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UNDERSTANDING BIOLOGY THROUGH STRUCTURE 2017
Registration: Anasazi Ballroom
Talks: Anasazi Ballroom
Poster session: El Dorado A
Breakfast, Receptions, Lunch and Dinner: El Dorado B
1:00 – 5:00 pm Registration
5:00 – 5:10 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
Opening Session Chair: David Eisenberg, UCLA
5:10 – 5:45 pm Tom Terwilliger, LANL
"Model-building using cryo-EM and crystallographic maps"
5:45 – 6:20 pm Hao Wu, Harvard Medical School
"Supramolecular complexes in immunity"
6:20 – 6:30 pm Short Break
6:30 – 7:15 pm Evening Lecture
Speaker: Michael Rossmann, Purdue University
"The structure of the immature, mature and neutralized Zika Virus"
Chair: Paul Adams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
7:15 – 8:45 pm Reception and Dinner
8:45 – 10:00 pm Drinks and Mixing
7:00 – 8:30 am Breakfast
Session I Membrane Proteins
Chair: Hao Wu, Harvard Medical School
8:30 – 9:15 am Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia University
"Structural Basis for Activity of RyR1 Calcium Release Channels"
9:15 – 9:45 am Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University
"How is electrical signaling initiated? – Structural investigation of the voltage-gated sodium channels"
9:45 – 10:05 am Refreshments & Break
10:05 – 10:45 am Robert Stroud, University of California, San Francisco
"The mechanism of Voltage and nutrient regulation, and inhibition of an endolysosomal ion channel; a cure for Ebola"
10:45 – 11:20 am Susan Buchanon, National Institutes of Health
"Structural insight into the biogenesis of beta barrel membrane proteins"
11:20 – 11:55 am Natalie Strynadka, University of British Columbia
"Structure based analysis of the Type III Secretion Injectisome"
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
Session II Nucleic Acid and Protein-Nucleic acid Complexes
Chair: Tom Steitz, Yale University
1:00 – 1:20 pm Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb, MIT
"Biosynthesis of a novel nucleoside: are two cofactors better than one?"
1:20 – 1:40 pm Qi Qiao, Harvard University
"Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Recognizes Structured DNA for Class Switch Recombination"
1:40 – 2:10 pm Ci Ji Lim, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Reconstitution of human shelterin complexes reveals stoichiometry, novel telomeric DNA interactions and multiple pathways to enh"
2:10 – 2:30 pm Refreshments & Break
2:30 – 3:10 pm Shigeyuki Yokoyama, RIKEN
"Structures and functions of seven-transmembrane helix proteins"
3:10 – 3:50 pm Jamie Cate, University of California, Berkeley
"Structural basis for regulation of human translation"
3:50 – 4:30 pm Leemor Joshua-Tor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"The Origin Recognition Complex – where it all begins"
4:30 – 6:30 pm Poster Session with Drinks & hors d'oeuvres
6:30 – 7:15 pm Evening Lecture:
Chair: Jamie Cate, University of California, Berkeley
Speaker: Eva Nogales, University of California, Berkeley
"Microtubule Structure, Dynamics and Interactions"
7:30 – 8:45 pm Dinner
Session III Disease and Drug Discovery
Chair: Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University
8:30 – 9:15 am Erica Ollmann Saphire, The Scripps Research Institute
"The Lassa virus glycoprotein: It takes a village"
9:15 – 9:45 am Elizabeth Goldsmith, UT Southwestern Medical Center
"Activation and Inhibition of WNK1"
9:45 – 10:15 am Catherine Drennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Shake, Rattle, & Roll: Capturing Snapshots of Metalloproteins in Action"
10:15 – 10:35 am Refreshments & Break
10:35 – 11:20 am Ian Wilson, The Scripps Research Institute
"Structure-based design of vaccines and therapies for HIV and influenza virus"
11:20 – 11:50 am Lesa Beamer, University of Missouri
"The molecular basis of enzyme dysfunction in phoshoglucomutase 1 deficiency"
11:50 am – 12:20 pm P. Lynne Howell, The Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto
"Microbial Biofilms: Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutics"
Session IV Protein folding and Design
Chair: Tom Blundell, University of Cambridge
1:20 – 2:05 pm David Eisenberg, University of California, Los Angeles
"Structure-based methods for halting amyloid diseases"
2:05 – 2:40 pm Ken Dill, Stony Brook University
"Bayesian integration of knowledge and data into molecular simulations"
3:00 – 3:45 pm David Baker, University of Washington
"The coming of age of de novo protein design"
3:45 – 4:20 pm Susan Marqusee, University of California, Berkeley
"Touring the landscape: The view depends on how and when you look"
4:20 – 4:55 pm Tobin Sosnick, University of Chicago
"SAXS, IDPs and ultra-fast MD"
Chair: David Baker, University of Washington
Speaker: Tom Blundell, University of Cambridge
"Multiprotein systems in space and time: Achieving selectivity in Cell Regulation and Drug Targeting"
Session V Crystallographic Methods
Chair: Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia University
8:30 – 9:10 am Jane Richardson, Duke University
"Model-Building Needs Prior Probabilities and Likelihoods"
9:10 – 9:45 am Nadia Zatsepin, University of Arizona
"Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography at X-ray free electron lasers"
10:05 – 10:45 am Wladek Minor, University of Virginia
"Reproducibility in Biomedical Sciences - Big Data Perspective"
10:45 – 11:20 am Isabel Uson, Institute of Molecular Biology, Barcelona
"Fragments in phasing, autotracing and structure interpretation"
11:20 – 12:00 pm Randy Read, University of Cambridge
"Iduronate sulfatase: structure solution and insights into Hunter syndrome"
Session VI Structural Biology of Cell Signaling
Chair: Erica Ollmann Saphire, The Scripps Research Institute
1:00 – 1:35 pm Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University
"Recreating the evolution of signaling and enzyme catalysis over 3.5 billion years"
1:35 – 2:10 pm Axel Brunger, Stanford University
"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic neurotransmitter release"
2:10 – 2:45 pm Yvonne Jones, Oxford University
"The mechanics of semaphorin-plexin cell guidance signalling"
3:05 – 3:40 pm Cynthia Wolberger, Johns Hopkins University
"How SAGA reads, writes and erases the histone code"
3:40 – 4:15 pm Sharon Campbell, University of North Carolina
"Mechanisms of Vinculin Activation, Motility and Force Transmission"
Session VII Understanding Enzyme Function
Chair: Susan Marqusee, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 – 5:15 pm Ilme Schlichting, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
"Protein structure and dynamics using X-ray free-electron lasers"
5:15 – 5:50 pm Andrzej Joachimiak, Argonne National Laboratory
"Structural insight into allosteric inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis tryptophan synthase"
6:00 – 7:00 pm Drinks & hors d'oeuvres
Chair: Michael Rossmann, Purdue University
Speaker: Tom Steitz, Yale University
"The Structure and Function of the Ribosome Complexes with Various Protein Factors and Antibiotics"
8:45 - 10:00 pm Drinks and Mixing
Please contact Shannan Schnedler at sschnedler@newmexicoconsortium.org or Goutam Gupta at gxg@lanl.gov for more information.
© 2022 New Mexico Consortium


