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Tom Cruise divorce raises question: What is Scientology, anyway?
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor
(CNN) - News of Tom Cruise's split with Katie Holmes and questions about any role that Cruise's status as a Scientologist may be playing in the divorce have a lot of people wondering: What is Scientology, anyway?
In a series of tweets on Sunday, News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch called the religion "a very weird cult" and said that Cruise is the "number two or three" man in the church's hierarchy.
Here are the basics about the religion. What other questions do you have?
Scientology describes itself as a religion that was founded in the 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard.
At the core of Scientology is a belief that each human has a reactive mind that responds to life's traumas, clouding the analytic mind and keeping us from experiencing reality. Members of the religion submit to a process called auditing to find the sources of this trauma, reliving those experiences in an attempt to neutralize them and reassert the primacy of the analytic mind, working toward a spiritual state called "clear."
The process involves a device called E-meter, which Scientologists say measures the body's electric flow as an auditor asks a series of questions they say reveals sources of trauma.
"Auditing uses processes - exact sets of questions asked or directions given by an auditor to help a person locate areas of spiritual distress, find out things about himself and improve his condition," according to the Church of Scientology's website.
The church goes on to to say, "Science is something one does, not something one believes in."
Auditing purports to identify spiritual distress from a person's current life and from past lives. Scientologists believe each person is an immortal being, a force that believers call a thetan. "You move up the bridge to freedom by working toward being an 'Operating Thetan,' which at the highest level transcends material law," says David Bromley, a professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. "You occasionally come across people in Scientology who say they can change the material world with their mind."
Bromley and other scholars say the church promotes the idea of an ancient intergalactic civilization in which millions of beings were destroyed and became what are known as "body thetans," which continue to latch onto humans and cause more trauma. Advanced Scientologists confront body thetans through more auditing.
Bromley says the church discloses that cosmic history only to more advanced Scientologists. The church's media affairs department did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.
In a 2008 CNN interview, church spokesman Tommy Davis was asked whether the basic tenet of the Church of Scientology was to rid the body of space alien parasites. "Does that sound silly to you?" laughed Davis. "I mean, it's unrecognizable to me. ... People should really come to the church and find out for themselves what it is."
Who was L. Ron Hubbard?
L. Ron Hubbard was the founder of Scientology. Born in Nebraska in 1911, Hubbard was the son of a U.S. Navy officer who circled the globe with his family, according to Scientology expert J. Gordon Melton, a fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies in Religion who writes about Scientology on the religion website Patheos.
Hubbard attended the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., but left before graduating to launch a career as a fiction writer, gravitating toward science fiction.
After serving in World War II, Hubbard published a series of articles and then a book on a what he described as a new approach to mental health, which he called Dianetics. His book by the same name quickly became a best-seller.
The success provoked Hubbard to establish a foundation that began to train people in his auditing techniques. In 1954, the first Church of Scientology opened in Los Angeles, with other churches opening soon after. Hubbard died in 1986. The church is now led by David Miscavige.
Why is the church so controversial?
Many groups and individuals have challenged Scientology's legitimacy as a religion.
Scientologists have faced opposition from the medical community over the religion's claims about mental health, from the scientific community over its claims about its E-meters and from other religious groups about its status as a religion.
"It's part therapy, part religion, part UFO group," says Bromley. "It's a mix of things that's unlike any other religious group out there."
For a long time, the Internal Revenue Service denied the Scientologists' attempts to be declared a church with tax-exempt status. But the IRS granted them that status in 1993.
Many members say the church is largely about self-improvement. "What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve," Tom Cruise recently told Playboy magazine. "Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them."
What does Scientology teach about psychiatry?
L. Ron Hubbard rejected psychiatry and psychiatric drugs because he said they interfered with the functioning of the rational mind. Scientologists continue to promote that idea.
The Church of Scientology's website says that "the effects of medical and psychiatric drugs, whether painkillers, tranquilizers or 'antidepressants,' are as disastrous" as illicit drugs.
How many Scientologists are there?
That's a matter of considerable dispute.
The Church of Scientology says it has 10,000 churches, missions and groups operating in 167 countries, with 4.4 million more people signing up every year.
Scholars say that, despite the global proliferation of church buildings, the membership numbers are much lower than the church claims, likely in the hundreds of thousands. Some of the church's followers are celebrities.
Dan Gilgoff - CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
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Another glorious start to a spring day with coffee on the porch before the sunshine blinds. I wasn't on the hunt for this image of you , but as I scrolled down our memories searching for the picture of my tech tools for the latest version of our Tell It Digital Promo, I found you in our porch space, on furniture that now lives in the garage, replaced by the cozy Pier 1 Santa Barbara couch and chairs with pops of color.
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Every day another memory pops up, and I know it's hard, but it is wonderful to have those good memories, too. Nice that you had a friend over to try out the new decor! Have a good day today, Bonnie!
Thanks as always for supporting me on this journey that you know all too well.


A driver sits in his stalled truck in a parking lot on Kamehameha Avenue in Hilo yesterday, waiting for floodwaters to recede, as heavy rains on the east side of the Big Island resulted in swollen rivers and flooding of low-lying streets.
Homes flooded, major highways closed and officials urged residents to stay in their homes after heavy, continuous rains caused flooding on the Big Island yesterday.
"The situation in Hilo is critical and a life-threatening situation now," said Big Island Mayor Harry Kim. "Many places have been endangered in regards to flooding, and voluntary evacuation has been occurring."
Kim, who is also acting administrator of Big Island Civil Defense, declared a state of emergency for the Hilo, Puna, and Kau areas at 1:30 p.m.
As much as 18 inches of rain fell in the Waiakea Uka area in 24 hours.
Heavy rains were also reported in East Maui.
The National Weather Service said the heavy rains may move over Oahu and other islands and have issued a flash flood watch through this afternoon.
On the Big Island, parts of highways 19 and 11 were closed, leaving Saddle Road as the only artery into Hilo, said Pat Engelhard, Hawaii county's director of the Department of Parks and Recreation.
"We're just telling people to stay off the highways," Kim said. "We've asked all events to be canceled including athletic events and any recreational events that are not necessary."
The Hilo Bayfront Highway was also closed by flooding.
Enbgelhard said Alenaio Stream and Waiolama Canal were overflowing, putting Kamehameha Avenue under three feet of water.
Heavy rains on the east side of the Big Island resulted in swollen rivers and flooding of low-lying streets. The National Weather Service says heavy rain could move over Oahu.
Part of a Wailuku River bank collapsed from the heavy rainfall, sending a chunk of earth about 60 feet high and 50 feet wide into the river near an apartment complex, but the building was not affected and no one was injured, Engelhard said.
Voluntary evacuations were being held in the Waiakea Uka area and authorities were going door to door to warn residents about the situation, Kim said.
The American Red Cross opened an emergency shelter at Afook Chinen Civic Auditorium for residents who couldn't access their homes because of flooding. But a spokeswoman said as of 6 p.m. yesterday no one had shown up at the shelter.
Officials had planned to open the shelter at the Puueo Community Center, but changed the location after the parking lot there flooded.
The Weather Service said Honolii Stream overflowed by about three feet and sent sheets of water flowing down people's lawns.
"The roads are becoming streams and the streams are raging," Houston said. "It's definitely still a critical situation over there. Still more rain following and nowhere to go."
"It's pretty heavy and steady," said Bob Arakaki, an employee of the Hilo Municipal Golf Course. "We got lakes all over the place, on the greens and the fairway."
Officials suspended play at the course as runoff filled normally dry streams and flowed over bridges about four or five feet above ground.
"This is one of the worst days," Arakaki said.
These are some 24-hour rainfall totals for areas on Maui and the Big Island, through 5 p.m. yesterday.


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1214 At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England.
1245 Frederick II is deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege.
1586 Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia.
1663 British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
1689 Government forces defeat the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
1777 The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British.
1778 British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant.
1793 Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac.
1905 The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago.
1909 Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
1914 British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels.
1921 Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto.
1944 U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam.
1953 Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjon, Korea.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
1993 Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas.
Admiral who oversaw killing of bin Laden praises Obama's role
You see, the repugicans, who praise anything and everything the military does, suddenly found fault with the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. It was no big deal, they said. (Probably because their guy, the shrub, couldn't kill bin Laden and he had eight years to do it.)
Anyway, Admiral Bill McRaven, the man who oversaw the bin Laden operation, had nothing but praise for President Obama's role that the repugicans incessantly mock. From Politico:
"At the end of the day, make no mistake about it, it was the president of the United States that shouldered the burden of this operation, that made the hard decision," McRaven said during an on-stage interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that served as the kickoff session of the Aspen Security Forum.
"The president of the United States is fantastic," the admiral said. "I very much enjoy working for President Obama. This isn't about politics. This is about a Commander in Chief who I have the opportunity to engage with on a routine basis."
"I'm not a political guy, but I'll tell you as an interested observer of this, they were magnfiicent how they handled the start-to-finish," McRaven said. "The president asked all the right questions…The president gave me ample time to prepare once the conversations were through."
Romney video claims "enthusiastic reception" at NAACP where in reality he was booed
It's called Lying for the Lord. Folks should read up on it, now that the Romney campaign has clearly adopted lying about the facts as their number one campaign strategy, including the very first ad that Romney launched in which he took a quote of John McCain's and attributed it to President Obama.
It's disturbing the degree to which the Romney campaign tries to rewrite history. Then again, when your candidate has flip-flopped on pretty much every issue in order to convince the far right of the repugican party that he's one of them - when he's really more a liberal Democrat - all you have left is lies.
