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Shanghai GRAND SLAM | 30 April - 5 May 2013
Shanghai, China, May 2, 2013 – Chinese wild card players Jin Jieqiong and Miao Chenchen upset 2011 Shanghai Open champions Marleen Van Iersel/Sanne Keizer of the Netherlands here Thursday morning to record their first win together in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
Jin and Miao, who had united since 2011 but never entered the Main Draw in any World Tour event, pulled out a surprising 2-0 (21-18, 21-18) victory over the Dutch women in 33 minutes in their opening match in pool B.
"Yeah, we were surprised too," said the 24-year-old Jin. "They are the top ranked team in the pool and we know they were the champions in 2011, we did not believe we could win and we just tried to do our best."
"It's really lucky to have the wild card and we are under no pressure at all, we are happy that we played a good game," Jin added.
Jin and Miao exchanged their positions on the sand two weeks before the start of the season and that seemed to work out for them as they claimed successive titles in the Chinese National Championships in Xiamen and AVC Tour Open in Vietnam before walking into the Shanghai Grand Slam.
"It took time to play well as a team. I think we have better understanding and cooperation between us this season and the change in positions also helped a lot," said Miao. "We are in good shape right now and we will continue to do our best."
In the afternoon, Jin/Miao lost to Germany's Karla Borger/Britta Buthe in straight sets 21-19, 21-11, but they still kept alive their hope of making the elimination round.
The other Chinese teams in action both recorded two victories in a row. Having collected an easy 2-0 win in the morning, Shanghai Grand Slam title holders Xue Chen/Zhang Xi overcame a slow start to rally past Russia's Maria Prokopeva/ekaterina Khomyakova 2-1 (18-21, 21-18, 15-10).
The newly crownly Fuzhou Open champions jumped to a 6-1 lead in the tiebreaker before the Russian women ran off four of the next five points to pull within 7-5. Then a serving error of Khomyakova, a lucky ace of Xue and a spike of Zhang pushed China up to 10-5 and the Chinese went on to claim their second victory in two matches.
"We had a slow start today, but I am happy that we could come out with a win," said Zhang Xi. "We are just a little bit tired after last week's play in Fuzhou and I think we'll feel more and more comfortable in the next matches."
Xue/Zhang's teammates Yue Yuan and Ma Yuanyuan also posted two wins on Thursday to share the lead in pool H with Madelein Meppelink/Sophie van Gestel of the Netherlands. Yue/Ma will play Meppelink/Gestel Friday morning to vie for the top position of the group.
Other top teams undefeated after two rounds of round robin play include April Ross/jennifer Kessy of the United States, Germany's Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler and Brazil's Maria Antonelli/Agatha Bednarczuk.
Thirty-two teams are playing a single round robin in eight groups with top three finishers from each group to advance to the 24-team knockout stage of the double gender Shanghai Grand Slam, the first of a FIVB-record 10 Grand Slam events on the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar.
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The Two-Minute Cancer Test
Ellen Gray, here with her husband, Ryan
Last year, in these pages, Glamour published a feature about skin cancer—how to avoid it, how to spot it. After it hit newsstands, something remarkable happened—letters started to pour in from readers. "I saw a picture of a mole in your skin cancer section and it looked like it was taken of one on my body," said Kym McCann, 34, from San Diego. "My doctor said it was something that almost always turns into melanoma if left alone. You may have saved my life!" Destiny Heimbecker, 31, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, told us: "After looking at the images, I decided to make an appointment with my dermatologist. It was melanoma. Thanks for inspiring me to move on something I might have let go—which would have been a deadly decision."
All told, 23 readers said that our self-test had helped them spot a weird mole that turned out to be cancer or precancer. "People always ask me, How did you know, out of all those freckles, that that spot was melanoma?'" wrote Monica Kane, 33, of Bethel, Connecticut. "I tell them Glamour!" We're thankful so many women got that information in time, and we want you to have it too. So on these four pages, you'll find an updated version of last year's self-check, along with the latest news about skin cancer detection and prevention.
One far less happy letter brought home how important it is for young women to be vigilant about this disease. It came via e-mail from a young woman offering to tell her more frightening story in our pages. "I am currently fighting recurrent melanoma," wrote 28-year-old Ellen Gray. "Only time will tell if it will continue to spread."
Gray, a newlywed from Canton, Ohio, told us, "You think it can't happen to you, but it can!" How right she was: Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. And melanoma—the most serious type—has been increasing among women by more than 2 percent a year for the last 20 years. The percentage of women under 40 diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma has tripled since the 1970s, and the rate of squamous cell cancer has quadrupled. We've known that exposure to ultraviolet light, as in sunlight and indoor tanning, is the number-one preventable cause of all skin cancers. But what are we doing about it? Not much. Only 18 percent of women use sunscreen daily, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. And indoor tanning remains as popular as ever, despite research that suggests indoor tanning in your teens and twenties increases one's melanoma risk by 75 percent.
When the sun or the need to be bronze for a special occasion beckons, cancer may seem like an empty, distant threat. But as Ellen's difficult story will make you see, sun protection and regular skin checks may be a matter of life and death.
Energetic and athletic, Ellen positively radiated health and vitality, friends and family say. She was the one who bugged colleagues at her father's insurance business, where she worked, to choose salads over junk food for lunch. She was the heartbeat of her social circle, keeping everyone in touch and bringing new people together. She supported her mother and aunt through successful treatments for breast cancer. She played tennis with her father, skied with her brother, jogged with her best friend, Amber White. "She seemed like she could run forever," White says. One of the first things Ellen's husband, Ryan, noticed when she burst into a party the night they met was her "spark," he says. "You could tell right away that she liked to live."
The threat of skin cancer never really occurred to Ellen, who, like most of us, had burned a few times as a kid and wasn't religious about wearing hats or high-SPF sunscreen. She also occasionally hit the tanning bed before special events or beach vacations to get a "base tan" that, she thought, would protect against sunburn. ("Base tans" are a myth, doctors stress; any tan is a sign of damage.)
But one day, about two years after their wedding, Ellen asked Ryan, "Will you look at this?" She'd found a dime-size lesion on the top of her head, just where the button of a baseball cap would be. It was a red, open sore, and black around the edges. "It looked awful," Ryan says.
Ellen had it tested; she got a call. The spot was malignant—it had to come out right away. Ryan and Ellen were scared, but only a bit. "When you're that young, you just think, I'm gonna have a little surgery—I'll have a scar, but what's the worst that could happen?" he says.
The worst, actually, was exactly what Ellen's surgeon, Zaheer Shah, M.D., feared. Melanoma is 80 to 90 percent curable if caught early. But Dr. Shah could tell that the lesion on Ellen's scalp had been growing for at least a year. Out of five possible stages of advancement, it was already a level four or five. He removed the cancer but knew her journey wouldn't end there. "I've never seen a level four not recur," says Dr. Shah. Once melanoma has worked its way deep into the skin, the cure rate drops to about 50 percent, and to about 25 percent if it spreads to the lymph nodes.
After the surgery Ellen began immunotherapy—daily IV treatments with a chemical called interferon. Even then, she and her husband had no idea what they were up against. While the IV dripped, "we just sat and read magazines," says Ryan, suddenly near tears. "Now I wish I'd spent more time talking to her."
Then one day Ellen felt lumps on both sides of her neck: The cancer had reached her lymph nodes. Surgery was quickly scheduled with a specialist at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. "Am I going to die?" Ellen asked her new doctor, Jared Gollob, M.D. "No," he said. "We're going to take care of this now."
Dr. Gollob continued her immunotherapy—but the treatment attacked her liver, forcing him to bump her dose down so low that eventually it made no sense to continue. While her medical team regrouped, she had more than 20 minor surgeries to remove various moles from head to toe.
Her doctors started her on radiation, which, ironically, burned her skin raw. The treatment was grueling, but once the side effects wore off, Ellen was feeling better than she had in a year. Appetite and energy restored, she started walking four miles a day with her mother. But then more lumps appeared on Ellen's neck, along with the most devastating news yet: The cancer had metastasized—to her liver, her pancreas, her spine. "Am I going to die?" Ellen asked again. This time, Ryan recalls, the doctor did not say no.
All of the treatments had failed. After more than 20 surgeries, several rounds of immunotherapy and seven weeks of radiation, Ellen's bravery and determination were dwindling too. "I'm really scared," she admitted to her friend Jo Ann Sydeski. "I'm starting to think this might get me."
Ellen and Ryan traveled to a holistic health center in Philadelphia. But the physicians there were able to do little more than make her more comfortable as she slipped away. On October 5, 2007, Ellen Gray died surrounded by family and friends—three days after her 29th birthday, one year after she'd been diagnosed with melanoma and less than six months after she'd written to Glamour.
But she did not die without leaving her mark: Her mother, Susan Deitemeyer, says that nurses who cared for Ellen, having seen her suffering, vowed to wear sunscreen and get their daughters to stop indoor tanning. Ellen's friends have followed suit, getting moles tested, slathering on sunscreen and having their kids wear giant hats.
As Ellen wrote in her letter to Glamour, "I just want to help anyone I can." Ellen, you are helping more people than you could have imagined.

