus the large Chinese banks now that the cartel is colluding with them) control the rest of the world if people don't awaken and choose to put a stop to it.
Will they succeed? The Fed system is in transition. The crash of 2008 was the first phase of global capital holders shifting their private capital out of the system so the Fed was forced to add public capital, i.e. your debt, into the system. More of this is likely coming. But does this mean the international banks behind the Fed are dying? No. They've simply transferred their bad assets to the public through the Fed and prepared to ramp up operations in Asia, which will be a primary churn center for the 21st century global banking system. Capital assets have been transferred, production assets have been transferred, and the capital holders can transfer much more capital in a short period of time if they so choose.
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My previous article describing my path out of homosexuality generated much comment. Many posters asked valid questions not answered by the first article, which told a personal story:
- How common is this experience?
- Do these perceptions accurately reflect gay life?
- How does this story jibe with what "everybody knows" about homosexuality?
I'll try to address these questions in this response.
One amazing thing that has already emerged from this article's publication is the breadth of Aish.com's audience, and the depth of that audience's commitment to their Jewish heritage.
Aish.com provides a forum for perspectives drawn from our common heritage ― Jewish perspectives that may challenge you with voices not always heard elsewhere. These efforts are motivated by the core value of Ahavat Yisrael ― love and respect for all Jews ― and are an open invitation to explore our heritage and shared values. It's important to remember this, especially when dealing with "hot-button" issues.
A Call for Tolerance
It seems that the existence of an ex-gay was received by some readers as a challenge.
While many commenters addressed the issues thoughtfully, a large and vocal group wrote unreasoned, curt dismissals of opinions they disagree with, essentially denying the validity of my own story.
Ironically, many of them seem to think that their bluster somehow strikes a blow for tolerance and acceptance:
(207) H. Landau
As a Reform Jew with an open mind and an open heart, I can't believe you would highlight such an anti-gay and hateful portrayal of one man's "journey." I was startled and saddened to read such bigotry on this website! It's cowardly to post a first-person account of "denying homosexuality" when you're clearly representing it as though it were the official Jewish stance against homosexuality.
Actually, my article was presented as one man's journey. In fact the editors removed passages in which I generalized from my own story to those of other men.
And yes, there is a conflict between the Torah's teachings and the modern pro-gay agenda. Our challenge as thinking, committed Jews is to explore and engage Torah perspectives with full intellectual openness.
Repeatedly, these angry posters used labels like "bigotry" and "hateful." We were told we should be "ashamed" ― of what shall I be ashamed? My life's story?
We should explore the issues without silencing positions that we may find challenging and uncomfortable.
Why do people so obviously concerned with tolerance display such intolerance?
In my first article I spoke of those who, having accepted false premises, must struggle to keep contradictory reality at bay. That's what I see here: people slamming the door shut on aspects of reality that contradict cherished beliefs, resulting in a new sort of "progressive fundamentalism."
What do brittle my-way-or-the-highway "tolerance" and argument by labels and decibels say about the validity of underlying claims? As other commenters remarked:
(165) Anonymous, 6/10/2008
The intolerance [displayed in the comments] is startling. The bashing, the venom, the absolute intolerance of another's opinion or journey. Wow. This further cements my feeling that all is not as they say in the gay world.... Some of these comments to an article about one's personal journey have been absolutely incredible, and deeply revealing.
(113) Seth, 5/10/2008
David writes about his own experiences overcoming SSA (Same Sex Attraction). Why is that reason to attack him? Why since he chose to overcome his homosexual urges does that mean he is not being true to himself? Why does it mean that he must have only been bisexual to begin with? Why does it mean that his wife and family must be miserable? ...Why do we have the right to attack David for writing about his own experiences?
There are various points of view concerning homosexuality's causes, and whether it is subject to change. Unfortunately, political correctness has resulted in only a gay-affirmative point of view being discussed in the media.
Everyone has the right to believe as they wish and not be discriminated against for their viewpoint. Including me. As mature adults, we should be able to explore the issue of Judaism and homosexuality without stifling debate and silencing positions that we may find challenging and uncomfortable.
Important Points
Some of these angry posters seem not to have read the entire article ― or to have missed important points ― and respond to straw men of their own conjuring. So, for the record:
We are happily married with children. Our marriage is, thank God, almost 15 years strong, and has survived the career, social, and emotional upheavals of our move to Israel. We recently celebrated our oldest child's Bar Mitzvah.
I have never been unfaithful to my wife, nor have I had to fantasize about men or use other "tricks" or medications to perform intimately.
Yes, I was "really" gay. Despite attempts by posters to disqualify my story after the fact ― asserting I was "never really gay" or "probably bisexual" ― my story parallels that of most out-and-proud gays. I was raised in New York, and drifted into the gay scene throughout junior high and high school, cruising for encounters in the suburbs, and journeying into Manhattan's gay epicenter in my evenings and weekends. During six years of college, I had full, direct access to the New York gay "community" from dorms and residences in Manhattan, where I was open about my behavior.
Yes, there are many causes of homosexuality. My path is one that is common ― the triadic family and detachment from father, the missed opportunity to bond with other men. Other formative experiences common to those with same-sex attractions include physical or sexual abuse, and peer rejection. Others are responding to what they perceived as threatening relationships with mother or other women.
The men in the support group I attended have a broad range of experiences ― some come to healing after years of trying to make the gay lifestyle work; others have lived double lives as married men with unresolved issues. Many are young teens experiencing normal adolescent "crushes" on other men, but confused by the gay-affirmative rhetoric that is pressed upon them in today's hyper-sexualized culture.
And no, I am not promoting a lightweight "pray it away" approach based on suppression or wishful thinking, as suggested by some posters:
(92) Michael E, 5/10/2008
While I wish no ill will toward "David" and others like him, it beggars belief that the solution for most gay Jews is to pray enough.
