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We take fitness seriously and we demand a lot of our coaches. Our primary goal is to provide an amazing coaching & class experience for our members. Thus, our Coaches must be "The Best" at what they do: Coaching. We require 160 hours of Observing & Assisting under the guidance of our veteran Coaches. They also need to keep up their coaching, nutrition, and functional movement education through our partner Madlab. Madlab is a leader in continuing education and certifications for Fitness, Nutrition, and Kinesiology. We also provide mandatory training on all aspects of coaching: from one-on-one sessions to effective group classes. And we require our coaches to "practice what they preach."
Every coach on our staff, including the owners, were doing CrossFit on their own before becoming a coach with Crossfit Pleasanton. Our coaches know what the customer experience is like because they were all clients. They are passionate about fitness, nutrition and the CrossFit methodology. They constantly searching for information, videos, books, and blogs on everything related to fitness, nutrition, CrossFit and weight lifting. They pursue new Certifications every year. They compete regularly in CrossFit, Olympic lifting competitions, triathlons, 10ks, Marathons, and more. Their reward is your results. Go ahead, ask them any question you have we are here for you.
ZOLTAN HITES
CROSSFIT COACH / OWNER
As a former professional tennis player, Zoltan spent most of his childhood on a tennis court. But as a kid, he also played football, basketball and soccer. At 12 years old, Zoltan decided tennis was the sport for him and never looked back. He had an impressive junior career which led him to play seven years on the ATP Tour traveling all over the world playing on the some of the biggest stages in tennis. During his years playing professional tennis, he was trained in the areas of physical fitness, sports psychology and weightlifting by the best in the world. After his professional tennis career, Zoltan taught tennis for 14 years. He coached high level national and world ranked players as well as young kids and senior clients. He's also managed two different Country Clubs and Director of Tennis at various clubs throughout the Bay Area. In these roles, he gained the experience of running large facilities with huge member bases and the knowledge of how to manage successful fitness facilities, making sure that member's needs are meet. Three years ago, Zoltan discovered Crossfit and functional fitness and could not get enough. He totally believes that it is the best way for anyone to reach their physical potential and the most efficient way to reach any fitness goal. In fact, he wishes he had been doing Crossfit when he was playing professional tennis; it would have given him an edge over the competition for sure. Eventually, Zoltan turned his love of Crossfit into a second career and began coaching Crossfit. When the opportunity to own and manage a Crossfit facility presented itself to him, he jumped at the chance with zero hesitation. In his mind, it is just like running a Country Club with the only difference being that the community is tighter and more like-minded and the service we provide can really improve people's daily lives. Zoltan loves CFP and the loyal membership. He truly wants to give the gift of fitness to anyone that wants to get challenge themselves to be their strongest, best self.
NICK KAO
CROSSFIT / MOBILITY COACH
I'm Nick Kao, I'm an Army veteran and currently pursuing a degree in math at UC Berkeley. Ever since I joined the military I've been a firm believer in a healthy mind and a healthy body and eventually I was put in charge of my unit's PRT (Physical Readiness Training) Program where I helped soldiers maintain their physical standards. After the military, I reentered college and was introduced to CrossFit. Originally I majored in math and kinesiology as I wanted to incorporate health and wellness with solid data and mathematical models. I eventually got my Level 1 certification in CrossFit and I'm working towards an NASM certification on my spare time from college. I'm particularly interested in mobility and rehab. I like working with others to restore range of motion and improve body mechanics.
TERRY BURKE
CORRECTIVE MOVEMENT SPECIALIST
Terry's love for fitness started during his time in the Navy as Rescue Swimmer. After he got out of the Navy Terry went to National Personal Trainer Institute where he obtained his Personal Training Certification, Corrective Exercise Specialist, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, Weight Loss Specialist, and Performance Enhancement Specialist certifications. On September 11th he attended the CrossFit Level 1 course in order to further his knowledge and his career in the fitness industry. He's very excited about being a CrossFit Coach and is looking forward to making you the best athlete you can be.
MARIANA AGUILAR
Mariana was born in Lake Tahoe CA, and grew up in Nevada. Being physically active outdoors has been part of her life from a young age. The Tahoe lifestyle exposed her to biking, swimming, snowboarding, hiking, and running outside. Mariana also grew up playing competitive soccer and tennis but fell off the fitness track when she began college at the University of Nevada Reno, in 2008. Lost, overweight and uninterested in her original major Mariana dropped out and perused a career in retail management. In 2012 Mariana set out and accomplished a goal of losing 50 pounds and running 13 half marathons in 13 months, along with, completing her first ever full marathon. In 2014 she was introduced and immediately hooked on CrossFit ultimately competing at the local level and becoming CrossFit level-1 certified. Her new-found passion for fitness and helping others drove Mariana to step down from her career position to pursue a new career in fitness. Very shortly after Mariana's health took a hit when she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease, Systemic Lupus. Mariana pushed through and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology from California State University, Chico in 2017. During her time in College Mariana focused on the science behind how exercise heals the body, nutrition and physical therapy. Mariana fell in love with coaching and inspiring others to fall in love with fitness. She has struggled with major weight loss, and health issues but overcame those by studying and focusing on the healing effects that exercise has on the body. Through CrossFit Pleasanton, Mariana hopes to provide our members and community with an inspiring and powerful environment to help them learn, grow mentally, heal physically, and achieve their goals while maintaining balance.
Member and Club Officer of the Pre Physical Therapy Club at CSU Chico.
Level One Certified CrossFit Coach.
CPR AED Certified.
Certified Zumba Instructor.
Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Physiology
Successfully completed 13 half marathons in 13 months 2012- 2013.
Successfully completed a full marathon December of 2012. Overall 2012 Tahoe Trail running series long distance champion.
Placed 2nd in 2012 Tahoe trail running series short distance. Placed 2nd at Human Performance Project GNC Throw Down Individual CrossFit competition June 2013.
Placed 2nd at the Gold Town Throw Down team CrossFit competition in 2014.
Placed 2nd at the Golden State Games team CrossFit competition in 2015.
Climbed Mt. Whitney in the Summer of 2017.
DR. MARK KORANSKY
Mark Koransky fell in love with CrossFit in 2017 and has never looked back. After a lifetime of working out and lifting heavy weights, he found the variability and intensity of CrossFit to be exactly what he was looking for. A full-time General Surgeon, he is one of our gym's Master Athlete Competitors and placed 138th in 2020 Open and made it to the Age Group Online Qualifiers. He also qualified to compete in the 2020 Atlas Games and the 2021 Northern California Classic. . He was invited in 2017 by CrossFit Hq to be one of the first physicians to take the Level 1 Certificate Course as part of CrossFit's attempts to educate medical doctors about the benefits of CrossFit and proper nutrition. He has completed the CrossFit Online Training Courses Lesson Planning, Spot the Flaw, Scaling, and Judging. He is passionate about trying to help you reach your fitness and health goals with a special interest in advanced skill-building.
Erik Larson
Erik is a Crossfit coach from Santa Cruz, California. A CFP Competition Group member and Crossfit competition veteran, Erik is quick to remind you that he started 40 lbs overweight and continues to work on improving his own fitness. Having spent many years as a teacher in private college and other settings, Erik has been compelled to share his teaching experience along with his love of Crossfit with other CFP members. Erik employs a work hard/play hard mentality that proves it is possible to have fun while improving fitness and health. Additionally, Erik believes an obsessive focus on technique, discipline, and consistency is key to achieving your goals. Beginning his Crossfit journey in order to improve his skills as an American Football receiver, Erik has transitioned to Crossfit as his main physical outlet.
LISA CORTI
Lisa dabbled in sports through school, such as track, basketball, and volleyball. It wasn't until I got my first gym membership at 19 that I fell in love with fitness. In 2007, Lisa joined a local Crossfit gym and she was hooked on the constantly varied workouts. Lisa ended up taking a sabbatical due to work but continued to workout and maintain her fitness as her health has always been a priority. Lisa found herself back at Crossfit in 2015. Since 2015, she has gotten increasingly stronger, leaner, and has increased her engine/cardio capacity. Lisa took her love for Crossfit to the next level and started coaching in 2020. I love being able to share what I have learned with others and to see others excel in this sport.
Nabil Saad
Nabil is very passionate about health and fitness, whether it is with his own personal training or teaching his students the importance of movement and physical activity. While earning his B.A. in Liberal Arts and Health Education, he was also a collegiate athlete, and continued on to earn a M.A. in Athletic Administration. Nabil holds a CrossFit Level 1, NSCA-CPT, and USMTA Kickboxing certification. His professional coaching experience includes fifteen years of competitive club and coaching high school soccer. Nabil found CrossFit in 2017, he competed in The Open five months into CrossFit and never looked back! He went on to receive his Level 1 and implements CrossFit fundamentals in his PE curriculum. Nabil is a Health/Fitness instructor and Director of Athletics at a private school in Danville. "What I love most about CrossFit is the power of community!"
