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Dating According to the Bible?: The Purpose of Relationships ...
Expectations play a big part in healthy relationships. What you expect from a partner goes a long way in determining how healthy your relationship with?them will be. If your expectations are unreasonable or unrealistic then you will not simply be disappointed, you will frustrate them. But if we know what we can reasonably expect and what can be reasonably?expected of us?then our relationships can grow and flourish. Understanding some of the purposes behind human relationships will go a long way in shaping our expectations. So what are some of the purposes of human relationships?
The Bible gives us a picture that includes both spiritual and social functions to our relationships. A myriad of verses we find the Scriptures speaking with clarity about the role relationships play in our lives. Foundational to all of these roles, however, is their role as pointer to the gospel. Ephesians 4:32 is a simple picture of forgiveness in relationships, but one that serves to point us to the forgiveness we have received from God in Christ. Ephesians 5:22-32 is a well-known pericope?that delineates?the mystery of marriage. In these verses we learn that the husband/wife relationship serves as a picture of the Christ/church relationship. Husbands, particularly, are told to love their wives ?as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.? In John 17:20-21 Jesus prays that his followers would have unity among themselves for the stated purpose that ?the world may believe that you have sent me.? Apparently good, healthy, Christian relationships point others to Jesus. Likewise John 13:35 says that it is by our mutual love that we will be identified as followers of Jesus. Our relationships are constantly driving other people to, and/or reminding ourselves of? Jesus. 1 John 4:12 spells it out in perhaps the most blatant terms. John writes:
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:12)
It is through our love for one another, through our relationships, that people will see God. That is a remarkable, if not sometimes terrifying, teaching. Our relationships have the power to point to the gospel (or to drive people from it).
This is why making relationships all about us is such a complete failure and distortion. Relationships are not all about us, they are about the gospel. When I am selfish, and self-absorbed in my relationship I am directing people away from the gospel, not the least of whom is probably my partner. My goal in my relationship, as in all things, should be to glorying God (1 Corinthians 10:31), and to use my relationship as an opportunity to point myself and others to Jesus.
Secondly, the Bible tells us that relationships exist to help us grow in godliness. Colossians 3:16 tells us that relationships are a means by which I am taught God?s Word, corrected and challenged, encouraged and motivated. Healthy Christian friends challenge and encourage my own personal spiritual development. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 says it this way, ?Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.? Hebrews 3:13 says that another specific responsibility of relationships is to help us keep a pure faith. We are to ?exhort one another? with the end goal that we will not be ?hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.? Hebrews 10:24-25 commands us to ?stir up one another to love and good works.? My friends will help motivate me and encourage me and keep me focused on what?s important. The next verse in Hebrews 10 tells me not to neglect meeting with others, this is a very important part to my growth according to Scripture. If I neglect regular fellowship with believers I will be an anemic Christian for sure. James 5:16 urges us to confess our sins to one another and to pray for one another. Relationships specifically function as spiritual aids for me.
This is not their only function, but I don?t want to overlook that one of my expectations for a good dating relationship is that my partner will have a vested interest in and work towards my own spiritual development, and likewise I will be expected to work towards theirs. If the person?you?are?dating does not help?you love and serve Jesus better than this is not a good relationship!
Relationships also exist to help us fulfill the mission of God. Our growth in godliness is evidence of that, as is our pointing others to the gospel. Any number of passages that speak to the mission of the church are clearly contingent upon good, healthy relationships. But one passage stands out as expressly stating this in a compelling way. It?s found in the book of Genesis at the creation of Adam and Eve.?God has created Adam and given him a specific task, to cultivate and tend the Garden. But God sees that this is not something Adam can do alone, and so he creates woman to help him accomplish this task. Genesis 2:18 says that God created a ?helper fit? for Adam. Helper is not here intended to be a degrading term or intended to subjugate one gender under the other. It is intended to communicate the need of teamwork when it comes to the mission of God. Man could not do it alone, he needed a partner, an equal and ?fit? co-laborer in the Garden. To fulfill the mission of God, whether that is an individual task or the global cause of Christ, we all need co-laborers. Relationships should be focused not just on individual satisfaction and mutual affirmation but on fulfilling the mission of Christ in the world together.
Finally, and yet no less significantly, God gives us relationships for companionship. It is important not to misunderstand my writing here. I do not write to insinuate that?the pleasure and companionship you receive from a relationship is insignificant or inferior to these other relationship purposes. Companionship is extremely?important for our own personal health. In fact in Genesis 2:18, after God has created nearly everything and called it all good, he says, ?It is not good that the man should be alone.? There is only one thing that is ?not good? in the pre-Fall Garden of Eden: man?s loneliness. The Song of Solomon is a whole book that celebrates the significance of companionship, both through discussing physical and emotional intimacy. Such things described?there may be reserved to the marital relationship (see my series on sex), but dating relationships are working towards that by their own appropriate development and expression of companionship.
Don?t neglect this aspect of your relationship. Your affection for each other should grow, and if it isn?t you need to pause and do some evaluation. Are your expectations unrealistic? Are you being faithful and obedient to God in your relationship? Are you pursuing godliness with your partner? All these questions and more may help you discern why your companionship is not growing, but it may also be simply that your affection for each other is not there, and that may mean this is not the relationship for you. Again, this is not the only important part to our relationships. We want the total picture to be found, at some level, within our dating. As we come to view the purposes for our dating relationships correctly we can come to expect the right things of our partners, and that in turn may mean more healthy relationships.