(167) Russ Klein, 6/10/2008
All that's missing from this story is the "the love of Jesus turned me straight" part.
My first article described the healing path I embraced ― deep counseling work to uncover and resolve longstanding issues and distortions of perception, supported by group therapy. I also described the difficult ― and sometimes distant ― relationship I still have with God.
These posters are addressing their own perceptions, not what I wrote.
Mainstream Gay Life
My article spoke about the unhealthy pattern of compulsive promiscuity I observed in the gay world. Some deflected my story's implications by asserting that my experiences were not typical. As one commenter wrote:
I appreciate your struggle. But your history does not reflect every single gay person's.... It sounds like you sojourned in the main-stream-gay (MSG) climates which you have accurately portrayed. But you did not mention the wide array of homosexuals who live happily in committed, monogamous relationships for whom the MSG culture is an embarrassment.
The reason why it's called "main stream gay" is because that's the way most homosexuals live. Study after study confirms this:
In their study of San Francisco's gay community, Bell and Weinberg (Homosexualities, 1978) determined that 75 percent of white gay males had 100 or more sexual partners, and 43 percent had 500 or more sexual partners. Ninety-nine percent of white male homosexuals reported they had sex with strangers, 79 percent reported over half their partners were strangers, and 70 percent said over half their partners were men with whom they had sex only once.
The data confirms my perception that many gays live with compulsive promiscuity, as did I.
Almost 30 years later, this pattern was confirmed in Holland by AIDS researchers who found that over 80 percent of new AIDS cases were occurring in "steady" gay relationships. Despite the availability of legal marriage, the most "steady relationships" lasted no longer than 23 months in most cases, and accommodated 16-28 sexual partners in a year. (Xiridou, 2003 ― online here.)
I'm happy that so many people posting here seem to be exceptions to these appalling statistics. And I know there are many gay Jewish men who make supreme efforts to limit – or even entirely eliminate – engaging in homosexual activity.
I don't regret choosing to examine the deeper issues that drove my behavior. A less healthy solution is to turn away from facts and create an alternative reality. For example, a gay synagogue recently issued a new prayer book including a prayer for "unexpected intimacy" ― that is, anonymous one-night stands. As the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports, a gay-sympathetic Orthodox Rabbi commented:
" ...while the motivation for the liturgy is understandable, it nevertheless "contorts" the idea of holiness, if applied to anonymous sex. The more common reality of anonymous sex is that it is a form of mutual objectification and so must be the opposite of holiness."
And the Conservative Rabbi who authored that denomination's ruling permitting same-sex marriages said:
"A one-night stand is officially an act of prostitution in the Jewish tradition. It's not just that it's not ideal, it's that it really is seen as being something that a Jew ought not to engage in."
And JTA points out that the prayer runs counter to the Reform movement's critique of modern sexual practices:
The Sha'ar Zahav prayer may reflect the behavior of some Jews, but it appears to run counter to the call for renewed emphasis on Jewish sexual ethics by the leader of the movement with which the synagogue is affiliated... at the Reform movement's 2005 biennial in Houston, Rabbi Eric Yoffie railed against the teenage culture of "hooking up," which he described as a "social ethic ... that severs sex from any pretense of a relationship."
The Torah-observant families and communities that welcomed me provided a living reproof of this sort of tortured justification of dysfunction. The Torah's insistence that emotional and physical intimacy must come together is healthy, humane, and ennobling. I don't feel that I have to apologize for questioning the human validity of anonymous hookups. Once again, I see those caught in a world of denial and fantasy attempting to justify the unjustifiable.
The Gay Mosquito Flea Circus
The New York Times once gave front-page space to an article about laboratory-induced homosexual behavior in mosquitoes. These mosquitoes had 24 brain cells, and lived for two weeks.
So what relationship did this experiment have to the rich, emotionally lived experience of human sexuality?
The researcher herself didn't think there was much relevance at all ― and said as much in a letter to the editor. But the Times didn't publish her letter.
What was the gay mosquitoes story ― or the gay penguins story, or the gay-polar-bear-in-the-Berlin-zoo story ― doing on the front page of your newspaper?
These news items create an impression that homosexuality is natural and widespread. It is then much easier to legitimize the behavior.
Gay rights activists are using techniques of marketing and media influence to influence opinion on this issue.
And so gay activists originally claimed that 10 percent of the population was gay ― a number still quoted in the comments on my article, even though most reliable studies say only 2-3 percent of the population are homosexual. A bigger number casts homosexuality as a natural human variance ― how could one-tenth of the population be deviants?
As the New York Times reported:
Gay leaders have contended that the number of gay and lesbian Americans was around 10 percent, a figure that many of them suspected to be inflated. But they repeated the number often, they said, as a way of encouraging the nation's large population of closeted homosexuals to be open about their sexual identity.
Half a dozen studies in the last five years have put the gay population in the single digits... "They tend to be in the range of 2 to 2.5 percent," said Robert C. Colodny, medical director of the Behavior Medicine Institute in New Canaan, Conn., and a consultant to the Masters and Johnson Institute, which studies sexual behavior.
The push to "mainstream" homosexuality has resulted in 22 shows on network TV with 35 gay main characters.
And despite those small numbers, the push to "mainstream" homosexuality has resulted in 22 shows on network television this season with 35 gay main characters. Viewers are far more likely to encounter a homosexual on TV than in real life.
As with other "products," the aura of scientific authority is used to mainstream homosexuality. In the early '70s, gay activists targeted the American Psychological Association ― but not with new scientific data: they staged sit-ins and disrupted meetings. The APA accommodated these activists, resulting in the landmark decision to remove homosexuality from the DSM, the APA's diagnostic guide to psychological disorders.
Not a single new piece of scientific evidence was presented. The change was the result of political arm-twisting.
The APA's new stance was then used to by activists to leverage similar changes in other professional organizations. The rhetoric of "inclusion" ― and the threat of protest ― sidesteps discussion of the medical facts.
In this way many well-meaning people accept as scientific fact assertions that are unproven, or even disproved by actual scientific and statistical evidence.
Born that Way?
We can see how the assertion that homosexuals are "born that way" fits this pattern: it may sound scientific, but is political. The human genome has been mapped ― but no "gay gene" has been found.
Maybe that's because that's not how genes work: only a handful of rare diseases are caused by a single gene. All scientists agree that complex behaviors ― like human sexuality ― involve a mix of inborn temperament, environmental factors, and individual choices. As a gay researcher says of his work:
"It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work..." (David Nimmons: "Sex and the Brain," Discover Vol. 15, no.3, March 1994, pg. 64-71)
Another famous gay scientist, Dean Hamer, similarly discusses the findings of his 1993 study:
"These genes do not cause people to become homosexuals.... the biology of personality is much more complicated than that." ("A Linkage Between DNA Markers on the X Chromosome and Male Sexual Orientation" reported in Science magazine, July 1993)
And gay author and columnist Andrew Sullivan puts it quite clearly, in a moment of candor:
The complexity of the roots of homosexuality, the fact that it may be a condition both imposed upon and created by homosexuals themselves, means that it cannot simply be debated like the color of a person's hair. Gay people would doubtless like the hair analogy to be accurate, because it would enable them to avoid the wrenching and often painful self analysis they would otherwise have to embark upon. But, alas, it isn't. ("Love Undetectable," 1998, pg. 164)
Some studies of identical twins, who share the same genetic makeup, have tracked the incidence of homosexuality. In the most recent such study, researchers found 73 pairs of identical twins in which one twin was gay ― but of those, the other twin was gay in just seven cases. In 64 cases the other twin was not gay.
The twin studies are a good example of how the gay-affirming media blitz can obscure the actual scientific facts. Most commenters here, like many laypeople, think that the twin studies prove the exact opposite of what the numbers reveal.
The pseudo-scientific authority given to the "born that way" claim can close like a shackle around many young people who are struggling with their urges, and feed the sense of powerlessness that often drives them. Unchallenged, the aura of certainty in these assertions can cause many to surrender hope. We have seen in the comments how those who have accepted these assertions as fact cannot see the Torah as anything but oppressive for its insistence on change and growth.
In my personal struggle, the debates about gay genes were less important than my growing impression that the gay "community" was not a very happy ― or healthy ― place. I had to choose how I wished to live my life. As a poster wrote:
(89) Garett Benson, 5/10/2008 Innate or Acquired? Who Cares?! As I read through these comments, I started wondering whether homosexuality is really innate or acquired, but then I stopped myself. Who cares? Is there a genetic predisposition for alcoholism? Probably, but again, who cares? Maybe the question is helpful in terms of prevention or treatment strategies, but for the most part it's a moot point. The real question is whether homosexuality is undesirable. The Torah says it's very undesirable.
What I saw in the gay world confirmed the Torah's view.
The Torah's path of growth empowers people to master their characters and natures, rather than surrender to them. From that position of self-knowledge and self-respect, the Torah's ethical and sexual guidelines led me to a life enriched by authentic bonds with others ― bonds of friendship, intimacy, and love.
Healing involved hard work. But it was worth it.
Inner Worth
The paths of growth and return can be difficult. The Jewish communities I lived in were sources of strength and positive reality checks, but healing also required therapeutic work to uncover the old wounds ― the suppressed anger, shame, fear, and yearning that fueled my sexual urges. It then took more work to renegotiate my relationships with the larger world ― especially the world of men.
The therapeutic techniques used are similar to those used with anorexics, bulimics, and in rehabilitation for substance abuse. And the outcome is roughly the same: one third drop out before completing therapy, one third gain partial insight and control of their behavior, and one third are cured ― that is, they have begun to form a new self-image and are satisfying their authentic needs in a healthy way.
An individual may not be emotionally ready for therapy and drop out. That doesn't mean they are "born that way" ― any more than an anorexic or alcoholic is born that way. Most people require several passes through therapy to gradually integrate a new self-image and learn new modes of behavior.
The path of Torah living has helped me to heal the sense of unworthiness and unmanliness that drove me to seek homosexual contact. I am now far more aware of my worth as a child of God, my power as a man, a lover of others. I started out feeling weak and fatherless, and now I am a loving husband and father. I have grown to realize my own capacity to give.
The psychologist who presided over the APA's normalization of homosexuality now agrees that "some people can and do change."
Homosexuality has become more or less accepted in the Western world. Yet there are many homosexuals who only reluctantly turned away from heterosexuality, and still yearn for trusting, committed relationships. Many wish to have a family, and to feel the spiritual wholeness that it brings. Most who seriously commit to change can be helped to move toward that goal, as was I. The first step is to overcome the perception that "there is nothing you can do about it."
In fact, the psychologist who presided over the APA's normalization of homosexuality in 1973 now agrees that such therapy can be successful. In a study published in 2003 (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 5), Dr. Robert Spitzer interviewed ex-gays and found ― to his own surprise --that most had achieved significant change, with more frequent and satisfying heterosexual interactions.
"Like most psychiatrists, I thought that homosexual behavior could be resisted, but sexual orientation could not be changed. I now believe that's untrue ― some people can and do change."
Spitzer noted that subjects reported improvements in general psychological well-being and functioning, beyond sexual changes. As Spitzer writes in his conclusion:
"The American Psychiatric Association should stop applying a double standard in its discouragement of reorientation therapy, while actively encouraging gay-affirmative therapy to confirm and solidify a gay identity... I believe patients should indeed have the right to explore their heterosexual potential."
I hope my personal journey gives encouragement to those who sincerely want to explore the possibility of change.
The following sites provide more background and in-depth discussion of the scientific and statistic aspects of these issues:
www.narth.com ― the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality is an organization of psychologists and psychiatrists questioning the pro-gay agenda.
www.mygenes.co.nz ― two research scientists analyze the scientific evidence linking genetics and sexuality.


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Apart from representatives of governments and academic communities of members states, the CDESR also has observers – both from countries who are observers in the Council of Europe, but also networks of organizations dealing with higher education on the international level.
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Below is the Springfield MO Real Estate Market Report for July of 2012. While the number of homes sold is down compared with the past couple of months, we are still faring better than in the past couple of years. The number of homes currently under contract is a good indicator that the next couple of months will prove to be better than July. Most notable is the increase in home sales $250,000 and above. This niche of the market all but disappeared in past years, but is beginning to make a comeback this year.
Homes for Sale in Springfield, MO:
- Total Active Listings: 1,341 homes
- Under Contract: 355 pending sales
- Total Sold Listings for July: 270 sales
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- Average Sales Price: $143,352
- Sale Price to List Price Ratio: 97.28%
Days on Market (for Sold homes)
Average Days on Market: 87 days
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In a daydream I attended
an exponential function
hosted by his eminence,
the summit of his self creation;
close acquaintances only, commonality
reassured in glyphic communication.
His hacienda was mostly atria,
potted green, and rain washed
marble chessboards where gardeners
wearing chefs' hats offered fertilizer
and entrées.
Memories if compressed by force
achieve solidity, quite attractive
although immobilized,
he told me, and took me on a tour.
Beneath a shade cloth willow,
a selected group debated lies and fantasy,
with whiskey, ice and me,
wound in a Roman bedsheet,
a little nervous in such brightly illustrated company.
At a certain unremarkable moment,
his eminence leant towards me sotto voce:
The magic of my youth has left me,
its cicadas and ephemeral smoke.
Once I fell in love with a vagrant light,
a luminous firefly, and now
I seek a book she wrote
about verity, magic and myrrh—
The Egg in White.
Might you help me in my quest?
I feigned a degree of contemplation,
looked up into the windy sky
where a storm of truth was brewing,
and dissembled with a flourish of my glass.
An Isley single malt if I'm not mistaken.
Do you mean magic magic or just plain magic?
Might this egg have been instead a pale
amber shade, and within, the ashes of a phoenix?
And which came first, the book or the egg?
After sunset I observed the other guests—
they didn't leave, they found their places
in the corridors
or on the plinths in alcoves.
Each returned to a static life,
each no more than
a cobwebbed recollection
of his eminence.
It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers, Pierre-Marc-Gaston, Duc de Lévis, 1808; the phoenix in ancient Egyptian mythology.
My longish poem "When We Were Young" will appear later this year in an issue of Mithila Review, an international speculative arts and culture magazine. Continues →
incêndio, flammable memories


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With economic conditions far from perfect and unemployment remaining stubbornly high, many more people are facing continuing financial difficulties. The somewhat more compassionate Internal Revenue Service has offered more flexible terms to its "Offer in Compromise" (OIC) program, along with other measures. This should enable some of the most financially distressed taxpayers to clear up tax problems more quickly.
The IRS is focusing on the financial analysis used to determine which taxpayers qualify for an OIC. Some taxpayers will now be able to resolve their tax problems in as little as two years, compared to four or five years.
In certain circumstances, the changes include:
- Revising the calculation for the taxpayer's future income.
- Allowing taxpayers to repay student loans.
- Allowing taxpayers to pay state and local delinquent taxes.
- Expanding the "Allowable Living Expense" allowance category and amount.
In general, an OIC is an agreement between a taxpayer and the IRS that settles the taxpayer's tax liabilities for less than the full amount owed. An OIC is generally not accepted if the IRS believes the liability can be paid in full as a lump sum or a through payment agreement. The IRS looks at the taxpayer's income and assets to make a determination of the taxpayer's reasonable collection potential.
When the IRS calculates a taxpayer's reasonable collection potential, it will now look at only one year of future income for offers paid in five or fewer months, down from four years, and two years of future income for offers paid in six to twenty-four months, down from five years. All offers must be fully paid within 24 months of the date the offer is accepted.
Other changes to the program include narrowed parameters and clarification of when an asset will be included in the calculation of reasonable collection potential. In addition, equity in incomeiproducing assets generally will not be included in the calculation of reasonable collection potential for on-going businesses.
The Allowable Living Expense standards are used in cases requiring financial analysis to determine a taxpayer's ability to pay. The standard allowances provide consistency and fairness in collection determinations by incorporating average expenditures for basic necessities for citizens in similar geographic areas. These standards are used when evaluating installment agreement and offer in compromise requests.
The National Standard miscellaneous allowance has been expanded to include additional items. Taxpayers can use the miscellaneous allowance for expenses such as credit card payments and bank fees and charges.
Guidance has also been clarified to allow payments for loans guaranteed by the federal government for the taxpayer's post-high school education. In addition, payments for delinquent state and local taxes may be allowed based on a percentage basis of tax owed to the state and IRS.
In other areas, the IRS recently announced lien relief for taxpayers trying to refinance or sell a home. In 2009, the IRS added new flexibility for taxpayers facing payment or collection problems. The IRS also expanded the threshold for small businesses to resolve tax issues through installment agreements. Finally, earlier this year, the IRS increased the threshold for a streamlined installment agreement, allowing individual taxpayers to set up an installment agreement without providing a significant amount of financial information.
So, all in all, the IRS seems to be trying to help taxpayers. It is part of its intended approach to be more taxpayer friendly and customer oriented.


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A BOOK which tells the story of a Helensburgh couple who were both noted artists was launched at a reception in the burgh library on April 19.
'Ted and Elizabeth Odling — Artists of the West of Scotland' was put together over three years by their children, Noelle, Christopher and Nicholas. It combines their life stories with many examples of their work.
The formal launch was conducted by Nick, from Port Seton, East Lothian, accompanied by his wife Kate, son Gylen and daughter Morvern.
Nick told how his parents met at Glasgow School of Art in 1949 and married three years later. They lived and worked on the west coast throughout their long careers as artists, both at Glasgow School of Art and as freelance artists on commission.
When Ted first came to Scotland he lived briefly in the Rowmore Studios at Rhu, and in 1965 the couple moved to Helensburgh where they lived for 17 years — first in Craigendoran Avenue and from 1968 at Balcarron, Upper John Street.
Ted was an accomplished musician, and played in the Helensburgh Saturday Ochestra.
In 1982, when Ted retired from the Art School at the age of 60, they moved to the island of Lismore. Elizabeth died in Glasgow in 2003, and Ted in a care home in Benderloch in 2007.
Over the years they accomplished a large body of work, Ted as a landscape artist, musical instrument maker and model maker, and Elizabeth with water colours, wood and copper engravings, embroidery and quilts.
The book, which contains many examples of their work, is published by Walker Fine Arts, price £15.
After the book launch, Nick presented a painting by Ted and an engraving by Elizabeth to Bill Anderson, chairman of the Anderson Trust Local Collection, who promised that they would be hung in the Trust's 2013 exhibition in the library.


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engineer view with the
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engineer view. The tree branches that comprise a Repository View are known as search roots, as they determine which parts of the directory tree are searched when a repository query is constructed on the view.
To summarize, the contents of each Repository View are determined by two factors: the object classes of its item descriptor, and its search roots. When a query is performed on the view, only those items that reside in one of the specified search roots and satisfy the view's item descriptor are returned. At least one search root must always be specified, but it may well point to the directory suffix (i.e., the search root may span the entire directory tree).


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Dowbiggins in praise of the cooked figures
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/d ... le8785464/
and Allan Muir's rebuttal
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I still believe you need to be aware of how the numbers are derived and their limitations. Also they should only be used in conjunction with watching games, not to prove something you think you see, but to identify trends and spot things you should look for.
I thought this was one of the best comments from Muir.
Sadly, we don't get any Howie Meeker analysis any more. I wish we did. Howie not only recognized great plays, but he went out of his way to identify the boneheaded plays that lead to goals and went further to show what should have been done. It was a brilliant segment on HNIC that pulled no punches.And while Dowbiggen calls this data "manna from heaven," I'm thinking the vast majority of fans are just comfortable with the old Howie Meeker "Stop it right there, OK, watch what Trevor Johansen does here" style of analysis. It's really all they need.
Combining Howie's telestrator work with advanced stats would be a fantastic learning feature. People who now try to do Howie-like work, too often become hung up in a graphics showcase rather than demonstrating sound hockey skills and smarts.


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Strawesome Glass Straw Set - Funky Amethyst To Go Combo
Drinking straws are great fun for kids, but the usual plastic variety is less than awesome for kids' health – and the environment. Enter Strawesome with a line of glass straws that are fun, practical and beautiful. They are infinitely reusable, come in a range of eclectic designs and are handcrafted in the USA in a workshop in Michigan.This package contains everything you need to take Strawesome On-The-Go:
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14k gold bee pendant with a single white diamond. Chain is available in three length options, 16",18" and 20" and two different styles.
Please allow 15-20 business days for production.
"Bees are the foundation of life. Everything in this life on planet Earth begins with the bee. The bees pollinate the trees so we can breathe oxygen and the food we eat so we can sustain ourselves. Bees are sacred - we must respect and honor the bee." - Logan Hollowell
Determining the symbolic meaning of the bee (as with any creature) is best done by observing its behavior, social habits, community and environment. In the case of the bee, we can observe a highly social insect operating within a teamwork-based community with an intricate hierarchy. Their homes (hives) are highly symbolic, as is their physical body characteristics. This page on bee meaning will dive into symbolic highlights of bee behavior as a model for lessons we can use for our own lives. Furthermore, this article will offer some insight into bee meaning in history, culture and myth.
We can gain clues to bee meaning by observing the hive. A bees home is made of tightly packed cells in the shape of hexagons - which is sacred geometry. Hexagons are comprised of six sides. The number six is symbolic of love (six is a sacred number for the goddess Venus), communication, balance and union. So, regarding the home (hive), the bee is a symbol of wholesome child-rearing, love within the family, domestic stability, harmony and open communication among family members. When the bee visits us, it's often a message for these family themes...an encouragement to open healthy communications within the family, reevaluate the home, and family. Bees remind us to focus on the nurturing of our family, community and support groups.
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We knew that Jasper was going to be Jasper for months before he was born. From the moment that we found out that he – hitherto referred to as Sprout – was going to be a he, he was Jasper. Jasper. It was a name for eccentric old English uncles, for suspender-wearing artists pottering about in skylit attics, for crusty old men with beards restoring boats and smoking pipes on pebble-strewn beaches, for boys in knee-britches chasing rabbits in heather fields. Jasper. I loved the name. I knew that it was his name with as much certainty as I've ever known anything.
My mother hated it. Oh, honey, she said when I told her. Oh, honey, really?
The lesson, don't tell anyone what you're planning on naming your child, hadn't sunk in from my first pregnancy, when she pulled an oh honey no on Emilia's original name, Theo. Really, Mom. And it's not up for discussion.
But what will you call him for short?
— What does that matter, Mom? We'll call him what we call him. Which, I thought, was a perfectly sensible response. After all, we couldn't have guessed in advance that we'd refer to Emilia as Budge (my mother calls her Milly, Jasper calls her Maya, but she is and will always be, to her father and me, Budge or Budgie. And no, we do not know why. She just is Budge.) How could we know what we would call Jasper? That would sort itself out after he arrived.
Or not.
The obvious diminutive form of Jasper is 'Jas' or 'Jazz' – 'Per' doesn't quite roll off the tongue – and we certainly sometimes call him that, but more often than not we simply spin silly variations on any word – or, as the case may be, non-word – that begins with a J. This sometimes takes a turn for the bizarre, and, very occasionally, the inappropriate.
