Big Education Ape: Joy Resmovits: Obama's Inaugural Education ...

So There Was An Inauguration...?As you might have heard, this weekend, President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term. And at the inauguration, he gave a speech. The Washington Post's Valerie Straussteased out?O's references to education. (Hint: There weren't many. For the most part, Obama lumped in education with other domestic policy issues in need of reform). More?here?from Politics K-12.

Test Prep Fail??Much ink has been spilled about the dominance of testing -- specifically standardized testing -- in modern-day education policy, but the boom isn't big enough to continue greasing the entire test-prep industry, apparently. At least, not enough to make up for its legal costs? Education Holdings, the company formerly known as Princeton Review, has filed for bankruptcy, reports?Bloomberg.?"The U.S. Justice Department on Dec. 20 announced the settlement of a suit filed against the company in May in Manhattan federal court," Bloomberg writes. "The U.S. claimed that Princeton Review received tens of millions of dollars in federal funds for tutoring?

Source: http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2013/01/joy-resmovits-obamas-inaugural.html

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imranijins: Of Home and Farm: Family Fun

...because it is always fun when our whole family is together! There's always something to do, things to laugh at, good food to eat, places to go, games to play and always late nights which equal get-up-when-you-feel-like-it mornings which are nice during christmas vacation. And if I had been on top of things I would have posted all these pictures already but I decided if I post once a week--that's good, because it is time consuming and I hate spending tons of time on this thing!

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?Jesse Bear, What will you wear? (A FIAR favorite of ours)

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?Playing a six hour game of Risk which was WAAAYYY too long!

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?(We decided to play the shortened version which shortened it up about 5 1/2 hours. *grin*)

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?Wedding planning!

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?With all of Aunt Jo's dolls and Uncle Nathan's farm toys Mary was all set. It looks like she's cleaning out the barn here. :)

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?The Sat. after Christmas our whole family was able to go to Aunt Sue's house and see all the aunts, uncles and cousins. Aunt Sue had alot of fun toys for Mary.

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?Playing dutch-blitz with some of the cousins

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?Back home again, after a marvelous snowfall we decided to play fox and geese with David and Ro.

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?It was very entertaining.

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?So Ro made us frogmore for dinner one evening......

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?Boil everything together in a big pot and dump it out on the table.

You know, kind of like feeding cattle at the trough. ;)

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?Carrots, marinated chicken, potatoes, peppers, onions, shrimp, smokies and probably more that I'm forgetting.

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?Spoon some cheese sauce or barbecue sauce or ketchup or ranch down on the table to dip the stuff in.

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?Its absolutely awesome! Don't mind the shrimp tails in the distance.

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?A David and Rhoda tournament!

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?She looks determined!

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?Playing a hilarious family game of pass-the-pillow

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Nathan LOVES it when the older boys come home. He crawls all over them and in return he gets tickled and tormented but he loves it!??

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'Microbeads' May Boost Survival in Advanced Colon Cancer Patients

By Maureen Salamon
HealthDay Reporter

SATURDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) ? For advanced colon cancer patients who have developed liver tumors, so-called ?radioactive beads? implanted near these tumors may extend survival nearly a year longer than among patients on chemotherapy alone, a small new study finds.

The same study, however, found that a drug commonly taken in the months before the procedure does not increase this survival benefit.

The research, from Beaumont Hospitals in Michigan, helps advance the understanding of how various treatment combinations for colorectal cancer ? the third most common cancer in American men and women ? affect how well each individual treatment works, experts said.

?I definitely think there?s a lot of room for studying the associations between different types of treatments,? said study author Dr. Dmitry Goldin, a radiology resident at Beaumont. ?There are constantly new treatments, but they come out so fast that we don?t always know the consequences or complications of the associations. We need to study the sequence, or order, of treatments.?

The study is scheduled to be presented Saturday at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy in Miami Beach, Fla. Research presented at scientific conferences has not been peer-reviewed or published and should be considered preliminary.

Goldin and his colleagues reviewed medical records from 39 patients with advanced colon cancer who underwent a procedure known as yttrium-90 microsphere radioembolization. This nonsurgical treatment, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, implants tiny radioactive beads near inoperable liver tumors.

Thirty of the patients were pretreated with the drug Avastin (bevacizumab) in periods ranging from less than three months to more than nine months before the radioactive beads were placed.

The liver is a common site for the spread of colorectal cancer, which, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is diagnosed in about 137,000 Americans and kills about 52,000 each year. Many of the liver tumors are inoperable, leaving doctors fewer choices to help prolong patients? lives.

Avastin is commonly prescribed for colon cancer that has spread (?metastatic? cancer) because the drug hinders the growth of new blood vessels that feed tumors.

With the yttrium-90 procedure, which has been in use at major U.S. medical centers for more than a decade, a catheter is inserted into a small incision near the groin and threaded through arteries until it reaches the hepatic artery in the liver, where millions of microbeads are released near tumor sites. These beads emit high-dose radiation directly to cancerous cells, sparing damage to healthy cells.

Goldin?s team found that 40 percent of the 17 patients with shorter intervals ? less than three months ? since their last Avastin dose before receiving the microbeads needed their microbead infusion stopped early due to slow blood flow near the tumors, a much higher number than patients whose last Avastin dose was further in the past. This was expected, Goldin said, because the main effect of Avastin is to cut tumors? blood supply.

Additionally, treatment with Avastin didn?t increase the survival benefit of the microbeads, which added 10 to 12 months to patients? life spans compared to chemotherapy alone, Goldin said ? a survival of 34.5 months after the diagnosis of metastatic colon cancer, compared with 24 months.

?If you look at those [survival] numbers, there?s a promising benefit? to using microbead radiation, he said. But the cost of both treatments is high ? in the tens of thousands of dollars per patient, he noted.

Dr. Felice Schnoll-Sussman, a gastroenterologist and director of research at the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, said the study won?t change her clinical approach to treating metastatic colon cancer. But ?it?s important for us to try to tease through the different treatment recommendations and understand how one treatment affects another,? she said.

?Maybe it helps you understand timing, which is never a terrible thing,? she added. ?This is the art of treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer ? it?s in the tweaking of the treatments.?

