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Rubicon 10th Anniversary and Moab Editions join lineup.
Sport Utility Vehicles
Editor: Sam Moses
$22,195 Base Price MSRP
$35,910 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: "Jeep Wrangler Sport ($22,195), Wrangler Sahara ($27,795), Wrangler Rubicon ($30,595), Wrangler Unlimited Sport ($25,695), Wrangler Sahara ($31,295), and Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 10th Anniversary ($39,495)"
Standard Engine: 3.6-liter V6
Engine Options: 3.6-liter DOHC 24-valve V6
Standard Transmission: 5-speed automatic
Transmission Options: "5-speed automatic, 6-speed manual"
Basic Warranty: "3 years/36,000 miles"
Assembled In: "Toledo, Ohio"
Model Tested MSRP: "Jeep Wrangler Rubicon ($30,595)"
Standard Equipment: "cloth upholstery, air conditioning, power doors, cruise control, 6-speaker sound system, 115-volt power outlet, removable doors, roll-up windows, fold-down windshield, soft top, black fender flares, halogen headlamps, foglamps, tow hooks, rock rails, Tru-Lok front and rear electronic differential locking, electronic front axle locking, Heavy Duty Dana 44 front axle, 4.10 axle ratio, Rock-Trac 2-speed transfer case with 4:01 low range, BF Goodrich Mud Terrain LT255/75R17 tires on painted aluminum wheels"
Options As Tested: "leather, heated front seats ($1,100), Connectivity Group with Bluetooth ($495), Power Group ($795), black 3-piece hardtop ($895), Media Center with navigation and touch screen ($1,035)"
Standard Safety Equipment: "frontal airbags; electronic stability control with roll mitigation, hill start assist, trailer sway control, all-speed traction control, ABS with Brake assist"
Optional Safety Equipment: front side-impact airbagsDestination Charge: $995
However, the Wrangler remains the most maneuverable and trail capable vehicle from a showroom and will go places most owners don't dare drive. Or hike. If you're not used to hanging in your seatbelt like a puppet you have no idea what one can do.
Still trail capable but not so maneuverable is the Wrangler Unlimited. There are enough differences between Wrangler and Wrangler Unlimited that a mere two- or four-door reference wouldn't do it justice. The delta in wheelbase (the distance from front wheel center to rear) is similar to that between a regular cab and crew cab pickup.
Heated leather upholstery is available for Wrangler. You can swap the doors to half-size and fold down the windshield (though it's quite a chore) or power up the windows to indulge in climate control. No Jeeper ever had it quite like this.
All Wranglers are powered by Chrysler's 24-valve 3.6-liter V6, here rated at 285 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque. There's a choice of 6-speed manual or 5-speed automatic transmission. A Wrangler gets away from a stop with no problem but falls off the acceleration curve as it runs into aerodynamic resistance at highway speeds.
But if you buy a Wrangler for highway cruising you missed the point. Indeed, they will travel the Interstate with a modicum of comfort and civility but that's not what they're built for. Wranglers are better suited to all-weather urban runabouts, those living on a beach or off the grid or beaten path, or for those whose idea of a freeway is a fast section of dry wash or graded dirt run in 2WD. You can also use a Wrangler as a dinghy to tow behind your motorhome.
The soft top that comes standard slides and folds horizontally on the roof, leaving the occupants further protected by door and window frames, although there's already a rollbar. The removable hardtop comes off in three pieces, a pair of T-tops with a sunroof over the rear seat. With T-tops removed, at 65 mph the buffeting grates on you; but with the top on, it feels smooth at 75 and beyond.
In the popular two-door Wrangler there's very little storage space behind the rear seat, so four people with four medium backpacks is filled to overflowing. You wouldn't do any better with four people and luggage in a Mini, which is only 5 inches shorter. But if it's just you and some stuff, the rear seat can be removed, creating a spacious 61.2 cubic feet of cargo space; that's the configuration we prefer. Less likely, the rear seat can be remove from the four-door Wrangler Unlimited, making 87 cubic feet.
Wranglers are available with all the electronic trimmings, including a touch-screen navigation, but sunlight plays havoc with display readability and on a trail you're moving around too much to touch things accurately. At least the USB port means music without discs or tapes getting dusty.
We've driven Rubicons on their namesake trail, Oregon's Tillamook Forest, Michigan dunes and all the best (worst) stuff Moab has to offer, in far more comfort than Wranglers of old. If you don't want to build your own Jeep for trail use try a Rubicon. The Jeep warranty is probably better than your local 4x4 shop.
Wrangler is not built for gas-mileage. Typically it averages in the teens and doesn't change much between daily driving and long highway runs.
The current-generation Wrangler was introduced as a 2007 model. 2011 brought a refined interior. The 2013 Wrangler gets an improved soft top but carries over largely unchanged. Also new for 2013 is a Badge of Honor program in which you earn famous-trail badges (Rubicon, Hell's Revenge, etc.) by completing them.
Wrangler has little direct competition. A Mercedes G-Class has off-highway ability of an Unlimited, more luxurious cabin and costs three times as much. You might also argue a Power Wagon and Raptor as Unlimited challengers. For factory trail vehicles the only things approaching a Wrangler are Toyota's FJ Cruiser and 4Runner, Nissan's Xterra or a 15-year-old Land Rover Defender 90."
"The 2013 Jeep Wrangler two-door and Wrangler Unlimited four-door each come in multiple trim levels: Sport, Sport S, Sahara, Rubicon and assorted special editions. They all use the award-winning Chrysler 3.6-liter Pentastar V6, making 285 horsepower. All Wranglers come standard with four-wheel drive and 6-speed manual transmission, with 5-speed automatic available.
The Freedom Top, a three-piece modular hard top, is available for all models. The Wrangler Sport is available in right-hand drive for rural mail carriers. We don't find ourselves saying that in many reviews.
Wrangler Sport ($22,195) comes with cloth upholstery, Uconnect AM/FM/CD/MP3 six-speaker sound system, Sunrider soft top, removable doors, roll-up windows, fold-down windshield, folding rear seat, black fender flares, halogen headlamps, fog lamps, swing-back mirrors, tow hooks, part-time 2-speed transfer case, skid plates, and Goodyear Wrangler P225/75R16 tires on steel wheels with matching full-size spare. No air conditioning, power windows, cruise control, 115-volt power outlet, or side steps.
Wrangler Sport S ($24,495) adds some conveniences to Sport, including air conditioning, Sentry key, dark tint windows and 255/75R17 tires on aluminum wheels. The Freedom special edition ($27,995) adds to Sport S cloth/leather seats, power convenience group, Bluetooth, USB and some other minor accessories.
Wrangler Sahara ($27,795) adds keyless entry, power windows and door locks, 115-volt power outlet, cruise control, Alpine sound system with XM radio, body color fender flares, security system, upgraded suspension and Sunrider top, tubular side steps, heated power mirrors and P255/70R18 tires on painted aluminum wheels.
Wrangler Rubicon ($30,595) prioritizes trail use over luxury. It has most of the standard Sahara comfort and convenience things (though power windows and keyless entry become optional), while adding rock rails, front and rear locking differentials, Dana 44 front axle, disconnecting front stabilizer bar, 4.10:1 axle ratio (manual), Rock-Trac transfer case with 4:1 low range, and BF Goodrich Mud-Terrain LT255/75R17 tires on painted aluminum wheels.
The Moab edition ($32,995) includes graphics, Mopar bumpers (winch-capable front) and rock rails, a limited-slip rear differential (locking differential optional), upgraded soft top, heated front seats, leather and 245/75R17 all-terrain tires.
The Rubicon 10th Anniversary edition ($35,995) combines power conveniences, red-stitched leather upholstery, heated seats and multifunction display with Rubicon running gear. It also gets steel front winch-mount bumper with removable end pieces, steel rear bumper and tire carrier, heat extractor power dome hood, rock rails, red tow hooks and the largest tires on any Wrangler, aggressive LT265/70R17E on unique wheels.
Wrangler Unlimited four-doors are configured similarly, not identically, to the two-door.
Wrangler Unlimited Sport ($25,695) has removable doors, roll-up windows, black fender flares, halogen headlamps, foglamps, soft top, air conditioning, 60/40 split rear seat and cruise control.
Wrangler Unlimited S ($28,195) and Freedom ($31,295) special editions parallel the two-door versions.
Wrangler Unlimited Sahara ($31,295) adds body color fender flares, power heated mirrors, tubular side steps, remote keyless entry, power windows and door locks, XM radio, upgraded sound system, cruise control, leather-wrapped steering wheel, 115-volt outlet, and 18-inch painted aluminum wheels.
Wrangler Unlimited Moab ($36,495) gets the same improvements as the two door. Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon ($34,095) comes with the same extra offroad equipment as the two-door Rubicon, plus all the power equipment of the Sahara. The fully loaded Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 10th Anniversary ($39,495) is equipped similarly to the two-door.
