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Lute Olson Preseason All-America Team
National Mid-Major Preseason Poll (Oct. 31, 2011)
ESPN.com story by Diamond Leung on Kevin Foster (Nov. 3, 2011)
Read Yahoo.com Jeff Eisenberg's preseason story on Kevin Foster
With the exhibition opener set for Fri., Nov. 4 vs. Ryerson, the Santa Clara's men's basketball team is receiving national attention this week as well. Earlier this week the Broncos were ranked No. 25 in the preseason National Mid-Major Preseason Poll. It is the first time in the 13 years of the national poll the Broncos have been ranked in the preseason after finishing the 2010-11 season ranked No. 22. Leading the nation in three-pointers and the West Coast Conference in scoring, Santa Clara junior Kevin Foster continues to collect preseason honors. On Wednesday he was named to the 2011-12 Lute Olson Preseason All-America team by CollegeInsider.com after being named to the preseason All-WCC team last week.
Santa Clara opens 2011-12 play on Fri., Nov. 4 with an exhibition vs. Ryerson. Ryerson College, located in Toronto, Canada, will play at Santa Clara Friday and then at Stanford on Saturday on its six-day road trip. Click here for more information on Ryerson. It will be Santa Clara's fifth-straight game vs. a collegiate team from Canada after playing four games in the Vancouver in early September as part of its foreign tour. Click here for a video review of the Vancouver trip.
To prove the strength and respect the WCC is receiving preseason, Gonzaga is No. 1, BYU No. 9 and Saint Mary's No. 11. The WCC being ranked as the seventh-best league in the country in the preseason and the No. 1 non-BCS conference.
In 2010-11 Foster averaged 20.2 ppg, 3.7 apg, 2.7 rpg in 32.1 mpg in 2010-11 and was named the WCC February and March Player of the Month after leading the league in points per game. He was No. 1 nationally in threes made per game, made and attempted and set WCC record for 3 made in a season with 140 - No. 9 all-time on NCAA single season list. In addition, he set single season school record for points (766, was No. 6 all-time in WCC and No. 1 in Bay Area), minutes played, threes made and attempted. He enters his junior year at No. 15 on career list with 1,371 and scored double-figures in 36 of 38 games last season. He was named to the WCC First Team and the CIT Most Valuable Player. Last season was a comeback year for Foster after he suffered a broken foot in 2010 and was redshirted in 2009-10 after being named the 2009 WCC Newcomer of the Year and a Freshman All-American in 2008-09.
Rather selecting a first, second, third team and honorable mentions; the Lute Olson All-America squad is just one team. The Lute Olson Award is presented annually to the nation's top Division I player who has played at least two seasons with his respective team. Freshmen and first-year transfers can be named to the All-America team, but are not eligible to receive the Player of the Year honors. The award is named in honor of coaching great Lute Olson, who won 780 games in 34 seasons, 24 of which were spent at the University of Arizona. During that stretch he led the Wildcats to 11 Pac-10 Conference titles, 23 consecutive NCAA Tournaments, four Final Four appearances and a National Championship in 1997.
The Broncos are coming off a 24-14 season after they won the CollegeInsider.com Post-Season Tournament with its final three victories coming on the road. Featuring up to 18 games vs. 2011 post-season teams and at least eight games on ESPN, click here for the 2011-12 schedule. The 2011-12 Santa Clara team welcomes six newcomers. In addition to Foster and Evan Roquemore, Santa Clara returns juniors Raymond Cowels III, who averaged 5.4 ppg in 15.3 minutes and Niyi Harrison, who averaged 5.4 ppg and 3.0 rpg in 14.4 ppg, as well as sophomore John McArthur, who appeared in 36 games in his rookie campaign. Senior Marc Trasolini, who led the team in rebounds and blocks last season and was second in point per game, will miss the 2011-12 with a torn ACL suffered in early September, but will return for his senior year in 2012-13.
Santa Clara will also host the 45th annual Cable Car Classic - the longest-running annual university tournament in the country on Thur., Dec. 29 and Fri, Dec. 30. This year's tournament will feature the Broncos, Eastern Michigan, Air Force and Wagner. Historically, 31 times in its 44 seasons a team from the Cable Car Classic has advanced to the NCAA Tournament later in the season.
Season tickets are available for purchase at the Leavey Center ticket office (500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, Calif.) by calling directly at 408-554-4660, or by purchasing online at SantaClaraBroncos.com/buytickets.
Because of their special status with Santa Clara Athletics, Bronco season ticket holders will have the opportunity to purchase single game tickets, including BYU, Gonzaga and St. Mary's before the official release of single game tickets. If you are interested in a private seating selection tour, please call 408-554-4660 to make a reservation today.


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Before you engage an investment professional or purchase securities, make sure you research and verify all information. There are several tools available.
I. Investment Advisers and Broker/Dealer
- Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) http://www.adviserinfo.sec.gov/IAPD/Content/IapdMain/iapd_SiteMap.aspx
Enables you to search for an individual investment adviser representative and also to find out about an investment adviser firm and whether it is properly registered, read its registration form, called "Form ADV." Form ADV has two parts.
- Part 1 contains information about the adviser's business and whether the adviser has had problems with regulators or clients.
- Part 2 referred to as the "brochure," which advisers must provide to prospective clients initially and to existing clients annually. The brochure describes, in a narrative format, the adviser's business practices, fees, conflicts of interest, and disciplinary information.
- BrokerCheck, http://www.finra.org/Investors/ToolsCalculators/BrokerCheck/
is a free tool to help investors research the professional backgrounds of current and former FINRA-registered brokerage firms and brokers, as well as investment adviser firms and representatives. It should be the first resource investors turn to when choosing whether to do business or continue to do business with a particular firm or individual. Through BrokerCheck, investors can
- Search for information about brokers and brokerage firms
- Search for information about investment adviser firms and representatives
- Obtain online background reports, if available.
- Professional Designations Database, http://apps.finra.org/DataDirectory/1/prodesignations.aspx Before you engage an investment professional, make sure you research—and understand—the professional designations they use.
- State Securities Regulators, http://www.nasaa.org/about-us/contact-us/contact-your-regulator/ You can obtain additional information on investment professionals from your state securities regulator.
- Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), http://www.sipc.com/list-of-members If you plan to do business with a brokerage firm, you should find out whether the brokerage firm and its clearing firm are members of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). SIPC provides limited customer protection if a brokerage firm becomes insolvent — although it does not insure against losses attributable to a decline in the market value of your securities. If you've placed your cash or securities in the hands of a non-SIPC member, you may not be eligible for SIPC coverage if the firm goes out of business.
II. Securities
- EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval) https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm The SEC's database provides free public access to corporate information. The system allows you to research a company's activities, registration statements, prospectuses, and periodic reports, which include financial statements
III. Commodities/Futures
- Background Affiliation Status Information Center (BASIC) http://www.nfa.futures.org/basicnet/ is a free tool from the National Futures Association (NFA). BASICX contains Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) registration and NFA membership information and futures-related regulatory and non-regulatory actions contributed by NFA, the CFTC and the U.S. futures exchanges. You can search by NFA ID number, firm name, individual name, or pool name.
- US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Disciplinary History, http://www.cftc.gov/ConsumerProtection/DisciplinaryHistory/index.htm CFTC disciplinary history is made available as part of the agency's ongoing effort to protect market participants and the public from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices. CFTC disciplinary history available includes Reparations Sanctions in Effect and Administrative Sanctions in Effect. You can search CFTC disciplinary history by respondent name, other names used by respondent, CFTC docket number, or National Futures Association ID.
- CFTC SmartCheck, Before you engage an investment professional or purchase commodities, make sure you research and verify all information: http://smartcheck.cftc.gov/.
