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Updated?Jul 31, 2013 3:12 PM ET

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You know, I just have to be honest and say that I have never been more concerned than I am right now. I?ve missed being at the track the last couple weeks but I have watched the races on TV and as I always do. I am an avid listener to SiriusXM?s NASCAR channel. I?ve just been taking it all in the last couple weeks, but I found that I have reached my limit of all the negativity. People are so critical and negative of the sport right now.

What we saw last Wednesday at Eldora was a sanctioning body and a track owner creating something brilliant. It really was invigorating for the Camping World Truck Series to come to Eldora and run a race on dirt. You have to give NASCAR a lot of credit because that was a risky move. Remember, there hasn?t been a sanctioned NASCAR race on dirt in 40-some odd years.

They did it right and they did it at the right track. Many of you know that Tony Stewart owns Eldora. I?ve been there for something like the last eight years when Tony had his Prelude to the Dream charity event where top name drivers from all types of auto racing came and raced on dirt.

What I witnessed last Wednesday night came as no surprise. Tony knows how to put on a big show. NASCAR knows how to put on a big show. Above all that, the competitors had a lot of fun and they put on one heck of a show. Remember, many of them had never ever even raced on dirt. Like I mentioned last week, the place was packed. Everything was affordable and there was a sense of excitement for something new.

So that was last Wednesday and then everyone headed to Indy for the 20th running of the Brickyard 400. It was Jimmie Johnson?s race to win, but unfortunately a miscue in the pits cost him the race. Rocketman, Ryan Newman, not only sat on the pole but also won the race. It was so moving since his entire family was there. It was his first win at the Brickyard and, oh by the way, Ryan is a native of Indiana. It was literally a dream come true for Ryan.

Monday morning rolls around and all I hear on the radio is how NASCAR has all these problems, and they have to make changes quickly or our sport will sink faster than the Titantic. Hearing talk like that is what makes me really concerned.

Remember, the people running NASCAR have been doing it for a long, long time. Our sport is no different from any other professional sport. It ebbs and flows. Races ebb and flow as well. Think back about how everyone was so down about Auto Club Speedway in California. People wanted all these changes made to the track.

It only took one and that?s usually all it takes: one good race at California and all of a sudden the place was cool again. Road course racing also comes to mind. For years people would say racing on road courses was useless. We only have two for the entire season, yet there are still those out there that scream we don?t need to have any on the circuit.

Well guess what? We had some exciting road course races lately with some dramatic finishes and upsets, so now people are talking about wanting more road course events. Taking that a step further, there are those that are saying there needs to be a road course event in the Chase. Their position is that a true champion should have to show his skills in the Chase on a road course just like he has to on a short track, the intermediate tracks and the superspeedway race currently in the Chase.

Before Eldora, everyone was so negative about racing on dirt. Well, after folks saw what a great show there was at Eldora, then the tune changed again and now people are saying why not add a dirt track race to the Sprint Cup Series and the Nationwide Series.

Listening to all the negative talk about racing at Indy last week has really bothered me. It?s been there since 1909. It has incredible history. There?s things that have happened at Indy that are burned into our minds both good and bad. These are things we?ll never forget. It?s simply an amazing facility.

After Sunday?s race, all I heard were the negatives. ?The track is no good. The cars are no good. Why do we keep going back to Indy?? C?mon, are you friggin kidding me? Why do we keep racing there? We keep racing there because the drivers absolutely love it. To a person, winning at Indy is second only to winning the Daytona 500.

If a stock car driver wins at Indy, like Ryan did Sunday for the very first time, his name joins those of the immortals in auto racing. Ryan Newman just put his name up there with Foyt, Andretti and?Unser, and he joined an elite class that can say they won at Indianapolis.

All I hear are the complaints. Everyone has their own agenda. If my guy didn?t win, then it wasn?t a good race. If there wasn?t enough passing, then it wasn?t a good race. If there weren?t enough wrecks and cautions, then it wasn?t a good race. If someone outsmarted the field and won it strategy or fuel mileage, you betcha, it wasn?t a good race. Golly, it just seems to go on and on and on, and?it goes until I want to put a pencil through my eye.