Optional on all Wranglers: automatic transmission, trailer tow, stereo and navigation upgrades on upper trims, front side-impact airbags, Uconnect voice command with Bluetooth, smokers' pack and a Freedom Top three-piece hard top in black or color-matched. Some offer automatic climate control, leather, remote start and cosmetic upgrades.
Safety equipment on all models includes electronic stability control with roll mitigation, hill start assist, trailer sway control, all-speed traction control, ABS with brake assist and dual frontal airbags."
Walk Around
"The 2013 Wrangler looks like a Jeep, and when that can't be said, it's time to worry. It may be the most recognizable vehicle in the world. Even the Unlimited four-door, whether hard top or soft top looks like a Jeep. Round headlamps, seven-slot grille, separate fenders, removable doors (half-doors are optional), and fold-down windshield are all proven Jeep cues. However, if you look for the flat panels of earlier Wranglers and CJs you won't find any; every piece of sheetmetal, and the windshield are slightly curved here. Meanwhile, the Wrangler Unlimited is the only four-door 4x4 convertible on the market.
The soft top slides and folds horizontally on the roof, leaving the occupants further protected by door and window frames, although there's already a rollbar. For 2013, the soft-top is easier to lift, though still more work than any convertible car, and some versions have a premium soft-top that borders on a headliner.
The hardtop is optional (price dependent on finish); it comes off in three pieces, like a pair of T-tops in front and a sunroof over the rear seat. We spent a summer day on Jeep trails in the Northwest in a Wrangler Rubicon with all three parts removed, and it was fabulous.
The soft top remains the sportiest in appearance and isn't much louder on the highway. We think the hard top is better for urban warriors, hunters, fishermen or other outdoorsmen because it provides better security for your outdoor gear in shopping center parking lots against thieves and better security for your food in camp against bears. Can't decide? Want both? The Dual Top option allows buyers to get both. We'd likely spring for Dual Top.
Paint colors include bright Crush Orange, Gecko Green and Rock Lobster Red, alongside more traditional colors for those who want to blend into the environment, whether suburban or bucolic.
If you like some of the body accessories fitted to the special edition models, many of those bits are available from Mopar, Chrysler's in-house parts division. They won't be cheap compared to the aftermarket, but the fit is guaranteed, there are no warranty issues, and your dealer might mix it in with your deal.
New for 2013 is a Badge of Honor program in which you earn famous-trail badges (Rubicon, Hell's Revenge, etc.) by completing them. We had some issues with an early app because, among other things, many of these trails are nowhere near cell service."
"The Wrangler interior was upgraded with new seats and better ergonomics for 2011. Who expects heated leather seats in a topless Jeep? On the other hand, they are easy to wipe off, and staying warm with the top down in the Rockies on a cool, sunny day is not the worst idea.
We lived in a hardtop Wrangler for a week and it was all good, comfort-wise. With the top off there was a lot of wind buffeting in the back seat, but aside from that the Wrangler is more comfortable than my Jetta,"" said our passenger, riding shotgun on rocky trails for a day.
We've driven a Wrangler Unlimited Sahara. It's roomy and comfortable and, even with leather, still every bit a Jeep. Good rear legroom, easy to climb in and out. The rear 60/40 seat folds or can be removed to create 87 cubic feet of cargo space, comparable to a Toyota 4Runner.
The center console makes a good armrest, though its height means you have to raise your elbow when using the shift lever. Power window switches are centered in the dash between omni-directional vents. Other controls are grouped around the radio or touchscreen entertainment head, on the stalks, steering wheel spokes, and ahead of the shifter. Bouncing around with your hand on the shifter is not only discouraged for the transmission, you readily get bumped into the switches, and hazard flashers look silly on the trail.
There's very little storage space behind the Wrangler's rear seat, so four people with four medium backpacks is filled to overflowing. But if it's just you and some stuff, the rear seat can be removed, creating a spacious 61.2 cubic feet of cargo space.
The Media Center options have their downsides, and if you go offroad or take the top down much, you won't like them. The touch screen is invisible in the sun. In a bouncing Jeep it's not easy to land your finger where you want it, even trying to tune the radio. A Jeep needs knobs you can grab. The 6.5-inch screen is reasonably large, but with some functions less than half of the screen is used, tiny little radio words, the other 60 percent says JEEP.
The navigation system in the Media Center is fairly simple in its display. It didn't make any errors on the routes we programmed, although finding the button to enter a destination was maddening. We suggest you skip the Media Center, be satisfied with six speakers in the standard sound system, and get your own GPS for navigation. It's a Jeep-like choice."""
Driving Impressions
"We got opportunities to gather driving impressions in a number of Wranglers, from the Unlimited in SUV-like surroundings, to the Rubicon on rock-climbing trails, and the Sport on fast backroad two-lanes at night.
The Wrangler Unlimited Sahara, ours resplendent in rich brown with dark leather, is almost astonishingly smooth and quiet, totally civilized, thanks hugely to the 3.6-liter V6 engine. The 5-speed automatic is well-behaved, and doesn't hunt for gears; it uses the gear it's in. It was designed for use with Chrysler's 5.7-liter Hemi engine, now refined for the Pentastar V6, but still Jeep-like industrial strength. Most Wrangler Unlimiteds can tow 3500 pounds, others are rated to tow 2000 are are the two-door Wranglers.
The Unlimited corners well, and head sway on weaving roads is light. You can only do so much with a solid axle and tall body, countered by a stability and vertical climbing friendly long wheelbase like that of a short-bed, regular cab full-size pickup.
The Unlimited's 116-inch wheelbase is 10 inches more than a Nissan Xterra. What's good on the highway is not the best for maneuverability and the Unlimited doesn't turn nearly as well as a Wrangler. It also drags high points earlier, the Unlimited's breakover angle no better than a Land Rover LR2 cute ute. The twitchy handling that lingers in the Wrangler because of its short 95-inch wheelbase is not present in the Wrangler Unlimited. The first pleasant surprise of the Unlimited: it doesn't feel like a Jeep.
With 285 horsepower you think a Wrangler should feel more powerful, and accelerate faster. We ran a lot of high-speed two-lane miles, and our Wrangler had to work, using momentum to pass. Weight and aerodynamic resistance take their toll, and with a Rubicon four-door heavier than a 470-hp Dodge Charger and sleek as a phone book, acceleration rates quickly fall off as speed increases. Most mud- and all-terrain tires aren't designed for West Texas or Montana speeds, either.
For serious trail adventures the Rubicons are ideal, but we got a Moab Unlimited through Elephant Hill (rated 5 on a 1-10 scale) on street tire pressure with no issues. As things get nastier in a Rubicon you push a button to disconnect the splined front stabilizer to allow more lateral articulation at the wheels. If it gets worse, press another button to lock the rear differential, and if gets harder still, lock the front differential as well.
In many low-speed trails the best technique is to take your feet off the pedals and just steer. At idle in Low Range, a Rubicon powers up and over obstacles that would totally stop most vehicles; even though torque peaks up at 4800 rpm, it plugs along like a tractor. This is because of the Rubicon's unique transfer-case low-range gearing of 4:1. With a manual transmission in first gear the overall gear reduction is 73:1 (53.6:1 automatic), as opposed to 10:1-12:1 in the average car, for maximum torque at baby-crawling speeds.
Our Rubicon scarcely broke a sweat over rocky trails that would turn back all but the ruggedest and hardest-climbing of vehicles. We ran support for a 50k trail run in the Columbia River Gorge, over two 3500-foot peaks in Washington's Cascades, and it was a hard 12-hour day. In my old Jeep, I would have been in misery, dying to get out,"" said our navigator. ""But I could ride all day in this Jeep.""
On the highway at 70 mph the Wrangler can be a bit twitchy. Hopping out of an Unlimited as we did where the twitchiness is absent, the twitch in the short-wheelbase Wrangler is heightened. But as soon the driver adjusts, the turns and corrections come more smoothly. When the Wrangler is pointed straight and steady, it stays that way. Much of this is relative to tires and pressure; a 10th Anniversary's E-rated tires would work on a 3/4-ton pickup truck.
There's a big difference in how stable the Wrangler feels with the top on and off, but little change in actual stability. With T-tops removed, at 65 mph it beats you up; but with the top on it feels smooth at 75 and beyond.
Keep in mind that the Sport, Sahara and Rubicon models have different tires, shock absorbers, and gearing and this changes their character significantly. On the highway or the trail. Choose your Wrangler for the type of driving you'll be doing.
The Wrangler is no gas-mileage champ. Wrangler is EPA-estimated at 17/21 mpg City/Highway; Unlimited is rated 16/20 mpg. Expect teens on the pavement and down below 5 mpg on the trail or sand dunes. Our Unlimited did 18 mpg on mostly pavement, a Rubicon 10th Anniversary was averaging 11 mpg over a 70-mile pavement drive and 9 hours on the trail. Of course, fuel economy on the trail will be poor in any car.
