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NEW YORK (AP) — Any model will tell you: It's hard to walk down a catwalk.
Especially when you're an actual cat.
Designer Tracy Reese's fall-winter show had a guest model, of the feline variety. The cat was supposed to be walked on a leash, but was a bit frightened, the designer explained backstage, and had to be cradled in the model's arms for its one trip down the catwalk. Er, runway.
The cat, named Lily, was a 4-year-old Siamese Blue Point rescue cat, according to Purina ONE, which sponsored the show along with Reese and provided the feline visitor. The pet food company says it wants to bring attention to the fact that leash-training can benefit cats by incorporating activity into their lives.
As for the fashion, Lily may have been timid, but Reese's designs were the opposite — full of mixed prints and bold colors, like the floral-printed neoprene frock in pink, orange and black that accompanied the cat-bearing model.
Reese is perhaps best known for the shimmery pink and silvery-blue dress that Michelle Obama wore to the Democratic National Convention, and her dresses didn't disappoint on Sunday, including a sleek black knee-length number with huge red flowers on it, its dainty shape contrasting nicely with the boldness of the print.
From flowers to animals: There were animal prints all over the collection. A cheetah-print coat opened the show, paired with a black lace shirt and a charcoal pant. The collection also included a cheetah tunic covering a cheetah skirt, a zebra-print trench over a crepe floral dress and an "animal jacquard" coat in tan and black worn over a sequined sweater.
"There are so many cool ways to use animal prints," Reese said backstage. "Subtle and not so subtle. Even in the beading."
Reese said she hoped women would become bolder about mixing prints — like pairing an animal print with a floral. "Most women like to wear only one print at a time. But I like to mix them, and I wanted to open up the conversation a bit."
The designer also pointed out a happy change on her runway: a focus on flat shoes.
"I'm so glad, because flats are my life!" Reese said. "These shoes are comfortable, useful and wearable. And fashionable. We're not talking about the flats you wear to the office and then change into your heels."
Short jackets also had a frequent presence on the runway, sometimes in eye-popping colors like a bright pink "lipstick leather," or in a cute scarlet tartan.
But back to the cat: Cute as she was, the designer, alas, did not get to hold her.
"I'm highly allergic," Reese confessed.


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Among the earliest pioneers in Oshtemo Township were Enoch Harris and his family, the first black settlers in Kalamazoo County. They arrived in Michigan from Marion County, Ohio, in approximately 1830, bringing with them seed from which they are said to have planted the first apple orchard in Kalamazoo County. Harris was sufficiently respected by his neighbors that he was often asked to mediate property disputes. The Harris family also owns the distinction of celebrating the first wedding in Oshtemo Township, when daughter Louisa Harris married Henry Powers in 1836.
Enoch Harris was born in Virginia in 1785 and raised in Pennsylvania, where he married his wife, Deborah, in 1812. She was born in 1793. They had settled more than once on the Ohio frontier before coming to Michigan. Enoch Harris died on 21 March 1870, at the age of 85. His wife died on 2 May 1881. Both are buried in Genesee Prairie Cemetery, located at the corner of Parkview Avenue and 11th Street, where a historical marker was dedicated in their honor in 1973. They left many descendants, some of whom still live in Kalamazoo County.
The Harris home stood in Oshtemo until recently. It was in poor condition, and the owner was unwilling to make the necessary expensive repairs. The Oshtemo Township Fire Department used it to train firefighters to rescue people from burning buildings, then they burned it to the ground in May 2006.

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Apparently, the new Retina versions of Photoshop and Illustrator were just the tip of the iceberg. Besides announcing those, Adobe is announcing major updates to the Creative Cloud service and upgrades to Photoshop (besides the Retina enhancement) and Muse, Adobe's webpage builder for non-coders. The biggest announcements have to be multi-seat Creative Cloud subscriptions for enterprise teams and Creative Cloud Connection for synching the 20GB+ of cloud storage with users' desktops. Click here to see the CreateNow announcement live this morning.
Photoshop 13.1: Conditional actions, CSS output and more
For whatever reason, Adobe opted to announce Photoshop's new Retina display support last night at midnight—before the CreateNow event. It ends up that Photoshop 13.1 has many more new features available today:
- Blur Gallery and Liquify filters can now be saved as non-destructive Smart Objects. Non-destructive edits are wonderful time-savers and I recommend using them whenever possible.
- Conditional Actions: Insert if-else logic that executes one of two actions depending on set criteria.
- Layers can now be exported as CSS code for web developers to apply to their projects.
- Improvements to the Crop tool.
- Better OpenGL 3D shadow previews and better lighting controls.
- Note that 512MB video RAM is now required for 13.1. Moreover, Windows XP is no longer supported.
Out of all the new features, the CSS export baffles me the most—Adobe had moved away from outputting code with their creative applications, perhaps because the code has never been very clean. I got my hands on the 13.1 build a week ago and have been looking at the CSS code produced by the new Photoshop (see below). It's much improved. Photoshop generates CSS class rules for one or more layers that are absolutely positioned, z-indexed for the correct layering, and given background-image rules referring to PNG files for each layer ("images/Layer 1 copy.png"). I do not see a method for extracting those PNGs, which is strange. It's also strange that the CSS uses inches instead of pixels for measurements, but my document is using inches so that makes sense.
.Group_1 {
position: absolute;
left: 0.767in;
top: 0.26in;
width: 6.753in;
height: 5.51in;
z-index: 6;
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background-image: url("images/Layer 3.png");
position: absolute;
left: 0in;
top: 0.107in;
width: 4.87in;
height: 4.877in;
z-index: 5;
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background-image: url("images/Layer 1 copy.png");
position: absolute;
left: 0.477in;
top: 0in;
width: 6.277in;
height: 5.51in;
z-index: 4;
Also, Photoshop can generate CSS code for single layers or a single layer group but not the entire document. This makes sense because developers often want just snippets for specific elements, but if the CSS output is all about positioning and specific measurements then I'd want code for all the elements so I don't have to figure out how they line up.
My pick for the new features that's great but could be a lot better is the Conditional Actions. In theory, they should be great: the action can execute one of two things depending on a condition in the document. However, two things hamper its usefulness:
- You can't specify one of two commands to be executed—only actions. So if you want an image cropped a certain way if it's landscape but another crop if it's portrait, you have to save both crops as actions and apply them that way.
- The conditions to be met are hard-coded into Photoshop and there's 24 total. Most are based on the document's status (color mode, pixel depth) or layer's status (mask, adjustment layer, effects).
It's obvious that overcoming these two points would require a very robust interface for selecting commands and creating conditions, so I am cool with not having it in 13.1. I would love to see this be developed further in version 14 (CS7?).
Creative Cloud: New teams, training service and desktop sync
Creative Cloud has some major momentum—200,000 members have joined in the last four months and most of them select an annual plan. I see this growing as Adobe continues to add value to the subscription and legacy users decide to stop purchasing standalone software. The new Creative Cloud for teams is going to accelerate the process.
