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Lindsey Berg sets during the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team's sweep over Germany on June 16
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 16, 2012) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team remains undefeated in the FIVB World Grand Prix following a 25-23, 25-23, 25-17 victory over Germany in which both teams excited the Brazilian crowd with their defense Saturday evening during the Pool E second preliminary round weekend in Sao Bernardo, Brazil.
Team USA, ranked No. 1 in the world and two-time defending champions of the World Grand Prix, improves to 5-0 with 15 standings points through the first five matches to remain at the top of the 16-team tournament. The Americans opened the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix with a four-set victory over Germany on June 8 at Dominican Republic. The U.S. concludes Pool E competition against No. 2 world ranked Brazil (3-0, 6 points) on June 17 at 9:20 a.m. PT. Brazil (4-0, 9 points) plays Italy (1-3, 4 points) later today as part of the three-day, round-robin Pool E. Next week the U.S. travels to Thailand for matches against Serbia on June 22, Argentina on June 23 and Thailand on June 24.
In a set featuring 12 ties and five lead changes, the U.S. recovered from a 19-15 deficit in the opening set by scoring 10 of the final 14 points for a 25-23 victory. The Americans tallied seven blocks in the set with five different players picking up at least one block. Team USA used a 6-0 scoring run to overcome a 20-18 deficit in the second set and held on for a 25-23 victory. In the third set, the U.S. used another 6-0 run to forge to a 19-14 advantage en route to closing out the set 25-17.
The U.S. benefited from balanced scoring as Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas) scored a match-high 15 points with 10 kills and match-high five blocks. Both starting middle blockers reached 13 points as Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) tallied nine kills on 13 swings, three blocks and an ace. Christa Harmotto (Hopewell Township, Pa.) contributed 10 kills on 16 attacks and three blocks for 13 points. Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) totaled six kills and a block for seven points, while Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) tacked on three kills and two blocks for five points. Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) rounded out the scoring with two kills on four attacks.
Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) handed out 13 running sets on 82 set attempts. Larson collected team-highs 15 digs and 12 excellent service receptions on 27 attempts. Tom added 12 digs and nine excellent receptions on 17 attempts. Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) charted eight excellent receptions on 17 errorless chances and 11 digs.
"It was a battle, as always is against Germany," said Berg, the U.S. captain. "We were not as precise as we can be, especially myself. We are 5-0 so far and we want to keep playing in the same way until the Finals."
"I am happy with how we are playing, even though everything is not smooth," Tom said. "So we have room for improvement."
McCutcheon started Berg at setter, Tom and Larson at outside hitter, Akinradewo and Harmotto at middle blocker and Hooker at opposite. Davis was the designated libero for the match. Haneef-Park was a sub in all three sets, while Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii) proved valuable as a serving sub in the first two sets. Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) was a late sub in the third set as the U.S. closed out the match.
Team USA held a 14-9 advantage in blocks as both teams scored one point on aces. The Americans held their errors to 18 in the match while benefiting from 20 Germany errors. Germany managed a 75-64 advantage in digs and produced a 55.2 excellent reception percent to the Americans' 45.9 percent. The U.S. converted 32.5 percent of its attacks into points with a .171 hitting efficiency (40-19-123), while Germany was limited to a 25.2 kill percent and .050 hitting efficiency.
Maren Brinker led Germany with 11 points, while Anne Matthes came off the bench to contribute nine points.
"It is an honor to lose to such a great team as the United States," Germany head coach Giovanni Guidetti said. "Once again they showed their power and made great defenses in important moments. Even if we lose 3-0, I am happy with my team because we fought hard and created problems for the Americans. The team is improving every week and I hope we can win the next match, which is very important for us."
Earlier today, Thailand (4-1, 12 points) handled Dominican Republic (1-4, 3 points) 25-14, 25-22, 25-19 and Japan swept Puerto Rico 25-20, 25-18, 25-16 in Pool F matches at Komaki, Japan, in two head-to-head battles of Asian Confederation opponents versus NORCECA opponents. In Pool G matches at Foshan, China, Poland (3-2, 9 points) blanked Chinese Taipei (0-5, 0 points) 25-10, 26-24, 25-19 and host China (5-0, 15 points) powered past Korea (0-5, 1 point) 25-22, 25-16, 25-18. In Pool H matches at Belgrad, Serbia, Cuba (4-1, 11 points) swept Serbia (2-3, 8 points) 25-14, 25-15, 25-17 and Turkey (4-1, 12 points) downed Argentina (0-5, 0 points) 25-15, 25-20, 21-25, 25-15.
The 16-team tournament is broken down into three preliminary weekends with four teams competing in round-robin competition in four different locations. The U.S. travels to Thailand for the final preliminary round weekend June 22-24 with matches against SerbiaThe top five teams following the nine-match preliminary round, along with host China, advance to the six-team Final Round held June 27 to July 1 in Ningbo, China.
The U.S. Women are attempting to win its third consecutive FIVB World Grand Prix, the premier annual international women's volleyball event. Team USA is attempting to become just the second country to win the FIVB World Grand Prix for three consecutive years. Aside from the U.S., only Brazil has successfully defended its title having won the tournament three consecutive years from 2004 to 2006 and back-to-back years in 2008 and 2009.
The U.S. reached the opening set's first technical timeout leading 8-7 on a Tom kill and Germany error, which was the third lead change and broke the seventh tie of the first set. Out of the break, Germany hit long to extend the U.S. lead to 9-7 marking the first two-point edge by either team. Akinradewo followed with a tip around the Germany block to increase the margin to 10-7 on Harmotto's serve. Germany responded with three quick points to level the score at 10-all. Germany went back in front at 12-11 and extended the margin to 16-12 on consecutive USA attack errors and a Germany ace to reach the second technical timeout on a 4-0 scoring run. The U.S. cut the deficit in half at 19-17 with an Akinradewo block after a Germany attack error. Out of German timeout, Tom added another block to close the gap to 19-18. Akinradewo tied the set for the 11th time with an ace at 22-all after a Hooker kill. Hooker followed a Larson block with a kill to yield a Team USA set point at 24-23, which was the fifth lead change of the set. Team USA ended the set immediately on a Harmotto block at 25-23. Akinradewo led the U.S. with six points in the set, while Hooker added five points. Team USA tallied seven blocks in the period.
Team USA gained the first two-point cushion of the second set at 3-1 with Hooker picking up a kill and block around a German error. Hooker, Harmotto and Larson scored consecutive kills to stretch the American advantage to 6-2. Germany cut the deficit in half at 7-5 with back-to-back points, then moved into a tie at 8-all with three consecutive points out of the first technical timeout. Germany went in front 10-9 on a USA error and forged the lead to 13-11 as part of a 5-2 scoring run. The U.S. answered with a Hooker kill and Harmotto block to knot the score at 13-all. Germany regained the two-point cushion at 15-13. However, Germany committed three consecutive errors to put the U.S. back into the lead at 16-15 at the second technical timeout. Hooker extended the U.S. lead with a dig that fell onto the Germany side for a kill at 17-15. Germany rallied with three straight points to assume a 19-18 advantage. Out of a U.S. timeout, Germany extended its margin to two points at 20-18 with a kill down the line. Team USA answered with kills by Harmotto and Germany error to knot the score at 20-all. Tom followed with a block to return the lead back to the U.S. at 21-20. Out of a German timeout, Tom put up a second straight block to increase the gap to 22-20 on Miyashiro's service run. Germany was called for a back-row attack and Haneef-Park nailed a kill to move the advantage to 24-20 on a 6-0 U.S. scoring run. Germany saved three set points before the U.S. finished the set at 25-23 on a Hooker kill. Harmotto and Hooker pocketed six points each in the set.