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"It's not what you say, it's how you say it." A very well-known statement we heard time and time again. And as we go through life, the meaning of those words become more apparent. It may sound as a cliché. But the context is ever true. And as life takes us on many excursions, we get to apply what we know. It is about the method in the end.
How many times, girls get approached by boys, or women getting approached by men and there is no interest to pursue anything romantic whether it be, friendship is all they wanted or just there is no click. You see Girls/ Women can truly hurt those who try to get close to them. Your choice of words can damage the person you are dealing with. You can scar them for life if you say what you want without regards of how it's coming out. No one said to walk on eggshells and put others' feelings above yours. I'm sure there is a way to balance both. Protect yourself and at the same time show empathy and respect to others.
So yes, it's all in the method of how you let them down. No need to be mean or act as if they are a piece of garbage. Remember Karma. What goes around, comes around. So don't be surprised later if you get back what you dished out long time ago. Karma doesn't forget.
What about when a parent is trying to discipline their child. The child is sensitive to your words. Whatever you say and how you say it will leave a mark forever. A child will never forget how you made them feel. So use your methods wisely. Leave a good memory. Ask yourself how would you want your child to remember those days. Do you want them to love and respect you or fear you. What you do in their early stages will dictate the adult they will become. It's all in the method dear parents. Never lose sight of what's important. It's about teaching them and helping them grow. Not show power and take pleasure in punishment.
In relationships, people will naturally disagree and have different point of views. It is not always the case that couples or friends want to do things in the same way. You can get similar results, but how you apply it may differ. And so what. Our differences make our relationships successful at times, if we knew how to respect and accept those differences. Therefore it is inevitable that we will have discussions about those differences and we will be annoyed from each other and we will want the other person to adapt to us. That is all natural and justified. However, how it is done is the key to having a successful outcome. Yes, it is all in the method. The result will vary if you yell and scream versus discuss, request and clarify.
The list goes on and on about the methods you use and how it can make all the difference in the outcome. We know what not to do, but we still do it anyway. We don't change our methods because we get stuck in our way of handling things. And we actually think, if our method did not work this time, it is okay, it will work next time. We seem unable to learn, that it never will. The method itself must change and that is the only answer. We can relate this in everything in our lives. I just thought of sharing a few examples. You fill in the rest. Change your methods if it has not worked for you. In the end, it is all about the method.


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Star Wars fans have been given a lot to think about from now until the release of Episode VII after the cast was announced yesterday. But there was one question on all their lips - Who is Daisy Ridley?
Ridley's name appeared alongside expected returnees Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Anthony Daniels will also reprise his role as C-3PO as will Peter Mayhew as the loveable Chewbacca.
More established actors such as Domhnall Gleeson, Andy Serkis, Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac join the cast to add some modern appeal. But where did Daisy Ridley come from?
She is a British actress who has had bit parts on shows like Silent Witness, Casualty, Mr. Selfridge and Toast of London. It has been said that she is an amazing jazz singer and she also excels in accents from various regions in the British Isles.
She is strikingly pretty and will add some much needed femininity to a cast that heavily male dominated. Rumours are flying around that Ridley beat away competition from Hollywood A-listers including Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o which is no mean feat.
Other than that, it is very difficult to find more information on Ms. Ridley as she doesn't even currently have a Wikipedia page. That is all about to change though as she is set to be embraced by one of the biggest and most loyal fan bases in the movie world. Star Wars: Episode VII will be directed by J.J. Abrams as he continues his stellar Hollywood rise.
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The Hypocrisy of Conservatives Opposing the Dreamers
The Left Is No Stranger to Conspiracy Theories Either
Tim Young is Transforming Conservative Comedy
Literature Meets Identity Politics: Lionel Shriver vs. Penguin-Random House
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Pinna: Ocasio-Cortez on the Road
Matthew Pinna
"In the face of all of this evidence, let's give Cortez another shot and ask one more question: why does it even matter if she was hypocritical? Aside from her being an elected official that people are supposed to trust, it's because she made it matter."
Last weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to an excellent New York Post exposé, which had featured yet another case of her rampant hypocrisy. This time it was from back during campaign season.
Instead of using a subway station that was but "a one-minute walk" from her campaign headquarters, the environmentalist had opted to leave a significantly larger carbon footprint: she spent nearly $30,000 on car services, including over 1,000 separate transactions with car services like Uber and Lyft.
So what did the Twitter warrior "clap back" with? That, "living in the world as it is isn't an argument against working towards a better future."
While a conservative's "razor-sharp BS detectors" activated at the first character of that sentence, it's important to note that for the 195,000 people who liked her tweet, such logic actually makes sense. With that in mind, we need to be doing more than just calling Ocasio-Cortez out on her hypocrisy, it is also necessary to explain exactly where and how she contradicts herself, without alienating those who support the Green New Deal.
The point of the Post's piece wasn't to further the debate on the Deal but rather to point out the severe character flaws and personal mistakes of the freshman congresswoman. Fresh off a major PR defeat over losing Amazon—which drew the ire of powerful state Democrats like Governor Andrew Cuomo—Ocasio-Cortez's image, and even electoral future, could be in jeopardy.
Her defenders might argue that she is simply acting out of necessity within an unjust system, one that leaves someone with no other choice but to practice what they consider to be wrong. Unfortunately for the representative, "the world as it is" in New York's 14th District not only has the aforementioned subway line down the block from her HQ but also a plethora of bus routes as well. She wasn't forced to use Uber and Lyft. She chose to use them instead of the cheaper and more environmentally-friendly option of public transit.
"But wait," she would say, "I needed to take all of those Ubers so that I could effectively make change and get elected to this position!"
I completely understand the sentiment underlying that objection. Sometimes, campaign business often calls for quick trips that are best done by car, especially when traveling to areas in the district that aren't as covered by public transit. The New York Post, however, explained that away: "Max Rose—whose district is more than twice the size of Ocasio-Cortez's and, like hers, spans two boroughs—listed only 329 transactions for car services, totaling $6,091.29, campaign filings show."
This realization is made even more poignant when one considers the fact that Congressman Rose's victory over incumbent Republican Dan Donovan in New York's 11th congressional district, which includes Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, was actually an "upset." Unlike Cortez, who effectively won her district after the primaries, Rose was fighting up until the very last day to flip his district (It is an R+3, according to the Cook Political Report). If anybody needed to spend almost 5 times what Rose had used, it was Rose himself, not the one resting on her laurels in a D+29.
In a now viral video, the Congresswoman, in a fit of braggadocio, pushed back against her critics, proclaiming that "[she's] trying, and [they're] not." It called back to her comments that people are too focused on being "factually and semantically correct than about being morally right," particularly when she also remarked that "the power is in the person who's trying, regardless of the success" and that "until [they] do it, [she's] the boss."
In short, the leg that Ocasio-Cortez is attempting to stand on is that despite the Green New Deal's perceived shortcomings, she is morally right in her actions and thus fit to lead the Green Movement.
That leg is kicked out from beneath her when it's revealed that personally, she isn't trying at all. If a progressive doesn't think that hypocrisy is immoral, then at the very least, they have to admit that what Ocasio-Cortez did was entirely lazy—the polar opposite of "trying." She might acknowledge that climate change is a serious problem, but, given some of her choices, she's arguably the last one who ought to be leading the charge against it.
Matthew Pinna is a student at the University of Chicago.
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Saraki Will Win 2019 Presidential Election If... – Primate Ayodele
The founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has said the Senate president Bukola Saraki would win the 2019 presidential election if he grabs the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Punch reports that he, however, warned that the 2019 election would be tougher than that of 2015.
It was gathered that the cleric said he saw storms that period but was quick to add that the country would still survive the period.
He warned that the raging National Assembly crisis might lead to the collapse of democracy in Nigeria if not well handled.
Ayodele spoke on Wednesday, August 15, in Ikere-Ekiti at an empowerment programme he organised in memory of his late father, Elder Olalekan Ayodele, who died 15 years ago.
He donated cash and foodstuff to hundreds of widows and orphans at the event which he said was a means of giving them succour and a sense of belonging.
Ayodele also advised the Ekiti state governor-elect, Kayode Fayemi, to listen to the people for him to succeed in his administration.
He advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) to put its house in order in Osun state to achieve victory at the September 22 governorship election.
On the National Assembly crisis, he said: "Whatever they are doing in the Senate or in government, that is their own problem.
"I have said that nobody can remove Saraki, I don't know Saraki, I have not met Saraki and I don't know Godswill Akpabio. The issue of Saraki, I am not interested because I am not a politician.
"Who is that politician that is not corrupt and who is that politician that does not steal money? Saraki is one of the anointed persons in this country. I don't see Atiku going too far.
"I am not defending Saraki but if Saraki is removed, PDP will sink and if PDP wants to move forward and Saraki having the ticket, PDP will win."