David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media, Adobe, says, "Our goal is to make Creative Cloud the ultimate hub for creatives, where they can access the world's best creative tools, store and collaborate around their work and ultimately showcase their creations. Now with the availability of the new Creative Cloud offering for teams, we're making it easier for workgroups to create and collaborate."
Creative Cloud for teams has some features that you find in subscription-based enterprise services:
- Virtual workgroup management
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- Expert support services
- An admin interface for adding/removing seats
- Easy migration from individual to team memberships
- Annual contract is billed $69.99/month or $49.99/month for first year for users of CS3 or newer
I am really digging the Creative Cloud Connection, Adobe's new desktop synchronization service for Creative Cloud. There are several cloud services out there now—Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Box and more—and they all provide some space for free, but it is not a lot. SkyDrive offers the most at 7GB. Creative Cloud isn't free but subscribers do get a good 20GB along with all the Adobe programs. Some cloud services can sync files to users' computers but not all; Creative Cloud can do so now today. Note that folder sharing is coming soon.
Adobe is also announcing today the new Creative Cloud Training service for subscribers. It's a collection of training videos from various providers available free to subscribers. I wouldn't be surprised if many customers already have subscriptions to these video providers such as Kelby Training and Lynda.com (who isn't listed on the press release, so I don't think they are participating) but it's a good added value for those who don't.
Muse: Better for tablet and mobile web layouts
Adobe Muse gets one major updates but it's quite major: it can now create web layouts for the desktop, iPhone, iPad and other devices. Designers can work with all views within Muse, which is handy. I haven't seen the new Muse so I don't know whether it is generating a responsive website or just building multiple versions of a site—if it's the latter, it's unclear if Muse provides the code for device detection and serving up the correct version.
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Leonard Shouse, the man who helped turn Simpsonville into a city and brought its residents a sewer system, died Tuesday after complications from a fall the day after Thanksgiving. He was 89.
"He fell the day after Thanksgiving and broke his leg," his daughter Carolyn Shouse Mills said. "Everything went wrong from that point on."
She said her father had suffered severely from emphysema for years and that he spent 19 days in Jewish Hospital Shelbyville, 15 in intensive or critical care, and the last two weeks or so on Crestview Rehabilitation & Nursing Center.
Shouse served for 11 years in Simpsonville's government in the 1970s and '80s and helped incorporate it into the commission form of government under which it operates today.
"A lot of the ordinances that he put in place we still operate by today," Simpsonville Mayor Steve Eden said. "His big thing was getting sewers into the city, getting the city incorporated and starting out as its first mayor."
Shouse was a native of Waddy who moved with his wife of 71 years, the former Martha Cozine, to her hometown of Simpsonville shortly after serving the Army in World War II. They built a home on Veechdale Road and there raised Mills and her sister, Norma Shouse Diakow of Lawrenceburg. He had three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
He was a deacon and taught Sunday school at Simpsonville Baptist Church, where he was a member for 65 years, and also served as a Master of the Wingate Masonic Lodge No. 151 F&AM in Simpsonville.
He was an airplane and helicopter mechanic who retired as a master sergeant in the Kentucky Army National Guard.
"Growing up as a kid, he was in the Baptist church," said Eden, who is a member there "I got to serve with him in the Lion's Club and at the Masonic lodge. He was very dedicated to the city.
"I remember going to lodge meetings and letting him know what was going on with city and asking him what he would do, he was always good with advice. I always appreciated him."
Shouse's legacy of public service developed because of a friendship and blossomed into a commitment.
"He was very close with Mr. Bailey Newton and through his association with him and his association with community, Mr. Newton just insisted that he run for the office, to get him involved," Mills said. "He served as major seven or eight years. He was always interested in others, always interested in serving, first his country. He loved his family, loved giving back."
Shouse also served at Eden's appointment on the Triple S Planning Commission's board of adjustment and appeals for two or three terms, and the only reason he resigned was because he and Martha sold their home and moved to Amber Oaks, which meant he no longer could be Simpsonville's delegate to the board.
"It wasn't a matter of just showing up and getting a paycheck," Mills said. "He was very interested. As a matter of fact, didn't want to resign, but he had to because he moved."
If Shouse had one greater passion that Mills didn't list, it was his devotion to restoring Ford Mustangs, particularly 1965 Fords.
"I heard him tell somebody once that he had twelve of them," Mills said. "All of them were 1965s except he told me his yellow convertible was a 1964 and a half model."
Leonard Shouse built a workshop out behind his house on Veechdale Road, where he could keep up as many as three vehicles at a time to be restored.
"He did all his restoration work back there," Mills said. "He would go and buy old parts and restore those old parts. I remember seeing him sit at a desk and go over and over an old steering wheel. He was very meticulous.
"He did his own upholstery. He did everything but painting."
Shouse was a member of Kyana Antique Car Club and spent a lot of time with his friend Ron Miller in pursuit of that avocation, and in June 1998 he was featured in an article in Mustang Timesmagazine in which the author, Mike Spaulding, spoke of restoring a 1966 Mustang. He wrote that Shouse "knows more about Mustangs than any man I've ever met. He may also be one of the most friendly and honest men around."
Said Mills: "I've heard so many wonderful things about my dad."
Eden said he last saw Shouse in late summer at event at the lodge. He said the emphysema had left Shouse unable to climb the steps into the building.
"The lodge is putting on Masonic funeral on Thursday night," Eden said. "I'll be there. It's an honor to get to do that for him."
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Author Notes: This is the ultimate make-ahead, perfectly cooked rib roast -- an utterly genius recipe from "Ann Seranne's Recipe for a Perfect Roast: Put it in the Oven and Relax", The New York Times, July 28, 1966. Note: Don't attempt this recipe if your oven isn't well-insulated (that is, if it's extremely hot to the touch when it's in use). —Genius Recipes
Makes: 2 servings per rib
One 2- to 4-rib roast of beef, weighing 4½ to 12 pounds
Salt & freshly ground black pepper
1/2 to 1 cup beef stock or broth (optional, if making pan gravy)
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- Remove the roast from the refrigerator 2 1/2 to 4 hours before cooking.
- Preheat the oven to 500 degrees.
- Place the roast in an open, shallow roasting pan, fat side up. Sprinkle with a little flour, and rub the flour into the fat lightly. Season all over with salt and pepper.
- Put the roast in the preheated oven and roast according to the roasting chart at the end of the slideshow above, timing the minutes exactly. (This works out to be 15 minutes per rib, or approximately five minutes cooking time per pound of trimmed, ready-to-cook roast.) When cooking time is finished, turn off the oven. Do not open the door at any time.
- Allow the roast to remain in the oven until oven is lukewarm, or about two hours. The roast will still have a crunchy brown outside and an internal heat suitable for serving as long as 4 hours after removing from the oven.
