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- Jun 9:
- California Chrome co-owner apologizes for outburst
- California Chrome heads home with bandaged foot
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- Belmont: California Chrome's camp full on confidence
- Jun 5:
- Belmont Stakes post positions, odds
- Can California Chrome win the Triple Crown?
- California Chrome trainer Art Sherman's Bay Area roots
- May 31:
- California Chrome's race toward horse racing Triple Crown began at Central Valley ranch
- Jun 7:
- Belmont: California Chrome's camp full on confidence
- Post time for Belmont Stakes and 5 things to know
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- California Chrome goes for racing history
- Jun 5:
- Can California Chrome win the Triple Crown?
- California Chrome trainer Art Sherman's Bay Area roots
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- Belmont Stakes post positions, odds
- California Chrome 3-5 Belmont Stakes favorite
- May 31:
- California Chrome's race toward horse racing Triple Crown began at Central Valley ranch
NEW YORK -- California Chrome failed in his bid to win the first Triple Crown in 36 years on Saturday, losing the Belmont Stakes to long shot Tonalist and leaving his owner to complain others took "the coward's way out" by skipping the first two legs of the Triple Crown.
Before a crowd of tens of thousands hoping to see history, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner finished in a dead-heat for fourth with Wicked Strong. California Chrome's loss extended the longest drought without a Triple Crown champion.
California Chrome co-owner Steve Coburn was bitter about horses skipping the first two legs and then stealing the Belmont. Six of the last eight Belmont winners did just that.
"That's the coward's way out," he said. "It's not fair to these horses that have been in the game since day one. If you don't make enough points to get into the Kentucky Derby, you can't run in the other two races. It's all or nothing."
Coburn thought the other 10 horses ganged up on California Chrome, who was second early, dropped to fourth and then fifth before dead-heating for fourth. Photos after the race showed Chrome also had a bloody gash on his right front foot, a minor injury that might have hurt his chances.
Coburn had voiced a similar complaint after the Preakness, saying only the 20 horses that run in the Kentucky Derby should be eligible to run in the other two legs. He also believed that horses skipping the Preakness should not be allowed to return in the Belmont.
"The Triple Crown itself, obviously it's tough," winning trainer Christophe Clement said. "If it would be easier to do it, then it would mean nothing."
Three tough races in five weeks proved too demanding for California Chrome, who was sent off as the heavy 4-5 favorite. Affirmed remains the most recent Triple Crown winner in 1978.
California Chrome is the 12th horse since Affirmed to lose his Triple try in the Belmont, the longest race in the series. In 2012, I'll Have Another won the first two legs but was scratched the day before the Belmont with a career-ending tendon injury.
The raucous crowd was silenced when it became obvious that California Chrome lacked his usual punch in the stretch.
Jockey Victor Espinoza realized long before then that his chestnut colt wasn't up to the grueling 11/2-mile trip around the track's sweeping turns.
"As soon as he came out of the gate, he wasn't the same," Espinoza said.
Alan Sherman agreed. He's the son and assistant to trainer Art Sherman, who spent some 40 years in the Bay Area as a jockey and trainer.
"When Victor started to squeeze on him, he didn't respond," he said. "He was wore out, I think. Victor seemed to think he handled the surface fine, and he seemed to come back fine."
Said Art Sherman: "The horse tried, that's all I can ask for. He took me on the ride of my life, I'll always have that in my heart for that horse."
Once the official result was posted, fans sat in stunned silence before heading to the exits.
"I'm very disappointed that we didn't have a Triple Crown winner, but I'm happy for the winners," said Penny Chenery, the 92-year-old owner of 1973 Triple Crown champion Secretariat.
Tonalist, the fifth wagering choice at 9-1 odds, was a fresh and rested horse making his debut on the Triple Crown trail. He last ran May 10, winning the Peter Pan Stakes over the same Belmont dirt.
"I'm a little bit upset about California Chrome," said Joel Rosario, who rode the winner.
Tonalist beat Commissioner, another newcomer to the Triple Crown, by a head. Those two horses finished in the same order in the Peter Pan. Tonalist ran the distance in 2:28.52 and paid $20.40, $9.60 and $7.
Commissioner returned $23.20 and $13.20, while Medal Count was another length back in third and paid $13.20 to show.
California Chrome broke quickly but was pressed immediately by Commissioner and General a Rod. Espinoza eased California Chrome back into third along the rail.
Approaching the final turn, California Chrome was maneuvered to the outside. He angled four-wide turning for home, just to the outside of Tonalist. Espinoza started whipping left-handed in the lane, but California Chrome had no response and had his six-race winning streak snapped.
"I thought he was gaining ground, but he didn't have it in him, apparently," Coburn said.
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Below is a reprise from June 2003, which appeared on CounterPunch and in my Moscow Times column, a piece that was not included in the Empire Burlesque book. It is a general argument that tries, briefly, to get at some of the deeper issues underlying the bedevilments of the age, which, as noted below, are by no means exclusive to our modern times.
We meant no offense to any Christian readers with our recent blast at the crude fundamentalism now riding herd on the American government and large swathes of American society as well ("Devil's Advocate," Counterpunch, May 31, 2003). We realize that it is not the fault of Jesus Christ or even the Apostle Paul – that seminal master of marketing who repackaged Jesus' harsh and quirky parochial ascetism into a handy one-size-fits-all panacea for existential ills – that fanatics like Bush and Company believe there is only one immutable Truth about reality, which they just happen to possess.
It is, of course, the fault of Plato, whose poetic fantasy of a changeless Perfection behind the messiness of physical existence infected the Western mind with the germ of ideological intolerance. For if Perfect Truth exists, then it can be known, and once known, it must necessarily be acknowledged as the sole measure, explanation and arbiter of "all of life and all of history," as Mr. Bush likes to say.
With Plato begins the slow death of the old gods: those powerful evocations who in their conflicts and contradictions, their lusts and doubts, their recklessness, sorrows, tempers – and manifold imperfections – surely embodied the seething chaos of human reality far better than the degraded Platonic idealism adopted by the Pauline Christians. We leave aside here Jesus' ethical teachings, which despite millennia of lip service have never been adopted or even taken seriously by any society throughout history – although a few of Paul's more cranky notions about sex and obedience (especially his ever-popular injunction, "Slaves, obey your masters!") have been enthusiastically embraced by Western rulers since the days of the murderous Constantine the Great down to our present age, presided over by the warmongering Christian Coalition of Bush and Blair.
