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A newly-discovered 1888 landscape by the Dutch master, long abandoned as a forgery in an attic, was unveiled in Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum this week
Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum on Monday unveiled a newly-discovered landscape painting from the height of the Dutch master's career, abandoned for years as a forgery in a Norwegian attic.
"Sunset at Montmajour," a large oil landscape from 1888, was unveiled to applause by the museum's director Axel Rueger as a "unique experience that has not happened in the history of the Van Gogh Museum."
Depicting a landscape of oaks in the south of France, the painting was brought to the museum from a private collection.
Researchers set to work and authenticated it based on comparisons with Van Gogh's techniques, style, paint used and a letter he wrote on July 4 1888 in which he described the painting.
It had been lying for years in the attic of a Norwegian collector who thought the painting was a forgery, after buying it in 1908.
"This discovery is more or less a once in a lifetime experience," said researcher Louis van Tilborgh, who helped with its authentication.
"All research indicates that this is a painting by Van Gogh," he added.
The long-lost painting was made at around the same time as some of Van Gogh's most famous works, including "Sunflowers" and "The Bedroom".
"This is a very, very special morning and you're seeing a very, very happy director in front of you," Rueger told AFP.
"When I was told that it had been authenticated as a genuine Van Gogh I could not believe it."
The museum declined to be drawn on the identity of the mystery collectors.
"Unfortunately we cannot divulge too much about the identity of this collector as we need also to protect his privacy," Rueger said.
"But what I can tell you is that the painting has been lying in the attic for most of this time."
Rueger admitted that the museum had previously been approached by the collector "but we did not have the technology at the time to authenticate the painting."
The Van Gogh Museum reopened its doors to the public in early May with a stunning new display of some of the Dutch master's greatest works, completing a trio of renovations of the city's most famous museums.
It is located on Amsterdam's historic Museumplein where many other Dutch art treasures like Rembrandt's "Night Watch" can also be found at the recently reopened Rijksmuseum.
The museum features 200 works, 140 by the Dutch master himself and the rest by contemporary painters.
They include other iconic works such as "The bedroom", the "Irises", "The Potato Eaters" and the ominous "Wheatfield with crows."
The newly unveiled Van Gogh will go on display on September 24, on a year-long loan from its owner.
With its reopening, the museum expects to attract some 1.2 million visitors over the next year and is one of the world's 25 most popular museums, according to the City of Amsterdam.
The Van Gogh Museum was the last of Amsterdam's three major museums to reopen its doors after extensive refurbishments, underlining the Dutch capital's status as a top art destination.


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We're completely blown away by Redditor jennyleighb's amazing Super Mario Bros.-themed aquarium. But we can't help but wonder why when going to all the trouble of recreating these tiny structures and characters they didn't choose one of the underwater levels instead?
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Either way, their creation, which was made from custom painted Lego, is all kinds of wonderful. And if they can manage to dress a couple of goldfish in red and green overalls with giant fake mustaches, they'll surely be in strong contention for the coveted title of 'best thing on the internet today.' [Reddit via Geekologie]

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Lewis Hamilton won the Bahrain Grand Prix, with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg second and Sergio Perez of Force India in third place.
Despite all the negativity that has swirled around Formula One this season, what unfolded at the Bahrain International Circuit was a humdinger of a race.
Mercedes were utterly dominant, crushing their rivals into the desert sand that surrounds what is now an illuminated citadel of speed as the track staged its first night race to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
But spectators could barely look away given the wheel-to-wheel action that unfolded from lap to lap, the event in stark contrast to that a week ago in Malaysia which handed the dissenters ammunition to further criticise.
Come the conclusion, just a second separated Hamilton and Rosberg, the former taking the chequered flag for the 24th time in his F1 career, while for Mercedes it was a heart-stopping second successive one-two.
Ahead of F1's 900th grand prix, FIA president Jean Todt, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and Ferrari president Luca Di Montezemolo had all expressed their opinions on the current state of the sport.
Ecclestone had claimed F1 had become "unacceptable" to the fans; Di Montezemolo bemoaned the lack of noise and its level of so-called taxi driving with regard to drivers being forced to save fuel.
Todt is prepared to raise the decibel level to appease the naysayers on that subject, but he is not prepared to change regulations after just two races because some are unhappy with Mercedes' early form.
That will be music to the ears of Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff and his two sparring drivers, Hamilton and Rosberg.
From the moment they locked out the front row, with Rosberg on pole by a quarter of a second from Hamilton, the prospect of a captivating battle was always on the cards.
Undoubtedly, there were moments when Wolff, and everyone involved in Mercedes' emergence as this season's powerhouse would have had their hearts in their mouths.
The first of those was on lap one and the first few corners, with Hamilton ekeing ahead of his team-mate on the run down to the first turn.
Come corner four at the end of the first long straight, Hamilton had the racing line, holding off Rosberg who was forced off the circuit to avoid contact.
Try as he might, Hamilton was unable to shake Rosberg off his tail, and as the first pit-stop approached and with tyres wearing, the duo clashed on lap 17.
At one stage Rosberg managed to get his nose in front, only for the Briton to cut back on the inside and the duo to brush rubber before they continued to dice as the lap unfolded.
Hamilton then pitted after 20 laps, taking on a new set of the faster soft tyres, whilst Rosberg was in two laps later, switching to the fractionally slower medium Pirelli rubber.
It appeared it would prove crucial because on lap 41, and with Hamilton almost 10 seconds ahead of Rosberg, all his hard work was undone by a moment of wrecklessness from Pastor Maldonado.
Heading into turn one, the Venezuelan in his Lotus T-boned Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez, sending the Mexican into a somersault.
Gutierrez was fortunate his written-off car righted itself, and lucky also he emerged unscathed.
However, the incident brought the safety car into play, resulting in the leaders making their second stops, with Hamilton forced to take on the medium tyres and Rosberg the softs.
It appeared game over for the former.
As they ran behind the safety car, Hamilton and Rosberg were told by executive technical director Paddy Lowe to bring both cars home.
And they did, but only just, albeit keeping their racing clean, with Hamilton producing a superb performance on the slower rubber to keep Rosberg at bay.
Behind the duo, there were overtakes and close-shaves galore, with plenty of enthralling moments to knock the critics into a cocked hat.
Force India's Sergio Perez emerged the best of the rest, ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, the Australian himself dicing with team-mate Sebastian Vettel over the closing laps.
The reigning world champion had to settle for sixth behind the second Force India of Nico Hulkenberg, with Williams duo Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas seventh and eighth.
Di Montezemolo would not have been happy with his team's ninth and 10th places for Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen, respectively.
As for Jenson Button, on the occasion of his 250th grand prix, he retired in his McLaren two laps from home.


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WASHINGTON (AP) ? A federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that Sprint Nextel Corp. and a regional cellphone company can sue AT&T Inc. over its acquisition of rival T-Mobile USA.
AT&T had asked U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle to dismiss the case because Sprint and Ridgeland, Miss.-based C Spire Wireless did not have the right to sue over the deal that would create the nation's largest wireless phone carrier.
Dallas-based AT&T already is fighting an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Obama administration that claims the AT&T-T-Mobile merger would lead to higher wireless prices, less innovation and fewer choices for consumers. AT&T says the deal will allow it to better serve customers and expand its wireless network.
But Huvelle ruled Sprint and C Spire could move forward with some of its claims, including that the deal would block their access to the most innovative handsets, which they say are becoming the primary way to attract customers. Wireless carriers compete for devices, sometimes winning exclusive deals with manufactures such as AT&T's deal to exclusively provide iPhone service from the popular smartphone's release in 2007 until early this year.
Huvelle said manufacturers want to design devices for larger carriers because they can sell the most phones. Sprint and C-Spire argue that with 129 million customers combined after the merger, AT&T and T-Mobile would control more than 40 percent of the national market and have increased power to get exclusive deals that would hurt smaller competitors' business.
Huvelle agreed with AT&T that Overland Park, Kan.-based Sprint and C Spire do not have the right to sue on many of the grounds they attempted, including their claim that the deal would lead to higher retail rates. She said that is a harm to consumers and not the companies themselves.
Wayne Watts, AT&T senior executive vice president and general counsel, said in a statement that the company was pleased that the ruling dismissed the majority of its competitors' claims.
"We believe the limited, minor claims they have left are entirely without merit," the statement said.
Sprint's vice president of litigation, Susan Haller, said in a statement that the company was pleased to have "the chance to continue fighting to preserve competition on behalf of consumers and the wireless industry."
Eric Graham, vice president strategic and government relations for C Spire Wireless, said the judge's ruling "will ensure that all parties harmed by AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile will have the benefit of a fair hearing."


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The GDP account indicates changes in Australian production over time. Tables 29.4 and 29.5 show the GDP account in current prices for a number of years between 1965-66 and 2000-01; table 29.4 shows a series of snapshots at five-yearly intervals to 1990-91, while table 29.5 shows annual time series from 1993-94 to 2000-01. Table 29.6 shows expenditure on GDP in real or chain volume terms.
The GDP account can also be used to show changes in the share of income accruing to labour (i.e. compensation of employees) compared with the share accruing to capital (i.e. profits, defined as the gross operating surplus of non-financial and financial corporations). Graphs 29.7 and 29.8 show how the shares of total factor income accruing to wages and to profits have changed since 1965-66. (Total factor income is equal to the sum of compensation of employees, gross operating surplus and gross mixed income.)
The highest recorded value of the wages share of total factor income was 61.5% in 1974-75. The wages share has recovered somewhat from its low value of 52.8% in 1988-89, but remains below the level recorded for most of the 1970s and early 1980s. In 2000-01, the profits share of total factor income of 23.3% was slightly lower than its highest share of 23.9%, recorded in 1993-94, but remains at a relatively high level compared with earlier periods.


