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Sunday, 14 July 2013
Legal Immigrant Ravi Calls in to The Mark Levin Show - Ramparts360
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A young man originally from India, studying to become a dentist, spoke with Mark Levin on the July 12, 2013 show and told him how hard it is to get his brother into America legally. He also gave his thoughts about the current ...
Boy Scout organization reaches out to former church home
by La Grange News
The scout executive for the Chattahoochee Valley area Boy Scout organization has written a letter to First Baptist Church on the Square after news broke last week the church would not continue its charter and host the scouts.
The church?s move was made in response to the Scout?s decision to allow gay members.
?There are several very strong supporters of scouting who are still members of First Baptist on the Square who will continue in scouting and continue to support scouting that we do not want to lose or have a feeling that scouting has a problem with their church or faith,? said Anthony Berger, scout executive. ?Scouting is open to all faiths and continues to bring many young men to God.?
The text of the letter is as follows:
An open letter to First Baptist on the Square
Recently an article in the LaGrange Daily News published on Friday July 5th was printed in regard to the recent decision made by First Baptist on the Square to not renew their Annual Charter Agreement with the Chattahoochee Council, Boy Scouts of America.
It seems that the article has caused some unfavorable perceptions about this decision and the relationship between First Baptist on the Square and the Chattahoochee Council, Boy Scouts of America. I have personally talked with Dr. (Paul) Baxter and he and I had a very favorable conversation.
In no way was my comment, ?There have been a lot of knee-jerk reactions? directed towards First Baptist on the Square. It was a statement made in reply to a question concerning overall how chartered partners are responding to the change.
We have always valued the relationship that First Baptist on the Square and the Chattahoochee Council, Boy Scouts of America has had over the past several decades. Together this mutually beneficial relationship has guided young men into leaders in our community. We respect their decision not to renew their annual agreement with us. We also know that the decision was made through a process involving several levels of church leadership and in no way did we view it as a decision that was made lightly or without much deliberation.
Iconic Scoutmaster Fred Lundberg made a profound impact on the lives of hundreds of boys and recently was elected to serve as Council Vice President of Program where his leadership would impact thousands of boys in our region. He was elected by our board of directors to be a voting member at the National Annual Meeting. I personally was saddened to see him resign because of this decision. I admired the way he composed himself after the vote and even though I disagree with him I respect his decision and still admire him greatly.
In my discussion with Dr. Baxter we both agreed that just because you have a disagreement with someone doesn?t mean you still can?t have a healthy and positive relationship. Even though First Baptist on the Square will no longer serve as a chartered partner does not mean that our two organizations can not have a mutual respect for each other and the works we do. All it means is that our relationship has changed and we both look forward to this new chapter in our relationship as we both seek to influence lives in a positive way and will be open to others ways that we can work together for the good of our community.
Respectfully Yours,
Anthony M. Berger
Scout Executive, CEO
Chattahoochee Council, Boy Scouts of America
Baxter said Thursday he was pleased Berger wanted to correct the false impression.
?I have chatted with him and he knows that we did not rush into our decision but spoke with Boy Scout representatives before and after our decision; and, that we did not eject the Boy Scouts but simply chose not to renew our charter in January, giving them months to relocate,? Baxter said. ?We had a most cordial and forthright conversation in which we both expressed the importance of being able to disagree agreeably and work together when possible. We have much love for the Boy Scouts. I reiterated the fact that while we love and welcome anyone and everyone, we cannot countenance teenage boys going camping in two person tents with avowedly homosexuals with an acknowledged attraction for boys. However, we had a wonderful relationship with the Boy Scouts, and are most blessed to have as church members a former national director of personnel of the Boy Scouts and a super dedicated scout master.?
Berger said offers of new hosts for the displaced Boy Scout troop have increased since the news first broke.
?We received several calls from churches and individuals asking how they can help and we are following up with each of those,? he said.
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Parental Guidance: Pacific Rim and Grown Ups 2
8%
Rating: PG-13, for crude and suggestive content, language and male rear nudity.