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Paul's simplified Platonism was wedded to a few particular strains of Jewish Messianism. The result, of course, was a complete travesty of ancient Jewish thought, which centered on the primacy of their God ("Thou shalt have no other Gods BEFORE Me" is not exactly the same thing as "There are no other Gods BUT Me"), and on cultivating correct behavior within the national group itself – but never on the universal application of their particular rites and customs. This was a "gift" of Platonic Christianity.
Thus began the break-up of a natural religious order that had held since prehistoric times, made up of communities of differing moralities. Each human grouping – nation, city-state, tribe, clan – had their different gods, different faiths (or none at all), different ideas of correct behavior; and this difference was accepted as a simple fact of nature. It was an order where, for example, homosexuality would be abhorred in Israel and celebrated in Sparta; where conflicting "gospels" of the Olympian gods would be told in Crete and Athens (or even within Crete and Athens); where religious war – or even the concept that any one belief-system can and should be imposed on all humankind – was virtually unknown. This order (which was often brutal in its own particular ways, of course) disintegrated under the pressure of a monomanical insistence on the universal application of a single belief-system: that of an unchanging Perfect Truth animating all of existence.
The Arab world preserved much of the heritage of Classical Antiquity after it had been lost in the West due to the twin ravages of state-sponsored Christian extremism and barbarian invasion. Naturally, the Platonic myth was part of that inheritance, and was incorporated into Islam from the start. Indeed, Islam "improved" on its borrowings from Judaism and Christianity in this regard. The basic Muslim tenet, "There is no God but God," did away with the ambiguity in ancient Judaism's formulations of deity, while the rigor with which Islam prosecuted the Christian idea of the exclusivity of a single belief-system nearly shattered the Christian West itself.
Many writers have noted that "secular" movements such as Marxism, National Socialism, and the harsh "market fundamentalism" that now dominates the global economy are all off-shoots of this principle: the universal application of a single, unassailable truth. (Mr. Bush, for example, calls his own rapacious brand of crony capitalism "the single sustainable model of national success" in the world.) The "war on terror" now engulfing the planet is not a "clash of civilizations"; it's more of a civil war within Platonism. Fellow believers in Perfect Truth are seeking to impose their particular interpretation of their common faith on each other, and the rest of us as well. And for possessors of Ultimate Truth, there is no price too high to pay – or to impose – in the service of their ideal.
"On the ground," of course, the Terror War is still largely a matter of loot and ape-like power-lust. But looters and lusters – the Bushes, Saddams and bin Ladens of the world – are not driven solely by base impulses; they are also motivated by their ignorant and addled understanding of "higher" concepts. For make no mistake, they all believe themselves to be vessels of a higher truth, strivers after Perfection, servants of the Eternal.
So as these delusionaries shroud the world in blood and darkness, we would do well to remember the origin of their metaphysics. Much like Paul, Plato refashioned the earlier teachings of a more rough-hewn, contradictory figure: the philosopher Socrates. It was Socrates, so Plato says, who gave us the idea of a changeless, Perfect Truth that stands outside physical reality and transcends all other values. And where did Socrates obtain this wisdom, which has cost so many, many millions of lives down through the centuries?
From his daimon, as he called it: an unconscious "inner prompting" that acted as his guide.
He got it from a voice inside his head.
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Funding for BlazeMeter and Digital Reasoning. Red Hat goes unstructured. And more.
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Click / tap on the photo to see present day view. (T&G Staff / PAUL KAPTEYN)
In 1968, the view west on Chandler Street (Route 122) toward Park Avenue, from the intersection with Bellevue Avenue, included the imposing Harrington & Richardson Inc. factory in the distance. At the time this photo was taken, the company had a contract to supply M-16 rifles for the U.S. Army.
H&R, as its brand was known, specialized in "bureau-drawer specials," which were inexpensive, small-caliber home and personal defense guns, usually .22 caliber. The company also produced "The Topper," an inexpensive, single-shot shotgun. H&R had other factories in Gardner and Rochdale, a Leicester neighborhood.
The H&R factory building in Worcester was demolished in 1985 to make way for a Burger King restaurant, and now is the site of a Walgreens pharmacy. But many of the residences and small businesses in the 1968 photo remain intact in 2012 — a testament to how Worcester neighborhoods thrive despite the loss of a large employer like H&R.
The brick building on the right foreground is now a Chinese restaurant; the four-deckers on the left remain much the same, with the exception of a few coats of paint and siding.
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Representatives from Refreshment Services Pepsi-Quincy, along with Illinois and Missouri Ayerco stores, will be donating proceeds from the 2012 Community Caps collection drive to the Great River Honor Flight. The presentation will take place at the Ayerco convenience store located at 18th and Broadway at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14. Local Ayerco convenience stores raised $5,606.40 to benefit the Great River Honor Flight through their Community Caps drive, as well as selling their in-store Honor Flight paper plane sponsorships.
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Funktion, the seven-man funk band from Kalamazoo, Mich., plays a free show at Alma's Only Bar tonight at 9:30. Here, keyboardist and back-up singer Hugh Little breaks it down - and cracks you up at the same time.
We play music that gets people moving, stemming from funk, rock and hip-hop. Our lyrics mainly center around love and positivity. It's hard to classify our sound with an existing genre.
Our musical inspiration is a juxtaposition of many different musical upbringings. Just imagine if you put James Brown, the Chili Peppers, 311, Duke Ellington and Al Green in a gigantic blender. We've been compared to Maroon 5 a few times, but I think it's just because our lead singer looks a little like Adam Levine.As far as the inspiration behind the drive of the band ... we do it because we love it and we love watching people get down. The energy we feel from a raging crowd - like all of you crazies in the High Country - is like a drug. We're addicted.
We have joked about it for years but it didn't happen until a few weeks ago. After accelerating onto the highway we realized we had left our bass player, Neal. I was pushing to just continue on and pick him up on the way home, but my opinion was not taken seriously.
Try to get a nap in because we'll be raging hard all night. It's gonna be epic.
Right now we've been writing as many songs as possible, one after another. Some of them make the cut and others don't, but that's the beauty of creativity; it's infinite. Within the next year we've got big plans for new releases.
Alma will forever be one of our favorite stops in the country. ... We'll be coming from opening up for Arrested Development in Lincoln, Neb., so we'll be high energy and ready to take a journey with all our good friends in Alma.


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Governor to honor Hendersonville businessman Jeff Miller
McCrory visit Monday to present Order of the Long Leaf Pine, ride in King Apple Parade
Published: Sunday, September 1, 2013 at 8:44 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, September 1, 2013 at 8:44 p.m.
Gov. Pat McCrory will be in Hendersonville Monday to present one of the state's highest honors, the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, to businessman Jeff Miller, the governor's office announced Sunday evening.