IV. Municipal Bonds
- Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) http://emma.msrb.org/Search/Search.aspx is a free resource by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) that makes available copies of official statements, preliminary official statements and advance refunding documents submitted to the MSRB by broker-dealers and banks that underwrite new issues of municipal securities. In addition, EMMA makes available copies of continuing disclosure documents submitted to the MSRB by municipal issuers and other obligors on municipal securities.
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Exhibit May 8-22, 2014
Three members of the WomanCraft local artisan co-operative will celebrate spring with recent works. Native Carolina birds and flowers are the theme for May's exhibit. Douglas Odom creates fine coiled basketry of longleaf pine needles. Painter Brenda Baldwin Scott will exhibit new watercolors in extreme vertical and horizontal formats. Fine smocked and embroidered items by Lynn Lothman will continue the theme.
Please join us for the Second Friday ArtWalk reception on May 9th, 6-9pm, or see the exhibit anytime at WomanCraft, May 8-22.
WomanCraft is an all-local self-sustaining co-op of over 70 artisans. Fine jewelry, pottery, art, textile items, clothing, children's toys, and art glass are just a few of the handcrafted items offered. Please join us for our May ArtWalk Feature, and enjoy wine and light refreshments. Meet our members and support your local arts community. We have free parking behind the building.


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A customer service inspection is an examination of the private water distribution facility for the purpose of providing or denying water service. The inspection is limited to the identification and prevention of cross-connections, potential contaminant hazards, and illegal lead materials. Customer service inspections are completed before providing continuous water service to new construction, on any existing service where there is reason to believe that cross-connections or other potential contaminant hazards exist, or after any material improvement, correction, or addition to private water distribution facilities.
Customer Service Inspector Licensing Requirements
Education and Work Experience Requirements
- Education: High School diploma or General Equivalence Diploma
- Work Experience: two years of experience. Work experience must be in an approved areas which includes, but is not limited to:
- operation or maintenance of a public drinking water treatment or distribution system;
- performing activities requiring a master or journeyman plumbing license;
- conducting building or construction inspections; or
- performing duties related to this profession approved by the executive director.
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Applicants with a High School diploma or GED may substitute up to one year of experience with one year of college credit (32 semester hours) or 20 hours of approved training in addition to the required Customer Service Inspection training course.
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Application and Examination
Submit an application and fee ($111) to the TCEQ. Once your application is approved, sign up for an exam at your local TCEQ regional office or your local computer-based testing center.
Customer Service Inspector License Exemptions
Plumbing inspectors and water supply protection specialists licensed by the State Board of Plumbing Examiners are exempt from these requirements.
Continuing Education and Renewal Requirements
Continuing Education Requirements
Customer Service Inspector licenses require 16 hours of Continuing Education (CE) to be eligible for renewal. CE hours are given for successful completion of TCEQ approved training courses.
CE hours must be acquired prior to the expiration of the license and may be obtained any time during the validity of the license. Search the License Information webpage to view current CE hours earned.
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Occupational licenses are valid for three years then must be renewed with the TCEQ. Renewal applicants must have completed the required CE requirements, submit a renewal application and criminal history attestation, and pay the renewal fee. Detailed information can be found on the renewal webpage.


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Report: Sebelius violated Hatch Act
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits certain political activity, when she made "extemporaneous partisan remarks" during a speech in her official capacity earlier this year, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel said Wednesday.
The office sent an official report outlining the rare Hatch Act violation and Sebelius's response to President Barack Obama.
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The special counsel's office said it "found no evidence that Secretary Sebelius made any other political statements in her official capacity."
During a speech to the Human Rights Campaign Gala in North Carolina in February, Sebelius said North Carolina Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton "needs to be the next governor of North Carolina." She also outlined the Obama administration's accomplishments so far and said, "One of the imperatives is to make sure that we not only come together here in Charlotte to present the nomination to the president, but we make sure that in November he continues to be president for another four years."
The Office of Special Counsel said she made the political remarks in her capacity as a federal employee and thus violated the Hatch Act. If Sebelius had made those remarks in her personal capacity, they would have been acceptable.
After that appearance, Sebelius had the event reclassified from official to political, and done in her personal capacity, in an attempt to avoid a Hatch Act violation. She and HHS also reimbursed the Treasury Department for all the costs associated with the trip. At least some of the cost was picked by the Democratic National Committee, according to the OSC.
But the OSC said the reclassification doesn't mean the violation didn't occur, particularly because the gala was advertised using Sebelius's HHS title.
"OSC concluded that Secretary Sebelius violated the Hatch Act by making extemporaneous political remarks," OSC Special Counsel Carolyn N. Lerner wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama. "As the upcoming elections approach, this report offers an opportunity to remind federal employees of the complex Hatch Act restrictions."
Hatch Act violations against sitting Cabinet secretaries are relatively rare.
"This particular type of violation, where you have a Cabinet secretary speaking at an event, is pretty uncommon," said Scott Coffina, a former associate counsel in President George W. Bush's White House and a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath. He said there are "a lot of very garden-variety violations," citing federal employees who forward political emails or put up campaign photos.
Republicans immediately criticized Sebelius, and conservative groups called for her dismissal.
But Sebelius told the OSC that the endorsements of Obama and the government were unscripted and a "mistake." OSC quoted her as saying that she "got a little caught up in the notion that the gains which had been made would clearly not continue without the president's reelection."


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SCOTUS to appeals: Hear Liberty suit
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to examine the constitutionality of the health care reform law's employer requirements and mandatory coverage of contraceptives without a co-pay.
The move could open the door for President Barack Obama's health law to be back in front of the Supreme Court late next year. But legal experts say there's no guarantee that the justices would actually take the case — or that they'd strike down those pieces of the law if they did.
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( Also on POLITICO: Obamacare foes back to square one)
The Supreme Court responded to a request from Liberty University, one of the groups that sued over the health care law's individual mandate in 2010. When the court ruled in June that the mandate was constitutional, it dismissed Liberty's entire lawsuit.
Over the summer, the school asked the Supreme Court to reopen its arguments against the employer mandate and the contraceptive coverage mandate, which it said were not addressed by the court's ruling this summer. The court on Monday agreed to the request and told the 4th Circuit to hear arguments on the two pieces.
( Also on POLITICO: Time short for Obamacare cases)
The 4th Circuit, which traditionally moves quickly, could hear oral arguments in the case next spring.
"This is a huge decision by the court. It breathes new life into our challenge once again," Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, which represents Liberty University, told POLITICO.
Staver said that even if the 4th Circuit were to throw the case out, Liberty's ultimate goal is to take the case to the Supreme Court.
The 4th Circuit is just "a destination along the way back to the U.S. Supreme Court," he said. "Nobody thinks it's going to be the last decision on this case."
Liberty University argues that the law's employer coverage provisions — which will require businesses with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health insurance for them or face fines — are unconstitutional because Congress overstepped its power by setting those rules.
( See also: POLITICO's full coverage of health care reform)
It also says the individual and employer mandates violate the Constitution's right to a free exercise of religion. The employer mandate is unconstitutional because of the contraception coverage requirement, Liberty argues, claiming that the individual mandate would require individuals to pay for coverage of abortions.
The Justice Department declined to comment on the Supreme Court order Monday, but it told the court last month that it wouldn't object to the 4th Circuit taking up the case.
In that brief, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli wrote that Liberty University's arguments "lack merit" but that the Obama administration wouldn't oppose a hearing because the issues weren't fully aired the first time around.
Some legal experts are skeptical that Liberty would get anywhere with its arguments against the employer mandate if the case does get to the Supreme Court.