- Note: To make a thin pan gravy, remove excess fat from the meat drippings, leaving any meat pieces in the pan. Stir in 1/2 to 1 cup beef stock or broth. Bring to the boil, scraping the bottom of the pan to loosen the meat pieces. Simmer for one minute and season to taste.
- Note: Don't attempt this recipe if your oven isn't well-insulated (that is, if it's extremely hot to the touch when it's in use). Since ovens vary in their insulation, to be safe, you may want to rig up a probe thermometer or other oven-safe thermometer you can read without opening the oven door, and pull the roast out if it reaches the desired degree of doneness early.
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Master's Men 6th Annual Winter Celebration gospel concert set for Feb. 23
The Master's Men Annual Winter Celebration, which brings the best artists in Southern Gospel to Southeast Texas every February is scheduled for Feb. 23 at Silsbee High School Auditorium, located at 5 p.m., with doors opening at 4 p.m.
This year's guests include Triumphant Quartet, Jeff and Sheri Easter and 11th hour.
Triumphant Quartet has been voted best male quartet in the Singing News Fan Awards for the fourth consecutive year. In addition, Edgar Bennett was named best bassist, Jeff Stice was voted best musician and the group earned album of the year with "Songs From Your Heart." This outstanding group, which was formed in 2002, has everything fans expect in a southern gospel quartet, with David Sutton providing unbelievable high notes; Eric Bennett, award winning bass singer, providing a firm foundation; and father/son Clayton and Scotty Inman giving a rich blend at lead and baritone.
Jeff and Sherri Easter, southern and country gospel group, have been nominated for numerous Dove Awards — winning a total of six — including southern gospel song of the year in 2010 and receiving a second lifetime Grammy nomination. As members of acclaimed musical families — Jeff's father is one of the Easter Brothers and Sheri's mother is a member of The Lewis Family — they grew up surrounded by the sound of people praising God through their musical gifts.
11th Hour is a young up-and-coming trio that has already charted songs on the Singing News Top 100, with their song "Stepping Out" already in the top 10.
The Master's Men, from First Baptist Church Silsbee, are a group of eight dedicated Christians that sing traditional four-part southern gospel with seven singers, which add depth to their sound. They have been promoting and providing southern gospel music to Southeast Texas and beyond for the past 15 years, bringing the gospel message in song to thousands.
First Baptist Church Silsbee is sponsoring the event. Tickets and additional information is available online at mastersmensilsbee.org or by calling First Baptist Church Silsbee at (409) 385-2819. For additional information contact Keith Morgan at (409) 385-4577 or via email at keith [at] 1027ktxj [dot] com.


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A winner was selected from 217 designs submitted by 57 freelance designers.
A new cosmetic medical practice opening in the heart of Louisiana, and an awesome logo is key. Creativity and being unique will win you this contest!
Nouriche is a new concept in medical aesthetics. Nouriche will be a 1 stop destination for various types of services, from classical clinical work, to executive health and cosmetic services.
The brand new 6000 foot center will have rich dark bamboo floors, brass accents, frosted glass and a bamboo forrest theme throughout. Please keep this in mind when designing our logo.
Being in the heart of Louisiana, something very creative must be designed to brand the practice. it must stand out and be known by its name and its logo. There is no opportunity to do something vanilla or something simple.
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- Colors - dark brown, brass, green, baby blue, transparent elements (like rain). All earth tones or similar - PLEASE BE CREATIVE!
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Featuring a slim aluminum body, the Sony Xperia Tablet S sports sports a splash-proof design with its 9.4-inch HD display with OptiContrast Panel.
Underneath the hood of the Xperia Tablet S is a NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor running on Android 4.0 with 16GB on internal storage. Other features include an 8-megapixel (rear) camera, 1MP (front) camera, 6000mAh Li-ion battery, and a SD-card slot.
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Planning for an edtech RFP: Technical vs. functional specs
ICT-related procurements in the education sector, especially large scale ones, are not easy. A recent World Bank Internal Evaluation Group report noted that "ICT procurement has been highlighted as a major implementation constraint in several country and regional portfolio reviews and is a critical dimension of design." Rapid changes in technology mean that many ministries of education have a hard time keeping up with what's current in the market, let alone what might be coming next.
Even in places where anti-corruption measures are well considered and implemented, government auditors and external watchdog groups may be challenged to identify dodgy practices in some ICT-related areas. (Have you ever read the fine print on large scale bandwidth contracts for schools? Such things are often not for the feint of heart.) It is not unknown to hear whisperings about vendors -- or consultants close to them -- providing 'assistance' of various sorts in writing a request for proposals (or certain technical specs that appear in such RFPS), and of course vendors often hope that their showcase pilot projects may inspire ministries of education to think in certain ways about what is possible, and even desirable. For many ministries of education, the line between 'influence' and 'undue influence' in such cases can be very clear in some circumstances, but rather hazy in others.
As part of a very interesting Q&A period after a presentation at the World Bank a few years ago, mention was made about some of the challenges faced in a state in southern India which was exploring whether so-called thin client solutions might be worth considering in its schools. Essentially, the issue was this: Traditional practice when procuring computers for schools had focused on ensuring that each computer met a defined set of minimum technical specifications. In an alternative, 'thin client' set-up, it was possible to use workstations that had less robust specifications, provided they were connected to a powerful server whose processing power substitutes for that of the client computer. To oversimplify:
[-] 'traditional' approach: lots of pretty powerful computers
[-] 'alternative' approach: lots of relatively underpowered computers, connected to one very powerful computer
The point here is not to imply that one type of arrangement is on its face better or worse. Rather, it is to highlight that, if you write an RFP in a certain way -- in our example here, requiring that *every* computer meet a certain relatively high technical specification (processing speed, hard drive size, etc.) -- you may exclude proposals that feature non-traditional or 'alternative' or new approaches.
One way around this is to put more emphasis on functional specifications, rather than technical specifications, in certain components of your RFP. Not sure what this means in practice? When discussing such issues with ministries of education, I often point to an RFP at the heart of a procurement process in the U.S. state of Maine as a way to highlight an approach to procurement that is, at least in terms of most of the places where the World Bank works helping to advise education leaders, rather rare. While I am certainly no procurement expert -- thankfully we have plenty of very good ones at the World Bank to whom I can refer people -- I offer the comments below based on many discussions with ministries of education about their challenges in this regard, in case doing so might be of any interest.


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If something got stuck in my teeth I think that I could be driven insane by it. I am not sure if I have gotten over the trauma of the orthodontist, and the bizarre tiny tortures my mouth endured for my formative years. when preparing my haphazardly engineered teeth for braces, the orthodontist's assistant would put tiny rubber bands between them to stretch the spaces enough for the wires. The rubber bands felt like fibers, chunks of meat threaded through the gumline. They could not be sucked out and they would make my entire jaw ache with the pressure of its own immobility.
