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A kindergartener performing at a school Christmas concert surprised the audience by using sign language so her deaf parents could understand the lyrics.
While the other kids used rehearsed hand gestures, 5-year-old Claire Koch used American Sign Language to sing a song about Santa's white beard and twinkling eyes set to the tune of "Bingo." Claire's mom Lori Koch captured the performance in a video that was posted to YouTube on Monday.
Lori Koch told Yahoo! News that she was surprised to see Claire sign during the song. Koch said she can speak, sign and read lips, while her husband only uses sign language.
She praised her daughter's signing skills and joked that she "is a much better interpreter than Nelson's fake one," referring to the interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial service who was recently panned for his undecipherable hand gestures.
Check out the video above to see the cute performance. Claire is the little girl with the blonde hair and plaid dress in the center of the frame.


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I am a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, even though I left academia (for the automotive industry, if you can believe that) a few years ago, largely due to the issues you raised in your "President's Message" in the September issue of ASBMB Today.
I taught and did research at two different primarily undergraduate institutions over a nine-year period. What you mentioned is right on the mark, in terms of what John Dewey described in his philosophy of experimentalism. He emphasized "experience" as the interaction of a person with the environment and "knowing" as a process connecting the learner to the environment. Both of these notions require many attempts as well as more than a few corresponding failures.
Although it is true that "helicopter parenting" is a problem, in my experience, it is less "the" problem than the beginning of the problem. In my opinion, the problem began with the notion that an education is a commercial commodity to be bought and sold, rather than an elusive aspiration or a goal toward which one strives and happily never reaches. In business, commodities continually are shaped by the forces of customer need and cost. This model has been disastrous for education at all levels, with the possible exception of graduate education, as you pointed out.
In my estimate, the problem begins in K-12 education, where it is largely driven by parents with great hopes of their son/daughter amassing the necessary grades and standardized test scores required for entry into college. This, of course, coincides with the notions that parents are failures if their kids do not go to college and the absolute necessity of college for fear that no job or future could be possible without it.
My experience teaching showed me that many students lacked even the most basic knowledge of chemistry, despite resplendent grades and far higher course selections than I had at their age. This was clearly coming from a lack of requirements and/or consequences in their K-12 education.
Let's face it: The delivery of education has not changed much from when you and I were in school. I matriculated through the same boring, canned experiments and lectures that are perpetrated upon the current generation. My only saving grace was that I showed an aptitude for memorization, which seemed to be a substitute for knowledge and understanding. Of course, I had little knowledge and almost no understanding, but this was unimportant because the instruments used to measure these quantities were wholly fitted to regurgitation. I was, therefore, placed in a "special" group that had to read ahead on its own and set up experiments from the often-cryptic directions given in basic science textbooks. As it turns out, this is the kind of environment to which all students, whether destined for great science or otherwise, should be exposed.
The difference between what the current generation and what my generation experienced is that we had real failures and real consequences. Does anyone remember the "weed out" course? It was so named by students for what it did, but, in actuality, it was the kind of tough course that showed what you could mentally lift and what you could endure. Another major difference is that we know more today, and we continue to believe that we need to cram it all into this short time frame currently embodied in what we define as an "education." Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the number of hours actually spent in K-12 and in college has decreased, making content overload ridiculous. The need to cover more content results in a surface skimming of what I call the "white noise" of knowledge. As Hara Estroff Marano points out, and as I argued to no avail with "educated" colleagues, we need to fail to learn how to succeed. This requires time, which is in shorter supply than ever, and it has little to do with most of the "white noise." The truth is that learning and education are lifelong processes, and this preparation period should illuminate the path rather than contain its bounds.
It turns out that our primary undergraduate universities and, I would argue, many large universities have pandered to the business model described above. I can tell you unequivocally, from a junior faculty perspective, that there is little or no room for the creation of an educational environment, let alone a curriculum, based on the core scientific skills of questioning, hypothesizing, designing, critical evaluation and perseverance. How can we produce the next generation of scientists or educated consumers of technology without paying at least some attention to these much-needed skills? I did not receive tenure in my first academic position because I stuck to my guns and designed and carried out an educational environment similar to the one described above. This, of course, did not go over well with students, whose notion of an education was one in which the instructor tells you what you need to know. It turns out that, these days, the deans of our institutions take the complaints of students (warranted or otherwise) quite seriously. And why shouldn't they? It would not be good business to ignore the "customer." (At least a National Science Foundation education chair recognized what I was doing and invited me to review science-education grants during my third year of teaching.)
I left my second position because I could see that, although it appeared that I was hired for my course development/ideas (all the right buzz words regarding students and hands-on labs/research), it was never intended that I would actually implement them. To add insult to injury, I offended my colleagues by suggesting forcefully that the curriculum needed real emphasis on core scientific skills, as opposed to the lip service one finds in the wonderful assessment plans required of all academia these days. It also didn't help that student complaints were again showing that the customer wasn't happy with the product, which is to say that they felt overburdened by actually having to understand concepts rather than just memorizing.