"I think it's going to be very, very difficult for the challengers to the employer mandate to navigate around a precedent that's already been established" in the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the individual mandate, said Catherine Stetson, a partner at the D.C. law firm Hogan Lovells.
The arguments against the contraception coverage mandate could be a different story, but only if this is the case that actually gets to the Supreme Court.


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Microsoft was issued a patent today on a computer system for "pedestrian route production" — better known as walking directions — that automatically adjusts the route for the unique conditions encountered by a person going from place to place on foot.
One of the features would help pedestrians avoid an "unsafe neighborhood," taking into account violent crime data.
According to the patent, the system could "construct a direction set that allows the user to take paths that take him to his home in a quickest amount of time while keeping the user relatively safe (e.g., taking the user through neighborhoods with violent crime statistics below a certain threshold)."
As part of that feature, the system could also take into account user tolerance for unsafe neighborhoods based on past behavior, such as whether the person has "historically cared about safe neighborhoods."
Other features could include the ability to avoiding open areas that can subject users to harsh temperatures.
Data feeding into the overall walking-directions system could also demographic information, although the patent doesn't say what type of demographic information would be used, or how.
Microsoft applied for the patent in December 2007. Google Maps released its walking directions feature in July 2008, and Microsoft Bing Maps added walking directions in March 2010.
For the record, I haven't been able to find any indication that Microsoft has implemented or plans to roll out the crime-avoidance feature.
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For the second time this season the East Central University men's basketball team has handed an undefeated team its first loss of the season, with a 80-67 win at Fugate Gymnasium over Newman.
"It was a great win," said head coach Mac McConnell. "Newman defeated the No. 2 team in the nation two days ago and for us to be able to hand them their first loss is a great building block. I am very happy that we were able to end the 2012 portion of the season on a winning note and we will come back next semester and continue to build on this win with the confidence that the team has gained."
The Tigers (4-6, 1-3 GAC) were led by junior Colby Carr, who tallied his second double-double of the season on career-highs of 15 points and 13 rebounds. Carr was one of four players in double figures for ECU, as freshman Marquis Walters earned a career-best 19 points, junior Chris Fisher added a career-high 17 and junior Jason Williams tallied 14.
The Jets (8-1) were the first to get on the scoreboard, but with free throws. ECU did not allow Newman to score a basket for almost the first five minutes of the game, while scoring 10 points of its own. Once the Jets got their first basket, the started an 8-0 run to even out the game and take a 12-10 lead. The teams traded points and runs over the next 10 minutes before the Tigers ended the half with a 7-0 run to take a 37-31 lead into the locker room.
ECU continued to push the tempo in the start of the second half, extending the run to 15-2 in order to take a 12-point advantage with 16 minutes left on the clock. The Jets cut the lead to five (50-45), with 11:28 left on the clock, on a 5-0 run. But that was as close as ECU allowed Newman to get the rest of the game. The Tigers quickly built their lead back to double digits in the next five minutes and held it for the rest of the game on way to an 80-67 win.
ECU used strong shooting and a rebound advantage to earn the win. The Tigers shot 53.1 percent (26-of-49) from the field and 60 percent (6-of-10) from beyond the arc, while the Jets were held to a 35.9 percent (23-of-64) and 11.1 percent (2-of-18). ECU also tallied 49 rebounds to 34 by Newman.
The Tigers will now have two weeks off before starting the bulk portion of the Great American Conference season, Jan. 3 at the Kerr Activities Center when they welcome Arkansas-Monticello for a 7:30 p.m. tip-off.


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I shall not try to hide the feeling of immense pride which overwhelms me as I present to the website of Maulana Azad institute of Dental Sciences, which highlights the accomplishments of the institute in the year gone by, and provides information with regard to day-to -day functioning of the institute.
As we move on, I cannot help but the reminded of the history of our dental institute. Post independence, the city of Delhi witnessed rapid growth in a short period of time. The fast expanding city was converted into a world class destination with the tireless efforts of millions of people who migrated to the city after independence, and it only seemed fitting, that the city took care of health need of its population. Considering the dental demands of the people of Delhi, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences (MAIDS) began, as a small department of dentistry under Maulana Azad Medical College and associated Lok Nayak Hospital in the 1960s. At the time, this dental department was served by a group of senior dental surgeons who worked on honorary basis. Some of those great names include Dr. PP Sawhney and Dr. PL Khurana, both honorary dental surgeons during the third quarter of the last century. This formed the foundation of organized dental care ultimately leading to start of formal dental education in the city.
The next major milestone was in the year 1983, when Dr. PP Thukral was formally appointed as the first Associate Professor and Head of Dental Wing. In the same year, the first batch of BDS students was admitted to MAMC. The year 1984 saw Dr. AN Srivastava being appointed as the Head of Dental Wing, followed by Dr. NC Sangal in 1991. As the Dental Wing was gaining more and more popularity in and around Delhi, especially as the closest dental institutions were present at faraway places like Amritsar and Lucknow, the OPD attendance, especially speciality dental care, started increasing rapidly.
And thus to keep up with the requirements, the Dental wing also underwent rapid changes under its able leadership. In 1995, I took over the reins from Dr. NC Sangal, and was fortunate enough to oversee, along with my team, the transformation of the Dental wing into a full-fledged Dental College. Initially named Maulana Azad of Dental College and Hospital, it was soon converted to an autonomous institute under the Delhi Government, and was rechristened Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences in 2006. The number of BDS seats was increased from 20 to 40, and MDS courses were introduced in the year 2007. The institute was declared a "CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE" by the Delhi Government for its tremendous contribution in providing high quality dental care to the masses.
Thus within a short period of time MAIDS, with the aid of its hard working staff and dynamism of its leaders has become the top rated Dental institution in the whole India. Situated in the heart of the capital city, institution enjoys the best of the only recognized government dental college in the national capital region of Delhi.
The recent past witnessed Delhi hosting the Common Wealth Games and the CWG village was showcased at the best. MAIDS made its contribution by setting up a full-fledged dental clinic at the games village. Players and officials of more than 75 participating countries were provided world class dental treatment at the clinic. A large number of participants at the games went back with fond memories of the clinic and the institute. Our services were recognized and flashed in the press and electronic media.
Already declared the best Government Dental College in India by the Outlook Magazine for the third consecutive year, the institute, with its glorious past and a promising future, is working tirelessly to reach greater heights in the service of mankind.
In September 2011, competing against some big names in the health-care industry, MAIDS was awarded the prestigious 'FICCI award for operational excellence' in healthcare.
MAIDS has now become the first dental college in the country to be accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Health Care Providers (NABH). This is recognition of the high standard of quality that is being followed in our institution.
Working with the philosophy that, the only way to reach your goals is to keep walking, I am pleased to inform you that the work of constructing Phase-II of MAIDS shall start shortly. The new building shall have 12 more floors dedicated to research and improvement in dental education. We also plan to implement by next year, our aim of taking dental care to the patient's doorsteps, by opening satellite centers in remote parts of Delhi. Needless to say, we as a team at the institute are working against time to make that happen.
I share the pleasure of my colleagues at the institute in knowing that their clinical expertise, research, and education is contributing immensely to improvement in patient care and I'm certain that the rich legacy that we have inherited from the early pioneers shall be taken forward into the future capable hands at MAIDS.
Jai Hind


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Oral Roberts remembered
Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. sends prayers and condolences on behalf of the Liberty University community to the family of Oral Roberts, one of the world's most recognized televangelists, who died Tuesday at age 91.
"Both my father [Dr. Jerry Falwell] and Oral Roberts were pioneers in the use of television to spread the gospel in the mid-1950s," he said. "While they were not members of the same denomination, my father admired Rev. Roberts for his willingness to use modern technology and unorthodox techniques in his ministry despite criticism from the religious establishment."