More information

The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about metastatic cancer.

Source: http://news.health.com/2013/01/19/microbeads-may-boost-survival-in-advanced-colon-cancer-patients/

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Alloa V East Fife At Recreation Park : Match Preview - Sport.co.uk

Alloa V East Fife - view commentary, squad, and statistics of the game live.

New signings to boost Alloa

Alloa will include two new signings for the first time when East Fife visit Recreation Park.

Former Ayr United defender Jonathan Tiffoney and on-loan Rangers youngster Callum Gallagher will both be involved.

Manager Paul Hartley also has Mitch Megginson available after agreeing a further loan deal with Aberdeen, although Nicky Low has returned to Pittodrie at the end of his loan spell.

The second-placed side are without Michael Doyle following groin surgery and Martin Grehan, who has a calf problem, while Kevin Cawley is a major doubt due to a virus.

Hartley said: "We have an excellent home record but I know it will be tested by an East Fife side that have improved greatly under Billy Brown.

"After missing out when our game with Arbroath was postponed last week we cannot wait for kick off."

East Fife welcome back Craig Johnstone after a two-game ban as they look for their first win in three away games and the three points that would help their play-off push.

The Fifers will be without David Muir who has a foot injury and Gareth Wardlaw who has been ill.

"I began my time at East Fife a few months ago with a game against Alloa and we lost it 1-0," manager Billy Brown said.

"They are a good footballing side and deservedly beat us but our league position and points tally have improved a lot since then.

"It will be good to pit our wits against Alloa and see how much closer we have got to them during my time here."

Source: http://www.sport.co.uk/football/alloa-v-east-fife-at-recreation-park-match-preview/96816/

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The House GOP?s Intentional-Losing Strategy

Last night?s House vote to approach disaster aid for communities hit by Hurricane Sandy may turn out to be one of the signal moments of President Obama?s second term. The significance lies not in the bill itself ? though obviously, if you are reading this from the ruins of your flattened house, your mileage may vary ? but what it says about the power of the crazy caucus of the House Republicans.

Here is the central dilemma in American politics since 2010: You need to enact laws even to do very basic things like not crash the world economy for no reason. You can?t enact a law without passing it through the House. The House is controlled by Republicans. And many if not most of these Republicans appear to be stark raving mad ? which is to say, not merely ideologically extreme but unable to rationally connect means with ends, as evidenced by such things as the Plan B fiasco.

The crucial piece of this dilemma is the "Hastert Rule,? coined by former House Speaker Denny Hastert, which holds that all bills passing the House must have, in addition to the support of 218 members required for passage, the support of a majority of Republicans. Under the Hastert Rule, you couldn?t pass a bill with 118 Democrats and 100 Republicans. It was basically a codification of the general idea that the party?s most conservative members had a veto over the entire process, that the leadership couldn?t just cut them out of a deal.

The Hastert Rule was part of what drove the negotiations over the Bush tax cuts to the very end ? most Republicans simply wouldn?t vote for anything that appeared to raise taxes, even if the alternative was even higher taxes. Ultimately, as the expiration deadline approached, John Boehner had to violate that rule and pass a Senate-backed deal with mostly Democratic votes.

It looked like it might be a one-off, a panicked response to the unique circumstances of a looming automatic tax hike and breathless media coverage. But Boehner did it again last night. On the Sandy bill, a mere 49 Republicans voted aye, against 179 nays.

Now why, you might ask, would Republicans tolerate the passage of a bill they overwhelmingly oppose? They didn?t have to pass it ? they could have kept it off the floor and only brought a bill that had their party?s support, or possibly no bill at all. It appears they decided the negative publicity, and the damage to the party?s brand, outweighed their own preferences. House Republicans wanted to vote no so they could signal opposition to their own base, and protect themselves against a possible primary challenge, but they didn?t care enough to actually stop the bill.

The unanswered question here is whether they care at all, or how much they really care. If it?s all for show, Republicans can keep going on this way, using Democrats to pass bills they want to pass (or can?t afford the consequences of blocking) but don?t want to go on record supporting. On the other hand, it may just be a temporary balm. Perhaps Republicans have been told they can?t afford to drive the party into a public confrontation, so they quietly accede to compromises, while frustration builds beneath the surface.

The next such event is the debt ceiling vote. This seems like the perfect setup for another let?s-forget-the?Hastert Rule vote. Republican elites are increasingly coalescing around the view that they just have to raise the thing. (Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity is the latest right-wing group to throw in the towel.) The natural solution is to just let the bill pass with mainly Democratic support and give a bunch of angry speeches ? the way the debt ceiling used to work.

Then what? Politico reports that Republicans may stage a government shutdown to let frustrated conservatives work out some anger issues. (?We might need to [shut down the government] for member-management purposes ? so they have an endgame and can show their constituents they?re fighting.?)

Governing in the greatest nation on Earth!

Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/house-gops-intentional-losing-strategy.html

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Mayfield Heights Mayor Greg Costabile under investigation, steps down

MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) -

Mayfield Heights Mayor Greg Costabile announced Wednesday that he will step down from his office on February 1 to devote more time to family matters and his law practice.

"As rewarding as my service to the City of Mayfield Heights has been, it is time that I refocus my time and energies on other aspects of my life," Mr. Costabile said. "This has been a very difficult decision. My children are growing up quickly and I do not wish to miss out on opportunities with them and my wife that I will not be able to replace. My wife and I have had countless conversations about this decision and agree this is the best course for our family."

Meantime, the mayor's resignation comes on the heels of a criminal investigation. City Law Director Leonard Carr the Ohio Ethics Commission and the county Prosecutors office have been jointly investigating Mayor Constabile for?possible ethic violations for the past two years.

A Grand Jury was empanelled and more than a dozen witnesses were called to testify.

Carr says while there has been no indictment yet, a resolution is expected?by the end of the month.

Mr. Costabile has served the City of Mayfield Heights as Mayor and Safety Director for seven years. He has also served as the city's first Volunteer Juvenile Magistrate, as a City Councilman, and as City Council President covering a period of nearly fifteen years.

Council President Anthony DiCicco will fill the mayor's unexpired term.

"I am honored to serve the people of Mayfield Heights and eager to start work on programs to make our community even greater," said Mr. Dicicco. "Under Greg's leadership, we have come a long way together?but there is still much to do. I'd like to thank Mayor Costabile for his hard work and sound leadership."

During his tenure as Mayor, Greg Costabile presided over significant infrastructure improvement and economic development programs for the city.

His administration maintained city services, programs and personnel without cutbacks or tax increases despite the country's severe recession.

Successful economic development initiatives included key additions to Mayfield Heights' corporate park and significant new jobs to the community. In addition, for the first time in its history, the city obtained major federal, state and local government grants totaling more than$1.5 million. Significant improvements to all recreational facilities were made as well as vast improvements to senior services and programs.

The Mayor inherited the city's worst lawsuit and was able to resolve it within months of taking office saving the city millions of dollars. He also successfully managed the Mayfield Road Project under time and under budget. The city acquired Oakville Park for one dollar and rolled out an energy-saving "green" initiative in city hall buildings.

"We could not have made the tremendous progress we have seen without the hard work of my department heads, the leadership of Council President DiCicco with City Council, and all of the city's wonderful and dedicated employees. I am very proud of my record as mayor. We have achieved many notable milestones in one of the most challenging economies in recent memory," said Mr. Costabile. "I am confident I am leaving the City of Mayfield Heights in good hands, and I am pleased the timing of my departure will provide for a seamless and orderly transition on the part of my successor. Mayfield Heights is poised for a vibrant future."

Copyright 2013 WOIO. All rights reserved.

Source: http://www.19actionnews.com/story/20603446/mayfield-heights-mayor-greg-costabile-stepping-down-february-1-2013

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Could a cup of tea made from coffee leaves be the healthiest hot drink option?

This is just another variation on the stupid but uncrushable? antioxidant theory.? No evidence of its effects at all

For those who find ?tea or coffee? a question too far first thing in the morning, relief may soon be on hand ? a combination of both.

Researchers claim they have discovered the ultimate brew ? a tea made from? coffee leaves which is healthier than both of the drinks.

The coffee leaf tea, which is said to have an ?earthy? taste that is less bitter than tea and not as strong as coffee, boasts high levels of compounds which lower the risk of diabetes and heart disease, experts said.

It also carries far less caffeine than traditional tea or coffee and contains antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

The coffee leaves were analysed by researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, South-West London, together with researchers in Montpellier, France.

They believe the drink ? from the leaves of the coffea plant ? has thus far been overlooked because of the preoccupation with the plant?s seeds, coffee beans, which are nowhere near as healthy.

While there is evidence coffee leaf tea is drunk in places such as Ethiopia, South Sudan and Indonesia, previous attempts to import it into Britain from as early as the 1800s have been unsuccessful.

After analysing 23 species of coffee plant and finding many health benefits, the researchers now hope the coffee tea could rival the well-established types of coffee and black and green teas in Britain.

Dr Aaron Davies, a botanist at Kew, reported in the journal Annals of Botany that seven species of coffee plant contained high levels of mangiferin ? a chemical usually found in mangoes which is believed to have anti-inflammatory effects as well as lowering cholesterol, protecting neurons in the brain and reducing the risk of diabetes.

The leaves were also found to hold high levels of antioxidants, which reportedly help combat heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Dr Davies said: ?In 1851 people were touting it as the next tea and there were all these reports about its qualities. It was said to give immediate relief from hunger and fatigue, and ?clear the brain of its cobwebs?. It was also said to be refreshing ? although some found it undrinkable.?

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Brain-boosting milkshake claiming to reduce symptoms of early dementia goes on sale in the UK

This is just a con-job by a yoghurt company

A brain-boosting milkshake that is said to reduce symptoms of early Alzheimer's has gone on sale in the UK today.? The drink contains a mix of ?memory boosting? nutrients including those found in breast milk and herring.

The ?medical food? comes after a decade of research into a formula food that might improve the brain function of people in the early stages of the disease.

It contains omega 3 fatty acids, the nutrient found in fish which is known to be good for the brain, with a daily dose equivalent to eating three or four herrings.

The drink also contains two other compounds normally present in the blood - uridine, which is produced by the liver and kidneys and found in breast milk, and choline found in meat, nuts and eggs - B vitamins and other nutrients.

It will be available over-the-counter in pharmacies and online at ?3.49 for a daily dose - adding up to almost ?1,300 a year - and consumers have to confirm they have consulted a doctor or other health professional.

Studies originally carried out by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggest it helps improve memory performance after six months in people with mild Alzheimer?s who are not taking drugs.

However, a study on people with moderate Alzheimer?s who were on prescribed medication found no improvement.

The Alzheimer's Society has warned the milkshake 'is a lot less effective than current drugs available for people in the early stages of dementia'

Some have welcomed Souvenaid for providing a new dietary aid to improve the health of early Alzheimer?s patients, but critics warned it was an expensive option that was less effective than drugs.

The three main compounds in Souvenaid are needed by brain nerve cells to make phospholipids, the primary component of cell membranes that form synapses.

Dr David Wilkinson, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, said ?Alzheimer?s disease is not part and parcel of aging but a serious and progressive disease of the brain which prevents us from being able to retain new memories.

?As we age, our bodies become less efficient at processing essential nutrients, meaning that we need to increase our intake of food to absorb the same amount of nutrients in order to maintain a healthy body. In the same way, we need the right nutrients for our brains to keep them healthy.

?Alzheimer?s disease sufferers often find it very difficult to get everything they need through diet alone and the nutritional intervention by the use of Souvenaid is a new area of research offering promising results for the management of early Alzheimer?s disease.?

Products marketed as food for special medical purposes do not have to go through the same EU regulatory process as drugs.

But they have to prove they are ?safe and beneficial and effective in meeting the particular nutritional requirements of the persons for whom they are intended? and must be taken under medical supervision.

People buying Souvenaid, which comes in two flavours vanilla and strawberry, are being urged to speak with a doctor, specialist nurse, dietitian or pharmacist first.

Professor Clive Ballard, director of research at the Alzheimer?s Society charity, said ?People shouldn?t get excited that an off-the-shelf drink is going to transform the lives of people with dementia.

?While past studies of this product have showed some benefits for memory, there is no evidence that it has an effect on other aspects of thinking or everyday life and there was also no benefit on other symptoms of dementia.

?This is likely to cost about ?1000 a year and is a lot less effective than current drugs available for people in the early stages of dementia.

?For many older people with dementia where finances might be tight, people are probably much better off putting their money towards good quality care or taking part in exercise.

?One in three people over 65 will develop dementia. It?s vital we continue to fund research into new treatments to enable people to live well with the condition.?

Souvenaid is made by Nutricia, the medical foods division of Danone Research.

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UPDATE 1-Golf-Nike signs up world number one McIlroy

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ABU DHABI, Jan 14 (Reuters) - World number one golfer Rory McIlroy has signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement with Nike as the U.S. sportswear company moves on after dropping disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong last year.

Commercial terms were not disclosed but media reports say the agreement with the fresh-faced Northern Irish golfer unveiled on Monday is worth as much as $250 million over 10 years, one of the most lucrative in global sports.

McIlroy was previously sponsored by golf brand Titleist.

The U.S. PGA champion, 23, topped the tournament earnings lists in both the United States and Europe last year and is seen as having supplanted Tiger Woods as the game's greatest talent.

The agreement is especially important for Nike, the world's largest sportswear company, as it seeks to move on from the doping scandal that forced it to ditch American Armstrong.

Nike is also a long-time sponsor of Woods, standing by the U.S. golfer in 2009 despite the bad publicity he suffered when a series of extra-marital affairs came to light.

A new Nike TV commercial featuring the two golfers was shown for the first time at a news conference in Abu Dhabi where Nike officially confirmed it had recruited McIlroy - one of the worst kept secrets in sport.

"There is still some equity (value) in the Woods' brand. McIlroy, rather than being a replacement, is the heir-apparent," said Simon Chadwick, professor of sport business strategy at England's Coventry University.

"In golf and cycling they built much of their business on the back of two individuals. They needed to move quickly and decisively to make a big signing and with McIlroy that is what they have done," he added.

Under the deal with Nike, McIlroy will use the company's clubs and wear its clothing with the familiar swoosh logo.

McIlroy is part of a high-profile sporting couple with former world women's tennis number one Caroline Wozniacki.

The agreement with Nike has not been accepted by all of McIlroy's previous sponsors.

Sunglasses maker Oakley has begun legal action to try to retain its sponsorship deal with McIlroy, saying it had the right to match any improved agreement with another company. (Reporting by Matt Smith in Abu Dhabi; writing by Keith Weir in London, editing by Mark Meadows)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/1-golf-nike-signs-world-number-one-mcilroy-154249906--sector.html

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Washington bureaucrats reject public request to build Death Star due to excessive cost

The proposal to construct the Star Wars-inspired space station-cum-death ray was lodged in November last year through We the People, a recently-implemented system that allows ordinary Americans to petition the government with any request, providing it gets enough popular support.

The authors promised that building the Death Star would ?spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense.?

The petition has collected 34,435 signatures, well above the 25,000 threshold that necessitates a response from the White House.

But despite endorsement from the public, the government has been reluctant to make the necessary investment in the pioneering space platform.

Titled ?This Isn?t the Petition Response You?re Looking For? and authored by Paul Shawcross, who oversees science and space departments at the White House, the official response gives three reasons for why the project isn?t viable:

? The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We?re working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.

? The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

? Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

Instead, Shawcross calls for Americans to revel in the existence of the rather more modest International Space Station, which although impressive, does not possess a death ray, or in fact weapons of any sort.

This is not the only time We the People has been used to push forward unlikely proposals. Recent petitions have called for British TV interviewer Piers Morgan to be deported for his gun control stance (more than 100,000 signatures) for Texas to secede (more than 120,000 signatories) and to recount the presidential election, which 68,000 petitioners claim Barack Obama won through a combination of fraud and administrative error.

We the People, which was launched in 2011 and has attracted in excess of 3 million signatures, has previously been criticized for allowing itself to be hijacked by attention seekers and for failing to turn any petitions into actual policies.

Nonetheless, at least one petition has yielded a positive reaction from the Administration. A request to ?Release the recipe for the Honey Ale home brewed at the White House? was promptly responded to with what appears to be a functional recipe.

Source: RT

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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock restructures leadership at City Hall

Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post)

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has made a series of changes to his leadership team and switched to a different federal lobbyist in an effort he said was intended to make City Hall "better and faster."

Hancock changed the duties of his two deputy chiefs of staff, Evan Dreyer and Stephanie O'Malley, folded the efforts of his policy team into the communications team and chose the law firm of Greenberg Traurig to lead the city's federal lobbying efforts.

The mayor said the changes in his senior staff are not demotions. No one has been asked to leave the administration and everyone is keeping their same pay, he said.

"This is not designed to take anyone's job away," he said. "We are realigning some folks, realigning our

structure. Some folks are going to be taking on additional duties, some folks will share duties, and some will take on completely new roles."

Hancock has been in office for about 18 months and has scored a series of accomplishments, including getting voters to approve a taxing measure that added about $44 million to the city's budget.

His moves are not unlike any mayor who readjusts his team. "Do we have it structured just right to accomplish what we need to accomplish?" he said.

"I have a very talented team. ... We've been together for almost two years. I know them a little better. I know their talents," Hancock added. "But I also know what we need and what we need to accomplish over the next 30 months, so I am trying to put people in the right place for the highest and best use."

O'Malley, who was Denver's clerk and recorder before resigning and becoming part of Hancock's team, will be focused more on administrative efforts and take oversight of regional affairs. She won't oversee cabinet or sub-cabinet positions ? those duties will fall to Chief of Staff Janice Sinden.

Dreyer, formerly Hancock's campaign manager and spokesman for Gov. Bill Ritter, will take on the aerotropolis project that the mayor has planned for land around Denver International Airport.

In the first 18 months of the administration, oversight of the city's 26 agencies were divided among Sinden, O'Malley, Dreyer, Chief Projects Officer Diane Barrett and Chief Performance Officer David Edinger.