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Apple's Twitter investment is not to be, say sources
Apple had been considering a 'strategic investment' in Twitter but negotiations apparently ended with no deal.
The first of the rumoured talks actually took place over a year ago, according to Bloomberg's sources, presumably around the time Apple was heavily integrating Twitter into iOS and Mountain Lion.
The cosy chats between the two companies ended without any cheque signing because both were happy with the aforementioned integration.
No dice
Last week the New York Times reported that a more recent discussion also took place, according to its source, with Apple looking to pump a significant number of millions into Twitter, hiking the social network's value up to $10 billion (?6 billion).
The reason for Apple's interest in Twitter is down to its lack of an in-house social network ? Google has Google+, Facebook has Facebook, even Amazon has user reviews and marketplaces, while Apple doesn't really have any of these.
Twitter is the only social network to be heavily integrated into Mac OS X Mountain Lion, allowing users to post status updates and share media without opening a separate app.
Facebook, meanwhile, is still absent from the desktop software and only made it into iOS 6 after Twitter had made itself at home in iOS 5.
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WARWICK, NY ? (Marketwire) ? 07/30/12 ? Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) (referred to as WVT Communications Group), the parent company of leading cloud communications pioneers, will release financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2012, on Friday, August 10, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. eastern and will conduct a conference call on the same day at 9:00 a.m. eastern.
The conference call will be hosted by WVT Communications Group?s Chief Executive Officer Duane W. Albro and President and Chief Operating Officer David Cuthbert. Investors and other interested parties can listen to the call by dialing the participant numbers of 877-317-6789 (toll free) or 412-317-6789, no access code required, approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the conference call. The conference call will also be webcast live on the WVT Communications Group website at www.wvtcg.com.
A replay of this conference call will also be available by dialing 877-344-7529 (toll free) or 412-317-0088, access code: 10016612, beginning 11:00 a.m. eastern on August 10 through August 27, and via the investor relations section of the Company?s website.
About WVT Communications Group:
WVT Communications Group, is a world technology leader in providing cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solutions for small, medium and enterprise businesses. The Company has maintained a tradition of paying dividends to shareholders for 104 consecutive years. Founded in 1902, the Company has continued to adapt and remain on the forefront of technology, chiseling its position among the most stable and respected communications vendors on the globe. Moving forward, it is forging the new model that communications providers, large and small, are striving to emulate. WVT Communications Group is merging new innovations, such as those from Alteva and USA Datanet, with proven technology from industry leaders like Microsoft, Cisco, BroadSoft, Panasonic, and Polycom to build the ideal hosting architecture for communications.
Through its USA Datanet (targeting businesses under 35 employees), Alteva (targeting businesses over 35 employees and those with branch offices), and Warwick Valley Telephone (a highly-respected traditional telecom provider turned premier regional broadband company) businesses, WVT Communications Group is enabling businesses of any size to communicate more efficiently with hassle-free communications tools. By overlaying a UC division on its stabile, regional broadband company, WVT Communications Group has positioned itself in front of its peer legacy telecom companies and created an evolutionary change in its strategy. With this, the Company may offer its residential customers a similar suite of UC applications and services for use in a home environment that its business customers can enjoy. Visit www.wvtcg.com or call 855-U-GO-CLOUD.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. -- If you think it feels good when you blow off some stress with a hard workout, slip into 15-year-old Jake Eisenstat?s skin for a while. With a diagnosis of severe attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and executive dysfunction, the Potomac teen has so much trouble focusing that his parents school him at home. His stamina is poor, and the development of his spatial awareness is delayed.One day last week, he was in the newly reopened Fitness for Health gym in Rockville, using the Trazer, a floor-sized adaptation of the Dance Dance Revolution game, working on his agility and anticipation. The exercise also helps improves his concentration, at least for a while.
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Mali: West Africa Lukewarn on French Intervention
West African countries have given an unenthusiastic response to Laurent Fabius's calls to take part in a military intervention in Mali during the French foreign affairs minister's 48-hour tour of four French-speaking countries that ended in Chad on Sunday.
Only Niger, which feels it is most under threat from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim), is keen to see a speedy intervention by the proposed west African force in north Mali, RFI's French service reports.
The Ecowas group of west African countries is supposed to be preparing to send 3,000 troops to fight the Aqim-linked Ansar Dine and other Islamist groups, who have took control of the territory's main cities, Gao and Timbiktu, after Tuareg separatists declared independence.
In Chad at the end of his tour on Saturday, Fabius claimed that President Idriss D?by had made a "very severe" analysis of the situation when they discussed Mali.
D?by "noted that the development of terrorism in this region constitutes a threat for all the countries in the area", he said after meeting the Chadian president.
But D?by made a point of calling for an "international force ... with the support of the United Sates, France and Nato", insisting that "we don't have the means in Africa to deal with this situation".
Earlier, in Senegal, Fabius declared that "it is up to the Malians and the Africans to take the necessary decisions with the backing of the international community".
Senegal and Burkina Faso are still trying to find a diplomatic solution, RFI's correspondents report, with Ouagadougou holding talks both with the Tuareg separatist MNLA and Ansar Dine.
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Online hit 'Dr. Horrible' to debut on CW TV Oct. 9
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Dr. Horrible is coming to television.
The CW network says the 2008 online hit "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" will air as an hour-long special in October.
