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Father of Carmel football player dies during semi-state football game
A Carmel running back's father suffered a medical problem during the final quarter of the game against Penn. He died at the hospital a short time later.
The Carmel Greyhounds will advance to the 6A State Fiinals but they will do so with heavy hearts.
The father of Carmel running back Shakir Paschell died Friday night after he had a medical incident during the game, reports The Truth's news partner WNDU.
"The Carmel Greyhound Family is saddened by the loss of life suffered by the Paschall Family," Athletic Director Jim Inskeep said to WNDU. "We will be working to provide support to the family during this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, staff, and students affected by this tragedy."
Paschell scored the game's final touchdown, cinching their 28-13 victory over Penn.


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From the Bible-thumping science-denying kooks at some rightwing nutjob publication known as "The Economist"....
The "sky is falling" climate scientists must now deal with the real world data, as it is....not just use computer models to predict calamity ...sucks, doesnt it?
The mismatch between rising greenhouse-gas emissions and not-rising temperatures is among the biggest puzzles in climate science just now. It does not mean global warming is a delusion.[you sure about that?]
Flat though they are, temperatures in the first decade of the 21st century remain almost 1°C above their level in the first decade of the 20th. But the puzzle does need explaining.
The mismatch might mean that--for some unexplained reason--there has been a temporary lag between more carbon dioxide and higher temperatures in 2000-10. Or it might be that the 1990s, when temperatures were rising fast, was the anomalous period. Or, as an increasing body of research is suggesting, it may be that the climate is responding to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in ways that had not been properly understood before. This possibility, if true, could have profound significance both for climate science and for environmental and social policy.
It is possible, therefore, that both the rise in temperatures in the 1990s and the flattening in the 2000s have been caused in part by natural variability.
"So what does all this amount to? The scientists are cautious about interpreting their findings. As Dr Knutti puts it, "the bottom line is that there are several lines of evidence, where the observed trends are pushing down, whereas the models are pushing up, so my personal view is that the overall assessment hasn't changed much."
The scientists were not cautious about going all "Al Gore" and predicting calamity, for their political overseers...but now they get cautious when the real world data doesnt confirm their theory....
Is the good Doctor Knutti saying, ignore the real world, and rely upon computer models? That is seemingly what he is saying....
Bottom line: Scientists do not know with certainty what they told us they knew with certainty.
Read more: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21574461-climate-may-be-heating-up-less-response-greenhouse-gas-emissions#ixzz2Owzdcaa2

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It is not as dramatic as the collapse of an ancient Egyptian dynasty, but the abrupt fall of Zahi Hawass is sending ripples around the planet. The archaeologist who has been in charge of Egypt's antiquities for nearly a decade has been sacked in an overhaul of the country's cabinet.
After several days in which his status was unclear—the appointment of a successor was withdrawn, leading to reports that Hawass would return temporarily—he confirmed by e-mail that he was out.
The antipathy toward Hawass in Egypt may be difficult to grasp in the West, where he is typically found on American television, fearlessly tracking down desert tombs, unearthing mummies and bringing new life to Egypt's dusty past. But in Egypt he was a target of anger among young protesters who helped depose President Hosni Mubarak in February. Hawass had been accused of corruption, shoddy science and having uncomfortably close connections with the deposed president and first lady⎯all of which he vociferously denied. Many young archaeologists also demanded more jobs and better pay⎯and they complained Hawass had failed to deliver. "He was the Mubarak of antiquities," said Nora Shalaby, a young Egyptian archaeologist who has been active in the revolution.
On July 17, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf removed Hawass, 64, as minister of antiquities, arguably the most powerful archaeology job in the world. The ministry is responsible for monuments ranging from the Great Pyramids of Giza to the sunken palaces of ancient Alexandria, along with a staff of more than 30,000, as well as control over all foreign excavations in the country. That gives the position immense prestige in a country whose economy depends heavily on tourists drawn by Egypt's 5,000-year heritage.
"All the devils united against me," Hawass said in an e-mail afterward.
Sharaf named Cairo University engineer Abdel Fatta El Banna to take over but withdrew the appointment after ministry employees protested that El Banna lacked credentials as an archaeologist. On July 20, Hawass told the Egyptian state news agency he had been reinstated, but it was unclear for how long. Six days later, Hawass said in an e-mail that he was leaving to rest and to write.
Finding a replacement may take time, foreign archaeologists said. In addition, the ministry of antiquities may be downgraded from a cabinet-level agency.
Mubarak had created the ministry in January as part of an effort to salvage his government; it had been a non-cabinet agency called the Supreme Council of Antiquities, which reported to the ministry of culture. The possibility that ministry would be downgraded, reported by the Los Angeles Times, citing a cabinet spokesman, worried foreign archaeologists. "I'm very concerned about the antiquities," said Sarah Parcak, an Egyptologist at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. "And these monuments are the lifeblood of the Egyptian economy."
Hawass had risen from the professional dead before. Young archaeologists gathered outside his headquarters February 14 to press for more jobs and better pay. He was accused of corruption in several court cases. And in March he resigned from his post, saying that inadequate police and military protection of archaeological sites had led to widespread looting in the wake of Egypt's revolution. But within a few weeks, Sharaf called Hawass and asked him to return to the job.


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I would take a hard look at the TC Venture, probably a .25/06 but it comes in several good calibers and has MOA accuracy guarantee. Around here they are under $400.00. The Marlin and Stevens guns are a little cheaper but don't have the accuracy guarantee, I have heard good reports on both though.
Remington 7mm-08 in a youth model. Very compact, light, and little recoil for the capabilities of the rifle. Then I couple that with a Remington Managed Recoil 140 gr. PSP for my son, we both love it as I think you all will too!
My top 2 would probably be .243win or .270win
270wsm perhaps?
I'd take the 270win over the 25.06
I'd check out the ballistics of the 6.5 creedmoor, it looks really efficient getting excellent velocity for the powder charge. A Savage in this chambering would be my pick for a womens/kids rifle today. Anything between the 243 and 270 would be good, but the 6.5 would be my pick. Also the tang safety of the Savage is harder for a new shooter to bump into the fire position accidentally than the remington style safety on the Tikka, TC, or Remington.
Just a thought, but maybe it would be worth thinking in terms of a rifle she can hunt any big game with. Do you think she might hunt elk some day? If so, it would be hard to beat a .270 or a 30-06. My family has killed everything from blacktail and antelope to moose and grizzly with a .270 with the proper bullet for the job. Familiarity with one gun will go a long way.
Personally, a few years ago I began to hunt all big game with one rifle (300 WSM). My familiarity and confidence with it has really paid off. The rifle is well ported and is surprisingly easy to shoot. My wife began to hunt a couple years ago and began with shooting my rifle. She has taken an antelope at 265 yards and a mule deer at 310 yards. Whenever I bring up the subject of getting her her own rifle she says likes mine so much she just wants to keep using it when she's the shooter.
A Savage in 25.06 bolt action and a 110grain Nosler Accu Bond.
I think the 270win is as good of an all around cal as anything. I would recommend a bolt action. I would certainly look around at used guns since your on a budget. All of the major brands are quality rifles. A lot of it is personal preference and also what you can find a good deal on especially if you are looking used.


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Castelbuono is a charming town which grew up around its 14C castle. It was once the centre for the production of manna (ash tree sap), a sickly sweet sugar used as a sweetener and laxative which provided the area with its main source of income. Although only a tiny amount of manna is produced today, it can still be purchased from the tobacconist's at the top of Corso Umberto I.
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Church of the Matrice Vecchia
Piazza Margherita I - 90013 Castelbuono
This church was built in the 14C over the ruins of a pagan temple. A renaissance style porch, adorned with a portal was added to in the 16C. It contains a grandiose polyptych of the Virgins crown attributed to Pietro Ruzzolone (a saint with glasses, ..
Castelbuono Palatine chapel
Piazza Margherita I - 90013 Castelbuono
The Castelbuono castle is a square structure flanked by four square towers. On the second level, there is a palatine chapel, decorated with delightful stuccos on a gold backing, attributed to Giuseppe Serpotta, the brother of the famous Giacomo Serpo..
City Museum of Castelbuono
Piazza Margherita I - 90013 Castelbuono
This museum is home to treasures and furnishings from the Capella Palatina, as well as a magnificent collection of artworks by modern and contemporary Italian artists.
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Alle Querce Hotel
contrada mandrazze I - 90013 Castelbuono
Set in Castelbuono in the Sicily Region, 14 km from Cefalù, Alle Querce Hotel features a sun terrace and views of the mountains. Guests can enjoy the on-site bar. Free private parking is available on site. Each room at this hotel is air conditioned ..
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Lifestyle | Obedience is important, author says, but homeschoolers should not let rules obscure the gospel
Christian homeschooling generally is a great success, but a recent essay by homeschooling dad Reb Bradley is garnering wide attention on Christian blogs. "In the last couple of years," he began, "I have heard from multitudes of troubled homeschool parents around the country, a good many of whom were leaders. These parents have graduated their first batch of kids, only to discover that their children didn't turn out the way they thought they would. ...
[S]ometime after their 18th birthday they began to reveal that they didn't hold to their parents' values."
After outlining some of the ways these children have stumbled, Bradley wrote, "Most of these parents remain stunned by their children's choices, because they were fully confident their approach to parenting was going to prevent any such rebellion."