Caron Knight
Caron Knight is a long-time resident of Pleasanton. She played multiple sports growing up including soccer, softball, and basketball. She played on the basketball team for both Pleasanton Middle school and Foothill High school making varsity her freshman year. She graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in kinesiology and a minor in nutrition. She has been a member of CrossFit Pleasanton since 2009. Caron is an amazing athlete, her knowledge of sports and movements is a great asset to our team.
Elaine Trinh
Elaine and joined Crossfit in 2016. She has competed in Crossfit and Olympic Weightlifting since then, reaching one of her goals to compete at the USA Weightlifting University Nationals! Her Crossfit journey has been rewarding because it has taught her about hard work, patience, and being humble. Elaine's coaching philosophy is based on growth mindset, that little accomplishments and failures are much more promising than we believe them to be. What She loves about Crossfit is that it is accessible to anyone and everyone, no matter where you are in life! Elaine loves questions about individual goals, please feel free to ask her anything. She is currently a nursing student, wrestling coach, and BJJ practitioner (pajama wrestler).


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Sundays 8:00 PM on BBC Two
28x5 "Episode 5"
Paddy, Freddie and Chris take the latest sports cars from Ferrari, Aston and Porsche on a Yorkshire road trip. On track, Chris tests out Volkswagen's fearsome ID-R electric racer. YouTube sensation KSI is the studio guest.
With a German engine. That doesn't matter. Everybody loves an Aston.
Glad you asked, fratelli.
And the roads to get there weren't too shabby either.
Put a bit of lippy on me and call me Coleen Rooney.
In 1.4 miles. That...
I did 176. That's shocking.
the brakes just didn't work. Whoa, whoa, don't blame brakes,
So, let's see what those batteries can do.
a tonne of downforce, and with its electric motors also
Driven hard, the IDR will manage just 12 miles before needing a...
So, if you want to get really high, electricity is what you need.
No. Nothing comes close.
Wow. Amazing.
we've got a ball, we've got some steering wheels.
It's about to get faster.
Yeah! Hey?
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Like, look at it.
Yeah, after that.
I've seen you... I've seen you box.
Oh, OK. I'll take that. Oh!
All right. Who wants to see JJ's lap?
Doesn't sound it. I'm the fastest YouTuber doing this!
Wait. Oh, no.
..and Harris had been given racing driver Damon Hill...
Then we're going round the outskirts of York.
..because with Flintoff still working on HIS communication...
and we just re-crossed the start line.
# I've come to talk with you again... #
Ah! This is good!
Here we go, the Humber Bridge. Look at this. Look out the windows.
But despite my iffy directions, Team 911 was about to hit...
..it looked like Damon might be slowing down.
this was shaping up to be one hell of a test of our sports cars.
Freddie and Chris tackle the toughest off-road race on the planet: The brutal Baja 1000. Out on track, there's a showdown between a Renault hot hatch, a Porsche sports car… and an old Lamborghini. Laurence and Emilia Fox are the studio guests.
But you've got to remember, Baja will bite you.
But it's not... It's not a total rookie squad here.
I actually like nerves.
ENGINE STOPS
This thing hasn't found our signal.
changing drivers and running repairs at pre-agreed checkpoints,
and he's spoken about that.
..which would normally be a pretty quick fix,
I'm going to be going down the side of the beach,
We'd found our way back on to the right track.
With dusk falling, we finally reached mile 70.
They found some loose wires but they don't know how that happened
Within 70 miles, we had no power steering, we basically had no GPS -
ordinary-looking hatchbacks.
to go in and it's soft, rubbery plastic.
and it has a CVT gearbox. Those are the ones that make your car sound
That's what happened to the styling of that. It looks absolutely awful.
You lend me those teeth, I could be a rat.
- You don't want him. - ..is Andrew Flintoff. You don't need him.
So sorry, Fred. I'm so sorry.
- Yeah. Now, then. - You were amazing. - Laurence... - Wow.
Laurence! That was unbelievable!
How many miles in 16 years?
So if someone's going 160 without realising it, don't tell them.
and a lady in an X5,
Round the corner. That's a good line.
I know where I am, I'm right there, down the bottom.
I mean, we could hear you screeching and braking, everything else,
- We're looking for commitment. - Come on, Loz. Get through here.
..5... Yes, get in! ...6. Just under Vicky McClure.
What I have got is a 300 horsepower turbo-charged four-cylinder engine.
is down to a crash diet.
probably leave it alone cos you'll just end up ruining the handling.
And you know what? It is brilliant.
A family hatchback with back seats ripped out.
- Drag race. - Oh. - Yeah?
Get past the Megane.
- Made by Audi, you big fraud! - Listen, I'm phoning Neil up at Lamborghini.
- Young kids don't have a picture of that on their bedroom wall. - I did.
Three, two, one, go!
- Am I going next? - Yeah.
So you've just set a totally arbitrary target
- He's on the grass, he's on the grass. - Oh, no, Paddy.
Sports cars are all about posing. They're all about being stylish
Aired a year ago - Feb 09, 2020
Paddy, Freddie and Chris are sent on a high-altitude mountain expedition across Peru in second-hand American cars. Back at the track, Chris tests out the latest electric car from Porsche.
it's just a legend.
Look at the size of the steering wheel.
If you want to... Yeah.
V8, five litres, what's not to like?
Don't know what he's playing at.
Good as new, boys!
Brakes, well they are very...
Thankfully, the storm soon cleared
Erm, there appears to be no wheel.
..the wheels have fallen off.
Yeah. Thanks for having me.
And one of them was up for sale -
..gold chain for this. Shut up!
Decorate the front... Todo rojo? Todo rojo?
Yeah, it's good, good. Yeah?
in all of South America.
This might be the best hour's driving I've had on the road...
Come on, Fred, let her run, let her roll.
What is wrong with you?
That Pontiac was terrible. Yeah.
Special moment, this, and I mean a really special moment
that familiar electric car recipe
Now, the lower the voltage, the lower the pressure
The only problem is...
turbo doesn't mean turbo any more.
have to go and cool down for a bit before having another go,
It has no right to drive like this,
Four-wheel drive, so traction is immense.
And I can tell you,
This is good. I think this is the fastest I've been, so far.
Sitting somewhere between sidecar and traditional motocross racing,
Good luck, Chris.
..was up next.
That's horrible! Oh, Fred, come on!
Oh, you prick. I'm in the wrong gear.
that climbs to an altitude of over 4,500 metres.
overnight, Flintoff had been busy working on a secret weapon.
ENGINE TURNS OVER
That's my rear view gone.
So, we pulled over and braced ourselves for the big moment.
Come on...
Don't stop there, son.
It feels like we are in the gods at the moment.
Can you see him?
Paddy reveals his ultimate cheap, luxurious off-roader: the homebuilt Dirty Rascal. Chris races the £2.5m McLaren Speedtail against the RAF's newest fighter jet. Romesh Ranganathan is the studio guest.
The car that, back in the '90s,
Now I'm clocking along.
Every inch of the Speedtail's streamliner bodywork
..the way the Speedtail generates its 1,000 horsepower
McLaren, they just do chassis so well.
Bugatti Chiron - 13.6.
I thought you were supposed to be a fan of the car.
put the bank on. It'll be a limiter pull to get to 35 alpha
As I'll ever be.
I don't stand a chance - he's already there!
we'll do that next series - but straight off the bat,
That's not luxury. This is proper luxury, lads.
Lambing? I've seen people put their arms in livestock.
Right, then. Let's open the taps.
He's really happy with himself there, isn't he? Yes, baby!
I think he could roll it. Oh, it's a rough ride, this.
What about the handbrake turn?
I'm just a northerner they've stuck in the other car!
How about a splash? Yeah, go on.
And then my underpants were just obliterated.
Um... Mongolia was pretty bad,
the show goes out, I get a text message from Freddie.
your clothes are different. No... It's a compliment.
and I went and bought a really old Volvo,
I mean, I would say he's wired differently to any other human.
when I got behind the wheel, my main goal
Romesh, great drivers excel in wet conditions.
across the moorland...
A gruelling race hiking across the Highland wilderness
What have we missed? What have we missed?
Sucking the smoke out.
Problem is, though, I think it's about to get a hell of a lot harder.
rubble to our left. You're driving up a river!
Right! Push on that front there.
Oh, God. Don't worry about it.
out of trouble,
the Von Trapps were making a breakthrough.
Whoa-oa-oa! Paddy! Don't worry.
Paddy McGuiness, Chris Harris and Freddie Flintoff go on a road trip in a trio of affordable second-hand convertibles. On the test track, Chris puts the new Ariel Atom through its paces, while Freddie goes bungee jumping off a dam in an old Rover.
Our meeting place would be the seaside town of Bognor Regis.
Look at it. It's fantastic.
Well, think of road trips, what do you think of?
Oh... See?
# Tell me quando, quando, quando... #
I tell you what, you surprised us all with another Escort, Paddy.
Those two clowns there have got coupes
Challenge - time to find out how your summer holiday convertibles
Jesus Christ, the combine harvester was a bit close!
This is lively.
Yeah. But it's not necessarily a seaside holiday treat, is it?
To see how your cars cope with this sort of output, they're now
Yeah, exactly. Exactly!
next up it was Flintoff's run.
Oiled up. 148.12.
Hey? Let me tell you,
A new from-the-ground-up design that looks completely and utterly...
There is one important change, though, that's far more welcome.
And when you've had enough of nimbly carving up corners...
is if it's something you'd actually want to own.
a quick spin in one of these will sort you right out.
..20... What? ..5... What? ..3.
Again, I was in an Escort, again, I was towing Flintoff.
So we're driving round and they're hitting balls into our car.
BLEEP! Right past my nose!
Time for some payback. Go on!
and with the day drawing to a close, the pressure was now all on Harris.
GLASS SHATTERS Whoa, that was my side window gone.
Well, it's not bad news. You got 16.
What is this? Challenge!
Are you going? See you on the other side, boys.
Go on! Argh!
What? I'm just pushing you? Yeah.
Best of British, best of British.
Oh, and you also need one of these.
Over 500ft, that, Fred.
Tell you what, I'm feeling a bit loose. Have you done this before?
Lovely bit of engineering, Fred. I don't care.
Oh, this is stupid.
Why? Why am I doing this?
Report problem with "Top Gear"

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Kuzmich's path to the net paved by obstacle at young age
September 13, 2018 By Nate Rollins, Express Sports Correspondent
Kuzmich during the semifinals last season. / Photo by: Sue Moss
Syklar Kuzmich is in her fourth year as W-H's starting goalkeeper.
Faced with an obstacle at a young age that could have halted her soccer career, Skylar Kuzmich found her niche elsewhere on the pitch.
After jumping into the sport a few years prior, Kuzmich hit a bump in the road when she was 11. Running up and down the field was proving too much as her asthma was getting the best of her, leaving the then-middle schooler with two options.
"I could either quit the sport or become a goalkeeper," Kuzmich explained.
She chose the latter. Then, she spent the next years in town and club play mastering the position before arriving in high school where she'd blossom into one of the state's best goalkeepers.
Kuzmich, now a senior, has started for Whitman-Hanson Regional High's girls' soccer team since she was a freshman. The Panthers own a 58-5-3 record and haven't fallen short of the South Sectional semifinals in her first three seasons, a span she's posted 37 shutouts in.
"I always know that even if I mess up on defense, Sky is there and I trust Sky because she is an amazing goalie," classmate and fellow captain Sammy Smith said.
Last season was when Kuzmich took her game to a new level, posting shutouts in 10 of 19 games. She earned Patriot League All-Star recognition.
After falling to league rival Hingham, 3-1, Oct. 17, W-H found itself with a rematch against the Harborwomen on the road in the South Sectional quarterfinals Nov. 7.
Kuzmich turned away numerous shots in the first half to keep the score deadlocked at 1-1, before the Panthers pulled ahead 2-1 in the second and that's where it would stand.
"She made three of four saves there that absolutely gave us an opportunity to win the game," head coach Dave Floeck recalled. "I'm hoping we don't have to see too many highlight-reel saves but we're happy that we have her there to make a few if she needs to."
Kuzmich stopped 16 shots in the game.
"She makes these amazing saves and I'm jealous because I don't know how she does it," Smith said. "She's like a ninja."
Jealousy isn't all that flows through Smith's mind watching Kuzmich, a Hofstra University commit, protect the Panthers' goal.
"I'm confident with her behind me in net at all times," Smith said.
Kuzmich said that while she deals with the same struggles most all goalkeepers do, her attitude allows her to stay sane in net.
"After you let up a goal you have to have a goldfish mindset," Kuzmich said. "Forget about it [and] move on to the next save. You can't let it get in your head or else you'll let in another one and part of that is you just need to be a little crazy too because one, you're diving at the ball all the time and two, you have to forget something that just happened even if it was your mistake."
Floeck said that while he's had to circle in numerous players on the backline over the past few seasons and plans to do the same this fall, he can count on Kuzmich to put them in the right positions to succeed.
"We'll have some different people on defense and she's the one, she's the conductor of that," he explained. "I've said from Day 1 that one of her greatest attributes is the saves she never has to make because she organizes our defense so well that she shuts off opportunities before they get to her. She can still make the game-saving save, but she shuts off a lot."
Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2018-19 Coverage, Dave Floeck, Feature/Profile, Sammy Smith, Skylar Kuzmich, Sports, Whitman-Hanson Regional High, Whitman-Hanson Regional High Girls' Soccer
Smith is headed to 'dream school'
Smith in the Panthers' home tilt against Pymouth North last season. / Photo by: Sue Moss
Senior Sammy Smith, an Eagle in waiting, wants to finish her senior season with a "bang."
She was almost a Wildcat, but then the Eagles came soaring in.
Whitman-Hanson Regional High girls' soccer senior captain and back Sammy Smith was committed to the University of New Hampshire for soccer — a decision she made as a freshman — until a roster error paved the way for her "dream school" to come calling.
"For my club — the U-18 team that I play on — I'm like the youngest player on that team, so I qualify to play with the U-17 team and everyone on that team is good," Smith explained. "They want to go to college and they're seriously looking into college soccer.
"So, I played with them (the U-17 team) in one tournament and on the roster — the manager of that team — didn't have me committed to UNH. So, all the coaches who came to that game were like 'Who's this? She's not committed? I thought she was committed to UNH.'''
So, the phone calls began as coaches tried to lure the two-time Patriot League All-Star and reigning first-team EMass selection onto their respective campus.
"One of the coaches at my club was like 'All these colleges are contacting you, do you want to look into them?''' Smith recalled.
Smith obliged and she's happy she did because Boston College was one of the them.
"In the end, BC has always been my dream school," said Smith, who committed there in June. "I'm so happy to be able to play there next year."
Smith might not even be the happiest one in her family about the decision.
"My parents are happy," she said. "My parents are ecstatic. They didn't mind the UNH — like two hours away — but right down the road, 40 minutes to BC, and plus my mom went there."
W-H girls' soccer head coach Dave Floeck said Smith, who has started for him since she was a freshman, is one of the most athletic girls he's ever coached.
"She's super quick and everything else, but her ability to change directions — while being full speed when most kids can't do that, they have to take an extra step — gives her the advantage," the 23rd-year head coach said.
"She is tremendous in tight spaces and if she gets in open space, she covers 60 to 70 yards dribbling the ball faster than people can do it without a ball. She's just a supreme talent and that's why BC snatched her."
Panthers senior goalkeeper Skylar Kuzmich said having a player on the field of Smith's caliber — someone who can excel at multiple positions and on both ends of the pitch — is an immense asset.
"Sam is a great player and it's funny because she already does play offense when she's on defense because she dribbles through everyone and then goes up field, but with her there, I feel great, but without her [at defender] we're going to score goals," Kuzmich said.
Smith said she doesn't let the fact that she's going to a top collegiate women's soccer school alter the way she goes about her business.
"I try to get touches on the ball every single day," Smith said. "There's no moment where I'm not thinking about soccer. I watch soccer, I play it every single day, but I try to not let it get to my head. I don't want to have a big head, like, 'Hey, I'm going to BC,' I don't let it get to me. I play like a normal player."
Smith's commitment adds to a long list of Panthers girls' soccer players to head to the Division 1 ranks. Lauren Bonavita and Taylor Kofton, both of whom graduated last spring, are in their freshman campaigns at UMass Amherst and Boston University, respectively.
For Smith, the goal this season is to end it and her Panthers soccer career with a "big bang."
"Oh, I want to win a state championship," she said.
Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 2018-18 Coverage, College Commitment, Dave Floeck, Feature/Profile, Sammy Smith, Skylar Kuzmich, Sports, Whitman-Hanson Regional High, Whitman-Hanson Regional High Girls' Soccer
Johnson's return bolsters Panthers on defense
September 6, 2018 By Nate Rollins, Express Sports Correspondent
Johnson throws the ball in during a Panthers tilt against Silver Lake last season. / Photo by: Sue Moss
Senior Olivia Johnson is back from a broken wrist sustained in the Panthers' final game of the season last fall.
From what looked minor from afar was anything but for Olivia Johnson.
The Whitman-Hanson Regional High girls' soccer captain was in the wrong place at the wrong time during the Panthers' Div. 1 South Sectional semifinal tilt against Newton South last season. Roughly midway through the first half, an attack into the W-H zone induced a scrum. Panthers defender Sammy Smith was there to clear the ball and pelted a shot that struck Johnson's left hand, breaking her wrist in half in the process.