The 6-speed manual transmission, German-made, isn't as easy to drive as the 5-speed automatic, American-made. The 6-speed has relatively long clutch and shift travel for a car but typical for a truck. Your driving style will affect economy far more than choice of transmission, but the manual is less-expensive and has a far superior crawl ratio for trail use."""
"The Jeep Wrangler is surprisingly smooth and sophisticated, given its amazing off-road capability. Wrangler Unlimited delivers a smooth ride and secure handling. Soft top is sporty, hard top is practical; we like both. We recommend the Unlimited for families; off-road capability is nearly the same. Singles and couples might want to go for the traditional two-door, however.
Sam Moses filed this report to NewCarTestDrive.com after his test drives of several Wrangler models in the Pacific Northwest."
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Community starts drive to help with Christmas
Flanked by supportive friends, Vanessa Colbert shared a tragic story. It led back to Elmo Staples, 84.
Colbert was Staples' caretaker, but in August 2011, his oldest daughter, Sharon, was killed in a robbery. Sharon's son witnessed the crime.
"They were just trying to take her purse, and they shot her," the son said. "She didn't let her purse go, and then they shot her, and I ran."
With Colbert's help, Staples was able to take in six of his daughter's seven children.
"Me and him both went through the classes and got foster licensed to keep the kids together," Colbert said. "His main thing was he didn't want them to grow up separate, not knowing where each other was."
Last week, Staples died suddenly of an asthma attack.
"It's been pretty rough on them, and a couple of them, they never really got over it, and then this happened," Colbert said. "It's a bitter pill. The main two people that was in their life that they could depend on, both of them (are) gone now."
The community has rallied around the family and started a drive to help with Christmas.
"There's a fear the kids might split up at the end of the year," Peace for Change Alliance representative Tracey Dent said.
But Colbert won't let that happen and made a promise to Staples.
"He always asked me to keep them together, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to keep them together," Colbert said. "This was put in my lap for a reason. I don't know the reason, but I'm just going to take it and do what I got to do with it."
Colbert is set to adopt the four oldest children in January, and she's also in the process of adopting the younger two. The seventh child lives with his father in Minnesota.
To help with the Christmas drive, contact the Peace for Change Alliance at 217-766-4568. Donations can be dropped off at Wellspring of Milwaukee at 9359 West Fond Du Lac Ave.
All of the toys will be going directly to Toys for Tots and then to children in need.

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We are not in the middle of no where. Bates offers shuttles during weekends that take you around the surrounding community (mall, movie, theater, roller rink, walmart, etc.) Also the shuttle takes you to bigger malls. Every Thursday night an artist comes in an performs. They are actually pretty good! Batesies enjoy working out for fun.Read More
The Student Activities Office provides shuttles in and out of the surrounding cities, Lewiston and Auburn and bigger trips on the weekend. Including the famous Freeport (home of LL Bean) and Portland, for a few examples. There are also plenty of outing club activities for those with the outdoorsy gene in them. Skiing during the winter is also popular. Also, many Batesies enjoy each other's company during the weekend, taking some time away from the books. There are also themed dances every month put on by the Student Activities Center. The multiplicities of clubs also leave no person bored here at Bates. Not to mention concerts, this year K'naan performed.Read More
Join clubs, a sport, and attend the event planned by school.Read More
There are always dances during the weekends or excursions put on by the student activities committee that give the students something to do. I have never had a dull weekend without something to do.Read More
Bates does a fantastic job of bringing entertainment to campus. Every Thursday night there is something called The Village Club Series, where either a solo or duo performer comes to play. Always free chai and cookies. There are also many movie and cultural nights.Read More
There is always a play, movie, performance, or dance that is happening during the weekends. And if that doesn't interest you, there is always a party going on somewhere!Read More
Ski, hike, play sports, go to the gym, intramural sports, a capella concerts, go to freeport, portland or the ocean, go to range pond.Read More
Go to a trip with the Outing Club, go watch a well known guest lecture/give a speech, go to one of the movie screenings, go to football game, go watch a dance performance, go listen to the acapella groups, go to one of the dances (Halloween, Glow, 80's, 90's, etc) or go chill at the campus coffee house. Always something to do, just look for it.Read More
Go on hikes with the Outing Club, or go on ski trips organized by the Student Activities Office. Go to the Art Walk in Old Port, Portland, ME during First Friday. Attend a lecture by a visiting professor. Go and take a study break and listen to one of the acapella groups. The opportunities for fun are endless!Read More


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Stackpole Quay, tucked under the South Pembroleshire cliffs between Stackpole Head and Greenala Point, was built in Georgian times by the wealthy, land-owning Cawdor family as part of a major landscaping project.
The ambitious scheme included not only a new mansion at Stackpole Court, but the damming of rivers to create 100-acres of lakes on the 15,000-acre estate and to landscape the beach at Broad Haven South. Ornate bridges, including an elegant eight-arched structure, were erected crossing the lakes and in the man-made estuary meandering down to the beach they created the spectacular Bosherston Lily ponds, a popular tourist attraction.
The Cawdors not only owned a large area of the South Pembrokeshire peninsula, but had extensive lands at Gold Grove, near llandeilo, and and even bigger estate In Nairnshire, Scotland, ruled over by The Thane of Cawdor, who features in Macbeth. The family retain the ancient title to this day, although they left Stackpole soon after World War Two, demolishing Stackpole Court in 1967 to lessen estate duties. Just before the war a large swathe of their highly productive corn land was requisitioned as an Army training area, which is still active today as The Castlemartin Tank Range where troops of all nationalities train for war. For nearly 40 years it was the regular training area of West German Panzer troops, who integrated well into the community of Pembroke and Pembroke Dock, many marrying local women. In 1976 all the coastlands and lakes were transferred into the ownership of the National Trust under their Enterprise Neptune initiative, and the multi-faceted Outdoor Learning Centre they have created there provides a variety of activities of all kinds, both cultural and tourist-orientated. It has a theatre, conference facilities and licensed bar.
Stackpole Quay was built to accommodate the Cawdor family's love of sailing, as well as to serve the coastal trade in limestone and other commodities. There is a carpark there to serve visitors to the nearby beaches of Broad Haven South and Barafundle, and a charge is made during the tourist season.
The Cawdors berthed their favourite yacht Speedwitch there and there are many entries in the family diaries of their sailing exploits in the late 18th century. Lord Cawdor was a prolific diarist and his carriage drives in the park with his wife "Car" are frequently mentioned. For those interested in church architecture and history the quay is a good place to park to visit the local churches of Stackpole Elidor, dedicated to St James and St Elidyr and St Petrox, to both of which the Cawdors contributed generously in terms of restoration and repair in the mid 18th century. A later mamber of th family also acted with great generosity in 1851, engaging the top London architect Sir George Gilbert Scott in extensive renovations. Stackpole Quay is an ideal parking place for the exploration of the coast and the Cawdor lakes, where lucky visitors can spot kingfishers, herons, mute swans and even the elusive otter. Fulmar colonies proliferate on the coast while shags, razorbills and house martins breed on the cliffs and stacks.


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The Lord is moving among us at Bethlehem to stir up a heart for people without Christ. For many of us new ventures in evangelism are in the offing. New power and new boldness are coming to many.
The Lord is moving among us at Bethlehem to stir up a heart for people without Christ. For many of us new ventures in evangelism are in the offing. New power and new boldness are coming to many.
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By John Piper About The Gospel
Part of the series The Great Invitation: A Sermon Series on Isaiah 55
Isaiah 55:1-3
The Lord is moving among us at Bethlehem to stir up a heart for people without Christ. For many of us new ventures in evangelism are in the offing. New power and new boldness are coming to many.
As I returned from vacation, I was eager to stoke this fire with the Word. I was eager to get into the Old Testament for a while. And I was eager to do some continuous exposition of a longer passage of Scripture. I believe the Lord led me to Isaiah 55 to satisfy all these goals.
I'm calling the series The Great Invitation.
God Is a Very Inviting God
And what I want us to see in this first message based on verses 1–3 is that God is a very inviting God.
The word inviting has two meanings doesn't it? You can say, This spot is inviting. And you mean that it is pleasant and attractive and that you feel drawn to come here.
Or you can say, Tom is inviting us to come to his house on Thursday. And you mean that something special is happening and he says he wants us to come.
The great and wonderful thing about God is that he is inviting in both these ways. No text in the Bible shows this more vividly than Isaiah 55:1–3.
The Work of Redemption Foreseen in Isaiah
Let me put it in context for you. Back in Chapter 53 Isaiah described in amazing detail 700 years ahead of time how Christ would come and suffer and bear the sins of God's people and die in our place and rise again. Look at 53:4–6,
Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that made us whole,
and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
There is the great substitution. Christ in our place, taking our sins on himself.
Now look at his death in verse 8,
By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation,
who considered that he was cut off
out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
So he died not for his own sin but for the sin of his people—the people who trust him and follow him.
