Protesters call for immigrant's release
Last Updated: October 20. 2011 1:00AM
Josh Katzenstein/ The Detroit News
Detroit— More than a dozen people braved the rain Wednesday afternoon to rally in front of the Detroit office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on behalf of Cesar Hernandez Montoya, a man they hope won't be deported to Mexico.
The 24-year-old, who lives with his family in Sturgis, has been detained at the Calhoun County Correctional Center in Battle Creek since August, when police found him driving without a license and later discovered he didn't have proper immigration documents.
Montoya, a Sturgis High School graduate, worked as a disc jockey and was hoping to go to college next year, family members said. He was active in church and the community and never had a problem with the law before the traffic violation.
In a statement Wednesday, immigration officials said Montoya will remain in custody until his removal proceedings; no date was available Wednesday.
"(He) was allowed to voluntarily depart to his home country on two separate occasions and returned without permission prior to his most recent arrest," the statement read. "Following a hearing, he was denied bond by an immigration judge and ordered detained. He remains in custody pending the outcome of removal proceedings."
More than 2,000 people sent petitions to ICE asking for Montoya to be freed, and Wednesday's rally was an additional show of support, backers said.
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Protesters call for immigrant's release (The Detroit News)
Immigrant detainee's request to stay in U.S. to marry denied (The Star-Ledger)
Immigrant detainee's request to stay in U.S. to marry denied
Published: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 7:35 PM
By Julia Terruso/The Star-Ledger
NEWARK — For Ruben Quinteros the news keeps getting worse. Quinteros, an immigrant detainee sitting in Delaney Hall in Newark, was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers seven days before he was due to get married last month.
He had overstayed his visa. Today, his lawyer received a fax from ICE rejecting his request for a Stay of Removal.
Quinteros and his fiance, Neida Lavayen have been together for two years and had planned to marry Sept. 23. Since her fiance was detained, Lavayen has been on a mission to marry Quinteros. But she’s hit roadblocks every step of the way.
She cannot find a clerk willing to travel into the detention center to issue a marriage license, which can only be obtained in person. And Quinteros is not permitted to leave the detention center, though ICE officials would permit a clerk to issue a license on site.
If he is married, Quinteros has a good chance of getting a green card and staying in the country, attorneys specializing in immigration law have said. ICE already has the travel papers to send Quinteros back to Uruguay, an ICE official said.
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Space-time-crystal-powered eternal clock could keep time after end of universe
Researchers have now proposed an experimental design for a 'space-time crystal' that would be able to keep time forever.
Scientists have proposed a way to build a clock that will keep perfect time forever.
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EnlargeThe idea for an eternal clock that would continue to keep time even after the universe ceased to exist has intrigued physicists. However, no one has figured out how one might be built, until now.
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Researchers have now proposed an experimental design for a "space-time crystal" that would be able to keep time forever. This four-dimensional crystal would be similar to conventional?3D crystals, which are structures, like snowflakes and diamonds, whose atoms are arranged in repeating patterns. Whereas a diamond has a periodic structure in three dimensions, the space-time crystal would be periodic in time as well as space.
The idea of a 4D space-time crystal was first proposed earlier this year by MIT physicist Frank Wilczek, though the concept was purely theoretical. Now a team of researchers led by Xiang Zhang of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has conceived of how to make one a reality.
"The idea of creating a crystal with dimensions higher than that of conventional 3D crystals is an important conceptualbreakthrough in physics, and it is very exciting for us to be the first to devise a way to realize a space-time crystal," Berkeley Lab physicist Tongcang Li, a member of the research group, said in a statement. [Twisted Physics: 7 Mind-Blowing Findings]
Zhang and his colleagues suggest that a space-time crystal could be constructed using an electric field to trap charged atoms (called ions), and taking advantage of the natural repulsion between two like-charged particles (positive and positive, or negative and negative), which is called Coulomb repulsion.
"The electric field of the ion trap holds charged particles in place and Coulomb repulsion causes them to spontaneously form a spatial ring crystal," Zhang said. "Under the application of a weak static magnetic field, this ring-shaped ion crystal will begin a rotation that will never stop. The persistent rotation of trapped ions produces temporal order, leading to the formation of a space-time crystal at the lowest quantum energy state."
In other words, the scientists would aim to create a ring of charged particles, with the resulting electromagnetic forces causing the structure to rotate perpetually. At its lowest quantum-energy state, also known as its ground state, the system has no disorder, or entropy, and there is no way for its entropy to increase over time. Thus, the crystal's?temporal structure and timekeeping ability would continue even after the universe reached a state of "heat death," also known as thermodynamic equilibrium, when it had devolved into entropy.
The researchers describe their idea in a paper published recently in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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If your significant other has recently told you to hit the road,?The Daily Meal?has some ideas for where to go.
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These five heartbreak holidays feature activities to de-stress, get in shape, pamper yourself, and hopefully heal a broken heart. Even if you haven?t had a recent breakup, these action-packed holidays celebrate the single life.
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Feeling blue because your summer fling is over and you?re suddenly single? You?re not alone. There were 102 million unmarried people in America ages 18 and older in 2011, according to the US Census.
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From taking out aggression on a shooting range to sunset cruises and champagne concerts, these trips and their activities are likely to boost your spirits. Plus, the third week of September is Unmarried and Single Americans Week, making September an ideal time for a solo sojourn. Who knows? You might even meet someone along the way.