"I knew right away that it was going to be a big injury," Johnson said. "A lot of my teammates thought that I got hit in the stomach and they were like 'Get up, get up, get up,' and I'm like 'I can't.'"
Panthers senior goalkeeper Skylar Kuzmich said she remembers the moment Johnson went down.
"It was bad and very tough to watch," Kuzmich said.
The injury sidelined Johnson for the remainder of the game – a 2-1 Panthers loss, which ended their season – and put her on the shelf for the beginning of winter sports.
"I was actually more concerned about not being able to play in the game and with basketball coming up the next season, just not being able to participate," Johnson said.
Surprisingly, Johnson, who was in a cast for three months on and off, only missed four basketball games.
"When I think about it now, if that was my senior year and I couldn't play in the rest, I'd be devastated," Johnson said.
Well, it wasn't her senior year, of course, meaning the dual-sport athlete has one more go-around to assure healthy campaigns.
The Panthers are going to need her more than ever on the pitch after the graduation of a pair of stalwarts on defense in Betty Blake and Elana Wood.
"OJ's going to be a great leader out on the field this year and I think she's going to give great direction and talk a lot in the back with me, especially if Sam (Smith) moves up to offense," Kuzmich said.
Johnson, despite being ready for game action, said she's still sharpening the "little things."
"I've been working on mental toughness on defense, staying fit, staying agile and stuff like that," she said.
As for Johnson's wrist, "It's still not fully healed," she said. "They don't think my motion will ever be healed."
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Season Preview: Young Panthers girls' soccer team is ready to go
August 30, 2018 By Nate Rollins, Express Sports Correspondent
The girls' soccer team during a scrimmage against Mansfield Aug. 25. / Photo by: Sue Moss
The Whitman-Hanson Regional High girls' soccer team will be led by a trio of senior captains, who will have a young core around them.
Another season, another clean slate for the Whitman-Hanson Regional High girls' soccer team.
The program, which has not had a losing campaign since 1999, also hasn't fallen short of the sectional semifinals — which occurred last fall — in the past four seasons.
In 2014, the Panthers made it to the state title game, in 2015 they made the sectional title game and their 2016 season ended with a loss in thestate semifinals.
"I'm pretty fortunate that we get some really talented players that come through and I think we as a coaching staff are smart enough not to get in their way," head coach Dave Floeck said. "I think we've been blessed that the program has established itself so younger kids in the fourth, fifth, six grade, who want to be a part of the program, are already working towards that and working their skills to get here.
"And so, year after year we graduate great players and then in comes some other great players and that's how we've been able to have success."
Coming into this fall Floeck's club, which went 17-2-2 last season, has some major losses with the graduation of past captains and fouryear starters — defender Elana Wood and midfielder/forward Eve Montgomery.
"They'd played in everything from a state championship game to right on down so they were able to share that with everybody, so it's a big void but we have a couple other seniors returning that have a lot of experience and we're looking forward to their leadership as well," Floeck said.
Defender Betty Blake and midfielders Katie Korzec and Taylor Kofton (2016 All-American) were also cornerstone pieces who have graduated as well.
2017 All-American Lauren Bonavita and her 43 goals last season and school-record 113 leaves the toughest hole to plug, and Floeck isn't even going to try to do that.
"It was a one-man wrecking crew," the 23rd-year head coach said of Bonavita. "It's a huge void, but we're not trying to fill that because that would be huge mistake on our part to put that kind of pressure on anybody, so we're trying to look at doing it differently, but certainly when you have a player of that type of talent, it's always a big loss."
Floeck said he believes his team's balance and depth are its two main strengths.
"We have people who can play multiple positions," he said. "We have quite a bit of pace, we're a pretty quick team, but we're young so there's going to be some growing pains along with that but it's nice because they don't know what they don't know yet so it gives us a great opportunity to teach."
The most notable multi-faceted Panther is Boston College-bound senior Sammy Smith.
Smith, who was voted a Patriot League All-Star, first-team EMass and all-state as a defender last season, can also play up the field and play it well.
"We're still playing around with that depending on how some other things go, but she'll probably play a little bit of both (positions)," Floeck explained. "She's phenomenal."
Smith will also captain the Panthers alongside classmates — defender Olivia Johnson and goalkeeper Skylar Kuzmich.
This will be Kuzmich's fourth year in W-H's net.
"[We want to] get as far as we can in the tournament," Kuzmich said. "We're actually going to have a really good year, I can feel it. We have a lot of good freshmen coming in."
Other than W-H's three senior captains, most of its experience comes from its underclassmen, such as the likes of juniors Riley Bina, Zoe Cox, Anika Floeck, Delaney Hall and Samantha Perkins as well as sophomore Alexis Billings.
However, despite the youth, Kuzmich, a Hofstra University commit, still has high expectations.
"I think we're going to do really well and get really far this year," she said.
W-H opens the season on the road Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 5:15 p.m. against Notre Dame Academy of Hingham.
"Right now, in all honesty, and I don't want to sound clicheish, but because we're so young, we want to be better today than we were yesterday," Floeck said.
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The tallest building west of the Mississippi River has opened its doors in downtown Los Angeles.
A ribbon-cutting was held Friday for the Wilshire Grand Center. Including a decorative spire, it's 1,100 feet tall.
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Seldom does a song go down in history as not only one of the best popular songs ever written, but as a song that is so universal in composition and message that it can be effectively covered by almost anyone. But that's the case with "People Get Ready," recorded in 1965 by The Impressions and written by the group's lead singer, Curtis Mayfield. Nearly half a century later the song continues to be recorded and performed by a variety of acts in several genres.
"People Get Ready" is a song about boarding a train for the Christian afterlife without ever actually mentioning the names God or Jesus, and feels like a song that wasn't intentionally crafted, but was composed during a period of inspiration. From the album of the same name, "People Get Ready" was released during a time of civil unrest in America, when the country was in turmoil over race relations and the Vietnam War just as Mayfield was beginning to infuse his work with social commentary.
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Part I: Longevity in Antiquity and Its Bearing on Chronology
The Biological View
Some Statements of Biologists
Regarding the Phenomenon of "Natural Death"
IN 1938, Julian Huxley published a series of short essays, one of which was titled "The Meaning of Death." In this essay he explored the subject very briefly and by the use of a few illustrations from botany attempted at a basic level to focus attention on one aspect of the problem. The question was whether death is in any sense "natural" for living things. With respect to plant life he wrote: (1)
We have records of trees of vast age and size, whose death seems only to have been due to accident, that is to say, to something in the external world and not in the tree itself, and therefore something which could be avoided. . . There is nothing inherent in the tree itself which causes its death, merely the long-continued shocks and buffets of the world, preventable things one and all; by which I mean that if one could shelter the tree from storms, keep off active enemies, and provide it with a reasonable amount of food, water and air, we must suppose that it would go on living for ever.
He then spoke of one particular tree in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens which has been sheltered artificially, and showed every sign of continuing indefinitely:
Thus we have persuaded ourselves that a single individual can in some cases go on living indefinitely, and two pertinent questions arise and demand an answer.
First, if functioning protoplasm is not necessarily subject to death, why did death appear? And secondly, granted that death must come for mankind, will it be possible in ourselves, for instance, to postpone its coming . . . for a short space, a long space, or even forever?
The following year, R. E. D. Clark published a paper in the
1. Huxley, Sir Julian, "The Meaning of Death," in Essays in Popular Science, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1938, p.105.
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Transactions of the Victoria Institute in which he touched on the same question: (2)
Concerning death, we know of course very little. But it is by no means biologically impossible that man was designed to be immortal. The cells of which the body are composed are designed to function for long periods and to react continuously to changes in the environment. Many cells are known, such as those of cancer, which never lose this power and which are in the strictest sense immortal. But for reasons as yet quite unknown the cells of which the body is composed lose their powers with advancing age.
In 1946 V. Korenchevsky, writing in the British Medical Journal, with keen insight pointed out that the aim of science is not only a longer life, but a stronger one: (3)
. . . to add life to years, not just years to life -- not only the prevention of the appearance of senile decay, but also elimination of those pathological features which are not necessarily associated with normal old age, since they are not present in some rare cases of less pronounced pathological aging. As aging starts very early, actually with the normal process almost the whole of the span of human life will be changed, and therefore in some distant future, man will probably become in some respects a different creature.
It is of course possible that man was at one time in the past a very different creature in this respect. The following year Dr. Korenchevsky wrote: (4)
As to the possible prolongation of human life in the future, beyond the extreme age already reached by some centenarians, the scientists who have studied this problem give different answers. . . . Metchnikoff says that "we may predict that when science occupies the preponderating place in human society that it ought to have, and when knowledge of hygiene is more advanced, human life will become much longer."
Prof. Fisher concludes that "it would be surprising if the future did not witness a further lengthening of human life, and at an increasing rate. Of course, there is a limit to the further increase of human life, but there is good reason to believe that the limit is still far off."
