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"God gave you doctrine for delight," Piper said Jan. 23 at the Louisville, Ky., campus. "God gave you a mind to be a faithful servant to your heart. Reasoning, thinking, knowing God is the necessary means, and delighting in, being satisfied in, enjoying and treasuring God is the ultimate end of the human soul."
Piper, an author, speaker and founder of Desiring God ministries, preached from John 8:28-32, a message he called "Don't Waste Your Theological Education."
Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd in Alumni Memorial Chapel, Piper applied a central theme of his ministry, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him," to the pursuit of theological education.
Before Piper spoke, R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Seminary, introduced him, noting the significance of Piper's presence at the special event.
"You know him through his writing, through his voice, through his influence and his many, many books. He has been a model to us of so many things throughout the years, of faithfulness, of biblical exposition, of theological precision, of courageous ministry, of pastoral concern," Mohler said. "But many of you perhaps do not realize that he, too, is a theological educator."
Piper, longtime pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, led the church in establishing Bethlehem College and Seminary.
Mohler noted that Piper is modeling how to transition to a new stage of ministry after serving in a church for 30 years, saying it is a "gift to us to let us watch how he's doing this."
During his message, Piper said that because a Christian's mind is in service of his or her heart, theological studies should result in the enjoyment of God. Students should "make reflection the servant of affection," he said.
"The organ of knowing is given by God to serve the organ of preferring," Piper, author of "Don't Waste Your Life," said. "Thinking exists to serve feeling."
The way those in seminary can avoid wasting their experience is by using their academic pursuits both to further their knowledge of God and, ultimately, to enjoy Him more, Piper said.
"You will not waste your seminary -- your years here, your efforts here, your experience -- if you solidify the lifelong habit of thinking about the truth of God as a means of enjoying the God of truth," Piper said.
Christians must do this for the rest of their lives, he added, saying, "Thinking about God is the necessary means, and treasuring God is the ultimate end of the human soul."
What keeps people -- seminary students included -- from enjoying God is competing affections, Piper said.
"Sin is an internal displacement of the glory of God in our affections, in our valuing or treasuring of anything above God," he said. "All sin, outwardly, is an expression of the inward preference of anything above God. You will know the truth and the truth will set you free from preferring anything other than God."
Piper led students in thinking about how to glorify God in their thoughts about His truth.
By affections, Piper said he does not mean physical, outward reactions, but rather internal, spiritual and supernatural joy in God, which can sometimes overflow in outward ways.
A Christian grows in affection for God, Piper said, through correct thinking about God. So seminary is important, but only as a means to the end of growing in love for God.
"Enjoying Christ above all things is essential to magnifying Christ above all things," Piper said, adding that when a Christian delights in someone, such as a spouse, he or she honors that person.
Joy in God, he said, is the essence of faith and obedience to God.
Discussing love of neighbor and how joy intertwines with service, Piper said, "Loving your neighbor is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others."
Piper offered five applications and warnings for seminary students.
First, he said the greatest threat to a student's future ministry is the death of enjoying God.
Second, future pastors will harm their sheep if they lose their joy in God.
Third, the New Testament says the aim of Christian ministry is to work for truth.
Fourth, Piper challenged students not to rest until "the fruit of your mind becomes the flame of your heart" in every class, conversation, book and paper.
His final point, he said, was for students to pray. He gave an acronym he uses daily in his personal prayer time: IOUs. Each letter represents a prayer from a Psalm:
-- I: "Incline my heart to your testimony, O God" (Psalm 119:36);
-- O: "Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things" (Psalm 119:18);
-- U: "Unite my heart to fear your name" (Psalm 86:11); and
-- S: "Satisfy me in the morning with your steadfast love that I may rejoice and be glad in you." (Psalm 90:14).
RuthAnne Irvin writes for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Audio and video from Piper's sermon are available at sbts.edu/resources. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).
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A moronic medieval mash-up.
Who's In It: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stephen Graham, Ulrich Thomsen, Claire Foy, Robert Sheehan, Christopher Lee
The Basics: Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman are careerist 14th century knights who quit the Crusades, disillusioned by the Church. Enlisted by a dying priest, the two are tasked with transporting a sexy witch (Claire Foy) accused of causing the Black Plague to a distant monastery. It's The Seventh Seal meets Get Him to the Greek meets Lord of the Rings as if filtered through Uwe Boll's hack-tastic brain, only a guy named Dominic Sena (Swordfish, Gone in 60 Seconds) made it. Don't worry, he included the crappy made-in-Hungary production value, bad CG, and Nicolas Cage-isms that you're expecting from this January release. And there are flying zombie monks! Uwe would be proud.
What's the Deal: As far as a crazy-on-paper Nicolas Cage movies go, Season of the Witch doesn't disappoint inasmuch as it pretty much meets our lowered expectations. This is the kind of movie where knights turn to each other mid-battle to ask, "Who's buying drinks?" during a 10-minute montage of best-of Crusades highlights. The kind of anachronistic, schlocky genre fare in which sexy nubile witches play mind games and metal riffs underscore CG wolf attacks and nobody asks Ron Perlman to attempt an accent even though everyone else is. More money, it would seem, went into the oozing face pustules budget than into the special effects. If the power of Nic Cage did not compel us as a people so strongly, you might have seen this go straight to DVD. But compel us he does. And though Cage doesn't crank that signature kookiness all the way to 11, Season of the Witch is still the first truly bizarre major film release of 2011, which should count for something among genre fans.
