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Yesterday, the United States government both succeeded and stumbled in epic proportions. The health insurance marketplaces, a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), were implemented, and the government officially shut down.
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Health marketplaces open
As scheduled, enrollment in the health insurance marketplaces began with 36 federally-run exchanges and 15 state-run exchanges, including California, Washington, and Oregon. Other key dates include March 31, 2014, the closing of the enrollment period, January 1, 2014, when coverage begins, and December 15, 2013, the last date to enroll for coverage beginning January 1.
For the federally-run exchanges, the average individual will be able to enroll choose one of 53 qualified plans among four metallic tiers—bronze, silver, gold, platinum—issued by an average of eight insurers.
Individuals, who do not have insurance, will be penalized with a $95 tax per uninsured person (or one percent of income household income over the filing threshold) in 2014 and $325 per uninsured person (or two percent of household income over the filing threshold) in 2015.
While premiums are competitive (before tax credits, the second lowest cost silver plan will be less than $300 per month in 15 states), there are concerns about higher deductibles and reduced provider networks.
As a medical professional, this means you should be ready for a wave of newly insured patients in 2014 who may not have received basic primary care in several years. Make sure your staff is up to speed on the new rules for preventative care and use tools like online appointment booking to help ease the administrative burden.
For more information on the marketplaces, here are some of our favorite reads:
- In-depth report on premiums and source of federally-run exchange data
- Excellent tool that depicts US healthcare spend by payer over time
- Report by the Christensen Institute on ACA and Disruptive Opportunities
Government shutdown
Congress was unable to pass a budget deal on Sunday, with a stalemate between the Senate and House of Representatives hinging around partisan conflicts, and at midnight the federal government shut down. The last shutdown occurred in 1996 and the 22-day government closing cost $1.5 billion.
It is worthy of note that one of the key points of debate in this shutdown is the repeal of the 2.3% medical device excise tax, which is intended to direct approximately $30 billion to the implementation of the ACA.
Nearly 800,000 government workers have been furloughed, among them almost 40,000 employees with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and will not be able to work until the government re-opens. If the shutdown continues, health tech companies could experience a small impact related to policy activities since the 184-member agency of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has been reduced to a staff of 4.
The ONC will suspend its work in establishing standards, testing activities, management of the Certified Health IT Product List, and policymaking in the areas of privacy, security, and clinical quality measure development. However, other HHS activities will proceed, including doctors' visits paid by Medicare and operations of the insurance marketplaces.
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Jeffco students are largely outperforming national averages when it comes to reading and math, but semester-to-semester growth is lacking.
According to the Jeffco school district's presentation of its year-long Measures of Academic Progress, student scores in math and reading improved over the last year, with about 60 percent of all students in grades three through 10 scoring in the high-average or above-average range for math and reading.
Overall positive feedback from parents and students was offset by some employee concerns about workload and pay in a recent survey taken by Jeffco Public Schools.
The district's Make Your Voice Heard survey, which polled students in second through 12th grades and was completed by about 77 percent of the district's students, found that most students felt cared about and respected by teachers and school staff; furthermore, about 90 percent of all students said they had friends or people they felt connected to at school.
The walls of the student services office at the School of Education at Metropolitan State University are now the permanent home to 15 pieces of artwork by students at Normandy Elementary.
Jeffco Public Schools and its teachers union have reached a tentative contract agreement after months of negotiations.
The five-year agreement includes $14.1 million in annual raises, $10.4 million for a one-time pay increase and a transparent pay schedule. It retains a slightly modified version of the controversial pay-for-performance system instituted by the previous school board.
If Jeffco Public Schools' proposed facilities master plan isn't approved next month, the district will have to consider other solutions to the issue of its aging buildings and the capital needs associated with repairing and replacing those facilities.
According to Superintendent Dan McMinimee, year-round school, a split-shift schedule and a bond issue focused on deferred maintenance all are possibilities.
Students at Peiffer Elementary School have logged thousands of hours in reading time while participating in Race to Read, a program sponsored by Bandimere Speedway in Morrison.
"The kids are so excited about it," said Peiffer first-grade teacher Tanya Rodgers. "They can read anything they want."
The six-week program that Tami Bandimere-Shrader, granddaughter of the speedway founder, began 20 years ago has been around the track many times while expanding among area schools.
Standing on a stage decorated with cutouts of stars and a sliver of moon, student Yuna Chang sang, "You can count on me … like 1, 2, 3, I'll be there" to a group of parents and youngsters.
Yuna was among a host of students who took the stage during Evening of the Arts at Ute Meadows Elementary School on Friday evening. The Southwestern-themed event showcased an abundant variety of visual and performance arts on the chilly spring evening.
A facilities master plan unveiled at last Thursday's meeting of the Jeffco school board would require a bond issue to address capital needs among the district's aging schools.
In a presentation of the plan, Superintendent Dan McMinimee and facilities staff recommended reconfiguring grades at a number of elementary and middle schools, adjusting matriculation boundaries, and making significant renovations at schools across the district — all in a bid to address aging facilities within current budget limitations.
The Jeffco school district faces a classic economic quandary when it comes to maintaining its staff of bus drivers: high demand, low supply.
Facing pressures from increased demands on drivers' time, a booming economy that depletes the pool of qualified employees, and a school district that doesn't offer competitive wages, transportation chief Greg Jackson is working to improve one element of the equation: motivating current drivers to show up for work.
As the wind blew across the lawn of Leawood Elementary, tiny wheels started spinning. Even while in motion, it was easy to make out peace signs, hearts, stars, musical notes, rainbows and letters colored onto their vanes.
More than 400 of these bright, dazzling pinwheels had been planted on the lawn, all in the name of peace.
Leawood students celebrated International Peace Day on Wednesday, Sept. 21, by creating and sharing their pinwheels.
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Some years ago -- when my son-in-law, then in Rabbinical School, was graduating in Newport, Rhode Island from Officer Development School in the United States Navy as a newly minted Ensign -- I wrote a piece for this paper titled "The Sin of My Generation." While watching him parade proudly with his fellow graduates in his dress whites, sharply saluting his commanding officer, I was overwhelmed by a sense that I had failed the sailors and soldiers who had served during the Vietnam years by denying them the right to take pride in their service. Who was I to arrogate unto myself that privilege?
I was not, of course, alone. When I entered college in 1969, it seemed like every college campus in the country was in turmoil, thrown into crisis by relentless protests against the war in Vietnam. Even Yeshiva University, where I was studying, canceled its spring semester in 1970 as part of what was then called the Moratorium. For me and for so many of my fellow students, protesting the war was a high form of patriotism. We felt that the war was unjust, our government was corrupt (all too true, it turned out), and thousands of young men were being sent to risk their lives for a war that was not worth fighting.
I don't regret protesting the war. I felt then, and still feel, that it was a disastrous mistake, and our country is fifty thousand-plus lives poorer for it. But since his ordination and promotion to Lieutenant (junior grade) my son-in-law -- Yonatan Warren is his name, we call him Yoni -- has decided to sign on to active duty. As a result, he and my daughter Leora will be leaving shortly for a two-year posting in Okinawa, Japan. It turns out that, among the 30,000 or so American military personnel based in Okinawa at Navy, Marine and Air Force bases, there are quite a few Jews. Who knew? And those Jews have been clamoring for some time for a Jewish chaplain. Join the Navy, see the world …
And now I join the ranks of other members of my congregation who have had children serving in the American military. I, who marched in more anti-war marches and attended more rallies that I can count. I, who thought that one of the best days of my college years was standing in Bryant Park in New York with thousands of protesting college students, Peter, Paul and Mary and Gene McCarthy. I felt more passionately about that experience than I felt about any of my college courses, which so often seemed irrelevant in the context of what was going on all around me.
And now my chest swells with pride when I contemplate what Yoni is doing out of a sense of service, and honor for his country. He comes by it honestly. His father, my mechutan, was career Navy, and served two tours in Vietnam. We don't talk too much about what I did when I was in college. But what he succeeded in doing -- to his enormous credit -- was passing on to his son a sense of obligation to America that resonates with him. It resonates enough that it is taking him -- and his wife, who is slowly growing used to the idea -- around the world in order to serve his country, his fellow Jews, and any soldier who needs his assistance, regardless of religious affiliation or lack thereof, as all American military chaplains are obligated to do.
All of which leaves me more than a little amazed at what has become of the kid who gladly skipped classes in college to march against the war. Amazed, but truth to tell, gratified and proud. I realize now exactly how true what I wrote a few years ago was. Those soldiers and sailors who served our country in Vietnam deserved so much better from my fellow students and me; we did, indeed, confuse them with the war itself. How unbelievably awful it must have been for them to risk their lives and endure the horror of war, and then come home to an ungrateful country. Saying "our bad" seems hollow and empty.
A final note:
For Father's Day last spring, my son-in-law and daughter bought me a complete, totally official Navy sweat suit worn during physical training exercises. Whether there was a subliminal message there about the shape I'm in can remain a matter of conjecture. But the truth is that they bought it because I asked for it. I wanted to wear it, to publicly identify- proudly- with what they are doing.
One cold evening earlier this fall, I wore it to our Minyan. A contemporary of mine saw it and smiled, and asked me if- forty years ago or so- I could have imagined wearing it. No, I answered with a smile. But what came to mind was a line by a poet from that generation whose music informed the sixties and seventies. "Ah but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now…"
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik is the spiritual leader of the Forest Hills Jewish Center, and Vice-President of the Rabbinical Assembly.
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My husband and I have been stationed here on Okinawa for over a year and it is wonderful. As a Marine of over 20 years I can tell you not all duty stations are created equally. Picture postcard views, kind and generous locals, delicious foods of many nationalities, and an active military/civilian community await your family here. After a few minor adjustments to the culture and new home, I sure they will love it as much as we do.
The various communites of faith on Island are vibrant and I know for a fact a new chaplain will be embraced heartily.
One thing I learned all to well on this short time on earth is we never know how our lives/attitudes will change. Change is good and its how we grow (though it has made me grumpy at times and I didn't always think I NEEDED to grow). As we say, Mann tracht und Gott lacht.
Definitely agree with Mariann that that you should visit if AT ALL humanly possible. Okinawa is Japan's Hawaii and one of the most beautiful places to scuba in the world with cultural sites, castles, and things to do. Your family undoubtedly already has a sponsor to care for them and help them settle in but if they have questions about life here, how to bring their pets (if any), etc. feel free to forward my email to them. The best to you and yours from Camp Courtney, Okinawa.
Mariann- Thanks so much for your gracious and most relevant response; I'll make sure that my Navy family sees it!
Best to you and your family-
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I was certainly delighted and sincerely ENJOYED this column. A 'shiksa', raised through the '50's, '60's and early '70's in Monticello, (Borscht Belt) Sullivan County, NY, 'Jewish' is also 'in' my soul.
I married a 'broken service' Navy man, enlisted who retired as 0-4, who was in 'Nam, when I lived/grew up in the Woodstock Festival area. During our 20-year military marriage years--now divorced--we lived three years at Camp Zama, Japan, then two years in Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines--never seeing USA those five years. I WOULD NEVER CHANGE ANY OF IT!! ;0)
With four beautiful children, our now almost 37-year old daughter married an Army enlisted man, now ready for 0-5. His Army father retired--also former enlisted--as 0-5. Yes, I am still PROUD of all three men, smile and 'giggle' as I hear about the experiences they are having--or had-- throughout their travels--'criss crossing' the globe. I WOULD NEVER CHANGE ANY OF IT!! ;0) Definitely NOT BORING!! ;0)
Continue to BE PROUD and 'giggle' at your family's stories as they live and travel wherever the Navy sends them. PLEASE--Go visit if the opportunity happens.
I would also be delighted to correspond with them if you'd like to send them my email address. HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND.
Mariann Martin
Radford, VA
Good for you! Go Navy. . .


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On a Saturday night you might find yourself in a dark, smoky club, dancing until your clothes are soaking wet, but somewhere else in the world in the same moment someone is cutting down a tree in a rainforest. A red car crashes into a lamppost and a girl with curly hair falls deeply in love with a Japanese mailman.
Something Happening Somewhere.
Today signals the much anticipated launch of the new label of DJ, producer and Trouw resident Nuno Dos Santos. "The name itself leaves a lot open for your own imagination. I want to release musical material from befriended producers, new talent and my own work on Something Happening Somewhere (SoHaSo)."
SoHaSo 001 comes from the mysterious Dutch producer Love Over Entropy. Off The Grid is beautifully deep, atmospheric and hypnotic number that envelops the listener with its warm and tender touch as its swelling keys pulse in waves of increasing intensity that never meet a crescendo.
Fellow Dutch producer Versalife (aka Conforce) harnesses the power of the original, adding ambient textures and breakbeats to give Off The Grid an impressive Detroit electro vibe. The release is closed by a second Love Over Entropy original the 10 min tech workout, Groundswell. A new school hypnotic stormer that builds and builds to epic proportions.
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Festin, the Argentine horse who has earned more than $2 million by charging from last place to first, did it again yesterday when he charged through the homestretch at Belmont Park and snatched the $850000 Jockey Club Gold Cup from Chief Honcho and Strike the Gold. It was a classic performance in a classic race for the 5-year-old traveler, who seems to thrive in New York. He has raced 10 times this year, from California to Massachusetts, but he hadn't won in three starts in four months since he zoomed from last to first to win the Nassau County Handicap at Belmont in June. And with the same style and the same result on the same track, he repeated the performance in the Gold Cup. He did it exactly four weeks before the ultimate racing test of the year, the Breeders' Cup series at Churchill Downs. And for Festin and most of the other stars of the season, the road to Louisville was next. In fact, Festin was already packing. "He's leaving tomorrow for Kentucky," said Ron McAnally, who trains the horse for Burton Kinerk. "We were going to take him back to California, but all horses need time to build up their strength." Twilight Agenda Sets Pace For three-quarters of a mile yesterday, Festin shared last place with Strike the Gold, another late runner who hadn't won since he took the Kentucky Derby five months ago. Up front, the lead was held from the start by Twilight Agenda, the California speed horse flown cross-country by D. Wayne Lukas only three days before the race. He ...
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Undefeated champion Awesome Feather ran her record to 10-for-10 Thursday afternoon at Belmont Park as she came off an eight-month layoff to post a dominating 11 ¼-length victory in the $85000 Nasty Storm overnight stakes. Revving up for a planned start in the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic at Santa Anita on November 2, the slightly built filly was away from the gate alertly, and then settled in third as Daddy's Honor and All Due Respect ripped through an opening quarter-mile in 22.63 seconds, with the half going in 44.96. Given her cue by jockey Jeffrey Sanchez on the turn, Awesome Feather barreled past the pacesetters and swept into the stretch with a sizeable lead and opened up under a hand ride to hit the wire in a swift 1:33.47 for the mile. "Six weeks out from the Breeders' Cup, I think she needed a race, so I'm not at all upset about winning by that many and having a strong final time," said Chad Brown, who trains the 2010 juvenile filly champion for Frank Stronach. "I think she needed the race and we got the race we needed." The 1-5 favorite, Awesome Feather returned $2.60 for a $2 win bet as she added the Nasty Storm to her 5 ¾-length victory in January's Sunshine Millions Distaff, her only other start of 2012.
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An inside look at harness racing with Big 3 News & 3-year old philly Crown Time Doben. Owner & Trainer Marc from Ohio shows us different aspects of the horse racing business and takes us inside the stable as he grooms and trains in preparation for the big race day. Marc has competed in numerous races at county fairs and racing events across Ohio. Placing 4th, 5th, 3rd, 1st and 5th in 2012, Marc hopes to build a competitive record for future races.
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Five Sixteen turned in his final pre-Belmont Stakes breeze, turning in a 1:00.98 five-furlong move in company with stablemate Live for Today on Thursday. "It was good," said Dominick Schettino, who trains Five Sixteen for MeB Racing Stables. "He did everything we asked." Schettino added that Five Sixteen will have schooling sessions in the starting gate and paddock prior to the Belmont Stakes. The colt is 1-1-1 in six starts and enters the race off a fourth in an April 18 optional claimer at Aqueduct Racetrack.
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Our robotic overlords have their quirks--the way their heads explode when Captain Kirk confuses their logic, the fact that they've enslaved all mankind to work in their outer space diamond mines, etc.--but it's all forgotten when the robots rock out.
So we're happy that Gibson is releasing a robotic, self tuning guitar. It will be available December 7, and will allow for single touch "standard" tuning as well as allowing for six common altered tunings.
In honor of robots rocking out, TheFeed is proud to present our incomplete list of robots who rock out. It's under the jump. Feel free to add any we forgot in our comment section.
- Evil Bill and Ted from Bill and Ted 2.
- Chuck E. Cheese and his Pizzatime Players
- Country Bear Jamboree
- Herbie Handcock's "Rock it" video
- Kraftwerk
- Daft Punk
- Countless artsy "industrial" band videos from the early 90s.
- Edgar from Electric Dreams.
- Hal from 2001 singing "Bicycle Built For Two"
- Dr. Avalanche, the Sisters of Mercy's drum machine
- Robotic Lincoln from Be Be's kids
- GlaDOS from Portal's excellent closing song
- Vickie the robot from Small Wonder
- Unconfirmed reports that Johnny Five sang in one of the Short Circuit movies.


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'The Good Wife' Leaves TV Viewers Shocked And Stunned
If you haven't seen The Good Wife season 5 episode 15, don't read any further. If you have:
Shocker! It all happened because Josh Charles wanted out of the series. And as sometimes happens when an actor or actress wants to leave, the producers decide to grant the wish, with a vengeance, and have the character leave not only the series, but life on the series, completely. Last year, at the end of the season of Downton Abbey, Matthew got this treatment.
And, last night, Will Gardner got it in on The Good Wife. The character had already lost twice in the past year. First, he lost Alicia, as a lover, when she went back to Peter - even though Alicia still loved him on some deep level. Second, he lost Alicia as a partner in law, when she left the firm. Tonight, he lost a third and final time: he lost his life.
Will reacted far worse to the second than the first loss, but both vexed him and shaped his personality this year. Nonetheless, as tonight's episode clearly showed us, he was still a brilliant attorney, and the best one on the show at that.
How will the series continue without Will? It can survive the loss of the romantic tension between him and Alicia, because some of that was gone already. It can also survive the antagonism between him and Alicia about her leaving the firm, because that was getting a little tired anyway.
One positive result of Will's death is that the case against Peter, which could have ripped Alicia and Will further apart, not to mention what it could have done to Peter, will have no longer have Will as a possible witness, which was the best and likely only real shot the integrity guy had of nabbing Peter. So that's to the good.
But the series will lose one of the best attorneys ever to plan a strategy and argue in a courtroom in television drama. Will Gardner is right up there with Perry Mason and Petrocelli - Victor Sifuentes and Bobby Donnell, too.
And since one of the most enjoyable and riveting parts of The Good Wife has always been the law, the superb series will be weaker for that.
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First Step to Success: An Early Intervention Approach for Preventing School Antisocial Behavior.
Walker, Hill M.; Kavanagh, Kate; Stiller, Bruce; Golly, Annemieke; Severson, Herbert H.; Feil, Edward G.
Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, v6 n2 p66-80 Sum 1998
Reports results of a four-year study involving 46 at-risk kindergartners that was designed to develop and evaluate a combined home and school intervention approach to preventing school antisocial behavior. Results indicated a measurable intervention effect for participants and persistence of gains into the primary grades. (Author/CR)
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Executive Summary
An estimated 161 RSVP volunteers will serve. They will visit homebound seniors, including veterans, for companionship and support services, assist and support individuals and families at food pantry and distribution sites including the distribution of information on healthy eating and physical activity, provide assistance at immunization clinics, and provide facilitation at two evidence based programs including the Chronic Disease Self Management Program and a childhood obesity prevention program called the CATCH Kids Club. A network of more than twenty placement sites such as food pantries, church and faith based groups, local health departments, hospitals, health clinics, organizations serving the elderly and veterans and organizations serving youth will participate as RSVP stations. Examples include Mature Service, Inc., Area Agency on Aging, Good Neighbors, Veteran's Service Commission, Second Baptist Church Food Pantry, Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority, and Medina County Health Department. The primary focus area of this project is Healthy Futures. At the end of the three-year performance period, 25 volunteers will have provided services to more than 1,250 individuals who will have reported an increase in food security along with better knowledge of good nutrition in their household and 35 volunteers will have provided companionship support and services including meal delivery to 35 homebound older adults including veterans. Thirty five homebound individuals will report on their perceptions of increased social support.
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Is it worth doing?
Looks like a good way to spend a weekend with a bivvy bag
Is it worth doing?
Looks like a good way to spend a weekend with a bivvy bag
The whole Chilterns is pretty nice, loads of nice Bivvy spots in the woods and lots of pubs to refuel in
Wahey! That goes past where I live!
Never done it as it's mostly road, but (as trimix) it goes through some fantastic riding areas. The western end is better IMO.
I did the northern loop of it last weekend. It took in roads that I mostly knew, but they were well chosen. One of the off-road bits would be comical on a road bike in winter :). Quite tempted by the whole loop.
Be warned - half the sign posts appear to be pointing in the wrong direction though
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Sure Foundations
There are many ways that scholars and theologians have argued for the existence of God, but when we examine the world around us, perhaps the most conclusive argument grows from the reality of the intricacy of our universe. The argument we are about to study should give you sure footing in your faith. It should remind you that your faith is not built on emotion or blind commitment, but on the sure footing of reason and evidence. When we love God with all our minds, we honor and worship Him. Our faith is not an empty hope. It is a certain and sure reality from which hope abounds. In our last argument (the Cosmological Argument), we talked about the ridiculous and weak defenses that many of us have given when challenged to defend our faith in the existence of God. We often resort to trite sayings and clichés. One of them we discussed was this simple argument form the natural evidence:
The"Nature is Pretty' Argument
- Check out that tree. Isn't it pretty?
- Therefore, God exists.
Now that may sound like a silly argument on its face, but when we examine it closely, it really isn't all that crazy. When we look at the universe in its incredible glory and think about the order and structure that exists across the galaxies, we can't help but be astonished and amazed. The laws of physics, the incredible complexity and the enormity of distance, should leave us in awe and urge us to consider the possibility that a vast and powerful God must be responsible for something so marvelous. And as we look inwardly and examine the detailed complexity of the human specimen, we've got to be honest and recognize that there is more than a small possibility that an incredibly creative and powerful God is once again at work.
The Teleological Argument
As we look at the shape and nature of the universe and of all the biological life that exists here on earth, we have to come to grips with the powerful argument from the apparent design of all that we see. This argument for the presence of God is called the "teleological argument". The Greek word, "telos" means "design" and the argument was first developed by William Paley (1743 – 1805), who observed that the intricacy and detailed nature of a watch, certainly beg for the existence of a 'watch maker'. And if this reality (that the presence of intelligent design, calls for the presence of an intelligent designer), then we've got to examine the reality of an almighty designer as we try to explain the nature of the universe and all creation. The long, formal version of the argument goes something like this:
- Human Artifacts (like watches) Are Products of Intelligent Design
- Our Universe and World Resemble Human Artifacts
- Therefore, the Universe Is the Product of Intelligent Design
- But the Universe is Complex and Giant in Comparison to Human Artifacts
- Therefore, There is a Powerful and Vastly Intelligent Designer Who Created the Universe
That's a lot to think about, so the argument is often restated in a number of ways to help make it more understandable. Another way to phrase the argument may go something like this:
- Our Intelligent and Ordered Universe Demonstrates Qualities of Intelligent Design
- Therefore, There Must Be An Intelligent Designer Who Designed the Universe
- The Designer Who Exists is God
It all comes down to this: if statement (1) is correct, then statement (3) must necessarily follow. If the universe demonstrates qualities of intelligent design, then there must be an intelligent designer. And this all-powerful being would simply have to be God. So if the first proposition turns out to be true, the case is closed and we can have confidence related to the existence of God. So let's take a look and see if the universe and our world demonstrate the characteristics of Intelligent Design. Now it seems to me that there are only two possibilities here. Either everything that we see and know has evolved on its own, or there is a designer God who has designed it all. On the one hand, everything has to either come from simple, random and accidental processes of evolution, or from the intricately complex, specific and intelligent processes of an all powerful, intelligent cosmic designer. So which is it?
Simple or Complex?
Well, let's begin by examining the evidence to see which universe really exists. Is it the simply random, accidental universe of evolution, or the complex, specific, intelligent universe of design? Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) really changed our world in 1859 when he wrote the famous book, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". He proposed that variations occur randomly within a species, and the ability to survive will depend on the species ability to adapt to its surroundings. In essence, Darwin believed that this process of natural selection (small changes to the pressures of the environment over long periods of time) accounted for the slow evolution of everything in our world, as all life progressed from simple cells to the life forms we see today.
This idea is founded on an assumption. Darwin assumed that there WAS such a thing as a simple cell. He looked through the primitive microscope of his day and observed what appeared to be a little blob of protoplasm. Looking at this, it wasn't hard to imagine that this little blob could evolve from a small assemblage of amino acids!
The Huge Assumption
See Darwin made a huge assumption, and everything that he proposed after this assumption was dependent on the hope and presence that such a simple, uncomplicated and basic entity could really exist. And Darwin was comfortable with the idea that as things get smaller, they actually get LESS complicated. He assumed this simplicity as he developed his theories of natural selection which later formed the foundation for the modern world view of evolution. Darwin believed that there existed a primordial lake with all the basic ingredients for life. This lake full of matter was energized in such a way that small changes occurred in the relationships between the elements of matter and the changes became more and more complex over time, resulting eventually in the formation of simple single cell organisms that eventually became the life we see today.
But in the many years since Darwin, our ability to look closely at the cell has grown to the point that we now know that there is NO such thing as a simple cell. In fact, as we examine cells, we realized that their complexity is incredible, and their world is incredibly small. Our modern microscopes reveal that a single thimble filled with cultured liquid can contain over 4 BILLION single cell bacteria. Each of these are like tiny machines, packed with information and complexity that Darwin could never have imagined. We now know that the simplest of cells is actually made of amino acids (the basic building blocks of life) that in turn are assembled into proteins which form the basis of all matter in the cell. It all begins with the formation of these acids and proteins. If this is a simple process of transformation and construction, then Darwin may, in fact, be right. But if it is not simple, Darwin's theory stumbles before it can ever start walking.
Amino Acids and Proteins
Darwin has to be able to explain how these truly simple amino acid chemicals, floating around in that primordial soup, can come together to form the proteins needed for building the cell. Because Proteins are actually a complex assembly of amino acids, put together in a very specific order and manner, just like a jigsaw puzzle. Each protein is shaped in a different way. While there are hundreds of thousands of proteins found in nature, they are all made up of only 20 amino acids. Each protein is a unique assemblage of some or all of these amino acids, carefully united in such a way as to form the specific shape of the particular protein. If Darwin were here today, he would have the challenge of explaining how the individual amino acids came together in just the most basic way to form the first protein. We now know that the amino acids have to come together in a specific way, like writing a sentence with letters, to form the protein. There are at least 30,000 different types of proteins that are constructed from the same 20 amino acids, just as we can make thousands of words from the 26 letters of our alphabet. If our letters are not sequenced correctly, we don't get understandable words that we can read. In a similar way, if the amino acids are not arranged correctly, they don't form functional proteins!
Now the odds of these acids coming to gather in a meaningful a specific way like this are extremely remote. It's about he equivalent of being able to randomly drop scrabble pieces and form a meaningful sentence. Imagine trying to do this. Imagine trying to throw up a handful of Scrabble pieces and hope to form just a single sentence from one of Shakespeare's plays, "to be or not to be, that is the question". What are the odds of you being able to accomplish that? If you calculate the odds mathematically, you'll discover that you have one chance in one thousand, eight hundred and ten trillion octillion. That is an incredibly small chance! Let's take a look at a simple protein, made up of say, just one hundred amino acids. The very simplest of proteins are made of this small number of acids. What are the odds of this kind of protein coming together by chance? Remember that the amino acids have to come together in just the right order or they will not adhere and become a protein! The odds of this kind of simple protein forming spontaneously by chance are less than one chance in 10 to the 65th power (that's a 1 with 65 zeros behind it)! To put this in real terms, the odds here are similar to the odds of finding the winning ticket for the state lottery lying in the street, and then finding another one on the very next day, and continuing to find a new ticket lying on the street on consecutive days for a thousand years!! Not very likely…
But calculating odds doesn't have much value for us unless we can translate that calculation into time. And if we do that, we quickly discover that there is not enough time in the history of the universe to form even a single protein! For this simple 100 amino acid protein to form, we've got to translate the odds into time. Scientists have estimated that on a planet covered with the waters of the "primordial soup" and filled with complete sets of all 20 types of amino acids, the time necessary to assemble a simple functioning protein would be roughly equivalent to their estimated age of the universe, 15 billion years multiplied by 10 to the 60th power. In essence, there simply isn't enough time in the history of the universe to form a single protein by chance. See, it's not really as simple as Darwin first assumed. He was operating under the premise that the smallest elements of our environment had the smallest number of parts and processes. Of course, as we are better able to understand the microscopic, we recognize the incredible complexity of the miniature universe. Darwin was wrong from the outset.
God Knew About the Invisible Complexity
God has been trying to tell us that there is an entire universe at this microscopic level. Even before Darwin began his work, God was trying to tell us that he alone was responsible for the large things we observe in our environment, and the tiny invisible things that we cannot see:
Hebrews 11:3
"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."
Random or Specific?
Clearly, on the issue of simplicity or complexity, the evidence leans toward a complex universe! Now let's take a look at the next required element in the argument for evolution. Is the assembly of the smallest matter random or is it specifically ordered and organized in a specially required way? If random chance is not an adequate explanation of the creation of simple proteins, it is certainly not able to explain the existence of the smallest cells! Take, for example the simplest amoeba cell, made up of about 2000 proteins. The odds of this kind of organism arising randomly is one chance in 10 to the 40,000th power! The odds of snatching a single specific atom out of the entire universe is only 1 in 10 to the 80th power, imagine then, how impossible it would be to form the amoeba! When Sir Fred Hoyle realized this fact, he said that the odds of random assembly are "enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence." (Nature, Vol. 294, November 12, 1981)
To make matters worse, scientists have discovered that the great variety of cells in nature are very specific in their job description. They exist like members of a community, each doing a specific job for the benefit of the larger organism! As they look closely at these tiniest of cells, they realize that they have the ability to move in specific ways and accomplish certain specific functions. In fact, the more you look at the nature of cells and their role within the organism, the more you recognize their similarities with the mechanized world. These tiny cells look more and more like machines!
The Amazing Bacterium
To illustrate this observation, let's take a look at a specific single cell bacterium and examine something amazing. These bacteria have the ability to move rapidly and change direction! They are clearly very active when examined under the microscope. How do they do it? How do they move around like they do? Well, if you look very closely, you'll see that they are powered by a small 'tail' (for lack of a better word)! The bacteria use these tails (known as 'flagellum') to 'power' themselves around their environment. The flagellum spins and whips around at the rate of 200 to 1000 rpms, just like a motor propeller! These flagellum tails can change direction and tilt to speed up or decelerate the bacteria and change their direction.
The Bacteria Flagellum
Only in the very recent past have we been able to examine the flagellum under a microscope that is able to magnify the image 50,000 times. And you won't believe what we found! The flagellum IS actually a small motor, just like other motors that are designed by humans! When we look at the flagellum under magnification, we see a specific assembly of specialized parts that have been assembled in a specific way to form a motor that is then used to propel the bacterium! Now this flagellum is constructed from 40 individual parts. These parts are assembled in a meaningful way and the flagellum CANNOT function unless all the parts are present at the same time!
The Rules of Natural Selection
But the question of course is, how did these flagellum mechanisms come into being? If we are to believe they came into being as a result of natural selection, then we are going to have to explain a few things! See, natural selection argues that small changes occur over time. The first part of the motor appears in the bacterium, then thousands of years later, another part appears, then when all the parts appear, they come together to form the flagellum. But the laws of natural selection would actually work AGAINST this possibility, because Darwin argued that organisms only KEEP elements that BENEFIT the organism. Useless pieces are discarded and are NOT passed down to the next generation of the organism. So as these parts of the flagellum motor slowly appeared in the bacterium, they would have no function on their own and would have been selected OUT and eliminated if natural selection is to be believed. 30 of these parts are unique to the flagellum and don't exist in any other capacity in the bacterium. They only exist to assemble the motor, and they have to come together in a specific way and a specific order!
Just like a house that is assembled from a set of blueprints, the flagellum motor has to be assembled in a specific order, from a specific set of instructions. You can't lay the foundation for a house AFTER you've put on the roof, and there is also a specific order for the assembly of the flagellum! Let's imagine for a minute that the tail of the flagellum first appears on the bacterium, but it shows up without all the other necessary interdependent parts of the motor. Without all 40 pieces appearing at the same time, the tail has no effective function and the bacterium just sits there, unable to move. If natural selection is correct, we wouldn't have the bacterium to look at today, because the tail would have been eliminated over time as an unnecessary element of the bacterium. No tail, no movement, no bacterium! If Darwin is right, no assembly of parts can take place over time unless each little piece of the assembly benefits the organism, but in this example of the flagellum, all 40 pieces must appear together and assembled to benefit the bacterium!
Irreducible Complexity
It's very similar to a mouse trap in which all the pieces must exist in the assembled form in order to function. Any one of the pieces on its own (the board or the pin or the spring or the wire hammer) are useless unless they work in harmony with the other pieces. There is a function MINIUMUM requirement here. You cannot reduce the mousetrap beyond a certain point. There is a minimum number of pieces that must be assembled to make the trap work. It must be at least this complex to function at all. This level of reduction is called "irreducible complexity". It is the minimum point beyond which the machine cannot function! Now think again about the flagellum. It too has a minimum level. It has an irreducible complexity. It requires all 40 parts to appear at the same time, assembled in a specific way in order to work! But if this is true, then it defies the teaching of natural selection even as it was recognized by Darwin. He agreed that if there were organisms with this type of irreducible complexity, his theory was faulty:
Charles Darwin
"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive slight modifications, my theory would break down."
Well the bacterium flagellum is just one of thousands of irreducible structures that break down the theory of natural selection. If Darwin was alive today, he would not be able to support the theory of natural selection!
The Irreducible Complexity of a Protein
Now let's take a look again at the simple protein and see how it is assembled out of amino acids. These acids have to come together in a specific way and if they do, then they begin to fold up onto themselves to form the specific shapes and clusters that we call proteins. But ask yourself the question: how do these amino acids know how to join to each other? Is there a natural attraction between the acids that acts like magnets coming together? No, it's not a matter of natural attraction like magnets at all! When scientists discovered DNA, they unlocked a powerful secret within the cell. They realized that the acids come together in response to INFROMATION and DIRECTION from the DNA molecule which exists alongside the acids and proteins! The DNA directs the assembly of the acids and provides a blueprint for the operation! And DNA is the most densely packed molecule in the known universe. It is a highly complex, highly ordered and extremely large assembly of information containing more data than the largest human library and posing a far greater problem for evolutionists to explain that the most complicated proteins!
DNA poses a dilemma. Proteins cannot form without the DNA information and direction. But DNA is highly complex, ordered and informational. Where does it come from? As it turns out, the DNA molecule is filled with specific information that directs the assembly of the overall organism. And it is required for the protein to exist. The 'irreducible complexity' of the protein is not just a number of simple amino acid chemicals. The 'irreducible complexity' of the protein also includes the most complex known molecule in the universe: the DNA molecule. 'Irreducible complexity' of the protein demonstrates that the random forces of nature cannot explain the origin of life.
God Already Told Us
God has also been trying to tell us this from the very beginning. He tells us in scripture that the irreducible complexity of our human body is a model for the church as a whole, and by saying this, He explains the interdependence of the human organism. In essence, he explains the very reason why natural selection could never account for His creation:
1 Corinthians 12:25-26
The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don't, the parts we see and the parts we don't.
Accidental or Intelligent
Now let's look at the last piece of the puzzle. It's clear that our world is not a simple or random assembly of evolve 'parts' but is actually a complex and specifically ordered environment. But let's finish by looking at the evidence to see if all of this is the product of accident or intelligence. When we look out at the world we clearly recognize when we are seeing something that has been designed by mankind. We recognize the handiwork of men when we see it. And we look at the ancient artifacts of mankind and immediately recognize that the pyramids, the ancient goddess statues, the hieroglyphic carvings; none of these things could come about as the result of natural processes. We look at them and we recognize that they are the product of intelligent design!
Why do we recognize these things as intelligent design? Well a lot of thinking has been done about this process of identifying design when we see it in our environment, and there is a simple test to apply to the things we see in our world to determine whether or not they have been designed.
Is it probable that the object could have occurred by accident?
Is it likely that the final shape of the object or organism could come about accidentally if given enough time?
Is the structure of the object 'specific'?
Is it possible to recognize a similarity with other existing patterns?
Two Examples
Let's look at an example for a minute. Let's say that you walk on the beach and come across a beautiful arrangement on the sand. The ocean waves have gently pushed the sand into a variety of ripples and shapes. You might think that it is beautiful to look at, but you probably would not think that someone came along and purposefully designed and shaped the sand. If, on the other hand, you were walking on the beach and encountered a large heart drawn on the sand with the words, "John Loves Mary", you wouldn't for a minute believe that this occurred naturally. You would say that someone came along and wrote the words in the sand. You would say that the words and shapes are the result of intelligent design. Why? First, you would recognize the fact that there is virtually no probability that the writing could occur as the product of natural forces. The odds are just overwhelmingly against it. Second, you would recognize that the shapes and letters match patterns that are found in other designed objects. You would see letters and shapes that you recognize from the past and from the world of designed fonts! You would conclude that the writing is the result of intelligent design.
Chance vs. Design
Imagine that you were looking at a beautiful mountain of rock. The shapes and forms are striking and the crack and crevices are immense. You could probably conclude that the forms and shapes are the product of natural forces and this is certainly reasonable. But if you were to look up at the mountain and see the faces of presidents embedded there (as in Mount Rushmore) you would have to question the possibility that natural forces could account for them. You again would conclude that the faces are the product of intelligent design! Why? Once again, you would first recognize the fact that it is highly improbable that the faces could occur by accident or as the result of some random natural process! And secondly, you would recognize that the shapes match existing patterns that are contrary to the natural formation of the rock. In this case the shapes match the designed portraits of these dead presidents!!! You would, therefore, conclude that they are the result of intelligent design.
Back to the Bacterium
Now let's look once again at the flagellum motor. We've already discussed the improbability issues of 'irreducible complexity'. It is more than unlikely that the assembly could come together as a matter of time and probability. But let's look at the mechanism. Do we recognize patterns that exist in other designed objects? The flagellum bears a striking resemblance to other designed motors! If we came upon an outboard boat motor sitting in the wilderness, we would know with certainty that it is the product of intelligent design, and the flagellum is no different. It displays all the same design factors that are present in the outboard motor. It too is the obvious result of intelligent design. And as we look at the entire cell, with all of its ordered and specific machinery, and observe the way in which these cellular machines operate with each other, we recognize that it is impossible for these elements to come together as the result of time and chance, and we also recognize the patterns of specificity. We recognize the fact that the cell is the product of intelligent design
God is the Intelligent Designer
God told us from the very beginning that he was the source of all the order and design that we observe in the universe. He is the majestic and powerful designer who put everything in its proper place:
Isaiah 45:18
For the LORD is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos.
Take a Final Look
So, let's take a final look. Is our world simple or complex? Is it random or specific? Is it accidental or intelligent? Is it the result of natural random forces or an all-powerful, creative and intelligent designer? The evidence speaks for itself. But what implications does a designed universe and the presence of an intelligent designer have for us as humans? If there is an intelligent designer responsible for all that we see, we are going to have to recognize that we are the creation of that designer, created in love and created for a purpose. God knows us personally and has a plan for our lives:
Psalm 139:13-14, 16
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made… All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
The information on this webpage is a simple consolidation of the work of some great Christian thinkers, philosophers and scientists! If you really want to hit the information from a higher level, please visit the work of Michael Behe (especially related to Intelligent Design and Irreducible Complexity) at his website HERE!


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Fabio VS Mustafa. 9 A.M. Internets. Be There. When Fabio replaced Isaiah Mustafa as the face, chest and abs of Old Spice in the wake of the wildly successful The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Campaign, some where underwhelmed and some suspected that the casting choice was some sort of temporary stunt from agency Wieden + Kennedy. It looks like the latter. In a new installment of the campaign, Fabio has issued a challenge to Mustafa, whom honor compels to show up at the Internet at 9 a.m. PST tomorrow. —TI
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AT&T Confirms iPhone 5 Dates. By mandating its staff complete any internal training as soon as possible, and have staff on readiness for early to mid September, AT&T has all but confirmed that this is the launch window for Apple's iPhone 5. —KE
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RIM Ditches Over 1 In 10 Staff. Beleaguered smartphone maker RIM has just revealed exactly how sticky a spot it's in: It's dumping 2,000 employees across its entire workforce, starting in the coming week or so, representing about 11% of its workforce. It's also reshuffling its senior executive team to try to inject some life into the company's corporate plans. —KE
Gawker Gets Serious. Gawker is going to court to secure some documents, in an investigation of the goings-on between Fox News' chairman Roger Ailes, and New Jersey's Gov. Chris Christie. The court proceedings, due today, will use the Freedom of Information act to unveil what Gawker suspects is meddling in politics by a supposedly "neutral" news agency. It represents the first time Gawker's filed a suit like this...approaching serious news-media journalistic investigation. —KE
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Norway Alledged Killer's YouTube Clip. A clip that seems to contain video of Norways's alleged mass-murderer Anders Breivik has been unearthed on YouTube. Called "Knights Templar 2083" it chimes with the title of Breivik's bizarre manifesto and shows him wearing a wetsuit and pointing an automatic weapon. In hindsight, these are clues that predict the massacre last week, but among the trillions of pieces of data added to the Net every day, it would be almost impossible to have detected this. —KE
Amy Winehouse Death Vid Scams. Malicious coders now seem poised to maximize the income potential of almost any news item: There's a growing scam on Facebook that purports to be a clip of Amy Winehouse "on crack" mere hours before her death. The link is pretty mild, merely taking you to a survey that pays the scammers mere pennies if you're daft enough to fill it in, but it's another reminder not to blindly click on Net links from questionable sources. —KE
—Updated 7:00 a.m. EST
Airbnb Closes Big Funding Round. Apartment short-term sharing app Airbnb is making big strides in defining its whole market sector, and now it's also landed $112 million in cash during a Series B funding round. The cash is coming largely from Andreessen Horowitz, and it should allow Airbnb to radically improve its business—the first funding round was shy of $8 million. After this investment, the firm may have a value of around $1.3 billion. —KE
Judge Slaps Oracle's Google Suit. Oracle had been pursuing Google for $2.6 billion in damages for illegal use of its licensed IP, but a judge has now seriously gutted Oracle's case, and recommends a starting point of just $100 million. It's not all good news for Google—he also slammed its "brazen disregard" of IP rights, which may have important implications when the full trial happens in October. —KE
Google+'s Real Names Fiasco. Shortly after Google got mired in controversy over its slapdash treatment of brands on Google+, the firm is now in an even more complex mess over its aggressive take-downs of what it deems to be fake names. Pseudonyms aren't allowed as Google+ names, but Google has been displaying over-zealousness and perhaps a misunderstanding of different naming conventions around the world and shuttering names that belong to citizens who legally have a right to their "weird" titles. In some cases, it's resulted in deletion of complete Google email and photo accounts. —KE
China Shuts Fake Apple Stores. A media splash happened last week when a completely fake Apple store was discovered in Kunming province in China—complete with faux uniforms, and staff that apparently believed they worked for Apple. In the light of the international attention, Chinese authorities have investigated five Apple-esque stores in Kunming city, and have closed two which were lacking business licenses. The fate of the remaining stores will depend if they have Apple approved reseller status, and whether the authorities deem they are violating Apple IP. —KE
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After months of rehearsals, trying to learn characters, and set building, 10 actors and two student directors presented the Perrysburg High School Theatre's fall play Rumors.
With shows Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the play kept audiences laughing. Drama teacher Rob Gentry said they weren't trying to make a statement, but entertain people.
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Rumors is a comedy where four couples come together for a dinner party but one of the hosts gets shot in the ear and the rest of the play they try to figure out who did it. Mr. Gentry said it was a good play for students because it had an even number of boys and girls cast.
The cast included Abby Newman, Kevin Korcyk, Madeline Parks, Noah Tye, Kyra Marks, Connor Leupp, Sara Miller, Connor Treece, Joseph Ball, and Jake Knight. The the two student directors were Colby Buzzell and Henry Newberg.
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King Juan Carlos on Tuesday here promoted Spanish business activities in Morocco, a country he said is a "very valuable example of openness and stability" thanks to the reforms undertaken by its monarch, Mohammed VI.
Juan Carlos inaugurated the Spain-Morocco business forum on the second day of his official visit to the North African nation after earlier in the day placing a floral offering at the mausoleum of the former monarch, Mohammed V, along with the five Spanish cabinet ministers who are accompanying him to Rabat.
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By Rick Wilson - Published September 16, 2008 - Viewed 3772 times
Just a quick update after today's events,
The surveyors have fanned out today to do some recon…
Here are some brief summaries –
Freeport (south of Galveston Island) - there are some boats damaged and some moderate salvage issues in the area. It appears that this area did not get much surge and the winds were mostly offshore and the landside damage is not too bad.
Galveston Island - Still unable to access.
Clear Lake area (Kemah, Seabrook etc) the damages here are pretty bad, but as reported yesterday some marinas totally destroyed other mostly dock rash, sails and canvas damage.
La Porte (Houston Yacht Club- As reported it is destroyed. The surveyors met several insureds who had not yet reported their claims and had them call in using their (the surveyors) cell phones.
Baytown - Bayland Park Marina is destroyed. Floating docks floated off the piling and are piled with the boats by the highway.
Montgomery (Lake Conroe) - The damages here seem pretty minor. The marina that we have received claims from is Walden marina and reports that the marina has survived well, there is some canvas and dock rash type of claims but seems to be pretty minor.
Claims are still coming in but the pace is slower than I have expected. (I think a lot of people still have not come back into the area).
I am considering bringing in a few damage appraisal writers sooner rather than later.
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By Mike Linn
Portales police and Municipal Court Judge Fred Arnold may not have the greatest working relationship, but the tension may be beginning to thin.
After not filing any citations in municipal court for roughly six months after officers were slapped with contempt of court charges, police are once again filing penalty assessment citations there, police and court officials say.
However, police say they still don't feel comfortable enough to file criminal charges that involve officers showing up to court — at least not yet.
"Like anything else, once you spend some time working things out the more issues get resolved as you go on," Portales Police Capt. Lonnie Berry said. "If we continue having a very good working resolve, I can see it coming to light more in the future."
Arnold was out of town Saturday afternoon and could not be reached for comment.
Police officials' wariness to file in municipal court began after Arnold filed contempt of court charges against three officers for missing court dates almost a year ago. A district judge threw out one of those charges on June 3 and Arnold dropped the remaining two on June 21.
Shortly thereafter, Portales police began once again filing penalty assessments in municipal court, citations which safeguard police officers from contempt of court charges because court appearances are not necessary.
In July, police filed 154 penalty assessments in municipal court, and court officials said they've seen a rise in workload since Arnold dropped the contempt of court charges against officers.
The first five months of the year police filed few if any citations — penalty assessment or otherwise — in municipal court, opting instead to file all traffic citations and court cases in magistrate court. The magistrate court is typically used by county and state law enforcement agencies.
Municipal Court Clerk Michele Mitchell said she has noticed the rise in penalty assessment citations. But she said police have not been filing public nuisance, driving under the influence or minor in possession charges in municipal court.
Before the feud began police filed nearly all cases in municipal court, police officials said.
Since Arnold dropped the charges, police have filed shoplifting charges in municipal court only two or three times, Mitchell said.
At a Portales city council meeting last spring, Arnold requested a public meeting with no mediator to attempt to resolve issues with the Portales police.
But that meeting has yet to take place, and Berry said there has been no mediation since Arnold dropped the charges.


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Found our HFS DJs in the crowd
Ever 6 Meet and Greet
Eve 6 at the Mackr tent
Eve 6 meeting with fans
Eve 6 signing autographs
The crowd for Ballyhoo!
Eve 6 signing an HFS t-shirt!
Eve 6 hanging out at the Mackr tent
Gina Crash is always excited
Eve 6 and Mackr!
We were talking to excited fans all day long
Gina Crash and Josie on air
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Dance Tent!
Our very own Alli with the Oriole bird!
Charm City Music Fest
Interviewing some HFS fans
Peace man...
Our HFS team interviewing some BRIGHT fans
Ever 6 on the Monster Stage!
The crowd for Eve 6
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The crowd was excited for Eve 6!
Eve 6 on the Monster Stage!
Interviewing fans about Charm City Music Festival
Todd and Stefon talking to fans about HFS
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Eve 6
Flogging Molly signing posters for fans
Flogging Molly
Signed posters from the Flogging Molly Meet and Greet
The mob kept growing outside the Mackr tent...
Stephen Marley
Nap time
Fans starting to get ready for the All Mighty Senators
Charm City welcomes Stephen Marley
Lean on me...
Charm City Music Festival jams with Stephen Marley
Josie and Spam on air
We saw some girls on stilts!
Charm City Music Festival
When a case of beer falls off the wagon...
Sunset at the festival
Spam and Gina talking to the fans
This guy is ready for Weezer
Gina Crash and a longtime fan
Dance tent is still going...
Charm City Music Fest 130
Free Beer!
Ballyhoo! joins us for a live HFS broadcast
The crowd for Flogging Molly
Fireworks during the National Anthem
Flogging Molly got the crowd dancing
Yes, those are feet...
Fire eater!
Flogging Molly takes the stage!
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Flogging Molly at Charm City Music Festival
Flogging Molly at Charm City Music Fest
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