Miller founded HonorAir and teamed up with Ohio pilot Earl Morse to create the Honor Flight Network, whose mission was to transport America's World War II veterans to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Miller also was the Republican nominee for the 11th District congressional seat in 2010.
Following the award presentation in the Boyd Chevrolet lot on Asheville Highway at 2:15 p.m., McCrory will ride in the King Apple Parade through downtown Hendersonville.
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Texas Storm--Cave 14u TRYOUTS
When holding tryouts and looking forplayers to complete our team we will look for athletic ability, attitude, anddrive!!! We are looking for girls that love the game and want to be here!!! Wewill not tolerate girls missing practice or games WE WANT COMMITTED PLAYERS. Weexpect every girl to be there every time NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCE ARE!!!If you are a committed player and want to be on a great team please email mefor more information.
600 Little Cedar Bayou Drive
La Porte, Texas 77571
Kat Smith (Katy Cave)University at Albany Alumni
Texas Storm Durham Alumni
Played Division 1 softball at theUniversity at Albany starting as a Freshman
had over 190 starts in her Division 1College Career only missing 7 games
Went to the NCAA regional Finals hit.500 top hitting in the tournament losing to Baylor in the finals
finished 6th all time in doubles
9th all time in Homeruns
Holds NCAA Division 1 record withcalling 4 perfect games
Caught for Canadian Olympic pitcher for4 yrs Leah Mcintosh
Played her entire senior seasoncommitting no errors and finishing with 1000% fielding
Primary Focus on CATCHING AND POWER HITTING
Hitting: #21
Catching and bunting #21
Cassandra Smith (San Jac Alumni)
All-South conference team sophomore year
.348 avg sophomore year
stolen bases 11 freshman year
stolen bases 14 sophomore year
Primary focus-infield and powerhitting
The TexasStorm is a nationally recognized fastpitch softball organization thatcompetes in some of the most prestigious tournaments in the country, and ourteams are comprised of some of the most talented players in the Houston area.We are affiliated with Houston Metro ASA and are are registered through theBellaire Girls Softball Association, which is centrally located in Houston,Texas.
Our16u and 18 Gold teams are managed by experienced professionals and formercollege players, and our players benefit from a staff with a combined 50+ yearsexperience in tournament fastpitch softball. All of our coaches have daughterswho are playing or have played softball at the collegiate level, and nonecurrently have daughters on the team.
Ourcoaching staff offers state-of-the-art instruction in all aspects of the game,and private hitting instruction with video and digital software currently inuse by some of the largest college programs in the country. We stress theimportance of all fundamental skills that are essential to success at thecollegiate levels. Our players also work with professional speed & agilitycoaches, as well as with a professional mental skills coach to give theman edge against their competition.
The TexasStorm also has one of the best reputations in assisting players in therecruiting process. We have graduated over 60 high school seniors into NCAADivision 1 softball programs, and have a working relationship with over 150college coaches over the entire country. These relationships allow our playersthe opportunity to be recruited by notable college programs from all over theU.S. and not be limited to just Texas schools. We work closely with our playersand their parents to develop a player profile and video skills package that canbe distributed to college coaches and aid in the recruiting process.
Ourplayers receive the highest level of exposure by participating in some of themost prestigious recruiting tournaments in the country, those which are notavailable to many travel teams. We market our players to the coaching communitythrough weekly e-mails and telephone contacts to over 100 college coaches, aneffort that few other teams can match.
Wehave signed players to such colleges as Texas A&M, University of Texas,Baylor, Oregon State, Florida, Missouri, LSU, Texas State, University ofHouston, Rutgers, Ball State, Ball State, Stephen F. Austin, UL-Lafayette, University of Arkansas, Texas Tech, Boston University, University ofMemphis, UNC-Greensboro, Wagner College, Midwestern State, TSU, Navarro, GalvestonCollege, and Blinn JC, just to name a few.
Ourgold team participates in these tournaments:
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Brookwood man sentenced for wire fraud, bribes
Published: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 29, 2013 at 11:43 p.m.
A Brookwood man has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for wire fraud and paying bribes to a Coast Guard transportation officer.
Huffman Earl Monk, 52, was sentenced Monday in federal court in Norfolk, Va. He pleaded guilty in January.
The officer, Nathan Allen Dunn, 30, also of Brookwood, is set for sentencing May 8 after pleading guilty to wire fraud and taking bribes.
Dunn was a transportation officer from October 2009 to November 2011 at the Surface Forces Logistics Center in Norfolk, where he was in charge of coordinating the shipment of large freight between Coast Guard bases.
Prosecutors say Dunn conspired to award overpriced or fake shipment contracts to 12 companies owned by Monk in exchange for bribery payments of about $220,000.
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- Restless legs syndrome
- Restless legs syndrome
- Anxiety
- Anxiety
- Sleep-related eating disorder
- Sleep-related eating disorder
- Sleep apnea
- Sleep apnea
- Narcolepsy
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Restless legs syndrome
Symptoms of this neurological disorder include creepy-crawly leg sensations and an uncontrollable urge to move legs. They worsen at night, and moving the legs relieves them temporarily.
What it feels like Every day, often right before she goes to bed, Katy Doench feels the weird tickly feeling in her thighs and toes that has bugged her since she was a child. "I feel as if I have to stretch my muscles, but I can't stretch them far enough to make the weirdness go away," explains the 31-year-old professional quilter in Cincinnati. "Walking up and down the stairs sometimes eases the sensations long enough for me to get to sleep. But there are times when they wake me up every hour all night long."
How to fix it Little is known about what causes RLS, but experts believe iron deficiencies and some drugs such as antihistamines can trigger it. Massages, hot baths and regular exercise offer relief to those with mild cases. Drugs, including anticonvulsants and dopamine agonists (also used for Parkinson's disease), are useful in treating more severe cases. Although Doench won't take meds—she worries about side effects—she has found some respite by taking iron supplements and avoiding antihistamines.
A state of nervousness and tension, it can come with irritability, dizziness, sweating and difficulty concentrating and making decisions. Anxious thoughts can also keep you up nights or wake you up midsleep.
What it feels like "I worry a lot," admits Aimée White, a 27-year-old customer service rep in Riverton, Utah. "About what others around me think, about people judging me." Unfortunately, she occasionally takes her angst to bed with her and awakes before sunrise, her heart racing or tears streaming down her face. "There are times I can calm myself down," she says. "But other times, I can't, and I'll have severe anxiety all day."
How to fix it "Almost all anxiety and mood disorders are connected to insomnia," says John Winkelman, M.D., medical director of the Sleep Health Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. These disorders disrupt sleep cycles, though experts don't fully know why. White eventually sought treatment and was prescribed Zoloft for her anxiety. She also does yoga and posts positive affirmations around her house. Now early-morning panic attacks happen only a few times a year. If you suffer from anxiety, the American Psychological Association can help you find a therapist.
Sleep-related eating disorder
Sleep eaters get up in the middle of the night and chow down—without waking. Often, the only clue to their munching comes the next morning in the form of crumbs.
What it feels like While Alison Perrine, 35, was pregnant six years ago, she developed an odd habit. "I would go to the kitchen in the middle of the night and eat anything I could get my hands on, even things I don't normally eat, like pasta salad with mayo—which I hate," says the marketing coordinator from Branchburg, New Jersey. She blamed pregnancy hunger, but the habit didn't go away after her baby was born.
How to fix it Experts suspect that the hormones and circadian rhythms which regulate hunger and sleep are misaligned in sleep eaters. Treatment can involve behavioral approaches (not having food in the house) and drugs (Zoloft). Perrine takes Clozapine, an antipsychotic, and sleep-eats less often.
Sleep apnea
Snoring and fatigue are major signs of this breathing disorder. It occurs when the muscles and soft tissue in the throat relax, blocking airways. When blood oxygen levels dip too low, the brain wakes you up (cue snoring) to restore normal breathing.
What it feels like For as long as she can remember, Jenny Stamos Kovacs, 31, has needed 10 hours of sleep a night. "By late afternoon, I wanted desperately to sleep," says the writer from Kitchener, Ontario. Then six years ago a boyfriend mentioned the little snorting noises she made while sleeping. "No one had ever told me I snored!" Kovacs says. A few visits with a sleep doctor and a night in a sleep clinic soon proved her snorting was due to sleep apnea.
How to fix it Not all snoring is a sign of trouble, but if you suspect you have apnea, see a specialist: Left unchecked, the disruptions in oxygen flow can lead to stroke or heart disease, warns Lisa Shives, M.D., medical director of Northshore Sleep Medicine in Evanston, Illinois. Sleeping on your side and avoiding alcohol (which relaxes tissues in the throat) can help ease mild apnea. More severe cases call for a continuous positive airway pressure machine, which involves wearing a mask that sends a steady stream of air into your nose or mouth. Kovacs now sleeps with a CPAP machine and reports needing fewer naps.
Sufferers have "sleep attacks," in which they suddenly fall asleep or experience cataplexy, a loss in muscle tone that causes the neck to go slack or knees to buckle.
What it feels like Amy Baker, 29, a stay-at-home mom in Indianapolis, first crumpled to the floor, asleep, four years ago, while holding her infant son. The baby was fine, but she broke her left arm. Three weeks later, she fell asleep while standing again and broke her right arm. Soon she was having 10 to 20 sleep attacks a day.
How to fix it Most narcoleptics have low levels of hypocretin, a neurochemical that keeps the brain alert. Treatment involves strict sleep schedules, to regulate the sleep cycle, and meds (usually stimulants). Xyrem, a nervous system depressant Baker takes, is the only FDA-approved drug that treats cataplexy. "It works," she says. "I don't fall over anymore."


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What Is Experiential Preaching?
from Joel Beeke Aug 29, 2016 Category: ArticlesExperiential (or "experimental") preaching addresses the vital matter of how a Christian experiences the truth of Christian doctrine in his life. The term experimental comes from the Latin experimentum, meaning trial. It is derived from the verb experior, meaning "to try, prove, or put to the test." That same verb... Keep Reading
The 10th Century: Resources to Assist Your August Tabletalk Study
from Karisa Schlehr Aug 09, 2010 Category: Tabletalk MagazineThe August 2010 issue of Tabletalk continues our ongoing series on the history of the church by presenting highlights from the tenth century, including its historical, theological, and practical ramifications. Here is a list of helpful resources highlighting church history and eschatology that will complement your study through Tabletalk this month. Keep Reading
No Place for Heresy
from C. FitzSimons Allison Aug 09, 2010 Category: Tabletalk MagazineOne of the dominant patterns in church history is that of corruption and reform. In his article from this month's issue of Tabletalk, C. Fitzsimmons Allison begins with tenth century corruption and reform and eventually the necessary reform to that reform. Looking at this pattern through the years leading to the Reformation, Allison asks "What, then, is the lesson for today, when the churches are tragically divided and the Christian message is being corrupted by scandals and accommodations to an increasingly corrupt society?" Ultimately, he suggests, the answer will begin with the centrality of the gospel. "One's life follows one's heart. What the heart desires and believes the will will choose and the mind will justify. Hence, starting at behavior is not as effective as starting with the gospel story, the teaching, and the doctrine that speaks to the heart." Keep Reading
Walking in Wisdom
from R.C. Sproul Aug 08, 2010 Category: R.C. SproulIn the New Testament, the word disciple literally means "a learner." The Christian is called to be enrolled in the school of Christ. Careful study of the Bible is necessary for true discipleship. Keep Reading
Submit to Governing Authorities
from R.C. Sproul Aug 07, 2010 Category: R.C. SproulR.C. Sproul answers this question: "Both Peter and Paul call us to submit to governing authorities. In light of that, is revolution ever possible for a Christian, and if so, under what circumstances?" Keep Reading
Steven Lawson's Psalms Commentary Now Available in Russian
from Karisa Schlehr Aug 06, 2010 Category: Ministry NewsThis morning, our friends at Reformation 21 shared some exciting news regarding the international outreach of Steven Lawson's Psalms commentary. Keep Reading
Setting the Stage: The First Millennium
from R.C. Sproul Aug 06, 2010 Category: Tabletalk Magazine"Volumes have been written giving detailed analyses of the extraordinary things that occurred in the first thousand years of church history, events that influenced everything that came after them." In this brief article R.C. Sproul distills those volumes into just a few words, setting the stage for an examination of the tenth century, the period of time that is the particular focus of the August edition of Tabletalk. Sproul points to five dimensions of activity that were particularly important in the first millennium of church history: the rise of the papacy, the innovations of pope Gregory the Great, the rise of the monastic movement, the great ecumenical councils of Nicea and Chalcedon and the life and ministry of Augustine of Hippo. He draws an unmistakable contrast between the vitality of the early church and the darkness that marked it by the end. Already by the close of the first millennium of church history "the church was already groping in the darkness and biblical soteriology had declined to such a degree that the gospel was rapidly becoming obscured, even becoming almost totally eclipsed until it was recovered in the sixteenth century Reformation." Keep Reading
Scientific Mythologies
from Dan Dodds Aug 05, 2010 Category: ArticlesThe first chapter of Romans tells us that sinful men willfully suppress the knowledge of God. This suppression manifests itself in two ways, first through eradicating the Creator/creature distinction and second in creating an alternative worldview as a replacement for the one that has been jettisoned. This alternate worldview always tends toward monism, the belief that truth will be found within creation rather than outside of it. This is the topic of James Herrick's recent book Scientific Mythologies. And here pastor Dan Dodds offers a review of what appears to be a fascinating title. Keep Reading
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the LORD? (Part 2)
from L. Michael Morales Aug 04, 2010 Category: ArticlesThe paradise atop Eden's mount is described in Genesis 2-3 as a well-watered Garden with an abundance of fruit trees, a place where humanity and animals lived in harmony. These physical blessings, however, were but tokens (and small ones at that) of the greater delight of their Source: the very life-giving Presence of God. After Adam and Eve's sin, and consequent descent from the mountain of the LORD, the biblical narrative continues to deal with the dilemma: How shall we abide in the divine Presence — who shall ascend? Keep Reading
Daily Confession, Enduring Reform
from Tim Challies Aug 03, 2010 Category: Tabletalk MagazineIn this introductory article to the August edition of Tabletalk, Burk Parsons writes about confession and the Roman Catholic sacrament of penance. "Although historically Rome has taught the necessity of both private and public confession of sin, many Catholics have been persuaded that only when they confess their sins to their priests, are absolved, and do penance that they really possess the forgiveness of God." Parsons then introduces us to Simeon, a tenth-century Christian who called the church to more than mere outward performance. "Through the centuries the Lord has continued to sustain and reform His church by raising up faithful men to proclaim His gospel and to call His people to live coram Deo, before His face, in genuine repentance, humble confession, and authentic faith leading to a life wholeheartedly devoted to God." Keep Reading
Shipping Department Closing This Week for Inventory
from Karisa Schlehr Aug 02, 2010 Category: Ministry NewsOur shipping department will be closed Wednesday, August 4th, through Saturday, August 7th, for inventory. Tuesday will be the last day orders will be shipped. Shipping will resume as normal on Monday, August 9th. Orders may still be placed during this time, and we will ship them as soon as we are able. Thank you for your patience as we work on inventory this week. Keep Reading


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Alabama commit Derrick Henry breaks national high school rushing record
Published: Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 16, 2012 at 9:56 p.m.
YULEE, Fla. (AP) — Derrick Henry has broken one of the most coveted and long-standing records in the history of high school football.
Henry broke Ken Hall's career rushing record Friday night. Hall ran for 11,232 yards in four years (1950-53) at Sugar Land (Texas). The record had long been considered an unbreakable mark.
But Henry, a star at Yulee (Fla.) High who has verbally committed to play for Alabama next fall, had been steadily closing in on it all season.
He topped Hall's record on a 52-yard touchdown run against Taylor County in a Class 4A state playoff game.
The 6-foot-3, 240-pound back has rushed for at least 100 yards in every game of his high school career. He already owns the national record with 45 consecutive games of at least 100 yards.
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Harvard Psychiatry Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Dr. John Mack, a celebrated man of science, lost everything when he reluctantly agreed to work with alleged alien abductees and drew a conclusion that completely shattered and transformed his worldview and his life.
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Dr. John Mack was a highly respected tenured Harvard professor — brilliant, skeptical and mainstream. Handsome and charismatic, John Mack counted the Rockefellers, British aristocracy and world leaders among his friends. His awards included a Nobel Peace Prize that he shared with an international association of doctors against nuclear arms, and a Pulitzer Prize for his psychoanalytic biography of Lawrence of Arabia.
John believed in academia and in the practice of psychiatry as a pathway to understanding the world. But his adherence to these traditions did not protect him when he declared that people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens were not only telling the truth, but that what they'd learned from their experiences is crucial to the survival of humankind.
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New York artist Budd Hopkins had been a sympathetic ear for "abductees" for years, but was now overwhelmed and ill-equipped to help them. He sought out Dr. Mack at the suggestion of a mutual friend. With great skepticism, John agreed to meet Hopkins, who handed him a box of unopened letters. "I think they're perfectly sane, but you're the psychiatrist — you decide." John's interest was piqued.
After using his entire psychiatric arsenal on over 200 "abductees", Dr. Mack's conclusions were a startling revelation to him — these people were not lying and they were not crazy. "I know mental illness and these people are not mentally ill." He honestly believed they were telling the truth.
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John traveled the world and corroborated identical abduction stories with African shamans and Australian Aborigines. When Dr. Mack documented his findings in his NY Times best-selling book, Abduction, he was mocked in the press and ridiculed by his colleagues.
The Dean of Harvard Medical School, embarrassed and fearing the entire university was in danger of becoming a laughing stock, informed Dr. Mack that an ad hoc Faculty Committee had been appointed to privately determine if he had jeopardized his future at Harvard – the first-ever inquiry of its kind of a tenured professor.
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News of the committee was leaked to the public.
A few colleagues came to his defense, including Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law at Harvard, who stated: "It appears at this esteemed place of higher learning, angels are OK, but aliens are not. There will not be some private committee determining John Mack's future, there will be a very public lawsuit. This goes right to the heart of all academic freedom."
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After an increasingly bitter 14-month long "inquisition", Dr. Mack was granted full academic freedom, however, in the committee's view, he had failed as a psychiatrist and failed as a scientist.
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Once the "It" couple of Cambridge, John's marriage ended under the strain, however his belief that the abductees were telling the truth never waivered. He published Passport to the Cosmos and continued to champion them.
In 2004, in London to present a speech on the anniversary of his Pulitzer, John Mack stepped into the street, was hit by a speeding car and killed instantly.
Dr. John E. Mack ...in his own words:
"I have come to realize this alien encounter phenomenon forces us, if we permit ourselves to take it seriously, to re-examine our perception of human identity – to look at who we are from a cosmic perspective.
"These phenomena tell us many things about ourselves and the universe that challenge the dominant materialistic paradigm. They reveal that our understanding of reality is extremely limited, the cosmos is more mysterious than we have imagined, there are other intelligences all about (some of which may be able to reach us), and our knowledge of the properties of the physical world is far from complete.
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"The secular assumptions about reality, dominant during my university training, were in fact a grand illusion, a materialist superstition that had kept Western thought stranded and imprisoned for the last 300 years. How do the keepers of the dying, yet more traditional paradigm respond to these phenomena? Many raise the cry of 'pseudoscience'.
