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Recent comments by presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann have stirred up the discussion about gay marriage once again. While speaking to a group of high school…
There are plenty of reasons to laugh at Stephen Colbert.
I typically get most of my news from either him or Jon Stewart.
My thinking on this is that they actually do report the news…the difference is they make it palatable by using humor. They add a bit of sugar to the medicine, so to speak.
They also represent the common person. You can basically predict what will happen when a lawyer guest walks in, looking a bit like a Brooks Bros. model in their too-expensive suit.
They ride in on their high horse, seemingly unaware that they are going to be leaving on their hands and knees.
They come in riding the coattails of their supposedly earned respect, and leave refusing to join the fun being had at their expense.
Serious situations cast a very real burden onto our shoulders. And the life of the believer is going to hold plenty of serious situations.
But although the Bible never directly points towards the humor of Jesus, it certainly doesn't cast Him as too serious either.
Spend any amount of time watching most movies about Jesus, and you come away feeling as if He had two facial expressions: sadness and concentrated thought. He either looks like He is about to weep or like He is so deep in thought the disciples would never think to disturb Him.
Mark Driscoll once noted that among the 17,000 books on Jesus in the Library of Congress, he could only find one directly speaking towards the humor of Jesus.
In the words of the Joker, "Why so serious?"
If we step back from our preconceptions for a moment, we can realize that Jesus did not come in utter seriousness…He came to bring us a more abundant life, and to help alleviate the more serious parts of our journey…sometimes with humor.
A surface-level example can be found in Matthew 23:24:
"You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."
Speaking to the Pharisees about their hypocrisy, he likens their actions to people eating soup, trying to strain out a gnat but swallowing a camel in the process.
Now there may be some disagreement on this method, but if you look at the Aramaic, it can be argued that Jesus is using a…
…wait for it…
A pun.
In Aramaic, the word for gnat is "galma" and the word for camel is "gamla"! We serve a witty God.
But overall, I think that Jesus used His humor in much the same way as Stephen Colbert.
He presented what was happening, but often used humor to soften His listeners' seriousness. Like in Mark 7, when Jesus exorcises a demon from a Syrophoenician woman's daughter:
"The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs." "Lord," she replied, "even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." Then he told her, "For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter." She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. (v. 26-30)
Jesus' initial response could be seen as harsh, if we read it as Him responding seriously. He had only been healing Jews up until this point, after all. Was He really calling Syrophoenicians "dogs"? But if we read it as if our Lord was smiling as He said it, utilizing irony to playfully show the woman that He cared for her just as much as the Jews, then her response that ""even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs" can be seen as her playfully jabbing right back. She got His humor.
And, ultimately, Jesus can be compared to Stephen Colbert in that every time we see someone that gives off an air of respect, wearing fancy clothes, spouting off their merits…
…well they too typically leave refusing to join the fun being had at their expense. But to those willing to hear it, Jesus has made a very clear point.
The rich man unwilling to give up his possessions and follow God was unwilling to listen to what Jesus had to say. He saw his earthly things as far too serious to even consider giving them up. What does Jesus do?
He simultaneously lightens the mood and offers a huge truth:
"Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." (Matthew 19:23-24)
You can almost hear Him smiling when you read this.
Ultimately, we should be careful in seeing Jesus as humorous, simply because our humor has become so tainted by sin.
But just as He perfectly represents all other traits, He perfectly demonstrates how gentle humor and having fun are part of who we are in God's image.
In faith, hope and love, we can joke with each other in bad times because we know that our ultimate destiny is finally good.


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Washington -- Congress has been hard at work for a quarter of the year now, accomplishing. . . . practically nothing.
This is not an April Fool's joke. And with passions rising well ahead of the 2012 presidential election, things may not get better, some political analysts say.
The gridlock in Washington leaves Rob Portman, a freshman Republican senator from Ohio, feeling "frustrated."
Marcia Fudge, a Democratic congresswoman from Warrensville Heights, calls it "unfortunate."
On this subject, that's about the only Democratic-Republican agreement. The standoff can be measured by the number of bills that have passed and reached President Barack Obama's desk this year.
One of them was to rename a post office in Yuma, Arizona.
The others merely allowed the government to continue doing temporarily what it was doing already, because previous measures that authorized certain government programs had expired -- and Congress cannot agree what to do about them long-term.
"It's not necessarily a bad thing that Congress is not passing bills," said James Thurber, director of the Center for Presidential and Congressional Studies at American University. "But when you're in a recession and now you have three wars and you have a variety of issues with regard to substantive policies -- immigration, energy, environment, education -- and the president has an agenda in those areas, then it doesn't look very good for the Congress not to be doing anything."
David King, who chairs Harvard University's program for newly elected Congress members, says this is an "era of symbolic politics, as opposed to real lawmaking."
"So many of the votes that are taking place we knew would not pass, or would not get through the Senate," he said. "But they are test votes or votes to put people on the record as having been supporting something or opposing something, and that's in preparation for the next round of congressional elections and the presidential election."
Contrast this with the first three months of the last Congress, when Democrats controlled the House and Senate. By April 1, 2009, Congress had approved a major economic stimulus package and passed a landmark bill that expanded the right of women to sue for workplace discrimination.
Or, says Democratic Rep. Betty Sutton of Copley Township, contrast it with the last four months of 2010.
That's when Democrats "closed tax loopholes that shipped jobs overseas, extended unemployment insurance for Americans hit hard by the recession, ended discrimination against gay service members, and protected our 9/11 first responders," Sutton said. "The Republicans, on the other hand, have spent the last three months talking about cutting spending while refusing to cut billions of dollars in subsidies to big oil companies and instead playing politics and slashing programs that provide heating assistance and meal programs to seniors."
Nothing has been done to improve the economy since the start of this Congress, maintains Fudge.
"In the first 13 weeks of this Republican-led House, we haven't seen a jobs bill of any kind," she said. "Republican House members instead focused on repealing health care reform and cutting programs, such as the Community Development Block Grant program, but we have yet to see legislation that promotes growth in our economy and jobs for workers."
Republicans, who say the private sector should drive the economic recovery, see many Democratic priorities as overreach. If the stimulus bill wasn't bad enough, they say, Democrats trumped it in March 2010 with a law that granted a right to health insurance, guaranteeing future government subsidies for those who cannot afford it.
Republicans won back the House and gained Senate seats with the promise to cut spending and repeal "Obamacare." In the last three months, under the leadership of John Boehner, from southwestern Ohio, the House along party lines has approved bills that would do just that.
"I think most Americans view less federal spending as a good thing, and I believe they should judge Congress by how much we work toward a balanced budget, as opposed to how many new government programs we pass," said Jim Jordan, a western Ohio Republican who chairs an influential House GOP caucus.
But the Senate, under Democratic leader Harry Reid, won't go along with the Republicans' wishes.
Portman says that new bills of substance -- to create jobs, boost energy independence, reform government regulations -- are hampered by the fact that this Congress must make up for the unfinished work of its Democratic predecessors. The 2011 fiscal year started last fall, yet Congress failed then to agree on year-long spending, a subject now dominating lawmakers' attention.
"I'm frustrated that we should be doing more, yet some of it is explainable by the fact that we're spending time cleaning up from last year," Portman said.
Oddly enough, this broader inaction might be exactly what Americans ordered last November, says King.
Gridlock means that "their taxes aren't going to be raised," he said, and that "government programs aren't going to be expanded. Certainly most Americans would love to see real job creation, but to the extent that that takes federal dollars, there's very little appetite for it."
Fiscal conservatives and Tea Party members, however, say gridlock is unacceptable.
"If they're not doing anything, it means they're not spending our money," said Rob Scott, the Dayton Tea Party founder and an organizer with other fiscal conservatives in Ohio. That's good, "but we still have this huge elephant in the room, and that's entitlements. Social Security, Medicare. They're not even beginning to dive into those issues."
Jim Renacci, the Republican congressman from Medina County, came to Washington in January to change the status quo, not to put it on standby, he says.
"We've got to be able to do more than stop," he said when asked if there's value in gridlock. "We've got to be able to turn things around."