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Taylor Hollingsworth and Kate Taylor singing together is a match made in heaven, (or maybe hell, if the devil has anything to do with this, which would not be surprising). You might know Taylor from previous solo albums or bands but most likely from Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band. He was the guitar player who also wrote and sang Snake Hill and Air Mattress on the album "Outer South". If you've seen Maria Taylor play then you have most likely seen Kate in her band either playing keys, drums, or bass, and most importantly, harmonizing the soft beautiful back ground melodies. Nowadays, Kate and Taylor have joined hand in hand and formed a band.
Ladies and Gentlemen, "Dead Fingers", might just be what you've been waiting for! In a time when guy-girl duo's are becoming quite popular, this one is not just some gimmick, however perfect the timing and package may be. You would almost think Kate was married to her manager, or record label exec., who was having them act like they were romantic just to sell tickets and albums. But in fact, this Alabama duo are recently married and the two just recorded their first self titled full length with Bruce Watson (RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, AA Bondy), and is being released on Big Legal Mess/ Fat Possum Records early 2012.
While showing a wide range of styles, ranging from duet styled songs like those of John Prine and Iris DeMent, X, or Lee Hazelwood and Ann Margaret, to straight up great classic rock bands like the Stones, Beatles, or even Traveling Wilburys, this band should find a nice home with fans of more current duo's like She and Him, Jenny and Johnny, or Civil Wars.


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The Story of Solutions
Discovering where true problems lie is important, but it doesn't make change happen. The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal. In the current 'Game of More', we're told to cheer a growing economy – more roads, more malls, more Stuff! – even though our health indicators are worsening, income inequality is growing, and polar icecaps are melting. But what if we changed the point of the game? What if the goal of our economy wasn't more, but better – better health, better jobs, and a better chance to survive on the planet? Shouldn't that be what winning means?


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I don't know if it was one of these panelists in a different session, off-line, or someone else somewhere else, but a tweet from the conference claimed all sorts of nonsense supposedly coming from some "authority" on CMM. I'm glad to see the panel treated the content well. This is only the Q&A regarding CMMI.
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Zeppelins float in their tethers over the Empire State Building while humans fight with ray guns far below. Cities made of pure white porcelain soar above Niagara Falls. And of course, everyone zots to work in pneumatic tubes, after gobbling down pills for breakfast and smoking some health-improving cigars. Welcome to the future, as imagined by your great-grandparents.
There's something poignant and fascinating about yesterday's visions of tomorrow, as any retro fashionista or Mars Attacks fan can tell you. But retro futurism is a lot more than wearing Victorian goggles. Here are four ways we celebrate (and parody) the stories past generations told about the crazy world of tomorrow.
Camp and Cheese
Perhaps the most common form of retro futurism is often called "camp" or "cheese." It's a style where creators appropriate old ideas about the future for satire. Classics in this genre include Rocky Horror Picture Show, which makes fun of several 1930s horror/scifi movies, from Frankenstein to King Kong (the monster Rocky even climbs the RKO Radio tower at the end, in an homage to the iconic image audiences would have seen in 1930s movie theaters). The 1980s Flash Gordon does a campy sendup of both 30s and 50s movies, while Mars Attacks is a parody of 1950s alien invasion flicks.
In the 1960s, cultural critic Susan Sontag wrote a seminal essay about camp where she described camp, in part, as "a seriousness that fails." A movie, style, book, or design can only be campy if it tries extravagantly to be serious but is so over-the-top that it simply can't be taken seriously. Today, we often call this sensibility "cheesy," as in a movie that's "so bad it's good." Yesterday's visions of the future are perfect for camp and cheese because they're often wildly exaggerated in ways that are intensely pleasing. There's a reason why 1960s and 70s Godzilla movies are always counted among the great cheese classics. They're rife with ridiculous blinky-button labs, crazy robot tech, and unbelievably serious scientists, but most importantly they're about GIANT MONSTERS. What could be more extravagant than a nuclear dinosaur ravaging Tokyo?
Sometimes retro futurism deals with the tragedy of lost tomorrows, but camp is the comedy of crap predictions. Often a movie gets claimed as camp because it depicts a crazy future world that never came to pass, like one in 50s flick IT: The Terror Beyond Space, where 1973 witnesses two Mars missions to fight rubber monsters.
There might be a reason why what seems campy or cheesy to us is roughly generational — in the 1960s, the 30s seemed campy; in the 90s, the 70s seemed cheesy, and as new cult flick Detention reveals, in the 2010s, the 90s are being mined for their cheesy goodness. The camp sensibility is a way of thumbing our nose at our parents' generation, saying in essence, "You thought that the future would be like this, but we know better now — we laugh at your predictions!"
Every generation has spawned groups of people who believe they were born long after the era where they belonged. Lacking time machines, these history buffs turn anachronism into a lifestyle, dressing in the fashions of the past or creating art that looks like something that could have been made a century (or several centuries) ago.
While these anachronistas don't always treasure historical visions of the future, it's worth noting that some of the most popular vintage styles come from time periods where people were obsessed with futuristic technologies and scientific innovation. The late nineteenth century is a popular period, as are the roaring 1920s, the "space age" 50s and the futurepocalypse-obsessed 70s.
What distinguishes anachronista style from other types of retro futurism is an earnest desire to perfectly recreate historical styles. Movies like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and John Carter are good examples — these movies try to meticulously render the future as seen by the 1930s and the 1910s respectively. Though there may be jokes in these movies, there is no hint of campy satire.
Alternate History
Whole books could be written about what alternate history is, and how it works as retro futurism. There are alternate history stories that are clearly parodies, like the forthcoming Nazis-in-space movie Iron Sky; and there are deadly serious ones like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine (where computers are invented in the nineteenth century) or Philip K. Dick's classic mind-bender The Man in the High Castle (where a guy in Nazi-occupied America is obsessed with an alternate history novel about what would have happened if the Allies had won the war).
Often an alternate history can reveal how retrograde our current visions of the future really are. You can see hints of this in Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan saga, where World War I is being fought using genetically-engineered creatures and robots. Here, Westerfeld has taken today's vision of the future, full of GMOs and cyborgs, and plunked it neatly into what is often considered the last pre-modern war.
Other retro futurist alternate histories feel like wish fulfillments about the present day. Imagine how much more advanced our technology would be right now if we'd actually had computers in the 1880s! Or if we'd gone to Mars in the 1910s!
Regardless of whether alternate history promises to make today's future more like history, or convert history into our vision of the future, it's one of the most potent genres for re-imagining tomorrow by reaching into the past.
Ye Olde Punk
No discussion of retro futurism would be complete without a nod to the wild and unexpected popularity of steampunk, dieselpunk, clockpunk, and every other genre or fashion that converts historical visions of the future into contemporary style. Steampunk is often an amalgam of anachronista style, camp, and alternate history, and its fans generally mine history looking for futuristic trends and ideas. The "punk" aspect of all this can be interpreted in a number of ways. But for the purposes of retro futurism, it means a fascination with disruptive periods in history, and with the people in history who questioned mainstream ideas about right and wrong.
I'm picking on steampunk here, but there are plenty of other historical periods that have been turned into punk — and these are almost all periods where the public was actively engaged in a discussion about what it would be like to live in a future utterly transformed by science and technology. There's a reason why nobody does medieval punk (except the anachronistas in the SCA). Punking history only becomes fun when we reach the age of clocks, the sixteenth century, when suddenly new technologies of ocean travel and mechanization made it obvious that the future would look really different from the present.
So why do we look to the past for our visions of the future? Sometimes it's to laugh, and sometimes it's to mourn the golden tomorrows that never came to pass. But often, when we look to the future, we want a sense of connection with all those people before us who also looked forward to tomorrow. The failures of history, after all, are what teach us to dream the future better.
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The Nepalese are definitely a people who have the right attitude toward the canine species: worshipful. On the fourteenth day of the Lunar cycle in November , known as Kukur Tihar, the people of Nepal honor dogs as religious icons. In the view of the Nepalese Hindus dogs are the guardians of Yama Raj the God of Death who determines who goes to heaven or hell after death. Which means that dogs are believed to guard the gates to heaven and hell. On Kukur Tihar people honor dogs by bringing them gifts and food and adorning them with flowers and red paint on their forehead. Even stray dogs are treated with great respect during the festival.
One treat these lucky Himalayan canines may be enjoying during their festival is a chew made of dried Yak or cows milk. It comes from an ancient recipe but until very recently unless you were traveling to the Himalayas your hound couldn't get his paws on it. However, thanks to the expanding global market the treats are now available from a number of retailers including our favorite, Olive Green Dog.
The treats are really long lasting (Dr. Z has been working on hers for over a week) and they are made with all natural ingredients, and no chemicals or preservatives. They also have a shelf life of at least four years. We love them!