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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – SIUE baseball Interim Head Coach Tony Stoecklin has announced the addition of Major League pitcher Jason Isringhausen to his staff. Isringhausen, a native of Brighton, Ill., will serve as a pitching coach for the Cougars.
"He obviously knows the game at the highest level," Stoecklin said. "What has impressed me most is his ability to teach what he knows."
Isringhausen has collected 300 saves in a Major League career that has covered 16 seasons. Seven of those years were spent with the St. Louis Cardinals. He is the Cardinals' all-time leader in saves with 217. In 2004, he turned a career-best 47 saves for St. Louis, which is a Cardinals single-season record shared by Lee Smith.
"I enjoy the teaching aspect," Isringhausen said. "I feel like I have a lot to offer.
"At this level the players all have talent," he continued. "I'm here to fine tune. I want to help the pitchers get the most out of that talent."
Stoecklin said Isringhausen's presence already has made a difference.
"The guys are listening," Stoecklin said. "They're soaking up every ounce of information he gives them."
The 2013 baseball season begins tomorrow when the Cougars travel to Nashvile, Tenn., for the first game of a three-game weekend series at Lipscomb.


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CARSON, Calif. – Seattle Sounders FC (1-2-1) earned its first victory of the 2012 MLS Reserve League with a 4-3 win against Chivas USA (1-1-0) at the Track & Field Stadium of The Home Depot Center on Monday.
Seattle's Sammy Ochoa scored twice with Cordell Cato and Andy Rose adding two more tallies.
Chivas USA scored the game's first goal in the 9th minute. Blair Gavin and Laurent Courtois combined on the left flank and Courtois finished to take the early lead.
Seattle equalized in the 12th minute when Cato received a cross from Roger Levesque and beat keeper Tim Melia. Sounders FC took a 2-1 lead in the 31st minute when Michael Seamon found Ochoa in the six-yard box for his first goal of the game.
Chivas equalized on a penalty kick by Juan Pablo Angel in the 39th minute and jumped out to a 3-2 lead in the 59th minute on a goal by Casey Townsend with Angel providing the service.
Seattle would level the scoring again just minutes later as Servando Carrasco found Rose for a strike from outside the box.
Sounders FC regained the lead for the final time in the 70th minute when Ochoa completed his brace on an assist from Andrew Duran.
Seattle created several scoring chances in the first half, including a shot from Levesque in the 3rd minute that hit the post and a strike from Rose in the 5th minute that missed wide.
Seattle's next reserve match will be on June 1 against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC at Starfire Sports while Chivas USA will take on San Jose on May 14.
Chivas USA (1-1-0) vs. Seattle Sounders (1-2-1)
April 23, 2012 – Home Depot Center – Track & Field
Scoring Summary:
CHV – Laurent Courtois 1 (Blair Gavin 3) 9
SEA – Cordell Cato 1 (Roger Levesque 1) 12
SEA – Sammy Ochoa 1 (Michael Seamon 1) 31
CHV – Juan Pablo Angel 1 (unassisted) 39
CHV – Casey Townsend 1 (Juan Pablo Angel 1) 59
SEA – Andy Rose 1 (Servando Carrasco 1) 62
SEA – Sammy Ochoa 2 (Andrew Duran 1) 70
Chivas USA – Tim Melia, Carlos Torres (Mario Ledesma 35), Scott Gordon, John Valencia, Jorge Villafaña (Gerardo Torres 67), Marky Delgado, Blair Gavin (Erick Gonzalez 65), Laurent Courtois, Casey Townsend, Cesar Romero, Juan Pablo Angel (Victor Chavez 63)
Subs not used: Patrick McLain, Jorge Marquez, Javier Mena
Seattle Sounders FC – Bryan Meredith, Roger Levesque, Andrew Duran, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Marc Burch, Michael Seamon, Servando Carrasco, Andy Rose, David Estrada (Alex Caskey 58), Cordell Cato, Sammy Ochoa (Sean Morris 90)
Subs not used: Steve Spangler, Jonathan Prieto, Armando Ochoa.
Misconduct Summary:
SEA – Servando Carrasco (caution, foul) 10
CHV – Cesar Romero (caution, foul) 45
SEA – Roger Levesque (caution, foul) 67
CHV – Gerardo Torres (caution, foul) 90+
Referee: Daniel Radford
Referee's Assistants: Steve Elliot, Bernhard Hosu
4th Official: Jose Pacheco
Time of Game: 1:50
Weather: Cloudy, 62 degrees
Postgame Quotes
Ezra Hendrickson – Sounders FC Assistant Coach
(On the game…) "I challenged them before the game that getting the victory on the road is possible. We've had the opportunity to do that so far, but we came up short. I told them that today was the day that we were going to turn the season around and they came out and responded. I'm happy for everybody. It was good to get this win today and I'm glad they responded the way they did."
(On the scoring…) "We could have scored some more goals, but we lacked some composure in the box in the first half. We hit the crossbar, we hit the post and then we missed some eight yards out from goal. But the guys put in the effort and we came out with the 4-3 victory."
(On standouts…) "Cato played really well today. Cato and Rose were exceptional. They both had very good games and it's good to see that because they are both young players, they're both rookies. It's good to see those guys performing like that."
(On the defense…) "We got caught out of position on the first goal and the second was a PK. They fought all over the field and we played well defensively. Even though we gave up the three goals we were still able to put something together on the other end."