The musical stars Neil Patrick Harris ("How I Met Your Mother") as Billy, aka Dr. Horrible, an inept would-be villain trying for world domination. Nathan Fillion ("Castle") co-stars as Dr. Horrible's nemesis, Captain Hammer. Felicia Day plays Penny, Dr. Horrible's crush.
"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" was directed and co-written by Joss Whedon ("The Avengers," ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). It's scheduled to air on CW on Oct. 9.
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London 2012 diving: China takes gold, USA silver in 3-meter synchronized
London 2012 diving: Wu Minxia and He Zi won the first diving gold medal for China Sunday. Abby Johnston and Kelci Bryant of Team USA finished second.
London 2012 diving: Gold medalists He Zi, left, and Wu Minxia, right, pose after the 3 Meter Synchronized diving at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Sunday, July 29, 2012. This is Wu's fifth Olympic medal.
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Wu and her partner He Zi won the first diving gold medal of the London Olympics on Sunday, putting the country on a path toward a possible sweep of the eight medals.
They led throughout the five-dive round and totaled 346.20 points in the 3-meter synchronized event.
"It's kind of if they mess up, then you have an opportunity," American silver medalist Abby Johnston said. "Anything can happen in this sport, so you still have that possibility."
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It was Wu's fifth Olympic medal, leaving her one away from tying countrywoman Guo Jingjing's record of six medals. Guo was China's superstar diver until her retirement 1 1/2 years ago.
Wu has three golds, one silver and one bronze. She could earn another in the individual springboard event, where she has medaled twice before and will compete against He.
"It feels normal," Wu said in Mandarin. "I really don't have that many emotions."
China won seven of eight golds as the host country four years ago in Beijing and swept the golds at last year's world championships in Shanghai.
"I am impressed by them," Johnston said. "I watch their video. That's one of my training methods, just watching them and how they do it."
Johnston and Kelci Bryant finished second with 321.90 points, ending the country's diving medal drought that extended to the 2000 Sydney Games. It was the first-ever Olympic synchro medal for the Americans.
"Our curse is out of the way," said Bryant, who finished fourth in springboard synchro with a different partner in Beijing.
"Abby and I just kicked it off with this event and I think the rest of the team is going to come through," she said. "After 2008, all of us were really close and we needed to fine-tune our training."
Laura Wilkinson's gold on 10-meter platform in Sydney, where she upset the Chinese despite a broken foot, was the last U.S. medal. The Americans were shut out for the first time ever four years later in Athens and again in Beijing.
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Captain JP's log: London Olympics: Food and drink on Maja
It the event on the tall ship Maja there was of course a celebration of Denmark's food and drink, and appropriately they chose two favourites of sailors.
How many sailing trips of mine have started with a juicy bacon sandwich prepared in a cafe somewhere on the shores of the Solent? And how many have ended with a beer in some pub, from St. Lucia to Reykjavik?
So yes, there was bacon, prepared by a chef with beetroot, and also a bottle of ice cold beer, brewed and bottled especially for the Maja (see above).
Now that cold one did go down very well on a day when London glowed under a scorching summer sun.
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Bear Risk Management | Sustainable Business Forum
My lovely wife wants to take me camping next weekend. I?ve never been camping but understand camping was a part of her life before we met. I?ve explained that I am not averse to camping despite the dirt, cold, sleeping on the ground, canned beans,?raccoons, no wifi, poison ivy, bugs and bears. But am quite looking forward to it!
While looking for camp sites in central Ontario, Killbear Provincial Park seemed like the choice. With a name that includes the verb ?kill? and the noun ?bear? I imagine it must be safe! She began doing some research on tripadvisor.com and found the following comments from a few weeks ago.
The park and the water are outstanding, we would love to come back any time, but a threatening bear encounter will make us think twice.
I had my car lights spraying the site and direction of where the Bear was as we were tearing down we were loading the trunk ? I then heard a thud and crack and turned to see the Black Bear with its head in my trunk trying to get into the car?
?We had a bear snuffing and growling right outside of our tent and stamping its paws so hard the ground trembled. We left shortly after, and stayed at a hotel for the first night.
Immediately after reading these comments my beautiful wife decide against Killbear because the Bear Risk was too great. But is there more risk than other nearby site we were considering?
Being the risk manager that I am I was curious if the Bear Risk at Killbear was as ?extremely likely? as she would believe from these comments and did a quick assessment:
According to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources ?Since the early 1900s there have been fewer than 70 deaths in North American as a result of black bears?. ( I guess it only said ?killed?, there was no mention of how many people were de-gloved by bears.)
The same ministry provides a map to illustrate the density of bears in parts of Ontario. Killbear, and all the other sites we were looking at north of Toronto are located in the brown shaded area. Conclusion: Killbear should have the same number of bears as all the other sites so why not go there anyway!
Although we will do proper bear risk management when we camp like hide our food and clean up at night there is always a possibility there will be a bear. People do this all the time by assessing a risk based on limited information (see comments above) or emotion.
I say that if we jump to the?conclusion that bears will attack us next weekend just because people saw bears a few weeks ago, THEN THE BEARS WIN.
Assess your risks carefully and manage them accordingly.
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Source: http://sustainablebusinessforum.com/trevor-levine/61421/bear-risk-management
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1541 GMT: JUDO: Galstyan's win in the under-60g competition was an upset the top two seeds at London's ExCel centre. The fourth seed produced a stunning finale to flatten Japan's second seed Hiroaki Hiraoka just 40 seconds into the final with a sweeping, winding throw.
