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What is a temple? A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. So in short, a temple is a place of worship, and for the Christian, the temple is the house of God.
The first Israeli-temple was a permanent worship center built by King Solomon, the second king of Israel, four years into his reign. It was built four hundred and eighty years after the Israelites came out of their captivity in Egypt (see 1 Kings 6:1). David his father, had wanted to be the one to build the temple, but God had other plans. God said to David, "Your son whom I will put on the throne in your place will build the temple for my name" (1 Kings 5:3 NIV84). In preparation for this project, King David put together most of the materials and supplies the builders would need for building the temple.
That structure was huge and magnificent! See 1 Kings 6:2-36. Unfortunately, it was later destroyed by fire; by the armies of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, during the reign of King Zedekiah (see 2 Chronicles 36:17-20).
The temple was later rebuilt at the command of Cyrus, king of Persia, who proclaimed throughout his kingdom, that God had appointed him to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem in Judah (see Ezra 1:1-4). Some of the Israelites in captivity returned home to undertake that project. When the foundation was laid, the Israelites who had seen the first temple, many years prior, wept bitterly, because the foundation of the new temple was no match for the first one (see Ezra 3:12-13).
The temple remained a place of worship, a place of sacrifice, and a place where God met with His people. Anything or anybody considered unclean for health or other reasons was not allowed in the temple; an indication that God wants the temple to remain holy at all times.
During the time of Jesus, the temple area had become a trading place. Offended by the practice, Jesus overturned the tables and benches of the traders, and drove them out saying to them, "It is written my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers" (Matthew 21:13 NIV84).
It is obvious that the temple we've looked at so far is a physical structure visible to the human eyes, built by humans, with human hands, human effort, and physical materials. But there is another temple; it is invisible, made without human hands, or human efforts. It is not built over time, but rather instantly.
This temple of course is a spiritual temple. It is erected as soon as a person makes a confession of faith in Jesus Christ. At that instance, God comes to indwell the believer in the form of the Holy Spirit. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit makes one's heart the temple of God. God didn't live there prior to conversion, because it was cluttered with sin. Jesus' blood cleanses us from all sin, making our heart the only suitable dwelling place for the Holy Spirit. So now God's dwelling place is no longer a physical structure, but a spiritual one, our heart. The apostle Paul on teaching the people of Athens about the true God, said, "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands" (Acts 17:24 NIV84).
Just as God demanded His temple to be kept holy in the Old Testament, so He requires of us, in the Church-age to keep the temple of our bodies clean. It is important to note that there are consequences for destroying God's temple.
On warning the Church of Corinth, about taking good care of themselves, the apostle Paul said to them, and to all Christians of course, "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple" (1 Corinthians 3:16-17 NIV84). On the topic of sexual immorality, Paul again wrote to them, "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God" (1 Corinthians 6:19)?
If we constantly remind ourselves that we are God's temple, we'll be a bit more careful about what we do to our bodies, what we do with our bodies, and what we subject our bodies to. For instance, some of the conversations and music we listen to, some of the things we think about, and some of the things we watch have the ability to contaminate our thoughts. Let's remember, "We are the temple of the living God" (2 cor 6:16 NIV84). Paul reminds us in his letter to the Philippians, "Whatever is true, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things" (Philippians 4:8 NIV84). May God help us to respect His house and keep it clean!


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In part 1 of my series, I went over what lead to the creation of the Pac-12 and its championship game. In part 2 in my 4 part series, I will now go over a brief overview of the championship games in the ACC, Big-12 and SEC. Of course now, the Big-12 with ten teams can't host a championship game because of a provision stipulating the need for twelve teams to host the championship game. The Big-10 will start hosting a championship game this year after poaching Nebraska from the Big-12 to secure it's twelfth member.
ACC – The ACC was the most recent to form a twelve team conference noticing the recent success the Big-12 and SEC had by their top teams play over Thanksgiving break. Therefore, reaching out to invite Miami (2 straight NC appearances, and 4 straight BCS bowls in a row winning 3), Virginia Tech (1999 Sugar Bowl) and Boston College (New England market) seemed to be a huge victory for the ACC. The ACC commissioner had hoped the traditional powers of Miami and Florida State would bring the conference back to prominence and seemed forcefully to put two programs in different conferences. This may have contributed to a somewhat uneven playing field as the Coastal Division currently holds the edge 4-2 in championship games (including the last 4), but only has been represented by Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech. The ACC has only had 1 BCS bowl win out of 6 since the inauguration of the championship game and has yet to produce a national title game representative. In addition, the ACC Championship Game is in a constant battle over attendance as it continual rotation of the game's site which has lead to horrid images such as this one.