My face was sore from the age of ten to about fourteen, when I refused the sensible aftercare of my retainer and my teeth grew in rebellion back to a shadow of their original configuration. This was dumb but also gave my teeth some character, an attitude, a pride in its imperfection, which then spread over to my entire being. My teeth are now not quite as white as they were, but they serve me well, which is not bad as I head into the half century mark.
My good dental hygiene plays a role, and when there is anything stuck in my teeth, I consider it a state of emergency. Every meal isn't completed until my teeth are gently cleaned afterwards. It's a form of dessert, the brushing and flossing, which sounds austere and monastic but it is actually refreshing. I have to do this because if there is something in my molars, a tender thread of spinach or kale reaching up to tickle the back of my throat, a hard bit of bacon wedged in the cracks, protein particles of dubious origin reminding me constantly that I haven't been a good custodian of my mouth, I will lose my mind.
It has to do with the pain of orthodontics haunting me orally and also I had a really bad thing in my teeth last year. I had a terrible fruit fly infestation, which crippled me socially, as I could not entertain anyone while I was hosting literally millions of adult flies and larvae. I slapped flies on my arm and would actually catch two of them, in the middle of fly sex, one inseminating the other as they flew slow and heavy in the air above me, their flight path slowed by the intimacy of the act. One fly managed to swoop into my nostril and down into my lungs and I could do nothing but inhale it further to stop feeling it bang against my throat.
I felt something in my teeth, but I didn't have time to brush and floss so I left it. I thought, I will take care of this in a little while. I don't need to deal with this now. I felt the little thing there, but I didn't do anything. The particle dislodged itself and floated around my mouth for a time, but then went back into the space between my teeth. I felt it and finally I caught it with my tongue and put it on my finger for a brief inspection, one of those quick checks where you deduce what it is before swallowing it. It was a fruit fly.


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Petition of the day
The petition of the day is:
Issue(s): Whether the Indiana statute that disqualifies a health care provider from participating in a government program because, outside that program and with wholly private funds, it provides abortion care imposes an unconstitutional condition in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Recommended Citation: Mary Pat Dwyer, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (May. 21, 2013, 9:11 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/05/petition-of-the-day-457/


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Question: I only have liability car insurance on my vehicle. I was in a wreck that wasn't my fault, but the other person didn't stay at the scene. The police said they'll likely never find out who hit me, and my auto insurance company says it won't pay for my car's damages or my injuries. What can I do in this situation? Who pays?
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Answer: Unfortunately, you pay. There isn't anyone to file a claim against or sue, and you have not bought the right auto insurance coverages. Hit-and-run accidents like this put you in a hard spot financially.
The liability policy that you have is good only to cover the damages you cause others; it doesn't help you in any way to pay for your damages. You can't make a claim against your own bodily injury or property damage liability coverage, ever, even if the at-fault party cannot be found.
Most all states require car owners to carry liability coverage so that the responsible party has a way to pay for the damages they cause to others. This of course doesn't work if the at-fault person doesn't stop. You are a victim of circumstances, but that doesn't help you get your car fixed or medical bills paid.
What would help you is having optional auto insurance coverages that you could file a claim under. For injuries, you'd need personal injury protection (PIP) or medical payments as part of your policy. For damages to your car, you'd need collision coverage in order to be able to make a claim.
Uninsured motorist bodily injury benefits vary by state and by insurer, so sometimes it will cover injuries you sustained due to a hit-and-run accident, but typically uninsured motorist property damage will not.
If you don't have health insurance to pay for your medical expenses, then you should check with your state's insurance regulator or attorney general's office to see if there is a compensation program in place that could help you out.
In many states, there are crime victim compensation programs set up, and generally they include help for those injured by hit-and-drivers (if you fit their eligibility requirements). For example, Delaware has the Victim's Compensation Assistance Program (VCAP), and New York has a program more specifically for injuries resulting from auto accidents with its Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corporation (MVAIC).
These compensation systems, however, do not cover property damage.
Without having collision insurance coverage on your car, you're left to pay out of your own pocket for any needed repairs. If the car is too damaged to be repaired, you'll, unfortunately, be out of a car with no recourse unless the hit-and-run driver is eventually found.
When turning down physical damage coverages of collision and comprehensive as part of your car insurance policy, you are taking the risk that you may be in an accident and end up being responsible for the full cost of repairs or total loss of your car. (See "Is it time to drop comp and collision?")
If you want full coverage but don't think you can afford it, shop around first before making a final decision. Car insurance companies vary on their rating systems and it's very possible that you can hook up with an auto insurer that is pricing competitively for your specific rating factors and allow you to afford more coverage while paying less. (See "12 ways to double-check your savings.")
The original article can be found at CarInsurance.com:A hit-and-run accident can leave you high and dry


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A guest staying at this homestay gets to learn a great deal about the history, culture and heritage of Rajasthan through their well-informed hosts. The guests who are treated as part of the family are invited to join the hosts in celebrating festivals like Holi and Diwali.
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Keep Those Classic Ford and Mustang Tech Questions Coming!
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I took a '99 Lincoln Continental 4.6L engine and added a Mustang Cobra intake, and an '03/'04 Mach 1 crankshaft and flexplate to get a unique automatic 4.6L 32-valve "Cobra" engine. Will this actually work? My biggest nightmare is I screwed something up during the build. The engine does turn over with the starter. I have not yet installed the crankshaft damper/pulley. I have two and I'm not sure which one would work. The Lincoln Continental timing cover is different, to say the least, from the Cobra version, so who knows how well all the pulleys work together.
Nick (last name withheld)
Indianapolis, IN
The 4.6L crankshafts are all internally balanced, which means they don't rely on a 28- or 50-ounce balance flywheel/damper combo like the small-block Ford crankshaft. You should be OK with what you have done. The only thing I caution is the torque-to-yield bolts in the connecting rods and the engine's main bearing caps. Torque to yield means that the bolts stretch as they are torqued and they don't stretch again if you try to reuse them. I've heard builders say the connecting rod bolts can be used up to three times, but my Ford shop manual says to discard the bolts any time they are disassembled. ARP sells the bolts you want. The rod bolts under PN 256-6301 and the main bearing cap bolts are PN 156-5001. As far as the damper, either the Continental or the Mach 1 should work. It depends on whether or not you want to run a six- or eight-rib front drive (your '99 and '03 Mach should be a six-rib belt, only the eight-rib pulleys were used on supercharger applications). You could go to the aftermarket and get an underdrive or overdrive damper, but the Lincoln pulley should work for you just fine.
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I'm a fan of your magazine from Australia. I was wondering whether anyone could enlighten me on where to obtain the wheels featured on this car featured on your website; www.mustangandfords.com/featured-vehicles/mdmp-1010-1969-ford-mustang-gt-sportsroof-modified/photo-07.html. Also, what is the best way to look at wheel options for a '69 Mustang? It seems that 9 out of 10 Mustangs have Magnum 500s and I want some aluminum wheels for my Cobra Jet.
