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Barcelona 1992. That was the first adventure for Dame Sarah Storey at a Paralympic Games, when as a 14-year-old swimmer she won two gold medals on her debut. It was obvious then she was destined for greatness.
But no one could have possibly foreseen just how successful this young athlete would be.
You might have expected to see her at Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 or maybe even Athens in 2004. But you certainly wouldn't have said Storey would be preparing for her eighth Paralympics as a cyclist 27 years on from her first.
Storey, Britain's most successful female Paralympian no less, has won 14 Paralympic golds, 29 world titles, 21 European titles and boasts 75 world records. She will be a 42-year-old mother of two by the time the Tokyo Games begin, but she isn't quite ready to stop just yet.
She has three more Paralympic golds to gather if she is to surpass the overall record of 16 set by Mike Kenny, but such is the remarkable nature of Storey's achievements that few would now put it past her to create further history yet.
As she prepares to compete at this week's UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Emmen, her desire to add to her unparalleled success is as strong as ever – Storey has certainly never doubted herself.
"Tokyo has always been the main focus since I came back to racing after having [son] Charlie in 2017," she said.
"I'm hoping to be selected for both road and track at the 2020 Games. The plan is to try and defend the three titles I won in Rio – individual pursuit, time trial and road race.
"I came back from having Charlie a little bit slower than I did from having [daughter] Louisa with it being my second child, but I made sure I didn't give myself any unrealistic targets.
"It was always about consolidating my fitness to get back on track towards Tokyo, and I wanted to get fit at my own pace."
Early starts, long hours and countless rehearsals make training for a Paralympic Games gruelling enough – add recovering from pregnancy into the mix and it becomes a whole lot tougher.
Returning to world-class fitness after having a baby takes some doing, but in the world of women's cycling, it is slowly becoming the norm.
Storey won Paralympic gold in Rio less than three years after having her first child and secured two titles at the UCI 2018 Para-cycling Road World Championships just ten months after giving birth to her second.
If selected, Tokyo will be Storey's first Paralympics as a mother-of-two.
And while Storey wants her achievements to be a source of inspiration for other women on the saddle, she insists making a comeback from pregnancy is far from a cycling phenomenon.
"I think coming back after having children is possible in any sport, not just cycling," Storey said.
"People go back to work after having children in all sorts of different physically demanding jobs, so why not sport? You just have to perfect that balancing act."
The likes of Laura Kenny and Lizzie Deignan have joined the pantheon of sporting super-mums in recent years, proving it is possible to juggle motherhood with a comeback to elite level cycling.
"It just so happens that at the moment in cycling there's both Laura and I who are at the top of our sport after becoming mothers, but Liz McColgan did it, so did Sally Gunnell, Denise Lewis and so many other athletes.
"Helen Jenkins still has the desire to compete again after having two children – it's definitely possible, it just depends on you as an athlete and how you prefer to complete your career.
"Some people may save having children until the later part of their career, so there is no pressure or definite need to come back, but others may not see it that way.
"I think it's just all about the support you have around you and whether or not you are able to travel with your children. The health of your children is the most important thing and I've been very lucky to have two very healthy children, who can share my adventures with me."
Recovering from pregnancy is the first task, but continuing to train alongside the demands of parenthood is quite the challenge when you're trying to figure out how to win your next Paralympic gold.
There are plenty of ups and downs, but for Storey, having her children witness her achievements is a beneficial experience for all.
"The biggest challenge for any parent who is working, especially on the road, is making sure you have time to see your children – if I didn't take them with me, they'd never see me.
"I'm looking forward to seeing them experience it and have the opportunity to see a different culture.
"We were training in Spain recently and it was amazing to hear Charlie speak his first Spanish word – 'Gracias!' He's not two until October, so hearing him pick up those little bits of knowledge is amazing.
"These experiences give them so much as growing individuals – you can't put a price on what it gives them development-wise. It's definitely a job that is beneficial to both myself and my little ones."
Parenthood is not the only challenge Storey has had to face. Having switched from swimming to the saddle in 2005, Storey is certainly no stranger to the issues that face professional women's cycling.
A trailblazer in women's and para sport, Storey wanted to do something about it. So, amidst her hectic schedule, she set up her own racing academy to help ease the process for Britain's next set of road race champions.
"Originally, we decided to launch the team with the support of crowdfunding to continue to give me a platform to race, but the added bonus from my perspective is being able to support young women who are at different stages in their cycling careers," Storey said.
"There's a real mix of athletes, from the Backstedt sisters taking on the world to junior riders who are hoping to be selected for the Yorkshire World Championships. For us, it's all about supporting younger athletes and helping them find UCI contracts – Grace Garner came through our team in 2016 and also Lizzy Banks, who recently won a stage of the Giro [Rosa]. These riders have utilised our team as a stepping stone to move up in the sport. That's exactly what we're trying to do – give them that essential experience to help them further their own careers.
"We started working with Skoda this year, too, to further enhance the opportunities for riders at a lower level. We want to give them that all-round experience of being a modern athlete and set something up that would allow us to close the gender gap in cycling in the UK."
She's launched her own team, won countless medals and wants to use her own experiences to inspire other women – Storey has done all she can to eliminate inequalities from sport. Now she's calling for more recognition from elsewhere.
"I face the same problems as a woman and as a para-athlete," she said. "Too often you see articles about women's bodies or their lifestyle, rather than their athletic achievements.
"If you read articles about para-athletes, the first thing people talk about is their disability. It's not right that we put those ahead of their athletic achievements.
"If you can't see it, you can't be it. We need more coverage to harness the development of para sport.
"It's got to be known, people must be able to see what is happening, so people who are interested can enter the right pathway, whether they're male or female, able-bodied or a para-athlete."


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Just like any other visitor to Kelly Middle School, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., had to press a button at the school's front door Thursday to let office staff know he was there. "Hi, it's Dick Blumenthal," the senator said into the intercom next to the door.
Just like any other visitor to Kelly Middle School, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., had to press a button at the school's front door Thursday to let office staff know he was there.
"Hi, it's Dick Blumenthal," the senator said into the intercom next to the door.
"Would you like to come in," came the response from school secretary Sue Benoit, who activated a buzzer to unlock the school's main entrance.
Blumenthal toured Kelly Middle School Thursday afternoon to observe the school's security and safety measures. He was at the school for about an hour and was accompanied by school staff, Superintendent of Schools Abby Dolliver, school resource officer Anthony Gomes and Board of Education members. He also talked with several teachers.
Blumenthal is visiting schools throughout the state to learn about various safety and security methods, in an effort to support the Secure Our Schools program, which would provide $40 million in federal grant funding annually for school security.
"It would provide locks, cameras, lighting, monitoring, to schools that don't have it, and also school resource officers," Blumenthal said.
Each of Norwich's two middle schools has its own school resource officer, Dolliver said.
"I've found the officers to be a tremendous source of mentoring, counseling, keeping folks out of trouble proactively," Blumenthal said.
Norwich school officials and the Board of Education held a forum about school safety in the aftermath of the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Dolliver said.
"There was talk about armed guards," she said. "We felt very strongly that's not our direction."
Blumenthal said municipalities are addressing safety in different ways. Enfield, for instance, plans to spend $600,000 annually to place armed guards at each of its schools.
"All these decisions really have to be made locally, by the schools boards," Blumenthal said.
The senator also saw how the renovated school's main office personnel use multiple cameras to monitor the premises, learned about the role of resource officer Gomes, heard about the particulars of the school district's lock-down procedures and chatted about security measures in the Secure Our Schools proposal with a group of teachers taking part in a professional development meeting.
"A lot of (the security measures), you do here at your school already," Blumenthal told the teachers. "I'm going to use some of these features as a model for what can be done nationally."
School Board Chairwoman Yvette Jacaruso welcomed Blumenthal's visit.
"He was very sincere in finding out what we're doing for safety and what our needs are," she said. "He asked teachers for their input, which was wonderful."
Locally, Jacaruso said Norwich is including funding in the next budget for two additional mental health care professionals.
"That way, all of our middle schools will be covered," she said.
While Blumenthal was touring Kelly, Connecticut's junior senator, Chris Murphy, was also in Norwich, visiting The William W. Backus Hospital for a tour and roundtable discussion with hospital leadership.
Murphy addressed Thursday's release of warrants related to police searches of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza's home.
"The reports released about Adam Lanza's access to, and possession of, such an overwhelming amount of firearms and ammunition, is unsettling and truly disturbing," Murphy said. "But most of all, these reports underscore the dire need to pass comprehensive gun reform as soon as possible. The fact that we still have high capacity magazines and assault weapons so easily accessible on our streets and in homes is alarming and needs to change now."


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Despite a helium leak in one of space shuttle Discovery's maneuvering rockets, NASA's senior managers late today gave the shuttle a "go" for launch April 5.
Engineers convinced managers the helium leak is not a threat to the crew and Discovery is now cleared to fly to the International Space Station with more experiments, spare parts and supplies.
All that's left now are four shuttle flights by year's end.
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Seven British MPs desert Labour Party, form own group
LONDON, UK - Seven Labour Party MPs have resigned from the party to form their own group with shared policies, politics, and visions.
The seven lawmakers staged a press conference in Central London on Monday to announce their decision. Each indicated they were disgruntled with the Labour Party over various issues. How the group became organised to the point where they would all resign in unison was not disclosed.
The seven MPs are Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey.
"It is time we dumped this country's old-fashioned politics and created an alternative that does justice to who we are today and gives this country a politics fit for the here and now, the 21st Century," Umunna said at the conference.
Berger said, "I am leaving behind a culture of bullying, bigotry and intimidation. I look forward to a future serving with colleagues who respect each other."
Gapes had this to say: "I am sickened that Labour is now perceived by many as a racist, anti-Semitic party."
Shuker said: "The Labour Party has turned its back on the British public, their hopes and ambitions."
Others said they were not happy with the Labour Party's approach to Brexit.
Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was disappointed with the breakaways.
"I am disappointed that these MPs have felt unable to continue to work together for the Labour policies that inspired millions at the last election and saw us increase our vote by the largest share since 1945," he said Monday.
"Labour won people over on a programme for the many not the few, redistributing wealth and power, taking vital resources into public ownership, investing in every region and nation, and tackling climate change."
"The Conservative government is bungling Brexit, while Labour has set out a unifying and credible plan," Corbyn said,
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I'm not sure when I stopped believing in Santa Claus the individual, but it was well before I first admitted it to my parents - for two reasons:
First, I thought if I confessed to not believing, those much-wished-for presents would stop appearing on Christmas mornings. But mostly, as a black kid growing up in Texas, I felt that to deny Santa would mean giving up on those magical moments in the basement of Leonard's Department Store when, for a few days leading up to Christmas, race didn't seem to matter.
I've thought a lot about Santa lately, and those childhood days, as I've heard the world's most iconic Christmas figure (other than Jesus) politicized, criticized and even threatened.
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, in trying to explain why his side lost the presidential election, reasoned that Barack Obama won re-election because he was "Santa Claus" bearing gifts for all those no-account, pathetic "takers" in America who voted for him.
In an Oregon shopping mall recently, even Santa had to take cover when a masked gunman started shooting at strangers, killing two people, wounding one and then turning the gun on himself.
As one who was raised to go to church and Sunday school, I don't recall ever being confused about whether Santa was a religious figure. I knew better.
But, again, I knew the spirit of that childhood Santa was real, if only for a short season each year.
I also was constantly reminded that this jolly, old, rosy-cheeked, white-bearded, red-dressed figure could never totally transcend race. Even before Limbaugh proved that with his most recent anti-Obama antics, I saw Santa - usually humorously - injected into the great racial divide.
It was comic and social critic Dick Gregory whom I first heard explain that he and his family and friends never believed in Santa Claus "because we knew no white man was coming into our neighborhood after dark."
The iconic comedian Redd Foxx said his family was so poor that one Christmas Eve his father fired a gun outside the house, came back in and told all the kids, "Well, there'll be no Christmas this year because Santa Claus just committed suicide."
And there was James Brown, who lyrically urged Santa to "go straight to the ghetto."
Growing up, I spent a lot of time in Detroit, which was home to Hudson's Department Store, billed then as the second-largest department store in the country (behind Macy's in New York) and, at 25 stories, the world's tallest department store.
Hudson's was one of the first stores to have a black Santa. But, as I recall, many young black kids didn't want to go to him because, since he was not white, he couldn't be the "real one." That reality has shades of the black/white doll experiment used as evidence in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case.
And that brings me back to Leonard's in Fort Worth, which at one time was the largest department store west of the Mississippi.
At Christmastime, its basement was turned into "Toyland," a magical place complete with an overhead monorail that took kids into a tunnel filled with alluring scenes. And, of course, Santa was the main attraction.
In this fantasy world, there were no "white" and "colored" signs, and no one who told you to go to the back of the line. It was a place that allowed kids like me to escape an otherwise unwelcoming world.
Waiting in line to see Santa, knowing that he would not reject me, was comforting in ways that are difficult to explain today.
Despite the cynics, from years past and those today, that spirit of Santa Claus has stayed a part of my memory - long, long after I stopped believing in the man.
I just wish more people felt this spirit, particularly when the nation and the world are filled with so much conflict and pain.
• Bob Ray Sanders is a columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Send email to email@example.com.


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Date and Time
- Tuesday Nov 27th 2007, 19-22 PM
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If you would like to present at a DemoCamp, please feel free to add your name and topic to the list. Depending on the number of people interested we may have to limit the number of presenters and time of each demo.
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- Filip Hrbek, Cloudsmith
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- Michal Růžička, Cloudsmith
- Tony Slezáček, Cloudsmith
- Jan Bárta, ComSTAR Pilsen
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- Lenka Vránova, ComSTAR Pilsen
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- Filip Krška, ComSTAR Třebíč
- Antonín Metelka, self-employed, Pilsen
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Sustainable Tuesdays, a weekly presentation on topics related to environmental and sustainability issues presented by the Bemidji State University Sustainability Office, continues its January lineup with a swap meet and personal organization event and a workshop on green cleaning solutions for households and personal care.
Sustainable Tuesdays events are held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Rail River Folk School, located at 303 Railroad St. SW in Bemidji. They are open free to the public unless otherwise noted.
Jan. 21: Idea, Solution and Stuff Swap
In the spirit of the new year, this workshop will provide tips on how to better manage the things we keep around us with unique and thrifty methods to get organized.
Participants are encouraged to bring unwanted items for a swap to be held at the workshop. Items should be in good enough condition to be used again by someone else. Anything left over after the swap will be donated throughout the community.
Jan. 28: Green Up Your Cleanup
As a followup to a December workshop on everyday toxins, this presentation will focus on items found in typical household cupboards. This "green cleaning" workshop will teach participants how to green up household cleaners and personal care products, and will make samples of a homemade all-purpose cleaner and sugar scrub to take home.
Sustainable Tuesdays are a partnership between Bemidji State's Sustainability Office, the Indigenous Environmental Network, Minnesota GreenCorps and the Rail River Folk School. The Sustainable Tuesdays presentations aim to draw upon the strengths of the region's diversity to create a sustainable Bemidji.
• Sara Dennison, Minnesota GreenCorps Living Green representative, BSU Sustainability Office; (218) 755-3765
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Lesson 4
July 15 - 21
The Recipients of Witnessing
WHEN WE GIVE OUR HEARTS TO GOD. Notice our memory text for this week. Those of the Hebrew faith heard the first Christian sermon (Acts 2:5, 14). Why do you think this was so?
Then the gospel expanded to Samaria. As Jesus predicted (Matt. 16:17-19), Peter played a major role in opening the doors of the kingdom to the Gentiles. Following God's directions, he entered a Gentile's house, something unthinkable for a Jewish person (Acts 10:28). From there, the gospel was well on its way to "the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8, NIV).
In St. Paul's Cathedral, General Gordon's epitaph reads as follows: "He gave his strength to the weak, his substance to the poor, his sympathy to the suffering, his heart to God." When we give our hearts to God, we, too, will witness to many different types of people. As you study this week's lesson, pray that God will show you to which end of the earth He would like you to go, even if it is just around the corner or down the hail!
I. Civil Authorities (Acts 4:1-7; 6:7; 13:6, 7).
II. Receptive People (Acts 10).
III. Children (Mark 10:13-16; Prov. 22:6).
IV. Intellectuals (Acts 17:16-34).
V. Animists and Non-Christians (Acts 8:9-19; 19:18-20).
MEMORY TEXT: "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" (Acts 1:8, NKJV).
Before whom were Peter and John asked to testify? Acts 4:1-7.
The question, "By what power or by what name have you done this?" (v. 7) gave Peter a chance to testify to this group about the power of Jesus (4:8-12). Surely he remembered that Jesus had said, "You will be brought before kings and rulers for My name's sake. But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony" (Luke 21:12, 13).
Read each of the following passages. Why would the main characters in them have been considered among the "hard to reach"?
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People in "worldly" positions of authority and leadership also need the gospel. "It requires moral courage for them to take their position for Christ. Special efforts should be made for these souls, who are in so great danger, because of their responsibilities and associations."The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 139, 140.
"The intelligent, the refined, are altogether too much passed by. The hook is not baited to catch this class, and ways and methods are not prayerfully devised to reach them with truth that is able to make them wise unto salvation. Most generally the fashionable, the wealthy, the proud, understand by experience that happiness is not to be secured by the amount of money that they possess, or by costly edifices, and ornamental furniture and pictures. They want something they have not. . . They need Jesus, the light of righteousness."Evangelism, p. 556.
Philippians 4:22 suggests that the people in Caesar's household who became Christians remained there to work. What harm might have occurred if they had tried to leave? What might they have been able to accomplish by staying?
In Evangelism, page 255, Ellen G. White says that those in the upper socioeconomic classes "are attracted toward each other, and it is hard to find access to them." This being true, list certain methods of witnessing to these classes that would be more appropriate than others. Why would these methods be more effective? How can your church, and you personally, become involved in some of these methods?
How did Luke characterize Cornelius in Acts 10:1-35?
The story in Acts 10 is remarkable because it is a story of crumbling cultural barriers that kept the gospel from spreading.
As a centurion in the Roman military, Cornelius would have been in charge of 100 soldiers. Soldiers in the Italian Regiment were famous for their spirit and courage. He was what people called a God-fearera Gentile who was strongly attracted to the high moral and ethical standards of the Hebrew faith and its belief in one God. God-fearers worshiped Jehovah God and followed the Jewish law to the best of their abilities but had not taken the more radical step of becoming converts through circumcision. At that time, God-fearers were by far the most receptive Gentiles to the gospel.
According to Acts 10:30, Cornelius was fasting and praying. What do you think Cornelius might have prayed?
In following God's directions, Peter entered a Gentile's house, something unthinkable for a Hebrew (Acts 10:28). "The love of God, sanctifying the soul, breaks down the wall of partition between the customs and practices of different individuals and nations. The great principles of Bible truth bring all into perfect harmony."Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, November 3, 1885, p. 559.
"God-fearers" were good prospects. People like Cornelius should be in our prospect files. All churches should have a prospect file. People who have already had some contact with the church are usually "Class A" prospects. "Class B" prospects are those related to members, interests discovered by literature evangelists, people who have already attended church services, evangelistic meetings, etc. "Class C" prospects are people who may respond to your approaches. According to the Church Manual, 1995 edition, page 80, each church should have an "Interest Coordinator," who is a member of the church board. (See Seventh-day Adventist Church Manual [Hagerstown, Md.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1995])..
Why would God have chosen Cornelius to be among the first notable converts from the Gentiles? What cultural barriers in your part of the world need to come down for the gospel to spread? How is it possible to eliminate these barriers without making enemies and in such a way that people will still be attracted to the gospel? Explain.
What does Jesus' reaction to the disciples in Mark 10:13-16 tell us about the importance of witnessing to children? What was it about Jesus that made parents want to bring their children to Him?
Based on the matters over which He displayed displeasure, we know what mattered to Jesus the most. He never became angry when people were personally abusing Himnot even when He was exposed to the cruelest of capital punishments. But when the flames of injustice licked around the feet of the most vulnerable members of society, He was swift to make His feelings known.
The disciples attempted to keep the children away from Jesus. How do we do so today? We may hinder the children when we fail to take positive action regarding any given situation they are in or by setting a bad example. Children need to feel important and loved. But when other interests concern us more than their welfare, we are keeping them from Jesus. We also hinder them from knowing Jesus when we neglect their religious training.
Why is it important to educate children in the ways of God? Prov. 22:6.
"In the way he should go. Literally . . . 'according to his [the child's] way.' The verse. . . counsels parents to learn the way in which their particular child can be expected to be of most service to himself and others, and in which he will find most happiness."SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 3, p. 1020.
The family and the church have a great responsibility toward children. "The lessons that the child learns during the first seven years of life have more to do with forming character than all that it learns in future years."Child Guidance, p. 193.
Many studies in the field of character and moral development have verified the above quote. Researchers Robert Peck and Robert Havighurst, along with their co-workers, collected data over a period of seven years. Two of their general findings maintain that the home is the most important influence on moral development and that character is largely developed by the age of 10, if not before.
|What could be improved in your church regarding the evangelization of children? List at least three children you know personally. How can you help lead them to Christ?
During Paul's time, Athens was a great university town. In addition, it boasted many statues to false gods. While there, Paul, as always, witnessed to the Hebrew people. He also went daily to the marketplace seeking for an opportunity to testify (Acts 17:17). Among those who met and talked with Paul were the Epicureans and the Stoics (v. 18), representatives of two popular philosophies. The Epicureans believed that the highest "pleasure" in life was to obtain freedom from superstition and pain. The Stoics believed that thinking was more important than feeling. A very disciplined group of people, they attempted to restrict, in rather harsh ways, their desires for pleasure.
How did Paul address these intellectuals so they would appreciate and understand his message? What six points did his sermon make? Acts 17:22-31.
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Witnessing to these trained thinkers was not easy. A basic assumption of Greek philosophy was that humans could find truth in themselves, so revelation from outside a person was unnecessary. Following a sound principle of witnessing, Paul preached to the Athenians in terms they could understand. That he showed an understanding of Stoic ideas (v. 28) is not to say that he accepted these ideas. He was communicating in a language meaningful in their culture.
What were the results of this sermon? Verses 32-34.
"In their pride of intellect and human wisdom may be found the reason why the gospel message met with comparatively little success among the Athenians. The worldly-wise men who come to Christ as poor lost sinners, will become wise unto salvation; but those who come as distinguished men, extolling their own wisdom, will fail of receiving the light and knowledge that He alone can give."The Acts of the Apostles, p. 240.
|How can you personally witness to an educated person you know?
|DEFINITION: Animism is the belief that life is produced by a spiritual force apart from matter. It promotes the role of ghosts, nature gods, and ancestral spirits. Animists do not deny God. But they see God permeating all natural phenomena.
How did Simon seek to manipulate God's power? Acts 8:9-19
A true Christian approaches God in an attitude of submission and worship. Christians demonstrate that a transformation has taken place by accepting the lordship of Jesus Christ, by being willing to obey the creator God, and by developing a personal relationship with Him.
The Bible recognizes the reality and power of Satan and demons (Acts 19:14-16). But those who trust in the Lord should not be afraid of their power (James 4:7; Rom. 8:38, 39; Eph. 6:10-13; 1 John 3:8).
The Bible clearly forbids such related practices as witchcraft, magic, divination, astrology, and communication with spirits (Lev. 19:31; 20:27; Deut. 4:19; 18:10-13; Isa. 8:19, 20; 47:13-15; Jer. 10:2).
Through what public act did the Ephesians demonstrate that they were cutting their ties with the forces of evil? Acts 19:18-20.
Proclaiming the gospel to non-Christians can be difficult, as the apostles discovered (Acts 14:11-18; 19:23-28). But Christians can confront non-Christian beliefs with the truth of the gospel by demonstrating in their own lives the transforming power of the true God.
|List at least three people you know who are non-Christians. Then think
of how you can witness on an individual basis to each one. Take into account
each person's needs, desires, and interests.
FURTHER STUDY: : Review Matthew 28:16-20, Acts 16:6-10, and Acts 10. Explain how these texts are related.
Read any or all of the following: The Acts of the Apostles, "A Seeker for Truth" pp. 131-142; "Berea and Athens" pp. 231-242; "Preaching Among the Heathen" pp. 177-187; Evangelism, "Laboring for Special Classes" pp. 552-588; Child Guidance, "Arousing the Spiritual Powers" pp. 471-502; "Laboring for Special Classes" pp. 552-554.
"Jesus saw in every soul one to whom must be given the call to His kingdom. He reached the hearts of the people by going among them as one who desired their good. He sought them in the public streets, in private houses, on the boats, in the synagogue, by the shores of the lake, and at the marriage feast. He met them at their daily vocations, and manifested an interest in their secular affairs."Christian Service, p. 119.
SUMMARIZE how you would witness to the following types of people: (1) civil authorities (Acts 4:1-7; 6:7; 13:6, 7); (2) receptive people (Acts 10); (3) children (Mark 10:13-16; Prov. 22:6); (4) intellectuals (Acts 17:16-34); (5) animists and non-Christians (Acts 8:9-11, 18, 19; 19:18-20). Consider your own range of influence. To which of these groups do you think you could be the most helpful? Why? Plan how you can start actively witnessing to someone.
Chen Zhe Shen
The Miao people live as farmers and shepherds in the mountains of southwest China.
Pan often entertained himself by singing as he tended his sheep. One day as he walked the mountain path toward the city, he passed a building and heard singing. He stopped to listen, and someone invited him in. The building was an Adventist church.
Someone gave Pan a hymnal, and that gift changed his life. Pan taught himself to read so he could learn the hymns. When he found a word he didn't know he circled it and later asked someone what the word meant. Pan literally sang himself into the Adventist Church.
One day Pan was so engrossed in a gospel tract that he forgot about the sheep. When he looked up the sheep were gone! Pan began searching for the sheep. The sky grew dark with rain clouds, and still Pan had not found the sheep. How could I let my sheep wander away? he chastened himself.
Then Pan remembered that God knows everything. He knelt and prayed, "Lord, have mercy on me. Help me find my sheep." When he opened his eyes the dark clouds had gone and he was surrounded by his flock of sheep. Not one was missing! Pan returned to the village and eagerly told others what had happened.
Pan's faith in God grew, and he was baptized. He loved to share his faith with others, and the Adventist church encouraged him to study theology and become a pastor. But Pan ran into difficulties at the government-operated seminary. Students teased him about worshiping on the Sabbath and refusing to eat pork. Teachers often gave tests on Sabbath, and Pan's Sabbath absences from class eventually led to his dismissal. But God provided a way for him to continue attending classes. He never received a diploma for his work at the seminary, but Pan knew that Jesus' disciples had no diplomas either.
Pan returned to his mountain home and started preaching. He established many house churches among the Miao villages. Hundreds have been baptized because of his witness. Attendance at Adventist churches in his village has grown to more than 1,200. Some believers must leave their homes in neighboring villages at 4:00 a.m. to arrive at church by 8:00.
God has a million ways to reach the hearts of searching souls. For Pan it was a love for music and a church hymnal that led him to Christ.
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I agree that public school education will make a slow transition to being available online, especially with the Common Core (if it can hold ground). Just look at many universities and their online offerings/classes/lessons. More are considering online degrees, though it will take time for them to be fully accepted by businesses.
There's certainly no reason why a public school education couldn't be done online. Resistance to change will be its biggest hindrance though.
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LOS ANGELES — For 38 days, the Spurs had run roughshod across the NBA, picking up wins as if they were on special at Costco, making everything look so easy and so predictable.
So imagine the Spurs' surprise — and perhaps that of the Los Angeles Clippers, too — when they looked up at the Staples Center scoreboard in the second quarter Saturday to see the following harrowing sight:
Clippers 40, Spurs 16.
By the end of Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinal series, the Spurs had discovered a different route to the same old destination, riding the crest of a history-making comeback to grab a 96-86 victory and a commanding 3-0 series lead.
"We just stayed in there," said point guard Tony Parker, who had 23 points and 10 assists for his first double-double of the playoffs. "We knew it was a long game. We didn't panic."
The triumph was the Spurs' 17th in a row, matching the longest streak in club history, and moved them within a win in Game 4 tonight of sweeping two series in the same postseason for the first time since 1999.
This victory was not like the others.
Down 33-11 after a dreadful first quarter — during which L.A. forward Blake Griffin outscored them by three on his way to a 28-point, 16-rebound game — the Spurs were plus-32 points over the final three quarters.
It marked the largest deficit at the end of one quarter overcome to win a playoff game in NBA history.
"We didn't plan on being down by that much," Tim Duncan said, batting away the theory that maybe the Spurs needed a 24-point first-half hole to keep from toppling over with boredom.
When L.A.'s Nick Young hit a corner 3-pointer with 9:17 left in the second quarter, the Spurs were down 40-16.
Faced with their largest deficit since before the All-Star break, the Spurs did not lose their nerve and did not surrender. The team that prides itself on "pounding the rock" simply took out its chisel and began chipping away at Gibraltar.
"We knew if we could get it to 10," Manu Ginobili said, "we had a chance."
The comeback began modestly, with a corner 3-pointer from Matt Bonner, his only field goal of the game.
By half, the Spurs had drawn within 10, the magic number, and felt in control.
A 24-0 run in the third quarter, sparked by Parker, Duncan and hyperactive rookie Kawhi Leonard, turned the game for good.
The Clippers went 8:15 without a basket, missing 12 straight shots, and finished the third quarter with just eight points — a playoff record-low for a Spurs' opponent.
"We made it hard on ourselves," Young said. "We're desperate now."
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich credits his veteran core of Duncan, Parker and Ginobili — who have combined for 455 playoff games — for keeping the ship from capsizing.
"We didn't get rattled, but one would expect that this group wouldn't," Popovich said. "They've seen a little bit of everything, and they know that anything can happen in an NBA game."
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By then, momentum had clearly sided with the Spurs.
"We have a lot of confidence in this team," Parker said. "We knew we would come back."
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Olli JOKINEN, after being poked and pushed and probed on the subject of his disappointing season, finally put an end to the discussion with a pronouncement that, if true, could dramatically alter the complexion of the Winnipeg Jets.
"Let's leave it at this. You ain't seen nothing yet," said Jokinen, before turning and walking away and then stopping to look over his shoulder to repeat himself. "You ain't seen nothing yet."
It's a point of fact that Jets followers have seen very little, and some might argue nothing from Jokinen, who scored just seven goals and 14 points in 45 games last season.
A free agent signing in the summer of 2012, Jokinen was brought in to add offence and provide Evander Kane with a running mate. It didn't pan out and Jokinen knows it.
The veteran went to the point of telling Jets coach Claude Noel in his exit meeting last spring if he had performed at a higher level, the team would have reached the post-season.
That's a lot for a player to put on himself but in that assessment lies what Jokinen expects of himself at this stage of his career. He still believes he can be an impact player, even if others are now doubting him.
"I'm honest with myself. You have to be. There were some guys that had good seasons last year and others that didn't get enough accomplished," said Jokinen, who will turn 35 this season. "I didn't play as well as I can. That's no secret."
Jokinen admits to making a mistake, albeit for the right reasons, by not playing in Europe during the lockout. While others kept their legs moving at game pace, Jokinen remained in Winnipeg and when the season resumed, he was behind. And he stayed behind all season.
"I should have played but I had the family moved up here and we were trying to get settled and I kept pushing it back hoping the lockout would end," said Jokinen.
It was an eye-opener for a player that works hard on his fitness and has always been one of the fastest in the pack. Age is something Jokinen is aware of but never had it been so clearly defined as a factor.
"I've done some things different this summer. I started skating in July. I've never skated that early," said Jokinen, who took almost no time off this summer but immediately started training three days after the Jets' season ended.
Down six pounds in an attempt to revive the speed that powers his offence, Jokinen has a determined look right now.
Long past the point of having to prove anything as a player with over 1,000 NHL games and 697 career points, Jokinen didn't enjoy underachieving. He wants to perform for the Jets and for himself.
"I have one year left on my contract. But I'd like to play five or six more years and I think I can," he said. "I like short-term deals at this stage of my career because they motivate me. Don't get me wrong. I'd love to have a 10-year deal right now but no one is going to give me one."
The Jets made some additions to their roster this summer by bringing in Devon Setoguchi and Michael Frolik. The club also expects first-round pick Mark Scheifele to push for work in Winnipeg.
Jokinen can see all that's going on around him and he knows if he's going to get the kind of ice time he got last season, he'll have to produce.
There will be more competition for the prime opportunities this season. Last year, Noel kept putting Jokinen on the ice despite a lack of production because he felt he had no one else.
That won't be the case this season.
Jokinen is right when he says we "ain't seen nothing yet."
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Basketball junkies rejoice: the NBA Development League is headed to YouTube.
The NBA and YouTube announced on Tuesday that more than 350 games from pro basketball's minor league will stream this season via the world's most popular video-sharing network. It's purported to mark the first — but surely not the last — time a pro-sports league has used YouTube as its main outlet to broadcast games.
"As one of the world's most popular sports with a broad roster of top prospects, the NBA D-League is a perfect fit for the YouTube platform," Claude Ruibal, YouTube's global sports director, said in a release. "With our broad global delivery across all platforms and devices, providing live and catch up NBA D-League games and highlights will make this exciting content easily accessible to a whole new generation of basketball fans."
Fans can catch games live on the D-League YouTube channel, and via a YouTube video player embedded on NBA.com. On-demand replays of finished games will also be available on the league's channel, as well as individual team websites.
While it's likely that only hardcore hoop-heads will want to watch a bunch of former college stars with little chance of future NBA stardom, the partnership is an interesting one for non-basketball reasons.
The NBA became YouTube's first sports-league partner in 2005 and, with more than 960 million total video views, is its most popular sports channel. But YouTube has been inching its way into more live-sports coverage recently, most notably during the 2012 Summer Olympics. The site partnered with NBC to deliver the broadcast network's online Olympics coverage, and provided free live-streamed coverage via the International Olympic Committee's channel to fans in Asia and Africa.
Chances are that it's only a matter of time before a major sports league tries something similar to the partnership announced Tuesday. Given the NBA's cozy relationship with YouTube and its history of trying new things on the platform, don't be shocked if you find yourself watching the likes of LeBron James and Kevin Durant live on the service sometime soon.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, President Barack Obama's chief negotiator in talks to avert the "fiscal cliff," will meet with Congressional leaders on Thursday amid signs that the market-rattling uncertainty about the outcome could go down to the wire.
"It is not going to happen soon," Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Senate's fourth-ranking Republican, said in a Fox Business News interview Wednesday evening of an agreement to avoid the tax hikes and spending cuts that will be triggered on January 1 without an act of Congress.
"I think right now" it's "a little bit of a standoff," Sen. John Thune, the third-ranking Republican in the Democratic- controlled Senate, told CNN late Wednesday.
The announced schedule of Geithner's meetings Thursday suggested relatively contained chats with Republicans rather than intensive negotiations.
The Treasury Secretary, accompanied by Obama's top legislative aide, Ron Nabors, is set to meet first with Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid at about 10 a.m. EST followed 45 minutes later by a session with Republican leaders of the House of Representatives, including Speaker John A. Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, fresh off his Republican vice-presidential campaign, and the chairman of the House's tax writing Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp.
The president's emissaries will lunch with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell followed by a meeting with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
At immediate issue is whether the tax cuts that originated in the administration of President George W. Bush should be extended beyond December 31 for all taxpayers including the affluent, as Republicans want, or just for less wealthy taxpayers, with income under $250,000, as Democratic President Obama wants.
Despite a few cracks in Republican ranks, most notably from Republican Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, neither side has budged significantly from its position, leaving the markets and political analysts alike to grasp at wording nuances.
It's become clear during the post-election lame-duck session of Congress that until the two sides get over the immediate tax issue, they will not move forward to serious discussions on longer-term deficit reduction and tax reform, though both have expressed interest in doing so.
Keeping the nation in suspense down to a white-knuckled deadline has become the rule rather than the exception for Congress in recent years.
Whether the risk has been a government shutdown or, as in the events that led to the fiscal cliff, default for failure to raise the U.S. government's borrowing power, Republicans and Democrats have needed the pressure of time and possible disaster to bring them together.
The last standoff, over the debt ceiling in 2011, was settled by scheduling across-the-board automatic-budget cuts of about $500 billion - the sequestration part of the fiscal cliff - to take effect just as the tax cuts expire.
While little visible progress has been made on either element of the cliff, Congress could make quick work of it once a deal is reached, as no elaborate legislation is necessarily required just to get passed the twin deadlines.
Once "off that fiscal cliff," said Thune, "and we're on to the New Year and the markets will be happy. And the people will smile."
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Yes, the carriers want new business models and partners as their traditional wireless voice and data markets saturate, but these must work within the cellco assumptions, expanding the operators' total addressable markets while engaging in a clear profit share. In other words, not Skype.
A huge range of devices
But Verizon and AT&T recognize that the new embedded applications will require a huge new range of devices – which will only be feasible to support, for developers and carriers, if there is some harmonization of software platforms. Echoing similar calls from AT&T and T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said the carrier needed to reduce the "eight or nine" operating systems it had to support to "three or four", with a unified development environment on top, though he did not pick out any particular OS.
Verizon Communications. CEO Ivan Seidenberg also took to the stage, and his theme was increasing wireless penetration and Verizon's revenue streams and account control – by going well beyond handsets and supporting a huge range of devices with embedded wireless and a host of applications. This could lead, on a powerful network like Verizon's planned LTE system, to "500% penetration".
He added: "There will be no limit on the number of connections as part of the mobile grid. Everything has the potential to be connected to the web" – provided there are broadband mobile networks and open platforms. So far, Verizon Wireless has certified 36 devices in its Open Development Initiative (ODI), as it moves towards open access (mandated on its 700MHz spectrum) – and most of these are 'smart grid' gadgets like health monitors, not phones. "If we think in terms of the complex web of wireless connectivity that next generation technology will bring about, then the opportunity to explode past the 100% ceiling to 300%, 400%, or 500% is not only possible, it's probable," Seidenberg concluded.
Among the new devices launched at CTIA under the ODI were Sierra Wireless' USB 598 modem; and Motion Computing's F5 rugged tablet PC for field workers and its C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant, the latter a hospital grade product that is used for clinician documentation.
"There will be no limit on the number of connections as part of the mobile grid. Everything has the potential to be connected to the web." Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon
Convergence and LTE
Another key issue for Verizon is convergence, as its wireline business comes under pressure. So it put heavy emphasis on its Hub product, which offers connectivity through any broadband connection and supports unlimited VoIP calling for $35 per month, as well as integrating with Verizon Wireless services like VZ Navigator and VCast. This is an example of Verizon's move into non-traditional wireless devices and its attempt to support a quad play to compensate for landline displacement.
Verizon did not add much information about its LTE roadmap, having made a big splash about this at Mobile World Congress. CTO Tony Melone stressed that the 700MHz spectrum would enable it to penetrate rural areas where it does not offer CDMA services – possibly with an eye on broadband stimulus money, though he said Verizon had not yet applied for any such funding. However, most observers still expect the first LTE roll-outs to be in large metro areas, even though the 700MHz frequencies are more suited to rural networks. Seidenberg expects to have two trial markets by the end of this year, and 25 to 30 live markets by the end of 2010. This means the timeline has been pushed out a little, since the first commercial launch will now not happen until 2010, though the CEO stressed it would be "very early" in the year.
Over at AT&T, the company announced Apps Beta, a new initiative enabling developers to trial their applications with the operator's subscribers prior to retail availability, to gain customer feedback and locate bugs. A typical trial period will last about four weeks, with an interactive community forum aggregating user generated content.
But the operator, like Verizon Wireless, was even more focused on devices than on software. It has a far reaching program to help develop unconventional wireless gadgets, which it could then retail, under the management of Glenn Lurie, and in Las Vegas it pushed further into netbooks, announcing a pilot program in Philadelphia and Atlanta, which will offer netbooks to customers who subscribe to both AT&T home broadband and 3G data plans, combining the two into a single 'home and on the go' package for $60 a month. Verizon, of course, also said it would go down the subsidized netbook route so popular in Europe, and Acer has been hinting heavily that it would be the carrier's first partner in this market.
Palm pulled off one of the most high impact launches since the first iPhone in January, when it unveiled its Pre smartphone and the new WebOS software platform to go with it. Since then, it has put pretty much every foot wrong. It has now gone for three months without any clues about the two things most people need to know about a new phone – when can I get it, and how much will it cost? And while it spins out the waiting time for its new star, it has managed to alienate its existing base, so that sales of old PalmOS devices have fallen off a cliff, and one of the industry's most loyal user/developer communities is losing faith. Now its rivals are gathering to ambush its eventual shipment at Sprint, and a string of high profile smartphones are set to launch shortly after Pre becomes a reality.
The highlights will be new Android phones from Samsung and HTC, as early as June, still the most likely date for Sprint to start selling Pre (if this goes later, Palm will have broken its promise of roll-out "before mid-year" and problems with the handset will be suspected). Also, Apple could launch not just one but two new iPhones in the same period, with talk that it will add a souped-up Wi-Fi story; and RIM hopes to get 'Storm 2' out of the door at Verizon and Vodafone in September.
HTC suffers Magic delays
On the Android front, HTC has enjoyed an unexpectedly long period of being the only Android handset maker with a carrier deal, with T-Mobile for G1/Dream and now, as it launches Magic, with Vodafone and others. It will seek to add further models and operator partnerships before rivals enter the game, notably Samsung, which is promising three models in the third quarter, at least one of them also launching at T-Mobile USA.
HTC will be particularly eager to ramp up sales of its Android models ahead of Samsung's debut (and those of Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Huawei, expected to ship handsets for the Google platform in the fall), given its disappointing first quarter profit figures, which were blamed partly on delays in shipping a key product. Although the Taiwanese vendor has not identified the product, and is in the process of rolling out new Windows-based phones as well as Android ones, many reports say it is the Magic, co-developed with Vodafone.
The Magic was expected to debut at Vodafone, and shortly afterwards at T-Mobile USA and possibly Orange France, this month. But it is now reported to be delayed until May 1 at Vodafone, though this could be pushed out further, if some software and "cosmetic" enhancements are not made in time. HTC has only shown prototypes at recent shows such as Mobile World Congress and CTIA Wireless, and these have not featured the rounded buttons that are visible in official Vodafone press releases previewing the handset. The idea that these buttons may be the source of the delay was reinforced by HTC responses to questions from gadget site Pocket-Lint.com, which cited "last minute hardware changes".
In its first quarter, HTC.s net profit fell by 30% year-on-year to NT$4.89bn ($146.7m), with economic slowdown the other factor. Revenue fell 3.4% to NT$31.59bn, which was short of forecasts because of the delays. Analysts are predicting a sharp rebound in the current quarter, with Vincent Liao of KGI Securities forecasting a revenue increase of 10% from Q1 to Q2, and 20% growth in Q3.
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Meanwhile, T-Mobile USA is also looking to build on its Android advantage while it remains the only supplier of the platform in the US, but has Sprint biting at its heels. The German-owned carrier will launch a home phone and a tablet PC based on Android, according to The New York Times, though neither will ship to customers until early next year. The home phone will plug into a docking station and will have a coupling device that charges and synchronizes the handset.
More imminently, T-Mobile should launch Magic before mid-year, still ahead of Sprint's much anticipated Palm Pre debut, and the first Samsung Android phone in Q3. It is also rumored to be aiming to offer Huawei's first Android product in the third quarter. Speaking at the CTIA Wireless show last week, Samsung's executive VP of global product strategy, Dr. Won-Pyo Hong, said his firm has an Android handset due for international release in June, and will release two further models, both to US carriers, later in the year.
The first European partner is widely rumored to be Vodafone and/or T-Mobile International, while the US models will go to T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel. "Samsung has confirmed that Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA will launch the first Samsung phones in the US based on Google's Android platform," according to FierceWireless. Like AT&T.s iPhone, T-Mobile's G1 is said to be generating far higher than average use of data services and apps downloads, boosting carrier revenue and stickiness.
Two iPhones?
Rumors of a mid-year launch of a new iPhone have been swirling for months, especially as carriers are slashing prices on current models, but the market has been divided on whether the new device would be a more powerful 'superphone' to take on the likes of LG Arena, or a stripped-down 'iPhone Nano'. Now it seems Apple could unveil both, and also add support for ultra-fast 802.11n Wi-Fi for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Daniel Amir, semiconductor analyst with Lazard Capital Markets, wrote in a research note that there will be a high end phone for North America and a low end version for rapidly growing economies such as Brazil, China, India and Russia, where operators rarely offer subsidies and so Apple has had trouble shifting fully priced iPhones.
According to Amir's predictions, the US model – presumably also for European carriers like O2 – would have video support, a better digital camera and 32Gb of memory; while the cutdown iPhone might not have video or Wi-Fi, and would have less memory (but could look like the long anticipated 'Nano').
Several hardware IDs were found in the beta version of the iPhone 3.0 software, raising the prospect of multiple new devices, and even of entirely new formats. Amir says iPhone shipments are stronger than expected so far in 2009 and will continue to be so, and could reach 3.8m to 4m units in the first quarter – ahead of analyst consensus of 3m to 3.5m. He also thinks that figure could double in the second quarter, though prices might fall as operators sell off current models in anticipation of new launches.
Fast Wi-Fi for iPhone
Meanwhile, Apple is readying a low power implementation of 802.11n for its mobile products, according to Network World. This may require an upgrade to the central processor, so the support would only be available in new models, rather than available as an update for existing iPhone owners.
Again, the recently unveiled beta code for the iPhone 3.0 operating software has given the clues – experts found some radio component specs that indicated a shift to a different Broadcom Wi-Fi chip, the BCM4329, a highly integrated product that combines MAC, baseband and radio for all the Wi-Fi variants (802.11a/b/g/n) plus Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and FM radio receiver/transmitter.
It supports both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, which is important because the latter is less congested, and Apple could increase the synergy between its phones and its AirPort Extreme WLan access point or AirPort Express portable unit, by segmenting them to handle 11n mobiles on 5GHz for superior performance.
Broadcom's chip is targeted at mobile devices, supporting one data stream and one antenna instead of the 2-3 usually specified in 11n – this reduces power and size, but caps performance at around 50Mbps, rather than 11n.s full potential of about 150Mbps. This would provide a significant boost for over-the-air content downloading, especially in uncongested spectrum.
RIM Storm 2
The surprising lack of Wi-Fi support has been the most common criticism of RIM.s 3G CDMA/HSPA smartphone, the Storm, which took considerable credit for the BlackBerry maker.s unexpectedly buoyant quarterly results. This should be remedied in 'Storm 2', according to many sources, and this phone could appear as early as September. Also expected is a brand new touchscreen design.
Verizon Wireless justifies the lack of Wi-Fi by arguing, reasonably enough, that its fast EV-DO Rev A network is enough for any user, but this does cut customers off from the option of using sometimes cheaper WLan connections, or apps not supported on the operator.s network. And RIM.s other major 3G phone, the Bold, does support Wi-Fi.
Looking ahead into fiscal 2010, we see exceptional opportunities for RIM and its partners to leverage the investments and success of the past year to continue growing market share and profitability." Jim Balsillie, RIM
Other criticisms of the Storm have focused on the screen and some software glitches, which caused high reported return levels in the phone's early days, in the US market at least. In particular, customers moaned about 'dead spots' in the corners of the screen, that do not register clicks effectively. The new screen design should correct this problem, according to blogs such as BoyGeniusReport, which also expects the SurePress typing experience to be replaced with an upgraded system called TruePress.
RIM, which opened its software store at CTIA Wireless last week, also announced strong results for its fourth quarter, which ended in March. These showed clear signs that a smaller smartphone player can still make an impact on the giants with sufficiently eye-catching handsets. The launch of RIM.s 3G phones, Bold and Storm, helped boost fourth quarter results, with revenue up 84% year-on-year to $3.46bn and net income up 26% to $518.3m and 90 cents a share. This was ahead of analyst estimates of $3.4bn and 84 cents a share.
Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said in a statement: "Looking ahead into fiscal 2010, we see exceptional opportunities for RIM and its partners to leverage the investments and success of the past year to continue growing market share and profitability." The company reported it gained a net 3.9m new BlackBerry accounts and shipped 7.8m devices in the quarter. Storm sales were particularly robust, as well as Latin American shipments.
In another small sign that the handset market may soon bottom out, or at least have a firmer handle on the year ahead, RIM issued a forecast for the current quarter – something most phonemakers have recently refused to do, citing lack of visibility amid economic turmoil.
RIM expects to post revenue of $3.3bn to $3.5bn in its fiscal first quarter, which ends on May 30, with earnings per share between 88 and 97 cents. It is forecasting gross margins of 43%-44% and a subscriber base of 3.7m to 3.9m.
Palm on back foot
All this leaves Palm rather on the back foot, though it did try to placate its existing user base at CTIA by announcing an emulator that will enable old Palm applications to run on the new phone. Previously, it had seemed likely this would have to be done through a third party add-on. Called Classic, the emulator was developed with MotionApps and will be available in the new software store that will be opened along with the Pre launch.
Palm also opened up its software developers kit for WebOS, Mojo SDK, to developers, which should give the world a clearer idea of the strengths and weaknesses of the Linux-based software platform. There will be no charge to download the SDK, and developers will not have to join any kind of Palm developer association.
Programmers will be able to use core WebOS functions like linked contacts, layered calendars, multitasking, notifications and GPS capabilities to enhance their applications, supporting popular features like 'push' alerts for email and social networking and location awareness. WebOS applications can run natively on the device and cache data locally, so they will not need to connect to a server as BlackBerry does, which should make development relatively simple, especially as the architecture relies on standardized web languages like HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
However, Palm also wants the Pre to appeal to the growing band of users of services 'in the cloud', such as data back-up or RSS feeds that are updated over the internet, with the data held on huge remote servers like Google's. Palm followed a similar recent move from Apple in announcing a publish/subscribe service that supports these messages and updates. Called the 'Mojo Messaging Service', it "exchanges information over the internet so when new information is available, it is published to the cloud and all interested parties who are subscribers are notified that new information is available. This will allow developers to push live content to their applications or services."
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Events for March 30, 2019
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10:30 am
One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure
Join Big Bird, Elmo and their friend, Hu Hu Zhu for a look at the stars. Take an imaginary trip to our Moon, learn how to find the Big Dipper and North Star, and see how we all share the same sky.
Runtime: 23 minutes | View the trailer!
11:30 am
Experience the Aurora
Over seven months in the Arctic Circle, our crews captured timelapse images of the Aurora Borealis with high resolution digital SLR cameras outfitted with fisheye lenses. The results are spectacular. For the first time the aurora has been captured as it was meant to be experienced, as a display that covers the entire sky. This immersive show shares the science behind the aurora and tells the story of our quest to find and photograph the aurora for wraparound display in full-dome theaters.
Runtime: 27 minutes | View the trailer!
1:00 pm
Dream to Fly
Since the beginning of history, people have dreamed of flying. Tales of mythical dragon flights thrilled ancient dreamers. Storytellers wove airy fantasies of magic carpet rides. Leonardo da Vinci stoked the dreams of flight with his fantastic drawings and through his eyes, we learned to look to nature for the secrets of flight. Dream To Fly is a poetic and touching story of aviation development through the ages. It presents the significant milestones on our route to conquering the skies – both in terms of technological breakthroughs, as well as our perceptions of flying itself.
Runtime: 35 minutes | View the trailer!
2:00 pm
Embark on a journey back in time and across the Solar System, following the paths of asteroids and comets that have collided with Earth—and those that roam far from home. These ancient objects travel billions of years before reaching Earth, and their impact can be so powerful that just one collision can change the course of life on our planet.
Runtime: 22 minutes | View the trailer!
2:30 pm
Ferret Feeding Frenzy
Visit with the museum's very own live black-footed ferrets – who knows, you might become BFFs with our BFFs! Join us every Saturday & Sunday in Natural Areas Exhibit Zone at 2:30pm to watch as our furry friends tear into their weekend meal. Not for the squeamish or faint of heart… you've been warned!
3:00 pm
Have you ever wondered how spacecraft navigate quickly and accurately to Earth orbit and beyond? Find out in EXPLORE, an odyssey to the planet Mars through the lens of humanity's fascination with the stars — from ancient stargazers and astrologers to the breakthrough discoveries of Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler.
Runtime: 27 minutes | View the trailer!
4:00 pm
Life: A Cosmic Story
How did life on Earth begin? Find out on this journey through time. Witness key events since the Big Bang that set the stage for life. See the first stars ignite, galaxies coalesce and entire worlds take shape. On a young Earth, two scenarios for the dawn of life are presented – one near a turbulent, deep-sea, hydro-thermal vent, and the other in a primordial hot puddle on a volcanic island.
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"Hidden-camera video of a babysitter slapping an 11-month-old child, throwing things and handling the boy violently was evidence enough for police to charge the 53-year-old woman with battery on a child. The video was recorded on Tuesday in a Mandarin home. The next day, Jeannine Campbell was arrested." - Florida News
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EXCLUSIVE: **NO WEB UNTIL 12AM GMT 17TH JULY** Reality TV star Holly Hagan seen sharing some suspicious looking white powder as she relaxes poolside on her summer hols. In full view of anyone staying at the swanky Spanish villa complex, the ex-Geordie Shore star can be seen dipping her little finger in a small plastic bag and apparently sniffing the contents and sharing it with her friends. Holly and new boyfriend and new boyfriend Motherwell FC's Jacob Blyth is also seen inhaling what looks suspiciously like 'hippy crack' - the fashionable, and potentially fatal, craze - also known as laughing gas, N2O and sweet air. It sells at the bargain price of £1.50 per balloon and gives users an intense euphoria which some have likened to the effects of heroin and crack cocaine. The 24-year-old blonde, wearing shorts over a skimpy turquoise bikini, was with a group of about ten friends at the villa complex in Marbella. Hagan recently posted about her battle with stress and anxiety - prompting more than 1,500 of the star's young fans to 'like' the Twitter post in support. 'Hippy crack' is the 'legal high' drug du jour. Cheap, seemingly harmless and guaranteeing a night of raucous laughter, it's increasingly popular with celebrities and their well-heeled young fans. But experts say nitrous oxide is no more legal than it is innocuous. Despite being touted openly at music festivals and in bars and nightclubs, sale of the gas for recreational use is very much against the law. As for being innocuous, that is only true if one ignores the alarming side-effects it can cause: strokes, hallucinations, seizures, blackouts, incontinence, stress on the heart, chronic depression and even — in cases of prolonged use — depleted bone marrow. In March, Hagan announced she and Kyle Christie had ended their relationship after three years. The couple broke up after their relationship came to a "natural end" with friends of the couple saying it was all amicable. 02 Jul 2017
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It Takes Courage to Step Out of Our Comfort Zones
Stepping Out of Our Comfort Zones…
Necessary for Growth!
I am thankful for God's guidance that enables us to step out of our comfort zones. Even reading those words, or saying them out loud, can cause anxiety and make us feel uncomfortable.
I liken it to feeling all cozy and comfy under a warm quilt on a winter morning, but then the alarm goes off and you have to face the chill as you reluctantly throw the covers back. Definitely stepping out of your comfort zone then!
Here's some additional inspiration for today…
"If God is asking you to step out into something that is uncomfortable for you, I can assure you that when you take the step of faith, you will find Him walking right beside you.
When you want to do something, don't let yourself think about all the things that could go wrong. Be positive and think about the exciting things that can happen.
Your attitude makes all the difference in your life. Have a positive, aggressive, take-action attitude, and you will enjoy your life more.
Taking action may be difficult at first, but will be worth it in the end.
Pray: 'Lord, I rest in the knowledge that where You guide, You also provide. My one desire is to walk with You and to always be at Your side. Amen.'"
–Joyce Meyer in "The Confident Woman Devotional"
My Reflections
Ahh, the whole "stepping out of your comfort zone" issue! Stepping out, trusting God, maintaining a positive attitude, and believing change is a beginning, not an ending…sounds like a plan!!
So what are YOUR thoughts?
Do you feel you should be in a different place in your life?
Are you ready to step out of your comfort zone with a good attitude, to pursue your destiny and potential based on your true worth?


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Pensacola Paracon 2011
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Who owns the land? Only the land knows. We mortals are passersby, and our lives are but a brief moment in the great span of time and space. We are born, we live out our lives, and most of us do the best we can with it, but the wind is forever, and the rivers flow forever to the sea, and all the seasons of the weathers will come and go after we are gone. But the Earth endures, the Earth is eternal" - Earl Hamner
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