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Ten Commandments on display at Organ Lutheran
Published 12:00 am Saturday, July 6, 2013
There's a new addition to Organ Lutheran Church.
At first glance, the granite statue looks like a guest book waiting to be signed, but a closer look reveals the Ten Commandments etched into the stone.
Last year, members of the Organ Men's Group, known as the OMGs, decided they wanted the historical text displayed outside the church, member Kenny Lambert said.
Their next step was approaching fellow church member Robbie Holshouser, who works at Carolina Quarries, to see if such thing was possible.
It was, and about a year later the massive statue arrived from Rock of Ages, the parent company of Carolina Quarries.
"They did it for us, but the stipulation was that they would do it during their filler time, just working on it when things were slow," Lambert said.
The men's group designed the statue based on various images they found on the Internet.
The 4,300-pound structure consists of two pieces, including a book-shaped piece of stone that rests atop a pedestal base.
"I had no idea it would look as good as it does," Lambert said. "What really fits in a church better than the Ten Commandments? When you get right down to it, that's what we should be living by."
Pastor Carlin Ours said he never dreamed the church would have such a monument right outside its front door.
"It's wonderful, it fits right in," he said. "I think most people have enjoyed looking at it."
Ours said the Ten Commandments is a fitting document to display at the church.
"As Lutherans, we're very traditional and orthodox," he said. "We're taught law in the gospel from Genesis to Revelation. What better represents the law than the Ten Commandments?"
Ours said the statue will serve as a reminder for people to follow God's golden rules.
"We're trying to become a discipleship church, not just a church of members," he said. "If you want to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ, there's no better place to start than the Ten Commandments.
"This is something we want on folks' mind as they walk out the door; we're hoping this will push people in that direction."
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Brann, Christopher Father of Nico Brann Houston, TX
Gambler, Rebecca Director, Homeland Security and Justice U.S. Government Accountability Office Washington, DC
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News AthleticsLegal issues
Gambling on Sports Legal
The Supreme Court has opened the way for states to legalize betting on athletics, a defeat for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and professional leagues.
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law that had forbidden gambling on college and professional sports in most states, a decision that experts expect will create significant problems for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and an inconsistent patchwork of laws among the states.
The ruling is a loss for the NCAA and professional leagues, which had sought to block the challenge to the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act passed under the George H. W. Bush administration.
That federal law prohibited sports gambling in all states but Nevada. Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, and his successor, Phil Murphy, had sought to undo it to help revive the state's ailing casinos and racetracks.
The NCAA had argued that allowing bets on college sports would "undermine the integrity" of athletics and "jeopardize players' welfare." In a statement, the association said, "While we are still reviewing the decision to understand the overall implications to college sports, we will adjust sports wagering and championship policies to align with the direction from the court.''
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the court's majority, opined that individual states had the right to legalize sports gambling and that Congress had overstepped by simply banning it, a "commandeering" of states' sovereignty. The majority's interpretation will likely fuel other campaigns around states rights', such as the push to legalize marijuana in defiance of federal rules.
Despite the prohibition, the American Gaming Association estimated at least $150 billion circulates in sports gambling, almost all of it underground.
"Supporters argue that legalization will produce revenue for the states and critically weaken illegal sports betting operations, which are often run by organized crime. Opponents contend that legalizing sports gambling will hook the young on gambling, encourage people of modest means to squander their savings and earnings, and corrupt professional and college sports," Alito wrote in his opinion. "The legalization of sports gambling requires an important policy choice, but the choice is not ours to make."
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, and Justice Stephen G. Breyer agreed with them in part. Ginsburg wrote in her dissent that the court's majority had wielded "an axe" to cut down the law when it could have simply used "a scalpel to trim the statute."
"On no rational ground can it be concluded that Congress would have preferred no statute at all if it could not prohibit states from authorizing or licensing such schemes," Ginsburg wrote.
Sports law experts and economists believe that the court's ruling will result in a dash by many states, particularly those with existing infrastructure, to launch sports gambling in an attempt to grab at a new wellspring of cash.
Christie, who celebrated that states rights' had won out on Twitter Monday, had predicted that casinos and racetracks would start taking bets quickly. One New Jersey track said it could do so in as little as two weeks.
The billionaire investor Mark Cuban bragged Monday that owners of top professional sports teams just saw the value of their teams double.
The NCAA, however, is right to be unnerved, experts said. Already, the association has been plagued by scandal and scorn, largely related to an alleged kickback deal around men's basketball that federal officials uncovered. Adding more money to the system will only exacerbate the NCAA's issues and likely cause more corruption, they said.
This would put new pressure on the NCAA, said Michael A. Olivas, the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law at the University of Houston. It will need to pass new rules and teach fans about what is permissible in gambling, depending on the state.
"The stakes are going to be higher because the money is going to be greater," Olivas said.
Players will likely start throwing games more under pressure from (or with incentives from) gambling interests, said Gil Fried, a former lawyer and professor of sports management at University of New Haven. While this kind of activity might be expected most at the high-profile Division I level, Fried said he thought it was much more likely in Divisions II and III, where investigators may not pay as much attention and athletes are less likely to reach the professional level and thus have less to lose, Fried said.
Such a scheme is not unheard-of -- a major scandal shook the New York basketball scene in the 1950s, and institutions such as Boston College and Tulane were affected in the 1980s. Basketball is particularly ripe for this type of manipulation, said Charles Clotfelter, professor of public policy, law and economics at Duke University.
The ruling is a "new specter at the NCAA's door," he said, adding that the association thrives off a "clean" image of young men and women competing not for wealth, as in the professional leagues, but for sportsmanship. Having gambling groups and shady characters hanging around locker rooms and stadiums does not benefit the NCAA, he said. Clotfelter said that this will be worsened by legalized gambling because states are giving people license to do so.
The association will likely try to lobby Congress to pass a bill to exempt it, Fried said. Republican senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, one of the original authors of the gambling law, said Monday he plans to introduce new legislation to "protect honesty and principle in the athletic arena," but he offered no details of a plan.
The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which lobbies for academic reforms in college athletics, instead urged states to prohibit gambling on college and amateur sports.
"There should be a clear distinction between wagering on the outcomes of sport professionals and betting on students who compete for their college and high school sports teams," the commission said in a statement.


