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Liberty wins Class 3A 4x100 meter relay.

JACKSONVILLE Kissimmee Liberty needed something to brighten a dreary day, and they found it in their boys 4 x 100-meter relay team.

The Chargers got their first state champions Saturday afternoon during the Class 3A track and field meet at the University of North Florida when anchor Devarius Turner zipped past the finish line in 41.33 seconds. That concluded an undefeated run this season for the group of Justin Winkler, Joshua Wilson, Kyle Sharman and Turner

Liberty, which opened in 2007, entered the meet with a solid opportunity of finishing among the top three teams and possibly winning but the Chargers had some disappointing finishes during the preliminaries

"The wheels fell off the truck, but we put them back on," Liberty coach Robert Pauley said. "It's sure going to make the ride back home feel a little better with some medals dangling from our necks."

Tallahassee Lawton Chiles won the boys meet with 38 points, Lake Nona tied for 10th with 19 points, and Liberty finished 12th with 17.

Miami Northwestern's girls dominated the meet, winning with 154 points. Lake Nona finished in a three-way tie for 20th with nine points, and Edgewater was 23rd with eight.

Much of the meet was held in rainy, cool conditions, but the sun began to shine before Liberty took to the track for the 4 x 100.

Area highlights during the boys meet came from relay teams including Lake Nona's 4 x 800-meter team, whose school-record time of 7:51.76 earned the Lions a silver medal. That showing is the 10th-fastest time ever by an area team and also the area's fastest time of the season.

The Lions finished the meet with a fourth in the 4 x 400 (3:20.48).

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Glenn Beck Invokes Joseph Smith, Mormon Beliefs During Liberty University Speech

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LYNCHBURG, Va. Liberty University and its president, Jerry Falwell Jr., recently invited Glenn Beck to take center stage to address thousands of students during its annual convocation ceremony, whose speech included references to Joseph Smith and Mormon theology.

The outspoken conservative talk showhost, and founder of the news outlet The Blaze, compared Mormonism to Christianity during his half-hour speech and cited that the Lord gave him a message of coming back to settle scores.

I am Mormon andshare your faith, Beck assertedduring his spiritually-mixed charge to students, as he stood in front of a large banner bearing the universitys motto, Training Champions for Christ.

Beck was introduced by President Jerry Falwell, who noted that the university presented the political commentator with an honorary doctorate in 2010 as he likewise addressed the students during that time. Falwell remarked that the Sounds of Liberty also performed at Becks Restoring Honor event that year in Washington, which the university chancellor attended.

I heard him yesterday on the radio, Falwell remarked. He probably didnt realize this, but he was using Libertys versesort of our motto hereWhere the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Beck then took the podium to applause and cheers, explaining on a lighthearted note that he ran into Falwell at Billy Grahams birthday party earlier this year. He then fought tears as he told the audience that he believed he was given a message from God that day to share with the students.

Are you willing to give your life? Beck asked fervently. What are you willing to do? What is it that means something to you?

Days before Joseph Smith was martyred he was taken out by the sheriff; they tried to tar and feather him several times, he explained. The last time they took him, they said, You owe $25. He said, No, I dont owe a man anything. They said, No, you stole a stoveone of the most ridiculous charges Ive ever heard.

At that time, he reached into his pocket and pulled out his pocket watch, Beck continued, displaying the relic that he said belonged to Smith, considered a prophet of God in Mormonism. He gave it to the sheriff and said, I owe no man nothing. They let him go. They killed him, but on the warrant for his arrest, he wrote on the back of his warrant to his people, Put down your guns. No matter what happens, put down your guns. Put down your guns and trust in the Lord.

He then compared Smiths story to the challenges that Liberty students may face in the days ahead.

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Breast cancer test made famous by Angelina Jolie now more affordable

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Posted on May 4, 2014 at 9:41 PM

Updated today at 11:04 PM

BOISE -- Modern medicine and early detection are helping women in the fight against breast cancer, but recently a decision in our nation's highest court has made it easier to afford the cost of genetic cancer testing.

The Saint Alphonsus Breast Cancer Center in Boise reports that one in 500 breast cancer cases women have what's called the BRCA gene mutation.

Saint Als Breast Surgeon Elizabeth Prier says knowledge of the BRCA gene has been around for the last decade, and identifying at-risk women has intesified in the last five years.

A lot of women with BRCA1 will end up with breast cancer in their 30s sometimes in their late 20s, said Dr. Prier.

That means women end up starting their fight with the disease earlier.

Annie Pierce, a wife and mother of two, ended her battle with breast cancer before it even started.

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Functional crops are coming

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COMING SOON: Food products that contain higher levels of phytosterols for reduced cholesterol, crops with higher levels of carotenoids for increased vitamin A, potato loaded with antioxidants, low-linolenic soybean, and high-lysine corn.

These may be farfetched but the possibilities are endless. Thanks to genetic engineering, the crops of the future will no longer be just dreams but realities. Already, the world has seen eggplant and corn that defy pests, vitamin A-rich rice, herbicide tolerant soybean, virus resistant papaya, and high laureate canola.

They are called genetically modified (GM) crops, which are products of biotechnology, a "technique that makes use of organism (or parts of it) to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific purposes."

GM crops are made through a process called genetic engineering. Dr. Antonio Alfonso, a plant breeder at the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the Crops Biotechnology Center director said genetic engineering is employed because of the following reasons: the trait is not present in the germplasm of the plant; the trait is very difficult to incorporate using conventional breeding methods; and it would take a very long time to introduce and/or improve such trait in the crop through conventional breeding.

In 1994, Calgene's delayed-ripening tomato became the first GM food crop to be produced and consumed in an industrialized country. Other GM crops -- corn, soybean, cotton, canola, and eggplant -- followed. These are called "first generation" crops which have proven their ability to lower farm-level production costs.

Now, research is focused on "second generation" GM crops that will feature increased nutritional and/or industrial traits. These crops will have more direct benefits to consumers. Examples include: potatoes with higher starch content and inulin; edible vaccines in corn, banana, and potatoes; corn varieties with low phytic acid and increased essential amino acids; healthier oils from soybean and canola; and allergen-free nuts.

These are called functional foods. It is defined as "foods or dietary components that claim to provide health benefits aside from basic nutrition." These foods contain biologically active substances such as antioxidants that may lower the risks from certain diseases associated with aging.

"Diet and health are closely related," explains the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA). "Thus crops are now being enhanced through biotechnology to increase levels of important biologically active substances for improved nutrition, to increase body's resistance to illnesses, and to remove undesirable food components."

Linoleic acid (LA), alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are some of the essential fatty acids. These are considered essential because they cannot be synthesized by the human body. A large number of scientific research studies suggest that higher dietary essential fatty acid intakes are associated with reductions in cardiovascular disease risk.

The main food sources of the long-chain Omega-3 fatty acids are fish. Plants lack the enzymes to make long-chain fatty acids needed by human beings. Scientists at the University of Bristol modified Arabidopsis thaliana to produce long-chain PUFAs.

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