Who doesn't want to find a parenting system that guarantees success? And yet, as some homeschoolers have discovered, such a system doesn't exist. Earlier this year Elyse Fitzpatrick and her daughter, Jessica Thompson, talked with me about their parenting book, Give Them Grace (Crossway, 2011). They noted that some parents think a move to the country and a lifestyle based on Little House on the Prairie "will transform our children's hearts." The problem: "It doesn't."
Fitzpatrick sympathizes with those who are looking for a system because she says that is how she raised her three children. She took "every story of grace and mercy (like Jonah's) and made it into law and morals." Now she sees the problem with that approach: "We've stressed outward compliance and obedience. We've boiled down the Christian message to 'Be nice. Be polite. Don't hang out with bad people.'"
Of course obedience is important: "Respect, courtesy, and civil obedience are blessings from the Lord." But in their book Fitzpatrick and Thompson warn parents that human obedience not "motivated by gratitude for God's grace" is "deadlier to the soul than immorality. ... Those who excel at the sort of obedience listed above may not see their need for a Savior; their hearts may be hardened and unfazed by God's grace."
They note that if we confuse obedience with righteousness, some of our kids never hear that they need a Savior: "Nice kids don't hear the gospel. Compliant kids are missing it. They fly under the radar. ... They can be 'elder brothers' and proud of it. They win awards."
Fitzpatrick first began to change her thinking about parenting 10 years ago when she went to hear New York pastor Tim Keller. Up to then she was "into lots of steps and rules," but Keller's message led her to reread completely the New Testament, taking copious notes. Then she read with her daughter Martin Luther's Commentary on Galatians. That provided further insights: They recognized, "The law of God, although beneficial and beautiful, cannot advance us on our way to righteousness because we cannot obey it."
Fitzpatrick says she couldn't give the gospel to her kids because she didn't really understand it herself. Now she and Thompson state it in such simple terms that even the youngest child can understand: "You're a sinner. You need a Savior. You have a Rescuer."
But what exactly does that look like in practice? Although their book provides many "scripts" to provide guidance to parents, they don't offer a system. I suggested to Thompson, who alongside her husband is raising three children, that she should make videos like Super Nanny, with perhaps a video camera attached to her forehead so we could see what grace-based parenting looks like in practice. She looked shocked by the suggestion.
But if she had been wearing such a camera, we could be watching a scene she told me about and called "the slap heard round the world": At a get-together of church people in her backyard, Thompson's 7-year-old daughter slapped the pastor's son across the face because she didn't like something he said. Embarrassed and humiliated, Thompson took her daughter inside and asked, "How could you do that? Why would you do that?"
Some time later the daughter again was outside: This time she slapped her brother across the face. Thompson, too angry to talk, sent her to her room: "I needed physical time to cool down." After Thompson composed herself she said to her daughter, "How can I even let you go outside?" Her daughter agreed: "You can't trust me to go out. I don't deserve it."
That word deserve cut through Thompson's anger and embarrassment. She saw an opportunity to talk about grace: "We get what we don't deserve," she explained. "We get mercy and grace." As Thompson talked, she realized that God was softening her own angry heart. When her daughter responded by saying, "Wow. God must really love me," Thompson was able to see the series of events as something "God orchestrated for us. I wasn't praying. I was mad ... resistant. That's how the gospel changes both our hearts."
For parents who feel they've messed up and done everything wrong, Fitzpatrick offers encouragement: "I was raised in a secular home. Jessica was raised in a legalistic home." And yet both of them are believing Christians today: "God uses failures in fantastic ways. It's not all up to you. ... The beautiful reality is, your work isn't going to save your kids. You can relax. You do not know how God will work. Be weak and throw yourself on the mercy of God."
The essay that started the prairie fire, "Exposing Major Blind Spots of Homeschoolers" by Reb Bradley, is at joshharris.com/2011/09/homeschool_blindspots.php.
Sonic disrupter
By Susan Olasky
Fast-food restaurant Sonic is best known for its hotdogs, tater tots, and curbside service. But in Homestead, Fla., Sonic is trying to compete with nearby eateries by adding beer and wine to its menu. Alcohol has high profit margins, and during tough economic times, some restaurants hope beer and wine could boost profits. A New York Times article observed that the idea might work in theory but not in practice. Serving alcohol requires fast-food restaurants to obtain a license and offer special training to staff. In Florida the restaurant had to hire security guards to make sure servers weren't selling alcohol to minors. An executive for the company told the Times that alcohol isn't "a big deal to consumers-it's clear they come to us to have an extra-long cheese coney or an all-beef hot dog." Starbucks and Burger King are also exploring alcohol sales for some of their outlets.