Then look at his resurrection in verse 12,
Therefore I [God the Father] will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out his soul to death,
and was numbered with the transgressors;
So death was not the end of Christ. He bore the sins of many. But God then honored him with the spoils of victory over death and sin. He is now alive and reigning in heaven till he comes again.
So in Chapter 53 we can say that the prophet Isaiah sees the work of redemption as accomplished in the death and resurrection of Christ 700 years in the future.
Great Blessings as a Result of Redemption
Then in Chapter 54 Isaiah foresees some of the great blessings that will come to God's people because the Messiah has overcome the problem of their guilt and sin (described in Chapter 53). Let me just show you one of these that will lead us to our Great Invitation in Chapter 55.
On Wednesday, May 31, 1792, William Carey, about to become the father of modern missions preached a sermon to his fellow Baptist pastors from Isaiah 54:2–3. He argued that this text is a great missionary text and that the point of it is that God wills for his people to expand until all the peoples of the world are included.
Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; hold not back, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.
In other words, one of the great blessings that would come to the people of God because of Christ's death and resurrection is that all the nations would be touched. Christ's redemption is not just for Jews. It's not just for us. It is for all the nations.
And this leads us then to The Great Invitation in Isaiah 55. If redemption is accomplished, and God's will is that the blessings of this redemptions spread to all the nations, then it does not surprise that God comes forward with a Great Invitation not just for a few, and not just for those who can pay their way, but for everyone.
Three Questions About Isaiah 55:1–3
Let's look at Chapter 55:1–3 and ask three questions:
1. Who are invited?
2. What are they offered?
3. What are they told to do in order to get it?
1. Who Are invited?
The answer is, two kinds of people. The first kind is described in verse 1: "Ho every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money come buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without price."
The Thirsty and Broke
The first kind of person that God invites to come to him is thirsty people who can't pay for what they need. Two things: thirsty, and can't pay.
So let me say a word to those of you in this category. You have come this morning with thirst in your heart. Your heart feels like the brown grass in my back yard. It hasn't rained for a long time. A lot of old hopes have dried up. Dreams have waited and almost died. Dead end streets again and again. Empty. Unfulfilled. Dissatisfied. Knowing there has to be something more to life.
But now everything that looks good is out of reach. No money. No strength. No motivation. But at least a longing. A thirst.
And the Lord says, your just the candidate I am after: "Ho everyone who thirsts and has no money—no resources, no bargaining position, no track record, no power, no prestige, no pull. God is inviting you this morning to enjoy the banquet of salvation.
The Self-Sufficient
But there is a second kind of person whom God invites. And I'm glad, because I think that the rest of you who don't feel like you are in that category will fit into this one if you are honest. This kind of person is described in verse 2.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
In verse 1 God said, "He who has no money come!" In verse 2 he talks to someone who has money, who has the strength to labor. The first kind of person is spiritually bankrupt and knows it. They are thirsty and broke. But the second kind of person isn't there yet. He's got money and he is spending it. He's got strength and he is laboring.
But what's the result? Frustration. He's not like the other guy—burnt out, at the end of his rope. He is still spending and still working, dreaming, chasing, searching, experimenting—different job, different city, different car, different house, different wife, new computer, new boat, new books, new bike, new grill, new season tickets, new diet, new looks—there's still a lot of looking around left in this person. But still no pot at the end of the rainbow. No fountain of youth. And every triumph peters out. The applause fades. The boat is boring. The style passes. Everything new gets old and the options get fewer and fewer.
When you are honest, you know there is a canyon of need and longing on the inside no matter how self-sufficient you look on the outside. And God knows even better than you. He has you in mind when he says, "Why do you spend your money for bread which is no-bread, and labor for dreams that do not satisfy?
So two kinds of people are invited by the Lord: the thirsty who are broke and cannot pay; and the thirsty who think they can pay and work their way to satisfaction.
I think everybody in this room would have to admit to being in one of those two groups if we were honest with ourselves.
2. What Are We Offered?
The answer is given in three steps:
1. the benefits are pictured for us in verse 1,
2. the quality and quantity of these benefits are mentioned in verse 2,
3. and the reality behind the pictures is described in verse 3.
The Benefits
In verse 1 we are offered water, wine, and milk. "Ho every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price."
Don't these three beverages correspond to deep needs that every one of us has?
Water corresponds to the need for refreshment. When you are most thirsty and most desperate, most dehydrated, it's water that you want and nothing else. "He leads me beside still waters, he restores [refreshes] my soul." God invites you this morning to receive refreshment, restoration, reviving, a new beginning.
Milk corresponds to the need for ongoing nourishment. When someone is gasping for life, you give them water. But when you want a little baby to grow day after day, you give it milk again and again. God is not just for emergencies and mountain peaks. He is for health in the long haul. He invites you not only to come alive with water, but also to be stable and strong with milk.
Wine corresponds to the need for exhilaration. We want to live and not die. We want to be strong and stable instead of weak and wavering. But that is not all we need in life. No matter how stoic, unemotional, phlegmatic, laid-back, or poker-faced we may seem to others, there is a child inside of every one of us that God made for exhilaration—for shouting and singing and dancing and playing and skipping and running and jumping and laughing.
So what verse 1 says is that God is willing to revive us from the heat of Death Valley with the miracle of his water; and make us strong and healthy and stable with the miracle of his milk; and then give us endless and ever-fresh exhilaration with the miracle of his wine.
The Quality and Quantity of the Benefits
The last part of verse 2 describes the quality and quantity of these benefits of water, milk, and wine. It says, "Hearken diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness." The word "good" means that what God offers is top quality; it's the best there is. And the word "fatness" means there is a lot of it (Psalm 65:11; 36:8). The water is good and it's plentiful. The milk is good and it's plentiful. The wine is good and it's plentiful. The Bible loves to talk about the riches of God's glory and the fullness of joy at his right hand. He gives what is best and it never runs out. "Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life" (John 4:14).
The Reality Behind the Imagery
Then in verse 3 God tells us what the reality is behind all this imagery. "Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you and everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David."
In verse 1 he said, "Come to the waters . . . come for wine and milk." In verse 3 he explains, "Come to me." God is our living water. God is our nourishing milk. God is our exhilarating wine. "Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart my portion for ever" (Psalm 73:25–26; 42:1–2; 63:1–3).
But we can even be more specific. He goes on to say in verse 3 that when we come to him, he makes a covenant with us. What kind of covenant? The same kind of covenant that he made with King David in 2 Samuel 7—a covenant of "steadfast, sure love." This means that when you come to God, he binds himself by an unbreakable oath to pursue you with goodness and mercy all your days right into eternity—with ever-refreshing water, and ever-strengthening milk, and ever-exhilarating wine, forever and ever!
Which brings us to a final practical question . . .
3. What Are We Told to Do to Get These Benefits?
There are 12 imperatives in these three verses. The most pleasant, most inviting, 12 commandments you will ever hear. I'll point them out as we read it together.
1) Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters[#1]; and he who has no money, come [#2], buy [#3] and eat [#4]! Come [#5], buy wine and milk [#6] without money and without price. 2) Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me [#7] and eat what is good [#8], and delight yourselves in fatness [#9]. 3) Incline your ear [#10], and come to me [#11]; hear [#12] that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
When you ponder these 12 commandments for a moment, they fall into a natural pattern. First there are three commands to listen carefully to what God is saying (one in verse 2 and two in verse 3). So I urge you, as we close, take heed how you hear. Are you leaning into God's Word? God pleads this morning: don't let the advertisements for the world drown out this invitation to heaven!
Then all the rest of the God's bidding fall into four steps:
1. Come,
2. buy,
3. eat,
4. enjoy.
And this is what the Bible means by faith.
Remember: in verse 1 he says, "Come to the waters," but in verse 3 he says, "Come to me." God himself is the water and the milk and the wine.
A Closing Exhortation
Everybody in this room is somewhere in these four steps. And I call you to take another one this morning.
1. If you are distant from God, you need to come, draw near.
2. If you have drawn near in recent days or just this morning, but hold back from any transaction analyzing and appraising, you need to buy. I admit it is a strange transaction: there is no price and you are spiritually bankrupt. But you must take this water and milk and wine, and count it yours just as much as if you had bought it, for there is one who has bought it.
3. If you have made the transaction and hold the water and milk and wine in your hand, you need to eat. God is not a thing to be studied. He is a person to be experienced. He is food and life and joy for the soul.
4. Finally, if you have eaten, delight yourself in the Lord. And say with the psalmist, "Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore."


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Skip to comments.Alabama Men Arrested on Terrorism Charges
Posted on 12/11/2012 6:39:50 PM PST by Cindy
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Alabama Men Arrested on Terrorism Charges
U.S. Attorneys Office December 11, 2012 Southern District of Alabama
MOBILE, ALU.S. Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama and Stephen E. Richardson, Special Agent in Charge of the Mobile Division of the FBI, announced that Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abukhdair, 25, and Randy Wilson, also known as Rasheed Wilson, 25, both U.S. citizens living in Mobile, were arrested today on terrorism charges filed in the Southern District of Alabama.
A criminal complaint signed on December 10, 2012, charges Abukhdair and Wilson with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, knowing or intending that it be used in preparation for, or in carrying out a conspiracy to kill persons or damage property outside the United States. The complaint also charges Abukhdair with passport fraud. According to the complaint, the charges stem from Wilson and Abukhdairs conspiracy to travel from the United States to Mauritania intending to prepare to wage violent jihad.
Abukhdair and Wilson were the subjects of an investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the Mobile Division of the FBI. Wilson was arrested this morning in Atlanta attempting to board a flight that would ultimately take him to Morocco. Abukhdair was arrested in Augusta, Georgia, at a bus terminal. According to the complaint, Abukhdair was scheduled to fly to Morocco from outside the United States on December 13, 2012.
The complaint alleges that Wilson and Abukhdair met online in 2010. On August 27, 2011, an FBI undercover employee met Wilson, and Wilson told the FBI employee that he and Abukhdair had formulated a plan to travel together overseas for the purpose of waging violent jihad prior to Wilson meeting the FBI employee, according to the complaint. In preparation for their travel, Abukhdair applied for a new passport and falsely claimed that his previous passport had been misplaced, according to the complaint.
In fact, the complaint alleges, Abukhdair was concerned that Egyptian stamps in his passport might raise suspicions and impede his travel plans.
The complaint further alleges that in July 2012, Wilson and Abukhdair also began meeting with a confidential source working for the FBI, and that Wilson and Abukhdair brought the source into their plans to travel overseas to wage violent jihad. According to the complaint, Abukhdair and Wilson planned to travel to Casablanca, Morocco, and from there to Mauritania, where they expected to be in a position to wage violent jihad in a nearby country or conflict. U.S. Attorney Brown stated, The top priority of the Department of Justice nationally, and the U.S. Attorneys Office locally, is to deter, disrupt, and prevent acts of terrorism. We will continue to defend our nation against anyone who seeks to harm us by investigating and prosecuting national and international terrorist plots. The law enforcement actions of today should send a clear warning to those who would consider engaging in violent jihad, either at home or abroad, that their future is bleak: they may end up in a U.S. prison cell or a casualty on a foreign battlefield. This case should also generally serve as a reminder to all Americans to remain vigilant against terror threats. Thanks to the excellent work of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, any threat posed by these individuals has been prevented.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Richardson stated: The efforts of the FBIs Joint Terrorism Task Force in this investigation represent our unwavering commitment to protect the United States against terrorist attacks domestically and abroad. Our resolve to protect our family, friends, neighbors, and community ensures that we work diligently using every resource available to identify, disrupt, and dismantle extremists who desire to do us harm.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force of the Mobile Division of the FBI conducted the investigation and presented the case for prosecution to the U.S. Attorneys Office. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christopher Bodnar and Sean P. Costello and Trial Attorneys Clement McGovern and Annamartine Salick of the Department of Justices Counterterrorism Section are handling the prosecution of the case on behalf of the United States.
A complaint is a determination by a U.S. Magistrate Judge that there is probable cause to believe that offenses have been committed by a defendant. A defendant, of course, is presumed innocent until and unless he or she is proven guilty at trial.
Oh those good ole Alabama boys! Just joshing around.
Put them in a cell with that other good ole Alabama boy, Bubba and his brother, Big Bubba.
As Ving Rhames might have said in "Pulp Fiction", I'm gonna go jihad on your ass.
That Mohammad "bubba" Abdul Rahman Abukhdair, is a badddd dude.
Well ok, ya got em now terminate with extreme prejudice.
Document - Criminal Complaint - Copy - pdf:
For The Record - The IPT Blog
"Alabama Men Charged With Seeking Jihad Abroad"
by Abha Shankar
Dec 11, 2012 at 6:27 pm
SNIPPET: "Wilson told the informant about his connections to Omar Hammami."
SNIPPET: "Abukhdair, Wilson, and the informant spent hours watching jihadi videos that included lectures by senior al-Qaida leaders such as Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Some videos showed graphic violence including "prisoner beheadings and bodily mutilations of the dead including children and adult soldiers.""
SNIPPET: "According to the complaint, Wilson explained the meaning of jihad to Abukhdair and the informant as a war between Islam and Kufars [Arabic for "non-believers"]: "It's not like a small war anymore. It's either we're gonna kill them and defeat them, or they're gonna kill us and defeat us."
The complaint further detailed a sermon Abukhdair gave at the local mosque in which he "discussed how Muslims have forgotten about their struggles of persecuted Muslims around the world, especially in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, and Syria." He told worshippers to support Islam by engaging in dawah, giving to charity "and by supporting the mujahideen," the complaint said."
"14 Indicted for Supporting al Shabaab"
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Posted on August 5, 2010 3:06:36 PM PDT by Cindy
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Omar Shafik Hammami Added to the FBIs Most Wanted Terrorists List
FBI Mobile
November 14, 2012
Today, the FBI Mobile Division announced the addition of Omar Shafik Hammami to the FBIs Most Wanted Terrorists list. Mr. Hammami is wanted in connection with terrorism violations to include providing material support to terrorists.
It is alleged that Omar Shafik Hammami, a U.S. citizen and former resident of Daphne, Alabama, also known as Abu Mansour al-Amriki, provided material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization known as al Shabaab. On February 26, 2008, al Shabaab was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the Secretary of State.
Hammami allegedly traveled to Somalia during 2006 and eventually joined al Shabaabs military wing. In 2007, after Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia, Hammami joined the front lines as a fighter and eventually became a leader with al Shabaab. On November 27, 2007, an indictment was returned in the United States Southern District of Alabama charging Hammami with 18 U.S.C. 2339A, providing material support to terrorists. On September 24, 2009, a superseding indictment charged Hammami with 18 U.S.C. 2339B, providing material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The Southern District of Alabama has issued an active warrant against Hammami for his arrest.
The FBIs Most Wanted Terrorists list serves as a venue to increase public awareness regarding individuals being sought by the FBI in connection with terrorism-related activities. Hammami should be considered armed and dangerous and private citizens should take no independent action against Hammami. If you have any information concerning Hammami, please contact the FBIs tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI or call the FBIs Mobile Division. You may also contact your nearest FBI field office, American Embassy or Consulate, or submit a tip electronically at https://tips.fbi.gov.
It was rumored that Hammami might have been killed.
That was never confirmed.
Al-Awlaki has been killed.
Osama bin Laden has been killed.
Al-Zawahiri is still wanted.
Information leading to the location of
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Up to $25 Million Reward"
meanwhile Major Hasan who MURDERED 14( including a pregnant woman and her LIVE baby), wounding 24, after unloading clip after clip screaming," salad yukkbar," and a history of telling soldiers with psychological problems to just kill themselves is being supported by CAIR and others and he refuses to shave his beard, the meanie. PETA has gotten involved as they allege having animals/savages ( he has 32 canine teeth)in little cages just because this genetic throwback is an unrepentant killer he deserves a second chance.
Will this go anywhere when our own soldiers posted in Afghanistan can fart or poop toward Mecca, have to think twice about killing in extremely dangerous situations, there are more green on blue murders, and even thinking bad thoughts about Obama's ally's the Talibunnie raghead goat loving muzzards can be a life sentence, or worse using Quran's as target practice, using for buttock wipes,starting campfires, and any thought or subliminal message considered dangerous religious persecution from the panels upon panels of infidelaphobes from the White House to the Afghan' village idiot hate groups( also seen daily now at the UN)
yep, I'm sure this is entrapment but maybe the Fibbies are growing a backbone and have had their nuts returned after being roasted on open fires the last five years.
Sorry Cindy, I know this is serious, it is, but for some odd reason I've become a very cynical person. Bless you always for such in depth investigative journalism.
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Killed again...allegedly:
Shabaab kills American jihadist Omar Hammami and British fighter
By BILL ROGGIO
September 12, 2013
SNIPPET: Several Somalis in Bay province said that a large Shabaab force attacked Hammami and his small group of followers who were hiding out in a village near Dinsoor, the BBC reported. An Egyptian known as Khadap al Masri, who was with Hammami, is said to have surrendered to Shabaab forces.
Shabaab forces reportedly took the bodies of Hammami and al Britani from the scene of the attack. Shabaab has not officially claimed credit for the attack, but unnamed Shabaab officials are said to have confirmed Hammamis death.
Hammami is said to have granted an Interview with Voice of America Somalia more than a week ago. In the interview, he said he had renounced his ties to Shabaab and al Qaeda but still considered himself a terrorist.
Hammami, who is better known as Abu Mansour al Amriki, is the most well-known foreign fighter in Somalia. Hammami occupied a prominent place in Shabaabs propaganda arm. He also served as a recruiter, financier, and military commander. He was even seen with Shabaabs top leaders at a public eulogy for slain al Qaeda emir and founder Osama bin Laden in May 2011. The US added him to the list of specially designated global terrorists for his ties to al Qaeda in July 2011 and offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his captured in March 2013.