"Now, we're just going to streamline it so I am touching more of those agencies," Sinden said. "We are just widening our stance, and I can get closer to the agencies to streamline their communication and accountability."

Hancock also said he will be forming a "good government committee" that will look at the charter and whether the city's structure "meets the demands of the 21st century."

This week, the city signed a two-year, $180,000 contract with Greenberg Traurig for federal lobbying. About a half-dozen firms had vied for the contract.

The price tag is cheaper than the $200,000 paid to Patton Boggs, which had been the lobbying firm chosen in 2003 by former Mayor John Hickenlooper.

Jeremy P. Meyer: 303-954-1367, jpmeyer@denverpost.com or twitter.com/jpmeyerdpost

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Changes at City Hall

Evan Dreyer: Deputy chief of staff takes over Mayor Michael Hancock's aerotropolis project for land around Denver International Airport.

Stephanie O'Malley: Hancock's other deputy chief of staff and former clerk and recorder turns to administrative duties and oversight of regional affairs.

Janice Sinden: The mayor's chief of staff will now oversee cabinet and sub-cabinet issues, duties previously divided among five staffers.

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The Weekender: Fencing Tourney and MLK Celebration ...

SATURDAY

Relay for Life of Paulding County Kickoff

When:?8:30 a.m. Saturday?

Where:?Paulding County Senior Center,?54 Industrial Way North, Dallas |?Get?directions

Why Go:?Help in the fight against cancer.

Price:?Free

Pope High School Fencing Tournament

When:?9 a.m. Jan. 12

Where:?Pope High School,?3001 Hembree Rd. NE, Marietta |?Get?directions

Why Go:?It's not everyday that you hear about a fencing tournament in Cobb.?

Price:?Free??

Forest Hills Neighborhood Open House

When:?2 p.m.?Saturday

Where:?3660 Lee St. SE, Smyrna |?Get?directions?

Why Go:?Tour eight great homes for sale in the highly sought-after Forest Hills neighborhood.

Price:?Free

Free Genealogy Workshop

When: 3:30 p.m. Saturday

Where:?3320 Sandy Plains Rd., Marietta |?Get?directions

Why Go: If you're?interested in researching your?family's history, this workshop will help.

Price:?Free

Martin Luther King Jr.?Celebration

When:?5 p.m.?Saturday

Where:??Kennesaw Mountain High School,?1898 Kennesaw Due West Rd. NW,?Kennesaw?|?Get directions

Why Go:?Celebrate the legacy of the Atlanta native who pushed for equality and changed a nation.

Price:?Free

Looking for more local events? Check out Kennesaw Patch's?events page.

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Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, right, tries on 3-D glasses as he looks at North Korean-developed computer technology during a tour of the Korean Computer Center in Pyongyang, North Korea on Jan. 9. At left is Kun "Tony" Namkung, a North Korea's expert and member of the traveling delegation.

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Eric Schmidt, back row left, and former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, back row right, look at North Korean soldiers working on computers at the Grand Peoples Study House in Pyongyang, North Korea on Jan. 9.

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Eric Schmidt stands on a balcony at the Grand Peoples Study House overlooking Juche Tower in Pyongyang on Jan. 9.

A private delegation including Google's Eric Schmidt is urging North Korea to allow more open Internet access and cellphones to benefit its citizens, the mission's leader said Wednesday in the country with some of the world's tightest controls on information.

Schmidt, the executive chairman of the U.S.-based Internet giant Google, is the highest-profile American business executive to visit North Korea since leader Kim Jong Un took power a year ago.

On Wednesday, Schmidt toured the frigid quarters of the brick building in central Pyongyang that is the heart of North Korea's own computer industry. He asked pointed questions about North Korea's new tablet computers as well as its Red Star operating system, and he briefly donned a pair of 3-D goggles during a tour of the Korea Computer Center.

Schmidt has not said publicly what he hopes to get out of his visit to North Korea. However, he has been a vocal proponent of Internet freedom and openness, and is publishing a book in April with Google Ideas think tank director Jared Cohen about the power of global connectivity in transforming people's lives, policies and politics. Continue reading.

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Eric Schmidt, second from left, and former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, second from right, look through an information technology text book at the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, on Jan. 9. At left is director of Google Ideas think tank, Jared Cohen. The textbook is titled "Aries Net Certified Technician First Edition Version 3.0."

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Jean H. Lee, The Associated Press bureau chief in Seoul, and David Guttenfelder, AP's chief Asia photographer, have made numerous reporting trips to North Korea in recent years. They were granted unprecedented access on their latest journey to Pyongyang and areas outside the nation's showcase capital.

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My family and I will be relocating to the Dover area later this summer and are researching schools, neighborhoods, homes and, of course, realtors.

We are first time home buyers (older, but still first time buyers) and have found a lot of info on the web. We've also read the "Your Guide to Buying Your First Home in Delaware" by John R. Thomas.

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The Federal Trade Commission?s decision last Thursday not to pursue a case under the Sherman Act or the Federal Trade Commission Act regarding Google?s online search business practices has elicited a wide range of opinions, including one particularly biting quip from within the Commission. Departing Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch noted in his statement of concurrence and dissent that ?after promising an elephant more than a year ago, the Commission instead has brought forth a couple of mice.?

Perhaps that elephant was in the FTC press room last Thursday after all, however, in FTC?s resolution of its other investigation involving Google. Though it was completely unrelated to FTC?s online search practices inquiry, Chairman Leibowitz announced the same day that a formal Complaint and a Proposed Consent Order had been filed involving Google-owned Motorola Mobility?s standards-essential patents (SEPs).

