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It's vital to renew insurance cover in good time
Ninety three per cent of drivers have never checked whether their car is correctly listed as insured on the Motor Insurance Database (MID), which is now being used to compare insurance records with DVLA data, under new continuous insurance rules.
National TV advertising by the Motor Insurers' Bureau and leaflets sent with tax disk renewal reminders promoting the new Continuous Insurance Enforcement (CIE) rules and the askMID checking website, seem to have done little to raise awareness of the free service.
According to an AA/Populus study of AA members, which prompted 16,850 responses, only 20 per cent of drivers were aware that the free AskMID service exists while just 7 per cent have ever used it.
But simple mistakes or delays in renewing cover can lead to cars being wrongly listed or missed off the database, opening drivers to the possibility of being stopped by police.
Simon Douglas, director of AA Insurance, says that the lack of awareness is disappointing given the importance of the new rules which make it a requirement that every car must be continuously insured, or registered as off the road with the DVLA using a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN).
"It is also really important to renew your insurance or take out a new policy well before your cover expires and then make sure the details are correct. If your car isn't on the MID or it's wrongly listed, you risk being stopped by police or getting an unpleasant letter through the post."
It is also really important to renew your insurance or take out a new policy well before your cover expires and then make sure the details are correct
Simon Douglas, director of AA Insurance
The police use data from the MID to operate their automatic number plate recognition technology which alerts officers if the equipment 'spots' an uninsured car.
Simple errors on insurance details, such as using an 'O' instead of a zero or two characters transposed – can result in a mismatch so it's important to make sure the details are correct.
If you delay renewing your cover to the last minute it could result in your car's details 'dropping off' the database for a short time. It can take two or three days, or even longer if there are queries to sort out, before insurance changes are uploaded to the MID.
Using the askMID website couldn't be simpler. Putting in your car's registration number brings an instant response that either confirms that it is insured with its make and model, or a warning that it is not.
If you know you have cover but the car is recorded as being uninsured or the details are wrong you must take it up with your insurance company urgently.
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A Hollywood man has been arrested on charges he sexually battered his girlfriend and tormented her by killing her hamsters, police say.
Joseph Gibbons-Nix, 35, was taken into custody Wednesday on multiple counts of aggravated assault, domestic battery by strangulation, sexual assault and animal cruelty charges, records show.
Gibbons-Nix and his girlfriend have lived together as a couple for seven years, an arrest report said. Gibbons-Nix "intentionally caused bodily harm and forced [the woman] by threat to engage in sexual activities against her will," the report said.
He kept demanding oral sex, to which she didn't agree, said Hollywood police spokesman Sgt. Lester Cochenour.
Man Called Pet Python 'Evil,' Stabbed it 19 Times: Police
When she gave in to his demands, he complained that she was "not doing it right," and punched her in the head, face and arms, police said. He also bit her twice, the police report said.
The domestic strangulation charges stemmed from the woman's near-strangulation, police said. She said that her boyfriend several times "strangled her where her airway was completely blocked and she felt she was going to lose consciousness," the arrest report said.
Gibbons-Nix also told her that her hamsters were "ungodly creatures," the report said.
Farmhand Accused of Sex Act With Miniature Donkey Wants Her Back: Report
He picked up the smaller of the two hamsters and forcefully threw the hamster on the floor, killing it instantly, the report said. He killed the second hamster by throwing it and striking it with a shoe, the report said.
The woman was abused over several days, the report said. But Wednesday, the woman had gotten so worried that her boyfriend would kill her, she told him she was leaving the apartment to get coffee, the report said. She walked to a gas station and phoned police.


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There are several things you should be aware of before you begin reducing your NIRI data. The NIRI detector has several problems/features and all frames should be carefully examined before including them in the final reduction, noting that some of these effects can only been seen after sky subtraction.
First Frame
The first exposure of every new sequence will show poor background subtraction and should be rejected (see detector array for an explanation). These bad first images ARE included in the distributed data, so care should be taken to review and reject them from all sequences (science, flats and darks) as necessary.
Vertical Striping
Some NIRI frames contain an electronic pattern that manifests itself as vertical striping with a period of eight columns. The intensity of the striping is usually different in each quadrant and may not be present in all quadrants. The striping, which is most noticeable in the low read noise mode, is much less severe and less frequent than in the past, but should still be removed before including the affected frames in your final data set. The recommended utility is a stand-alone python routine called cleanir which almost perfectly removes the striping.
The saturation level in a single coadd and low-noise read pair is about 16,000 ADU (although the exact well depth varies with position on the detector and intensity of the incident radiation), and saturated pixels should be flagged by NPREPARE in the data quality plane. Because of the way the array is operated (reset-read-read), progressively brighter sources will approach saturation and then begin to get FAINTER as the array begins to saturate in the time between the reset and the first read. Saturated stars often show a central hole, sometimes even becoming negative in the core. Such heavily saturated objects may not be flagged by NPREPARE if they are below the set saturation threshold. Because the array reads along rows from the corners to the center, this effect may be different at different places in the array. In particular, when the whole array is saturated, values in the center will pass the saturation value and start approaching zero again. A vertical gradient in the background with saturation near the top and bottom edges and lower levels in the middle indicates a highly saturated array!
The NIRI detector response is a function of exposure time, radiation intensity, and the number of photons collected. The most noticeable non-linearity is seen at short exposure times (<1s) and near full well (>10k ADU). We are currently working on a stand-alone python routine to correct for this problem. More information about obtaining and using this script may be found on the Detector Linearization web page.
Spectral Reflections
Taking spectra of bright stars results in a reflection spectrum which varies in position as the primary star is offset along the slit. Typically the bright star is the target (i.e. a Telluric standard) and this reflection may be ignored. However, if the bright star is not the target, it's reflection may contaminate the target spectrum. It is therefore recommended to avoid position angles which put unnecessary bright stars in the slit.
Ghosts with Altair at wavelengths > 3 microns
Ghosts (reflections) of bright stars are visible when using NIRI with Altair at wavelengths longer than 3 microns. The ghosts are present with both the f/32 and f/14 cameras with separations of dx=+0.09" dy=-2.43" for the first ghost, and dx=+0.18" dy=-4.86" for the second ghost (they are below and to the right of the primary). The ghosts do not rotate with position angle and they have the same spatial profile as the primary star. The amplitudes of the ghosts are given in the following table:
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Column Crosstalk
Pixels in columns 534 and 535 in the bottom right quadrant (rows 1 to 512) always have very similar values. Stars which fall on these two columns will therefore appear slightly elongated or boxy.
Bad pixels in the 256 Subarray
Additional unusable pixels appear when using the 256x256 subarray. These pixels are the last 8 pixels read out in each quadrant, yielding a bad block of 32 pixels (16 pixels wide x 2 pixels high) located exactly in the center of the detector. The pixels appear hot with random values of 1e5 - 1e6 which will not be removed via sky subtraction, and therefore the pixels must be added to the bad pixel mask during data reduction.
Vignetting by the peripheral wavefront sensors
The peripheral wavefront sensors are used for tip-tilt correction and guiding with NIRI. The peripheral wavefront sensor probe arms will vignette the f/6 field of view when the separation from the science target is less than approximately 5.5 arcmin. Sometimes, however, the only or best available guide stars are near this limit and some positions in the dither pattern may be affected. Care must be taken to exclude vignetted images when constructing the sky image if the other unvignetted images are not to be corrupted during sky subtraction.


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Mount Olive (10-10 overall, 6-7 CVAC) rallied from an early four-point deficit as Jones' putback and Keshaun Mozee's scoop shot just before the shot clock expired highlighted a 16-4 run and gave the Trojans a 22-14 lead with exactly five minutes left in the half. Coker (4-16, 2-11) got as close as three points after Henna Koponen completed a three-point play with 3:11 remaining.
The Trojans answered with a 10-0 run of their own as Robich capped the run with back-to-back three-pointers to build the lead to 13,
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The current guidance from the Department of Defense is that the U.S. will no longer conduct long-term stability operations despite 50 years of U.S. operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Vietnam, and Korea. Presently we are "pivoting" to the Pacific Rim and need to maintain a large military presence to defend that area.
Given our precarious economy and exploding national debt, the U.S. must find a way to provide an adequate land force to maintain peace and protect our nation from threats at a sustainable cost.
The chief of staff of the U.S. Army has recommended the Army stabilize at 1,045,000 soldiers (490,000 in the active component and 555,000 in the reserve component). However, naysayers want further reductions, in some cases, by almost 200,000 troops.
I say, why settle for a smaller total Army when the way to save a significant amount of money is to simply reduce the active component by 100,000 and increase the reserve component by 100,000? An annual cost savings of $15.7 billion is significant!
The skilled and courageous troops of the nation's Army Reserve Forces have clearly demonstrated their competence and effectiveness over the last 11 years of war. A larger Army Guard will give our governors greater domestic emergency response capabilities and a larger Army Reserve will provide the much needed enabler to our total Army.
Save the "Million Man" Army! Keep the Army an adequate size to deal with any contingency and save money in the bargain�� a perfect answer to our national defense dilemma. What are we waiting for?
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Freeskier Devin Logan never doubted that her surgically repaired knee would be ready for the Olympics. Not even when doctors said the ripped-apart joint — torn ACL and MCL, plus two microfractures — was one of the worst they had seen. Not even when she was non-weight-bearing for two long months after her knee was reconstructed.
Logan always saw herself competing on the slopestyle course at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. It was the silver medal in Tuesday's final that came as a surprise and, initially, left her speechless.
A few hours after the event, she was able to reflect on her first Olympic medal.
"It means the world to me," said Logan. "I've been watching the Olympics ever since I was young and for our sport to be on the worldwide stage and me standing up there on the podium, I was just so honored to do my country proud."
Logan put together a strong first run in the finals, negotiating the rails with ease and going big on jumps. It was a performance that propelled her into first place with a score of 85.40.
That number stood up until Canada's Dara Howell took the course as the round's final skier and topped Logan with 94.20 points. On her second run, Logan knew she "had to pull out all the stops" to pass Howell. But that resulted in a run that was less clean and lower-scoring than the first.
Howell took the gold, followed by Logan, and Canadian Kim Lamarre earned bronze in freeskiing's Olympic debut.
"I am so happy to be up on the podium with my two friends," said Logan. "The [Canadians] are really good, as you can see, and definitely giving us a run for our money. It's great competition and it helps us progress our sport."
It wouldn't be surprising to see all three medalists celebrating together in the mountains.
"I am going to go party with Devin and Kim," said Howell. "I'm just going to really share it with my friends and family and embrace the whole experience here, and the moment."
While the US has always taken home a large medal haul from extreme sports, Canada has been impressive in snowboarding and freestyle skiing here. Canada has won seven medals, including podium placements in freeskiing slopestyle and men's and women's moguls.
Logan was proud to add to the US medal count and cap her injury comeback with silver. After all, it wasn't until early December — about 15 months after Logan left the operating table — that she regained confidence in performing her full repertoire of tricks. While she looked good in qualifying for the US team, the pressure of the Olympics plus a slopestyle course that became slushy in warm afternoon weather made the event final unpredictable.
"We saw the conditions from this morning getting on snow and it was really fast and really icy, and then it went really hot, like spring snow, so you just had to adjust to it," said Logan. "I just thought of it as another spring day skiing with my friends.
"You just have to push through the slush, everyone has to deal with the conditions. It's who can handle it the best."
Logan put other skiers' crashes out of her mind and focused on her runs. She got into the zone in her own unique way, joking around and dancing at the top of the course.
Given her method of preparing for the most important competition of her career, it's fitting that Logan, who turns 21 Monday, plans a big stateside celebration of her medal milestone, including a birthday trip to Las Vegas and a new tattoo. She already has a mountain vista inked on her right forearm with the mantra "Don't fear the journey."
"My mom's not too happy to hear about [the tattoo]," said Logan. "And it's not going to be the Olympic rings, just so you know that."
Logan's mother Nancy was at the Extreme Park watching her daughter. It had been two years since Nancy has seen Logan compete. As owner of the Wilmington Candle Co. in Vermont, it is often difficult for Nancy to get away.
Logan thanked her family — her father, two older brothers, and two older sisters — for a lifetime of support that started when she first skied at Mount Snow at 2 years old. Growing up in West Dover, Vt., in Mount Snow's shadow, she began competing in various events at 6.
"Once I finally moved up there [to Vermont], I was on snow every day and attending Mount Snow Academy," said Logan. "Having to ski every day was a huge advantage.
"If you can learn to ski on ice [in the East], you can basically ski on anything. And I have a lot of support coming from back home. I wouldn't have had it any other way."
In four years, Logan hopes to be back at the Winter Games with a shot at medals in both slopestyle and halfpipe. She came up just short of making the halfpipe team for Sochi.
"It's a bit of a bummer, but this definitely makes up for it," she said. "The next four years I want to hopefully get a halfpipe medal, as well."
Though she now has an Olympic silver medal, Logan made it clear that's not what motivates her.
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Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards show was pretty much everything viewers want the Golden Globes to be — from its humorous informalities down to some of the inexplicable winners (we'll get to Jacqueline Bisset in a sec) of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's nearly meaningless film and television awards.
Nobody had an acceptance speech ready. Nobody could get to the stage in a timely manner. The red carpet was accidentally soaked before the show in dirty drain water. Men showed up with fancier hairdos than the women. The Breathalyzer results were just north of handcuffable. This is all we ever really ask for from any awards show — something to look at and laugh off.
(See red carpet photos | Winners recap)
Big winners included "American Hustle" (for best comedy or musical film and for actresses Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence); AMC's "Breaking Bad" (for best TV drama and for lead actor Bryan Cranston); and Fox's comedy "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" (for best TV comedy and lead actor Andy Samberg).
"Twelve Years a Slave" won best film in the drama category; Cate Blanchett won best actress (drama) for her work in "Blue Jasmine"; Matthew McConaughey won best actor (drama) for "Dallas Buyers Club."
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler delivered even better co-hosting work than they did last year; the great jab of the evening came in their opening monologue when Fey, referring to the astronauts-in-peril movie "Gravity," said: "George Clooney would rather float away and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age."
They also had great fun ribbing Julia Louis-Dreyfus about her snooty film-acting nomination for "Enough Said," and ribbing her again after she lost that one for slithering "back over to the television section," where she was nominated for "Veep."
And Poehler (who won her own Golden Globe, for her starring role in NBC's "Parks and Recreation") did a hilarious bit as "Randy," Fey's "illegitimate son" forced to don a tuxedo and serve alongside Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick's daughter as "Mr. Golden Globes."
The evening's oddest moment came barely 15 minutes in, when Bisset won a best actress award for Starz's little-noticed broadcast of the British Jazz Age miniseries "Dancing on the Edge." It was the first of the evening's bizarre pauses, while the 69-year-old actress made her way to the stage from another planet.
At a loss for words, Bisset soon found some, reaching back across decades of apparent show-biz hurt and neglect, to the chagrin of the person at the control board tasked with muting out bad words. (And missed bleeping out the nefarious S-word.)
Bisset's goofiness seemed to set a tone: Say what you want, do what you want — it's the Golden Globes and nobody really cares and the award choices might not make conventional sense. Tremble and sputter your way through it. Pause. (Pause again. Pause yet again.) Climb over and past those tightly packed tables to get to the stage. Make fun of the HFPA in funny, fake foreign accents. Ignore the orchestra cue midway through your incomprehensible acceptance speech and then really ignore the orchestra cue.
Adams nearly won the award for side boob (while accepting her best actress award), only to have it taken away from her moments later by Robin Wright (accepting the best actress in a TV drama award for "House of Cards"). Emma Thompson walked out in stocking feet to present the best screenplay award (Spike Jonze won it for "Her") and pointed to the red-soled bottoms of the Christian Louboutin heels in her hand: "This is my blood," she faux-complained.
The only place the Golden Globes show ever stumbles (besides those years when the host bombs) is when some of its participants and recipients attempt to momentarily steer it in a serious direction, confusing it with fancier events: Steve Coogan brought the real "Philomena" onstage to briefly remind us of the Irish women who were forced to give up their children for adoption; U2's Bono accepted the award for best original song (from the movie "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom") and hectored us about still not having seen it.
One of the night's more memorable moments was serious and touching, as Diane Keaton accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her lifelong (and awards-show averse) friend Woody Allen. She took the opportunity to salute how he writes characters for women. "Woody's women [characters] can't be compartmentalized," she said. "They are in fact the hallmark of Woody's work, but what's even more remarkable is absolutely nothing links these unforgettable characters — except the fact that they came from Woody's mind. And there you have it."
Which is about all the genuine sentimentality a decent Golden Globes telecast can bear. Before long, it was time for Fey to bring that crowded Beverly Hilton ballroom back down to an appropriately tart level with the last great joke of the night: "And now, like a supermodel's vagina, let us give a warm welcome to Leonardo DiCaprio."
Soon enough, the Golden Globe Awards show did something it does every year, something I love most in any awards show: It not only ended on time; it also ended one minute early. When it comes to Golden Globes, sloppy gets it done.


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Art Spalding needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 76 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
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My company, TAMM Net, Inc., started in August and is very small. We are an outsource provider of reimbursement analysis, planning, and executions for the start-up medical device companies. Our other services include: fund raising (angle, private equity, and bank), obtaining government funding for clinical trials, distribution to closed CHANNELS like Kaiser Permanente, and distribution through traditional retail channels like Walgreen's. I have an existing, expanding network of independent consultants working with me on projects and long term. Some other key words include: CONNECT & SCOPE & DEPTH, Trade Affairs, government accounts, Business Development, Healthcare, Managed Care, Strategy, and consulting.
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A professional looking logo in multiple file formats including at least gif, jpg, and large file size is not a problem. I will use this to on my web site, brochures, and stationary. The logo should portray competence, Trust, confidence, and capability. It might give the impression of nationwide coverage or a network of individuals. It should not be too big and should portray a quite sense of implicit trust.
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Mascot Sydney 2000: Millie, the echidna
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Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review
Introduction to the Nehalem Architecture
We Begin Once More
This is an article we have all been anticipating for years now as it introduces the most dramatic shift in Intel processing technology since the introduction of the front-side bus. And ironically, it is this shift that will finally remove the FSB from Intel products for good. The Nehalem core architecture has been the focus of most of Intel's Developer Forums for the last 24 months and the culmination of the technology, marketing and products begins today.
Intel's Core i7 processors will bring a dramatic set of changes to the enthusiast and PC community in general including a new processor, new CPU socket, new memory architecture, new chipset, new motherboards and new overclocking methods. All of that and more will be addressed in our review today so be prepared for a LOT of valuable information.
The Nehalem Architecture - Years of data summed up
We have done more than our share of technical documentation of the
architecture and design, enough so that I feel that duplicating all of
it here would be somewhat of a disservice to our frequent readers. I will highlight the most important architectural shifts in the Nehalem design here but I still encourage you to read over my much more in-depth look at the processor design published in August: Inside the Nehalem: Intel's New Core i7 Microarchitecture.
you can see a die shot of the new Nehalem processor - in this iteration
a four core design with two separate QPI links and large L3 cache in
relation to the rest of the chip. The primary goal of Nehalem was to
take the big performance advantages that the Core 2 CPUs have and
modularize them. Now with the Nehalem design, which will be branded as
the Intel Core i7, Intel can easily create a range of processors from 1
core to 8 cores depending on the application and market demands. Eight
core CPUs will be found in servers while you'll find dual core machines
in the mobile market several months after the initial desktop
introduction. QPI (Quick Path Interlink) channels can also vary in
order improve CPU-to-CPU communication.
a high level the Nehalem core adds some key features to the processor
designs we currently have with Penryn. SSE instructions get the bump
to a 4.2 revision, better branch prediction and pre-fetch algorithms
and simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) makes a return after a brief
hiatus with the NetBurst architecture.
HyperThreading Returns
mentioned before that Intel is using Nehalem to mark the return of
HyperThreading to its bag of weapons in the CPU battle; the process is
nearly identical to that of the older NetBurst processors and allows
two threads to run on a single CPU core. But SMT (simultaneous
multi-threading) or HyperThreading is also a key to keeping the 4-wide
execution engine fed with work and tasks to complete. With the larger
caches and much higher memory bandwidth that the chip provides this is
a very important addition.
Intel claims that HyperThreading is an extremely
power efficient way to increase performance - it takes up very little
die area on Nehalem yet has the potential for great performance gains
in certain applications. This is obviously much more efficient than
adding another core to the die but just as obviously has some drawbacks
to that method.
you can see Intel's estimations of how much HyperThreading can help
performance in specific applications. Surprisingly one of the best
performers is the 3DMark Vantage CPU test that simulates AI and
physics on the processor while POV-Ray 3.7 still sees huge 30% boost in
performance for this relatively small cost addition in logic.
Welcome to the Uncore, we got fun and games...
new term Intel is bringing to world with this modular design is the
"uncore" - basically all of the section of the processor that are
separate from the cores and their self-contained cache. Features like
the integrated memory controller, QPI links and shared L3 cache fall
into the "uncore" category. All of these components that you see are
completely modular; Intel can add cores, QPI links, integrated graphics
(coming later in 2009) and even another IMC if they desired.
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this very interesting information I've learned so much from intel over the years i been studying computers alot its ny passion and i will continue to full fill my dreams
Grammar and punctuation are important things to know too.