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Did you know there's this guy in right field named Nate Schierholtz?
For the Cubs?
Kinda pigeon-toed, moves like one of the jocks you remember from high school?
Yeah, that guy.
He used to play some for the San Francisco Giants.
In fact, he's got a World Series ring from 2010 becuase he was this guy called "Nate The Great" when he played for them.
He got a hit and a walk in his 5 at-bats against the loser Rangers.
Right now, that guy has a .370 on base percentage AND a .582 slugging percentage.
For the Cubs.
Add that up and DAMN!
He's supposed to be kind of a good glove with an excellent arm.
But this .952 OPS stuff?
He's ranked #9 in the NL right this second as you read this, if you're reading on Sunday morning, April 28, 2013.
You know who's #10?
David Wright.
You know who's #8?
Ryan Braun.
So there's Nate standing there next to Ryan Braun and David Wright, and he says, "Hey guys, imagine me standing in the same OPS space as you couple All-Stars."
Then he goes, "Hey Dave, mind getting me a cup a joe?"
Just like that.
And David Wright goes, "Sure Nate, you want cream or anything?"
Anyway, who knew?
Not me, because Nate Schierholtz is what they call under the radar - at least he's under the radar on my blog, since I'd never really noticed him before.
Even when Theo and Jed gave him the $2.5 mil to come be a Cub for a year, I thought "hmm, I wonder who Nate Schierholtz is?"
But I never really looked him up or anything.
Yesterday against the Fish, he goes 1 for 3, scored a run, and walked.
In a 3-2 game, that run is pretty important.
Which is what the score turned out to be, with the Cubs WINNING AGAIN!
It's a 3-game winning streak and today they might just swuuuh.
You know what I mean.
I hope this post didn't ruin it for Nate.
Because probably now, EVERYbody knows about him.
Go Cubs.


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The good news? Mary J. Blige is going to completely own the stage as Evillene performing "No Bad News" when "The Wiz Live!" comes to NBC.
In this first footage of the R&B diva as she inhabits the role of the Wicked Witch, Mary proves that she won't be an easy foe for Dorothy and her pals to defeat as they ease on down the road. And they better come prepared to sing because Evillene's got some pipes on her. Pipes and a serious aversion to water, that is.
In the live holiday event, airing Thursday, Dec. 3, Mary is joined by newcomer Shanice Williams as Dorothy, David Alan Grier as the Cowardly Lion, Ne-Yo as the Tin Man, Elijah Kelley ("Hairspray") as the Scarecrow, Queen Latifah as the Wiz, Uzo Aduba as Glinda the Good Witch, with Common, Amber Riley, and Stephanie Mills (Broadway's original Dorothy) rounding out the cast.
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"The Wiz Live!" is a revival of the Tony-winning '70s musical that tells the story of "The Wizard of Oz," but with an "African/American/multicultural twist," as NBC describes it. Following its live TV debut, producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron plan to move to the production to Broadway in the 2016-2017 season.
"The Wiz Live!" airs Thursday, Dec. 3 at 8 p.m./7c on NBC.
"The Making of 'The Wiz Live!" airs Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 8 p.m./7c on NBC.
(E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
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Past victims of the accused Jaycee Dugard kidnapper revealed chilling tales about the man who allegedly kidnapped an 11-year-old girl and kept her in a den of horrors as a sex slave for nearly two decades.
"He's a monster," Phillip Garrido's high school sweetheart and ex-wife said.
Speaking on "Inside Edition," ex Christine Murphy said he would go into a drug-addled rage when she refused to give in to his lust for multiple sex partners and one time tried to gouge her eyes out with a safety pin after another man flirted with her.
She tried to escape from Garrido, she said, but he found her and pulled her into his car.
Katherine Callaway Hall, a second victim, said Garrido raped her in the 1970s, handcuffing and binding her before taking her to a Reno storage unit where she was assaulted.
In an interview with CNN's "Larry King" on Monday, she said she never felt normal and the trauma of her kidnapping is seared into her memory more than two decades later. She said she "couldn't even imagine" the pain Dugard was enduring.
"He had me for 8 hours," she said. "He had her for 18 years."
"For years, I walked around like a zombie. I had to tell everyone I met what had happened to me -- because I didn't feel like myself. It was as if I had to explain why I wasn't 'normal.'"
Garrido allegedly told Hall she was chosen because she was attractive.
Despite a 50-year federal sentence and a life term in Nevada for his crimes against Hall, Garrido was back on the streets in 11 years.
Garrido and his wife Nancy are being held in El Dorado County on charges that they kidnapped and raped Dugard, then held her captive at their Antioch, Calif., home for the past 18 years even as parole officers and police occasionally turned up at his house. Dugard, and two children fathered by Garrido, have been reunited with family.
In the kidnapping trial from more than three decades ago, Garrido said he would use LSD and cocaine as sexual stimulants that left him with strong rape desires, according to court papers.
He said he would frequently masturbate in public places like the "side of schools, grammar schools and high schools" and in his car while leering at girls as young as seven and 10, the AP reported.
"I have had this fantasy, and this sexual thing that has overcome me," he said. "I had this fantasy that was driving me to do this, inside of me; something that was making me want to do it without — no way to stop it."
Meanwhile, investigators said on Monday they found a bone fragment on the property next door to the Garridos' Antioch home. They had been searching since the weekend for clues into a spate of prostitute killings in the 1990s.


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Experts Back Switch to New Diabetes Test
The screening test, called the A1c assay, allows more convenient diagnosis.
June 6, 2009 -- Diabetes experts on Friday urged a switch to a diagnostic test for the disease that's more useful to primary care doctors and more convenient for patients because it doesn't require fasting.
An international panel recommended that a test known as the hemoglobin A1c assay be the new standard test for diabetes. In the past, this test has primarily been used to monitor if diabetes treatment is working. However, the committee -- which unveiled its recommendations at this weekend's American Diabetes Association meeting in New Orleans, La. -- said the A1c test's long-term measurement of chronic blood sugar control problems provides a better diagnosis than current "snapshot" tests.
The test has not been adopted by all doctors for diagnostic purposes. Many of them prefer to rely first on the tried-and-true techniques such as the standard fasting plasma glucose test (FPG) and the less common oral glucose tolerance test -- tests that the A1c screening would unseat as the new standard.
Still, other physicians have welcomed the new screening. Dr. Joel Zonszein, director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, said many colleagues have been "waiting years for this to happen."
Proponents favor the A1c because it measures average blood glucose over the preceding two to three months, rather than just at one point in time, the researchers said.
"A1c values vary less than fasting plasma glucose values, and the assay for A1c has technical advantages compared with the glucose assay," said Dr. David M. Nathan of Massachusetts General Hospital, who chaired the expert committee.
"Also, testing for diabetes using A1c is more convenient and easier for patients who will no longer be required to perform a fasting or oral glucose tolerance test," Nathan added.
The recommendations -- made jointly by the American Diabetes Association, the International Diabetes Federation, and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes -- were published online today in Diabetes Care and will appear in the July issue of the journal.
Can Doctors Agree on A1c?
Many primary care doctors already use A1c screening as a first-line tool for diagnosis, while others use it in combination with FPG. One reason for caution about the A1c in the past, doctors said, has been concern about standardization in A1c screenings -- that is, whether doctors agree that a given result indicates that a patient has diabetes.
"It is my understanding that the A1c tests are now better standardized and, therefore, the A1c has been reconsidered as a screening tool," Dr. Gregory J. Anderson, a family practitioner at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., wrote in an e-mail. "It makes more intuitive sense, as it reflects blood glucose levels over a much longer period of time. ... It is also more convenient for patients, as it does not need to be done fasting."
Currently, diabetes patients typically receive A1c screening twice a year to measure progress in controlling the disease. The question for physicians is how to determine whether they need diabetes care in the first place.
"Glucose impairment runs on a continuum, making selection of a specific value where diabetes risk begins somewhat arbitrary," Nathan said. "However, those persons whose A1c levels are close to the 6.5 percent diagnostic level are clearly at higher risk."
The committee also recommended screening all adult patients who are overweight and have other risk factors, such as family history of diabetes, high blood pressure or an abnormal blood lipid profile.
"What the test will do is to give the clinician and the patient a better integrated view of the average blood sugar," said Montefiore's Zonszein.
Dr. Christopher D. Saudek, a Johns Hopkins Hospital endocrinologist, agreed, adding that the main advantage of the A1c is that it "does not require fasting, so it can be done any time of day."
Also, he noted, because it measures glucose levels over months, rather than at the moment of a blood test, "it is less susceptible to patients 'tuning up' before they see a doctor [by] watching their diet for a day or two."
Not All Doctors Performing Test
Until now, some practitioners say, diabetes specialists have favored the more finely-tuned FPG and glucose tolerance measurements, while primary care doctors have been more willing to embrace the A1c.