Big-12 – The Big-12 has produced many exciting championship games which results have been felt all throughout the nation. A few of these games I will go over in Part 3 of the series. The Big-12 Championship Game was formed after the merger of the Big-8 and the Southwest Conference (4 schools in Texas) in 1996. The game has been a stepping stone for a couple of National Champions (Nebraska 1997, Oklahoma 2000, Texas 2005). The Big-12 initially did a pretty good job about rotating the championship game site between the North and the South, but after Jerry built his palace in 2008, the Big-12 was likely going to settle in Arlington, Texas as a more permanent home which obviously didn't bode well for fans from the North. Excitement, exposure and attendance haven't been the issue haunting the Big-12's championship game as much as it has been competitive imbalance. The obvious recruiting advantage in Texas (ranked #1 most years) for the South schools has led to some pretty lopsided results (70-3, 62-21, 38-21, 42-3) and has some including Mack Brown preferring not to play the game. Of course, the two times Mack Brown said this were when his Longhorn's were left out of the Big-12 Championship Game in 2008 in favor of Oklahoma, who they had beaten head to head, and after Colorado and Nebraska left the Big-12 which eliminated the game. So take it for what it is.
SEC – The Southeast Conference was the first to chaperon the idea of the championship game when it expanded to twelve teams back in 1992. At first, the game was played in Legion Field, Alabama (Birmingham). Because of the rather even split down the line, Birmingham was pretty close to being a neutral field game. There was actually little problem filling up the championship game in Birmingham the first two years as it actually outdrew Atlanta's Georgia Dome because of its larger seat stadium. The SEC is able to fill up its stadium for the game without it giving any particular time an unfair advantage (Athens, GA is a 1.5 hour drive to Atlanta) and has been a great model of how the Championship Game can springboard a team outside of the top 2, into the BCS National Championship Game. (2003, 2006, 2007). While the East still holds an 11-8 edge (due to early dominance from winning 6 out of the first 7), the West has won the last two and has dominated the East of late. Florida and Georgia are often in the top 5 states when it comes to recruiting and may geographically be slightly closer to the East. But, the bunched of nature of the SEC states has allowed for a rather even distribution of talent contributing to the overall evenness of the SEC's balance in most years.

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In her previous, renter-friendly backyard upgrade, Caitlin Kruse of Style Within Reach made excellent use of a couple of under appreciated materials: gravel and pavers. She's back for another backyard project in our Patio Style Challenge series, and this time she puts pavers and gravel to use in building a paver patio.
To be sure, you'll also see plenty of Caitlin's talent for outdoor decorating. But the gravel and paver patio is the star of this show. It was a very cost-effective way for Caitlin to expand her outdoor living space, plus she solved some annoying drainage problems in her backyard.
And best of all, it looks terrific.
Gravel and Paver Patio with Paver Path
The timing for the Home Depot Patio Redux couldn't have been better. We just moved into a new house this spring, so I gladly took the challenge to spruce up our new space!
We have a nice-sized deck, which is a great spot for our Brown Jordan Northshore Patio Furniture for right now. Eventually, we hope to have a lower deck so we can spread it out a bit! But we had a few problem areas in our yard we knew we had to address ASAP.
Improving Backyard Drainage
The drainage in our yard is a big mess. Every time it rains, water pours in from our neighbor's yard and floods the area right under the deck stairs — essentially creating a mud pit that barely has a chance to dry out. It also makes letting our dog out really fun.
Since our deck is quite crowded, we thought we'd create an easy and affordable patio area at the base of the stairs not only to address the drainage, but also make a spot for our grill. We have the same problem along the side of our house so we decided to create a gravel and paver path that begins at the fence and leads around to the patio.
Building a Paver Patio
Since our days are quite busy right now as we prepare to welcome our first child in just two months, we wanted a project that we could knock out in a weekend. I watched this paver path tutorial video on The Home Depot's YouTube channel, and decided we could easily accomplish a gravel and paver patio for under $500 and in a weekend's time.
First, we cleared out the space next to our deck. That meant removing some patchy grass and leveling it out and setting up stakes and rope to map out the area for the paver patio.
Then, I laid down our paver stones and played around with a few different pattern options. After the design was final, we removed the pavers and down went a layer of paver base, which we leveled down with a steel tamper. Next we applied a layer of paver sand and also leveled that with the tamper.
It sounds like a lot of steps, which it is, but it's really essential in creating a base for your paver patio that will drain properly, be level and hold your pavers in place so they don't slide.
Now for the fun!
We laid out our paver design and lined the entire space with smaller pavers that look like bricks. We used 12 x 12 step stones and filled in the spaces between pavers with gravel.
It took us two afternoons to complete everything.
Decorating the Paver Patio and Deck
Once we had our new paver patio completed next to our deck, I did some decorating. I added some plants from the VIVA! Collection to add a little color to the yard.
We found this old cart on the side of the house when we moved in, so I added a coat of white paint, and now it's a potting table next to the deck.
I also stained a lattice I picked up at The Home Depot and hope to have some greens growing up it soon!
Caitlin Moran is the creative mind behind the lifestyle blog Style Within Reach, where she writes about affordable and attainable style. After working in the fashion industry in New York, she now lives in the Washington DC area.
For more backyard upgrade ideas, see other Patio Style Challenge articles here on The Home Depot Blog and follow our Patio Style Challenge board on Pinterest.
Browse our online Outdoor Living Department and The Home Depot Garden Center to find everything you need for a beautiful garden and patio.


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What is it with birds and technology? Perhaps there's something about tweeting that makes people remember big yellow birds or a beloved cartoon from their childhood. Either way, users of a new app named "Birdsong" can sing along. The app was developed by a business called Animal Systems, which is associated with the University College London. This app is special in several ways. Not just in how it operates by issuing "chirp" sound commands, but also in what it could mean for prototyping software. We'll look briefly at the app, current prototyping software capabilities, and lastly how this app may suggest the need for prototyping software to expand to include sound command options.
Singing like a nightingale? A sound command example
The Birdsong App is a data sharing app. A user initiates a bird "chirp" which then initiates a download in other smartphones with the Birdsong App who "hear" it. This app could have implications for widespread data transfer – a useful marketing tool which could allow dissemination at large gatherings.
Prototyping software as an alternative to paper prototyping
Prototyping software was developed as a faster alternative to paper prototyping and seems to have become more popular over time. Prototyping software is literally a desktop or cloud based software that helps web-designers make designs for websites, apps or other systems needed. Prototyping software sometimes specialized for a particular wireframe need. For example, some prototyping software is designed solely for drafting mobile wireframes, while other prototyping software offer prototyping for mobile wireframes, website wireframes, and even enterprise applications. So a three in one prototyping software so to speak.
Currently, most prototyping software function through an "editor" user interface. This means that most prototyping tools will have a blank sheet (or page) that you can then drag and drop elements you need onto it. These elements can be static or interactive depending upon what prototyping software is used. Interactive elements allow such things as linking, specifying colors, the ability to click on button wireframes and then be transferred to the according link, and the list goes on. Prototyping Software that offers these kinds of interactive elements may be considered a High-fidelity wireframing tool. Higher fidelity wireframing tools usually means that the prototyping software is intended to make a wireframe that more closely resembles the actual website or mobile app (but no programming has taken place yet in the wireframe or mockup stage). Conversely, low-fidelity prototyping software will allow the structure to be represented, however the distance between the final application and wireframe are greater.
It is can be compared to baking a cake. A low-fidelity wireframe may have the cake pan shape, but does not have the "cake filling" yet. Likewise, high-fidelity prototyping software may have the cake pan shape, and cake filling – but it is not baked yet (i.e. not coded yet). A person looking at this wireframe can see that the wireframe contents will yield a specific kind of cake (or app, so to speak), but it is not a finished product or ready to eat.
Prototyping software that can represent sound commands?
Although prototyping software has the capability to accurately represent wireframe designs, the majority of prototyping software function solely on a visual level. With an app like Birdsong, this does indeed have a visual component to it, but it also contains an audio component. It begs the question then – will sound command prototyping capabilities become an in-demand addition for prototyping software? A key factor in determining this would be to see how much of the marketplace is filled with apps that use sound commands. A person could of course insert a comment in the prototyping software with the note that the sound command should be placed in the code itself, but should a sound command be included in the prototyping software's capabilities itself due to a demand for it? These are questions that should be considered, albeit perhaps not fully answerable at the moment.
In short, prototyping software is a fast method for drafting mockup wireframes and can offer a lot of functions to represent wireframes in both high-fidelity prototyping software and low-fidelity prototyping software. After having seen new apps, like Birdsong, using sound commands, the question remains whether adding a sound command function to the prototyping software's capabilities, makes sense. Still, although the prototyping software may not "chirp" like a bird at the moment, it may just make your wireframes sing.
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Since its founding in 1608, Quebec City has gained a reputation as one of the most beautiful cities on the continent. Its gothic-style Château Frontenac stands on the edge of a cliff, looming over the chilly St. Lawrence river. The imposing building, together with the city's cobblestone streets and a centuries-old hilltop fortress, are the closest North Americans can get to Europe without crossing an ocean.
But soon, Quebec City might have a new calling card: A 65-story skyscraper in the nearby suburb of Sainte-Foy—and not everybody's happy about it.
"I hate it. It's an ugly design. It's a way of seeing the city that is totally outdated," says city councillor Jean Rousseau.
The $755-million (CDN) building project is named Le Phare, the French word for "lighthouse" or "beacon." The name, and the project's placement, are intentional: It's meant to be the first thing people see as they approach Quebec City from the west and over the main bridge. By the time it's built in 2030, it will be the tallest Canadian building east of Toronto.
Current plans for Le Phare describe a "one-of-a-kind vertical neighborhood" featuring four towers of varying heights (17, 30, 51, and 65 stories) that will include condos, apartments, hotel rooms, seniors' residences, offices, commercial space, restaurants, a daycare, and a performing arts center. Its tallest tower will be a glittering glass column inspired by the skyscrapers of Chicago and Dubai.
"It's presented as vertical life: Live, work, and play. That's the old utopia of Le Corbusier that we're rehashing here, in a part of town that is in dire need of being better organized," says Rousseau.
Quebec mayor reverses direction
Ste-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge (or colloquially, Ste-Foy) is one of six boroughs in Quebec City, a suburb with just over 100,000 residents. The Université Laval campus is the anchor tenant of the neighborhood, and most of the housing stock is comprised of single-family homes and apartment complexes under five stories. In Rousseau's words, "Quebec City is very horizontal—a very flat city."
During the long winters it's also also a very cold, windy city. The wind tunnels produced by Le Phare would make Ste-Foy even more inhospitable, says local resident and retired astrophysics professor Serge Pineault. "I don't envy the people who are going to live near it."
The skyscraper would be an anomaly in Ste-Foy, where new buildings are currently limited to 17 stories. The Quebec City administration, led by longtime mayor Régis Labeaume, wants to change the zoning bylaws to accommodate Le Phare's height.
The move would be an about-face for Labeaume, who 10 years ago argued against raising building heights in Ste-Foy, especially in the Sillery area where he lived. A 2008 article in Quebec newspaper Le Soleil quoted the mayor as saying (in French): "I'm sure that if I was a building promoter, I would hope for 50-story buildings. It's more lucrative. We can't blame them. But 17 stories is profitable."
Labeaume also said in 2008 that developing Laurier Boulevard would cause major traffic problems and create unfair competition by luring businesses away from other boroughs. He expressed these concerns in relation to a 20-story building proposed by promoter Michel Dallaire.
Fast forward a decade, and Le Phare is being built by Michel Dallaire's company, Groupe Dallaire, on the corner of Laurier Boulevard and Lavigerie Avenue.
Since the 2008 Le Soleil article, traffic congestion in the area has only gotten worse. And although the current plan is to extend Quebec's forthcoming tram project to Le Phare, the project would still add more than 3,000 underground parking spaces to the area.
The city and Groupe Dallaire both declined to comment for this article, citing ongoing consultations.
Changing the rules of the game
Le Phare threw a wrench in a pre-existing special urban planning program for Ste-Foy known as a programme particulier d'urbanisme (PPU) in French. In some situations, PPUs allow Quebec municipalities to circumvent usual zoning laws to permit special projects.
The Ste-Foy redevelopment PPU was authorized in 2012 after extensive public consultations. The revitalization plan included a series of new buildings no higher than 29 stories along the area's main arteries.
The plan for the 65-story Le Phare was first unveiled in 2015, to many residents' surprise and dismay. Through a sleight-of-hand maneuver, the municipal government tacked it on to the already-approved PPU and then passed two amendments to try and make it fit. "I think [residents] were fooled," Rousseau says.
The last nail in the coffin will likely come next month. That's when city council is supposed to vote on an amendment to its charter that would let it set aside borough zoning laws for buildings with more than 25,000 square meters of surface area. The deal is as good as done, says Rousseau; of the 21 officials who sit on council, 16 are members of mayor Labeaume's team.
Playing to Quebecers' emotions
Architect and Université Laval professor François Dufaux says Le Phare doesn't make geographic or economic sense. Quebec City may be the provincial capital, but Montreal is by far the bigger economic center.
The sibling rivalry between the two cities is a tender point for older generations, and Dufaux says that Dallaire "is playing to the emotions of the people of Quebec City and their pride, their ambition." Even the size of the tower is a dig at Montreal, he says. "They want to be bigger and better than Montreal."
He questions whether the demand for Le Phare's living, office, and commercial spaces will meet projections. He suspects the government will gradually decommission buildings in other parts of the city—including downtown—and stack workers into Le Phare. "A lot of bad buildings have been saved by being rented by the federal or provincial government," Dufaux says wryly.
Economist and consultant Jean-Marc Bergevin thinks the outlook isn't as dismal as others may believe. "Is there a market for it? The answer to that one rests very much with Dallaire and his group. If they're investing $800 million in this, it's because they feel strongly there's a market for it, and I see no reason to believe they didn't do their homework."
But recent history would suggest that Quebec City hasn't done well with the build-it-and-they-will-come approach. Just three years ago Quebec City opened its brand-new 18,000-seat Videotron Centre in hopes of landing an NHL team. That hasn't happened. The city has already lost $5.8 million on the arena.
A vision without a plan
This isn't the vision younger generations have for Quebec City. Simon Parent, a 28-year-old Master's student in architecture urban design at Université Laval, thinks the original PPU would have made Ste-Foy a more sustainable, pedestrian-friendly place to live. He says Le Phare is out of joint with the surrounding neighborhood and modern urban design principles. "It's a vision, but there's no plan."
So why are they building it?
The simplest explanation may be the right one: Leadership wants to redefine Quebec City as a modern, world-class economic hub, and it believes it needs a landmark to do it.
It makes Dufaux think back to a comment made by renowned Danish architect Bjarke Ingels after seeing an early video promoting Le Phare. During a 2015 visit to Université Laval's school of architecture, the Dane told students he's seen it many times before: Cities build fancy towers to get themselves on the map.
"[He said], all these towers are like little perfume bottles you buy at the airport. They all have weird shapes, and they stand on the shelf in your bathroom—but you're not an international person because you bought them at the duty-free shop," Dufaux recounts.
Le Phare may become the international beacon the city wants, but it seems more likely to be a sore thumb that locals hate.


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In their daily lives, students often experience directives rather than real conversations. Conversation provides opportunities for students to practice and use cognitive strategies, and is critical for developing comprehension. Conversation is authentic, and becomes evidence for teachers to determine strategies used and internalized. As students engage in social inquiry with peers, they try out their thinking. Social inquiry promotes metacognition and reflection. Conversation becomes the vehicle through which students practice and solidify thinking.
This article presents three examples of student conversation, demonstrating how they deepened student thinking. The teacher could have easily given answers to the students, but instead they constructed their own meaning, and will be able to construct it independently in the future. Teachers who encourage conversation allow students to internalize cognitive strategies, construct meaning, feel ownership of the learning process, collaborate, communicate, gain empathy for other viewpoints, explore and expand their developing thinking, and engage in the curriculum.
Ketch, A. (2005, September). Conversation: The Comprehension Connection. The Reading Teacher, 59(1), 813. doi: 10.1598/RT.59.1.2
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Serving as further evidence that anti-choice lawmakers across the nation, both in state legislatures and Congress, have been emboldened by the election of a presidential administration vocally hostile towards reproductive rights, over the past week total abortion bans have been proposed in three state and federal legislatures.
It may be that these proposals in themselves are not overly concerning; being so blatantly unconstitutional, there is essentially zero chance that they will be passed.
Rewire reported on how Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is preparing to introduce a bill mirroring the "heartbeat bill" that passed in Ohio's state legislature last month, only to be vetoed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich (who went on to sign off on a more moderate but still unconstitutional 20-week ban). The bill would ban abortion after the sixth week, and since this is before many women even realize they are pregnant and are thus unable to act before this point, it would serve to essentially ban abortion for women across the country.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Texas state representative Tony Tinderholt filed HB 948, the Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act, which is exactly what it sounds like.
While the law specifically recognizes the unborn no matter what stage gestation as a person with rights, paradoxically, it stops short of describing how those who have abortions will be punished, considering under Texas law they would, technically, be committing murder. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is a staunch abortion foe who previously signed off on a bill to require women to pay $2,000 to bury or cremate aborted fetuses, and it is entirely possible he'd sign off on HB 948 should it reach his desk. However, the federal court would likely strike the law down should it come to this.
In the state of Indiana, similar legislation is being proposed to sweepingly criminalize abortion with the "intention of [stopping] the killing of humans after they are alive." If by some horrifying miracle the law passes and is signed off on by Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, it would become effective on July 1.
Say it with me: you can never ban abortion, you can only ban safe abortions.
— Jess Tholmer (@tholmz) January 13, 2017
Despite strong opposition to abortion from the majority of Republican lawmakers, most accept it as the law of the land and respect the decisions of the Supreme Court. The real threats to access to abortion come from moderate restrictions that infringe on individual guarantees of Roe v. Wade rather than overturn Roe as a whole. Many must also understand, at least on some level, that criminalizing abortion will not stop it from happening as history and other more oppressive governments around the globe have shown, and only serves to make the procedure more dangerous for women. Investing in contraception, healthcare, and sexual health education are far more pragmatic means to preventing abortion if that is the true goal of Republican lawmakers, as opposed to merely shaming women.
For example, there are 20-week and second trimester abortion bans that infringe on women's right to abortion until fetal viability; the Hyde Amendment, which essentially denies poor women abortions by denying them financial assistance for the procedure from the federal government; TRAP (targeted regulation of abortion providers) laws that shut down clinics and place an undue burden on the women seeking them; and on top of all of that, waiting periods and lack of funding for the family planning services that prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortions as a whole.
Due to the success of these more specific regulations in states across the country, perhaps they're what reproductive rights advocates should really be worried about.
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It happened again Saturday against the lowly Lakers.
Only after the Clippers inserted all of their starters in the fourth quarter did they finish off a 115-104 victory, the 800th of Doc Rivers' coaching career.
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Griffin scored the game's first basket on a jumper, giving him 10,000 points in his career. He is the second player in franchise history to reach that mark. Randy Smith scored 10,467 of his club-record 12,735 points when the team was known as the Buffalo Braves.
Rivers became the 15th coach in NBA history with 800 victories. Only Gregg Popovich of San Antonio (1,146) has more among active coaches.
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The men behind Downforce Racing have convinced city officials they have the skills to run the Baltimore Grand Prix, have secured the blessing of IndyCar executives and have sweated through months of contract negotiations.
But those efforts pale in the face of the challenge that now lies before them: pulling together an expensive and elaborate racing festival in just six months.
"This group needs to get moving now and not wait," said Lisa Delpy Neirotti, a professor of sports marketing at George Washington University. "They have plenty of time, but they just need to spring into action now."
The city canceled its contract with the organizers of last year's race after they ran up $12 million in debt and left creditors unpaid. Downforce Racing — Indianapolis-based contractor Dale Dillon and former Constellation Energy Group executives Felix J. Dawson and Daniel Reck — formally won a contract with the city this week, after a 3-2 Board of Estimates vote.
Now they must open offices and hire staff, sign deals with contractors, plan the track, sell tickets and craft a new image for a Labor Day weekend event that many Baltimoreans associate with snarled traffic and unpaid debts.
The first and perhaps most important task is finding a company to sign on as the festival's title sponsor, a designation generally worth $1 million to $2 million. That money could fund marketing, salaries and contractors before ticket sales begin.
"If you don't have a title [sponsor], the chance of this being a financial success is very small," said Tom H. Regan, a professor of sport and entertainment management at the University of South Carolina.
Baltimore Racing Development, the group that put on the inaugural race, never landed a title sponsor. As last year's race approached, race organizers and city officials shrugged off concerns about the lack of one.
But when the Baltimore Racing group collapsed in debt, both the group and city leaders attributed some of the financial problems to the lack of an influx of cash from a title sponsor.
Dillon, who has worked on races in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Toronto, says finding a sponsor is a "top priority." And he is hopeful that he will be able to sign a sponsorship deal.
"We're in those conversations now," Dillon said. Landing a title sponsor is "the goal of every event."
Regan said Downforce has about a month and a half to secure a sponsorship deal. As the date of the race looms closer, there are fewer benefits for a sponsor, he said.
Delpy Neirotti, the George Washington professor, said most sports sponsorship deals are signed about a year before the event.
"The sponsors are losing time to get their name out," she said. Most companies work out their budgets a year in advance, so it can be hard to secure last-minute sponsorship money, she said.
Delpy Neirotti said Downforce's five-year contract with the city could be a boon as the racing group seeks sponsors. The group could structure a deal in which the sponsor pays a minimum for the title rights in the first year but contributes substantially more in the future, she said.
Robin Miller, a racing analyst for the SPEED Channel, said that the popularity of last year's event should help the new group find a sponsor.
Drivers praised Baltimore's street track and enthusiastic audience, and nearly 110,000 tickets were sold over the three days of the racing festival. IndyCar executives, eager to capitalize on the Mid-Atlantic market, consider the race one of the jewels of its 2011 season.
"All they have to do is show [potential sponsors] pictures of last year's race," Miller said.
Last year's successes should also help ticket sales because those who have fond memories of the race are likely to come back. Dillon said he hopes to begin selling tickets in mid-March.
Although ticket sales are starting later than last year — and Downforce has missed the chance for holiday-season sales — city officials say that 70 percent of last year's tickets were sold in the three months leading up to the race.
Regan, the University of South Carolina professor, said this year's ticket sales are an important indicator of the long-term viability of the race.
"You're going to want to see a significant majority of people who bought tickets last year buying them again," he said.
Downforce will be somewhat hampered in efforts to reach out to those who bought tickets last year — the old group owns the list of those who purchased tickets, and it's unclear whether it will sell the list.
The old group also purchased about $1.2 million in concrete barriers and fences now stored at a former Department of Transportation garage off Russell Street. Because those assets were used as collateral for a loan from M&T Bank, it is unclear who owns them. It also is unclear whether Downforce will try to purchase the old barriers and fences, or commission new ones.
City Councilman William H. Cole IV, who worked closely with past and current race organizers, said he thought the new group would be able to leverage the successes of last year's race.
"We won't have those growing pains like we did in Year One," he said.
Cole said he believes that the two miles of roads near the Inner Harbor used as the Baltimore Grand Prix track would be good for another decade. The city spent nearly $7 million last year repaving the roads in preparation for the race — months of traffic-snarling work that drew ire from residents and businesses.
Dillon, who owns a construction company and has laid tracks for two other races, said the track needed little work.
"It's truly just annual maintenance — filling in potholes and cracks," Dillon said.
Without the need for extensive roadwork, preparations for the second year will be much less taxing for those who live and work in the city, Cole said.
Moreover, there is no need to cut down trees — another of the preparations for the 2011 race that drew considerable public criticism — and plans for traffic, public safety and transit can more or less be recycled from last year, he said.
"As far as the city goes, the second year is much less complicated," Cole said.
Cole said he planned to discuss adding more gates to the race area and additional pedestrian bridges over the course to alleviate congestion during the event. He also said the route of the Charm City Circulator buses might need to be tweaked.
One of the most important challenges facing the group — and one aspect in which the three principals lack experience — is marketing.
"They need to start now, marketing at other races and just getting the word out," said Delpy Neirotti. While ticket sales were good last year, she thinks they could have been improved with a more aggressive marketing campaign.
Sarah Davis, IndyCar's senior director of business affairs, said that she would like to see a more regional marketing push.
"We'd like to see more marketing in other cities, and IndyCar will help with that," Davis said.
Cole said the success of last year's race could ease the search for a title sponsor.
"Last year, ... no one really knew what to expect," Cole said. "They had a hard time putting a dollar figure on an event that hadn't run yet."
Cole said he thought Dillon's reputation in the racing world would be helpful in the search.
"Dale is a known asset," he said. "There will be doors that open because of his involvement."
Executives from both IndyCar and the American Le Mans Series, which is also part of the city's racing festival, expressed their confidence in Dillon when they came to Baltimore on Wednesday for the city's vote on the Downforce contract.
Scott Atherton, the president and chief executive officer of the American Le Mans Series, pointed out that Dillon is highly respected in the world of racing.
"This industry at this level is a very small fraternity, and everyone at this level knows him," Atherton said.


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Hooni Kim, of Danji in New York City, fully embraces heritage in his food, bringing French precision and flavors to traditional Korean cuisine. In two beef dishes, one prepared in a traditionally French style and the other in a traditionally Korean style, Kim put forth authentic Asian flavors.
The demonstration began with a steak tartar that combined both classic French and Korean tones. The rich Australian Wagyu tenderloin was prominently flavored by sweet notes of sesame oil, garlic and ginger, which fused well with hints of vinegar.
The dish had a great balance in texture – crunchy toasted pine nuts and sesame seeds were well integrated into the tartar, and the dish was garnished with a thin, crispy and refreshing slices of Korean pear.
Kim then featured a traditional Korean Beef Bulgogi, made from brisket that was marinated for 24 to 36 hours in a sauce of ginger, garlic sesame oil and pear puree. The bulgogi, topped with scallions and thinly sliced carrots, was incredibly tender. Kim adds pear puree to naturally tenderize the meat, so it can capture all the flavors of the marinade.
The tradition of Asian cooking is passed down from generation to generation, and this intergenerational connection serves as a powerful inspiration in Kim's food. And to preserve authentic flavors that Kim aspires to, he relies on Korean imports for the majority of his staple ingredients – including soy sauce, sesame oil, and miso paste.
After the presentation, I asked Chef Kim what exactly was it about French food that lent itself so well to Korean cuisine. In his opinion, it was a matter of technique – in that precision and technique enhanced signature Korean flavors in a way that differentiates it from other Asian dishes.
Photos by John M. Sconzo, M.D.


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Cairnsmore of Fleet, near Newton Stewart
The Cairnsmore of Fleet is the most southerly two thousand foot hill in Scotland and a magnificent viewpoint for the Cree Estuary and the Solway. It makes for a popular and fairly straightforward hillwalk.
Wood and forest paths and tracks, then excellent hill path over moorland. Boggy on final approach to summit.
Public Transport
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Signed parking along track side near Graddoch Bridge.
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Even with the growth of the Internet, catalogs still serve a vital role with their ability to bring end-users new ideas, showcase products, and be delivered and used anywhere. In fact, studies show that much use of the Internet for shopping starts with a catalog. However, with rising postage costs, there is a real need for a solution such as Bolloré Thin Paper: high-quality reproduction, consistent presentation, superior tactile feel, and lighter weight, all in one.
Bolloré Prima papers offer excellent brightness, contrast and print reproduction. Their high degrees of whiteness and opacity make it possible to print catalogs in basis weights as low as 19 lbs without significant worry about the page layouts. Reducing paper weight means that you can keep, or even add, working pages while lessening the impact of postal costs.


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Francesca Minerva, says doctors should have the right to kill newborn babies because they are disabled, too expensive or simply unwanted by their mothers. Doctors should have the right to kill newborn babies because they are disabled, too expensive or simply unwanted by their mothers, an academic with links to Oxford University has claimed. Francesca Minerva, a philosopher and medical ethicist, argues a young baby is not a real person and so killing it in the first days after birth is little different to aborting it in the womb. Even a healthy baby could have its life snuffed out if the mother decides she can't afford to look after it, the article published by the British Medical Journal group states.
It is frightening, and I really mean frightening, that making lawful the murder of newborn babies is now openly recommended by professional "ethicists":
It is hard to fault their logic. While abortion on demand is practiced and paid for by all of us through Medicare and accepted by the populace, why not allow it after birth? As the slippery slope gets slipperier, they don't specify where they would draw the line.
Most little girls I know don't have a dream of someday settling down to have babies on their own with the dad either out of the picture-or so hopelessly immature that he should be. Yet, this is the new, dismal solo-parent reality for many women under 30 today, according to new statistics. According to a recent study by Child Trends nearly three-fifths of children born to women under the age of 30 are born outside of marriage, and nearly half of them are born to co-habitating couples.
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has vowed to fix before the end of the month a government bungle that has cast doubt on all Family Court decisions affecting the financial affairs of de facto couples. But family lawyers said the promise was too vague and too late to help some clients who had been forced to incur unnecessary legal costs because of the government's mistake. The government passed legislation in 2009 that should have given the Family and Federal Magistrates courts the power to deal with property and maintenance disputes between de facto couples.
All media in Australia should be classified, and censored, in the same way, a landmark report handed down today has found. Conducting the first review of Australia's classification laws in 20 years, the Australian Law Reform Commission found that the rapid rise of new forms of media had overtaken existing classification laws. It said the Classification Act could be described as "an analogue piece of legislation in a digital world", with an increasing blurring between websites, blogs and video content.
Pregnancy taxes a woman's body, so you really have to wonder about the motivation behind Jill Hawkins' desire to keep signing up for surrogate duty. Hawkins, 47, is pregnant with her ninth and tenth surrogate babies, twins she's expected to deliver shortly before she turns 48. The British resident is that country's most prolific surrogate. What's just as notable is that the legal secretary is single and has no children of her own. 'I'm a naturally giving person and to be able to give babies away is what I do," she told the Daily Mail.
A Victorian man could face the death penalty after he was allegedly caught smuggling a large quantity of drugs, believed to be methamphetamine, at Bali's international airport. The 54-year-old from Ballarat, identified as Edward Myatt, was detained by Indonesian authorities on Tuesday. Authorities said he was allegedly carrying a large quantity of drugs concealed on his body in up to 70 capsules, and that he had swallowed a number of the capsules.
Police stormed the homes of a Rebels bikie nominee and two associates in dawn raids today, allegedly uncovering two sophisticated hydroponic cannabis growing set-ups and illicit drugs. Gang Crime Squad officers this morning searched three properties in Quinns Rocks, Clarkson and Alexander Heights. Police will allege that 14 mature cannabis plants were found at the Clarkson house. While in Alexander Heights officers said a hydroponic system had been set up to bypass the property's electrical system to avoid detection through the over-consumption of power. Synergy was called in to disconnect the electricity, due to safety concerns.
Sydney police have seized at least $100,000 worth of drugs they say would have been distributed at this weekend's Mardi Gras parade. The drugs include cannabis and cocaine, and four men have been arrested and charged after searches in Leichhardt, Surry Hills, Paddington and Bondi.In one search warrant at a Paddington business, police allegedly found 10 ounces of cocaine as well as $100,000 in cash.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has been told the State Education Department is discriminating against children whose parents do not want them taught religious education. Sophie Aitken and two other parents claim the Department's policy is discriminatory because it separates their children out during religious education classes and denies them the opportunity to be taught secular subjects.
Coal seam gas exploration in NSW will face a new approval hurdle with the state government poised to sign up to new protocols being requested by the federal government. The Herald understands that following a request last year from Canberra, the O'Farrell government will sign the agreement, which will require projects to undergo greater environmental scrutiny before being approved.
Six specialised teams will criss-cross the Netherlands to carry out euthanasia at the home of patients whose own doctors refuse to do so, a pro-euthanasia group said. "From Thursday, the Levenseindekliniek (Life-end clinic) will have mobile teams where people who think they comply with the criteria for euthanasia can register," Right-to-die NL (NVVE) spokeswoman Walburg de Jong said. "If they comply, the teams will carry out the euthanasia at patients' homes should their normal doctors refuse to help them."
Independent MP Bob Such has revived his push to legalise voluntary euthanasia in South Australia. He delivered legislation to Parliament that will apply to people who are terminally ill and suffering unbearable pain. Parliament was shut down over the summer break, meaning several euthanasia proposals were abandoned.
A new drug for diabetics is expected to improve the treatment of high levels of chronic kidney disease in Indigenous communities. Professor Mark Cooper from Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Research says Indigenous people in Central Australia have a particularly high incidence of type-2 diabetes complicated by kidney disease.
After 40 years of decline, the number of weddings has risen by 3.7 per cent in a year. Analysts believe the recession has caused a return to family values and a desire for the stability marriage offers. Data released by the Office of National Statistics showed there were 241,100 weddings in England and Wales in 2010, the most recent year for which figures are available.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces a revolt from the powerful NSW Right over her bungled attempt to recruit Bob Carr to Canberra and moves to dump senior ministers from Cabinet. NSW MPs will also fight an attempt by Ms Gillard to strip the NSW faction of the Government Whip's position and give it to the Victorian Left. Only days after a leadership victory over Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister faces new and bitter divisions.
A Melbourne man has been found guilty of raping a Thai sex worker at an inner-north flat linked to the sex trade. An ACT Supreme Court jury found Robert Phillip Dick guilty this afternoon on two counts of having sexual intercourse without consent and one charge of committing an act of indecency.
A senior bishop in Syria has warned that Christianity in his country may suffer the same terrible fate as in neighbouring Iraq. Speaking from northern Syria, the bishop, who asked not to be named for security reasons, said that "his most important" concern as a Christian leader was the danger of a mass exodus of faithful as happened in Iraq after 2003 following the fall of Saddam Hussein. The bishop's comments, made recently , come amid widespread
fears that Christians will be among the worst to suffer if Assad falls and power is seized by Islamist rebel groups. Meantime, some Church organisations have reported from centres of conflict, such as Homs, that up to 80 percent of Christians have fled in part as a result of an upsurge in religiously-motivated violence.
Earlier this month Federal Member for Kingston (S.A), Amanda Rishworth, moved a Private Members Motion acknowledging the findings of the UK Government's review Letting the Children be Children on the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood. It is heartening for those of us involved in this issue to see MP's like Rishworth take the lead on speaking out in Parliament and recognising the harm of sexualizing children. Rishworth urged governments, industries, regulators and the wider community to act.
There has been widespread media coverage over over the past ten days about the tragic deaths of a man and his son at the Story Bridge in Brisbane. The Brisbane Council was quick to announce it would fund suicide-prevention signs and telephones at the site, but the Council has refused to install safety barriers that could prevent further deaths from the bridge. Brisbane's Deputy Mayor, Adrian Schrinner, questioned the value of physical barriers at what have become known as suicide "hotspots", saying they would simply "shift the problem" to other sites.
Former Australian Medical Association head Professor Kerryn Phelps says Australia's health system is failing to address the health needs of same-sex attracted women. Phelps' comments follow the release of alarming new figures showing lesbian and bisexual women have far worse health outcomes than their heterosexual counterparts.
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