I believe that, in the future, we will have fewer and fewer new students showing up at research universities/ institutions, and, of the ones that do, the vast majority will not have the drive, perseverance and moxie required to be successful. Indeed, the false sense of confidence bestowed upon them by an educational system designed to make them feel good, rather than experience the failure required to build true self-esteem, will be shattered as they are introduced to the experiential learning that is the hallmark of our graduate/post-graduate institutions. Those who do make it through will conclude, as I did, that paying attention to serious science education isn't worth it, and they will give it far less time, if any, than I did. Academia will have difficulty continuing to fill its research pipeline and virtually no chance to reform the educational system causing the problem. In sum, I would say that our current educational model has enabled the "helicopter parent" and is largely responsible for the demise of experiential learning and the subsequent rise of the wimp.
I just read your "Wimps? What Wimps?" article and applaud you for it. Like you, I've been around a long time, and I worry about the (in)dependence of so many young people. As a supplier of high-end spectrophotometers, we need people who are not afraid of innovation and who embrace challenge. It is hard to find these people in the 40-year-old-and-under set.
I also have daily exposure to the assistant professor whose life is arguably too hard. Your point about publishing in "highly specialized journals" struck a chord with me. Not every good piece of work belongs in a monosyllabically titled journal. While my dad, Richard J. DeSa, had two back-to-back Science papers in 1963, the paper that changed his career path came out in Computers and Biomedical Research, which, in 1969, contained at least one word few people had occasion to know.
I hope your perspective is widely discussed and applauded, with the appropriate attitude adjustments made. "Overly ambitious" should be considered a virtue, not a flaw. Mentoring should be honored and encouraged. And senior faculty need to quiet their endless looking back to the easier funding days, etc., and recall their own unadulterated joy of making it to an academic position.
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- BA, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
- JD, University of Southern California School of Law
Before joining the Loyola faculty, Smith ran an education law practice representing low income and indigent clients, most of whom were wards of the delinquency or dependency courts. His previous positions include Staff Attorney at Public Counsel Law Center, where he headed the education unit; and Director of the Special Education Project at The Alliance for Children's Rights. He has served the Los Angeles Superior Court, Juvenile Division, as a court appointed education attorney since 2004. Previously, Michael was also Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, supervising the Children's Rights Clinic. At law school Michael clerked at The Alliance for Children's Rights as a Sidley Austin Public Interest Law Fellow. Prior to law school, he taught elementary and middle school students in Baltimore and Compton public schools.


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"A fast-paced, informed action/adventure story that holds the reader's attention from cover to cover."– Kirkus Reviews
Preying on the fears of Americans, militant Islamic factions plot the downfall and overthrow of America from within.
In Bergsgaard's thriller, U.S. mercenaries kidnap a Taliban informant believed to have information vital to national security. Alex Stone, hired by multinational company Blackstone, delivers the kidnapped man, Ali Shah Masood—a member of the Islamic Council—to CIA agents in Afghanistan. Ali has information about plans the Islamic Council has to unleash the biblical plagues of Egypt (acts of terrorism on the U.S.) to force all U.S. troops to withdraw from the Middle East, then Israel can be destroyed with no U.S. interference. In seemingly unrelated incidents, four border patrolmen in Texas are murdered, red algae overtakes the Potomac River and flies and frogs engulf Arlington National Cemetery while railroad bridges are blown up and forest fires rage. Doc Martini, special agent with the Anti-Terrorism Force, is called on to investigate. With the help of Agent Susan Rivard, Martini finds connections among the events and unravels the secret plans of the Islamic Council before U.S. citizens panic and Israel is destroyed. The author uses his experience and knowledge as a special agent to create a storyline that feels fresh, honest and diabolical. Regulations and procedures stymie federal agents while perpetrators of crime slip through U.S. society seemingly unhindered. Written in a tight, matter-of-fact tone, the story unfolds at a deliberate pace that keeps the reader engaged and in anticipation of the continued action. Events unfold on a day-by-day basis over a period of about two months. Some days have as many as six different entries in a dizzying array of locations including Pakistan, Spain, France, Italy and the White House, with multiple locations listed for Afghanistan and Minnesota. This approach leaves the reader feeling unsettled and confused at times, as well as looking at past chapters to reconnect plot lines. In places, the storyline depends too much on the surface tension of Islamic countries wanting the destruction of Israel, and could stand some bolstering with more in-depth character development of several of the Islamic Council members.
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Saint Euphemia was from Chalcedon and lived in virginity. According to some, she suffered martyrdom during the reign of Diocletian, in 303; according to others, in 307. Her sacred relics are preserved in the Patriarchate in Constantinople.
O Lord Jesus, unto Thee Thy lamb doth cry with a great voice: O my Bridegroom, Thee I love; and seeking Thee, I now contest, and with Thy baptism am crucified and buried. I suffer for Thy sake, that I may reign with Thee; for Thy sake I die, that I may live in Thee: accept me offered out of longing to Thee as a spotless sacrifice. Lord, save our souls through her intercessions, since Thou art great in mercy.
Thou strovest valiantly in thy sacred contest; and even after death, thou makest us holy with streams of healings, O all-famed Euphemia. For this cause we venerate thy most holy dormition and with faith we stand before thine all-ven'rable relics, that we be freed from illness of the soul and also draw forth the grace of thy miracles.
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Kuwaiti lawmakers approved a draft law Tuesday, March 27, aimed at opening up the oil-rich emirate to foreign investments in a bid to attract much-needed capital and advanced technology. The second and final reading of the bill was adopted by a vote of 34 to seven with one abstention. All cabinet ministers present voted for the bill which now requires only the emir's signature to become law.