To Dr. Thomas L. Schwenk, a professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, this reflects different approaches to different patient populations. He said the A1c makes more sense in his practice.
"We are dealing with patients with many chronic problems and the obvious need for major lifestyle modifications, as well as managing six to eight medications directed at metabolic syndrome, not making decisions about tweaking insulin dosages by a couple units," he said.
Most agree that the A1c will reflect a more realistic pool of patients with diabetes and pre-diabetes.
It will help "chip away at the 40 percent of people with diabetes who don't know it," Saudek said.


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It's no surprise that we haven't heard much about the Tokeneer project. After all, Tokeneer was developed for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), an outfit known for keeping things secret. Which makes it even more surprising that not only did the NSA acknowledge Tokeneer's existence, but they released it as open source software.
In a nutshell, Tokeneer is a proof-of-concept of what's called "high-assurance software engineering." Secure software, in other words. Software you can trust. Software that must work correctly or else the consequences could be calamitous. And software that's written in Adayes, Adaand developed using Praxis High Integrity Systems (www.praxis-his.com) Correctness-by-Construction (CbyC) methodology, the SPARK Ada language (www.sparkada.com), and AdaCore's GNAT Pro environment (www.adacore.com). The project demonstrates how to meet or exceed all those things that are necessary to achieve high assurance, such as Evaluation Assurance Level 5 in the Common Criteria (whatever that is). All in all, Tokeneer was created in just 260-person days, and implemented in about 10,000 lines of code. Originally a subset of the Ada language, SPARK Ada is designed in such a way that all SPARK programs are legal Ada programs.
No less than Tony Hoare, Fellow of the Royal Society of Microsoft Research, says that "the Tokeneer project is a milestone in the transfer of program verification technology into industrial application. Publication of the full documents for the project has provided unprecedented experimental material for yet further development of the technology by pure academic research. It will serve as a touchstone to chart and measure progress of the basic science of programming, on which the technology is based." Tokeneer is aimed at both the industrial and academic communities, forming an base for research in program verification and as a high-level teaching aid for educators. You can download the entire Tokeneer project, including requirements, security target, specifications, designs, source code, and proofs at www.adacore.com/home/gnatpro/tokeneer/.
About the same time, IntellaSys (www.intellasys.net) unveiled its 40-core processor designed for embedded wireless, portable, and distributed data processing applications. The 40C18 is an array of 40 fully functional CPUs operating asynchronously, each of the cores a complete computer, with its own ROM, RAM, and interprocessor communication. Together they can deliver up to 26 billion operations per second. So how do you program such a device? Easy. In FORTH. That's right, FORTH. IntellaSys is releasing the processor along with VentureForth, a FORTH-based IDE that includes fully interactive programming, testing, and debugging facilities. VentureForth includes compilers for both Windows and Linux and a simulator for debugging, and contains low-level primitives as well as the high-level tools necessary to map programs across the array of cores in a processor.
"The beauty of this single-chip 40 CPU processing solution is that it is completely programmablemeaning if a spec changes, it is a code issue, not a silicon turn," says Chuck Moore, IntellaSys CTO and inventor of the FORTH programming language. "With 40 cores operating independently on the chip, designers can dedicate groups of them to handle specific tasks. For example, some could be assigned compute-intensive Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) while others handle wireless connectivity, standard I/O interfaces or drive external memory."
And then there's Python (www.python.org), where the news is that Version 2.6 has been released. Of course, Python 2.6 is really about laying the groundwork for the upcoming Python 3.0, which will be a sweeping redesign of the language. In other words, Python creator Guido van Rossum tells us that "2.6 is the stepping stone from 2.5 (or older) to 3.0. If you want to port your Python 2.x code to 3.0, port it to 2.6 first. Then turn on the '-3' option, which spits out warnings about things you need to change in order to work with 3.0. Clean those up, then run the 2-to-3 source-to-source transformation program, and you should be ready to start the final steps of porting to 3.0."
David Goodger of the Python Foundation adds that, "Python 3.0 goes back to the foundations of Python and fixes them. There are some major changes, for example, to the I/O system and to the text handling (it is Unicode throughout now), but most of the changes are not really revolutionary. Before Python 3.0 began being worked on, various people maintained lists of Python worts and Python mistakes. Guido himself had a list of things he wished he hadn't done or things he wished he had done differently. Python 3.0 is actually taking the opportunity to go back and fix these things. This is something a lot of projects never do."
No, but it is probably something a lot of projects should do.
Jonathan Erickson


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POMPL provides biopsy kits upon request. Each biopsy kit consists of a formalin-filled plastic container, a history sheet and a business reply label addressed to our laboratory. We offer Priority Mail delivery through USPS. You can also request FedEx shipping prepaid labels.
In order to help us process and diagnose your tissue samples, we offer the following guidelines.
The diagnosis of bullous/desquamative lesions requires an assessment of where the epithelium is splitting. Clinically, obtaining these biopsies can be problematical due to the tendency for the epithelial layer to slough. It is best to seek a site in the anterior portion of the mouth and take care not to grasp the specimen with forceps. Eight-millimeter punch biopsies work quite well, and one should always biopsy the edge of the lesion to include both pathologic and normal-appearing tissues.
Immunoglobulins from rabbits, goats or mice are used as reagents. These immunoglobulins are directed to antigens in the host tissue, and many of these antigens are immunoglobulins or autoantibodies (i.e. an antibody to an antibody). Many antigens are damaged by formalin fixation and tissue processing; therefore a special media is used and the sections are cut from frozen tissue samples.
The anti-human immunoglobulins are tagged with a fluorescent dye that can only be visualized with an ultraviolet light source (fluorescent) microscope.
For the most part DIF is a useful adjunct for erosive diseases such as lichen planus, pemphigoid, pemphigus and erythema multiforme.
Due to limited storage times, please request DIF media only when you are ready to obtain a specimen for direct immunofluorescence. DIF tissue samples cannot be placed in formalin, since fixation damages the protein structure of many antigens and obfuscates the staining reaction. The transport media that we supply has a shelf life of about three months and can be refrigerated. It is advisable that media designated for direct immunofluorescent studies be refrigerated until use, but it can be transported at room temperature to the laboratory. For optimal results, please transport the specimen as soon as it is harvested in the designated container and send to the lab via FedEx.
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Let us know how many you'd like and if you're new to our service.
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It was so much fun throwing Megan her first birthday party. As you can tell a princess birthday party, I know a very common thing to do. But, I did as requested. I had fun planning it and making her cake and all. The only bad thing is having her birthday right next to Christmas making it very inconvenient for all her friends to come. We had some girls come, but not as near as many as I invited, we'll have to figure something else out for the future. We had so much fun though playing many games, making wands, eating cake and ice cream, and opening presents. All the girls just loved dressing up in their princess dresses as well. Megan loves pink and everything was pink, pink, pink. She always says, "Mmmm.....I love pink!," and holds a pink thing up to her face. Such a girl! We love our sweet princess Megan! Happy 3rd Birthday Megan!
As you can tell, Jackson didn't want to be dressed up like any of the girls even though he got invited to a princess party for Megan. So, he decided to dress up, but as Spiderman. He also had to have a cars cup and plate instead of a princess cup and plate. I didn't mind! Rather have that than the other way around. He's so funny sometimes.
So, this was early morning on Megans Birthday. We had Megans birthday party a few days before her actual birthday. Dave gets a kick out of putting a blanket covering the kids door and sliding balloons in between the door and the blanket, so that when they open the door all the balloons come falling into them. We did it for Jacksons last birthday too. Megan didn't think it was as funny as Jackson did. She can be pretty aunry in the morning if not enough sleep, which happened. Whitney woke up crying and I couldn't go in without it falling, and so Megan woke up to her crying and wasn't too happy. Anyway, she had a fun filled day doing all the things she wanted like Chuck E Cheese and going out to eat at her favorite places.


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After Erinhue explained where that stone had come from, and it WAS Idril's, he closed his eyes to think. And the memories came back to him, when Thorondor had taken him under his wing, so to speak, and gave him daily lessons. He had been sent when Turgon founded Gondolin, to guard the hidden place. He heard Thorondor's lessons as he flew with his lord around the places there, and they passed the gates.
Familiarize yourself with these gates, my son. You are to make the rounds of them as you go round the mountains here.
I am a guard, my lord?
Yes, for now, my son. I know you will eventually see battle, but it is far off when you find your wings.
An iron gate, with a likeness of you. Green stones for eyes.
Not a very good likeness, but they put it there to honor me, so I do not object.
One of those stones dazzled him for a moment, and he had to fly faster to catch up with his lord.
Coming back to the present, he thought, that was what I saw on the breast of Idril Celebrindal when she escaped the ruin of Gondolin! No wonder she never mentioned it to me. I wonder what she will say when she finds it on me.
