Rev. Jeffress, I have a news flash for you: Americans have the right to choose whatever religion they want – or reject them all. They have the right to change their minds, too. They have the right to blend elements from several traditions into their own personal faith.
The prestigious British medical journal Lancet took a rare step this week: It retracted a 1998 paper that sparked a firestorm about potential links between vaccines and autism. That paper has been a bane to Dr. Paul Offit, co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine and chief of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. Offit tells host Guy Raz why he thinks the paper was a disaster for parents seeking answers about autism.
IMHO, unit cohesion really doesn’t exist. there is social cohesion and task cohesion. DADT is a crock.
The arguments for preserving “don’t ask” have long been blatantly groundless. McCain — who said in 2006 that he would favor repealing the law if military leaders ever did — didn’t even bother to offer a logical explanation for his mortifying flip-flop last week. He instead huffed that the 1993 “don’t ask” law should remain unchanged as long as any war is going on which would be in perpetuity, given Afghanistan. Colin Powell strafed him just hours later, when he announced that changed “attitudes and circumstances” over the past 17 years have led him to agree with Mullen. McCain is even out of step with his own family’s values. Both his wife, Cindy, and his daughter Meghan have posed for the current California ad campaign explicitly labeling opposition to same-sex marriage as hate.
Wow, this isn’t a typical Andy Griffith role…great movie. I’ve got a sweet spot for Patricia Neal too
Elia Kazan’s masterpiece proves that celebrity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When talent scout Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) spots drifter Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith) and makes him a superstar, he gets a taste of the good life. But his hunger for klieg lights, fed by run-ins with famous people such as Burl Ives and Bennett Cerf who play themselves, turns desperate, and he loses sight of who he is and what he’s truly about.
Have I mentioned lately how much Phelps and his Klan are just plain Nuts?
Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters, including guest blogger EDW Lynch above.
Mixed emotions about this, i liked amazon trying to get us a good price but also want to see people rewarded for their hard work. In the end i can’t complain about a few more dollars.
Amazon has given in to publisher pressure and agreed to abandon their $9.99 price point for eBooks.
Publisher Macmillan felt that the $9.99 price devalued many of its bestsellers, which often sell for $30 in hardcover format. In response to the pricing dispute, Amazon briefly removed all Macmillan books from its store last week. However, the boycott lasted only a few days before Amazon gave in to Macmillan’s demands.
Sunday morning, space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to blast off on a mission to the space station to deliver the Tranquility node, which is essentially a new room for the outpost. Attached to this room is a special structure called the cupola. It has seven large windows — the central, circular window is about 31 inches across — so astronauts can float inside and be surrounded by a panorama.
Charter schools hold out great hope as agents of reform. There are excellent charter schools, and perhaps they can lead some of our floundering school systems to better days. But that bright promise remains theoretical when you look at charter schools overall.
At the same time, it’s pretty clear that charter schools are helping to divide the country racially, religiously, and socially. Resegregation is a a tough problem with many causes. But unless the reform laws being passed right now address the resegregation issue, charter schools will simply be remembered as a force tore this country apart.
So here is you homework for the weekend. How will you deal with User 2.0? How are you going to protect your corporate data without saying “Nay” to things like facebook, IM, own equipment, own applications, own …….? How will you sort data leakage, remote access, licensing issues, malware in an environment where you maybe have no control or access over the endpoint? Do you treat everyone with their own equipment as strangers and place them of the “special” VLAN? How do you deal with the Mac users that insist their machines cannot be infected?
And there’s one simple reason why McCain is suddenly turning to the right on this issue — because he's facing a primary challenge from the right by JD Hayworth. Does anyone really believe that John McCain gives a crap about gays in the military? His wife is doing ads in favor of same sex marriage, for crying out loud. He is not a religious righter and he’s not an extremist on this. But now he has to pretend to be one to win reelection to the Senate.
Jurors sent a clear signal Tuesday (Feb. 2) that parents who rely solely on faith healing to treat their children face prison if a child dies.
Jeffrey and Marci Beagley were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of their 16-year-old son, Neil, who died in June 2008 of complications from an undiagnosed congenital urinary blockage.
His parents attempted to heal him with prayer, anointing with oil and laying on of hands.
They are the first members of Oregon City’s Followers of Christ church to be convicted of homicide in the congregation’s long history of children dying from treatable medical conditions.
The recession is just part of the problem. Long-term demographic shifts are altering the education landscape. The Southern Education Foundation reported last month that the South has become the first region of the country where more than half the public school students are poor and more than half are African American, Latino, Asian or Native American. That change is not caused by white flight, but by an influx of Latinos and other ethnic groups.
For a teacher, this news translates into a series of quiet struggles. It can mean forgiving a student who–because his home is now a pressure-cooker—has begun acting out. It can mean sticking up for the girl has become distracted and inattentive in class. It can mean getting a kid home each day because his parents can’t.
Worms can infect local networks from a variety of sources. One of the most common is when someone connected to the network is surfing the Web and their computer is attacked by malicious software written into a Web site they visit. This is sometimes referred to as a “drive-by download”. Another common entry point for worms is via e-mail, when a computer user opens up an attachment that has been infected by a virus carrying the worm. “The vast majority of the attacks we see are silent attacks looking to steal things from a person's computers,” Carey Nachenberg, vice president and fellow of security technology and response for Symantec Corp., a technology security company based in Mountain View, Calif.
Full retraction of the article long over due, now how do they go about reversing the damage caused by this idiot (Wakefield) over the past 12 years? Antivaxxers are danger to everyone’s health.
The medical journal’s editor, Richard Horton, told the Guardian today that he realised as soon as he read the GMC findings that the paper, published in February 1998, had to be retracted. “It was utterly clear, without any ambiguity at all, that the statements in the paper were utterly false,” he said. “I feel I was deceived.”
