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Monticello High School has received an award for its Advanced Placement (AP) program. MHS was one of 539 high schools across the nation to be listed on the College Board’s Third Annual AP District Honor Roll, which was released last week.

The award is given to schools that increase the number of students taking AP course while also increasing scores on the extensive AP exams. There are currently 50 students enrolled in the three Advanced Placement offerings this year at MHS, double the number who took part in 2010. In addition, 80 percent of Monticello AP students earned a score of ‘3’ on exams – the benchmark for receiving college credit – compared to 76 percent in 2010.

“This is a great day for Monticello High School, “ said principal Tip Reedy. “This is a true reflection of the hard work and commitment to academic excellence our school board, teachers, students and parents have for MCUSD (Monticello Community Unit School District) #25. We are all very proud of this accomplishment.”

Monticello was one of just 22 high schools in Illinois to be named to the Honor Roll. Other central Illinois districts included Olympia and McLean County Unit 5 (Normal).

MHS currently offers AP courses in United States History, Chemistry and Calculus. History instructor Tana Espenschied said getting students to enroll in the difficult course offerings can be challenging.

“Some students are reluctant to take AP classes because the classes are hard and they are fearful it will lower their GPA’s,” said Espenschied. “As a teacher, I strive to make the class interesting, fun and manageable. One thing we do is gather twice a quarter to watch a historical movie over the topic being discussed in class.”

It is that kind of thinking that helps make the College Board’s AP program successful, according to College Board President David Coleman.

“We applaud the extraordinary efforts of the devoted teachers and administrators in this district, who are fostering rigorous work worth doing,” said Coleman. “These educators have not only expanded student access to AP course work, but they have enabled more of their students to achieve on a college level – which is helping to create a strong college-going culture.”

AP courses not only prepare students for the rigor of college-level courses, but can mean early college credit for high school students. But to gain that, there are three-hour exams the students need to pass.

“It consists of 80 challenging multiple-choice questions and three essays,” commented Espenschied. “Because there is so much writing on the test, a great deal of time is spent throughout the school year writing historical essays.”

Brian Phelen and Margo Ethridge also teach Advanced Placement courses at Monticello High School.

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This anaglyph image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the topography of the mountain-central complex in asteroid Vesta's south polar region. You need 3-D glasses to view this image.

This anaglyph image shows the topography of the mountain/central complex in Vesta's south polar region. When viewed correctly this image shows a 3-D view of Vesta's surface. This effect was achieved by superimposing two differently colored images with an offset to create depth. To view this image in 3D use red-green, or red-blue, glasses (left eye: red; right eye: green/blue). The depth effect/ topography differences in this image were calculated from the shape model of Vesta. There is a nice height contrast between the high, roughly circular mountain/central complex in the center of the image and the deep crater in the top of the image. The grooves and hummocky (e.g. wavy/ undulating) terrane of the south polar depression also show up clearly in the top of the image. Another prominent feature is the large scarp (upside-down V shape) on the top of the mountain/ central complex.

The framing camera (FC) instrument aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained the images used to make this anaglyph on 11th and 14th August 2011. The distance from Dawn to the surface of Vesta was 2740km at this time. The image has a resolution of about 260 meters per pixel.

The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington D.C.. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Dawn's VIR was provided by ASI, the Italian Space Agency and is managed by INAF, Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics, in collaboration with Selex Galileo, where it was built.

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BRUSSELS - A party that wants to split Belgium scored major victories in municipal elections on Sunday and its leader was set to become mayor of the country's second city, raising the pressure on a fragmented national government.

The Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (New Flemish Alliance or N-VA) won the most votes in a vast swathe of districts in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders, including the port city of Antwerp.

The party's leader Bart De Wever was on course to become the city's mayor after the N-VA were on 36 percent of the vote with 80 percent of the votes counted.

"We are the new people's party of Flanders," De Wever told cheering supporters.


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Israeli infantry soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip unearthed at least 22 tunnels and killed 40 terrorists in the first day of the IDF's ground incursion into the Hamas-ruled enclave, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said on Friday.

The military released pictures of the tunnels on its Twitter account. Israel has stated that it seeks to destroy Hamas' network of tunnels that are used to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip.

The tunnels were discovered by soldiers in the Paratroopers Brigade, according to the army. In one instance, IDF troops exchanged fire with a Palestinian gunman, wounding him. The gunman was subsequently rushed to Soroka Medical Center for treatment.

Since the start of the IDF ground incursion, the army has struck 260 terrorist targets, 140 of which have been hit since Friday morning.

The army said it struck government buildings, Hamas’ rocket infrastructure, weapons manufacturing plants, tunnels, and houses used by Hamas leaders.

The army has also unearthed 22 tunnels throughout the Gaza Strip that was used to smuggle weapons and explosives.

IDF troops killed over 40 terrorists and arrested 21 others, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. The army said that Palestinians fired mortars at troops in the southern Gaza Strip. In response, IAF aircraft struck at the source of the shooting.

Meanwhile, IDF tanks engaged a Hamas cell armed with an anti-tank missile and fired on its members, killing them.

The Israeli military on Friday also accused Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives in the Gaza Strip of traveling around in ambulances loaded with Palestinian children in order to deter Israeli forces from firing at them.

The IDF suffered its first casualty in Operation Protective Edge at 4 a.m. on Friday as the army commenced its ground offensive into Gaza. Two more soldiers were lightly wounded.

In less than 24 hours since the IDF launched its ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, 217 terror targets have been hit while at least 20 tunnels have been uncovered, according to Channel 2.

The television channel also reported that 65,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli operation. The network reported that at least 33 Palestinians have been killed in the last day.

Twenty-year-old Sergeant First Class Eitan Barak from Herzliya was killed in Gaza under still unclear circumstances. Barak was promoted posthumously from sergeant on Friday.

IDF units seized positions in northern, central and southern Gaza, and traded fire with terror organizations overnight, following the launch of a ground offensive, a senior military source said Friday morning. One unit was the target of a failed bomb attack. The IDF expects armed clashes to increase after sunup.

"The units are at their designated place. We expect significant friction to begin after first light," the military source said.

"We are focusing on three efforts. The first is continued air strikes. The second is the taking over of targets [by ground units]. The last is preparing the next stage of this operation," the source said.

Ground Forces are focusing on destroying Hamas's extensive tunnel network. In their first few hours in Gaza, they were engaged by gunmen, and returned fire. In some cases, bombs were set off near the approaching military forces.

The source described the resistance encountered by the IDF as "low," adding that the massive wave of fire launched by artillery and air strikes before the entrance of ground units help ensure that Hamas "kept its head down."

"Hamas was surprised by the patience of the Israeli public, and by the performance of Iron Dome," the source said.

"It took Hamas years to plan the tunnel attack on Kibbutz Sufa," the source added, referring to an attempt Thursday by Hamas to send 13 heavily armed terrorists to the kibbutz to go on a killing spree, before being intercepted by the IDF.

The air force hit 103 targets overnight between Thursday and Friday, including 20 underground rocket launchers, and 6 terrorist headquarters. Since the start of the operation, the IAF struck 2,150 targets, including 1,160 underground launchers, 200 command and control centers, nine training camps, and 43 Hamas regime buildings.

The IAF also struck rocket launching squads as they were preparing to fire into Israel, the source added.

Hamas responded with rocket fire on several Israeli areas. In some cases overnight, the IAF struck areas used to fire on Israel immediately, as well as with artillery. "We are directing our firepower at operatives, tunnels, and infrastructure," the source explained.

The IDF has been authorized by the cabinet to call up a further 18,000 reservists, opening the door to planning the next stage in the operation, the source said.

Meanwhile, he added, "very large intelligence capabilities are being activated, and new targets are being acquired."

Jerusalem Post staff contributed to this report.


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The American Jewish community is mobilizing rapidly to urge President Reagan to fulfill his pledge to raise the issues of human rights and Soviet Jewry when he meets with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at their preparatory summit in Reykjavik, Iceland Oct. 13-14.

Morris Abram, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, said 100,000 telegrams will flood the White House this week, wishing the President success in his efforts to achieve peace and to strengthen the cause of human rights, including free emigration for Soviet Jews, guaranteed by the USSR as a signatory to the Helsinki Accords.

The same call was issued from thousands of pulpits at Rosh Hashanah services all over the U.S. this past weekend, Abram said. He also told a news conference that there would be a Jewish presence in Reykjavik during the summit, which coincides partly with Yom Kippur. There is no official Jewish community in Iceland.

Abram, who is chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said representatives of more than 100 Jewish communities across the country will meet in Washington Wednesday for a “national leadership assembly.” They will be briefed at the State Department and will meet with the chairmen of key Senate and House committees to promote a million-signature petition campaign on behalf of Soviet Jewry.

Abram was joined at his news conference by Alexander Goldfarb, whose seriously ill father, Dr. David Goldfarb, has been waiting for a Soviet exit visa since 1981.

The elder Goldfarb, a scientist, is a personal friend of Nicholas Daniloff, the American correspondent arrested in Moscow last month for alleged spying and released last week in exchange for a Soviet spy held by U.S. authorities and for prominent Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov.

Alexander Goldfarb said: “While we are gratified that Yuri Orlov, a great human rights activist, was released by the Soviets following the release of Nicholas Daniloff, and while we hope for the release of my father and many other long time refuseniks, I want to make this clear: We are not fighting for individual tokens of goodwill … but for the intrinsic right of human beings to live in the country of their choice.

“When the free world accepts tokens of goodwill instead of demanding the fundamental human right to live where one chooses, it condones a modern from of the slave trade and that is profoundly disappointing and distasteful to us.”


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Original documents detailing a joint effort by four American Jewish communities in 1840 to protest the torture of Jews in Damascus have been uncovered by the American Jewish Historical Society.

The papers include handwritten letters from Moses Montefiore, the Sheriff of London and the most prominent Jewish leader in the world at the time, and U.S. Secretary of State John Forsyth, as well as minutes from public meetings protesting what is widely known as The Damascus Affair.

“Historically, this is an extremely important discovery,” according to Bernard Wax, director of The Society who recently discovered the letters in a metal container among the papers of the late Rabbi Edward Klein of the Free Synagogue in New York.

“The Damascus Affair was a pivotal event in American Jewish history,” Wax said. “It marked the first time there was an organized protest involving more than one Jewish community to protest outrages against Jews in another country.”

The Damascus Affair was a blood libel that occurred in Syria in 1840 when 13 Jews were imprisoned and tortured for the alleged ritual murders of a Christian monk and his servant. Two prisoners died from the torture and one converted to Christianity.

The incident exploded into an international affair. Most of the protests were led by Montefiore and by Mordecai Manuel Noah, founder of the New York Herald and the Sheriff of the Port of New York, and Rabbi Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia, two of the most prominent American Jews in the 19th century.

Minutes of meetings held in American communities protesting the imprisonment and torture of the Jews in Damascus, newspaper clippings describing the protests here and abroad, a letter to then President Martin Van Buren, and other correspondence and resolutions, were among the papers uncovered by The American Jewish Historical Society.

Wax said the papers apparently were originally given to Rabbi Stephen Wise (Rabbi Klein’s predecessor at the Free Synagogue) in 1896 by Max Kohler, an attorney, author, and former secretary of The Society who was an avid collector of documents relating to American Jewish history.


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Benign Autocracy In Iraq Is Recipe For

Benign Autocracy in Iraq is a Recipe for Disaster

My entry in an email discussion of the proposal made

by Ray Takeyh and Nikolas Gvosdev that

“Benign Autocracy Is Answer for Iraq” in the

LA Times recently:

Email is probably an insufficiently sophisticated instrument for

discussing these complicated matters, but let me just clarify what I said

about authoritarian states in the Middle East and terrorism. The first

thing to underline is that “terrorism” itself is only a tactic and not a

useful term of analysis. The question is, how and at what point, do

groups employing terrorism come to receive substantial (25% or more)

support from the general population.

I see al-Jihad al-Islami, al-Qaeda and other similar groups in the Sunni

world as a form of deviance. Socially deviant groups can be deviant for a

number of reasons. They might see as social goods things that general

society defines as vices. This is the case with, e.g., hard drugs like

cocaine. Or they might seek social goods of which society approves (for

instance wealth), in ways of which society disapproves (bank robbing).

Sometimes groups begin by being perceived as deviant and get mainstreamed

or come to power, as with Communism or many national liberation movements.

“Deviance” is not a static, essential characteristic. It is an

appropriate way to speak of small groups in severe tension with the wider

society at any one time. My thesis: *Where a substantial proportion of

the population feels politically blocked or disenfranchised, it can then

turn to some socially deviant political program out of desperation.*

Islamist terrorists tend to see some form of radical religious utopia as a

social good, whereas the relatively secular elites of Algeria and Egypt

reject this vision. Islamist terrorists seek to impose their utopia by

various repertoires of collective action and violence, including bombings,

shootings, attempting to undermine the state by depriving it of tourist

income (thus the violence against tourists at Luxor and Bali), and

large-scale terrorism against outside powers perceived to be propping up

the local status quo (this is what 9/11 was about).

All societies have a certain amount of deviant social and political

violence. But not all societies see over 100,000 persons killed in a

decade (Algeria), or see 20,000 to 30,000 persons jailed for essentially

thought crimes (Egypt in the ’90s), or see armed paramilitaries virtually

run the country (Afghanistan), or see spectacular attacks on civilians in

other countries (9/ll).

I conclude that some contemporary Middle Eastern societies are

characterized by much higher rates of social deviance rooted in religious

radicalism than is the case outside the region. I believe that this

situation is produced because

1) Social and political mobilization has occurred in the past 30 years in

these countries, making large segments of the population politically aware

and deeply dissatisfied with their powerlessness; and

2) “Benign autocracy” on the Algerian, Egyptian, Saudi and other models is

unable to accommodate the entry of these populations into the political

arena, thus blocking them, humiliating them, and inspiring them with

In such a situation, deviant political cultists who preach a utopia that

can be attained by violence get a hearing from people who would have

otherwise dismissed them.

Benign autocracy had a good run in Turkey until 1950, but imagine what the

literacy, urbanization, industrialization and political networking rates

were like there in the 1930s. Likewise Egypt in the 1950s and 1960s and

Algeria 1962-1989 could be managed in that way. But things change.

[Social mobilization refers to processes such as urbanization, industrialization,

increased literacy, access to mass media, access to electronic communications,

etc. Social mobilization does not necessarily, as Karl Deutsch wrongly believed,

produce political mobilization. Political mobilization involves collective action

through drawing on group resources to attain political goals. When a country’s

population is both socially and politically mobilized, autocracy becomes unstable).

The counter-examples, of [democratic] Turkey and Lebanon

in the 1970s, [where there was substantial political violence

despite “democratic” governments] are not actually

counter-examples. They were failures of democratic inclusiveness The

military in Turkey attempted to exclude the Turkish Left, and even

sometimes slightly left of center parties, from the political process,

which produced the political violence of the 1970s. Likewise, the

Lebanese political system excluded the Palestinians, creating a state

within a state; and it insisted on over-counting the Maronite Christians,

de facto excluding the growing Shiite plurality from political power. To

be successful in containing political violence, democratic systems must be

broadly inclusive. Some small groups will always feel left out, but when

you get to the point where 40% of a socially and politically mobilized

population feels disenfranchised, you are asking for trouble.

Although it is true that capitalist democracies can also produce small

terrorist groups, we have not seen in the past 40 years 100,000 Germans or

French or Italians or Japanese or Americans killed in fighting between

security forces and such groups; we have not seen 30,000 persons

incarcerated for thought crimes; we have not seen take-overs of entire

countries by Baader-Meinhof. The differences in scale are enormous here.

I believe this is because, in politically and socially mobilized

societies, parliamentary governance typically allows constituents to feel

they can have an impact in areas that matter to them. There are always

small groups who do not feel that way, of course, but if they are very

small they can be contained.

Autocracy of various sorts, whether “benign” or not, is incompatible with

the level of political and social mobilization now characteristic of most

societies in the Middle East, and for the US to push it is foolish in the

In Iraq, the US has raised expectations, just as the Algerian military did

in 1989. Now imposing a dictator would be analogous to the 1991

cancellation of the election results in that country. A similar civil war

could well ensue. If you think the Mahdi Army, the Badr Corps, the

al-Da`wa paramilitary, the Peshmerga, the tribal forces, etc., are going

to meekly acquiesce in an American-imposed “soft” dictatorship, you don’t

have much political imagination.


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Kings I chronicles the history of the Jewish kings of Judah and Israel. It includes King David's last testament; the anointing of King Solomon; the building of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem; King Solomon's unique wisdom and strength; the division of the Kingdom of Israel after King Solomon's death; information about Ahijah, the Shilonite; the new kingdoms of Ephraim and Judah - their individual histories, kings and mutual relations. This volume also includes a discussion of the Prophet Elijah - his appearance and impact.

The book of Kings II contains the continuation of the period of the two kingdoms: internal and external relations. Elisha: his religious and political activity. The exile of Ephraim. First exile of Judah under King Jehoiachin. Final exile under King Zedekiah, and the destruction of the Temple.

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Nikki McLellan gave Juniata an early lead it would not relinquish with a first-half goal against Villa Julie.

Juniata 2, Villa Julie 1

Owings Mills, Md. ? A pair of first-half goals proved to be enough for the Juniata College women?s soccer team on Saturday as the Eagles scored twice in the first 45 minutes and hung on for a 2-1 victory over Villa Julie in Owings Mills Md. Juniata improved to 6-10-1 with the win, while Villa Julie dropped to 8-8.

The victory gave Juniata six or more wins for each of the past fiver seasons, after not reaching the six-win plateau in any of the first seven years of the program.

Juniata got on the scoreboard mid-way through the first half. Nikki McLellan (Parkland/Lake Forest, Ca.) drove in her team-leading 12th goal of the season at the 21:12 mark to put Juniata in front 1-0. The score was one of nine shots for the Eagles in the first half.

The Blue and Gold then added to the lead 10 minutes before the halftime whistle, as Lindsay Garvey (Wellsboro Central/Essex, N.Y.) found the back of the net. Juniata would take the 2-0 lead into halftime.

The home team upped the pressure in the second half trying to cut into the Juniata lead. The Mustangs would cut the deficit in half on an unassisted goal by Stephanie Gutowski in the 69th minute.

But that was the only blemish on the day for Juniata keeper Kerri Lawrence (Paramus Catholic/Waldwick, N.J.) as she withstood more second-half pressure to keep Juniata in front. The freshman keeper made 10 saves inn goal, including eight in the second half to preserve the Juniata lead.

Villa Julie netminder Jen Roantes finished with six saves in the match.

Juniata will return to action on Wednesday with a Commonwealth Conference match at top-ranked Messiah College.

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HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- A Juniata College sociology professor is using the techniques of oral history compilation to create a Web site that features videotaped interviews with Muslim students from Juniata, who talk about the reactions and misunderstandings they experienced at the college and in the surrounding community after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"I realized that the religion of Islam was becoming characterized in a way that was inappropriate," says Cynthia Merriwether-Devries, assistant professor of sociology at Juniata. "As an African-American woman and a member of the Quakers, a historic peace church, I wanted to make sure that the information available to the public was accurate, informative and well-structured."

The Web site,, titled "Reflections and Reconciliations from Juniata College," was created as part of a cooperative project between 81 colleges that comprise the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE, pronounced "nightly"). The group, funded by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, created a multimedia resource based designed to help people understand the events of Sept. 11.

Merriwether-DeVries, a sociologist who specializes in oral histories as part of her research interests, believes the personal stories of Muslim students might best help non-Muslms understand the tenets of Islamic faith. "No one really asked how Muslims feel when they see their religion portrayed as violent on TV and in print," she says.

She interviewed five Juniata students, three of whom agreed to post their video clips on the Web site. The three students are: Mohammed El Zahhar, an international student from Cairo, Egypt; Ahmed Zeerak, a freshman from Woodbridge, Va., originally from Afghanistan; and Mohammed Jami, a freshman from Little Meadows, Pa.

Merriwether-DeVries has plans to expand the project to include reflections from incoming Juniata students who are Muslims and by doing yearly follow-up interviews with the students who have previously been interviewed. She also plans to post remarks by Penn State University students who are members of the Penn State Muslim Students Association. "My goal is to get as many people as possible to sit down with me and talk about their experiences," she says.

The goal of a good oral historian, according to Merriwether-Devries, is not to impose a point of view on the interview. "The ideas is not to shape the content," she explains. "My role is to help the person identify and express the content."

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[JURIST] The US has circulated a draft UN resolution calling for the UN's peacekeeping force in Liberia [JURIST news archive] to arrest former Liberian president Charles Taylor [PBS profile] if he tries to return from his exile in Nigeria. The resolution would extend the mandate of the 15,000 member peacekeeping force to apprehend Taylor without additional approval and transfer him to Sierra Leone for prosecution. Taylor was indicted [text] by the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone [official website; JURIST news archive] in 2003 for supporting the insurgency of rebels in Sierra Leone, but was granted asylum in Nigeria, which has refused to hand him over for prosecution [JURIST report]. UN Security Council [official website] experts meet Tuesday to discuss the draft resolution, which expresses appreciation to Nigeria and its President "for their contributions to restoring stability in the West African sub-region," but, emphasizing that Taylor's return to Liberia "would constitute an impediment to stability and a threat to the peace of Liberia and that of the sub-region," calls for the extension of the UN mandate so that Taylor can be transferred directly to Sierra Leone. AP has more.

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US Marine charged with murder in Fallujah detainee death

[JURIST] A US Marine sergeant was charged [press release] Tuesday with one count of murder and one count of dereliction of duty for his involvement in the shooting of a detained Iraqi insurgent during the Multinational National Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] in Fallujah [USMC timeline; JURIST news archive]. Sgt. Ryan Weemer, who was a corporal at the time of the battle [CNN report], admitted during a polygraphed job interview in 2006 with the US Secret Service that he had witnessed indiscriminate killings in Fallujah, which spurred investigations of at least 10 Marines [JURIST report] by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) [official website]. Weemer had completed his active duty and was promoted to sergeant in 2006 as a reservist but was reactivated earlier this week, which permits the military to subject him to full court-martial. If convicted, Weemer faces life in prison.

The charges against Weemer follow December charges against Marine Sgt. Jermaine A. Nelson for murder and dereliction of duty, and August charges [JURIST reports] against former Marine Sgt. Jose Nazario for voluntary manslaughter in connection with the same incident. Nazario has been charged in federal court. Military journalist Nathaniel Helms has allegedly corroborated the account, reporting that he saw the Marines execute subdued Iraqi prisoners, whose bodies were later buried under rubble from an air strike. AP has more.

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Continuing in the tradition of the Krogen 48' AE and the Krogen 55', the new Krogen 52' won the prestigious PassageMaker Magazine People's Choice Award at the 2012 Trawler Fest in Fort Lauderdale. This is the ninth time a Kadey-Krogen has been honored at a Trawler Fest with this award. The award was presented at the Bahia Mar Yachting Center on the final day of the event after over 2,000 attendees had a chance to tour the exhibiting trawlers and cruising powerboats on exhibit and vote for the best in show.

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The Crime of Robbery, Our Children and Financial Literacy

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By Sharryn Dawson –
Do we need to ask statistical experts about the towering crime rate in our country to realize that we are struggling with crime as a nation? Isn’t the news already out that crime is one of the major factors decaying our society?
The crime of robbery is important especially because this crime is directly related to ill-formed concepts about money and the legitimate ways it is earned. When someone commits the crime of robbery the next likely action is to trade that lifted possession for money.
The idea that the individual is driven to acquire money is not the issue however, as it is quite normal for people to want to acquire money. The real issue rests on the fact that persons who engage in this action seem to believe that money does not have to be legitimately earned in order for it to be acquired.
Robbery is at the top among other highly unacceptable and preventable crimes in society simply because it is mixed with avoidable misconceptions about money (among other factors); misconceptions which could easily be erased with financial literacy in the formative years of our children.
The hardest part of this reality is that some of our children do grow up with many avoidable misconceptions about money and some do morph into wayward criminals described above who rob and trade lifted possession to get money.
The reason why robbery is such a dangerous crime is because those committing this crime, in trying to succeed at getting money (or possessions that can be traded for money) stop at nothing to do so.
The end result is… more heinous crimes committed in the one instant. If we endeavour to educate our children from early about the principles of money and the proper means of acquiring it we may be able to transform this.
As a nation we reap what we sow; if we sow financial literacy in our children we are likely to reap financially literate adults who understand that money is earned by working lawfully. If we don’t, we will likely end up where we are now…or worse!
Which prospect are we banking on as a nation? It is not too late to take this core value on nationally; if we begin to educate our children about the basic principles of money and the legitimate ways it is earned while re-establishing this value in the wider society, possibly the crime of robbery may stand a chance of decreasing in our country.
Financial literacy in the early stages not only preserves the financial future of our children but also the quality of life they will live when they become adults. Prevention is better that correction…sow in children from early the basics about money and we will all reap the benefits as a country in the future.
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Americans are more confident in the U.S. economy than at any point in the past five years, thanks to surging home prices, a brighter job market and record-setting stock prices. Stock averages on Tuesday extended the year's explosive rally.

Further gains in consumer confidence could help the economy withstand the effects of higher taxes and federal spending cuts that kicked in this year. Spending by consumers drives about 70 percent of economic growth.

Consumer confidence jumped in May to 76.2, the Conference Board, a private research group, said Tuesday. That was up from a reading of 69 in April and is the highest level of confidence since February 2008, two months after the Great Recession officially began.

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Surging stock prices and steady home-price increases have allowed Americans to regain the $16 trillion in wealth they lost to the Great Recession. Some economists have said the increase in home prices alone could boost consumer spending enough to offset the cost of a Social Security tax increase that's reduced paychecks for most Americans this year.

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BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) -- Mirika Bideganeta told Judge Patrick Owen about her personal difficulty since Thomas MacFarlane crashed the scooter on which she was a passenger in July of last year, then dragged her broken body from the scene and left her in a yard.

The 30-year-old mother of three spent time in a coma and has life-changing injuries.

"Every day I fight for some sense of normalcy," she said in state district court Friday. "Every day is hard."

MacFarlane, 22, was repentant.

"I'm standing today in front of everybody as a broken man," he told Judge Owen, "broken for decisions I made and the consequences of those decisions on other people."

Judge Owen ordered MacFarlane to spend 20 years in prison for felony leaving the scene of the accident.

Then he suspended that sentence, replacing it with this: one year in the Ada County jail, eligible for work release after six months with 20 years probation.

The sentence means if MacFarlene doesn't violate probation he can work to pay restitution.

The Bideganeta family had mixed reactions to the sentence.

"Granted we would like more punishment," said Sandy Bideganeta, Mirika's mother, "but if we ask for more time in jail, he's just sitting there lounging basically, not taking responsibility to do the financial end of it."

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The Texas A&M University band and the Corps of Cadets' Ross Volunteers will represent the school in Washington next month when President George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term.

Both will march in the inaugural parade Jan. 20, the school announced Wednesday.

The evening before, the Ross Volunteers are to perform ceremonial duties at the Texas State Society's Black Tie and Boots Ball as the Texas governor's honor guard and serve as guides and escorts within the event.

The some 300-member band and the Ross Volunteers, made up of about 140 junior and senior cadets, also participated in the president's 2000 inaugural.

The Ross Volunteers is the state's oldest honor guard and drill team, beginning in 1876. They were named in 1898 after the death Lawrence Sullivan Ross, a former Texas governor and A&M president.

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The Huntsville Main Street Program will kick-off a new live music series this fall in downtown Huntsville. Local bands and musicians will play every Friday from August 31 through September 28, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the Walker County Courthouse lawn. The music is free to the public and all are encouraged to attend the weekly concerts.

“Many people have wanted live music downtown again, so we thought we would give it a try this fall when everyone is back in town for the start of the new school year,” said Kim McAuliffe, Main Street Coordinator. “There will be something for everyone to enjoy, with two bands a night and several genres of music scheduled over the next few weeks.”

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Hundreds of Thousands of Bats Call Kyle Field Home During Fall

There's something lurking in the shadows of Kyle Field this time of year you might not know about.

News 3 caught some amazing footage of what's calling the stadium home.

There's always great entertainment to see at Texas A&M's Kyle Field but have you ever seen a show like this?

Mexican Free-Tailed bats migrate through College Station every fall bringing with them their babies.

Texas A&M Economics Freshman Viviana Pequeno finds it hard to believe.

"I would say that they're birds. I was walking back from the Rec Center and I looked in like the source was like inside Kyle Field and they just kept coming and coming and they wouldn't stop... It was pretty scary. I was freaking out for a while," said Pequeno.

"There's no way to get a definitive number. We're kind of their migration point to north and south and when they come back with their young after raising them north of us they said there could be anywhere up to ¾ of a million bats that come through Kyle Field," said Mike Caruso, Texas A&M Associate Athletic Director for Events and Game Operations.

Caruso says the misunderstood mammals typically don't interact with humans but can carry rabies.

"They've pretty much had it to themselves for most of the summer and now we're going to have to share it with 86,000 of their closest friends," he said.

With 86,000 people coming to Kyle Field Sunday night the university is warning fans to be on the lookout for these bats and to notify staff if you see any on the ground. Now they'll actually have pest control people around in case any problems arise.

"We'll send the batman to take of them," said Mike Caruso.

Taking care of these free-tailed bats that like to free-load in Aggieland.

The athletic department is submitting a request for proposal for next year to install nets that would keep the bats from returning in the future.

By the way the Mexican Free-Tailed bats are the official state flying mammal and are protected.

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Texas A&M Saving Money With New Power Plant

Texas A&M's new power plant went online the first of this month and has already saved the university more than a million dollars in energy costs.

The $73.25 million combined heat and power system is natural gas powered and can provide power for up to two / thirds of the A&M campus.

Exhaust steam from the plant also provides hot water and other heating needs for university buildings.

The U.S. Department of Energy supplied a $10 million grant for the construction.

"Heat has been at record levels and power demand has been at record levels and so when that happens the cost of electricity goes through the roof actually and gets very, very high so we've been base loading our new CHP our combined heating and power system and that's allowed us to basically cost avoid that significantly high cost of electricity during these peak periods," said Jim Riley, Texas A&M Utilities and Energy Management Director.

We're told the money being saved is able to go toward teaching, research, and other functions on campus.

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The Social Practice Certificate reflects a re-envisioning and evolution of the 15-credit Community Art and Service Learning certificate program, familiarly known as CASL. The core courses for the certificate remain "Collaborative Art Practices," "The Artist’s Role in Society" and an internship with a nonprofit organization.
Curriculum and instruction emphasize reading, discourse, reflection and collaborative engagement as realized in the work of contemporary social practitioners.
Assessment of work made by Social Practice Certificate students will be based on process, concept, context and relational aesthetics in addition to adhering to KCAI’s high standards of creativity, risk-taking, problem-solving and high technical skills.

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Kansas City Chiefs Sign Free Agent WR

The Kansas City Chiefs had three open roster spots when they kicked off their OTAs on Monday with all but one of their players in attendance. Now they have one less roster spot after coming to terms with free agent wide receiver Aaron Weaver.

Weaver started his college career at Hofstra before being forced to transfer in 2010 when the school eliminated its football program. That’s when the 6’2″, 220 pound receiver decided to play at Syracuse, but his time there was short lived despite quickly working his way into the rotation at wide receiver.

After just two games with the Orange, Weaver tore his ACL in practice and missed the rest of his senior season. He applied for a medical hardship waiver to play another season but was denied by the NCAA.

Before suffering the season-ending injury, Weaver caught six passes for 88 yards and a touchdown.

With Weaver on the roster, the Chiefs roster now sits at 88 including the franchise — but still unsigned — Dwayne Bowe. GM Scott Pioli can sign two more players without making a cut before training camp opens up.

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Invasive Species Week: The Argentine Ant

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Next week might be Shark Week, but the California Department of Fish and Wildllife has declared August 2-10 California Invasive Species Action Week, an event intended to boost public awareness of the problems some non-native species of plants, animals, and even microorganisms can cause when they're imported into the state. We're celebrating, if that's the right word, by featuring five of California's most prevalent invasive species every day this week. The blue gum eucalyptus tree was featured yesterday.

Deep thinkers in the environmental realm have long questioned the language we use to describe introduced species that create problems in their new homes. The word "invasive," they say, conjures up images of marauding armies deliberately trying to conquer territory. The terminology inflames emotions, they suggest, and gets in the way of evaluating each new species introduction rationally.

It's a compelling argument with some sense behind it. But you hardly ever hear it raised when the species being discussed is the Argentine ant, which fits the militaristic metaphor uncomfortably well.

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First documented in California in 1907, Linepithema humile just might be the most successful invasive animal species in the state, at least in terms of sheer numbers. About three millimeters long and dark brown with a wedge-shaped head, the Argentine ant's one of the most common ant species in coastal towns and cities from Humboldt County to the border. The species has colonized much of the Sacramento Delta area as well.

The ant's simple presence in the state need not have been a serious ecological problem, were it not for an interesting quirk of the species' behavior. Many ant species spend a significant amount of time in conflict with neighboring ant colonies, even if those neighbors are of the same species. Ants use chemicals called pheromones to communicate, and members of neighboring ant colonies likely just smell wrong.

Argentine ants in California are radically different. They get along with their Argentine ant neighbors very well: so well, in fact, that an ant born into one colony can wander into a neighboring nest and be greeted as a member in good standing. That apparently holds true across the ants' entire range in California: take an Argentine ant from Escondido and drop it near an anthill in Arcata and the locals will groom it amicably and put it to work.

In other words, there is one colony, or supercolony, of Argentine ants in California, and it occupies a territory 560 miles long.

That lack of what the behaviorists call intraspecific aggression allows Argentine ants to live in much more dense populations than other ants. Which means that the ants can pretty much outcompete native ant species wherever they get established, either by scouring the entire area for food and water or by attacking other ant's colonies, having saved up all the energy that might have been spent fighting among themselves.

To overstate things only slightly: if you live in a city or town within a hundred miles of the California coast, and you have small ants in your house, they are Argentine ants.

Argentine ants | Photo © Alex Wild, used with permission

Readers who harbor no special love for ants of any species might well wonder what the big deal is. So one species of ant gets replaced by another; who cares? Here's the thing: California is home to at least 245 native species of ants, and that number would likely rise dramatically if entomologists were able to do a serious survey. Each of those native species plays certain ecological roles in the state's natural landscape. With some species, those roles can be fairly specialized.

Take for example the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, an important Southern California seed disperser for the beautiful native shrub Dendromecon rigida. Dendromecon's fruits explode when ripe, tossing seeds a short distance away from the parent shrub. Those seeds bear a fleshy covering called an elaiosome, which contains a bit of oil that Pogonomyrmex subnitidus apparently finds tempting. The ants carry the seeds to their colonies, consume the elaiosomes, then toss the naked seeds out into their middens, where some will germinate, possibly a considerable distance from the parent plant -- and that distance also lessens the likelihood of rodents or other seed eaters finding the seed before it germinates.

When Argentine ants move into an area occupied by Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, the harvester ants usually aren't there for long. That's partly because the Argentine ants are more efficient scavengers of the kinds of food the harvester ants like, and partly because Argentine ants will raid harvester ant nests, immobilize as many workers as they can, and eat the colony's larvae.

And then there's bad news for any local Dendromecon: Argentine ants don't disperse their seeds. And it's not just Dendromecon at risk. An assortment of native plants, from the miners' lettuce that freshens coastal hillsides after a wet winter (remember those?) to Trillium and Datura rely on similar arrangements with native ants to spread their seed. It's a relationship called "myrmecochory," in which plants grow seeds that have elaiosomes or other bait to tempt ants to carry the seeds away -- and Argentine ants just seem to have no interest.

Argentine ant invasions are also bad news for any Blainville's horned lizards living in the vicinity. The beleaguered lizards, formerly known as coast horned lizards, eat ants like Pogonoyrmex subnitidus and its cousins, or other harvester ants in the genus Messor, turning to other, smaller native ants when necessary. But a 2000 study showed that the lizards just flat out don't eat Argentine ants. Despite the fact that the lizards can and do eat other ants the same size as Argentine ants, there seems to be something about Linepithema that repels the lizards. Which means that conversion of native ant habitat to Argentine ant habitat deprives the lizards of their food. Some seem to try to eat other kinds of insects and small spiders, but that's less than ideal. And as researchers studying Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve have found that Argentine ant invasions wiped out many other arthropods in the area, that wouldn't leave much of an alternative diet for the lizards anyway.

Some native ants are holding their own. A 2011 paper revealed that the native "winter ant," Prenolepis imparis, persists near Stanford -- including at Jasper Ridge -- by resorting to chemical warfare. Prenolepis secretes an oily mix of complex hydrocarbons from its hind end; when Argentine ants are daubed with the liquid, as many as four fifths die.

There is good news: it turns out that Argentine ants mainly thrive in places where humans have disturbed existing habitat and provided a bit of extra water. Away from lakes, streams, and the marine layer, California turns out to be just a little drier than Argentine ants would prefer, and often a bit colder than they'd like away from our urban heat islands.

Which means that though Argentine ants are likely here to stay, we can mitigate their spread by deciding not to turn more of California into irrigated suburbs.

Piece of cake. Right?

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The former service station has seen better days, but preservationists hold out hope that more of those days are to come.

Kum & Go plans to build a convenience store at the site, which will require the 1930s gas station, at 1432 Mount Vernon Rd. SE, to be demolished or moved.

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Stoffer Hunter said the building, with its Spanish mission roof, is "one of a rare breed," still in existence with a style that was not continued after World War II.

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His grandfather, Earl "Red" Piersall, operated the business as Cities Service for "quite a few years," Piersall said.

Jim Piersall's father and his friends used the station as their local hang-out around World War II.

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"Red's boys" was the moniker attached to photos in the window that his grandfather posted of many of those friends who served during the war, including Piersall's father.

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Plans call for demolitions to begin in the spring with the goal to open the Kum & Go next fall.

Cedar Rapids school officials had opposed the plan, as the store will sit about 500 feet from McKinley Middle School. That objection was overruled by the Cedar Rapids City Council in October.

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