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In Mühlhausen, Bach developed an interest in composing vocal church music. This new interest might have originated under the impact of Buxtehude's Abendmusiken. It is also a fact that the Blasiuskirche had a much richer vocal tradition and offered a more favorable setting for vocal music than the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt (the church also had a great music library, where Bach studied and copied a lot of traditional church music). Maria Barbara is almost never mentioned in this context, but it is not excluded that she too played a role in her husband's shift of interest (she was the daughter of a prolific composer of vocal works, after all).
Anyway, even Bach's very first cantatas are superb masterpieces. One of the Mühlhausen cantatas, the Ratswechsel ("city council change") cantata, Gott ist mein König, BWV 71 was even printed. In fact, it would remain the only cantata to appear in print during Bach's life time. None of Telemann's or Händel's works had appeared in print yet, so, the performance on 4 February 1708 must have been a real triumph for the 22 year old composer.
Before too long, however, Bach was dissatisfied with the possibilities for a "well-regulated church music" in Mühlhausen. The tradtional interpretation blames this frustration on the theological disputes between pietists, led by Bach's immediate boss pastor J.A. Frohne (fat pietist on the right), and the orthodox Lutherans, led by pastor Eilmar (picture on your left) of the Marienkirche. Although the pietists, including Bach's immediate boss Frohne, were in general less favorably inclined towards rich church music, modern Bach scholarship tends to minimize the effect of the dispute on Johann Sebastian. A more crucial event might have been the great fire that destroyed one fourth of Mühlhausen on 30 May 1707. This catastrophe no doubt had a deep economical impact on Mühlhausen, which made its climate less favorable for church music. It must also not be overlooked that Bach was very ambitious, eager to improve both his financial position and his social status. With his fast growing reputation as an organ virtuoso and composer, he had just outgrown his Mühlhausen position in one year. In spite of this, Bach managed to maintain good relationships with Mühlhausen. He continued supervising the rebuilding of the Blasius church organ, which was started on his recommendations. He also had a personal relationship with pastor Eilmar, who later on became the godfather of Bach's first child Catharina Dorothea.
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AUBURN, AL (WSFA) - An old tradition is returning to the Plains, but in a new way. Auburn fans will not be able to roll wires at Toomer's Corner after a big win.
The wires were installed Tuesday at the historic corner as a temporary replacement to the iconic Toomer's oaks.
The trees, poisoned by Harvey Updyke, were cut down in April after numerous attempts to save them failed.
Updyke pleaded guilty to poisoning the oaks and was sentenced to three years in jail. He was released in June after serving 76 days.
The wires will be replaced with newly planted oaks in 2014.
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Packed full of bloody assassinations, darkened streets, bucket loads of rain and customary annoying electronica soundtrack, IO Interactive have unveiled a launch trailer for Hitman: Absolution.
Cant wait for this the thing i like about Hitman is they take their time and release a finished product. They stay true to the roots of the franchise unlike AC3 and several others
meh, never been a fan of the hitman series, i played it though. but i liked splinter cell better best one was Pandora tomorrow imo
I check some leaked videos and sadly its disappointing :very linear smal level even large level are linear and changing clothe is something that left from hitman series. Hitman is my favorite franchize but i hope it fail in reviews and sales to io knows fans didnt wait 6 year for this bullsh*t. Hitman is still king of stealth game.


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Rafael Cestero, president and CEO of Community Preservation Corp., speaks during the Center for Housing Solutions' kickoff luncheon Thursday at Anthony's Pier 9 in New Windsor. The center is a new initiative by Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress designed to highlight the region's housing needs. Thursday's event, which attracted about 175 people, focused on the impact aging baby boomers may have on the regional demand for housing over the next two decades. The Hudson Valley's population of people 65 and older is expected to increase by more than 43 percent by the year 2030, according to a report by the center.