Al Macchio
Sydney, Australia
The wheels on that feature car are the anthracite 20x9 American Racing Shelby Razors. The good people at Tire Rack carry them (www.tirerack.com). Type in Razor at the site search and it should take you right to the options (silver, chrome, and anthracite).
As far as the best way to look for wheels, I suggest you start by reading this article from April 2010 at www.mustangandfords.com/techarticles/suspension/mdmp_1004_wheel_fitment_tips/viewall.html. This tech article from the November 2006 issue at www.mustangandfords.com/techarticles/suspension/mufp_0612_ford_mustang_wheel_fitment/viewall.html is another good source of information as well.
Most of the new designs coming out are catering to the late-model Mustangs, so be careful when selecting wheels. Some of the very deep wheels can touch the upper ball joints or other suspension components, requiring you to run offset wheel spacers for clearance. A general rule of thumb is the late-model wheels are at least 1 inch wider on the backspace than the original wheels. Many wheel manufacturers now make two-piece wheels that allow you to set the offset for your early car.
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Dave, what was the first Ford to come out with four-wheel disc brakes?
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Lynchburg, VA
Unless this is a trick question, I think the first four-wheel disc brake system came out with the late '70s Lincoln Versailles. I'm trying to think of an earlier application, but I just can't. The Corvette came out with four-wheel discs in '65, and the Mustang got its first four-wheel disc setup with the introduction of the '84 SVO right? Am I missing one somewhere?
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I have a '70 Boss 302 almost ready for installation in my '65 Mustang and have a question. Will this fit in the engine compartment using the factory cast-iron exhaust? I have had no luck acquiring headers. It will have a built C4 automatic transmission with a 347 stroker kit with 0.060-over pistons at 10.0:1-plus compression, so it will be a good street runner even with the large cast-iron exhaust. The exhaust and intake will have stainless floor inserts for improved low-end performance. Do you have any lead on where some headers can be hiding that will work? I searched but no luck. Hooker still has headers for the '70 Mustang, but I have no way of knowing if they would fit without cutting, welding, or installing a whole new front end. So I'm stuck with the cast-iron exhaust in the hope that they will fit. I can't afford to ship my car to Washington (state) for custom work.
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The cast-iron manifolds should fit your '65 Mustang chassis, but don't bother with them—you need a set of headers. I think the link to Washington you are talking about is Ford Powertrain Applications (www.fordpowertrain.com), and they list a Boss 302 header in a '65 chassis (#8 on their list). I used a set of its small-block Yates port headers before and they are very nice. I am sure if you call them they can assure you that they will fit.
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A time warp is a phenomenon which can allow travel through time. Usually only formed through great expenditures of energy, a time warp can be created both naturally and artificially (See: Slingshot effect).
In 2266, while spiraling down toward planet Psi 2000, the USS Enterprise traveled back in time three days, after accidentally creating a time warp through an experimental intermix formula which posited a relationship between time and antimatter. (TOS: "The Naked Time")
In 2267, brief time warp distortions were felt throughout the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond, as a result of the magnetic effect created when Lazarus and anti-Lazarus emerged from the alternative warp. (TOS: "The Alternative Factor")
In 2269, the disappearances of many starships in the Delta Triangle region of the galaxy were found to be caused by naturally occurring time warp vortices. The time warps were caused by a small parallel time continuum, known as Elysia, touching the prime universe in that region. The time barrier between the universes was disturbed and nearby starships were pulled into the alternate universe through the vortices. (TAS: "The Time Trap")
In 2286, Spock had to make exact computations for the time warp that brought the HMS Bounty back in time to 1986 using the slingshot effect. For the journey back to 2286, he used the first journey through time as a reference, calculating the coefficient of elapsed time in relation to the acceleration curve. Though he had to make a guess, since the additional mass of water and the humpback whales could not be determined exactly, which meant that this variable to the acceleration could not be calculated exactly. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
In 2372, a Ferengi shuttle carrying Quark, Rom, and Nog, traveled through a time warp when, in an attempt to shut down a sabotaged warp drive, Rom vented plasma from the warp core into the cargo hold, starting a cascade reaction in kemacite being stored there. He then modulated the reaction to create an inversion wave in the warp field, to force the ship into normal space. Although his plan succeeded, it also had the effect of transporting the shuttle back in time to the year 1947. The three Ferengi were able to return to their own time by harnessing the beta radiation from a nuclear explosion to trigger another cascade, causing a temporal surge in the subspace continuum, recreating the same kind of time warp, bringing them back to the present. (DS9: "Little Green Men")


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The two winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever water quality video contest made videos that will help educate the public about water pollution and give simple steps that people and communities can take to improve water quality.
"We are delighted by the number and quality of contest submissions," said Acting Assistant Administrator for Water Michael H. Shapiro. "This is another illustration of how new Web technologies allow people to express their passion for water quality in new and exciting ways."
In the 30- or 60-second category, "Protect Our Water -- Check Cars for Oil Leaks" submitted by Lucas Ridley of Trenton, Ga., was the overall winner. His video illustrates one easy step you can take to protect your watershed through proper motor vehicle care.
In the 1- to 3-minute category, "Dastardly Deeds and the Water Pollution Monster" submitted by Nora Kelley Parren of Hinesburg, Vt., was the winner. Her animated video, made entirely out of discarded paper, illustrates how polluted runoff threatens ecosystems and offers tips people can take to protect water quality. The two winning filmmakers will each receive a $2,500 cash award, and their videos are featured on EPA's Web site.
EPA received more than 250 video submissions that covered a wide variety of topics including low impact development, wetlands, marine debris, watershed management, water quality monitoring, polluted runoff, and other water-related topics. The agency received many other highly creative videos, and 22 videos were recognized as honorable mentions.
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The Hangover Part III
Years from now, when people discuss the best comedies of this generation, I fully expect 2009's "The Hangover" to feature prominently in their conversation. Although it certainly had its detractors, it was widely found to be quite funny, a consensus made by both the movie going public and the critic community. Its sequel, which can more appropriately be called a remake, was less successful in terms of quality because comedy requires the element of surprise to work and surprises were few and far between due to recycled jokes and plot lines. This week's "The Hangover Part III" abandons the narrative structure of the previous films and successfully sets itself apart. Unfortunately, it's one of the only things it's successful at doing.
This time, the boys don't have anything crazy planned. They have moved past the events from the previous two movies and are content with their lives, that is except for Alan (Zach Galifianakis), who tries to fill his emptiness with things like the purchasing of a giraffe, which he promptly and accidentally decapitates soon after. His wild life has led Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) to stage an intervention. This convinces Alan to enter rehab to get his life under control, but on the way, a drug kingpin named Marshall (John Goodman) rams them off the road. It turns out Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong) has stolen over $20 million in gold from him. Mr. Chow's whereabouts are unknown since his escape from a prison near Bangkok, so he figures the Wolfpack may be able to find him. He takes Doug hostage and gives the trio three days to get his money back. Otherwise, Doug is dead.