World champion Rishod Sobirov meanwhile won a second straight bronze medal as he beat France's Sofiane Milous while Brazilian Felipe Kitadai beat Italy's Elio Verde for the other bronze.
1536 GMT: RUSSIA'S GALSTYAN WINS MEN'S UNDER-60kg JUDO GOLD.
1533 GMT: BRAZILIAN MENEZES WINS WOMEN'S JUDO UNDER-48kg GOLD. Reigning champion Alina Dumitru of Romania takes silver.
1530 GMT: JUDO: Hungarian fighter Eva Csernoviczki bounces back from being strangled unconscious to claim an unlikely bronze medal in the women's under-48kg Olympic judo competition.
Csernoviczki was earlier rendered unconscious as she tried to resist a strangle in her quarter-final loss to Belgium's Charline van Snick.
But after a quick recovery she was given a second medal chance in the repechage. She beat China's Wu Shugen and then stunned world number one Tomoko Fukumi with a foot sweep in a sudden death golden score period to earn a podium finish.
1519 GMT: SHOOTING GOLD MEDAL: While the tense road cycling race came to an end in central London the first day of men's shooting action at London's Royal Artillery Barracks yielded a gold medal for South Korean sharpshooter Jin Jong-Oh in the Olympic men's 10m air pistol.
Italy's Luca Tesconi made a brave attempt to close a seemingly impregnable gap to Jin at one stage in the final to secure silver, 2.4 points behind the winner, while Serbia's Andrija Zlatic won bronze.
World number two Jin, 32, came into the afternoon final with a significant gap of two points over China's defending champion Pang Wei -- but Pang immediately lost ground to his Korean rival, making his task even harder.
But after looking a certainty for gold with some consistent shooting, Jin faltered, allowing Tesconi to close the gap and retain an interest in the title going into the final shot.
1509 GMT: I'm handing over to my colleague Ruth Holmes, who will let you know what else has been happening while we were all agog with the men's cycling road race! Stay tuned for events including swimming finals later today.
1506 GMT: Reigning Olympic champion Park Tae-Hwan of South Korea has regained his place in the 400m swimming freestyle.
South Korea had appealed after he was ousted for a false start after finishing first in his heat.
1505 GMT: SOUTH KOREA'S PARK TAE-HWAN REINSTATED IN SWIMMING 400M FREESTYLE
1500 GMT: A spot of background on men's cycling road race gold medallist Alexandre Vinokourov.
He returned to competitive cycling in 2010 after a two-year doping ban, having tested positive for banned substances in the 2007 Tour de France.
He has always insisted he was innocent and at the time said he'd retire from cycling, but returned to play for the Astana team.
After breaking his right femur in the 2011 Tour de France and having surgery, he said once again that he was retiring -- but is probably quite glad right now that he got back on the road.
1459 GMT: Team GB chef de mission Andy Hunt tweets: "Congratulations to Kazakhstan. @TeamGB road cycling team gave everything they had left from #tdf (Tour de France) but wasn't enough to deliver a medal today."
1455 GMT: Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan says "unbelievable" -- and repeats it several times. He won't be the only one feeling that way.
"Today's race was unbelievable, too much people, dangerous, up, down, up down... I had a good jump with Uran... Unbelievable victory," says Vinokourov, still tearful and no doubt pretty tired as well.
1450 GMT: Tears from Vinokourov after his nail-biting victory.
1449 GMT: So here we have it -- in the men's cycling road race:
Gold: Alexandre Vinokourov, Kazakhstan
Silver: Rigoberto Uran, Colombia
Bronze: Alexander Kristoff, Norway
1446 GMT: Vinokourov won the silver in Sydney in 2000 and now he's gone one better. What a moment for Kazakhstan.
1445 GMT: KAZAKHSTAN'S ALEXANDRE VINOKOUROV WINS GOLD IN MEN'S CYCLING ROAD RACE! A shock result!
1440 GMT: And we're on the Mall and into the finishing sprint. Uran looks over his shoulder and Vinokourov escapes ahead! He's got it!
1445 GMT: One kilometre to go... Uran pulling ahead again.
1443 GMT: Uran inches ahead. Only two kilometres to go.
1439 GMT: Vinokourov pulls ahead as the pair swing into Knightsbridge. For those just joining us now -- it's the concluding stages of the men's road race and we look set for a shock result...
1438 GMT: The two out front are Colombia's Rigoberto Uran and Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov. The home team fading into the distance. Less than 8km to go.
1436 GMT: "Official time gap is 56 seconds and if that is true then it's game over for Team GB," tweets British Cycling. An admission of defeat!
1435 GMT: Cancellara rides on but seems to be in pain from his injured arm.
Sympathy from many -- British ex-rower and broadcaster Matthew Pinsent tweets: " Every west London cyclist knows that corner by Kingston Gate."
1430 GMT: A crash -- at least one cyclist hits the barriers after Lars-Petter Nordhaug of Norway attacks the lead group.
It looks to have been Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara! His right arm looks injured. He's now being passed by the peloton.
A bad moment for the Olympic champion.
1424 GMT: Our cycling reporter Justin Davis says that fans waiting for a first British cycling gold of the Games are looking despondent on the finish line of The Mall after learning that those late escapees in the men's road race have taken a 53-sec lead on the British team, led by sprint king and gold favourite Mark Cavendish.
The 32-man group attacked after Britain had worked hard to reel in an earlier escape attempt by Belgian Philippe Gilbert.
With 19 km to race in the 249.5 km race the leaders have a lead of 51sec.
1423 GMT: The gap between that breakaway group and the rest is narrowing as they approach Richmond Park -- about 51 seconds now.
1422 GMT: Wayne Rooney is watching the cycling, and tweets: "These cyclists must be super fit. Come on GB".
1418 GMT: There's a 57-second gap between the leading group and the rest.
Switzerland's Michael Schar is at the front of the narrowing line.
1415 GMT: The CYCLING men's road race is getting tense.
"This is really in the balance now. GB are going to have to commit everything to bring this back now," tweets British Cycling, which is trying to win the gold for Mark Cavendish.
"28km to go. Big, powerful group of about 30 riders is 58 seconds clear of bunch. GB and Germany only countries chasing."
1411 GMT: About 300 people have been protesting over the Olympics in east London -- not against the sports, but to oppose corporate sponsorship and security measures like missiles on residential buildings, the BBC reports.
It looks like a peaceful protest, but one unlikely to have a big impact as millions of Britons turn out to watch the show.
1410 GMT: TENNIS: "Very big cheers as Roger Federer strides onto Centre Court in red," reports the official Wimbledon Twitter account.
It is only three weeks after Federer won Wimbledon for a record-equalling seventh time. Now he is favourite to win the Olympic title for Switzerland and faces Colombia's Alejandro Falla in the first round.
Women's Wimbledon champion Serena Williams has swept into the second round of the Olympic tournament with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Serbia's Jelena Jankovic.
1405 GMT JUDO: There has been a heart-stopping moment in the women's judo today -- a Hungarian fighter was actually strangled unconscious.
"Belgium's Charline van Snick strangled Hungary's Eva Csernoviski unconscious there," tweeted our reporter, judo black belt Barnaby Chesterman.
Csernoviski was trying to resist a strangle when she passed out and collapsed to the mat.
The referee immediately stopped the bout, awarding it to van Snick, and a medic was called but the Hungarian quickly recovered.
1400 GMT: ROWING: New Zealand's Hamish Bond and Eric Murray have set a new men's pairs rowing world record in the Olympic heats, smashing the mark held by Britain's Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell.
The multiple world champions timed 6min 8.50sec on the first day of competition, almost six seconds quicker than the 10-year-old record set at the 2002 world championships.
"Six seconds, wow," said Bond, after the event held at Eton Dorney to the west of London.
"It's a great confidence boost to the whole team, I mean if they can beat it by six seconds, then everything has the potential to be much closer than we thought."
The duo, who are unbeaten since teaming up in 2009, are now safely into the semi-finals.
1355 GMT: Last lap now for the cyclists! Belgians may be tempted to get excited as Philippe Gilbert opens up a significant gap on the rest of the field.
They have all just passed the top of Box Hill for the final time. Some 45km now back to the Mall in central London.
1350 GMT: CYCLING: Only an hour or so to go in the men's cycling road race, and excitement is building among the huge crowds along the route -- Britain has been struck with cycling fever since Bradley Wiggins' Tour de France triumph less than a week ago.
1345 GMT: FOOTBALL: Japan's women's footballers -- who are bidding to add Olympic gold to their last year's World cup title -- have been held to a goalless draw by Sweden in their second group match.
Both sides came into the Group F clash on the back of wins, with Japan having defeated Canada 2-1 in their opener and Sweden thrashing South Africa 4-1.
Reigning Olympic champions the United States face Colombia later today having had to come from two goals down to beat France 4-2 in their opener.
1340 GMT: Saudi commentators have hailed the inclusion of women in their Olympic team for the first time, after two female Saudi athletes appeared at last night's opening ceremony, reports our Riyadh bureau.
"The kingdom is shining with its sons and daughters in London," tweeted columnist Jamal Khashogg, while female journalist Haifa al-Zahrani said: "Finally, the Saudi team has men and women."
But others lamented the fact that the women had to walk behind the men from the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom during the opening ceremony.
"Saudi Arabia will remain in the back seat as long as its women are in the back seat," wrote activist Manal al-Sharif.
1330 GMT: CYCLING: Tour de France champion Brad Wiggins continues to play a pivotal role for British teammate Mark Cavendish in the road race as they chased down a breakaway that threatens Cavendish's bid for gold, reports AFP's Justin Davis.
With 80 km and two climbs of Box Hill remaining, Cavendish's British team have a deficit of 1:24 to a leading group of 11 riders, with another counter-attacking group stuck in between.
At the finish line on The Mall, meanwhile, fans from several countries -- some wearing masks of world champion Cavendish and brandishing flags from his native Isle of Man -- were being treated to music played by the military band from the Coldstream Guards.
1327 GMT: Australian world record-holder Stephanie Rice tweets: "So excited to be representing Australia tonight in the 400IM final. Fast swims this morning!! Thanks for the amazing support xxxx much love."
1320 GMT: SWIMMING: German world record-holder Paul Biedermann is downcast after failing to make the 400m freestyle final -- just as his nation's women's relay team was eliminated.
He mustered just the 12th-fastest time in the heats led by China's Sun Yang.
"I'm obviously disappointed and now need some time to collect myself," he said.
"It was not so good. I wanted to lead from the front, which had worked well, but I just could not hold back on to it."
1257 GMT: GYMNASTICS: Hosts Britain may be facing a challenge in the cycling today but they've unexpectedly eclipsed China in gymnastics.
As the artistic gymnastics qualifying began, China's men were below par and finished with a score of 269.985 points to Britain's 272.420.
Guo Weiyang and Zhang Chenglong both fell from the pommel horse and Guo's floor display proved unconvincing, while Britain were solid throughout, with Kristian Thomas and Daniel Purvis topping the individual all-around standings.
Great Britain aren't known for their prowess in this area -- it's the first time their men have qualified for an Olympic final since 1924.
1250 GMT: CYCLING: AFP's Justin Davis reports that a number of determined rivals are testing Britain's determination to deliver Mark Cavendish to a gold medal-winning sprint finish in the men's road race.
Britain earlier had to seek help from rivals Germany as they continued to chase down an early breakaway that built a dangerous lead of six minutes.
But on the fourth of nine climbs of Box Hill the hosts faced more problems as a 10-man counter-attacking group escaped the peloton -- so the Brits have had to redouble their efforts.
With four of the nine laps to race in the 249.5 km race the 12-man morning breakaway had a lead of two minutes on the peloton and 1min 30sec on the counter-attack group.
Here's a rundown of the counter-attackers: they are Philippe Gilbert (Belgium), Vincenzo Nibali (Italy), Gregory Rast (Switzerland), Andriy Grivko (Ukraine), Lars Boom (Netherlands), Luca Paolini (Italy), Sylvain Chavanel (France), Jack Bauer (New Zealand), Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark) and Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic).
1240 GMT: Queen Elizabeth II visits athletes from Team GB at the Olympic Park. They applaud and whistle in appreciation -- she has her normal dignified demeanour but has clearly scored a hit with her James Bond cameo in the opening ceremony.
1215 GMT: A bit of a lunchtime lull now -- though not for the cyclists, of course, with hours of the road race yet to go...
Surrey Police have tweeted a request for the wildly enthusiastic crowds to be careful to keep clear of the riders.
"You don't want to be responsible for Mark Cavendish falling off!" they point out.
1148 GMT: The swimming heats are now over, paving the way for finals this evening.
Meanwhile US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has been spotted among spectators at the Olympic Park -- let's hope he makes more friends than earlier in the week, when Britons were offended by his seeming scepticism about whether they could pull off a successful Olympics. He has since backtracked.
1143 GMT: South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, an amputee who will be running in this Olympics (as well as the Paralympics) on high-tech blades, tells British 400m runner Martyn Rooney on Twitter that the opening ceremony "was amazing bud! You Brits know how to (throw) a ceremony!"
1141 GMT: SWIMMING: Japan's Kosuke Kitajima, going for a third straight Olympic breaststroke double, is pipped by one-hundredth of a second in his opening heat of the 100 metres event.
Australian Christian Sprenger edges Kitajima with a time of 59.62 seconds, becoming the fastest qualifier heading into the semi-finals of the event later on today.
1139 GMT: There's no race radio in this cycling competition, so a heavily biased crowd is shouting to Team GB their time difference from the breakaway group at the front, in a bid to help out.
1135 GMT: Our cycling-watcher Justin Davis reports that Mark Cavendish's bid for Olympic road race gold is still on course, despite pressure on the Tour de France star's British team early in the race as the 12-man breakaway built a lead of nearly six minutes on the peloton, including Cavendish.
Thousands of fans are lining the roads of the hilly Box Hill circuit that will be raced a total of nine times before the peloton brings the 249.5 km race to a climax on flat finish of The Mall within sight of Buckingham Palace.
With 130 km remaining Cavendish's British team, helped by Germany, have a deficit of just over five minutes on the 12 leaders.
1125 GMT: Australia's Michael Rogers sets off in pursuit of the breakaway group in the cycling road race.
Countries that have riders in that group may have an advantage later on as they can help compatriots get ahead.
1120 GMT: "The Queen came to visit us just now at the village. Nice surprise:) mass hysteria in the lunch room!" tweets Indian tennis doubles contender Mahesh Bhupathi.
1115 GMT: CYCLING: A mixed-nationality group of 12 cyclists, not including any from favourites Britain, have broken away from the peloton.
The Britons, trying to help Mark Cavendish claim a home gold, now face a deficit of more than five minutes.
1100 GMT: Here's a recap of the day's main events so far:
+ Swimming legend Michael Phelps suffered a nervy start to the Games, scraping into Saturday's 400m individual medley final in eighth and last spot in his heat in a leisurely 4min 13.33sec.
+ Chinese world number one shooter Yi Siling claimed the first of the Games' 302 golds at the Royal Artillery Barracks in the women's 10m air rifle.
+ The men's 250km road race got underway, with Britain's Mark Cavendish the favourite. Stay tuned for the sprint finish around 1430 GMT.
+ Reigning Olympic champion Park Tae-Hwan of South Korea was disqualified in the 400m swimming freestyle for a false start after finishing first in his heat.
+ Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku became the Games' first doping casualty, testing positive for the banned steroid stanozolol. He has been suspended from the contest.
1059 GMT: More news from poolside, this time on the women's swimming. AFP's Rob Smith reports that American world champion Elizabeth Beisel topped the qualifiers into the women's 400m individual medley final with a best time of 4min 31.68 secs. Australia's defending Olympic champion Stephanie Rice was seventh best.