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Knicks take win streak to Chicago
To say New York Knicks All-Star Carmelo Anthony has the hot hand right now is an understatement.
The catalyst behind the Knicks' 13-game winning streak, Anthony looks to maintain his scoring touch Thursday in a road bout with the Chicago Bulls at the United Center.
Anthony is the NBA's leading scorer with 28.6 ppg, just ahead of Kevin Durant's 28.3 ppg, but has averaged 40.6 points in his last five games. Anthony, who ended March with seven straight 20-point performances, has scored at least 36 points during his recent tear for Atlantic Division-champion New York, which made it 13 straight wins with Monday's 120-99 demolition of the Washington Wizards at Madison Square Garden.
New York was led by Anthony's 36 points on 13-of-21 shooting and the sweet- stroking forward added eight rebounds and six assists. Iman Shumpert scored 18 points and both J.R. Smith and Chris Copeland netted 17 apiece off the bench for the Knicks, who captured their first division crown since 1993-94 and are second in the East standings -- 2 1/2 games ahead of idle Indiana.
"The second seed is still out there," said coach Mike Woodson. "It's something that's right in front of us to take. And we just gotta figure out how to go get it."
Continuing to score at a high rate is one way. During this 13-game run, the Knicks are averaging more than 100 points per game.
The Knicks haven't lost since March 17 against the Los Angeles Clippers and have won six in a row as the visitor. They will also visit Cleveland on this quick trek and own a 22-16 mark outside of Gotham.
New York, which hit the 50-win mark over the weekend for the first time since 1999-00, last won 14 in a row during a 15-game burst from March 1-April 2 of the 1993-94 campaign. The Knicks lost to the Houston Rockets in the NBA Finals in seven games that year.
Knicks center Tyson Chandler (bulging disc) and forward Kenyon Martin (ankle) are expected to miss Thursday's game.
Chicago has lost two straight and three of five games, including Monday's 101-98 setback to the Toronto Raptors at the United Center.
Jimmy Butler scored 28 points, Nate Robinson netted 22 off the bench and Carlos Boozer posted 19 points for the Bulls, who were without Joakim Noah, Luol Deng and Taj Gibson. Gibson is out indefinitely, Deng is questionable versus the Knicks and Noah is expected to sit once again.
"We have to be a lot tough mentally," Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau said.
The Bulls are even with Atlanta for fifth in the East standings and lost out to the Pacers on claiming another Central Division title.
Still a dominant presence on defense, the Bulls, who are third in opponents' scoring at 92.5 ppg, will try to slow down a Knicks squad that is averaging exactly 100.0 ppg this season.
Chicago is 22-17 as the host and will begin a three-game road trip Friday against Toronto, Miami and Orlando.
The Bulls target a four-game season sweep of the Knicks Thursday and have won four straight, seven of eight and 11 of the last 15 meetings between the teams. New York has lost three straight, seven of eight and 19 of its last 22 trips to the Windy City.
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OMG! Pilots Are Texting in Mid-Flight
Pilots texting in-flight might be scary but Middle Seat columnist Scott McCartney points out it's the norm in Canada and the U.S. is behind the curve. Photo: AP
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Christian Ministries Gear Up for Outreach During 2012 Summer Olympics
- Russ Jones ReligionToday.com Contributor
- 2012 25 Jul
While athletes compete for gold and attempt to break world records during the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, hundreds of Christians will take the Gospel message to the streets of the British nation in pursuit of a different reward.
The Olympic Games will be held in London from July 27 to August 12, 2012, followed by the 2012 Paralympic Games from August 29 to September 9. With backpack, bedroll and Bible in hand, volunteer ministry teams from around the globe will seek to evangelize those who have yet to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Christians Take Aim
London hosted the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948, making this year's event the third time the games have been held in London since the modern Olympics began in 1896. This year 205 nations are expected to take part in 306 different events and 26 different sports.
Roughly 500,000 people from all over the world are expected to visit London for the Olympics. International ministry organizations see the premier sporting event as a prime opportunity to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ through literature and personal witnessing with both spectators and Olympiads.
More Than Gold, an ecumenical initiative linking Christian organizations together who brings mission teams into the United Kingdom around the time of the Olympics, serves as a logistics conduit for visiting ministries. The organization works with thousands of churches and agencies coordinating mission outreach efforts.
Visitors to the 2012 Games will be able to experience almost 700 free performances by Christian musicians, dancers and visual artists from over 30 nations.
Some 40 teams of performers and artists coming to London involve about 440 individuals. Among the talent on display with be an Indian musician playing a multi-stringed guitar with built in bongo drums, an international folk-rock band, a Hawaiian-based dance troupe and a children's ballet company.
"This is about more than great performances and outstanding art," said Julie Spence, More Than Gold talent organizer. "All involved use their talents to provoke questions about life and faith and point to Jesus as being key to having them answered."
A number of ministries from the U.S. will partner with More Than Gold.
In conjunction with Sports Fan Outreach International, Living Waters, founded by well-known author and speaker Ray Comfort, will host a fourteen-member team to the Olympic Games. Participants joining the team raised their own funds for the two-week outreach.
"Our mission is very simple," said Tony Miano, director of events and special projects at Living Waters. "We will be out every day and every night heralding the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
At $3,000 to $4,000 per person, Miano told ReligionToday.com it is a significant investment of both time and money, but a worthwhile cause. Participants will stay at the Guildford YMCA hostel, about 40 minutes away from the major Olympic venues.
"We are going there because we love Christ, we love the lost and we don't want to see anyone perish from their sin," said Miano. "We know that there is only one law giver, one judge and it is not us, but we are commanded by His word to proclaim the Gospel to every creator."
Miano said it is doubtful volunteers will get to see any of the Olympic events or even the traditionally spectacular Opening Ceremonies. The group will, however, tour the historic Oxford University and sit under the teaching of The Rev. Dr. Richard Turnbull. In May 2012 Turnbull stepped down as Principal of the noted theological seminary Wycliffe Hall. The evangelical Anglican scholar will teach on the English revival of Christianity and the tumultuous world of the 18th century.
Open-Air Preaching
Major sporting events like the National Football League's Super Bowl or the NCAA Basketball Tournament are often targets for ministries who might host a short-term mission trip. Thousands of adoring fans attend these events. The Olympics is another sporting event that attracts ministry teams from all over the world with the hope of sharing the Gospel with total strangers.
After weeks of training, hundreds of teams are expected to engage people with the Gospel through open-air street preaching and one-on-one witnessing on the grounds of the Olympic village and surrounding communities. This method of evangelism, however, comes with its share of risk and controversy.
Miano, who has been doing street preaching for years, says the Gospel is an offense to those that are lost, so he anticipates negative reactions from some. It is for that reason appropriate training has been a priority before his team gets to London.
"Unfortunately, there are characters out there who don't represent the Gospel well and some of them may be in London," said Miano. "They inflame or insight fights and that is not what we are about."
Miano noted a recent incident in Dearborn, Michigan where a group of street preachers led by Ruden Israel did "more damage than good." Israel used a pig's head on a pole as a conversation starter and a symbol of protest at Dearborn's 17th Annual International Arab Festival on June 15.
"We aren't going to London to simply create a spectacle that might land us a video on YouTube," said Miano. "We are going to speak the truth in love. We hope we as messengers will not be offensive in the way we deliver that message."
Olympians Look to Christ
4 Winds Christian Athletics, a global-class track and field ministry, claims the Olympic track and field team is well represented by a good core of Christian athletes who are ready to tell the world about their Christian faith.
4 Winds President Steve McConkey is asking Christians to pray for the USA Olympic track and field team as well as the other Olympians, "Since 1981, we have seen a good core of Christians on the USA teams. We are asking Christians everywhere to pray for the Olympic Athletes. Pray for protection, peace, strength, and boldness."
Olympic ministry Lay Witnesses for Christ has conducted outreach efforts for the past seven summer Olympic Games. Ministry leaders said the organization would host a variety of outreach events at locations all across the city.
Kimberly Parker, director of communication at Lay Witnesses for Christ, said there will be an evening with the Olympians, Stars for Christ events, as well as, alcohol and violence prevention programs.
"Our goal is to use the platform of world class athletes to reach young people with the message of Christ and His salvation. The Olympics is just one of the venues we seek to reach people," said Parker.
Parker notes about 200 lay volunteers will travel to London to participate in the ministry's outreach events.
Two-time NCAA Champion from Texas Christian University (TCU), and member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Sarah Scherer says the support of the Christian community is vital to the success of the athletes, both during the Games and upon the completion of the Olympics.
"The whole Christian community coming together is a huge part of the Olympics," said Scherer. "It is amazing how God can work when we support one another."
Free Bibles and Other 'Supplies'
The Bible Society announced it would distribute thousands of Bibles among the athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Olympic Village Religious Services Centre will hand out 3,000 copies of commemorative English-language and non-English Scriptures.
Matthew van Duyvenbode, Head of Advocacy at Bible Society contends the initiative provides a unique opportunity to show that the Bible has a crucial place in every sphere of public life, including sports.
"When some of the athletes will be going through some of the most turbulent experiences of their lives we can demonstrate to them that the message of God's comfort, and reassurance are for them in the Scriptures," said Duyyenbode.
But apparently Bibles won't be the only item provided for free. Organizers at the London Olympics have ordered a record 150,000 condoms to include in the welcome kit athletes receive upon arrival at the Olympic village, after 100,000 didn't prove sufficient at the 2008 Beijing Games.
4 Winds president Steve McConkey said he isn't surprised with the condom use, as immoral sexual behavior has been rampant for years in the Olympic Village. He recalls how several centuries ago the Apostle Paul visited Athens and preached his well-known Mars Hill sermon (Acts 17). McConkey, who said the Olympics, originally was established around Paganism, challenges athletes to enter the Games with the same spirit as Paul.
"Athletes are a reflection of their culture," said McConkey. "There are undisciplined athletes, but then there is are Christian athletes that will be in London ready to witness about their love of the Lord. They will run a good race and raise the standard."
Russ Jones is a 25-year award-winning journalist and correspondent. He is co-publisher of various Christian news sites such as ChristianPress.com, OxfordFamily.com, and a media consultant to a number of political and cause-oriented campaigns. He is also a freelance correspondent for the American Family Radio Network, Crosswalk.com and various Christian TV networks. Jones holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia and St. Paul School of Theology. Russ is married to Jackie and together they have four children. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or Facebook.com/russjones.
Publication date: July 25, 2012