The most common criticism that "The Hangover Part II" received was that it followed too closely to its predecessor. It's a fair complaint, but it's also understandable. Director Todd Phillips had something special with the first movie, a comedy that fired on all cylinders, provided plenty of laughs, had likable characters and a story with an intriguing mystery at its core. To want to recreate that magic a second time is perfectly reasonable, even if it did ultimately fail. But "The Hangover Part III" is another beast altogether. It does nothing but coast by on the franchise name and star power of its leads. It has no material to sustain a full length movie, only the thinnest of paper thin plots to move it along and jokes that oftentimes can hardly be considered such.
The jokes this time come at a far less frequent pace (and legitimate laughs even less so). Large chunks of the movie go by with nary a joke in sight, the only humorous moments coming from Galifianakis' goofy demeanor and not from a witty script. This comes as no surprise since Galifianakis is the only one even trying, the others merely coasting by for the paycheck, clearly uninterested in what's going on, but it's a futile attempt. Galifianakis' character was always written as the dimwitted one, the one that spoke before thinking, but his simplemindedness from the previous movies has now devolved into outright cruelty. Few would argue that the characters were walking examples of morality in the other movies, but much of their meanness came from name calling and harsh jokes among themselves, a normal occurrence between male friends. Here, the characters spill glasses on purpose for the house maid to clean up, verbally abuse old ladies in motorized wheelchairs and talk poorly to their mothers, to the point where Alan even wishes his mother dead.
Cruelty does not equate to comedy, a revelation made clear by recent debacles like "Bachelorette" and "Project X," yet that's nearly all "The Hangover Part III" has to offer. What little actual jokes it does have are unfunny or rehashes of other familiar jokes, like the model building joke from "Zoolander." Its locations—prisons, funerals and interventions, just to name a few—simply aren't ripe for comedy and very few movies with similar settings pull it off (the 2007 British film "Death at a Funeral" being a standout exception).
Although I'm sure many will prefer this narratively new film over the rehash that was "Part II," this is nevertheless far worse. At least "Part II" tried. It was a lazy attempt, but it had a desire to be funny. This has no comedic flow or energy and laughs are scarce. What's worse, the focus on Alan and Mr. Chow relegates both Stu and Phil to sidekicks who are given little to do. "The Hangover Part III" is a comedic abomination and, as a third entry to one of the funniest movies in recent memory, a colossal disappointment.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), also called Mormonism, church that traces its origins to a religion founded by Joseph Smith in the United States in 1830. The term Mormon, often used to refer to members of this church, comes from the Book of Mormon, which was published by Smith in 1830; use of the term is discouraged by the church. Now an international movement, the beliefs of the church are characterized by a unique understanding of the Godhead, emphasis on family life, belief in continuing revelation, desire for order, respect for authority, and missionary work. Its members obey strict prohibitions on alcohol, tobacco, coffee, and tea and promote education and a vigorous work ethic.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and had more than 16 million members by the early 21st century. A significant portion of the church's members live in the United States and the rest in Latin America, Canada, Europe, Africa, the Philippines, and parts of Oceania.
Another Mormon denomination, the Community of Christ (until 2001 the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), is headquartered in Independence, Missouri, and had a membership of approximately 250,000 in the early 21st century.
In western New York state in 1823, Joseph Smith had a vision in which an angel named Moroni told him about engraved golden plates buried in a nearby hill. According to Smith, he received subsequent instruction from Moroni and, four years later, excavated the plates and translated them into English. The resultant Book of Mormon—so called after an ancient American prophet who, according to Smith, had compiled the text recorded on the plates—recounts the history of a family of Israelites that migrated to America centuries before Jesus Christ and were taught by prophets similar to those in the Old Testament. The religion Smith founded originated amid the great fervour of competing Christian revivalist movements in early 19th-century America but departed from them in its proclamation of a new dispensation. Through Smith, God had restored the "true church"—i.e., the primitive Christian church—and had reasserted the true faith from which the various Christian churches had strayed.
The new church was millennialist, believing in the imminent Second Coming of Christ and his establishment of a 1,000-year reign of peace. This belief inspired Smith's desire to establish Zion, the kingdom of God, which was to be built somewhere in the western United States. He received revelations not only of theological truth but also providing day-to-day practical guidance. The early members of the church devised new secular institutions, including collective ownership (later changed to a system of tithing) and polygamy, which was practiced by Smith himself and by most leading Mormons in the church's early years.
Soon after the church's founding, Smith and the bulk of the members moved to Kirtland, Ohio, where a prominent preacher, Sidney Rigdon, and his following had embraced the faith. In Jackson county, Missouri, where it was revealed that Zion was to be established, Smith instituted a communalistic United Order of Enoch. But strife with non-Mormons in the area led to killings and the burning of Mormon property. Tensions between church members and local slave-owning Missourians, who viewed the Mormons as religious fanatics and possible abolitionists, escalated to armed skirmishes that forced 15,000 of the faithful to leave Missouri for Illinois in 1839, where Smith built a new city, Nauvoo. There the commercial success and growing political power of the newcomers once again provoked renewed hostility from their non-Mormon neighbours. Smith's suppression of some dissidents among the Nauvoo Mormons in 1844 intensified non-Mormon resentment and furnished grounds for his arrest. Smith and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob while both were in jail in Carthage, near Nauvoo, on June 27, 1844.
After Smith's unexpected death, the government of the church was left in the hands of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, whose senior member was Brigham Young. Ignoring several claimants to the church leadership, the majority of its members supported Young, who became the church's second president. Increasing mob violence, however, made their continued presence in Nauvoo untenable, and Young thus led a mass 1,100-mile (1,800-km) migration to Utah in 1846–47. There they hoped to establish a commonwealth where they could practice their religion without persecution. Envisioning a new state that he called Deseret, Young helped to establish more than 300 communities in Utah and neighbouring territories. To build the population, he sent missionaries across North America and into Europe. Converts were urged to migrate to the new land, and it is estimated that about 80,000 Mormon pioneers traveling by wagon, by handcart, or on foot had reached Salt Lake City by 1869, when the arrival of the railroads made the journey much easier.