Fart jokes. Pee jokes. Poop jokes. Vomit jokes. Jokes about boobs. Jokes about butts. Jokes about stoned, bi-polar school bus drivers. If you are not shocked or offended by any of these de rigueur elements of an Adam Sandler comedy, and you think your older kids will get a mindless kick out of such puerile humor, then sure, Grown Ups 2 is suitable. They may giggle at the gross-out gags, but the alleged "meat" of the film -- the midlife crisis that Sandler and his pals Chris Rock, Kevin James and David Spade are experiencing -- will probably go over their heads. Still, if you truly love your kids, you won't subject them to such lazy, cynical trash.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1927851/news/1927851/
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Saturday, 13 July 2013
Hops for Heroes: Brewers team up to help military families
Former major league pitcher Chris Ray talks with reporters about his baseball-themed beers at The Diamond in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The specialty brew will be sold at the Double AA minor league Richmond Flying Squirrels' baseball game Thursday, May 23, 2013. The proceeds are given to military families. (AP Photo/ The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Joe Mahoney)
RICHMOND, Va.?Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime?baseball bats.Nine different brewers collaborated to create Homefront IPA, all using the same recipe, complete with orange peel and unfinished maple Louisville Sluggers. Toward the end of the fermentation process the beer soaks in a tank with the maple bats.
All proceeds from the beer, which is being released for Memorial Day, will be donated to Operation Homefront, a national group that provides emergency financial assistance to military families.
The Hops for Heroes project began in 2011 when Chris Ray, co-founder of Center of the Universe Brewing Co. in suburban Richmond, was pitching for the Seattle Mariners.
A home brewer at the time, Ray wanted to partner with a local brewery to create a charity beer. Together with Fremont Brewing Co. in Seattle and his brother, Phil, they developed the recipe and chose the charity Operation Homefront, which was suggested by Ray's childhood friend that served as a soldier in Afghanistan.
"I was always taught when I was growing up to help out the people that help you," Ray said while talking about the beer at The Diamond, home of the Flying Squirrels minor league baseball team. "They're putting their lives on the line for us every day. The least we can do is help them keep their car on the road or help them keep their house."
The list of participating breweries has grown to include Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Fla., Sly Fox Brewing Co. in Pottstown, Pa., Perennial Artisan Ales in St. Louis, 21st Amendment Brewery in San Francisco, the Phoenix Ale Brewery in Phoenix, Left Hand Brewing Co. in Longmont, Colo., and Stone Brewing Co., in Escondido, Calif. Other sponsors within the craft brewing industry provided ingredients and supplies to help brewers keep their costs down and increase the amount of money raised for the cause.
Former major league pitcher Chris Ray pours one of his baseball-themed beers at The Diamond in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The specialty brew will be sold at the Double AA minor league Richmond Flying Squirrels' baseball game Thursday, May 23, 2013. The proceeds are given to military families. (AP PHOTO/ The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Joe Mahoney)
Last year, the project helped raise $165,000, with additional donations to the group coming in because of the beer project, Ray said. After the beer is brewed, the bats also are dried and auctioned off.
The breweries will sell the beer in bottles and kegs in their areas, with all proceeds being donated to local chapters of the charity. Bottles in the Richmond market even include American flag caps.
"It doesn't really get any more Americana than beer, baseball and America's troops," Ray said.
While Ray is glad more breweries are participating in the project, he said he wants it to grow slowly to keep the beer novel.
Aaron Taylor, spokesman for Operation Homefront, said the project is a great opportunity for folks to support military families and have a good time.
"It's a win-win for everybody," said Taylor, whose group helped meet the needs of 151,150 military families in 2012 by paying for car and home repairs and other financial aid.
Craft brewers are known for using their beers to support causes that they believe in, said Julia Herz, the craft beer program director at the Brewers Association, a Colorado-based industry group.
"They're just so tied to their communities," she said. "It's a very symbiotic thing,"
And with beer lovers excited to see a craft beer that benefits a charity, the beers usually sell out fast.
"What feels good tastes even better," Herz said.
Other adult beverage makers also support projects that benefit the military.
Several wineries a have created wines to support military groups like Operation Homefront.
Bourbon bottler Jim Beam has partnered with Operation Homefront for the past five years to raise money and awareness through promotional events such as concerts. And whiskey company Wild Turkey has teamed up with The Boot Campaign, which supports veterans through the sale and promotion of combat boots. Its "Boots and Bourbon" initiative raises money and highlights returning veterans' issues.
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Insect discovery sheds light on climate change
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Biologists have discovered a new, extinct family of insects that will help scientists better understand how some animals responded to global climate change and the evolution of communities.
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Lack of Placebo Hobbles Studies of Brain-Training | Psych Central ...
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on July 11, 2013
Researchers have discovered that while many brain-training companies emphasize the scientific rationale or proof?that their programs sharpen the mind, most studies do not adequately account for the placebo effect, a major limitation.
The new analysis appears in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
The results of psychological interventions, like medical ones, must be compared to improvements in a control condition, said University of Illinois psychology professor Dr. Daniel Simons, who co-wrote the article with Dr. Walter Boot, and cognitive psychology graduate students Cary Stothart and Cassie Stutts, of Florida State University.
In a clinical trial for a new drug, some participants receive a pill with the critical ingredients, and others receive an identical-looking pill that is inert ? a placebo.
Because participants cannot tell which they received, people in each condition should be equally likely to expect improvements.
In contrast, for most psychology interventions, participants know what?s in their ?pill,? Simons said.
?It?s not possible to use a brain-training program for 10 hours without knowing the type of training you received,? he said.
?People can form expectations for what will improve based on their experiences with the training tasks, and the existence of differences in expectations between people in treatment and control groups potentially undermines any claim that improvements were due to the treatment itself. Not one of the studies cited by the brain-training companies looks at differing expectations between the groups.?
Merely having an ?active control group,? one that does something for the same amount of time as the treatment group, does not protect against the placebo effect, Simons said.
A treatment group that completes an intensive memory-training regimen might expect improved performance on other cognitive tasks assessing memory. A control group that does crossword puzzles or watches DVDs for the same amount of time likely won?t expect the same amount of improvement on the same tasks, he said.
?These problems are not limited to brain-training studies,? Simons said. ?They hold true for almost all intervention studies.?
To illustrate the pervasiveness of this problem, the researchers examined expectations for improvement in studies of the effect of playing action video games on measures of perception and attention.
?Such studies find greater improvements in performance on attention and perception tasks after training with action video games than after training with non-action games for the same amount of time,? Boot said. ?However, even with this sort of active control condition, these interventions still are at risk for differential placebo effects.?
In one experiment, researchers measured expectations in two survey studies involving 200 participants each.
Participants watched either a short video of an action game (?Unreal Tournament?) or one of the games commonly used as controls in these studies (?Tetris? or ?The Sims?).
They then read descriptions of the cognitive tests used in the studies, watched short videos of the tests, and answered questions about whether they thought their performance on the tests would improve as a result of training on the video game they had viewed.
The actual impact of the intervention can be skewed by an individual?s expectations.
In this case, the results showed that expectations for improvement were greater for the action-game group than for the control games on exactly the same tests that showed bigger improvements for action-game training in the intervention studies.
In fact, the pattern of expected improvements exactly matched actual improvements seen in video game intervention studies, the researchers found.
?If expectations for improvement align perfectly with the actual improvements, then any claim that the treatment was effective is premature,? Simons said. ?Researchers must first eliminate differences in expectations across conditions.?
?Even though participants in psychology interventions typically know the nature of their intervention ? you can?t play a video game without knowing the game you?re playing ? there are steps researchers can take to ensure that the advantages of the treatment group are not due to expectations,? Boot said.
For example, researchers can mislead participants as to the expected benefits of a particular intervention, giving those in the control group higher expectations for improvement than those in the treatment group.
Researchers also can assess expectations generated by treatments in a separate sample of participants to ensure that expectations do not differ between intervention and control treatments.
?Although placebo effects can be helpful as well, we need to know what causes improvements in an intervention,? Simons said.
?We don?t want to recommend new therapies, change school curricula, or encourage the elderly to buy brain-training games if the benefits are just due to expectations for improvement.
?Only by using better active controls that equate for expectations can we draw definitive conclusions about the effectiveness of any intervention.?
Source: University of Illinois
APA Reference
Nauert, R. (2013). Lack of Placebo Hobbles Studies of Brain-Training. Psych Central. Retrieved on July 12, 2013, from http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/07/11/lack-of-placebo-hobbles-studies-of-brain-training/57064.html
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Source: http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/07/11/lack-of-placebo-hobbles-studies-of-brain-training/57064.html
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