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Syrian rebels seize Lebanese journalist over 'incompatible' reporting
In their fervent struggle, a Syrian rebel group has "arrested" a Lebanese journalist in Aleppo saying his "presence as a journalist no longer receives approval in areas controlled by the rebels."
Fidaa Itani, who works for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBCI) and several other news outlets, was travelling though Aleppo under protection of a rebel group when he was arrested and handed over to another rebel group which controls a small town some 30km away from the besieged port-city.
The rebels said on their Facebook page they found Itani's work "incompatible with the path of the Syrian revolution and rebels."
They promised to free the reporter "shortly" who is now in rebel custody – after the necessary documents and information are acquired.
Itani was seized after he raised suspicions, taking pictures and videos of "large amounts of operations" in Syria's second largest city. The content of his reports also seems to fallen foul of how the rebels' want the popular uprising against Bashar Al-Assad's government should be covered.
"Reports and videos have not proven yet Itani's involvement with any party that works against the revolution, but his presence as a journalist no longer receives approval in areas controlled by the rebels," the group said in a statement.
LBCI, as well as Lebanese MPs, are in contact with the group and their leader, Abu Ibrahim. They expect Itani to be set free in a couple of days.
Abu Ibrahim and the Azaz rebel group have abducted Lebanese nationals before. Eleven Lebanese pilgrims, who were returning from Iran through Syria, were kidnapped by the group in May. Only two of them have been released so far.
The rebels have used the term "detained" to describe the abduction of the journalist, but they in fact have committed "a criminal action" and "kidnapped" him, Manuel Ochsenreiter, editor-in-chief of the German monthly news magazine Zuerst, told RT.
"Indeed this is an alarming development but this is not new," he said. "He is not the first journalist to have been kidnapped in Syria. We see a huge number of journalists that were killed by the rebels in Syria, who were killed by the Al-Qaeda related groups. I just want to remember the journalists of the Syrian TV channel, Syrian News TV where some journalist were killed and where the building was attacked at the end of June this year."
At the same time the Syrian government does not prevent journalists making reports that disagree with the official line, says Ochsenreiter, who himself had visited Damascus during the conflict. "I was in Damascus and what I can say is that I met a lot of journalists who were not filing reports consistent with the official line of the Syrian government's cause and they were not detained, they were not kidnapped, they were free to work in the country," he said. "So, you see that there is a huge difference how journalists work in Syria and there is a monster huge difference in the risk." Itani was kidnapped just hours after the release of a video in which Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawari had called for Muslims to kidnap Westerners as a bargaining chip, to win the release of its members held captive around the world. In a new video posted online he also urged Islamists to support Syrian rebels with "all that they can."This is not the first a foreign reporter has gone missing in the Arab country since it plunged into civil unrest in March 2011. In one of the most recent incidents, Ukrainian reporter Anhar Kochneva disappeared several weeks ago and has not yet been freed. In total, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, three international reporters remain unaccounted for in Syria, while over 20 have been killed adding to more than 20,000 casualties suffered by Syria.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Just for fun, general manager Trent Baalke wrote A.J. Jenkins' name on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope. If all went according to plan, he would be San Francisco's selection with the 30th pick in the NFL draft.
Turns out Jenkins was still on the board Thursday night - and the Illinois wide receiver had no idea he would be a first-rounder. In fact, his sister had to get him from the bathroom when the 49ers called, and he hustled to the phone.
"Yeah, I sprinted. I didn't know if it was real or not, because during the middle of the draft my cousin had called my phone and was playing with me," Jenkins said. "It was like a little joke. It's crazy. ... I was in the bathroom, and my sister started saying,
Your phone's ringing.'Ah, you're kidding,' I'm saying, `you're playing a joke on me."'
"I'm out of words right now," added Jenkins, whose ability to play several spots in Jim Harbaugh's offense put him high on the Niners' list. "I thought it was the perfect fit to be honest. I didn't think the phone call was going to come so soon. I'm honored and I'm blessed. It's crazy."
The 49ers took another step to boost their suddenly deep receiving corps by adding Jenkins, the fourth receiver taken.
He will join a unit that already features Randy Moss, Mario Manningham and Michael Crabtree on the reigning NFC West champion 49ers, who went 13-3 to end an eight-year playoff drought before losing in overtime of the NFC title game to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants.
"Just going to an organization with Randy Moss and Crabtree, I'm going to learn a lot," Jenkins said. "But me coming into it as a rookie, I think I could do great, like going downfield. I could play the slot, the outside, I could do the option routes. I mean I could do it all."
The 6-foot, 192-pound Jenkins had 90 catches for 1,276 yards and eight touchdowns in his senior season for the Fighting Illini and led the Big Ten Conference with an average of 6.92 receptions per game. He caught 19 TD passes during his four-year college career.
"I always loved Jerry Rice," Jenkins said. "And I feel blessed and an honor, man, to be playing in the same uniform as that man. That is crazy. That's crazy."
San Francisco is building a roster to make another run at a Super Bowl after getting oh so close in Harbaugh's first season, when he was named NFL Coach of the Year. Building a more explosive receiving corps became a focus after the Niners' receivers managed only one catch for three yards in the playoff loss to New York. They acquired Manningham from that Giants team, and took a chance that Moss will still be the dynamic wideout he once was after a year out of football.
Baalke and Harbaugh expect Jenkins will blend right into that group - and learn a lot from the veterans in the process.
"He's a guy that's very sure-handed, very good with the ball in his hands," Baalke said. "If there's an area that A.J.'s got to get better, it's probably the weight room, and he will."
The 49ers have all 11 defensive starters back for coordinator Vic Fangio's group that led the league in stopping the run. This became a drastically different draft for Baalke, whose selections the past two years became immediate impact players - offensive linemen Anthony Davis and Mike Iupati in 2010 and then linebacker Aldon Smith, who had 14 sacks last season as a rookie.
"You let the board speak, best player available. We had an opportunity to trade back and chose not to," Baalke said. "Had we decided to trade back there's a good chance we would have lost him."
Jenkins visited the 49ers earlier this month and told his agent it was his best meeting of all after also speaking to the Baltimore Ravens, the Jaguars he grew up rooting for in Jacksonville, Kansas City, Detroit and St. Louis.
Not only did he ace Harbaugh's standard sports quiz for potential players - questions such as the name of Green Bay's stadium and who won the Heisman Trophy two years ago, Jenkins recalled - he impressed with his route-running ability and speed. He ran a 4.31 40-yard dash at the NFL combine in February, though Baalke points out: "Really, who cares? It's what they play to."
"Everything lined up," Harbaugh said. "Trent put his name in an envelope and said, `This is the guy we're going to pick,' and it held true. He's a strong, tough player."
The Niners owned their lowest pick since choosing 31st in 2004, when former general manager Terry Donahue traded down twice from their original 16th spot. Jenkins sounded as surprised as anybody that the 49ers called. He said he was stunned when he recognized the area code from the South Bay.
"Wow, honestly I didn't know where I was going to end up at," he said. "It's a blessing to be with a great organization."
On Friday, San Francisco has the 61st overall pick in the second round and then No. 92 in the third round.
"We don't tweak the board. We don't move people up, so that now all of a sudden it looks different," Baalke said. "The board stays as is throughout the draft."