A Larson kill and two Germany errors gave the U.S. a 3-1 advantage in the third set. Hooker and Larson collected back-to-back kills and Akinradewo followed with a block to lift the U.S. in front 6-2. Germany scored five of the next six points to level the score at 7-all. Two Larson kills around a Germany attack error pushed the U.S. in front 10-7. Germany rallied back to knot the score at 11-all on three unanswered points, then went in front at 14-13 for the first time since it was 1-0 in its favor. Akinradewo and Larson scored consecutive kills to put the U.S. back in front 15-14. Team USA picked up several diving saves from Davis and won its third straight point on a Germany attack error to go into the second technical timeout leading 16-14. Out of the break, Hooker scored a fourth and fifth straight points for the Americans with consecutive blocks at 18-14 going into a Germany timeout. Out of the break, Germany committed an attack error for the sixth unanswered point on Tom's serve. The U.S. advantage stretched to six points at 21-15 with an Akinradewo quick attack kill followed by a Germany error going into its second timeout. Harmotto and Haneef-Park collected back-to-back kills to give the U.S. set and match points at 24-17, then Tom ended the set at 25-17 on a cross-court winner.
For more details on the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix, visit the U.S. event page at usavolleyball.org/events/10257 or the FIVB event page by clicking here.
To view the 2012 U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team FIVB World Grand Prix Press Kit, click here.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix
# - Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 - * Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)
2 - * Danielle Scott-Arruda (MB, 6-2, Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State)
3 - *# Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Opp, 6-7, Laguna Hills, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 - *# Lindsey Berg (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawaii, Minnesota)
5 - Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)
6 - *# Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - # Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
10 - Kim Glass (OH, 6-2, Lancaster, Pa., Arizona)
11 - *# Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
12 - Nancy Metcalf (Opp, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)
13 - *# Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Hopewell, Pa., Penn State)
14 - Nicole Fawcett (Opp, 6-4, Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State)
15 - *# Logan Tom (OH, 6-1, Salt Lake City, Utah, Stanford)
16 - *# Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
17 - Carli Lloyd (S, 5-11, Bonsall, Calif., California-Berkeley)
18 - *# Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
19 - *# Destinee Hooker (Opp, 6-4, San Antonio, Texas, Texas)
20 - Alix Klineman (OH, 6-4, Manhattan Beach, Calif., Stanford)
21 - *# Tamari Miyashiro (L, 5-7, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Washington)
22 - # Courtney Thompson (S, 5-8, Kent, Wash., Washington)
23 - Mary 'Nellie' Spicer (S, 5-9, Barrington, Ill., UCLA)
24 - Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)
25 - Lauren Gibbemeyer (MB, 6-2, St. Paul, Minn., Minnesota)
Legend: * Weekend 1; # Weekend 2; ^ Weekend 3; % Final Round
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)
Assistant Coach/Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Team Manager: Ken Sullivan (Laguna Beach, Calif.)
2012 FIVB World Grand Prix Standings
Team (Points, Record)
China (15, 5-0)
Thailand (12, 4-1)
Turkey (12, 4-1)
Cuba (11, 4-1)
Brazil (9, 4-0) 6/16 vs Italy
Poland (9, 3-2)
Japan (9, 3-2)
Serbia (8, 2-3)
Germany (6, 2-3)
Italy (4, 1-3) 6/16 vs Brazil
Puerto Rico (3, 1-4)
Dominican Republic (3, 1-4)
Korea (1, 0-5)
Argentina (0, 0-4) 6/16 vs Turkey
Chinese Taipei (0, 0-5)
POINTS NOTE: 3 points for 3-0 or 3-1 win, 2 points for 3-2 win; 1 point for 3-2 loss; 0 points for 3-0 or 3-1 loss
FIVB Women's World Cup Schedule
Pool A – Macau, China
June 8: Thailand def. Argentina 25-18, 25-9, 25-22
June 8: China def. Puerto Rico 25-15, 25-19, 25-16
June 9: Thailand def. Puerto Rico 25-21, 25-20, 25-22
June 9: China def. Argentina 23-25, 25-18, 25-22, 25-18
June 10: Puerto Rico def. Argentina 25-20, 25-16, 16-25, 25-17
June 10: China def. Thailand 18-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-19
Pool B – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
June 8: USA def. Germany 25-17, 25-15, 23-25, 25-11
June 8: Dominican Republic def. Chinese Taipei 25-23, 25-19, 25-18
June 9: USA def. Chinese Taipei 25-10, 25-22, 25-12
June 9: Germany def. Dominican Republic 25-16, 25-18, 25-19
June 10: Germany def. Chinese Taipei 25-11, 25-15, 25-15
June 10: USA def. Dominican Republic 25-18, 25-19, 25-15
Pool C – Busan, Korea
June 8: Turkey def. Japan 25-19, 25-21, 25-21
June 8: Cuba def. Korea 23-25, 27-25, 25-18, 23-25, 15-11
June 9: Turkey def. Korea 25-18, 22-25, 25-21, 25-14
June 9: Cuba def. Japan 25-20, 20-25, 25-18, 25-20
June 10: Japan def. Korea 25-19, 23-25, 25-19, 25-22
June 10: Cuba def. Turkey 25-20, 21-25, 25-17, 25-20
Pool D – Lodz, Poland
June 8: Brazil def. Italy 18-25, 25-22, 25-21, 20-25, 15-6
June 8: Poland def. Serbia 24-26, 25-22, 20-25, 25-16, 15-10
June 9: Brazil def. Serbia 21-25, 25-18, 25-23, 23-25, 15-5
June 9: Italy def. Poland 25-22, 23-25, 25-20, 31-29
June 10: Serbia def. Italy 25-18, 25-14, 25-23
June 10: Brazil def. Poland 25-15, 25-13, 23-25, 22-25, 15-10
Pool E – Sao Paulo, Brazil
June 15: USA def. Italy 27-25, 25-20, 25-17
June 15: Brazil def. Germany 18-25, 25-14, 25-18, 26-24
June 16: USA def. Germany 25-23, 25-23, 25-17
June 16: Brazil vs. Italy, 8:20 p.m.
June 17: USA vs. Brazil, 1:20 p.m. (9:20 a.m. PT)
June 17: Germany vs. Italy, 3:20 p.m.
Pool F – Komaki, Japan
June 15: Thailand def. Puerto Rico 25-18, 19-25, 25-11, 25-19
June 15: Japan def. Dominican Republic 25-17, 25-13, 25-18
June 16: Thailand def. Dominican Republic 25-14, 25-22, 25-19
June 16: Japan def. Puerto Rico 25-20, 25-18, 25-16
June 17: Dominican Republic vs. Puerto Rico, 3 p.m.
June 17: Japan vs. Thailand, 6 p.m.
Pool G – Foshan, China
June 15: Poland def. Korea 25-17, 25-16, 25-22
June 15: China def. Chinese Taipei 25-13, 25-17, 25-19
June 16: Poland def. Chinese Taipei 25-10, 26-24, 25-19
June 16: China def. Korea 25-22, 25-16, 25-18
June 17: Korea vs. Chinese Taipei, 4 p.m.
June 17: China vs. Poland, 7:30 p.m.
Pool H – Belgrade, Serbia
June 15: Serbia def. Argentina 25-23, 23-25, 25-22, 25-17
June 15: Turkey def. Cuba 25-16, 20-25, 25-20, 25-20
June 16: Cuba def. Serbia 25-14, 25-15, 25-17
June 16: Turkey def. Argentina 25-15, 25-20, 21-25, 25-15
June 17: Serbia vs. Turkey, 5:20 p.m.
June 17: Argentina vs. Cuba, 8:05 p.m.
Pool I – Osaka, Japan
June 22: Korea vs. Turkey, 3:20 p.m.
June 22: Japan vs. Germany, 6:20 p.m.
June 23: Germany vs. Korea, 3:20 p.m.
June 23: Japan vs. Turkey, 6:20 p.m.
June 24: Germany vs. Turkey, 3 p.m.
June 24: Japan vs. Korea, 6 p.m.
Pool J – Bangkok, Thailand
June 22: USA vs. Serbia, 1:50 p.m. (11:50 p.m. PT on June 21)
June 22: Thailand vs. Argentina, 4:20 p.m.
June 23: USA vs. Argentina, 1:50 p.m. (11:50 p.m. PT on June 22)
June 23: Serbia vs. Thailand, 4:20 p.m.
June 24: Argentina vs. Serbia, 1:50 p.m.
June 24: USA vs. Thailand, 4:20 p.m. (2:20 a.m. PT)
Pool K – Luohe, China
June 22: Cuba vs. Brazil, 4 p.m.
June 22: China vs. Puerto Rico, 7:30 p.m.
June 23: Puerto Rico vs. Brazil, 4 p.m.
June 23: China vs. Cuba, 7:30 p.m.
June 24: Cuba vs. Puerto Rico, 4 p.m.
June 24: China vs. Brazil, 7:30 p.m.
Pool L – Taipei, Chinese Taipei
June 22: Italy vs. Dominican Republic, 4 p.m.
June 22: Poland vs. Chinese Taipei, 7:30 p.m.
June 23: Italy vs. Chinese Taipei, 5 p.m.
June 23: Poland vs. Dominican Republic, 7 p.m.
June 24: Dominican Republic vs. Chinese Taipei, 5 p.m.
June 24: Italy vs. Poland, 7 p.m.
FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round
Ningbo, China – June 27 to July 1
Top five teams from preliminary round plus China


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During the stop, investigators located approximately 4 lbs. of Heroin, a sawed off shotgun, a small amount of marijuana, balloons filled with heroin, scales, plastic bags, and a vacuum sealer. Investigators also seized the vehicle (1993 Honda Accord LX) that Chasteen was driving. The heroin seized during the incident has an estimated street value of approximately $400,000. Both Chasteen and Howard were arrested and transported to the Lancaster County Detention Center and jailed. Both have been charged with Trafficking Heroin, Possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, and Possession of Marijuana. Bond has been denied for Chasteen and Howard.
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ARMC, MSU form partnership
ALPENA -The Alpena Regional Medical Center is going to provide an opportunity for medical students enrolled in the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine to hone their skills locally.
At a press conference Monday, ARMC and MSU announced Alpena has become one of three facilities that will be included in the school's rural community health program. Alpena joins Charlevoix Area Hospital and McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey to open its door to allow medical students wishing to pursue a career in rural medicine an opportunity to shadow doctors as well as become a functioning member of the community.
ARMC Vice President of Medical Affairs Richard Bates, MD, said the program will allow the third-year students a chance to learn how a hospital in a rural community operates, and some fourth-year students to take more action in the specialty field of their liking.
"This will provide the students an opportunity to meet a community, get to know a community and then hopefully fall in love with the community," Bates said. "Maybe one day after their residency somewhere else they may want to come back and practice medicine. I think we do have a great community and I think the students will want to come back."
Program Director Andrea Wendling, MD, said the students will be active in the community as part of the program's requirements. She said there are still some logistical issues that need to be addressed, but the first student started at the ARMC on July 1.
"We choose students who are interested in being here in a rural area basically," Wendling said. "We provide them the basics of medicine and see how things are practiced in a rural region. They will, over time, learn the things that make rural medicine special. We build in community integration, leadership activities and public health, so they understand that in order to be successful they need to have those skills as well."
Bates said the students will shadow health care professionals at ARMC, but won't practice medicine on the hospital patients. He said when the time comes for them to be more hands on in treatment, they will move on to residency.
"They will be working alongside a physician to learn basic skills," Bates said. "They will begin following and interviewing patients, and looking at patients for diagnosis, formulating treatment plans with physicians. They will see how the entire thought process works in practice. They will get a sampling of the many different areas of specialty medicine from internal medicine to surgery, to gynecology to psychology. It is sort of a survey of the whole medical landscape."
Wendling said once they are assigned to learn in Alpena they will spend a great deal of time here. She said the school wants them to feel comfortable in Alpena, so they can focus on their studies.
"We want them to live in the community when they are here and for it to feel like home to them," Wendling said. "Our goal is that over an 18 month period during their entire third year of school and part of their fourth, they will spend more than six months spread out over a year and a half."
Wendling said Alpena works well for the program because it has a nice blend of practical medicine practices, as well as specialists who can handle more complicated matters.
"Alpena provides a really nice balance. It is a rural referral center for a seven county area and covers the primary care needs well, as well as basic specialists needs," Wendling said. "We felt like it is an excellent model for this program."
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CADE History
In 1967, Saint Louis University's Board of Trustees voted to close SLU's School of Dentistry, which had a four-year enrollment of 350. When the last Doctor of Dental Sciences degrees were conferred in 1971, a program that had begun in 1894 at Marion Sims College of Medicine and was taken over by Saint Louis University in 1903 came to an end.
Dental education had become enormously expensive, and there were too many dentists (a surplus that proved to be temporary). One by one, private universities were ceding the field to the growing number of state-supported schools of dentistry.
Under the leadership of the program chair, Dr. Kenneth Marshall, orthodontic alumni pledged their support to persuade the University administrators and trustees to continue the orthodontic program with the promise that it would be self-supporting. Consequently, when the dental school shut its doors in 1971, graduate work in orthodontics moved forward, funded by expanded clinical services and alumni contributions.
By 1976, when Dr. Lysle Johnston became chairman of the program, it was on such sound footing that research could be expanded. Faculty members and graduate students routinely collaborated with experts in various disciplines of the University, including anatomy, biology, engineering, genetics, physiology, and radiology. Their findings were applied widely including cleft palate correction, tooth alignment, risk assessment, and devising new treatment strategies.
Dr. Peter Sotiropoulos succeeded Dr. Johnston as chairman of the program, realizing that although the need to add specialties was clear, there were major obstacles. While there was a serious shortage of specialists able to treat an aging patient population and a greater public desire to save teeth, money to expand degree programs was hard to come by nationwide.
The Center for Advanced Dental Education overcame those obstacles through an arrangement to offer graduate courses jointly with Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine in Alton, 25 miles north of St. Louis. In a relationship unusual among universities, new programs leading to Saint Louis University degrees would be offered by the faculties of both institutions. Academic courses and clinical work would take place on both campuses.1994
Anticipating new programs in other specialties and in the face of clear evidence that the alumni had done far more than keep their pledge to sustain graduate studies in orthodontics, the program became the Center for Advanced Dental Education.
The first joint offering was a master's program in endodontics, the branch of dentistry that deals with diseases of the tooth pulp and related conditions. In 1996, a program was added in periodontics, the specialty in diseases of the gums and tissues supporting the teeth.
In the mid-1990s, administrators began looking for a new home for the Center. They needed to relieve overcrowding, to accommodate the future programs in other specialties, to provide more room for research, and to house electronic equipment for distance education, so that courses and continuing education series could be offered to students and practicing specialists a few miles or hundreds of miles from St. Louis.
The new home was made by adapting and adding to a well-built commercial building, originally constructed as a wood planing mill. Its administrative offices, finished with beautifully milled fine woods, were retained. The 27,500 square-foot building, on what is now on the eastern end of the Medical Center Campus, was expanded to 47,200 square feet.


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Topic: OpenFlashChart 2 - putting the open_flash_chart_object in the view
I'm putting together charts with the (amazing) OpenFlashChart plugin (http://pullmonkey.com/2008/7/23/open-fl rails-ofc2).
It is working great - except that I need to generate the open_flash_chart_object from a partial instead of in the controller so that I can pass on a few variables to the chart. My app complained that the method wasn't available in the view, so I hacked the plugin init.rb to put all of the Controller Methods into the view as well:
ActionView::Base.send :include, OpenFlashChart::Controller
I'm sure there is a proper way to call this method from the view without putting all of the controller methods in the view. I couldn't find the proper way to do this on the site or in the documentation - anyone else solve this "legitimately"?
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In case you were out watching the fireworks…or eating cupcakes with your barbecue…or just enjoying a summer's day with loved ones, here's the July Fourth coverage you missed:
If you celebrated the Fourth in Afghanistan, you might have been at a formal reception with Ambassador Eikenberry and General Petraeus, and been serenaded by the 101st Airborne Division's "Dixieland Band." If the Fourth found you in New Delhi, you might have been rocking out to the alternative country sounds of "Nashville Freight," and the pop-rock-reggae of "Tough on Tobacco." You could have joined bicyclists enjoying an impromptu parade to honor the day in Belgium. In Israel? You were probably watching the webcast fireworks from the cool comfort of your own computer room.
No matter where you were, or how you planned your festivities, all of us here at the Department of State join you in celebrating the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and the cause of advancing universal human rights around the world.
Complete coverage of July 4th celebrations:
• Afghanistan• Argentina• Australia• Bangladesh• Belgium• Brazil• Cameroon• Chile• China• Colombia• France• Guatemala• India• Israel• Japan• Niger• Rwanda• Singapore• Tanzania• Zambia
Ed L. in Hungary writes:
U.S. Embassy Budapest had a great celebration too, hosted by Ambassador Eleni Tsakoupolos Kounalakis and guest of honor Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Check out our YouTube video:
Patrick in Maryland writes:
I, was home, eating a cheeseburger that we cooked on the grill,and drinking a cold Beverage.But it looked like a lot of people enjoyed their fourth with great friends.
Did some one eat a couple cupcakes before this photo was taken :)
I hope everyone in Afghanistan enjoyed their
Independence Day. Best Regards and warm Wishes
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These are further notes on Chapter 6 of EMI…
1. Trauma and the eco-image
One of the themes of this chapter is the connection between films about ecological disaster — real, imagined, or potential (future disaster) — and films about other forms of cultural or historical trauma.
How can film represent traumatic events? What if the trauma is as fundamental and collective as the end of the conditions of life as we know it, which is what happens in devastating disasters? What if the events have not yet taken place, but are only imagined as a possibility on the horizon? Continue reading


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Simeon Spencer
by Yvonne Chiu Hays
not even a year of seminary coursework under his belt, Simeon Spencer
decided to apply to become head pastor of
Union Baptist Church in Trenton, New Jersey, where he had been leading a
Bible study for the few months since having arrived at
Princeton Seminary. Prior to Princeton,
Spencer worked as a legislative aide to Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)
and as a Baptist minister in Washington, D.C. To type his application for
the job, he borrowed a computer from Steve Baker, a fellow student Spencer
had met in his first few days of seminary.
Eight years later, the two friends are still collaborating—a little
farther south on Route 1. Spencer was elected Union Baptist's pastor when
he was a middler. Baker, who had intended to pursue a doctorate in church
history after seminary, then joined Spencer's staff before the two
graduated from PTS in 1998. Marella McMillan-Holmes, who graduated a year
earlier, also joined them.
The church's staff of six associate pastors is a testament to its growth
under Spencer's leadership. While many of America's older, established
churches struggle to retain members, Union Baptist continues to thrive in
its urban community. Baker said most of the congregation's regular
worshippers probably have only started coming to Union Baptist in the last
six years—this despite the church being more than 100 years old. On a
typical Sunday, one could easily worship with 600 to 800 people in a new
assembly hall built next to the original church. The addition also
provided offices, meeting rooms, and classrooms.
Steve Baker
According to Spencer, there were 300 people on the membership rolls when
he was called to the pastorate, with less than half of them active. Today,
there are almost five times that number, and about 200 people of all ages
attend Bible study weekly.
"We've had tremendous growth in every dimension," the 37-year-old pastor
said. "Our ministries have multiplied both within and out of the church,
both inreach and outreach. And certainly this is possible because our
upreach has deepened; the church has deepened its spirituality."
The more profound faith he has witnessed in the church is evidenced by
"evangelism both by word and deed," Spencer added.
In addition to increased membership, Union Baptist also stands out in its
ability to preserve its Black Baptist identity with a diverse,
multicultural congregation. The number of white and Hispanic members is
not large—they are but a "sprinkling," as Spencer describes it.
Nonetheless, their attendance is notable, along with Baker's presence, to
an outsider.
"I am, of course, a bit of an anomaly as a white man ordained and
ministering in a predominantly African American church," said Baker, 31,
associate minister of church administration, which includes teaching
Sunday school. "However, I have never felt any opposition or hostility
because of that. In fact, from the beginning the church was especially
warm toward me, as if to demonstrate emphatically that I was welcome."
Spencer said neither he nor the church ever intentionally set out with a
multicultural agenda. "I heard
Dr. Cleo LaRue [PTS homiletics professor]
say once that your church will have some of whatever is in your community.
That is indeed true for us.
"The gospel of Jesus Christ does indeed break down all barriers. If
barriers, be they racial, gender, or what have you, are not being broken
down in a congregation, then the gospel is not present," Spencer said.
While committed to raising a voice against racism and oppression, Spencer
also is devoted to "maintaining and strengthening the institution commonly
known as the 'Black Church,'" which is why he considers the presence of
those from other ethnic groups "a miracle." He was recently honored by the
Trenton branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People with an NAACP medal for his service to the Trenton community.
"If barriers, be they racial,
gender...are not being broken down in a congregation, then the gospel
is not present."
Baker, for his part, also does not take for granted his position in the
church and the potential statement it makes, but he never saw his
participation as an experiment or as a vehicle for activism. "I'm just at
the church where God placed me. I think people appreciate the fact that I
am, as Pastor Spencer has said, 'a visible reminder of God's ability to leap over every boundary,' but I don't feel like a novelty or a token. If
my presence draws attention to the fact that Union is willing to be a bit
unconventional in its approach to ministry, that is great, but my role is
really the same as the rest of the associate ministers: help make the
ministry vision happen," Baker said.
Spencer and Baker are both adamant that their seminary education prepared
them for their current roles and continues to wield considerable influence
on their ministries.
I have never written a sermon without trying to imagine how Cleo LaRue
would critique and improve it. His preaching courses were invaluable to
me, particularly as 'an outsider' working in an African American church,"
Baker said. "And Patrick Miller was a model of scholarship in service of
the church. His Old Testament lectures have stayed with me."
Both encourage students who intend to become pastors to maintain an open
mind. "You never know what direction your ministry is going to take you,"
said Baker.
"I wish I could teach students not to be too 'context obsessed' in the
preparation process," Spencer said. "Of course, we must be sensitive to
the context in which we minister. But, in my time in seminary, I found
that some of my classmates felt it was a waste of time or somehow
irrelevant to read about and thoughtfully consider the faith heritage,
experiences, and expressions of those from whom they were culturally,
religiously, socially, and economically distant.
"Learn how to celebrate, appreciate, and validate
something other than that which is yours! We must do that, for we affirm
God as creator of all."
Yvonne Chiu Hays has a master's degree in psychology and is currently a
child development researcher in the University of Medicine & Dentistry of
New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's Department of Pediatrics.
She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, where her husband, Chris, is an M.Div.
senior at PTS.
Yvonne Chiu Hays has a master's degree in psychology and is currently a
child development researcher in the University of Medicine & Dentistry of
New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's Department of Pediatrics.
She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, where her husband, Chris, is an M.Div.
senior at PTS.
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Nearly two decades ago, I began as a junior-level staffer at National Passport Center (NPC). At the time, NPC was affectionately nicknamed the "pink palace" among my colleagues because its primary function was to process passport renewal applications, which happened to be pink.
Handling millions of renewal applications in one facility was an innovative approach to the passport process. It helped us get the finished product -- a U.S. passport book -- to our customers faster and more efficiently.
In my first few days at NPC, I worked with approximately 50 people, all of whom quickly became familiar with that one bright, pink color. Today, NPC is the largest domestic passport facility with 800 employees. We also process more than just passport renewals, which -- by the way -- are no longer pink.
Several years after I started, we began issuing passports for first-time customers who submitted applications at hundreds of non-Department acceptance facilities (such as post offices and clerks of court) in the northeast part of the country. More employees were hired to help us meet increased passport demand.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, NPC was at the forefront of the Department's efforts to improve the passport process and enhance national security. We were the first passport facility to issue a photo-digitized passport, meaning the photo was digitally printed into the passport book instead of glued onto the data page and covered with a laminate. We were also the first domestic facility to issue passports (only for routine service of four to six weeks) to U.S. citizens living abroad, so that passports issued to people overseas would have the same enhanced security features as those issued domestically.
Another big change came in October 2010 when we reconfigured our existing space and opened three public windows. Our goal was simple: to provide in-person and convenient passport services for residents in New Hampshire and surrounding states. Before 2010, local residents had to hop in their car and drive south on I-95 to the Boston Passport Agency if they needed a passport for urgent international travel in 14 days or less.
You can visit us in historic Portsmouth from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST, Saturday, March 10, for Passport Day in the USA. On this day only, appointments are not necessary to apply. Our mascot, Passport Pal, will be at NPC to pose for pictures with young kids. Additionally, hundreds of New England-area acceptance facilities will be open on March 10. For more information on acceptance facility locations, check out travel.state.gov/passportday.
Jason G. in Texas writes:
That's some name you got Ms. Pizza. To me it seems quite funny that the renewal papers were all just pink, but it does seems easy only having one color for them. You see a pink paper, you know it's for a renewal. On another note, I had no idea there even was a Passport Day nor did I know that there was a NPC that also had a mascot. I did know that you can get a passport at a post office, at least I think you can still. I did not know that the way the picture was put in a passport had changed either, but then again the last time I went on an airplane to fly to another country I was ten or so which was over a decade ago in 2000 and I have not gotten another passport because I have no need for one as I have not any plans of travel to another country.
W.W. writes:
@ Jason G. in Texas -- Right on...
Cecilia in Nigeria writes:
Hello,pls i would like to know who are the kind of people that are to apply for pink passport.if also citizen can apply
Robert S. in Florida writes:
I applied for mine at Miami Beach City Hall and was so anxious about it that I never noticed the color of the application. It could have been pink, polka-dot, or tiger-striped for all I knew or cared.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
My how times have changed. Under the auspices of Frances Knight at 1425 K St., NW, U.S. Passport Office I revised SF-82 to Clerks of Court in 1972. I recieved the top employee suggestion for State that year and a heffty $250 reward. Keep up the good work and know that you are part of a proud heritage.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
I have to report a revision to my last post. It was actually DS-1447 that I revised, Request for Forms and/or Brochures.
Anthony D. in Georgia (U.S.A.) writes:
How can we hold a passport day here at the university for our Faculty and Staff?
Anthony D.
Georgia State University
DipNote Bloggers reply:
@ Anthony D. in Georgia (U.S.A.) -- We have passed along your email address to our colleagues in the Bureau of Consular Affairs. The Department of State passport agencies and centers regularly hold outreach events at colleges and universities around the country. The Atlanta Passport Agency would be delighted to coordinate a passport day for Georgia State University and will be in touch with you soon.


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Is the Paleo Diet right for runners?
Dr. Loren Cordain challenged a colleague, suggesting that a diet akin to our Paleolithic ancestors' is better. ...
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It all began with a friendly argument. Joe Friel, a long-time runner and Olympic coach, insisted that his high-carbohydrate diet was superior when it came to endurance performance. His colleague in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University Dr. Loren Cordain challenged him, suggesting that a diet akin to our Paleolithic ancestors' was better.
Friel set out to make a case for carbs by committing to the Paleo Diet, assuming he would soon be back to his old ways. Two weeks passed and he felt miserable. Then, Friel's legs started recovering more quickly. The 50-year-old bumped up his training volume and stuck to the diet for an additional week, discovering he was able to sustain mileage he had not hit for 10 years. That was nearly two decades ago. After co-writing the book, The Paleo Diet for Athletes, Friel and Dr. Cordain have converted a fleet of runners into Paleo believers.


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August 8 - 11, 2017
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This year all Cub Scouts have a great opportunity to hone their skills, camp out overnight, and have a whole lot of fun exploring the outdoors! They'll be so excited about working their way up to Boy Scouts that you'll hardly be able to keep up! Cub Scout Resident Camp is an adventure filled program that is available at sunny Camp Gorton. The staff is planning a program packed full of fun and excitement. This experience is designed to meet the needs and advancement requirements of individual ranks by providing great age appropriate activities.
Who can attend Cub Scout Resident Camp?