Prof. Simms of Columbia University states that "there is at the time no proof for or against the possibility that we can some day extend our active life an extra one hundred or two hundred years with retention of youthful health, intelligence, and appearance."
In 1948, in a paper with the intriguing title "The Probability of Death," Edward Deevey observed briefly, (5) "Death from old age is a
2. Clark, R. E. D., "The Mystery of Evil in Relation to the Divine Economy," Transactions of the Victoria Institute, vol.71, 1939, p.120.
3. Korenchevsky, V., "Conditions Desirable for the Rapid Progress of Gerontological Research," British Medical Journal, September 28, 1946, p.468.
4. Korenchevsky, V. "The Longest Span of Life Based on the Records of Centenarians in England and Wales," British Medical Journal, July 5, 1947, p.15.
5. Deevey, Edward, "The Probability of Death," Scientific American, April,1950, p.58.
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legal fiction, not a medical fact," by which he seems to have meant that death is a result and not a cause of the breakdown. New insights into the meaning of death are continually being gained, and there is a very general spirit of optimism among gerontologists that a wonderful new field full of promise for the future is being opened up. Yet for all this optimism, very little is said about the possibilities of the past and only a handful of less enthusiastic writers have paused long enough to ask whether great longevity is either desirable or safe.
However, the fact that death might be delayed for a very long time, or even indefinitely, has raised the question of whether or not death may actually be an advantage to the progress of living things, if not to the individual at least to the species. H. J. Muller, (6) of the Department of Zoology of Indiana University pointed out recently that while "natural death is not the expression of an inherent principle in protoplasm," it has resulted from the fact that the simpler forms of life which marked the earlier geological periods and which merely divided and reproduced themselves almost without change, were in time replaced by "higher" forms that individually carried only half the potential for the next generation. No such form is ever complete in itself, and it thus proved to be mortal. But it permits of lines and a degree of variation which was previously impossible. Thus,
Death is an advantage to life. Its advantage lies chiefly in its giving ampler opportunities for the genes of the newer generation to have their merits tested out. That is, by clearing the way for fresh starts (and new combinations) it prevents the clogging of genetic progress by the older individuals.
Le Comte du Nouy put it this way: (7)
If several methods of asexual reproduction are known in plants and in animals, it is evident that these processes reproduce indefinitely the same characters. The cell or organism separates into two individuals who live, grow, and in their turn each separate into two others.
They never die, except accidentally. They go on untiringly doubling their number according to their specific rhythm, so that if it were not checked by a more general or dominant phenomenon, they would soon smother the earth under their mass. . . .
Asexual cells do not know death as individuals. They are immortal. All of a sudden, with sexual generation, we see the appearance of an entirely new and unforeseen cyclical phenomenon: the birth and death of the individual. It is clear that sexual reproduction, with fecundation which suppresses the immortality of the individual, was indispensable to make a strain progress
6. Muller, H. J., "Life," Science, vol.121,1955, p.5.
7. Du Nouy, Le Comte, Human Destiny, Longmans Green, Toronto, 1947, p.61.
towards complexity. It was necessary to modify, to enrich heredity, by the mixture of foreign strains, by the pooling of acquired characters.
The range possibilities for variation become vastly extended by division of the sexes, but this division also introduces death for the individual.
If death is only necessary to permit further development, and if man's biological evolution has already been completed, as Huxley thought it had, death serves no further purpose for man. If we go one step further and say that God made man as he is -- the climax of a long succession of higher and higher forms, having no further stages for his biological development -- need he have been made mortal at all? Could he not have been made immortal?
Indeed, could He not have combined the sexes in one self-sufficient and deathless form? There are some who feel that the story of the creation of Adam and Eve as given in Genesis is intended to give recognition to this possibility. This is not to say that the one who gave us this story in its present form understood this, but rather that God did when He revealed the stages by which the first man and woman were introduced. God separated the sexes for the deepening of their enjoyment of one another and to render them beneficially interdependent, but in such a way (i.e., supernaturally) that neither was thereby rendered mortal by nature as a consequence. Death is stated to have been incurred subsequently as a penalty. (8)
But what would have happened if such a race of immortals had begun to multiply? Would not the earth have groaned under the impossible burden of their numbers? The answer to this probably lies in other passages of Scripture. While such immortal creatures would not be subject to removal by death, they would have been removed by other means and for other reasons.
Having been schooled in this world until innocence was turned into virtue, each individual in due time would have been transformed into a higher state no longer dependent upon time and space, and without passing through death at all, as Enoch appears to have been. In the case of Enoch, we are merely told that he "was not," for God "took him." (9) This has always been understood to mean that he passed out of this sphere without dying. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, deliberately surrendered this possibility. The significance of the events which took place on the Mount of Transfiguration is variously interpreted. This much seems fairly certain. We see here
8. Genesis 3:19; Romans 5:12.
9. Genesis 5:24; Hebrews 11:5.
one man who has come to manhood without being touched by sin. Having thus fulfilled the task of passing from innocence of childhood to the virtue of perfect manhood without fault, this man might have been transformed and passed immediately into a higher state at that point without seeing death. But the subject of His conversation on the Mount of Transfiguration seems rather to have been related to the fact that He was deliberately setting aside this privilege, which was now His right, in order to become subject to death in a unique way. This scene is therefore taken by some to be a picture of what would be the "end" of each individual's period of schooling in this world if it were not for the fact of sin and death. Such is one possible reconstruction of the original divine plan, until death was introduced (Romans 5:12), because this plan was thwarted. Thus death is now appointed for each individual.
Yet death still seems to come prematurely. It is a curious thing that the human body appears to have become arrested in its development as though we die while still in a state of semi-childhood. It could be argued that this is evidence that we do not live out the span we might; we do not live long enough to reach full maturity or our maximum potentiality. At one time we might have done so. Apparently we no longer do.
In a study of some aspects of embryology, Sir Gavin de Beer makes reference to what he terms the fetalization of man: (10)
Bolk has shown that many of the features of the adult (human) structure show resemblances to those of the embryonic structure of anthropoid apes, and the same point of view has been expressed by Devaux.
In a subsequent section we explore this subject a little further.
In the meantime we may sum up the biological view by saying that extreme longevity is foreseen as a possibility in the future, and it should not therefore be ruled out as impossible in the past. There is no inherent reason why man could not have lived to be almost one thousand years old. The fact that man today almost literally dies "young," even though he reaches a "good old age," suggests that perhaps something has gone wrong with a mechanism that would otherwise quite normally have continued to operate healthily for centuries. If so, long life was once normal, and it remains only to inquire into the factors which may have operated to reduce it to its present limitations.
10. De Beer. Sir Gavin, Embryos and Ancestors, Oxford University Press, 1940, p.55.
Some Examples of Extreme Longevity in Historical Times
We now come to a question where, unfortunately, we cannot be too sure of the information we have. People who have reputedly survived for well over 100 years, were born at a time when there was not always a careful record kept of vital statistics. Moreover, perhaps because of the artificiality of highly civilized life, the majority of cases of people who have lived to great ages are apt to be found among the less civilized or more "backward" communities, where records are less exact.
Furthermore, there is a certain prejudice among scientists against any subject which captures the public attention too readily, because it tends to invite exploitation by free-lance writers whose chief concern is sensationalism. In the case of very aged individuals who make claims to exceptional longevity, public imagination is easily stirred because history seems to crowd more and more into each passing year, so that such patriarchs appear to have lived through centuries rather than scores of years. They almost belong to another age. The newspapers do not hesitate to make the most of such choice items, and a little exaggeration here and there seems inevitable, whereas an unbounded faith in the merest recollections of such folk serves to put a question mark against all their claims in the minds of serious people.
Nevertheless, there are a sufficient number of reports on hand that it seems the law of averages must make at least some of them valid. A quite extended list of aged people is given by Prichard in the anthropological classic to which reference has already been made. In his first volume, he discusses the topic "The Duration of Life in General." What follows is an examination of a number of records of old people of Caucasian and Negroid stock whose life span exceeded one hundred years. The following summary is extracted from the text to show the kind of data Prichard was able to find and for which he could supply documentation. (11)
Apollonius of Tyana
AD. 99
Llyarch Hen
St. Coempene
Piastus, King of Poland
Thomas Parr
Henry Jenkins
The Countess of Desmond
Thomas Damme
Peter Torton
Margaret Patten
John Rovin
John Rovin's wife
11. Prichard, James C., Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, vol.l, Houlston and Stoneman, London, 1836, pp.11-15f.
Prichard then adds to this list a number of names of which he personally had knowledge of the details of birthplace, occupation, and general health.