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U.S. healthcare profit outlook brightens on Obamacare, drug prices
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare companies are winning higher profit forecasts, bucking a wider trend on Wall Street, as pricey new biotech drugs hit the market and insurance enrollment rises under the Affordable Care Act. Analysts' profit expectations for the group have risen sharply since the start of the year, while estimates for most of the other nine Standard & Poor's 500 macro sectors have fallen, according to Thomson Reuters data. The jump in forecasts has come in the past two months, thanks largely to rising estimates for biotechnology companies such as Gilead , and for insurers, including Aetna . It provides some early evidence that President Barack Obama's signature healthcare overhaul could be a long-term source of profit growth for managed care providers. "Now you're actually seeing real numbers grow and that population start to take off," said Betsy Pecor, portfolio manager at Eagle Asset Management, based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Companies "are actually seeing that growth." About 8 million people have signed up for the plans, which are provided by commercial subscribers and come with income-based government subsidies, above the 2 million who had enrolled by January. Aetna and other insurers have said they lost money on the plans this year, but insurers are heading into new markets for 2015 to add customers. Many healthcare companies are better able to manage Obamacare now than they were last year, Pecor said. EXCEEDS FORECASTS Profit estimates for healthcare companies for 2014 have jumped from up 8.3 percent at the start of January to up 12.2 percent now, one of just a few sectors with a 2014 earnings outlook that exceeds profit-growth forecasts at the start of the year, Thomson Reuters data showed. Earnings growth estimates for the whole S&P 500 this year have gone down slightly in that period, from 10.8 percent in January to 9.1 percent now. The upward revision is also the most of any sector except utilities, where estimates reflect a blow-out first quarter courtesy of home heating needs during the cold winter in North America. By contrast, the revisions to the health sector earnings reflect rising expectations for the second quarter and beyond. The question for investors is whether the improving outlook is already reflected in stock prices. The healthcare sector <.SPXHC> jumped 39 percent in 2013, more than any other sector except consumer discretionaries <.SPLRCD>. Healthcare is up 10.2 percent so far for 2014, outpacing the 6 percent rise for the wider S&P 500, but its advance has shown signs of slowing in the last month or so. "You have more people using healthcare at these higher rates, and that's going to get you earnings, but my question is for how long," said Kim Forrest, senior equity research analyst, Fort Pitt Capital Group in Pittsburgh. "It's really unclear at this point how much money this is and how long it can be sustained." To be sure, valuations for the healthcare sector are relatively high. The price-to-earnings multiple for the sector is at 16.9, down from 17.3 at the start of the year. That compares with the S&P 500's earnings multiple of 16.0, which is up from about 15.1 at the start of 2014, Thomson Reuters data showed. There may still be pockets of value, especially in the health industry groups that have seen the greatest growth in earnings forecasts: biotech and insurance. Biotech's P/E ratio is 16.8 compared with 24.5 at the start of the year, while the average P/E ratio for the five managed care companies in the S&P 500 is 13.6, up from 12.4 at the beginning of 2014. Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors in New York, said his firm rotated money out of the high-growth biotech names and into less volatile names in the healthcare sector in March, but he still likes biotech. "There will come a point in the cycle, maybe later this year, that we put some money back into these biotechnology names." PRICING POWER Biotechnology companies, which were top victims in the sell-off of so-called momentum stocks earlier this year, are the biggest contributors to the gain. Biotechs are benefiting from pricing power, as more of their blockbuster drugs come on the market, analysts said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved 27 drugs last year and 39 in 2012, the most of any year except 1996. "They're all in the midst of launching or have launched new products that are head and shoulders above the existing products out there, and they're getting the pricing and the demand," said David Heupel, senior healthcare analyst at Thrivent Investment Management, in Minneapolis. In the past 90 days, 25 analysts raised their profit expectations for the full year on Gilead, the maker of the market-leading hepatitis C treatment, Sovaldi, with a mean change of 65 percent higher. None revised expectations lower, Thomson Reuters StarMine data showed. Sovaldi's $84,000 price tag for a 12-week treatment is so high, however, that it has come under fire from insurers, who are pushing Gilead's rivals to offer lower prices when their hepatitis C medicines go on the market. For Alexion Pharmaceuticals , 18 analysts raised their profit estimates in the past 90 days, with a mean change of 9.8 percent higher, while none revised them lower. Among insurers, 12 analysts raised their profit expectations over the past 90 days for Aetna's earnings, with a mean change of 2.2 percent higher, and just one revised them lower. For Cigna , 15 analysts increased their profit estimates in the period, with a mean of 1.8 percent higher, compared with one revising them down, according to the StarMine data. The number of analysts who raised their earnings expectations for the healthcare sector as a whole in the past 90 days is 416 compared with 391 who lowered them over the same period, with a mean change of 3.1 percent higher. (Paragraph 20 of this story has been corrected to fix the number of FDA drug approvals last year to 27 from 39, which was the figure for 2012.) (Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch, editing by John Pickering)