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Q: Find All Records Between a Range of Two Numbers in a MongoDB Query Is there a way in MongoDB to get records between a range of numbers?
In my example, I am finding the records that match common: 1, and am using a fake range() function to get only the records between that range. In theory, you could just put any numbers in the range function and it would output the records in that range.
This is not what I am asking: $gte, $gt, $lte, $lt
Note: I am not querying based on values. I am querying based on the records natural position in the filesystem relative to all other records.
Users Collection:

db.users = [{
    _id: 123,
    name: "Bill",
    common: 4
  },
  {
    _id: 456,
    name: "Jeff",
    common: 2
  },
  {
    _id: 789,
    name: "Steve",
    common: 4
  },
  {
    _id: 321,
    name: "Elon",
    common: 3
  },
  {
    _id: 654,
    name: "Larry",
    common: 1
  },
]

Unworking Example: (range() isn't a real function, just used to give an idea)

users.find({common: 4}).range(0, 2).then((users) => {
  console.log(users)
})

Expected Result: (because the common fields match and the records are between the range 0 and 2)

db.users = [{
    _id: 123,
    name: "Bill",
    common: 4
  },
  {
    _id: 789,
    name: "Steve",
    common: 4
  },
]

A: This doesn't give the exact expected result, but the whole idea was to select records between two numbers (eg. a range). The way you do this is with the $skip and $limit methods.

users.aggregate([{$skip: 1}, {$limit: 3}, {$match: {common: 4}} ]).then((users) => {
  console.log(users)
})

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FINRA's board took an unusual step at its December 2017 meeting that could have a big impact on alternative investment products.
In this era of regulatory expansion, we often expect FINRA to issue proposals that attempt to expand its reach in the financial services industry, often by establishing new rules or regulations that broker dealers must follow.
However, in December, the board approved the publication of a regulatory notice seeking comments on changes to its rule on outside business activity of registered representatives. Among other things, the rule seeks to streamline broker dealers' obligations by eliminating supervisory obligations for non-broker dealer outside activities, including investment advisory activities at an unaffiliated third-party advisor (emphasis added). Should FINRA make these proposed changes, broker dealers will no longer have liability for the activities of unaffiliated RIA firms. In exchange, however, BDs will no longer have a basis for charging a percentage on the RIA's advisory business. ThinkAdvisor recently ran a story covering the proposal, how it might impact the BD business model, and how it would affect BD competition for advisors with their own RIA.
Do BDs win or lose?
The proposal is currently only just a proposal, and the board has yet to announce the release date of the regulatory notice. As it always does, FINRA will seek comments on the proposed changes. We'll be following those comments with much interest.
Every new rule creates winners and losers. On its face, BDs look like winners. When advice given by hybrid RIAs goes bad, investors (and their attorneys) will always eye BDs for deep pockets (or maybe for deeper E&O coverage). However, BDs who currently supervise unaffiliated RIA activity probably don't mind running those risks. Presumably, they've already made the determination that revenues from the advisor business adequately compensates the firm for the risk. And most mature BDs aren't unfamiliar with investor litigation and how to handle it. Most BDs probably see this potential change as a loss rather than a win.
In addition to the change in BD business models, we're interested in how this impacts the distribution of alternative investment products covered by FactRight. Because of the litigation risks that come with offering any investment products to clients, most hybrid BDs limit their unaffiliated RIAs to whatever products are approved for the BD. If these firms no longer have the duty to supervise products, will an army of hybrid RIAs now be freed to make their own product choices? If so, what kind of support would those advisors need now they're no longer paying for BD product resources?
Perhaps the biggest question in all of this is: how do BDs continue to create value for independent advisors as the distinctions between the brokerage and advisory models become clearer?


BTW, did he say he liked you or not?
Im sorry and everything but i've been through this he doesnt like you same signs with me and i took the chance and asked him out he said no and asked out my friend and he is just trying to avoid you so he doesnt have to answer the question cuz he just doesnt want to be mean or anything trust me ive been through this kind of stuff i know what you are fealing with so trust me on this do no take the chance unless you like to be let down he will say he just wants to be friends i know what to do!!!!!
i think the guy likes u too, but he wants it to be a secret. Maybe thats how guys are...i haven't figured it out yet!
i read ur question about the guy u like and when u asked if u liked him he stopped talking to u i think its because it kinda took him by surprise and scared him a little because i dont think he thinks of u that way. of course if u gave him more time to sink into u yeah but dint rush things..next time.


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South Africa's biggest opposition party, which runs Cape Town, says the city of 4 million won a reprieve because residents have been saving more water in response to authorities' appeals.
The Democratic Alliance party says residents must stick to regulations requiring them to use fewer than 50 litres (13.2 gallons) per person daily to avoid the tap closure.
Officials previously projected "Day Zero" to fall in April and then pushed the date back to May 11 before announcing this new date.
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Luca Guadagnino and Taylor Russell talk Bones and All
Luca Guadagnino is a filmmaker for whom I have the greatest respect. Out of call me by your name to i am loveand his unique attitude sigh, I have become an admirer of his work. And his latest is somewhat shocking and, for some, more than a little disturbing. bones and all is a story about two people who meet and fall in love on a road trip. And yes, they are both cannibals craving the taste of human flesh. The fascinating and at times violent feature film stars Taylor Russell and Timothee Chalamet. And that's certainly a bold feature that's challenging, intriguing, and slightly controversial.
Recently we had the pleasure of speaking to the stunning Luca Guadagnino and the amazing Taylor Russell. For Guadagnino, I asked the celebrated filmmaker how to balance violence with a love story. It's a great conversationalist, and its take on the genre is quite unique and respectable. And then there is the wonderfully talented Ms. Russell. I've been a fan of hers since I saw her waves and the escape room movies. Here she is absolutely stunning as a young girl dealing with some shocking problems. While bones and all may not be associated with some, I found the film incredibly compelling - you can view my review here.
Guadagnino directed from a script he wrote sigh Employee David Kajganich, bones and all tells the first love story between Maren (Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the fringes of society, and Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter as they meet and end up on a thousand mile long journey Joining Odyssey takes you through the back streets, hidden passages and trapdoors of Ronald Reagan's America. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their horrifying past and to a final stand that will determine if their love can survive their differences.
bones and all is currently in theaters and is about as bold a choice as you could make this Thanksgiving weekend.
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Tuesday Dec. 15, bring a toy for the kids!
Over the years, Frida's customers have brought much joy to the children of Vallarta through the toy box we set out each holiday season. It is amazing how fast it will fill up. We have very generous customers for sure!
This year, we've set aside a special night, Tuesday Dec. 15, for you to bring in toys for the children. If you can't make it that night, any night prior is fine. The toy box is ready now! Have a wonderful holiday, wherever you may be. We hope you'll join us on Tuesday if you are here in town.
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New Hampshire won't ban women from showing breasts, nipples
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire House on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have made it crime for women to expose their breasts or nipples in public, a measure that caused an online dispute among several legislators that drew national attention.
The House voted against making it a misdemeanor for women to show their breasts with "reckless disregard" for whether it would offend someone. The bill was partly a response to a "Free the Nipple" movement that led to two women being cited for going topless at a Gilford beach. A judge dismissed that case in February.
The bill caused the spat among lawmakers in December after a male lawmaker said if women want to show their breasts publicly, they should be OK with men wanting to "grab" them.
Bill supporters had cautioned that allowing women to go topless at beaches could lead to them also going topless at libraries and Little League games. They said they were trying to shield families and children.
Opponents said such a ban violates the constitution by creating different standards for men and women.
In its report recommending the bill's rejection, the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety said it heard testimony from many who warned that, due to likely acts of civil disobedience, the state would face expensive court fees if the bill became law. The New Hampshire chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union testified that violation of such a law could be considered protected political speech, indicating the state would be unsuccessful in litigation.
The report said many believed the listing of an offender in the state's sex offender registry after a second conviction to be an excessive punishment.
It said the bill also would place police officers "in the uncomfortable position of having to determine the gender of a potential offender."
It added, "In a state with an average temperature of only 46 degrees, the risk of rampant nudity seems rather low."
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Barbara Ehrenreich's radical critique of wellness and self-improvement
By Gabriel Wiant
Ehrenreich has long been willing to question professional givers of advice. Born in 1941, she had her formative political and intellectual experiences in the Women's Health Movement of the 1970s, in which women sought to create their own knowledge about and control over their bodies. In these efforts, they encountered endless patronizing hostility from male professionals. Doctors discouraged the Lamaze method of childbirth, which focuses on breathing and relaxation techniques, and instead favored anesthesia during labor and delivery. They were outraged at the movement for cervical self-examinations and they warned of the dangers of unsterilized speculums. (Ehrenreich cites feminist writer Ellen Frankfort's cutting retort: "Yes, of course, anything that enters the vagina should first be boiled for at least ten minutes.")
In her own telling, Ehrenreich became a self-conscious feminist when, pregnant with her first child, she asked about her dilation, and her doctor replied, "Where did a nice girl like this learn to talk like that?" Decades before Silvia Federici examined the politics of early modern witch hunts in her now widely beloved Caliban and the Witch, Ehrenreich published with Deirdre English Witches, Midwives, and Nurses—a work that traced the tradition of women's healing knowledge and the history of endless attacks on it from men, culminating in the power of the modern medical establishment. The book was an unexpected hit, and the two followed up with For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women. So you can tell she gets some pleasure from saying no to doctors.
Natural Causes opens with her decision to reject a series of medical interventions. Ehrenreich is in her seventies and has survived breast cancer but, "in the last few years," she writes, she has "given up on the many medical measures—cancer screenings, annual exams, Pap smears, for example—expected of a responsible person with health insurance." She describes making this choice after a series of troubling experiences: First, her primary care doctor talked her into a bone scan, then diagnosed her with osteopenia—thinning of the bones—"a condition that might have been alarming if I hadn't found out that it is shared by nearly all women over the age of thirty-five." Bone scans, though, have been heavily promoted by the manufacturer of the osteopenia drug, which itself turns out to cause bone thinning. Next, she got a false positive on a mammogram and decided never to get another.
Even though she showed no signs of sleep apnea, her dentist wanted her to get a test for it, "after which I could buy the treatment from her: a terrifying skull-shaped mask that would supposedly prevent sleep apnea and definitely extinguish any last possibility of sexual activity." The risk of sudden death in her sleep, she decides, is tolerable. She turns down colonoscopies, certain that she'll die of something else before colon cancer kills her anyway. She fires her doctor after he suspends his ordinary practice and offers "concierge care" instead—pricey, constant access and a heightened testing regime.
Ehrenreich, who has a Ph.D. in cell biology, isn't opposed to scientific medicine. But she is alert to the power dynamics that characterize a patient-doctor relationship and the ways those dynamics can influence patients' decisions: Some will seek or accept treatments that won't help with their condition, simply because so much power is invested in the doctor. Ehrenreich quotes at length from a 1956 article titled "Body Rituals of the Nacirema" ("American" backwards), which describes an American hospital through an ethnographer's eye:
Few supplicants [patients] in the temple are well enough to do anything but lie on their hard beds. The daily ceremonies, like the rites of the holy-mouth-men [dentists], involve discomfort and torture. With ritual precision, the vestals awaken their miserable charges each dawn and roll them about on their beds of pain while performing ablutions, in the formal movements of which the maidens are highly trained. At other times they insert magic wands in the supplicant's mouth or force him to eat substances which are supposed to be healing. From time to time the medicine men come to their clients and jab magically treated needles into their flesh.
Stripped of the authority of Western medicine, the treatments the article describes sound like cruel rituals. "The fact that these temple ceremonies may not cure, and may even kill the neophyte," the article goes on, "in no way decreases the people's faith in the medicine men."
A bit wryly, Ehrenreich points out that she's not the anti-empirical one in this debate. Doctors have been quite resistant to so-called "evidence-based medicine"—the disbursement of treatment according to quantitative evidence rather than medical discretion. And, accustomed to the present system, many patients now worry that anything less than constant testing and maximal intervention would leave them at risk: "An internist in Burlington, North Carolina, reports that when he told a 72-year-old patient that she did not need many of the tests she was expecting in her annual physical, she wrote a letter to the local paper about him as an example of 'socialized medicine.' " Doctors and hospitals use these expectations to drive up demand and prices, and patients, afraid and intimidated, submit.
The way Americans assent to such treatments fits more broadly into a culture of arduous self-improvement regimens. Here, Ehrenreich speaks as an inveterate gym rat, a participant in the astonishing rise of the workout since the 1970s. She sees the ascent of exercise culture in part as a continuation of women's reclamation of their bodies in the 1970s, and in part as an example of the retreat from public concerns and move toward individualism that many of her peers made around the same time. "I may not be able to do much about grievous injustice in the world, at least not by myself or in very short order, but I can decide to increase the weight on the leg press machine by twenty pounds and achieve that within a few weeks," she writes. "The gym, which once looked so alien and forbidding to me, became one of the few sites where I could reliably exert control." What was a consolation, however, quickly evolved into a prize. Working out became a status symbol, a form of conspicuous consumption for a professional middle class bereft of purpose; and it became a disciplinary device, part of a culture that inflicts "steep penalties for being overweight."
Once associated with play, exercise is now closer to a form of labor: measured, timed, and financially incentivized by employers and insurers. Like any kind of alienated labor, it assumes and intensifies the division between mind and body—indeed, it involves a kind of violence by the mind against the body. Ehrenreich is tired of being told to "crush your workout," of being urged to develop "explosive strength" through a "warrior" routine. She cites the copy from an advertisement for a home fitness machine: "A moment of silence please, for my body has no idea what I'm about to put it through." Exercise, for some reason, has become a struggle to the death. As Oscar Pistorius—the amputee and Olympic runner convicted of murder in 2015—has tattooed on his back, "I beat my body and make it my slave / I bring it under my complete subjection."
While workout culture requires the strict ordering of the body, mindfulness culture has emerged to subject the brain to similarly stringent routines. Mindfulness gurus often begin from the assumption that our mental capacities have been warped and attenuated by the distractions of our age. We need re-centering. Mindfulness teaches that it is possible through discipline and practice to gain a sense of tranquility and focus. Such spiritual discipline, often taking the form of a faux-Buddhist meditation program, can of course be managed through an app on your phone, or, with increasing frequency, might be offered by your employer. Google, for example, keeps on staff a "chief motivator," who specializes in "fitness for the mind," while Adobe's "Project Breathe" program allocates 15 minutes per day for employees to "recharge their batteries." This fantastical hybrid of exertion and mysticism promises that with enough effort , you too can bend your mind back into shape.
"Whichever prevails in the mind-body duality, the hope, the goal—the cherished assumption," Ehrenreich summarizes, "is that by working together, the mind and the body can act as a perfectly self-regulating machine." In this vision, the self is a clockwork mechanism, ideally adapted by natural selection to its circumstances and needing upkeep only in the form of juice cleanses, meditation, CrossFit, and so on. Monitor your data forever and hope to live forever. Like workout culture, wellness is a form of conspicuous consumption. It is only the wealthy who have the resources to maintain the illusion of an integral and bounded self, capable of responsible self-care and thus worthy of social status. The same logic says that those who smoke (read: poor), or don't eat right (poor again), or don't exercise enough (also poor) have personally failed and somehow deserve their health problems and low life expectancy.
Of course, the body cannot really be mastered this way. For Ehrenreich, in fact, the body is not even a single thing, but rather a continuous, contradictory process. Immunology—her academic specialty—hinges on an essentially military metaphor of distinction between self and nonself: The immune system protects the homeland by destroying invaders. What, then, are we to make of routine episodes of intrabody conflict? There are obvious cases, such as cancer and autoimmune disorders. But Ehrenreich points out that even something as ordinary as menstruation appears to be the product of the adaptive struggle over resources between mother and fetus, an "arms race ... between the human endometrium and the human embryo/placental combination." The body, like the body politic pictured on the frontispiece of Hobbes's Leviathan, only gives the appearance of unity: It's made of a "collection of tiny selves." And for that matter, there's not really a king to impose order.
In the intriguing, somewhat curious later chapters of Natural Causes, Ehrenreich explores the agency of cells and other "tiny minds." Macrophages—immune cells that destroy pathogens—also abet the spread of cancer and instigate potentially catastrophic inflammatory diseases. They may even, Ehrenreich suggests, be responsible for aging itself. They seem to decide to do this, as it were, on their own. The "immune self," a shadow entity that lives within the human body, sometimes cooperates and sometimes pursues its own agenda.
From there, it's agency all the way down. "From cells to molecules and from molecules to atoms and subatomic particles—the level of spontaneity only increases until we reach the wild dance party that goes on at the quantum level." Ehrenreich is not asserting that macrophages or particles have consciousness, but that they can initiate action unpredictably. Human consciousness can partly grasp but cannot fully master this spontaneity. Indeed, consciousness itself—the unitary Cartesian mind—is a megalomaniacal fantasy, misbegotten by the rise of bourgeois society. "The process of thinking involves conflict and alliances between different patterns of neuronal activity. Some patterns synchronize with and reinforce each other. Others tend to cancel each other, and not all of them contribute to our survival."
Ehrenreich offers a vision of a nonmechanistic physical and biological world, one we've lost track of in the modern effort to measure, manage, and exploit nature. Her account of its working can at times feel bleak. Ehrenreich knows this and teases the reader for registering it with a dust-to-dust litany. "The muscles that have been so carefully sculpted and toned stiffen when calcium from the dead body leaks into them ... the organs we nurtured with supplements and superfoods abandon their appointed functions. The brain we have tamed with mindfulness exercises goes awry within minutes after the heart stops beating." Soon, your brain liquefies and "just pours out the ears and bubbles out the mouth." So much for the sovereign mind.
But Ehrenreich's universe hums with life and activity. It's warm, not cold. She wants to join it in her final years, not leave it behind by cloistering herself in the clinic, the gym, or the spa. For the elderly today, "the price of survival is endless toil" to keep fit, along with incessant trips to the doctor and avoiding all good food, right up till death. She's not interested. She still works out, though less intensely than before, and she stretches every day—some of it even "might qualify as yoga." "Other than that, I pretty much eat what I want and indulge my vices, from butter to wine. Life is too short to forgo these pleasures, and would be far too long without them."
Ehrenreich's political agenda goes largely unstated in Natural Causes, but is nonetheless central to her argument. Since at least the mid-1970s, she has been engaged in a frustrated dialogue with her peers about how they choose to live. In her view, the New Left failed to grasp that its own professional-class origins, status anxieties, and cultural pretensions were the reason that it had not bridged the gap with the working class in the 1960s and 1970s. It was this gap that presented the New Right with its own political opportunity, leading to the ascent of Ronald Reagan and fueling decades of spiraling inequality, resurgent racism, and the backlash against feminism.
The inability of her contemporaries to see themselves with enough distance—either historical distance or from the vantage of elsewhere in the class system—is the subject of some of her best books: Fear of Falling, a study of middle-class insecurity, and Nickel and Dimed, her best-selling undercover report on the difficulties of low-wage employment. At some level, it's what all her work has been about. In the final pages of Natural Causes, Ehrenreich stages a version of this lifelong dialogue with her peers. She tries to convince them, in the last act, to finally concede that the world does not revolve around them. They can, she proposes, depart without Sturm und Drang.
Two years ago, I sat in a shady backyard around a table of friends, all over sixty, when the conversation turned to the age-appropriate subject of death. Most of those present averred that they were not afraid of death, only of any suffering that might be involved in dying. I did my best to assure them that this could be minimized or eliminated by insisting on a nonmedical death, without the torment of heroic interventions to prolong life by a few hours or days.
It's a final, existential version of the same argument she's made forever: for members of her generation and class to see themselves with a touch more perspective.
Despite Ehrenreich's efforts, this radical message hasn't resonated among them as widely as she hoped. She has, meanwhile, worked on building institutions that may foster a different outlook in the years to come. In 2012, she founded the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, an impressive, foundation-backed venture to support journalists reporting on inequality. Ever alert to the threat of social inequality and the responsibility of middle-class radicals, she served until just last year as honorary co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America—that renewed organ of radicalism for the millennial precariat. She is not giving up. "It's one thing," she writes, "to die into a dead world and, metaphorically speaking, leave one's bones to bleach on a desert lit only by a dying star. It is another thing to die into the actual world, which seethes with life, with agency other than our own, and at the very least, with endless possibility."
It takes a special kind of courage to maintain such humility and optimism across a whole lifetime of losing an argument and documenting the consequences. Barbara Ehrenreich doesn't meditate. She doesn't believe in the integral self, coherent consciousness, or the mastery of spirit over matter. She thinks everything is dissolving and reforming, all the time. But she's not in flux—quite the opposite. She's never changed her mind, lost her way, or, as far as I can tell, even gotten worn out. There's the tacit lesson of Natural Causes, conveyed by the author's biography as much as the book's content: To sustain political commitment and to manifest social solidarity—fundamentally humble and collective ways of being in the world—is the best self-care.
NOTE: Gabriel Winant is writing a book on care work and the Rust Belt.
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The Thing Movie
Released in 1982 and directed by John Carpenter, The Thing is a remake of Howard Hawks' film of the same name. It is based on the story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell Jr. and is much closer to the source material than the film released in 1951. One of the biggest differences between the two is that Carpenter's version relies more heavily on special effects. Overwhelmingly so, in fact. Some of the characters seem to be created for the sole purpose of displaying the film's technical prowess.
Cloverfield Movie
Made popular by The Blair Witch Project in 1999, found footage films have been both a blessing and a curse for horror movie fans. Produced by J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk back in 2008, Cloverfield adds to the growing list of movies in the genre. The story follows a group of New Yorkers who are attending a party when all hell breaks loose. It is delivered as a recording from a home video camera which was recovered in area US447 (or Central Park) by the US Department of Defense. Its unofficial title was 1-18-08. The term "Cloverfield" comes up in a disclaimer and is the designated name of the case. It was written by Drew Goddard and directed by Matt Reeves.
The Descent Movie
First released in 2005, The Descent is a British horror flick that has writer-director Neil Marshall behind it. The story follows six friends who explore an unmapped system of caves. They become trapped, then hunted down by man-eating, otherworldly predators that will not only push them to their limits but also test their beliefs. Sound interesting? Well, it is for several reasons
The Resident Evil Movie Collection
Whether it be in videogames or films, the Resident Evil franchise has become a force to be reckoned with. In the former, it practically created the survival horror genre. In the latter, it has combined action and horror and has succeeded in both. With five movies under its belt and a sixth one on the horizon, the series has become one of the highest grossing videogame-based franchises of all time. With a budget of $250 million, it has more than tripled that amount, grossing $915.9 million at the box office worldwide.
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Earlier tonight, Bethesda showed off Prey, the reboot of the Xbox 360 game. This time, instead of playing as Native American Tommy Towadi, you'll be in the boots of Morgan Yu, a subject of experiments that were intended to improve the human race. If you thought that you'd be playing the whole game as a grizzled dude, you're sorely mistaken.
Raphael Colantonio spoke more about the game after the conference ended and revealed that Morgan's gender will in fact be up to the player; if someone wants to play as a male Morgan, they can do so, and vice versa for those who want to play as a female Morgan. They chose the name Morgan because it was gender neutral. If this affects the game in any real way beyond pronouns, Arkane Austin hasn't said yet. Either way, you'll be fighting aliens on the Talon 1 space station with your weapons and mind bending abilities.
Prey comes to the PS4, Xbox One, and PC sometime next year.


Merry Christmas! We hope you enjoyed time with family and friends as we celebrate the birth of our savior.
Sunday, Dec. 30 at 9 a.m. will be our last worship service at Noble Recital Hall in the Jenson-Noble Hall of Music at Luther College.
We are grateful for the generosity of Luther College in providing the Noble Recital Hall for our December worship. Special thanks to Mick Layden, Adrian Walter and Jill Marquardt for their assistance with sound, set-up, decorating and volunteer coordination.
First Lutheran will resume our regular worship schedule, beginning Jan. 5 & 6. The worship schedule will be as follows: Saturday worship – 5 p.m.; Sunday worship – 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday morning education programming will resume in January at 9:50 a.m. in the usual locations. Orange and Adult Forum resume January 6. Confirmation resumes January 13.
Beginning January 5 & 6, all worship services will be held in the Carriage House, which is located directly behind the First Lutheran's educational wing. We appreciate the generous offer from Steve and Alice Runde for the use of this space. The Carriage House has recently been renovated into an event space and has capacity for about 180 people. The space is mapped out to accommodate the choir, a children's area, accessible seating and an area for coffee/fellowship following worship.
Both Sunday worship services will include liturgy and music that are traditional in style. This is for a few reasons – capacity in the Carriage House is about 180 people, which is slightly less than our average worship attendance. We are hoping regular 8:30 worship attendees will consider being flexible and attending worship later in the morning to balance the number of people attending both services. Additionally, due to space issues, the Carriage House is not ideal for New Song-led worship.
We are blessed with many talents within our congregation and we are looking forward to developing worship services that will include different instruments and voices that will continue to bring meaning to worship for everyone.
Our pastors, staff and executive team have worked hard to develop a good solution for worship and education moving forward. Our goal has been to resume our regular programming with as little interruption as possible.
This work is complex – there are many factors to consider, such as accessibility, parking, capacity, moving equipment and resources, cost, sound and many others – and especially that making changes like this requires a willingness to be flexible.
Many options have been thoroughly explored, including looking at many spaces throughout the community and continuing worship at Luther College. We needed a space where worship, education, and fellowship could all thrive, with a minimum amount of set-up, tear-down, and movement of equipment. Many of the options we explored did not afford us education space or storage for our worship and education supplies. Other options would have required us to drastically alter our worship and education schedules.
We have worked to develop the most workable solution for the majority of our programming, and while we have accepted that there is no perfect solution, we are excited about the possibilities available to us in the Carriage House. The beautiful space offers us an intimate opportunity for worship as continue to draw close as a congregation in this next phase of our life together.
The Annual Meeting of the Congregation will be Sunday, Jan. 27 between services, beginning at 9:45 a.m., in the Carriage House.
Installation of the tension cables to help stabilize the walls of the church was completed by the contractor last week (week of Dec. 17). Cameras were also installed to help track some of the structural concerns in the roof.
The building task force has learned that due to the evidence of weight and pressure over time contributing to the instability of the roof and walls First Lutheran's property and casualty insurance company will cover the cost of the tension cables and installation. The insurance claim will cover nearly all of the approximate $30,000 cost to install the cables.
We will be moving chairs and other furniture to the Carriage House this week. Please call the church office at 563-382-2638 if you are able to help with this work.
Please attend worship. We need to continue to gather as a community of worship, and we miss you when you're not there.
Please remember your regular giving and return your stewardship pledges to the church. Making our budget numbers is essential.
Communicate with us. Do you have questions? Concerns? Church leadership aims to engage in thoughtful and deliberate decision-making through this entire building process. We continue to commit to timely and transparent sharing of information.
Continue to pray for our congregation and its leaders. We are incredibly grateful for the compassion, support, and hopefulness that you have shown these last weeks.
We feel God's Spirit moving and working. Together, we continue to trust that holy and beautiful things will continue to come from this unexpected disruption.


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If you're a fan of shopping or sleeping, check this out: Houston ranks as one of the top metro areas in the U.S. for construction of retail and hotel properties.
In the newly released 2019 Construction Outlook from commercial real estate services company JLL, Houston ranks No. 1 for the amount of retail space under construction among U.S. metro areas and No. 5 for the number of hotel rooms set to open this year.
JLL says 4.1 million square feet of retail space is underway in the Houston area. That's equivalent to adding nearly 23 typical Walmart supercenters.
In the hotel sector, 4,576 new rooms are set to welcome guests this year in the Houston area, accounting for 3 percent of the entire national pipeline of lodging. That's equivalent to adding nearly four Hilton Americas-Houston hotels. The Hilton Americas-Houston is the region's largest hotel based on room count (1,200).
Matthew Parson, senior vice president in JLL's Houston office, says the region's retail and hospitality growth aligns with the region's population and economic growth.
"Houston has been one of the national leaders in population growth for a decade now, with over 100,000 people per year moving into the metropolitan area," Parson says. "With the population growth and no true barriers restricting the expansion, suburban sprawl continues to expand suburban communities."
The story is much the same in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
DFW appears at No. 3 among U.S. metro areas for the number of hotel rooms set to open this year and at No. 4 for the amount of retail space under construction.
According to JLL, 7,454 new hotel rooms — representing 5 percent of the entire national pipeline of lodging — are supposed to be ready this year in DFW. To put that into perspective, that's equivalent to adding four Sheraton Dallas hotels. As measured by guest rooms, the Sheraton Dallas Hotel is the region's biggest hotel (1,840 rooms).
On the retail front, 3.3 million square feet of space is under construction in DFW, according to JLL. That's equivalent to adding roughly 18 typical Walmart supercenters.
"The increase in construction in the DFW area is nothing new to our market. It has been happening for an extended period and has been driven by the Metroplex's population growth," says Greg Biggs, managing director of JLL's Dallas office. "Since 2000, annual growth has averaged 122,000 people per year. With the forecast being predicted to increase to over 140,000 people per year, construction of every type of real estate is and will continue to be very active."
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