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February 9th, 2009Last Night’s Action: At Least The Nets Won
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February 8th, 2009Joey Logano Quick In First Practice Session For Daytona 500
The first Daytona 500 practice is in the books at Daytona International Speedway and 18-year old Middletown native Joey Lognao has found a spot near the top of the speed chart at the track.
Logano was sixth fastest in Friday’s first session in preparation for the Feb. 15 race, with a best lap 187.056 mph. His quick lap came on his final circuit of the eight laps he took during the session.
Bill Elliott led the session at 187.645 mph. Bobby Labonte (187.414 mph) was second and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (187.348) third.
Logano ended up sandwiched between his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch (fifth, 187.211) and Denny Hamlin (seventh, 187.040).
The second Daytona 500 practice session is schedule for this afternoon, prior to the running of the ARCA RE/MAX Series Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200. Logano starts third in the Slick Mist 200.
Logano starts 19th in tonight’s exhibition Sprint Cup Series Budweiser Shootout.
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February 7th, 2009Total Surrender
Pro Ecclesia: For the Church by Kevin Smith
Gary Thomas, in his book Seeking the Face of God, makes this statement: “Christian health is not defined by how happy we are, how prosperous or healthy we are, or even by how many people we have led to the Lord in the past year. Christian health is ultimately defined by how sincerely we wave our flag of surrender.” What he is saying is this: a major way to measure our spiritual health is to determine how surrendered we are to God. I believe that many of our greatest struggles in living a healthy, productive Christian life come to us because of our unwillingness to surrender fully to God. Our churches are full of people who are not progressively growing in their surrender to Christ; therefore, many of our churches are spiritually unhealthy. Unhealthy churches are focused on self, more concerned with the size of our buildings and budgets than on the glory of Christ in the salvation and sanctification of His elect from all people groups.
I am an American, actually an African American; I have difficulty with the concept of surrender. Americans don’t surrender. Surrender means weakness. It means defeat. It means I give up, doesn’t it? Surrendering to God is a challenge even for those who have come to know the Lord of glory, Jesus Christ.
First, let’s examine the kind of surrender I believe the Lord calls for and then the path to it. The passage that has helped me reflect on this is Romans 12:1-2. God calls us to present our bodies as living sacrifices. By appealing to us to “present” our bodies to God, the apostle is saying that every Christian is a priest — a believer-priest. This is nothing new, for we see the people of the old covenant referred to as a “kingdom of priests” in Exodus 19:6. The new covenant writers pick this up, as in 1 Peter 2:9 where the church is a “royal priesthood.” As priests who stand before God, we must bring something to Him, not to make atonement but in response to the atonement. What do we offer? The only thing we have is ourselves. The surrender God wants is the surrender of our bodies to Him. Our lives and all that we have are to be at God’s disposal. Paul has spoken about the presenting of the members of our bodies to God as “instruments of righteousness” in Romans 6:12-19. No longer are we to give our legs, arms, ears, and minds to commit rebellion against God. Since we have been justified by Christ, we are to surrender the very members of our bodies to God to do what is good in His sight. Paul speaks collectively of this act in chapter 12, showing that it is a total surrender; nothing is left out. No aspect of our lives is to be outside of devotion to God through Jesus Christ.
He calls for our offering to be living and holy. Notice, God doesn’t want a dead sacrifice; He wants a living one. He intends for His people to live in joyful surrender to Him, finding our pleasure in Him, instead of worldy pursuits. Naturally, since the Lord our God is holy, an offering presented to Him must also be holy — pure and given to His service alone. As God’s people humbly offer ourselves in holiness, Paul says our churches will increasingly experience “spiritual worship.” How we fight about elements of worship! Some dislike hymns. Some dislike contemporary praise songs. Some dislike instruments. All see their preference as more biblical than the others. But none of us truly worships God unless we are growing in joyful surrender to Christ. It is a perversion of worship to the living God that we offer Him dead sacrifices and everything but our holy bodies. We say we are His, but our lives are tainted with self-righteousness, greed, bitterness, racism, lust, and envy. How, then, can we experience the power of God in our lives and witness? The answer lies in daily surrendering our whole selves to God, singing “I Surrender All,” and trusting God to transform us by His power.
The path to this surrender is also part of our problem. Our minds are full of the things of this world. We hunger for more and will not be satisfied with less, so we go into debt. Our marriages fail as we pursue the American Dream. Is it any wonder that our children who are catechized and sanitized go off to college and act like pagans? They have not experienced or even seen many examples of total surrender to Christ and the power of God at work in such a worshiping community.
Why are we to surrender ourselves to God totally? Our heavenly Father has poured out His vast wealth of mercy upon us in Christ. Mercy is God’s compassion given to those who are pitiful. It is similar to grace in that it is undeserved. Do we really understand what we are without Christ? God’s people must ask Him to reveal to us our total depravity so that we are enabled to mourn over our sin and our culture’s sin. This is the way to blessedness (Matt. 5:4). The mercies of God in justification, sanctifica …
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February 6th, 2009Rachel Zoe Trademarked ?I Die’ and ?Bananas’
You may recall this brilliant, Rachel Zoe–inspired “Bananas” shirt designed by artist Christopher Sauvé. If you haven’t gotten yours yet, it doesn’t look like you’re going to. Sauvé just received a cease-and-desist download comedy movie letter from Zoe’s lawyer. It turns out “I die” and “Bananas” download crime movie are trademarked. Oh, excuse us — that would be I DIE™ and BANANAS™. We don’t want to get sued. That would be BANANAS™. WeI DIE™.
Sauvé had only made 25 shirts and was planning to sell them in very limited distribution online and at Seven boutique. “As a huge fan of Rachel Zoe I feel very sad that I couldn’t express myself artistically with BANANAS™ and my fascination with reality television,” Sauvé told us. I DIE™. “But I have come up with this new design based on my favorite things from the 1980s.”
Get it? Do you DIE?Photo: Courtesy of Christopher Sauve
bananas™. “she uses celebrities every period to promote herself, and then she won’t let a poor artist in the city do it in a leviathan recession with all these layoffs?” sauvé continued. we thought paris hilton bogarting the word “i’m hot” was the worst offense of trademark’s report. but claiming the genus of an eatable plant? if we are indeed now in a time when people can just go around claiming others can’t use the images and names of tropical fruits without permission because you told your Queen’s it was yours first, we choose pineapples. pineapples pineapples pineapples pineapples pineapples pineapples. there — it’s ours! and you be aware what else? we live.
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February 6th, 2009HEROES Season 3 Episode 15 “Trust and Blood”
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February 6th, 2009After the war, Gazans seek answers on white phosphorus
gaza doctors add to the growing million of accounts that imply israel occupied white phosphorus munitions against international norms of campaign.
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Animal life ’significantly older’
February 5th, 2009Traces of animal life have been found in rocks dating back 635 million years.
The evidence takes the form of chemical markers that are highly distinctive of sponges when they die and their bodies break down in rock-forming sediments.
The discovery in Oman pushes back the earliest accepted date for animal life on Earth by tens of millions of years.
Scientists tell Nature magazine that the creatures’ existence will help them understand better what the planet looked like all that time ago.
“The fact that we can detect these signals shows that sponges were ecologically important on the seafloor at that time,” said lead author Gordon Love, from the University of California, Riverside.
“We’re not saying we captured the first animal; we’re saying they’re an early animal phylum and we’re capturing them when their biomass was significant.”
Tiny creatures
Researchers can usually determine the presence of ancient life in rock strata by looking for the fossilised remains of skeletons or the hardened record of the creatures’ movements, such as their footprints or crawl marks.
But for organisms deep in geological history that were extremely small and soft bodied, scientists have had to develop novel techniques to uncover their existence.
One of these newer methods involves detecting breakdown products from the lipid molecules which act as important structural components in the cell membranes of animals.
Over time, these will transform to leave a molecule known as cholestrane; and for sponges, this exclusively takes the form known as 24-isopropylcholestane.
Dr Love’s team found high concentrations of this biomarker in rocks located at the south-eastern edge of the Arabian peninsula.
They were laid down in what would have been a shallow marine environment at least 635 million years ago.
“Even though there must have been sufficient oxygen in the water to maintain the metabolism of these primitive animals, I think their size would have been restricted by oxygen being nowhere near modern values,” the UC Riverside researcher said.
“We’re probably talking about small colonies of sponges with body dimensions of a few millimetres at most. They’d have been filtering organic detritus in the water column.”
Icy planet
The discovery is fascinating because it pre-dates the end of the Marinoan glaciation, a deep freeze in Earth history that some argue shrouded the entire planet in ice.
Scientists often refer to the term “snowball Earth” to describe conditions at this time.
So to find animal life apparently thriving during this glaciation seems remarkable, commented Jochen Brochs, from the Australian National University, Canberra.
“If there really was a snowball Earth, how did those sponges survive? The full snowball Earth hypothesis would predict that the oceans were frozen over by 2km, even at the equator,” he told BBC News.
“Only at hot springs could any organism survive but it is questionable that you would have sponges in a hot spring. I haven’t made my mind up about snowball Earth but perhaps these sponges are telling us something about this glaciation.”
Dr Love’s view is that the presence of these animals puts limits on the scale of the ice coverage.
“I believe there were areas of what we might call refugia - areas of open ocean where biology could go on. And in this case, it could be evidence that we had some sort of evolutionary stimulation of new grades of organisms as well.”
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk
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February 4th, 2009Gary Bettman Speaks; Says Little of Substance, as Usual
by bruce ciskie
Filed under: Coyotes, Eastern, Western, NHL Fans
nhl commissioner gary bettman has been quite visible lately. idle his appearances at all-star weekend, including his happen to walk out on the ice and get booed in french, bettman has done plenty of media (including a friday interview on nhl boom box where he wore the hideous sweater he’s pictured in).tuesday, the commish spoke to a throng of canadian question leaders in toronto. he didn’t hold back with his optimism about the league.
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February 3rd, 2009Interview: Mohamed Nanabhay, Head Of New Media, Al Jazeera: Winning Over The Skeptics Online
Its English TV channel is still only carried by three local cable networks in the US despite growing acceptance in other countries - but an ambitious online strategy, coupled with web innovations added during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, is now helping Al Jazeera win over new audiences in America and around the world.
Denied conventional TV carriage, the Arab-centric news network has instead opted for what new media head Mohamed Nanabhay calls “distributed distribution” - syndicating online via YouTube, Real, Independent.co.uk, the LiveStation and Zattoo apps and a host of other outlets. These online video efforts, plus blow-by-blow reports posted to Twitter, produced a “huge spike in traffic” during Israel’s month-long offensive in the Palestinian territory, when Al Jazeera was one of the few networks with cameras in the region.
“It’s been quite a busy month … our team is quite small … everybody worked flat out during the war,” said 29-year-old Nanabhay, speaking from the broadcaster’s Doha, Qatar, headquarters, where a seven-strong online team focuses on web projects to spread Al Jazeera’s content as widely as possible. “Since the war started, the amount of live stream viewers has increased by over 500 percent.”
Along the way, this growing attention is convincing some cynics that Al Jazeera, despite post-9/11 criticisms for showing al Qaeda videos, is a credible news organization, Glasgow native Nanabhay says: “A lot of that was misperception from people who had never seen the channel, and was more political than anything else. Now we’ve been able to reach out to communities who may not have seen us previously. By and large, we’ve won over the skeptics“…
?Web substituting TV: Online has been “one of our main outreach areas to the US” says Nanabhay. YouTube, to which Al Jazeera pushes news clips and full-length shows in both English and Arabic, has been “extremely useful”, partly because it lets bloggers embed videos. Nanabhay’s YouTube channel saw 150 percent more traffic during the war, the majority from north America: “It’s allowed us to reach people we may not otherwise have reached, especially youth.” Other distribution platforms include apps for iPhone and Facebook, a recently revamped mobile website and breaking news via instant message - all part of Nanabhay’s Al Jazeera Labs, a tech innovation playground of the kind that many modern news networks are now adding.
?Gaza, Twitter and the Creative Commons: Earlier this month, Al Jazeera offered to give away its raw footage from the conflict via the relaxed copyright license - Nanabhay says the video was used by Italy’s RAI and Indonesian, Bosnian and other channels around the world after being downloaded from the website: “There’s been quite a bit of pickup, and that’ s just what we know about - we’ve seen a lot of people mash it up as well.”
Al Jazeera began using Twitter almost two years ago for breaking news alerts and, later, the US election, but “the important breakthrough” was the use of a dedicated ajgaza feed during Israel’s recent assault: “We were providing breaking news through the feed. Journalists were writing messages and sending them out, which is very different from just taking an RSS feed and sending it out through Twitter. We peaked at around 5,000 followers. There was tremendous growth as the war went on.” Nanabhay said news had evolved beyond newspapers’ 24-hour cycle and even conventional online reporting: “Now people expect a blow-by-blow story.”
?The rationale for online: “We’re funded by the emir of Qatar so we’re effectively a semi-state entity. It’s definitely given us some leeway to experiment online because we’re not under the same pressures to
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February 3rd, 2009Peter King: Familial atmosphere paves way to Steelers’ title
the best super bowl eternally. si.com’s peter king examines pittsburgh’s victory over arizona, plus gives you a unique look at the steelers’ run toward a sixth title.
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