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Amnesty by Another Name
I wish I could believe the president and those senators who claim their agreement on immigration legislation will "fix" the problems of open borders and illegal aliens. I can't, because the public has had no input into the measure; the last time Congress "fixed" the problem, it got worse; and it appears Democrats and Republicans care more about harvesting votes for their respective parties than doing what's best for their fellow citizens.
The bill would allow for the hiring of 18,000 additional border patrol agents, construction of 370 miles of fence and 200 miles of vehicle barriers, ground-based radar, camera towers and aerial vehicles. Employers would have to electronically verify new hires within 18 months and all existing employees within three years. The priority of border security first, legalization second sounds good.
Only after the border is secured, say the senators and White House, will the guest-worker program kick in. Again, I wish I could believe this, but when it comes to immigration, I don't trust either party. It's a safe bet that once the U.S. government legalizes the illegals, many will not abide by the conditions. What then?
The president can say the Senate measure isn't amnesty, but that doesn't make it something else. The fact is that many of those who broke our laws to get here will be allowed to stay.
A new immigrant category called the "Z Visa" will be introduced. Z-1 covers illegal aliens who got here and started work before Jan. 1, 2007. Z-2 is for parents and spouses of illegals who qualify under the Z-1 category. Z-3 is for the children of illegal aliens qualifying under the Z-1 category.
As the Heritage Foundation's Brian Darling has written, "Z Visa" holders can remain in their "Z" status indefinitely, meaning they never have to pursue a "pathway to citizenship." They'd also be allowed to get Social Security numbers and benefits from some welfare programs. And, writes Darling, "there is no cap on the number of amnesty recipients in the draft language." Z Visa holders can't vote, but who doubts that a liberal judge will rule such a ban unconstitutional? Only in America can one violate the law and then appeal to the law and the Constitution for undeserved rights.
The draft language requires illegals to return "home" for a year or two before applying for citizenship, but who will enforce that provision? No president is going to suffer the political fallout from a mass deportation of lawbreakers, especially after they've been on Oprah with their babies, crying their eyes out. Neither am I betting that imposed fines will be paid.
That this bill is hundreds of pages long and was mostly crafted in secret without hearings and without input from the public should also make us wary. So should Sen. Edward Kennedy's enthusiasm for it. Each time Kennedy embraces a Republican, the Republican usually gets his pocket picked. Worse, Republicans don't seem to mind.
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh predicted last week that if the Senate draft legislation becomes law "there is an 80 percent chance that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States . we are doomed in '08." He predicted this would be "the last straw as far as the Republican base is concerned in being able to trust Republicans that it elects to represent them."
Why do our elected leaders care more for noncitizens than they do citizens? There is no constitutional right to come to America; neither is there a right to become a U.S. citizen. Do we let robbers keep the money if they successfully break into a bank? Isn't this the message we have been sending to illegals: if you can get here, you can have all sorts of goodies previously reserved for people who abide by the law?
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese thinks the only way to solve the illegal immigration problem is for lawmakers to "uphold the principle that the rule of law requires the fair, firm and equitable enforcement of the law." He would avoid granting amnesty to those who've lived and worked in the United States illegally and ensure that any temporary-worker program is short term.
Meese knows something about the subject. He admits 1986 legislation that attempted to stem the tide of illegal immigration by combining amnesty with increased workplace enforcement of immigration law failed.
The stakes are enormous, for the country and for the future of the Republican Party. It's not worth passing this measure just so both sides can claim "victory," if the victory is a Pyrrhic one.
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The Conflict: Falling in Love with A Prostitute/Escort – Part 1
As if love isn't already complicated among 'normal' individuals, but how immensely complicated is LOVE with a prostitute. Love with a woman who shares her body to numerous others.
There is a theme of responses on my blog: a man loves a woman who sells her body and he seeks advice. My blog consists of numerous comments by men who have expressed a deep conflict in reconciling their love/emotions with a sex worker. The responses range from wholesome male lovers of prostitutes, whom express deep concern and understanding about the well-being of their lady-love, and then there are others, whom express hostility towards women-of-the-night.
Why does this conflict of love with a prostitute exist? Why are men writing to my blog with confusion, burning hearts, and pain from their experience of loving a prostitute? Why can't a prostitute simply quit her work if shetruly loves another? Can it really be love if she is still sleeping with other men? How can intimacy between a prostitute and her lover be special if she is sharing her body with other men? I attempt to answer such questions on my blog, given that other wholesome outlets are scarcely available.
In Love with a Sex Worker? A Word of Caution When Seeking Advice from Outsiders and others who claim to know:
Not all women who sell themselves are the same. Yes, there are similarities in certain aspects, but also great diversity in our personalities, lifestyles and upbringings. Therefore, one must be cautious when seeking advice from outsiders who tend to premise their arguments on the notion that all prostitutes have the same motivations, values and lifestyles –such sterotypes are invalid. Seeking any wholesome advice on being in love with a prostitute is very much prone to bias from outsiders who have little-to-zeropersonal experience with such women (outsiders who's perspectives are shaped heavily by stereotypes)– It is important to remember that just because someone knows/visits prostitutes does NOT mean they got personal with them.There are so many disgusting attitudes that exist in forums and other internet sites about prostitutes in general, which is the result of a over centuries worth of discourses aimed at reducing prostitutes into degraded stereotypes. It is very easy to dismiss a prostitute as being "soulless," "selfish," "lazy," and "having no dignity" if her behaviour is upsetting to someone. This mentality is not only erroneous, but lacks any sense of empathy or broader understandings. One commenter ("Mike") on the blog epitomizes this hateful mentality. He commented in response to a paragraph I wrote:
"An escort is no different than any other human being. Yes, her lifestyle is different, but she/he is deserving of love, acknowledgement and care just as anyone else. Sadly, society still holds this view that such non-conforming groups are un-deserving of basic human dignity. Such cruel view needs to be challenged." – Sahar
"Mike's" Response:
I have to completely disagree with this view; and I say this as a hobbyist who has dated a Korean prostitute in Los Angeles. The only reason why I dated her was because I was led to believe she was going to quit her line of work and to be fair I promised to quit hobbying. I was genuine and she was filled with lies.
Yes, people are deserving of love…all people who choose to be in a monogamous relationship. The reality with most women who sell their bodies is this–they are very selfish, self-centered and jealous. It is okay for them to sell their bodies 8-10 clients a day but when her boyfriend needs a release and goes to another provider (because the gf/escort won't see him at her work place) she gets very upset. Talk about a double standard.
Personally speaking, if an escort truly loves someone, she would understand her line if work would be very difficult for a man to deal with. Knowing this, true love would lead her away from her kine of work. It's called compromise and respect. But it appears escorts simply want everything their own way and want a man to love them in the same fashion a man would love a genuinely kind and respectable woman who isn't a prostitute. That is very very very…unreasonable in my opinion.
What I found amusing, during a heated argument I told her she is a deceitful, compulsive lying, trash of a person. A whore. A prostitute.
"I can't believe that is how you think of me!" She exclaimed. Well, what am I to think of her? Classy, elegant, trustworthy, respectful? ?? She screws over a thousand men a year for money when most other women make something of themselves by working hard, going to school etc… she made a deal with the devil and when she is old and grey on her death bed…that is when it will finally hit her–OMG, I will die as a whore."
What is apparent from Mike's response is his complete lack of understanding why the lady continued to sell herself, why she couldn't just quit so easily, why she is hesitant to give up her independence, and moreover, why she doesn't resort to working for a 70-90% reduced income at a 'normal' job. How does Mike rationalize this? He just reduces her to a whore, in a derogatory, stereotypical sense. Yep, according to him, that explains everything. There are many Mikes in this world, both men and women. That's what happens when a population is constantly bombarded with hateful propaganda towards a certain group, they internalize it. Such tactics are no different than the internalized racism that is prevalent in the world today. It is the laziest form of incorrect reasoning, but what can one expect? We are not all given the liberty of pondering about the wider implications of the human experience. I thought it might be worthy to share my response to the "hobbyist" aka Mike:
My Response:
"One reason I wrote this blog was to complicate terms and concepts that are prevalent in society about escorts/prostitutes, such as labelling them as: selfish, lazy, whores (in the derogatory sense), etc. I wanted to show how and why these attitudes exist, and how they are constructed by whom and for what purpose. And yet your comment, which is not surprising, fails to grasp any of what I've tried to convey.
First off, since you subscribe yourself as a'hobbyist' I am quite sure your mentality of escorts is quite disheartening. Your comment is indicative that you are one of those people who fail to 'read between the lines.' You've taken your own experience of 'not getting your way' with a woman whom happens to be a sex worker, and then you make the hasty generalization that most escorts are "selfish, self-centered and jealous." And from your experience, there is not one ounce of trying to understand the underlying issues, nor the underlying meanings of her actions, perhaps.
From what you have written, it is clear that you have accepted the so-called 'moral' social norms within society, and thus you have ZERO comprehension of how societal norms are socially constructed (often to serve political agendas). So, let's take a look at the typical norms that you have clearly internalized (ie: accepted as 'righteous' without any critical analysis). Firstly, according to you, women whom have sex with multiple men are somehow terrible 'immoral' people. Secondly, according to you, women whom are sex workers are apparently undeserving of love/commitment if they cannot quit their job. With your logic, you fail to realize that most women do not actively 'choose' this lifestyle, but rather were 'pushed' into it for economic factors. As hard as it is to understand, yes, a prostitute can be loyal to a man she loves whilst seeing other clients — you clearly cannot understand this. But let's imagine if a prostitute did, in fact, enjoy some of her clients or perhaps she does NOT want to be monogamous — is she suddenly a terrible immoral person? Clearly, a woman's sexuality that's not 'controlled' is very threatening to you (which again, is not surprising, because that's what our current society tells us).
I'm glad this Korean woman is not with you, because she deserves a man who has a better understanding of the things she keeps silent. You are quite naïve to think a prostituted woman can simply just leave her work for love or that leaving her work is a requirement for love. There are lovers of prostitutes who understand the emotional conflict that prostitutes face. These decent men are patient, compassionate and understanding. Rather than reduce her to being lazy, selfish, or a 'whore,' decent men actually try to understand sex workers and are willing to take on an unconventional relationship for the sake of love. Yes, it can seem that many prostitutes are simply living for themselves, and thus one gets the impression that they are 'selfish' or perhaps 'lazy' because they don't want to conform to the capitalist work ethic. But there are so many complicated factors of WHY women are doing this, WHY they cannot quit so easily, WHY they feel its better to stay in the industry and be independent, WHY women are stigmatized for living alternative lifestyles, etc. I am glad that woman left you, because clearly she deserves a man who loves her and can stay loyal to her whilst understanding that leaving her job is not so easy."
Breaking the Stereotypes:
In this post, I do not mean to imply that all escorts are decent beings. Indeed there are escorts who happen to be, perhaps, selfish and heartless, but that is NOT solely because she happens to sell herself. I've witnessed in other internet discussions where sometimes prostitutes, themselves, aid stereotypes such as "prostitutes are always acting" or "they are masters at faking love and emotions." Other ideas one commonly hears is that "a prostitute will have sex with anyone for money"– a notion exists that we all apparently have NO standards when it comes to making money. These stereotypes irritate me since I am a prostitute and those ideas do not represent me at all. As mentioned previously, I never fake love or even fake orgasms. Again, not all escorts are working within the same dynamics or have the same motivations. For instance, an escort who has a pimp and has a very hardened outlook on clients will have a very different persona/lifestyle than an escort, like myself, who works part-time and doesn't view all clients as one monolith. Even within each dynamic, diversity will exist. One must remember that good and bad exists in all walks of life. For those in love with sex workers, one should view their lover as a human first — sex work does shape one, but does not make one any less good or evil.
We've all been in one of those situations where someone makes a casual remark about how "you can't trust whores" or they will rationalize a woman's behavior by simply stating "Well, she's a whore, what can you expect." As I have tried to illustrate in this post, this logic is flawed and dehumanizing. I wonder how people would feel when they realize how many everyday prostitutes (who did not actively choose to be in the sex industry) are living very private lives, are only having sex for love or money (survival), and still retain common decency.
My apologies that this post did not give much advice for those in love or having feelings for a working lady, but I recommend browsing the comments in my blog where I answer such questions. Below is recent advice I gave to a gentleman who asked how he can better understand his lady love:
"Be strong and expect hurdles [in the relationship] — it is normal. She will likely have a hard time changing her lifestyle, and it may take time. Give her time. Be patient. Be realistic. And be supportive. Ask her clearly what she wants. If there is mutual love between yourself and her, then don't listen to the negative perspective of outsiders (whom clearly don't understand that prostitutes are human like everyone else)."
Here is great link that gives wholesome advice for men who are in a relationship/in love with a prostitute. Here is the link Below:


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(by Thomas Sowell, HumanEvents.com) – When a 1942 Supreme Court decision that most people never heard of makes the front page of the New York Times in 2012, you know that something unusual is going on.
What makes that 1942 case — Wickard v. Filburn — important today is that it stretched the federal government's power so far that the Obama administration is using it as an argument to claim before today's Supreme Court that it has the legal authority to impose ObamaCare mandates on individuals.
Roscoe Filburn was an Ohio farmer who grew some wheat to feed his family and some farm animals. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture fined him for growing more wheat than he was allowed to grow under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, which was passed under Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce.
Filburn pointed out that his wheat wasn't sold, so that it didn't enter any commerce, interstate or otherwise. Therefore the federal government had no right to tell him how much wheat he grew on his own farm, and which never left his farm.
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution says that all powers not explicitly given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people. So you might think that Filburn was right.
But the Supreme Court said otherwise. Even though the wheat on Filburn's farm never entered the market, just the fact that "it supplies a need of the man who grew it which would otherwise be reflected by purchases in the open market" meant that it affected interstate commerce. So did the fact that the home-grown wheat could potentially enter the market.
The implications of this kind of reasoning reached far beyond farmers and wheat. Once it was established that the federal government could regulate not only interstate commerce itself, but anything with any potential effect on interstate commerce, the Tenth Amendment's limitations on the powers of the federal government virtually disappeared.
Over the years, "interstate commerce" became magic words to justify almost any expansion of the federal government's power, in defiance of the Tenth Amendment. That is what the Obama administration is depending on to get today's Supreme Court to uphold its power to tell people that they have to buy the particular health insurance specified by the federal government.
There was consternation in 1995 when the Supreme Court ruled that carrying a gun near a school was not interstate commerce. That conclusion might seem like only common sense to most people, but it was a close 5 to 4 decision, and it sparked outrage when the phrase "interstate commerce" failed to work its magic in justifying an expansion of the federal government's power.
The 1995 case involved a federal law forbidding anyone from carrying a gun near a school. The states all had the right to pass such laws, and most did, but the issue was whether the federal government could pass such a law under its power to regulate interstate commerce.
The underlying argument was similar to that in the 1942 case of Wickard v. Filburn: School violence can affect education, which can affect productivity, which can affect interstate commerce.
Since virtually everything affects virtually everything else, however remotely, "interstate commerce" can justify virtually any expansion of government power, by this kind of sophistry [the clever use of arguments which seem true but are really false in order to deceive people; a reason or argument that sounds correct but is actually false].
The principle that the legal authority to regulate X implies the authority to regulate anything that can affect X is a huge and dangerous leap of logic, in a world where all sorts of things have some effect on all sorts of other things.
As an example, take a law that liberals, conservatives and everybody else would agree is valid — namely, that cars have to stop at red lights. Local governments certainly have the right to pass such laws and to punish those who disobey them.
No doubt people who are tired or drowsy are more likely to run through a red light than people who are rested and alert. But does that mean that local governments should have the power to order people when to go to bed and when to get up, because their tiredness can have an effect on the likelihood of their driving through a red light?
The power to regulate indirect effects is not a slippery slope. It is the disastrous loss of freedom that lies at the bottom of a slippery slope.
Dr. Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of "Applied Economics" and "Black Rednecks and White Liberals."
Copyright ©2012 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved. Published at HumanEvents.com on March 26, 2012. Reprinted here March 29 with permission from Human Events.com.
1. What is the main idea of Dr. Sowell's commentary?
2. What is the 10th Amendment?
3. In para. 12-13, Dr. Sowell states: "Since virtually everything affects virtually everything else, however remotely, 'interstate commerce' can justify virtually any expansion of government power, by this kind of [argument]. The principle that the legal authority to regulate X implies the authority to regulate anything that can affect X is a huge and dangerous leap of logic, in a world where all sorts of things have some effect on all sorts of other things." Do you agree with Dr. Sowell's assertion? Explain your answer.