What?s fueled my frustration this week in listening to all this noise, is that the sanctioning body has listened to the fans and has tried to give them what they asked for. It just seems like no matter how much they do or how many changes they make, its still never good enough.

Look at how our races have evolved over the last few years. Racing back to the caution flag is considered unsafe, so it was eliminated. Finishing the race under yellow was considered not giving the fans their full money's worth, so they created green-white-checker finishes. In some series even as many as attempting it three times, no less.

There?s been the Lucky Dog rule, the Wave Around rule, no passing below the yellow line at Daytona and Talladega, pit road speed, scoring loops and double file restarts. All these things were done to hopefully make the racing better and attract more fans. Seriously, what has it gotten NASCAR?

Has it created any new fans? Have we improved the sport? Has the popularity of the sport grown or changed because of all the changes NASCAR has made? It?s questionable and pretty doubtful to me.

Bill France Jr. and I talked a lot. He took over the sport from his dad about the same time I made my way into the Cup series. He always used to give me the same answer when I questioned him and, to be honest, it kind of drove me crazy.

When I would go to him and ask why they did some procedure or why that had some rule written the way it was, Bill Jr. would always say, ?DW, because that?s the way we?ve always done it.? Of course, I never liked that answer and being full of myself at times I would tell him that was wrong, and this or that needed changed.

You know what, though? As time has gone by and seeing change, change, change and, yes, even more change, I am really starting to think that Bill Jr. was right. We aren?t the NFL. We aren?t Formula One. We aren?t the NHRA. We aren?t any of those other series. We are NASCAR and this is the way we do it.

John Madden always tells me, ?DW, stick to what you know and just do it right.? NASCAR does one thing and they do it right. They know how to run a race. They know how to put on a show for the fans. That?s what they?ve always done.

Purists like me don?t want to see changes. The casual fan who tunes in occasionally always asks ?why are they doing it this way or that way,? simply because they haven?t been around our sport enough to understand. It. The advent of social media has given fans a voice like they have never had in our sport.

NASCAR tries to listen to that and adapt. NASCAR isn?t perfect. No one is. I think some of the problem is the fact there is change made just for the sake of making a change. There are so many changes being made simply to try and make everyone happy. Trust me: it will never happen. They are never going to make everyone happy at the same time. It?s impossible.

The racetrack operators aren?t infallible either. Indianapolis didn?t help itself when they worked on the surface of the track. The tire debacle that followed was a deep wound to the attendance that Indy is trying to still come back from. Charlotte Motor Speedway and Bristol Motor Speedway both made adjustments to their surfaces that affected the racing and ultimately affected the fans in the stands.

Think about Kentucky Speedway. It wasn?t until Bruton Smith bought the place and moved a Cup race there that they finally got on the map. So what happens at the very first race? They were used to 70,000 people showing up there but the Cup race brought 140,000 people there. The road system at the time simply couldn?t handle it. Combine that with Mother Nature being in a bad mood and it was a pretty miserable weekend across the board for everyone involved.

After we lost Dale Earnhardt Sr. at Daytona in 2001, there was a massive push on ?safety first? and we ended up with the Car of Tomorrow that had a wing on the back of it. A wing on a stock car? You have got to be kidding me. The drivers hated that car. It didn?t even look like a stock car. Oh, don?t get me wrong: it was safe as all get out, but it affected the racing and affected the fan support.

It?s just so many things collectively as a sport that we have done to ourselves that?s hurt the overall sport. I raced in the Cup series from 1972 to 2000. If you would have told me there would come a day when lasers would be used during the NASCAR inspection process, I would have laughed you out of the garage area. Here we are, though, all teched out with lasers. I?m sorry, but what happened to some string and a tape measure?

I think we?ve complicated the sport so much right now that even those of us in it understand it or not. I just don?t see where all the changes that have been made are helping our sport.

Don?t get me wrong: I am a huge fan of the double-file restarts. The Sprint All-Star Race showed me that a few years ago and that?s why I kept beating the drum for that change. It definitely has created excitement and drama. Overall, though, I think you reach a point where you have to stop, take a step back and figure out where things got off-kilter.