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The Baby Boomer generation has reached retirement age, and in turn, the retirement housing market is booming too. It's estimated that the third largest home-buying demographic in 2016 will be 65-74 year olds, after millennials and Generation X. With their children grown up and careers winding down, 2016′s fresh batch of retirees are likely to be planning some changes.
Property lotteries and high-end development
Homes in America's retirement communities – described by Forbes as 'luxury adult summer camps' – are experiencing one of the largest booms. Inventory is low in supply and high in demand, prompting the introduction of real estate lotteries. The names of interested parties are drawn at random by developers to ensure a fair chance at snapping up one of these sought-after homes. High-end property developers, catering to those with $1 million or more to spend, have increased the number of planned retirement communities across the States and further afield, such as the Bahamas and Mexico.
Tax breaks and Golden Visas
In Europe, Portugal is an attractive prospect for retirees thanks to a mild climate, low prices, and welcoming attitude towards expatriates. The country's recently reinstated Golden Visa scheme offers residency to any foreigner who invests more than €500,000 in property. Retirees registering as non-habitual residents are given 10 years of tax exemption on pensions and other passive income from their home countries. The Algarve region on the south coast often tops charts as a retirement destination. Prospective buyers have the choice of a range of great-value properties in the area's famous golf resorts, which offer plenty of entertainment during the cooler winter months.
Retiring to sunnier climes
Neighbouring Central and South American countries Panama and Ecuador have rubbed shoulders in competition for International Living's no.1 retirement destination for a number of years, with Panama stealing back the crown in 2016. The latter is renowned for world-class healthcare, made even more affordable in combination with a Pensionada visa. Ecuador, meanwhile, offers plenty of high-value property along with a less expensive lifestyle. A range of benefits is available for over 65s, with a discount on flights originating in the country (ideal for visiting family or taking the opportunity to travel). Older people can also make the most of half-price film, transport and sporting event tickets. Ecuador was voted the easiest place for expats to meet new people in the 2015 Expat Insider survey, ideal for building a new network of friends and contacts.
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Convoluted Distribution Laws Hurt Local Craft Brewers
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Should beer have to travel 100 miles before it can be sold at a store or restaurant... that's right across the street from the brewer?
This scenario is entirely plausible due to Prohibition-era laws in Michigan that created a "three-tier" distribution system overseen by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission. In the video see how these archaic and rigid laws are hurting beer entrepreneurs in the state's ever-growing and well-respected craft-beer industry.
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- christaNovember 5, 2012 at 2:38 PM
If You dont mind me asking, where did you get thet hat? I have been searching for a pilot style baby hat just like that little gray one!ReplyDelete
- christaNovember 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Nevermind, it seem i just needed to read further! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Cute little bundle. I guess a little someone is coming your way, that is wonderful. Congratulations!!ReplyDelete
This post makes me happy. Preparing for a baby seems to always be a fun and grateful experience.ReplyDelete
You have a beautiful family and I'm looking forward to meeting your new little one! Have you considered Hugh as a name? Well-known yet not currently popular...ReplyDelete
May I ask where you found the baby blanket? My friend is looking for outdoors-inspired fabrics for her first due in April.
Collecting little necessities is so fun when having a new little one. Burt's Bees is the bees knees.ReplyDelete
Ohhhhh! I can just smell that perfect "newborn-house" smell. . . Can't wait to experience it again and so excited for you to as well!ReplyDelete
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There's nothing quite like collecting when it's for a little bundle of joy ~ congrats!ReplyDelete
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I'm a catholic first of all. I have seen other religious programs on TV other than our faith you may have heard of them Daystar, Hal Linsey, Jack Van Impe, End time ministries they preach of the mark of the beast from time to time. They mention of Microchipping and some type of scanning device to identify you in order to buy or sell items. Just the other day I seen in New Jersy as well as Texas they are using some type of scanners for school students to get food in there schools ID em them. Some call it the mark of the beast in it's early stages before the antichrist takes his role. The point is or the question should be why hasn't our local church's preached on this subject and if this is the start of something worst to come what are we to do? Do we just pass it off as modern tech. or if we are to be informed by the truth we would know better.
|Answer by Fr. John Echert on 11/5/2012:
The Catholic Church never teaches beyond what has been revealed. Sacred Scripture
reveals that there will be a mark of the beast but it is not explicit as to what form this will
be, other than the number 666. It could be related to micro chip implants and other
modern means of identification but this is speculative. So the better course is to not
overstate the case, but to remain open to possibilities and be wary. Hopefully, when end
times are approaching, the signs will be unmistakable to the faithful and Church. Father Echert
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Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney announces the confirmed renovation of the hotel's largest event area, the Grand Ballroom, at the iconic Sydney property.
Renovations will begin in June 2013 and run throughout the winter, during the hotel's low season, with expected completion in October 2013. The physical location of the Grand Ballroom, on the lower floor of the hotel, means there will be minimal disruption to the hotel's operations. Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney has 17 other event spaces, including the iconic Altitude Restaurant on level 36 with capacity to cater for up to 120 people for a seated event.
"We are very excited about this renovation and the prospect of a completely new venue to offer our Sydney clientele and guests. We can expect to see a very chic event space with advanced technology, unique ceiling design and an increased capacity, which can be customised for various events," said General Manager Franz Donhauser. "We foresee great potential for large business and social events in Sydney, with many international conferences and global events coming to Sydney over the next few years. We look forward to launching Sydney's newest contemporary ballroom later this year."
The Grand Ballroom at Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney is an iconic destination for large events and conferences in Sydney. The grand opening of the new space will occur well before the closing of the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in December 2013, which will undergo its own refurbishment over the next three years.