So far, the gem's use was to bring back memories. But after what had happened in the mural, it may be more than that.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
For several years I have made my (free) SQL Server performance tool
ExecStats publicly available
(download at
I have just recently improved existing or added new features (build 2013-09-23 or later)
that could be useful so I am asking people to give it a try
and please do send feedback.
I starting working on ExecStats when SQL Server version 2005, for the first time,
made sufficient information available via the
Dynamic Management Views
(DMV) and functions to do a pretty good job of performance analysis.
The new features have been added to the DMV's over the more recent versions
have further improved the ability to assess SQL Server health.
In SQL Server 2000, we had to use Profiler to start a Trace and collect data for a sufficient
period of time. The information from various DMVs are available at any given point in time,
and depending on the degree to which execution plans are retained in the procedure cache,
could provide a reasonably accurate assessment of the workload on SQL Server.
Of course Profiler and Trace are still useful in the exception cases
(and Microsoft wants to move to
Extended Events going forward).
Two starting points in performance tuning with DMV's are
which keep execution statistics for entries in
the plan cache and
which keeps index usage statistics.
These avenues can be pursued independently, but working both together is best.
The dm_exec_query_stats view has sql and plan handles that links to DMFs for the SQL
and the execution plan
Inside the XML plan is information such as which indexes are used by each SQL statement
and the access method (seek, scan, lookup, update, etc.).
It should quickly evident that while SQL is a great language for data access,
it is not suitable for step-by-step processing, for which there are procedural programming languages
that are designed for this purpose.
This is why ExecStats is a C# program and a not a massively foreboding morass of dynamically generated SQL.
ExecStats parses top execution plans to build a cross-reference of
index usage by SQL statement.
Some other tools and scripts may attempt to parse 5 or 10 execution plans.
ExecStats default is 1000, and can parse the entire contents of the plan cache if desired.
In working from the index usage stats alone, it is possible to identify unused indexes.
It is also reasonable to guess that indexes on the tables with the same leading might be consolidated.
However it is not certain and no infrequently good assessment can be made with infrequently used indexes.
By building the full index usage to SQL statement cross-reference map via the execution plans,
it is possible to determine where each index is used.
This allows a reliable determination for the minimum set of good indexes.
Now that the capability to parse execution plans has been established,
the scope can be expanded because there are other sources for execution plans.
One option is to simply get a list of all the stored procedures in the database
via sys.procedures
to generate the estimated execution plans (for NULL or default parameter values).
I did this once for a client, and from the trapped error messages,
there were nearly one hundred procedures that referenced tables which no longer existed.
These were obsolete procedures that no one had identified for removal even though
the underlying tables had been dropped.
Another option is to maintain a list of SQL,
which could be stored procedures with parameter values
either for generating the estimated execution plan only
or be executed for the actual execution plan which has additional information.
In addition, certain stored procedure could be tested multiple times to expose the impact of compile
parameters or different code paths from to Control-of-Flow keywords.
ExecStats automates the data collection for all of this.
Results can be collected and archive on a regular basis and especially before and after code or other changes.
It is especially important to consider that execution plans can change with both compile parameters
and data distribution statistics.
When there are complaints of poor performance, one could investigate for top resource consuming SQL,
but it is immensely helpful to have previous characteristics for comparison.
This includes execution statistics, the execution plan, compile parameters, indexes,
and even the data distribution statistics last update.
In 2012, I integrated a previously separate program for performance monitoring into ExecStats.
The key point in ExecStats performance monitoring is that important system and storage architecture
details are captured and incorporated into the display.
Too many of the third party tools were obviously developed on a desktop with 1 processor and 1 disk.
It is clear that the tool was built by someone who got a list of counters with "best practice" parameters
with very little real understanding of what any of it actually means.
It is certainly not someone who actually solves SQL Server performance problems on a day-to-day basis,
or has even done it at all.
There are two recent additions in 2013-Sep.
One pertains to index fragmentation, and the other to fn_virtualfilestats.
Technically we should use the DMF
which replaces DBCC SHOWCONTIG, to assess fragmentation.
However the effort to run dm_db_index_physical_stats on large tables is substantial.
There are several pieces of information that can be used to provide a clue on the state of
fragmentation, but only for nonclustered indexes without included columns.
The DMV dm_db_partition_stats tells us the number of rows and the size of the index,
from which we can calculate the average bytes per row.
Next, DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS tells use the average key size,
which includes both the nonclustered index key portion and the clustered index key portion.
Keeping in mind that the row overhead is 10-12 bytes,
we can compare the value calculated from dm_db_partition_stats
to the key length from statistics plus row overhead to determine if this is reasonable.
See Paul Randall at SQL Skills
for more on the record overhead, which also applies to index records.
The previous versions of ExecStats display index row count and size in the Index Usage tab,
and the Average Key Length in the Dist Stats tab.
The newer version make a copy of this in 3rd right most column in Index Usage as AvKyL.
For now, compute the 1024*Used KB/Rows to compare with AvKyL.
The function fn_virtualfilestats provide useful
file IO statistics at the SQL Server file level.
In a complex environment, there are many files for the key databases spread over many volumes
on the storage system (each seen as a physical disk by the Windows operating system).
It is a simple matter to rollup the file IO statistics by database or filegroup.
It was not simple to rollup the file IO statistics on a volume basis
because complex storage systems are typically implemented with mount points.
The new (as of SQL Server 2008 R2) DMF
provides the mount point.
So now ExecStats rolls up file IO by filegroup, database and volume.
Below is the previous version of Databases, showing database size information.
The new file IO rollup by database is at the far right, as below.
The new file IO rollup by OS Volume is in the new Volumes tab.
So feel free to give ExecStats a try and please send feedback.
If any one would like to volunteer to write proper documentation, that would be especially appreciated.
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Ok, apparently my download link
is supposed to redirect to the latest (then ExecStats_20130923.zip, but now ExecStats_20130924.zip)
for now as the redirect file may have been cached?
does any one know what the do not cache directive is for a web page?
ok, I found this on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1341089/using-meta-tags-to-turn-off-caching-in-all-browsers
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="max-age=0" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
but what is this?
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-store" />
It has been brought to my attention that the performance monitoring mode (Perf Ctr) fails when the SQL Server performance counters are not accessible. I will try to make changes so that it continues to run displaying only system performance counters, plus info from SQL queries to DMVs. for now, the latest build is http://www.qdpma.com/tools/ExecStats_20130925.zip but the permanent link with redirect should work as intended? http://www.qdpma.com/ExecStatsZip.html
Thanks for making possible & updating to new version for us. your old version was definitely helpful to me and I believe that new will help me to dissect more in detail. will do some test and let you know. Thanks again.
Awesome Tool! Using it now to baseline some servers
some text fonts can be a tad bigger in PerfCTR
need dox on all the highly abbreviated column names
Very helpful advice in this particular post! It's the little changes that make the largest changes. Thanks for sharing!


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If you want to buy in East Meadow
Call East Meadow recreation central. This community is home to Eisenhower Park as well as to three town parks.
Eisenhower Park, which spans 930 acres, is larger than Central Park. Amenities include an aquatic center, golf courses, athletic fields and picnic areas.
Residents are also quick to boast about other facilities, including the outdoor pool complex at Veterans Memorial Park. "We have a phenomenal Little League complex on Merrick Avenue," says resident Richie Krug of Century 21 American homes, noting it comprises two full-size fields, five midsize fields and a mini field.
East Meadow is "a great place to raise kids," says former resident Chris Montalbano of Realty Connect USA.
Residents have access to a plethora of eateries and shops along Hempstead Turnpike, Newbridge Road and East Meadow and North Jerusalem avenues.
Getting around is a snap, too, as the community is centrally located. The Wantagh Parkway is on its east side, while the Meadowbrook Parkway is to its west.
Buyers can find a variety of housing styles and prices, Montalbano says, adding that sales are vibrant, especially for homes priced $450,000 or less.
CONDOS, 55 AND OLDER. The Seasons at East Meadow, five listings, $349,990 to $435,000; Bel Aire has two listings, $225,000 and $239,000
CO-OPS. Meadowlane Estates (not age restricted), three listings, $299,000 to $315,000
SALES PRICES. From Jan. 1, 2012, to Feb. 20, 2013, there were 248 sales with a median price of $368,000, according to Multiple Listing Service of Long Island data. The low price was $135,000, and the high was $705,000. From Jan. 1, 2011, to Feb. 20, 2012, there were 253 sales. The median price was $360,000, with a low of $210,000 and a high of $661,500.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS. Senator Speno Memorial Park offers, in part, sports courts, fields and a playground.
Town. Hempstead
Area. 6.3 square miles
ZIP code. 11554
Population. 37,052
Median age. 41.7
Median household income. $93,457
Median home value. $364,000*
LIRR time to NYC. From Hicksville, 39 minutes to 52 minutes at peak
Monthly ticket. $254
School district. East Meadow
Sources: 2010 Census; mlsli.com; Long Island Rail Road;
*Based on sales in the past six months according to Multiple Listing Service of Long Island


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