The bill provides foreign investors: tax holidays of up to 10 years; exemption from customs duties on raw materials; and long-term protection against the nationalization of companies with investments. It also allows foreigners to establish companies in the emirate without a Kuwaiti sponsor or partner, currently needed to launch any business venture, and grants investors the right to transfer profits out of Kuwait with no restriction.
But Kuwait's cabinet has reserved the right to determine what economic sectors that foreigners can invest in. MPs, who voted for the bill, said it would help bring the advanced technology and modern management, besides billions of dollars investment, that are necessary to revitalize the economy. Total foreign investments in Kuwait over the past 20 years amount to just $550 million.
But a number of MPs, however, criticized the bill as an attempt to allow foreign investors to control the national economy. "This draft bill allows (foreigner investors) to expropriate the Kuwaiti economy," said MP Waleed al-Jari.
Last May, parliament passed a bill allowing foreigners to trade and own shares on the Kuwait Stock Exchange. Several other economic bills, including legislation on privatization, are also under review. —(AFP)
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The World Becomes What You Teach
Zoe Weil believes that what we commonly think of as the goal of education—preparing students for jobs in our economy—is a vision "too small and outmoded for today's world." Instead, she believes we should teach students to be conscious choice makers, "a generation of solutionaries" who can cope with the challenges of our changing, imperiled world.
Co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education, Weil emphasizes the need for an education system that provides people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to change our economic system, not adapt themselves to it. She created the first Master of Education and Certificate Program in Humane Education in the U.S., covering the interconnected issues of human rights, environmental preservation, and animal protection.
In this video, Weil discusses why her experiences as a humane educator have led her to believe that changing the way we teach is the key to solving the problems we face in the world today.
YES! Magazine's special issue on changing the way we think about education.
More and more people are waking up to the mismatch between what is taught in schools and what common sense tells us we need to know. What can you do about it?
Students find real-world solutions when they learn from their community, not just their textbooks.
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StudentRND has been gathering geeky and entrepreneurial high school and college kids for weekend hackathons for three years now. Now, co-founder Edward Jiang is looking to expand his growing empire, launching a new 8-week tech incubator this summer that's modeled on successful programs like TechStars and Y Combinator.
"It makes sense: Students they want to be the next Bill Gates, they want to be the next Steve Jobs," said Jiang, a 20-year-old University of Washington student who runs StudentRND in his spare time.
Jiang and StudentRND's Tyler Menezes will be the guests on this weekend's GeekWire podcast and radio show — talking more about the new incubator initiative.
The organization is currently accepting applications for the program through May 15th. In a way, Jiang described the program like an internship, culminating in an end-of-summer "demo day."
If you think most teenagers and twenty-somethings would rather spend their time on the beach during the summer break, you've not met some of the serious entrepreneurs moving through StudentRND. In fact, Menezes says students actually make for perfect entrepreneurs (one of the reasons that Y Combinator tends to skew younger as well).
"Students can try everything they want, and they still have a house to live in," says Menezes, a 19-year-old at Bellevue College. "A lot of students have that opportunity to fail fast, and what if we just give them a little bit more resources to have more of a chance of success."
At the CodeDay hackathon in February, Jiang said that a software entrepreneurship workshop was among the most popular. Given that, they decided to expand the program into a full-blown incubator, complete with mentors and workshops where teams work on new startup companies.
At the end of the day, Jiang said the goal of the incubator is to "show the world … what students are capable of."
To hear Jiang and Menezes discuss student entrepreneurship, tune into to 97.3 KIRO-FM this weekend at 7 a.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday. You can also listen to the podcast beginning Saturday morning here.


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February 21, 2008
AVU-E-07-02, Order No. 30500
PAC-E-07-07, Order No. 30497
Contact: Gene Fadness 208.334.0339, 208.890.2712
Website: www.puc.idaho.gov
Three-year wind integration case resolved
After nearly three years of deliberation between Idaho's regulated utilities, wind developers and state regulators, three major cases involving how much it costs to add wind to utilities' transmission grids have finally been resolved.
Three orders issued Tuesday by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission establish the amount of discounts utilities can assess against wind developers to account for the cost of integrating wind into their systems. The orders also remove a cap on the size of small-power projects that can qualify for a rate published by the commission. Also removed is a provision that allowed utilities to pay wind developers a market rate rather than the typically higher state rate when wind output from projects did not fall within forecasted ranges.
"The commission finds that the costs of wind integration are real, not illusory," the commission said. The commission said the integration charges "will provide long-term stability" for small-wind development and will "provide flexibility to protect customers from published rates that are too high."
Due to a rapid increase in the number of small-wind projects seeking access to its transmission grid, Idaho Power Co. in 2005 asked the commission to suspend small-power wind development to allow it time to study how much it costs the to provide back-up generation when wind output is less than projected. The commission denied the suspension, but agreed to decrease the size of small-power projects – from 10 megawatts to 100 kilowatts – that could qualify for the published rates that utilities must pay generators of small renewable power projects.
Since then, Idaho Power Co., as well as Idaho's two other major electric utilities Avista Corporation and PacifiCorp, completed studies to determine wind integration costs. The utilities and most wind developers proposed a settlement that would bring the size limit of projects that qualify for the small-power rate back up to 10 MW. Further, wind developers proposed to provide more certainty to utilities by agreeing to participate in the cost of acquiring state-of-the-art wind forecasting services and, further, provide guarantees that their projects would be mechanically able to generate at full output during 85 percent of the hours during a month. In exchange for those agreements by wind developers, utilities agreed to support removal of the "90/110 performance band" which required that when output was less than 90 percent of projections or more than 110 percent of projections, utilities could pay developers the usually smaller market-based rate rather than the published rate.