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RAPID RIVER - Rapid River and Superior Central came equipped with their broomsticks Tuesday evening, as it was a night of sweeps all around on the volleyball court.
Hosting a triangular meet with Carney-Nadeau, the Rockets swept the Wolves 3-0 (25-19, 25-17, 25-16). Then, the Cougars faced off against the Wolves, sweeping them 3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-9). And finally, Superior Central swept Rapid River 3-0 (25-17, 25-13, 25-16).
In the first game, Carney fought valiantly, but simply couldn't gain the advantage over the Cougars.
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Carney-Nadeau's Shania Tebo leaps to go for the kill attempt during their match against Superior Central Tuesday. The Cougars won 3-0 (25-16, 25-19, 25-9).
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Superior Central's Mikayla Barrows goes up to hit the ball during their match against Rapid River Tuesday night. the Cougars won 3-0 (25-17, 25-13, 25-16).
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Superior Central's Kelsey Coleman prepares to hit the ball Tuesday night at Rapid River. The Cougars defeated the Rockets 3-0, after cruising over Carney-Nadeau 3-0 earlier in the evening to stay atop the CUP conference.
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Rapid River's Neena Brockway goes up for the kill attempt during their game against Superior Central Tuesday night. The Cougars swept the Rockets 3-0 (25-17. 25-13, 25-16).
"The girls put a great effort forward," said Wolves coach Steve Kedsch. "At times we looked really good, and other times we just seemed to give up runs, and it hurt us."
Carney had to turn around after the first game and go straight into the next game to face Superior Central. In the first set, the Wolves kept the game even until the Cougars went on a run, scoring nine unanswered points to put the set out of reach.
The second set was very similar. With the game all tied 18-18, Superior Central went on another run, only allowing a single point to Carney and taking the set 25-19.
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CARNEY - Eichhorn (3 kills, 11 digs, 3 assists); A. Dani (1 kill, 6 aces, 6 digs, 15 assists); Tebo (4 kills, 3 aces); Wery (3 kills, 3 aces, 8 digs); Theoret (14 digs); Parrett (5 kills, 2 aces, 8 digs); Tancredi (2 kills, 2 aces).
SUPERIOR CENTRAL - Lintula (1 ace, 1 kill, 1 assist, 4 digs); Freberg (7 aces, 14 kills, 2 assists, 11 digs); Passanen (5 kills, 1 block, 4 digs); Coleman (5 aces, 7 kills, 9 digs); Richmond (2 aces, 2 kills, 13 assists).
RAPID RIVER - Stropich (8 kills); Stenlund (4 kills, 5 digs); A. Kanyuh (12 assists, 8 digs); Hill (3 assists); Brockway (6 digs); Kerstner (3 blocks).
By the third set, the wind in Carney's sails had all but gone away, and the Cougars closed up the game and ended the Wolves evening with ease, winning 25-9.
"We started off well against Superior Central," Kedsch said. "Nice passes, setting well, hitting the ball. We were attacking them pretty well. But we got stuck in some unfamiliar rotations, and it put us in a couple hard spots there."
With that, the stage was set for two teams that were involved in a four-way tie for first place (with Mid Peninsula and Bark River-Harris) to square off against each other.
Rapid River came out and didn't allow the Cougars to go on a scoring streak like they did against Carney. However, Superior Central's defense didn't allow the Rockets to take control of the set at any point, and once the Cougars took a 9-8 lead, they never gave it up. They took the set 25-17.
In the second set, the Cougars defense remained strong, and their offense broke it open, scoring eight unanswered points to end the set 25-13.
The Rockets stayed with Superior Central in the closeout set, but they just didn't have enough to prevent the sweep, and the Cougars ended the game 25-16 and headed back home with a flawless evening under their belts.
"I was very happy with our defense in both games," said Cougars coach Kris Bray. "They were moving their feet, they were talking, and we were being very aggressive at the net."
She added aggressive play is often the difference as far as winning or losing for their team, and in that regard, the past few events have provided them with some strong wins as they head into districts. She feels as though her girls have been playing as a team as well as they ever have in the past few games.
"Rapid River is very good team, and when they get on streaks, they are very tough to beat," Bray said. "But they (opposing teams) are going to have to play some good defense if they want to win. If my team plays up to their potential, there's not many teams that can beat us."
"I think Superior Central did an awesome job," said Rapid River coach Lisa Kanyuh. "They were scrambling on defense, not letting balls touch the ground, and they played very confident.
She also said that Bray's comment about hoping that the Cougars' win over Bark River carried over into Tuesday's game, turned out to be true. However, Kanyuh said she is also looking forward to the districts, and how they will turn out.
The Rockets resume Thursday when they host Forest Park. Carney will be hosting Menominee Thursday, and the Cougars are off until Oct. 19 when they host Ishpeming.


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A Dutch teen who just wanted to be famous got more than she bargained for after tweeting a terror threat at American Airlines on Sunday, The New York Post reported.
"@AmericanAir hello my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big bye." wrote Twitter user "Sarah," whose handle is @QueenDemetriax_.
American Airlines promptly responded via their Twitter account, writing, "@QueenDemetriax_ Sarah, we take these threats very seriously. Your IP address and details will be forwarded to security and the FBI."
What followed was a full-scale Twitter meltdown by "Sarah," who left this string of tweets:
"@AmericanAir omfg I was kidding"
"@AmericanAir I'm so sorry I'm scared now"
"@AmericanAir I was joking and it was my friend not me, take her IP address not mine"
"@AmericanAir I was kidding pls don't I'm just a girl pls"
"@AmericanAir and I'm not from Afghanistan"
"@seizeavons @AmericanAir yeah I know, and my parents are gonna kill me if I tell them this omg pls"
Her original tweet and American Airlines' response have since been deleted, and her account @QueenDemetriax_ has been suspended. But the exchange was documented by thousands of other twitter users, who retweeted her posts and took screenshots of the thread:
The entire cute love story of @QueenDemetriax_ and @AmericanAir in one picture. pic.twitter.com/kVMqfsovsK— Sand-d Singh (@Sand_In_Deed) April 13, 2014
Later, she seemed to find the silver lining in the affair, noting a huge swell of 30,000 new Twitter followers before the account was suspended.
"Okay today was the highlight of my twitter days," she tweeted.
The Daily Mail also took screenshots of a few more choice tweets in which "Sarah" tried desperately to backpedal.
"I'm going to delete the tweet now," she wrote, followed by "I blocked the FBI just in case."
She also tried to prove to American Airlines that she posed no threat by tweeting, "Why would I blow up one of your planes, I have my own jet @AmericanAir"
Whether American Airlines actually did send her information to the FBI is unclear.
Only law enforcement can request information about Twitter accounts, according to Twitter's Help Center.
"We do not comment on individual accounts for privacy and security reasons," Twitter spokesman Nu Wexler told the Post.
American Airlines spokesman Dori Alvarez also declined to comment in detail, but said, "At American, the safety of our passengers and crew is our number-one priority. We take security matters very seriously and work with authorities on a case-by-case basis."
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DETROIT — The offense did its damage in the first inning.
The pitching and the defense were outstanding from start to finish.
Brad Penny pitched eight innings of shutout ball — thanks in part to impressive defensive plays by at least five of his teammates — and the Detroit Tigers claimed a 3-0 victory Saturday against the Kansas City Royals.
Jhonny Peralta also had his 1,000th career hit as the Tigers claimed their seventh consecutive victory and the 10th win in their past 11 games.
"We had some awesome plays," Penny said. "That's probably the best defense I've had personally in one start in my career. There were three or four plays that I didn't think were going to be made that were made. That's huge."
Peralta, Brandon Inge, Casper Wells and Scott Sizemore turned in fine defensive plays for the Tigers, but the best of the game came from center fielder Austin Jackson.
The Royals had a runner on second with two outs in the fourth inning when Eric Hosmer sent a rocket to deep center. But Jackson tracked it down and made a great running catch at the warning track to end the inning and preserve the shutout.
"I thought he had no chance to catch that ball," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "It was a tremendous play."
Leyland and Penny agreed that Jackson turned in the defensive play of the game.
"I threw a changeup right down the middle and the guy crushed it," Penny said. "But Austin's great out there."
Jackson said he at first misjudged how hard the ball was hit and credited Wells for alerting him to it right away.
"Casper was yelling 'back,' so that definitely helped me out," Jackson said. "I just got a bad jump on it. If I had gotten a better jump on it I probably would have made it just like that."
Penny (4-3) scattered five hits and did not issue a walk while striking out two. The Royals never had more than one player reach base in any of the eight innings Penny pitched.
Penny, who recorded 15 groundball outs, has seen his ERA fall steadily since a rough start to the season. Penny has an ERA of 1.53 in his past five outings and has seen his ERA fall from 8.44 to 4.11 during that time.
On May 2, the Tigers were 12-17 and eight games out of first place in the American League Central race. Less than two weeks later, they are 22-18 — a season-high four games above .500 — and 3 1/2 games behind the Cleveland Indians, whose game Saturday against Seattle was rained out.
Peralta doubled off the wall in left field with one out in the sixth inning for his second hit of the game and the 1,000th of his career. It was the only extra-base hit of the game for the Tigers, who had five of their seven hits in the first inning.
The Tigers scored three runs on five singles in the first. Jackson singled to lead off the inning, and Sizemore was safe at first after he laid down a perfect bunt. Ryan Raburn bunted the runners to second and third, and Miguel Cabrera, Victor Martinez and Peralta followed with back-to-back-to-back RBI singles to make it 3-0.
Thanks to Penny and the defense, the three runs the Tigers scored in the first were all they needed. After sending eight batters to the plate in the first inning, the Tigers struggled to string hits together against Royals left-hander Jeff Francis (0-5). He allowed seven hits — including the five singles in the first — and one walk while throwing a complete game. Francis struck out four.
Jose Valverde struck out two in the ninth and picked up his 10th save of the season.
• Martinez extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a single in the first inning.
• Peralta extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a single in the first.
• Tigers starters are 15-8 with a 2.85 ERA during the last 30 games and have combined for 26 quality starts in 40 games this season.
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But according to event organizer James Adams, the Charlie Mays Invitational, and the 2011 Speed City USA Summer Track Meet Series it is part of, are all about the kids who participate.
"I think that they get the opportunity to compete," said Adams. "And they get to meet people who came before them who are legends of the long fairy tales and fables of Hudson County track and field. The purpose of these meets is to provide an opportunity for the kids to learn the sport and be part of something that's structured."
The 10th annual Invitational was held today at Lincoln Park and featured several different races and a shot put event for children ages 5 to 18. The athletes came from several Hudson County-based track and field clubs, including the Hudson County Track Club, the Comets, Impulse, and the Jersey City PAL. Individual athletes without a team affiliation also participated.
After all the events were over, the top three athletes in each event were awarded gold, silver and bronze medals.
The Summer Track Meet Series is sponsored by Hudson County in cooperation with the Jersey City Education Association, the Kiwanis Club in Jersey City, the Bayonne Medical Center and the Courier Times.
Adams spoke fondly of Mays and Major Brown, a former Lincoln High School track and field head coach and former assistant coach at Snyder High School. The Major Brown Invitational, part of the Summer Track Meet Series, was held last Wednesday.
"Charlie Mays was a Jersey City guy who was a former assemblyman and Olympian," Adams said.
"These meets are in his memory, and the memory of Major Brown, and we try to remember them every year by having these meets. All these officials here are legends of track and field, former elite runners who come back and volunteer their time. That's why these meets are so great."
To further create that connection between new and old track and field athletes, the children who participated were given trading cards that have pictures and biographies of track and field legends.
It was clear to anyone in attendance that the youths, no matter their age, cherished the chance to compete in a track meet. As a former athlete, Adams knows that's what matters most.
"I think it's very important, especially with our high school kids who think there are no options in life, and there are really a great deal of options.
"As a former athlete I must tell you if not for the structure of athletics I probably would not be doing the things I do for a living today. It really creates a self-determination and a foundation within yourself to want to achieve. We need more of these kinds of programs to keep our kids out of trouble."