Despite the obstacles presented by the desert area of the Great Basin, the pioneers made steady progress in farming, partly through their innovative methods of irrigation. Their petition for statehood in 1849 was denied by the U.S. government, which instead organized the area as a territory, with Young as its first governor. Future efforts to gain statehood were blocked by the announcement in 1852 of the church's belief in polygamy, a practice that had begun quietly among its leaders during the Nauvoo period. Conflicts between Young and federal officials over this practice and over Mormon attempts to establish a theocratic government continued during the 1850s. Tensions increased following the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which a group of Mormons killed members of a wagon train passing through the region. In response to the conflicts with federal officials, U.S. Pres. James Buchanan dispatched a military expedition to Utah to suppress the Mormon "rebellion" and to impose a non-Mormon governor, Alfred Cummings, on the territory. Fearing that the purpose of the expedition was to persecute their faith, Young called on the Utah militia to prepare to defend the territory. A negotiated settlement was reached in 1858, and Cummings eventually became popular with members of the church. Although the abortive military episode, later known as "Buchanan's blunder," aroused widespread public sympathy for the Mormons, it succeeded in ending direct religious control of Utah's territorial government.
After his death in 1877, Young was succeeded as church president by John Taylor, the senior member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles. During Taylor's presidency, the U.S. government intensified its campaign against polygamy. In 1890 Taylor's successor, Wilford Woodruff, announced the church's abandonment of the practice in order to conform to U.S. law, and in 1896 the territory of Utah was admitted into the union as the 45th state. However, Woodruff's pronouncement, the "Manifesto," forbade polygamy only in the United States, and for a decade or so it continued in Mexico and other places outside the U.S. government's jurisdiction.
In the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more than 150 different independent groups have formed to follow new prophets, to defend polygamy, or to continue other practices that were discarded by the mainstream church. An important minority, for example, rejected Young's leadership and remained in the Midwest. The largest of these groups, which gained the cooperation of Smith's widow Emma and his son Joseph Smith III, formed the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now known as the Community of Christ) in 1852–60. The Reorganized Church eventually settled in Independence, Missouri, which Smith had designated as the location of Zion.
Many smaller splinter groups also arose after Smith's death. One faction moved to Independence and purchased the so-called Temple Lot, the site chosen by Smith for the new temple. The possession of this valued property embittered relations with the Reorganized Church, whose headquarters were on land immediately to the south. Other factions that rejected Young's leadership included one led by Sidney Rigdon and another that Apostle Lyman Wight took to Texas. David Whitmer and Martin Harris, two early converts who, along with Joseph Smith, testified that they saw the golden plates and the angel Moroni, eventually set up a church in Kirtland, Ohio. In 1847 James Jesse Strang established a polygamous community of about 3,000 people on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, whose members became known as Strangites.
Among the most significant of Latter-day Saints factions to emerge in the 20th century were groups that practiced polygamy. The first such colony was established at Short Creek (now Colorado City), just south of the Utah border in northwestern Arizona, in 1902, shortly after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints imposed excommunication as the penalty for entering into or officiating over a plural marriage; additional colonies were later founded in Mexico and Salt Lake City. Church and federal authorities have attempted to stamp out the polygamy-practicing groups, which nevertheless claim a membership of more than 30,000.
While the Community of Christ uses Smith's unfinished translation of the Bible, which incorporates prophecies of his own coming and of the Book of Mormon, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prefers the King James Version. Of great importance to both churches and factions is the Book of Mormon, which recounts the history of a group of Hebrews, led by the prophet Lehi, who migrated from Jerusalem to America about 600 bce. There they multiplied and split into two groups: the virtuous Nephites, who prospered for a time, and the hostile Lamanites, who eventually exterminated the Nephites.
Other revealed writings, including Smith's translation of "Egyptian" texts that he declared to be the Book of Abraham, were incorporated into the Pearl of Great Price. The Doctrines and Covenants contains Smith's ongoing revelations through 1844. The editions of the Utah church and of the Community of Christ add the revelations of their respective church presidents (who, like Smith, are regarded as prophets). The Community of Christ's version of the Doctrines and Covenants omits several of Smith's revelations that appear in the Utah edition.
Mormon beliefs are in some ways similar to those of orthodox Christian churches but also diverge markedly. The doctrinal statement, the Articles of Faith, for example, affirms the belief in God, the eternal Father, in his Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Spirit. These three beings—the Godhead—are considered to be distinct entities (a doctrine known as tritheism) rather than united as the Trinity. Although Mormons believe that Christ came to earth so that all might be saved and raised from the dead, they maintain that people's futures are determined by their own actions as well as by the grace of God. They also stress faith, repentance, and acceptance of the ordinances of the church, including baptism by immersion and laying on of hands for the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper as a memorial of Christ's death.
Mormons believe that faithful members of the church may receive God's fullness and thus become gods themselves. Everyone who ever lived, save for a few who reject God having known his power, will receive some degree of glory in the afterlife. At Christ's return to earth, he will establish a millennial kingdom. After the millennium, the earth will become a celestial sphere and the inheritance of the righteous. Others will be assigned to lesser kingdoms named terrestrial and "telestial."
Members of the church regard orthodox Christian churches as apostate for lacking revelation and an authoritative priesthood, although they are thought to be positive institutions in other respects. Smith, they believe, came to restore the institutions of the early Christian church. Although calling people to repent, Smith's creed reflected contemporary American optimism in its emphasis on humanity's inherent goodness and limitless potential for progress.
Institutions and practices
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dissolves the distinctions between the priesthood and the laity. At age 12 all worthy males (a category which until 1978 generally did not include black men) become deacons in the Aaronic priesthood. They become teachers at age 14 and priests at age 16. About two years later they may enter the Melchizedek priesthood as elders, and thereafter they may enter the upper ranks of the church priesthood hierarchy. In addition to service in the priesthood, many members accept the call to missionary work. Single young men, generally between the ages of 18 and 25, undertake a 24-month proselytizing mission, and single young women age 19 and older undertake a mission of 18 months. Many retired married couples also serve as missionaries. This missionary work helped to make the faith one of the fastest-growing religions in the world.
Baptism, a rite signifying repentance and obedience, is understood as essential for salvation. Baptism is administered to children at age eight and to adult converts and may be undertaken by proxy for those who died without knowledge of the truth. In 2019 the church reversed its position against the blessing and baptism of the children of LGBTQ couples, saying that such baptisms no longer need special approval from church leaders. In addition, gay marriage, while still considered "a serious transgression," is no longer treated as apostasy in terms of church discipline.
The Mormons' interest in genealogy proceeds from their concern to save the deceased population of the earth, and meticulous genealogical information is compiled in order to identify candidates for baptism by proxy. In 2010, after complaints from some Jewish groups, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed its procedure for collecting genealogical information, in order to prevent the names of Jews who had died during the Holocaust from being proposed for baptism by proxy. As of 2018, the church had some 4,800 family history centres in 134 countries to assist with genealogical research for anyone, regardless of faith.
Baptism for the dead, endowment (a rite of adult initiation in which blessings and knowledge are imparted to the initiate), and the sealing of husbands, wives, and children (which may also be undertaken by proxy for the dead) are essential ceremonies that take place in the temple. During the endowment, the person is ritually washed, anointed with oil, and dressed in temple garments. This is followed by a dramatic performance of the story of Creation, the Fall, and the return of God. Temples, which are distinct from the church meetinghouses used for weekly services, are reserved for such ceremonies. There are more than 150 temples worldwide.
Structure of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The "General Authorities" of the church are the First Presidency (the church president and two councillors), the Council of the Twelve Apostles, the First Quorum of Seventy, and the presiding bishop and two councillors, who manage the church's property and welfare programs. All are "sustained in office" by the regular and now-ritualized vote of confidence at the semiannual General Conference, which is open to all believers and to outside observers as well. Until the year 2000, conferences were held in the dome-shaped tabernacle east of the temple in Salt Lake City. Constructed between 1864 and 1867, the tabernacle had become unable to accommodate conference attendance, and its use was largely replaced by the new LDS Conference Center, which has a capacity of nearly 22,000 and is one of the largest theatre-styled auditoriums in the world.
At the local level, members of the church are divided into "stakes" of 4,000 to 5,000 members under stake presidents and into wards, each of a few hundred members, under a bishop. The religious life of each member is focused on the ward, through which religious, economic, and social activities, tithing, and the operation of the church's elaborate welfare plan are organized.
Community of Christ
The Community of Christ, which was known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints until 2001, holds less firmly to the Book of Mormon than its sister church and rejects various teachings, especially baptism on behalf of the dead and tithing. It never practiced polygamy or sealing for the afterlife. It does not perform temple ceremonies at the Kirtland, Ohio, temple, which it owns, or at the temple in Independence, Missouri. The office of church president was for many years passed to lineal descendants of Joseph Smith III. With the end of the presidency of Wallace B. Smith in 1996, however, no Smith descendant was available to take the reins of leadership. That year the church's World Conference chose W. Grant McMurray as its new president.
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The government gave Chevron the go-ahead in September to drill in the North Sea near Shetland, in spite of the US oil giant's admission that its contractor's spill prediction software constantly crashed and was not a reliable predictor of how far oil could travel if an accident took place.
The news comes in a week that US investigations into BP's disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill hit the buffers, after an IT contractor firm refused to hand over access to its software.
Before the new North Sea drill, which continues to run without accident, Chevron admitted the serious computing problems in confidential documents sent to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, which approved the drill. A redacted version of the communications was released as part of a Freedom of Information request made by the Guardian newspaper.
The Oil Spill Information System (OSIS), from BMT Argoss and used by services firm Oil Spill Response, crashed repeatedly when Chevron attempted to run it to model a 20 day period. In the end, Chevron ran the Microsoft Windows-based system for 14 days only because it said "no usable information" could be gleaned from the full run.
The system is based on Eurospill, a simulation model developed with grants from the Department for Transport and the European Commission. On its website, BMT Argoss says the system is "a sophisticated tool for predicting oil spill transport and fate", and builds on 30 years of research and 15 years of modelling technology development.
The modelling system was only able to predict what would happen for a fortnight, even though Chevron said that in reality it could take a further four weeks to cap a well, and even longer in bad weather or without access to the right equipment.
In an email to the Offshore Inspectorate, dated 7 September, Chevron said it was working "at the boundaries of modelling capability".
According to the models used, a deepwater blowout at Chevron's Lagavulin rig could spew over a million gallons of oil into the sea over the first two weeks, with the crude polluting most of the coast of eastern England and Scotland, as well as much of Norway and spreading as far as Iceland and Greenland.
The news comes as Transocean, the owner of the now-infamous Deepwater Horizon rig operated by BP, was found to have had a near-miss with one of its North Sea rigs used by Royal Dutch Shell. An internal Transocean report, seen by the BBC, shows that four months before the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company experienced similar problems to those in the US but this time the crucial blowout preventer stopped an explosion.
Modelling software is increasingly being placed under the spotlight after US investigators indicated in a presentation that BP had ignored the safety recommendations of cement modelling software run by its contractor Halliburton, in a bid to save time and make the Deepwater Horizon rig operational quickly.
In Chevron's North Sea drill, the oil firm said the spill modelling software usually crashed when left to run for long periods of time, adding that this was typical of standard industry systems.
The modelling "to some degree gives a potential indication of consequences that could arise", it said. But the model was not effective for oil at depth, when it continues to spew, or when dispersant is applied.
Chevron sent the government final plans in early September, and these were approved by DECC on 30 September.
Secretary of state Chris Huhne said he was "satisfied that the project is not likely to have a significant effect on the environment". DECC told the oil giant there was no need for it to provide a full statement detailing exact environmental risk.
Drilling began four days later. This week DECC said in a statement that Chevron had "adequately assessed" the potential impact of a spill.
Even though critically endangered wildlife species including minke whales, sperm whales and various species of dolphin were found in the area that could be covered by a spill, Chevron insisted an accident would only have a limited impact on them because they were good at swimming and would probably swim out of the way of the oil.
Speaking to the Guardian, environmental group Greenpeace lambasted the Chevron drill, which it said was approved "off the back of an unfinished computer model".
Chevron, however, said its actions proved that its "first and greatest focus" was on preventing accidents.
The company added: "It is important to emphasise that spill modelling is just one tool used in preparation for spill response."
In the event of a spill, spotter planes would be used to determine where the oil had reached.
Oil Spill Response had not provided comment at the time of writing. BMT Argoss said it was aware of the concern over long duration blowouts and added: "An upgrade has been developed and is currently undergoing testing. We aim to release it as soon as possible in the New Year."
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The University of New Mexico athletic department announced that season tickets for the 2010-11 men's basketball season will go on sale Tuesday.
The UNM Lobos, whose roster includes former Los Alamos Hilltopper standout Alex Kirk, have 18 home games scheduled for this season. Games at the newly renovated University Arena (The Pit) include a pair of exhibitions, eight non-conference contests and the Mountain West slate.
To start the year, four of UNM's first five games will be at The Pit.
Season tickets will be on sale at UNM's ticket office.
Last year, the Lobos went 30-5 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA championship tournament.
"We are very excited about our schedule," UNM head coach Steve Alford said in a press release. "We put it together thinking Darrington (Hobson) would be back for his senior year, and there are several BCS conference teams on it, which is why it is as difficult as it is. It should give our players good experience before (UCLA transfer) Drew Gordon becomes eligible. It's a difficult schedule and it gives us a chance to prepare for a very
difficult league."
Prices for season tickets start at $252 for adults and $144 for youth.
Tickets can be purchased at the UNM Ticket Office at 1155 University
Blvd. in Albuquerque Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Tickets can also be purchased online at www.golobos.com or www.unmtickets.com, or by calling the ticket office at 505-925-5858.
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When you have an accident, no matter how hard the collision, the structure of the vehicle can be compromised. The affected structure can be either exterior or interior, or both in a larger impact. When this happens, the vehicle can lose its structural integrity as a result of one or more parts being damaged. At this point, it's crucial to analyze the magnitude of the collision impact to determine the effects on all parts involved, including the internal structure of the vehicle and its frame.
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