The truth be told
Union Leader newspaper blasts Romney for not releasing taxes
The Manchester Union Leader is the uber-wingnut newspaper in New Hampshire that repugicans desperately seek the endorsement of. This, from them, is big.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of this entire controversy is the one NOT being discussed much: How did Romney get himself into this position in the first place? He has been running for office for a long time. His presidential aspirations predate the tax returns in question.
What could he possibly have been thinking when he failed to ensure that everything contained in those documents was above reproach? Or was he simply not thinking at all? Surely he could not have arrogantly believed that he could withstand any storm that developed by bluffing his way through it? If so, it hasn't worked.
If Romney intends to win, he is going to have to make the tax forms public. This storm won't go away. It will distract from his policy debate with Obama — and it will distract from Obama's failures, providing the incumbent with the smokescreen he is attempting to create.
Romney needs to end this. He needs to end this by revealing the tax documents, explaining them, explaining the legality behind his actions, and then he needs to move on.
Romney appears to have concerns about UK austerity policy
Romney was already in enough trouble this trip, now this.
From ABC:
During a meeting with Labor Party leader Ed Miliband, a British reporter asked both Miliband and Romney for their views on current British economic policy.
"While I'm on foreign soil, I'm very careful not to be critical of my own government's policies," Romney said. "I would be even more remiss if I were to be critical to any other government's policies. I will instead look forward to an exchange of ideas."
Um, the only time you refuse to answer a question because you don't want to be critical is because you were planning on being critical. He could have simply said "I agree with the Prime Minister." But he didn't, because he didn't want to be critical of the austerity program, which is the same thing that wingnuts - Romney's own party - are pushing in the US.
In poker, we call that a "tell."
Quite the seasoned diplomat, that Romney. I wonder if he can see London from his kitchen?
Okay I was just joking about the Palin thing, but apparently the Brits have already reached a verdict on Romney. From the Daily Mail's political editor, James Chapman:
@jameschappers: Serious dismay in Whitehall at Romney debut. 'Worse than Sarah Palin.' 'Total car crash'. Two of the kinder verdicts #romneyshambles
Chapman has more:
Can this get any worse for Romney? Boris is now mocking him in front of 60,000 people in Hyde Park#romneyshambles
The Guardian now has a story out about all the Romney gaffes.
And LeftFootForward blog notes that Romney dissed the Brits in his 2010 book as well:
"England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy."
Romney questions Brits' patriotism
Not very Anglo-Saxon of you, Mitt.
Mr Romney questioned the enthusiasm of the British public. "Do they come together and celebrate the Olympic moment?" he asked. "
And yesterday we found out that Romney questioned the achievement of our Olympic athletes (probably because they weren't able to buy their way into the Olympics, like Romney did).
Brit govt says no way Romney will carry Olympic Torch after insults
From the BBC show Newsnight's Twitter feed:
@BBCNewsnight: Will Mitt Romney carry the Olympic torch? "Certainly not after today", according to Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson on #newsnight
ThinkProgress got the video - the Minister literally laughs at the notion of Romney getting to carry the Olympic torch.
As are we, Your Majesty, as are we.
Walk on the left: Olympic etiquette tips
Welcome to Britain!
The line forms to the right.
Here are some tips for Olympic visitors hoping to get the most out of their experience.
Early Olympics
The first time London hosted the Olympics, it was as a backup - the Games, originally scheduled to take place in Rome, were relocated to London after Mount Vesuvius erupted. The year was 1908, a bygone era of international competition when tug-of-war and the ten-mile walk were official sports, women competed in floor-length skirts, and it took men a glacial 10.8 seconds to complete the hundred-meter dash.
Only at these early stages of the Olympic Games could a runner win the marathon after falling repeatedly and running in the wrong direction (he was later disqualified due to the physical assistance he received from a megaphone-toting man in a boater hat, see picture above). In celebration of the 2012 London Games, here's a look back at the early days.
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Neighbors ponder bizarre Ripken kidnapping
The curious circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and then release of Cal Ripken Jr.'s 74-year-old mother are all the talk of her community outside Baltimore, where such crime doesn't happen and where her neighbors know the matriarch of the famous baseball family as "just Vi." Vi Ripken was found bound but unharmed in her car Wednesday morning, ... (more)
Famous "star cradle" might have been destroyed long before we ever discovered it
This is one of the most-famous astronomy photos in the world. Called "The Pillars of Creation" it was taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995 and shows massive columns of hydrogen gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula—7,000 light years from Earth. Part of why these are a big deal is that columns of dust and gas like this are places where stars form.
But here's a cool and/or disappointing detail I hadn't known about until today. Back in 2007, researchers took more images of this region of space using the Spitzer Space Telescope. These shots suggest that the Pillars of Creation might actually be long gone—destroyed thousands of years ago by a nearby supernova.
A striking image from Spitzer shows the intact dust towers next to a giant cloud of hot dust thought to have been scorched by the blast of a star that exploded, or went supernova. Astronomers speculate that the supernova's shock wave could have already reached the dusty towers, causing them to topple about 6,000 years ago.
However, because light from this region takes 7,000 years to reach Earth, we won't be able to capture photos of the destruction for another millenium or so.
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All Pop Music Too Loud, Sound the Same
If you're over 35 years old, then you've probably thought to yourself how all pop music sound the same and that they're all very loud.
Well, science has proven you right, old timers:
Researchers in Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down audio and lyrical content into data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010.
A team led by artificial intelligence specialist Joan Serra at the Spanish National Research Council ran music from the last 50 years through some complex algorithms and found that pop songs have become intrinsically louder and more bland in terms of the chords, melodies and types of sound used.
"We found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse," Serra told Reuters. "In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations - roughly speaking chords plus melodies - has consistently diminished in the last 50 years."
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Man is new dad, grandad and great-grandad after three babies arrive in three months
Patrick Sloan has a brand new son. And a new grandson. And a new great-grandson. And the three babies arrived in the space of just three months. First, Patrick, 60, became a dad for the fourth time – 28 years after the birth of his third child. His second wife Joanne, 39, had little Ethan on March 14. Then, in June, Patrick's grand-daughter Fern, 18, presented him with his first great-grandchild, Mason. And 12 days after Fern gave birth, it was her mum Odette's turn to head for the delivery room. She too produced a healthy baby boy, Leonard.
So Ethan is Mason's great-uncle, Fern has a new uncle as well as a new son, and Odette is celebrating the arrival of a son, a grandson and a half-brother who is 35 years younger than she is. Ethan also has two big half-brothers, Aaron, 33, and Dean, 32. And he's uncle to Odette's sons, Joel, 10, and baby Leonard, Aaron's 11-month-old daughter Alissa, and Dean's kids Joshua, nine, and Alivia, eight. It's all a bit confusing, but nursing manager Patrick wouldn't change a thing about it. He went into hospital to have his vasectomy reversed so he could become a father again with Joanne.
He said: "All three boys are fantastic. I'm sure there are people who think my situation is very odd. I agree it's not that conventional but I wouldn't swap it for the world. Ethan has given me a new lease of life and is my pride and joy. And to have a new grandson and my first great-grandchild at the same time is the icing on the cake." The baby bonanza has also been good for Joanne, Odette and Fern. They've been swapping tips and helping each other out with their youngsters.
Odette said: "It was strange knowing I was pregnant at the same time as my daughter and my mother-in-law. But at least I knew I could help Fern and be there for her whenever she needed me." Patrick, of Doncaster, Yorkshire, will be retiring around the time Ethan starts school. He admits he worries that people will criticize him for becoming a dad against his age. But he said: "Generally, everyone has been really pleased and excited. It was a bit of a shock to the system at first, but Ethan is a little treasure and makes me smile every single day."
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A Composite Sketch Of Count Dracula
The composite sketch above is by Brian Joseph Davis, who utilized police sketch software to give us an idea of what Count Dracula, the fictional character from Bram Stoker's Dracula, should have looked like.
Personally, I'm partial to the Bela Lugosi version myself, and this guy looks a little too redneck to be a creature of the night.
I must admit that this is one of the most unusual, and original, takes on Dracula I've ever seen.
Maybe they should reboot the Dracula movie and set it in the deep south?
Nun found guilty of sending letters accusing ministers of devil worship and freemasonry
A woman has been convicted of sending six envelopes containing white powder to parliamentary figures including deputy prime minister Nick Clegg. The letters were intercepted at a mail screening center and the powder was found to be non-hazardous, Harrow Crown Court was told. Sister Ruth Augustus, 71, who claims to be a nun, denied six hoaxes involving noxious substances. But the jury found her guilty by a majority verdict on all counts.
Mr Justice Saunders deferred the case until September for a hearing at the Old Bailey while a medical report is prepared on the defendant's mental health. She was released on bail on condition that she "does not contact, directly or indirectly, any MP or senior government official" unless through her solicitor, the court heard. Augustus, of Leyton, east London, accepted that she sent envelopes with letters in them but claimed police put the white powder in them, the court was told. Mark Kimsey, prosecuting, said three envelopes were intercepted at a mail screening center in east London on 17 June last year.
One was addressed to Mr Clegg and on the envelope was written "devil worshiping", "freemason", "sex with 30 plus women" and "your poor Catholic wife and children". The second and third letters were to House of Lords members Baroness Scotland and Baroness Kennedy. The envelopes contained a gritty substance but specialist police who were called in found them to be non-hazardous. On 1 October, at the same place, three more envelopes were found, addressed to Mr Clegg, Lady Kennedy and MP Edward Leigh.