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The strength of our nation ultimately depends upon the strength of our families and communities. I have worked in Congress to uphold the rights and dignity of the most vulnerable in our society, to protect our first freedom of religious liberty, and to encourage families who are making a commitment to their children and their communities.
Building a culture that respects and protects the rights of all Americans binds us more closely as a people and strengthens us as a nation.
Families and communities that protect the innocence of children, respect life, teach personal responsibility and encourage decency help build a culture that honors the inherent dignity of every person, including the poor and the defenseless. Since coming to Congress, more and more is expected of government which can never adequately substitute for the smallest form of community, the family.
We live in a socially fractured time. Many people feel alone, isolated from any shared endeavor, and alienated from society. America's vibrant diversity is fading in the face of cultural chaos.
We must build a culture of compassion, mutual respect, and individual initiative that protects the rights of all Americans, that binds us more closely as a people, and that strengthens us as a nation. A truly strong society will unleash America's potential. Our families and communities give us our moral voice and our dynamic economy, and they are necessary for a properly functioning government and the public good.


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Exodus International, for many years the leading evangelical organization promoting "freedom from homosexuality," is closing its doors, reorganizing itself as "ReduceFear.org."
How should traditionalist Christians who have been supportive of and encouraged by the ministry, as well as the witness of Exodus, understand what has transpired? I have no special inside track to the inner workings of Exodus; I am not and have never been a member of the Exodus board of trustees or its leadership. But I have studied carefully the organization and some of its outcomes, and I have considered myself a collaborator for several decades.
Exodus explains its rationale by saying that "a new generation of Christians is looking for change"; that Exodus has "ceased to be a living, breathing organism [because it has been] imprisoned in a worldview that's neither honoring toward our fellow human beings, nor biblical"; and because "God is calling us to … welcome everyone, to love unhindered." Exodus International president Alan Chambers also has issued a wide-ranging apology of his own and on behalf of Exodus.
Chambers's impassioned apology reflects many elements of appropriate maturation in the theological and practical vision of Exodus. But while apologies can reflect godly repentance, even well-meaning apologies sometimes can go awry. We can misjudge or overshoot in our apologies. As such, Chambers's statement reflects aspects of theological drift and a capitulation to a prevailing culture that is unbecoming to an organization grounded in scriptural truths.
What's right about Chambers's apology? Most importantly, Chambers apologizes on behalf of Exodus that some individuals have been hurt by the actions and unprofessionalism of its leaders and affiliated ministries. An apology here is appropriate. Exodus, a loose affiliation of independent ministries united by a basic commitment to orthodox Christianity and to seeking "freedom from homosexuality," has struggled with leaders revealed to be hypocritically involved in sexual immorality and/or who have engaged in predatory, abusive, or other forms of unprofessional and victimizing behavior toward some who have come to them for help. Exodus—perhaps out of fear of alienating its donor base—has been too timid in acknowledging, repudiating, and responding to such actions.
Chambers also apologizes for a failure to acknowledge the pain inflicted by the church upon members of the gay and lesbian community, including not standing up to name-calling against vulnerable people, stigmatizing parents of gay and lesbian individuals for causing the experience of their children, and for callously celebrating the painful, heart-rending end of same-sex relationships as individuals "left the lifestyle" in pursuit of transformed lives.
These are complex matters, and Chambers's apologies in these areas contain valid elements. For instance, Chambers apologizes for being "part of the very system of ignorance that perpetuated" the hurt inflicted by the church upon the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. What is valid about this apology is that Exodus sometimes, in its constant search for donor funding and referrals, perpetuated harsh and ignorant views of homosexuality to which the conservative church is prone, many of which I have challenged in my own writings. The complications come with other elements of the traditionalist beliefs, such as the belief that homosexual conduct is immoral and that change is possible for some. The LGBT community regards these positions as harsh or ignorant, while they are in fact neither and are integral to our biblical vision of persons. The Bible teaches that homosexual conduct is immoral, and both the testimony of Scripture itself, and empirical research and credible personal testimony suggest change is possible for some.