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- Given the ubiquity of guru yoga sādhanas throughout Tibetan Buddhism, and their sometimes great complexity, not to mention the richness of their commentarial literature and the great wealth of their religious art, it can be surprising to recall how little equivalent practice is recorded from Indian sources.
Clearly then, the guru yoga that we now know developed in Tibet, not in India. As far as I am currently aware, it seems to have developed in the early phyi dar more or less simultaneously within several closely interlinked religious circles.
Any thoughts?
I always thought it unusual how nothing comparable to Tibetan guru yoga seems to have existed in Chinese esoteric Buddhism (though correct me if I'm wrong), and attributed this perhaps to an earlier period of Indian tantra being transmitted into China. But if Mayer is correct, such guru yoga is a Tibetan innovation.


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The Hope College Great Performance Series will feature CityMusic Cleveland, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
This young chamber orchestra has been garnering attention around Cleveland for the past five years. Founded in the summer of 2004, CityMusic Cleveland exploded onto the scene with eight concerts in different neighborhoods. As audiences have discovered the joys of CityMusic Cleveland concerts, the orchestra has grown into larger venues.
Now the orchestra is embarking on its first tour ever and the Great Performance Series will be one of the ensemble's first stops. Since 2005 James Gaffigan has been the music director of CityMusic Cleveland; he also serves as associate conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, under Michael Tilson Thomas. "Gramophone" magazine has praised him, saying "[Music Director James] Gaffigan draws incisive and flexible playing from the orchestra, whose strings are elegant and precise, woodwind full of character, brasses firm and timpani pointed." "Fanfare" magazine added, "Bravo!" The "Cleveland Plain Dealer" has called the orchestra "pure genius," with music "superbly played." In addition Gaffigan was recognized by the League of American Orchestras with its 2008 Helen M. Thompson Award for emerging music directors and highlighted in the October "Gramophone" in the publication's "One to Watch" feature.
The performance will feature the highly acclaimed young cellist Joshua Roman performing Schumann's "Cello Concerto." The orchestra will also perform Mozart's "Idomeneo Ballet Music" and Beethoven's "Symphony No. 2."
Since winning the principal chair in the cello section of the Seattle Symphony at the age of 22, Roman has become a favorite of Seattle music lovers, with sold-out solo and chamber performances throughout the city. When not performing in or in front of a Symphony Orchestra, Roman is likely to be found on the stage of a club, performing music as varied as jazz or rock, as well as chamber music or a solo sonata by Kodaly or Bach.
This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, with additional contributions from Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, General Mills Foundation and Land O'Lakes Foundation.
Tickets for the performance are on sale at the ticket office in the DeVos Fieldhouse, and cost $17 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens, and $6 for children 18 and under. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The ticket office is in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, which is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.
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· The Flying Dutchmen launch their 87th season of MIAA conference play on Saturday, Sept. 29, playing the Adrian Bulldogs for the 71st time in a rivalry that started in 1938. This marks the 115th year of football for America's oldest collegiate conference. Hope holds a 48-21-1 advantage in the all-time series, including a 24-21 overtime victory in 2011.
· The Flying Dutchmen will be seeking to snap a three-game losing streak. Adrian, which did not play last Saturday, stands 2-1.
· Junior tailback Shawn Jackson (Comstock Park/Comstock Park HS) is closing in on a career milestone. His career rushing total is 1,681 yards. The tenth best career total is 1,715 yards by Bill Blacquiere from 1974-77. The all-time career leader is Brandon Graham who rushed for 4,362 yards from 1955-77. Over his career Shawn has rushed for over 100 yards in nine games, including two this season.
· Stat Watch: Junior quarterback Michael Atwell (Geneseo, Ill/Geneseo HS) tops the MIAA in passing, averaging 238 yards per game. He has completed 55% of this passes (88/160), been intercepted six times and thrown eight for touchdowns…Freshman punter Dean DeVries (Grand Rapids/Grandville HS) leads the MIAA with an average of 40.9 yards per punt.
· The Flying Dutchmen defense had 14 tackles for lost yardage against Illinois Wesleyan. Sophomore linebacker Christian Lindemulder (Mulliken/Lakewood HS) led the way with four tackles for lost yardage, a quarterback sack and a fumble recovery. Junior linebacker Tim Klaus (Saugatuckl/Saugatuck HS) followed with 3.5 tackles for lost yardage. Klaus leads Hope in total tackles through four games with 40 while Lindemulder and junior safety Santino DiCesare (Dorr/Wayland HS) each have 36.
· After Saturday, the Flying Dutchmen will play back-to-back home games, first on October 6 against Olivet and then then October 13 Homecoming game with Alma.


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If you don't know where you're going on vacation this year, you may not be indecisive. You might just be a bargain hunter.
Increasingly, travelers are trading the certainty of the destination for savings, Peter Yesawich, vice chairman of MMGY Global, a marketing firm with expertise in the travel, hospitality and entertainment industries, said at the Los Angeles Times Travel Show. Instead of saying, "I want to go to Hawaii," bargain buffs who say, "I just want warm and sunny" open their horizons. In other words, being geographically agnostic pays off.
Which raises the question of where the bargains are likely to be. At a panel discussion last weekend at the Travel Show, three bargain travel experts discussed their strategies for stretching vacation dollars.
--Look for trouble, said Gabe Saglie, senior editor of deal site Travelzoo — not trouble you create but trouble that's been visited upon a destination. Places that have recently experienced some type of turmoil, whether it's financial (Ireland and Greece) or climatological (Thailand with recent floods) may be ripe for plucking from the bargain bin. Japan, still recovering from the earthquake and resulting tsunami in March, also may offer some opportunities.
--Look for the crowds, said John Di Scala, founder of JohnnyJet.com. This year, you may find the Mediterranean crowded with cruise ships, which means the per-night cabin price may drop dramatically. He also suggested the Caribbean in September, which is still hurricane season but may offer some deals. ("Ships can navigate around storms," he said.)
--Look for where the crowds aren't, said Doug Miller, senior vice president of new initiatives for LivingSocial. Ski resorts suffered a well-publicized dearth of snow early in the season, and although Mother Nature has since stopped being so stingy with the white stuff, the perception that the cupboard is bare lingers. Look for specials at resorts eager to be myth busters.
--Sign up for everything. Because airlines don't have as much inventory as they once did, and thus less of it to move at fire-sale prices, some take to Twitter or Facebook to announce last-minute sales of the few seats they do have. When looking at an airline, hotel or car rental site that asks whether you'd like info about special offers, just say yes. (You could create a separate email account just for those special deliveries because they'll clog your everyday inbox.)
--Peruse plenty of places. Miller of LivingSocial says deal hounds will check 18 to 23 sites in the course of their research. All three experts suggested looking at the sites they work for, of course, but they also suggested Airfarewatchdog.com, Yapta.com, Kayak.com (an airfare aggregator),Priceline.comand BiddingforTravel.com, which can help guide you before you place you bid; Homeexchange.com (for house swapping); VRBO.com (vacation rental by owner); and FlyerTalk.com (good for info on rewards programs). To their list I would add SmarterTravel.com, CruiseCompete.com and WhichBudget.com (with a thank you to Kiplinger's for calling out this site, which compares prices for airfares within Europe).
--Watch out for those "bite you in the budget" hidden fees that can wreck your best-laid plans. Make sure you ask about such cost extras as hotel parking (ask whether the fee quoted is per night or for your total stay); hotel resort fees (you can try to negotiate them with the hotel if you don't use, say, the spa or the phone); baggage fees (learn to pack lightly and carry it on, except on airlines that charge for that — Spirit in the U.S. and many foreign carriers abroad); and fuel surcharges (foreign carriers are increasingly adding these).
--Most of all, be flexible. Don't fly on the days that are busiest for business travel — Fridays and Mondays — because you may pay higher prices; stay at business destinations when the business folks have gone home for the weekend; and go in the off-season, because it's never the wrong season for saving money.


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We noticed a major memory problem running NCBI BLAST+ with XML output using a FASTA subject (consuming loads of swap space then getting killed). This doesn't happen with tabular output, nor if using a BLAST database:
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Missing feature locations in GenBank "with parts"
My last blog post was on a problem with missing NCBI GenBank feature location information for trans-spliced genes when using GenBank 'with parts'. That was fixed, but while using EFetch a colleague just stumbled over something possibly related where the location is given as just a question mark. This took a little digging to understand...
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Anaheim, California: It's Half About the Bacon at Slater's 50/50
Slater's 50/50
6362 Santa Ana Canyon Road, Anaheim CA 92807 (map); 714-685-1103; slaters5050.com
Cooking Method: Grilled
Short Order: While the business value of the half-bacon burger is clear, it is less clear that it would qualify as a burger at all. To me it was more of a breakfast sandwich.The regular burger offerings were good, not great.
Want Fries with That? Yes! Fast food-style and very well-wrought.
Prices: The 50/50, $9.95
Notes: A pleasant staff and plenty of big screens means there are far worse places to catch a game and burger.
There are few things that will set the internet abuzz like bacon. It is less a lamentable misfortune and more a basic truth of my life that it is unlikely I will ever write anything that will capture the collective imagination of the blogosphere more than, say, a bra made of bacon. Barring my getting way better at golf and philandering, there is no undying phrase I can summon that will match the online impact of, "Everything's better with bacon."
This is, perhaps, related to the fact that I don't agree with the sentiment. Don't get me wrong—I love a salty and crunchy BLT, and thick-cut bacon is my breakfast meat of choice, but when it comes to burgers, I shy away from the addition of pork belly. Of course, this doesn't mean that I won't try a burger with bacon, especially if that's way the place asks its customers to have it. So when I came upon Slater's 50/50 I knew I owed it to the internet to review their signature burger—equal parts ground chuck and ground bacon.
Slater's 50/50 sounds like an internet creation, but was actually born as part of a Sunday afternoon tailgate tradition in San Diego. Owner Scott Slater made his burgers for friends and family in the parking lot of Qualcomm Stadium before Chargers games. While he was an amateur cook, he had built his professional life around food. If you've ever had a quick bite from one of the lunch stands in the parking lot of a Home Depot, quite likely it was one of Slater's. He finally launched a full-fledged brick and mortar operation with his Slater's 50/50 in Anaheim.
The 50/50 is, as advertised, a fully fifty percent ground bacon patty accompanied by an over-medium fried egg, avocado, pepperjack cheese, and chipotle mayonnaise. The bun is a hefty and spongy commercial-style that has a great texture, although it suffers from too much toasting. The edges become chewy and make for a less pleasing texture.
Amazingly, the avocado, pepperjack, and chipotle mayo manage to fade into the background; the overwhelming flavor of this burger is the bacon and egg, so much so that The 50/50 gives off the flavor profile of a breakfast sandwich much more than a burger. It's a nice taste, but it's also not really a burger. The patty is dense and, well, very bacon-y, but the beef manages to save it from being overwhelmingly so. It's easy to see why Slater thought there was enough reason to build his restaurant around this creation (one imagines he could sell the idea to a fast food chain in a sclerotic heart beat), but it's harder to classify it as a great hamburger.
Luckily, Slater's isn't a one-burger-trick pony. In fact, despite naming the place after the 50/50, a little closer inspection reveals that the menu, developed with executive chef Brian Lyons (one of Slater's college buddies), is really more of a build-your-own joint. This means there are literally thousands of options, so I opt for Slater's Old Timey, which is basically what I would build on my own. It comes with lettuce, tomato, American cheese, grilled onions, and Thousand Island.
This second burger offered me much more of what I am looking for in a burger. The beef is Sterling Silver, which is a grading only 12 percent of grain-fed cattle will get. It's aged for 21 days and advertises better flavor, but then again, this is a Cargill company. The well seasoned patty is grilled and you get a decent whiff of char (though I wouldn't have minded the heat turned up a bit). The bun, again, chewy on the edges from too much heat, is just the right texture otherwise. The onions and cheese hit the right notes, but the lettuce and tomato are added with too heavy a hand. My overall impression was that while I was happy to have a burger without bacon, it wasn't a stand out preparation.
While Slater's 50/50 wasn't simply designed to ride bacon's internet celebrity, the restaurant is clearly not averse to a little online marketing—their Facebook page is maintained with more care than my own, and their website has a blog. But these seem like the style of these times rather than a way of replacing substance. That is to say, Slater's feels less like a gimmick than it sounds. The staff is friendly and if you want to catch a game, you won't be jockeying for a good view of a television (there must be a couple of dozen flatscreens). It's just that the food, while solid, is not worth going out of your way for. Then again, for this reviewer, not everything is better with bacon.
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Burying the Image of "the Wounded Negro"
Edmund Gordon [right] with Ernest Morrell, his successor as IUME Director.
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Puncturing the stereotype of "the wounded Negro" was the focus of the noted educator and African American historian Charles M. Payne in delivering the inaugural Edmund Gordon Lecture, delivered at TC in early October.
"There's a reduction going on," Payne said. Even among well-intended activists for progress, "black people are reduced to their oppression."
Payne – the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration and former Chief Education Officer for Chicago Public Schools – traced the evolution of the "wounded-Negro" trope across past social movements. The abolitionists employed it by mobilizing slaves to tell "horrible personal stories," Payne said, while the "friends of the Negro would handle the analysis part." The Depression-era Communists similarly portrayed black people as oppressed workers rather than as protagonists "developed enough" to be capable of Marxism's "scientific analysis of society."
Payne's lecture was accompanied by a tribute to Edmund Gordon, TC's 93-year-old Richard March Hoe Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, who attended the event along with his wife and partner on much of his work, the physician Susan Gordon. Both the lecture and the event were part of TC's Educating Harlem Project, a collaboration between the College's Program in History and Education and the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME), which Gordon founded in 1973, with support from TC's Center on History and Education.
"I don't think a day goes by when I don't cite or quote Ed Gordon," TC President Susan Fuhrman said in her opening remarks. "Our concerns about equity, assessment, diversity – everything we think about at TC, which is so focused on its mission of social justice – has been shaped by his thinking,."
Black thinkers like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Ralph Ellison exposed and rejected the "wounded Negro" as belittling of individuality and experience, Payne said, but the image endured, in part as a useful device for "friends of the Negro not above trading on Negro suffering." The stereotype also played to the activists' narratives of themselves as heroes or saviors. Payne pointed out that some black leaders spun their own versions of the theory as well.