May Innes
Charles Layne
Statira, a black woman
Margaret Darby
Rebecca Tury
Joseph Bam
Catherine Hiatt
Robert Lynch
Francis Peat
Juan Moroygota
1828 (living)
Sir Charles Marston, (12) in his book The Bible Comes Alive, made reference to Iwan Yorath, a Welshman, who died in 1621 aged 156, and a relative of his named Elizabeth Yorath, who died according to the Parish Register of Llanmaes in Glamorganshire, in 1668 at the age of 177 years.
In the News Review, December 22, 1938, a number of instances of individuals who survived to remarkable ages were given, among whom was the Thomas Parr mentioned above, but also a Turk named Zaro Aga who died in the United States in 1934, at the age of 164 years. A photograph of the man was given. The Evening Telegram (Toronto) in its issue of April 26, 1942, devoted on the editorial page an article to instances of exceptionally aged persons whose life history was believed to be known with some degree of certainty. Mentioned was a report from the Morning Post, published in England, and dated December 25, 1804, of the death of a mulatto in Frederic Town (USA), who died in 1797 at the good old age of 180 years. But the Methuselah of the modern world is surely a certain Li Chang-yun, also mentioned in this report. He hailed from Szechwan
12. Marston, Sir Charles, The Bible Comes Alive, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1937, p.54.
Province, in China, was born in 1677, and died in May 1933 at the ripe old age of 256 years! The Daily Star, also a Toronto newspaper, published on December 15, 1952, the following report from Allahabad, India:
A local paper here reported recently that Baba Harainsingh has celebrated his 176th birthday and hopes to live for another 25 years. The paper said that Baba had grown a complete new set of teeth, the previous ones having fallen out, when he was about 100 in the 1870's. His gray hair also is turning black again.
The Toronto Telegram, on April 17, 1954, published a story with photo, about a certain Mrs. Annie Firlotte of New Brunswick, who was then living and in excellent health. She had never been to a dentist and still retained her own teeth. Her memory was crystal clear, and she was very much alive at the time of the report, looking forward to the warmer weather so that she could go visiting once more. She was then 113 years old. More recently still the Star Weekly (Toronto) on December 15, 1956, ran a special feature article about Javier Pereira from Colombia in South America, who claimed to be 167 years old, and was most active and mentally alert. It appears that his health is excellent according to medical reports from New York, and that his age may very well be exactly what he claims it is. All these instances of aged people are remarkable enough, assuming of course that they are true, but they still do not begin to approach the ages given for Adam and his immediate descendants. Yet the very well-being of some of these people at the time of reporting, suggests that years alone do not constitute "age" as we commonly think of it. Indeed, the reverse may be sadly true, for there are cases of people who passed through the whole cycle of development with extreme rapidity and died of "old age" in the seventh or eighth year. Under "Longevity," and referring to this disease, the Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition), stated:
Physiological old age, that is, freedom from any pathological change, is agreed to be rare, and it has been said by Terrance, Cicero, Sanctorius, and often since, that old age is itself a disease. Eli Metchnikoff attributed the senile accompaniments of advanced years to pathological and preventable causes, especially poisons produced by bacteria in the large intestine, these toxins causing degeneration of the bodily cells which are eaten up by more resistant cells called macrophages. This hypothesis has been much discussed. That disease may produce the picture of morbid old age prematurely is well established, and in the remarkable but rare condition of progeria this occurs in childhood.
There is then, no basic reason for rejecting claims made by such
people to extreme longevity (as judged by modern standards). Aging is not to be measured in years.
Possible Factors Bringing About a Reduction in Life Span
1. Changes in food, climate, "rate of living." Though the evidence is not by any means conclusive, man may have changed in one important respect his food habits in the past. Speaking of such a possible change, Claude Villee wrote: (13)
The human appendix is the remnant of the blind pouch, the cecum which is a large functional structure in the digestive tract of herbivorous animals like the rabbit. Foods rich in cellulose require a long time for digestion, and the cecum provides a place where the food may be stored while the gradual process of digestion, mostly by intestinal bacteria, takes place. A long time ago in our evolutionary history our ancestors changed to a diet containing more meat and less cellulose, and the cecum has gradually diminished to the present useless vestige, the appendix.
It could be that the change was not after all so very long ago. This might be a remarkable witness to the truthfulness of the early record in Genesis of just such a change of diet.
Clive McCay of Cornell University conducted experiments in aging, (14) which indicate that a low calorie diet leads to a longer life. The evidence was derived from experiments with rats and might not therefore apply to human beings. The problem is to know what kind of diet men had when meat was not a part of it, nor many of the modern vegetables, such as potatoes, etc., which are now taken so much for granted. Was it necessarily a low calorie diet? It certainly need not have been. A surprising number of the earlier fossil remains of man have the teeth ground down to the gums, but otherwise showing little or no signs of decay. A few writers have suggested this could be evidence of greater longevity. On the other hand cereals ground in stone querns of primitive type might contain sufficient grit to act abrasively and thus wear down the teeth more rapidly in the process of normal mastication. Or, of course, the diet might be deficient in some tooth building or hardening substances such as calcium. (15)
Until evidence appears to show conclusively that a meat diet reduces longevity, the matter can only be considered as a possibility.
13. Villee, Claude, Biology, Saunders, Philadelphia, 2nd edition, 1954, p.580
14 .Clive McCay's work is referred to by Albert Lansing, "Experiments in Aging," Scientific American, April, 1953, p.38.
15. Albert Lansing states there is experimental evidence that a lack of calcium increases the longevity of some forms of simple life. One might therefore expect to find a correlation between the wearing down of teeth and longevity, since the lack of calcium would perhaps render the teeth softer. (See ref.14, p.43.)
At any rate the eating of meat seems to have been forbidden until after the Flood, if we are correctly interpreting Genesis 9:3ff. And there are also passages which suggest that meat eating will yet be done away in due time, Isaiah 11:7; 65:25, and longevity is then to be restored also. Yet the two may not necessarily be related.
The injunction given to Noah regarding meat seems clearly a departure from what preceded, since the new diet is contrasted with the old which consisted only of herbs. (16) Vegetarianism is adopted by people for a wide variety of reasons. One is that animals are believed to be carriers of certain diseases communicated to man by ingestion of their flesh, and mankind is accordingly afflicted by reason of his carnivorous habits. One thing can be stated with some certainty it seems, namely that early man was not nearly as subject to disease as we are today, at least to diseases which would leave any evidence in his skeleton.
Ales Hrdlicka made a special study of fossil remains years ago with this in mind. He set forth his conclusions as follows: (17)
There is no trace in the adults of any destructive constitutional disease. There are marks of fractures, some traces of arthritis of the vertebrae, and in two cases (La Chapelle and the Rhodesian skull) much less of teeth and dental caries. The teeth in the remaining specimens are often more or less worn, but as a rule free from disease, and there is, aside from the above two specimens, but little disease of the alveolar processes. It appears therefore, that on the whole, early man was remarkably free from disease that would leave any evidence on his bones or teeth.
Then, turning to later human remains:
Such diseases as syphilis, rachitis, tuberculosis, cancer (of the bone at least), hydrocephalus, etc., were unknown or rare in these. . . .
He then observed that there is a gradual increase of other diseases of bone and teeth, and when we come to the much later remains of early man we find him more and more like his modern counterpart:
As we proceed toward men of today, particularly in the white race pathological conditions of the bones become more common.
Again, it should be emphasized that we do not know whether
16. The wording is significant: "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herb have I given you all things." This surely indicates a change.
17. Hrdlicka, Ales, "Anthropology and Medicine," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol.10, 1926, p.6.
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there is really any connection between this apparent increase in diseased condition and the eating of animals, which might conceivably be the carriers in some instances. The evidence is certainly not against the assumption, and this seems to be about as far as we can go.
There is, then, a possibility that a difference in diet in very early times might have been partially responsible for a greatly extended life span, but this alone can hardly account for it, and there must have been other contributing factors.
In view of the fact that biblical commentators have for many years proposed that certain quite radical changes may have taken place in the climatic conditions of the world following the Flood, leaving the present world a very different one from the one which perished, it seems necessary to consider this hypothesis before passing on to causes for which there is evidence of a far more substantial nature.
Briefly, the general idea is that the rainbow appeared for the first time and was at once designated as a guarantee that the previous conditions which made such a flood possible would not be repeated. The period from Adam to Noah, it is said, did not see rain as we now know it, but the earth was a kind of hothouse shielded from the sun's direct rays by a blanket of "cloud," a mist going up from the face of the ground watering the earth. Although the sun was not then directly visible as it now is, it was nevertheless seen through this cloud blanket as a greater light, and the moon as a lesser light. These conditions prevailed until for some reason at the time of the Flood, all this moisture was suddenly precipitated onto the earth in immense rains contributing to the devastation by the waters which "came up."