Notice I Didn't Say It's So Bad It's Good: There's nothing good about Season of the Witch, really. Except that it brought two awesome bad movie actors together in one film to swing swords and exchange quips in medieval Europe and basically do whatever the hell they wanted. Cage occasionally pours a little too much effort into the fusty period dialogue, but he and Perlman both revel in the comic moments as if acknowledging the ridiculousness of it all to us secretly, through the screen.
Most Awesome/Befuddling Instance of Movie Badness: It's a toss-up between the moment I realized that the actor buried beneath layers of grody plague-face make-up was screen legend Sir Christopher Lee… and when Ron Perlman head-butts the Devil. But the reveal of the witch's true nature ran close behind, along with the weirdly jive-talking voice that I swear came out of the Devil as he MMA-grapples with Nic Cage.
Keep An Eye On: 23-year-old Robert Sheehan (Red Riding, The Tudors, Cherrybomb), the young Irish actor with the beautiful face who plays an eager tag-along in Cage's witch-transporting party. Of all the actors in the cast, he seems to have been the one most under the impression that this would be a serious movie. A for effort, kid.
The power of Cage compels you! The power of Cage compels you!! Arrrrgh. Going to go see it anyway. You had me at sexy, nubile witches.
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The point of Handball Challenge is not only to place the ball in the opposing goal. Neutron Games wants to give you an understanding of the individual leagues, the clubs, the players, different game systems and the different plays, so you can get involved with the sport of handball. Individual class, the speed of reaction and tactical understanding are required. Continue reading


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So, the next nine days will be chock full of end-of-year retrospectives. We'll do our own as well. Today: Restroom hijinks.
The restroom, once a sanctuary for quiet contemplation and graffiti scribblings, for some reason in 2008 became a meeting place for the horny, the inebriated and the privileged. Here's a rundown on just what went wrong:
• Man and woman arrested for having sex in restroom at Buffalo Bills game.
• Tony Kornheiser tries to get in on the act, to everyone's disgust.
• University of Florida student is knocked flat by door of bathroom stall. Earns nickname Leah Falls Down. Poses triumphantly on Facebook.
• More stadium restroom sex; this time in the Metrodome during the Iowa-Minnesota college football game. Woman later claims she can't remember any of it.
• Rick Reilly only uses the celebrity washroom these days.
• Sen. Larry Craig's restroom indiscretions immortalized in a timeless bobble-foot collectible, courtesy of the Saint Paul Saints
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These PhD research grants are awarded in the science fields for engineers (orbital systems, space transport systems), sciences using space assets (Universe science, Earth science, Microgravity science) and human and social sciences to young French and foreign students interested in space activities. These research grants participate to the CNES scientific and technical objective achievement.
The 3-year doctoral research grants are awarded to young graduates holding a Master delivered by a university or an equivalent diploma. This theoretical and practical research training has to lead to a thesis defence.
The objective of a CNES research grant is to make the ongoing and future techniques required to support the science space programmes progress. So the thesis topic must correspond to the CNES scientific and technical priorities and that is the decisive factor in agreeing the doctoral research grants.
The contract must be equally co-financed by CNES and a financial partner (public organisation, industrial, region, etc.). This financial partner must be found by the topic suggesting laboratory. The gross amount charged to the co-financing partner is € 53,685 for the full three years.
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DEV534: Secure DevOps: A Practical Introduction Waitlist
Sat, December 10 - Sun, December 11, 2016
This course, Secure DevOps: A Practical Introduction (DEV534) explains the fundamentals of DevOps, and how DevOps teams can build and deliver secure software. It will explain the principles and practices and tools in DevOps and how they can be leveraged to improve the reliability, integrity and security of systems.
What Does the Course Cover?
This course will introduce students to DevOps principles, practices and tools and explain how Secure DevOps can be implemented, using lessons from successful DevOps security programs.
Students will build up a DevOps CI/CD toolchain, understand how code is automatically built, tested and deployed, using popular open source tools including git, Puppet, Jenkins and Docker.
In a series of labs they will inject security into a CI/CD toolchain, and learn about the tools, patterns and techniques to do this.
The course will make extensive use of open source materials and tooling for automated configuration management ("Infrastructure as Code"), Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, containerization and micro-segmentation, and automated compliance ("Compliance as Code") and monitoring.
You Will Learn:
- Foundations and principles of DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
- The security risks and challenges that DevOps introduces
- The keys to successful DevOps security programs
- How to build security into Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. The tools, patterns and techniques of security automation in DevOps
- How to secure your build and deployment environment and tool chain
- How to leverage Infrastructure as Code for secure configuration management and provisioning
- How manual security practices (risk assessments, audits and pen tests) can be adapted to continuously changing environments, and the important role that they still play
- Security risks and challenges that containers introduce - and how to secure container technology
- How to automate compliance in DevOps, using the DevOps Audit Defense Toolkit
Course Syllabus
DEV534.1: Introduction to Secure DevOps
Ben Allen ,
Frank Kim
Sat Dec 10th, 2016
An introduction to DevOps practices, principles and tooling. How DevOps works, and how work is done in DevOps. The importance of culture, collaboration and automation in DevOps.
We will look at case studies of DevOps "Unicorns": the Internet tech leaders who have created the DNA for DevOps, and understand how and why they succeeded. We will also introduce the keys to their DevOps security programs.
Then we will explain Continuous Delivery - the automation engine in DevOps - and explain how to build up a Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment pipeline. We'll map out how security controls and gates can be folded into or wired into the CD pipeline, and how to automate security checks and tests in CD.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Introduction to DevOps
- Case studies on DevOps Unicorns: Etsy, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and Google
- DevOps Principles
- Working in DevOps
- From Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery
- Building a CD Pipeline
- Deployment Kata
- Secure Continuous Delivery: Challenges and Issues
- Introducing Security into CD
- Static Analysis in CD. An overview of the SAST landscape, and challenges and approaches for running static analysis checking in CD. Building a self-service static analysis service for engineers.