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The Growth Model Pilot Project (GMPP) was initiated to allow states to experiment with adjustments to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) status accountability system in order to improve the validity of AYP determinations by giving schools credit for students who are making significant growth. The pilot allowed states, districts, and schools to count students who were on track to being proficient (but not yet there). Under NCLB, such students are not counted as proficient for the purpose of AYP determinations.
The pilot was initiated in November 2005 with the goal of approving up to ten states to incorporate growth models in school AYP determinations under NCLB. Eventually, nine states were approved under the pilot: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee. Now no longer a pilot, the project was written into regulation in 2008; any state may apply to use a growth model meeting certain core principles. Currently 15 states are implementing growth models under this authority, including additional states of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Texas (the latter six are not within the scope of this report).
Main Study Questions
- How have states in the pilot implemented growth models?
- How does each pilot state's growth model affect the number and kinds of schools that make AYP?
- What are the implications of the pilot experience for strengthening the use of growth within the context of NCLB?
Findings and Implications
- Growth models enabled additional schools to make AYP compared to status and safe-harbor rules alone, but the percentages of schools that made AYP because of the growth models were generally not large. The growth models in the nine pilot states resulted in an additional 1,246 schools making AYP in 2007–08; this represented 9 percent of all schools with grades using the growth models. This was much higher than the 3 percent figure for the 2006–07 school year documented in the interim report, but the increase was primarily due to the addition of Ohio. The majority of the growth schools (983) were in Ohio, where 34 percent of the schools made AYP because of the growth model. The next highest percentages were in Arkansas (6 percent), Florida (5 percent), and Delaware (3 percent). Ohio used a different method than the other states of determining whether students were on-track to reach proficiency and this led to the much higher rates of schools making AYP by growth in that state. Excluding Ohio, the percentage of all schools making AYP in the other eight states because of the growth model was just 2 percent.
- The impact of growth models varied widely across states. he impact of adding the growth models to AYP determinations is measured by the percentage increase in the number of schools making AYP due to use of the growth model; this standardizes for state differences in the percentage of schools making AYP by status and safe harbor. Overall, the number of schools making AYP due to growth models represented a 20 percent increase over the number that made AYP under the NCLB status and safe harbor criteria. The percentage increases ranged from 0 to 4 percent in six states to highs of 10 percent in Arkansas, 24 percent in Florida, and 102% percent in Ohio. Excluding Ohio, the number of schools making AYP because of the growth model increased by 5 percent. Similar to the interim report, high-poverty schools were more likely to benefit from the status-plus-growth framework (a 20 percent increase in the number making AYP) than were schools with low poverty rates (an 18 percent increase).
- Most (but not all) schools that made AYP by status would also have made AYP under the growth model alone. Sixty-two percent of the schools that made AYP under the NCLB status criteria also would have made AYP strictly by using the growth criteria. Results again varied widely among the states, ranging from only 46 percent in Arizona and 47 percent in Arkansas and North Carolina to 75 percent or more in Ohio, Delaware, and Tennessee. The percentage of schools that made AYP by safe-harbor and that also met or exceeded their reading and mathematics AMOs under the growth-only criteria was much lower (28 percent overall). Across the eight states with safe-harbor schools (Delaware had none), the percentages did not exceed 30 percent in any states except Arkansas (64 percent) and Ohio (45 percent).
- Controlled simulations comparing the impacts of different types of growth models on student and school growth results show that the projection model functions in stark contrast with transition and trajectory models. When a generic version of a projection model classified a nonproficient student as on-track, the probability that the generic transition or trajectory model agreed was near 0, and vice-versa. For status-plus-growth models, projection models had the least impact, affecting only 10 to 20 percent of eligible (nonproficient) students, while transition and trajectory models affected over 20 percent. However, in simulations of AYP determinations, the models did not yield large differences in the percentages of schools making AYP when non-proficient students who were on-track to proficiency according to each type of model were added to the numbers of students meeting or exceeding the proficiency cut point (i.e., status-plus-growth).
- Simulations comparing the results of different growth models using the same data show that projection models have the highest correct classification rates for future proficiency: over 80 percent. These rates are 5 to 20 percentage points higher than trajectory and transition-matrix models depending on the grade level and proximity to the growth model time limit. While the projection model is more accurate, it is theoretically more difficult to implement and to explain to practitioners and parents than the other models.
- Although not an option under the Growth Model Pilot guidelines, growth models not tied directly to proficiency standards could identify a broader contingent of students as making adequate growth. One alternative to the GMPP growth-to-proficiency models that can be used with vertical test score scales is the difference between the proficiency cut scores in successive grade levels. Students gaining that amount or more would be considered to make "adequate yearly growth" (as opposed to NCLB's "adequate yearly progress"), regardless of whether they are proficient or on-track to become proficiency. A simulation shows that the overall percentages of students meeting that alternative standard of growth are lower than the percentage of proficient students in both reading and mathematics, but that the percentages of nonproficient students meeting the alternative standard are higher than those meeting the GMPP standard. Consequently, adding non-proficient students who meet the alternative growth standard to the pool of proficient students could increase the overall rates of students who are arguably performing adequately (i.e., proficient or making reasonable progress over the preceding year).
Study Rationale
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was any effect, and the kind of effect, of application of the growth models; to provide information about how to strengthen the use of growth under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA); and to provide information for states that might consider applying to use a growth model under current regulations. The final report analyzes the effects of growth models in the nine states approved under the pilot, for the 2007–08 school year.
Study Design
The study combined a qualitative description of the Growth Model Pilot Project and the unique mechanisms of the growth models in each of the pilot states, together with quantitative analyses of the increase in the numbers and kinds of schools making AYP under the project and the numbers of schools that could have made their AMOs under a variety of hypothetical "growth only" and other regimens compared to the numbers of schools that made AYP under the original status-plus-safe-harbor model. Simulations were also conducted to identify the impact of different types of growth models on the rates of students being identified as on-track to proficiency and schools meeting their AMOs.
Data Sources
- To determine how states implemented growth models, the study used information provided by states both in written documentation to the U.S. Department of Education (model proposals, reviewers' comments, decision letters and reviews, and commentary by external groups on models proposed for the pilot program) as well as states' own documentation of how they used growth models for accountability purposes.
- To determine the effect on the number and kinds of schools that made AYP, the study used data submitted to EDFacts by participating states, as well as additional school- and subgroup-aggregated data supplied directly by the states. It also used school characteristics contained in EDFacts to provide evidence on the extent to which growth models may disproportionately identify certain types of schools as making AYP by growth. In order to calculate and compare status versus growth-only designations, safe harbor versus growth model designations, the effects of generic models on on-track determinations, and the effects of alternativegrowth standards on student on-track determinations, the study used student-level performance data provided by the states.
Study Limitations
The data used in the study had a number of limitations. The extant descriptions of states' growth models did not always provide sufficient information to explain anomalies, such as particularly high rates of schools making safe harbor or very low or very high rates of schools making AYP by growth. Sometimes these could be explained with additional follow-up contact with the states, but sometimes resources did not permit a full examination of outliers or the actual use of growth model results in accountability systems. In another instance, both school AYP and subgroup AMO results were defined in EDFacts with a set of mutually exclusive categories; thus it was not possible to determine from these data which particular subgroups accounted for their making AMOs as a result of the GMPP growth provisions. This limitation should be corrected in upcoming iterations of EDFacts.
Study Budget
$1.25 million
National Opinion Research Center/NORC at the University of Chicago
Report Date
January 2011


