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Dr Chris Spencer
|Research Area:
|Genetics and Genomics
|Technology Exchange:
|Bioinformatics, SNP typing and Statistical genetics
|Scientific Themes:
|Genetics & Genomics and Immunology & Infectious Disease
|Genome-wide association studies, Population genetics and Bayesian inference
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As a statistical geneticist I'm interested in a diverse range of problems, from population genetics to association analysis of clinical phenotypes. My work currently has a focus on African genetics and susceptibility to malaria which is conducted within the MalariaGEN consortium. I'm also interested in using genetics to improve health and healthcare via stratified medicine, currently in the context of hepatitis C infection, as part of the STOP-HCV consortium.
To facilitate analysis across phenotypes and populations we are developing and applying new methodology. We hope to quantify the role that infectious diseases have had on shaping our immune system and physiology through natural selection. By inferring the genetic determinants of host-parasite interactions we aim to better understand the underlying biology and to use the information to target prevention and treatment of disease.
|Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski
|Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
|University of Oxford
|United Kingdom
|Professor Ellie (Eleanor) Barnes
|Experimental Medicine Division
|University of Oxford
|United Kingdom
|Professor Peter Donnelly FRS
|Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
|University of Oxford
|United Kingdom
|Professor Stephen Sawcer
|Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge
|United Kingdom
|Professor Gil McVean FRS FMedSci
|Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
|University of Oxford
|United Kingdom
Nat Genet, 45 (2), pp. 208-213. Read abstract | Read more2013. Common variants in the HLA-DRB1-HLA-DQA1 HLA class II region are associated with susceptibility to visceral leishmaniasis.
To identify susceptibility loci for visceral leishmaniasis, we undertook genome-wide association studies in two populations: 989 cases and 1,089 controls from India and 357 cases in 308 Brazilian families (1,970 individuals). The HLA-DRB1-HLA-DQA1 locus was the only region to show strong evidence of association in both populations. Replication at this region was undertaken in a second Indian population comprising 941 cases and 990 controls, and combined analysis across the three cohorts for rs9271858 at this locus showed P(combined) = 2.76 × 10(-17) and odds ratio (OR) = 1.41, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.30-1.52. A conditional analysis provided evidence for multiple associations within the HLA-DRB1-HLA-DQA1 region, and a model in which risk differed between three groups of haplotypes better explained the signal and was significant in the Indian discovery and replication cohorts. In conclusion, the HLA-DRB1-HLA-DQA1 HLA class II region contributes to visceral leishmaniasis susceptibility in India and Brazil, suggesting shared genetic risk factors for visceral leishmaniasis that cross the epidemiological divides of geography and parasite species. Hide abstract
ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 7 (1), pp. 369-390. Read abstract | Read more2013. EFFICIENT COMPUTATION WITH A LINEAR MIXED MODEL ON LARGE-SCALE DATA SETS WITH APPLICATIONS TO GENETIC STUDIES
Motivated by genome-wide association studies, we consider a standard linear model with one additional random effect in situations where many predictors have been collected on the same subjects and each predictor is analyzed separately. Three novel contributions are (1) a transformation between the linear and log-odds scales which is accurate for the important genetic case of small effect sizes; (2) a likelihood-maximization algorithm that is an order of magnitude faster than the previously published approaches; and (3) efficient methods for computing marginal likelihoods which allow Bayesian model comparison. The methodology has been successfully applied to a large-scale association study of multiple sclerosis including over 20,000 individuals and 500,000 genetic variants. © 2013 Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Hide abstract
Nat Genet, 44 (10), pp. 1131-1136. Read abstract | Read more2012. Common variants at the MHC locus and at chromosome 16q24.1 predispose to Barrett's esophagus.
Barrett's esophagus is an increasingly common disease that is strongly associated with reflux of stomach acid and usually a hiatus hernia, and it strongly predisposes to esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), a tumor with a very poor prognosis. We report the first genome-wide association study on Barrett's esophagus, comprising 1,852 UK cases and 5,172 UK controls in the discovery stage and 5,986 cases and 12,825 controls in the replication stage. Variants at two loci were associated with disease risk: chromosome 6p21, rs9257809 (Pcombined=4.09×10(-9); odds ratio (OR)=1.21, 95% confidence interval (CI)=1.13-1.28), within the major histocompatibility complex locus, and chromosome 16q24, rs9936833 (Pcombined=2.74×10(-10); OR=1.14, 95% CI=1.10-1.19), for which the closest protein-coding gene is FOXF1, which is implicated in esophageal development and structure. We found evidence that many common variants of small effect contribute to genetic susceptibility to Barrett's esophagus and that SNP alleles predisposing to obesity also increase risk for Barrett's esophagus. Hide abstract
Bioinformatics, 28 (1), pp. 134-135. Read abstract | Read more2012. A robust clustering algorithm for identifying problematic samples in genome-wide association studies.
SUMMARY: High-throughput genotyping arrays provide an efficient way to survey single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the genome in large numbers of individuals. Downstream analysis of the data, for example in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), often involves statistical models of genotype frequencies across individuals. The complexities of the sample collection process and the potential for errors in the experimental assay can lead to biases and artefacts in an individual's inferred genotypes. Rather than attempting to model these complications, it has become a standard practice to remove individuals whose genome-wide data differ from the sample at large. Here we describe a simple, but robust, statistical algorithm to identify samples with atypical summaries of genome-wide variation. Its use as a semi-automated quality control tool is demonstrated using several summary statistics, selected to identify different potential problems, and it is applied to two different genotyping platforms and sample collections. AVAILABILITY: The algorithm is written in R and is freely available at www.well.ox.ac.uk/chris-spencer CONTACT: email@example.com SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. Hide abstract
Nature Genetics, 44 (3), pp. 328-333. Read abstract | Read more2012. Genome-wide association study identifies a variant in HDAC9 associated with large vessel ischemic stroke
Genetic factors have been implicated in stroke risk, but few replicated associations have been reported. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for ischemic stroke and its subtypes in 3,548 affected individuals and 5,972 controls, all of European ancestry. Replication of potential signals was performed in 5,859 affected individuals and 6,281 controls. We replicated previous associations for cardioembolic stroke near PITX2 and ZFHX3 and for large vessel stroke at a 9p21 locus. We identified a new association for large vessel stroke within HDAC9 (encoding histone deacetylase 9) on chromosome 7p21.1 (including further replication in an additional 735 affected individuals and 28,583 controls) (rs11984041; combined P = 1.87 × 10 -11; odds ratio (OR) = 1.42, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.28-1.57). All four loci exhibited evidence for heterogeneity of effect across the stroke subtypes, with some and possibly all affecting risk for only one subtype. This suggests distinct genetic architectures for different stroke subtypes. © 2012 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved. Hide abstract
Nat Genet, 44 (8), pp. 848-851. Read abstract | Read more2012. Including known covariates can reduce power to detect genetic effects in case-control studies.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) search for associations between genetic variants and disease status, typically via logistic regression. Often there are covariates, such as sex or well-established major genetic factors, that are known to affect disease susceptibility and are independent of tested genotypes at the population level. We show theoretically and with data from recent GWAS on multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and ankylosing spondylitis that inclusion of known covariates can substantially reduce power for the identification of associated variants when the disease prevalence is lower than a few percent. Whether the inclusion of such covariates reduces or increases power to detect genetic effects depends on various factors, including the prevalence of the disease studied. When the disease is common (prevalence of >20%), the inclusion of covariates typically increases power, whereas, for rarer diseases, it can often decrease power to detect new genetic associations. Hide abstract
Genet Epidemiol, 35 (4), pp. 278-290. Read abstract | Read more2011. Disease model distortion in association studies.