- Automated security testing and scanning in CI/CD. How to write automated security tests - unit tests, system tests and attacks. How to use tools like Gauntlt. Integrating Dynamic Analysis Security Testing (DAST) and fuzzing in CD.
DEV534.2: Moving to Production
Ben Allen ,
Frank Kim
Sun Dec 11th, 2016
Building on the ideas and frameworks developed in Day 1, we'll explain how vulnerability management and manual testing (including pen testing) fits into DevOps and CD.
Then we'll look at run-time security options, including RASP and other run-time defense technologies.
Because the automated CD pipeline is so critically important to DevOps, we'll look at how to secure the pipeline, including how to protect the secrets that all of these automated tools require.
Then we'll look at security and the run-time environment. We'll explain the keys to secure Infrastructure as Code, using modern automated configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef and Ansible. We will also look at containerization and security issues when using containers like Docker.
Finally we will explain how to build compliance into Continuous Delivery, using the security controls and gates that we've already built in.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Pen Testing and Manual Assessments - how do they fit in DevOps?
- Vulnerability Management in CD
- Securing your Software Supply Chain. Building a bill of materials for your systems. Standardizing on fewer, better suppliers.
- Securing your CD Pipeline. Threat modeling and locking down your build and deployment environment.
- Runtime Checks and Monitoring - monkeys and smart checks.
- Run-time Defense: RASP , IAST and other run-time security solutions
- Security in Monitoring. Using production metrics and insight to drive improvements in your security program.
- Red Teaming, Bug Bounties and Blameless Postmortems
- Secure Infrastructure as Code. Building security policies into infrastructure code
- Security with Puppet lab
- Managing Secrets. The problem of secrets in automated environment. Patterns - and anti-patterns - for managing secrets.
- Container Security - introduction to containers, Docker, and Docker security risks and tools.
- Compliance as Code. How to satisfy compliance requirements using Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment.
- Going Forward: introducing security into DevOps - and DevOps into security. Quick Wins and long-term investments needed to succeed.
Additional Information
Laptop Required
A properly configured system is required for each student participating in this course. Before coming to class, carefully read and follow these instructions exactly.
Please download and install VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, or VMware Player on your system prior to class beginning. If you own a licensed copy of VMware, make sure it is at least VMware Workstation 10, VMware Fusion 7.0, or VMware Player 7.0. If you do not own a licensed copy of VMware, you can download a free 30-day trial copy from VMware. VMware will send you a time-limited serial number if you register for the trial at their web site.
VMware Player is a free download that does not need a commercial license. Most students find VMware Player adequate for the course.
Mandatory Laptop Requirements
Mandatory Host Hardware Requirements
- CPU: 2.5+ GHz multi-core processor or higher
- Memory: 16GB of RAM minimum
- Hard Disk: 25GB of free disk space minimum
- Working USB 2.0 or higher port
- The student should have the capability to have Local Administrator Access within their host operating system
Mandatory Host Operating System Requirements
You must bring a laptop with one of the following operating systems. These operating systems have been verified to be compatible with course VMware image:
- Windows (7, 8, or 10)
- Mac OS X (Mountain Lion, Yosemite, El Capitan)
Mandatory Software Requirements
Please ensure the following software is installed on the host operating system prior to class:
- VMware Workstation 10+, VMware Player 7+, or VMware Fusion 7+
- Zip File Utility with support for large files (7Zip for Windows, The Unarchiver for Mac). The built-in operating system zip utility has NOT been sufficient.
- Bring the proper system hardware and operating system configuration
- Install VMware (Workstation, Player, or Fusion) and confirm that you can launch a VM.
- Make sure you have a working USB drive. The course VM will be copied onto your laptop from a USB key provided by SANS.
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for:
- Developers, software architects, operations engineers and system admins working in a DevOps environment, or transitioning to a DevOps environment, who want to understand how and where to add security checks, testing and other controls.
- Security analysts, security engineers, auditors and risk managers, security consultants and pen testers who want to understand how to adapt security practices to DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
Students should have the following:
- Basic understanding of application security, common attacks and vulnerabilities (e.g., the OWASP Top 10)
- Some familiarity with Agile development and Agile project/product management practices
- Basic familiarity with Linux command shells
Other Courses People Have Taken
Related Courses
- Courses that are good follow-ups
- SEC524: Cloud Security Fundamentals
- SEC579: Virtualization and Private Cloud Security
- SEC511: Continuous Monitoring and Security Operations
- DEV531: Defending Mobile Applications Security Essentials
- DEV522: Defending Web Applications Security Essentials
- DEV541: Secure Coding in Java/JEE: Developing Defensible Applications
- SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
- DEV544: Secure Coding in .NET: Developing Defensible Applications
What You Will Receive
- Course Books
- Day 1: Introduction to DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Secure DevOps
- Day 2: Moving a system to Production using Secure Continuous Delivery
- Lab Workbook
- Lab environment
- Extensive links to resources on DevOps, Continuous Delivery/Deployment, case studies, tools and practices
You Will Be Able To
- Understand the core principles and patterns behind DevOps. How work is done in DevOps, and what the keys to success in DevOps are
- Map out and implement a Continuous Delivery/Deployment pipeline
- How to do a Value Stream Map of the processes and workflows in making code or configuration changes - from check-in to deployment and operations.
- How Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment work - the workflows, patterns and tools.