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Altorestaurant.com is a website where food connoisseurs can find restaurant reviews and other related articles. Alto restaurant reviews are very thorough and objective, highlighting not only meals but also the service in a given establishment. In that sense, Alto Restaurant might be one of the most complete restaurant review websites available. In order to achieve this status, Alto Restaurant reviews are prepared by knowledgeable food critics, who have specialized in the field of haute cuisine. Food reviews are almost a science and restaurant critics are in fact journalists in their own right, so we do take this seriously.
One key to providing a truly objective food critique is anonymity. In other words, the critic should receive the same treatment and products as any other client of the restaurant, without the owners and chefs being aware of his presence. With that in mind, critics should make their reservations from a phone outside their working place, and made under somebody else's name, and the bill should be paid in cash or with a credit card belonging to someone other than the critic themselves. If the writer were to be recognized as such, they should note that in their review, since this may have an effect on the treatment they receive. On the other hand, when the time comes to sign the review, it would be preferably to use a real name instead of a pseudonym.
An effective review is seldom written without multiple visits to the restaurant. First, because it allows to get a better grasp of the place's true atmosphere. After all, conditions may vary from one day to the next. A weekday for instance, will not provide the same experience as a weekend. Second, several visits are a chance to cover a larger part of the menu and come up with a more comprehensive vision of that particular eating house.
Ideally, the words alone should be more than able to convey the gist of the review, however, many critics choose to support their opinion with a rating. The star rating system is very common, usually from one to four or five stars, though some go up to ten. A numerical scale is also popular, typically one to ten, but also going as far high as a hundred. While food criticism used to be common in newspapers and magazines, but it has lately spread to the internet, and altorestaurant.com is a fine example of that. Visitors are encouraged to browse through and find Alto Restaurant reviews and more. Just reading the content is a pleasure in and of itself, so just go ahead and imagine what it will feel like to hit that local restaurant and savor a few of those recommended specialties.


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get pregnant. Others worry about mental health problems they have
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after childbirth. Some women have mental health problems for the
first time in pregnancy. Unfortunately, pregnancy does not stop
people from having mental health problems. Women who stop
medication when they get pregnant have a high risk of getting
ill again (e.g. 7 out of every 10 women who stop antidepressants in early
pregnancy become unwell again).
Depression and anxiety are the most
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as you know you are pregnant. It is very important that you don't
stop your medication suddenly, unless your doctor tells you to.
Stopping treatment suddenly can cause people to relapse more
quickly. It can also cause side-effects. It may be best for you to
continue medication during pregnancy.
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for many years. A few medications are known to cause problems in
some babies if taken in pregnancy. In many cases, we simply do not
have enough information to be absolutely sure that a treatment is
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medication. In order to make this decision, you will need to think
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before your baby is born.
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you need.
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family members or friends.
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after birth. This plan will be written down and you should have a
Some people have more support than others.
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National Childbirth
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A website offering support and information on
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and postal), who have themselves experienced postnatal mental
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Four hundred years after Gutenberg's death, "metal type" was still being made the way he made it. Using files and gravers, a steel rod was cajoled into the shape of a backwards letter; this steel 'punch' was struck into a brass blank, called a 'matrix,' which would serve as a mold for the casting of individual pieces of lead type. (The term 'lead type' is a convenience: the material of printing type is more accurately called 'type metal,' as it contains a special typefounders' blend of lead, tin, and antimony.)
This elaborate pas de cinque requires five different materials, each chosen for a different metallurgical property. Steel's tensile strength helps it hold small details and resist the blow of the hammer; the malleability of brass makes it a good candidate for receiving the steel; lead, cheap and abundant, has a low melting point; tin is more fluid than lead when molten (yet more durable than lead when it hardens); and antimony is highly crystalline, giving printing types more crisply defined edges.
The few typefaces that have departed from this process have done so for very good reason. Common were large typefaces that would have been impractical to cut in steel (and impossible to strike into brass) which were instead made as wood forms, which were pressed into sand molds from which metal type was cast. But a lingering mystery are the Chalcographia in the collection of the Enschedé foundry in Haarlem, said to have been made with 'brass punches.' James Mosley corrects the record on his Typefoundry blog, explaining the types' unusual gestation through a convoluted five-part process. The photographs, like the types themselves, are marvelous. —JH


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I was fortunate enough to see Talladega Nights yesterday, and I'm damn sure not going to wait until the DVD comes out to see it again. It did not only tickle my funnybone, it made sweet love to it. I'm just itching to quote the movie here, but I think I should probably wait until the DVD comes out to do that. I don't want to spoil too much for you.
I'm not a movie reviewer, so the best I can probably do for you is to tell you that if you liked Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Wedding Crashers, Talladega Nights can walk proudly amongst any of them. And that's not something I'd say lightly.
Of course, not everyone feels that way. I was a little bit curious as to how NASCAR fans would receive the film. The people quoted here like it. This guy absolutely hated it. But then again, that guy thinks that John C. Reilly was in Anchorman, so, you might not want to take his word for it.
I didn't feel like the movie made fun of NASCAR much at all, which, to be quite honest with you, was a bit of a disappointment to me. Here's the review of the guy sitting in for Roger Ebert (I miss Roger Ebert), here's the Rotten Tomatoes link, and here's a review from a guy who doesn't like Will Ferrell or NASCAR, but loved the movie. And here's a post at Mister Irrelevant with a link to an interview with Sasha Cohen, where he describes some late night hijinx with Will Ferrell.
The Top Grossing Sports Movies Of All Time [Sportsocracy]
'We Had a Little Wrestle' [Mister Irrelevant]
Talladega Nights is dumb and dumber on the NASCAR circuit [Around Osceola]
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby [RogerEbert.com]
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby [Rotten Tomatoes]
'Talladega' an extremely funny movie [2theAdvocate]


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By: Vanessa Finney, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 22 Jun 2011
Recently I took a field trip to Ash Island in the Hunter estuary where the Scott sisters lived, painted and collected for more than 20 years from 1846.
As part of our preparation for the upcoming Scott sisters exhibition, Fran Dorey (exhibition coordinator) and I took a day trip to Ash Island, to scope scenes for our exhibition photographer and to meet the inspiring team from the Kooragang Wetlands Rehabilitation Project.
For almost 20 years, Peggy Svoboda and her team of Kooragang volunteers have been working to bring Ash Island back to something like the state it was in when the Scotts lived there from 1846 to 1864. Working from the botanical listing of over 200 species Helena Scott made in on the island in 1862-3, the team are hoping to bring back the ash to Ash island, and much, much more -- including some of the 20 species of orchid Helena catalouged on the island.
Peggy and her team have visited the Archives before, and now it was our turn to see their work. It is truly impressive and inspiring to see their dedication, enthusiasm and in-depth knowledge of Ash Island and its history.
And it was a real treat to see the location for the beautiful art we have in our Scott collection, to see the variety in the landscape, experience the importance of the river and to see the wonderfully peaceful site for their house at the head of the island, looking up the wide, shining river.
Here is a selection of photographs I took on the day -- more to come about this fantastic project and its links to our Scott collection once we have our exhibition website running in the next few weeks.
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Hi Ross, there won't be a printed catalogue for the exhibition, but we are publishing lots of new material -- new scans of our collections and new research findings -- to the new Scott sisters section on our website: http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/Beauty-from-Nature-art-of-the-Scott-Sisters/
What a fascinating story Vanessa. I'm really looking forward to that exhibition!


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Curated by Adam Doskey, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
This two-part exhibition of unique materials about Arctic exploration commemorates the centenary of the Crocker Land Expedition, an Arctic expedition co-sponsored by the University of Illinois, that included young University of Illinois graduates W. Elmer Ekblaw and Maurice Tanquary.
The exhibition features manuscript materials from Arctic explorers Sir William Parry, Sir John Franklin, and Sir John Richardson, and many association copies of works by important explorers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the Anglo-American contribution to Arctic exploration. The exhibit items belong to the Palmer-Parry Collection, the Sir John Richardson Collection, the Schwatka Arctic Library, and the Mercanton Polar Library. A companion exhibition in the Library's first floor North-South Hallway will include a pictorial timeline of Arctic exploration and highlight the connections between the European Arctic explorers that are also represented in these collections.
The opening reception on 25 January at 3 p.m. in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library will feature a lecture by Gillen Wood, Professor of English Literature at the University of Illinois. The lecture will detail the contributions made by Bernard O'Reilly and William Scoresby Jr. to the British search for the Northwest Passage in the early nineteenth century.
On 7 February at 3 p.m., the Rare Book & Manuscript Library will celebrate Charles Dickens's birthday with a staged reading of Wilkie Collins's play, The Frozen Deep. This play was based on Sir John Franklin's expedition to discover the Northwest Passage and was written by Collins in collaboration with Charles Dickens. Both authors acted in the original performances.
Exhibition curator Adam Doskey will give a guided tour of the exhibition at the February No. 44 Society meeting, 13 February at 3 p.m.
A closing lecture by Dr. Dag Avango of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) at Stockholm will be held on 8 April at 3 p.m., also in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Dr. Avango studies the history of technology in the polar regions and has written about industrial archaeology on Svalbard and South Georgia Island.
For more information, please visit www.library.illinois.edu/rbx.


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A gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school Friday in a shooting that left 27 people dead, including 18 children, an official said.
A gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school Friday in a shooting that left 27 people dead, including 18 children, an official said.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way.
The shooting appeared to be the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.
Parents flooded to Sandy Hook Elementary School, about 60 miles northeast of New York City, looking for their children in the wake of the shooting. Students were told to close their eyes by police as they were led from the building.
A photo taken by The Newtown Bee newspaper showed a group of young students — some crying, others looking visibly frightened — being escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders.
Students and staff were among the victims, state police Lt. Paul Vance said a brief news conference. He also said the gunman was dead inside the school, but he refused to say how people were killed.
Another official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way, said the gunman apparently had two guns.
A law enforcement official in Washington said the attacker was a 20-year-old man with ties to the school and that one of the guns was a .223-caliber rifle. The official also said that police were searching a location in New Jersey in connection with the shootings. That official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the source was not authorized to speak on the record about the developing criminal investigation.
Stephen Delgiadice said his 8-year-old daughter heard two big bangs and teachers told her to get in a corner. His daughter was fine.
"It's alarming, especially in Newtown, Connecticut, which we always thought was the safest place in America," he said.
A dispatcher at the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps said a teacher had been shot in the foot and taken to Danbury Hospital. Andrea Rynn, a spokeswoman at the hospital, said it had three patients from the school but she did not have information on the extent or nature of their injuries.
Mergim Bajraliu, 17, heard the gunshots echo from his home and raced to check on his 9-year-old sister at the school. He said his sister, who was fine, heard a scream come over the intercom at one point. He said teachers were shaking and crying as they came out of the building.
"Everyone was just traumatized," he said.
Richard Wilford's 7-year-old son, Richie, is in the second grade at the school. His son told him that he heard a noise that "sounded like what he described as cans falling."
The boy told him a teacher went out to check on the noise, came back in, locked the door and had the kids huddle up in the corner until police arrived.
"There's no words," Wilford said. "It's sheer terror, a sense of imminent danger, to get to your child and be there to protect him."
The White House said Barack Obama was notified of the shooting and his spokesman Jay Carney said the president had "enormous sympathy for families that are affected."


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August 17, 2006
The Honorable Lucille E. Davy
Acting Commissioner
New Jersey Department of Education
100 River View Plaza
P.O. Box 500
Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0500
Dear Commissioner Davy:
I am writing in response to New Jersey's request to amend its State accountability plan under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Following our discussions with your staff, the change that is aligned with NCLB is now included in an amended State accountability plan that New Jersey submitted to the Department on August 16, 2006. A summary of the approved amendment is attached to this letter. I am pleased to fully approve New Jersey's amended plan, which we will post on the Department's website.
As you know, if New Jersey makes changes to the accountability plan that has been approved, New Jersey must submit information about those changes to the Department for review and approval, as required by section 1111(f)(2) of Title I. Please know that approval of New Jersey's accountability plan is not an approval of New Jersey's standards and assessment system.
Please also be aware that approval of New Jersey's accountability plan for Title I, including the amendments approved above, does not indicate that the plan complies with Federal civil rights requirements, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and requirements under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
I am confident that New Jersey will continue to hold schools and school districts accountable for the achievement of all students. I wish you well in your school improvement efforts. If you need any additional assistance in implementing the standards, assessment and accountability provisions of NCLB, please do not hesitate to contact Abigail Potts (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Sue Rigney (email@example.com) of my staff.
Henry L. Johnson
cc: Governor Jon Corzine
Suzanne Osche
Amendment to New Jersey's Accountability Plan
This is a summary of the amendment. For complete details, please refer to the New Jersey accountability plan on the Department's website: www.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/stateplans03/index.html.
AYP Determinations (Element 3.2)
Revision: New Jersey will use a confidence interval of 95 percent around proficiency determinations and a confidence interval of 75 percent around safe harbor determinations. The confidence interval will replace New Jersey's 5 percent error rate applied to proficiency and safe harbor determinations.


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Is that it? A mini-deal or no deal at all?
How desperate is the market for a deal, any deal on the "fiscal cliff"? Futures rallied nearly 7 points when word leaked out (via The Wall Street Journal) that the White House was in discussions on a plan to replace the sweeping spending cuts required by sequestration with a smaller package of spending cuts that would cut spending by roughly $100 billion next year and then for an additional eight years. The actual sequestration would involve much bigger cuts. No cuts in Medicare or Medicaid. No overhaul of the tax code. At least not into mid-2013.
Why the rally on such a mushy deal? Remember, the White House's big worry is on spending cuts. If they can get some agreement, no matter how small, on spending cuts, it will be easier to make a deal on tax hikes for the wealthy.
Traders are in a very difficult position. Trading around the so-called fiscal cliff "is like asking what the weather will be like in March, 2103 ... we just don't know," one fed-up trader said to me. (Read More: Are Investors Actually Taking the 'Fiscal Cliff' Too Lightly?)
If there is no deal on the fiscal cliff, stocks will drop further. But the threat of a sudden deal, even a mushy deal like the one leaked this morning, may move stocks in the opposite direction.
So where to go? It's dangerous to go to cash, then have a weekend where the president announces a deal. It seems like you have to be reactive, not proactive: If market opens up 200 points on Monday, you might want to sell; if market opens down 200 points, you might want to buy; or buy some very complex options.
Long-term, the fundamental problem remains: You can't have austerity, tax increases, and economic growth at the same time.
"The markets need their 10 minutes of laughing gas before it folds," one trader said to me this morning.
In other words, the "Grand Bargain" is still a long way off. Any deal is better than no deal.
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Cavaliers fend off Tigers to win three-game series 2-1 on Sunday in Clemson.
In Clemson, the No. 12 Virginia Cavaliers scored five combined runs in the first two innings and withstood a Tiger rally in their 8-5 win over Clemson on Sunday afternoon. The Cavaliers, who won the series 2-1, improved to 17-2 overall and 4-2 in the ACC. The Tigers dropped to 11-7 overall and 3-3 in conference play.
Virginia scored two runs in the first inning and three runs in the second inning. After scoring another run in the fifth inning to take a 6-0 lead, the Tigers chipped away with two runs in the sixth inning, one run in the seventh, and two runs in the eighth. The Cavaliers added two insurance runs in the eighth inning and held on for the three-run victory.
Cavalier starter Nick Howard (3-1), who retired the first 11 batters of the game, earned the win after pitching six innings. He gave up seven hits, two runs and one walk.
Scott Firth (2-3), the first of five Clemson pitchers, suffered the loss. In five innings pitched, he allowed nine hits, six runs and two walks. Firth also whiffed five Virginia hitters.
Steve Wilkerson and Tyler Slaton each had three hits and drove in a run for the Tigers.
Jared King went 3-for-5 with three RBIs and three runs scored for the Cavaliers. Branden Cogswell and Nate Irving also added three hits for Virginia.
ETSU 10, USC Upstate 4: ETSU scored in each of the last five innings to win the final game of the series against the Spartans at Harley Park. USC Upstate (11-7, 1-2 A-Sun) dropped its opening conference series of the season.
For the second straight game, Upstate scored in the opening inning after Brandon Patterson's two-out double plated Tyler Lesch to give the Spartans a 1-0 lead.
The Bucs took advantage of a crucial Upstate error in the fifth inning and scored three unearned runs in the frame to take a 4-1 lead. ETSU continued to capitalize on Upstate's relief pitchers from there.
Chris Knauff (0-1) suffered the loss for the Spartans after allowed two unearned runs without recording an out.
Clinton Freeman (4-0) stayed unbeaten on the year after pitching seven innings. He allowed seven hits and four earned runs, while walking two and striking out five.
Lesch and Tyler Miller paced the Upstate offense as each recorded a pair of hits, while Patterson drove in two of the four runs for the Spartans.
The Citadel 18, Wofford 9: The Bulldogs scored 10 runs in the first inning to cruise past the Terriers at Russell C. King Field. Wofford pitchers yielded 11 walks in the loss.
The Terriers fell to 8-13 on the season and 1-5 in SoCon play. The Citadel is 14-7 overall and 4-2 in the conference.
Wofford was led by Matthew Pelt and Clark Wise with three hits each, while Luke Feisal had four RBIs. The Bulldogs had three hits each from Mason Davis and Bo Thompson, with Joe Jackson adding five RBIs.
Starter Luck Leftwich (1-2) was blasted for eight runs on three hits and five walks in 2/3 innings pitched for Wofford.


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1. Re: Comparison help. Xeon v Coreimarc007 Apr 27, 2012 8:52 AM (in response to marc007)
From what I can see over on this other thread, these processors seem to have very similar capabilities?
Can I apply this to the particular processors I'm talking about?
Core i7 = High-end Desktop Nehalem
Xeon 3500 = Adds optional ECC memory support [Targeted for workstations]
Xeon 5500 = Adds support for 2 CPUs [Targeted for dual CPU servers & workstations]
At the same MHz, all these CPUs will perform exactly the same.
2. Re: Comparison help. Xeon v CoreiJ.Urbs Apr 30, 2012 7:52 AM (in response to marc007)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Hi Marc,
I too, had this same question when I was asked to build new systems for our office. I choose the i7 chip over the Xeons and have been very satisfied with them. We run Autocad, Autodesk Inventor, Altium Designer, and few other high level programs without a hitch. I believe either processor would be fine for your application however I would tell you to atleast go with the i7. My main reasons choosing the i7 over the Xeon was price of the processor and price of the associated hardware. There is a larger market for the i7 processors therefore there are more motherboards and memory configuration options available. The more options there are in the marketplace the cheaper the price is. Now, on the other hand, if had had an unlimited budget I would have gone with a dual Xeon setup as two is always better than one . I would still recommend that you go with a high quality video card that has been tested and recommended by the software company for the program you are using. I'm not sure about Solidworks, but I know Autodesk has a "certified hardware" section on their website. I'd would steer you toward an Nvidia Quadro card personally. Hope this helps, good luck.
3. Re: Comparison help. Xeon v Coreimarc007 May 1, 2012 8:10 AM (in response to J.Urbs)
Hi J.Urbs
Thanks for your reply. In the end I plumbed for the Xeon just because the particular bundle from the wholesaler actually worked out cheaper than the i7 bundle. Hopefully it fits the bill anyway. thanks for your input.