Falwell Jr. said he never met Roberts, but he recalls visiting Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., with his father in the 1960s.
"I remember my father admiring what were then considered state-of-the-art facilities for a Christian university," he said. "For some reason, I especially remember the dining hall. It was beautiful and, to me, it appeared to be enormous. I believe that visit to ORU helped inspire Dad to move forward with his vision to start a new university in Lynchburg a few years later in 1971."
Falwell said he is encouraged by other universities that have persevered in their mission to provide distinctly Christian education.
"I believe that both ORU and LU will continue the ministries of their respective founders for many generations to come, through the lives of thousands of Christian young people."


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The Religion of Upper Egypt Home The Religion Under the Persian Conquerors
The Religion of Lower Egypt
Fig. 76
After the fall of Thebes, after the conquest of Egypt by the Ethiopians, and after the disorders which followed thereupon, we find in about the year B.C. 700, a race of kings, who made Sais in the Delta their capital, sovereigns of all Egypt. After their rise, we note a considerable change in the Egyptian religion as it appears upon the more modern monuments. This may have arisen from any or all of three causes. First, during the late troublous centuries, while fewer monuments . were made, the religion of the nation may have been slowly undergoing a change, which now at length shows itself on the monuments. Or, secondly, as frailer records, such as wooden mummy cases and the papyri inclosed therein, have been saved to us in greater numbers, from these more modern times, while the older Theban records are mostly sculptures on the stone walls, it is very possible that a different class of sentiments may be thereby shown to us. Or, thirdly, the people of Lower Egypt, having always been somewhat of a different race from those of Upper Egypt, may have always had in many points a different religious opinion.
The western half of the Delta had received a considerable colony of Greek traders, and hence arose a mixed population, half Egyptian and half Greek; and in the eastern half of the Delta there was a yet larger number of Jewish and Phenician (sic) settlers, from the latter of whom sprung a population half Egyptian and half Phenician. Naucratis in the west was wholly a Greek city, and Sais, the western capital, was very much under Greek influence. On the other side, Isaiah tells us that there were as many as five cities on the Pelusiac, or eastern branch of the Nile, where Hebrew was the language spoken in the streets. Pelusium was wholly peopled by Phenician sailors, and so numerous were they in Memphis, that one part of the city was called the Tyrian quarter. Though the Greeks introduced many new arts into Egypt, they probably brought about no change in the religion; in religious matters they were always happy to learn from the Egyptians. Far otherwise was the case with the Phenicians; and many of the gods worshipped at Memphis were considered by Heroditus (sic) to be Phenician deities. Hence it is probable that the religion of Lower Egypt was largely covered with Phenician opinions. At any rate, from whichever of the above causes it arose, we now find more frequent and stronger proofs that the gods were worshipped in fear rather than in love; that the sacrifices were made less than they used to be in thankfulness for blessings received, and more often than formerly, as an atonement to turn aside punishment that is dreaded. Pthah, the great god of Memphis, is now an ugly dwarf, with an enlarged head (see Fig. 77), and he sometimes holds a club over his head, as if in the act of threatening his worshippers with vengeance (see Fig. 78). He is the father of a brood of children as ugly and malicious as himself. These are the Cabeiri, whose office it was to torture the wicked who may be found guilt by Osiris at the great trial on the day of judgment. Their name is derived from the Egyptian word KBA, punishment, and IRI, to do, Osiris, the judge, from OSH, a decree, and IRI, to do. As we have before mentioned, Typhon, the hippopotamus, the accuser in the trial-scene, page 51, was one of them. For the purpose of torturing their victims, they are armed with swords, snakes, and lizards, as in Fig. 79, where they accompany their father Pthah, with his enlarged head.
Fig. 77. Fig. 78.
One of them is represented in the form of a gibbet, armed with a sword, with a human head hanging from it. Near them is the bottomless pit and lake of fire, into which their victims are to he thrown; it is guarded by an ape sitting at each corner. The pit and these gods seem to be both mentioned in Job xxxiii. 22.
Yea, his soul draweth nigh unto the pit,
And his life to those that cause death.
The painted papyri, which have been found in the mummy-cases, show us these disagreeable imps and their victims in endless variety; but at the same time they always tell us, that the fortunate man, who had been rich enough to have his body embalmed in a costly manner, and the ceremonies on his funeral drawn and painted on the papyrus, has escaped their clutches. On the beautiful papyrus at Leyden, published by Dr. Leemans, we see that the deceased, or else the gods who befriend him, have succeeded in overcoming the eleven Cabeiri, and imprisoning them in as many cells. In the yet larger papyrus at Turin, published by Dr. Lepsius, these cells, or prisons, are shewn to be caverns, some underground, with trees on the top of them, and some under the valley of the river, with the Nile-gods seated on the top. In this papyrus, the Cabeiri are twenty-one or twenty-two in number, and Kneph, with the ram's head, would seem to be the god who helped the deceased to imprison them. On the monuments of the city of Sais the kings are not, like those of Thebes, presenting their offerings to Ammon Ra, but to these threatening Cabeiri. Fig. 80 represents Pharaoh Hophra on his knees, presenting two cones of baked clay, typical of his gifts, to one of these monsters, with a double bull's head, as an atoning sacrifice on behalf of the nation, to turn aside the threatened punishment. This fear of future punishment sometimes made the priests set the hated Typhon, the hippopotamus, who was one of the Cabeiri, at the head of a funereal tablet, as a divinity who was to be appeased with gifts. Herodotus tells us that these Cabeiri were more particularly the gods of the Phenician settlements in the Delta; but from the papyri we learn that their worship was common to all the natives of Lower Egypt. The Cynocephalus, or dog-faced monkey, plays an important part in the world below, and among the spirits of the dead. Four of these usually guard the bottomless pit of hell fire, sitting one at each corner of it, as in Fig. 79. On the papyri they join the souls of the departed in worshipping the sun, when on its journey under ground, after sinking into the arms of the ocean; and when they accompany the boa' of Ra, as on the tablet (Egypt Inscript., pl. 46), we must suppose that the god is then on its midnight passage through the valley of the shadow of death.
Fig. 80.
Another Phenician deity is the foreign Venus, chiefly worshipped at Memphis, who, unlike the Egyptian goddesses, is wholly unclothed. She is Athor under a new form, having her long hair falling in two locks on her shoulders, and having a basket on her head (see Fig. 81). She shows us a front view, and stands upon a lion that walks side-ways. She stands between two gods, each on the top of a small temple with a door. One is the Egyptian Chem, who, with his right arm raised, holds the whip. The other is a foreign god, with an Asiatic beard: he holds a spear in his right hand, and the character for life in his left hand. In place of the sacred Asp, the usual ornament of a god's forehead, he has a dog's or stag's head with two long ears, like that on the top of an Anubis-staff. The name of the goddess is Koun, the queen of Heaven; the name of the foreign god is Ranpo, Lord of Heaven, and king of the other gods. To Chem, the goddess presents a bunch of flowers, emblems of life, and to the foreign god two serpents, emblems of death, thus declaring the Gnostic and Manichean doctrine of Antitheses or oppositions between life and death, or good and evil, a doctrine of which we see many more traces in Lower Egypt than in the Thebaid. The goddess Koun, or Chiun, is mentioned by the prophet Amos, in chap. v. 26, where the Greek translators in the Septuagint version have changed her name into Raephan, which in Acts vii. 43 is spelled Remphan; and thus by a strange change we have these two Phenician deities. both mentioned in the same sentence. This god Ranpo is sculptured on other Egyptian monuments, with spear and shield in one hand, and a battle-axe in the other, with which he is prepared to strike down his terrified worshippers.
Fig. 81.
The cherubs that guarded the entrance of the garden of Eden, with flaming swords which turned on every side (Genesis iii. 24.), were perhaps copied from these Cabeiri; but we must not class with these enemies of man the cherubs which ornamented the Holy of Holies in Solomon's temple (2 Chron. v. 8).
The goddess Anaita, who is mentioned by Strabo as a Persian goddess, was another divinity, whom the people of Memphis supplicated to withhold her punishments. She wears the crown of Osiris, and at the bottom of the tablet, Fig. 81, p. 64, she is threatening to destroy with her battleaxe the worshippers who have covered her altar with their various offerings. But the human mind, when it has created for itself so much to be feared, by a natural effort creates for itself also a protector. At Sais, this protector was the goddess Neith, to whom the worshipper turned in love and hope, when he had frightened himself with the belief that even the hated Typhon might take the place of his judge, and that Anaita and Ranpo were waiting to attack him, and the Cabeiri to torture him and thrust him into the pit of fire. Every king of Sais professed that he was beloved by Neith, as the kings of Thebes said they were beloved by Amun-Ra. The people of Lower Egypt lived under the shadow of her wings (see Fig. 76, page 59), as the people of Upper Egypt lived under the winged sun (see Fig. 1, page 1).
Thus we see that in Lower Egypt the priests taught far less worthy views of their gods than had been formerly held in Upper Egypt; and it is of the first importance to remark that the worse religion belonged to the less civilised people. Love for the gods had been held by the freer and nobler race of Thebans, while fear alone was felt by the more slavish race in the Delta. The greater ignorance which led them to see no cause for gratitude towards those beings which they fancied were the rulers of the world, and authors of their lives, may be traced even in the lessened excellence of the sculpture.
It is to the later times of Egyptian history--perhaps to the five centuries immediately before the Christian era--that the religious opinions contained in the funereal papyri chiefly belong. The roll of papyrus buried with the mummy often describes the funeral, and then goes on to, the return of the soul to the body, the resurrection, the various trials and difficulties which the deceased will meet and overcome in the next world, and the Garden of Paradise in which he awaits the day, of judgment, the trial on that day; and it then shows the punishment which would have awaited him if he had been found guilty. The papyrus is five, ten, twenty, or even sixty feet in length. It is divided into chapters of hieratic writing, each headed with a picture. First, we see the grief for his death. The men hold up their hands in prayer, the women throw dust upon their heads, and all beat their breasts. The mummy is placed in a boat and ferried across the sacred lake. The goddesses Isis and Nephthys, in the boat with it, hang over it in grief. The procession moves forward to the temple, in front of which stand two obelisks. The priests carry a variety of standards, each an image of a god on a pole, and lead with them an animal for the sacrifice. In front of the temple a bountiful offering is made of food, birds, beasts, fishes, fruits, bread, and wine.. There the mummy is received with the honours due to such costly gifts, and is placed in its tomb, by the side of which stands the tombstone. Then begin the events of the next life, in a series of four pictures. In the first, the deceased, in the boat of Ra, on his knees before the threefold Horus, presents his offerings to these gods. In the second, he joins his wife in worshipping the sun, which is shown to be in its place in the heavens by the rays of light which it sheds upon the worshippers. In the third, the sun sheds no rays; it is beneath the earth in its passage from the place of setting to the place of its rising. It is upheld by a figure of the ocean, and is worshipped by, the souls of the deceased and his wife in the form of birds, and by four apes, the usual inhabitants of hell. In the fourth picture a priest presents to him and his wife fire and water, as divine honours. Before his journey forward headdresses his prayers to the various gods, and then enters upon his labours. He attacks with spear in hand the crocodiles, lizards, scorpions, and snakes which beset his path, and passing through these dark regions he at length reaches the land of Amenti, whose goddess is a hawk standing upon a perch. Here the sun's rays cheer his steps, and he meets among other wonders the head of Horus rising out of a Lotus flower, the god Pthah, the phoenix, his own soul in the form of a bird with human head, and the goddess Isis as a serpent of goodness. The soul then returns to the mummy, and puts life into its mouth. He then enters upon his farm, floating upon one of the canals in a boat, and passing by the landmark at its boundary. In this farm he ploughs, he sows the seed, he reaps the corn, and presents his offerings to the god of the Nile who fills the canals with water. Then follow his prayers to numerous gods and temples. At length arrives the day of judgment, and he is brought before the god Osiris and his forty-two assessors, to have his conduct weighed in the great scales, as described in page 51. After the trial we are shown the lake of fire into which the wicked are to be thrown (see page 72), and the gods of punishment, the Cabeiri, with swords in their hands (see Fig. 79). These, however, do him no injury, they are in his case overcome, and each safely imprisoned in a cell under ground, or under the river Nile.
Sometimes the tree of life, with the goddess Neith in its branches, is one of the trees in the paradise which the deceased enters. Sometimes he only reaches this happy land after his trial and acquittal, instead of being allowed to wait there until the day of judgment. Sometimes we see more of the punishment of the wicked, their heads are hanging from posts, their bodies imprisoned in caves, or they are awaiting their punishment with their arms tied behind them. Some papyri explain the transmigration of souls, as before mentioned, and show us the good man within the body of a ram, and the wicked man driven away in the form of a pig. (See Papyri in the British Museum.)
The favourable verdicts of the assessors explain to us that in the Egyptian religion, Osiris, like an earthly judge, (does not require any virtuous acts of the deceased, but only inquires whether he has broken any of the forty-two commandments, and committed any of the forty-two sins therein forbidden. A man was thought virtuous and good if he had avoided forbidden sin. The code of morals had not yet risen so high as to require active goodness of any man.
The religious earnestness of the Egyptians was unfortunately accompanied with the same fault that it carries with it in modern times--namely, religious intolerance, from which Greeks and Romans were far more free. The people of Marea and Apis, on the banks of the Lake Mareotis, who were Libyians, and did not hold the religious opinions of the Egyptians, saw nothing wicked in eating beef, and did not like to be forbidden to kill a cow in their own cities. They pleaded that they were not Egyptians. But they could obtain no religious toleration from their rulers; they might kill and eat buffaloes, whether male or female, but they were not allowed to keep cows for their own eating, because in drinking out of their lake they drank the sacred waters of the Nile. In some cases the Egyptians seem to have wished even to force their religion upon unwilling neighbours. When king Shishank had defeated Rehoboam, King of Judah, and made Jeroboam king of the northern tribes of Israel, it would seem that the golden calves set up by both sovereigns were acts of homage to the Egyptian conqueror. The spread of the emblems of Egyptian religion in Etruria, and in the islands of Cyprus, Malta, and Sardinia, must be owing to the peaceable intercourse by trade, through the vessels of the Phenicians, rather than to any act of violence; and, indeed, it was again and again remarked by the Greeks, that such was the serious nature of the Egyptian superstitions, that they conquered and put down every other superstition that they came near.
The Egyptian's opinion of the creation was the growth of his own river's bank. The thoughtful man, who saw the Nile every year lay a body of solid manure upon his field, was able to measure against the walls of the old temples that the ground was slowly but certainly rising. An increase of the earth was being brought about by the river. Hence he readily believed that the world itself had of old been formed "out of water, and by means of water," as described in 2 Peter iii. 5. The philosophers were nearly of the same opinion. They held that matter was itself eternal, like the other gods, and that our world, in the beginning, before it took any shape upon itself, was like thin mud, or a mass of water containing all things that were afterwards to be brought forth out of it. When the water had by its divine will separated itself from the earth, then the great Ra, the sun, sent down his quickening heat, and plants and animals came forth out of the wet land, as the insects are spawned out of the fields, before the eyes of the husbandman, every autumn after the Nile's overflow has retreated. The crafty priests of the Nile, who had lived in confinement as Monks, declared that they had themselves visited and dwelt in the caverns beneath the river, where these treasures, while yet unshaped, were kept in store and waiting to come into being. And on the days sacred to the Nile, boys, the children of priestly families, were every year dedicated to the blue river-god that they might spend their youth in monastic retirement, and as it was said, in these caverns beneath his waves.
Fig. 82.
That some of these were very early Egyptian opinions we learn from our finding traces of them in the oldest of the Hebrew Scriptures, though the writers there are not so far warped by them as to rob the Creator of the praise for his own works. The author of the book of Genesis tells us that the Almighty formed our earth and its inhabitants by dividing the land from the water, and then commanding them both to bring forth living creatures; and again one of the Psalmists says that his substance, while yet imperfect, was by the Creator curiously wrought in the lowest depths of the earth. The Hebrew writer, however, is never misled, so far as to think that any part of the creation was its own creator. But in the Egyptian philosophy sunshine and the river Nile are themselves the divine agents; and hence fire and water received divine honours, as the two purest of the elements, and every day when the temple of Serapis in Alexandria was opened, the singer standing on the steps of the portico sprinkled water over the marble floor while he held forth fire to the people (see Fig. 82), and though he and most of his hearers were Greeks, he called upon the god in the Egyptian language. A vase of water, or sometimes of wine, and metal cup containing a small charcoal fire, Were often presented to the altar, as figurative of divine honours (see Fig. 60).
The waters were also thought to be peopled by some kind of ghosts or spiritual beings, and we see them represented among the sculptures on the sarcophagus of Oimenepthah I. (see Fig. 82a). They are in the form of men, but whether they were thought at any time to come out of the water and walk the earth does not appear. That they were natives of the water, and not new comers, we learn from the Book of job, which is full of Egyptian opinions. We there read in the Hebrew, ch. xxvi. 5, that these "Ghosts are born beneath the waters, and are the inhabitants thereof."
Fig. 82a.
The sarcophagus of Oimenepthah represents the earth as a round plain, encircled by the body of Osiris, and floating in the ocean, while the goddess Neith, the heavens, stands upon the head of Osiris to increase the height, and thus holds up the sun.
At the same time a large figure of the ocean rises out of the water, and holds up with his two hands the boat of Ra, in which the sun is carried. This opinion about the form of the earth was also held by the Hebrew writers, and in Proverbs viii. 27, we read in the Hebrew that wisdom was present "when God fixed the arch upon the face of the deep"; and through those waters under the earth the Egyptians, like most other ancient people, believed that the sun passed during the hours of night.
Among the Egyptian festivals was one called the Feast of Lamps, when upon a night in winter the houses and temples were lighted up with numerous lights. This was more particularly celebrated at Sais, in honour of the goddess Neith; but those who could not come up to that city to keep the festival burnt their own lamps at home (Herodotus ii. 62). The Jews seem to have borrowed this festival. It was the first that Judas Maccabus had an opportunity of celebrating in the Temple after he had gained possession of Jerusalem. It was the festival with which he recommenced the Temple service in the year B.C. 164., after it had been interrupted; and hence the Feast of Candles was more often called the Feast of Dedication (Josephus, Antiq. xii. 7). The Christians would seem to have taken the custom from the Egyptians as much as from the Jews, as the purpose of our Candlemas day, which is to commemorate the purification of the Virgin Mary, more resembles the worship of the goddess Neith than the purification of the Temple by Judas Maccabus.
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TACOMA, Wash. – The Puget Sound baseball team finished off a series sweep of their crosstown rivals from Pacific Lutheran with a 6-3 win on Sunday. The win gave the Loggers their first Northwest Conference series sweep of the Lutes (13-9, 6-6 NWC) since 2006.
The Loggers came out swinging in the series finale with all six of their runs coming before the fifth inning. JB Eary knocked in the game's first run with a single into center. PLU's center fielder misplayed the hit and a second run came in to score for a quick 2-0 Logger lead.
After Eary advanced to third on a passed ball, the Loggers called for a squeeze play. Despite the pitch coming in way above the strike zone, Stephen Kelsey was able to lay down the bunt to score Eary and give the Loggers a three-run lead.
A Lute overthrow in the third allowed Christian Carter to score with two outs for a 4-0 lead, and Kaulana Smith and Bobby Hosmer each knocked in a run in the fourth with a pair of singles.
The Loggers were up 6-0 before the Lutes were able to get going. After four innings, the Lutes had yet to record a hit off Logger starter Nate Aguiar. However, their bats came to life in the fifth.
A Markus McClurkin double started the rally and a string of three one-out hits. Garrett Brown brought in McClurkin with a single up the middle to get the Lutes on the board. With two outs, Alec Beal dropped a single into center as Daniel Altchech scored from third and Brown slid in just ahead of the tag at the plate to cut the lead down to 6-3. Hosmer caught Beal stealing to end the inning.
The Logger bats went quiet later in the game as Nathan Shoup and AJ Konopaski combined to toss the last 4.1 innings for the Lutes, allowing just two Logger hits.
Meanwhile, the Lutes posed a big threat in both the sixth and seventh. With Steve Wagar on the mound in the sixth, the Lutes loaded the bases with no outs. A quick grounder to third cut the lead runner down at the plate for the first out. Wagar then struck the next two Lutes out looking to end the threat and get back in the dugout unscathed.
It was a similar story in the seventh as the first two batters reached base for the Lutes. Lucas Stone came on pitch and quickly struck out the first batter he faced. McClurkin then hit a grounder that appeared to be heading into left field before a diving Smith grabbed it and threw the runner out at second for the second out. A comebacker to the mound ended the threat and Stone shut down the Lutes 1-2-3 in the ninth to complete the sweep and earn his third save.
The Loggers look to keep their momentum next Friday and Saturday when they head south to face No. 6 Linfield for a three-game series.


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BRIDGEPORT -- A summer study program in China for a former student of The Hotchkiss School, an exclusive prep school in Litchfield County, changed a young woman's life forever, but for the worst.
Never again will Cara Munn, now 20, speak another word or be able to process information as quickly as she did before contracting encephalitis after a June 24, 2007, tick bite on a school hiking trip near Mount Panshan.
"She is a very highly intelligent woman," said her attorney, Antonio Ponvert of Bridgeport's Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder law firm. "She's not able to speak an intelligible word. She will never be able to speak again."
At 1:30 p.m. Wednesday -- after about eight hours of deliberations -- the jury of six women and two men awarded Munn and her parents $41.7 million in damages against the exclusive 122-year old Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, where annual tuition ranges from $39,750 to $46,775, according to the Hotchkiss website.
The award included $31 million for emotional and psychological suffering, $7.2 million for future medical care and rehabilitative treatment, $2.5 million for lost earnings and $450,000 for past medical expenses.
Ponvert said he, Munn and her parents "were very, very appreciative" of the jury's attention during the eight-day trial before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill. Ponvert added that his client communicates by typing about 10 words a minute.
"She has managed to do her best under very extraordinary circumstances," said Ponvert, who tried the case with help from Linda Grossberg, a legal assistant.
In his lawsuit, Ponvert charged Hotchkiss with negligence by failing to warn students and parents they could be subjected to insect-transmitted diseases in China, failing to ensure students took insect bite precautions before and during the trip, failing to include medical personnel on the trip, and failing to make advance arrangements to return any injured or ill students to the United States.
Lawyers for the school argued in court papers that such illnesses are so rare that they could not have foreseen a risk or be expected to issue advance warnings.
Munn, just 15 at the time, arrived with classmates in China on June 11, 2007. Ponvert said she was bitten on the hiking trip and began experiencing "a shattering headache ... high fever" and later, mental confusion and seizures.
The girl's parents arranged for the medical evacuation of their daughter.
Once back home, Munn spent two weeks at New York Presbyterian Hospital and another six weeks at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York.
Munn was taken to a rural medical clinic that initially diagnosed her problems as cardiac-related, according to Ponvert. She was then transferred to the Beijing United Medical Center, where she spent several weeks.
"The medical records in this case were a foot tall," Ponvert said.
Hotchkiss School spokeswoman Roberta Jenckes issued a written statement Wednesday on behalf of the school.
"We care deeply about all our students. We make every effort to protect them, whether they are here or participating in a school-sponsored activity off-campus," she wrote. "We put great care and thought into planning and administering off-campus programs, and we extend the same care to students on these trips as to students on campus.
"Historically, our students have undertaken study, service projects, and travel in the United States and throughout the world and have derived great benefit from these opportunities," Jenckes added. "We remain very saddened by this student's illness. We continue to hope for improvements to her health. While we will not comment on specific elements of the case, we plan to appeal this verdict."
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Permits, Not Starts, Tell Story of Housing
Construction of new homes fell in April amid a big drop in the volatile apartment sector. But building permits hit their highest levels in nearly five years, a sign that the housing rebound—while choppy—still appears to be on course.
Housing starts fell 16.5% in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 853,000 units, the lowest level since last November but still up 36% from the level of a year earlier.


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LG Optimus 3D, is the first 3D capable phone. It has a 4.3" LCD capacitive touchscreen with 480x800 pixels of resolution, with a glasses-free 3D parallax barrier screen technology. The two 5MP cameras on the back of the phone record stereoscopic 3D video at HD resolution, which will probably need some getting used to if you are hoping to get the most out of it, but LG announced partnership with the YouTube 3D channel, which places a dedicated app on the LG Optimus 3D to upload and share the 3D content you have captured with the phone easily. The chipset that makes the stereoscopic imaging possible is the dual-core 1GHz OMAP4 from Texas Instruments.


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Staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to recommend civil fraud charges against Angelo Mozilo, co-founder of Countrywide Financial, a newspaper report said Wednesday.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the SEC sent an initial notice to Mozilo several weeks ago warning him of the charges. The charges include alleged violations of insider-trading laws and failing to disclose material information to shareholders.
A civil lawsuit against Mozilo could be announced in the next few weeks.
Countrywide, once the nation's biggest home-mortgage lender, was acquired by Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) in 2008 amid the housing downturn.
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Apple Blocking Google Voice App
Google Voice is hardly taking over the world of personal phone calls, but that hasn't stopped Apple from trying to curtail the service.
TechCrunch reported yesterday that popular third-party apps for the iPhone that do this have been removed from the iPhone App Store, including GV Mobile and VoiceCentral.
The reason given to the developer of GV Mobile was that the app duplicates iPhone features, such as making phone calls and sending SMS messages. Using GV Mobile, calls and texts go through Google Voice rather than AT&T's network, which leads anyone with a brain to suspect that the exclusive iPhone provider requested the apps' removal.
Obviously, Apple didn't care for a long time that these apps duplicated the phone's features. After all, you can still get the Skype app to make and receive VoIP calls, and apps like TextFree and iText let you send and receive unlimited SMS texts without using AT&T's over-priced service ($10 a month for 200 messages in and out).
In fact, it's a silly move if it is AT&T's call (so to speak), since calls placed to a Google Voice number must forward to a real phone--like the iPhone.
A Google spokesperson told ZDNet that its own native Google Voice app for iPhone was submitted six weeks ago and has been denied. However, users of Blackberry- and Android-based phones can still get and official Google Voice app to make sure calls are placed using their Google Voice number. In fact, on the Android phones, with the OS developed by Google, the app can completely replace the regular dialer.
Of course, AT&T has reason to worry about losing some cash. It's had some great times being the exclusive iPhone provider. It added 1.1 million customers in the second quarter of this year. However, the company CEO said last week that exclusivity was not forever.
Luckily, it doesn't appear that current users of the third party apps will have them removed retroactively (ala Amazon and the George Orwell books). I ran an update with the App Store this morning and my copy of the free GV Voice app is still installed and running on my iPhone.
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Saving money for college (yours or your children's) is a good thing, even when financial times are tough. Uncle Sam backs up that college-investment philosophy with a variety of savings programs that contain built-in tax incentives. Consider the following:
Section 529 plans: Qualified tuition programs covered under Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code allow you to save money or purchase tuition credits for future college expenses for a specific beneficiary. Your money goes into an account that's administered either by the state or by a specific college or university. To make a Section 529 plan work, you have to understand its requirements and follow them, for example:
You're not allowed any federal income tax deduction for the amount of your Section 529 plan contribution.
Depending on which state you live in (and if you use its plan), you may get a current state income tax deduction for part or all of your contribution each year.
Interest that you earn on the money in a Section 529 plan isn't taxed until distributions are made to your designated beneficiary. And if you use these distributions to pay the qualified education expenses of a student at an eligible educational institution, accrued earnings generally aren't taxed at all.
To get these tax benefits, the money must be used for qualified expenses (tuition, room and board, books, and so on) at qualified institutions.
Coverdell accounts: Coverdell education savings accounts (ESAs) also enable you to save now for future educational expenses — whether primary, secondary, or postsecondary — of a designated beneficiary. You can invest money in Coverdell accounts in a variety of ways (stocks, bonds, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and so on). You pay no income tax on the income when it's earned, and as distributions are made from these accounts to your designated beneficiary for qualified educational expenses, the income portion of the distribution isn't taxed.
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An autistic boy's beloved Labrador retriever that went missing last week has been returned to his family by a woman who says she found it wandering and took it home.
The boy's mother, Emily Fontana, said the family was "beyond thrilled and grateful" that Echo the dog was back home. Echo has been a best friend to 5-year-old Mark Fontana, who cannot communicate with words.
Watch the full video of Mark and Echo's heartwarming reunion
The family had waited a year to get the dog from a nonprofit, and she arrived on Mark's birthday.
"There's something about Echo that has brought a calm and peace to Mark, and by extension, our whole family," his mother said.
But the pup went missing on Nov. 6, last seen about a block from the Fontanas' home in Rye, N.Y.
After more than a week and a half of searching for Echo, the family got a phone call Friday.
"They said 'I think I might have your missing dog,' and my heart stopped," said Emily Fontana.
The woman who returned the dog told the family she saw news stories about the missing pup and brought her back.
"A good Samaritan found her and gave the dog to her sister in the Bronx, and the sister had Echo safe and sound," said Fontana. "She was on a couch, she was warm, she was fed, and we're so grateful for that."
Emily Fontana walked to school with Echo Friday afternoon to surprise Mark, and NBC 4 New York captured the happy reunion. Echo licked the boy's face as he laughed and smiled, emotions his mother hasn't seen since the dog disappeared.
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Los Angeles Rams? Roger Goodell addresses Stan Kroenke's Inglewood land buy
St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke has purchased a 60-acre plot of land in suburban Inglewood, Calif., land which could be used for an NFL stadium, according to the Los Angeles Times. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the land grab at his news conference on Friday.
The 60-acre parking lot is located between the Forum, former home of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, and the Hollywood Park horse racing venue.
Los Angeles hasn't had an NFL team since 1994, when the Rams left for St. Louis. The region is the constant source of relocation speculation.
MORE: Kroenke group confirms land deal | In St. Louis, stadium deal stakes rise | Times on Rams | Setting LA up for another letdown?