Payne suggested that the "wounded Negro" thesis lives on in the argument advanced by many current education reformers that "schools can't do it alone." In the 1970s, he said, the claim that African-American children were handicapped by cultural factors and the purported breakdown of the black family was "right out there in front." Today, he said, it still lurks in arguments that poverty and other out-of-school factors "overwhelm the capacity of schools" to deliver positive outcomes.
In the process, Payne said a conservative argument has become one held by progressives. "Isn't it bizarre when conservatives are saying 'Kids are fine,' while progressives are saying, 'Fix poverty before we fix schools?' The world is standing on its head!"
Payne took care to emphasize he was not arguing against poverty reduction or other out-of-school programs. "We all agree that poverty should be addressed," he said. "But that has nothing to do with what schools can or cannot do."
The variation in "performance metrics that actually matter" suggests there is plenty of scope for positive change at the level of school systems, Payne said. He cited the wide variations in gains in math and reading proficiency scores on the National Assement of Education Progress (NAEP) from near-stagnation in some places to successes in others, like Montgomery County, Md., and Boston, where "change is very real."
Of course, out-of-school factors could play a part in the success stories as well, Payne said. But what is lacking is the data and rigorous analysis to sort out what progress comes from the "thinking and action of school leaders" versus other factors. At present, he said, too much school-level thinking is tangled in sterile debates over closing schools and firing teachers.
A more productive way forward, he argued, would involve shedding the residue of the "wounded-Negro" theory that manifests itself in the "reductionist discourse of every kid in the ghetto." In fact, he said, needs are individual and many children are very close to being able to succeed. "Some kids need the Marine Corps, but some need just one more positive adult for 15 minutes a week," Payne said.
Present debates, Payne argued, "don't take into account that the majority of poor children and parents don't experience schools as welcoming places. We need to figure out what happens when schools systematically make the effort to help kids feel they belong. Once we do that at some level of scale, only then can we know what schools can and cannot do."
Deferring school-level investment of resources and study, Payne said, means falling back on reductionist, discredited notions of race and capability — and it's disrespectful to educators: "Emphasizing what schools can't do before we look at what they can do insults generations of people who insisted on making a way out of no way."
The power of Payne's remarks were underscored by the tribute to Gordon, who in many ways has devoted his career to debunking damaging stereotypes of African Americans.
"You can talk about the all the fields in which he is an expert, or the methodological dexterity, or the number of people whom he has mentored and been a legend to, but perhaps his key contribution is that Professor Gordon is as responsible as anyone for seriously reframing the way we have thought about the young peop;le we teach, the families they come from and the neighborhoods they live in, not as deficits, but as possibilities," said Morrell. "You change your perceptions and all kinds of things become possible – and that is the gift he has given us over 65 years as an intellectual, an advocate, a mentor, a professor, a scholar, a director and an administrator."
Gordon himself closed the evening by thanking Teachers College and "so many of you who have made the journey for me so rewarding. Perhaps the best reward for my efforts, and for my wife's companionship in trying to make our contributions, is the people like our speaker tonight and my successor as director of IUME, and about 75 to a hundred young scholars like them. It's worth living to 93 to be able to see them."


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I was in the Milton Keynes Lego store on Saturday 25th. A few SW sets were substantially discounted that day, including :
- Rogue Shadow half price
- The Twilight half price
- UCS General Grievous half price
A few non-SW bargains as well, also at half price - Troll Warship, some of the Factory sets (not Market Street, however), Creator Stegosaurus.
No idea how long stock will last, or how long the deal will last, but give them a call. I believe that they'll even sell over the phone and send. I think postage is 10 pounds, but since the discount on the above sets is at least 25 pounds you'll still get a bargain even if they need to post.
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Hodgson defends Gerrard
Roy Hodgson insisted England captain Steven Gerrard was harshly treated after being sent off in their disappointing 1-1 World Cup Group H qualifying draw against Ukraine at Wembley.
All in all England were shown five yellow cards and a red against Ukraine and it means Gerrard and full-back Glen Johnson, who was booked in Moldova last Friday for kicking the ball away, will now be banned for the World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley next month.
Hodgson, however, criticised Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir for his handling of the game, saying: "I thought all the yellow cards were harsh. It was not a game were there were a lot of bad fouls. There were not a lot of fouls full stop. There were far too many yellow cards for the fouls that were committed and we certainly got too many."
He continued: "Steven Gerrard is certainly very unlucky to be sent off. I don't think the two fouls he was adjudged to have committed were worthy of that sanction."
The other England players booked against Ukraine were James Milner, Jermain Defoe and Joleon Lescott in a match during which England went behind to a brilliant 25-yard opener from Yevgen Konoplianka and were grateful for an 87th minute penalty from Frank Lampard after defender Yevhen Khacheridi had handled the ball.
A defiant Hodgson, however, praised England's performance.
He said: "You are always relieved when you are losing 1-0 and you get a late equaliser. I suppose all games you don't win at home people say it's not a great performance but I didn't think we did that badly.
"We kept at our task. We started poorly in the first 10 minutes but once we got into our stride we had quite good control of the game.
"We went one down to a wonder strike and from then on against a good Ukrainian team you are always going to be up against it but I was pleased with the way we kept playing our football, taking the game to them and creating chances.
"In the end we fully deserved our equaliser so I suppose I'll dodge the question whether it was a good performance or whatever and say that I was very pleased with the way the players went about their task."


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There are some 11 million undocumented people in America. Arguments rage about what can be done about them, from deporting each one to awarding citizenship depending on length of time in the U.S.
In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus overturned the common view of looking down on Samaritans and made his followers look at them in a positive light. In the story, an injured man is ignored by a priest and a Levite but helped by a Samaritan. At the end, Jesus asks, "Which of these three seemed to be a neighbor to him?" A follower answers, "He who showed mercy on him." Jesus' response is, "Go and do likewise."
Q: If Jesus was around today, what do you think his stance on America's undocumented immigrants would be?
The Samaritans and the ancient Hebrews had a long history together, back to when Joseph's brothers sold him in slavery. There were times when they were in community with each other, marrying and raising families from their combined cultures. And there were times that they were bitter enemies.
America is home to the largest Spanish-speaking population outside of Mexico. For many reasons, undocumented immigrants from many cultures have occupied this country faster than bureaucracy has been able to verify and authenticate them.
In Jesus' story, he is not addressing his followers. He is telling the good Samaritan story to a teacher who has come to spar with him. Jesus casts the Samaritan in the role of radical activist; Jesus cast the Samaritan in Jesus' own role, the role of savior.
As we humans confront each other over documentation, Jesus' stance would be to remind us, "the Earth is the Lord's and everything in it." Not one country or another's, but the Lord's. As times and methodologies change, Jesus tells us that it is in working together, and treating each other with dignity and respect rather than as "have and have nots," that our challenges are more clearly identified, approached and solved. None of us ever knows when we will need the aid of a good Samaritan. When we are in distress and someone reaches out to help us, most likely we will not be first asking him or her for documentation.
Our country is in distress over the illegal immigrant issue. We constantly attack each other and leave each other beaten and bloody on the side of the road. How quickly we must get past the punitive part and get to the salvific part, where each one that is already here is assigned a healthy, respected, tax-paying responsibility for being an American.
The Rev. Dr. William Thomas Jr.