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JACKSON, Mississippi -- The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments from a man that his 1998 sentence to life without parole for the death of child is unconstitutional.
Glen Conley Jr.'s was convicted in Pike County of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1998. Prosecutors said Conley drowned a 3-year-old child during a paddle boat excursion at Percy Quin State Park in 1994. Prosecutors said he first kidnapped the girl to set up the murder.
Defense attorneys argued the paddle boat ride was part of a family excursion and the child's drowning was an accident.
Conley's conviction and sentence was upheld in 2001 and several post-conviction appeals have been denied.
Conley's latest argument is he was wrongly sentenced. Conley said a life without parole sentence was unconstitutional because the option didn't exist in Mississippi's capital murder law at the time.
Life without parole became an option in the capital murder statute in July 1994. Inmates who were indicted for crimes that occurred before that date were not subject to the penalty, the courts have ruled.
Conley argues the crime for which he was convicted occurred in May 1994 before the change in the sentencing options.
Conley is asking the Supreme Court to order him re-sentenced to life in prison, which would make her eligible for parole consideration.
Prosecutors said Conley picked up his girlfriend, the girl and several other children in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, for a picnic in 1994 and took them to the public park across the state line near McComb, Mississippi.
Prosecutors said Conley had taken out more than $200,000 in life insurance on the toddler, whom he believed to be his daughter. There was no proof offered that the girl was his child.
At his trial, prosecutors said Conley took Whitney Berry against her will to Percy Quin State Park in Pike County and held her underwater after removing her life jacket.
In upholding his conviction in 2001, the Mississippi Supreme Court said the child and her mother were kidnapped at the time Conley took them in the paddle boat beyond the boundary ropes 3,000 feet from shore over their protests.


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Microbiology is a laboratory that stood alone for a long time. While labs all around acquired machines that could aid in the day's workflow by performing manual tests, not one piece of instrumentation could be found in microbiology (except for the standard microscope on a benchtop and an incubator). The work was labor intensive and results took at least 24 hours before cultures were grown up enough to begin identification of bacteria. Microbiology technologists had no choice but to perform the work themselves because the technology was simply not available to them.
It was not until 1991 with the invention of the first continuous monitoring blood culture system by Biomerieux (BacT/Alert) that automated instrumentation found a place in microbiology. For the first time, an instrument was able to examine blood culture bottles completely independent of a technologist. While an explosion of instrumentation did not occur, slowly new instruments found a place in the day to day workflow. These pieces of equipment provided advanced, rapid antibiotic sensitivity results, expanded databases for better phenotypic identification, automated platforms to diminish repetitive motions by technologists, and ultimately decreased overall tech time.
A Revolution
Now the microbiology lab is experiencing a great revolution in regards to technology. New technology is bringing a level of automation to the lab that has never been experienced before and turnaround time's doctors dreamt about.
But what is behind the sudden urge to bring automation to a laboratory that has for so long successfully survived without it? Many laboratories stand on the precipice of a large retirement boom, continuously increasing workloads and decreasing numbers of new, skilled microbiologists graduating from accredited programs. Combining all of these factors together creates the need for an immediate solution.
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Enter automation in the preanalytical area of microbiology laboratories. Automation allows lab managers to re-assign valuable technologists to areas of the lab where they can better utilize their interpretational talent and focus on resulting high value work. Instruments can automatically process specimens, bringing standardization to streaking, streamlining workflow, allowing better specimen traceability, and improving overall productivity. More advanced systems can bring plates directly to incubators, view and monitor plates via digital imaging, and utilize preferred identification and susceptibility methods of the lab.
Automatic Specimen Processor
In 2008, Copan introduced the WASP® (Walk Away Specimen Processor) as the new way to automate plating and streaking of all microbiology specimens. In 2010 the next-generation WASP became the first instrument to allow laboratory personnel to load all samples onto a conveyor, then walk away while the machine scans the tubes and processes the specimens entirely, ultimately sending them out on an exit conveyor with the plates ready to incubate, says Copan executive vice president Norman Sharples. Copan advertises the WASP as having a throughput equivalent to two or three full-time people.1 The company was able to address the issue of the many different types of specimens that come to the microbiology lab by developing the Copan ESwab. The ESwab is a liquid-based collection system that allows swabs to be utilized in an automatic plating instrument. This makes the WASP the first instrument of its kind to use a single universal platform to automatically process bacteriology specimens, including swabs, urine, feces or any liquid sample, regardless of the specimen's container style or specimen type.2 The WASP also has the capability to make a gram stain, label and inoculate enrichment broth tubes, and process different specimen types at one time - a urine specimen, followed by a body fluid, followed by an ESwab. This eliminates the need to batch same specimen types.
A second option is bioMérieux's Previ Isola instrument. The Isola features an output of 180 plates per hour and advanced robotics to inoculate, streak and label specimens. A comb is used to inoculate media, ensuring the customer that comb technology inoculates the maximum agar surface, that optimum pressure-controlled contact with the agar is maintained and that a standard quantity of inoculum is used every time.1 The comb technology is a change to the traditional four quadrant streaking that most technologists are trained on; isolated colonies are consistently observed, allowing for more efficient culture workup and less time spent re-isolating poorly manually streaked plates (Table).
Additional benefits to installing front- end automation include reducing repetitive stress and fatigue to technologists by eliminating the need to open, sample and close specimen containers. Barcodes and direct connection to the hospital's LIS allows specimens to be loaded directly into the specimen processor. An accurate time of receipt and inoculation is obtained, removing the significant lag time between when a specimen comes into the lab and when it is actually processed. This, in turn, allows a technologist to determine a true incubation time.
Automation for the front-end processing area will continue to grow rapidly. Planting and streaking instrumentation was just the first step; automation will move well beyond these two methods. Diagnostics companies such as Copan and bioMérieux, as well as Becton Dickinson and Netherlands-based Kiestra, are in the process of creating full lab automation set ups. These companies are offering solutions that fully automate the microbiology laboratory, using conveyors to continuously move samples from the planting and streaking area to automatic incubation to remote image analysis and digital workup.3
Mass Spectrometry
Rapid identification methods for bacterial and fungal organisms have reached a new peak with the creation of instruments that can identify organisms in minutes compared to traditional biochemicals that can take 6-48 hours. While usage is still research use only, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization - Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is being analyzed by several labs to see how the technology can impact future workflow.
MALDI-TOF MS is a technique used to simultaneously screen a multitude of molecules and determine their identity by analyzing their individual mass-to-charge ratio. These molecular "signatures" can be used for rapid bacterial and fungal identification (ID) from isolated colonies.4 The technology identifies organisms in small quantity and from growth seen in an overnight culture. Clinicians rejoice in the extremely rapid turnaround time and ability to treat patients more efficiently, thus reducing the use of unnecessary antibiotics or other treatments. The decreased time to identification is especially useful when identifying organisms resistant to standard antimicrobials. Healthcare providers will be able to modify treatment and offer a more targeted therapy.
Advantages to this method include the ability to make this instrumentation part of a complete lab automation set up or to more simply connect the technology to the lab's current ID and susceptibility machine. BioMérieux is developing integrated workflow solutions with its VITEK® 2 range to ensure optimal user convenience, full sample traceability and quality of results.4 Setting up an organism for identification requires no dilution and can be done on the benchtop by the technologist. With minimal tech time required, utilizing this technology into daily workflow should be seamless for more laboratories. As organisms continue to morph into new species and increase in pathogenicity, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry will provide a rapid and advanced methodology in identification.
Making the Move Toward Automation
Big changes are coming as laboratories (both large and small) begin their move toward automation. Increased accuracy, more consistent quality, and reduced turnaround times to clinicians dramatically improve patient care. The technology available will allow for a smoother workflow, decreased cost and superior results for the patients behind each specimen.
Theresa Castellone is technologist specialist, Virology Laboratory, Rhode Island Hospital.
1. Fresh approach to micro - front end robotics. Available: www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true&cntvwrPtlt_actionOverride=%2Fportlets%2FcontentViewer%2Fshow&_windowLabel=cntvwrPtlt&cntvwrPtlt{actionForm.contentReference}=cap_today%2F0511%2F0511b_fresh_approach.html&_state=maximized&_pageLabel=cntvwr
2. WASP - General Information. Available: www.copanusa.com/index.php/products/wasp/general/
3. Automated specimen processing, robotic workup, remote image analysis, digital reporting... The future for microbiology? Available here: www.mlo-online.com/articles/201206/automated-specimen-processing-robotic-workup-remote-image-analysis-digital-reporting-the-future-for-microbiology.php
4. July Connection: Newsletter -Mass Spectrometry: Cutting Edge Microbial Identification. Available here: www.biomerieux-usa.com/servlet/srt/bio/usa/dynPage?open=USA_NWS_CNN_2011_July&doc=USA_NWS_CNN_2011_July_G_FCK_1&pubparams.sform=0&lang=en
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By Eric Francis, Standard Correspondent
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartland man who had been accused of masterminding the brutal 2011 attacks on a pair of pet goats belonging to a state game warden was acquitted of all the charges facing him Friday afternoon.
Nick Ashline, 35, hugged family members and shook the hand of his Peter Decato, his defense attorney, after a Windsor County jury deliberated for just over three hours before returning a slate of "not guilty" verdicts for all five charges- three of acting as an accessory before the fact and two counts of attempting to obstruct justice.
Another man, 22-year-old Daniel Parry of West Windsor, admitted a year ago that he was the person who actually snuck onto Vermont Game Warden Steve Majeski's property and slit the throats of the goats, killing one of them and severely injuring the other, but Parry had maintained that the only reason for the cruel attacks was because Ashline — who admitted to a long-standing dislike of the warden — had supposedly paid him to do it.
Ashline took the witness stand in his own defense this week and flatly denied that he had ever engaged in any conversation with Parry expressing a desire to have the warden's pets killed — joking or otherwise.
Speaking after the verdict, defense attorney Decato said he believed the jury was faced with a choice of whether to believe witnesses who had very little to drink on the evening in question versus others who admitted to having had quite a bit of beer and — in at least one case — nearly a dozen Percocet pills. Decato said it appeared to him that the jury decided to go with the sober individual's recollections of events.


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Weekly columns by high school seniors in St. Charles and St. John the Baptist parishes will begin appearing this month on NOLA.com as well as the newspaper on Wednesdays through the school year in the River Parishes Picayune community news section.
Here is a brief introduction to each school's reporter:
Destrehan High
Ragan Digirolamo, the daughter of Tracey and Dean Digirolamo of Destrehan, is a member of the cheerleading squad and Beta Club. She is a kick-off mentor and editor of the yearbook and newspaper staff. She has received the Principal's Scholar Award. Digirolamo plans to attend Louisiana State University to study pre-medicine.
East St. John High
Jarron Williams, the son of Gerald and Shalonda Williams of LaPlace, is a member of the Beta Club, Future Business Leaders of America, Technology Student Association, Peer Mediators, Young Entrepreneur Academy, African American History Club and Student Council. He has won first place in the state social studies and science fairs, first place in job interview at the FBLA state convention and first place in state and national Youth Technology Users of the Nation competitions. His hobbies are reading, listening to recent court decisions, tinkering with technology and Photoshop work. Williams hopes to obtain a bachelor's degree in international relations and political science from Yale University and then earn a law degree from Yale.
Hahnville High
Brenna Vial, the daughter of Timothy and Rhea Vial of Luling, is a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Beta Club, Arts Honors Society, Interact Club, Green Club, National Honors Society, band and kickoff mentors. She is the yearbook editor and has received Dow's All As Award and a perfect attendance award. She is a member of Holy Family Church Catholic Youth Organization, Peer Leadership Committee and Teen Cross. She also is a volunteer for St. Charles RSVP. Vial plans to attend Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Riverside Academy
Sarah Peytavin of Reserve is the daughter of Wendy Peytavin and Malcolm Peytavin. She is lieutenant of the cheerleading squad, vice president of the Student Council, and a member of the soccer team, Beta Club, Relay for Life and Rebels in Action. She was the recipient of St. Peter Church's Outstanding Youth Leadership Award. Her hobbies are cheering, reading, writing and critiquing movies. Peytavin plans to attend college to earn a degree in political science or finance.
St. Charles Catholic High
Gracie Millet, the daughter of Kevin and Greer Millet of LaPlace, is a member of the SCC Stagehands, National Honor Society, Student Ambassadors and Student Council. She was the 2011 high school girls division winner in a competition sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singers. Millet has been a cast member in several productions at St. John Theatre in Reserve. Her hobbies are singing, reading, acting and shopping. She plans to attend college to earn a doctorate degree in psychology to become a counselor.
West St. John High
Whitley Armant, the daughter of Wilfred and Crystal Armant of Edgard, is a member of the Spanish Club, Beta Club and 4-H Club. She attends Church of God. Her hobbies are reading, playing video games and listening to music. Armant plans to attend college to major in medicine and hopes to become a pediatrician.


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General admission $15. Party packs $5. The Admiral Theatre (www.admiraltheatre.org) is located at 515 Pacific Ave.
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How do you feel? Any different since lowering carbs? It could just be "water weight", in which case you might look into your mineral intake (electrolytes).
If you're concerned about eating too much, you might find it beneficial to enter your food into a tracking site like paleotrack.com or fitday.com to see how much you're getting in calories. What does your average day look like in terms of food intake?


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Darren Langdon is shown in this 2012 photo. — Star file photo
Darren Langdon hopes the return of the Royals to Corner Brook works out well for the franchise and those who run it, but he's not expecting to be a part of the team's future.
"I'm 43, I doubt I'm going to play anyway," said Langdon on whether he had a preference between lacing the skates in Deer Lake or Corner Brook.
"I'm not 100 per cent sure," he added.
"There's no difference whatsoever, but at this age you're just thinking about other things and whatever."
Langdon said the goal of selling 1,000 season passes by Aug. 31 isn't going to be easy to reach, saying attendance is down all over the local senior hockey landscape, even for successful teams like the Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts and Clarenville Caribous.
"It's hard to draw fans ... there's no fighting — not saying that draws it, but it's a little bit to it," he said. "But it's good hockey, hopefully people come and support it."
"There's definitely a lot of fans around, so we'll see if it works out."
Noted Royals fan Ray Broughton plans on being there.
Even though it means a longer trek to the games for the Howley resident, he prefers the comfort of the Pepsi Centre to the Hodder Memorial Recreation Complex and said he can't wait for the season to start.
"I think it's a good move," he said. "The team was on life support in Deer Lake, it was just going downhill, so kudos to them."
He doesn't believe selling 1,000 season passes — 999, after he purchases his — should be an issue.
"I have a business, and the name of the game is marketing," he said.
"You just have to market your product and that's the way the professional teams do it."
Andy Brake, who is currently the secretary of the Hockey Newfoundland Labrador's senior council and a former general manager of the now-defunct Deer Lake Red Wings, said the move is no surprise to him after seeing the attendance level in Deer Lake last season.
"At the end of the day the bills have to be paid and you have to pick the venue you think is best capable of paying those bills," he said.
"They only averaged approximately 500 fans last year, that's not enough."
The team was never fully embraced in Deer Lake, Brake said, because while hockey fans would come out to Royals games, diehard Red Wings fans would not.
"That obviously goes back to the rivalry between the Royals and Red Wings years ago," he said. "That definitely was a factor."


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Darren Criss And The "Glee" Boys Strip Down For Gaga/Perry-Themed Episode
When the show returns next month, it will bring back the goodies in the form of the shirtless boys err men of McKinley High. Darren Criss (Blaine) and Chord Overstreet (Sam) will take on two sides of the ongoing Katy Perry/Lady Gaga battle that will likely have fans declaring a winner based on abs and pecs.
Criss' Blaine takes on Katy Perry's "Roar."
Meanwhile, Overstreet's Sam accepts the "Applause" of Lady Gaga.
But don't forget about Artie (Kevin McHale). His character gets the best of both worlds.
Glee returns on Thursday, November 7th at 9 PM ET on Fox.
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I saw the very first episode of Glee, and never went back. It's always been a ripoff of Fame. Maybe the series will end when a crazed gunman mows them down. (JK folks, I do not condone violence)
Seriously hotshot? So since we had FAME in 1985, no one can ever tell the story of kids who sing again?
@Fitz: LOL, yeah.
@Rockery: Blaine looks a bit of a fatty.
Okay, not fat, but certainly not toned. He does look 'normal' though. Maybe that's a good thing, but I'd rather see ripped.
and I'm simply amazed that this is on FOX at all, but they only care about money and ad revenue.
For those who watch fox, you are not their customers, you are their product.
I want to see Chris Colfer shirtless. He's never shirtless. It's funny, this show is all gay,gay,gay,gay,gay but they're always throwing shirtless straight men at you. And don't even bother telling me about Blaine, we all know Darren Criss is straight.
@Larkin: I was thinking he was looking a little flabby, too… and totally hairless.
Did they make him wax? He's not hairless.
That being said, where is shirtless Harry Shum, Jr.?
Love me some Sam and Ryder…but Blaine doesn't offend me either. I wish I could be "fatty/flabby" like him.
I don't need my guys to be ripped, he is so beautiful
Brooklyn recently got an almost new red Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG just by some part time working online with a lap-top… look at this now>>> smal.ly/3vwDi
Haven't watched the show in a while, wanna get back into it but I'm not sure about the new characters. Also, WHY do they copy most of their songs' visuals exactly? Ripping off Gaga's weird @$$ Applause video is not interesting or cool at all (it wasn't even when SHE did it originally). Can't they do something more unique and innovative themselves? They're already covering popular songs, can't they develop their own identity?