The J-Bird.
The Jabberwock.
The Jibbler.
DJ Jazzy J.
Jazzer Arafat.
Jasberry Ram.
That last one caused a little confusion on a playdate the other week. Jasper was performing some of his usual acrobatics on a swingset and, in the process, ended up upside down in some sand, which prompted me to leap to my feet and yell something to the effect of oh, J-Man! Joey! My little Joo!
Which prompted my new friend to spin on the bench. Did you just call him your JEW?
— Huh?
Are you Jewish?
— What? Oh, god, no, it's just… he's… I sometimes call him… I call him lots of things… you know… like…
… and I swear to god, at precisely that moment my twisted, sleep-deprived mind could only think of Jazzer Arafat, which, you know, would only lead her to think that I have a really perverse outlook on peace in the Middle East, although that would have maybe been marginally better than telling her that I also sometimes call him Jizz.
At that moment I realized that, however irritated I had been by my mother's early questions about Jasper's name, she had been right about one thing: sometimes, the names don't just sort themselves out. Sometimes, you have to give a little thought to what you're going to holler across the playground. 'Budge,' Emilia's nickname, has garnered some funny looks, but I doubt that it has caused anyone to question my politics, or my sanity. And when she's sixteen and we're still calling her that, she'll roll her eyes at us and protest – just as I did when my mom called me Trinky in front of my friends (she still does this from time to time) – but it won't really be all that embarrassing, and she'll learn to appreciate it as the term of affection that it is. But Jasper, I am sure, is not going to want me shouting Jizzer! or Joo! at his football games or dance recitals. So.
As I once said (and it seems such a very long time ago now), nicknames are special names, and they are always, by their very nature, "gibberish, gobbledygook, nonsense. Words that mean nothing, but which are nonetheless utterances of affection, expressions of love in our own private language." All of the names that I, that we – my husband, Emilia and I – call Jasper are babbled utterances of love, and even though some of them lend themselves to misunderstanding, and all of them are nonsensical, and none of them have stuck, they are all exuberant expressions of how very much we love him, of how very, very, beyond-the-reach-of-ordinary-language special he is.
Still. We should probably restrict the use of Jazzer Arafat and JizzBomb to the yard.
You don't need to tell me your nicknames for your kids, although I'd love it if you would. And, are there any names that you've had to restrict to private use? That the grandparents have looked at askance? That have caused funny reactions in the playground? Or am I the only one who should be consulting UrbanDictionary before I holler at my kid?


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold prices closed lower on Tuesday, giving back a portion of the previous day's gains but holding ground above $1,250 an ounce, as the dollar edged higher and U.S. equities saw a modest rebound.
Gold for April delivery US:GCJ4 fell $8.70, or 0.7%, to settle at $1,251.20 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. March silver US:SIH4 tacked on 1 cent, or 0.1%, to $19.42 an ounce.
Gold "traded within a tight band" as the global equities markets took a breather from Monday's volatile start, said Edmund Moy, chief strategist at gold-backed IRA provider Morgan Gold. The metal's prices also edged lower for most of the day without support from Asia, he said, where gold retailers remained largely closed until Thursday for the Lunar New Year holiday.
Gold plunged 28% in 2013 but has rebounded by around 4% since the beginning of the year on haven-related buying as global equity markets retreated. Gold gains, however, have been limited by a resilient dollar, which has also been underpinned by haven-related buying, said Fawad Razaqzada, analyst at Forex.com.
A stronger dollar can undercut dollar-priced commodities, making them more expensive for nondollar users. On Tuesday, the greenback rebounded against the Japanese yen.
"But if the recent soft patch in U.S. data continues, then calls for a pause or slower pace of unwinding [quantitative easing] will only increase, which may cause the dollar to tumble. That, in turn, could help underpin gold and silver more significantly," Razaqzada said in a note.
For now, adding pressure to both gold and silver prices, U.S. stocks climbed Tuesday, on the back of sharp losses in the previous session.
Metals-mining shares followed gold lower, with the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index
The market's in a third week of no sales or purchases into the SPDR Gold Trust, according to Julian Phillips, a contributor to GoldForecaster.com. That's in contrast to U.S. gold sales last year from ETFs and the major banks that saw nearly 1,300 metric tons of gold "disgorged from the U.S., refined and sent to the Far East," so in 2014, these sales are showing signs of halting, he said.
Gold sentiment gauge drops
But in January, sentiment toward gold bullion declined, according to BullionVault. Its Gold Investor Index, which measures the balance of BullionVault's buyers over sellers, slipped to its lowest level since July 2012 — to 51.9 from 52.9 in December.
That decline came even as gold prices recorded their first monthly gain in five months. A reading above 50 indicates more buyers than sellers.
"The stand-out choice last month was to do nothing, sitting on whatever physical gold bullion holdings clients had already built," said Adrian Ash, head of research at BullionVault. "No surprise perhaps. Long-term gold and silver investors typically prefer to buy cheap, or at least when the market is quiet as opposed to making headlines."
Gold futures on Monday jumped by more than $20 an ounce, propelled by a disappointing report on U.S. manufacturing and a brutal session for equities that helped bring the precious metal into positive territory for the first time in three sessions.
U.S. manufacturers expanded in January at the slowest rate in eight months as the pace of new orders sharply decelerated. The Institute for Supply Management index sank to 51.3% from 56.5% in December. That is the lowest level since last May and enough to draw investors to gold.
On Tuesday, gold prices briefly added to their losses after data on U.S. factory orders showed a fall of 1.5% in December, which was less than expected.
"Weakening global equities markets caused by disappointing U.S. and China manufacturing data, trouble in emerging-market currencies, and mixed earning reports drove strong gains for gold last week as investors sought safe haven assets," said Moy. "Gold is likely to trade in a narrow range until U.S. nonfarm payroll data is released on Friday."
Also on Comex Tuesday, April platinum US:PLJ4 lost $13.20, or 1%, to $1,373.40 an ounce while March palladium US:PAH4 gave up $2.60, or 0.4%, to $700.10 an ounce.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Female soccer players suffered fewer severe injuries while competing on an artificial surface called FieldTurf than when playing on natural grass fields, in a new study.
Researchers found women's college teams had an average of 7.7 injuries - both minor and serious - for every 10 matches played on FieldTurf, compared to 9.5 injuries per 10 matches on grass. Most competitive collegiate soccer seasons consist of 20 to 25 matches.
The findings suggest "FieldTurf is a practical alternative to natural grass," study author Michael Meyers of Idaho State University in Pocatello told Reuters Health.
Early versions of synthetic turf that appeared in the late 1960s and 1970s were sometimes little more than a layer of thick, carpet-like material laid over concrete, he said. In today's U.S. artificial surface market, more than 30 companies compete with proprietary mixes of what the industry calls "infill systems," which can include rubber, silica sand and polyethylene fibers.
Montreal-based FieldTurf, which funded 40 percent of the current study, relies on a blend of silica sand and cryogenically ground rubber for its fields.
Estimates vary, but artificial field turf surfaces can last up to 10 years, with initial installment costs ranging from $800,000 to $1 million and annual maintenance fees of about $2,500.
"As the impact of the game increases, as the adverse weather worsens, FieldTurf provides a more consistent surface," than grass fields, said Meyers, who does not own any stock in the company.
The new study, published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, is based on injury data from nearly 800 matches reported by athletic trainers at 13 universities classified as National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division IA. Women's soccer programs that spent nearly equal competition time on FieldTurf and natural grass were included.
There were 693 injuries recorded during the five-year study period, including 130 substantial or severe injuries.
Substantial injuries requiring one to three weeks off were twice as common on natural grass as turf, Meyers found.
In his analysis, he considered the athlete's weight, shoe cleat design, weather conditions, position played at the time of injury, the age of the field itself and the surface temperature.
The current study is "remarkably comprehensive," said Glen Livesay, a biomedical engineer at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Livesay, who was not involved in the current study, has investigated FieldTurf in his own research. He told Reuters Health similar experiments completed in lab environments tend to use simple, repetitive motions done at a slower pace compared to real-life games.
The study's findings run counter to another report that found a higher rate of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries on FieldTurf compared to grass surfaces for National Football League players (see Reuters Health story of September 14, 2012 here: reut.rs/1dN8J1Z).
A separate 2012 study of data from the NCAA's Injury Surveillance System on football games arrived at a similar conclusion regarding ACL injuries.
Meyers' findings do point in the same direction, however, as a 2007 British study that found no differences in injury rates among male and female soccer players on artificial turf versus grass surfaces.
Researchers agreed it's difficult to make comparisons between different sports, genders, playing levels and surface types.
Livesay said the current study could have been improved by looking at practice fields used by soccer teams to determine possible correlations between changing field types from practice to competition and injury incidence.
The current study is "another important piece in the puzzle, but it's not the whole answer," Dr. Samuel Taylor, an orthopedic fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, who did not participate in the new research, told Reuters Health.
"It's difficult to make generalizable comparisons because so many factors go into the interaction between the type of turf and different injury types," he said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/1dN3H5n The American Journal of Sports Medicine, online August 13, 2013.
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The families of 96 people killed in the Hillsborough tragedy will see thousands of official documents relating to the disaster for the first time on Wednesday.
The Hillsborough Independent Panel has been overseeing the release of previously unpublished papers from around 80 organisations including the government, police, emergency services, Sheffield City Council and the South Yorkshire coroner.
The families of the 96 football fans who died in Britain's deadliest sporting disaster will be the first to see more than 400,000 pages from 8am. Later, Prime Minister David Cameron will address MPs in the House of Commons and the documents will be uploaded to a website for viewing by the general public.
A report explaining the contents of the documents will be published by the panel, chaired by the Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev James Jones.
The 96 Liverpool supporters died in a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on April 15 1989 where their team were to meet Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi-final.
A report into the disaster by Lord Justice Taylor, published in 1990, found that the main reason for the disaster was a failure of "police control" but the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence to bring a prosecution.
The victims' families say it is an injustice that no individual or organisation has been held fully accountable for the disaster. They believe a major incident plan was never initiated by South Yorkshire Police and fans in the Leppings Lane end were denied emergency medical attention.
The families also dispute the findings of an inquest into the deaths, which ruled that the victims were all dead, or brain dead, by 3.15pm and which subsequently recorded a verdict of accidental death.
Margaret Aspinall, chairwoman of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, said they hope the documents will answer some of the questions they have about the causes and aftermath of the tragedy.
"This is what the families and the fans have been fighting for 23 years. Without the truth you cannot grieve and where there is deceit, you get no justice," Mrs Aspinall, 65, said.


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DCSO on lookout for stolen explosives
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Jan. 31 Topaz Ranch Estates burglary in which thieves removed firearms, ammunition, gun powder, reloading supplies and railroad torpedoes.
According to reports, the residence in the 3800 block of Walker View Drive showed signs of forced entry. The interior was ransacked.
Sgt. Pat Brooks described railroad torpedoes as small explosive devices that are attached to the rail with a metal strap. They produce a small explosion when triggered.
"These items are or could be dangerous, and should not be handled. If located please contact the sheriff's office," Brooks said.
Anyone with any information about the burglary is asked to call Investigator Brian Hubkey at 782-9926 or Investigations at 782-9905.