In this shielded atmosphere, all but a very little harmful cosmic radiation was prevented from reaching the surface of the earth. The clear skies which appeared for the first time immediately after the great rains had ceased, permitted the appearance of a new natural phenomenon so far as man was concerned, namely, the appearance of a rainbow . . . clear proof of a change in the order of nature, and guarantee that such a deluge could not again overwhelm mankind. It is argued not unreasonably that God would hardly choose a phenomenon which had occurred repeatedly prior to the Flood, as a symbol of assurance that such a Flood would never occur again. To be really convincing, any such guarantee would need to be associated with a new phenomenon of nature, rather than one which must already have been witnessed time and time again if it had
previously rained quite often. Alfred Rehwinkel put the matter this way, (18)
The third theory attempting to explain the antediluvian climate is the so-called canopy theory. According to this theory the earth was originally surrounded by a canopy of vapor which intercepted the direct rays of the sun. The heat which penetrated the canopy was diffused so equally over all the zones of latitude, that the subtropical climate prevailed even in the high latitudes. This canopy served to bring about conditions similar to those in a hot-house with a temperature of about 72 degrees F. The chemical rays of the sun, especially those most active in the aging of living things and those that bring about decay and fermentation, were intercepted by the canopy; and as a result, men and animals lived to great ages. Storms and rain were unknown in the world of Adam, and hence the rainbow was first seen on the day that Noah left the ark. Extremes of cold and heat were not possible. In the Flood, all this changed. The canopy collapsed and was the chief source of the floodwaters. The immediate effect of the removal of the canopy was a radical climatic change. Now the seasons became sharply divided and there was from now on "a seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter" (Gen. 8:22).
It has also been suggested that the phrase "the waters which were above the firmament" (Genesis 1:7) is intended to imply a kind of "sea" or continuous "body" of water, the counterpart of the seas which were below. Between was that part of the atmosphere which permitted birds to navigate with full visibility. We are therefore to assume that the canopy did not reach down to the level of the land, as a low-lying fog, but remained some distance above the ground providing a ceiling. The waters of the seas, and the watery canopy, were th
Harold Blum pointed out that the composition of the atmosphere, with respect to the proportions of carbon dioxide and free oxygen, can profoundly modify the temperature at the earth's surface, and how this in turn need have been only a few degrees higher or lower to bring about a marked change in climatic conditions so far as living organisms are concerned. (19) Early man lived in the shadow of the great sheets of ice which still covered vast areas of the land surfaces. There is still no real certainty about the causes of these ice ages which have periodically plagued the earth. But, as Kenneth Macgowan says, one hypothesis is that there was a decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. (20) Bruckner calculated that summers in the last period of glaciation were only 4 degrees Centigrade, or about 7 degrees Fahrenheit, colder than they are today. This
18. Rehwinkel, Alfred, The Flood, Concordia, St. Louis, 1951, p.12.
19. Blum, Harold, Time's Arrow and Evolution, Princeton University Press, 1951, p.92.
20. Macgowan, Kenneth, Early Man in the New World, Macmillan, New York, 1950, p.92.
shows how sensitively balanced the economy of nature really is.
In a word then, we do not really know what the atmospheric conditions were that prevailed from Adam to Noah. This might be thought to tell against the hypothesis that the climate in those days was different in some way that encouraged longevity. Actually the reverse is true For it means that we have some justification for postulating a different world, even though we have no means just now of ascertaining what kind of a world it was.
One further aspect of the problem of aging should be mentioned briefly, namely, the influence of the "rate of living." Referring once more to the work of Clive McCay, we may note that when he divided litter-mate rats into two groups, one which was fed a normal diet and the other a diet limited in calorie content, the latter group lived longer. (21) Similar studies with the water flea Daphnia and other invertebrates show essentially the same effect. Commenting on these results, Albert Lansing observed: (22)
The experiments confirm what has been suspected for a long time, and there is some significant relation between the growth processes and aging. . . .
That the growth rates of early man from Adam to Noah may have been slower is suggested by the longer period of childlessness prior to the birth of a firstborn, a period averaging some 117 years approximately.
2. Inbreeding. We come now to a factor which, if we allow for the sake of argument that men did once live for centuries, was probably paramount in the reduction of longevity. We shall make one further assumption however. The first man and woman as they came from the creative hand of God were physiologically perfect and began their existence without any mutated genes.
Almost at once, when sin had entered, gene mutations would begin to appear. It is estimated that something like 10 gene mutations take place in each new generation. These become cumulative, since each generation inherits a quota of the new mutations and adds those taking place in themselves. Lammerts and Sinclair, in a paper published by the American Scientific Affiliation, observed: (23)
As long as a perfect world existed, complete balance was possible. But with the entrance of sin, a vicious unbalance began leading to a more and
21. Quoted by Albert Lansing, ref.14, p.38.
22. Ibid., p.42.
23. Lammerts, Walter E., and Sinclair, John C., "Creation in Terms of Modern Concepts of Genetics and Physics," Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, September, 1953, p.9.
more imperfect relation of the gene system with the environment both internal and external. Even the very basic system of gene reproduction by chromosome division and transmission became subject to flaws and imperfections. Hence we witness the large number of mutations which are mostly defective in one way or another.
There is one sure way to reveal the presence of lethal mutations in a population. Willard Hollander, in an article on this subject, remarked: (24)
The quickest way to expose lethal traits is by intensive and continued in-breeding. In man such matings are generally illegal or taboo; the experience of the race indicates bad results. But brother-sister matings in animals, and self-pollination in plants are a standard laboratory practice. The outcome is generally detrimental, unless it has become customary in the species. When in-breeding begins, the heredity seems to be breaking down, all sorts of defects and weaknesses appear. The average life span decreases. . . . But if the family can weather the first few generations (five with plants, and ten with animals) a leveling off sets in. Members of the family may show defects and weaknesses but not new ones, and there is a striking uniformity. The type has become fixed.
Note that ten generations are required to complete the breakdown, after which the process slows up significantly and finally levels off. More recently Maynard Smith is reported as stating: (25)
In laboratory stocks, heterozygosity appears to be the most important single correlate of long life, which is part of the general complex found in hybrids.
To state it more simply, unrelated parents tend to produce long-lived children, and related parents short-lived children. The most important single factor in this question is the degree of relatedness of the parents.
Now, an analysis of the data given in various chapters of Genesis, reveals some striking facts. Taking the figures of ages as they stand in the Massoretic text, which provided the basis of the Authorized and Revised Standard Versions, we have a means of establishing a genealogical tree of the descendants of Noah's family in the line of Shem for some 15 generations, for whom the ages at the time of death are given. Curiously enough, beyond this, it is not possible to determine, except possibly by inference, the total life span of an individual, not even of such great figures as Solomon or David. It seems as though the actual life span of representative individuals in this initial period were given for a specific reason, after which no
24. Hollander, Willard, "Lethal Heredity," Scientific American, July, 1952, p.60.
25. Smith, Maynard, "Biology of Aging," Nature, vol.178, 1956, p.1154.
purpose would have been served by their inclusion except to satisfy idle curiosity.
Assuming as the record implies, that this new "world" was to be re-peopled from a small family of only eight souls who had survived the Flood, there would be of necessity a high degree of inbreeding at first which would however slowly reduce as the population multiplied.
There is no reason to suppose that Shem's wife was too closely related to him, and therefore their son Arphaxad was not a child of inbreeding in any significant sense, though he was born perhaps into a new atmosphere and hence his shorter life.
From then on, however, inbreeding would begin to take effect, for Arphaxad must either have married a sister or a first cousin.
The statement is made in Genesis 6:3, that the new normal life span of man was to be settled at a maximum of 120 years. The Authorized Version (KJV) does not make this too clear, though the Hebrew is fairly certain, and its meaning has been properly rendered in the Revised Standard Version. Arphaxad, having married a "blood relative," had a child Salah whose total age is given as 433 years. Then follows a list of descendants, the tenth generation from Arphaxad being reached as shown in the chart at Jacob, who died at 147 years old. The ages of two children of Jacob are then given and their average is found to be 123.5 years. That is to say, the ten generations reveal, probably as a result of inbreeding, a steady drop in longevity until individuals appeared whose life span hovered around the appointed 120 years maximum. Thereafter the graph smoothes out. As soon as we reach Moses -- a significant point in the history -- the appointed span is reached almost exactly by the two whose names are given. Joshua fell below. At this point the record ceases to provide any further information, the limits of Genesis 6:3 having been reached (see Fig. 1), with one exception, that of Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:15) whose life span had exceeded his allotment. It will be noted that for the eleventh to fifteenth generations inclusive, taking all the ages given for these five generations, the average life span is found to be 123 years.
It is difficult to imagine how this rather striking phenomenon, the significance of which could hardly have been recognized till modern times, could have been fabricated by some author or authors who wished to add a supposed dignity to the patriarchs by giving them a fictitious longevity in keeping with the claims made by their contemporary historians.