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Mobile native and former UAB standout Zack Sucher has the first-round lead in the Mylan Classic of the Web.com Tour.
Sucher turned in a score of 6-under 65 on the par-71 Southpointe Golf Club in Canonsburg, Pa. He was especially strong on the back nine where he shot a 4-under 32 with birdies at 10, 12, 14 and 17. On the front nine, Sucher made birdie on the first hole and bogey at No. 2, followed by birdies at 3 and 5 and a bogey at 5. He added another birdie at No. 9 to finish 2 under on the front nine.
Earlier this season, Sucher tied for second at the South Georgia Classic.
Six players are one shot behind Sucher at 5 under, with four others two shots back at 4 under.


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pmosh says:
Since, the taxes are mandatory and tipping is not, the government is sucking change directly out of the tip jar.
Keep telling us how wonderful it is as more business and consumer spending moves out of Springfield.
Any waitstaff out there in Springfield noticing their compensation going down with all these taxes being added?
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Interesting that a town like Northampton that attracts a lot of out of town diners sees a lower than expected revenues but Spfld is above expectations.
That tells me that the bulk of those dollars are coming from the Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds, even Big Y (rotissiere chicken, pizza is a meal) and not the restaurants.
The tax is impacting the dining out crowd.
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Two men wanted in connection with a push-in robbery in Staten Island's Richmond neighborhood in June may have obtained fake police badges from the disgraced Huguenot cop arrested and charged this morning with issuing false federal agent and NYPD identifications to more than 3,000 people.
Robert Neves, a resident of Stecher Street in Huguenot, was charged with conspiracy in Manhattan Federal Court this afternoon, for allegedly displaying the likeness of a U.S. seal on identification documents.
No arrests have been made in the Richmond robbery during which the pair presented official-looking police badges to a housekeeper at a West Cedarview Avenue home, tied her up and ransacked the house for thousands of dollars of jewelry and money on June 19.
But an NYPD criminal impersonation unit detective working on that case took part in today's arrest and is looking "very closely" at a link between Neves and the two men as well as other robbery cases in the city.
"You have a lot of bad guys running around with [false] badges and credentials," said one source connected to the investigation of Neves. "It's a national security threat."
According to a federal complaint unsealed today, Neves and his partner Ralph Rios have been charged with three felonies for distribution of law enforcement federal-style badges and identification, the use of the Great Seal of the United States and issuing badges and credentials that appear to be issued by the NYPD. Rios was arrested today by federal agents in Homestead, Fla., outside Miami.
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SAGINAW, MI — Two of Saginaw County's elected officials have formulated an idea on how to address Saginaw's violence problem, which County Commissioner Jim Theisen plans to present to state lawmakers and Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday, March 19.
The idea from Theisen and Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel is to ask the state to create an overtime staffing grant for violent crime, similar to those already offered for seat belt and drunk driving enforcement efforts.
After the county leaders announced the idea, many MLive readers have criticized the plan is misguided and think securing funding from Lansing will be unrealistic. Here is what some readers had to say:
Such grant funding would be wasted by the county, according to zzt:
Saginaw County to Gov. Rick Snyder: Write us a check, we will waste it faster than you can blink.
sonygirl is also critical of funding as a solution to Saginaw's violence problem:
Nothing new here. Same old thing. Got a problem, throw money at it. Money will fix everything...at least when the government is concerned.
Extracrispysaginawsid says the solution to the problem should begin in the home:
If the money goes to programs to teach families how to be a functional families, including how to parent properly -- teach morals, values and ethics --then fine, it certainly couldn't hurt. Anything less simply won't work. Attack crime at its root.
JacksonWolverine agrees that the root causes are deeper:
Money can't buy morals. Money can't buy character. Money can't buy honor. And most of all, money can't buy two diligent and caring parents for every child.
As long as people believe money is the answer to our social ills, society will continue its downward spiral.
There could be a problem with accountability, according to Wingsfan81:
How do we know this "Michigan rising" will actually use the money for added law enforcement and not on paying themselves first? Who would oversee them to make sure the money was actually spent the way it's meant to be? I would be very worried that the monies would be eaten up by "administration " costs. Hopefully if Snyder did turn over the funds
it goes directly to the law enforcement agencies and none goes into the hands of this "Michigan rising" that so very little is known about.
jarjar conjectures that state funding will likely not come, at least not in the short term:
6 months later...... "What check?" - Saginaw County.
J-sogep says such a grant would be a tough sell without the promise of new revenue coming back to the state:
Good idea but how can the state get paid off of that?? The reason they make sure their priority is seat belts and drunk driving is because the state makes a LOT of money off them! That's the number one concern for them. When the state figures out how they can get a cut of the money things become legal and laws get passed quick. The rest of the problems just cost too much.....no return......
maizenblue theorizes why past efforts have failed and suggests a hard-line approach:
I was a member of the Crime Commission and many other anti-violence community groups in Saginaw. Predictably, most members had little if any expetise about the origins of crime, resulting in plans that had little hope of success. There was a uniform reluctance to engage in any discussion involving known relationships to crime i.e single parent births, fatherless homes, black on black violence, etc. for fear of accusations of racism. Given our refusal to confront the root causes of crime, Saginaw's anti-crime measures can now deal only with immediate solutions, 1. surreveilance of high crime areas, 2. Quick arrest, jail, high bond. 2. Protection of witnesses 3. Maximum sentencing at trial.
1971duece proposes an idea for where to take the money for the proposed grant:
Why don't they park the worthless helicopter and shift the $1800 a hour they spend flying it to overtime for officers .
nosnowhell criticizes the idea as a waste of taxpayer money:
Just another "con-game" to fleece the taxpayers out of their money. Won't solve anything!
The plan needs more substance to be successful, maizenblue says:
Simply saying "It's overtime for officers to target violent criminals" doesn't explain what they would be doing. HOW will you target criminals? I would hope that there would be more to the plan than just paying overtime.
fireatwill criticizes the idea of bringing police officers from outside the city to fight violent crime:
I think its a bad idea and dangerous to bring in outside police jurisdictions to patrol the city. There's a big difference in taking a report for having your house egged in the county then arresting people with guns who will do anything to stay out of jail in the city. Not to mention these deputies or other officers from outlying jurisdictions don't know where their at most of the time in the city. The Sheriff who I do like is doing everything he can to make us believe he has ideas to lower crime in the city. Unfortunately most of the time is just political mumble jumble.
48sent2 says parents should be held accountable for the actions of their children:
It is time to make these parents accountable. There has to be a way to find out who these kids' parents are. Make them accountable for their offspring. Our once safe streets are being taken over by a group of juveniles. Everyone is afraid to drive through our city. That is all we get is talking by these pastors, reverends and community leaders. Let's form another committal Most of us have raised our children to be good, honest, hard working citizens. Don't blame lack of jobs and poor housing. How can they can get a job without a high school diploma? They don't want to study. It is too easy to get free food, phones, housing, etc. The once beautiful neighborhoods on the east side have been destroyed because nobody bothers to paint or make simple repairs. Parents wake up. It is your responsibility to raise your child. We can help, but it is not our responsibility to do it by ourselves.


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In case you're wondering why I may not be putting up many posts in the next few days, it's because I'm in California visiting my brother. We are going to attend what will be for me my third consecutive Notre Dame-at-Stanford game.
They occur at two-year intervals on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Four years ago I flew out on Thanksgiving Day. Notre Dame won that one, a bright spot in an otherwise awful year. At the end of the game bulldozers came onto the field and began symbolically tearing up the field. The old stadium, where I'd run the two-mile when I was on the track team at Cal, was torn down and replaced by a new one.
Two years ago I drove across the country prior to the game.
I stayed in Salt Lake City the evening before Thanksgiving Day in the airport Ramada. That was pretty funny. There was a bar in the hotel and evidently it was the hot spot in town, this being Salt Lake City. The locals were drinking beer, playing pool and singing along to "White Rabbit" by the Jefferson Airplane on the jukebox.
I found that pretty funny, given that I'd soon be in the San Franciso Bay Area, where the song originated 40 years earlier.
Then I drove across the entirety of Nevada on Thanksgiving Day. Now that was boring. There were no FM stations and I couldn't raise an AM station. The car had only a cassette deck and I hadn't bothered to bring cassettes. When I got about two-thirds of the way across the state I stopped for gas and threw a quarter in a slot machine. I won five bucks and spent $2.99 on a tape of Mott the Hoople's Greatest Hits.
So I sure got my money's worth.
As for flying on Thanksgiving Day, I suspect it's the single best day of the year. I got a Continental nonstop out of Newark for a mere $384 round-trip. The best part? The plane was empty. There were whole rows without a passenger in them. I grabbed a window seat on an exit aisle and had the entire row to myself for the flight.
It was like the good old days of flying - but a lot cheaper. Adjusted for inflation that fare is about what I paid for one-way flight in 1968 - and that was at the half-fare rate for flyers 12 to 22, about $75.
So when you bitch about flying, consider that it's almost free compared to the old days.
It was the same four years ago, an empty plane.
As for the Notre Dame games, the tailgate party is like homecoming for alumni of my old high school in Toms River, St. Joseph's (now Monsignor Donovan). A high percentage of the male population of my brother's class at St. Joseph's now lives in Palo Alto. So we have a great tailgate party parked in the fields outside the stadium. This apparently quite a Stanford tradition. Everyone roots for the home team, except for me and my brother. He went to Notre Dame.
I spent a lot of time in Palo Alto in the '60s and early '70s. Back then it was a quiet and even boring little town. Now of course it's the center of the Silicon Valley. Everyone you meet is in the midst of doing some sort of a high-tech project.
This will be the last home game for Andrew Luck, Stanford's great quarterback. Let's hope the Irish spoil it.
UPDATE: A wonderful evening in Palo Alto - in terms of the chili my old friend Bob made. That was great. Notre Dame's performance was not so great.


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Has anyone checked out the police report from Charles Barkley's recent DUI? This is some great great reading, here is an excerpt and a link.
Lets just say Bill Clinton doesn't define it as sex but...
From The Smoking Gun:
"...Charles Barkley told Arizona cops that he ran a stop sign because he was in a hurry to pick up a girl who had "given him (oral sex) one week earlier," which the former NBA star described as "the best one he had ever had in his life." According to a Gilbert Police Department report."


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By Jeremy Schneider
Even with victory all but assured in the fourth quarter, Hillside coach Dennis DuBois paced the sideline and vigorously shouted instructions to his team. He knew that getting a lead wasn't always the team's biggest problem last winter.
Holding onto it was.
This time, countless trips to the free-throw line and stifling defense helped close out a 69-51 victory over Roselle Park in the season opener for both teams in Roselle Park.
"Going through my head is, let's learn how to finish. Let's mature. Let's not give up," DuBois said. "Last year, we gave up a lot of games. We didn't know how to finish. We didn't know how to close."
It was a typical season opener, with turnovers more common than baskets in a sloppy first half. But Hillside slowly rounded into shape, taking the lead early in the second quarter and never giving it back.
"That shows maturity from last year to this year," DuBois said. "We lost a lot of games in that situation. We lost about six or seven games by three points or less. Things of that nature. Some of these guys are actually starting to mature, and that's real pleasurable to see."
Ronald Alexandre didn't take many shots, but each one he made seemed to be a big one. He opened the scoring with a 3-pointer, hit a key jumper after fooling a defender with a head fake late in the third quarter and helped his team take control on his way to finishing with a team-high 17 points.
Alexandre was one of Hillside's main scorers last season but began to lose confidence as the year went on, according to DuBois. The coach said that seeing him flourish like he did against Roselle Park was one of the best parts of the victory.
"Felt pretty great," Alexandre said. "I need to get back in shape a little bit more. It's just the first game of the season. I took a few more shots than I expected, but that's pretty much it."
Neil Patel scored a game-high 20 points for Roselle Park and made four 3-pointers. Only one other Roselle Park player had double digits in points -- Jericho Gloria with 11.
DuBois knows there are still many aspects of his team's game that need work. But for the first night of the season, he'll take the victory.
"Every day is a new adventure," DuBois said. "This is just the beginning of the journey."


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|Mr. Pink Mustache garland!
We have a pink tradition when you turn 15 years old in Latin America ( quinceañera ) but we are not in our country right now ( Chile ) so we are transforming a little bit the tradition. She doesn't want to wear a pink dress for her big day she decided to wear a champagne color dress instead of a pink one. Beautiful decision!
The decoration for the party will be in pink with something funny (black mustaches). She is crazy about mustaches :)
I started cutting, ironing the fabric for the garland last weekend. It is not finished yet :(
|Mustache and black felt
|Pink garland with a mustache
Now I have to add the bias binding and sew the hole garland.
See you another day and happy sewing!


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Orioles top Blue Sox
MARTINSBURG – The Martinsburg Blue Sox couldn't catch a break in the fourth game of a best-of-five series in the Blue Ridge League playoffs against the Brunswick, Maryland, Orioles on Monday night.
The string of unlucky circumstances began in the first inning, and it all went downhill from there as the Orioles took a 12-1 mercy-rule shortened victory to eliminate the Blue Sox from postseason play.
"The baseball gods just were not with us," Blue Sox manager Garry Geffert said. "In the first inning, we had a couple bad-hop ground balls that put guys on base. Then, a guy hit a ball that everybody thought was an out that just carried over the fence.
"A couple innings later, one of our guys hitting a ball that would have went for extra bases and landed just foul."
In the top of the first inning, Bryan Nolan and Vince Smarrelli reached on a pair of ground balls to the left side and scored on a three-run home run from Josh Vitek to give Brunswick a 3-0 lead.
The scoring continued for Brunswick in the top of the third with a solo home run to left-center by Luke Toms and three runs in the top of the fourth.
Joey Zuniga walked and advanced to second on a groundout to put the first runner of the inning aboard for Brunswick.
Brett Strahin walked, and back-to-back singles by Nolan and Smarrelli drove in two runs. An error by the Blue Sox scored Nolan to give the Orioles a 7-0 lead.
Martinsburg scored a run in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI groundout by Tyler Mason, which brought across Kevin Griffin, who singled to deep center field, but Brunswick added five more runs in the top of the fifth, securing the mercy-rule victory.
During the five-run top of the fifth inning by Brunswick, the Blue Sox made multiple pitching changes, beginning when Logan Johnson took to the mound.
Vitek doubled to left to start the inning for the Orioles. A hit batsmen and a walk by Zuniga loaded the bases, resulting in a pitching change. Two walks, resulting in a pair of runs, and a lineout to second caused another change.
A sacrifice fly by Nolan brought a third run to the plate, and a triple to left field that rolled along the top of the fence as the left fielder attempted to make the catch brought two more Brunswick runs to make the score 12-1.
Brunswick will play the next postseason series against the Boonsboro Pirates, who were league champs. Both the Orioles and Pirates finished the regular season with a 16-3 record.