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For ladies mending a broken heart,?THE OUT NYC, the city?s first "straight-friendly" gay hotel, is the perfect spot to surround yourself with sexy men who won't break your heart but are ready to dole out compliments. If you happen to be a gay man on the mend, then THE OUT may be the perfect place to meet someone new.?Rates start at $250 per night.?
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Let out your aggression at?Sea Island?s shooting school or work out your frustration on one of three championship golf courses on the Georgia coast. There?s even a bagpiper who plays on the golf course at sunset. Sea Island also has a bevy of testosterone-fueled activities, like salt-marsh kayaking, fishing, boating, a smoking lounge, tennis and squash courts.?Rates start at $395 per night.????
For the Fitness Fanatic (St. Lucia)
For those who want to relax on the beach, shed a few pounds and mingle with other singles,?The BodyHoliday?September Solos retreat may just do the trick. From Sept. 2 to 30, the all-inclusive resort, which has 29 single garden rooms ? it's the only Caribbean resort to have dedicated singles rooms ? is hosting its September Solos retreat, which includes daily spa treatments, group dinners, nightly cocktail hours, weekly sunset cruises and champagne concerts. The resort also has organized activities like a zip-line tour, sports tournaments, group fitness and Pilates classes.?Rates start at $389 per person per night.??
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The?Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa?offers singles the chance to play and party hard. Try your hand at the poker table, dine at celebrity chef restaurants like The Sunroom by Geoffrey Zakarian, Bobby Flay Steak or Wolfgang Puck American Grille, or get pampered at Spa Toccare. Then dance your cares away at the hotel?s clubs MIXX and mur.mur, or toast the single life at Gypsy Bar.?Rates start at $329 per night.??
For the Budget-Conscious (New York City)
Feeling low and the breakup has left you broke? You can still live luxuriously at the new?Pod 39 Hotel?in Murray Hill. The Single Pod room has a private bathroom, bedside media hubs, free Wi-Fi and a wall-mounted flat-screen television. Guests can connect with new friends in Pod 39?s communal space, which features an interactive screening wall in the lobby where travelers can connect via social media and photo uploads. The 17th-floor Rooftop Lounge is the ultimate gathering space to grab a cocktail with new friends while taking in a panoramic view of Manhattan.?Rates start at $119 per night.?
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Alabama Senate approves "monstrosity" that would tie legislators' pay to median income
The Alabama Senate this afternoon approved a junked-up "monstrosity" of a bill to tie legislators' pay to the median household income in Alabama.
Senators voted 28-6 for the proposed constitutional amendment after tacking on multiple add-ons including that a 2007 pay raise would be repealed immediately, lawmakers would forfeit pay in times of high unemployment, and legislators would have to reimburse the state if they accepted a controversial 2007 pay raise.
Senators in favor of the bill said they weren't even sure if all the changes were constitutional.
"What came out today was a monstrosity that we want to correct in conference committee," Senate President Pro Tempore Del Marsh, R-Anniston, said.
"The House is not going to concur with this. I'm going to beg them not to concur with this. We are going to send it to conference and fix it in conference," Marsh said.
The original proposal would change the way lawmakers are paid, giving them a base salary equal to the state's median household income. Additionally, they would be paid a daily expense allowance and mileage, identical to what state employees get, to cover travel expenses to Montgomery.
Lawmakers currently earn a minimum of $53,388 each year. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the state's 2010 median household income at $40,474.
Under the new proposal, a lawmaker who lived 128 miles from Montgomery, for instance, would make about $45,980, according to an estimate from the Legislative Fiscal Office.
The proposed change is a constitutional amendment that would take effect immediately after the 2014 general election if voters approved it.
The bill comes after a much-criticized pay raise that lawmakers approved in 2007 without a recorded vote. The 61-percent pay raise included automatic cost-of-living adjustments.
But senators engaged in a type of political race of who could be more in favor of slashing legislative pay.
Sen. Roger Bedford, D-Russellville, accused Republicans of presenting a "Trojan Horse," noting the bill would not repeal the 2007 raise immediately and it would stay in place if voters voted down the proposed constitutional amendment
Bedford put on an amendment that lawmakers would forfeit their pay any time the state's unemployment rate crept above 5.2 percent, saying lawmakers should follow the governor's example.
Marsh said some of the opposition was a "show" and countered with an amendment of his own that lawmakers would have to give back any pay raise they took if they were in office when the 2007 raise was approved. Marsh said he didn't take the pay raise.
"I've withstood as much hypocrisy as I can for one day," Marsh said.
Agnes Simpson, longtime owner of Dothan's WOOF radio station, dead at 87
Agnes Simpson, longtime owner of Alabama's WOOF radio stations in Dothan and the first woman to be named Alabama Broadcaster of the Year, has died. She was 87.
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"In the radio business, she and I are old school," said longtime General Sales Manager Hal Edwards. "Not just because we were old but because we still cling to the ideal of serving our listeners. We always agreed that at WOOF Radio, our job was 'To serve the public interest and our business is the promotion of legal commercial enterprise' and we did that."
Simpson was born in Prescott, Ariz. and attended the University of Alabama, where she met her future husband, R.A. Dowling. She served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and moved to Dothan after the war.
She and her husband got a license to operate an AM radio station in 1947 and launched WOOF. After her husband died, Simpson obtained a license for one of Alabama's first FM stations, which launched in 1964.
Simpson sold commercials and also did news broadcasts on both stations. She won awards for her broadcasting, including the Silver Medal Award from the Dothan Advertising Federation and Alabama Broadcaster of the Year.
Simpson served as the president of WOOF until recently when she took ill.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity.