June 24, 2014
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has excommunicated a prominent backer of ordination of women priests, her advocacy group has said.Hong Kong Tour Guides
Kate Kelly, founder of Ordain Women, was notified of the ruling on Monday, a day after a trial by judges in the Mormon Church, Ordain Women said.
The group said the Mormon Church hierarchy deemed her an apostate for her contravention of Church doctrine.
The Utah-based Mormon religion boasts more than 15 million members worldwide.
According to a letter informing her of her excommunication obtained by the Deseret News, a leading Utah newspaper, Ms Kelly will be barred from some acts of church worship for at least a year.
"You are entitled to your views, but you are not entitled to promote them and proselyte others to them while remaining in full fellowship in the Church," wrote Bishop Mark Harrison of Virginia.
She can be readmitted to the fold if she shows "true repentance", including ceasing "teachings and actions that undermine the Church, its leaders, and the doctrine of the priesthood", he wrote.
'Tragic day'
Ms Kelly said the church's decision, taken by an all-male panel of judges, was "exceptionally painful".
"Today is a tragic day for my family and me as we process the many ways this will impact us, both in this life and in the eternities," she said.
The Mormon religion was founded in the US in the early 19th Century and claims more about 188,000 adherents in the UK Dream beauty pro hard sell.
The religion is centred on Jesus Christ but departs significantly from the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Christianity.
It holds its founder Joseph Smith as a prophet. Its members revere its central text the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830 in New York state, as holy scripture that complements the Bible.
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Ordain Women, however, argue that the religion's tenets "support gender equality, including the ordination of women".
Excommunication is the most serious punishment that can be handed down by a Church court, Ordain Women said.
Matt Martinich, a Mormon who studies membership numbers for research group Cumorah Foundation, told the Associated Press that excommunication is rare in the Church, with only 10,000-20,000 people being ejected from the Church every year.
Kate Kelly, founder of Ordain Women, was notified of the ruling on Monday, a day after a trial by judges in the Mormon Church, Ordain Women said.
The group said the Mormon Church hierarchy deemed her an apostate for her contravention of Church doctrine.
The Utah-based Mormon religion boasts more than 15 million members worldwide.
According to a letter informing her of her excommunication obtained by the Deseret News, a leading Utah newspaper, Ms Kelly will be barred from some acts of church worship for at least a year.
"You are entitled to your views, but you are not entitled to promote them and proselyte others to them while remaining in full fellowship in the Church," wrote Bishop Mark Harrison of Virginia.
She can be readmitted to the fold if she shows "true repentance", including ceasing "teachings and actions that undermine the Church, its leaders, and the doctrine of the priesthood", he wrote.
'Tragic day'
Ms Kelly said the church's decision, taken by an all-male panel of judges, was "exceptionally painful".
"Today is a tragic day for my family and me as we process the many ways this will impact us, both in this life and in the eternities," she said.
The Mormon religion was founded in the US in the early 19th Century and claims more about 188,000 adherents in the UK Dream beauty pro hard sell.
The religion is centred on Jesus Christ but departs significantly from the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Christianity.
It holds its founder Joseph Smith as a prophet. Its members revere its central text the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830 in New York state, as holy scripture that complements the Bible.
Church doctrine holds that only men can be ordained into the priesthood.å²é›²éœ 有效
Ordain Women, however, argue that the religion's tenets "support gender equality, including the ordination of women".
Excommunication is the most serious punishment that can be handed down by a Church court, Ordain Women said.
Matt Martinich, a Mormon who studies membership numbers for research group Cumorah Foundation, told the Associated Press that excommunication is rare in the Church, with only 10,000-20,000 people being ejected from the Church every year.
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June 18, 2014
These spiders achieve the best of both worlds
The research team also studied how well each personality type carried out the tasks and again found strong differences.
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When the spiders were made to live outside of a colony, aggressive females were more effective at capturing prey, constructed better webs and were more likely to attack and repel intruders than docile individuals.
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However aggressive types were less successful at rearing large numbers of offspring than docile ones.
Mr Wright said: "We were surprised at how poor parents aggressive spiders were. It turns out that they are so aggressive that they will even act aggressively towards their own offspring, killing many in the act." useik
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"These spiders achieve the best of both worlds by evolving two behavioural types with specialised tasks. Aggressive spiders perform all the tasks where aggression is important, and docile spiders are allowed to focus on being good parents. It's a win-win situation," Mr Wright added.
Having provided the clearest evidence for division of labour organised around behavioural rather than physical differences, the authors say personality may play a similar role in many other animal societies. ãµãˆã†ã„ãˆã„
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When the spiders were made to live outside of a colony, aggressive females were more effective at capturing prey, constructed better webs and were more likely to attack and repel intruders than docile individuals.
jiujiaw'blog
However aggressive types were less successful at rearing large numbers of offspring than docile ones.
Mr Wright said: "We were surprised at how poor parents aggressive spiders were. It turns out that they are so aggressive that they will even act aggressively towards their own offspring, killing many in the act." useik
But having both personalities present is key to a colony's success.ãµã—ã˜ãｋblog
"These spiders achieve the best of both worlds by evolving two behavioural types with specialised tasks. Aggressive spiders perform all the tasks where aggression is important, and docile spiders are allowed to focus on being good parents. It's a win-win situation," Mr Wright added.
Having provided the clearest evidence for division of labour organised around behavioural rather than physical differences, the authors say personality may play a similar role in many other animal societies. ãµãˆã†ã„ãˆã„
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April 01, 2014
It may strike us as a particularly modern malaise
What depressed the cavemen? It may strike us as a particularly modern malaise for a time-poor, fast-paced society but a new reappraisal of depression suggests it has always been around.
A leading psychiatrist says that depression is not a human defect at all, but a defence mechanism that in its mild and moderate forms can force a healthy reassessment of personal circumstances.
Dr Paul Keedwell, an expert on mood disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, argues all people are vulnerable to depression in the face of stress to varying degrees, and always have been.
The fact it has survived so long - and not been eradicated by evolution - indicates it has helped the human race become stronger.
FAMOUS DEPRESSIVES
Clockwise from top left: Robbie Williams, Sir Elton John, Winston Churchill and Stephen Fry
Robbie Williams, Sir Elton John, Winston Churchill and Stephen Fry (pictured)
Writers Tennessee Williams, Sylvia Plath, Evelyn Waugh and Ernest Hemingway
Artists Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, William Blake
Performers Caroline Ahern, Ewan McGregor, Morrissey
"There are benefits and that's why it has persisted. It's a tough message to hear while you are in depression but I think that there's a life afterwards," he says.
"I have received e-mails from ex-sufferers saying in retrospect it probably did help them because they changed direction, a new career for example, and as a result they're more content day-to-day than before the depression." geijlsngi15
A leading psychiatrist says that depression is not a human defect at all, but a defence mechanism that in its mild and moderate forms can force a healthy reassessment of personal circumstances.
Dr Paul Keedwell, an expert on mood disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, argues all people are vulnerable to depression in the face of stress to varying degrees, and always have been.
The fact it has survived so long - and not been eradicated by evolution - indicates it has helped the human race become stronger.
FAMOUS DEPRESSIVES
Clockwise from top left: Robbie Williams, Sir Elton John, Winston Churchill and Stephen Fry
Robbie Williams, Sir Elton John, Winston Churchill and Stephen Fry (pictured)
Writers Tennessee Williams, Sylvia Plath, Evelyn Waugh and Ernest Hemingway
Artists Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, William Blake
Performers Caroline Ahern, Ewan McGregor, Morrissey
"There are benefits and that's why it has persisted. It's a tough message to hear while you are in depression but I think that there's a life afterwards," he says.
"I have received e-mails from ex-sufferers saying in retrospect it probably did help them because they changed direction, a new career for example, and as a result they're more content day-to-day than before the depression." geijlsngi15
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February 20, 2014
Arnold Toynbee has said that all progress
Arnold Toynbee has said that all progress, all development come from challenge and a consequent response. Without challenge there is no response, no development, no freedom. So first we owe to our children the most demanding, challenging curriculum that is within their capabilities. Michelangelo did not learn to paint by spending his time doodling. Mozart was not an accomplished pianist at the age of eight as the result or spending his days in front of a television set. Like Eve Curie, like Helen Keller, they responded to the challenge of their lives by a disciplined training: and they gained a new freedom.Cellmax 科å¦ç¾Žè‚Œå†ç”Ÿä¸å¿ƒ
The second opportunity we can give our boys and girls is the right to failure. "Freedom is not only a privilege, it is a test," writes De Nouy. What kind of a test is it, what kind of freedom where no one can fail? The day is past when the United States can afford to give high school diplomas to all who sit through four years of instruction, regardless of whether any visible results can be discerned. We live in a narrowed world where we must be alert, awake to realism; and realism demands a standard which either must be met or result in failure. These are hard words, but they are brutally true. If we deprive our children of the right to fail we deprive them of their knowledge of the world as it is.Cellmax 科å¦ç¾Žè‚Œå†ç”Ÿä¸å¿ƒ
Finally, we can expose our children to the best values we have found. By relating our lives to the evidences of the ages, by judging our philosophy in the light of values that history has proven truest, perhaps we shall be able to produce that "ringing message, full of content and truth, satisfying the mind, appealing to the heart, firing the will, a message on which one can stake his whole life." This is the message that could mean joy and strength and leadership -- freedom as opposed to serfdom.Cellmax 科å¦ç¾Žè‚Œå†ç”Ÿä¸å¿ƒ
The second opportunity we can give our boys and girls is the right to failure. "Freedom is not only a privilege, it is a test," writes De Nouy. What kind of a test is it, what kind of freedom where no one can fail? The day is past when the United States can afford to give high school diplomas to all who sit through four years of instruction, regardless of whether any visible results can be discerned. We live in a narrowed world where we must be alert, awake to realism; and realism demands a standard which either must be met or result in failure. These are hard words, but they are brutally true. If we deprive our children of the right to fail we deprive them of their knowledge of the world as it is.Cellmax 科å¦ç¾Žè‚Œå†ç”Ÿä¸å¿ƒ
Finally, we can expose our children to the best values we have found. By relating our lives to the evidences of the ages, by judging our philosophy in the light of values that history has proven truest, perhaps we shall be able to produce that "ringing message, full of content and truth, satisfying the mind, appealing to the heart, firing the will, a message on which one can stake his whole life." This is the message that could mean joy and strength and leadership -- freedom as opposed to serfdom.Cellmax 科å¦ç¾Žè‚Œå†ç”Ÿä¸å¿ƒ
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December 16, 2013
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n 2009, the number of hungry people in the world reached one billion for the first time. It is difficult not to be shocked by the fact that more than one in seven people on the planet do not have enough to eat. By the end of this year, more than 35 million people will have died as a result of . Hunger kills more people per year than AIDS and malaria (ç–Ÿç–¾) combined.
The UN calculates that almost two-thirds of the world’s hungry people are in Asia. More than a quarter are in sub-Saharan Africa. Almost all of the rest are in Latin America, North Africa and the Caribbean. In the richest regions of the world there are only a small number of people who don’t have enough to eat. There are many reasons for world hunger. They include wars, droughts, floods and the overuse of farming land. All of them affect food production. But the most important reason is, quite simple, poverty — which has increased recently due to the economic effects of the financial crisis of 2008.
Although many people point out that there would be less hunger if the global population were smaller, few people would argue that there is not enough food to go around. The basic problem seems to be not a lack of food, but its distribution.In the last 50 years, global food production has risen even more quickly than the global population and there are of course many areas of the world where people generally have more than enough food. Overweight is a far bigger problem than hunger there.
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