The only issue the parties could not agree upon was the size of the discount or, in the case of Exergy Development Group of Idaho, whether there should be a discount at all. With the parties unable to agree on that issue, the matter was brought before the commission for a decision.
Idaho Power Co. had originally proposed that it be allowed to discount $10.72 per megawatt-hour from the cost it paid small-wind developers. Later, it revised that discount to $7.92.
The commission's order establishes a tiered-discount for Idaho Power and Avista that increases as more wind is added, but caps the discount so that it can go no higher than $6.50 per MWh. For the first 300 megawatts of wind on a utility's system, the discount is 7 percent. That increases to 8 percent when a utility has contracts for 301 to 500 MW of wind and to 9 percent for 501 MW or more.
For example, the discount applied to wind generators who sign a 20-year contract this year with Idaho Power Co. is $5.49 per MWh. For contracts signed this year, Idaho Power is already at the 8 percent tier because it has more than 300 MW of wind contracted to go online. (Wind developers who contracted before the utility reached 300 MW will qualify for the 7 percent discount.) A wind developer who signs a contract this year would be paid $63.17 per MWh, 8 percent less than the published rate of $68.66 per MWh. (Those amounts vary during heavy-load hours and heavy-load seasons.) For a 20-year contract signed this year in Avista's territory, the rate without the discount is $58.25 per MWh during lighter-use months and $74.89 during heavier-use months. With the 7 percent discount factored in, Avista would pay wind developers $54.17 per MWh during lighter-use months and $69.65 per MWh during higher-use months.
The commission approved a flat discount rate of $5.10 for PacifiCorp, which operates as Rocky Mountain Power in southeastern Idaho. Wind integration costs can be lower in areas where this is greater geographic diversity and larger control areas, as is the case with PacifiCorp, which operates in six states and is more dependent on thermal generation. Idaho Power and Avista are more dependent on hydroelectric generation.
One of the wind developers in the case, Exergy Development Group of Idaho, argued against an integration discount saying the science is in its "infancy," and that enough variables and uncertainties exist to make it impossible to determine a fair rate.
The commission said all the rates established for long-term firm contracts with small-power projects are based in part on forecasted values and estimates. To avoid integration costs that are inequitable, the commission is requiring all three utilities to participate in workshops that will continually update integration analysis and to regularly report to the commission. Idaho Power and Avista must report to the commission when its tiered discount percentage increases. Further, the commission noted, developers can petition the commission at any time if they believe wind integration costs are outdated or inaccurate.
A full text of the commission's order, along with other documents related to this case, are available on the commission's Web site. Click on "File Room" and then on "Recent Orders and Notices," and select any of the three case numbers provided above.
Interested parties may petition the commission for reconsideration by no later than March 12. Petitions for reconsideration must set forth specifically why the petitioner contends that the order is unreasonable, unlawful or erroneous. Petitions should include a statement of the nature and quantity of evidence the petitioner will offer if reconsideration is granted.
Petitions can be delivered to the commission at 472 W. Washington St. in Boise, mailed to P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID, 83720-0074, or faxed to 208-334-3762.


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An Oklahoma senator has issued a report asserting that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has halted action or "punted" on a number of regulations so President Obama can shore up votes for his November reelection bid. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), a ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, suggests that if the federal agency authorizes about a dozen regulations next year, it will "spell doom" for jobs and the economy as a whole.
"The Obama-EPA plans to move full speed ahead to implement this agenda if President Obama wins a second term," Inhofe notes in his report. "These rules taken together will inevitably result in the elimination of millions of American jobs, drive up the price of gas at the pump even more, impose construction bans on local communities and essentially shut down American oil, natural gas and coal production."
Citing a few of the president's "job killing" regulations, Inhofe contends that new EPA rules would devastate the economy in the coming years:
President Obama has spent the past year punting on a slew of job-killing EPA regulations that will destroy millions of American jobs and cause energy prices to skyrocket even more. From greenhouse gas regulations to water guidance to the tightening of the ozone standard, the Obama-EPA has delayed the implementation of rule after rule because they don't want all those pink slips and price spikes to hit until after the election. But President Obama's former climate czar Carol Browner was very clear about what's in store for next year: she told several green groups not to worry because President Obama has a big green 'to-do' list for 2013 so they'll get what they want. The radical environmental left may not need to worry but what about hard working Americans who will lose their jobs and be subjected to skyrocketing energy prices thanks to the Obama-EPA?
The report concludes that if activated, regulations on greenhouse gases would inflict a $300-billion to $400-billion annual burden, resulting in a notable price hike on gasoline and home heating. "The requirements are so strict they virtually eliminate coal as a fuel option for future electric power generation," Inhofe explains. "In a thinly veiled political move, the agency has put off finalizing the proposal until after the election."
Earlier this month, the Obama campaign responded to allegations of price-hiking and job-killing EPA regulations by claiming the president has doubled fuel-efficiency standards so vehicles "will go farther on a gallon of gas, helped double our production of job-creating clean wind and solar energies and has championed an all-of-the-above American energy strategy." Obama affirmed in the second presidential debate that he believes domestic energy production must continue to increase, but that we must also invest in new energy sources, such as wind, solar, and biofuels.
However, Carol Browner, now Obama's head campaign advocate, recently assured the environmental community that Obama has big plans to curb domestic energy production and push forward his "green" agenda:
I can tell you, having spent two years in the White House with the president, that this is not a fad. The president believes deeply in these issues. At every turn he has looked at what are the tools available to him to really help build a clean energy future for this country and has been committed throughout his first four years in office, and there's no doubt in my mind this will be a big part of his to-do list and he will remain committed in the next four years.
According to Inhofe, Obama has appeared to have drifted to the center with his political rhetoric on environmental regulations in order to appease voters who worry about rising energy prices and the overall state of the economy. But during a "second term, he's made the commitment" to reverse his environmental policy back to his liberal base, the senator added.
"They are all jumping on him," Inhofe continued. "All the Al Gore people, the elites, the MoveOn.orgs, saying, 'You had control of the House and the Senate you still didn't do it.' And he says 'wait until I get past this election and then I'll do it.'"
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Sandford Hall, near Whitchurch survives today. This county house is thought to have been built between 1700 and 1750 and at the time of writing is up for sale. Thorpe-Salvin in the West Riding of Yorkshire was home to a branch of the family. " It was anciently the property of the Salvin family, and subsequently of the Sandfords, by whom the now ruined Hall was erected about the middle of the 16th century." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Another early record of the family was Fulk de Sandford (d. 1271), also called Fulk de Basset, Archbishop of Dublin, nephew of Sir Philip Basset. "There was a Richard de Sandford, a prebendary of St. Paul's in 1241, and John de Sandford, (died 1294) Archbishop of Dublin, was Fulk Sandford's brother, and is known to be illegitimate." [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
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Downstairs (And Up) At Detroit
Last month we gave you a first look at the action from the main floor of Cobo Center, where, amongst the usual Autorama fare, contention for the 50th Annual Ridler Award was hot and heavy. But, as we all know, the real attractions often happen below street level—downstairs at Detroit, as we here at R&C like to call it.
The Autorama Extreme, as it's officially been dubbed, is where the Average Joe feels right at home; a place where hot rodders from all necks of the woods converge—with or without a car, bike, what have you—and do more than just sit around. Downstairs is literally where the action's at, whether it's the pinup girl contest with upwards of 50 models or, our favorite attraction, witnessing Gene Winfield doing one of the things he's best known for: chopping a top in a full-size Custom Shop diorama (sponsored by Genuine Hot Rod Hardware). And sprinkled within the vehicles on display are vendors of all types, offering wares ranging from Gear Drive's latest driveshaft tube headers to Rolling Bones T-shirts.
All said, taking everything in that the basement has to offer is, to say the least, a bit time-consuming; the place is packed wall-to-wall all Saturday and Sunday, so we suggest to any and all newcomers with even the slightest bit of claustrophobia: show up Friday! Fortunately, even with having to set up our 60th anniversary booth upstairs, we had the opportunity to wander around the entire Autorama before things got too crazy. Along with the heated 2013 Ridler rivalry, the 50-year celebratory display of past Ridler winners, and more, this was undoubtedly a Detroit for the record books…and one that will surely be tough living up to come this time next year.


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Initial reports this afternoon were that filming of racing scenes would be halted pending an investigation, but HBO just made the full cancellation official:
It is with heartbreak that executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann together with HBO have decided to cease all future production on the series Luck. Safety is always of paramount concern. We maintained the highest safety standards throughout production, higher in fact than any protocols existing in horseracing anywhere with many fewer incidents than occur in racing or than befall horses normally in barns at night or pastures. While we maintained the highest safety standards possible, accidents unfortunately happen and it is impossible to guarantee they won't in the future. Accordingly, we have reached this difficult decision. We are immensely proud of this series, the writing, the acting, the filmmaking, the celebration of the culture of horses, and everyone involved in its creation.


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There was no doubt who the top player was for the 83rd edition of the Pontiac Holiday Tournament. Cliff Alexander thrilled the 3,000 fans who came to watch him play each game with spectacular dunks, great defense and a dominance that propelled his Chicago Curie team to the championship.
Because of his tremendous play, Alexander was a unanimous selection to the all-tournament team.
The officials also voted Alexander as the A.C. Williamson Award winner for leadership, overall play and sportsmanship.
Alexander, who led the Condors to their first tourney championship in his third year at the event, will be playing his college ball at Kansas. Jayhawks' head coach Bill Self made a stop at Pontiac to see his top signee in action on Friday.
According to tournament officials, all five players on the first team were unanimous selections. Joining Alexander on the top squad were Edward Morrow of runnerup Chicago Simeon, Simmie Cobbs of third-place Oak Park-River Forest, Jontrel Walker of fourth-place Aurora West and St. Charles North's Alec Goetz.
Curie's Joseph Stamps was named to the second team, along with Roland Griffin of Aurora West, Zerell Jackson of Bloom Township, Bloomington's Antonio Sims and Trevor Stumpe of consolation champion Plainfield North.