Little White Chapel
The Bible teaches us to show compassion to any person in need that we encounter, as in the case of the good Samaritan. If an immigrant is found needing food, shelter or urgent medical care, we have a moral obligation to meet those immediate, life-sustaining needs. 1 John 3:17 says, "whoever has the world's goods, and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?" The needy and immigrants in Israel were allowed to glean in fields after harvesters to meet their needs. Israel was commanded never to forget that they too had been strangers in a foreign land.
But biblical examples teach that immigrants are accountable to obey the laws of the land, including immigration laws. "The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you," says Exodus 12:49. When the son of an Egyptian man among the Israelites in the wilderness was found guilty of blaspheming God's name, at God's command he was stoned to death. Immigrants should not be allowed to manipulate our legal system, as is the case with Los Angeles-area "maternity hotels" that advertise in Chinese-speaking countries. Paying them a fee of $20,000, pregnant Chinese women come for the specific purpose of giving birth in the U.S. so that their children will have U.S. citizenship, passports, free public schools and low-interest student loans — all supported by tax revenues to which they themselves never contribute. Our response to immigrants must include both compassion and equity for everyone involved.
Pastor Jon Barta
Valley Baptist Church
The suggestion that Christ's illustration was meant to teach a lesson on immigration is just wrong. The real point had much more to do with God's law. Christ came to save mankind and the epicenter of his work was Israel, but here were a people who had the law of God but had been following it superficially. Jesus compared them with this hypothetical northern neighbor from Samaria to show the superiority of living God's law from the heart over the hypocritical smugness of obeying the jots and tittles without true love of fellow man.
People with the law should do it better than those without, but it wasn't so. The whole law is summed up in two commands: love God and love neighbor. How can we love God if we can't love people? If the story informs anything regarding immigrants who crossed the border illegally, it's to remind us they are people, just like us; they want to live and thrive.
The thing about "neighbors" is that they don't live in your house. They live next door. When they just walk though your back door uninvited, it's a problem. So how do we deal with these neighbors from the south who come through the back door of our country? The Bible teaches, "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities." Do we have governing authorities? Certainly, and we'd love for every immigrant to follow the law in becoming American.
But if you're coming here, learn English and be American! We aren't Mexico or anywhere else, and we don't want to be, anymore than the various reasons why you left there. Much of the aggravation caused by illegal immigration is the drain on our resources and the anti-American culture that accompanies. If we can address those two issues, we'd be closer to a resolution; but while we're working on it, we have to love them; we must.
The Rev. Bryan Griem
Montrose Community Church
I don't truly know what Jesus would say about undocumented immigrants if he were around today. But I believe he would encourage the same kind of behavior the Gospel of Luke described in the story of the good Samaritan, one of the biblical stories that has had a profound impact on my life and faith. So I think Jesus would ask us to treat our neighbors, whatever their culture or nationality, with compassion — going beyond the minimal requirements of justice under the law.
When I was in elementary school, I remember having a puzzle of the United States that made it look as though no other lands existed at the outer perimeter of our country. But I learned there were other countries beyond my own and that the borders between our country and others had been artificially drawn by war, conquest and negotiation — not by the value of creating relationships among people. I am afraid that some of us have forgotten that today. There are many who seem to believe that we should isolate ourselves from others and send those who have crossed our artificial borders back where they came from — or at least where their parents came from.
I don't expect to convince those who have already made up their minds about who belongs in our country and who does not that they should change their minds. But I hope that there are many more who are open to treating others with the same compassion espoused by Jesus so many years ago. If there are enough of us, we may just be able to make laws that honor our relationships as neighbors instead of separating us as adversaries.
The Rev. Dr. Betty Stapleford
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Verdugo Hills
La Crescenta
One of the earliest known biblical creeds, found in Deuteronomy, is the words to be said over the thank offering for the harvest, when those who were settled in the land were to remember their history and heritage as a landless people. These are words that Jesus would have recited many times:
"A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous. When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, … the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil and our oppression. The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, … and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O Lord, have given me."
The people were then instructed to celebrate the bounty of the harvest, "together with … the aliens who reside among you."
Once in the promised land, the people of God were never to forget their beginnings as wanderers; they were to be kind to and care for any sojourners in the land. "You shall [like God himself] also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt" (Deuteronomy 10:19).
In the earliest eras of American ethos, we paid similar honor to our shared remembered history as immigrants. Who wasn't, or whose parents or grandparents weren't, from someplace else, hadn't arrived here with equal measures of desperation and hope in their souls, and lived awhile by the kindness of others?
We should have made it an American creed to be recited with grace at meals, or at least every Thanksgiving: "Our ancestors were wanderers who came to this good land by grace. Let us embrace and celebrate with the strangers among us today. Amen."
The Rev. Amy Pringle
St. George's Episcopal Church
La Cañada Flintridge
If we use the New Testament as a guide, it is unlikely Jesus would take a public stance of any sort on undocumented immigration.
Jesus avoided direct comment on politics, including the question that concerned Jews the most: Roman rule. Even when asked whether it was lawful to pay Roman taxes, his answer, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's," didn't specifically address the legitimacy of Rome's authority. Jesus' work focused instead on changing the hearts of individuals, a process that ultimately benefits society as a whole.
Immigration policy is complex and divisive issue. None of the proposed solutions is easy, particularly in a time of economic hardship. On a personal level, the level on which Christ worked, our task is simpler. As politicians craft bills, we can and should voice our opinions. Most of all, though, we must treat people with kindness and charity.
The LDS church discourages members from entering countries illegally. But we also believe that any new law must treat immigrants with compassion and respect for family relationships. In a June 2011 statement, the church expressed concern about any plan "likely to fall short of the high moral standard of treating each other as children of God."
"The church supports an approach where undocumented immigrants are allowed to square themselves with the law and continue to work without this necessarily leading to citizenship," the statement said.
I have been with immigrants on the border and listened to them speak of their dreams and difficulties. I understand their desire and admire their ambition. To me, the church's statement meets the standard of compassion while also respecting the millions who have waited years to enter legally. Would it be just to allow the undocumented to leapfrog ahead of them on the path to citizenship? Where might Jesus stand on that?
Michael White
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
La Crescenta


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Mexican boys killed for mocking trafficker' s son
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say two teenagers were killed for making fun of the son of a drug kingpin who was their classmate.
Jalisco state prosecutor Luis Najera says police found the boys' bodies buried in a wooded area outside the city of Guadalajara. They two 15-year-olds were last seen 10 days ago at a shopping mall in Zapopan, a Guadalajara suburb.
Najera says a teenager detained in the case led police to the bodies and told investigators the victims were killed for making fun of the son of imprisoned drug kingpin Jose Carrasco Coronel. The army has identified Carrasco Coronel as the leader of the Sinaloa cartel in the states of Jalisco and Colima.
Najera said Tuesday police are still looking for other suspects, including Carrasco Coronel's teenage son.


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WEDNESDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- The cost of caring for Americans with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia may now be as high as $215 billion a year -- more than the cost of caring for heart disease or cancer, a new study finds.
And that number is expected to escalate as the elderly population grows.
In 2010, the United States spent somewhere between $157 billion and $215 billion on dementia care, researchers reported in the April 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. That includes direct medical expenses and the costs of caring for people with dementia -- both professional care and the "informal" care that families provide.
Dementia is a progressive deterioration in memory, thinking ability, judgment and other vital brain functions.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, and a recent study estimated that with the aging baby boom generation, the number of Americans with Alzheimer's could triple by 2050, to nearly 14 million.
The new study tried to take a "comprehensive look" at the financial impact -- including the costs to family caregivers, said lead researcher Michael Hurd, a senior principal researcher at the nonprofit research institute RAND.
"It's not a happy situation," Hurd said. "A lot of the costs fall on families, and right now, there's no solution in sight."
The researchers based their estimates on a government study of older Americans, plus Medicare records and other data sources. Of the billions spent on dementia in 2010, only a small portion went to medical treatments, the study found.
Instead, long-term care -- either nursing homes, or home care provided by professionals or family members -- was the big expense, accounting for up to 84 percent of the total.
Per person, the costs ranged from about $41,700 to $56,300, depending on how the researchers calculated the cost of family caregiving. In the first case, they considered only family members' lost wages; in the second, they gave family members' time the same value as formal paid care.
As for who paid, Medicare foot the bill for $11 billion out of the up to $215 billion in total expenses, Hurd's team said.
It's a small share because Medicare does not usually cover nursing home or other long-term care. Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor, will cover it -- but only after certain patient assets have been spent down.
"A large part of the burden is borne by families," said Dr. Richard Hodes, director of the U.S. National Institute on Aging, which funded the study.
Hodes noted that things could get tougher in the years to come. The younger baby boomers had fewer children compared with past generations -- so along with the rise in the number of elderly adults with dementia, there will be fewer family members to care for them.
Study author Hurd said the findings highlight two big needs: some sort of health insurance program to cover long-term care and more research into ways to slow the progression of dementia or delay its onset.
"If we could delay the onset of dementia, the payoff would be high," Hurd said.
NIA director Hodes agreed. "We don't have an effective treatment or an effective way to prevent dementia," he said. "And the results from studies so far have been disappointing, to say the least."
But there are clinical trials under way, looking at both drugs and other approaches -- such as exercise -- to forestall dementia.
"There is reason for hope and optimism," Hodes said.
Hurd said dementia may already be having a bigger financial impact than heart disease and cancer -- which cost the nation $102 billion and $77 billion, respectively, in 2010.
Those estimates do not include the costs of family caregiving, Hurd said. "But it's likely they would be lower compared with dementia," he added.
He and Hodes both stressed that this study looked only at one aspect of dementia care -- the financial one. "We calculated the monetary cost," Hurd said. "This says nothing about the huge emotional burden on families."
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SOURCES: Michael Hurd, Ph.D., senior principal researcher, RAND Center for the Study of Aging, Santa Monica, Calif.; Richard Hodes, M.D., director, U.S. National Institute on Aging; April 4, 2013, New England Journal of Medicine


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Candidate presented by: Rev. James E. Grummer, S.J., member, Board of Trustees
Sister Maureen A. Fay, O.P., President of the University of Detroit Mercy, is a distinguished leader in American Catholic and Jesuit higher education. When in 1990 the Jesuit-sponsored University of Detroit consolidated with nearby Mercy College, the new President chosen was neither a Jesuit nor a Sister of Mercy but a member of the Adrian Dominican religious community.
That choice proved wise indeed, for the leadership of the University of Detroit Mercy by Sr. Fay during the past fourteen years has been widely recognized as truly gifted and capable. She is retiring as President at the end of the present academic year.
Since becoming President of the University of Detroit Mercy, she has focused her attention on the growth and revitalization of that institution, Michigan's largest, most comprehensive Catholic university with an enrollment of approximately 6,000 students. An important theme of her administration has been a sustained effort to develop urban partnerships wherever the academic pursuits of the university and the needs of the surrounding community found intersection.
In assessing the university's performance, she at one point remarked, "Even though our graduates have gone on to become corporate executives, elected officials, civic and community servants, teachers, attorneys, health care providers, engineers, entrepreneurs, scientists, architects, and noted professionals in every field, that is not the truest measure of our success. The truest measure of our success is that we are making a substantive and positive difference in our world through the lives of our students, our faculty, our staff, and our graduates."
A native of Chicago, she received a master of arts degree from the University of Detroit before earning her doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in social sciences. At the University of Chicago she won a prestigious Carnegie Fellowship and later received an American Council on Education Fellowship.
After a successful and varied career in teaching and school administration, she served as President of Mercy College from 1983 to 1990, the-first person not a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy to hold that position. She also has been a member of the boards of Rockhurst College in Kansas City, the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
She is also active in many Detroit area community and civic organizations as well as with a number of educational organizations. Among these are the Detroit Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Downtown (Detroit) Partnership, New Detroit, and the boards of two Fortune 500 companies: Bank One and Kelly Services. She has earned various awards from civic and non-profit organizations such as the Salvation Army, the National Conference for Humanity and Justice, and Alternatives for Girls.
Marquette University is proud to recognize and celebrate Sister Fay's gifts as an educator and leader. Because of her many contributions to Catholic and Jesuit higher education and because of her abiding commitment to improving our society, Reverend President, I hereby recommend Maureen A. Fay, O.P., for the Marquette Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa.


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Name an Animal in the Smithsonian National Zoo After Your Sweetie!
With so many gift choices around Valentine's Day, it's easy to get confused as to what to buy your sweetie. Flowers and chocolates are easy, but if you really want to impress, throw something new into the mix with a Critter Cupid from the Smithsonian National Zoo! This lets you give an honorary name to one of the critters at the zoo, and support wildlife conservation at the same time.
When you pick your animal, you're given choices from a $10 or $20 list. You then fill out your information and they'll email you instructions on how to print out a special card for your Valentine to let them know about your donation. The big question is, what kind of animals do you get to choose from?
For $10, you can select one of the following critters:
Naked Mole-Rat: These guys know how to build tunnels that go on forever, and with this animal you're saying that you want to get lost with your beloved
Black-Footed Ferret: This is what you get for your best friend. These little dudes came back from the brink of extinction, and it's the perfect gift for someone you've been with through thick and thin.
Cuttlefish: They like to cuddle, just like you.
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach: Nothing says love like an insect that just won't die. They can make it through pretty much anything, just like your love. They also hiss loudly when they feel threatened, much like you proclaim your love for your Valentine.
Leafcutter Ant: This is great for anyone who you want to tell, "You're one in a million."
Strawberry Dart Frog: These hoppers have elaborate mating rituals, and as the Smithsonian site says, "Take a leap and be mine."
For $20, you can select one of these critters:
Oriental Fire-Bellied Toad: If you have a fire in your belly for someone, this is a great way to let them know!
Flamingo: The flamingo is not only graceful and beautiful, they're quite romantic. Snuggle up to your sweetheart with one of these majestic birds.
Piranha: According to the Smithsonian site, "Smitten red-bellied piranhas tango with their mates through a tangle of obstacles in the Amazon River."
Eastern Diamond Back: It's the perfect way to slither into the heart of your beloved.
Each Critter Cupid comes with instructions to print out a special card for your loved one and proceeds go toward wildlife conservation. While this doesn't put a physical gift in your hands, it's something that won't soon be forgotten and you'll feel better knowing that you're helping animals.
You can order your Critter Cupid from the Smithsonian National Zoo.


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