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BALTIMORE (BP) -- Justin Harrell had just struck up a conversation with a 13-year-old boy while waiting to meet up with friends for dinner in Baltimore. He asked the boy, "Do you know Jesus?"
Church mental health issues explored
BALTIMORE (BP) -- The church has a unique ability to serve families and persons suffering with mental health issues, a group of Baptist panelists agreed at a special breakfast on mental health and the church.
Panel: Diversity for the sake of Kingdom
BALTIMORE (BP) -- While economic woes have slowed the growing ethnic diversity at state levels in the Southern Baptist Convention, panelists at the Cooperative Program exhibit, held during the SBC annual meeting in Baltimore, discussed intentional efforts to include ethnics in Convention leadership.
21st-century challenges confronted
BALTIMORE (BP) -- As Southern Baptists reflected on and bantered various topics -- including numerous challenges of the 21st Century -- at the Cooperative Program exhibit during their annual meeting in Baltimore, most agreed studying Scripture in its proper context, selfless giving and a commitment to praying for others are good starting points for progress.
Motivating, mobilizing churches addressed
BALTIMORE (BP) -- The advancement of the Great Commission will never be accelerated without Christians engaging in personal evangelism, newly elected Southern Baptist Convention president Ronnie Floyd said during an evangelism panel discussion at the SBC annual meeting in Baltimore.
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Pastors challenged to find place in God's story
BALTIMORE (BP) -- Southern Baptist pastors and members were challenged to "Find Your Place in God's Story" during a dinner hosted by IMB as Southern Baptists gathered for their annual meeting in Baltimore.
Leave legacy of missions support, IMB urges
BALTIMORE (BP) -- Whether we like it or not, we are all going to leave behind a legacy, IMB President Tom Elliff said during a June 10 luncheon focused on "The Last Full Measure of Devotion: Your Mission & Ministry Legacy," during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Baltimore.
Local Hispanic church welcomes SBC influx
BALTIMORE (BP) -- Primera Iglesia Bautista in Laurel, Md., with its retiring pastor Segundo Mir and incoming pastor Gustavo Suarez, welcomed Hispanics from across the country during a special service and luncheon prior to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Baltimore.
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BALTIMORE (BP) -- Several Hispanic groups, in an example of Southern Baptist cooperation with a Latin twist, joined in meetings, fellowship and worship prior to the SBC annual meeting at the Baltimore Convention Center. The June 8 event, which began with dinner at 5 p.m., included four workshops and a celebration service that concluded with a concert at 11 p.m.
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BALTIMORE (BP) -- Ethicist Russell D. Moore and pastor Matt Chandler addressed issues ranging from preaching on political topics to relating to homosexual friends to adopting embryos during a question-and-answer session held in conjunction with the 2014 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.
"To some degree, it doesn't matter what you do and say, you are going to be known as the people who are against things if you are against the things that people like."
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The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the convention's moral issues and public policy entity, sponsored "Questions & Ethics Live" June 10 at the Baltimore Hilton. Moore, the ERLC's president, and Chandler, lead pastor of teaching at The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, responded to issues raised by an audience of more than 200 people. Chandler, who has been at The Village Church nearly 12 years, said he has preached on such issues as abortion and homosexuality but doesn't recall he has "ever explicitly tried to be political in regards to the things I'm addressing." "At the end of the day, I feel like if I make it like a full-on, political, party issue, then what ends up happening is I start to lose people in the crowd whom I think I can persuade with the Word of God," Chandler told Phillip Bethancourt, moderator and the ERLC's executive vice president. Chandler said if he teaches on what the Bible says about an issue, "then I think I'm addressing political things and cultural issues without making it a Democratic Party issue or a Republican Party issue. And so I have found that by doing that I don't lose my Democrats, that they'll listen and they'll hear. And they might not necessarily land where I land, but at least now we're talking about the Bible and not partisan." The key to not being labeled "culture warriors" is "to talk about people," not just a topic, he said. "[I]f you are going to talk about homosexuality, you had better talk about homosexuality in light of the reality that there are ... more than likely people in your congregation that struggle themselves or love people that struggle or have a neighbor who walks in that lifestyle," Chandler said. "And if you ignorantly paint this issue, you are going to jam up the people you have been meant to lead; you are going to push people who are struggling into silence and quiet and not towards confession and the seeking of help." One participant asked how Christians "communicate with conviction without being known as the people who are against everything." Moore said, "To some degree, it doesn't matter what you do and say, you are going to be known as the people who are against things if you are against the things that people like. ...
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BALTIMORE (BP) -- Ryan Palmer admitted he was skeptical when he was called to pastor a dying church in Baltimore's inner city, where storied missionary Annie Armstrong was once a member.
A theater major and attorney, Palmer had made other plans with wife Leslie, the two of them members of the Seventh Baptist Church that had then dwindled from a high of 2000 to only 17 members.
"And in 2003 I was actually called and asked to pastor the remnant. The previous pastor was burned out. He said, 'Brother this is where God wants you. He sent you and I believe you are the next pastor,'" Palmer told Baptist Press. "And like Sarah, Abraham's wife, I laughed. My idea was to be bicoastal. I was going to have a home on the East Coast and two aircraft, a home in L.A. and work in the entertainment industry." Palmer's idyllic picture differed from the Baltimore he ministers to today, where openly homosexual and transsexual pastors lead churches a stone's throw away from his. It's also where heroin addicts, the homeless, prostitutes, alcoholics, committed blue-collar workers, affluent professionals, artists and college students all live within a two-mile radius of the architecturally rich church founded in 1845 and rebuilt after a 1919 fire. On June 8, the Sunday prior to the Southern Baptist Convention 2014 annual meeting, Palmer relaunched the congregation as Seventh Metro Church. Fred Luter, who had mentored Palmer in ministry, preached the service as one of the last sermons of his term as Southern Baptist Convention president. Luter commissioned Palmer and the 15 or so Seventh Metro members in ministry, joined on the occasion by perhaps 300 Southern Baptist friends and supporters. "Father, in the name of Jesus, on behalf of the churches and messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention, on behalf of NAMB -- the North American Mission Board, God we right now want to pray and lift up the Seventh Metro Church," Luter prayed. "Thank you for these committed and faithful members. Bless them God collectively and individually. God we commission them. We send them out from this day forth God to fulfill the Great Commission and the Great Commandment of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ... We lift them up to you God. Give them the boldness and strength that they need God to go throughout the highways and the byways of Baltimore God, and compel lost men and women, boys and girls to come."
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LAS VEGAS -- Investors decide the future of Las Vegas homeownership underneath a downtown carport. They trade millions of dollars and dozens of homes every weekday.
But a new lawsuit claims those at the very top of the group running real estate auctions may have a conflict of interest that violates state law. State law creates a monopoly in local home and business trustee auctions. According to a lawsuit, there is a question of whether the company that has that monopoly violated the public trust.
Joseph Zito kept showing up to a downtown parking lot for days, hoping to convince people not to buy his home at auction, after convincing himself he was a victim of title forgery. He failed and the home is no longer his.
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Most auctions are perfectly legal, but a lawsuit against Bank of America questions one particular auction.
Former Nevada Assemblyman Scott Sibley owns Nevada Legal News. They are the only group with Clark County permission to run large auction. The former owner of an office building in Henderson claims that when it went up for auction last year, it simply disappeared.
"To the best of our knowledge, this asset was held out of a 10 a.m. sale and sold some time around 5 p.m. or shortly thereafter by the auction house to a related party," said attorney Mike Mushkin.
According to Mushkin, that related party is Scott Sibley, the man who oversees the auctions. Clark County records show the property sold for $1,600,000.01 -- one penny over the original asking price. The previous owner estimates the building was worth $3 million.
The paper states that the company who bought that building is called FRB Note. Below that is a handwritten note stating FRB Note is "care of" AZG Limited Partnership. County records indicate AZG Limited Partnership is Sibley company.
Nevada law prohibits the person running an auction from being "interested in any purchase" at their own auctions.
"If this is what I'm seeing correctly, it appears that FRB Note obtained a note of $1.65 million. My guess is to get their purchase money back because they paid $1.6 million for it. But after the transfer tax is paid, FRB Note, or whoever actually owns that property, receives an extra $41,000. Where is that money going?" said Anthony Martin, owner of Auction Control Systems.
Through his attorney, Scott Sibley denied requests for an interview. His attorneys say at no point did AZG Limited Partnership own the building in question.
But a check written by AZG Limited Partnership shows Sibley's company paid $8,000 in county taxes for the building at the center of the lawsuit. Comparing the signature on that check to Scott Sibley's own personal home mortgage appears to be a match.
The question remains: is the man running the auctions, personally involved in the sale of a multi-million dollar property? That would be a violation of state law -- the same state law Sibley helped pass as an assemblyman in 2005.
Most of the properties sold at auction are owned by large banks. If they feel cheated out of profits they could have made with a more open auction, they could sue Clark County, putting taxpayers on the line for millions of dollars.
When asked about his signature on that check, Sibley's attorney's say, "Mr. Sibley has signing authority over AZG Limited Partnership's checking account. The check represented an accommodation and the money was paid back."