The players making up the honorable mention squad were Josh Stamps of Curie, Grover Anderson of Lockport, Adrian Deere and Eric Gillespie of Warren, Simeon's Jaycee Hillsman and D.J. Williams, Delano Jones of Peoria Manual, Erick Locke of Oak Park-River Forest, Jake Ludwig of St. Charles North and Denzell Smith of Danville.


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The Red Sox were supposed to host the Tampa Bay Rays in the finale of a four-game series between the top two teams in the AL East. Steady rain, however, caused the game to be postponed, and instead the teams will play Monday at 6 p.m., after the Red Sox play three games in Baltimore against the Orioles and the Rays play three in New York against the Yankees.
Maybe the Red Sox caught a break Thursday night.
They were supposed to host the Tampa Bay Rays in the finale of a four-game series between the top two teams in the AL East. Steady rain, however, caused the game to be postponed, and instead the teams will play Monday at 6 p.m., after the Red Sox play three games in Baltimore against the Orioles and the Rays play three in New York against the Yankees.
At first glance, it seemed Boston had a decided pitching advantage in Thursday night's matchup, with John Lackey slated to start for the Red Sox and Jeremy Hellickson scheduled to go for the Rays.
Hellickson is a superb 9-3 on the season, but it's because he's gotten strong run support rather than because he's been lights out. His earned run average is a pedestrian 4.62, but the Rays are averaging 5.6 runs in each of his starts, almost a run better than the 4.7 they average per game for the season.
Lackey, meanwhile, is only 7-7, but his record is a reflection of the poor run support he's received rather than average pitching. His earned run average is 2.95, good for seventh in the American League, but the Red Sox, who lead the league with 5.19 runs — just over 5 per game — average only 3.6 in games started by Lackey.
On top of that, Lackey is on a roll.
He allowed four runs in 6 1/3 innings in his last start, but it was the first time in seven starts he'd allowed more than two runs. In 12 starts since May 14 — more than two months — he's allowed more than two runs just three times, giving up four twice and three once.
But Lackey has faced the Rays twice this season, and he's been hit hard both times.
In that start May 14 in St. Petersburg, Tampa Bay ripped Lackey for five runs on nine hits in 4 1/3 innings. It was his worst performance of the season. Just under a month later, also at Tropicana Field, Lackey was tagged for four runs on 10 hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Hellickson, meanwhile, has owned the Red Sox in two starts this season.
First, on April 15 at Fenway, he gave up two runs on three hits in seven innings, striking out nine. And last month, on June 19 at Fenway, he allowed two runs on seven hits in six innings.
Lackey will now pitch Friday night in the opener in Baltimore. He'll be followed by Ryan Dempster on Saturday and Jon Lester on Sunday. Rookie Brandon Workman, originally scheduled to pitch Saturday, will be skipped.
Monday's starter against the Rays will be Felix Doubront, who'll be opposed by either Roberto Hernandez or David Price.
"Keeping four of the five guys on their normal turn, despite John and Ryan getting an extra day," Red Sox manager John Farrell said when asked why he decided to push Lackey and Dempster back a day and skip Workman. "And we just felt like with Lester and Doubront in those slots it was the best day to go."
As for Workman, Farrell said the move makes him available out of the bullpen the next two games.
Pitching was the key in what turned into a three-game series at Fenway Park, and what seemed true on paper held up when the games were played.
Matt Moore looked to have the edge on Workman in the opener Monday. Sure enough, though Workman allowed only two runs in six innings, Moore outpitched him, throwing a two-hit shutout and becoming just the second visiting left-hander since 1920 to allow two hits or less and three or fewer baserunners.
Though their ERAs weren't all that different, Lester still seemed to be the better pitcher going into his matchup against Hernandez on Tuesday. And he was, helping the Red Sox to a 6-2 win.
Wednesday night's game featured Price, last year's AL Cy Young Award winner, against Doubront. Doubront was fine, but Price was better. A lot better, giving up just one run in a complete game.
The Red Sox didn't need a rainout on Thursday night. They may have lost two of three to Tampa Bay, and after almost two uninterrupted months in first place their lead may be down to just half a game in the AL East, but they weren't a team in desperate need of a mental health day.
No one was tempted to break into Fenway Park late Wednesday night, six-packs of cheap beer in hand, to turn on the sprinklers, soak the field and slide around making a mess of things.
But with the way Lackey's been belted around by Tampa Bay this season, and the way Hellickson's shut down the Red Sox this season, a rainout wasn't the worst thing that could have happened.
Even at the cost of an off-day on Monday.
Eric Avidon can be reached at 508-626-3809 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ericavidon.


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Apple has just released iOS 6.1.2, their second minor point update, and as promised it fixes a bug that's caused network activity problems for Exchange calendar users.
iOS 6.1 was released on January 28 with Siri movie ticket purchases in the U.S., and increased LTE support internationally. iOS 6.1.1 was released on February 11, but was exclusive to the iPhone 4S, and fixed 3G network connectivity problems.
A separate iOS 6.1.1 beta was released to developers on February 6, mostly focused on Maps improvements for Japan. That update is still awaiting release will likely be re-numbered.
No word yet one whether iOS 6.1.2 fixes the other, highly-publicized iOS bug -- a passcode bypass Apple previously said would be addressed in a future update. Stay tuned.
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Turning an eager candidate into a sobbing shadow of a human being isn't the outcome most interviewers are going for.
Turning an eager candidate into a sobbing shadow of a human being isn't the outcome most interviewers are going for.