- Identify the security risks and issues in DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
- Map out where security controls and checks can be added in Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
- Conduct effective risk assessments and threat modeling in a rapidly changing environment.
- Design and write automated security tests and checks in CI/CD. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of different automated testing approaches in Continuous Delivery.
- Implement self-service security services for developers.
- Inventory your software dependencies and secure them.
- Threat model and secure your build and deployment environment.
- Integrate security into production operations
- Automate security policies.
- Leverage container technologies (such as Docker) for security.
- Automate compliance and run-time defense.
- Create continuous feedback loops from production to engineering.
- Create a plan for introducing - or improving - security in a DevOps environment. How to use DevOps to secure DevOps.
Hands-on Training
- Understanding how a Continuous Delivery/Deployment pipeline works
- The DevOps Deployment Kata
- How to implement static analysis testing into CD
- How to write automated security tests in CD
- Security in system monitoring
- Infrastructure as Code - securing a Puppet manifest
- Container Security - finding vulnerabilities in Docker configurations
- Automated auditing
Press & Reviews
"A fast-paced and illustrative two-days on the current state of security for DevOps. Well worth the time invested to take the class." - Michael Machado, Ring Central
"I have read a lot, and watched a lot of webinars, about DEV Sec Ops. But none of those told me how to implement security in the DEV Ops pipeline. This course provided me with a ton of concrete steps I can take to integrate the security into our company." - Matthew Theobald, Schneider Electric
"Given the substantial breadth of security topics covered, I was impressed by the incredible technical depth throughout this course, and the well-researched links to resources to facilitate further learning and practical implementation." - Brett Vasconcellos
"The material/contents of this class is excellent. It help me learn all the tools that are relevant to work." - Hoan Le, Ring Central
Author Statement
DevOps is already radically changing the way that organizations design, build, deploy and operate online systems. DevOps leaders like Amazon, Etsy and Netflix are able to deploy hundreds or even thousands of changes every day, continuously learning and continuously improving and continuously growing - and leaving their competitors far behind. Now DevOps is making its way from Internet "Unicorns" and cloud providers into enterprises.
Traditional approaches to security can't come close to keeping up with this rate of accelerated change and with engineering and operations teams who have broken down "the walls of confusion" between their organizations and are increasingly leveraging new kinds of automation: Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, microservices, containers and cloud service platforms.
Security must be reinvented in a DevOps world.


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Meat Eaters Are Killing The Planet
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Factory Farms Put Climate at Risk, Experts Say in Urging Health Officials to Speak Out
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Roughly 200 experts in disciplines from nutrition to animal welfare are calling on the World Health Organization to take a more serious look at the impact of industrial livestock production on human health and the climate.
In a letter sent Monday, the group—which includes former New York Times food writer Mark Bittman and environmentalist Bill McKibben—appealed to the WHO, asking that its next director-general work "to reduce the size and number of factory farms." The WHO's World Health Assembly got underway Monday, and the body will elect a new leader this week.
"As the global health community acknowledges the intertwined nature of planetary and human health, it must also confront the role that factory farming plays in climate change," the letter says.
The group points to predictions that, without a reduction in meat consumption, agriculture—including livestock production and growing grain to feed livestock—is on track to gobble up half the world's carbon budget if countries expect to meet the 2050 target of limiting global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius. The livestock industry's contribution to greenhouse gases come from direct sources, including methane emitted from the animals belching and their manure, but also from indirect sources, including land conversion and deforestation linked to growing feed.
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Cloud Computing – The New Nirvana or Just the Latest Version?
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Here at CloudAve we consider ourselves evangelists for Cloud Computing. We'd hate however to think that we were idealogues. To this end we welcome viewpoints that contrast with our own (heck – we often disagree ourselves). With that in mind we're please to bring you this guest post by Alan Moore of Definition. Alan has […]
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On Monday, September 22, at 7:00 p.m. join us in the Library Program Room when Sandusky resident Dale Hartlaub presents a talk on the history of the "Tin Goose." The "Tin Goose," the Ford Trimotor airplane, was used for many years to transport people and cargo between the Lake Erie islands and the mainland. An avid collector of "Tin Goose" memorabilia, Mr. Hartlaub will also talk about the artifacts from his collection. Registration is requested but not required. To register, call 419-625-3834 and press 0 to speak with a switchboard operator (9-5, Monday-Friday) or press Option 6 to leave a message.
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What kind of trick has Stokes just tried to pull off??? He gets dropped from the England side after making a fool of himself by knocking a man down with a punch on the jaw and breaking his own hand then he flies over to New Zealand to play for his "local' team,and because he could not do much with bat or ball he is going home to England for Christmas, (I hope his plane gets stranded for a couple of day " WAS HE EXPECTING ENGLAND TO CALL HIM BACK INTO THEIR TATTERED TEAM??? Gee,the stories we hear these days about the antics some of the overrated player do to make a name for themselves, he has already made a name for himself that will be remembered for a long time,BULLY & COWARD.
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Jeremy Campbell keeps world records coming
At least one of Jeremy Campbell's records is sure to stand for some time. As for his other one, well, he plans on making that tougher for anyone else to catch for a long time.
The first record for sure won't be broken in London.
Four years ago at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, Campbell dominated the field in the Paralympic pentathlon (P44 class) competition, scoring a world-record 4,662 points --- and beating Switzerland's two-time Paralympic and three-time world pentathlon champion Urs Kolly in the process. But the sport is no longer part of the Paralympic program.
"When I heard, I was like, 'Well, I guess I have that world record indefinitely,'" Campbell said.
That didn't mean his world-record setting days were over.
He enters the London 2012 Paralympic Games as the world -record holder and favorite in the discus (F44 class), an event which he also won in Beijing. The discus was one of five events in the pentathlon. The Games are Aug. 29-Sept. 9.
Campbell has spent this summer extending his own records. At the Triton Invitational, held at the University of California San Diego campus, he became the first Paralympic athlete to surpass 60 meters in the discus in competition. He achieved that feat on his second throw of 60.19 meters.
Making that performance all the more impressive was the fact that he did it with a cracked prosthetic leg. Campbell, who was born without a fibula in his right leg and later had the leg amputated, said he felt the leg break on the first throw.
"So my world-record throw was on a broken leg," he said.
Later, in June at the 2012 UCO Endeavor Games in Edmond, Okla., he took the sport even further with a throw of 63.46 meters. Campbell is a University of Central Oklahoma resident athlete.
He didn't break his record at the U.S. Paralympic Trials -Track & Field in Indianapolis, but he still broke the 60-meter barrier, recording a throw of 62.52 meters.
"I gravitated toward the discus and have focused completely on it for two years," Campbell said. "I'm excited that I still have a lot more room for improvement. I just fell in love with the sport and really became a student of it because I loved it. With the competition in the Paralympics rising I think it takes that."
Campbell comes by his athleticism honestly. His brother, Caleb, is a linebacker for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, and his other brother, Jacob, was a professional bull rider. Their father was involved in the rodeo. Jeremy, meanwhile, grew up in Perryton, Texas, playing varsity football, baseball and basketball and even was the high school quarterback.
None of his family members could make it to Beijing four years ago, but Campbell is hopeful some of his relatives will make it to London.
Back in September, Campbell had a chance to go to the United Kingdom as part of the Britain Bound program (which gave seven U.S. athletes a sneak peak at the locale and culture of the Olympic and Paralympic Games). Campbell had a chance to scope out some of Scotland's sights along with 2008 Olympic champion decathlete Bryan Clay. Campbell enjoyed his visits to various castles and The Highland Games and was quite a sport, even donning a kilt at one point during the trip. (Campbell Tartan, as he learned, is a pattern specific to the Clan Campbell.)
Now he is ready for his business trip: the Paralympic Games. And he's hoping to come home with some souvenirs, a world record and a little more gold.


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Muslims claim the Bible has been corrupted,i.e.has been altered by man.
However,Muslims freely quote from the Bible to justify their claims that Mohammed is prophesied in the Bible, that Jesus did not die by crucifixion,neither was he divine,(even though Allah allegedly commanded Jesus's birth) nor did he rise from death, the three core principles of Christian faith.
How do Muslims reconcile these conflicting assertions?


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North Korea yesterday continued its string of rocket and missile firings, launching three short-range projectiles into the waters off its east coast ahead of a major holiday celebrated by both Koreas, a South Korean defense official said.
The projectiles flew about 210km before landing in the water, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of office rules. It was not immediately clear what sort of projectiles they were.
North Korea routinely test-fires missiles and rockets, but it has conducted an unusually large number of weapons tests this year, including the launch of a short-range projectile on Monday. Pyongyang has expressed anger over US-South Korean military drills and various South Korean government policies. The North says the drills are invasion preparation. Seoul and Washington say they are routine and defensive.
The launch came as the Korean Peninsula begins celebrating Chuseok, a harvest moon festival and major holiday. The three-day holiday starts tomorrow, but many people were already traveling to visit family over the weekend.
Separately, on Friday, North Korea said it would send back a South Korean man who entered the North illegally, in an apparent conciliatory gesture.
The North's Korean Central News Agency said Kim Sang-geun entered North Korea through a third country after having unspecified difficulties living in the South. It said Kim asked to live in North Korea and bring his family members from the South, but the country decided to repatriate him on Thursday.
The South Korean Unification Ministry said in a statement it has informed North Korea that it would take custody of Kim.
About 27,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea to avoid poverty and political suppression since the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War, but South Koreans defecting to North Korea are uncommon.
Kim's repatriation suggests that impoverished North Korea is still interested in improving ties with South Korea, said Chang Yong-seok, a senior researcher at Seoul National University's Institute for Peace and Unification Studies.
In the past North Korea has been accused of using foreigners who crossed its borders as a propaganda tool by bringing false espionage and other charges against them.
North Korea is sending its athletes to the Asian Games being held in South Korea later this month. In recent months North Korea has proposed a set of measures it says would reduce tension, but South Korea has rebuffed the overture, arguing that North Korea must first take steps toward nuclear disarmament. Outside analysts say the North is pushing for better ties with South Korea to help attract foreign investment and aid to revive its economy.
In May, North Korea sentenced a South Korean Baptist missionary to hard labor for life for allegedly spying and trying to set up underground churches. Three US citizens are also being detained in North Korea for alleged hostile acts and other charges.


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Enough with the unboxing of tablets, mobile phones and other tech gadgets. It's time to unbox — and uncork — some Amazon wine.
The Seattle online retail giant made its long-awaited move into the world of online wine sales this morning and GeekWire is putting the service to the test.
We spent some time this afternoon using Amazon's new wine platform to delve through all the cabernets and pinot noirs. Our final order: one bottle of merlot from Ukiah, Calif., and one bottle of white wine from Kelso, Wash.
We'll be documenting our Amazon wine-buying experience from start to finish, including an unboxing when the packages arrive at GeekWire HQ. Let's review the online buying process now.
Above is a snapshot from the Amazon Wine homepage. There are a few featured wineries and then five categories to click on: Red, White, Rose, Sparking, Dessert.
And what's an Amazon product page without a plethora of filters? Here the categories in the left-hand column that you can use to filter results and help find that perfect wine:
- Type (red, white, sparkling)
- Grape variety (Merlot, Pinot Noir)
- Taste notes (blackberry, citrus)
- Professional rating
- Alcohol volume
- Vintage
- Brand
- Customer review
- Price (Under $10, $10-$20, etc.)
- Country
I also loved the "top-rated wines under $25" on the front page. There aren't many reviews, given that Amazon just launched this service, but once the feedback rolls in I'd expect this to be a very useful function for those on a wine budget.
I wanted some red wine so I set some parameters. Similar to other Amazon product pages, you can also sort at the top right corner by either "New and Popular," "Price: Low to High," "Price: High to Low," and "Avg. Customer Review."
On a budget, I wanted to see the cheapest red wines available and filtered by all red wines priced below $10. The first one I looked at was a cheap-o bottle for just $9. Here's a look at the product page:
As you can see, users have three buying options: by the bottle, a box of three or a box of six. Each selection has the same $9.99 shipping charge, and Amazon shows you how much it costs per bottle. Shipping for big purchases are cheaper by the bottle because of the consistent rates.
The shipping charges run $9.99 per box, and each box fits up to six bottles. That could influence the number of bottles you decide to buy. For example, if you buy up to six bottles of the same wine, the shipping rate is $9.99 no matter the quantity. Once you go over six, you'll get an additional shipping charge of $9.99, up to 12 bottles. The same thing happens when you add more than 12 and up to 18, and so on. So, if you buy seven bottles, you'll pay $19.98 in shipping, which is the same as for 12 bottles.
Unfortunately, though, Amazon told me that this NV Atwater Estate Sweet Chancellor can only be shipped to California, Florida, Illinois and North Carolina. I tried adding it to my cart anyway and this was the error message on the shopping cart page.
Why I couldn't ship this wine to Washington? The "Learn more" link tells us that that each winery chooses which states it ships to. Amazon also advises you to filter out your search results by choosing your state on the category home page.
Learning from my mistake, I started over and selected "Washington" as the shipping state.
From here I clicked on "Red," at the top. The banner automatically switched to "Grape Variety," and I went with Merlot.
Then I narrowed the selection down to the $10-to-$20 price range. I came across a Rolling Stones Forty Licks Merlot that looked cool so I added it to my cart.
I wanted one more bottle, but this time white. I filtered out everything else and set a price range for under $10. For some reason, Amazon still showed me products that were over $10. Though it was $13.99, a 2008 Kelso White Washington Wine caught my eye and I added that to the cart.
Then it was time for checkout. There was a $9.99 shipping charge (3-to-5 days) for each bottle and after $4.58 in taxes, my total ran up to $55.32. If I wanted either bottle in two business days, shipping went up by $10 for each bottle. One-day shipping was available for the white wine, but that runs at nearly $25 more than 3-to-5 days.
But being Amazon Prime members, we expected free shipping. Yet for both bottles, I was told that the wine wasn't eligible for Prime. (The wine is shipped directly from the wineries, not fulfilled from one of Amazon's distribution centers.)
I clicked on the "Why?" link, but couldn't find anything related specifically to wine. I also checked out the "learn how weather can affect shipping" link and learned that wine shipments may be held up for 30 days if the weather is not suitable for shipment, which usually happens when the temperature is below 45°F or above 85°F.
I also had to verify my age. An adult signature is required at delivery.
A little frustrated that I couldn't get free shipping, I still went ahead and placed my order. We'll wait a few days for the packages to get to GeekWire HQ and document our unboxing.
Here's a toast to testing Amazon's new wine service. Cheers!


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Pirates, Ahoy!
Article in Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Nonfiction, Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Adventure
What is the meaning of Pirates, Ahoy?
This is a list for all ye landlubbers who wishes to read more books about pirates, read these books, or walk the plank...