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[Bumping this from the FanPosts. Some high quality stuff here on a possible second round option, if he's available. Thanks 'unnamed' for the story, and as always, if anyone would like to profile a prospect* with a FanPost ahead of the draft, we'll definitely try and front page it to get some more discussion.
*Perhaps a positive Austin Rivers BKAP in response to my critique of him?
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Like a number of players and prospects, Crowder has an NBA pedigree: his father played for Utah and San Antonio and also played professionally in France. His path to the 2012 NBA draft, however, wasn't smooth or certain. He wasn't well recruited out of high school and went to JuCo. After attending school for a year he was tipped of by a Division 1 coach that it wasn't accredited. Long story short, he transferred to Howard College, took two years of classes in two semesters (plus summer school at Marquette) while leading his team to a national championship, winning tournament MVP honors. He was named the State Farm Junior College POY for '09-'10. Then he transferred to Marquette.
In his first season at Marquette, Crowder showed the basketball IQ, work ethic and motor that got Buzz Williams to recruit him. In his senior year, Crowder improved his shooting (FT%, .61 to .73), defense (Stls, 1.9 to 3.1 per 40) and scoring (TS%, .57 to .60) and continued to do the other things he does well on his way to winning Big East POY. Projected as "tweener" forward in the NBA, he is better than the average NCAA SF and PF in nearly everything. He grabs 10.2 rebounds per 40, makes 2.5 Asts per 40 (putting him in the top 10 among SF/PF), and is an extremely efficient, high scoring player. For his senior year he averaged 13.7 possessions per game, 21.3 pts and 1.5 TOs per 40 (.09 TOs per possession). According to the Wages of Wins blog, "he ranks sixth in turnovers per 40 minutes among all NCAA players who average at least 20 points per 40 minutes".
Described as undersized for the forward position at 6'6 and not mobile enough for SG, Crowder is built like a tight end (in fact he played quarterback in high school), but has a good wingspan and decent athleticism. As a player he is described as decisive with an excellent work ethic and motor. He is smart and has an excellent feel for the game. As far as basketball skills that translate to the NBA, he plays great defense (5th in all NCAA prospects in steals per 40) using his strength and intelligence to compensate for the difference in size or quickness, shoots a respectable % from the line and is a very good rebounder (despite his size). He can (and has) guarded all positions at the college level relying mostly on his strength and smarts.
On offense, he operates best off the ball and does it well enough to score a nice amount of efficient points despite not being able to create his own shot. He excels in getting "garbage points" and in scoring off assits. He uses his basketball IQ and decisiveness to find slips in his opponents defense, get into good scoring position quickly in the half court and transition, and almost immediately decide to take the shot if available or make the pass. His efficiency is a testament to his solid decision making. He is a versatile and smart scorer usually finding and using the most effective way of putting the ball in the basket.
Crowder is the type of player that coaches and fans love (I mean, just look at that hair!). He's smart, works hard and will do whatever it takes to win. I could see New Orleans fans quickly falling in love with the guy who is always taking the timely charge, going all out for a rebound, making the big time steal, getting that basket at the end of a scoring run to tie the game. (If Davis is The Man, Crowder would be the man behind the man.)
He developed a very strong work ethic at Marquette and takes pride in playing defense, both team and man-to-man. I think this fits well with Monty William's philosophy. With a defensive anchor of Davis/Gordon/Crowder, New Orleans would have a mobile shot blocker, a lock-down guy on the perimeter and a smart, strong defender who can cover the next best offensive mark in man-to-man, defend well however is in front of him in zone and always play smart team defense. The three could cover defensive weaknesses at PG and C and Crowder would make-up for what they lost with Ariza.
With Gordon, Jack (or whoever takes over as starting PG) and Davis (potentially) dominating the ball and scoring, Crowder's skill set of off the ball, opportunistic scoring will fit perfectly. He and Gordon have good assit numbers so I can see the offense of the whole team going from weakness to strength with the addition of one player. There's only one SF on the roster now and Crowder starting would give Aminu an even better situation in which to develop.
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When you add up all the strengths Seahawks rookie QB Russell Wilson has displayed up to now, his instant leadership ability has to, at the very least, be mentioned near the top of an increasingly lengthy list.
"Very much so," one daily team observer said. "Leading the way in comeback wins against teams like the Packers and Patriots is tough for any quarterback. Every week the guys are rallying around him more and more, genuinely believing he can lead the team to wins."
That said, almost three-quarters of the way through his first season as a pro, Wilson must be considered more a very strong team leader in the making — as opposed to the group of more seasoned performers that team sources believe currently shares the primary leadership role.
"It's a very interesting question," the observer said. "You'd probably have to consider the team captains — (C) Max Unger (on offense) and (DE) Red Bryant (on defense), who provides a humongous presence. But I would also have to include (featured back) Marshawn Lynch. While he's not really a leader, he has been the guy who sets the tempo for the other players with the amazing things he's able to do.
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Josephine Cochrane, grand-daughter of the man who invented the steam boat, hand-built the dishwasher by making the racks out of wire and placing them into a copper boiler. To make it automated and save her servants the trouble (and saving her fine china), she attached a motor to a wheel that sprayed the water down on the dishes. In 1886, the first modern-day dishwasher was born. When her friends heard of the new contraption, they started ordering them from her, and in 1893, when Cochrane showcased the invention at the Chicago World's Fair, it became a hit.
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He's a two-down LB at best. Hope Spielman isn't that dumb....
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Manti Te'o is one of the most overrated college players in recent memory, which means the Vikes will probably draft him.
He's a two-down LB at best. Hope Spielman isn't that dumb....
I've got a new answer for this thread: ALL OF THE ABOVE!! ;)
So what I'm thinking, is there's a good chance we're sitting there at 23 thinking, there are 3 guys here we are very happy with, do we take 2 of the 3 here and now, or move one of our picks back a bit with somebody who's got a itchy trigger finger that wants to jump up for a QB?
And, we do have multiple first & second round needs, missing starters at basically 4 positions: CB, MLB, WR & DT, and/or maybe OG. ARI or BUF's 2nd and 3rd add up to right around our picks in the first, so we move back for a top ten pick in the 2nd and 3rd...AND, then, we add the early 4th we have from DET to the early 3rd we just snagged and move back into the late end of the 2nd, around HOU's no.57 overall. That would be one badass, first round guy, I'm thinking best CB available since the other positions are deeper. Then 3 picks in the 2nd, and 4 by no.57 could fill all 4 of those major needs with guys we're happy to have starting as rookies, and still have our 3,4,5,6 and 3 7ths to go!!!!
We could realisticly land a lineup like:
23 or 25. Our pick of the litter at MLB...maybe Ogletree is gone, but easily land Minter, Brown or Te'o here.
38 or 41. Next best CB, Jamar Tayler or Johnthan Banks? Or swap the first 2 picks and go for better CB potential since those MLBs seem similar anyway.
52. best DT left? Kawaan Short?
57. best WR left? DeAndre Hopkins? Terrance Williams?
Based on current NFL Mock Draft 2013 Picks 33-48
We should draft Tyrann Mathieu in the 2nd round... if he's still there. The sky is the limit with this kid and there wouldn't be much risk if we drafted him in the 2nd round.
Dare I say, we NEED Tyrann Mathieu.
I'm fine with his pot usage. I'd be a hypocrite if I wasn't.
You may very well be right, perhaps my favorite college football player, the Honey Badger, has grown up... "NEED" no...our Vikings do NOT NEED the Honey Badger...rather, he NEEDS a home, a Team where he can continue to WAKE THE FUCK UP to life.
This is the NFL...high stakes poker, high stakes money, and, no graduation (or, 3 yr "captive" athlete). College football, sorry folks, particularly the SEC, yes, you heard it, offer scholarships to athletically gifted kids...more so than the other Conferences. My favorite college football player, Tyrann Mathieu, is a great example...a deserved athlete, a great story, a kid who succeeded against all odds. The fact that he was suspended, made good, performed great, then kicked out of the program, was so disappointing to me on many levels.
C mac...I hear ya, but "NEED" doesn't work for me.
I still want a stud WR in the 1st because you can never have to many weapons on offense, especially when you have a "franchise" QB that has been mediocre at best since he came into the league.
Then you have to go BPA MLB, or CB with the other 1st rd pick.
I am going to say it's time to go defense in the first. We have spent 1st round picks on offense for a few years now and even with a stud WR we won't have the offensive firepower to outshoot the premier offenses in the league. Period. We do have a power, grind it our, ball control offense that hopefully can move the chains and eat up the clock, keeping the opposing offense off the field. We need to couple that with a stronger defense that can shut down those offenses, get us turnovers, and give us the field position we need because even with Moss and Megatron we don't have the trigger man to take us 90 yards down the field on a regular basis.
Defense, ball control, creating turnovers, not making mistakes. Like it or not this is the blueprint for the team the Vikings are building. They are not trying nor are they going to have a high flying, strike from anywhere offense. That is why they have Peterson, Rudolph, a pro bowl FB and a highly drafted LT.
McShay has us taking Bjoern Werner at 23. Pretty crazy slip, eh? I kind of love it. And it kind of makes perfect sense? Last time we picked at 22 (23 this time), Percy Harvin and Michael Oher both slipped to us. Neither one of them was expected to be there. We are going to be in perfect slip range for guys.
Borg Warner? I know they made transmissions but wasn't aware they played football.
I believe the Packers got Rodgers at about the 22 mark so maybe our franchise QB is sitting there.
Think about what you are asking. It's illogical to say, our offense will never be a great offense so we should just continue to build deffense. How do you think those great offenses became great? They were built. There is a misnomer that Vikings like to use in "ground and pound offense" When you are putrid on offense, your only hopes is to runt he ball and hope to keep it close. It's not a style of offense but more of a desperation move born out of nessascity. Yes we have AP and yes he is a work horse back capable of making 3 men miss and carrying 5 men into the endzone while the last 3 arm tackle him. However, think for a minute how much explosive he could be if he never had to see those fronts. The last time we had a capable WR, TE and a decent number 2, Peterson rushed for 18 TD while the offense was 2nd in scoring.
I compare football to chess and boxing. Turtling in chess will simply get your pieces picked off 1 by 1 and in boxing a completely defensive fight rarely wins fights. In both activities, a balance of defense and offense is imperative. Additional, the ability to adjust to what you are given is the key to victory. If you build an offense based only on your ability to run, when you face a dominant run defense, you will have a very difficult time winning. We also draft Khalil last year, magically our oline went from problem to strenght. Everyone give Felton the credit but our Oline was damn good last year considering they faced tons of run blitzs.
When you are bad at something you dont stick your head into the sand and pretend it isn't a problem. Our passing game being 31st is a HUGE problem. It is killing some of the great plays our defense is making and holding us back from being a great team.
I agree with a lot of this, but the NFL is a passing league now. These days even a very good defense is not likely to stop a high powered offense for 4 quarters. If GB had a shutdown type defense, they would win the f'n SB 4 out of 5 years just because they have a offense that can put up 30+ points on a weekly basis.
It absolutely f'n pains me to say that Aaron Rodgers is the best QB in the NFL. As much as I can't stand that team, or the players, you have to give Rodgers his respect, he is one hell of a QB. Of course we need to add to our defense just so opposing teams won't score against us in 3 plays or less on a consistent basis, but we also need a offense that can go toe to toe with other teams and hope that our defense can make a couple more plays than the opposing defense. Doesn't really matter what kind of defense you have if your offense is putting up low numbers week in and week out.


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I'm in Melbourne right now, where I recently attended the Hyamfest and the preceding workshop. There were many excellent talks at both the workshop and the conference (more on that in another post), but one thing that I found very interesting is that both Michel Boileau and Cameron Gordon gave talks on the relationships between taut foliations, left-orderable groups, and L-spaces. I haven't thought seriously about taut foliations in almost ten years, but the subject has been revitalized by its relationship to the theory of Heegaard Floer homology. The relationship tends to be one-way: the existence of a taut foliation on a manifold implies that the Heegard Floer homology of is nontrivial. It would be very interesting if Heegaard Floer homology could be used to decide whether a given manifold admits a taut foliation or not, but for the moment this seems to be out of reach.
Anyway, both Michel and Cameron made use of the (by now 20 year old) classification of taut foliations on Seifert fibered 3-manifolds. The last step of this classification concerns the case when the base orbifold is a sphere; the precise answer was formulated in terms of a conjecture by Jankins and Neumann, proved by Naimi, about rotation numbers. I am ashamed to say that I never actually read Naimi's argument, although it is not long. The point of this post is to give a new, short, combinatorial proof of the conjecture which I think is "conceptual" enough to digest easily.


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As we think about choosing a coach I suggest we build on our strengths. We do not have a superstar and likely won't when we start the 2008-09 season. What we do have is athletic players that like playing defense. Noah, Hinrich, Hughes, TT, Thabo, Deng and even Noch have significant defensive talent and like playing defense. Good defense leads to fast break opportunities, a strength of our team. What do you think about choosing our next coach with the goal to make us the 2008-09 top NBA defensive team?
One name that comes to mind is Tom Thibodeau.
Thibodeau has been praised for everything from his tutelage of Yao Ming to making the Celtics a much-improved defensive team.
Thibodeau's background written when he was Jeff Van Gundy's Assistant in Houston.Thibodeau entered the NBA in 1989 as an assistant coach with the expansion Minnesota Timberwolves under the late Bill Musselman. After two seasons with the Timberwolves, he joined the Seattle SuperSonics in 1991 as an advance scout. The following year, Thibodeau moved to San Antonio, where he worked with Jerry Tarkanian and John Lucas as a Spurs assistant coach for two seasons. He left San Antonio to become an assistant coach under Lucas with the Philadelphia 76ers. Thibodeau's stay in Philadelphia lasted two seasons, at which point he joined the Knicks. With the Knicks, Thibodeau worked with Van Gundy for five years and Don Chaney for two seasons.
In 14 NBA seasons, Thibodeau has helped his team finish in the NBA's Top Ten in team defense 11 times.
What are your thoughts about Thibodeau? Any other suggestions on who else can accomplish getting us to be the 2008-09 best defensive team?


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Global manufacturer Victor Technologies, based in St. Louis, recently announced its 2012 "Innovation to Shape the World" contest. The competition is for students in welding and cutting programs at secondary and post-secondary schools, as well as technical and vocational schools.
Three beginning (first or second year) students will win $250 by submitting a 500-word essay supporting the contest theme, and student members on three intermediate/advanced teams will each win $500 for completing a welding and cutting project. In addition, six schools associated with the winners will receive a cutting, welding and gas control package valued at $4,000.
"The contest, along with our regular 35% discount to educational institutions, demonstrates our commitment to giving students and schools the inspiration and tools they need to shape their future," said Martin Quinn, Victor's CEO.
Entries will be accepted until October 30, and the winners will be announced at the 2012 FABTECH show in Las Vegas, November 12-14. The contest rules, entry forms and submission guidelines are available at www.victortechnologies.com/innovationcon


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All of the victims of the Boston bombings and their families were notified of Wednesday's hearing for accused terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. They were given the opportunity to be in the courtroom as Tsarnaev made his first appearance. The judge noted that 30 survivors and their families attended the proceedings.
Rhode Island's survivor, Heather Abbott, was not at the courthouse. The Newport woman tells ABC6 News that she is instead focusing on her recovery.
Abbott lost part of one of her legs in the attack. She and a group of friends were at a restaurant near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs went off.
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To the voters, please know that I am deeply grateful to all of you for 12 memorable years as your governor's councilor.
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I joined Google [x] in March 2013. At Google, I'm working on a few projects in computational photography, including the burst-mode camera pipeline that shipped as HDR+ on the Nexus 5 and occasional hacking on Halide.
Greg Humphreys and I wrote a textbook on rendering, Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation. The book has been used as the primary textbook in more than seventy advanced rendering courses at over twenty universities. The accompanying software has been used in over seventy peer-reviewed research papers. Greg, Pat Hanrahan, and I were recently awarded an Academy Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for this work; this is the first book that has received this award.
I recently had a great time teaching the 2013 installment of cs348b, the graduate-level rendering course at Stanford. I was also fortunate to have the opportunity to teach the 2003 installment of cs348b. The excellent results from the rendering competition at the end of the course are online as well.
Before Google, I was a Principal Engineer at Intel, where I was responsible for the design and implementation of ispc, the Intel SPMD Program Compiler, now open-source and on github. Before attacking the problem of building compilers for better high-performance programming models for modern CPU architectures, I was the architecture lead of the Advanced Rendering Technology group, which is the group that grew out of Neoptica.
I was a founder and the CEO of Neoptica, which worked on new programming models for graphics on heterogeneous CPU+GPU computer systems. Neoptica was acquired by Intel in the Fall of 2007. I gave a keynote at ACM/Eurographics Graphics Hardware 2006 that got some attention; it outlined some of the context behind our goals at Neoptica.
Before Neoptica, I worked in the Software Architecture group at NVIDIA, co-founded Exluna (acquired by NVIDIA, February 2002), worked in Pixar's Rendering R&D group, and was a graduate student in the Stanford Graphics Lab, where I worked on rendering algorithms and systems, including both the theoretical foundations of rendering as well as software design and systems issues. My thesis was about a new theoretical framework for rendering centered on scattering rather than light transport as the basic abstraction. Pat Hanrahan was my advisor.
While at NVIDIA, I edited the book GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics and General Purpose Computation. The first half of the book is comprised of twenty-four chapters about the state-of-the-art in interactive rendering, and the second half is devoted to general purpose computation on graphics processors (GPGPU)—the first book covering this topic.
Finally, one of my greatest accomplishments yet may well be my decisive victory in the first annual Fantasy Graphics League.


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In the room saturated in white light and the sound of rushing water, it's 82 degrees. In rows of shoebox-size tanks stacked five high dart slivers of silver — tiny fish no bigger than grains of rice, adults two inches long and all ages in between.
Even if it's been years since your last childhood trip to the store to bring home a plastic bag bulging with water containing an aquarium fish, the sight of more than 40,000 zebrafish in a laboratory at the University of Maine can still make your heart skip a beat. It all comes flooding back: the excitement and wonder of watching zebras native to India's Ganges River swimming just inches from your face.
Today, what's even more remarkable about this hardy, popular home aquarium fish is the splash it's making in basic science. Zebrafish as model organisms are now comparable in importance to mice and fruit flies in the study of genetics and disease prevention. Evidence of the research potential of the little striped vertebrates is in the prevalence of zebrafish labs at medical schools nationwide and the explosion of the resulting scientific literature being published.
Zebrafish are being studied to better understand such human conditions as congenital disease, cancer and aging. At UMaine, the zebrafish facility of Carol Kim, associate professor of biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology, is a hub of activity, facilitating the initiatives of as many as five campus scientists conducting research in such areas as microbiology, toxicology, immunology, developmental biology and genetics. In her research on innate immunity and infectious diseases, Kim collaborates with scientists across the country and abroad.
Zebrafish hold the promise of very basic scientific and applied research breakthroughs for Kim, a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, with affiliations with the Functional Genomics graduate program offered by UMaine, Jackson Laboratory and Maine Medical Center Research Institute, part of the Graduate School of Biomedical Science. In her research, she is studying the biological factors that supplement and prolong the body's immune response to infection. Working on the molecular level, she is studying how cells respond to infection, contributing basic knowledge that could one day lead to disease prevention or more effective vaccines in humans, and in other mammals and fish species.
"We're using the zebrafish as a model for the immune response to infectious disease," Kim says. "The zebrafish is a powerful model system that will allow us to better understand the immune system and implement preventative measures against infection for humans, as well as fish."
Zebrafish make ideal model organisms in science for many of the same reasons they are popular in home aquariums. They are easy to care for and breed, and they are resilient, tolerating fluctuations in water temperatures. A female can lay up to 300 eggs each week. Zebras can live for up to five years.
For researchers, two of the most important characteristics of zebrafish are their rapid and viewable development, and their biological traits that mimic those of humans. Zebrafish eggs are transparent. Under a microscope, scientists can watch the embryonic growth that occurs in two to four days following fertilization. Development is so rapid that a single cell multiples to take on a fish shape within 24 hours.
Zebrafish can serve as models for human developmental biology, neurobiology, toxicology and genetic disease. While they are lower vertebrates, their genes, developmental processes, anatomy, physiology and behaviors bear similarities to those of humans, according to ZFIN, the Web-based Zebrafish Information Network of the Zebrafish International Resource Center at the University of Oregon.
"There are some differences in the zebrafish model; namely, that it is not a mammal," says Kim. "In UMaine's partnership with Jackson Lab (the world's largest mammalian genetic research facility, where the mouse is studied as a model for human disease), our zebrafish facility is complementary. I think that the zebrafish model system soon will rival the mouse system as more reagents, antibodies and cell lines are developed. It already rivals the mouse in developmental biology and toxicology."
In recent years, scientists like Kim have turned to zebrafish as models for the study of immunity, and infectious viral and bacterial disease. Key to Kim's work is the identification of the genes and molecular processes involved in innate immunity — the natural ability of multicelled organisms to ward off pathogens. Her studies of infectious disease in zebrafish bridge the biomedical and applied application fields because they have the potential to lead to a better understanding of disease development, resistance, diagnosis and treatment in other vertebrates, including humans and fish.
Kim's interest in applying molecular virology and microbiology to benefit the biomedical field and aquaculture industry brought her to UMaine in 1998, where she set up the state's first and now largest zebrafish facility. Up to that point, much of the genetically based research involving zebrafish focused on developmental biology and neurobiology. Kim was among the first to use the zebrafish to study infectious diseases.
What started as a small laboratory with 250 brood stock has grown to a climate-controlled facility in the new wing of Hitchner Hall, housing more than 40,000 zebrafish at all stages of development.
Kim's focus is on the role of toll-like receptor (TLR) signal pathways that are key to innate immunity. First identified in the fruit fly, TLRs are proteins found on the surface of certain cells. The receptors act as defense mechanisms, recognizing and binding with molecules of bacteria or viruses, and signaling the cell nucleus of the invading microbial infection. The result is an innate immune response — the release of infection-fighting molecules, such an cytokines.
Such innate response is a primitive physiological feature still shared among insects and vertebrates like the mouse, zebrafish and human. Unlike adaptive immunity that depends on virus- or bacteria-specific antibodies or vaccines, innate immunity as the body's first line of defense provides an immediate, vigorous, nonspecific inflammatory response to pathogens. Indeed, the stronger the innate immune response in the mouse, zebrafish or human, the more vigorous the adapted immune response.
In their efforts to better understand how the immune system responds to viral infection, Kim and UMaine researchers Stephen Altmann, Mark Mellon and Daniel Distel had a major breakthrough in 2003. The scientists isolated and confirmed the function of a zebrafish gene that produces interferon, an infection-fighting protein known for its ability to inhibit the growth of virus.
The UMaine researchers were the first to document the presence of interferon in any fish species. According to the Web of Science, the report of their discovery in the Journal of Virology is among the top 1 percent of papers cited by other scientists in that field in the last two years.
Since then, Kim has been cloning in zebrafish the immunogene known as Mx, which is activated by interferon. First discovered in mice with an inborn resistance to influenza virus, Mx bears a 50 percent resemblance to antiviral Mx proteins in humans. The important diagnostic tool in assessing interferon activity has been cloned in a variety of mammal, bird and fish species, but not in zebrafish until research was completed by a team of scientists from UMaine, Cornell and Boston's Brigham and Women's and Children's hospitals.
In an effort to understand disease-fighting responses in humans, more immune-related genes in the zebrafish need to be identified. Earlier this year, Kim and another research team focusing on the Mx and interferon proteins were the first to describe how an experimental infection of snakehead rhabdovirus developed and elicited an antiviral response in zebrafish. They focused on the symptoms of disease and the immune response in zebrafish embryos and adults.
Targeted gene disruptions can be used in conjunction with pathogen challenge to alter immunity to infection, according to the research team of scientists from UMaine, the University of Hamburg in Germany and Dalhousie University in Canada, writing in the February 2005 issue of the Journal of Virology. Differences in mortality rates, pathogenesis and gene expression may provide clues about the role of genes linked to immunity.
Kim is now collaborating with Nick Trede at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah to establish a transgenic (genetically modified) line of zebrafish that would have fluorescence to indicate activation of the TLR signaling pathways. When viewed using a special microscope, the mutant fish and their embryos have the potential to show scientists how the different proteins along the pathway function when the organism is compromised by disease.
Researchers also hope to identify genes that could improve or exaggerate the response of the TLR pathway.
"To identify what genes are responsible for such changes could mean that one day, we can identify humans with — or who are more susceptible to — disease," Kim says. "Using animal models, we're hoping to mimic the abnormality."
That approach is at the heart of Kim's most recent research project, funded by a more than $405,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is collaborating with Dartmouth Cystic Fibrosis Research Development Program researchers to develop a zebrafish model for studying cystic fibrosis.
According to NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute, cystic fibrosis is the most common, fatal genetic disease in the United States. About 30,000 people in the U.S. have the disease, which is caused by a single mutated gene — the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator (CFTR).
In normal cells, the CFTR protein serves as a channel, allowing cells to release chloride as part of the immune response system. However, in people with cystic fibrosis, the protein is defective and the cells do not release the chloride, resulting in an improper salt balance and production of thick mucus.
In her lab, Kim will experimentally infect zebrafish with bacterial strains from cystic fibrosis patients in an effort to better understand why they are so pathogenic. The number of bacterial strains and the many CFTR gene mutations (more than 900, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute) make the microbiology portion of the project statistically strong. It is basic science that will be arduous in its compilation and analysis, but valuable. The bacteria preferentially affects cystic fibrosis patients with chronic infection that causes chronic inflammation.
"We're hoping to determine some of the key factors of the innate immune response that contribute to the detrimental inflammatory response seen in cystic fibrosis patients," Kim says. "If we can establish a way to control inflammation, cystic fibrosis patients will have a better outcome."
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After missing all the fun in a blowout win over Norfolk State, OHIO quarterback Tyler Tettleton is expected to play in their MAC opener at UMass despite being questionable, reports Jason Arkley. Coach Frank Solich said he's '100 percent' sure of it, actually. What I'm interpreting this as, it's not clear how much time he'll play, but he'll get some action in.
[Correction: Tettleton said he's '100 percent' sure he'll play, not Solich. Apologies.]
Sorry, Minutemen. This is not the news you wanted to hear. Then again, given how well Derrius Vick played against NSU, maybe it didn't matter who lined up behind center. Hope you're bringing cornerbacks to Gillette Stadium!


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---- — Katherine Louise Rogers, 83, of Newton, died at 4:26 p.m. Wednesday, July 17, 2013, at St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital, Effingham.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Hankins Cemetery, rural Jasper County, with the Rev. Tom Matson, officiating. Crain Funeral Home, Newton, is in charge of the arrangements. Memorials may be made to New Beginnings Church or to Jasper County Senior Citizens' Center.