We simply have to stop beating ourselves. We need to figure out where we went wrong and how do we get back. We need to go back to our roots that made this sport what it once was. Eldora proved that to me. It was exciting, affordable and fun. Does it get any better than that?

I say bring back racing to the caution. I say bring back no pit road speed. Crew members are getting hurt just as much now as they were when we didn?t have a pit road speed. So let's go back to it. Qualifying for the Sprint All-Star Race this year showed everyone how exciting coming off Turn 4, grabbing a gear and brake and coming in hot to your pit can be. It was exciting, so why can?t we go back to it?

If you look at all the changes, and I mean ALL of them in the last?10 years, at the end of the day, collectively as a sport, we would have to say we?ve beaten ourselves. At the end of 2000 I hung up my helmet. In the beginning of 2001 I picked up a TV microphone. Remember, it was just FOX and NBC. FOX did the first half of the season and NBC did the second half.

It was pretty simple. You knew where to tune in every Sunday and you knew who was going to be explaining the race to you. It stayed like that for something like six years, but then what happened? NASCAR decided to basically go back to the way it was before 2001 and they spread the races out. So then you had FOX for some, TNT for some, ESPN for some and their parent company, ABC, for others.

It sure has created a lot of confusion with people not knowing what channel to tune in on Sunday. Give NASCAR credit for making the decision to go back to the way it was in 2001. You?ve probably all heard the announcement by now that starting in 2015, ESPN and TNT are out and it's back to FOX Sports having the first half of the season and NBC hosting the second half of each season.

So at least to me, that?s a big positive coming our way. The other positive that quite honestly has already beaten expectations is this Generation 6 car we?ve had this season. NASCAR working alongside the drivers and the manufacturers took the COT, which was a safe car, and turned it into a race car again.

I think this is one of the best years in racing our sport has ever had. We?ve got the fastest race car our sport has ever seen. We?ve also got a great battle ongoing for who is going to make this year's Chase and, quite honestly, the big names that might not make the Chase this year. Can you imagine how Brad Keselowski must feel? He is our series' defending champion facing the real possibility he might not even get to defend his title.

My point is we are at a point in time where we have a lot to build on, but collectively we have got to quit beating ourselves. I, for one, hope we do it soon.

Source: http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/darrell-waltrip-talks-ryan-newman-brickyard-400-sprint-cup-series-win-at-indianapolis-motor-speedway-073113

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US hopes trade talks will spur changes in Europe

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. hopes negotiations for a free trade deal with the European Union will drive growth-oriented reforms in the EU economy, the top American trade official said Tuesday.

In a similar vein, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said China's recent agreement to negotiate a bilateral investment treaty with the United States is a chance to press for economic reforms in the Asian giant that could level the playing field for American businesses.

Froman also told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington he was "cautiously optimistic" the U.S. could reach a major trade agreement with Pacific Rim countries by the end of the year despite some skepticism over that timetable after Japan's late entry into the talks.

Froman noted that the U.S. goal for all trade agreements currently being negotiated was to promote job creation here and bolster the middle class.

One key to success in newly launched talks on a Trans-Atlantic trade deal with Europe will be eliminating unnecessary regulatory barriers to trade, Froman said. And as Europe struggles to pull itself out of recession, he cautioned the bloc not to rely too heavily on exporting to the U.S. as a way out of its current problems.

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has raised great expectations of boosting growth and jobs by eliminating tariffs and other barriers that have long plagued economic relations. It would create a market with common standards and regulations across countries that account for nearly half the global economy.

Froman said both the U.S. and European markets are heavily regulated and have high standards when it comes to health, safety and environmental protection. But he said they must eliminate unnecessary differences and frictions in regulation that prevent a free flow of goods and services across borders.

The two sides are at odds over agricultural and financial services regulation, among other restrictions.

Turning to China, Froman said he saw encouraging signs for bilateral relations as China's new leadership grapples with serious economic issues such as deciding whether it wants to rely so heavily on export-led growth to questions about air pollution and food safety.

"China agreeing to start negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty ... is a potentially very important development and could help drive reform in China," Froman said.

China agreed to negotiate the treaty during annual U.S.-China security and economic talks in Washington earlier this month. The U.S. has been pushing for such a treaty for years, saying it would facilitate more protections and market access for American investors in China, where state-owned company enjoy many competitive advantages.

China's new leader, Xi Jinping, who met President Barack Obama last month in California, has signaled he intends to shift toward an economy driven more by domestic consumption and less by exports ? changes that would benefit U.S. companies that want to sell products and services to China's fast-growing middle class.

Regarding Japan's recent entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, Froman said it was critical that the country resolve longstanding issues over opening its markets to American products ? particularly barriers to U.S. autos, farm products and insurance services. In 2010, for example, the United States exported about 14,000 vehicles to Japan, while importing some 1.5 million vehicles.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said that he is prepared to expose his country's sheltered industries to more foreign competition, but he faces strong resistance from many in his own party.

Talks on the trade deal began more than two years ago and Japan just joined 11 other participants ? Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S. and Vietnam. With Japan, it would be the largest free-trade agreement ever, including countries that make up about 40 percent of world trade.

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A First For a New Zealand University, Lincoln University Implements Open Access Policy

From a Lincoln U. Announcement:

In a first for a New Zealand university, Lincoln University has implemented an open access policy, allowing staff and postgraduate students to make their research outputs including research data, teaching materials and public records, openly and freely accessible on the web.

The decision by Lincoln University to make content openly and freely available stems from the mindset that if public funding has supported the creation of an idea, research or other content, then it is reasonable and fair that it be made accessible to the public.

?This is a huge step forward for Lincoln University and all the more so when considering we are the first university in New Zealand to implement such a policy,? says Lincoln University Librarian, Professor?Penny Carnaby.

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Content is be available through the Lincoln University Research Archive website and the newly created Lincoln University Community Archive website, an online history of the people, events, and local community since the founding of the institution, and its websites.

In another initiative to facilitate greater access to information and to foster literacy in the Selwyn District the University is working with the Selwyn District Council, National Library of New Zealand and Lincoln High School.

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Isis announces national deployment coming later this year

Last time we heard from Isis, the aspiring mobile payments collaboration between three US wireless carriers, its CEO Michael Abbott wasn't willing to discuss the company's future plans in specific terms. Three months appear to make all the difference, however: Isis is almost ready to expand beyond its trial runs in Salt Lake City and Austin, and the service will be rolling out from coast to coast later this year. The company isn't giving any more specific details regarding timing or new Isis-compatible devices (there are currently 35 of them spread across Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile), although it's planning to enable the service on BlackBerry and Windows Phone devices later this year as well. The press release will serve up all the details after the break.

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Initiation deaths in South Africa a health problem, doctor says

This is a grim time of year for a hospital in the rolling hills of South Africa?s Eastern Cape province, where mattresses are laid on floors to cope with the stream of young men with severe injuries from botched circumcisions at initiation ceremonies.

Some patients with amputations, a doctor says, were told by their handlers that their genitals would grow back, reflecting a fog of misinformation that makes it hard to stop what has become an annual health crisis.

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It wasn?t supposed to be this way. The traditional ritual, which goes back centuries, is meant to usher youths into manhood, inculcating them with the responsibilities to become valued members of their community. Former South African President Nelson Mandela wrote about the spiritual meaning of his own circumcision in the same province where the Holy Cross Hospital is struggling to handle the influx of wounded males.

At least 60 males have died at initiation schools in eastern South Africa since the start of the initiation season in May, health officials confirmed. Thirty of them died in the Eastern Cape in the last six weeks, and 300 others were hospitalized with injuries.

Dingeman Rijken, a doctor at Holy Cross Hospital, has treated so many cases that he is campaigning for better practices at the ceremonies, circulating a training manual that calls for proper medical precautions. The manual contains graphic images of circumcisions and offers an ideal method of performing the procedure, which he?s shared with people involved in initiation ceremonies around Eastern Cape?s Pondoland region.

?It is becoming a psychological issue,? said Rijken, who has treated 140 initiates in the last year and admitted another 150 for serious injuries. ?I have had to tell eight boys this season that they?ve lost their glans or parts of their penis, so it is a health problem. We can?t run away from it, we need to address it.?