Like it alleged in settlements involving Robert Bosch GmbH (November 2012) and Negotiated Data Solutions (2008), FTC concluded that Motorola?s refusal to license SEPs on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms was ?unfair? under FTC Act Section 5. The Commission?s use of Section 5 always raises eyebrows and motivates some to invoke the specter of the ?National Nanny? FTC of the 1970s. We?re not sure if the Google/Motorola agreement will usher in an era of renewed ?unfairness jurisdiction? cases, but it certainly raises some interesting issues and questions:

Regulatory Turf/Muscle-Flexing? FTC Act Section 5 provides the Commission with a unique regulatory weapon, and the Google SEPs case offered it a seemingly undeniable opportunity to sharpen this tool while also one-upping its counterparts at the Justice Department. When announcing its approval of Google?s purchase of Motorola Mobility last February, DOJ-Antitrust expressed ?concern? that the company?s commitments to FRAND licensing of SEPs were ?ambiguous? and that ?how Google may exercise its patents in the future remains a significant concern.? Such concern did not rise to the level of a violation of the Sherman Act, so DOJ could only wring its hands.

It?s unclear exactly why FTC initiated the Google SEPs investigation, but it?s fair to imagine that DOJ?s decision played some role. And because FTC could pursue a ?stand-alone? Section 5 action, it wasn?t deterred by the inability to bring a Sherman Act case. Section 5 grants FTC the power to deem business acts or practices as unlawfully ?unfair? even if they aren?t illegal under other antitrust laws.

Unfair acts and/or unfair methods? The Commission?s statement on the Google consent decree reflects that a majority of the Commissioners found the company?s pursuit of injunctions were both unfair acts and unfair methods of competition. Commissioners Ramirez and Ohlhausen dissented from the ?unfair acts? claim because the claimed injuries ?are a significant departure from the type of injury contemplated? by past Commission policies and actions. In his separate statement, Commissioner Rosch strongly supported the concept that standard-essential patent holders who pursue court injunction breach their contracts with the standard setting bodies, and such a breach thus constitutes an ?unfair act? under Section 5.

More interesting, however, was Commissioner Rosch?s criticism of (though not formal dissent from) his three colleagues? use of the ?unfair methods? prong of Section 5 in Google. Commissioner Rosch argued that FTC must conform to some ?limiting principles? when it pursues an ?unfair methods of competition? charge. He argued that the Commission did not provide sufficient limiting principles when making out its unfair methods case against Google. Commissioner Ohlhausen embraced this sentiment in her dissent, calling the case ?another undisciplined expansion of Section 5.?

A Noerr-Pennington Concern? As she did in her Bosch dissent, Commissioner Ohlhausen argued in?Google that Motorola?s assertion of patent rights in court, even if FRAND commitments were involved, constituted First Amendment-protected activity immune from antitrust action under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine. The four-Commissioner majority?s response was that ?we have reason to believe that MMI willingly gave up its rights to seek injunctive relief? when it made FRAND commitments.

They supported this belief in Google, as they did in Bosch, by invoking an ?increasing judicial recognition? of FRAND commitments being legally incompatible with court injunctions. In addition to one Federal District Court ruling cited in Google, they cited a Ninth Circuit case where the FRAND legal matter wasn?t directly at issue, and one other District Court opinion (albeit written by Judge Richard Posner sitting by designation).

Whether FRAND-encumbered patent holders should be able to seek injunctions is a critically important policy issue, and as a matter of policy a prohibition may make perfect sense. But one can reasonably question whether a federal agency?s ?belief? of an ?increasing judicial recognition? of that point is enough to justify looking askance upon a company?s First Amendment petition rights.

A ?template for the resolution of SEP licensing disputes?? The four Commissioners felt so good about their accomplishment in the Google case that they made that very declaration about it in their accompanying statement. Perhaps the framework that they created requiring mandatory court or arbitration tribunal action to set the licensing terms for SEPs may be a good template, though at least one commentator has questioned whether it represents progress.

But in writing that, did they instead mean that FTC?s action against Google, and its application of FTC Act Section 5, is the ?template?? Those who are subject to the Commission?s broad ?unfairness jurisdiction? certainly better hope that?s not what they meant.

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Packers pummel Vikings, Peterson

Green Bay contains league-leading rusher, swarms back-up QB Webb

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Defensive end Ryan Pickett (79)?and the Green Bay Packers' defense didn't give the Vikings an inch on Saturday?during the NFC wild card playoff game at Lambeau Field.

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GREEN BAY, Wisc. - The Green Bay Packers defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-10 in Saturday's NFC wild card game to advance to the divisional round against the San Francisco 49ers.

The Packers put in a complete defensive performance, keeping league-leading rusher Adrian Peterson under 100 yards and swarming Vikings backup Joe Webb.

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers threw for 268 yards and a touchdown in the winning effort.

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Addicted to Slavery | A CROOKED PATH

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by Ken Pullen

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

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And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6: 5

Even the teachers and students of psychology, sociology, and anthropology know if something is introduced into a society and given acceptance rather than rejection no matter what that something is, the society begins to adopt it as normal.

In sociology 101 students are taught behavior and societal patterns are considered ?deviant? behavior until a point where those behaviors are accepted and then within the minds of the society, at least within a large enough population, those very acts once considered taboo, abominations, disgusting, or downright evil become ?normal.?

This does not mean those acts are then lawful, permitted, moral, ethical, healthy, or an act which is normal. It merely means over time the population becomes worn down to a point, and so numb and consumed with either talk about a certain behavior, or an increase in those behaviors no matter what the present or previous standards of moral behavior were becomes ?adopted.?

People surrender to it all.

Rather than being a people humbling ourselves before God, rather than turning to God and His Word, rather than being part of a revival of the true and honest path laid out by Scripture ? we are a people instead like sharks gone berserk with the expanding cloud of blood in the water tearing into every morsel of evil we can sniff out in the churning seas around us.

We are a people causing evil to swell and for righteousness to shrink and all but disappear in what we embrace, elevate, worship, and permit.

And what?we are permitting, surrendering to, allowing, and accepting is the growth of sinful behaviors. The lusts and desires of men and women preceding all that has come before, and placing individual pleasures and desires above the very Word of God.

But then, these practitioners of abominations making men and women, supposedly in the pursuit of godliness and holiness, before the Lord our God sigh and cry do not believe in God, or the Bible, or they have adapted definitions for God, replacing He the living individual with a pagan view?such as??spirit earth?, or some ?life force? or ?energy.? Which is nothing but a perversion and lack of understanding of the truth. Which occurs because Satan has gained such great power over the past number of decades in the hearts and minds?of people, who?are now convinced in their blindness anything goes. It is all acceptable! Even to many of those claiming to be a Christian.

More and more denominations are not only accepting homosexuals and lesbians they are elevating these sinful people to places of authority within their churches.

Our own government and military now allow bestiality, pagan worship, open homosexuality and lesbianism. All the while getting up in front of microphones and cameras and telling the completely lost and blind drowning in sin and abomination that our better days lie ahead of us, and we are making ?progress? as a people.

We act all distraught and sorrowful when we hear of a child under the age of 10 being murdered, which is horrendous indeed, yet those same people finding such news distressing and abhorrent are numb and blind to the daily murders of thousands of children by abortion.

In America, our citizens, which comprise only about 312 million of the now over 7 billion people living on earth; or Americans comprise about 5% of the world population consume 80 percent of all the mood enhancing and pain narcotic drugs on the market.

We vote for legalizing drug use. We vote for legalizing the murder of children. We vote to permit homosexuals and lesbians to ?marry.? We revile God, Jesus Christ and the Bible. We pollute our foundations. We corrupt the Word of God. We elevate and worship idols and sin. We admire and embrace every abomination under the sun under the cover of darkness.

We are slaves to evil slaves to Satan.

We are addicted to slavery.

The slavery of evil imaginations and we permit those imaginations to come to fruition.

The slavery of permissiveness and lack of discipline, respect, sense, critical thinking, objective thinking, ethics, and an almost complete breakdown of morals.

Over the past 50 years we have permitted the rapid growth of sin going unchecked and accepted, even to the point false teachings dominate so-called Christian ministers, priests, reverends, and pastors not acknowledging sin, not preaching the truth of the Bible, not preaching salvation which is needed by all because all have sinned and continue to live in sin unless commending their lives over to Jesus Christ the Lord. Not merely as their ?personal Savior? which has become grossly perverted and misunderstood, but we all must make Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives. We must bow and permit the Holy Spirit to live within us, guide us, instruct us, and keep us from temptation and sin rather than permitting this anything goes mentality ? which will only lead to eternal death because of failure to discern the Scriptures and live a life pleasing and acceptable unto the Lord.

Too many worship idols while claiming to worship God and Jesus Christ. There is widespread total disregard for Scripture anyone disagrees with and doesn?t fit how a person wants to live ? rather than the individual turning their lives over entirely to God and Christ living according to the complete living Word of God.

We are living just as the people in the times of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Joel, Ezekiel, Jonah, Amos, Haggai and every prophet of the Older Testament.

The preface verse from Genesis 6 was in a time prior to God giving Moses the law, and prior to the Great Flood. Evil was so rampant, there was so much violence, godlessness, sin, and so many abominations among all the people ? save for Noah, Noah?s wife, and Noah?s sons and their wives ? that God caused the Great Flood to rid the earth of what He had regretted (repented) creating.

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And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Genesis 6: 7

Man was the only problem in creation. And because of man?s will and disobedience; man?s purely selfish endeavors and the sin and abominations they wrought God became vexed and we literally made God heartsick. We grieved the Creator.

As a loving Father there was discipline and consequences.

Throughout the ages since the Great Flood the people on earth have waxed and waned in their turning from God or turning to God. In their degree of sin and abominations.

We now live in a time right before the last time as it is known by man and woman.

Because of our sin, because of our shrugging off sin and abominations. Because of what we permit and allow as we pervert and disgrace the Word of God by obliterating the truth of Scripture and supplanting those truth with false teachings and unsound doctrine. By admitting into and administering directly to professed Christians out-and-out paganism and everything alien to the truth of God and His Word.

We have grown lax and confused. Complacent and lost in what we profess as faith. It is more important to too many people professing to be Christian that they are liked and accepted by this world rather than stand and hold firm to the absolute truths of God?s Word.

Have we not learned from history? Have we not learned from Scripture the consequences of such behaviors?

Do we not truly believe the Bible?

If we did we would behave in a much different manner than we do. We would not permit the myriad abominations and sins in our lives, and we would not shrug off, accept, permit, embrace, and even elevate the growing sin and abominations of this world.

I stand firm in my belief there are at present two distinct and very real types of Christians. The majority consist of worldly Christians. They take the name Christian and claim to be one but have no concept of what it truly means to live as one. They do not know nor have the Holy Spirit working in their lives. They are serving this world, serving Satan, striving for acceptance, riches, their own glory, denying the complete Word of God and only subsisting on bits and pieces of carefully selected, massaged, and distorted verse. The worldly Christians comprise the bulk of those professing to be Christian.

The small ?remnant? are those true Christians who live according to the Word of God and live through faith, humbling themselves before Almighty God and Jesus Christ the Savior and Lord of their lives, and trusting completely in the Holy Spirit and the untainted, true, complete Word of God.

There are truly few of these people walking this earth at any given time. And numbers are decreasing ? not increasing. And the time is drawing nigh when the open door to salvation will be closed to the Gentiles (anyone not a Jew.) And this time is drawing very close.

The great apostasy is upon us.

We see abomination upon abomination. We live in and see a world writhing and rising and falling in a sea of sin at every turn. Attitudes. Language. Beliefs. Morals. Respect. Critical thinking. Honesty. Ethics. You name it and the consuming sin growing by the minute is tainting and altering everything and every aspect of life on earth for God?s creation ? man and woman. And child.

These abominations and sin have even grown and ensnared churches. And those professing to be shepherds leading flocks.

Is it any wonder?

And the Lord said unto him, ?Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.?

Ezekiel 9: 4

We can either remain slaves ? serving Satan addicted to the ways and beliefs of this world, or we can bow before God and become truly free men and women, released from bondage, by believing completely, having faith, being justified in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, and making the Son of God the Lord of our lives. And we do this, we continue this once turning to God by continually turning to God in prayer and turning to His Holy Word ? the Bible. The complete Bible. A pre-1969 translation of the Bible.

Try it. See what can happen.

Perhaps this world is beyond true revival at this point, but each of us is not beyond personal revival in the truth of God and His ways, His Word, and we are not beyond allowing the Holy Spirit to revive us, direct us, teach us, help us to discern the ways of the Lord. His will is revealed in His Word. Without communion through prayer, meditation, and diligent reading of Scripture, and then obedience to His Word we cannot say we know God.

Let us break the chains of bondage and slavery to this world and breath deeply the reviving pureness of the Lord?s truth ? His Word.

(Please continue this by reading January 3, 2013 ?Scripture Verses? here on ?A Crooked Path? under the title heading ?From Jeremiah and Ezekiel?.)

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Blue flashes. That?s one thing I won?t forget. Blue flashes, and fighting an early morning fire, and the slow, wailing death of cars.?

When Sandy rolled in, at first our focus was on the water. From our bedroom window, we anxiously watched our little offshoot of Barnegat Bay rise, rise, rise, and we wondered if it would drown out the life we knew. The idea that the morning of Oct. 30 would not be a normal one was clear in the overnight skies: All night, as we saw the flood bury our street and climb the steps of our front porch to within inches of the house itself, transformers were popping in brilliant blue flashes. The sky would alight with them, wooosh, then gone, blue sheet lightning rising from the ground. They came from every direction? wooosh, wooosh, all night, until eventually they seemed a sort of heartbeat. If you imagined hard enough, you could envision them as the flashes of alien weaponry bombarding the neighborhood.?

While this happened, cars died.?

Turns out a submerged car goes through observable death throes; it dies in painful stages like a wounded wild animal. As the water rises over the dashboard, first the interior lights come on. Then the headlights. If the trunk is electronic, it pops open. Then any electronic horns or security alerts start to wail, slow and wet and mournful. That?s what happened as the floodwaters came in: First our family?s car died, the sudden glow of the inside lights signaling the beginning of the end. Then the one next to it, headlights erupting in a spasm of death as the water rose from tires to hubs to fenders to hood to dash to death. One after another, all the cars on our block did this. We timed the flood by them: headlights, horns, and that?s another neighbor with no means of transportation. My wife?s car cried for an hour before it died, and up the street, an alarm blared on and off in five-minute spurts for two hours: BEEEEP. BEEEP. BEEEP.?

There was no sleeping.?

In the morning, a horn started to wail next door. I looked out the window. The new neighbors? SUV was dying. They had just moved in; we didn?t really know them. At first, Natalie and I joked about why theirs had taken so long when all the other cars on the block had succumbed overnight. ?

Then smoke started to pour from it. The electronics, just now frying in the water, had caught on fire. The vehicle was parked next to their garage?and underneath trees that touched our house. If it became fully engulfed in flames, both our homes would be in grave danger.?

I jumped out into oil-covered water and tried to find our garden hose in the debris and muck. Where was it? The water level was over my hips, even well after the peak of the storm, and it was murky. I couldn?t see anything through it.?

The neighbor, Jeff, came out with a pot and started struggling with the fire. He splurged pots of floodwater onto it, but now the entire dash of the truck was in flames. ?

My hands felt urgently through the muck. Finally I bumped into the hose, got it going and trudged over as fast as I could, spraying down the flaming vehicle. He smashed the windshield so we could get more water onto the flame-doused dash. We finally put it out.?

Breathing heavily, soaked and cold and smelling like fuel oil, it struck me just then that the morning was beautiful. The sky was clear and blue?or seemed so after yesterday?s tempest. The world around me was surreal, eerily changed from the familiar landscape I knew, but it was a beautiful morning all the same. Jeff and I caught our breath and shook our heads at the absurdity of it all.?

This is how I got to know my new neighbors.?

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Jeff and Kathy Nolan had moved in just weeks before Sandy struck. The house had been on the market for a while, the previous owner a weekend owner frustrated he couldn?t get the nice payout he hoped for. When the Nolans moved in, Natalie and I were glad they didn?t seem like 20-somethings eager to party every summer weekend?we already have plenty of Jersey Shore types in our neighborhood, thanks. The few cross-driveway conversations we had were pleasant. Seemed like good people.?

And then, there we were, putting out a fire raging in his car.?

What followed was a week of tremendous hospitality?of getting to know our neighbors and, more importantly, getting to know how amazingly generous they were. Jeff and Kathy had a gas oven. We did not. Their water was heated by gas. Ours was not. So the first night after the storm, they invited us over to take a shower and share the food we all had, lest it spoil. We bathed, felt human, and broke bread together, commiserating in the unreality around us.?

We did that every night for a week. At 8 a.m., Kathy would knock on our door with a kettle of scalding hot water so we could make tea. That warm liquid was the morning boost I needed to get up and tackle the cleanup work that so desperately needed doing. All week long, we met at the Nolans? and had dinner by candlelight, pooling the food from three households, enjoying what seemed like feasts at the time, wondering if maybe this was how people lived 200 years ago. We talked about ourselves, our families, our outlooks. It was nice. ?

It?s amazing how you get to know one another when the world seems to have fallen apart.?

The same, I found out later, was happening elsewhere. When I spoke to Joanne LaCicero of the neighboring island town of Lavallette, just across the bay, her story made mine seem quaint. My family and I were sharing our tiny two-bedroom space with my mother-in-law?whose house was destroyed by the storm?and coming together with the couple next door for only a few hours each evening. Joanne and her family, on the other hand, were sheltering more than a dozen neighbors in their home.?

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'; commentSection.appendChild(commentDiv); } } } function validateCommentForm(form){ var fieldEmail = document.getElementById("field.email"); var fieldName = document.getElementById("field.name"); var nameValue = fieldName.value; var emailValue = fieldEmail.value; var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/; if (filter.test(emailValue)) { var fieldBody = document.getElementById("field.body") var bodyValue = fieldBody.value; bodyValue = bodyValue.replace(/&/g,"&"); bodyValue = bodyValue.replace(/,"/g,">"); bodyValue = bodyValue.replace(/\r\n/g,"

"); fieldBody.value = bodyValue; if(navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer') { if(document.getElementById('submit').disabled) { document.getElementById('submit').disabled=false; } else { document.getElementById('submit').disabled=true; } } return insertComment(form,true,function(){return showEditorialComment(nameValue, bodyValue)}); } else { alert('Please enter a valid Email below.'); form.elements[field.email].focus(); return false; } }

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