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FY 2013 Budget
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FY 2013 Budget
For the second consecutive year, President Obama released his annual budget proposal at an institution of education. Last year, he visited a middle school in Baltimore. This year, he visited Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale Campus. "An economy built to last demands that we keep doing everything we can to help students learn the skills that businesses are looking for," he said. "The budget that we're releasing today is a reflection of shared responsibility. It says that, if we're serious about investing in our future and investing in community colleges, new energy technology, and basic research, we've got to pay for it. And, that means we've got to make some choices."
The President is requesting $69.8 billion in discretionary funding for the U.S. Department of Education, an increase of $1.7 billion (2.5%) from 2012. He is also requesting $14 billion in one-time investments for key reform areas. These new investments will ensure that continuing investments in programs like Title I, special education, and Pell Grants are able to serve students and schools well.
Some budget highlights:
- Aligning education with workforce demands. The budget includes $8 billion in mandatory funding for a Community College to Career Fund. Jointly administered with the U.S. Department of Labor, this competitive program would provide funding to develop new partnerships between businesses and two-year colleges in order to train and place two million workers in high-growth industries. (Note: A White House fact sheet on the fund is available online.)
- Raising up the teaching profession. The budget includes $5 billion in competitive funding to support states and school districts as they pursue bold reforms to better recruit, prepare, support, and compensate teachers (see below). It also establishes a new 25% set-aside of Title II funds (about $620 million) that would go toward creating and expanding high-performing pathways into teaching and school leadership, reducing shortages of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers, and investing in efforts to enhance the profession.
- Increasing college affordability and quality. The budget includes $1 billion for a new Race to the Top: College Affordability and Completion competition to drive reform at the state level and help students finish faster. It also offers $55 million for a First in the World competition to spur innovation among colleges and universities, including minority-serving institutions, and help them scale up practices that increase college completion rates.
- Continuing proven reform efforts. The budget includes $850 million for a 2013 Race to the Top competition; $150 million for the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund; and $100 million (an increase from $60 million) for the Promise Neighborhoods program.
These proposals come on top of continued investments, including $14.5 billion for Title I, $534 million for School Improvement Grants, and $11.6 billion for special education grants to states.
Want to dig deeper? Among the resources posted online are a press release; the budget summary; state-by-state tables showing how education funds would be distributed under formula-based and selected student aid programs; and various budget fact sheets on cross-cutting issues. Furthermore, one can read the transcript, view the PowerPoint presentation, and watch the video from the Department's February 14 stakeholders forum.
Community College Tour
This week, Dr. Jill Biden and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis embarked on a three-day "Community College to Career" bus tour to highlight innovative industry partnerships that are helping train students with the skills they need to meet area workforce needs. In three cities in Ohio and communities in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, they visited a number of community colleges to learn about model industry partnerships. They also encouraged community college students, faculty, and business and community leaders to report on how partnerships have benefited them and their community.
RESPECT Project
Also this week, Secretary Duncan held a town hall meeting with teachers and teacher leadership organizations to launch the Recognizing Educational Success, Professional Excellence, and Collaborative Teaching (RESPECT) Projecta national conversation about the teaching profession being led by active classroom teachers working temporarily for the Department. The purpose of this conversation is to help inform the President's $5 billion competitive funding proposal (see above) and get teachers' best thinking around the broader effort to transform teaching. "We need to change society's views of teachingfrom the factory model of yesterday to the professional model of tomorrowwhere teachers are revered as thinkers, leaders, and nation-builders," he said. "No profession carries a greater burden for securing our economic future. No profession holds out more promise of opportunity to children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. And, no profession deserves more respect." Details of the program will be developed through budget negotiations with Congress and the competition process itself, but the proposal considers many reforms: revamping teacher preparation programs and making them more selective; creating new career ladders for teachers; linking earnings more closely to student performance, rather than simply longevity or credentials; compensating teachers for working in challenging learning environments; making salaries more competitive; improving professional development and giving time for collaboration; providing teachers with greater autonomy, in exchange for greater accountability; building educator evaluation systems based on multiple measures; and revamping tenure to raise the bar, protect effective teachers, and promote accountability.
School Crime and Safety
"Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2011," a new report issued jointly by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, examines crimes occurring in school, as well as on the way to and from school, and presents data on safety at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, and principals. The report covers topics such as victimization, bullying, school conditions, fighting, weapons, and availability and student use of drugs and alcohol. One significant finding: the total crime victimization rate of students at school declined from 43 victimizations per 1,000 students in 2009 to 32 per 1,000 students in 2010.
Education Startup Challenge
On February 1, the Department opened the National Education Startup Challenge. Students are invited to submit a business plan and a video clip promotion for a for- or non-profit startup that includes an innovative strategy, product, or service designed to address one of four topics. Do you have innovative ideas on how to: (1) help middle school students' transition to high school and graduate; (2) develop skills for success in postsecondary education; (3) choose affordable colleges that best suit student needs, consistent with their education and career goals; or (4) increase the likelihood students complete their college degrees on time or early? The deadline for submissions is May 1. Winning students will be celebrated by White House and Department officials and may qualify for additional recognition opportunities.
Odds and Ends
The January 2012 edition of "School Days," the Department's monthly video journal, features President Obama's State of the Union message and his plans for making college more affordable, Secretary Duncan's challenge for college sports programs to strike a better balance between academics and athletics, and a convening of state education leaders to talk about Race to the Top plans.
Last week, the Department approved New Mexico's request for flexibility from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), making it the eleventh state to receive a waiver.
To celebrate Black History Month, the Secretary and District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson paid tribute to African-American women who are advocates for education.
To celebrate National Engineering Week and highlight the need for highly skilled STEM teachers, the Secretary stopped by the [launch of the new public-private partnership 100Kin10, which is working to achieve the President's goal of recruiting and training 100,000 world-class STEM teachers within 10 years.
A reminder: the Department has published in the Federal Register a Request for Information (RFI) on promising and practical strategies to increase postsecondary success.
In the first in a series of blog posts spotlighting leaders at the Department, John Wilson discusses Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
The What Works Clearinghouse is now reviewing research on curricula and strategies designed to improve student achievement and outcomes in science.
The Environmental Justice Strategy details how the agency's policies, programs, and activities aim to increase access for all to healthy, safe, and high-achievement promoting environments.
Quote to Note
"I am absolutely convinced that the future of the teaching profession and the future of our nation are inextricably linked.... As we fight to strengthen our nation economically, as we fight for social justice through strong and genuine educational opportunity, the voice of teachers has never been more important. There will be areas of disagreement. It will proceed in different ways in each state and school district. There will be no single formula for success. But, one way or another, change is coming to the field of education. I know that, if our teachers are at the table demanding that change and leading that change, the outcomes will be in the best interests of our children, our teachers, and our nation."
|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (2/15/12), formally launching the RESPECT Project
Upcoming Events
On February 29, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Cathy Simoneaux, Director of Scholarships and Financial Aid at Loyola University New Orleans, will host this month's #AskFAFSA Office Hours on Twitter.
March 8-10, the Department will exhibit at the National Association of Secondary School Principals' K-12 Conference in Tampa. If you are attending this event, please stop by the Department's booth.
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The Anderson County Clerk's office is in need of qualified voters to be trained as poll workers.
For more information, contact the clerk's office at 502.839.3041.
Annual Chamber golf scramble is May 31
The Anderson County Chamber of Commerce Golf Scramble will take place at Wild Turkey Trace Golf Course May 31 starting with breakfast at 8 a.m.
A brand new car, plus several other hole-in-one opportunities, at stake, this year.
Compassionate Friends announce upcoming meetings
The Compassionate Friends will host meetings for bereavement parents who have lost children of any age.
Meetings are held on the first Thursday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and the third Monday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the hospice building, 643 Teton Trail in Frankfort.
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There is always something exciting going on in Duluth, Minnesota during your getaway to The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast. Events such as Grandma's Marathon, Inline Skate Marathon, Duluth Air Show, Park Point Art Fair, Glensheen Fine Arts Festival, Christmas City of the North Parade, Winterfest, Quilting on the Waterfront, Split Rock Lighthouse events, Festival of Sail, Chester Bowl Mayflower Festival, Spirit Mountain Snocross, Leif Ericson Park Folk Festival, the Tall Ships Festival, and the Park Point Garage Sale make visiting our great city truly a great experience!
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The Duluth Experience will provide you with a great tour of Duluth's craft breweries, history tours or bike tours and they even provide the transportation. You can try touring the lake front on a Segway with Duluth Glides Company. On Tuesday nights in the summer you can take in the Chester Creek Concert at Chester Bowl and on Wednesday nights during the summer you can watch the sailboat races in Lake Superior. They are best viewed from the courtyard at Fitger's Brewery Complex where they provide live music during the sailboat races. During the holiday season Bentleyville is a must see–the largest outdoor light display in the Midwest. We'll give you all the details of things to do, places to drink and dine along with directions and our recommendations when you stay at our grand mansion. Plan your trip to Duluth and stay with us–you will make memories to last a lifetime!
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Oncologists have long puzzled over the fact that after cancer treatment, single cancer cells that are dispersed throughout the body - so-called disseminated tumor cells - are quick to grow and form secondary tumors called metastases in certain organs, while in other organs they metastasize more slowly, sometimes decades later. Such is the case with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cells, which remain dormant when lodged in bone marrow but rapidly form tumors when they make their way into the lungs.
A study published online October 27 by Nature Cell Biology by Bragado et al. reveals that bone marrow contains high levels of TGFβ2, which activates the tumor suppressor gene p38 in tumor cells and triggers a cascade of events that renders tumor cells dormant and keeps HNSCC growth in check. In the lungs, where TGFβ2 is in short supply, these cells rapidly form tumors.
The research team, led by Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, and Otolaryngology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is the first to identify the role of TGFβ2 in determining whether HNSCC cells will remain harmlessly dormant or behave aggressively in a given location. The study confirms a century-old theory called the "seed and soil" theory of metastasis, which suggests that a tumor cell - the seed - either sleeps or thrives within the unique environment of each organ - the soil.
"Our study provides critical evidence to explain why tumor cells gain a firm foothold in certain organs but not in others, where they can remain inactive for long periods of time," explained Dr. Aguirre-Ghiso.
Approximately 80 percent of the animal models the researchers studied contained disseminated HNSCC cells in the lungs, while less than 30 percent contained tumor cells in the bone marrow. After removing the primary tumors, the number of disseminated tumor cells in the bone marrow remained the same for several weeks (equivalent to ~ 3 years in humans). However, the number of tumor cells in the lungs increased shortly after the tumors were removed, suggesting that conditions within each organ had a long-lasting effect on the cells' behavior.
In addition, the researchers discovered that lowering TGFβ2 or p38 levels awakened dormant cells and fueled metastatic growth throughout the body.
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The System includes approximately 6,600 primary and specialty care physicians, 12-minority-owned free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, over 45 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, and Long Island, as well as 31 affiliated community health centers. Physicians are affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which is ranked among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
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If you're a geek like me, then you know all the lucky/crazy people are at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. (Lucky because, c'mon, it's Comic-Con. And crazy because IT'S COMIC-CON.)
So whether you're packed in like a cape-wearing sardine at the event itself, or just watching the coverage online like me with a mixture of jealousy and amazement that people are seriously paying $50 a day just to park, this is for you:
Highlights from Batman & Spider-Man's Day At San Diego Comic Con:
1) The Road Trip:
"I believe that clerk gave us the economy 'mobile."
"Yeah, yeah. Hey, do we have to listen to your theme song the ENTIRE way? The nanananananas are giving me a headache."
2) The Restraining Order:
"Hey, it's not my fault those fans didn't appreciate my southern web-slinger. That takes real talent, you know!"
"Don't talk to me."
3) The "Comic Book Crafts" Panel They Waited 4 Hours In Line For:
"I still say it's not fair you used the Bat-Icer on yours."
"You're just jealous of my utility belt, Spandex-Man."
"That's IT. I'm telling Alfred."
4) The "Hunky Heroes" Photo Shoot with Iron Man:
(Which Spider-Man's web-slinging ways gets them kicked out of. Again.)
"I think you have a problem."
"Oh, lighten up. At least Tony thought it was cool."
5) The Unexpected Early Departure:
"Wow. That Tannen fellow sure was spunky! Did you SEE his right hook? Although I could have done without the puns. Who says, 'now make like a tree, and get out of here,' anyway?"
"Just shut up and drive."
Thanks to Amy, Sara G., Mike L., Jennifer W., & Julia K. for bucking common conventions.


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You can tune in to the Oscars. Or you can watch them with the peanut gallery on Twitter. While Hollywood parades in tuxedos and gowns celebrating itself, a freewheeling cacophony of quips and sarcasm something like a digital, million-times-multiplied version of the balcony Muppet onlookers, Statler and Waldorf, will provide a riotous counter-narrative to the pomp.
The second-screen experience is never better than on Oscar night, when a separate (and possibly superior) entertainment experience plays out on social media. The running commentary, in which comedians and others parody the stars and their sometimes laughable speeches, is now as central to the Academy Awards as the red carpet.
"Following the Oscars on Twitter is like watching the show with 100 million of your drunkest friends," says Andy Borowitz, the humorist and author who's often been a standout tweeter on Oscar night. Last year, he succinctly summarised the previous two best-picture winners, The King's Speech and The Artist, as "an English dude who couldn't speak" and "a French dude no one could hear".
Live tweeting major TV events, from the Super Bowl to the Grammys, has become ingrained now, forming a virtual water cooler subject that has boosted ratings. But the Academy Awards stream is particularly captivating because it provides an antidote to the on-screen, buttoned-down glamour. It's as if there's a LOL button on your remote, bringing you play-by-play from some of the funniest people in cyberspace.
"You gotta say something. Someone has to say something," says comedian Billy Eichner. "To just stand by and watch it happen is almost too tense. It's cathartic. You've got to just get it out on Twitter because if not, we're all going to be bottled up thinking about how awkward Anne Hathaway made it for one billion people in real time. I don't begrudge her the award; I'm just saying she's a ridiculous person."
The Oscars have become one of the biggest social media events of the year. Last year's telecast at one point set a record for the time of 18,718 tweets a second. A statuette could be handed out for a new award: most tweeted tweet. In 2011, that honour went to The Onion, which lamented: "How rude, not a single character from Toy Story 3 bothered to show up."
Last year, The Artist may have won best picture but Martin Scorsese's Hugo easily bested it with 110,179 tweets to 78,509, according to Twitter metrics analyst TweetReach.
This year, the academy has partnered with Twitter to track the top categories with an index measuring the percentage of positive tweets about the nominees. Leading as of Wednesday wasn't the favourite, Argo, nor was it Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, but rather David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook. So if the film, widely considered the dark horse in the best picture race, wins on Monday, Twitter will have predicted it.
With real-time data from services like Trendrr, the Oscar conversation can be tracked, revealing which moments resound and provoke audiences. Last year, Angelina Jolie's leg-baring pose as a presenter immediately put Twitter in hyper-drive, spawning parody accounts from the perspective of her right leg.
It's such moments where Twitter becomes Oscar's dance partner. Viewers celebrate with and chortle at Hollywood's self-obsession, combining for a TV experience greater than the sum of its parts.
Watching with two screens
It is difficult for me to imagine sitting down to one of David Attenborough's breathtaking BBC documentaries without a second screen in hand to tweet my way through it and, given the flurry of activity during Africa and its remarkable predecessor Frozen Planet, I'm far from alone. When two giraffes clashed in the desert, we picked our champions and cheered them on. When a baby turtle made its do-or-die dash to the ocean past a pack of predators, we held our collective breath - but our keyboard and touchscreens were subjected to tremendous battering.
So it is with the Oscars. Interactive TV is not quite at the point where the show's presenter will backchat if you say "are you kidding me?" when your pick for Best This or That doesn't win a statuette, but tweet a great remark and in a matter of milliseconds you might have a chorus of people backing you up, cutting you down, or retweeting you all the way to internet microstardom.
Some people really get into watching awards shows with Twitter, holding viewing parties at which very few actual people are in attendance - sometimes only one - but where the conversations are as lively as at any post-Oscars ball. The chatter hits such a fever pitch that some users suggest uninterested followers use third-party apps to "mute" the showbiz tweets during proceedings, or else temporarily unfollow them. The ad breaks become analysis breaks, the red carpet footage becomes the search for the next big meme discovery and anyone can join the gossip network stars as sardonic judges of Hollywood behaviour.
This year's host, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, promised (via Twitter, no less) that this year's ceremony will be like "nothing you can imagine unless you can imagine 3 hours of, like, people getting awards and stuff."
That's true - but only if you're watching it with one screen.
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Let me get this out of the way first: I don't watch Dr. Mehmet Oz on television.
I did see a show the year before last while I was keeping an older relative company. I can't tell you what it was about, though, because we weren't that long into it before my relative suggested that that I take myself, my twitches, and my sarcastic mumbling to another part of the house.
Consider this a full disclosure of attitude toward Dr. Oz. Consider it also an explanation of why I didn't see his show last week on the (alleged) dangers of arsenic in apple juice. It was impossible to miss, of course, the backwash of the critical reaction that followed, my favorite being Steve Salzberg's wickedly smart take, "Dr. Oz Tries to be A Scientist" in Forbes. I also enjoyedPharyngula's tale of the FDA's unsuccessful efforts to educate Dr. Oz about arsenic prior to his show. The theme of the news coverage throughout was, let's say, unsympathetic.
The primary criticism was that for a man with a medical degree, Dr. Oz didn't seem to know very much about arsenic. The FDA - rather testily, actually - had pointed out to him that he was testing for total arsenic load. Their objective was that this overstates risk by combining levels of both inorganic (bad, bad) and organic (not so very bad) arsenical compounds.
On average, inorganic arsenic is considered about 500 times more poisonous that organic arsenic. So a high test number that combined the two but was mostly organic would actually indicate less risk than a lower number that involved more inorganic arsenic. Unfortunately - for Dr. Oz and his viewers - he either didn't get this or considered it too complicated for the audience.
As Salzberg pointed out, those combined totals weren't necessarily reliable anyway. Dr. Oz didn't follow the standard test practice of sending his samples to multiple labs. Instead he relied on one testing facility. When the FDA sent juice samples from the same lots to other laboratories, the arsenic levels were a fraction of what Dr. Oz reported. All of which leads us to the essential criticism here, that Dr. Oz sensationalized a non-problem and by doing so irresponsibly frightened consumers of apple juice.
In a cranky, reluctant way, if you're me, you have to kind of admire the way Dr. Oz responded to this concerted hiss of dismay. He continued to maintain that arsenic exposure should always be considered a big, bad thing. And he managed to suggest that this big picture was more important than nitpicking whining about things like test accuracy and arsenic classification. He did this well enough that, for instance, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, asked the FDA totake anotherlook at arsenic levels in apple juice.
So I'm not going to dwell further on the problems with his broadcast; I'm hardly going to mention the issues with shoddy science and the sensationalism. Hardly at all. What I would like to mention, whine about, nitpick, however, is Dr. Oz's lost opportunity to r illuminate the actual risks. This is arsenic, after all, one of the world's most important - and fascinating - poisons.
He could have sifted out those organic and inorganic test results, for instance, and helped his viewers to understand what they meant. Arsenic(As) is, after all, a naturally occurring metallic element (sometimes called a metalloid). It's also one of those elements that likes to partner up, either with organic (carbon-based) compounds or with inorganic (which for these purposes pretty much means no carbon involved).
Fortunately for us, our bodies tend to break down and metabolize away most organic arsenic compounds fairly efficiently. In fact, many of these organic arsenic compounds (such as arsenobentaine, in case you wondered) form naturally in fish and shellfish. Fish-lovers thus receive get a steady low level exposure to organic arsenic, as far as we know, without reported health effects. A few years ago, there was a suggestion that kelp-based health supplements might contain an arsenic problem, but it foundered - just as Dr. Oz's apple juice case did - on the type-of-arsenic issue.
We humans - and, in fact, most living creatures, don't handle inorganic arsenic nearly as well. Arsenic trioxide (AsO3) or white arsenic is one of history's most famous homicidal poisons - so much so, that back in the 19th century, it was often referred to as the inheritance powder. By some estimates, inorganic arsenic can be fatalin the amount of 60,000 micrograms (about 1/50th the weight of a penny).
Why is it so dangerous? And don't we wish that Dr. Oz had used his moment to ask this very question? As it turns out, the answer lies in actually being nitpicky about the question. Inorganic arsenic toxicity has a lot to do with the number of valence bonds the compound possesses. Valence bondsare created when atoms cling to each other because of an interaction between electrons in their outer shells.
In other words, the higher the valence bond number, the grabbier the compound, the greater its ability to insinuate itself into a living system. The two grabbiest forms of inorganic arsenic are trivalent (three bonds) and pentavalent (five). Pentavalent arsenic can, in fact, do a perfectly lethal job of disrupting cellular metabolism. But toxicologists tend to worry more about trivalent arsenic forms, which are also nasty poisons, more persistent, and much harder to remove from drinking water supplies.
And naturally occurring, inorganic arsenic in drinking water around the world does real and physical harm. I've written about this myselfregarding the poisoning of water supplies in countries like Bangladesh. But there's health risks to go around even in countries like the United States.
In other words, Dr. Oz could have used this arsenic moment to have picked out a real health risk, educated people about it, maybe even saved a few lives and there. And that's what I hold against him - the careless waste of opportunity - and that's why he makes me twitch. Even at this safe distance from a sofa in front of the television set.


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Many mainstream Republicans have decried their party's candidates slugging it out over marriage, birth control and religion while ignoring issues such as jobs and the overall economy.
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"We've not been talking about which would do a better job of running against Obama. We've been talking about who is the most or who is the least conservative," said Republican pollster Ed Goeas of The Tarrance Group, who helped conduct the bipartisan poll. "That is a problem for Republicans."
The poll indicated the approval rating of the president at 53 percent, up 9 percentage points in four months. The president leads Mitt Romney by 10 points, at 53-43 and Rick Santorum by 11 percentage points, at 53-42, the poll shows.
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Fireworks Extravaganza Added to Round Six of the Jack in the Box Summer Shootout Series with Faster Pastor School Bus Slobberknocker
Area pastors will compete to see who is the fastest man of the cloth during Round Six of the 20th annual Jack in the Box Summer Shootout Series on Tuesday night. Local preachers will take to the track in 13-ton racing school buses for an exciting showdown on the frontstretch quarter-mile. The evening's racing action will be followed by a spectacular fireworks extravaganza, rescheduled from July 2.
Billy Mauldin, of Motor Racing Outreach (MRO), will be behind the wheel of one of the behemoth racing machines.
"We appreciate the opportunity to be a part of these events," said Mauldin. "They're great, they're exciting, and they're fun for the fans. But the fun stops when the green flag drops, we get serious then. It's showtime. The race is on and we're here to win.
"This is going to be one exciting race, I can promise you that. Just know that MRO is coming to win."
Other participants in the school bus slobberknocker include Jared Blankenship, with Laurel Baptist Church in Charlotte; Charlotte Motor Speedway's Kyle Edmiston; Jack Homesly, of the Christ Community Church in Huntersville, N.C.; Alex Kennedy, of Carmel Baptist Church in Matthews, N.C.; Michael Landrum, of The Line Church in Harrisburg, N.C.; and Don Newman, of Memorial United Methodist Church in Charlotte.
In addition to the fireworks on the track, the evening will feature the rescheduled Fourth of July fireworks display. The spectacular and dynamic display will immediately follow the evening's racing action. Bandolero divisions will also run feature races postponed from July 2, in addition to regularly scheduled racing.
Each night of the Jack in the Box Summer Shootout Series features a full slate of the nation's best Legend Car and Bandolero racing on the frontstretch quarter-mile, as well as appearances by the World's Fastest Mascot, Lug Nut, and tons of family fun.
Families are also welcome to come get a cool down from Charlotte Motor Speedway's fire truck, Engine 343, as it sprays water into the grandstands.
The Charlotte Motor Speedway Play Zone will be open and will feature bounce houses, face painting and interactive games at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Fan Van.
Tickets for the Jack in the Box Summer Shootout Series are $7 for adults and are available in advance at the speedway ticket office or at Gates 4 and 5 the night of the event. Kids 13 and under get in free. Spectator gates open at 5 p.m. with preliminary action starting at 5:10 p.m. Opening ceremonies are at 6:45 p.m. and feature races are scheduled to conclude by approximately 10 p.m. Grandstand tickets from the rain-shortened July 2 event will be honored on July 9.
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Engravings of Female Genitalia May Be World's Oldest Cave Art
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It looks more like a tree
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Rod Willem
I think it is a rendition of an early model... Volvo.
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All very interesting...until I saw the photo. All I see is a circle and line. A vulva? Come on! Given the sophistication and detail of other cave art in France, I have to think that paleolithic artists had the ability to draw something more lifelike than this lollipop. Georgia O'Keefe is rolling in her grave laughing. These guys should apply a little more skepticism to their own claims. Absurd.
2 days ago, 11:45:50 AM
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Archaeologists from more advanced civilizations and culture might examine this same evidence and report that cave dwellers in France had developed electron microscope technology 35,000 years ago in order to represent the moment of conception, when the head of the sperm penetrates the ovum and have represented this moment in stone for posterity to ponder! I am a part of such a culture and I am left pondering why do modern archaeologists ( AFFLICTED WITH MYOPIC EUROCENTRIC VISION ) insist on seeing vulvas , in isolation, or rather apart from the full female figure. Such deeply rooted sensibilities are at the root of many sexual pathologies, that descends to deprive the female anatomy and personality of dignity by dissection into parts. Apparently some of our cave dwelling European ancestors had the sense to celebrate the fertility of the whole woman as in the Venus of Willendorf statuette where the labia are prominently carved for tactile representation much more explicitly than such an amorphous carving that is presented.
3 days ago, 5:57:10 PM
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If John M. Allegro was right, it's probably a volva.
3 days ago, 8:15:40 AM
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Aboriginal people were well established in Australia before this date. Were they artistic slouches? I doubt it. When will the Euro-centric view subside?These images are very open to interpretation. I agree they are not unambiguously genital descriptions. They may be symbolic, tokenism, or unconsciously sexual, the way the folds and bumps of Victorian ceiling and wall mouldings, and wallpaper are highly suggestive. If they are sexual, their ambiguity may suggest taboos about accurate depictions, although why that would be must be explored without jumping to modern conclusions.
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Since the cave-dwellers were able to make recognizable and accurate depictions of animals, I'd suggest that the guys could have likely carved a woman's genitals in a way that wouldn't be so vague and open to interpretations. Their deer look like deer, their spears look like spears, bears like bears - and I suspect their women's girl-parts would look just like girl parts too had they drawn any. That picture above looks to me like a cherry with a stem. Or maybe it's some sort of local geological feature or animal trap. It's certainly not any part of a woman in my eye.
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in this game crazed society you'd think even an archaeologist would be able spot pacman
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This can look like female genitalia only to a very horny scientist.
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Vulva? You are kidding! All I see is a lollipop!
5 days ago, 9:35:05 PM
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That is a sperm fertilizing an egg. I took biology 101, so I'm an expert.
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Archaeologists know what female genitalia looks like??? This news is definetly "breaking news".
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Jim Hurley
Looks more like a sperm to me...
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I'm with Dibble. I think that deciding that's a vulva shows a lack of looking at vulvae very often.
Sigh. Improving archeologists ability to recognize a vulva when they see one will have to wait for our society to develop vulva display as fashion statement.
I nominate Lady Gaga. Or Britney Spears maybe - she's done it twice.
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The New York Jets began the season with suspect depth at wide receiver. They're paying for it now.
Clyde Gates suffered a concussion last week and won't play Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals. Chaz Schilens (concussion/hip) and Jeremy Kerley (heel, hamstring, illness) were limited in practice all week. Santonio Holmes is on injured reserve.
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Britney Spears will release her video for 'Ooh La La' tomorrow (July 11) at noon and, and although we already knew it would feature her cutie pie sons, she revealed a teaser picture with Jayden James and Sean.
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Who leaked that Olivia Pope was the President's mistress on Scandal? Viewers will find out almost immediately when the show returns.
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BELOW are presented two reports of the committee on terminology, which, as stated in the first report, has been constituted from the committee on accounting procedure.
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Data centers are critical to our daily lives, but they continue to get bigger and more power-hungry. Now we want them to be green as well. The good news is that energy-efficient design can create a better environment for the computing equipment and reduced energy costs — they don't have to be energy wasters, despite the fact that they require substantial amounts of power. Specialized power and cooling equipment is available that gets the job done, but special techniques are required to get the most out of it.
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Legacy techniques, if properly applied, cool approximately 5kW per rack. The problem is many cabinets today are drawing 15kW to 40kW, which may soon rise to 60kW. It's easy to see why overheating is such an issue. It's also obvious that these densities can't be addressed with conventional air conditioners.
The old practice of ringing the room with computer room air conditioners (CRACs) doesn't work across the board. Placing CRACs at right angles causes uneven air flow and creates under-floor vortices that reduce pressure and cooling effectiveness while consuming unnecessary energy. However, CRACs still have a place. They should be placed perpendicular to cabinet rows and aligned with the hot aisles, unless specific methods have been employed to isolate and control the return air. That may seem counter-intuitive, but when no other means of air control is employed, this placement minimizes the amount of cold air that a CRAC can pull back into itself
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There is no longer any reason to keep the data center igloo-cold. Substantially more energy is saved by operating in accordance with the "Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments" published by ASHRAE TC 9.9. This document allows equipment intake temperatures up to 27°C (80.6°F) on a continual basis, and even higher for a few days if necessary, without voiding warranties or significantly increasing fan speeds.
The 27°C limit was chosen because above this temperature fans speed up dramatically, resulting in significant energy waste. (Doubling fan speed draws eight times the energy.) The increased power draw of thousands of server fans could quickly offset the savings from higher temperature operation. Good practice today is to control air delivery to around 75°F — much better than the 55°F air that was the standard for decades.
This higher temperature operation is suitable for legacy and new computers. It enables more hours of free cooling — the use of outside air instead of mechanical refrigeration to remove heat through either water-side economizers (using the air to remove the heat from circulating water) or through air-to-air heat exchangers (air-side free cooling).
Water in the Data Center
Virtually all high-density systems use water somewhere in the cooling chain. It may be run directly to the cabinets or hardware, or circulated through control units, which then distribute refrigerant to the cooling devices. Water is far more efficient than air in removing heat. As temperatures continue to rise, the use of liquid in the data center will become more prevalent. Although this prospect gives most IT people angina, it should not be a concern so long as the piping is designed and installed correctly, and leak detection is adequately employed. Pipe leaks are actually very rare.
It is likely that many data centers will eventually have equipment that requires water circulation, if they don't already. Designing piping with extra connections in strategic locations means the data center is ready for rear door coolers, water-cooled cabinets, directly cooled servers, or whatever new form of cooling comes along.
Heat Originates with Power
While cooling may offer the greatest opportunities for energy savings, nearly all the heat in a data center is the result of power consumption, so power reduction must also be considered. Data center power systems are mostly concerned with reliability, which still trumps efficiency in most cases, even though that is no longer necessary. The first "power" issue relates back to cooling design.
Motors use a great deal of electricity, particularly those on fans, pumps, and chillers. There are two fundamental solutions available: variable-frequency drives (VFDs) on fan, pump, and chiller motors; and electronically commutated (EC) fan motors. VFDs adjust motor speed to match cooling need as determined by sensor information, so devices don't run at full speed when demand is less. Through the use of VFD control, it is often possible to run every part of a redundant system at lower speed under normal conditions, and actually use less energy than the older approach of activating only the primary units and leaving the redundant ones shut down until needed. This method also ensures that redundant units are always operational, and that there is no time lag for redundancy to take over when a primary unit fails. EC motors (which are becoming common on air-conditioner "plug fans") can also reduce energy consumption by as much as 30% over conventional motors because of their more efficient design.
A major and historic energy waster is an oversized uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Most UPS units in use today are of the double-conversion design, which means incoming alternating current (AC) power is rectified to direct current (DC), which charges the batteries and is then converted back to AC through an inverter. Power is lost as heat through each step in the change process, and further losses occur through every transformer in the power chain.
Although UPSs have been designed more efficiently in recent years, even the best units are rated at only 95% to 97% at full load, which means they waste 3% to 5% of the power delivered to them. (That's as much as 50kW on a 1MW system or 1,200kWh per day.) If UPSs run in the lower part of their capacity range (in the order of 30% of rated load), their efficiency can drop dramatically — into the 80% efficiency level or below range. This problem is particularly acute when running redundant systems, because a "2N" installation requires that each half (UPSs, PDUs, etc.) be loaded to no more than 50% of capacity so that either can assume full load when needed. But if UPS systems are grossly oversized to begin with (usually done because of poor load estimates or to accommodate theoretical long-term future growth), it is easy for actual usage (particularly on a redundant system) to drop down as far as 15% to 20%, which results in very low efficiency and enormous energy waste and cost.
However, there are good solutions to this dilemma:
- "Right size" the UPS using systems that enable incremental growth.
- Use newer "intelligent line interactive" UPSs that can reach 98% to 99% average efficiency.
There are also systems being run on high-voltage DC to avoid double conversion completely, although those are still somewhat controversial in many circles.
Regardless of UPS type and configuration, the computing hardware should be run on higher voltage. At 208V, the power supplies run more efficiently. In addition, fewer conductors are used, and current draw is reduced, which translates into the use of less copper. The only drawback is more challenging phase-balance, because each load appears on two of the three phase wires. Incorporating good monitoring can help solve that problem as well as achieve more efficient operation and realize maximum capacity and efficiency from the UPS.
McFarlane is a principal of Shen Milsom & Wilke LLC, heads the data center design and consulting practice, and is considered a leading authority in the design of the physical space and its power and cooling. Based in New York, he can be reached at [email protected].


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Internet traffic is poised to quadruple in four years thanks to the proliferation of Internet-connected devices, users, and faster networks, according to a study conducted by Cisco Systems.
By 2016, the Internet will reach 1.3 zettabytes of traffic -- a zettabyte being the equivalent of a trillion gigabytes, or every movie ever made crossing the network every three minutes. In 2016, Cisco said, more traffic will travel across the network than in all prior "Internet years" combined.
The study underscores society's growing dependence on the Internet and the need for a persistent connection. Beyond an increase in the number of devices connected, more people will have access than ever before, while network speeds will nearly quadruple.
By 2016, Cisco projects 18.9 billion network connections, or 2.5 connections for each person in the world. In developed countries, individuals already own multiple connected devices, such as phones, computers, and tablets. The carriers are pushing to connect even more devices, including home-security products, refrigerators, and dog collars.
At that time, Cisco also projects 3.4 billion Internet users, or roughly 45 percent of the projected population.
Video continues to be the major bandwidth hog. By 2016, 1.2 million video minutes, or roughly 833 days of video, will travel the Internet every second, Cisco said. More bandwidth intensive video such as 3DTV and high-definition feeds will also increase traffic.
Wi-Fi will also play a bigger part, with more than half of the world's Internet traffic coming from a Wi-Fi source.
Cisco has a vested interest in Internet traffic increasing since it makes the network connections, routers, and switches that enable data to move across the world. More traffic means more business for the company.


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Kim Dae-jung, South Korea's president from 1998 to 2003, who died Tuesday, dedicated his career to fighting dictatorial leaders and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his unremitting efforts at reconciliation with North Korea,.
Praise for Mr. Kim's achievements poured in from his admirers as well as longtime foes. South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak, a conservative who strongly opposed Kim's conciliatory outlook toward North Korea, called him "a great political leader" whose "accomplishments and aspirations to achieve democratization and inter-Korean reconciliation will long be remembered."
The US Embassy in Seoul hailed him as "an inspired leader, a committed activist and a good friend," citing "significant gains" in relations between the United States and Korea during his presidency.
The statement masked the fact that US-Korean relations, for much of Mr. Kim's presidency, were strained by enormous differences over his signature issue: his approach to achieving North-South reconciliation.
Elected president – on his fourth attempt – in December 1997, Kim Dae-jung broke through the barrier of North-South confrontation when he flew to Pyongyang in June 2000 to meet the North's Kim Jong-il for the first inter-Korean summit. Six months later, he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
The summit was the crowning moment in Kim Dae-jung's pursuit of his "Sunshine Policy." Advocates and critics have long debated the success of the policy, hailed for easing the North-South confrontation in the decades after the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, but denounced for failing to compel the North to give up its nuclear program while avoiding the issue of widespread human rights abuses in the North.
A populist leader
A populist leader with a strong regional backing, Mr. Kim emerged as the voice of the pent-up sentiments of Korea's southwestern Cholla provinces, oppressed by rulers going deep into Korea's dynastic history and then by latter-day leaders with roots in the southeastern provinces.
Kim's victory in 1997 as the first opposition leader to win the presidency culminated a career that began in Mokpo, the port city in South Cholla near the tiny island where he was born, by most accounts, in 1925. The offspring of a farming family, Kim attended high school in Mokpo and served in an unofficial naval militia unit.
After the war, Kim edited a local newspaper and entered politics as a leftist activist in a setting in which he could play upon a deep-seated yearning to escape from heavy-handed rule.
Kim, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1957, married Lee Hee-ho, a YWCA executive and devout Methodist, in 1962, after the death of his first wife.
Kim challenged Park Chung-hee, the general who seized power in May 1961, in the 1971 election, winning 43.6 percent of the votes.
Nearly four weeks later, he was severely injured in a collision that he said was an attempt to assassinate him. His showing in the election inspired General Park to impose martial law and a Yushin, or "revitalizing," constitution, that gave him dictatorial power.
As Kim gained international support for his criticism of Park, Korean agents kidnapped him from his hotel room in Tokyo in 1973. After the US ambassador to Korea, Philip Habib, protested to Park, Kim was dumped near his home in Seoul. Nearly three years later, Kim was arrested for signing a "declaration of democratization" and remained in prison until his release in 1978.
Placed under house arrest several months after Park's October 1979 assassination, Kim was imprisoned, tried, and sentenced to death for instigating the bloody Kwangju revolt of May 1980, in which soldiers killed approximately 200 people, mostly students who had held the city for two weeks.
The United States persuaded Chun Doo-hwan, the general who seized power after Park, to commute the death sentence in return for an invitation to become the first foreign head of state to visit President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
In 1982, Kim was exiled to the United States. He returned to Seoul in a blaze of publicity on Feb. 8, 1985. He lost presidential elections in 1987 and 1992 after nationwide protests forced Chun to agree in June 1987 to a "democracy constitution."
A touch of 'Sunshine'
He was finally victorious in 1997, narrowly defeating a conservative candidate in the midst of an economic crisis that swept much of Asia.
Soon after his inauguration in February 1998, he laid out his Sunshine policy, and in 2000, said that the South was "willing to provide the infrastructure" to jumpstart the North's collapsed economy.
On June 13, 2000, Kim flew to Pyongyang on the first flight from Seoul to Pyongyang since the Korean War. Kim Jong-il greeted him at the airport, and crowds cheered as they drove into the city.
The two leaders in a joint declaration pledged to work for "reunification" and to resolve "humanitarian issues," including reunions of millions of families divided by the Korean War, as well as return of political prisoners. In the run-up to announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, Kim Dae-jung returned 63 former prisoners, some of them jailed for years on espionage charges.
Accepting the Nobel in Oslo in 2000, Kim said that he and Kim Jong-il had "succeeded in bridging the unification formulas" by proposing a system of "one people, two systems and two independent governments."
Fulfillment of the promises made in Pyongyang was slow. Inter-Korean family visits were limited in number and length and tightly monitored. North Korea stopped reunions in South Korea.
Ultimately, the image of the summit was deeply undermined by an investigation in South Korea in 2002 that confirmed the secret transfer of as much as $500 million to persuade Kim Jong-il to agree to hosting it.
Kim's Sunshine policy had the support of President Bill Clinton, whose secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, visited Pyongyang in October 2000.
A senior North Korean official's acknowledgement to a US delegation in October 2002 of a program for developing highly enriched uranium led to the breakdown of the 1994 Geneva agreement under which North Korea had stopped producing plutonium for warheads in exchange for construction of twin light water energy reactors.
George W. Bush, who hosted Kim at the White House in early 2001, expressed "skepticism" regarding verification of any agreement with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, on nuclear weapons. He then deepened differences by including North Korea in an "axis of evil," along with Iran and Iraq, in his State of the Union address in 2002.
Kim's successor as president, Roh Moo-hyun, carried out the policy of reconciliation with the North.
At Mr. Roh's funeral in May, Kim paid tribute to the former president, but spoke regretfully of the reversal of "Sunshine" by the conservative President Lee, who was elected by a landslide in December 2007.
Lee insisted on verification of anything North Korea claimed in terms of giving up its nuclear program. He also stopped providing food and fertilizer, as his predecessors had done.
North Korea denounced Lee as a traitor, said it was again producing nuclear materiel, refused to return to six-nation talks, and said that the truce that ended the Korean War was void.


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A winner was selected from 32 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Marina Central is looking for a unique logo for its future website. The logo will be used on brochures, postcards, the website, invoices, and any other documents/necessities. This should be a fun project for any designer looking to be creative and unique.
Our company name is "Marina Central". Our slogan is: "Choose Your Marina Today! "
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Marina Central is a recreational boating site where users can view information about boating service companies. It will bring together the world of boating onto a simple, effective webpage. Users will be able to find major boat business locations in their respective areas, as well as around the U.S and other countries in the future. This logo will be one of the most important things to the company, as it will be seen everywhere the company name is.
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The Dallas Cowboys rounded out signing their stable of draft picks when defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence inked his contract Wednesday morning.
Lawrence's agent, David Canter, announced Lawrence's signing on Twitter.
The Cowboys traded a third-round pick to the Washington Redskins to move up 13 spots to draft Lawrence at No. 34 overall -- a move that was met with skepticism from critics.
Lawrence is expected to play a key role in a defensive end rotation with George Selvie, Jeremy Mincey and Anthony Spencer in an attempt to replace the departed DeMarcus Ware. Lawrence will be expected to produce from the jump, as neither Mincey nor Selvie are exceptional difference-makers and Spencer is still recovering from a surgically repaired knee.
The 22-year-old pass rusher is uber-athletic with natural rushing ability. At 6-foot-3, 251 pounds, Lawrence has good size but currently lacks ideal bulk of an every-down edge rusher. However, he does have the benefit of working with defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli, one of the NFL's most highly regarded defensive line coaches.
Given his second-round status, Lawrence will be highly scrutinized out of the gate as he enters a Dallas defense devoid of talent. The loss of Sean Lee exacerbated an already weak defensive unit.
With few defensive difference-makers, Lawrence will be given an opportunity early during his rookie season to try to replace the previous DeMarcus' production.
In the latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast," the heroes discuss which teams "realistically" have no shot at winning the Super Bowl this season.


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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15 — NASA's Spirit rover stopped to examine an unusual, flaky rock on the surface of Mars Sunday as scientists prepared to send it on a trek that would more than double its one-day distance record.
The Mars Explorer team hopes the rover will travel about 82 feet Monday morning and make the same distance again during the afternoon. Spirit's longest previous trek was 70 feet in a day, the record for any robot on the Martian surface.
Before setting out on Monday's trek, Spirit is examining the flaky rock, dubbed "Mimi."
Mission manager Jim Erickson said scientists would like to know why Mimi is flaky but its neighboring rocks are not. He said flakiness may indicate layering, an indication that a rock was formed over time instead of all at once, as might be the case with rock produced by a volcanic eruption.
Examining a rock's layers can give scientists hints about the geologic history of the region where it was found.
On the other side of the planet, the twin rover Opportunity was in position to dig a trench Monday in "Hematite Slope," an area named for an iron-bearing mineral that typically forms in water.
The trench would allow scientists to study soil beneath the surface. Opportunity concentrated on examining the surface soil at the spot Sunday for comparison.
"Anytime you get anything other than a homogenous structure it's always interesting to the geologists," Erickson said. "It tells you that the area's been active and things have changed over time."
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Two members of the Georgia College & State University soccer team took time out of their summer to make a special trip to El Ayudante, Nicaragua. The Bobcats spread joy through soccer including presenting Little Feet soccer balls and GCSU soccer gear to the local youth.
As part of the organization's "You Play, They Play" message, for every soccer ball purchased through Little Feet, one is donated to underprivileged children around the world. Two members of the GCSU soccer family, graduated senior Kristen Moore (2005-08) and rising senior Kara Teresi (Tampa, Fla.), played soccer with the local youth while on a church trip, presenting the youngsters with Little Feet balls.
Teresi describes the trip as follows:
"Our first night at El Ayudante, Kristen and I played soccer in the dirt field near the surrounding barrios (communities) overlooking the Cerro Negro Volcano. There were no goals on the field, but rather rocks used as goals, and most of the boys playing were barefoot or wearing sandals."
"We developed a relationship with one of the older boys, Lester, he was 21, and had no job and was living with his mother taking care of his two year old son, Anthony. Lester was a Christian, and his team called, Apocolypto (Revelation) invited our group to come watch their semi-final game. We blessed Lester and his team with GCSU jerseys, cleats, and soccer balls at their semi-final game played on a soccer field with goals but no grass that El Ayudante helped build for the community.
"They won their semi-final game 2-1, and we gave the rest of our soccer equipment, including 10 Little Feet balls from our GCSU soccer team to the Director of the soccer league there. After playing a short scrimmage with our team, Kristen and I huddled up to pray with the team. Lester with tears in his eyes thanked us for our friendship and blessings for their team. The Lord began to press upon our hearts a desire to see Lester grow in the Lord and Bill the Director of El Ayudante agreed to consider Lester for possible employment at El Ayudante working with the children as a soccer instructor."
One of the first acts by head coach Juan Pablo Favero in his first year as coach of the Bobcats was to join up with Little Feet to purchase practice balls. Favero did the same thing at Newberry College, and knows the value of spreading goodwill through soccer around the world.
Individuals can purchase soccer balls through Little Feet as well. To help build the program, visit the Little Feet web site at www.littlefeet.com .
Winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, the GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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the toucan kid wrote:Have to agree about the goaltending, for my money they have the best team in front of the net, but in it? I mean Tellquvist? Well maybe he'll have a break out tournament. Apparently they've been impressed with him internationally have they not?
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Markus Naslund helped the Swedish men's hockey team to a 2-0 victory over Slovakia in a tune-up for the World Cup of Hockey. (Files) BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - Daniel Sedin and NHL teammate Markus Naslund scored as Sweden blanked Slovakia 2-0 on Sunday in a warmup for the World Cup.
Mikael Tellqvist, who recently re-signed with the Toronto Maple Leaves, earned the shutout. He stopped 17 shots.
Sedin's twin brother Henrik, who also plays with the Vancouver Canucks, and Henrik Zetterberg of the Detroit Red Wings set up the first goal 2:24 in.
"It was a pretty play by them and I just had to shoot the puck," said Daniel Sedin, playing for Sweden with his brother for the first time in three years. "I could have scored another one, but I guess I have to be satisfied with one goal."
Naslund, left unmarked in front after a nice pass from Toronto and Sweden captain Mats Sundin, connected with a power-play goal 3:40 into the second period while Martin Strbak was off for a high-sticking penalty.
Referees Christer Larking and Martin Gonos had a busy night, calling 40 penalty minutes.
Sweden, runner-up in the last two world championships, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Finland and Germany make up the European pool in the World Cup of Hockey.
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There's so much more for women to do in Bollywood: Bipasha Basu
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Actress Bipasha Basu feels there are not good enough roles for women in Bollywood, and that there is still so much more that women can do in the field.
"We have not done enough. There is so much more to do. We all talk about the Oscars and the Golden Globes. Every actress over there is above 40 years of age. The kind of roles written for women there are just so brilliant. It's not like we will not accept those films here. It is a matter of time," Bipasha said in an interaction here.
Nevertheless, she admits the change in taste is visibly better.
"Now the best thing is that married actresses are being accepted. At one point of time, we were not even supposed to say that 'I have a boyfriend'. Things have changed now," she said.
With newer films being accepted nowadays, Bipasha credits the audience. She feels that different films are being liked today due to the audience's demand.
"It is only because of the people who watch these. The more you watch these films, the more eyeballs they get and the more these films will be made," she said.
After being a part of masala films like "No Entry", "Phir Hera Pheri" and "Dhoom 2", Bipasha seems to have moved on to different genres. The actress feels that a commercial film is a safe bet, but that doesn't stop her from experimenting.
"I have done these films. I can't say that I am the brave one who hasn't. But fortunately or unfortunately, for me, safe does not work. When I want a break, I will do such films again," she said.
Last seen in Vikram Bhatt's "Raaz 3", Bipasha will soon be seen in Suparn Verma's "Aatma" next. The actress said that she doesn't want to be a part of only horror films, but admits it would have been "foolish" let good scripts slip by just because of some similarities.
The actress also revealed that she gets offered many horror films on a weekly basis, but doesn't take up everything.


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A suburban Chicago man is facing several misdemeanors after authorities say he took his tiger cub on a walk through downtown Lockport.
John Basile is facing charges for reckless conduct, disorderly conduct and possession of a dangerous animal after he was spotted with the Siberian tiger cub, named Kahn.
The 57-year-old runs Big Run Wolf Ranch, an educational facility that cares for wolves, a bear and other large animals. The Joliet Herald-News reports he has an animal exhibitor's license.
According to reports, he brought the animal to Uncle Richie's bar.
Lockport Police Chief Terry Lemming tells the newspaper that officers asked Basile to put the cub in a cage after the pair was spotted downtown earlier this month.
Lockport is about 30 miles southwest of Chicago.


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yellowsquash wrote:i think central will lose first round this year. century has been playing good hockey and on a 14 game winning streak or something like that. i think it will be close, but i think century will prevail. it will come down to goaltending.
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