"The methods of science – hypothesis, testing, rigor, experimentation, control – are valuable and essential for studying phenomena that reside primarily in the material world. But they may be inadequate for exploring matters that straddle the visible and unseen realms. They surely are insufficient for learning about realities beyond the manifest. Here we must rely more upon experience, intuition, non-ordinary states of consciousness, and holistic or heart knowing, thoughtfully and rigorously applied.
"The alien encounter experience seems almost like an outreach program from the cosmos to the consciously impaired.
"So for me, a journey that began with the investigation of a strange anomaly, has led to a greater appreciation of the gift of being and a deeper commitment to helping to preserve the life of the planet and its infinite possibilities."
Ten days before John's death he told a colleague, "If anyone asks, tell them I'm not crazy."


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California's largest for-profit career-college chain said Thursday it might go out of business under financial sanctions imposed this month by the U.S. Department of Education.
The schools owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc. -- Heald College, Everest College, Everest Institute and WyoTech -- receive about $1.4 billion in federal student loans and grants, according to the Department of Education.
But the department released a statement Thursday saying it was putting new restrictions on that aid "after the company failed to address concerns about its practices, including falsifying job placement data used in marketing claims to prospective students and allegations of altered grades and attendance."
The colleges will have to wait 21 days to access the funds, which could create a devastating cash flow crisis; if the company is unable to get a short-term loan to bridge the gap, it could go under, it reported Thursday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Company spokesman Kent Jenkins declined to comment Thursday.
The embattled Corinthian Colleges -- accused of deception and fraud in a pending lawsuit by California's attorney general -- enroll more than 72,000 students nationwide, including 14,000 in the Bay Area.
Like others in the for-profit college sector, Corinthian's trade schools typically cost students tens of thousands of dollars a year, have low graduation rates and rely heavily on taxpayer-funded federal student loans and grants.
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A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women in Washington, D.C., Lost in the City is the book that first brought author Edward P. Jones to national attention. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and numerous other honors for his novel The Known World, Jones made his literary debut with these powerful tales of ordinary people who live in the shadows in this metropolis of great monuments and rich history. Lost in the City received the Pen/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction and was a National Book Award Finalist. This beautiful 20th Anniversary Edition features a new introduction by the author, and is a wonderful companion piece to Jones's masterful novel and his second acclaimed collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children.
The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into the complicated lives of African American men, women, and even children, such as the girl set to begin elementary school in "The First Day," who work against the constant threat of loss to maintain a sense of hope. From "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" to the well-to-do career woman awakened in the night by a phone call that will take her on a journey back to the past, the characters in these stories forge bonds of community as they struggle against the limits of their city to stave off the loss of family, friends, memories, and, ultimately, themselves.
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An Asbury man apparently killed his wife, then turned the gun on himself, sometime before Tuesday morning, according to Jasper County Sheriff Randee Kaiser.
The Sheriff's Office said in a written release that Richard Hughes, 58, and his wife, Janet Hughes, 53, were found dead in their home at 18022 County Road 290.
The office said a concerned citizen flagged officers down at the home near Asbury and told officers he had not been able to contact the couple.
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Eminem is the best selling artist of the decade. SMH
Even when Eminem achieved multi-platinum success as Dr. Dre's protege in 1999, no one could imagine the success the rapper from Detroit would have in the following decade.
Neilson Soundscan revealed on Tuesday (Dec. 8), that the rapper was not only the most successful Hip Hop artist of the decade, but the best-selling artist of any kind in the 2000s.
Eminem sold over 32.2 million records in this decade, beating out the Beatles. But fans of the English legends shouldn't fret, as the Beatles landed the number one spot with the decade's best-selling album, 1.
Of the ten albums that sold more than any other this decade, Eminem's were the only ones that placed twice, with 2000's Marshall Mathers LP (10.2 million) and 2003's Eminem Show (9.8 million copies) landing at the fourth and fifth spots, respectively. At the time of its release, Marshall Mathers LP had the fastest-selling solo album debut of all time, with 1.8 million sold in its first week.
Nielsen SoundScan's top-selling albums of the decade:
1. The Beatles, 1,11,499,000 units sold
2. 'NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 11,112,000 units sold
3. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me, 10, 546,000 units sold
4. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 10,204,000 units sold
5. Eminem, The Eminem Show, 9,799,000 units sold
6. Usher, Confessions, 9,712,000 units sold
7. Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory, 9,663,000 units sold
8. Creed, Human Clay, 9,491,000 units sold
9. Britney Spears, Oops! ... I Did It Again, 9,185,000 units sold
10. Nelly, Country Grammar, 8,461,000 units sold
Nielsen SoundScan's top-selling digital songs of the decade:
1. Flo Rida feat. T-Pain, "Low" 5,214,000 units sold
2. Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis, "Just Dance," 4,690,000 units sold
3. Jason Mraz, "I'm Yours," 4,619,000 units sold
4. Timbaland feat. OneRepublic, "Apologize," 4,439,000 units sold
5. The Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow," 4,349,000 units sold
6. Soulja Boy Tell'em, "Crank That," 4,315,000 units sold
7. Lady Gaga, "Poker Face," 4,200,000 units sold
8. Coldplay, "Viva la Vida," 4,140,000 units sold
9. Taylor Swift, "Love Story," 4,005,000 units sold
10. Katy Perry, "Hot N Cold," 3,945,000 units sold
Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:31 am
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What if the super-villains always won?
Wasn't that a curious and troubling revelation at some point in your life? Good things lose and dumb things win.
We live in some kind of DC comics alternate universe.
Beatles being the exception. How did that happen?
Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:35 am
billy pilgrim
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I'd like to see a list of best selling albums not distributed by one of the four major labels... do they compile something like that?
Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:36 am
Raoul DeGroot
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That'd be an odd thing to compile.
Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:38 am
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Corny whiteboy rap...
Seriously though, what would you have liked to have sold better? I'm just glad it wasn't Nickelback.
Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:49 am
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take away the beatles and he's far and away the most talented songwriter and artist on that list. of all the contrived bullshit that's sold millions of records this past decade, eminem deserves some credit for what he accomplished.
Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:01 am
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100% disagree with that sentiment, good sir.
Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:02 am
Raoul DeGroot
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Timbaland is talented. I rate him as a creative guy.
I have a fondness for ol Lady Gaga too.
Were you including the digital list?
Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:04 am
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Nah, I was looking at the album sales list (the last one we can ever use to gauge the cultural relevance of an artist to a decade?) I understand the myriad of reasons to dislike Eminem's music and the effect he's had on our culture, and it's been many years since I felt anything he's put out, but stepping back from that and just looking at how he got on that list, he has more in common with the Beatles than any of the rest of the top sellers.
Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:12 am
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Blanda Jones is the daughter of Ravi Shankar who was a friend of a Beatle.
Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:56 am
MF Noob
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Absolutely fucking not.
Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:17 am
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Creed sold over 9 million units?! Jesus...
Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:35 am
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Wed Dec 09, 2009 3:19 am
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well damm, that lady gaga's done alright for herself quite quickly, nice to see... i dont buy the madonna rip off theory, that girls got a lot talent and is legitimately crazy, we need more crazies like her.. and more frog outfits
Coldplay, "Viva la Vida," 4,140,000 units sold
surprised me, im no fan of theirs but that song really really irritates me shocked to see that its the best selling of all their stuff, maybe its just that they had more exposure / pr dollers behind em when that one came out.
Never really given a monkeys about eminem either way, not my cup of tea... but it doesn't surprise me, creed... ive never heard of, nice to see cuntflap face bono is no where on there
Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:00 am
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Never heard of Creed? You're missing out man.
They are hilariously awful God-rock. The singer is such a cock, and throws ridiculous Jesus poses constantly. He is such a insufferable bellend that the whole of the rest of the band decided to quit and form a new band without him.
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Orville "Jerry" Johnson, 73, of Redwood Falls passed away Thursday, March 7, 2013 at the Golden LivingCenter in Wabasso. Funeral services were held Monday, March 11 at the Redwood Valley Funeral Home.
Private family burial will take place at a later date. Online condolences may be sent at www.stephensfuneralservice.com. The Stephens Funeral Service - Redwood Valley Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.
Jerry is survived by his daughters: Debra Johnson (Mark Arndt) of Redwood Falls, Connie Seaman of Redwood Falls, DeAnna Ahrens (Rick Hempel) of Franklin and Tammi Jo Johnson (Jamie Hoppke) of Redwood Falls; 13 grandchildren: Lindsey Seaman (Paul Fugleberg), Brandon Bernardy, Britni Bernardy (Jay Price), Dan (Michael) Seaman, Jacob, Nikki and April Arndt, Emily Ahrens, MaKayla Cain, Zach and Darin Ward, Jesse Ahrens and Cortney Hoppke; two great-grandsons: Ethan Price and William Seaman and many other relatives and friends.
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SAN MATEO -- Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper confirmed Wednesday he submitted the winning bid in a government auction of nearly 30,000 bitcoins, saying the acquisition was part of a long-term global investment strategy to spread the virtual currency to developing markets.
Draper will team with Palo Alto startup Vaurum to inject the bitcoins into exchanges in places like South America, Africa, India and parts of Asia. Since bitcoin isn't controlled by any particular government, the free-spirited investor said, it is attractive to businesses and entrepreneurs in developing economies who contend with political instability and weak currencies.
"Humans out there are subject to political whims," said Draper, known for unconventional ideas such as splitting California into six states, "and their whole lives can be overturned."
Speaking at his eponymous entrepreneurial school in San Mateo, Draper declined to say how much he paid for the 29,565.5 bitcoins auctioned Friday by the U.S. Marshals Service, aside from joking, "I paid more than the other people in the auction." The market value of the bitcoins was nearly $19 million Wednesday, up from roughly $17 million Friday.
The founder of Menlo Park firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson has emerged in recent years as a bitcoin proselytizer along with his son Adam, who runs an incubator, Boost, that focuses on the digital currency. Both Drapers have invested in Vaurum, which is also backed by former AOL Chairman Steve Case.
Draper claimed the government's decision to auction the digital currency rather than destroy it was a "vote of confidence" in bitcoin, which the IRS regards as taxable property. Vaurum CEO Avish Bhama said the auction bolstered the idea that bitcoins are a legitimate asset.
"When the government confiscates cocaine, they don't just auction it off," said Bhama, whose 10-person company operates bitcoin exchanges in the United States, Canada and India and plans to roll them out in Brazil, Europe and Argentina. "It kind of puts a stamp of approval on it, by saying, 'Yeah, this is something real.' "
The cocaine analogy is fitting given the source of Draper's new bitcoins. Federal investigators seized them from Silk Road, an online marketplace that allegedly facilitated illegal drug transactions.
Mark Schwanhausser, a director at Javelin Strategy & Research, said he doubts the bitcoin auction indicates the government is warming up to bitcoin as a legitimate currency.
"It doesn't mean the government is any less worried about protections that need to be put in place and the ramifications of virtual currencies being misused," said Schwanhausser, adding that Draper's big investment could be intended in part as "Dramamine" for those embarking on the unpredictable seas of virtual currency.
"Bitcoin is really volatile," he said, "and if you want normal people buying and trading and investing in it, you need to steady the ride."
Bhama said the Draper-Vaurum team is still working out its plan for the bitcoins, but the general idea is to provide liquidity for new markets. When Draper sells some bitcoins in a developing market, Bhama said, he may buy others in another market to maintain his overall supply.
"The end goal is we want to put these bitcoins to good use," he said. "And we have a very long-term strategy to do this. We aren't going to be dumping these on an open market."
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Vartanian, a sophomore at the University of South at Lancaster, wants to become a pharmacist. She believes lectures like the one she attended Thursday are helping prepare her for that career.
Ron Honeycutt, a pharmacist with Barnett-Honeycutt Pharmacy in Lancaster, was the latest guest to speak as part of a lecture series sponsored by USCL's Chemistry Club.
INDIAN LAND – The ins and outs of propeller design are a lot easier to understand now for a group of Indian Land High School students.
Two groups of students in John Marlette's engineering class competed last month in a design and build competition in Rock Hill. The contest required groups from area high schools to design a miniature rotor/propeller using CAD (computer-aided design) software.
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Six students from AJHS have been chosen to participate in the 2010 American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Southern Division Conference.
The event, held every two years, features a men's honor choir and a women's honor choir that will both perform during the weekend.
This year's conference is from March 10-13 in Memphis, Tenn.
Michaela DeBruhl uses poetry to bring joy to others while taking them to a place they've never been before.
The Andrew Jackson High School freshman brought that joy center stage Dec. 16 when she captured first place in the Lancaster County School District's second annual Poetry Out Loud contest.
The competition requires students to memorize 19th or 20th century poems and recite them in front of judges at the Bradley Arts and Sciences Building at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.
People throughout South Carolina will soon learn what a Lancaster High School student-driven group has done to promote health in Lancaster County.
The LHS chapter of the Health Occupations Students of America, or HOSA, is the December pick to the All-Health Team.
The All-Health Team recognizes youth in the state who are positively impacting the health of their communities.
LHS's HOSA club is being honored for its efforts to educate and prepare the school community to fight influenza – whether it's the seasonal flu or H1N1 (swine flu).
The home of a journalist covering a highly anticipated football game has been vandalized.
The reporter singles out a student from one of the rival high schools as the culprit.
But whether that student is found at fault will be based on how the civil trial plays.
Students from Andrew Jackson Middle School found themselves in the middle of this fictitious case as they participated in this year's S.C. Bar State Middle School Mock Trial Competition.
AJMS finished seventh in state finals, held Nov. 21 in Lexington.
Linda Blalock believes a scholarship bearing the name of her father and husband is the perfect way to memorialize them.
She recalls how her father, the late Andy Clough, didn't have a chance to go to college but made sure his children were afforded that opportunity.
Blalock, a former teacher, said that emphasis on education remained at the forefront in her life and, years later, inspired her to create the Clough Blalock Memorial Scholarship – in memory of her father and late husband, Jacky Blalock.
INDIAN LAND – What started as a simple homework assignment has blossomed into a full-fledged school spirit club at Indian Land High School.
As part of an assignment in her advanced-placement English class last year, then-junior Taylor Altier was asked to write a proposal about what she would change at her school. Altier, 17, already had an idea about what could be improved.
INDIAN LAND – A few young aspiring writers recently got the chance to receive one-on-one mentorship from a nationally known author.
Caroline B. Cooney, who has written dozens of books for teenagers, worked with a select group of students at Indian Land Middle and Indian Land High schools on two separate days earlier this month.
Cooney, now a Sun City Carolina Lakes resident, saw the high school students Nov. 3 and the middle school students Tuesday. The workshop sessions were held at the Del Webb Library at Indian Land.
The marching bands at Indian Land High and Andrew Jackson High schools placed sixth and 12th, respectively, at their state finals competitions on Oct. 31.
Indian Land High's show theme this year featured a mixture of different music styles and was called "Danse."
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The sixth annual Great Strides Walk for cystic fibrosis research Saturday has raised approximately $28,000 so far, and more is still coming in.
"We had more than 100 walkers," said organizer Julie Frisbee. "We don't have the final total yet."
Frisbee said she is still waiting for totals from Gateway Elementary School, Murray Middle School and Burroughs High School.
She said the local event raised more than $200,000 for CF research over the past six years.
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Lauderdale County, Miss. Local merchants are being warned about a man who is being called a serial con artist. His most recent strike happened this week in Toomsuba. It occurred at 6 PM Monday at the Shell Convenience Store. At that time the suspect got away with almost $50.
"I'd love to catch him," says store owner, David Haggard. Over the last five years he says his store has been bilked of hundreds of dollars by the same man.
"We generally see this guy during the holidays. We see him one to two times a year, and he's back. This guy's whole ploy is interruption, confusion, and trying to get the big bill back with a big amount of change by saying, 'Hey, wait a minute. I had the $2; I need my big bill back."
According to Haggard, the two men who were behind the suspect in line Monday were working with him.
Surveillance video from the store shows that all three left in the same vehicle.
"This man has a a full team; everybody's got a role. They park on the side of the building. They put pressure on the cashier by standing in line and making it look like there's a huge crowd," says Haggard. "This man is 65 or 70-years-old. He's been doing this a long, long time and we'd love to catch him!"
Thought to be from the Jackson area, the suspect has a distinct light gray beard. Over the years he's accused of swindling thousands of dollars from stores all the way from Jackson to Tuscaloosa.
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La Gloria Cubana has been on my radar lately. Ok, I lie. I've been watching this brand like a hawk and burning LGCs like it's going out of style. I've always been fond of La Gloria, mainly the Serie R Maduro. The blend is solid. Consistent, flavorful, and performs perfectly cigar after cigar. But here's the thing....La Gloria Cubana has been releasing some fantastic new things over the past few years – especially this past year – and they're friggin' good. Take a look at our Big List and you'll find eight different LGC blends listed. EIGHT! And six of them are recent releases – that's insane! Pardon my excitement, but LGC is one of the oldest and biggest brands in the industry, and this type of growth and innovation is practically unheard of when it comes to one of the industry's 800lb gorillas. Unheard of.
Wow, that was a long intro paragraph, eh? Just a bit longer than the name of the cigar I'm reviewing. Ready? La Gloria Cubana Artesenos Retro Especiale. A tongue twister for this gringo.
Let's get right to it then – I'm going to call it Retro because typing it all out is just absurd. Retro is beautiful. The band, the box, the wrapper....everything. I have in my hand the Club side. An attractively thin 5,75" vitola that's somewhere between a large Robusto and Corona Gordo. The band is a beautiful portrayal of one of cigar's most memorable images: Lady La Gloria, and the wrapper is golden in color with ample tooth a nice, oily sheen. This leaf is both impressive and unique. In fact, there are several unique twists to this cigar not normally found in brands as traditional as LGC, so let me break it down for you in a more structured format than my useless rambling.
The wrapper is Connecticut-seed from Honduras. A first for LGC and a brand new wrapper variety several makers are now favoring for its neutral but pleasant flavor, hearty aroma, and incredibly aesthetic qualities.
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Ample ligeros are used. Nicaraguan and Dominican long-leaf ligeros are combined with proprietary long-fillers from the same countries to help maintain balance and smoothness.
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Yes. I like Retro. In fact, I've been liking everything La Gloria has been doing lately. What's not to love? A King Kong-sized brand with all the tobaccos in the world readily available engineered by blenders with tremendous experience and talent, then rolled in its very own, fully dedicated factory by some of the Dominican's best torcedors. Do yourself a favor and give Retro a try. Hell, if you don't try Retro, try any of La Gloria Cubana's new offerings. See what they're doing. See just how far this giant has come. You're in for a real treat and an enjoyable journey.


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You know those movies that feel they could've been, should've been, told as a "Saturday Night Live" skit? Here's one that feels like it probably could've been, should've been, tackled as a "Twilight Zone" segment.
During its pre-screening introduction at the South by Southwest film festival, the emcee told the audience that it was probably best not to say too much about the sci-fi film in advance. I'll honor that directive here as well, mainly because there's not a lot to say.
The paper-thin plot deals with some big concepts -- such as love, betrayal and, of course, meteors. There's something going on about an alternate universe, or maybe it really has to do with time travel. Who knows? It was very telling when, on the next night, I ran into someone who also saw the film and thought he might've accidentally fallen asleep during it. He felt like he must have missed something, which is why the film seemed so confusing and unrewarding.
Nope. Turns out he didn't fall asleep. But I could understand why he might've wanted to.
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