Your Pack will get a taste of the Boy Scout experience yet to come in this week long, overnight adventure that will occur at each of the Five Rivers Council's beautiful resident camps. The daytime program includes crafts, archery, BB gun shooting, sports, swimming, nature, outdoor skills, fishing and games. The evening activities will include group and den ceremonies, campfires, and skill building activities. Special activities that are theme related are often introduced! This camp is designed to meet the advancement needs and interest of each rank by providing fun and exciting, age-appropriate activities. Any currently registered Cub Scout AND boys who graduate into grades 1 through 5 in June are eligible to attend the Cub Scout Adventure Camp.Who Runs the Cub Scout Resident Camp?Camp is staffed by paid and volunteer leaders who run the daily events and activities. Scouts are organized into Dens by grade. The Den Leaders are volunteer adults from your own Pack, or interested parents who camp with the boys and move them from station to station. Volunteers are always welcome. The staff is locally trained by National Camping School certified Camp Directors who operate the Resident Camp. Everyone must be Youth Protection trained, and training for new volunteers is available. All camps will have an onsite Health Care Provider.Should I attend Resident Camp if I went to Day Camp?YES! Scouts are encouraged to participate in both day and resident camping programs. If you sign up for both Day and Resident camp you will receive a discount. It is hard to find a better way to spend two weeks in a Cub Scout's summer than at day and resident camp.Camperships are available for those Scouts in financial need.What do we eat?Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner! - Meals are provided, but Cub Scouts may have the opportunity to do some of their own cooking! There will be a special day and meal for campers and their families. This is overnight camping and snacks must be carefully considered and correctly packed and stored if they come to camp!Do I wear my Cub Scout Uniform?The Official Cub Scout uniform in its entirety is expected for Morning Colors, Breakfast, Flag Retreat, and Dinner each day in addition to special ceremonies or religious observances. A scouting T-shirt with scout pants is appropriate for most other events in camp. Open toed shoes are not permitted in camp.How are the camps regulated for safety?Our resident camps are supervised by Boy Scouts of America National Camp School certified directors, health officers are on duty while camp is in session, and operate under the safety and program standards of the Boy Scouts of America. We feel confident your son will have a great time at camp this summer!If You Want To Go To Cub Scout Resident Camp!First, let your Cubmaster know that you are interested to be sure your Pack is signed up.Get from your Cubmaster or Camping Representative any Parent Information from the Unit Leader Guide.Return them with payment to your son's Pack. The Pack collects all resident camp fees and forwards them to the Scout Shop as a unit payment.Before camp have your doctor complete a current Medical Form. If you should need more information contact the Scout Shop (607) 796-0699 for further details or on the Internet at www.fiverivers.org or email to email@example.com do I get for my Registration fee?The youth cost for Cub Scout Resident Camp in 2014 is $195.00 with a discount fee of $170 if paid by May 1, 2014. There is NO Prorated Fee as training, materials, and site fees must be purchased before the camp begins! These fees cover the costs of food service, program supplies, replacement materials, youth and adult identification, health and medical supplies, site costs, and the cost of trained leadership via the National Camping School accreditation process. Adults are asked to pay $45.00 to cover food, shelter, and shower costs during their time in camp. The Goal of the Five Rivers Council is to provide camp program that are all Nationally Accredited. Check out the event registration page on our calendar!
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From Buttonwood to buyout: a history of the NYSE
After 220 years, a stock-trading concern that started under a buttonwood tree in lower Manhattan is getting taken over by a high-tech futures trader from the Deep South.
The merger of Atlanta's InterContinental Exchange with the Big Board's parent company NYSE Euronext, comes after the NYSE has spent decades working to modernise its offerings. The rise of electronic trading and alternate venues like "dark pools" for swapping shares has thinned the ranks of floor traders, making the physical location of the New York Stock Exchange more of a symbol of stock trading than a hub of it.
But its base at 18 Broad Street in New York has remained an icon of American capitalism. It was a location of protests from the Occupy Wall Street movement, and a thinly disguised stand-in for its floor was featured in a blockbuster Batman movie just this year. In 2011, an outcry was sparked about a potential name change that might have resulted from an ultimately failed merger with Deutsche Börse.
"The New York Stock Exchange is a big brand, and one of the most recognised brands on the planet," said Doreen Mogavero, founder of Mogavero Lee & Co. She has been a NYSE member since 1980, and has owned a seat on the exchange's floor for 18 years.
In May 1792, 24 stockbrokers gathered under a tree on Wall Street and agreed to form the exchange. They drafted the constitution for what was known as the New York Stock & Exchange Board in 1817, according to the NYSE website. That name was shortened to the New York Stock Exchange 46 years later, and the enterprise moved to its current location in 1903.
Business for NYSE was relatively steady for much of the 20th century, but moves elsewhere on Wall Street signalled the upheaval ahead. In 1971, the upstart all-electronic Nasdaq stock exchange came on to the scene. The American Stock Exchange – a competitor that the NYSE later bought and renamed – launched a market for trading stock options in 1975.
The shift to cheaper, faster electronic trading accelerated in the 1990s, thrusting the NYSE into an increasingly intense competition for business with Nasdaq. NYSE launched Arca Electronic Communications Network in 1997, which would become its all-electronic Arca exchange, and bought electronic-trading firm Archipelago Holdings in 2005.
In 2007, the Big Board's owner, then known as NYSE Group, completed its merger with European exchange operator Euronext, which cleared it to trade across the European continent. Along with the Euronext equity-trading business, it also got European futures and derivatives exchanges-including the Liffe exchange, which trades UK futures.
That Liffe business is seen as a key motivator for the deal announced on Thursday with commodities-focused ICE. It gives the Atlanta firm a long-sought route into the fixed-income futures market, which banks, asset managers and insurance companies use to hedge against shifts in key interest rates.
NYSE Euronext launched its own US futures exchange in 2008 after taking over CME Group's Metals Complex that year. It also bought out the American Stock Exchange and started to offer stock-options trading. NYSE first renamed the exchange, informally known as the "curb" because its first brokers did business on the street-NYSE Amex. In May 2012, it removed the "Amex" moniker altogether. It is now called NYSE MKT and accounts for less than 1% of total US stock-trading volume.
Deutsche Börse attempted to join with NYSE Euronext last year, but the protracted process met regulatory hurdles. The merger was approved by both companies' shareholders, but European regulators blocked the deal in early 2012.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer urged the two companies to keep NYSE first in the name, calling the exchange "the cradle of American capitalism" and "a national treasure."
While Mogavero expressed some nostalgia for the Big Board as it once was, she said the new company could "do very well." "Could I go back to the old days? From an emotional point of view, yes. From a practical point of view, no," Mogavero said.
--Jacob Bunge and Matt Jarzemsky contributed to this article.
This article was first published in The Wall Street Journal's Deal Journal blog http://on.wsj.com/ZlWQZK


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It's been told George loved number seven.
"G" is the seventh letter, seven is a cabalistic number.
Anyway, has anyone noticed that:
The first Concert for Bangladesh, the first ever BIG charity gig by any music star, ever, was staged on August 1rst 1971 - George's first big demonstration to the world of how big a soul he IS. And exactly SEVEN years later, on August 1rst 1978, probably the biggest gift from the material world (together with Olivia) he could ever receive, was born - his son Dhani was born. His reward for his giving so much to good causes.


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Dr. Rob McKenna believes that whether you are a new employee, a first line manager, a pastor, or CEO of the company, you and your organization will be best served if you are fully engaged in your job and all aspects of your life, challenged on a daily basis, and finding meaning in your work. "The most dynamic and critical thing we bring to our jobs as leaders," he says, "Is our willingness to be an authentic and genuine presence to all those who follow us."
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Louis A. Fusco, 26, of Austintown, Ohio, formerly of Jamestown, N.Y., passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday (Jan. 22, 2013) in Austintown, Ohio.
Louis was born Nov. 19, 1986, in Jacksonville, N.C., a son of Christopher Fusco and Mary Gilroy Fusco.
He attended Jamestown Public Schools until the end of his sophomore year of 2002. He graduated from the Austintown Fitch High School in 2004 and was a graduate of Youngstown State College.
He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force Reserves in 2004 and served the last eight years with the 76th Aerial Port Squadron, 910th AW Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna, Ohio, as an air transportation specialist, qualified rigger. During his time of service he served in Afghanistan and the country of Qatar.
While living in Jamestown, he attended Holy Apostles Parish at Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church. He was also active in the Jamestown Boys and Girls Club, Jamestown YMCA, the JAYS Soccer Program and played midget football for the Southside Blue Devils. He also played basketball for Jamestown High School during his freshman and sophomore years.
Surviving are his mother, Mary Gilroy Fusco of Jamestown and his father and stepmother Christopher and Denise Fusco of Can-field, Ohio; a sister, Angelina Fusco of Austintown, Ohio; stepsister, Jessica Broll and stepbrother, Michael Broll, both of Youngstown, Ohio; his maternal grandparents: Joyce Gilroy of Olean, N.Y., and Dr. William (Trudy) Gilroy of Cuba, N.Y.; his paternal grandparents, Francis and Janet Fusco of Austintown, Ohio; as well as many aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was preceded in death by two cousins: Michael Parks and Brittany Malone.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday in Holy Apostles Parish at Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church. The Rev. Dennis W. Mende, pastor of Holy Apostles Parish, will be celebrant. Burial will be in the Lake View Cemetery.
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Larsen, in his fourth year as assistant coach, will be making his first trip to the Olympic Games. Larsen served as head coach for the U.S. Men's Team that won the silver medal at the Pan American Games.
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Dunphy, the head coach of the Pepperdine men's volleyball team, was the head coach of the 1988 U.S. Men's Team that won a gold medal in Seoul, South Korea. He also served as the U.S. Men's consultant coach at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Dunphy has won four NCAA national titles in his 24 seasons as the head coach for Pepperdine.
Morrison is in his fourth season as an assistant coach and technical coordinator with the men's team. His main responsibilities include breakdown of video and statistics and the implementation of those into game plans and game-time decisions.
Browning, who is head coach of the women's volleyball team at St. Mary's College of California, was an assistant for the U.S. Men's National Team at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. He also served as team leader for the U.S. Men's Team at the NORCECA Olympic Qualifying tournament.
Brock was a member of the USOC medical staff at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens where he worked with the water polo team.
The Olympic Games in Beijing will take place Aug. 8-24. Prior to that, the U.S. Men will be participating in the 2008 FIVB World League. They will play matches in Hoffman Estates, Ill. (June 20-21) , Green Bay, Wis. (June 27-28) and Bloomington, Ill. (July 11-12) .
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Daimonos's 2009 Countdown
This year I bought (or recieved from friends) a total of 34 metal albums that were released during the year of 2009. I'll post a couple at a time with a little paragraph or so with my opinion on it.
And take note that I'm not that great of a writer, but I'll try to make it bearable, and I won't be suprised if my lack of writing skills make what i'm trying to get across look absolutely retarded, so keep that in mind.
But thank you for reading and enjoy!
I've lost track of just about everything.
34. Dope – No Regrets
We'll start off with the worst album that found its way into my collection from 2009. I mainly bought it just because I would be seeing them with BLS a couple weeks later. I by no means think that it is a bad album; I just don't really listen to this kind of music. But what really impressed me about this album is that there are a lot more metal influences on this than any other Dope album I've heard has had, and that's definitely not a bad thing.
33. Five Finger Death Punch – War is the Answer
I'm not going to lie, whenever The Way of the Fist was first out, I thought it was a great album. I've seen them live twice and they put on a great show. But after this album came out and I bought it and listened to it, I realized that one of two things was apparent: Either this band really never was that good, or they were just a "one album band". And really I think it's a bit of both. But I do believe that there is hope for this band if some of the members could mature as musicians and lyricists and they stop trying to make mainstream sounding, popular songs. The album isn't that bad, it's just repetitive and somewhat cheesy.
32. Divine Heresy – Bringer of Plagues
Divine Heresy's second album isn't that bad. Some songs are heavy as hell while others just aren't that good. I like the new vocalist more than the old guy, he's got quite a range. While some of the songs are crushing and great (Facebreaker, The Battle of J. Casey, The End Begins), some just don't do the job. The "ballad" on the album, Darkness Embedded, is different than the rest, but I think it's a nice change. Also like the last album, Tim Yeung's drumming is incredible. But unfortunately Dino's newest release isn't quite getting the job done, I'm just waiting for the new Fear Factory.
31. God Dethroned – Passiondale
This album is quite a disappointment to me. The theme is awesome (The WWI battle of Paschendale), and the lyrics really paint a good picture of whats going on, but the songs all kind of lack variety. Most of them are just your typical melodic death (I'm not sure ifthat's what everyone else thinks they sound like, I'm new to them, so don't jump on me about that) songs. "Under a Darkening Sky", "Poison Fog", and "Passiondale" all stand out the most to me though.
Don't worry the actual metal stuff is coming soon
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30. Clutch – Strange Cousins From the West
First off just let me say that the packaging that this album came in is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Very creative indeed. But onto the album, I think it's a great listen. The album contains 11 rockin', blues influenced, dirty sounding heavy metal songs. The riffs are all bluesy and groovy, with Neil Fallon's awesome vocals on top of it all. His voice is filled with emotion and intensity. So in all, whenever I'm not really in the mood for something heavy, but something interesting and fun, with a touch of metal, this is one of the albums I would put on.
29. Shadows Fall – Retribution
I used to listen to Shadows Fall whenever I was first getting into metal, but my love for them faded pretty quickly. I had no intention of buying or hearing the album until a friend burnt it for me. I figured I'd give it a listen and I have to say that I was very impressed. In my opinion this is the strongest thing they've ever released. With Retribution they seem to be moving away from the metalcore sound a little bit and seem to be heading towards a more thrash metal feel, which is good if you ask me. Of course there are still songs that I'm not into, but songs like "My Demise", "King of Nothing", and "The Taste of Fear" keep me interested. I hope they continue in this direction in the future.
28. Isis – Wavering Radiant
I have to admit that this one took a little bit of time for it to grow on me. I am not familiar with Isis but I heard good things about this so I picked it up. It's a very interesting and unique. A lot of the riffs are creative as well, and the vocalist has a great voice. I'm going to assume that this band has better albums, so I'm definitely going to check them out in the future because they sure are original and talented, but I couldn't get into this one as much as I would've like to.
27. Chimaira – The Infection
At first whenever I heard this I hated it and I never wanted to listen to it. But whenever I came around to making this list it hit me how much better this album is than I thought it was. Sure they have more breakdowns than before, and Mark Hunters trying some deeper vocal techniques, (I hate deathcore so those two things are probably what turned me off to begin with), but in the end it's just really heavy groove metal. Like on their other albums, the closing instrumental is beautiful, and songs like "On Broken Glass" and "Secrets of the Dead" are crushing.
26. Suffocation – Blood Oath
Blood Oath starts off with thundering bass drums and punishing guitars. Really that's what the whole album is: Heavy as fuck. Frank Mullen just sounds like a beast and Mike Smith's drumming is spot on. There are plenty of insane riffs, and crazy solos. But despite all these good things, it's not always the best thing to be listening to. Sometimes I lose track of the album and get bored with it, but in the end it's still a great death metal album. I don't think it's as good as their previous album but these songs will be great in a live setting.
I've lost track of just about everything.
I've always prefered Panopticon myself, but you can't go wrong with either one.
thanks for the recommendations
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25. Absu Absu
This is good black metal right here (or mythological whatever the hell you wanna call it), and is also the bands first album in quite awhile. Proscriptors vocals and the hammering blast beats create a lot of intensity, and some songs are epic, while others are quite technical.
24. Obscura Cosmogenesis
This is a pretty unique modern tech death album. The guitarists in this band have got the right ideas as far as technicality goes, and its not technical to the point that its annoying either. The fact that they used a fretless bass is just great all on its own, and the clean, electronic sounding vocals add to the songs.
23. Devin Townsend Project Ki
The first DTP album, Ki is the mellow one of the series. Sure its soft, but its still interesting and entertaining enough to listen to it all the time. Devin really shines through with his unique ideas too, take Trainfire for example. He sounds like Elvis. There are actually some heavy moments on the album too, such as on Gato and Heaven Send.
22. Slayer World Painted Blood
A lot of you guys on here might not like this album, but I dont think its that bad. Its defininitely their best album since 1994s Divine Intervention, so I have no problem with it. Its way better than the three since then. I think it sounds almost like a combination of Reign in Blood and Seasons In the Abyss. Some of the songs could fit in on South of Heaven or Seasons easily.
21. Obituary Darkest Day
Obituarys newest is heavy, sludgy, groovy, and thrashy all at once. John Tardys vocals are fierce as ever, and the rest of the band is just as tight. Obituary is sticking to what theyve always done, and it turned out pretty good.
I've lost track of just about everything.
You've kinda piqued my interest. If there were 20 better cd's than Slayer and Shadows Fall I didn't hear them and I listened to close to 200 cd's this year. I know I missed some good stuff though
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Throughout his practice, he has seen numerous instances of osteoporosis-related spinal fracture in patients as young as their fifties or early sixties. �I�ll get calls for a hip fracture in the emergency room and the patient will say that she just fell and shattered her hip. With osteoporosis, you can fracture bones simply under your own body weight,� Dr. Tontz explains. We often think of osteoporosis as a disease of the elderly, but in reality the condition can strike as early as age 50. Characterized by diminishing bone density and increased susceptibility for fractures, osteoporosis�which means �porous bone��is extremely prevalent among the over-50 population. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, the disease affects nearly 9 million adults in the United States, and another 43 million have low bone mass. 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HOUGHTON – A Laurium man will spend a year in jail after being sentenced for fleeing and eluding police in November.
Jaymez Riggins, 22, pleaded to third-degree fleeing and eluding police in Houghton County Circuit Court.
Dismissed in exchange were charges of larceny – $1,000-$2,000, malicious destruction of property $200-$1,000, fourth-degree fleeing a police officer, unlawfully driving away a motor vehicle and operating under the influence.
Riggins was arrested after fleeing from a break-in at Harter's Party Store in Calumet.
Riggins, a native of Washington, said he plans to return home to get his bachelor's degree in human services. He plans to become a drug and alcohol counselor and motivational speaker.
"I just want to say I apologize for this crime I committed," he said. "I just want to get on with my life and be here for my daughter."
Riggins' attorney, David Gemignani, urged the court to consider a drug counseling program in the sentencing. If Riggins can turn his life around, he could help people, he said.
"If that could happen, that would be great," Gemignani said. "If he could save even one person, it'd be worth it. I see too many young people dropping like flies."
The third-degree fleeing and eluding charge is a five-year felony. State minimum sentencing guidelines were from 10 to 23 months.
Also Friday, the trial of Michael Jestila was pushed back from this month to the week of April 15.
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Gemignani, who also represents Jestila, said he needed additional time because of complicated issues regarding the chemicals and packaging. He has also filed a request for discovery for the original search warrant used in the 2011 police sweep of his store. Police seized dozens of packets of materials which they say tested positive for chemicals found in bath salts, as well as hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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Dr. King 40 Years Later
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Today marks 40 years since one of the greatest civil rights leaders and humanitarians was gunned down and taken away from us.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions.
I wasn't even born when Dr. King was assassinated, but I can only imagine the heartbreak that people felt upon first getting that worst piece of news.
It breaks my heart to think about it as I write this post. Time flies, and many people I talk to can hardly believe its been 40 years.
For me, it's important to really think about and help others to realize that King was not a man who was a dreamer as the media loves to portray. Yes, he was a man of unparalleled vision, and hope. But he was also a leader through action, and the hardest of hard workers. I would ask that on this day, you would read or listen to Dr. King speak about opposition to war, or why it is important to vote, for example. Not only was he ahead of his time but he is timeless. Take the time to really dig into King - the man, not just the dream.
A Change is Gonna Come (I still believe it will...)
January 21, 2008. Posted by Angelika Beener.Add new comment | Filed under: 40th anniversary, ballad, civil rights leader, deep trouble, dr king, dr martin luther, dr martin luther king, forefront, fragile time, Jazz Alive, mantra, martin luther king, martin luther king day, national holiday, presidential race, real possibilities, sam cooke, siblings, spring day, word change, world history
This year will mark the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. On this day - Martin Luther King Day - I reflect longer than usual on the times we're living in. I ponder on how much has changed since his being snatched away from us on that spring day in April. And I wonder what the real possibilities are for our nation to come together. There are still so many who believe that we should not even be honoring the civil rights leader and that his legacy is not worthy of a national holiday. In 2008, you would think we would have come a lot further than this. Then again, at 30 years old, I have older siblings who were alive when Dr. King and others were still fighting for the rights of Blacks to sit in the front of the bus. That always puts things into perspective for me. It's been a long time, but then again...not so much.
With the presidential race and the mantra of change in the forefront of our minds, I can say that I am still hopeful. Many are actually tired of hearing the word change, and want to hear tangible-type strategies for real problems that we are facing at this very fragile time in American and world history. I am one of those people. But if we are already tired of hearing about change, then we've got a long way to go...and so we do. Change is what it took for Dr. King to realize the dreams of so many Americans in this country. Change is what it's going to take to get us out of the deep trouble we're in as a nation four decades later. As I listen to one of my favorite singers, Bilal, sing "A Change Is Gonna Come", it is extremely haunting. Sam Cooke made this civil rights ballad in the heart of the movement, and the meaning is extremely apparent, when you look at the times. When I listen to Bilal - a singer of my generation, sing it here - I listen with a different ear. The fact that the lyrics are still so relevant...and the song is still so haunting let's me know that a CHANGE still needs to come. And I believe it will. Thank you, Dr. King.