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North Dakota Hockey Game Notes
– The Teams: #6/#6 Notre Dame (8-3-0/5-1-0-0) vs. #7/#7 North Dakota (5-3-2/3-1-2 in WCHA)
– The Games: Friday, November 23, 2012 – Compton Family Ice Arena (5,022) – 7:35 p.m. Saturday, November 24, 2012 – Compton Family Ice Arena (5,022) – 5:05 p.m.
– Broadcast Information: Radio: The Notre Dame-North Dakota series will be broadcast live on Real Country 99.9 FM in South Bend. Darin Pritchett, the voice of the Irish, will call the action.
– Internet: Audio/Video: Live audio/video streaming for the North Dakota series is available on the Notre Dame website at UND.com free of charge.Statistics: Gametracker is available on the Notre Dame website at UND.com. Livestats can be found at ccha.com or collegehockeyinc. com. Twitter: Follow Irish hockey on Twitter at ND_hockey.
BATTLE OF THE ND's: The two hockey-playing schools who use ND or UND as an abbreviation will meet this weekend at the Compton Family Ice Arena, when the University of Notre Dame squares off against the University of North Dakota in a non-league series. The two teams will meet at 7:35 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 23 in a post-Thanksgiving tilt and then for dessert, play a second game at 5:05 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24. The two teams, once co-members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (1971-81), have not played in South Bend since Jan. 16-17, 1981. Notre Dame brings an 8-3-0 overall record into the series and is ranked sixth nationally in both the USAToday/American Hockey Magazine and USCHO.com polls. The Irish are coming off a weekend sweep at Michigan, taking 3-1 and 4-1 wins on Nov. 15-16. North Dakota, is 5-3-2 on the young season and is right behind Notre Dame in the rankings, checking in at seventh in both polls. Last weekend, North Dakota hosted Minnesota Duluth, getting a 4-4 overtime tie in game one before taking the second game by a 4-3 margin. Notre Dame and Minnesota Duluth split a series at the Compton Family Ice Arena in October.
IRISH VERSUS NORTH DAKOTA: Notre Dame and North Dakota have met 35 times in the all-time series with the series even at 16-16-3. At Notre Dame, the Irish have a 9-6-1 advantage. The two teams played a majority of the games as members of the WCHA (28) from 1971-81 with the Irish holding a 14-13-1 edge in those games. They met twice in 1970-71 before the Irish joined the conference and five times since. The teams split the games in `70-'71 and North Dakota is 2-1-2 in the last five non-WCHA games. The two teams split a pair of contests at Grand Forks, N.D., in 1998-99, then battled to a 3-3 tie in the 2009-10 Shillelagh Tournament title game. The Irish were awarded the championship in a shootout win. The last meeting between the two schools came on Nov. 26-27 at Grand Forks with North Dakota winning the opener, 6-3. The Irish battled back for a 2-2 tie the following night.
IRISH VERSUS WCHA: Notre Dame has six games on its schedule this season versus teams from the WCHA and is 2-1 so far. The Irish opened with a 3-2 win over Nebraska Omaha in the championship game of the Ice Breaker Tournament (Oct. 13). Notre Dame then opened the home schedule with two games against Minnesota Duluth (Oct. 18-19), splitting those two games, losing 3-1, and then taking a 4-1 decision. After the two games with North Dakota this weekend, the Irish travel to Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 8 to play the University of Minnesota.
NEXT FOR THE IRISH: Notre Dame will continue its six-game homestand next week, returning to CCHA play with a home series versus Lake Superior State on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Friday's game starts at 7:35 p.m. and Saturday has a 7:05 p.m. start.
UPCOMING TIME CHANGE: Notre Dame's game on Friday, Dec. 7 versus Michigan State has had the start time changed from 7:35 p.m. to 7:05 p.m. The game will be televised live by the NBC Sports Network.
TOUGH STRETCH: This weekend's series for Notre Dame against seventh-ranked North Dakota concludes a stretch of 11 consecutive games for the Irish against nationally ranked teams. The streak started on Oct. 18 versus Minnesota Duluth. The Irish are currently 6-3-0 in that streak after sweeping #13/#13 Michigan, 3-1 and 4-1 last week. Here is a look at Notre Dame's recent schedule against ranked teams. (Rankings are USA Today/USCHO.com. Rankings listed for games played are team's rankings on the day of the game. Rankings for games to be played are from 11/19 polls).
10/18 vs. #13/#13 Minnesota Duluth L, 1-310/19 vs. #13/#13 Minnesota Duluth W, 4-110/26 at #15/#16 No. Michigan W, 5-210/27 at #15/#16 No. Michigan W, 3-211/2 vs. #11/#11 Western Michigan L, 2-311/4 vs. #11/#11 Western Michigan W, 4-011/9 at #1/#1 Boston College L, 1-311/15 at #13/#13 Michigan W, 3-111/16 at #13/#13 Michigan W, 4-1
11/23 vs. #7/#7 North Dakota11/24 vs. #7/#7 North Dakota
MICHIGAN RECAP: Thursday, Nov. 15 – Third-period goals by Bryan Rust (Jr., Novi, Mich.) and Peter Schneider (So., Vienna, Austria) snapped a 1-1 tie to give Notre Dame a 3-1 win over Michigan at Yost Arena. Mike Voran (Jr., Livonia, Mich.) scored a short-handed goal in the second period to offset a first-period Michigan goal by Justin Selman. Steven Summerhays (Jr., Anchorage, Alaska) stopped 24-of-25 Wolverine shots to get the win for the Irish. Notre Dame fell behind at 4:38 of the opening stanza when Selman scored off an Irish turnover, snapping a shot from the left circle past Summerhays for his first collegiate goal. Notre Dame tied things in the second on Voran's short-handed tally at 4:04. T.J. Tynan (Jr., Orland Park, Ill.) tracked down a long clearing pass by Shayne Taker (Jr., Surrey, B.C.) at the Michigan blue line and combined with Voran on a 2-on-1 versus goaltender Steve Racine. Tynan made the pass across the slot to Voran who one-timed a shot from the bottom of the left circle for his first goal of the season. The game would remain tied until the 14:22 mark of the third when Rust took the rebound of a Robbie Russo (So., Westmont, Ill.) shot off the back boards and tucked it inside the left post for a wrap-around goal to make it 2-1. The goal was Rust's third of the season. Schneider added the insurance goal at 18:28 when his deflection of a Stephen Johns (Jr., Wampum, Pa.) shot from the right point went in off defenseman Mike Chaisson's skate for the final score of 3-1. Notre Dame out shot Michigan, 32-25, in the game. Racine finished with 29 saves. Both teams were 0-for-2 on the power play.
Friday, Nov. 16 – Defenseman Robbie Russo scored two goals while Jeff Costello (Jr., Milwaukee, Wis.) and Mario Lucia (Fr., Plymouth, Minn.) scored solo goals to lead Notre Dame to a 4-1 win over Michigan at Yost Arena. Steven Summerhays stopped 28-of-29 shots on the night, giving up just one goal to Jacob Trouba in the second period. The sweep at Yost Arena was the first for the Irish since Feb. 3-4, 1978. Russo staked the Irish to a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 11:41 of the first period. An Irish turnover in the second helped Trouba even the score as he blasted a shot past Summerhays at 13:12 of the second period to make it 1-1. Despite being out shot, 14-7, in the third, Notre Dame outscored Michigan, 3-0. Bryan Rust forced a turnover behind the Wolverine goal and fed Costello in front who beat Steve Racine for his third goal of the season at 11:03 and the eventual game winner. Lucia made it 3-1 with his first goal of the year in his second game back from an injury as he took a feed from Stephen Johns and beat Racine at 13:30. Russo closed the scoring, with a 160-foot shot into an empty net at 19:17 to close the scoring at 4-1. The two-goal game was the first of Russo's career at Notre Dame. Michigan out shot the Irish, 29-19 in the game. The Irish were 1-for-4 on the power play while the Wolverines were 0-for-5.
RARE SWEEP: Notre Dame's back-to-back wins at Michigan on Nov. 15-16 marked just the fourth all-time sweep for the Irish at Yost Arena in the program's history. The last time that Notre Dame won a series at Michigan came on Feb. 3-4, 1978 when the two teams were members of the WCHA, 35 seasons ago. The previous sweeps came in 1970-71, 1972-73 and 1977-78. This marked the 22nd, two-game series played between the two programs in the 45-year history of the program.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: Sophomore defenseman Robbie Russo and junior goaltender Steven Summerhays were honored by the CCHA for their play in the Michigan series. Russo was named the Gladiator defensive player of the week as he had two goals and one assist for three points. He had five shots in the two games was +2 and added two blocked shots. Summerhays held the No. 2 ranked offense (4.22 goals per game) to just two on the weekend and stopped 52-of-54 shots for a .963 save percentage and two wins.
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES: When Notre Dame swept Michigan in the 1977-78 season, two members of that team were forward Kevin Nugent, Sr. `78 and defenseman Don Lucia `81. It would take 35 seasons for the Irish to duplicate the sweep feat at Yost Arena and again the Notre Dame roster had a Nugent and a Lucia on it. Senior forward Kevin Nugent, Jr. (New Canaan, Conn.) and freshman forward Mario Lucia (Plymouth, Minn.) were members of this year's team with Lucia scoring a goal in the victory.
MOVEMBER MOMENTS: Members of the Notre Dame hockey team are participating in the annual "Movember" event that encourages men to grow a "Mo" (moustache) during the month of November to raise awareness and funds for men's health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer inititiaves. The fund-raising efforts are being spearheaded by junior defenseman Stephen Johns (Wampum, Pa.). The entire Irish team is involved in the effort and various fundraising efforts will be underway during the North Dakota series and on Nov. 30 versus Lake Superior State. To make a donation to the Notre Dame hockey team, check the team site http://us.movember.com/mospace/5672569.
WELCOME BACK: Freshman left wing Mario Lucia returned to the Notre Dame lineup against Michigan after missing the first nine games of the season with a broken leg. Lucia was injured on August 29 in preseason conditioning. The son of University of Minnesota head hockey coach and Notre Dame alum, Don Lucia `81, Mario played last season for the Penticton Vees of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) where he was a teammate of current freshman center Steven Fogarty (Edina, Minn.). With Penticton, Lucia was second in scoring with 42 goals and 52 assists for 94 points in 56 games, helping the Vees to the BCHL regular-season and postseason titles and the RBC Cup as the Canadian Junior A champions. Lucia scored his first collegiate goal in his second game back, the 4-1 win over Michigan.
FINALLY: Junior center T.J. Tynan snapped a five-game scoring drought, the longest of his Notre Dame career, with an assist versus Michigan on Nov. 15. That point was the 100th of his Irish career and makes him the 47th player in the program's history to reach the "Century Club." He now has 38 goals and 62 assists for his 100 points in 94 career games. Junior center Anders Lee (Edina, Minn.) is the next Irish player in line as he has played in 95 career games and has 46 goals and 41 assists for 87 points.
"Century Club"Name (Seasons) G A Pts1. Brian Walsh (1973-77) 89 145 2342. John Noble (1969-73) 81 145 2263. Eddie Bumbacco (1970-74) 103 117 2204. Ian Williams (1970-74) 92 119 211
37. Aaron Gill (2000-04) 49 62 111 Connor Dunlop (1999-03) 25 86 11139. Jack Brownschidle (1973-77) 31 78 10940. Tim Reilly (1981-86) 43 65 10841. Billy Maday (2008-12) 45 60 105 Aniket Dhadphale (1995-99) 61 44 10543. Bob Thebeau (1982-86) 40 63 10344. Kevin Hoene (1968-71) 50 51 10145. Matt Hanzel (1985-89) 50 51 10146. T.J. Tynan (2009 - ) 38 62 100 Paul Clarke (1973-77) 38 62 100-- Anders Lee (2009 -) 46 41 87
SCORING FIRST: Notre Dame's 3-1 win at Michigan on Nov. 15 marked the first time this season that the Irish came back to win a game after the opposition scored the game's first goal. Notre Dame is 7-0-0 when the Irish score first and 1-3-0 when the opponent gets the first goal.
SHORT-HANDED: Notre Dame's penalty-killing unit killed all seven chances that Michigan had in the two-game series last week. The Irish have now killed 16 consecutive opponent power plays since Nov. 4 versus Western Michigan. For the season, they are 40-for-44 when short-handed for a 90.9% success rate. Notre Dame is tops in the CCHA in penalty killing and ranks fifth in the nation. The Irish also have two short-handed goals.
GOING ON THE OFFENSIVE: Two of Notre Dame's defensemen – sophomore Robbie Russo and junior Stephen Johns – are tied for third in team scoring with seven points each. Russo is second on the team with four goals and has three assists for his seven points. The four goals ties his season output from 2011-12 when he had four in 40 games. Johns leads the Irish with seven assists for his seven points. The seven assists are already more than he had last season when he had six helpers in 39 games.
WORK HORSE: Dating back to last Feb. 24, Irish goaltender Steven Summerhays has started 15 of Notre Dame's last 17 games. During those 15 starts, Summerhays is 10-5-0 with a 1.44 goals-against average, a .945 save percentage and four shutouts. His shutout win versus Western Michigan (4-0) on Nov. 4 was the 20th win of his Notre Dame career. He is now 22-15-1 for his career with a 2.37 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage. This season, Summerhays leads the CCHA in wins (7) and goals-against average (1.51). He is fourth in save percentage (.939) and tied for first with two shutouts.
SHARING THE WEALTH: Through the first 11 games of the 2012-13 season, 13 different Notre Dame players have scored the team's 31 goals with Anders Lee leading the way with five. Sophomore defenseman Robbie Russo is second with four while four others have three each. Nineteen of the team's 22 skaters have scored at least one point with Lee leading the way with nine points. Six different players have scored game-winning goals for the Irish with Bryan Rust and Steven Fogarty leading the way with a pair.
STRONG START: Notre Dame's 8-3-0 start this season is the fifth-best start in the program's history after 11 games. The previous best starts for the Irish after nine games were:
2006-07: 9-1-11987-88: 8-1-21998-99: 8-1-21989-90: 9-2-02012-13: 8-3-02011-12: 7-2-22010-11: 7-3-12008-09: 7-3-12007-08: 7-4-0
SHOOTING THE PUCK: Through the first 11 games of the 2012-13 season, Notre Dame has outshot its opposition in eight of them, getting 30 or more shots in a game eight times. The Irish are averaging 31.2 shots per game to 24.8 for their opponents. In games that the Irish have more shots, they are 6-2-0. When they are out shot, the Irish are 2-1-0. The 20 shots that Notre Dame registered against Boston College was a season low for a game while the two shots the Irish had in the second period was a season-low for one period.
WEARING THEM DOWN: Through the first 11 games of the season, Notre Dame is proving to be a third-period team. The Irish are out shooting the opposition by a 122-78 margin (+44) in the third period and out scoring them by a 13-3 margin (+10) in the third. Over the first two periods, Notre Dame has a 221-195 shot advantage (+26) and an 18-15 (+3) scoring advantage.


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Childhood CT Scans May Slightly Increase Lifetime Risk of Leukemia and Brain Tumors
DynaMed Weekly Update - Volume 7, Issue 24
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As previously highlighted in a Dynamed Weekly Update in 2010 (volume 5, issue 2), radiation exposure from computed tomography (CT) scans in adults has been associated with increased lifetime cancer risk (Arch Intern Med 2009 Dec 14;169(22):2071). A new retrospective cohort study has evaluated the risks of leukemia and brain tumors associated with childhood CT scans. Patients in Great Britain who had at least 1 CT scan before the age of 22 years and had no previous cancer diagnosis were assessed for absorbed radiation doses in red bone marrow and brain tissue. A cohort of 178,604 patients was analyzed for incidence of leukemia and a cohort of 176,587 patients was analyzed for brain tumors. Patients were excluded for diagnosis of leukemia within 2 years or brain tumor with 5 years of CT scan to reduce the risk of counting preexisting cancers.
Absorbed radiation dose, measured in milliGrays (mGy) varies with age and scan location. For a 5-year old child receiving a head CT, the typical brain exposure would be about 28 mGy and the estimated red bone marrow dose would be about 9 mGy. A chest CT gives lower doses to both brain tissue and bone marrow. A 15-year old adolescent would typically receive a brain dose of about 44 mGy and a bone marrow dose of 5 mGy from a head CT.
During follow-up of up to 23 years, leukemia was diagnosed in 74 patients (0.04% of cohort) and brain tumors were diagnosed in 135 patients (0.08% of cohort). Increasing radiation dose was associated with increased cancer risk. For each 1 mGy increase in dose the excess relative risk for diagnosis of any leukemia was 0.036 (95% CI 0.005-0.12), and the excess relative risk for any brain tumor was 0.023 (95% CI 0.01-0.049). Compared to cumulative doses< 5 mGy, a cumulative dose of ≥ 30 mGy was associated with increased risk of leukemia (relative risk 3.18, 95% CI 1.46-6.94) and a cumulative dose of 50-74 mGy was associated with increased risk of brain tumor (relative risk 2.82, 95% CI 1.33-6.03).
In terms of absolute risk, these results correspond to an estimate of 1 additional case of leukemia and 1 additional brain tumor over 10 years per 10,000 children having a head CT scan at ≤ 10 years old. Though low, these risks should be considered when weighing the clinical value of a CT scan in a child, especially when other options may exist (Lancet 2012 Jun 7 early online).
For additional information, see the Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), Myelodysplastic syndrome, and Brain tumor topics in DynaMed.


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Foundry Commercial is developing a new industrial facility off Interstate 85, the company said Wednesday.
The company is developing a 106-acre tract of wooded land on Beltway Bouelvard, near I-85 and Sam Wilson Road. Foundry and its capital partner Principal Real Estate Investors said they've closed on a deal to buy the land. Real estate records show they paid $6.7 million.
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Week 16 - The Andrews Sisters.
I have such a love for harmonies, so of course I love the Andrews Sisters. I've been wanting to cover one of their songs for a long, long time and finally we were able to do it with help from one of our accordion sisters, Jennie Muoio! We were going with the beach/summer theme but didn't realize the actual words till we really learned the song. Musically it's such a cute song but the words are, well morally questionable to say the least! It seems like a similar thing happened to the Andrew Sisters. They recorded the song with 10 minutes to spare in their recording session. Years later, Maxine Andrews recalled, "The rhythm was what attracted the Andrews Sisters to 'Rum and Coca-Cola'. We never thought of the lyrics. The lyric was there, it was cute, but we didn't think of what it meant; but at that time, nobody else would think of it either, because we weren't as morally open as we are today and so, a lot of stuff—really, no excuses—just went over our heads." The song was banned by network radio stations despite being a big hit, because it mentioned….an alcoholic beverage! Things were certainly different back then.
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Diversified miner Vedanta Resources said mined metal production at its Indian zinc unit almost doubled in the first quarter due to higher volumes at all of its mines and better ore grades.
The company, which mines zinc in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, said mined metal content jumped 84 percent to 233,000 tonnes for the quarter ended June 30.
The Rampura Agucha open pit-mine operator also said integrated zinc production rose 92 percent to 194,000 tonnes during the quarter and maintained its previous guidance of higher mined metal production for the full-year 2018 in its Indian zinc unit.
Vedanta also said it expected refined zinc-lead metal production to be around 950,000 tonnes and that the company was on track to reach mined metal capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per annum in the full-year 2020.
Also Read: Base metals rise on sustained demand
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Introducing our first Fall Collection this week. We are getting slowly into the falling leaves and pumpkin spice latte so it's the perfect time for some beautiful Fall inspired overlays.
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High School Sports
Charlotte-area high school football games of the week
Richmond Senior (3-0) at No. 2 Butler (2-1), Friday, 7: Two programs with multiple 4A state championships and deep histories meet. Butler is averaging more than 36 points per game and Richmond is averaging nearly 50, so this one could be high-scoring. Butler won 32-13 in Rockingham last season.
No. 9 Hough (2-1) at No. 15 Ardrey Kell (2-1), Friday, 7: Hough beat Ardrey Kell twice last season, including a 34-7 victory at home in the second round of the N.C. 4AA playoffs. Both of those games were in Cornelius. But Ardrey Kell gets to play at home this time in matchup of teams ranked in the Observer's Sweet 16 poll.
No. 12 South Mecklenburg (2-1) at No. 14 Myers Park (3-0), Friday, 7: One of Mecklenburg County's oldest and most traditional rivalries renews with big stakes. Both teams are legitimate league championship threats – South Meck in the SoMeck; Myers Park in the Southwestern – and both teams are off to strong starts. Myers Park hasn't been 4-0 since 1983. South Meck, looking to bounce back after last week's 38-25 loss at Rock Hill Northwestern, has won the past two meetings.
Sun Valley (3-0) at Porter Ridge (3-0), Friday, 7:30: These Union County rivals have both started strong. Porter Ridge is off to its best start since 2012, but will have to deal with a Sun Valley offense that is averaging nearly 50 points per game.
No. 4 Rock Hill Northwestern (2-1) at Duncan (SC) Byrnes (1-2), Friday, 7:30: A legitimate national power, Byrnes has lost to Myrtle Beach and Mallard Creek to start the season but is returning home, where it rarely loses. Northwestern continues a strong non-conference schedule against regional powers such as South Pointe and South Meck to get ready for another playoff run.


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"If I, even for a moment, accept my culture's definition of me, I am rendered harmless." – Eugene Peterson, Contemplative Pastor, p.15
Over the last year, I have been feeling more and more called to the ordained pastorate. This 'call' has been discomforting to say the least. I have never struggled more, prayed more, read more, whined more, or yelled at God more than I have over the past year. As I continue this struggle with God, I have examined several possible avenues and options. I continue to look first at my own denomination – the PCA – to decide whether this would be the direction of God's leading. Last week, I went to our quarterly Presbytery meeting where several young men were being examined to become pastors. What I witnessed was no different than what I have witnessed before. The whole affair can often feel like a cross between a fraternal hazing and really bad episode of Jeopardy. The pastoral 'contestant' stands up in front of his brothers in Christ – brothers who generally don't know him or know anything about him. They most likely do not know if he understands the gospel and applies it on a heart level, they don't know if he loves his wife, if he has a good marriage, if his children are loved, if he is in debt, if he cheats on his taxes, if he is benevolent to his extended family, if he is moderate in regard to drink, if he is addicted to pain killers, if he is a forgiving person, or an angry person, or if his neighbors know him and respect him. They generally do not know any of these things. Yet they examine him. They examine his fitness for ministry, not according to the qualifications found in 1 Timothy 3, but by his theological recall. Almost exclusively, this is the criteria by which the candidate is measured. Bearing down, the examiners fire questions at him that scrutinize his theological credibility.
Question: What is the proper Ordo Salutis? (Insert Jeopardy Theme here)
The poor plebian stands there, pits sweating, eyes darting back and forth, looking for the memorized answer that sneaks around the dark corners of his intellect. "The Ordo…uh, the Ordo Salutis is…" He clears his throat with the confidence of a drowning turtle stretching his neck up through his starched collar. Then suddenly his eyes stop darting and he clears his throat again. Unseen, his feeble mind finally arrests the answer in the left side of his frontal lobe. He spits it out like a bullet. "The Ordo Salutis is blah blah blah…"
The examiners smile. He got it right. He is so close to validation. While he may not be able to manage his own household, while he may be greedy and power hungry, while he may have dead bodies buried in his cellar, if he can just continue to regurgitate the proper wording, he will one day be be a pastor. How tragic. What are we saying here? Are we really saying that pastoral ordination is nothing more than a cognitive exercise? Are we saying that the primary qualification of a pastor is his intelligence and not his heart?
Meanwhile, the fraternity continues to hurl rotten-tomato inquisitions at the poor, naked plebians while the theme for Jeopardy plays on. "Tell him what he's won, Alex!"
"Well, Johnny…For all your hard work, preparing for and passing this examination, you've won a congregation full of broken people who desperately need the Gospel. They need you to love your wife (you do have wife don't you?), they need you to preach the Gospel in a way that they can understand it (don't worry, you can teach them the catechisms), they need you to deal openly and honestly with your struggles (we know that you have none, but maybe you can make up a few sins to show them that you're real), they need you to help them know how to love their enemies (of course loving is almost synonymous with shooting, we all know that), and they need you pray for them (O Holy Fwather, we beseech Thee…). Now go out there and knock 'em dead, Johnny!"
Oh man. We are definitely missing the boat. We pastors, we clergy, have become far too poised. Too clean. Too polished. Too…professional. God help us. God help me. May Christ grant me the spirit-filled temerity, the courage, the determination, to say, "No." No. I will not be a Professional. I will not be a guy with all the answers. I will not build a white tower of theological intimidation. I will not hide myself in the imposing clerical robes of self-satisfied rightness. I am an amatuer. I am a rookie. I will always be a rookie. I will always be needy, broken, unloving, and unsure. I will always need Jesus. May God grant me a spiritual resolve that will not break under the religious boots of Christian Professionlism. May Jesus guard me from the temptation, the need, the idolatrous desire, to become an expert.
John Piper, in his book, "Brothers, We are Not Professionals", says this concerning Pastoral Professionalism:
We are fools for Christ's sake. But professionals are wise. We are weak. But professionals are strong. Professionals are held in honor. We are in disrepute. We do not try to secure a professional lifestyle, but we are ready to hunger and thirst and be ill-clad and homeless. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
This thought is so convicting. It violates every fleshly impulse within me. And yet, my heart knows it's true. May my heart undermine my flesh. The Lord has called me to be a Pastor. If this is true, then he must show me what this means and how to do it, and when, and where. I've been in the ministry for twenty years, and still I am lost without Him. I am no Pastor without Him. He is the answer to my examination. He is my validation. I will hide myself in the hollow of His hand as I follow His call…
"Tim. Come be an amatuer. Come follow me. Come you fool. Come my son. Come and die."


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Physical Therapy Cabaret at the Auburn Saloon
After an enjoyable beginning to my evening courtesy of the Grand Poney / Steven Thompson double bill I made my way over to the Auburn Saloon for the Physical Therapy Cabaret. By the time I arrived, the place was hopping with Festival-goers and I only just managed to grab a draft before...
The Cabaret was hosted by the dynamic Jamie Tea. Who kept things moving quickly and smoothly with enough quirk and charm to knock your socks off. See her pictured above, moustache optional.
The first piece was choreographed by Alison Bryan and performed by Deanne Walsh, Catherine Hayward & Laura Kleiner. I should say, I wasn't quite seated when this piece started and the dancers came wooshing by me as their piece began not on stage, but at the back of the room. As the dancers, clad in dresses and gum boots, took to the stage, a big sweeping piece of music joined them. At this point one of the bar staff mentioned to me that the dancers would be wooshing by me a number of times. A warning worth mentioning as the dancers didn't stay on stage long. For me, their was an element of nostalgia, youthfulness and adventure to the piece. In any interpretation, a charged way to begin the evening!
The next piece was choreographed by Pamela Tzeng, who was joined on stage by Loretta D'anuto in a clever and comic exploration on communication. Punctuated by recordings of poignant observations on language, communication and understanding, the two dancers exchange simple, somewhat universal movements in attempts to communicate to more or less success. What really got me caught up in the action was the almost slapstick like relationship the two characters had with one another, which does in many ways parallel the ridiculous ways we try to communicate with each other. As the voice mentions at one point, "communicating is easy when it's working out."
Judith Mendelsohn was up next. Judith is a talented clown performer, and when I say clown I don't mean you should bring your kids. Judith is an clown for adults. In her newest escapades, she's going for the big top - Circus Oy Vey's Obo. And she's pulling out all the ridiculous and far-fetched nonsense she can in order to get there... or where ever it is she can get. My only hope is that Judith is back from France, where she's been for the last 3 years, to stay.
Following Judith was more hilarity provided by choreographer Mark Ikeda, who was joined on stage by Richard Lee. After a terrible accident involving gamma rays and a bunch of stuff you'll find in a nerd's wet dream, we find ourselves enjoying an 8-bit Super Mario dance and an 8-bit Legend of Zelda dance to follow. I was sold right there. And Mark obviously played these games, a lot, because he had all the details down. Good on ya Mark. Plus the best quote of the night, "video games are great, anybody can be a super hero, even an obese plumber who's addicted to drugs."
Next came Danielle Wensley in what I found was a brilliantly timed piece. After two pieces of comedy, it was a splash of starkness that followed. But don't get me wrong, there was nothing cold or distant in Danielle's performance. My attention was caught immediately by the dark silhouette created by strong white light and Danielle's still figure dressed in black as this calm settled over a bar that was bustling only a moment ago. A testament to the power of a performer. For me, the piece spoke about a relationship between a dancer and the audience, and how that translates to an understanding of one individual's understanding of identity. Of course, perhaps I was completely caught in the moment. But there was one image where she framed her ear with her hands that stood out to me as particularly meaningful.
Steven Thompson put forward what he deemed an etude. As I've heard them defined in the past, an etude is an exploration or examination of something specific within a larger whole. He then continued to say his etude this evening would be of his left and right arm. His piece only got better from there. Starting with rolling up his sleeves to the lick of some cheesy 80's lounge music sent the audience into cat calls - who knew such skinny arms held such power? And it was in his cleverness that Steven captured the audience, conducting strings with perfectly timed flourishes of his arms and speaking raps with mouths created by his hands. Plus the whole thing ended in a shower of sparkles!
To finish off the evening was a very special performance choreographed by Kyrsten Blair and performed by over a dozen of Calgary's dance community who are raising kids and don't get to dance so often anymore. Good golly, if only ever person could dance with the conviction that these people danced with. I wish I could dance with the conviction I saw on these women's faces! It was freeing just to witness. Not too mention the piece itself was a blast, brilliantly put together and well- executed by all!
Physical Therapy Cabaret runs again next Saturday, October 21 at the Auburn Saloon starting at 9:30 PM. The line-up is a little different (Judith Mendelsohn & Danielle Wensley will NOT be performing on the 21st, but Denise Clark and MOMO will be) but I HIGHLY recommend this event to anyone, especially those of you new to dance!
Lee Cookson


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Two New National Groups To Push for Voucher Programs
On a date chosen for its symbolism, veteran voucher litigator Clint Bolick last week announced the launch of two national organizations that will press for more publicly financed programs that help parents pay for private schooling.
Depicting voucher proponents as "heirs to the battle for Brown v. Board of Education," Mr. Bolick chose May 17—the 50th anniversary of the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down racially segregated public schools—to unveil the Alliance for School Choice and its lobbying arm, Advocates for School Choice. The timing was sharply criticized by voucher opponents.
"For the first time, the school choice movement will have the ability to go toe to toe with the defenders of the educational status quo," Mr. Bolick, the president and general counsel of both organizations, said at a news conference here. "David has just gotten a little stronger in the fight against Goliath."
The new, Phoenix-based nonprofit groups will focus exclusively on promoting and protecting programs that provide vouchers, tax credits, or other public funding of private schooling for disadvantaged students, Mr. Bolick said.
Pointing to the National Education Association as "the single most powerful and reactionary force against school choice in any form," Mr. Bolick said that in many places, "you have the teachers' union blocking the schoolhouse door" for voucher programs.
An official from the 2.7 million-member teachers' union responded last week by saying that "the most significant opposition to vouchers comes not from the NEA but from parents themselves." He also called the timing of the groups' unveiling "ironic and appalling."
"It flies in the face of all reality and experience—the claim that this will authentically help disadvantaged students," said union spokesman Michael Pons.
The new groups result from a reorganization of three other pro-voucher groups: the American Education Reform Council and the American Education Reform Foundation, both based in Milwaukee, and the Austin, Texas-based Children First America. With a budget this year of $4.5 million, the new groups drew their initial funding from those organizations and are now seeking further funding from foundations and individuals, a spokeswoman said.
The boards of directors of both groups are chaired by William E. Oberndorf, a San Francisco philanthropist who was a co- founder of the American Education Reform Council, and include John Walton, a son of Wal-Mart founder Sam M. Walton. The Walton Family Foundation, based in Bentonville, Ark., has been a prominent donor to school choice groups nationally, including Children First America.
'Sacred Promise'
Even one leading school choice advocate associated with the new groups questioned the strategy of casting private school choice as a civil rights issue.
Howard L. Fuller, a member of the board of Advocates for School Choice, suggested that the voucher movement needs to establish legitimacy on its own, and not through association with past struggles.
"Why get into a debate about who can attach themselves to the civil rights movement? That's an unfortunate discussion," said Mr. Fuller, a former Milwaukee schools superintendent who is now a professor at Marquette University in that city. "In order for a movement that is affecting primarily black people to be effective, I don't think it needs to be attached to a movement that occurred years and years ago." ("Choice Option of U.S. Law Used, Report Finds," May 19, 2004.)
Still, the message at last week's announcement was that voucher proponents were carrying on the fight to fulfill, as Mr. Bolick put it, "the sacred promise of equal educational opportunities."
Before taking the helm of the two new groups, Mr. Bolick was a co-founder and vice president of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public-interest law firm in Washington that has played a leading role in advancing the voucher cause in court.
"This battle," he said, "is the civil rights issue of our generation."
Underscoring that point at the event was the leader of a parent group that successfully campaigned for a new voucher program in the District of Columbia.
"Before Brown, people fought to keep us out of good schools," said Virginia Walden-Ford, the executive director of the Washington- based D.C. Parents for School Choice.
"Today," she said, "too many people are fighting to keep us trapped in bad schools."
Vol. 23, Issue 38, Page 13Published in Print: May 26, 2004, as Two New National Groups To Push for Voucher Programs
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Making COP21 Work for Africa (Infoboxx)
My latest column for Infoboxx on how Ghana can give its climate change commitments some teeth post-COP21:
As the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP21, draws to a close on December 11, success will be marked by the measures taken to slow the pace of climate change in Africa, the region that causes the least environmental damage, yet suffers the most. At this year's conference, African heads of state showed they meant business: they arrived with a unified front and policy points. Forty-seven African countries submitted their "intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs)," outlines of their respective strategic plans to mitigate climate change. The pledges were impressive: Comoros, a small island nation north of Madagascar, committed to reducing emissions by 84% while Ghana committed to a 15% reduction (pledging to increase its commitment to 45% if external support were made available).
The INDCs and the AfDB plan can be successful if they follow the four essential elements for climate change success that UN Secretary Ban-Ki Moon laid out in an op-ed in Le Monde: durability, flexibility, solidarity, and credibility.
How can Ghana, in particular, craft a sustainable mitigation strategy that recognises these principles?


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Obama is a parody of the left-wing Democratic wimp Presidential candidate. He's starting to make Carter and Mondale look tough. Here's a note from Time on Obama's most recent Sunday morning talkathon performance:
This Week [with George Stephanopoulos]: Obama refused to say if Palin is qualified for VP, saying he's not interested in "a résumé contest." Defended his community organizer years, calling attacks on the job "puzzling." Said he once considered joining the military in Hawaii, and said he would cross his party on charter schools and teacher merit pay, military spending, and health care tort reform. Conceded he was "probably" too flip with Rick Warren when he said defining the beginning of life was above his pay grade.
He's not interested in a resume contest? That means he knows he'll lose.
As for his considering joining the military, there's a lot here that went unsaid: Obama claims he considered joining the military when he graduated high school in 1979 and that he signed up for Selective Service (i.e., possible future draft) that same year. This is not so -- Selective Service registration was halted in 1975 and reinstated in 1980 (The Monk signed up in 1988). Obama would have had to sign up in 1980 (the requirement was retroactive), but by then he was a collegian and had more than a year to ponder any decision to join the military.
Does this matter? Only in the landing-in-Bosnia-during-a-firefight manner of exaggerating reality and one's own ego.


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Shutter is a free screenshot manager for Linux that can grab your screen, well that's what every snapshot tool does. Exciting thing about Shutter is that it also allows you to take snapshot of specific area, a particular window or even a website. Right from that window, you can make changes to screenshot to highlight something or draw a pointer to anything you wish. Shutter is written in Perl. Its feature list also includes sending image to photo editors, uploading to websites and auto-thumbnailing.
Shutter is actually 0.7 version of a previously known screenshot manager called GScrot. This Linux only app is of great use to bloggers, technical writers and all those who like showing off their Linux desktop.
Debian / Ubuntu based distro users can execute following command to install Shutter:
And, for RHEL/Fedora/CentOS users can do it with this command:
From GUI view, it can be started as follows:
Applications > Accessories > Shutter
Or to do it CLI way, following command will start the app and will grab the whole screen automatically.
shutter --full
To start shutter in window selection mode:
shutter --window
To start in selection mode (in which you can select the part of screen to be grabbed with your mouse):
shutter --selection
To see the help section of shutter:
shutter --help
We all must have heard about defragmenting our hard drives to speed up performance. Sound of that similar to windows users but we don't have any defragment utility, hell, we don't need to defragment! And why is that? Lets find out-
I remember when I was new to Linux, a friend of mine came with a hard disk and asked me to defragment it (yeah, we all have faced it). It was easy in windows, how hard it could be in Linux? I connected the spare bus to his hard disk and then started a mission to defragment via Linux. I can't stress this enough that I was new to Linux and didn't know much about how things work. After trying every bit I knew, looked up the mighty google and it came like a bolt from the blue- NO DEFRAGMENTATION NEEDED IN LINUX. </chitchat>
I'll cover it in as short as possible; your hard disk is divided into sectors. These sectors are capable of storing small pieces of data. So, when the size of file is more than size of a sector then the file is saved over multiple sectors, as simple as that. As the new file comes, it is saved next to previous sector. But, when the size of first file increases, it might not find free sectors near original file so it will be saved few sectors apart, this goes on and on. While reading this file, the head will have to skip physical locations which ultimately will make things slower. Defragmentation is the process in which file is put back in continuous fashion so that there is no skipping of sectors.
Note: Defragmenting is not recommended for SSD drives. They have a different theory, doing so will reduce their life.
Linux's file systems deal with fragmentation in an intelligent way. Instead of placing files next to each other, it keeps a lot of space between the sectors of two files therefore leaving space for these files to grow. This keeps fragmentation far away, yet not impossible. Even if there are fragments, file system attempts to move the files thereby reducing the fragmentation. The system is designed to avoid fragmentation in normal use. You might face some fragmentation when your space fills up, may be 80% or 90%. The more suitable method to deal with it is to get a new hard drive with more space else you can copy your files to other drive, delete original files and then copy them back- they will be arranged automatically.
It has been just two months or so since Linux 3.5 was unleashed, another update was released as Linux 3.6 on October 1st, 2012.
Torvalds said
"There haven't been any huge new architectures or filesystems, it's all 'solid progress.' That may not sound all that exciting, but the devil is in the details, and there's a lot of small fixes all over."
The most important and talked-about changes in Linux 3.6 are as follows:
It now offers a mode which can be categorised as a hybrid of sleep mode and Hibernation. It first copies the contents of RAM on Hard Drive as it does in hibernate mode and then goes into sleep mode. What we get from this mode? The system won't just resume quickly but no data will be lost on loosing power.
If the system power gets cut-off somehow, the system will resume from hibernated image, else the resume process will go normally as always and the hibernate image will be discarded.
This feature was developed by Google, it helps in creating a TCP connection quickly in some cases. What we actually get from it? As per release notes, you will see improved page load times on popular websites. In Linux 3.6, client side is now supporting this feature. Server side coming soon.
In all Linux kernel updates, a lot of drivers are added to improve hardware support; this update is no different. This update primarily targets Sony and Apple devices.
Several changes were made for the betterment of memory management, a new feature is introduced which allows swap read-ahead IOPS (input/output operations per second) which promises more throughput along with lower CPU utilization.
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A clock is nothing special, we have tons of it but when it comes to linux the joy of accomplishing anything on command line is heavenly. In this document we are going to see how to display a digital clock in terminal (which updates). You can see the current data/time with Linux's default command date. We will be playing with this very command to do the intended. To retrieve only the time from date command, we can add "+%r" or "+%T" to date command.
With this "data" command you can print the system time. The logic behing building a digital clock is to get continuos output. One way to do this is to use "watch" command along with "date" command. Thus to get a continuous digital clock you can execute following code:
watch -n 1 date +%r
You will find following result:
Now, if you want a clear and formatted output of current time then you can go for this second method. This time we are going to use "echo" command to display the date and in addition to that, we will put it in infinite loop which will update every 1 second- giving a feel of continuous digital clock.
The code goes like this:
clear; while true; do echo -e \\b\\b\\b\\b\\b\\b\\b\\b`date +%T`\\c ; sleep 1; done
You will see something similar to this:
Lets break our code down:
"echo" is used for displaying the output of "date" command.
\\b is to delete the previous output. We have used "%T " with date which gives 8 characters long output. That is why we have used \\b 8 times. In case you wish to use "%r", you will have to use \\b for 11 times as it produces detailed output.
\\c is used to check "echo" from creating new line.
Pidgin is one of the best chat client available on Linux (and on Windows as well). Most Linux distros are shipping with pre-installed Pidgin as default chat client. The major advantage of using Pidgin is that it supports multiple protocols. One can chat on Facebook, gmail, irc, AIM, yahoo, etc. from the single window. Pidgin has gathered all the platforms together but Twitter. Here we are fixing that up! (Credit goes to developer)
We can use a plug-in called "pidgin-microblog" which will enable the twitter integration with Pidgin. Post installation you can update or get twitter-feed from the very Pidgin. Not just Twitter but Identi.ca, status.net, etc. With this plug-in, You get a notification when you have a new update in twitter.
If you are on debian based distro then you can always fire up thet terminal and run following command to install the plug-in.
Once you are done with the installation, go to "Accounts" and select "Manage Account". Then click on "Add" which will navigate you to "Add accounts" window. Select "TwitterIM" and you are very much done.
Last thing you need to do is to authenticate yourself and you can go tweeting all you want right from you little Pidgin.
First advantage over Windows which every one claims is, Linux is free from virus so it doesn't need any antivirus…WRONG!
Don't live in a 'fool's paradise', they also have Linux in their sights!
Only problem is, there are so many distros, they don't know where to start…lol!
Jokes apart, Linux antivirus products do exist, its just that the number is far too low when compared to those of Windows. Have a look at few major reasons behind this:
It would not be correct to say Linux machines are never infected; they are vulnerable to "rootkit". Rootkits allow attacker to get top level access to victim's machine and have full control and during attack user is never alerted about this. Rootkit can spy or modify data and even run applications in background. Some other threats to Linux machines are poisoned DNS entries, spam gateways, backdoor botnets, etc.
You can have a look over the list of viruses here:
You can listen to high pitch cries of Microsoft with this attempt to save Internet Explorer from hitting the dumps. It tends to do so by not improving own product but suppressing others making use of its monopolistic position. This time they are restricting competitor browsers like Firefox and Chrome in ARM version of Windows 8. It is called RT edition of Windows 8. Its in news already that they restricted linux from booting on their hardware.
Mozilla made a claim on their blog that "Windows RT will have two environments, a Windows Classic environment and a Metro environment for apps. However, Windows on ARM prohibits any browser except for Internet Explorer from running in the privileged 'Windows Classic' environment."
Mozilla made another point, "What it means that only Internet Explorer will be able to perform many of the advanced computing functions vital to modern browsers in terms of speed, stability, and security to which users have grown accustomed. Given that IE can run in Windows on ARM, there is no technical reason to conclude other browsers can't do the same."
Looks like Microsoft trying to block them only because it can't beat them!
I was looking for a solution to share some of my files in my Ubuntu server to others and while thinking of "cloud computing" at that time, I am thinking if i can try to share my files by linking my box to my existing dropbox account or not. Thus, i give a try and it seem it works. Here are the steps how to do it.
Step 1. Download and extract the dropbox client
For 32-bit:
For 64-bit:
Step 2. Extract the file
Step 3. Run the dropbox client deamon wiht the following command:
Step 4. Since the server is not link to any dropbox account yet, so you will see the following message keep showing every few second:
This client is not linked to any account…
Please visit https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id=ed2986f99681f0a7b0bf1cd36c79d3e9&cl=en_US to link this machine.
This client is not linked to any account…
Please visit https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id=ed2986f99681f0a7b0bf1cd36c79d3e9&cl=en_US to link this machine.
Step 5. You may now copy & paste the link to any browser by using any computer so that it will start to link this machine to your dropbox account. You will be asking to provide your username & password in order to link this to your dropbox account.
Step 6. Once it's successful, you will see the the following message in your Ubuntu linux machine:
Step 7. Now you may press CTRL + C to terminate the deamon process now.
Step 8. You can manually start the service by running the following command:
Step 9. You may start to snyc and copy any file to your dropbox folder now.
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. – Percival Lowell
The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.
Codenamed "Precise Pangolin", 12.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing a few new features and improving quality control.
To be a bit more precise about what we're releasing today…
There are 54 product images and 2 cloud images being shipped with this 12.04 LTS release, with translations available in 41 languages. The Ubuntu project's 12.04 archive currently has 39,226 binary packages in it, built from 19,179 source packages, so lots of good starting points for your imagination!
For PC users, Ubuntu 12.04 supports laptops, desktops, and netbooks with a unified look and feel based on an updated version of the desktop shell called "Unity", which introduces "Head-Up Display" search capabilities.
Finding and installing software using the Ubuntu Software Centre is now easier thanks to improvements in speed, search and usability.
Ubuntu Server 12.04 has made it much easier to provision, deploy, host, manage, and orchestrate enterprise data centre infrastructure services with the introduction of new technologies such as "Metal as a Service" (MAAS), the Juju Charm Store, and the latest OpenStack version, codenamed Essex. These technologies further position Ubuntu Server as the best OS for scale-out computing.
Read more about the new features of Ubuntu 12.04 in the following press releases:
Long term support maintenance updates will be provided for Ubuntu 12.04 for five years, through April 2017. For those working on the ARM architecture, an 18 month supported release is also provided for the ARM server using the ARM Hard Float (HF) architecture.
Thanks to the efforts of the global translation community, Ubuntu is now available in 41 languages. For a list of available languages and detailed translation statistics for these and other languages, see:
The newest Kubuntu 12.04 (LTS), Edubuntu 12.04 (LTS), Xubuntu 12.04 (LTS), Mythbuntu 12.04, Lubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu Studio 12.04 are also being released today. More details can be found in their announcements:
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GIMP 2.8 RC1 was released on April 8, 2012. The details of this new release are on the official site. Here in this article I'll show how to install GIMP 2.8 on Ubuntu 12.04.
A PPA for GIMP is now available, we'll use it for easy installation of GIMP 2.8 RC1. Open up your terminal and type the commands given below:
and you're done. GIMP 2.8 RC1 has been successfully installed on your Ubuntu 12.04.


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Bar Method sets Aug. 15 opening for SouthPark studio
Bar Method has set Aug. 15 as the opening date for its new studio in SouthPark. The studio has posted its class schedule online, and it's now open for booking.
The fitness studio is near Whole Foods in a 3,000-square-foot space in the Sharon Square complex at 4810-A Ashley Park Lane. Amenities include free parking, two large classrooms, key-lock lockers and a changing room.
Bar Method's fitness and body sculpting studio offers hour-long classes that combine isometrics, interval training, dancing conditioning and sports rehab.
The SouthPark studio is offering a pre-opening special of six weeks of unlimited classes for $79. Booking can be done online, and the offer ends Friday.
Franchisee Autumn Frk owns and operates the new location, which replaces a temporary facility she operated on Kings Drive. The new SouthPark studio is the workout chain's only North Carolina location.
Katherine Peralta: 704-358-5079, @katieperalta


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As mentioned in the title, there's this vid that made me a believer.
Perfect World In Game Movie
To all those in Perfect World Philippines, you may have noticed that this one was from the Malaysian servers and that there were two mounts seen not yet included in the current patch: Frost City.
The Reindeer
The Lion King (Requirement: Lvl 60, Speed:9 to 10)
The info came from the Perfect World Malaysia Forums. If you look there as well, you'll see more upcoming mounts like the Fenrir, Thunder Leopard, Blue Dragon, Golden Pig, Green Dragon, and Chimera. These all require at least Level 60 to ride on.
Hopefully Level Up! can implement the patches as soon as they get them from Beijing Perfect World.
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2. Formation and Modification of Contract
All offers are made by SFC KOENIG without any commitment or engagement whatsoever. Orders which have neither been confirmed in writing nor invoiced by SFC KOENIG shall not be deemed accepted by SFC KOENIG. Any modification of or addition to an accepted order shall not apply unless confirmed by SFC KOENIG in writing.
3. Price
All prices invoiced or confirmed by SFC KOENIG shall not bind SFC KOENIG with regard to eventual excess deliveries, short deliveries or supplementary orders. SFC KOEING reserves the right to charge increased prices in case of excess deliveries, short deliveries or supplementary orders. All prices confirmed by SFC KOENIG are based on the market conditions, terms of trade and currency exchange conditions known to SFC KOEING on the day of confirmation. In case that deteriorated terms of trade, currency exchange conditions or market conditions affect the prices before shipment, SFC KOENIG reserves the right to increase such prices accordingly. All prices invoiced or confirmed by SFC KOENIG are net prices FCA SFC KOENIG factory Dietikon. The Swiss Value Added Tax, costs, duties of carriage, freight, packaging, wrapping and insurance are not included but charged separately. Wrappings will not be taken back. SFC KOENIG reserves the right to apply minimal invoice amounts, to charge handling costs and to cancel rebates in case of small orders. All invoices of SFC KOENIG are payable within thirty days net from the date of invoice. If SFC KOENIG does not receive the full payment within the above payment term, customer will, without being reminded thereof by SFC KOENIG, automatically fall in default upon expiration of such term. If so, SFC KOENIG is entitled to charge 7% interests on arrears plus costs.
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BRYAN Robson claims it will be at least another six weeks before Albion can be judged on their start to the new season.
The manager has been encouraged by his side's early form, although he has urged the fans not to get too carried away as they prepare for tomorrow's trip to defending champions Chelsea.
Albion are currently perched in seventh spot after just two games but Robson believes the next six games will determine how much progress his team have made since last season.
"We've still got a bit of a way to go yet," said Robson. "After maybe seven or eight games I will be able to see whether we've kept that momentum going from last season.
"The early signs are that the boys have not gone backwards, which is pleasing. They are bubbly and look to have kept it going.
"But we have to do that for seven or eight games. If we can do that and put plenty of points on the board in that time then we will have proven we haven't lost that hunger to improve again.
"It is nice to see where we are, albeit after two games, especially when you consider where they've come from.
"Last season every time the lads picked up the paper they were in the bottom three.
"That wasn't great for confidence so, yes, it is nice to open the papers and see they are seventh, even if it is so early in the season."
With the transfer window just over a week away, Robson has not given up hope of bringing in a new central defender, with Luton's Curtis Davies and Juventus defender Igor Tudor still on the radar.
But Robson has no plans to offload any of his squad members before next Wednesday's cut-off date, despite a number of inquiries.
Speaking about the possible signing of a centre-back, Robson said: "We are hoping for some news early this week to see whether anything will happen or not.
"As for our own players, we've had quite a few inquiries but I'm not interested.
"Every player has his price but it would have to be a big offer to change my mind about anyone."


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John Baxendale, Sheffield
The architect on tonight's Newsnight made eminent good sense when advocating the renewal rather than demolition of good quality, well built Georgian and Victorian housing. Housing Minister Yvette Cooper was actually talking a load of ill-informed rubbish. I am sick of Cabinet ministers - whenever challenged with issues which they have done nothing about - simply saying, "yes, I agree - we need/have to do something about the problem", but never doing so. As Jeremy Paxman's parting shot said, "You've had eight years". On a factual note, however, the reason she was talking deceptive and misleading rubbish is that when she was on about how much investment is being put into local authorities re housing stock, etc., is that virtually every local authority in the North West (if not the rest of England) has already sold all of their housing stock to Housing Associations.
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Since the beginning of time, the wise use of leverage has made people very rich throughout the world. Leverage has had two major components throughout my real estate career.
- Leverage of people
- Leverage of finance for real estate purchases
In real estate, we hire realtors, contractors, property managers, bookkeepers, marketers,… the list continues. The main idea here is to do what you do best and hire the rest of the people to help bring you closer to your goals. It is the unwise use of financial leverage that gets many well-intended investors into trouble, and I'd like to take you a little deeper on why liquidity is so important with real estate.
In 2006, the real estate bubble in Florida was in full force. At that time, the market was ignited by low-interest rates and easy credit which was fueled by investors throughout the country especially buyers from Califonia. At that time I was wholesaling properties primarily in Florida with an emphasis on the Tampa and Sarasota Bay areas. In an average month, we would wholesale 8- 22 houses, this would occur every single month. The buying frenzy was on, and like today's market, our biggest challenge was obtaining quality inventory.


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Keep up to date with all the latest Plant Science News
Research into living walls aims to improve urban life
19th Feb 2013
A year-long research programme at the University of Sheffield is aiming to improve urban life in the UK through the use of living walls.
The research will quantify the long term effects of living wall systems in the UK climate over all four seasons of the year. Living walls are made by covering surfaces of buildings in plants and creating conditions for them to grow and live successfully there.
"Studies have shown that covering the surfaces of buildings in urban environments with green plants results in an improvement in air quality, aesthetics and wellbeing." explained Dr Hasim Altan from the University of Sheffield's School of Architecture. "However, most of these studies have taken place in climates significantly warmer than the UK. Our study will find out how living walls fare in the UK's weather and how they can be of most benefit in this country."
Dr Altan explained the need for living walls in our cities: "Our working and living spaces in inner cities forcibly have to climb vertically as a lack of available land increasingly becomes more of an issue. Vertical greenery has great potential to increase necessary green mass in cities by utilising surfaces that have conventionally not been considered as platforms for vegetation.
"As the initial installation cost of living walls are the major disadvantage of promoting the practice, it is vital to clarify the benefits for investments. Studies like ours will provide the knowledge of quantifiable data that will help businesses and individuals make informed decisions and choices when they consider building specifications.
"There is also a significant lack of technical information on living walls. It is important to investigate factors that could affect the success and the environmental performance of living wall systems to establish practice guidelines. It will encourage people to choose effective ways of incorporating this new concept into practical building design and optimise the benefits."
Test beds consisting of three different types of living wall systems and two types of climber covers have been installed on the south-west wall of the George Porter Building at North Campus at the University of Sheffield. The thermal data within each system, wall surface temperatures behind them and the internal and external air temperatures will be recorded until autumn 2013.
Detailed analysis will then be carried out to look at how the systems functioned differently in relation to variation and climatic conditions. The observational data will also help to validate computer simulation results, enabling the researchers to clarify the benefits of vegetated walls in improving building energy performance and the indoor thermal comfort of its occupants.
The study is also looking at the consumption of irrigation water required for each system. There have been concerns regarding the maintenance and environmental costs of keeping living walls thriving, especially the requirements for mains water. The monitoring will provide a good indication as to which system is most efficient and possible ideas for future improvements.
The study is being carried out in collaboration with a leading Living wall contractor, Scotscape Ltd and is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). It has established the first bridge between the rapidly growing 'green wall' industry and academic knowledge, and will promote the benefits of living walls with much needed technical data.
The benefits of living walls in terms of providing habitats for essential invertebrate life, birds and bees is also being assessed by the charity Buglife. Quarterly analytical assessments are being undertaken to monitor the rich variety of 'birds, bugs and bees' which gravitate to areas of biodiversity in urban areas.
Juri Yoshimi, PhD Student and Research Assistant to Dr Altan, is running her own research parallel to the Living Walls project, exploring green walls and their thermal effects using a long term monitoring and simulation study.
Scotscape's Managing Director, Angus Cunningham said: "The University of Sheffield has an enviable reputation for the quality of its research into sustainable building materials and we're absolutely delighted to be sponsoring and working with the research team on this particular programme, which will enable future clients to select the system most appropriate for their budget and sustainable infrastructure goals. This is the most comprehensive piece of research ever undertaken into the thermal benefits of Living Walls and we're looking forward to seeing the results in the autumn of 2013.''
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Thanks Kipatte,
I've just put her down at 8pm tonight...and so far so good...no tears or screaming. I will go up quietly and check on her in a few minutes, I think I will try to get her to bed at 7.45 tomorrow. Fingers crossed that she will sleep right through tonight, I'm feeling a bit weary tonight and could do with a good nights sleep too!


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and even the waiters and waitresses are all wearing t-shirts with the M-dot logo or some reference to triathlon. At a time of year that would otherwise be off season, the islanders are happy for the business that the Ironman brings and it shows in their hospitality and enthusiasm. I can imagine that Kona is like this, only more intense.
As it is winter here, it gets dark really early. In fact, if I want a finisher's photo without flash, I am going to have to finish in less than 10:15! The advantage is that it has been really easy for the whole family to go to bed at around 9pm and get up at 6am, so an early start at 4am shouldn't be a problem - maybe the family will accompany me to the start after all.
The last of my pre-Ironman duties is to do the bike check-in. I have been assigned the last slot of the day - 7pm to 8pm - which is a bit on the late side, so I'm going to try my luck at squeezing in to an earlier slot. I want to be already sitting down to dinner at 7pm. At the check-in, I have to present not only the bike but the transition bags which must contain everything I will need for going from the swim to the bike and from the bike to the run. I won't have access to these tomorrow before the race so I'd better not forget anything! I don't think I will bother with the "special needs" bag for the bike but, in the special needs bag which you get handed at the half-way point in the run, I'll put some spare salt caps and two small bottles of isogels.
Yesterday we watched the DVD of the race from 2010. It may be a predominantly flat course but the hills that there are are real hills, with a gradient of about 20%. I'll just have to keep an eye on my pulse and walk up them if necessary.
I've been trying very hard not to spend too much time, energy or money in the expo. Luckily everything is at least twice as expensive as back home otherwise I might have fallen foul of the temptation to by a cool 3 or 4 spoke aero wheel (shaving a whopping 30 seconds from my time no doubt) or worse. While I was waiting for the official store to open, I asked someone standing next to me in Portuñol if he knew when they would open; he said "Hey, you're Rob, right? From Rust to Ironman!". It was Christian, who I had yet to meet, the one who took us to my fundraising target of 3,000 pounds.
By the time I next post, I will be an Ironman!! By the way, this is the tattoo that won my tattoo design contest - I think it is great but now I just have to see whether I have the balls to actually have it inked...