Most recruiters agree you get more out of a candidate if they're at their ease and feeling relatively comfortable.
That said, a fresh line of enquiry can be like a cool drink of water for the frazzled recruiter.
We asked a host of seasoned interviewers for their most revealing quirky questions.
1. If I gave you £1 million, what would you do?
Terry Koutsios, CEO and founder of skills and services marketplace fivesquid.com.
Terry commented: "It's unexpected - and a great way of testing ambition, personality and creativeness."
2.If you had a cinema for one day only, from 6am to midnight - and you could do anything with it - what would you do to make it earn the most revenue?
Rana Harvey, managing director of Monster Group (UK)
Rana commented: "It's designed to see if people can think out of the box. The best ones use the cinema all day, but also maximise on selling advertising.
"Creative ideas have included hiring beauticians to offer full makeovers, converting to a disco at night, with movie rooms. The worst ones just focus on films."
3. What do children like about you?
Hazel Peat, childcare services manager for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The key here is that Hazel firmly puts the customer at the heart of her hiring.
She explained: "I use it as the final question - and it usually sees the interviewee relax. People who have been nervous throughout the interview often show their genuine love of childcare with their answers."
4. What does your child think you're good at?
Hazel Scott, Sheffield Hallam comms manager and Easy Street Theatre Co marketing manager
"It's a good question for adults because they get so wrapped up in their professional reputation and often worry far too much about what their peers, competitors, or clients think about them.
"There's a danger that when being interviewed people start spouting managerial waffle."
5. What great thing would you like written on your tombstone?
Linda Midgley, Jupiter Hotels' learning and development manager
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Background: Adult weight gain is an important factor in the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity. Although different fat types do not differ distinctly with respect to energy density, experimental data suggests that a diet high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) is less prone to lead to weight gain than a diet high in monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA). The aim of this study was to investigate the association between intake of the PUFAs linoleic, alpha-linolenic and arachidonic acid and prospective weight change.
Material and Methods: In 9,182 male and 10,867 female EPIC-Heidelberg participants, weight change occurring during a mean follow-up time of 6.5 years was expressed as mean annual weight change relative to baseline weight (%/year) and categorized into four groups (weight loss: <-0.5%/year, stable weight ±0.5%/year, small weight gain 0.5-1.5%/year, large weight gain >1.5%/year). The association between energy-adjusted PUFA intake (assessed by food frequency questionnaire) and prospective weight change was analyzed using multinomial logistic regression analysis in a multivariate model representing the effect of substituting calories from MUFAs by calories from a specific PUFA. Odds ratios (OR) describe the relative probability of falling into a certain weight change category with stable weight as outcome reference, according to tertiles of PUFA intake.
Results: The PUFAs linoleic acid and arachidonic acid were positively associated with weight gain. Comparing women in the highest versus lowest tertile of linoleic acid intake OR was 1.21 (95% confidence interval 1.05-1.40) for small and 1.49 (1.22-1.83) for large weight gain. This association was similar, but not significant in men. In contrast, dietary intake of alpha-linolenic acid was inversely associated with small [OR 0.87 (0.76-1.01)] and large [OR 0.81 (0.66-0.99)] weight gain in women, but not in men.
Conclusion: These results suggest different effects of individual fatty acids among the group of PUFAs on prospective weight gain.


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- Face to Face with Caterpillars by Darlyne Murawski reviewed by Jennifer at JeanLittleLibrary (that's me!)
- Let's Count to 100 by Masayuki Sebe, reviewed by Jone at Check It Out (This is a really cool book FYI!)
- Ponies by Laura Marsh and Trains by Amy Shields (National Geographic easy readers) reviewed by Heidi at Geo Librarian (I am a HUGE FAN of these nonfiction easy readers! They're amazing!)
- Ruby, Violet, Lime: Looking for Color by Jane Brocket, reviewed by Anastasia Suen at Picture Book of the Day
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I did want to share a few Halloween pictures...
Evan had a Halloween parade at his preschool and since the preschool is inside the nursing home, they get to trick or treat to all of the residents. It was so cute and everyone had a blast!
Batman and Robin :)
Then after work/school we headed to a close church for a hayride and some fun games
Then trick or treated with two of our neighbors. :)
Happy Halloween!


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Too Faced just introduced their new Hangover Skincare Collection and now is a good time to try it with the Dive Into Hydration Set that Nordstrom popped up with! This set includes full-sizes of the new Hangover Good in Bed Ultra-Replenishing Hydrating Serum plus a full-size Hangover 3-in-1 Replenishing Primer & Setting Spray and a mini Hangover Replenishing Face Primer! The set is $42 with a value of $84.
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Sandra Bullock filed for divorce from Jesse James on April 23 in Travis County District Court in Austin, TX, according to papers obtained by Access Hollywood.
"The marriage… has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities that destroys the legitimate end of the marriage/relationship and prevents any reasonable expectations of reconciliation," the papers stated, which were filed by "B.A.S.," (the Oscar winner's initials, backwards).
The papers state the couple, who were married in 2005, "have ceased living together as husband and wife."
As for the their joint assets, "[Bullock and James] will enter into an agreement for the division of their estate," according to the documents.
The papers go on to state, "There is no child under eighteen years of age or otherwise entitled to support who was born or adopted of this marriage and none is expected."