1050 GMT: SWIMMING: South Korea's Olympic and world champion Park Tae-Hwan speaks briefly to reporters from his home country after his disqualification.
Sounding stunned, he says: " I don't know what happened -- I need to speak to my coach to find out."
Hannah Miley meanwhile sends the British home crowd wild when she downs Australian defending Olympic champion Stephanie Rice in her heat of the womens 400m individual medley.
Miley clocked 4min 34.98 secs and finished a comfortable 0.78secs ahead of the Aussie.
1035 GMT: WEIGHTLIFTING: Albanian lifter Hysen Pulaku has been excluded from the Games for doping, says the International Olympic Committee.
"Hysen Pulaku, 20, tested positive on 23 July for stanozolol," their statement said.
That's a synthetic anabolic steroid that has cropped up in numerous doping cases.
1034 GMT: Yi's triumph will warm Chinese hearts, although the team has played down suggestions they may top the gold medal tally again this year.
Still in the women's 10m air rifle shooting, Malaysian mum-to-be Nur Suryani Mohamad Taibi earlier failed to make the final.
She's due to give birth in September, but said her baby's kicks hadn't distracted her.
"It's a dream come true taking part in the Olympics," said the Malaysian.
1029 GMT: A nice moment for the Chinese! Yi Siling takes gold in the women's 10m air rifle, coming in ahead of Poland's Sylwia Bogacka, who takes silver.
Another Chinese shooter, Yu Dan, takes the bronze.
1025 GMT: SHOOTING: CHINA'S YU SILING WINS FIRST GOLD OF OLYMPICS IN WOMEN'S 10M AIR RIFLE
1019 GMT: Park's disqualification leaves China's Sun Yang leading the way into the final.
Dismay from South Korean fans on Twitter (they had a much better day yesterday with their archer's world record).
"I am really depressed," tweets one fan, using the name sunskyivee.
1014 GMT: A shocking start to the opening day of swimming at the Olympics as Park Tae-Hwan is disqualified from the 400 metres freestyle.
A spokesman for swimming's governing body FINA says he was disqualified for a false start, reports Rob Smith, our man at the aquatic stadium.
1011 GMT: South Korea's Olympic and world champion Park Tae-Hwan has been sensationally disqualified after winning his heat of the 400 metres freestyle, says our reporter Rob Smith.
More on that shortly...
1010 GMT: After narrowly making it into the 400m medley final, SWIMMING superstar Michael Phelps tells reporters: "I was slower here this morning than I was four years ago, but you can't win the medal from the heats."
0955 GMT: Over at the JUDO, world champion Rishod Sobirov is in impressive form, beginning his Olympic quest in the men's under-60kg, reports our own Barnaby Chesterman -- himself a judo black belt!
The Uzbek, a bronze medallist in Beijing, dominated ex-European champion Ludwig Paischer of Austria in his opening bout, says Barnaby.
Sobirov felled the former world and Olympic finallist with a dropping shoulder throw, scoring a waza-ari half point, before finishing him off by pinning him to the mat.
His main rival, the world number two from Japan Hiroaki Hiraoka, was also in fine form as he beat Britain's Ashley McKenzie with a similar dropping shoulder throw (seoi-nage).
0950 GMT: American world champion Dana Vollmer clocked an Olympic record of 56.25 seconds in finishing the fastest heat qualifier in the women's 100 metres butterfly.
0948 GMT: British swimming medal hope Francesca Halsall got a huge roar from her home crowd when she finished second to Australian Alicia Coutts in her heat of the 100 metres butterfly, our correspondent Rob Smith reports.
0945 GMT: SWIMMING: More details now on that men's 400m individual medley heat, in which reigning Olympic champion Michael Phelps reached the final by the skin of his teeth -- nabbing the eighth and last spot.
Phelps won his heat in 4min 13.33sec, but the leisurely pace of that race saw second-place finisher Laszlo Cseh of Hungary -- a medallist at the last two Games, shut out of the final.
Japan's Kosuke Hagino led the way into the final with a time of 4:10.01, followed by South African Chad le Clos and American Ryan Lochte, who was runner-up to le Clos in the final heat.
0939 GMT: Queen Elizabeth II has arrived at the Olympic Park, while her son Prince Charles -- the heir to the throne -- was at the start of the men's cycling road race to greet the peloton with his wife Camilla earlier.
The queen is being greeted by London 2012 chief Sebastian Coe and a cheering crowd.
Her appearance in the opening ceremony last night -- acting in a spoof James Bond sequence -- was a huge hit with locals.
The 86-year-old monarch stopped short of performing her own stunts -- it's believed a double performed her parachute sequence into the Olympic stadium.
Today she's arrived, more sedately, by car. Dressed in bright blue, she's now visiting the Orbit tower on the Olympic site.
0930 GMT: Team USA's other big swimming hope, Ryan Lochte, is also into the final although he didn't win his heat, the team says on Twitter.
"Lochte and Phelps both make it into finals -- Lochte is the third seed in 4:12.35; Phelps 8th in 4:13.33," USA Swimming says.
Lochte also came in ahead of Phelps -- who has 16 career medals including 14 golds -- in the US trials.
0925 GMT: "Phelps does just enough to get his hand on the wall first in his heat," says the US swimming team's official Twitter feed.