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OFFICIAL STATUS: Threatened. Threatened species are species that are likely to
become endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a
significant portion of their range.
LISTED: 57 Federal Register 2053; January 17, 1992.
HISTORICAL STATUS: Ute ladies'-tresses was probably much more widely distributed
prior to European settlement of the West. Disruption of natural flooding events
and other anthropogenic influences have likely limited the distribution of this
PRESENT STATUS: Known to occur in eight states: Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho,
Washington, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. There are ten known locations in four
Montana counties: Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin and Beaverhead. The largest
Montana population consists of about 500 plants.
HABITAT: Montana populations seem restricted to low elevation, calcareous
microhabitats within old river meanders that are temporarily inundated and
remain moist throughout the growing season. The plant is adapted to relatively
sparse vegetation, possibly as a result of grazing, but not season-long grazing.
It also appears to be adapted to disturbance from flooding.
LIFE HISTORY: Ute ladies'-tresses is a native, perennial, white- flowered orchid
that grows up to 20 inches tall from tuberous roots. It blossoms from late July
to early September. The plant relies on insects for pollination. The seeds are
short-lived. Flowering stem numbers fluctuate from year to year; some
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dormancy. This orchid usually produces an overwintering rosette of basal leaves.
AID to IDENTIFICATION: White or ivory colored flowers clustered in a spike of
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perpendicular to the stem. The upper stem is sparsely to densely
glandular-pubescent. The persistent leaves are mostly restricted to the base of
the stem; upper leaves are reduced to bracts.
REASONS for DECLINE: This orchid depends on natural stream processes and
probably on the type of nomadic grazing typical of native ungulates. Dams and
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eliminated habitat characterized by periodic flooding. Grazing prior to flower
stem formation may be beneficial because it limits competition from taller, more
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Avoid livestock grazing during the flowering-fruiting period. Short grazing
periods followed by relatively long rest periods are desirable.
COMMENTS: The presence of Ute ladies'-tresses can be an indicator of watershed
health. Traditional agricultural land uses appear to be compatible with
maintenance of this species if some consideration is given to its life history
REFERENCES: Conservation Status of Spiranthes diluvialis Sheviak in Montana, by
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On Day One, we heard a lot about Tennessee wide receiver Zach Rogers, who got a rare mention from Rex Ryan that included the actual name of an undrafted free agent.
Typically, Ryan will latch on to the person's college or hometown when describing standouts, like "that kid from Florida State" or, in Garrett McIntyre's case, "Oh, Canada."
Rogers continued a strong camp today, along with wide receivers Joe Collins (6-3, 200, Weber State), a second-year player and Titus Ryan (6-0, 193, Concordia College), another second-year player. Both got shout outs from wide receivers coach Sanjay Lal during drills, which also happened to be closest to the media area on the sideline.
On defense and special teams, safety Rontez Miles (6-0, 203, California Pa. ) got a nice nod from associate head coach Anthony Lynn, who called him a "bad dude" after special teams drills.
Miles has a very interesting back story, chronicled here by our former teammate Mike Garafolo, and plays at a position of need for the Jets.
He's got NFL size, only a few pounds lighter than Dawan Landry, and has been known for
his speed.
"Well, he's spinning like crazy, the communication has to come a million miles for him," Ryan said. "But the one thing you can't take away from him is, this dude is aggressive. When you see it, it will show up more in a special teams factor than anything else. It's like 'Son, we're not hitting each other yet, you're just tagging off. You have to slow him down that way.
"But you love his mentality, you love his aggressiveness."
Miles, who said he patterns his game after Steelers S Ryan Clark, does have a Pittsburgh Steelers tattoo. Ryan hopes to change that.
Troy Davis, a linebacker out of Central Florida here on a tryout, also got a mention from Ryan (by number).
• Ryan thinks that there might be at least one defensive player who doesn't make it past tomorrow's practice after he forgot to come in during a team scrimmage today, forcing the defense to line up with 10 players.
"Really, I can never figure that out," Ryan said. "If I'm in there I'm going to know where I am on the depth chart. I won't mention the name but I don't know if we'll see him past tomorrow to be honest with you. He might not have to worry about being out there because he wasn't. Either you want to play or you don't."
• Will Campbell out of Michigan is "intriguing" Ryan. He says the former defensive lineman, making the transition to guard, is ahead of schedule and looks natural at the position. "Hopefully, I see that No. 65, I hope he had half the success that Brandon Moore had at the position and I think we'll all push for that."


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Sgt. Matthew Rogers from the Wayland Michigan State Police post said troopers were able to locate the man in the maroon vehicle who was involved in what was initially thought to be an attempted abduction.
A boy called 911 to report that a stranger "yelled" at him and tried to coax him into his vehicle at about 8:50 p.m. Saturday, May 3 in the parking lot of an apartment complex where the boy lives, near Hopkins Middle School. A witness observed the incident.
After interviewing the man, police are satisfied that the allegation of attempted abduction was unfounded, Rogers said.
He said the investigation is ongoing, but an updated press release was sent out this morning to let people know there was no cause for alarm.
"We didn't want anyone to think there was someone running around Hopkins (abducting children)," Rogers said.


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Twisted Pine Rolls Out Big Easy Offbeat Brown
Latest installment from Artisan Ale Project, a wasabi and ginger brown ale
Boulder, Colorado – April 30th 2012 – The Twisted tradition continues with the fifth release in the brewery's Artisan Ale Series, as fans prepare for the May 5th launch of Big Easy Offbeat Brown, a highly imaginative ale with a wild streak of flavor.
The American-style brown ale, suffused with wasabi, horseradish and ginger roots, packs a wacky punch as the ingredients mix and mingle in the nose and on the tongue. As with previous, offbeat Twisted Pine beers (with the arguable exception of Ghost Face Killah), balance was the brewers' first priority and Big Easy juggles the dynamic aromas and tastes in remarkable fashion. The eccentric ale weighs in at 7.8% ABV and 36 IBU.
The release party for Big Easy Offbeat Brown will be held at the Twisted Pine ale house on Saturday, May 5th from noon to 9pm. Featured artist, Perry Bergman, will display works from his collection, which will hang in the ale house until June's Black Swan Saison release. Bergman's piece, "Red Hat Jazz", adorns the label for Big Easy and the artist will be on hand throughout the afternoon, signing bottles for customers' collections. More information can be found at www.twistedpinebrewing.com.
Based in Boulder, Colorado Twisted Pine Brewing Company has been handcrafting beer since 1995. They are the brewers of such favorites as "Hoppy Boy IPA," "Raspberry Wheat Ale" and "Billy's Chilies." The Ale House is a very popular local hangout and boasts 17 taps, 5 rotating. Twisted Pine is active with local charitable organizations and a strong believer in sustainable business practices. You can find more information at www.twistedpinebrewing.com.
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What is in this article?:
- UC Davis course helps answer need for pomology education
- Mistakes costly
- As fruit and nut production grows throughout California, a vital element to that growth is shrinking: pomology education. "With all the cutbacks in California, there are fewer horticulture teachers, fewer farm advisors and fewer ways for farmers to get good information. Our region is so productive for almonds, pistachios, citrus, cherries, peaches, nectarines—you name it—but growers don't always have the knowledge they need."
Mistakes costly
Misinformation is especially troublesome for tree crops, DeJong says, because mistakes you make today can have lasting effects.
"With annual crops, you can learn from your mistakes and start over fresh each year," DeJong says. "Trees are long-lived, and there are carryover effects. What happens during this year's crop will affect next year's crop. That's why it's so important to understand the underpinnings of how trees grow."
The course might seem pricey — $2,850 for the two weeks — but not when compared it to the cost of a university pomology education.
"To our knowledge, there is no comparable extension course in the United States that provides instruction by faculty researchers and Cooperative Extension specialists on the fundamentals of fruit and nut tree growth and development that underpin orchard management practices," says DeJong. "Our goal is to provide access to practical, UC Davis pomology education in a shorter time frame, and reduced cost, than is currently available through traditional university classes."
Participants will receive a certificate for taking the course. The first week will include lectures, hands-on exercises and field demonstrations in basic tree biology and orchard management practices.
During the second week, students and instructors will embark on a four-day tour in fruit- and nut-growing regions of Northern and Central California. The field tour includes stops at commercial nurseries, packinghouses, retail outlets, experimental plots and private orchards. Participants will see field demonstrations at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier and the Nickels Soil Laboratory in Arbuckle.
In addition to DeJong, instructors include Vito Polito, plant sciences at UC Davis; Kevin Day, UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor in Tulare County; R. Scott Johnson, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the plant sciences department based at Kearney; and Carlos Crisosto, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the department who specializes in postharvest physiology.
Lecture topics include:
- The basics of how trees work
- Ideal climatic and soil conditions for tree fruit and nut crops
- Dormancy, chill requirements and rest breaking
- How trees grow and what determines architecture
- Understanding cropping, pollination and fruit set
- How trees use water and nutrients
- Fruit growth and development
- Harvest and harvest indices
- Postharvest quality and technology
Hands-on exercises and field demonstrations include:
- Bearing habits
- Measuring fruit quality and fruit tasting
- Pruning, training and light management
- Root excavations
- Budding and grafting
- Measurement of plant water status and irrigation scheduling
- Measurement of plant nutrient status and fertilization scheduling
Details and registration information are available at http://fruitandnuteducation.ucdavis.edu.
For more information, contact Brooke Jacobs at (530) 754-9708 or firstname.lastname@example.com.