At the same time, there are ten generations from Adam to Noah,
but the phenomenon of reduction in longevity did not apparently take place. What could have been the reason? Perhaps it is again a matter of genetics.
Assuming Adam and Eve were originally without mutated genes, any genes which may have mutated within their lifetime would not automatically be at the same loci. Each would experience a different set of mutations. Thus when they mated, the chance of genes of a like locus being mated to have a lethal effect would be very small, and brother-sister marriages or the subsequent marriages of closely related persons would not be serious. It will be noted that such marriages were not forbidden until after the Flood.
By the time of the sixth or seventh generation, when the chances were higher that lethal mutations would be brought together in a single individual by inheritance (if the parents were closely related), the population would be large enough so that people did not have to marry those who were closely related to them, and indeed probably did not do so. The life span did not therefore drop, though the whole population was carrying an increasing number of mutated genes, for each man or woman was inheriting many of the genes mutated in their forebears and adding to the pool those mutating in their own bodies during their lifetime.
But when the population was reduced to eight people only, at the time of the Flood, and close intermarriage became necessary, these genes began to be exposed homozygously, and lethally; and reduced viability resulted until the new population found its new norm after ten generations. The curve is a normal one, and appears undoubtedly to represent a historical sequence. Its remarkable form, considering the antiquity of the data from which it has been derived, supports the genuineness of the record and tends to establish three facts: (1) that the Flood did reduce the population to a single family of small size; (2) that the original life span was 600 years or more; and (3) that the record of names and ages is not a literary invention, but factual -- with no extensive gaps -- in fact with no gaps at all if the figure of ten generations has any real genetic significance in an inbreeding population of mammals.
Furthermore several doubles of names and ages are given. They appear at significant points. At the end of the ten generations, Jacob is preceded by Isaac and Ishmael, both of the same generation, who nicely straddle the curve to even it out, and immediately after Jacob two more are given, whose average confirms the line. Therefore, at the point which marks the transition, a cluster of ages is given as though to define the curve more clearly.
But what is perhaps even more surprising is the fact that once the life span had dropped below the appointed maximum, the record of ages at death (with the one exception noted above) ceases entirely. Nor is it given even for national heroes. Job, who must undoubtedly be placed back somewhere in Abraham's time, is only said to have exceeded 140 years (Job 42:16). But this is quite in keeping with the ages reached by those who lived in that generation, and is in a way a confirmation of the fact that Job is truly patriarchal in this sense.
It is remarkable, therefore, that in those far-off days where one might expect to find the least specific information, the exact ages have been carefully recorded. As soon as the later historical times are under review, where such exact information would most certainly be in official records, the statement of ages is carefully ignored. In the light of these observations, it seems that the information must have been given for good reason and ought not to be lightly set aside as of no historical importance. For genetics, and for anthropology, these early records may be very significant.
Copyright © 1988 Evelyn White. All rights reserved
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April 19, 2019, 10:10 AM ET
Massive Dark Web Drug And Money Laundering Operation Busted, Authorities Say
Chester Anderson, Jarette Codd and Ronald MacCarty are accused of selling and shipping hundreds of thousands of fake Xanax tablets and other controlled substances across 43 states, as well as laundering $2.3 million in cryptocurrency.
By Ethan Harfenist
THE DARK WEB: Fraud and Murder in the Digital Underground
The dark web was developed by the U.S. military to communicate anonymously over the internet. Drug dealers, hit men and scammers now thrive in this wild West corner of the web.
S1 - E1
INCELS: Men, Message Boards and Murder
DEEPFAKES: Propaganda, Porn and the Future of Fake News
WEB SLEUTHS: Disruption, Danger and the Internet Detectives
HIP HOP BEEFS: Clout, Crime, and Internet Fame
Three New Jersey men who allegedly ran a major darknet drug operation that sold hundreds of thousands of counterfeit narcotic pills were busted after several huge ATM withdrawals led investigators to their doorstep.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office on Tuesday announced the indictments of Chester Anderson, 44, Jarette Codd, 41, and Ronald MacCarty, 51, who were involved with a vendor known as "Sinmed."
The digital storefront, which operated out of Asbury Park, New Jersey, on a darknet market (DNM) called Dream Market, is accused of selling and shipping hundreds of thousands of fake Xanax tablets and other controlled substances across 43 states, as well as laundering $2.3 million in cryptocurrency with preloaded debit cards and withdrawing more than $1 million from ATMs in New York and New Jersey.
Investigators made a series of undercover purchases using cryptocurrency, and proceeded to execute search warrants of the suspects' property in New Jersey. They seized the largest amount of pills in the state's history: between 420,000 to 620,000 Xanax tablets, 500 glassines of fentanyl-laced heroin, and quantities of ketamine, GHB, methamphetamine and more.
"Not only is this the first time state prosecutors in New York have taken down a dark web storefront, this takedown represents the largest pill seizure in New Jersey's history," District Attorney Cy Vance said in a statement. "If you are engaging in illicit activity on the dark web, you are on notice: we know how to find you, we know how to put you out of business, and we know how to hold you criminally accountable."
Authorities say they also seized pill presses and other drug manufacturing equipment, as well.
The bust comes weeks after the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team—made up of agents from the FBI, DEA, CBP and more—announced that it had arrested 61 individuals and closed down 50 darknet accounts as part of Operation SaboTor.
Sinmed, meanwhile, allegedly was one of the foremost sellers on Dream Market, currently the most popular DNM, an encrypted, largely anonymous area of the internet that is only accessible through tools such as the Tor browser. In fact, Sinmed was among Dream Market's top 3 percent of vendors in terms of transactions, according to WIRED.
But Vance's office received a tip in 2017 about unusually large ATM withdrawals happening in Manhattan and New Jersey, according to ABC News, and thus began tracking the three men supposedly involved in the operation.
Surrounded by pictures and items seized, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announces the take down of a crime ring run on the dark web on April 16, 2019 in New York City. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
"When our office received reports of suspicious activity at ATMs in New York and New Jersey, our talented investigators followed the money, using our state-of-the-art Cyber Lab to uncover a dark web counterfeit pill seller whose $2.3 million operation spanned the U.S.," Vance said in the statement.
According to Eileen Ormsby, author of the book "The Darkest Web," despite major players on the darknet employing a variety of constantly-evolving money laundering and cashing-out techniques, there are always risks involved.
"Converting crypto to [government-issued currency] has always been one of the main ... danger zones for large dark web vendors," she told Oxygen.com in an email on Wednesday.
Eric Jardine, an assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech and a former fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), added that "the weak point for vendors" often arises on the offline side of things.
"It's taking a product to the post office and not getting flagged, or changing a digital currency into a hard currency," he told Oxygen.com on Thursday. "Those are the points where an intervening actor can flag bad behavior."
In the case of the Sinmed bust, state and local authorities worked in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, as well as the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.
"Dark web operators should know when you make the US Mail a party to your illicit deeds, you bring not only Postal Inspectors but the full weight of law enforcement to stop you in your tracks from victimizing the public," Edward Gallashaw, USPIS assistant inspector in charge, said in a statement.
Anderson was slapped with a slew of charges, including money laundering, identity theft, criminal sale of a controlled substance and conspiracy, while Codd and MacCarty also face money laundering and conspiracy charges. All three have pleaded not guilty.
The Silk Road Continues In New Ways On Darknet
Accused Dark Web Drug Kingpin 'OxyMonster' To Plead Guilty: Report


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Arab Parliament to participate in IPU meetings in Geneva
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 - 12:22 GMT
Arab Parliament - FILE
CAIRO - 20 March 2018: A delegation of the Arab Parliament under its Speaker Meshaal bin Fahm al Salmi will attend the 138th round of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on March 24-28 in Geneva.
Salmi will address the meeting on establishing a Palestinian independent state and asserting the firm stance of the Arab Parliament towards Al Quds city.
In his word, Salmi will necessitate supporting the UNRWA to continue its work in Palestine.
In a statement on Tuesday, Salmi asserted the support of the Arab Parliament to the request of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) and a number of the Arab parliaments to present an urgent item to the agenda of the 138th round of the general assembly of the IPU on not touching the legal and historic status of Quds.
Salmi said that he sent 26 messages to 26 effective parliaments to rally their support towards the demand of the PNC.
The messages were sent to the European Parliament, Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA), Pan-African Parliament, Latin American Parliament, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, Union for the Mediterranean – Parliamentary Assembly (UfM-PA), Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States, National Assembly of France, British House of Commons, China's National People's Congress, the Russian Duma, the German Bundestag, the Italian parliament, the Dutch parliament, the Spanish parliament, the Belgian parliament, the South African parliament, the Nigerian parliament, the Indian parliament, the Malaysian parliament, the Thai parliament, the Pakistani parliament, the Mexican parliament, the Brazilian parliament and the Argentinian parliament.
Salmi thanked the countries that support the Palestinian cause and defended the legal right of the Palestinians.
Arab Parliament


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