"As you know our policy is they do have to keep us informed of any developments or anything that is going on in the Los Angeles market," Goodell said. "Stan is a very large developer on a global basis. He has land throughout the country and throughout the world.
"He has kept us informed of it, we're aware of it. There are no plans, to my knowledge, of a stadium development. Any kind of stadium development requires multiple votes of the membership."
When asked how Rams fans should interpret the purchase, Goodell reiterated Kroenke's status as a global developer.
"He has billions of dollars of projects that are going on around the country of real estate development, so I think instead of overreacting, we should make sure we do what's necessary to continue to support the fans locally, which the fans have done in St. Louis, and make sure we can do whatever we can to make sure that team is successful in the St. Louis market."
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Senior Tiffany Palmer led the way for the Tennessee Tech women's cross country team Friday afternoon at Southern Hills Golf Course as the Golden Eagles finished exactly in the middle of the seven-team standings.
Palmer placed seventh individually, running the 5K course in 19:57.01. As a team, Tech placed fourth. Chattanooga (28 points) edged out Murray State (35) for the top team spot, with Jacksonville State (74) third. Tech had 85 points, finished ahead of North Alabama (141), Tennessee State (167) and Alabama A&M (173).
Chattanooga's Anneli Uys took first place in 18:41.36, with Taylor Crawford of Murray State second in 18:59.29.
Sophomore Traci Jones finished second for Tech, placing 12th in 20:43.52. Senior Amanda Simmons also grabbed a top 20 finish, placing 17th in 21:09.52.
Running fourth for the Golden Eagles was freshman Kathryn Forbes, placing 23rd in 22:21.54, while senior Sarah Kmet placed 28th in 23:47.57.
Freshman Courtney Koehl led a group of six additional TTU runners, placing 31st in 23:54.61. The balance of Tech's lineup included sophomore Jenna Philpot, sophomore Emily Weinzetl, junior Danielle Catlett, and sophomores Hannah Henry and Mary Beth Norris.
Next up for the Golden Eagles is the Furman Invitation next Saturday (Oct. 10).
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A press conference today laid bare some new results from NASA's Kepler space telescope. They're astounding.
It turns out that about 22 percent of all Sun-like stars boast a planet that's at the right orbital distance to sustain liquid water on its surface. In other words, one in five of such stars has an Earth-size orbiting world in the so-called "habitable zone."
This result, announced by astronomers Erik Petigura, Andrew Howard, and Geoff Marcy (from the universities of California and Hawaii), significantly plumps the odds that there's life elsewhere in the cosmos. That's because the prevalence of the messy, organic chemistry we gentrify with the term "life" is proportional to the amount of real estate available for it to arise and flourish. The argument is straightforward and unassailable, unless you're convinced that biology is zapped into existence with lightning bolts hurled by the gods.
Before the Kepler mission, no one knew what fraction of stars would have hospitable planets. So this work is both important and encouraging. Why encouraging? Well, consider the numbers that tumble from this result -- the quantitative consequences.
We'll do the simple math for you. However, and just in case arithmetic makes your eyeballs glaze over like a holiday ham, we'll make sure the bottom line of this article gives you the bottom line. It's a result you'll find useful for striking up conversation with people who are overly impressed with their own importance.
Here are the stats. As noted, 22 percent of all Sun-like stars will sport a habitable, Earth-size world. Since stars similar to Sol (so-called G and K stars) make up 20 percent of the roughly 200 billion stars of the Milky Way, they account for 9 billion planets able to support life. That's the contribution to the planetary population from cousins of the Sun.
However, three-quarters of the Galaxy's stellar complement is comprised of so-called "red dwarfs" -- dim, puny stars rather smaller and much dimmer than the Sun. A recent analysis of Kepler data by Harvard astronomers Courtney Dressing and David Charbonneau implies that 16 percent of red dwarfs sport a planet in the habitable zone. Do the multiplication, and you can throw another 24 billion candidates for life into the galactic barrel.
We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars -- the kind that dominate the night sky, but are lamentably both rare and short-lived. If biology's your thing, you can forget those guys.
So now we have the skinny for our galaxy: There are at least 33 billion habitable worlds. At least. (We haven't considered large moons that could be paved with protoplasm, such as the fictional satellite Pandora in the movie "Avatar"). If they exist, they'll simply swell this already-impressive crowd.
However, and before cutting to the chase, a brief, historic note: In 1961, a dozen scientists gathered in West Virginia to bat around the idea of intelligent life in space. The agenda of this small meeting was a simple equation, constructed by the organizer, astronomer Frank Drake. The Drake Equation has since become a staple of astronomy textbooks everywhere, as it neatly summarizes the parameters that determine how many aliens might populate space.
One of the factors in this famous formulation is the average number of Earth-like worlds in a random solar system. In 1961 -- which was long before planets around other stars had been found -- the meeting participants didn't dare to offer an official opinion on this number. But they did vaguely speculate that most stars might have such life-friendly locales. Today, their optimism seems both justified by the data, and remarkably insightful. They were either prescient, darn smart, or secretly clued in by aliens. I vote door number two.
So check out the Milky Way next time you're outside the glare of city lights, and ruminate on the thought that at least 33 billion habitable planets are somewhere up there. But that's just the local population. We can't see the entire universe, but the fraction we can see is studded with roughly 150 billion other galaxies; each with its own complement of habitable worlds. So the number of life-friendly planets that are currently in the part of the cosmos we can possibly observe is five thousand billion billion.
That's a big number. It's bigger than the number of cells in all the people of Earth.
You may note that we've generally reckoned these figures to two decimal places, although that accuracy isn't really justified. For example, you could argue about the definition of "habitable zone," and plenty of people do. Different zone limits would shift these totals by maybe a factor of two or three, one way or the other. But when you're talking five thousand billion billion, all that really counts is the number of zeroes (in this case, 21).
It's a real morale booster for those who are searching for extraterrestrial biology. Look at it this way: In the Powerball lottery, your chances of winning the jackpot on a single ticket are about one in 175 million. If Earth is the only planet with life in the visible universe, then our planet has done the equivalent of winning the jackpot four times in a row. Not just four wins. Four wins in a row. That would, I aver, qualify our home world as a miracle.
So here's that promised bottom line. Unless you're convinced that our watery planet, one of hundreds of billions floating in a non-descript galaxy similar to a hundred billion other galaxies, is somehow more worthy than all the rest, you should expect not merely an occasional Chewbacca or Klingon hanging out in space. The universe is far more likely to be a teeming shore of life, and biology as much a part of nature as rocks and rain.
Are you special? Sure you are. But it's a good bet that you're not alone.
Correction: This post previously stated that "In the Powerball lottery, your chances of winning the jackpot on a single ticket are about one in 175 thousand." The correct number is 175 million.


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Known at-large as "MilwaukeeSEO", a long-time handle. I recently started a new endeavor, Silver Arc Search Marketing working to help small business owners with their search marketing strategy and search engine marketing. I have been building and architecting SEO and search campaigns for the last several years. Bottom-line: I love what I do and I can't imagine doing anything else. Also co-authored eProfitability; a guide for C-Level executives and upper management to understand the search landscape and maximize their profitability online.
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I write as a columnist for Search News Central, the source for the seriously obsessed search geeks on the web. You can check out a smattering of my search marketing posts here.
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I've been married to an amazing woman for seven years , and Dad to three incredible little ladies. I started my professional career as a teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system, teaching 9 – 12th grade Grammar, Literature, and Sociology. I'm a vet, United States Army National Guard, for nine years, completing one tour in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2003 – 2005. I like to think that I'm thoughtful, creative, and a sound pragmatist, but I have a wonderful/awful tendency to be bluntly honest. About everything. (You've been warned. 🙂 )
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