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Structural studies of the O-antigen polysaccharide from Escherichia coli TD2158 having O18 serogroup specificity and aspects of its interaction with the tailspike endoglycosidase of the infecting bacteriophage HK620 (2012)
We have analyzed the O-antigen polysaccharide of the previously uncharacterized Escherichia coli strain TD2158 which is a host of bacteriophage HK620. This bacteriophage recognizes and cleaves the polysaccharide with its tailspike protein (TSP). The polysaccharide preparation as well as oligosaccharides obtained from HK620TSP endoglycosidase digests were analyzed with NMR spectroscopy. Additionally, sugar analysis was performed on the O-antigen polysaccharide and MALDI-TOF MS was used in oligosaccharide analysis. The present study revealed a heterogeneous polysaccharide with a hexasaccharide repeating unit of the following structure: alpha-D-Glcp-(1 -> 6) vertical bar vertical bar 2)-alpha-L-Rhap-(1 -> 6)-alpha-D-Glcp-(1 -> 4)-alpha-D-Galp-(1 -> 3)-alpha-D-GlcpNAc- (1 ->vertical bar beta-D-Glcp/beta-D-GlcpNAc-(1 -> 3) A repeating unit with a D-GlcNAc substitution of D-Gal has been described earlier as characteristic for serogroup O18A1. Accordingly, we termed repeating units with D-Glc substitution at D-Gal as O18A2. NMR analyses of the polysaccharide confirmed that O18A1- and O18A2-type repeats were present in a 1:1 ratio. However, HK620TSP preferentially bound the D-GlcNAc- substituted O18A1-type repeating units in its high affinity binding pocket with a dissociation constant of 140 mu M and disfavored the O18A2-type having a beta-D-Glcp-(1 -> 3)-linked group. As a result, in hexasaccharide preparations, O18A1 and O18A2 repeats were present in a 9: 1 ratio stressing the clear preference of O18A1- type repeats to be cleaved by HK620TSP.


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The contest below runs on our Facebook page every month. This post was created so Facebook readers can be given a link to the rules rather than have me repost them on the "wall" each time someone asks about them.
Entries are due by the last day of the month. Entries are posted in a gallery and the winner is announced on the first day of the next month (or the first weekday if the first falls on a Saturday or Sunday).
PRIZE: Different prize each month. We've done Traxxas hoodies, Big Bore aluminum shocks, a Velineon system...check at the Traxxas Facebook page for the latest prize.
1. Submit your photo(s) to email@example.com. Feel free to post them on the Wall to share, but the ONLY way to be officially entered in the contest is to email your pics to email@example.com.
2. You MUST save each photo as your name so we can see who submitted the pic! For example, if your name is Joe Smith and you submit two photos, you would save the photos as "Joe_Smith_1" and "Joe_Smith_2." If you do not do this, your photo(s) will not be entered in the contest. The name of your email doesn't matter, you need to name the PHOTOS.
3. The photo has to be of a Traxxas vehicle
4. No photos involving fire, fireworks, animals, jumping over people, etc. Safety first!
5. The photo must be one that you took, or a photo of your vehicle. In other words: don't send us a pic you found on Google.
6. This is not a Photoshop contest. You can use Photoshop or similar tools to crop your photo, adjust the contrast and hue, or make other fixes, but adding blurs, filters, compositing images, adding titles or graphics, etc. is not allowed.
7. All entries must include your name and address.
8. Not a must-have, but a little info about the photo is nice too ("Here's my Slash with Pro-Line paddles at Pismo beach.")
Photos will be judged by the Traxxas photographer. Remember, it's the quality of the PHOTO that counts, not the coolness of the vehicle in the photo. No matter how clean and tricked-out your ride is, you won't win the photo contest if your photo just shows it sitting on your kitchen table.
Even if you didn't hear about this contest via Facebook, you are still invited to join! Entries and winners will be posted at www.facebook.com/Traxxas, be sure to look there if you enter--this post is just a home for the rules. --Pete
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so i can enter my slash 4x4 in mid air jumping over my ford truck? about 12 feet in the air.
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does it have to be of a car or can it be of a track????
How about people that live outside of the United States of America.
I'm in Australia so not sure what would happen if I did enter & did happen to win a prize, (prize postage/delivery etc).
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Is there a pixel size minimum? Reason I ask is if shoot some hd video of the cars, can a good frame grab be used?
Is this still going on?
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I went on the facebook page but could not find anything about the prizes or this competition
What ever happened to this? anyone know why they stopped doing it?


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News Release 2011-127 | October 13, 2011
OCC Names John C. Lyons to Head Supervision Policy
WASHINGTON – The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced today that John C. Lyons, Jr. has been appointed Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy and Chief National Bank Examiner, while David K. Wilson has been named Examiner-in-Charge of Citibank.
The two men are essentially switching jobs, which will facilitate the transition for supervisory responsibilities at Citibank, one of the largest banks supervised by the OCC. Mr. Lyons is in his fifth year as Citibank EIC, and the OCC requires EICs to rotate out of their positions after five years. Mr. Wilson has 30 years of experience in supervision and banking, including four years in the private sector as executive vice president at First Interstate Bancorp. Mr. Lyons has 34 years of supervisory experience, including EIC and team leader positions at large, midsize and community banks.
"We are extremely fortunate to have two such seasoned and respected examiners willing to continue their service to the agency and the nation in these most challenging roles," said acting Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh. "Our large bank group deals with the most complex and challenging financial institutions in the world, and so the choice of EICs at these institutions is one of the most important decisions the agency makes."
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steps outside to the morning sun
I feel like I haven't been here for ages. Gwyn is such a character. I hope, as I age, I'll be just as spry.
ponders for a moment
But what is time, really? Is it a beginning and an end? Could it be... a gap between seeing friends? Maybe it's just a town amidst adventures!
smiles, gazing up at the Blue Star
Though it's been a while, I feel as if I've never left. My memories are fresh and my heart is light. I can feel it. A new one is waiting for me, and I wonder who I'll see first along the way. I think... I'll head to Larpa.
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