The court heard that after her arrest, Augustus told police: "I'm Sister Ruth, a 71-year-old disabled nun." She also said: "I look like a terrorist, don't I, working for a charity all over the world, with orphans?" Asked if she was sending the letters for attention, she said: "Of course I am. I'm deliberately writing on the envelope as well so all the postmen will know all about it." Following her conviction, Augustus turned to the public gallery as she left the courtroom and said she would be appealing against the verdict.
Syrian regime forces intensify firepower from air against rebel challenge in Aleppo
Syrian forces have intensified their firepower against a rebel challenge in Aleppo with activists reporting attack helicopters and fighter jets strafing opposition targets as well as artillery bombardments of several neighborhoods.
Elderly Kenyan man fined one female camel for killing fellow villager in dispute over water
A Nakuru judge has fined an elderly man one camel for killing a fellow villager. Mr Justice Anyara Emukule ordered Leraas Lenchura, 89, to give the family of the man he killed a female camel or he would be arrested. He was also handed a five-year non-custodial sentence during which he would be required to report to the area chief's office once every two weeks. The court heard that Lenchura had gone to the community borehole where he found a long queue of people waiting to fetch water.
While Lenchura was in the queue, Mr Lotiyan Lepakana, 55, came and requested to be given priority. The people allowed him to go ahead but Lenchura objected as it was his turn to fetch the water. A quarrel ensued between the two men over who should be first. The court was told that the quarrel degenerated into a fight during which the accused stabbed Mr Lepakana. A doctor who conducted a postmortem examination on Mr Lepakana's body said the man died of excessive bleeding.
Justice Emukule said the accused, through lawyer Timothy Njogu, submitted that he was remorseful. The judge added that the defendant's lawyer further said the attack was a spur of the moment. The counsel for the accused had also submitted that there was no intention to kill since it was normal for the Samburu to move around armed all the time. "Lepakana was also armed with a rungu which he used on the accused. I urge the court to temper justice with mercy and give a lenient sentence," said Mr Njogu during the hearing.
Justice Emukule accepted the argument that water was a vital resource in the arid area and it was a matter of life and death. "The inhabitants of these areas have the obligation to share the limited resources in a civil and orderly manner without fights and were it not for the advanced age of the accused, I would have given him a deterrent sentence," said Justice Emukule. The old man jumped with joy and promised to deliver the female camel to the family of the victim. He also promised to report to the chief as directed.
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2 for He turns His ear to me whenever I call.
5 Hashem is gracious and beneficent; our God is compassionate.
6 Hashem protects the simple; I was brought low and He saved me.
7 Be at rest, once again, O my soul, for Hashem has been good to you.
8 You have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
12 How can I repay Hashem for all His bounties to me?
13 I raise the cup of deliverance and invoke the name of Hashem.
14 I will pay my vows to Hashem in the presence of all His people.
15 The death of His faithful ones is grievous in Hashem's sight.
16 Hashem, I am Your servant, Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have undone the cords that bound me.
17 I will sacrifice a thank offering to You and invoke the name of Hashem.
19 in the courts of the house of Hashem, in the midst of Yerushalayim. Hallelujah.


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Amazon Cuts Kindle Fire HDX Price In Celebration of New FAA Rules
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Frequent fliers aren't the only ones excited about the FAA's new ruling. Amazon has just announced new discounts on its Kindle Fire HDX, Kindle Fire HD and Kindle devices in honor of the FAA's recent ruling concerning in-flight electronics.
Valid Nov. 4 only, the e-reader giant is selling the new Kindle Fire HDX 7 for $195 marked down from $229. The Kindle Fire HD 7 is also getting a 15 percent discount, bringing its cost down to $118 from $199. The basic $69 Kindle e-reader now costs $59 as opposed to $69.
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The promotion is in celebration of the FAA's decision to greenlight portable electronics during takeoff and landing on flights. Individual airlines will still have to approve the use of mobile devices gate-to-gate, but the FAA expects this to happen before the end of 2013. JetBlue and Delta are among the first airlines to begin easing up on restrictions concerning electronics on airlines.
"We've been fighting for our customers on this issue for years, and we are thrilled by the FAA's recent decision-- this is a big win for customers," Drew Herdener, vice president of Amazon, said in a statement.
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College Walk
Described as one of the great urban spaces in America, Low Plaza was built to resemble a Greek amphitheater. Fittingly, it's ideal for outdoor concerts, fairs, and staged performances like the King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe's annual productions.
Earl Hall
The mission of the Earl Hall Center is to foster learning through spiritual, ethical, religious and cultural exchange, and to promote service to the University and its surrounding New York City communities. The Earl Hall Center includes the Office of the University Chaplain, Community Impact and United Campus Ministries.
Columbia Campus Aerial
Columbia's neighborhood is Morningside Heights, which stretches from 106th to 125th Streets and is bordered by Central Park, Morningside Park, and Riverside Park.
Low Plaza
Located north and west of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Columbia's majestic, park-like urban village. Within this academic acropolis, students have a home base on which to live, study and play.
Engineering Quad
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science occupies a cluster of buildings on the north end of campus. The cluster includes the Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research (shared with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), the Seeley Wintersmith Mudd building, the Computer Science building, and the Engineering Terrace.
Philosophy Lawn
One of Rodin's bronze castings of "The Thinker" appropriately stands before the entrance of Philosophy Hall. The building houses several departments, including Philosophy, English and Comparative Literature, and French and Romance Philology.
Lerner Hall
Alfred Lerner Hall is Columbia's student center. Lerner is home to the Berick Center for Student Advising and Multicultural Affairs, as well as student group advising and Financial Aid & Educational Financing. It also includes student lounges, two dining venues, a black box theater, pool and game room, 7,000 undergraduate mailboxes, two computer rooms, offices for student organizations, and numerous event spaces, including a 1,100-seat auditorium and a 400-seat cinema.
Farmer's Market on Broadway
Open year-round on Thursdays and Sundays, this market located just in front of the Columbia University gates on Broadway at 115thSt., serves a diverse population including university students, faculty and staff, as well as Upper West Side residents.
Van Am Quad
Van Am Quad is named after John Howard Van Amringe, the popular first Dean of Columbia College. The Rotunda in the middle is ringed with the dedication "Honored and Beloved by Generations of Columbia Students, His Life and Influence Will Be Example and Inspiration to Those Who Come After."
A few of the authors, ideas, and texts that will become part of what you know through the Core. From Machiavelli to Rousseau from Smith to Hume; from W. E. B. Du Bois to Virginia Woolf; from Homer to Toni Morrison; the books in the Core remain on Columbian's bookshelves for a lifetime.
Built in 1904 and designated a New York City landmark in 1966, St. Paul's Chapel is nondenominational and provides a beautiful space for hundreds of events each year.
209 Butler
Butler Library is the centerpiece of the Columbia University Libraries, one of the ten largest academic library systems in the nation. Housing close to one-third of the Libraries' on-site collections, Butler Library includes more than 600,000 rare books and 28 million manuscripts, and the world-famous Oral History Research Office and collection. Several books and screenplays have been written here, including Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book and alumnus Dan Futterman's Oscar-nominated script for the film Capote.
Low Library by night
Inside Low Library is the famed Rotunda, often used for events including the World Leaders Forum. Established in 2003 by Lee C. Bollinger, the World Leaders Forum is a year-round event series aimed to advance lively, uninhibited dialogue on the large economic, political, and social questions of our time. The Forum's roster of past participants features many of heads of state, in addition to other global thought leaders from a broad spectrum of fields and all regions of the world. A few of the many remarkable past participants are Presidents Bill Clinton, Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic, and the Dalai Lama.
Watching over Low Plaza is Alma Mater, a bronze sculpture by Daniel Chester French, famous for his statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Alma Mater is also the subject of many Columbia legends, including that the first student in every new class to find the hidden owl on the statue will be the class valedictorian.
Hamilton Lawn
Columbia guarantees housing for all four years and 95% of our students live on campus. Columbia is its own village within Manhattan. More than a place to live, Columbia is a vibrant residential community.
Campus by night
Where else but in a city that never sleeps will you find not only 24-hour libraries for night owls but also a 24-hour improv show each spring by the campus troupe Fruit Paunch?
Northwest Corner Building
Among the state-of-the-art facilities for engineers and scientists is also the new Northwest Corner Building — an interdisciplinary science and engineering teaching and laboratory complex that includes one of the world's largest science library collections.
South Field
South Field did in fact boast a "Field" for a number of years. The current lawns once formed a contiguous strip of grass upon which football matches and other sporting events were held. A football field was set up in the fall, and Lou Gehrig played baseball here in the spring.
Named after former Columbia President Seth Low and patterned loosely on the Classical Pantheon, Low Library has the largest all-granite dome in the United States. No longer a library, Low houses the Visitors Center and the Office of the President, and is used for campus events.


If you were wondering if the Philadelphia Flyers were undergoing a rebuild, then general manager Ron Hextall will be very direct when describing the franchise's direction.
Despite landing in the 2nd slot in the NHL Draft, the Flyers, who finished last season only seven points short of the final Eastern Conference playoff berth, aren't rebuilding.
"You're not rebuilding when you're competitive," Hextall said, according to Sam Carchidi of Philly.com.
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"Dona says that her use of Prevagen helps her stay focused on her core beliefs."
Dona, 83
Former Model
Dona is a truly remarkable woman, one of those people we may meet in this life if we are lucky, and even if we are meeting her at the end of our own life, she is someone we would be all the more happy to have sitting by our bedside. Dona is what is known as an abider, a person who sits with dying people who have no families and are facing their end all alone.
Dona's own long life has been an extraordinary journey filled with joys and sadness. As she approaches her 83rd birthday in 2019, her memories of the death of one of her sons who perished in a bus fire, or the passing of her husband after suffering from years of dementia, or the litany of operations she has survived are stories that can break your heart. But this diminutive little lady with the big eyeglasses who wears plaid blouses with a matching bow in her hair keeps a bright smile on her face that is said to light up the room and fill others with joy, is still going about her daily life in the senior living community she calls home.
Her own life story could easily fill a book, beginning with part of a childhood in an orphanage, graduating from Scranton Technical High School, becoming a fashion model in her senior year, and awarded "Doll of the Class" in her school yearbook. After graduating, Dona got married and gave birth to six sons, later divorced, raised her family as a single parent working until her retirement in 1991. Two years later, she married a fellow she met in church, began to write lyrics and melodies for songs recorded by gospel artists, and spent Saturdays with her husband out looking for coins and cans they turned in for cash, raising thousands of dollars for others in need.
Along the way, Dona began to write poems as well as the lyrics and melodies for songs, many of which were recorded by gospel singers. One of her major accomplishments in song-writing is "You Are the Great I Am" that was published in 2000. But it was back in 1984 when she wrote her poem "Give It Away" that conveys the whole spirit of her life, as in this second verse:
"You must reach out and show you care,
Down deep within your heart.
Being sensitive and aware
You need to do your part."
In a life that has covered many miles, overcome great challenges, suffered heart-wrenching sadness, and still rejoiced in the gifts and goodness that she so fervently believes flow from the Lord she worships, Dona says that her use of Prevagen helps her stay focused on the two core beliefs of her life, "which is to love the Lord and give yourself to others."
Perhaps most of all, Dona's ability to reflect on her extraordinary life and all the joys and sadness her life has entailed is exactly what makes her a perfect example of how a member of the Prevageneration is living a fulfilling life all the way to the end…and enabling her to abide with others.


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"Baahubali" star Prabhas looks for an engaging plotline while picking a project, and says it should be designed to entertain the audience.
"The story must be engaging and designed in a way that will entertain the audience. While I do pay attention to my character in the film and the script, I think the plotline is what matters the most," Prabhas said while talking about how he picks his projects.
"My previous movies worked because of the way the director has treated the film, giving importance to each minute detail and not only concentrating on the big picture," he added.
After the success of "Baahubali" franchise, he was seen in "Saaho".
Talking about how working in Bollywood is different from Tollywood, he said: Shooting-wise every film has its own way from Bollywood to Tollywood. Initially, speech in a not-so-familiar, language was a little difficult to learn but it was a great experience overall."
He feels, now, "the audience decides what works and what doesn't".
"Fresh concepts should work more if done correctly," he added.
Directed by Sujeeth, the film stars Shraddha Kapoor, and also features Neil Nitin Mukesh and Jackie Shroff. The action drama "Saaho" was shot simultaneously in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil languages. The 2019 release will air on &pictures on April 25.
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Diversity at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)
June 29, 2017 / C. I. Villamil / 0 Comments
Biological anthropology has long been plagued by its exclusionary past. Today, many biological anthropologists and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) are actively seeking to address this legacy by forging positive relationships between anthropologists and marginalized communities, and by encouraging new voices to contribute to the field. For example, the AAPA created the Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences (IDEAS) program to increase participation by first-generation college students or students from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in science (African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, and Latinos). The recent Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE) study (2014) conducted by Kate Clancy, Robin Nelson, Julienne Rutherford, and Katie Hinde also highlighted persistent issues of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the field.
As part of this year's annual meeting, the AAPA held a symposium entitled "Beyond Visibility: How Academic Diversity is Transforming Scientific Knowledge." The symposium took place on April 21, 2017 and was organized by Deborah A. Bolnick (University of Texas at Austin). It provided a forum for a diverse group of scientists to share how their backgrounds help shape their approach to science as well as their roles as professors, students, and researchers. The symposium represents another step in acknowledging the challenges facing biological anthropologists from underrepresented groups. It also highlighted the importance of the contributions made by researchers from these groups and of supporting more inclusive approaches to science. The talks featured at the symposium tackled three main topics: how identity shapes our interest and approach to science, how European cultural perspectives have biased anthropologists' interpretations of the past, and how researchers are working on new approaches to scientific research on which they depend.
Professional roles and scientific interests are indelibly tied to the identities of researchers. In her presentation titled "Alterity and Anthropometrics: Blackness, Vulnerability, and Post-Colonial Identities in Biological Anthropology," Robin Nelson pointed out how her identity as a black woman gives her access to communities of color in which white peers would never be accepted. However, she also noted how her identity often alienates her from professional colleagues, especially when she is the only woman of color in the room. Katie Hinde, one of the authors of the SAFE study and a prominent science blogger who studies lactation, discussed in "Land of Milk and Honey: Infiltrating Academia to Pursue Overlooked Topics" how her own working-class background and community shapes her approach to academia. For her, academia includes, among other duties, outreach and community involvement. Finally, Chris Schmitt, Claudia Astorino, and Stephanie Meredith discussed in "Queer Developments: LGBTQIA Perspectives on Ontogeny, Growth and Development, and Ranges of Variation in Human and Nonhuman Primates" how their varied experiences and identities as LGBTQIA individuals spurred their interest in biological anthropology through questions of: 'What is normal variation?' and 'What is normal?' As they showed, such diverse perspectives vitally enrich the ways in which biological anthropologists approach their scientific studies as well as their academic and social roles.
Speakers also discussed how cultural mores have shaped biological anthropology, with the hope that increasing diversity will lead us away from those biases. Agustín Fuentes argued in "Belief(s), Identity, and Experience: Navigating Multiple Influences on Knowing in Biological Anthropology" that we must move away from white male-centric, heteronormative, and Euro-centric views about society, gender, and identity in order to truly capture the processes, behaviors, and evolutionary changes we study. Shay McLean further argued in "The Coloniality of Philosophies of Biology" for a radical biological anthropology and that such radical shifts are vital to restoring trust between researchers and communities that have been historically marginalized, as well as to reimagining anthropological notions of the past. Other speakers further discussed ways in which European biases have shaped interpretations of biology, variation, and evolution.
Finally, speakers discussed how their own research programs aim to address inequity between researchers and communities, as well as with local assistants who often perform a substantial amount of scientific labor. Danielle Lee discussed in "How Social Justice Perspectives Expose Hidden Exclusions in Science" how researchers must be aware of the impact that their grant money has on individuals in the communities where they conduct research. Lee further argued that research ethics requires appropriate recognition, involvement, and compensation of these vital collaborators. Jada Benn Torres in "Marginal Perspectives Within Hegemonic Spaces: The Marronage of Genomic Technologies" emphasized that biological perspectives cannot be decoupled from their very real social repercussions, particularly as they relate to race. In the same vein, researchers have frequently exploited the sacred goods and skeletal remains of Indigenous groups, and many Indigenous people remain wary of collaborating with researchers in ways that may call their own oral histories, knowledge, or even tribal affiliations into question. As Alyssa Bader discussed in "How Subjectivity Strengthens Research: Developing New Approaches to Anthropological Genetics in the Pacific Northwest," integrating Indigenous perspectives into research can lead to more trusting relationships between researchers and communities. Incorporating local knowledge can also result in more fruitful outcomes that benefit scientific knowledge and communities alike. Ventura Pérez discussed in "Minority Rules: Social Capital, Scientific Obligations, and the Struggle to Decolonize Biological Anthropology" the return of hundred-year-old human remains to the Yaqui of Mexico, and the vital importance of this return to the community's sense of wholeness, trust, and closure. These interactions foster mutual respect between researchers and communities by placing community needs and concerns front and center.
This symposium marked an important step towards bringing issues of diversity and social justice to the forefront in biological anthropology. In the past, talking about such issues has helped create significant change. Public conversations about the treatment of Native American remains helped spur the creation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and revelations about unethical experiments like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study led to the creation of institutional review boards to approve ethical components of scientific studies, for example. Hopefully, biological anthropology will continue to address these issues moving forward, creating a science that is enriched, vital, and more welcoming to the individuals it once marginalized.
C. I. Villamil: contributions / c.i.villamil@gmail.com
C. I. Villamil, "Diversity at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)," History of Anthropology Newsletter 41 (2017): https://histanthro.org/news/observations/diveristy-at-the-aapa/.


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Q: Rails - Iterate find_by results into a select dropdown I'm new to rails and need some help with iterating through a sql result.
I have a method in my model that uses find_by:
def self.find_country()
  @countries = CountryTable.find_all_by_country_status('Y', :select => "country_name")
  @countries.each do |c|
    puts "#{c.inspect}"
  end
end

This is what I have in the view:
<%= select_tag "country", options_for_select(CountryTable.find_country) %>

Then I get this awkward #<CountryTable:0x30509bc> instead of the country name shown for each select option in the source:
<option value="#<CountryTable:0x30509bc>">#<CountryTable:0x30509bc></option>
<option value="#<CountryTable:0x3050944>">#<CountryTable:0x3050944></option>
<option value="#<CountryTable:0x30508e0>">#<CountryTable:0x30508e0></option>

I'm so new to rails that I'm probably not even go about this right.

A: Even if you put a :select statement in the find statement it will still return objects of the model class (CountryTable). You need to extract the country_name attributes from the objects.
The best way to convert an array of objects by converting each object is to use map:
def self.find_country
  find_all_by_country_status('Y', :select => "country_name").map {|c| c.country_name }
end

This passes each country that find_all_by_country_status returns to the block. The block in turn returns the country name of the country. Then map combines those results into a new array and the method returns that.
As a side note, the name of your model should probably be just "Country", not "CountryTable". In Rails, models are named after the objects they represent. So if your model is "Country", each object (each row in the model's database table) represents a country.

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