Most findings from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are consistent with a simple disease model at a single nucleotide polymorphism, in which each additional copy of the risk allele increases risk by the same multiplicative factor, in contrast to dominance or interaction effects. As others have noted, departures from this multiplicative model are difficult to detect. Here, we seek to quantify this both analytically and empirically. We show that imperfect linkage disequilibrium (LD) between causal and marker loci distorts disease models, with the power to detect such departures dropping off very quickly: decaying as a function of r4, where r2 is the usual correlation between the causal and marker loci, in contrast to the well-known result that power to detect a multiplicative effect decays as a function of r2. We perform a simulation study with empirical patterns of LD to assess how this disease model distortion is likely to impact GWAS results. Among loci where association is detected, we observe that there is reasonable power to detect substantial deviations from the multiplicative model, such as for dominant and recessive models. Thus, it is worth explicitly testing for such deviations routinely. Hide abstract
PLoS Genet, 7 (3), pp. e1001337. Read abstract | Read more2011. Quantifying the underestimation of relative risks from genome-wide association studies.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of associated loci across many common diseases. Most risk variants identified by GWAS will merely be tags for as-yet-unknown causal variants. It is therefore possible that identification of the causal variant, by fine mapping, will identify alleles with larger effects on genetic risk than those currently estimated from GWAS replication studies. We show that under plausible assumptions, whilst the majority of the per-allele relative risks (RR) estimated from GWAS data will be close to the true risk at the causal variant, some could be considerable underestimates. For example, for an estimated RR in the range 1.2-1.3, there is approximately a 38% chance that it exceeds 1.4 and a 10% chance that it is over 2. We show how these probabilities can vary depending on the true effects associated with low-frequency variants and on the minor allele frequency (MAF) of the most associated SNP. We investigate the consequences of the underestimation of effect sizes for predictions of an individual's disease risk and interpret our results for the design of fine mapping experiments. Although these effects mean that the amount of heritability explained by known GWAS loci is expected to be larger than current projections, this increase is likely to explain a relatively small amount of the so-called "missing" heritability. Hide abstract
Nat Genet, 43 (2), pp. 117-120. Read abstract | Read more2011. Common variants near ATM are associated with glycemic response to metformin in type 2 diabetes.
Metformin is the most commonly used pharmacological therapy for type 2 diabetes. We report a genome-wide association study for glycemic response to metformin in 1,024 Scottish individuals with type 2 diabetes with replication in two cohorts including 1,783 Scottish individuals and 1,113 individuals from the UK Prospective Diabetes Study. In a combined meta-analysis, we identified a SNP, rs11212617, associated with treatment success (n = 3,920, P = 2.9 × 10(-9), odds ratio = 1.35, 95% CI 1.22-1.49) at a locus containing ATM, the ataxia telangiectasia mutated gene. In a rat hepatoma cell line, inhibition of ATM with KU-55933 attenuated the phosphorylation and activation of AMP-activated protein kinase in response to metformin. We conclude that ATM, a gene known to be involved in DNA repair and cell cycle control, plays a role in the effect of metformin upstream of AMP-activated protein kinase, and variation in this gene alters glycemic response to metformin. Hide abstract
Hum Mol Genet, 20 (2), pp. 345-353. Read abstract | Read more2011. Dissection of the genetics of Parkinson's disease identifies an additional association 5' of SNCA and multiple associated haplotypes at 17q21.
We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 1705 Parkinson's disease (PD) UK patients and 5175 UK controls, the largest sample size so far for a PD GWAS. Replication was attempted in an additional cohort of 1039 French PD cases and 1984 controls for the 27 regions showing the strongest evidence of association (P< 10(-4)). We replicated published associations in the 4q22/SNCA and 17q21/MAPT chromosome regions (P< 10(-10)) and found evidence for an additional independent association in 4q22/SNCA. A detailed analysis of the haplotype structure at 17q21 showed that there are three separate risk groups within this region. We found weak but consistent evidence of association for common variants located in three previously published associated regions (4p15/BST1, 4p16/GAK and 1q32/PARK16). We found no support for the previously reported SNP association in 12q12/LRRK2. We also found an association of the two SNPs in 4q22/SNCA with the age of onset of the disease. Hide abstract
Nature, 476 (7359), pp. 214-219. Read abstract | Read more2011. Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis is a common disease of the central nervous system in which the interplay between inflammatory and neurodegenerative processes typically results in intermittent neurological disturbance followed by progressive accumulation of disability. Epidemiological studies have shown that genetic factors are primarily responsible for the substantially increased frequency of the disease seen in the relatives of affected individuals, and systematic attempts to identify linkage in multiplex families have confirmed that variation within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) exerts the greatest individual effect on risk. Modestly powered genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have enabled more than 20 additional risk loci to be identified and have shown that multiple variants exerting modest individual effects have a key role in disease susceptibility. Most of the genetic architecture underlying susceptibility to the disease remains to be defined and is anticipated to require the analysis of sample sizes that are beyond the numbers currently available to individual research groups. In a collaborative GWAS involving 9,772 cases of European descent collected by 23 research groups working in 15 different countries, we have replicated almost all of the previously suggested associations and identified at least a further 29 novel susceptibility loci. Within the MHC we have refined the identity of the HLA-DRB1 risk alleles and confirmed that variation in the HLA-A gene underlies the independent protective effect attributable to the class I region. Immunologically relevant genes are significantly overrepresented among those mapping close to the identified loci and particularly implicate T-helper-cell differentiation in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. Hide abstract
PLoS Genet, 5 (5), pp. e1000477. Read abstract | Read more2009. Designing genome-wide association studies: sample size, power, imputation, and the choice of genotyping chip.
Genome-wide association studies are revolutionizing the search for the genes underlying human complex diseases. The main decisions to be made at the design stage of these studies are the choice of the commercial genotyping chip to be used and the numbers of case and control samples to be genotyped. The most common method of comparing different chips is using a measure of coverage, but this fails to properly account for the effects of sample size, the genetic model of the disease, and linkage disequilibrium between SNPs. In this paper, we argue that the statistical power to detect a causative variant should be the major criterion in study design. Because of the complicated pattern of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in the human genome, power cannot be calculated analytically and must instead be assessed by simulation. We describe in detail a method of simulating case-control samples at a set of linked SNPs that replicates the patterns of LD in human populations, and we used it to assess power for a comprehensive set of available genotyping chips. Our results allow us to compare the performance of the chips to detect variants with different effect sizes and allele frequencies, look at how power changes with sample size in different populations or when using multi-marker tags and genotype imputation approaches, and how performance compares to a hypothetical chip that contains every SNP in HapMap. A main conclusion of this study is that marked differences in genome coverage may not translate into appreciable differences in power and that, when taking budgetary considerations into account, the most powerful design may not always correspond to the chip with the highest coverage. We also show that genotype imputation can be used to boost the power of many chips up to the level obtained from a hypothetical "complete" chip containing all the SNPs in HapMap. Our results have been encapsulated into an R software package that allows users to design future association studies and our methods provide a framework with which new chip sets can be evaluated. Hide abstract
Nature, 447 (7145), pp. 661-678. Read abstract | Read more2007. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls.
There is increasing evidence that genome-wide association (GWA) studies represent a powerful approach to the identification of genes involved in common human diseases. We describe a joint GWA study (using the Affymetrix GeneChip 500K Mapping Array Set) undertaken in the British population, which has examined approximately 2,000 individuals for each of 7 major diseases and a shared set of approximately 3,000 controls. Case-control comparisons identified 24 independent association signals at P < 5 x 10(-7): 1 in bipolar disorder, 1 in coronary artery disease, 9 in Crohn's disease, 3 in rheumatoid arthritis, 7 in type 1 diabetes and 3 in type 2 diabetes. On the basis of prior findings and replication studies thus-far completed, almost all of these signals reflect genuine susceptibility effects. We observed association at many previously identified loci, and found compelling evidence that some loci confer risk for more than one of the diseases studied. Across all diseases, we identified a large number of further signals (including 58 loci with single-point P values between 10(-5) and 5 x 10(-7)) likely to yield additional susceptibility loci. The importance of appropriately large samples was confirmed by the modest effect sizes observed at most loci identified. This study thus represents a thorough validation of the GWA approach. It has also demonstrated that careful use of a shared control group represents a safe and effective approach to GWA analyses of multiple disease phenotypes; has generated a genome-wide genotype database for future studies of common diseases in the British population; and shown that, provided individuals with non-European ancestry are excluded, the extent of population stratification in the British population is generally modest. Our findings offer new avenues for exploring the pathophysiology of these important disorders. We anticipate that our data, results and software, which will be widely available to other investigators, will provide a powerful resource for human genetics research. Hide abstract


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For the second time in just under one year, tragedy hits close to home with another death associated with the cast from the TV musical comedy-drama series "Glee." Matt Bendik, a 35-year-old nightclub owner and the real-life boyfriend of "Glee" co-star Becca Tobin, 28, who has portrayed the character of snippy cheerleader Kitty Wilde on the hit series since 2012, was found dead on July 10 by a maid in a Philadelphia hotel room he shared with Tobin. So far, a cause of death has not been released. Another heartbreaking death occurred on July 14, 2013, when fan favorite Cory Monteith, one of the original "Glee" leads, was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room from a heroin and alcohol overdose.
Bendik and Tobin were in Philly on business, according to USA Today. The couple had been out and about in the City of Brotherly Love on Wednesday night and had returned to their hotel, the Hotel Monaco. Bendik's body was discovered a little after 1 p.m. on Thursday. There is no indication yet as to Tobin's whereabouts during the grisly discovery.
"On July 10, 2014, at approximately 1:05 p.m., police responded to Hotel Monaco and housekeeping discovered a white male, 31 years of age, at the location," police said in a statement. "Medics pronounced him dead at 1:17 p.m., and the cause is undetermined by medical examiners." ~ Fox News
Before graduating with a business degree from the Cornell Hotel School in Ithaca, New York, in 2005, Bendik worked as a promoter for Hollywood's legendary Whiskey a Go Go on the Sunset Strip. Bendik was based in his hometown of Los Angeles, according to About MattBendIk.com. The site also listed him as being the current president of Chosen Hospitality LLC, a company specializing "in high-end hospitality development and management."
Police in Philadelphia said that there were no signs of foul play in connection with Bendik's death, according to the Daily News. There were also no drugs or paraphernalia found in the Hotel Monaco room that Bendik and Tobin had shared. Reportedly, Bendik and Tobin appeared to be in good spirits following their business obligations in Philly, and were seen out together and with friends on the Wednesday night before Bendik's death.
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Author: Farnoosh Moshiri
|Biographical Sketch
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|New Release: The Drum Tower
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Biographical Sketch
Iranian born writer Farnoosh Moshiri has published plays, short stories, and translations in Iranian literary magazines before the 1979 revolution and in anthologies published outside Iran in the 1980s. In 1983, she fled her country after a massive arrest of secular intellectuals, feminists, and political activists. She lived in refugee camps of Afghanistan and India for four years before emigrating to the U.S. in 1987. Her novels and collections include At the Wall of Almighty (Interlink 1999), The Bathhouse (Black Heron Press 2001, Beacon Press, 2002), The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree (Black Heron Press 2004), and Against Gravity (Penguin, 2006). Among other awards and fellowships, she is the recipient of Florida' Review's creative non-fiction award, Barthelme Memorial Award, Barbara Deming Award: A grant to feminist writers whose work speaks of peace and social justice; two consecutive Black Heron Awards for Social Fiction, and Valiente (courage) Award from Voices Breaking Boundaries for artists who have taken risks to speak out and act as advocates. Her third novel, Against Gravity, was chosen by Barnes and Noble for Discover New Writers Series and by Borders Books in January Original Voices selection. She has taught literature, playwriting, and creative writing in Universities of Tehran, Kabul, Houston, and Syracuse. In 2012, with collaboration of the composer, Gregory Spears, she created a chamber opera by the name of "The Bricklayer" commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera. The world Premier was on March 16, 2012. Currently, she is the Distinguished Resident Writer at the University of Houston-Downtown. Her new novel, Drum Tower, will be published in 2013.
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Rusty Allen is a PGA Professional in Scroggins, TX. The PGA of America comprises 27,000 men and women professionals with one singular goal in mind - to make the game of golf more enjoyable for you.
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A sea cruise is supposed to be fun, relaxing and take your mind off all the stresses of the world. It is after all a vacation.
A cruise ship sailed out of the Mediterranean Sea according to the Italian public health authorities on Feb. 27 with a crew of forty from the Costa Pacifica in Civitavecchia, Italy. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) released a report called a Rapid Risk Assessment on March 6 stating the members of the crew were all tested and their urine samples all showed measles were present.
Before they knew that there was a measles outbreak one of the crew members left in ship in Genoa who was suffering from respiratory symptoms as well as a skin rash. An investigation by the Italians was put into action immediately. The results documented nine people being hospitalized in Rome, Italy. Out of those nine people, seven of them were confirmed to having measles after being tested. There were six other people who were also about the ship that were suspected of contracting the same illness and were sent to the hospital for observation and testing to be sure.
The cruise was supposed to be a wonderful excursion in the Mediterranean Sea that visited six ports which included Italy, France and Spain. Since the crew was affected by the spread of measles it is more than likely the passengers of the cruise ship may also be affected as well since measles has an incubation period of seven to twenty-one days.
Symptoms of measles include:
- Rash
- Runny nose
- Fever
- Ear infections
- Pneumonia
- Death
Description of measles is defined as:
It is a highly contagious respiratory disease that is caused by a virus. Measles is a disease and a virus also referred to as rubeola, which is usually confused with other rash-causing diseases such as roseola and rubella.
If you were aboard the cruise line during this time and are suffering from any of the symptoms seek medical attention immediately before you spread the measles to another!
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Jerome R. Bacani, PGA
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2009 - Played in four games ... Started in win over Bucknell (Oct. 10) ... Passed for 148 yards and completed 14-of-27 attempts against the Bison ... Also rushed two times for 14 yards to finish with 162 yards of total offense.
2008 - Did not see any varsity game action due to injury.
St. Xavier HS - Three-year letterwinner in football ... During his high school career, St. Xavier went 55-2 and won four league, three regional, two state, and one mythical national championship ... As a senior, earned second-team All-Greater Catholic League (GCL) and honorable mention regional honors ... Head coach was Steve Specht ... Also lettered once in basketball ... First Honors student ... Spanish Honor Society member.


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CROSS COUNTRY: LSWA Louisiana Cross Country Runner of the Year... Conference USA Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Week on Sept. 11... Led the Green Wave to team victories twice, at the Southern Miss Invitational (9/7) and at the LSU Tiger Cross Country Festival (9/22)... Placed first overall at Southern Miss with a 5K time of 19:08.98... Ran a personal best 6K time of 21:49.25 a week later at the LSU Invite... Set a 5K personal record at the Auburn Tiger Invitational (9/29) with a time of 17:24.05... In all, placed among the top-three overall individual runners in three meets, and led her team in four of the seven meets in 2007.
OUTDOOR: Set a school record in winning the 10,000-meter run at the Walt Disney Invitational (3/24) in a time 36:38.32... Placed fourth in the 10,000m and sixth in the 5,000m at the C-USA Championships... Placed first in the 5,000m at the LSU Tiger Classic (3/30)... Recorded a personal-best time of 4:45.62 in the 1,500m at the LSU Alumni Gold Invitational (4/21)... Also recorded a personal record in the 5,000m at the Hillsdale College Gina Relays (4/29) with a time of 17:23.30.
INDOOR: Set a school record in the 5,000m at the Iowa State Classic (2/10) with a time of 17:39.90... Placed tenth in the Distance Medley Relay at the C-USA Championships... Recorded a personal record in the 800m (2:35.11) at the Leonard Hilton Memorial Invitational (1/19)... Placed second in the Championship Division of the Mile Run at the Purple Tiger Invitational with a time of 5:30.12 (1/13).
CROSS COUNTRY: Finished first on the team twice, including winning the individual title at the Mississippi College Invitational with a time of 22:24.61 (10/14)... Placed second on the team and 20th overall at the C-USA Championships with a time of 19:01.38 (10/28), earning her a spot in the NCAA South Central Regional Championship in Waco, Texas... Set a personal best at the NCAA Regionals in the 6K with a time of 22:20.9 (11/11).
OUTDOOR: Her personal-best time of 18:45.33 gave her 11th place in the 3,000m run at the Yellow Jacket Invitational (4/1)... Finished 15th in the 1,500m at the C-USA Championship in El Paso, Texas with a time of 5:01.67 (5/13).
INDOOR: Set a career best of 5:16.81 and placed third in the one-mile race at the Bayou Bengal Invitational in Baton Rouge, La. (1/27)... Collected one of 11 season-best marks with her performance of 10:33.12 in the 3,000m at the Iowa State Classic (2/11).
OUTDOOR: Notched her personal record in the 1,500m at the C-USA Championship (5/13) with a time of 4:48.33 to finish 10th in the preliminary heats (finished 12th in the finals)... Also posted a time of 18:55.23 in the 5,000m at the LSU Relays (3/26).
INDOOR: Competed in four meets... Notched her top one-mile time of 5:19.26 at the Armory Invitational (2/5), while tallying her top 3,000m time of 10:32.04 at the LSU Twilight Invitational (2/18).
CROSS COUNTRY: Tulane's second finisher in every race as a freshman, including three top-five finishes... Clocked a collegiate best 6K time of 22:27 at the NCAA Regionals (11/13)... Her best 5K was an 18:37 at the Notre Dame Invitational (10/1).
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One Mile: 5:16.81 (1/27/06)
3000 Meters: 10:17.36 (2/2/07)
5000 Meters: 17:39.90 (2/10/07)
800 Meters: 2:27.03 (4/2/05)
1500 Meters: 4:48.33 (5/13/05)
5000 Meters: 17:23.30 (4/27/07)
10000 Meters: 36:38.32 (3/22/07)
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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a tragic plane crash in Nashville. The crash claimed the lives of four family members, including a teenager.
Reuters reports that Glenn Mull, 62, owner of Mull Farms and Feeding Inc. in Pawnee Rock, Kansas, his wife, Elaine Mull, 63, their daughter, Amy Harter, 40, and granddaughter, Samantha Harter, 16, were identified Tuesday as the victims in the crash.
Mr. Mull was preparing to land the twin-engine Gulfstream at the John C. Tune Airport Monday night when it crashed beside the Bellevue YMCA, about 15 miles from the airport.
No other injuries were reported.
NTSB investigators have determined that the impact was about 150 yards long and 50 to 100 yards from a crowded YMCA, NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said.
Up to 300 people had reportedly entered the Bellevue Family YMCA in the two hours before the plane crashed.
Weiss said NTSB investigators hoped to move the plane wreckage indoors and to complete the on-site part of their investigation in three to five days.


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Pop Culture's Perfect Storm: Fashion Week Meets "Jersey Shore"
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | Around Town, Uncategorized
I'm all for combining guilty pleasures. That's why I was thrilled when the New York Post hinted at a possible merger of two of this year's arguably biggest pop sensations—Fashion Week and MTV's "Jersey Shore." Alright, so Fashion Week isn't exactly a guilty pleasure, but the fake bake boardwalk crew certainly is. And with their indulgently un-PC first season at an end, fans everywhere are looking for their next fix.
According to the Post, the cast is demanding tickets to shows for the weeklong fashion preview, which starts February 11. While celebrities—even pseudo-celebs—pining for ground level access to fashion's biggest event isn't anything new, what is exciting—and some would argue frightening—is who's pulling for the reality stars. Michael Schweiger, a manager for several of the cast members, says at least three designers approached them with offers to attend and even—gulp—model in a few of the Bryant Park shows. Just imagine JWoww strutting down the runway in all her orange-dipped glory.
Designers were understandably divided on the issue. While some welcomed the publicity and encouraged the crew to come as they are—gelled bouffants and all—others worried that "the situation" (pun definitely intended) might distract viewers from the collections they're trying to promote.
Whatever the outcome, however, thousands of fans (this one included) will be on the lookout for any excuse to keep the party alive while the gang gears up for another season of drama, debauchery and delightfully lowbrow mischief.


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StarFest held this past weekend May 2-4 was a family convention that includeded plenty of activities for the kiddoes. The Doctor Who Fest, which was a convention inside a convention, hosted a workshop called Build Your Own Sonic Screwdriver. Parents brought their kids construct their own "non-lethal weapon of choice." They also had a costume contest for the younger Whovian cosplayers with amazing prizes and fun. There was always something going on in the Marriott's atrium was always busy with Marc Gunn entertaining with amazing music, a Miss Empire Pageant, foam combat for the kids, and even a Yoga Sound-Alike contest.
The tables at GameFest were packed the entire weekend with tabletop and role playing games for all ages and interests. The schedule included an incredible variety of well-known games as inventive home-made games. There was a StarFest Art Show where some incredible artwork was on display. Another popular event was HorrorFest which may have taken some courage for some to enter their panel rooms filled with guests, panels, and displays. Joss Whedon fans packed in to a panel room to celebrate the Whedonverse with discussions and laughs. Other popular panels were the Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek trivia panels, and an informative panel on basic Steampunk costuming. The video room was always open for attendees who simply wanted to chill with fellow Sci-Fi and horror fans.


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Judge Karlin
09-40406 Reed (Doc. # 46) - Document Text
- Details
- Category: Judge Karlin
- Published: 16 March 2010
- Written by Judge Karlin
SIGNED this 15 day of March, 2010.
In re: )
MICHAEL DALE REED and ) Case No. 09-40406
VICKI ELAINE REED, ) Chapter 7
Debtors. )
This matter is before the Court on Debtors' Motion To Reconsider 1 this Court's Order
Granting Trustee's Motion for Turnover. 2 Because the motion was filed only 8 days after the Order
was entered, it is thus timely.3 Although the Court's Order dealt with property in addition to a tax
refund, Debtors seek reconsideration of only that part of the Order that grants the turnover of the tax
refund to the estate.
1Doc. 43.
2Doc. 40.
3The Court notes that Rule 9023 now allows such motions to be filed within 14 days after entry of an order.
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Debtors do not provide a statutory basis for their motion to reconsider, nor provide any
citation to case law regarding reconsideration, so the Court is unsure what legal basis they contend
exists to set aside the order. The Court will assume it was filed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) or
60.4 Because Debtor's counsel elected to docket it as a Motion to Reconsider, the Court will treat
it as a motion for reconsideration under Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e).5
Rule 9023 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure incorporates Rule 59 of the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure, with one exception, and allows for alteration or amendment of judgmentson the grounds for relief set forth in Rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as
incorporated in Bankruptcy Rule 9024. 7 Grounds for relief include mistake, inadvertence, surprise,
excusable neglect, fraud or newly discovered evidence.
The legal standard for granting a motion for reconsideration is narrow. "A motion for
reconsideration should be granted only to correct manifest errors of law or to present newly
discovered evidence." 8 "Such motions are not appropriate if the movant only wants the Court to
revisit issues already addressed or to hear new arguments or supporting facts that could have been
4 See D. Kan. Rule 7.3,which indicates that "motions seeking reconsideration of dispositive orders or judgments
must be filed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) or 60. Reconsideration of such an order or judgment will not be granted
under this rule."
5 In re American Freight System, Inc., 168 B.R. 245, 246 (D. Kan. 1994).
6This exception, contained in Rule 9023, as amended December 1, 2009, is that such motions be filed within
14 days.
7See In re Colley, 814 F.2d 1008, 1010 (5th Cir. 1987).
8 Adams v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., 225 F.3d 1179, n.5 (10th Cir. 2000) (internal quotations omitted).
Case 09-40406 Doc# 46 Filed 03/15/10 Page 2 of 5
presented originally."9
The only part of the Trustee's initial motion still at issue surrounds Debtors' 2008 federal tax
refund in the amount of $948.47. As previously stated on the record when the decision was
originally announced January 28, 2010, Debtors had checked the box on their return requesting the
IRS apply this refund to any future (i.e., post-petition) tax liability they might incur, rather than
refunding it to them. The import of that request would be to take what would otherwise be an estate
asset, and allow Debtors to in effect pre-pay a potential, but unknown, future tax liability with that
asset. On learning of this action, the Trustee made a request, by letter, to the IRS to turn over the
funds to the bankruptcy estate, and the IRS complied with that informal request after having first
refused to do the same when Debtors made a similar request.
Debtors essentially make three arguments in support of their motion to reconsider. They
The $948.47 was not "available to debtors" on the date of filing, but was instead in
the hands of the IRS, and thus did not constitute property of the estate because it was
a "contingent reversionary interest" not available to debtors until such time as they
filed a 2009 tax return and it was determined they were entitled to a refund in excess
of that $948.47;
The $948.47 was refunded to Debtors through "machinations of the Trustee," and
since Debtors could not have demanded the return of the refund, the Trustee could
not, either, because he "stands in the shoes" of Debtors; and
It would not be equitable to reward the Trustee by sanctioning his "improper,
inequitable and possibly illegal act" in requesting the IRS refund the prepaid amount.
9 Zhou v. Pittsburg State Univ., 252 F. Supp. 2d 1194, 1199 (D. Kan. 2003) (citing Van Skiver v. U.S., 952 F.2d
1241, 1243 (10th Cir. 1991)).
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As the Trustee succinctly notes in his response, 10 Debtors previously raised each of these
arguments,11 and the Court rejected them. The Court incorporates herein its oral findings of fact and
conclusions of law, as well as the contents of the order entered on this issue.
Furthermore, the Court does not believe that a Trustee's informal letter to the IRS requesting
turnover of what he in good faith believes is estate property, under the facts of this case, is
"improper, inequitable or illegal," or constitutes improper "machinations." A trustee in a Chapter
7 bankruptcy is charged with the statutory duty to gather the assets of the estate and manage those
assets to maximize their value to the estate. 12 Specifically, § 704(a)(1) requires that the trustee
"collect and reduce to money the property of the estate for which such trustee serves, and close such
estate as expeditiously as is compatible with the best interests of parties in interest."
The Court found that Debtors had a contingent reversionary interest in the refund on the date
they filed their bankruptcy petition, and that the facts of this case were distinguishable from those
in In re Graves.13 Furthermore, there is nothing in the record demonstrating the Trustee acted with
anything but good faith in attempting to obtain assets of the estate, and the facts surrounding the
Trustee request were known to the Debtors prior to the issuance of the original decision. Debtors
sought no evidentiary hearing to present evidence of bad faith. Furthermore, and as the Trustee
noted, the IRS is well-equipped to say "no" to such requests when it deems them to be improper, or
10Doc. 40
11 See Doc. 33, Debtors' letter brief in opposition to the Motion for Turnover, noting that the "trustee somehow
arrang[ed] a refund to us, without our agreement or request." Debtors provide no other "newly discovered facts"
evidencing improper or illegal action by the trustee in their motion to reconsider.
12In re Rubesh, 2006 WL 1867678, 3 (10th Cir. BAP 2006).
13396 B.R. 70 (10th Cir. 2008).
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somehow outside the law.
As the Court further noted in its oral decision, it recognizes that this case presents a very
unusual set of facts that is unlikely to be repeated. Typically, when a taxpayer applies a tax refund
to the following year's taxes, the IRS treats that as a tax payment for the following year and will not
return it to the taxpayer or anyone else. Because IRS voluntarily returned the property to Debtors,
Debtors' contingent reversionary interest in the property that they held on the date of filing was thus
converted to actual possession of the property shortly after the bankruptcy was filed. Because the
contingent reversionary interest in the tax refund was property of the estate, it only follows that
money returned to Debtors as a result of that interest remains property of the estate, as well, and is
subject to turnover to the Trustee.
Because Debtors only raise arguments in support of their Motion for Reconsideration that
the Court has implicitly or actually considered, and rejected, and because they do not demonstrate
the existence of any mistake, inadvertence, surprise, excusable neglect, fraud or newly discovered
evidence (or suggest the existence of any intervening change in the law, the availability of new
evidence, or clear error that the Court must correct), their Motion to Reconsideration is denied. The
Court further finds that additional oral argument on this Motion will not materially assist the Court,
and for that reason, the hearing Debtors scheduled for March 23, 2010 is canceled.
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Monday is my rest day from running. I should be doing some kind of strength training or yoga or something but at this point I don't do anything. So Monday is a true rest day.
My 10 miler on Sunday burned over 1,100 calories, so I was starving yesterday…all day long. I woke up late and had to eat a fast breakfast of a bagel and cream cheese with a glass of juice. Normally I'm an eggs, toast, and oatmeal breakfast eater but since I woke up over an hour late it was a scarf anything I can get my hands on and get in the car morning. Snack was a small banana and a Greek yogurt with fruit on the bottom. Lunch was spaghetti and chex mix. Afternoon snack was a Fiber One bar. By the time I got home last night I had the worst cravings for tacos. I made and then ate three tacos and the two handfuls of trail mix. I still haven't logged my dinner last night. I'm scared.
I knew that I under fueled myself for my long run on Sunday and I was for sure paying the price yesterday as I tried to catch up with the calorie burn. Burn too much and not eat enough is not a good thing. At this point I'm not really trying to lose weight. I wouldn't mind losing some of the fat I have around my belly but other than that I'm not looking to lose a bunch of weight. I'm 5'9" and I hover around 150 give or take a couple of pounds on any given day. I'm at a healthy weight, so weight loss isn't really that important to me, especially since running is packing on the muscle and we all know that muscle tissue is more dense then fat so I'm actually getting smaller while weighing more. My pants are a size 8 and a bit big but not big enough to go down a size. I'm a size 8, 150 pounds and 35 years old. My BMI is 22.5. I'm healthy and I'm happy. What more could I want then that?
As I've gotten older I've found it harder and harder to support that rail thing, waif look that seems to be popular right now. I see so many young women with no muscle definition, no curves, and almost no breasts and it makes me sad. There are so many places to go and things to see and do. I don't want to be too tired from being too thin and under fueled to do those things. My 36th birthday is coming up next week. If the weather is like it has been, I'm going to see Alcatraz for the first time, tour around Pier 39 and maybe check out Golden Gate Park. I want to be able to enjoy all of that instead of being exhausted. By no means am I saying that thin girls (or boys) can't do this. But the lack of muscle on the upcoming generations scare me. Is this new thin yet not healthy trend the new obesity?
Our country needs better standards of beauty and better role models. A size 10-12 model should not be considered a plus sized model. That's an average women to me.
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Jessica Chastain
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Chastain hasn't yet wed herself to a designer, but she likes color and body-conscious silhouettes that show off her shoulders and arms – as shown in the ice blue Calvin Klein halter she wore to the Golden Globes and in the red Alexander McQueen strapless column she wore to the SAG Awards.
Emmanuelle Riva
The 85-year-old nominee doesn't have much of a red carpet dossier to draw from, but this blue silk caftan with a beaded neckline from the Cannes Film Festival is lovely and entirely age-appropriate. Perhaps she will wear something a tad more structured Sunday?
Jennifer Lawrence
"Silver Linings Playbook"
Lawrence is the new face of Dior's Miss Dior handbags and has worn nothing but Dior lately, including a red belted drop waist gown at the Golden Globes and a navy strapless column to the Screen Actors Guild awards – both Dior Haute Couture by Raf Simons. So figure to see her in Dior.
Quvenzhané Wallis
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
The youngest nominee wore a purple David Meister at the Academy Awards Nominations luncheon and a pink satin Meister to the Directors Guild of America awards, so it is likely she will wear Meister – accompanied by her usual puppy-shaped purse – again Sunday.
Naomi Watts
"The Impossible"
Watts has worn Zac Posen on three recent red carpets: a garnet gown for the Golden Globes, a floral '30s-style dress for a movie premiere, and a red silk brocade strapless gown to the Visual Effects Society Awards. She wore a Marchesa white beaded gown to the SAG Awards, but odds are she will again wear Posen.


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Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) is in the middle of repositioning its oil and gas portfolio. After exiting its Eagle Ford Shale position last quarter, the company is planning on selling another $4-$5 billion worth of assets. While there's likely to be lots of interested parties, two of the three assets it could sell would fit perfectly within LINN Energy's (NASDAQ:LINE) portfolio. That's why I think the company should open up its checkbook and go shopping at Freeport-McMoRan's oil and gas sale.
What's Freeport-McMoRan selling?
Freeport-McMoRan's onshore assets consist of its position in the natural gas rich Hayneville Shale, a 14% interest in the Madden Deep assets in Wyoming and oil-rich assets in California. The map on the following slide provides some details on those positions.
While the Haynesville Shale assets might be of interest to growth focused producers, it's the Madden and California assets that I think LINN Energy should consider buying.
Drilling deeper into Madden
The Madden Deep Unit is operated by ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) and is on federal land. Freeport-McMoRan estimated that its interest in Madden contained 133 billion cubic feet equivalent of natural gas and about 30 future drilling locations, so it's not a growth asset by any means. However, the Madden Deep assets also include the Lost Cabin Gas Plant, which processes the gas and separates carbon dioxide from it. That's important because that carbon dioxide is being sold in the Rockies to companies like Denbury Resources (NYSE:DNR) for enhanced oil recovery as the following slide notes.
Denbury Resources estimates that there are 1.3 to 3.2 billion barrels of oil recoverable in the Rockies through enhanced oil recovery using carbon dioxide. That's a tremendous opportunity not just for Denbury Resources, but for LINN Energy, which also is involved in enhanced oil recovery at its Salt Creek joint venture in Wyoming. Acquiring Freeport-McMoRan's interest in Madden Deep and Lost Cabin would enhance its position in the region giving it an opportunity to join Denbury Resources in building an enhanced oil recovery business in the Rockies.
California dreaming
While Madden would be a fine addition to LINN Energy's portfolio, the real prize here would be Freeport-McMoRan's California assets. These oil-rich assets produced 39,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in this past quarter, which was 2,000 barrels of oil per day higher than it produced in the year ago first quarter. Overall, the assets have a stable production profile and come with 2,000 future well locations to keep production flowing.
These really are the perfect assets for an MLP like LINN Energy, which bulked up on its California oil assets last year when it bought Berry Petroleum. Like Freeport-McMoRan, much of LINN Energy's production in California is from mature, low-decline oil properties from the San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles Basin. As the following slide notes, these are ideal MLP assets because of the shallow base decline and significant free cash flow.
The fact that these assets would fit well in an MLP isn't lost on Freeport-McMoRan. Jim Flores, the CEO of its energy business, noted on the company's conference call that the assets it's looking to sell would go for a premium these days because the "MLP market is very hot." He said that with debt markets offering low rates and oil prices strong, Freeport-McMoRan can sell its California assets to an MLP like LINN Energy and receive a good value for the assets. It can then reinvest the cash into its growth opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico as well as pay down debt and still get back that production by 2017, creating a real win for its investors.
Investor takeaway
LINN Energy has focused much of its attention this year to rid its portfolio of high decline horizontal assets. However, the company's first two deals were to acquire natural gas properties, which hasn't exactly enthused investors. LINN Energy could get back into the oil game and add to its California oil portfolio by acquiring Freeport-McMoRan's assets. Maybe it could even get Freeport-McMoRan's gas assets in Wyoming added in for little additional cost, which could expand its opportunity set in the Rockies. Bottom line here, if the price is right LINN Energy really should grab its checkbook and head over to the Freeport-McMoRan onshore asset sale.
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Couple Cuts Tongue of
"Demon-Possessed" Baby
by Cliff Walker
adapted from wire copy
March 13, 1998
São Paulo, Brazil -- The parents of a 10-month-old baby girl were charged with cutting her tongue out with a pair of scissors. Brazillian police said the couple thought she was "possessed by the devil." A police spokeswoman in Sorocaba, 54 miles west of São Paulo, told Reuters News Service: "They said the child's body was possessed by the devil and that the tongue was an evil thing."
Apparently, baby Diane Cristina was sick when her mother and father decided they could cure her by cutting out her tongue, thinking "the devil was in it." Police said, "They said they heard voices telling them to cut out the baby's tongue, that the child was the victim of witchcraft."
The parents then took the bleeding baby to a hospital in Sorocaba where doctors said it would be impossible to reattach the baby's tongue.
The parents, Terezinha Silva Francisco, 27, and Jair Francisco, 28, were charged with child abuse and deliberately inflicting grave bodily injuries. A local radio news report said that Jair Francisco was promptly beaten and stabbed by inmates at the jail. He was reported to be in critical condition at a local hospital.
Meanwhile, police said neighbors described the couple as (you guessed it) "ordinary, likable people."
We can expect this assessment from neighbors as long as superstition and religious faith are seen as ordinary and healthy and are equated with goodness in the minds of the people.
Murderous Boy
Studies The Bible
by Cliff Walker
from various sources
April, 1998
Mitchell Johnson is scared, says his attorney. The 13-year-old boy is accused of the ambush-shooting deaths of five students and one teacher at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
"He's a little boy," attorney Tom Furth told reporters. Although Johnson is young, says Furth, he "absolutely understands the difference between right and wrong." The lawyer says the boy has been spending his time in jail reading, including "an awful lot of Bible study."
Considering the vast amount of brutal bloodshed which the Bible describes and of which the Bible approves, Johnson should be right at home reading this book.
Frenzy of Hatred Fueled
Jamaican Clergy Protest
Gay Vocal Group
by Cliff Walker
from various sources
March 10, 1998
Church officials in Kingston, Jamaica, pumping up the anti-homosexual sentiments already widespread among the Caribbean nations. Their most recent move backwards is to protest against a scheduled Jamaican appearance by the U.S. gay pop vocal group The Village People. The group's hits "YMCA" and "In the Navy" made them icons among gays, straights, and children in the 1970s.
The Village People are scheduled to perform at a music festival at the Negril Beach Resort this weekend. "To promote a music festival of that nature which is going to highlight a behavior repugnant to the majority of people in this country is disrespectful," said Rev. Stanley Clark, president of the Jamaica Council of Churches. Bishop S.U. Thomas of the Emmanuel Apostolic Church also opposes the show.
Homosexuality is illegal in Jamaica and is a source of much controversy. Britain is urging some of its remaining colonies in the region to liberalize anti-gay laws, drawing resentment from many islanders. As usual, the clergy is milking this controversy for all it's worth.
In December, the government of the Cayman Islands refused landing rights to a cruise ship saying the 900 gay passengers could not be expected to uphold appropriate standards of behavior.
Hundreds of demonstrators, in Nassau in the Bahamas protested Sunday against another ship thought to be chartered by gays.
Last August, 16 inmates were killed in prison riots in Jamaica sparked by suggestions that homosexuality was rife in the prisons.
Psychic Sought In
"Evil Spirits" Scam
by Cliff Walker
adapted from wire copy
March 6, 1998
Key West, Florida -- A man was held and authorities were searching for a "psychic" in connection with a plot to charge a wealthy Swiss woman of $200,000 for taming her evil spirits. Louis George, 61, was held on a $1 million bond at the Monroe County jail. Authorities are still searching for 41-year-old self-described psychic Paula Marion.
Marion, who ran a Tarot card and palm reading shop in a small house on Key West's historic Duval Street, and George were alleged to have used counterfeit money to fool Yvonne Cavin, 52 into paying over $200,000 to "appease the bad spirits around her."
In the summer of 1995, Marion lured Cavin through free psychic readings. She eventually convinced Cavin to come up $15,000 in cash to tame the spirits plaguing her. In this scam, the psychic "loaned" Cavin the phony cash, which was burned in a ceremonial bowl druing a ritual. Cavin later wired money to the psychic to reimburse her, police said.
A few months later, Marion beguiled Cavin into putting up another $160,000 to appease the spirits. Marion and George again "loaned" Cavin $160,000 in phony bills in a briefcase left on the steps of a Miami church. Marion instructed Cavin not to look in the case "or it would invalidate the ceremony." Again, she wired money to reimburse the pair. During the course of her dealings with Marion, Cavin lost a total of $200,000 in various scams, police said.
Cavin began to see the light when she saw Marion's husband driving a new Mercedes sports car shortly after one transaction.
"This certainly is a major fraud case as far as we're concerned," Monroe Sheriff's spokeswoman Becky Herrin said. "But this fraud or type of fraud happens all across the country."
One can only wonder if the authorities would consider similar behavior by established, traditional churches wherein gullible people bequeath their entire estates to the churches as a form of "fire insurance" against the mythical terrors of the hereafter.
Rajneesh Poisoning
Incident Finally Disclosed
by Chuck Shepherd
August, 1997
Doctors writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association in August on a salmonella incident confirmed that the 751 people who became ill in 1984 after eating in one of the 10 restaurants of The Dalles, Oregon, were intentionally poisoned, as criminal investigators suspected in 1986.
Investigators had found that disciples of the late Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh deliberately poured the bacteria on restaurant salad bars to test their plan to incapacitate voters opposed to Rajneesh in an upcoming election so that their own slate would win.
The lead JAMA author said the case has been largely unpublicized since then because the government feared copycat contaminators.
Ten Thousand Gods
Cast Votes in India
by Chuck Shepherd
June, 1997
Voter officials in the state of Andhra Pradesh, in India, validated ballots for 10,000 gods and goddesses to somehow vote in upcoming plebiscites on water usage. (Those deities are listed on deeds as land owners and are thus entitled to elect their own representatives.)
Interviewer Quizzes
The Dead
by Chuck Shepherd
October, 1997
Ghanan researcher Philip Adongo, explaining to a family planning conference in Beijing why he interviewed spiritual mediums in addition to other tribespeople in his country: "If I only heard from the living, I wouldn't get a very good balance. This study has been the first to be conducted of respondents who are deceased."
Clinton Rejects
Kama Sutra Book
by Woody Johnson
April 20, 1998
Santiago, Chile -- A mischievous journalist handed President Clinton a copy of the illustrated Kama Sutra, the oldest known treatise on sex written in India 1,500 years ago. The U.S. president, who often stops to chat with crowds, took the book, glanced at a couple embracing on its cover handed it right back.
Clinton had been posing for a hilltop photo of the 34 Western Hemisphere leaders at the Summit of the Americas in Santiago.
A few steps later Clinton accepted a saxophone held by out another journalist. Both reporters work for Argentine satirical television shows and regularly try to embarrass politicians in front of cameras.
Where Church Equals State
Islamic Civil Law Forbids
Recycling, Shaving
by Chuck Shepherd
September, 1997
Among the recent rules established by the Afghanistan Taliban office formerly known as the Department for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice: No paper bags (because the paper possibly could have been recycled from discarded Korans); athletes must grow beards and wear full Islamic dress in the field.
Town Embarrassed by
Sex-Pervert Pastor
by Chuck Shepherd
June, 1997
James Eric Holmgren, 46, resigned from the pulpit after being charged with sexually administering enemas to a boy; he had been pastor of the Embarrass-Pike Evangelical Lutheran Church in the town of Embarrass, Minnesota.
Utah NOW Endorses
Multi-Wife Polygamy
by Chuck Shepherd
May, 1997
At a National Organization for Women's gathering in Utah, Elizabeth Joseph, an attorney, and Ellen George, secretary of the NOW Utah office, praised multi-wife polygamy as an alternative for feminists, an idea that was a few years ago denounced by NOW as slavery.
Joseph lives informally in such an arrangement with her husband, six co-wives, and 20 children; some wives stay home, and others work.
Said George, "We fight for lesbian families and single-parent families. I don't know why we wouldn't support this."
Sex-Ed Opponent's
Daughter Rapes Boy
by Chuck Shepherd
August, 1997
In May, 1997, Kent, Washington, elementary school teacher Mary Kay LeTourneau, 35, gave birth to a baby girl, the father of whom is one of her sixth-graders.
LeTourneau is the daughter of ex-U.S. Rep. John Schmitz, an intense right-wing Republican who was so notoriously opposed to sex education in schools that he would move little Mary out of any school contemplating such a program.
Now, she has pleaded guilty to child rape. (Unofficially, though, she admires the boy: "There was a respect, an insight, a spirit, an understanding between us that grew over time." They met when he was in second grade.)
New Beer Neutralizes
Radiation Fears
by Chuck Shepherd
July, 1997
The Lomsko Pivo brewery in Lom, Bulgaria, announced that brewmaster Yordan Platikanov has developed a beer that could neutralize any lingering amounts of uranium 134 and strontium in the body after exposure to nuclear radiation.
Platikanov said the new beer should be urged on nuclear power plant workers relaxing at the end of a shift.
Animism Inspires
Disgusting Chinese Wine
by Chuck Shepherd
June, 1997
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario cleared local shelves of a smuggled Chinese wine that purportedly enhances libido. Three-Penis Wine (deer, dolphin, and dog) has such foul ingredients that authorities wouldn't even dump it in sewers.
Star-Trek 'Addicts' Get
Physical Withdrawals
by Chuck Shepherd
June, 1997
Psychologist Sandy Wolfson told The Times of London that her research on fans of "Star Trek" reveals as many as 10 percent to meet the clinical definition of addicts, especially when they go through physical withdrawal during their show's absence.
Further, like classic drug addicts, they seem to require ever-increasing doses to overcome their tolerance levels.
Unclear on the Concept
Minister Supplies
Dope To Needy Junkies
by Chuck Shepherd
August, 1997
Protestant minister Hans Visser announced that he had lined up doctors, social workers, and drug dealers to begin a social program of supplying heroin at discount to hopeless addicts in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to help keep them away from crime and life-threatening cheap drugs.
Said Visser, "I expect I will [soon] be having a chat with justice officials."
Almost-900-Foot Jesus
Holy Land Theme Park
Slated In Nevada
by Chuck Shepherd
July, 1997
Quorum International Ltd. announced plans for a $1.6 billion Holy Land theme park in Mesquite, Nevada, along Interstate 15 about 75 miles from Las Vegas, including a 33-story statue of Jesus and large models of Noah's Ark and the parting of the Red Sea.


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Ear infections are the most common infections requiring treatment in young children. They have a tendency to become more frequent and less responsive to antibotic treatment. Almost all children experience one or two infections in the first two years of life but environment and head and neck anatomy make some children more prone to multiple infections. When a child experiences multiple ear infecrtions, ear tubes (also called tympanostomy tubes) may be recommended by an otolaryngolist. These tiny tubes are inserted through the ear drum and perform a number of functions including preventing ear infections by allowing air in the middle ear to exchange freely with the outside air preventing the formation of a vacuum in the middle ear thus keeping infections from coming to the ear from the back of the nose which causes an ear infection. Ear tubes are made of various materials and consist of small, cylindrical tubes that are positioned through the ear drum. Some tubes are designed and intended to fall ou on their own and others may require removal by a doctor. Each year, hundreds of thousands of children undergo procedures to have ear tubes placed in their ears. If your child is experiencing multiple ear infections and you are looking for a more permanent remedy, contact Winchester Ear Nose and Throat Center and and set up an appointment to find out if ear tubes are your best option for treating multiple ear infections in your child.
Fall is Here and So Are Seasonal Nasal Allergies…
Fall is here and so are the seasonal nasal allergies that affect a lot of people. From runny noses to sneezing symptoms of nasal allergies hit at this time of year. Ragweed, mold and dust mites are to blame. If you are like most people, you wait until symptoms start before you seek treatment. Ideally, it is better to start taking allergy medicine before symptoms start instead of waiting for symtpoms to start…takes longer for medicine to get into your system. Call Winchester Ear Nose and Throat today and find out how you can be ahead of the curve this allergy season!
Hearing Loss in Teens on the Rise
Hearing loss in teens has gone up, according to a recent study, with one in five U.S. adolescents showing some degree of hearing loss. While the majority of the hearing loss found was slight, any hearing loss can be problematic.
Even slight hearing loss in school-aged children can create a need for speech therapy and other special help. Mild loss can interfere with speech and language development, school performance, and impair social and emotional development.
Parents should remind their children to turn down the volume when listening to music. If they can't turn down the volume, remind them to get physically farther away from the sound, or use earplugs.
Parents may also ask teens to turn off the music for 10 minutes each hour and give their ears a break. Symptoms such as ringing in the ears are a sign the noise exposure has been too loud.
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Our new website has been redesigned to better serve our patients and individuals who may be interested in, or in need of, an ear, nose and throat doctor in the Winchester, Virginia area. Our state-of-the-art facility is equipped with the latest technology, allowing us to provide the best care possible in a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere.
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Lacy's team starts action Thursday, April 9 at 4 p.m. PT.
The former WSU basketball coach was chosen as a direct elect for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Junior Longrus has been named second team all-academic for the second-straight year.
Ike Iroegbu led WSU with 17 points in the Pac-12 Tournament game.
WSU faces Cal as it looks for its first conference tournament win since 2009.
Lacy was named All-Pac-12 First Team, Hawkinson Most Improved Player and Honorable Mention.
The No. 9 Cougars and No. 8 Golden Bears Meet Wednesday at 12:10 p.m.
Six Cougars scored in double-figures, including all three seniors.
WSU will honor Dexter Kernich-Drew, DaVonté Lacy and Jordan Railey.
Jordan Railey scored 12 first-half points.
WSU hosts 13th-ranked Utah Thursday at 8 p.m.
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Having a toddler or preschooler is recipe alone for a busy life and schedule. Trying to find fun (and free) things to do with them to keep them entertained, and in turn, you more relaxed, can be quite a task. A lot of activities around the city for kids are for bigger kids. It can be hard to locate a fun activity that caters to little ones. Mar Vista branch library as a solution on Wednesday mornings.
Every Wednesday morning at 11:00 AM your younger children can enjoy some fun stories in a little nook in the children's section inside the library. When you walk through the front doors, go straight back and to the right and you will see the small room with toys and benches in it.
Make sure you get a library card if you don't already have one, they have a lot of wonderful books to borrow as well as DVD's which you can borrow for two days. They have a great collection of newer movies for all ages and a lot of Disney movies in the kids section (which as you know, most of them get "vaulted" up for years).
You can find a lot of great information on the community, inside and outside the library with flyers, brochures, and various publications.
Don't miss their book sale coming up October 20th, 2012 at 10:00 AM. And remember to give back if you can. They are currently accepting up to two bags/boxes of books, CD's, or DVD's per donation.


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NYC: Menus Get Calories
posting calorie-content on their menus. Edith Honan of Reuters reports:
Starting on Saturday, health inspectors can slap fines of up to $2,000 on fast-food and casual-dining chains if calorie counts are not displayed on their menus in the same font and format as the name or price of food items.I doubt people shopping for convenience foods are too concerned about calories. Only time will tell if this makes an impact.
The move follows the city's 2003 ban on public smoking and a ban on artery-clogging trans fats that began on July 1.
New Yorkers appeared unfazed by the rule, and some said they would not be dissuaded from ordering a 540-calorie Big Mac at McDonald's or a 440-calorie Iced lemon Loaf at Starbucks.
"I'm going to eat whatever I'm going to eat," said Erika Roberson, 19, leaving an Applebee's restaurant in Brooklyn.
The rule affects such restaurants as McDonald's; Burger King; Applebee's, operated by DineEquity Inc; Dunkin Donuts; Starbucks and Subway.


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Release Date: 2008-02-29
Genre: Documentary,
Rating: NR
Duration: 1hr 37min
With our national focus on Iraq, much of the press and popular attention has drifted from Afghanistan, a country we barely know but which is at the epicenter of both the strongest international terrorist training grounds and some of the greatest victims of terrorism. Beyond Belief, a transcendent documentary about two 9/11 widows who forge their own personal grief into a means of understanding and helping women half a world away, puts a face on this country, its people and its traditions through an incredible lens of forgiveness, understanding and hope.
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Education in Ethiopia
Are children getting what they deserve?
School System
Formal education is composed of six years of elementary school, two years of junior elementary, and four years of senior secondary. Most children start school at age five. An average class size is 65 students per teacher, and few school supplies are available to each student; for example schools lack pens, books, paper, and most schools don't even have water or useable toilets. The society of Ethiopia expects teachers and parents to use corporal punishment to maintain order and discipline. They believe that through punishing children for bad habits they in turn learn good ones.
History of Ethiopian Education
When formal education started in Ethiopia during the fourth century, Christianity was the recognized religion. For about 1,500 years the church controlled all education. Educational opportunities were seen as the preserve of Ethiopia's ruling urban Amharic minority. However the Amharic minority ruling education ended when public education became an option for all citizens. While reforms have been made in the aims of education, the actual structure of the Ethiopian school system has remained unchanged from that established in the 1950's. Higher education is very limited and thus far, very few students make it to this point.
The Effect of Educational System on
The poor education the children receive places them at a disadvantage. They fall behind other African countries in acquiring basic academic skills such as reading, writing, and math. The curriculum of the school is not organized and attendance also follows this unorganized trend. Attendance is not compulsary and as a result there is a low literacy rate. Since supplies are so rare and education is not available to everyone, children often become frustrated and drop out. Children in Ethiopia who receive education are lucky and privileged. Social awareness that education is important is something that Ethiopia lacks. Most people in Ethiopia feel that work is more important than education, so they start at a very early age with little to no education. Children in rural areas are less likely to go to school than children in urban areas. Most rural families cannot afford to send their children to school because parents believe that while their children are in school they cannot contribute to the household chores and income.
Government Involvement in
Education in Ethiopia changed tremendously since the 1800's because the government has made an attempt to improve children's education. Formal education began in 1908. Misguided policies caused very few children to receive an education. As a result Ethiopia did not meet the Educational standards of other African countries. After Ethiopia gained independence, they tried to improve the school system by building more schools and enrolling more children in school. Literacy and enrollment rates were still low, so the government revised its curriculum and made education more practical and relevant to children's lives. In the past rural children were at a disadvantage because schools were limited to towns and roadside villages, so the government took action and built new schools close to the communities. The government also started the National Literacy Campaign Coordinating Committee in 1979 to raise literacy rates, and officials distributed more than 22 million reading booklets for beginners causing enrollment rates to increase from 2.5 million to 4.9 million. The government is trying to make improvements in the educational system in Ethiopia, however these changes are occuring at a very slow rate.
Improvements to be made in
Ethiopian Educational
Before the educational system in Ethiopia gets better, there are many factors that need to be addressed and improved. Ethiopia must change the importance of education in their social structure, and children should be encouraged and required to attend school and become educated. This would not only improve the level of awareness in the country and the opportunity for advancement but also it would improve many other aspects of Ethiopian society.
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Van Horn, Christopher and Tilman, Dave. (1997, July 8)
Milkias, Paulos. (1980, June). Zemecha: Assessing the Political and Social Foundations of Mass Education in Ethiopia. Studies in Comparative International Development, volume xv (spring)no.1, 54-66.


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FOX TV has prepared at least seven new fall shows, including a forensic crime drama called "Bones."
FOX has laid out a more streamlined schedule - noteworthy for the lack of new unscripted series -- with fewer midseason program shifts than it presented to media buyers in New York last year, sources told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Beautiful Creatures
by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Beautiful Creatures 11.01 Summary
How It All Goes Down
The Writing on the Wall
- Ethan wakes up in Lena's bedroom. This is starting to become a trend.
- His cell phone alarm goes off—it's the Sixteen Moons song, but it's changed. It says something about "Bind the spheres" (11.01.6). What spheres? Hmmm, well moons are spherical. And so are eyes.
- Lena reveals that their telepathic communication is called Kelting. You will ace the Caster SAT after all this.
- Ethan talks about how much he likes Lena. She actually reciprocates, and it's very sweet and romantic. Cue "awww."
- Moving away from "awww" and more toward "huh?" they talk about the ritual Lena's family performed the previous night: the Sanguinis Circle, the Circle of Blood. It's more about blood kin, not blood drinking or anything. No vampires in this Southern mystery.
- Ethan believes Lena's going to go Light. His reasoning: why would Sarafine, a Dark Caster, be after Lena if she was going to be Dark?
- When they kiss again, it's a little more intense. Ethan feels like his lungs are collapsing and… he passes out. Now that's a kiss. After he wakes up, he sees that Ryan is there. She's healed Ethan.
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