Children's Books
Picture Books
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs - Giles Andreae JP Andreae
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: Missing Treasure! - Giles Andreae JP Andreae
Olive's Pirate Party - Roberta Baker JP Baker
Pirate Princess - Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen JP Bardhan-Quallen
On the Go with Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe! - A.E. Cannon JE Cannon
Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies - Carolyn Crimi JP Crimi
Louise: The Adventures of a Chicken - Kate DiCamillo JP DiCamillo
The Pirate Meets the Queen: An Illuminated Tale - Matt Faulkner JP Faulkner
Tough Boris - Mem Fox JP Fox
Pirate Girl - Cornelia Funke JP Funke
Dirty Joe, the Pirate - Bill Harley JP Harley
The Night Pirates - Peter Harris JP Harris
Roger, the Jolly Pirate JP Helquist
Pirate Pete - Kim Kennedy JP Kennedy
Pirate Pete's Giant Adventure - Kim Kennedy JP Kennedy
The Erie Canal Pirates - Eric Kimmel JP Kimmel
The Gingerbread Pirates - Kristin Kladstrup (Holiday) JP Kladstrup
The Pigrates Clean Up - Steven Kroll JP Kroll
Pirate Treasure - Loretta Krupinski JP Krupinski
Pirates - C. Drew Lamm JP Lamm
Pirate Bob - Kathryn Lasky JP Lasky
I Love My Pirate Papa - Laura Leuck JP Leuck
Alvin the Pirate - Alvin Lofgren JP Lofgren
How I Became a Pirate - Melinda Long JP Long
Pirates Don't Change Diapers! - Melinda Long JP Long
Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates - Kevin O'Malley JP O'Malley
Archie and the Pirates - Marc Rosenthal JP Rosenthal
Pirate Nap: A Book of Colors - Danna Smith JP Smith
Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC - June Sobel JP Sobel
The Amazing Adventures of Bumblebee Boy - David Soman and Jacky Davis
JP Soman
This Little Pirate - Philemon Sturges JP Sturges
Do Pirates Take Baths? - Kathy Tucker JP Tucker
The Barefoot Book of Pirates - Richard Walker JP 398.2 Walker
Charlotte Jane Battles Bedtime! - Myra Wolfe JP Wolfe
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens - Jane Yolen JP Yolen
Chapter books
The Pirates of Crocodile Swamp - Jim Arnosky J Arnosky
Jack Plank Tells Tales - Natalie Babbitt J Babbitt
Peter and the Starcatchers - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson J Barry
Nick of Time - Ted Bell J Bell
The Time Pirate: A Nick McIvor Time Adventure - Ted Bell J Bell
How to be a Pirate - Cressida Cowell J Cowell
Pirate Palooza - Erik Craddock (graphic novel) J PB Craddock
Remarkable: a novel - Lizzie Foley J Foley
Judy Moody and Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt - Megan McDonald
J McDonald
The Mousehunter - Alex Milway J Milway
Pirates Eat Porridge - Christopher Morgan and Neil Curtis) J Curtis
The Wooden Mile - Chris Mould (Somethind Wickedly Weird series) J Mould
Pirates Past Noon - Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House series) J Osborne
The Unsinkable Walker Bean (graphic novel) - Aaron Renier J Renier
Lilly and the Pirates - Phyllis Root J Root
The Not-so-jolly Roger - Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio) J Scieszka
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson J Stevenson
Lives of the Pirates: Swashbucklers, Scoundrels (Neighbor's Beware!) - Kathleen Krull
Blackbeard, the Pirate King - J. Patrick Lewis
The Best Book of Pirates - Barnaby Harward J 910.45 Harward
Pirates - John Matthews J 910.45 Matthews
Pirates: A Nonfiction Companion to Pirates Past Noon- Will and Mary Pope Osborne J 910.45 Osborne
Pirateology: The Sea Journal of Captain William Lubber, Pirate Hunter J 910.45 Steer
Sea Queens: Woman Pirates Around the World - Jane Yolen J 910.45 Yolen


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Whenever you power up your laptop you may not think about the history that has gone on to help us get to where we are today. Our laptops have come a long way to become as powerful as they are, but what we do not think about is how far the laptop batteries have come. The history of laptop batteries is an amazing one. They have come along way, and in the end they still have a long way to go before they are perfect. However, we can be happy that we have learned from our mistakes and come up with a battery that is lighter and longer lasting than older ones.
The laptop is a great thing. It allows you to use your computer without having to be plugged up to a wall. However, back in the day you could not run your laptop off the batteries alone for too long. Thanks to people always looking to improve what we already have, we have made great jumps in the history of the batteries. When we think of laptop batteries many of us think about the rechargeable ones that we use today. However, did you know that they used to make laptops that ran off AA batteries? Not only did it take a lot of AA batteries to run a laptop, but they could not run it for long. Many people today remember the laptops running off the very heavy lead acid based batteries. Not only did these batteries not last long, but it made your laptop very heavy. You might as well been carrying around a desktop. Since then the history of laptop batteries have kept improving. In fact, after we turned in the old lead acid batteries we moved on to the nickel cadmium batteries.
If you do not remember ever hearing of nickel cadmium batteries, that is because some people called them NiCD. However, these batteries were not around too long because we soon left those for nickel metal hydribe batteries (also called NiMH). As you can guess both of these batteries lasted a lot longer than the old acid ones, however, we were not done making great batteries just yet. After that we moved on to the lithium ion batteries as well as the lithium polymer. These are the batteries that most laptops use today. However, we are not done making great batteries, and you can bet that the history of laptop batteries is going to move on from here. As more and more people get laptops every year the demand for a longer lasting batter is ever growing. Until we can make a battery that never dies, we are always going to see more improvements in the life of batteries.
People use there laptops for many different things. Some use it for school, and others use it for work. However, no matter what you use your laptop for, you know that you need a long last battery. You have to know that you are going to be able to count on the battery when you need your laptop the most. Because of that, we should be happy that batteries keep improving. The history of laptop batteries is a long one, and it's going to just keep getting longer. All that means is that we are going to end up with some great batteries over the course of a few years. As companies jump at the chance to improve their laptops you are going to see some of the worlds best batteries come to be. What that means for us is the fact that we can have great running computers that do not die after a few hours.


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|January 11, 2014
|Stats at a Glance
|FG Percentage
|.545 (30-55)
|.364 (24-66)
|3P FG Percentage
|.571 (4-7)
|.400 (8-20)
|FT Percentage
|.714 (15-21)
|.842 (16-19)
|Offensive Rebounds
|Defensive Rebounds
|Total Rebounds
|Bench Points
- 20
- 34
- 14
- 15
- 9
- 5
- 1
- 2
- 6
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When Danay Fothergill found out she was sliding over to the point, the sophomore knew she had to change her playing style but not so much that the team would lose her production.
Saturday, Fothergill did just that.
With freshman Maya Dillard out of the lineup, Fothergill was entrusted with the duties of being the floor general and she responded with the best game of her young career.
Fothergill set the A-Sun season-high with 34 points, breaking her previous of 31 at ETSU. To compliment her career-high 34 points, Fothergill snatched six rebounds and dished out a career-high five assists.
"With Maya being out, I knew my role had to change," Fothergill said. "I am willing to step up and do whatever is necessary for these girls.
"I knew I had to fix some things in my game. I sometimes get a little too mad at myself, so tonight I tried to focus on getting my teammates the opportunity to score and to play their game."
Another hard fought Atlantic Sun battle finds the Lipscomb women's basketball team on the short end, falling 79-72 to the Mercer Bears in Allen Arena Saturday afternoon.
The Lady Bisons fell to 3-12 overall, 0-4 in the A-Sun. Mercer improved to 9-6, 2-1 in the conference.
Fothergill was happy with a hard fought game from her team, but was frustrated to fall in yet another close loss.
"We all played very well. It is just tough to come out on the losing end once again," Fothergill said. "We just need to get over the hump. All we can do is continue to do the little things to get us there. It is coming and it won't be long."
Lipscomb head coach Greg Brown knew coming into Saturday's matchup his team would be short-handed, but he was really impressed with what he saw from a young Lady Bisons squad.
"I thought we played very, very well on both ends of the floor," Brown said. "We did a great job of adjusting defensively and obviously to get 16 offensive boards and to out-rebound them was very impressive.
"Also we had 14 assists to only 11 turnovers, which is what we have to continue to do. Those are unbelievable numbers to build on. If we can get our bench back, things will change very quickly for this team."
Both teams started hot, hitting the first three shots of the game within the first 50 seconds.
Mercer built a quick 10-3 lead, its largest of the night, before Fothergill was fouled on a 3-pointer from the right wing. Fothergill calmly stepped to the line and drained all three shots to give a quick glimpse of the kind of night it was going to be at the line for the Somerset, Ky. native.
"I have to hit those free throws, they are important," Fothergill said. "I tell myself to relax when I am at the line and just think it is going in."
All but two went in on Saturday night for the sophomore, producing a career-high 13 makes on 15 attempts.
Kendra Grant caught fire for the Bears knocking down six of her first seven shots to hold the lead for Mercer over the first 12 minutes of the game.
Fothergill took over the game and scored seven-straight points for Lipscomb when she drained a 3-pointer from the corner to give her team its first lead at 24-22 with 7:36 to play in the first.
The two teams battled back-and-forth as the lead changed hands five more times in the first half before Alicia Williams knocked down two free throws to give Mercer a 38-37 advantage heading into the intermission.
Mercer's lead did not last long to open the second half. Lipscomb scored the first seven points within a 90-second span on two buckets from Fothergill and a trey from Kelli Smith to grab its biggest lead of the night at 44-38.
But just as quickly as it relinquished the lead, Mercer mashed the pedal and used the momentum of a 12-1 run to get back on top 50-45 on a jumper from Briana Williams at the 15-minute mark.
Amongst giants in the paint, Ashley Southern and Faith LeGate had two of their better games all year. Southern continued to quietly go about her business, finishing with 14 points and 15 rebounds for her A-Sun leading 11th double-double. Perhaps the most impressive stat of the game was Southern's ability to grab offensive boards, she finished the game with seven.
LeGate battled all night after getting the start and made some clutch plays down the stretch. She finished with nine points and a career-high 11 boards.
"Faith came in and did an excellent job for us," Brown said. "She battled down low all day and then came up big with a three in the corner."
It seemed every time one team would make a run and take the lead, the other team would respond with a run of its own. Anytime Mercer needed points, it would find someone open around the elbow and more times than not, drain the shot.
"Mercer is an excellent mid-range shooting team and we knew that coming in," Brown said. "We did everything we could to contest those shots. Sometimes you have to do whatever is necessary to make them make the plays and when they do, so be it."
With Lipscomb trailing 53-51, Smith drained one of her four 3-pointers on an assist from Fothergill to give the Lady Bisons the lead at 54-53.
Two nights after leading the team with 21, Sara Bliss scored her only points of the night on the very next possession to extend Lipscomb's lead to 56-53 with 9:48 to play.
Briana Williams knocked down a three for Mercer after a 30-second timeout to tie the game at 56.
The two teams would trade buckets over the next five minutes until LeGate hit two free throws to give the Purple and Gold its final lead of the night at 65-64 with 4:30 remaining.
After a jumper from Fothergill tied the game at 67, Mercer got a pair of layups from Alicia Williams that fueled a 7-1 run and gave the Bears a lead it would never give up.
Playing behind in the final minutes, Lipscomb had to foul and Mercer knocked down eight free throws in the final minute.
Smith was clutch all game for the Lady Bisons and tied her career-high with four made 3-pointers to give her a season-high 12 points.
"Kelli stepped out with four threes tonight and came up big when we needed her the most," Brown said. "I thought everyone did a great job of stepping up when they had to tonight."
After reaching 1,000 points for her career on Thursday night, Precious Bridges led Mercer with 20 points on 8-of-13 shooting.
Briana Williams added 17 and Grant finished with 15.
The 6-foot-5 Teanna Robinson, the A-Sun's second-leading rebounder, did not go unnoticed, pulling down 14 boards. Robinson added to her national lead in blocked shots, swatting six against the undersized Lady Bisons.
With a five-game slide, the Lady Bisons must now try to pick up their first conference win on the road. A three-game road stretch begins on Thursday Jan. 16 when Lipscomb travels to Jacksonville for a 6 p.m. tip-off.
"Good thing with where this league is, you get one win and you are right back in the middle of the pack," Brown said. "We told the girls they are very close to bursting through and we just have to continue to grow to give ourselves a chance.
"We now know we can outrebound somebody when we have different people stepping up like we did this week. Confidence comes from demonstrating ability and our team demonstrates they can do those things."