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Deletes from a shard the orphaned documents whose shard key values fall into a single or a single contiguous range that do not belong to the shard. For example, if two contiguous ranges do not belong to the shard, the
cleanupOrphanedexamines both ranges for orphaned documents.
To run, issue
cleanupOrphanedin the
admindatabase directly on the
mongodinstance that is the primary replica set member of the shard. You do not need to disable the balancer before running
Do not run
cleanupOrphanedon a
cleanupOrphanedhas the following syntax:
cleanupOrphanedhas the following fields:
Field Type Description
string The namespace, i.e. both the database and the collection name, of the sharded collection for which to clean the orphaned data.
Optional. The shard key value that determines the lower bound of the cleanup range. The default value is
If the range that contains the specified
startingFromKeyvalue belongs to a chunk owned by the shard,
cleanupOrphanedcontinues to examine the next ranges until it finds a range not owned by the shard. See Determine Range for details.
Optional. If
true, each delete operation must be replicated to another secondary before the cleanup operation proceeds further. If
false, do not wait for replication. Defaults to
Independent of the
secondaryThrottlesetting, after the final delete,
cleanupOrphanedwaits for all deletes to replicate to a majority of replica set members before returning.
Optional. A document that expresses the write concern that the
secondaryThrottlewill use to wait for the secondaries when removing orphaned data.
secondaryThrottle: true.
cleanupOrphaned scans the documents in the shard to
determine whether the documents belong to the shard. As such, running
cleanupOrphaned can impact performance; however,
performance will depend on the number of orphaned documents in the
To remove all orphaned documents in a shard, you can run the command in a loop (see Remove All Orphaned Documents from a Shard for an example). If concerned about the performance impact of this operation, you may prefer to include a pause in-between iterations.
Alternatively, to mitigate the impact of
you may prefer to run the command at off peak hours.
It is also possible to tune the performance impact of
cleanupOrphaned with the parameters,
rangeDeleterBatchSize and
rangeDeleterBatchDelayMS. For example:
- To limit the number of documents deleted per batch, you can set
rangeDeleterBatchSizeto a small value such as
- To add an additional delay between batch deletions, you can set
rangeDeleterBatchDelayMSabove the current default of
rangeDeleterBatchSize and
rangeDeleterBatchDelayMS affect all range deletion,
including during normal chunk
If you are temporarily modifying one or both of these parameters to
cleanupOrphaned, return to their previous values
after you run
Determine Range¶
cleanupOrphaned command uses the
value, if specified, to determine the start of the range to examine for
orphaned document:
- If the
startingFromKeyvalue falls into a range for a chunk not owned by the shard,
cleanupOrphanedbegins examining at the start of this range, which may not necessarily be the
- If the
startingFromKeyvalue falls into a range for a chunk owned by the shard,
cleanupOrphanedmoves onto the next range until it finds a range for a chunk not owned by the shard.
cleanupOrphaned deletes orphaned documents from the
start of the determined range and ends at the start of the chunk range
that belongs to the shard.
Consider the following key space with documents distributed across
Shard A and
Shard B.
Shard A owns:
Chunk 1with the range
{ x: minKey } --> { x: -75 },
Chunk 2with the range
{ x: -75 } --> { x: 25 }, and
Chunk 4with the range
{ x: 175 } --> { x: 200 }.
Shard B owns:
Chunk 3with the range
{ x: 25 } --> { x: 175 }and
Chunk 5with the range
{ x: 200 } --> { x: maxKey }.
If on
Shard A, the
cleanupOrphaned command runs with
startingFromKey: { x: -70 } or any other value belonging to range for
Chunk 1 or
Chunk 2, the
cleanupOrphaned command examines
Chunk 3 range of
{ x: 25 } --> { x: 175 } to delete
orphaned data.
If on
Shard B, the
cleanupOrphaned command runs with
startingFromKey: { x: -70 } or any other value belonging to range
Chunk 1, the
cleanupOrphaned command examines the
combined contiguous range for
Chunk 1 and
Chunk 2, namely
x: minKey } --> { x: 25 } to delete orphaned data.
Required Access¶
On systems running with
authorization, you must have
clusterAdmin privileges to run
Return Document¶
cleanupOrphaned command returns a document containing
a subset of the following fields:
Equal to
1on success.
A value of
1indicates that
cleanupOrphanedscanned the specified shard key range, deleted any orphaned documents found in that range, and confirmed that all deletes replicated to a majority of the members of that shard's replica set. If confirmation does not arrive within 1 hour,
cleanupOrphanedtimes out.
A value of
0could indicate either of two cases:
cleanupOrphanedfound orphaned documents on the shard but could not delete them.
cleanupOrphanedfound and deleted orphaned documents, but could not confirm replication before the 1 hour timeout. In this case, replication does occur but only after
The upper bound of the cleanup range of shard keys. If present, the value corresponds to the lower bound of the next chunk on the shard. The absence of the field signifies that the cleanup range was the uppermost range for the shard.
The following examples run the
cleanupOrphaned command
directly on the primary of the shard.
Remove Orphaned Documents for a Specific Range¶
For a sharded collection
info in the
test database, a shard
owns a single chunk with the range:
{ x: MinKey } --> { x: 10 }.
The shard also contains documents whose shard keys values fall in a
range for a chunk not owned by the shard:
{ x: 10 } --> { x: MaxKey
To remove orphaned documents within the
{ x: 10 } => { x: MaxKey }
range, you can specify a
startingFromKey with a value that falls into
this range, as in the following example:
Or you can specify a
startingFromKey with a value that falls into the
previous range, as in the following:
{ x: 2 } falls into a range that belongs to a chunk owned by
the shard,
cleanupOrphaned examines the next range to find
a range not owned by the shard, in this case
{ x: 10 } => { x: MaxKey
Remove All Orphaned Documents from a Shard¶
cleanupOrphaned examines documents from a single
contiguous range of shard keys. To remove all orphaned documents from
the shard, you can run
cleanupOrphaned in a loop, using
the returned
stoppedAtKey as the next
startingFromKey, as shown in
the following example:


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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a mass shooting at an El Paso shopping complex (all times local):
7 p.m.
The grandparents of the 21-year-old man suspected of killing 20 people at an El Paso Walmart say they are "devastated" and are praying for the victims.
KDFW reports a family friend read a statement from Larry and Cynthia Brown, grandparents of Patrick Crusius, on Sunday outside the couple's Allen, Texas, home.
The Browns say Crusius lived at their home while he attended Collin College in nearby McKinney. They say that while his driver's license shows the Allen residence, Crusius moved out of the home six weeks ago.
KDFW also reports officers from the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have been at the Browns' home since the shooting.
Allen is more than 600 miles from where Saturday's rampage occurred. More than two dozen people were also injured.
The FBI says the gunman didn't have any contacts in El Paso.
5:40 p.m.
An FBI official in El Paso, Texas, says there's no credible intelligence that the suspected gunman in a mass shooting was working with a group planning other attacks.
FBI Special Agent Jeanette Harper said Sunday at a news conference that federal investigators were focusing their interviews related to the shooter around Dallas and San Antonio. Harper also made a plea for anyone with pictures or video from the shooting scene or the Dallas area to upload them to the FBI's website.
The suspected gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, was from a Dallas suburb more than 600 miles from where Saturday's shooting unfolded at a Walmart. Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen others were injured.
Harper says the gunman didn't have any contacts in El Paso.
5:10 p.m.
Police in El Paso, Texas, say all bodies have been removed from a Walmart store and parking lot more than a day after a mass shooting killed 20 people.
El Paso police Sgt. Robert Gomez said Sunday the shooting was confined to the Walmart and its parking lot, and that the attack did not spread to other nearby shopping areas. More than two dozen people were also injured in Saturday's shooting.
Gomez says the majority of victims were inside the store. Authorities have not yet released victims' names or ages.
The suspected gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, has been booked on capital murder charges.
A Justice Department official says the federal government is treating the El Paso shooting as a case of domestic terrorism.
4:30 p.m.
Mexico's foreign minister says the country plans to take legal action against whoever sold the gun to the man suspected of killing at least 20 people and wounding more than two dozen others in El Paso, Texas.
Marcelo Ebrard said Sunday that "it's urgent that we take corresponding actions against weapons." Ebrard has frequently cited the flood of illegal weapons from the U.S. to Mexico as a factor in Mexico's rising rate of violent crime.
Gun ownership is highly restricted in Mexico, requiring special permits, and gun shops are rare. The average Mexican has trouble legally acquiring a handgun, much less an assault weapon.
Ebrard also called Saturday's shooting "a terrorist act" against Mexicans and urged the U.S. government to "set a clear position against hate crimes."
4:10 p.m.
The city of El Paso, Texas, has issued a local disaster declaration following a shooting that left at least 20 dead and more than two dozen injured.
The declaration by Mayor Dee Margo allows for state financial assistance and activates the city's emergency management plan.
Margo issued the declaration on Sunday, one day after a gunman opened fire at a crowded shopping area.
Margo says the El Paso community is resilient and will not be defined by the rampage.
3:45 p.m.
President Donald Trump has denounced two mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, saying "hate has no place in our country."
Addressing reporters in Morristown, New Jersey, Trump said Sunday that "we're going to take care" of the problem. The president says he's been speaking to the attorney general, FBI director and members of Congress, and will be making an additional statement Monday.
He says the problem of shootings has been going on "for years and years" and "we have to get it stopped." Trump also pointed to a mental illness problem in the U.S., calling the shooters "really very seriously mentally ill."
The shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend left at least 29 people dead.
3:10 p.m.
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the number of Mexicans killed in the shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, has risen to six.
López Obrador made the comments during a visit Sunday to a rural hospital in the western Mexican state of Michoacan. He had previously said three Mexicans were killed.
López Obrador also says that the events in Texas reaffirm his conviction that "social problems shouldn't be confronted with the use of force and by inciting hate."
The FBI has not publicly released the names or nationalities of the 20 people killed Saturday at a shopping complex in El Paso.
2:50 p.m.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the federal agency does not conduct immigration enforcement operations "during tragedies" such as the shooting in El Paso, Texas.
ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa says the statement was issued Sunday afternoon in an effort to dispel "false rumors."
Zamarripa says ICE agents immediately responded to aid local and state law enforcement officers as the shooting unfolded.
Saturday's shooting at an El Paso shopping area left 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured.
1:30 p.m.
FBI agents have executed search warrants at three homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where suspected El Paso gunman Patrick Wood Crusius had stayed.
An agency spokeswoman, Melinda Urbina, declined to give more details on the locations.
One of them was the home of his grandparents in Allen, Texas, where authorities shut down streets following the shooting.
Allen, located 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Dallas, is an affluent community of about 100,000.
The shooting Saturday at an El Paso shopping area left 20 people dead and more than two dozen injured. Crusius has been booked on capital murder charges in connection with the attack. Authorities say they are investigating the shooting as a possible hate crime and could seek the death penalty.
--- Associated Press reporter Jake Bleiberg in Dallas.
1:20 p.m.
Police in the hometown of the suspected gunman in a Texas mass shooting say they had few past interactions with 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius.
Authorities in the Dallas suburb of Allen, Texas, released a statement Sunday saying their contact with Crusius "can be described as limited at best."
Crusius has been booked on capital murder charges nearly 600 miles (966 kilometers) away in El Paso. At least 20 people were killed and more than two dozen injured when a gunman opened fire at a shopping area in the Texas border city Saturday.
Allen police say Crusius was reported as a juvenile runaway in 2014 but returned home roughly a half-hour later. He was also among eight students on a school bus involved in a minor crash in 2016 that resulted in no injuries.
Allen police say their last involvement with Crusius came in March, when he reported a false residential alarm at his grandparents' home.
12:50 p.m.
The president of a leading Hispanic group says politicians such as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Donald Trump must stop making anti-immigrant statements that he blamed for "costing the lives of innocent people."
Speaking in downtown El Paso on Sunday, League of United Latin American Citizens president Domingo Garcia said that "unfortunately what we saw here was another massacre by again somebody using racial hatred as a basis to kill people of Mexican American descent, and we need to stand up and fight against it."
A shooting at a shopping area in El Paso Saturday left 20 people dead. Authorities increasingly believe that an anti-immigrant screed posted before the attack was written by 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius. He was arrested and booked on capital murder charges in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors say they are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime.
12:20 p.m.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard says Mexico will take legal action to protect Mexicans and Americans of Mexican descent after the shooting in El Paso, Texas.
In a video statement, Ebrard called the shooting an "act of barbarism" and said the country's first priority is attending to the impacted families.
Next, he said, Mexico plans to seek legal measures to protect Mexican nationals and Mexican-Americans in the U.S.
Mexican officials say three Mexican nationals were killed and another six were wounded in the Saturday shooting at a Texas Wal-Mart.
El Paso is a popular weekend shopping destination for Mexicans who live across the border, in Ciudad Juarez.
The shooter appears to have been targeting Hispanics and authorities are investigating it as a hate crome.
— Associated Press reporter Amy Guthrie in Mexico City.
11:30 a.m.
President Donald Trump is ordering flags at half-staff in remembrance of the victims of two mass shootings in less than a day that killed at least 29 people and injured dozens more.
A proclamation released by the White House on Sunday says the nation shares "in the pain and suffering of all those who were injured in these two senseless attacks."
The first attack Saturday at a shopping area in El Paso, Texas, killed at least 20 people. That was followed by another shooting in a nightlife district in Dayton, Ohio, which claimed nine lives.
Trump has been out of public view since both shootings. He has reacted to the attacks on Twitter.
11 a.m.
A man and woman injured when a gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas, shopping area were there to raise money for a youth sports team one of their children played on.
Norma Coca tells Wichita, Kansas-television station KWCH that her daughter and son-in-law were near the front doors of the Walmart on Saturday morning when they were shot.
Coca, who lives in Salina, Kansas, said her daughter, Jessica Coca Garcia, was shot three times in the leg. She says her son-in-law, Memo Garcia, was shot twice in the leg and once in the back. She said Saturday that her daughter was in stable condition and her son-in-law was in critical condition.
Jessica Coca Garcia's father, Don Coca, said they have family in the El Paso area who were able to be with the couple. Don Coca says: "She was just crying ... I told her that our prayers are there and we're on our way."
The couple's 5-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter were also at the Walmart. They were not shot.
This version of the 11 a.m. item fixes garble in the word station; corrects 2nd reference to Don Coca; and deletes reference to Garcia's fundraising for baseball team and replaces with sports team.
10:45 a.m.
The police chief in El Paso is linking a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly before a shooting that killed 20 people to the suspect in custody.
Authorities have booked 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius on capital murder charges. El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen told reporters Sunday that "we have to attribute that manifesto directly to him." Prosecutors say they'll seek the death penalty.
The document posted online expressed concern that an influx of Hispanics into the United States will replace aging white voters, potentially turning Texas blue in elections and swinging the White House to the Democrats.
When asked whether the shooting was a hate crime, Allen said "it's beginning to look more solidly like that is the case."
Federal prosecutors say they're treating the shooting as a domestic terrorism case.
10:18 a.m.
A Justice Department official says the federal government is treating the El Paso shooting that killed 20 people as a "domestic terrorist" case.
U.S. Attorney John Bash said Sunday at a news conference in El Paso that the federal government is also investigating the attack at a shopping plaza with a view toward bringing federal hate crime charges.
Authorities have been working to confirm whether a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly before the attack was written by the suspected gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius.
El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza told reporters that the state of Texas also plans to seek the death penalty.
9:50 a.m.
The Justice Department is seriously weighing federal hate crime charges against the El Paso shooting suspect that would carry the potential for a sentence of the death penalty.
That's according to a person familiar with the department's decision making process, who was not authorized to speak on the record and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.
A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 20 dead and more than two dozen injured, police said. Law enforcement officials who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity identified the suspect as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius.
--- Associated Press reporter Eric Tucker in Washington, D.C.
10 a. m.
A hospital official in El Paso says at least three victims of a mass shooting at a shopping area that left 20 people dead remain in critical condition.
Dr. Stephen Flaherty said Sunday that a total of 11 victims were taken to Del Sol Medical Center. They ranged in age from 35 to 82 years old. More than two dozen people in all were injured in Saturday's shooting, some of whom were treated elsewhere in the Texas border city.
Flaherty told reporters that "a number of the patients" being treated at Del Sol will need to return to the operating room, and potentially multiple times.
Jail records show that the suspected gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, has been booked on capital murder charges.
9 a.m.
Jail records show the gunman arrested in the El Paso shooting that left 20 people dead has been booked on capital murder charges.
El Paso County records Sunday showed that 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius was booked at the downtown jail in the Texas border city. There was no immediate indication that he had an attorney.
Police say more than two dozen people were also injured in the attack Saturday at an El Paso shopping area.
Authorities are investigating the possibility the shooting was a hate crime. They're working to confirm whether a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly beforehand was written by Crusius.
2 a.m.
A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 20 dead and more than two dozen injured, police said.
Hours later, there was another mass shooting across the country. Police in Dayton, Ohio, said nine people were killed by a shooter who was shot to death by responding officers.
Authorities are investigating the possibility the Saturday shooting in El Paso was a hate crime, working to confirm whether a racist, anti-immigrant screed posted online shortly beforehand was written by the man arrested in the attack on the 680,000-resident border city.


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Pusha T, Live In Concert
Audio-Only Stream
Pusha T's set was the culmination of a gradual separation from his brother, No Malice, with whom he performed as Clipse until three years ago. The Virginia native made his name as a writer of sharply observed scenes of the drug trade and a connoisseur of unsettling, emotionally raw production.
He was vulnerable up there on stage at Le Poisson Rouge, playing none of the hits he made as part of Clipse (the ones the crowd knew by heart), instead favoring his more recent work with Kanye West, and pulling from his solo mixtapes and debut album, My Name Is My Name. The songs are full frontal assaults dappled with graceful metaphors and harmonies that leave marks. Eyes wide, face open, Pusha doesn't shirk anything, rapping about dirt he's done, ugly facts, and praying. "I'm just talking to the world like it's you and I," he says during "Suicide."
He put the audience on his back, building trust and moving toward a moment between the first and second verses of his encore, "40 Acres." He shut his eyes, leaned on the mic stand and visibly gathered himself before hurling his meticulously drawn story out into the air, even though it hurt to say the words.
Set List
- "King Push"
- "Blocka"
- "Millions"
- "Hold On"
- "Suicide"
- "So Appalled"
- "Mercy"
- "Cook It Down"
- "My God"
- "Exodus 23:1"
- "I Don't Like"
- "New God Flow"
- "Pain"
- "Nosetalgia"
- "Sweet Serenade"
- "Numbers On The Board"
- "40 Acres"
Producers: Mito Habe-Evans, Robin Hilton, Frannie Kelley, Amy Schriefer; Event Coordinator: Saidah Blount; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Alex di Suvero, Becky Harlan, A.J. Wilhelm; Special Thanks: (Le) Poisson Rouge; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann