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Fans Following Video Series Can Enter to Win Dream Trip to Churchill Downs to Attend the 2015 'Run for the Roses'
LOUISVILLE, KY (Monday, March 24, 2014) – Churchill Downs® is offering online and social media fans an inside and up-close look at the top stories of the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands, its star horses and the people behind them through a new series of videos available on the Kentucky Derby Channel on YouTube – and one lucky viewer will win a trip for two to the 2015 running of America's greatest race.
The video series celebrates the 2014 Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by TwinSpires.com, the point system that determines the eligibility of horses to compete in the maximum field of 20 3-year-old Thoroughbreds that will enter the starting gate for the big race at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 3. Along with the Road to the Kentucky Derby videos hosted by Churchill Downs racing analyst Jill Byrne, visitors to the Kentucky Derby channel at www.youtube.com/user/kentuckyderby can also enjoy videos of past runnings of the Derby and Longines Kentucky Oaks, other related content and an opportunity to win that dream trip to next year's "Run for the Roses."
As part of the celebration of the official launch of the gripping and colorful video series on the YouTube channel, Churchill Downs will kick off the Road to the Kentucky Derby Giveaway, which will award one lucky prize winner a trip for two to the Louisville track for the 2015 running of the Derby.
The Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by TwinSpires.com, now in its second year, is a series of 34 prep races in which horses can pick up points through a top-four finish that count toward their eligibility to run in the classic American race. The series began in September and is now in its Championship Series phase, with several of its races in the weeks leading up to the Kentucky Derby awarding 100 points and a guaranteed spot in the Derby starting gate to their winners.
"The compelling stories offered by the Road to the Kentucky Derby video series provides a wonderful opportunity for fans to get to know some of the most fascinating horses and people that are part of this year's Kentucky Derby drama and easily share those stories with friends and family through social media," said Kevin Flanery, president of Churchill Downs Racetrack. "The Kentucky Derby is special in so many ways, and spectacular images and compelling stories offered in the Road to the Kentucky Derby video series will help viewers and fans take their Derby experience to new levels."
The 2014 Road to the Kentucky Derby video series launches today with five Byrne-hosted videos spotlighting focused on recent Derby prep races and racing stars who have emerged in those events. Additional videos will be added in the weeks leading up to the Kentucky Derby as the Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series nears its climactic finish with the determination of the field for this year's Derby.
"There is no sport that offers a better combination of color, beauty and unique personalities than Thoroughbred racing, and the dream of every person in our sport is to win the Kentucky Derby," said Byrne, the daughter of a trainer who has spent most of her life in racing. "The lives and stories of people who care for these beautiful and talented horses are endlessly fascinating, but few fans get the opportunity experience that part of the racing world first-hand. I'm excited because the Road to the Kentucky Derby series delivers them behind the scenes to experience the beauty, drama and emotion that are part of the 'Derby Dream' and the quest to earn an opportunity for a young horse to compete in the biggest race of them all."
The Road to the Kentucky Derby video series launches with a series introduction and five initial episodes on the Kentucky Derby YouTube Channel and more will be added regularly.
Videos currently available include:
Win a Free Trip to the 2015 Kentucky Derby
Fans following the Road to Kentucky Derby video series on YouTube can enter to win a free trip to the 2015 Kentucky Derby by participating in the Road to the Kentucky Derby Giveaway at www.KentuckyDerby.com/giveaway. Fans can enter by visiting the Kentucky Derby Channel on YouTube and start with Episode 5 to find a special entry code that can be used to enter the contest. Each new video added to the Road to the Kentucky Derby series on the YouTube channel will include a new entry code, which will allow fans to enter multiple times.
Fans can also earn additional contest entry codes by following the Kentucky Derby via social media and email. Entry codes will be given out on the Kentucky Derby's Facebook page, Twitter (@KentuckyDerby), Pinterest, Instagram and email. Fans can sign up or the latter at www.KentuckyDerby.com/signups. Each separate contest code is good for one contest entry. For more information on the contest, go to www.KentuckyDerby.com/giveaway.
Seven Championship Series Races Remaining
As of March 24, There are seven races remaining in the Road to the Kentucky Derby Championship Series, including Florida Derby, March 29 at Gulfstream Park (FL); UAE Derby, March 29 at Meydan (Dubai, EAU); Louisiana Derby, March 29 at Fair Grounds (LA); Santa Anita Derby, April 5 at Santa Anita Park (CA); Wood Memorial, April 5 at Aqueduct (NY); Arkansas Derby, April 12 at Oaklawn Park (AR); Bluegrass, April 12 at Keeneland (KY); and one wildcard race, the Lexington, April 19 at Keeneland.
About Churchill Downs Racetrack
Churchill Downs, the world's most legendary racetrack, has conducted Thoroughbred racing and presented America's greatest race, the Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands, continuously since 1875. Located in Louisville, the flagship racetrack of Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ: CHDN) also operates Trackside at Churchill Downs, which offers year-round simulcast wagering at the historic track. Churchill Downs will conduct the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 3, 2012, and its Spring Meet is scheduled for April 26-June 29. The track has hosted the Breeders' Cup World Championships a record eight times. Information about Churchill Downs can be found on the Internet at www.churchilldowns.com.
About the Road to the Kentucky Derby
Established in 2013, The Road to the Kentucky Derby is a qualifying point system for the 2013 Kentucky Derby featuring 34 stakes races overall, with the most important being the 16 marquee events for 3-year-old Thoroughbreds in the final 10 weeks leading up to the first Saturday in May known as the Kentucky Derby Championship Series. The top 20 horses with the most points will be eligible for a maximum field of 20 horses that will compete in the 140th running the of America's greatest race on Saturday, May 3.
With just under six weeks to go until the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I), the fourth and final pool of Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Future Wager ("KDFW") will open Thursday, March 27 with fast-rising West Coast star California Chrome (#5) as the narrow favorite over East Coast hero Cairo Prince (#4).
The late nomination period for the classic races of the 2014 Triple Crown concluded late Saturday, March 22 with a total of 10 additional 3-year-old Thoroughbreds added to the roster of horses that are eligible to complete in the 2014 renewal of the prized three-race series.
Tanma Corp.'s Chitu turned back a challenge from stablemate Midnight Hawk in Sunday's Grade 3, $800,110 Sunland Derby, in a finish dominated by the two representatives of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. Under a stalk-and-pounce trip engineered by Martin Garcia, the 9-5 favorite earned 50 points toward the Kentucky Derby, bringing his total up to 54.
Kaleem Shah Inc.'s Awesome Baby outclassed her rivals on Sunday in the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks to earn another 50 points and move on top of the Road to the Kentucky Oaks leaderboard with 110 total points.
Social Inclusion, who was credited with a four-furlong breeze in :49 1/5 on Saturday over Gulfstream Park's fast dirt, will work twice more in Florida before he ships to New York for the Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial on Saturday, April 5, owner Ronald Sanchez said via telephone on Sunday.
Grade 1 winner Sweet Reason remains on course for her next engagement, the Grade 2, $300,000 Gazelle on Saturday, April 5, after working a mile in company with Jerome hero Noble Moon Sunday morning over Belmont Park's fast training track.
Remsen winner Honor Code has been knocked off the Kentucky Derby trail by a suspensory injury.
Since going out on his own in 2003, trainer Mike Maker has taken five horses down the Triple Crown trail, including Hansen, the undefeated two-year-old male champion of 2011.
Appearing not to be making much headway in deep stretch of Grade 3, $523,380 Spiral at Turfway Park, We Miss Artie nonetheless refused to quit. When the dueling leaders, Harry's Holiday and Coastline, began to shorten stride inside the sixteenth pole, We Miss Artie grinded his way into a three-way photo, which the son Artie Schiller won by a nose over Harry's Holiday, with Coastline another head behind in third.
Aurelia's Belle faced stakes rivals on on three occasions prior to Saturday, reputing herself well with placings each time, but it took returning to the synthetic Polytrack for the bay miss to finally break through with her first black-type victory in Turfway Park's Grade 3, $126,000 Bourbonette Oaks.
California Chrome and Candy Boy, who figure to be the top two betting choices in the Santa Anita Derby, had their penultimate workouts Saturday morning for the Grade 1, $1 million race on April 5. California Chrome sped a half-mile at his Los Alamitos headquarters and Candy Boy drilled six furlongs at Santa Anita.
Cairo Prince, the probable favorite in next Saturday's $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park, breezed an easy half-mile in :50 4/5 Saturday morning at Palm Meadows.
We Miss Artie may have finished more than 17 lengths behind the winner in last month's Grade 2 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park, but the story could be different Saturday with the Grade 3 Spiral on the Polytrack. A Grade 1 winner over Keeneland's Polytrack last fall, the Ken and Sarah Ramsey homebred by Artie Schiller was installed as the 4-1 morning-line second choice for Saturday's $550,000 race at Turfway Park.
The late nomination window for the races of the 2014 Triple Crown series is scheduled to close to owners and trainers of 3-year-old Thoroughbreds in North America and abroad on Saturday, March 22.
Streaking California Chrome will make his next start in the Grade 1, $1 million Santa Anita Derby on April 5, trainer Art Sherman confirmed Thursday morning from his Los Alamitos headquarters.
Team Valor International has the pulled the plug on preparing Mexikoma for a Kentucky Derby prep race and will focus instead on the final leg of the Triple Crown, the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 7.
Bob Baffert continued his mastery of the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park, winning the 1 1/16-mile event for the fourth time in the last five years as Hoppertunity emerged as a viable Kentucky Derby contender. The Hall of Fame trainer had to be pleased to see his inexperienced colt overcome a rough trip.
A full field of 12 sophomore fillies has been entered in the Grade 3, $125,000 Bourbonette Oaks on Saturday at Turfway Park.
The contest will be worth points on a 50-20-10-5 basis as part of the Road to the Kentucky Oaks series.
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Several students were injured when an inflatable slide collapsed this afternoon at Rosemont Elementary School.
At about 1 p.m., Troup County 911 received a call that an inflatable slide, set up in the gymnasium that children were playing on, collapsed injuring the students, according to Troup County Sheriff's spokesperson Stewart Smith.
Tina Duckett, school system public relations director, said 18 students were involved in the inflatable collapse. Fire Department officials said 13 were injured. Duckett wasn't sure this afternoon how many were actually on the slide when it gave way.
"We are working with law enforcement to find the reason why the inflatable collapsed," Duckett said.
Smith said that two students were airlifted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. West Georgia Health spokesperson Jan Nichols said that six students were transported to the hospital by ambulance and one student was brought to the hospital by a parent.
Smith said the remaining students were either treated at the scene and released to their parents, or were sent back to their classrooms. The fifth grade students were in the gym for an Accelerate Reader celebration, something Duckett said the school had regularly done.
Duckett could not recall any similar incident to today's. She said the school system would be working with Sheriff's investigators and take any precautions necessary to avoid any similar incidents in the future.
"We're just devastated that this happened," Duckett said. "Our focus right now is on the children."
Parents of the children injured were called after the incident. Other Rosemont students were sent home with a note about the slide collapse.
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a little kiddy game me and my cousin used to play whenever i went over to her house and we went to the neighborhood pool to swim. its when you pretend that your an otter, and you take a rock and sorta scrape at the bottom of the pool, supposedly digging up clams. also see sharks and minnows.
me, karen and aaron played otters a few days ago.
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1 — Kinston celebrates the upcoming 250th anniversary of the town with a spectacular fireworks and "raising" of a plane by Spirit AeroSystems.
1 — Community celebrates the final day of Kwanzaa.
2 — Raymond Allen Goff Jr., 35, dies in a vehicle crash in Falling Creek.
3 — Former Lenoir County Sheriff's Office lead narcotics investigator Henry Clayton "Clay" Keel appeared in court on an opium trafficking charge.
3 — Three-car pileup in La Grange sends two to Lenoir Memorial Hospital.
3 — Lenoir County Board of Commissioners approves $150,000 to replace the county's health department roof.
3 — Lenoir County's first baby of 2012, Mario Godinez Martinez, is born at Lenoir Memorial Hospital.
4 — Busted jumper leaves 75 percent of Kinston in the cold during a power outage that lasted several hours.
4 — Jones Senior's Travonda Haddock scores 21 points in a girls' basketball game against Lejeune to go over 1,000 points in her career.
6 — Pair of vehicle accidents lead to a car crashing into the side of an apartment in Kinston and another car ending up on its roof in La Grange.
6 — A meth lab is discovered in room 202 of the West Parke Inn and Suites on U.S. 70 north of Kinston.
7 — Chef & The Farmer sustains thousands of dollars worth of damage in a fire. No one is injured in the blaze.
7 — Dontino Lamont Forbes, 40, of Greenville, dies in a motorcycle accident in Snow Hill after going 70 mph in a 45-mph zone.
8 — St. Mary's Episcopal Church holds 23rd annual Boar's Head Festival.
10 — 24-year-old Krystal Jones crashes into the former Family Pet Shop on Vernon Avenue after allegedly "huffing" toxic vapors.
14 — A 31-year-old registered sex offender, Christopher Adams Czyzewski, is jailed after taking his daughter to a Girl Scouts meeting in Snow Hill.
15 — More than 80 people march through Kinston to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day; other activities take place a day later at St. Augustus AME Church in Kinston and at a parade in La Grange.
17 — Airport Road temporarily closes to help build part of the Global TransPark's rail spur.
18 — 16-year-old Ricardo Rafael Nava is accidentally killed by his 15-year-old friend, Adrian Lopez, while Lopez was playing with a 12-gauge shotgun in a Lenoir County mobile home community near the Jones County line.
18 — Kinston's Ashlee Altise wins a trip to Hollywood to vie for the title of "American Idol" with her rendition of The Beatles' "Come Together."
19 — Gary Black, the president and CEO of Lenoir Memorial Hospital, is named the Lenoir County Citizen of the Year by the Kinston/Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce. Jane Wynne is named the chamber's Ambassador of the Year.
28 — Meredith Sutton, Priyanka Anand and Cierra Cotton arrive in Greensboro to compete for the title of N.C. Distinguished Young Woman.
29 — Hundreds of residents turn out for the 13th annual "Soup and a Bowl" at the Kinston Community for the Arts.
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1 — Carl Wilkens, an author, speaks to North Lenoir High School students about crimes against humanity he witnessed when he lived in Rwanda in the 1990s.
1 — Six area athletes — South Lenoir's K'Hadree Hooker (N.C. State); Kinston's Shaheed Swinson (N.C. Central), Angelo Keyes (N.C. A&T) and C.J. Bradshaw (Old Dominion); and Ayden-Grifton's Kariym Gent (Charlotte) and Brandon Whitaker (Chowan) — sign their national letters of intent to play college football.
2 — Kinston High School student Lynn Edward Harris, 17, appears before a Lenoir County District Court judge on a charge of false bomb report.
3 — Greene County breaks ground on new farmer's market in Snow Hill.
4 — The Lenoir Community College baseball team opens its 2012 season with a sweep of Craven Community College.
4 — A 23-year-old "scared" Maury man, Justin Lequin "Jay" Wellington, leads authorities on a two-mile car and foot chase in Greene County. Wellington was wanted for misdemeanor larceny charges.
7 — A Kinston man, McKinley Gastelum Fogg, 31, is sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for illegal drug sales in the Pitt County area.
7 — Bethel Christian Academy's Isaac Brown has his No. 41 jersey retired by the school after breaking the school's all-time scoring record.
9 — Black & Veatch, the international engineering firm tasked with supervising the removal of sludge from Kinston's defunct Peachtree Wastewater Treatment Plant, settled a lawsuit with the city for $500,000.
10 — The U.S. Department of Justice OKs nonpartisan elections in Kinston.
10 — The Kinston High School boys' basketball team wins an unprecedented sixth straight regular season conference championship with a rout of host North Pitt.
13 — Filing for the local 2012 election cycle begins.
13 — N.C. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Walter Dalton visits Kinston.
13 — The Snow Hill Dollar General is robbed by two men with a handgun and shotgun.
15 — Kinston's Ashlee Altise is eliminated from "American Idol" after being selected to go to Hollywood for the Fox-TV talent show.
17 — The Neuse River Music Festival kicks off at Lenoir Community College.
17 — Kinston High School's boys and girls basketball teams win Eastern Plains 2A tournament titles at Viking Gymnasium against Tarboro, Farmville Central, respectively.
18 — A Farmville man, Cajron Rashan Hunter, is jailed under a $121,000 bond after leading Greene County Sheriff's Office deputies on a 20-mile chase.
22 — Snow Hill Bojangles' robbed for the second time in a month; 22-year-old Justin Lamar Tyson of Farmville arrested for the crime.
22 — Banks Elementary first-grader Crystal Cheyenne Cheston, 6, competes and wins at Amateur Night at the Apollo in New York City.
24 — District Court Judge Lonnie Carraway pleads guilty to driving while impaired in Snow Hill.
24 — The First Citizens Bank at 607 Plaza Blvd. is robbed at gunpoint.
25 — South Lenoir High School wins the 34th annual Quiz Bowl at the Kinston/Lenoir County Public Library.
25 — Sierra Kinsey Waller is named Miss Neuse 2012 at the Grainger-Hill Performing Arts Center.
26 — The Freedom Classic, a three-game series between the baseball teams of the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy, concludes at Grainger Stadium. The Air Force Falcons win the series, two games to one.


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When it comes to the topic of stopping sexual assaults in the military, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he agreed with President Barack Obama's remarks last week: there's no one silver bullet. But he said he believes one root cause is a breakdown in commanders' accountability.
In a wide-ranging briefing with reporters Friday, Hagel spent about half his time on the matter of military sexual assault. He made clear he doesn't believe there's a single root cause, and the solution is not as simple as firing people to set an example. But at the same time, he kept returning to the topic of accountability, and on the matter of preventing and prosecuting sexual assault, perhaps a lack of it.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
"If you don't have accountability, you don't have much," he said. "And what we're looking at in every way, many of the directives that I've given this week, two weeks ago, back a month-and-a-half ago, were focused — if not every one of them — on some element of accountability of every chain of command. It is an essential component that somehow has been lacking or broken down. I don't know. But it is a central part of how we fix the problem. There are other pieces, too."
Hagel didn't specify where he believes the accountability breakdowns are in the military chain of command or what should be done to fix them. But he said it appears clear to him that those breakdowns go a long way toward explaining why sexual assault survivors in the military have been unwilling to report crimes through the proper channels-in this case, up the chain of command.
"Starting with some of the questions about victims saying, and rightfully so, that they didn't feel their commanders were accountable enough to be able to come forward and register a complaint, because they thought they would be subject to many things, which is true, which has happened, and then also having no confidence that anything would be done about their complaint. And that needs to be addressed, as well as all the components of this," he said.
Congress paying attention
While military sexual assault is undoubtedly not a new phenomenon, the amount of media and political attention it's getting is. The issue has been thrust to the fore by recent cases, including that of an Air Force officer who headed a sexual assault prevention office but was himself arrested for sexual battery.
On Thursday, Army officials said the manager of the sexual assault response program at Fort Campbell, Ky., had been relieved of his post after his arrest in a domestic dispute with his ex-wife. The program he managed was meant to prevent sexual harassment and assault and encourage equal opportunity.
No fewer than 10 bills are circulating on Capitol Hill on the subject, many of them dealing with the accountability questions Hagel is asking. He's already proposed that Congress amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice in order to remove commanders' authority to reverse court martial convictions in sexual assault cases.
Several of the bills would remove the military chain of command from the process of investigating and prosecuting those cases entirely.
Hagel was careful not to endorse any particular piece of legislation, but in a discussion with reporters earlier in the day, Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force Chief of Staff, said he was open to that idea.
Senior military officers are speaking about the problem with increasing bluntness and expressions of regret.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs chairman, on Wednesday called it a "crisis" in the ranks, and on Thursday the Army chief of staff, Gen. Ray Odierno, publicly acknowledged his service's efforts are "failing."
Each branch of the military's service chiefs, secretaries and top enlisted leaders joined Hagel and Dempsey for a meeting with Obama at the White House on the matter on Thursday afternoon.
"They care about this and they are angry about it," Obama said. "Not only is it a crime, not only is it shameful and disgraceful, but it also is going to make and has made the military less effective than it can be."
The president added that because assault victims may be more likely now to come forward with complaints, the number of reported assaults may increase in the short run.
"I then want those trend lines to start going down because that indicates that we're also starting to fix the problem and we've highlighted it, and people who are engaged in despicable behavior, they get fully punished for it," Obama said.
Panel to submit recommendations
Dempsey said during Friday's press briefing that the military has perhaps gone to sleep on the issue over the last decade of war. Before that, there was the Navy's Tailhook scandal, the Army's Aberdeen scandal and another at the Air Force Academy.
"And then I think, you know, we went to war and maybe some of that was masked. And you asked, do I think that there's an effect of 10 years of war? Yeah, instinctively, I do. And we've been looking at what that might be," he said. "You might argue that we've become a little too forgiving because, you know, if a perpetrator shows up at a court martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime. So we're looking for game-changers, really. And some of these congressional proposals could be game-changers. And so we want to make sure that we understand how they fit together and, more importantly, what are the second- and third-order effects?"
Hagel held his first meeting Friday with a congressionally mandated panel of experts on sexual assault, five selected by him, and four selected by Congress.
He urged lawmakers to wait for their recommendations before pushing through any new laws that would shake up the way the military manages criminal justice matters.
But he insisted the Pentagon is taking steps to respond aggressively at the same time, including an order he signed Friday that formalizes an earlier directive requiring the retraining of anyone in the military who works in sexual assault prevention and response programs.
Under the order, the military services will recertify all 25,000 people involved in the programs. The step, which also applies to the military's approximately 19,000 recruiters, must be completed by July 1.
"There will be more of these directives. There will be more action," he said. "But this problem can't be fixed by the secretary of Defense alone. I can direct it. I can hold people accountable, and I will. The president's held me accountable for it. But there's not one of these people in leadership today that wants this to be their legacy."
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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At a Glance
Why Get Tested?
To monitor treatment for ovarian cancer or to detect recurrence; sometimes to evaluate a pelvic mass; not recommended for screening asymptomatic women but sometimes ordered to help detect early ovarian cancer in those identified as being at high risk
When to Get Tested?
Before starting therapy for ovarian cancer and at intervals during and after treatment; sometimes when you have a pelvic mass or are at a high risk for developing ovarian cancer
Sample Required?
A blood sample drawn from a vein in your arm
Test Preparation Needed?
The Test Sample
What is being tested?
The Cancer Antigen 125 (CA-125) test measures the amount of CA-125 in the blood. CA-125 is a protein that is present on the surface of most, but not all, ovarian cancer cells. This makes the test useful as a tumor marker in specific circumstances.
Significantly elevated concentrations of CA-125 may be present in the blood of a woman who has ovarian cancer. Small quantities of CA-125 are produced by normal tissues throughout the body and by some other cancers. Levels in the blood may be moderately elevated with a variety of non-cancerous conditions, including menstruation, pregnancy, and pelvic inflammatory disease.
How is the sample collected for testing?
A blood sample is obtained by inserting a needle into a vein in the arm.
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Another article, Follow That Sample, provides a glimpse at the collection and processing of a blood sample and throat culture.
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No test preparation is needed.
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In the final days before Christmas, two items have topped Lenoir County residents' shopping lists: guns and ammunition.
"We've been having aggressive sales, but we have aggressive sales this time of year, every year," said Neuse Sport Shop President Russell Rhodes. "But it has been abnormally high."
The fallout of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Connecticut took many forms, with one of them being new steps toward gun law reform from Congress and the White House. Reaction to possible legislation has taken the form of a preemptive spike in sales of firearms and ammunition.
"I don't know how much the event that occurred in Connecticut played with going to get a gun — I guess that's all tied together," Lenoir County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Chris Hill said. "But if I had to name a catalyst for why gun permits are at a fever pitch right now, it's because of some statements made in Washington about gun control."
Pickup trucks filled the parking lot of Neuse Sport Shop midday Friday as the firearms counter conducted brisk business. Some weapons and ammunition have been in such heavy demand that supply isn't keeping up.
Rhodes said, however, the store is working to make sure everyone has equal access to the same merchandise.
"We've set a limit of five boxes per style (of ammunition) for any customer coming into the store," Rhodes said. "They can buy five boxes of Type A, and then five boxes of Type B, but for any one caliber of gun, it's five boxes. That helps us keep people from hoarding — taking all of one caliber and keeping other people from having the ability to buy."
While customers at Neuse didn't want to be quoted on the record, conversation about gun and ammo demand reflected back on statements by President Barack Obama regarding restrictive gun laws several days earlier.
Staff at the Walmart on U.S. 70 referred all questions to the store's corporate media relations department, which in a message said it only reveals sales information on a quarterly basis.
The increase of gun ownership in the county can be seen acutely at the LCSO on Hill's desk, where a 2-inch stack of yet-to-be-processed gun permit applications lay Friday afternoon.
"We've been so busy, I've been taking work home to try to stay on top of it, so people can get their gun permits," Hill said. "We do exhaustive background (checks), and that takes time and staff to do those kind of things. We have seen an enormous amount of permit applications here. Not only for gun permits, but concealed weapon permits."
The numbers speak for themselves. From Jan. 1, 2008 to Dec. 18, 2008, there were 643 gun permits and 245 concealed carry permits issued. During that period this year, there were 875 gun permits — along with 44 awaiting pick-up — and 562 concealed carry permits issued.
To put last week's events in stark relief, 22 gun applications came into the LCSO from Dec. 6-12. That number more than doubled to 47 from Dec. 14-21; that means new applicants may have to wait a little longer than normal.
"We tell people seven days, but now we've been so inundated with gun permits, we're now looking beyond seven days," Hill said. "Although we're trying to stay on top of it, and trying to turn them out as hard as we can go, we can't guarantee seven days anymore."
Even with concealed carry applications nearly doubling over this time four years ago, they're still processed on a timely basis. State law requires a county sheriff's office to issue a permit from a successful application within 45 days of receiving all necessary background documentation.
Hill said the LCSO is processing those applications fairly quickly.
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Breakout Box
Lenoir County gun permits
Jan. 1-Dec. 18
2012: 875 (44 pending)
2011: 636
2010: 605
2009: 726
2008: 643
Lenoir County concealed carry permits
Jan. 1-Dec. 18
2012: 562
2011: 406
2010: 307
2009: 356
2008: 245


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Deonte Gaston, G, South Point
The 5-foot-9 junior scored 35 in Tuesday's comeback from a 19-point deficit against Forestview as the Red Raiders won 61-57. The game continued a recent trend for Gaston, who is averaging 28.3 points over his past four games, including a 32-point outburst against Kings Mountain. Gaston and the Red Raiders host rival East Gaston Friday.
Brooke Moore, G, Ashbrook
Mooreled the Green Wave with 24 points in Tuesday's win against Kings Mountain. The 5-foot-8 senior takes a 14.6 scoring average into Friday's home game against rival Forestview.
Boys: North Gaston's Daquan Mintz scored 27 in a loss to Crest … Delshon Leach scored 24 in Ashbrook's win over Kings Mountain … Kenny Poston scored 23 as Cherryville shocked East Lincoln … Bessemer City's Brad James had 21 points in an overtime win over North Lincoln, the Yellow Jackets' second-straight overtime win and third of the season … Josh Neely scored 20 in Highland Tech's win over Lincolnton … Christian Hilty's 20 points led Lincoln Charter past Carolina Christian.
Girls: Bessemer City's Madison Carter scored 26 in a loss to North Lincoln … Jacquilla Burris' season-high 24 points led Cherryville past East Lincoln … Gaston Day's Morgan Whitesides had 23 points in a win against Charlotte Victory Christian … Logan Carter scored 20 as Ashbrook beat Kings Mountain … East Gaston's Carly Kluttz scored 18 in a win over Garinger … Ashlee Frazier had 18 points in East Lincoln's loss to Cherryville.
East Gaston star DeSean Murray enjoying huge season
Notebook: 4 selected for Telep's Carolina Challenge
Boys and girls: East Gaston at South Point — This is the last time in the current realignment these rivals will meet as non-conference opponents as East Gaston will rejoin the Big South next season. This season's first installment of the rivalry took place way back on Nov. 30, with South Point's girls winning 54-41 and East Gaston's boys running away with a 79-56 victory.
Boys and girls: Bessemer City at Cherryville — This rivalry produced two fantastic games a month as the Bessemer City girls won 66-62 and the Yellow Jackets followed up with a 78-72 win.
Boys and girls: Forestview at Ashbrook — The Forestview girls escaped 53-52 in double overtime in the last meeting, and the Jaguars aren't interested in another thriller considering they lost to South Point on Tuesday to fall out of a first-place tie with Crest. On the boys' side of the rivalry, Ashbrook ran away with a 73-44 win against Forestview a month ago and is trying to keep pace with Hunter Huss at the top of the Big South standings.
Boys: Hunter Huss (16-3, 8-1) at Crest (10-7, 6-3) — Hunter Huss needs to win this game if it wants to set up a winner-take-all game with Ashbrook next Friday. The Huskies have already defeated the Chargers twice (85-68 in the holiday tournament and 85-79 in conference action).
Boys: Lincolnton (10-9, 6-5) at East Lincoln (14-6, 7-4) — The winner will have the inside track to the league's top 2A playoff seed. Lincolnton won 65-59 in this matchup on Jan. 11.
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Forestview at Ashbrook
Hunter Huss at Crest
North Gaston at Kings Mountain
East Gaston at South Point
Southern Piedmont 1A/2A
Bessemer City at Cherryville
Lincolnton at East Lincoln
Lake Norman Charter at Highland Tech
West Lincoln at North Lincoln
East Gaston at South Point
Charlotte Catholic at Berry Academy
Garinger at West Mecklenburg
Olympic at Harding
Private/charter schools
Gaston Christian at Metrolina Christian
Gaston Day at Statesville Christian
Girls: Monroe Tabernacle vs. Piedmont Charter at Gastonia Central YMCA
Boys: Covenant Classical vs. Piedmont Charter at Gastonia Central YMCA
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State of Compliance 2014: What it means to be a Chief Compliance Officer
PwC's Sally Bernstein and Andrea Falcione discuss the key lessons for CCOs that emerged from the State of Compliance 2014 Survey.
Today's Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) face more responsibility than ever, but also an opportunity to play a more strategic role in their organizations and become vital members of the C-suite. Among the key lessons that emerged from our 2014 survey:


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The right preparation and paint can help avoid maintenance headaches later. Primer is usually a good idea, even if painting a darker latex paint over a light-colored latex paint. Primer helps the paint adhere better and last longer; plus, it protects the wall.
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CS Alumni updatePosted Apr. 29, 2013
Andrew Sutton is the author of the Origin library, which was the testbed for much of the discussion of emulating concepts in the template chapters, and of the matrix library that is the topic of Chapter 29. The Origin library is open source and can be found by searching the Web for "Origin" and "Andrew Sutton."
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The Stormers were too physical and too clinical for the Sharks in winning 22-15 at Newlands.
The home team won comfortably after leading 16-6 at half-time.
Juan de Jongh scored the only try of the game.
I picked the Sharks to win and did so thinking they'd have as much desperation as the team that had to win to stay in the tournament.
On this display the Sharks won't win the competition either. If they have to travel, especially overseas for a semi-final or final, they won't triumph.They need more physicality and greater variation to their attack.
The Stormers were desperate and desperate times call for conservative times. Against a Sharks attack that offered nothing at the gain line and even less on the counter attack it this was a game in which desperation and conservatism combined effectively for victory.
The first time the two teams met the Sharks won 12-6 in a dire match. The return wasn't much better. The Sharks tried to be creative but their backs were always too deep in attack to threaten.
Occasionally youngsters Pieter Steph du Toit and Kyle Cooper broke a tackle and threatened momentum, but collectively there was nothing on offer from the Sharks.
The Stormers didn't ask too many questions of the Sharks defence, but they didn't have to because the home team pack did the business from the opening whistle.
The Stormers were very physical and simply too strong for the visitors, who lacked the imposing presence of a Willem Alberts-type player and especially Bismarck du Plessis.
The Sharks loose-trio, with Keagan Daniel at No 8 and Ryan Kankowski at flank, lacks physical presence, and with the front row taking a beating there was no way a physically inferior forward back five was going to correct the imbalance at the set piece and in the collisions.
Duane Vermeulen and Siya Kolisi were aggressive in every tackle, the scrum functioned with authority and the lineout was decent.
Jean de Villiers was strong in the midfield and mentally and physically his team was the stronger for 80 minutes.
The Sharks conceded this as early as the 61st minute when they refused to back their lineout maul to drive when five metres from the Stormers tryline. Instead they opted for the safety of three points. This at a time when they trailed by 10.
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Millions of people are still without electricity after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Northeast last week. To make matters worse, the Nor'easter storm has dumped as much as 10 inches of snow in the last two days on much of the same area. It's certainly been a devastating two weeks for our friends on the East coast.
In a somewhat unusual move for Apple, 9to5Mac published an email from Tim Cook to employees this morning letting them know that Apple is making a $2.5 million donation to the American Red Cross to help with relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. It's no secret that Apple has long-faced criticism for its lack of charitable donations, so this is absolutely a welcome step forward.
Here's the message from Cook:
A message about Hurricane Sandy relief.Team:For the past week, our thoughts have been with those affected by Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath. And Apple employees and customers the world over have raised millions of dollars towards the relief effort so far. But can always do more.That's why, on behalf of all our employees, Apple is making a donation of $2.5 million to the American Red Cross to benefit Hurricane Sandy relief. We hope this contribution will help families, businesses, and communities recover and rebuild.Tim CookNovember 8, 2012
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Ware, MA (April 22, 2013) – D & D Fitness Factory a co-ed training facility in Ware will sponsor two special events to be held on Sunday, April 28; The Lift for Life and 5 K Road Race. Both events are held in memory of their family member Donna Goudreau.
"These events are held annually and both receive tremendous community support," said Darryl and Damien Goudreau, co-owner of D & D Fitness Factory, located in Ware. Joined by their family members and friends, they "champion" the special events which have a charitable twist; they help to raise funds for their Walk of Champions team and the Walk of Champions to be held at the Quabbin Reservoir on Sunday, May 5.
"Close to 50 people have currently registered to participate in the early morning 5 K run, or compete in the Lift for Life," noted Goudreau. "There is still plenty of time for community members to join us on Sunday morning for the Fitness Challenge, Road Race, or both!"
The co-ed lifting competition has five men's weight classes and two women's class, which included a bench press, axle bar lift and a truck pull. The 5K Road Race features three co-ed age groups, students age 19 and under, ages 20-35 and ages 36 and up, and prizes are awarded to the top finishers in each category.
"We are proud to be a local gym raising money that will help people who live in our community," said Goudreau. "Our program at the gym strengthens people physically and we are honored to be part of the team that helps to lift our community members up during a cancer journey."
The Goudreau's life has been touched by cancer, and they learned through their journey that a healthy dose of community support goes a long way in the fight against cancer.
"Unfortunately, cancer is something that touches each person's life in some way," said Goudreau. "We put our strength together to support cancer care close to home in our community, through the Baystate Regional Cancer Program at Baystate Mary Lane Hospital, something that was important to Donna and our family during her cancer journey."
The Goudreau family invites community members to join them on Sunday, April 28 to compete in the Fitness Challenge, the Road Race or to cheer on the competition throughout the morning.
For more information or to participate in The Lift for Life and 5 K Road Race please call D & D Fitness Factory located at 40 East Main Street, Ware, at 413-967-6018.


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How do beavers shape Germany's Lower Rhine—and can we keep them from clashing with the people who live there?
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Help scientists discover everything there is to know about the beaver population in Germany's Lower Rhine region.
These expert builders were reintroduced in the neighboring Netherlands in the 1980s and have since made their way into the densely populated Lower Rhine. But researchers lack information on how many beavers live there, where they range, and how much they're interfering with human activities like farming, fishing, and waterway maintenance.
From boats or the shore, search peaceful ponds and streams for signs of beaver life, like lodges, dams, burrows in riverbanks, and gnaw marks—and, of course, for beavers themselves. You'll count those you see and observe their behavior. You'll also find out about the world they live in by sampling the soil and water and counting other species in the area.
Very little is known about the beaver population in this area, so you'll contribute to critical baseline data that will shape plans to manage beavers. Beavers are skillful manipulators of their environment. Their dams can cause floods, divert waterways, change the composition of the soil, and even help bolster fish populations. They nibble on crops and fences. Help make sure that plans to manage these potentially disruptive activities work for the beavers, too.
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One beaver benefit: their presence is associated with a wider array of plants and animals in river habitats.
Beavers could become victims of their own success as their population booms in the Lower Rhine.
The strong beaver presence in the Lower Rhine tells a success story. After hunters nearly drove them out of existence in the region, beavers are remaking a home for themselves. But they could become victims of their own success. As the population grows and their range expands, they're bound to run afoul of farmers and watercourse managers. These researchers are seeking to create a picture of the status of the beaver population so they can work toward strong plans for managing inevitable human–beaver conflicts.
You'll help these researchers meet many of their objectives. They want to know how many beavers are in the District of Cleves and the size of their habitat. They also want to know more about how beavers interact with the environment—for example, what do they eat? Where are they digging canals and burrows?
These researchers are also investigating how beavers impact the people in the area.
They'll talk to locals to see if they've noticed damage and also try to get an objective read on how much beavers are actually nibbling on crops, say, or damaging dikes. This information will help develop management plans that work for people as well as beavers.
The District of Cleves offers the best of both worlds: the natural beauty of the countryside and the cosmopolitan comforts of city living. Here you can explore nature reserves dotted with lakes and forests, world-class restaurants, and a range of historical attractions. The Schwanenburg, a medieval castle that now houses a museum, dominates the skyline in the city of Cleves. Other nearby attractions include the Roman fortified town at Xanten and the medieval town of Kalkar, which still has an active traditional windmill.
The area is rich in German and Dutch culture (Cleves and Emmerich are just a few kilometers from the Dutch border). The people speak German, and many speak some English. You'll also hear lots of Dutch on the streets. You'll be close to many stunning cities, including Amsterdam, Brussels, and Dusseldorf, which makes this project the perfect jumping-off point for wider European exploration.
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Throughout the expedition, you'll hear from the experts on staff about the research and its context, and you'll have some free time to explore the culinary and cultural attractions the region has to offer.
Dr. William Megill has researched jellyfish, whales, and otters and has led Earthwatch teams for more than a decade.
Your team will stay at a full-service hotel in Emmerich, a picturesque city on the banks of the Rhine near Germany's border with the Netherlands. Couples and singles rooms are available. From the hotel, you'll travel to study sites throughout the Lower Rhine region and to the project's labs at the Rhine Waal University of Applied Sciences in the town of Cleves.
The team will share breakfasts and dinners at the hotel and eat lunch at the university's dining hall or at local cafés and restaurants. You'll have your pick of many typical European and American foods and can try a number of local specialties, which include fine cheeses and sausages.
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Michael Forga | Friday, July 04, 2014
We had many interesting and fun days however the lead person could be better organized and manage his time better. He works hard but at times volunteers had nothing to do.
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Women's Volleyball Rebounds from Slow Start at Abbey for 3-1 Win; Clinches #2 Seed in Conference Tournament
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BELMONT, NC - The Belmont Abbey volleyball team fell in four sets to the visiting Pfeiffer University Falcons this evening at the Wheeler Center. Scores were 21-25, 25-22, 20-25 and 17-25. Pfeiffer improves to 19-11 overall and 14-3 in Conference Carolinas, while the Abbey slips to 6-17 overall and 6-10 in Conference Carolinas. With the win, the Lady Falcons clinch the #2 seed in next week's conference tournament.
Belmont Abbey hit .175 for the match as Bria James posted a double double, recording 12 kills and ten digs. Steffanie Holler and Angela Jubb both added seven kills. Remick Tiller registered a .385 total attack, knocking down five kills on 13 total attacks with no errors. Jubb tied for the match high with three service aces. Kay Schellenberg handed out 34 assists.
Defensively, the Abbey posted three total blocks as Holler and Schellenberg collected one solo block each, while Jubb and Morgan Kirby both had a block assist.
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Satellite Navigation has a Positive Effect on Driving and Traffic Safety
Feb 14 2007
Amsterdam, 14 February 2007 – Leading Dutch research institute TNO today announced the results of research which prove the positive influence of satellite navigation devices on driving and traffic safety. The study was commissioned by Aon, Athlon Car Lease, Delta Lloyd (part of Aviva Plc) and TomTom.
Key findings:
• The use of a satellite navigation device improves the driver's behaviour when driving through an unknown area to an unknown destination;
• The use of satellite navigation system heightens alertness and reduces the stress levels of the driver;
• Drivers who do NOT have the use of a satellite navigation solution have 12% more damage claims to their vehicles;
• The use of a TomTom satellite navigation solution reduces the amount of miles driven by 16%;
• The use of a TomTom satellite navigation solution reduces travel time when driving through an unknown area to an unknown destination by 18%;
• The use of a TomTom satellite navigation solution reduces the workload (the amount of effort it takes the driver to drive) of the driver when travelling through an unknown area to an unknown destination.
Alexander Ribbink, chief operating officer for TomTom, commented: "We have always designed our products with safety as a key priority. All our tests have always proven that our products act as a genuine aid to driving. This independent research now strengthens this. TomTom owners benefit from increased awareness, a reduced workload, less stress, less time and distance travelled in getting to their destination. On top of that there are clear environmental and economic benefits. All in all, we provide drivers with the ability to keep their eyes on the road and get from A to B as safely and efficiently as possible".
Improvement of driving behaviour
The research showed that when a driver uses a satellite navigation solution they stop 25% less frequently and are stationary for 35% less time. Satellite navigation solutions also reduce the number of turns required to get to the destination compared to conventional navigation tools, such as paper maps or online route planners. What is also shown is that driving behaviour has improved, with over 50% fewer inappropriate actions, such as ignoring traffic signs. The driver can focus on driving rather than finding the way.
More alert and less stressed behind the wheel
The research showed that satellite navigation solutions heighten the alertness of drivers and provide them with an improved attention span, whilst also reducing stress. 78% of users have the feeling that they have everything under control when using a TomTom satellite navigation solution. They are more alert behind the wheel and more conscious of traffic behind them.
Less workload
The research proves that the workload of drivers is reduced when using a satellite navigation solution. The workload is 20% less when driving with a TomTom satellite navigation solution and involved less exertion. Driving while using conventional navigation tools, such as maps and digital Internet route planners, proved to present a more intense workload.
Reduction of mileage
The research proved that the amount of kilometres driven when using a TomTom satellite navigation solution is reduced by 16%. Time spent travelling is reduced by 18%. Because fewer kilometres are driven, petrol is saved which is beneficial for both the car driver and the environment.
Reduction in frequency of insurance claims
The research proves that lease drivers who do NOT have satellite navigation make 12% more damage claims than those who do have satellite navigation.
About the research
There were three elements used to determine the answer to the central question "What are the effects of navigation systems on traffic safety?": a user survey; damage database analysis; and test drives. The research programme was conducted in The Netherlands over a six month period and was completed in December 2006. The generic findings of this study prove that satellite navigation solutions have a positive effect on traffic safety.
* The research methods, the justifications and results have been summarised in a 'key findings' document that can be requested through the contacts listed at the bottom of this press release.
Click here to read the TNO report.- ENDS -
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About TomTom
TomTom NV is the world's largest navigation solution provider. TomTom's products are developed with an emphasis on innovation, quality, ease of use and value. TomTom's products include all-in-one navigation devices which enable customers to navigate right out of the box; these are the award-winning TomTom GO family, the TomTom ONE range and the TomTom RIDER. TomTom PLUS, is the location-based content and services offering for TomTom's navigation products easily available through TomTom HOME. TomTom also provides navigation software products which integrate with third party devices; the TomTom NAVIGATOR software for PDA's and smartphones. TomTom WORK combines industry leading communication and smart navigation technology with leading edge tracking and tracing expertise. TomTom's products are sold through a network of leading retailers in 25 countries and online. TomTom was founded in 1991 in Amsterdam and has offices in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. TomTom is listed at Euronext, Amsterdam Stock Exchange in The Netherlands. For more information, go to http://www.tomtom.com.
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TNO is a prominent, independent knowledge company whose expertise and research contributes significantly to the competitiveness of businesses and organisations, to the economy and to the quality of life as a whole. Versatility and capacity to integrate this knowledge makes TNO unique. TNO employs some 4500 professionals.
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Sonar Eclipse provides a comprehension Sonar integration for Eclipse. With this Eclipse plugin, java developers don't need anymore to leave their favorite IDE in order to get valuable information about the source code quality. Most of the information displayed in the Sonar Web interface is now available in Eclipse. Sonar Eclipse takes care to automatically collect information from the Sonar Web server and decorates the source code on-the-fly.
Installing Sonar Eclipse is straightforward, for instructions, prerequisites, and a demonstration video, go to Installing Sonar Eclipse.
- Get all quality measures on project, package and file ressources
- Find quality hotspots according to selectable metric : files with most duplicated lines, most complex files, files with most uncovered lines by unit tests, ...
- On-the-fly decoration of the source code with violation to quality rules
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Priest pushes Obama supporters to confession
By Andrew McLemore A California pastor told his parishioners to attend confessional if they had voted for President-elect Barack Obama because of his stance on abortion, the McClatchy Tribune reported.
The Rev. Joseph Illo, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Modesto, Calif., said voting for a pro-choice candidate amounted to a punishable sin.
"If you are one of the 54 percent of Catholics who voted for a pro-abortion candidate, you were clear on his position and you knew the gravity of the question, I urge you to go to confession before receiving communion. Don't risk losing your state of grace by receiving sacrilegiously," Illo wrote in a letter dated Nov. 21.
Illo sent the letter to more than 15,000 members of his parish, one of 34 parishes in the Stockton diocese.
Illo also delivered this message in a homily, the Modesto Bee reported.
Many religious leaders warned voters against Obama during the campaign because of his stance on abortion. Earlier this month, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops cautioned Obama against enacting an "evil law" that would deregulate the "abortion industry", saying it would alienate millions of Americans and sow disunity, Agence France Presse reported.


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The false promise of 'education reform'
As some would have our state rush headlong into embracing Rhee's agenda, the cheating scandal during her tenure is worth noting. A high-stakes testing reign of terror incentivized educators to erase wrong answers and substitute right ones in search of bonuses -- primarily funded by the Wal-Mart Walton family -- and simple job security. This "erase-to-the-top" begs questions about whether test scores really rose during Rhee's tenure; tellingly, Rhee didn't act on the evidence and cheaters were not fired.
Here, cheerleaders for "reform" ignore what's already in place, and unfunded, in our state. In 2009, a substantial reform passed with promised full-funding by 2018. In its McCleary decision, the Washington Supreme Court wrote approvingly of the 2009 reform -- finding, for example, it created one of the "best data systems in the country for studying the relationship between financial inputs and student achievement."
However, the court warned it wouldn't "idly stand by as the legislature makes unfulfilled promises for reform." That message has not reached a Republican State Senate led by a majority leader whose own kids go to a private school with $27,250 tuition. Among other changes, the Senate insists schools (but not senators) be graded A-through-F.
This facile approach ignores funding. The most accurate way to grade schools may be proximity to Lake Washington. Our state's top-five high schools, according to U.S. News & World Report, are in Bellevue and Kirkland; home, ironically, to the legislators most ardent about "reforming" the schools of others. Senate Education Chair Steve Litzow, who represents Bellevue, is from Mercer Island, which boasts a high school ranked 14th statewide. Other privileged locales litter the top-20.
As McCleary noted: "Districts with high property values are able to raise more levy dollars than districts with low property values[.]" In non-judicious words, "It's the money, stupid." Yet this "savage inequality," as education writer Jonathan Kozol once described it, goes unmentioned. And many of those pushing expensive changes to our education system, including charter schools, are among our state's wealthiest opponents of more equitable taxation. Meanwhile, budget proposals make it clear K-12 pay Initiative 732 will go at least six years without funding.
I want my son, a public school student, to succeed. But I also want him to feel joy in school -- an element slipping away in our tests-above-all-else obsession. As a kid, I attended a predominantly African-American elementary school in Portland, Oregon. I benefitted from diversity, loved reading, and wasn't a math whiz. Yet I survived.
As a legislator, I recall hearing math and science teachers lauded in important speeches and wondering if art, music, reading or even physical education teachers would ever be commended. What about the whole mind and, indeed, whole body? For instance, am I alone in noting a correlation between childhood obesity and P.E. cutbacks to make room for teaching-to-tests?
In addition to unfunded reforms imposed upon an underfunded system, last year's ballot brought an unfunded charter school initiative. Let's fund our existing obligations before creating new ones. Let's also learn from the Rhee debacle before we create pressures to pad test scores and further reduce young learners to mere letters. Kids like mine should not be guinea pigs for social science experiments.
Brendan Williams, a former legislator, lives in Olympia.
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