Earlier on Wednesday, the 40-year-old actress announced that she had adopted a three-and-half-month old son, Louis, in January and plans on raising him as a single parent.
The actress told People that she plans to continue co-parenting James' three children, Chandler, 15, Jesse Jr., 12, and Sunny, 6.
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Just weeks after a federal judge found the New York Police Department had illegally targeted minorities with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, confidential police documents reveal the department has also secretly designated mosques as "terrorist organizations" – a label that gives police greater leeway to infiltrate and conduct surveillance on Muslim houses of worship, even without any evidence of criminal activity.
The department calls these probes "terrorism enterprise investigations," according to documents acquired by the AP. The policy allows police to investigate anyone associated with the targeted mosque or Muslim community group. The investigations can stretch on for years, even if charges are never brought, the AP reports.
The program points to the scope of New York's aggressive antiterror practices. No other law enforcement agency – including the FBI, which criticized the NYPD's investigations of mosques in New Jersey last year – is known to be employing such tactics, and the new report comes as the NYPD faces increasing scrutiny.
The administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg was already facing a lawsuit over the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims, in addition to the legal challenge over the department's policy of stopping and frisking anyone who could reasonably be thought to be involved in serious crime. The revelations about terrorism enterprise investigations will only stoke the outrage among civil libertarians.
"One of things that's new here is the extent to which they were designating entire mosques as terrorist organizations," says Hina Shamsi, director the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project, and an attorney leading the suit against the city. "The NYPD has viewed Muslim religious beliefs and associations as worthy of stigma and suspicion without any indication of criminal wrongdoing, and that is unconstitutional religious discrimination, pure and simple. All New Yorkers – Muslims and non-Muslims – deserve better from their police force."
Wednesday's revelations prompted the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim groups to call for the Department of Justice to investigate the policy of terrorism enterprise investigations. "The NYPD has proven itself unwilling or unable to respect the constitutional and religious rights of minorities, and it is now up to the Department of Justice to step in," said council board member Lamis Deek in a statement.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly denounced the charges Wednesday morning, calling the AP investigation "a fair amount of fiction" on the MSNBC show "Morning Joe."
"We have an agreement, the Handschu agreement, that has been authorized by a federal judge," Commissioner Kelly said to host Joe Scarborough. "We follow that agreement to the letter – or that stipulation, I should say – and it authorizes us to do a whole series of things. Certainly investigations are part of it."
"We follow leads wherever they take us," he continued. "We're not intimidated as to where that lead takes us, and we're doing that to protect the people of New York City." Kelly also said the AP reporters, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, who have written a series of articles investigating the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims, were simply trying to hype a book based on their Pulitzer Prize-winning reports.
The NYPD's rules for its enterprise tactics stem from the 2003 revision of the Handschu agreement. The name refers to a 1971 lawsuit in which a woman named Barbara Handschu sued the NYPD for spying on protesters and liberals during the Vietman War, prompting new rules for police surveillance in 1985.
But after 9/11, a former CIA executive, David Cohen, told a federal judge in 2002 that mosques could be used "to shield the work of terrorists from law enforcement scrutiny by taking advantage of restrictions on the investigation of First Amendment activity."
So the federal judge rewrote the Handschu rules, saying "fundamental changes in the threats to public security" should permit cops to monitor political or religious speech whenever the "facts or circumstances reasonably indicate" a group of two or more people might be planning a terrorist attack.
One of the groups under surveillance was the Arab American Association of New York, a non-religious social services organization that provides immigrants with English language and citizenship classes, as well as running a food pantry and after-school programs.
A secret police document obtained by the AP described the department's plans to find an informant to get on the association's board of directors. The document described the potential informant as a male between the ages of 40 to 60, preferably Palestinian or Yemeni, and an owner of a small business.
"This is all well thought out, this infiltration of our organization," says Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Brooklyn-based association. "This is not just a random, 'Let's just find someone.' And really, when you see your name in a secret NYPD document, I'm sure any New Yorker would be outraged."
Many imams and other New York Muslims declined to talk about the revelations after numerous calls to mosques around the city. Some said they did not want to bring unwanted attention to their communities – the kind of chill against speaking out that the ACLU suit alleges.
"The level that we learned, which is to infiltrate the board, and the operations of our secular organization, is beyond anyone's imagination," says Ms. Sarsour, who was born and raised in Brooklyn. "It chills free speech in our communities, too. It obstructs the freedom to worship, really, when you know that the mosque you attend is being designated a terrorist organization."
One of the plaintiffs in the ACLU lawsuit, Asad Dandia, a sophomore at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, helped found a charitable organization called Muslims Giving Back. Founded in 2011, the small student group provides groceries for needy families.
Mr. Dandia's organization was infiltrated by a police informant in 2012, according to the complaint. Dandia invited the informant to his home for dinner and to meet his parents, and even to spend the night. The informant gave the police pictures of people at the group's meetings, obtained after Dandia "friended" him on Facebook.
But the informant eventually revealed himself after the group heard from a credible source that it was being targeted by the NYPD. The ACLU complaint says the group then lost its meeting location at a local mosque, while donations declined. It has also been unable to attract new members, and current members worry another informant may be in their midst.
"I am constantly frightened. What if I say the wrong thing?" said Dandia in an ACLU statement. "Islam requires giving back to the community that which you have been given by God. I've done nothing wrong and yet I am unable to practice Islam fully because of what the Police Department did to me."