He said nurses struggle to keep up with the overflow of more than 68 initiates who were admitted in the last two weeks with badly infected genitals, dehydration or other serious injuries.

The worst of the injuries occurred after botched circumcisions performed by inexperienced traditional nurses, who use the same spear on multiple initiates without protecting against the spread of infections, then cover up wounds with tightly wrapped bandaging that cuts off blood supply to the area. After about 10 hours the genitals can become gangrenous and in some cases permanently damaged, but many initiates do not seek hospital treatment for another five to 10 days, Rijken said.

By this time very little can be done. Doctors cannot perform surgery because initiates suffer from sleep deprivation and dehydration and are not in a condition to give consent.

In minor cases, Rijken cleans off loose gangrenes around the affected area, bandages it and treats it with antibiotics, which eventually may result in a partial amputation of the penis. In more serious incidents, boys wait a period of one to six weeks until the entire organ falls off, he says.

Initiations are mostly practiced, though not exclusively, by the Xhosa tribe in eastern South Africa. Young males participate in the ritual as a formal preparation for adulthood, usually undergoing circumcision and survival tests in secluded sites outside their communities.

Most of the deaths in the Eastern Cape were in Pondoland, where the practice was banned in the 1820s by its then ruler, and then reintroduced in the last three decades as men who left their communities to work in mine fields were ostracized because they were not considered men if they were not circumcized, Rijken said, citing his research of its history.

Government legislation stipulates that participants should be at least 18, but parents can sign a consent allowing younger boys to participate. Rijken has monitored more than 60 ceremonies and rescued several injured boys, and says he sees initiates mostly between ages 14 and 17, but has treated boys as young as 12 who are too young to understand the implications of losing their male organ.

He said initiates rarely complain about pain because they fear being beaten by nurses and ridiculed by peers for not properly observing a tradition that encourages initiates to develop a tough demeanour. One patient had part of his injured penis ?yanked off? as punishment for complaining, and those who suffer penile amputations are frequently told by handlers that their penises would grow back, Rijken said.

?But that?s why we need to involve the community, to tell them it won?t grow back,? he said.

Like others who have spoken about the long-held tradition, Rijken believes it will take the combined effort of traditional leaders, provincial health departments and effective government regulation to end the killings and save the cultural practice, but he said it?s time the community is educated on the dangers.

?At a certain point if you see so many boys are dying, then it?s time to talk about it,? he said. ?We want people to do away with the secrecy and get the community involved.?

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Is it OK for parents to Facebook private message new teachers?

10:30 pm July 28, 2013, by Theresa Walsh Giarrusso

I was having dinner with a Gwinnett County teacher last week and throughout the entire meal, her phone kept dinging with messages.

We finally asked her what was going on and she said her school posted the class lists that day and parents from her new class were ?private messaging her on Facebook.

Some were saying they were excited to be in her class and others were explaining other concerns or situations.

And while I understand parents needing to communicate with teachers, I just think it?s rather presumptuous to track down the teacher through social media and bother her on her summer break.

Next week that teacher will be at school preparing for the year, and I have no issue with the parents emailing her at her school account before the first day of school. I think that?s totally appropriate, but the private messaging on FB seemed rude.

What do you think: Is private messaging your future or current teacher on FB or Twitter presumptuous and stalker-like? Or are their social media accounts fair game?

Source: http://blogs.ajc.com/momania/2013/07/28/is-it-ok-for-parents-to-facebook-kids-new-teachers/?cxntfid=blogs_momania

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Texas 4-Star RB talks Clemson

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First Baptist Church At The Villages' nearing completion of $4 million new building

Pastors Greg Brooks, left, Bob Perry and Charles Foster, right of First Baptist Church at the Villages will conduct services in their new church this September, which can hold up to 1,000 people. (Gary W. Green, Orlando Sentinel / July 17, 2013)

THE VILLAGES ? Continued rapid growth at the huge retirement community prompted the need for a larger facility, according to leaders of First Baptist Church At The Villages. The need will be met with a $4 million, 35,000-square-foot worship center that is being completed off County Road 42.

The original building, where services first took place in 2005, will become a fellowship hall. Above, from left, pastors Greg Brooks, Bob Perry and Charles Foster will conduct services in the new church starting in September.

At left is the sanctuary, which can hold as many as 1,000 people. The church started with 70 worshippers a decade ago. For more on The Villages church growth, see "The Villages' growth fuels church expansions as retirees focus on religion" at LakeSentinel.com.

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Self-perpetuating signals may drive tumor cells to spread

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists have identified a self-perpetuating signaling circuit inside connective tissue cells that allows these cells to form a front and a back and propel themselves in a particular direction over a long period of time. This propulsion is the same movement that tumor cells use to invade healthy tissue during cancer metastasis so cracking the code to this signaling network may lead to new therapeutic strategies.

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Google rumored to be considering online TV service

Rumors say system is developed and has been demonstrated to potential partners

Google TV needs an innovation injection. What was promising two years ago has been left to slowly waste away because no content deals were sourced and nobody was interested in having what Google TV could do in their living room. If rumors reported by the Wall Street Journal are true, that innovation is in the works.

According to their inside sources, Google is actively pitching the idea of an online TV service to media providers and distributors. Yes, just like everybody else is doing if you believe all the rumors out there. Google already tried this and was sorely disappointed with the result a few years back, but the difference this time, says the Journal, is that the content providers are looking for nationwide distribution.

In easy-to-understand talk -- let's say HBO, for instance, already had failed negotiations with Google about offering their content on Google TV. In today's landscape, where the competition is fierce and the dollar doesn't stretch as far, they would find more value with a service from Google that would sell their subscription to anyone with the box to stream it, sans cable company.

We have no idea how much of this is true or not, but the WSJ says Google already has the system developed and is shopping it around. It's something we'd love to see, so we're hoping for the best.

Source: Wall Street Journal

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Death toll in Canada rail crash up to 28

The death toll from the Lac-Megantic train disaster has risen to 28 after four more bodies were pulled from rubble of the devastated Canadian town.

A further 22 people remain missing and presumed dead after the rail disaster, Quebec police said on Friday, as accident investigators continue to comb through the destruction.

A spokesman from the coroner's office added they have now identified eight of the 28 bodies, up from just one earlier.

Part of a train made up of 72 tank cars loaded with crude oil derailed in the early hours of Saturday, July 6, in Lac-Megantic, near the Quebec-Maine border, igniting a huge explosion that laid waste to the centre of the lakeside town.

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Police working in the disaster zone have had "a great deal of difficulty" because of strong petrol fumes, Quebec provincial police spokesman Michel Forget said.

"These are the places where there is a much denser concentration of oil. So, when we lift pieces, these fumes" reach insupportable limits for the investigators, he said.

"We have had therefore to review our strategy and deploy to other spots," Forget explained, emphasising that "the ground is contaminated with oil in some places."

Police are examining "different measures to ensure ventilation to make sure the work can continue" as efficiently as possible.

The approximately 200 police on the scene, including 60 investigators, will be reinforced in the coming days by crime scene technicians from Montreal and Quebec City "in order to accelerate the work," he added.

Earlier, investigation official Jean Laporte said the Lac-Megantic crash was "extremely likely the most devastating rail accident in the history of Canada."

The US transportation safety agency would also work with the investigators, Laporte added.

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Audible for Android update brings new design and many improvements

The Audible app has recently been updated for Android users. This update has brought the app from v1.4.6 up to an even v1.5, but perhaps more important than the number ? is what came along. The folks at Audible are touting this update as bringing a ?beautiful? new design.

While we suspect the definition of beautiful will vary from person to person, we can say it is rather different as compared to the previous version. In our opinion, a nice improvement. The design is a bit cleaner and more modern looking, though it is not necessarily a modern design by Android standards.

For example, it would be nice to be able to swipe left and right to move between the ?Cloud? and ?Device? libraries. Otherwise, the Now Playing screen has easy access to details about the book as well as your Bookmarks and Chapters. There is also an option in the upper right to quickly adjust the listening speed and share. As it was before, a tap of the currently playing book will flip between a larger cover view and the cover with title, author and narrator.

As you can see in the above gallery, there is an option to go button free. This can be found by tapping the Menu button in the Now Playing screen. Once here you have a bit more option when it comes to swiping. You are able to swipe left to rewind, swipe right to fast forward, tap to play and long press to add a bookmark. Audible also mentions how they improved the overall stability and performance.

One other smaller, but welcomed addition is the chapter-level progress bar in the Now Playing screen. That said, those not as familiar with the older look of the Audible app, or those tho simply want to see some images side by side should check out the above three-image gallery ? it shows how the Audible app used to look. Bottom line here, this looks like a must-update for current Audible users.

SOURCE: Google Play Store

Source: http://androidcommunity.com/audible-for-android-update-brings-new-design-and-many-improvements-20130712/

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Chinese Crash Victims Headed to Evangelical Church School

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The parents of Wang Linjia, one of the two girls killed during the Asiana Airlines plane crash on Saturday, leave for San Francisco from Shanghai Pudong International Airport on July 8, 2013

If it is unusual that a plane crash-landed at the San Francisco International Airport, it is also surprising that a group of Chinese students on board ? including the two 16-year-old girls who died ? were headed to an evangelical-church program. The 35 students and chaperones were en route to West Valley Christian Church and School outside Los Angeles for a three-week American-culture and English-language immersion camp. The students? own school, Jiangshan Middle School in Zhejiang, was running the tour, but the students would also have experienced, most likely for the first time, classic American evangelical culture.

Church members were shocked to learn that their would-be guests were victims of Saturday?s crash. West Valley Christian issued a prayer to express its condolences: ?Dear Lord, give grace to their moms and dads, brothers and sisters. Give us wisdom and compassion as we care for our guests from China.? Derek Swales, head of the school, puts it this way: ?You sometimes wonder, why did God allow this to happen, and why did he pick out this church??

West Valley Christian acts as a host site for international-student programs. It charges only a modest amount of $4 to $5 a day per student for a visiting group to use their facilities. The hope, Swales explains, is that students will come away from their trip seeking more than just American Ivy League campuses and Silicon Valley careers. Students stay with host families who often introduce students to a Christian culture, Swales says, and that is how ministry happens. ?We are trying to create a very holistic approach to education ? come stay in our homes, come visit our schools, play on our sports teams,? he explains. ?And there?s the spiritual component, which in China is not really there.?

(MORE:?San Francisco?s Boeing 777 Crash: Why It Was Survivable)

The school does not directly proselytize or offer an invitation for Christian salvation. When Swales speaks to the students to welcome them during orientation, his goal is to explain the church context. ?I take them through Genesis and say, ?This is how the world began,?? says Swales, who got his master?s degree from Bob Jones University, a conservative Christian school in South Carolina. ??You see these churches on every street corner in America and, what are they doing in there? They are worshipping Jesus Christ the Son of God.??

Hosting visitors is not just common to foreign-exchange programs ? hospitality is also a popular form of Christian ministry. Playing the good host is a way many Christians seek to share God?s love with others; as the author of the New Testament Book of Hebrews wrote, ?Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.? It is a quiet way to spread the Christian Gospel. Swales? family hosted a fifth-grader from South Korea. ?We sit around the table and he sees us pray for the first time,? he says. ?He comes with us to a church service.?

West Valley Christian will be hosting three other international groups this summer, two from China and one from South Korea. It will be hosting a prayer vigil for the victims and for host families this Thursday evening, and is accepting gift cards to help victims pay for missing luggage, as well as donations for victims? families. ?These are sweet, sweet kids, gifted kids,? Swales says of the two girls who died. ?I?m just hoping that God can do something really special with such a great loss.?

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/time/topstories/~3/oGMV631lhbA/

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Finding Emma Watson's Beastly Co-Star Tops Guillermo Del Toro's To-Do List

'Pacific Rim' director goes down his list of plans with MTV News, including 'Justice League Dark.'
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1710026/guillermo-del-toro-emma-watson-beauty-beast.jhtml

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Microscopic 'Tuning Forks' Could Make the Difference Between Life and Death in the Hospital

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