0920 GMT: And Phelps is in the water!
Michael Phelps touched out Hungarian rival Laszlo Cseh by seven-hundredths of a second in his first swim at the London Olympics in the heats of the 400 metres individual medley, reports Rob Smith.
The 14-time Olympic gold medallist reeled in Cseh in the final freestyle lap in a leisurely time of 4 minutes 13.33 seconds.
0906 GMT: Over to the SWIMMING for a moment, and our reporter Rebecca Bryan reports a "festival of camera-phone photography" from excited spectators flooding into the Olympic venues.
"Lively crowd on the way into the Aquatics Centre this morning for the first day of swimming competition," she says.
"Countdown on for Michael Phelps!"
In the opening heat of the men's 400 metres individual medley at the Aquatic Centre, reports our sports correspondent Robert Smith, Qatari Ahmed Atari got the biggest cheer from the crowd when he trailed in a full minute behind the winner.
0902 GMT: Honks and cheers from the crowds as the men's cycling road race gets going at a steady pace.
The home favourite, Isle of Man rider Mark Cavendish, is supported by David Millar, Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Ian Stannard, the national champion.
But a host of other cyclists are plotting to stop Britain getting its dream Olympic start.
Australia's Matt Goss and Peter Sagan of Slovakia are among them, along with German sprinter Andre Greipel.
But teams like Spain and Italy will be looking to avoid a bunch sprint, while the US team is said to be looking to break the race up on Box Hill.
"Britain have an incredibly strong team, with one of the strongest (riders) in the race," said American sprint specialist Tyler Farrar ahead of today's race.
"(But) I don't think the medals have been decided just yet."
0900 GMT: And after a loud ten-second countdown by the crowd, we're off! Cyclists are speeding past Buckingham Palace, cheered on by crowds of thousands.
0856 GMT: CYCLING: The riders are massed on the Mall in central London for the start of the men's road race. A nervous moment.
0850 GMT: The BBC is reporting that almost 27 million people watched last night's opening ceremony. That's almost half the population of Britain.
But several bookmakers, who had been taking bets for the past seven years on who would light the Olympic cauldron, are now refunding them all after it was lit by seven little-known young athletes, teamed up with some of the country's top Olympians.
There had been a flurry of earlier bets on the likes of David Beckham, Steve Redgrave and Roger Bannister.
"What happened, no-one could have predicted," said Graham Sharpe, of bookmakers William Hill.
0840 GMT: If he's successful today, Mark Cavendish will succeed Spain's Samuel Sanchez to become Britain's first Olympic men's road race champion.
Among his big challengers will be Slovakian Peter Sagan, Australian Matt Goss, Belgians Philippe Gilbert and Tom Boonen, Spain's Luis Leon Sanchez, Swiss Fabian Cancellara and German Andre Greipel.
The nine stages of the circuit include a climb up Box Hill. There are glimmers of sunshine emerging through the cloud that blanketed London this morning, but the cyclists are probably hoping cooler temperatures continue.
0820 GMT: Crowds are massing outside Buckingham Palace in central London ahead of the start of the 250km men's cycling road race.
An audience of a million is expected for the race between 150 riders, culminating in a sprint finish around 1430 GMT.
"En route to the Mall... In less than 2 hours we'll be riding the Olympic Road Race," tweeted home favourite Mark Cavendish earlier, complete with a photo of anxious-looking athletes in a minibus.
0815 GMT: Some upcoming highlights for today:
+ Michael Phelps chases a 17th career medal in the 400m individual medley (swimming heats start 0900 GMT, finals 1830 GMT)
+ Mark Cavendish aims to give hosts first gold of the Games in the men's road race (starts 0900 GMT)
+ China could secure first gold of the Games when shooter Yi Siling starts as favourite in the women's 10m Air Rifle (starts 0715 GMT)
+ Roger Federer and Serena Williams start their tennis campaigns at the All England Club (starts 1030 GMT)
+ Legally blind archer Im Dong-Hyun, who set the first world record of the Olympics on Friday, targets gold (starts 0800 GMT)
0805 GMT: The first 12 gold medals of the Games are available today, with Britain's Mark Cavendish the favourite in the men's cycling road race starting at 0900 GMT.
Home fans are hoping he'll bring Britain more cycling glory after Bradley Wiggins' unprecedented Tour de France victory.
Stand by for a run-down of today's main events...
0800 GMT: Last night's opening ceremony, put together by the "Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle, seems to be getting rave reviews -- even if some parts of it met with incomprehension outside Britain.
The New York Times calls it "a wild jumble of the celebratory and the fanciful" while French sports daily L'Equipe thought it was "unusually bold, poetic and funny".
Britain's press reacted ecstatically. "Brilliant, breathtaking, bonkers and utterly British," said the Daily Telegraph this morning.
The acting debut of the 86-year-old queen, who greeted James Bond in her palace with the words "Good evening, Mr Bond," has met with special acclaim.
WELCOME TO AFP's LIVE REPORT on the first full day of action at the London 2012 Olympics, after an eccentric opening ceremony that displayed Britain's rich history, music and sense of fun, starring James Bond, David Beckham and Queen Elizabeth II.
Today's events have already begun, with shooting at the Royal Artillery Barracks from 0715 GMT. The highlight of the day is set to be the men's cycling road race, while tennis begins in Wimbledon and there's also a full programme of swimming and volleyball. We'll give you a run-down of upcoming events to look out for shortly.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/olympics-2012-live-report-075642669--oly.html
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