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OXFORD – With a dominating second-half performance, Ole Miss reached two goals Saturday night, ending a three-year losing streak to rival Mississippi State and getting to a bowl game in the first season under new coach Hugh Freeze.
Bo Wallace shook off three turnovers and passed for five touchdowns, and the Rebels held the Bulldogs to 1.2 yards per rush in a 41-24 win before 61,005 fans at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
Ole Miss is bowl-eligible for the first time since 2009. Exactly what that means for the Rebels remains to be seen.
Staff members from the AutoZone Liberty Bowl attended the game, as did scouts from the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, the latter there to court MSU.
Destination notwithstanding, the Rebels are elated to be 6-6 overall, 3-5 in the SEC after a dry spell – winning just one SEC game over the previous two seasons – led to the dismissal of former coach Houston Nutt.
Ole Miss students rushed the field and bedlam followed the game's end, and the only bowl on the minds of so many at that time was the Egg Bowl.
"I hate to keep saying it, but these seniors have had to go through two or three years of having to hear what they've had to hear everywhere they go," Freeze said. "Those kids have had some difficult times, and now they can hear the good side of it."
While the Rebels began the night with a lead of 18 games in the series with MSU, Ole Miss had not beaten the Bulldogs since the arrival of Dan Mullen as head coach.
The loss dropped MSU, which began the season with seven straight wins, to 8-4 overall, 4-4 in the conference.
"Give them credit. Their kids played hard and made a lot of plays when they needed to make big plays," Mullen said.


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Study: Integrated Cafeterias Solve Racism
You probably remember being in school and looking across the cafeteria at all the mysterious, differently-hued people huddled at their own table on the other side of the room and asking yourself, "Why are all those weird [black/ white/ Asian/ Latino/ Unidentifiable] kids sitting together? No wonder we are so racist." Then you continued telling racist jokes to your own racially homogenous table.
Well. A new study of racial attitudes among students at a liberal arts college reveals that had you all eaten together, you could have eradicated racism! At least on your own little campus. What a jerk you were/ are:
This was where the researchers noted a significant difference beyond eating patterns. Those who didn't regularly eat with people of a different [racial] group were 54 to 60 percent less likely to report a positive racial environment on campus. The gap was similar for all ethnic and racial groups.
Talking about race in class didn't do jack for racial attitudes. Only eating together in the caf. Which everyone is too mortified to do, in the real world! So we'll all remain suspicious and apart forever. You can't just expect us to go sit with strangers. That's crazy.
Stories about how you always ate with an integrated group because you're just a natural trailblazer go in the comments.

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Osiris was killed by his brother Seth, who shut his body in a chest and threw it into the Nile, where it washed up onto the shore and was trapped in a huge tree. The King Byblos turned it into a pillar in his palace. Isis (who had been searching for her husband) discovered the trunk, and retrieved the trunk and the body. While Isis was away, Seth found the body, and chopped it up into many pieces, and scattered them throughout Egypt. Isis and her sister, Nephthys, found the pieces and made wax models of them to give to priests to be worshipped. When they found all of his pieces, they were so sad they wailed loudly enough for Re, the father god, to have pity on them. He sent Anubis and Thoth to help. They mummified Osiris, and put his body in a lion headed pier. Isis changed into a kite and fanned breath into Osiris.
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No, try not! Do or do not! There is no try. I just love that. Yoda is my guru. And A.C. Ping leads off a second packed volume of his self-help trilogy with Yoda's line from The Empire Strikes Back. DO is the lime-green paperback, appearing between Ping's other well-received books, BE and FAITH, and it is packed with pragmatic tips and observations culled from traditional and new age spiritual teachings. Ping wastes no time getting to the call to action. This is a serious guide for personal transformation and its mantra might be "no excuses."
There are lots of good examples of the teachings in action, from the certainty required to manifest through creative visualization to an admonition to "Change your story" when it isn't going well. Accompanying the advice are methods for doing so—not thinking about it or trying to do it but moving in the direction of your dream. Ping talks about the risk inherent in putting everything on the line, and the necessity for doing so. He gets pretty explicit about it, confessing incidents when he convinced himself to take the easy way out and then missed an important opportunity for growth.
"There is no road" said poet Antonio Machado. "We make the road by walking." (Another favorite quote.) DO is the imperative, the active verb that machetes the underbrush and clears the way. There is nothing startling and brand new in Ping's prescriptions. You can find advice about meditating to build inner strength and clarity, evaluating energy transactions between people to determine whether they are positive, writing intentions down to concretize them, daring to be honest and authentic even when it makes you uncomfortable, cultivating the patience to wait for exactly what you want and need and then going for it. The virtue of the book is that so many of the classic teachings about self-realization and creating your own life are contained in one place.
DO would be a great carry-along for a blast of inspiration when you're stuck in a line or commuting to work. It's a practical workbook with space to make your own notes as you adapt the ideas to your life and experience. In some ways, this is a compact primer of common sense but it's full of universal principles, not homespun. Ping's message is a digest of all the nuggets of wisdom in all those volumes of self-help you've read—or despaired of ever reading. Dip into it in the library or the bookstore and see if it speaks to you. Just do it.
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Teaching Interests: Medieval literature studies, Arthurian literature, Chaucer, medieval drama, medieval women, romance (medieval to modern), Greek mythology,and literature and the Bible.
Although women and women's issues were rarely covered in Dr. Moranski's graduate training in medieval coursework, she has strived to educate students and the community about medieval women writers (Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pizan, Heloise, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and others) and use feminism and cultural studies to study romances (both canonical and non-canonical) from a variety of periods, including the Middle Ages and the 19th and 20th centuries.
Accomplishments: Karen has given numerous conference papers on medieval prophecy, modern historical fiction, and pedagogy at the International Congress of the Medieval Institute, the Conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest, the Mid-America Medieval Association Conference, the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, and the Illinois Philological Association Conference. Her book-length projects include Prophet Margins and The Whole Prophesie of Scotland. She has also presented on the Capital Scholars Program and assessment at the Association for Integrative Studies Conference, the National Collegiate Honors Council, and Illinois Board of Higher Education workshops.


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Kakashi Gaiden (カカシ外伝, Viz: Kakashi Chronicles, Literally meaning: Kakashi Side Story), known as The Kakashi Side Story ~ A Boy's Life on the Battlefield ~ (カカシ外伝~戦場のボーイズライフ~, Kakashi Gaiden ~Senjō no Bōizu Raifu~) in the anime, is an arc of the series, which functions as an intermission between Parts I and II of the manga. It was later adapted into two Shippūden episodes: 119 and 120. This arc explores how Kakashi Hatake gained his Sharingan. In the manga, it is preceded by the Sasuke Recovery Mission and followed by the Kazekage Rescue Mission. In the anime, this arc takes place in the middle of the Itachi Pursuit Mission.
In the midst of the Third Shinobi World War, at a team meeting to hear about their new mission, Kakashi received gifts of a Flying Thunder God Kunai from Minato and a medical pack from Rin for his advancement to jōnin.[1] His other teammate, Obito, in addition to being late (supposedly from helping an old woman), had forgotten to bring a gift, and became annoyed at Kakashi when he dismissed whatever he would've given him as useless. Obito boasted that, once he awakened his Sharingan, the kekkei genkai of the Uchiha clan, he would finally surpass Kakashi.[2] Minato told his team their mission: they must travel through Kusagakure in the midst of a conflict between Iwagakure and Konohagakure to destroy a bridge so as to stop them from receiving their supplies.[3] Along the way, the Konoha ninja noticed that they were being watched from the trees by Mahiru, an Iwagakure ninja. Kakashi saw this as a good time to try out his new technique, the Chidori, although Minato warned him about being hasty.[4]
Kakashi rushed off to attack their hidden foe. Mahiru, however, used the Shadow Clone Technique, creating multiple identical clones of himself that Kakashi uselessly attacked. Mahiru used the mayhem he had created to attack Obito, who was paralysed by fright, but Minato rescued him from harm.[5] Meanwhile, Kakashi was being attacked by the real Mahiru, who buried his katana deep into Kakashi's right shoulder. Kakashi narrowly escaped death with a well-timed diving tackle by Minato, who attached a special tag onto Mahiru's foot in the process.[6] Assured of the team's well-being, and having transported them a safe distance away, Minato left Rin to care for Kakashi's wound, and instantly teleported behind Mahiru using his famed Flying Thunder God Technique.[7] Mahiru was shocked to have faced "Konoha's Yellow Flash" (木ノ葉の黄色い閃光, Konoha no Kiiroi Senkō), and, before he died, regretted that he hadn't obeyed the "flee on sight" order given by his village if anyone was unfortunate enough to encounter Minato.[8]
Minato returned to find the team at each others' throats, with Kakashi calling Obito a coward for hesitating on the battlefield and the latter criticising Kakashi for blindly rushing into battle. Minato told Kakashi to never again use the Chidori, because of its inherent flaw: Kakashi's eyes were not fast enough to see his opponent's counterattack, putting him in great danger.[9] After criticising Obito for speaking without thinking, Minato decided that rest was in order. Disturbed by the day's events and by Kakashi's abrasive behaviour, Obito was unable to sleep, and sought out Minato to ask him why Kakashi acted the way he did. Minato told him of how Kakashi's legendary father, Sakumo Hatake, who had also been known as "Konoha's White Fang" (木ノ葉の白い牙, Konoha no Shiroi Kiba), had killed himself after the village had looked down on him for rescuing his teammates rather than completing his mission.[10] From that point forward, Kakashi had adopted a mentality strictly adhering to the rules of the shinobi, which stressed the elimination of emotions and utter concentration on completing one's mission. Minato then urged Obito to try to understand Kakashi, and not to hate him.
After Rin used her medical abilities to heal Kakashi's wounds, Minato told the team that they had to split up. Minato headed off alone, leaving the group to be led by Kakashi. Obito, touched by Minato's words the night before, accepts Kakashi as the leader, surprising both Kakashi and Rin. Kakashi then led his team further into Rock territory in order to accomplish their objective. However two Iwagakure ninja, Kakkō and Taiseki appeared in search of Mahiru, and ambushed the trio.[11] They managed to capture Rin before fleeing.[12] Obito told Kakashi that he was going after Rin, but Kakashi, as the team leader, decided that they should complete their mission without detouring to protect a friend. Obito then punched Kakashi, telling him that his father had been a true hero when he had decided to protect his friends.[13] Obito then went off on his own to save Rin while Kakashi walked the opposite way.
Minato arrived to help the demoralised and heavily outnumbered Konoha ninja in battle by using his Flying Thunder God Technique to decimate the opposing army's numbers.[14] Elsewhere in Kusagakure, Obito's words pressed heavily upon Kakashi's conscience, while Obito found out where the Iwagakure ninja were hiding Rin. But, as Obito plotted his plan of action, Taiseki, having observed Obito's appearance, sneaked behind Obito using the Hiding with Camouflage Technique.[15] Before Taiseki was able to strike Obito however, Kakashi arrived, initially claiming that he had believed that Obito could not handle the situation on his own. He successfully deflected an attack that would have been otherwise fatal against Obito, but lost his left eye in the process. Obito was frightened and began to cry, but eventually regained his focus and activated his Sharingan for the first time.[16] Using it, he was now able to see his invisible attacker and kill him.
Kakashi bandaged up his eye, and he and Obito approached the cave to save the weakening Rin from Kakkō, the remaining Iwagakure ninja. Using their skills and teamwork, and Obito's new Sharingan, they struck Kakkō in the shoulder and saved Rin. However, the battle had weakened the cave, and, in a last ditch effort to defeat the young shinobi, Kakko caused the cave to crumble in upon itself.[17] With rocks falling all around the Konoha ninja, Obito threw Kakashi out of the way of a falling rock, which landed on him instead, and crushed the entire right side of his body. Mortally wounded, and knowing that he's dying, He told Rin to remove his remaining left eye, and offered it - along with the Sharingan - to Kakashi, as a final gift and belated present to Kakashi for being promoted to jōnin.[18] Kakashi began to be conscienced and started to cry, believing himself unworthy to lead the group, but Obito told Kakashi that he was a great ninja, and that he could become Kakashi's eye and help them all live on. A short time passed, and Kakashi emerged from the rubble as a holder of the Sharingan, and a new scar.[19]
When Kakashi emerged, he attacked Kakkō and managed to kill him using his newly perfected Chidori.[20] More Iwagakure ninja arrived and caused a further cave-in.[21] Rin and Kakashi were forced to leave Obito behind as the rubble enveloped him. Enraged, Kakashi went to fight his opponents. He activated his Chidori and prepared the special kunai given to him by Minato. Before the enemies attacked him, Kakashi threw the kunai, and then passed out due to a lack of chakra.[22] Kakashi awakened to find their enemies defeated and Minato beside him. Minato explained that the special kunai he had given Kakashi had alerted him when it was thrown.[23] Minato then apologised for not arriving sooner. The remaining team members cherished their memories of Obito, and went on to destroy the bridge.[24]
From that point forward, Kakashi would become famous amongst all the five countries as "Copy Ninja Kakashi" (コピー忍者のカカシ, Kopī Ninja no Kakashi), thanks to the gift Obito had given him.[25] It was also revealed that, in the years that followed that Kakashi adopted some of Obito's traits such as losing track of time, mainly because of his frequent visits to the Memorial Stone and giving excuses that were similar to the ones Obito had given, as well as adopting Obito's belief that teamwork takes priority over following the rules. Kakashi visits the memorial stone located near the training grounds every morning in Obito's honour, making him late for almost everything.
Promotional Material
As with many movies in the series, the two anime episodes of this arc are available in an ani-manga version. It was released in Japan on June 4, 2010 (ISBN 978-4-08-874838-2).
|English title
|WSJ release date
|Volume number
|"Side Story 1: Mission Start…!!"
|6 December 2004
|"Side Story 2: Teamwork!!"
|13 December 2004
|"Side Story 3: A True Hero"
|1 January 2005
|"Side Story 4: The Crybaby Ninja"
|8 January 2005
|"Side Story 5: Gift"
|13 January 2005
|"Side Story Final Story: The Hero of the Sharingan"
|22 January 2005
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|Japanese Airdate
|English Airdate
|"Kakashi Chronicles ~ Boys' Life on the Battlefield ~ Part 1"
|30 July 2009
|10 April 2012
|"Kakashi Chronicles ~ Boys' Life on the Battlefield ~ Part 2"
|30 July 2009
|10 April 2012
- Portions of this arc were re-used as flashbacks in Kakashi's reflections in the movie Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire.
- In the Japanese version of Shippūden episode 343, some of the dialogue from footage of Shippūden episodes 119 and 120 by Kakashi and Obito is re-dubbed by their new, more youthful sounding voice actors.
- ↑ Naruto chapter 239, page 8
- ↑ Naruto chapter 239, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 239, page 13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 239, pages 18-19
- ↑ Naruto chapter 240, pages 6-7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 240, page 8
- ↑ Naruto chapter 240, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 240, page 11
- ↑ Naruto chapter 240, page 14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 240, pages 17-18
- ↑ Naruto chapter 241, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 241, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 241, page 18
- ↑ Naruto chapter 242, pages 4-5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 242, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 242, page 18
- ↑ Naruto chapter 243, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 243, page 17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 243, pages 18-19
- ↑ Naruto chapter 244, pages 4-5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 244, page 8
- ↑ Naruto chapter 244, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 244, page 16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 244, page 18
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Blake Shelton Books Oklahoma Tornado Benefit Show With Help From a Few Friends
Native Oklahoman Blake Shelton moved quickly to organize a benefit concert for his home state and the town of Moore, which was battered by a deadly tornado on Monday (May 20).
A day after the devastating storm, the singer announced that he would be putting a show together and rallied the troops. A mere eight days later, it will happen, since time is of the essence when it comes to natural disasters and mending the destruction they leave behind.
"Everyone has their way to help, and mine as an entertainer is to perform to help raise money and awareness for this tragedy," Shelton says in a press release.
The show will take place Wednesday, May 29 at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. He adds, "This is why I want to do this special and especially hold it in Oklahoma City, which is near ground zero."
Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire and Vince Gill will join Shelton as performers, with more artists TBA. Dubbed 'Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert,' the charity event will be broadcast live on NBC -- the same network which employs Shelton as a coach on 'The Voice.' It will also air live or delayed on cable networks Style, G4, E!, Bravo and CMT and will act as a telethon, with the option for viewers to make donations while they're tuned in.
Tickets for seeing the benefit show in person will go on sale Saturday (May 25) at 10AM via Ticketmaster. They will start at $25, with proceeds going to the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund. The group will use the contributions for immediate and long-term recovery efforts in the Moore area.
On Thursday (May 23), Shelton shared a link on his Facebook page asking fans to help give to the community by simply hitting 'share.' For every share in a 24-hour period, jcpenney promised to give $1 to the American Red Cross to aid in the relief effort, up to $50,000. At press time, Shelton's post alone had over 66,000 shares on the social media site.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Here It Comes
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"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.
With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.
"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)
"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.
"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."
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All queries should be channelled through the call centre, Joburg Connect, which can be contacted 24 hours, seven days a week, on 0860 56 28 74 or 011 375 5555 For each query, you will get a reference number. Make sure you keep this number so that you can follow up your query. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Zoo Lake: Even though Zoo Lake is generally busy with joggers, skateboarders, children and amblers, you can still find a number of quiet spots to enjoy a secluded, undisturbed picnic.
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Thokoza Park: Incorporating Moroka Dam, this park has reclaimed its pristine status of being a prime attraction of Rockville in Soweto. The park covers 4,5 hectares.
Rhodes Park: This modestly sized park is truly great in creative stature. A marvellous mix of stepping stones and railway sleepers leads you through the park - along the lanes, over the waterfalls, through thickets and past beautiful ponds.
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Florida Lake: There are masses of waterfowl on the lake and the adjacent bird sanctuary ensures excellent bird watching.
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The Wilds: Meandering footpaths and walkways lead you through this beautiful area with its abundance of indigenous shrubs, plants and trees.
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Kloofendal Nature Reserve: Kloofendal is a cultural heritage and ecotourism facility. In the Roodepoort suburb of Kloofendal, the 150 hectare reserve was one of the first nature reserves in Joburg and offers urbanites a retreat from city life.
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Rietfontein Nature Reserve is about 24km north of the city in the small suburb of Paulshof. This 25 hectare indigenous green space with its quartzite koppie evokes in all visitors a feeling of being in the country.
Melville Koppies: Follow a footpath through nature leading to a hilltop with panoramic views, see a variety of plants, birds, small mammals and snakes, be exposed to historical sites - all while staying in Joburg.
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Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, 11km south of Joburg city centre, is a 680 hectare nature reserve, known as "Stone River Mountain".
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Joubert Park is the city's oldest park, granted by the Volksraad in 1887, and named after the town's first mining commissioner sent to investigate the claims of gold rush fortune seekers.
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Unlike Rome, a beautiful community park can be built in a day - and yet last a lifetime. Johannesburg City Parks' Xtreme Park Makeover project turns dusty, derelict land into a green haven in just 24 hours.
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It's time to step out of the winter blues and into your park. Summer is here and what better way to spend a lazy afternoon on stretches of green lawns, shady trees and crisp fresh air.
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo, the champions of greening and open spaces in the City of Joburg, offers residents state of the art parks this summer. We continue to roll out liveable green open spaces, providing memorable experiences of the great outdoors.
Here are a few parks in your area to choose from:
Diepsloot Park is a favourite for residents living in and around this park. Quite large in size, the park offers users the popular free-to-use outdoor Quite large in size, the park offers users the popular free-to-use outdoor gym, swings, slides, round-abouts, a mini soccer field, a place reserved for indigenous games and park furniture. The shady trees are a sure winner for those long summer days where residents can bring along a blankie and picnic on the grassy lawns. The park is situated at King Senzangakhona Drive, Diepsloot West.
Ivory Park, also popular with its users is spacious and full of life. The park boasts park benches, picnic and braai facilities, a state-of-the-art children's play area with rubberised surfaces, an outdoor gym, fitness track, and mini-soccer pitch. This park has big open spaces for gatherings, screenings and amenities for corporate events. Find your park on Ho Chi Min Street, Ivory Park Ext 8.
Mayibuye Park offers residents ample space for relaxing under relatively large trees with a mini soccer field, modern play equipment and a braai area. Visit your park on Bhokoda Street, a stone's throw from Mayibuye Primary School, Midrand. The park can be found on Corner Edmond Shezi and Ngwingwi Streets, Mayibuye.
Alberts Farm Conservancy is one of the jewels of Joburg and is the second-biggest green lung in our City. The Park is perfect for runners, cyclists and those who prefer to walk. It is common for the avid kite flyers, with large shady trees for picnicking. With its spectacular view of Joburg, its ridges draw many nature trails on early crisp mornings. The wetland and marshy areas are home to approximately 130 species of birds, indigenous shrubs and plants. The fresh spring water and stream bring tranquillity to users. The park also hosts park runs every Saturday morning. Visit this nook at 8th Street in Greymont.
Sophiatown Xtreme Park is a fully fledged park in a densely populated area in Westdene, and is ideally situated and accessible to all living in the area. It boasts paved pathways, landscaped lawns and trees, a mini-soccer field and a fenced play area with modern play equipment. Residents regularly pack picnic blankies with family and friends on lazy afternoons. The park also offers a free-to-use gym, park furniture, benches, braai area and bins. The park can be found on 76 Gold St, Sophiatown.
Westdene Dam and Park, a tranquil haven for the peace seeking users, is ideal for picnicking, taking a stroll and enjoying the dam. With large shady trees and landscaped lawns, the dam also boasts recently installed free-to-gym equipment and state of the art play equipment for the little ones. The dam and park are securely fenced for added security. Visit the park on 14 Lewes Road, Westdene.
Delta Park is a lush, green 13-hectare lung in the North of Joburg, between Victory Park, Craighall and Blairgowrie. The park is expansive for those who love long walks or taking a run or just a stroll with their dogs. The massive trees provide tranquility and a peaceful nook away from the buzzing City. The Florence Bloom Bird Sanctuary is a 7.5-hectare space within Delta Park and is one of the oldest bird sanctuaries in the City. The sanctuary is securely fenced and boasts over 250 species of birds. Bird watchers pride themselves in spotting bishops, weavers, owls and the scarce kingfisher.
Emmarentia Dam and Johannesburg Botanical Garden are beautifully connected with both providing residents with stretches of lawn, trees for picnicking and ample space for dog walkers, joggers or those who prefer a bike ride. The overlooking dam and home to many ducks, geese and other bird species, brings a sense of peace to all its visitors. Popular for its water sports such as canoeing, boat sailing and rowing, the dam area is abuzz with avid members of canoe and rowing clubs.
The Johannesburg Botanical Gardens is an 81-hectare green haven. The large, grassy open spaces with trees is also popular for hosting concerts and kite-flying competitions. An ideal space for runners, picnicking and dog walking, the Bot Gardens boast themed gardens such as the Herb Garden, the Hedge Garden, the Succulent Garden, the Shakespeare Garden, the Rose Garden, the Chapel Garden and the Arboretum (a collection composed exclusively of trees). The Herb Garden contains aromatic plants, which have medicinal benefits, culinary uses and cosmetic purposes. The Hedge Garden consists of 58 species of hedges, and the Succulent Garden, which may be visited only by appointment, is planted with more than 2 500 species of succulent. The Arboretum has a variety of indigenous and exotic trees, including Californian Redwoods, Silver Birches and English oaks. The Shakespeare Garden features herbs which the English playwright referred to in his works. Adjacent to the Shakespeare Garden is the beautiful terraced Rose Gardens which is planted with over 4500 rose bushes. To the east of the Rose Garden is the Chapel Garden, which is often used by bridal parties for wedding photography. Visit the Emmarentia Dam and Johannesburg Botanical Gardens in Thomas Bowler, Orange and The Braids roads. The park is open from 6am – 6pm. Braaing and open fires are not permitted.
Zoo Lake Another popular green haven for its users, Zoo Lake is strewn with beautiful lawns, trees aged over 110 years and ample space for easy breathing, is great for picnicking relaxing outdoors.
The park is located just off Jan Smuts Avenue in Parkview and right across the road from Johannesburg Zoo. Park users have an array of activities to entertain themselves, from play equipment, an option of paddling your boat across the man-made lake or doing what South Africans do best, braaing - at designated areas.
The Zoo Lake hosts the much-anticipated annual Jazz on the Lake on the first Sunday of every September. The park is home away from home for many visitors over weekends and public holidays. For sports enthusiasts, the well-maintained basketball courts, Zoo Lake sports club, a mini-soccer area and the much adored Zoo Lake swimming pool are ideal for those hot summer days. Children can enjoy a stroll along the lake while feeding the ducks or enjoy the day on the jungle gyms and play equipment, while joggers and dog-walkers enjoy ample space in the park. Zoo Lake has become a meeting place of South African diversity and was rated the number 1 picnic spot in Joburg in The Star Reader's Choice Awards in 2018.
Melville Koppies Nature Reserve, commonly known as Melville Koppies is a ridge approximately 6km from the City centre and close to the trendy and popular 7th Avenue in Melville. An official World Heritage Site, Melville Koppies is of historical significance as it was discovered that people lived there since the Stone Age, about 2.9 billion years ago. This conservation area, with its rocky footpaths, leads to the most beautiful panoramic views one can experience in the City. It boasts a variety of plants, birdlife, insects, snakes and other smaller animals. The greenstone rock, one of the oldest rocks on earth, can be found on the top of the koppies. Melville Koppies is popular for its hiking clubs and trail walking. Visit the Koppies on 4 Judith Street, Emmarentia, Johannesburg.
Thokoza Park is a favourite for the residents of Soweto. Its lush green lawns, large decade old trees, paved footpaths and modern playground equipment and the Moroka Dam running through it, is a 4.5-hectare space popularly enjoyed by all. Thokoza Park is perfectly set for summer picnics, family braais and spending time in the great outdoors. The lawns are pristine with park benches, bins and enough shaded trees for a lazy afternoon with family and friends. Children can enjoy frolicking in the park, feeding the ducks or exploring nature across from busy streets.
Thokoza Park's main attraction is the large mural of Tata Nelson Mandela where the great leader planted a tree in 2008, in celebration of Arbor Month. Today, the Celtis Africana, or white stinkwood, stands strong and tall at almost 8 metres and has been declared a Champion Tree and a Heritage Site by the Gauteng Provincial Heritage Resources Authority (PHRA-G). The tree is protected and may not be cut, distributed or damaged sold or transported without permission from the department. This milestone places Thokoza Park and Soweto on the tourist map. With secure parking and ablution facilities, Thokoza Park is the place to enjoy the long summer days ahead. Visit the park at 1682 Ntuli Street, Moroka, Soweto.
Dorothy Nyembe Park is a vast 26-hectare green space named after Dorothy Nyembe, one of the struggle's heroines - a political activist and women's rights campaigner born in 1931 and who died in Umlazi in 1998. This park in Mofolo North in Soweto stands out with its unusual sculpted tall figurines with outstretched arms, welcoming all who visit it. An environmental education centre is home to learners from various schools in Soweto. The surrounding dams, sports facilities, trees and lawns are ideal nooks for the residents in the area. Dorothy Nyembe Park scooped the prestigious United Nations Liveable Communities Award in the natural build project category, taking gold at the awards. Visit your park off Roodepoort Road onto Main Road in Mofolo North in Soweto.
Mofolo Park is popular for its music concerts, jazz festivals, carnivals, markets and the like. Its ancient proscenium arch stage covered in rainbow colours is the perfect venue for the arts, exhibitions and local plays. The park is also known for evening concerts when good weather permits where visitors bring along their camp chairs, picnic baskets and braais. The park boasts a soccer field, ablution facilities and play equipment for the young ones. Bring along your family and friends for a day in the park, find it at 1209 Mzilikazi Street, Mofolo Central in Soweto Smaller pocket parks namely Pimville and Pennyville Park, equally boast green spaces for their residents.
Pimville Park has ample shady trees for picnics, landscaped lawns, park furniture, mini soccer field, a basketball court, bins and a fence around the park.
Pennyville Park has swings, a mini soccer field, seating places, water taps, an irrigation system, traditional games spots, pathways and landscaped picnic areas.
For more parks in your area, please visit: http://www.jhbcityparks.com "Joburg City Parks and Zoo, as the custodians of parks and open spaces, oversees more than 2 343 parks in Joburg. These parks serve as an environmental green lung, providing residents with green open spaces to relax and enjoy the outdoors. We urge users to take care of their parks and own them," stated the MMC for Community Development, Councillor Nonhlanhla Sifumba.
Although City Parks and Zoo works hard to make our parks safe, opportunistic crime exists, and we encourage all to be vigilant and involved.
Below are a few tips to ensure that your visits to Johannesburg parks are safe and enjoyable:
Residents are urged to obey all park safety by-laws and to report transgressions to the Joburg Emergency Call Centre on 011 375 5911.
Parks go a long way in building social harmony within communities, while developing civic ownership, where people are drawn to supporting, caring and protecting one another.
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Arbor Month 2019: 2 000 trees planted in 2 hours in Riverside View
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ) is proud of the difference it made in celebration of Arbor Day by planting 2 000 trees in 2 hours in Riverside View, Fourways, Region A.
Planting 2 000 trees in a limited time is hard physical labour and required many hands, but JCPZ employees rocked up to the site on Wednesday, 18 September 2019 and pulled it off in a great team effort.
It was extremely hot on the day and that served as motivation for the tree planters – knowing that the young trees they were planting will, in a view years' time, provide much needed shade for the Riverside View community in summer.
The trees will also change the face of Riverside View by welcoming residents and visitors to a green area where the streets are lined with trees. Not to mention other benefits trees provide, like absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen in the environment!
JCPZ thanks its employees, the community and partner Valumax for their assistance in this project, without whom the mission would not have been accomplished.
The City of Joburg kicked off Arbor Month on 1 September 2019 by accepting the Arbor City Award 2019 from the National Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, and this mammoth project reconfirmed that Joburg is worthy of this prestigious award.
JCPZ planted a further 1 260 in different areas in Joburg during Arbor Month.
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Joburg uses Arbor City win to call on residents to plant trees
The City of Joburg has scooped the prestigious National Arbor City Award for 2019. The announcement was made by the Deputy Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Ms Maggie Sotyu in Port Elizabeth on Sunday, 1 September to launch National Arbor Month in the country. The Arbor City Award with the first prize of R300K will be used to purchase seeds, saplings and trees to grow Joburg's manmade forest and to address greening disparities in the city.
The national awards have grown to become one of the most toughest competitions in the country and it is a huge honour for the City of Joburg to be presented with the award for the 4th time in its 18-year history. The award recognizes local and metropolitan cities that have excelled on all levels of sustainable development. It interrogates policies, inter-governmental planning, capital development programmes, makes comparisons with visible implementation on the ground and then assesses monitoring mechanisms-- towards the creation of vibrant, sustainable and livable cities.
The adjudicators were particularly pleased with Johannesburg City Parks and Zoos (JCPZs) handling of the Polyphagus Shothole Borer (PSHB) infestation in the City. "JCPZ saved hundreds of trees on the backdrop of calls and unending social media pressure to remove all infested trees. In the absence of proper research and an approved chemical solution to treat infested trees, JCPZ only removed dead infested trees. Many of the trees albeit infested, are not displaying symptoms of fusarium dieback at this stage", advised JCPZs Arboriculturist, Ms Adelaide Chokoe.
Chokoe, who has commenced her Ph.D focusing on the PSHB, also received an award for her outstanding contribution to greening in the City of Joburg by the Deputy Minikster of DEFF at the awards ceremony.
"To be recognized by the highest level of government is testament to the collective expertise, passion and commitment of every employee at JCPZ and within the City, who are consciously working to protect Joburg's manmade forest", stated the Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development in the City of Joburg, Councillor Nonhlanhla Sifumba.
Recently Rwanda, Ethiopia and India have brought together business and communities to plant millions of trees in their respective countries. The benefits of planting just one tree are far reaching. Every tree works as a natural filtration system and consists of at least 50% carbon captured from the air; acts as a conduit to foster national pride and ownership and helps creates aesthetically pleasing and economically vibrant suburbs.
It is time to restore that sense of urgency to accelerate tree planting in the City. We have an ageing tree canopy, with many species reaching its full life expectancy and as a result these trees have become more prone to opportunistic diseases and the effect of inclement weather.
Arbor month in September is therefore a vital springboard for schools, resident-associations, business, government and the media to work as an integrated unit, to get our hands dirty for a good cause, by planting trees across the City.
Every region in the City will be hosting a tree planting ceremony and JCPZ calls on all companies to offset their carbon footprint, by planting trees, as well. Please forward the number of trees, the species and the area where you will be planting, to email@example.com. For a detailed list of preferred tree species visit www.jhbcityparks.com.
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World Elephant Day: Zoos needed to protect dwindling numbers
The Joburg Zoo welcomed hundreds of visitors by hosting an Open Day to observe World Elephant Day. Chairperson of the Board, Mr Edgar Neluvhalani highlighted the growing plight of dwindling populations of elephants due to poaching, climate change, habitat loss, urbanization and human-elephant conflict.
Neluvhalani emphasized, "Zoos on the backdrop of the plight of elephants in the wild, needed to, now more than ever, work with all stakeholders to contribute to captive-managed elephant research and studies".
"Space will always be a contentious issue for Zoos", added the Managing Director of Johannesburg City Parks and Zoos (JCPZ) who maintained that the Joburg Zoo remains complaint with all legislated obligations, including the strict set of code of ethics developed by the World Association of Zoos and Aquaria (WAZA) and the requirements of the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (GDARD). He maintained that, "Every child, no matter what the circumstances, is entitled to enjoy a life-changing experience of a visit to a Zoo, to foster responsible citizenry".
The elephant integration plan of the Joburg Zoo is in its third stage of implementation aimed at housing all three elephants in the same enclosure. Concerns surrounding safety of the elephants near the moat have been addressed and the zoo has made significant progress in extending the size of its enclosures. This will exceed the stipulated minimum space requirements, as outlined in the entity's Elephant Management Plan, adopted by GDARD. Future plans for the enclosure include improving enrichment-activity nodes, as well as enhancing visitor and learner experience.
The Joburg Zoo took the opportunity to also pay tribute to its oldest pachyderm, 40 year-old elephant, Lammie who in recent months has been in the spotlight since the loss of her companion Kinkel and the subsequent acquisition of two more elephants, Mopane, 19 and Ramadiba, 22 by the Zoo. Lammie enjoyed taking centrestage as she chewed on a bouquet of leaves and fruit and enjoyed a special birthday cake, tailor-made for her.
This was to the amazement of the children who had brought along posters to wish her a happy birthday and who joined in the festivities of the celebrations that included talks and an experience of seeing the skeleton and dung of an African Elephant.
"World Elephant Day at the Joburg Zoo, ensured that visitors left with an heightened awareness of the environment that they live in and outlined the important role each one of us has, in protecting the rich ecology found on the continent," added Maduka.
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Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ) will observe World Elephant Day on Monday, 12 August 2019 by providing free access to all its visitors.
The annual event is dedicated to the preservation and protection of elephants by engaging on the current-day plight of the species.
Residents, students, photographers, artists and the media, are invited to join the celebrations to experience elephants in a sustainable environment where they are loved, cared for and protected, at the Joburg Zoo.
JCPZ will also take the opportunity to pay tribute to Lammie, the female pachyderm that celebrates her 40th birthday on the eve of World Elephant Day and to officially welcome Mopani and Ramadiba – the Joburg Zoo's two new elephant.
Councillor Nonhlanhla Sifumba, the Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development urged visitors to take advantage of the free access to learn why zoos are important to nurture green conscientious citizens. Sifumba stated that, "Every child should enjoy a life-altering experience, of a face-to-face visit with an elephant, to fully value and respect the interdependencies between humans and the planet's dwindling ecology".
The event will include talks and exhibitions on environmental education and the medical, nourishment and enrichment programmes that the Zoo provides for its elephants, in line with stringent legislated practices, required for all good zoos.
Interested school groups, are requested to pre-arrange their confirmations of attendance with the Zoo's Education Unit by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com before Wednesday, 7 August 2019. All learners will need to complete an indemnity signed by a guardian. The Zoo will provide groups with the required form. Visitors are kindly reminded that the Zoo will only provide free access on World Elephant Day, and that visitors should arrive with their own transport and snacks.
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Monday, 27 June 2019
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ) has bagged 5 Gold awards and 1 silver at the prestigious South African Landscapers Institute (SALI) Awards 2019 in the categories of "Specialised Landscape Construction and Landscape Construction with Design respectively, for 3 inner city parks.
The 3 refurbished inner city parks, namely Katjiepiering, Leeuwbekkie and Cosmo Circle parks were previously illegal dumping spots in the disadvantaged area of Jan Hofmeyer in Region F. The parks now boast multifunctional playgrounds, landscaped lawns with outdoor gym equipment, new generation play equipment, rubberized surfaces, solar lights, bollards, park furniture, all enclosed with colourful themed fencing. Within walking distance of each other, these parks were developed to address the need for advanced recreational green spaces in this marginalised community in the area.
Katjiepiering Park is the largest of the 3 parks and is easily accessible to the majority of the community as well as students from the University of Johannesburg. The park provides senior and junior play equipment from 2-6 years old and 7-13 year olds which comprises brightly coloured formations of birds and flowers. The free-to-use outdoor gym equipment is available for those 12 years and older, to encourage healthy living while surrounded by trees, lawn and fresh air.
Leeuwbekkie Park, the second largest of the 3 was developed mainly as a children's park and located close to a quiet side street where traffic is minimal. The same equipment at Katjiepiering can be found in this park.
Cosmo Circle Park being the smallest, caters for toddlers and 3-10 years of age and features a tricycle track with street markings to encourage road safety awareness. This park is strewn with bold colour, cleverly shaped play equipment for fun physical exercising, enough space to run and safe rubberized surfaces. A sure attraction to anyone who sets eyes on these parks.
The landscaping master planning of the parks by landscape architect Tania du Plessis from Blueprint Landscape Architecture (BPLA), together with contractor, Tswellapele Plants t/a Plantwise and City Parks and Zoo, did a sterling job in executing the brief which was to reclaim the once derelict spaces, into welcoming meetings points for all in the area.
Tswellapele Plants and BPLA were meticulous in their consideration of revamping these parks where recycled material was used, old equipment was refurbished equipment with little plant designs due to the lack of maintenance resources.
Durable bricked entrances and bollards and paved walkways with directional signs lead to all entry and exit points. Concrete furniture of benches, picnic tables and litter bins were custom designed, further complimenting these renewed parks. The local SMME's were part and parcel from inception to completion of the parks, giving the community of Jan Hoffmeyer a sense of ownership and inclusiveness.
The SALI Awards of Excellence in Landscaping is one of the most prestigious landscaping national competitions in the country. The adjudication process is strict where judges seek innovative, fresh yet practical end products. Of the 145 entries received in 2019, a total of 71 projects were evaluated during the national round.
Based on the excellent execution of these projects, the teams received raving compliments by the judges: Project: Cosmos Park – Specialised Landscape Construction
An exercise in project excellence. Manufacturing of new play equipment to match revamped old equipment, attention to detail and finishing very well executed in every aspect of the project.
Excellent rubber work.
Well Done.
Project: Cosmos Park – Design by Others
An excellent example of a small space put to good use for the community.
An excellent installation packed with creativity from the contractor's side to solve problems on site.
Re-use of old fencing and revamping of old play equipment in the installation.
Well Done.
Project: Kaitjiepiering Park – Specialised Landscape Construction
The play equipment, steel work and concrete form work as well as the creativity in this installation is superb, well done.Project: Kaitjiepiering Park – Design by Others
An excellent example of world leading landscape installation. The paving on this project is meticulous, as well as the attention to detail in general.
The trimming of the edges around the tree circles needs some attention as well as the mounting of the soil around the base of the trees. In general, the construction work and rubber surfaces are well done with a few problem areas that will need to be repaired (on the rubber). Excellent well done.
Excellent work on the terracing and the play equipment, attention to detail and meticulous standards. Well done.
Project: Leeubekkie Park – Design by Others
The installation done in this park is excellent, well done on the terracing, quality of finishes and attention to detail. Well Done. "Partnerships of this magnitude bring about tangible results and provides communities with much-needed green spaces where there's something for everyone. More-so in areas such as Jan Hoffmeyer", stated Cllr Nonhlanhla Sifumba, Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development in the City of Joburg.
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Don't confuse neediness for love because obsession never lasts and You're insane by a landslide and 'til death do us part you'll always be distressed
Carry on with the guise of a sheep in a storm
You're a wolf and you're losing the ground that you're on
But Hey! Hey! I've got things to say
I've lost control of life
I don't know how many times I've tried
To undo the knot you've tied
My face is red, and people change
I've changed for the good this time
I've followed you around
I've seen you all over town
I've got a laundry list telling you why
And photos to prove to prove I right
I just can't handle this
I'm just so scared of it
A challenge fit for man when I'm just a kid I'm all torn at the seems Just like you said I'd be if this is love, I don't want a part of it


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Editor's Note: CNNU is following two student teams from the University of Southern California as they work to improve the quality of life in India. One team, Oral Cancer Awareness, is working to educate locals on the dangers of gutka. Tajdip Sandhu, a biological sciences major from USC, is part of that team. The following is a column he wrote for CNNU about his experience. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN or its affiliates.
Trash fills a local stream in Hubli, India.
(CNN) -- Walking through the streets of Hubli, there are a few sights and sounds that one will notice immediately upon entering the city limits: auto-rickshaw horns, bright red dirt and trash.
Trash is everywhere in Hubli, on the sides of the roads, in bushes around schools and temples and in the villages surrounding the city.
The most prolific offender of the litter ravaging the city is the infamous gutka wrapper. Not only does this small little tobacco pouch pack a potent carcinogenic punch, but also it soils the background of the beautiful Indian environment.
In a country that can boast of the majestic scenery of the Himalayas, the beaches of Goa and a man-made wonder of the world in the Taj Mahal, seeing this trash is disappointing.
With a powerful force of motivated, educated and patriotic citizens, I am mystified by the paradox of the lack of determination illustrated through the social acceptance of littering.
Personally, I feel that to dirty one's country implies that one lacks true pride in the land in which they were born and raised. I have a moral aversion to throwing trash aside at home in the US, because I am invested in the prosperity of my country. Meet the rest of the students from the Oral Cancer Awareness Team »
While in Karnataka, I have had a chance to talk to the Hubli director of the Children's Movement for Civic Awareness. She informed me that her NGO is actually trying to instill such a sense of national responsibility in its young citizens ranging from water usage and litter to volunteer work.
It seems as if the major impetus for ignoring the calls for civic awareness is the age-old mantra, "everyone is doing it."
When one sees trash thrown on the road around them, with everyone including parents and grandparents performing in concert, one will follow in those footsteps as if it were innocuous.
With a population well over one billion, refuting this thought process is difficult at best. The key to address this problem is to target the youth, as the CMCA is doing, in order to break the cycle comfort with trashing India.
No society is perfect, but if even a fraction of the youth here could be motivated to buy into the principle that each individual in society can make an impact and has a responsibility to act for the greater good of everyone around them, India would be on the road to an even brighter future.
The economy in India, booming with numerous highly-educated workers, can drive the country to certain levels of prosperity, but only the people can launch their homeland into an era of lasting social reform.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and prepare to watch the space shuttle take off for the last time tomorrow. And let me be the first to say that I'm really sad that they never managed to equip the shuttle with both laser torpedoes and force fields. I thought we would have had it outfitted with those a decade ago. LET'S GO!
BIG BROTHER 13 – 9:00PM (CBS) You know you're in the dregs of summer when CBS busts out their annual reality bacchanalia featuring a bunch of strangers stuck inside a house giving each other highly communicable diseases. Julie Chen's hard drive has been booted up, and she'll be presiding over the drama with her trademark brand of frozen cheer. This year's house will feature a mix of new contestants and old fan favorites that you loved to hate, or hated to love, or hated to hate. Hate was in there somewhere, I know that much. ANTICIPATION: SHADY!
AN AMERICAN FAMILY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION – 8:00PM (PBS) On the heels of HBO's movie "Cinema Verite," which dramatized the making of PBS' "An American Family," the first ever televised "reality" show, PBS now digs into its archives to re-air portions of the seminal program. Watch with horror as the Loud family goes through the turbulence of divorce and closeted homosexuality in front of the nation, then flip over to "Big Brother" to see the end byproduct. Fun! ANTICIPATION: UNCOMFORTABLE!
GREAT DINOSAUR ESCAPE – 8:00PM (NatGeo – an NBC/Universal network) This NatGeo special traces the migratory habits of dinosaurs over 65 million years ago. Because dinosaurs are related to birds. I know this because Sam Neill said so in "Jurassic Park." Everything I know about dinos I learned by watching that movie. ANTICIPATION: HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS!
WILFRED – 10:00PM (FX) I gave the premiere of "Wilfred" a shot because hey, I got nothing better to do. And while it was enjoyable odd, it was never actually all that funny. And that's a problem. "Louie," which comes on after this, is a weird show, but often a very funny one. And so at some point, the people behind this show are gonna have to dedicate more time to funniness than to eccentricity. ANTICIPATION: FINGERS CROSSED!
LOUIE – 10:30PM (FX) Your guest star tonight is Donna Hanover. Yes, Donna Hanover, the ex-wife of Rudy Giuliani. And man, it has been a very long time since I've heard that name. Maybe Lizzie Grubman will also show up, just to complete the 2000 New York local news media cycle. ANTICIPATION: HIGH!


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Starters generally play a quarter or less in the first preseason game.
But if Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams is out there long enough, he's going to bring a fan on the field with him.
Williams posted a short video on his Facebook page, asking for help coming up with a touchdown dance.
He asked fans to post videos of their best dances in the comment section, and promised to try to perform the best one if he scores during the Panthers opener against Houston.
"So good luck, and give me everything you've got," Williams said in the video.
Williams works in the shadows of bigger names like Cam Newton and Steve Smith in his own huddle, but has always been accessible to his fans online. He's hosted parties and paintball games for his Facebook friends, and generally has a good time with fans.
So asking for a little help with choreography seems like a natural next step.


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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Demand Media Inc., Soda Stream International and BBVA were among the biggest movers in the U.S. trading session on Wednesday:
China Nuokang Bio-Pharmaceutical Inc.'s NKBP U.S.-listed shares climbed 26% after the company's chairman and chief executive combined on a bid to take the company private for $5.80 a share.
Cost Plus Inc. CPWM shares were up 22% after Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, -1.46% signed a deal to purchase the discount retailer for about $494 million.
Dean Foods Co. DF, +0.97% shares were up roughly 12%, propelled by a 50% jump in first-quarter profit. The results, reported before the opening bell, showed the company managed to achieve significant cost cuts and price hikes in its core dairy business. The company also raised its earnings outlook for the second quarter to 28 cents to 33 cents a share, well above the 22 cents a share analysts were looking for.
Demand Media Inc. DMD shares rose 19%. Analysts at Citigroup upgraded the shares to buy from neutral. Demand Media on Tuesday said its first-quarter loss narrowed from a year ago and raised its outlook for the year.
First California Financial Group Inc. FCAL, +0.00% rose 19% after the company said it will be acquired by PacWest Bancorp PACW, -0.69% for $212.2 million in stock.
Hilltop Holdings Inc. HTH, -1.20% stock was up 23% after the Dallas-based holding company for insurance providers set plans to buy PlainsCapital for $318 million in cash plus 27.5 million shares of its common stock worth $219 million based on Tuesday's closing price of $7.96 a share.
Leading Brands Inc. LBIX shares were up 18% on news the beverage maker plans to buy back up to $800,000 of its common shares in a modified Dutch-auction tender offer.
Ormat Technologies Inc. ORA, -0.39% rose 12.5% after the company said the provider of geothermal energy moved to a first-quarter profit from a loss in the same period last year, surpassing most forecasts.
Shares of SodaStream International Ltd. SODA, +0.00% jumped 26%. The company reported Wednesday that its first-quarter profit rose 84% and revenue rose 50% from year-ago levels. Read more about SodaStream's resultsRead Marketwatch blog item about SodaStream short-sellers
Shares of Spanish bank BBVA BBVA, -0.76% fell 5%. The broader market in Spain dropped as political upheaval in France and Greece rattled investors.
Chiquita Brands International Inc. CQB, +8.38% was down 29% after the fruit and vegetable provider reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter results.
Consolidated Graphics Inc. CGX, -0.70% shares were down 13% after the commercial printer said it swung to a fiscal fourth-quarter loss on various charges as same-store sales declined roughly 5%.
Ducommun Inc. DCO, +0.59% shares fell 5.8% after the company reported disappointing first-quarter results.
Dynavax Technologies Corp. DVAX, -11.53% was down 21% after the biopharmaceutical company said it was planning a 17.5 million-share public offering at $4.25 a share, representing a 17% discount to its closing price on Tuesday.
FXCM Inc. FXCM shares were down 5% after the foreign-exchange brokerage said retail trading volume was down 27% last month compared to March, and fell 15% from April 2011.


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Company Refused to Allow Employee with Disability to Return to Work After Treatment, Federal Agency Charged
ATLANTA - A Norfolk, Va.-based railway company unlawfully discriminated against an employee because of his disability, degenerative disc disorder, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today in Atlanta.
According to the EEOC's suit, Norfolk Southern Railway Company violated federal law by not allowing a laborer to return to work after receiving treatment for his disability and being cleared by his treating physician to return to work with no restrictions. According to the EEOC's complaint, Norfolk Southern's medical director disregarded the treating physician's opinion as to the employee's ability to work and determined he was medically disqualified from working without ever examining him. Norfolk Southern subsequently terminated the employee.
Disability discrimination violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires employers to not discriminate against employees with disabilities or a record of a disability. In addition, employers who perceive employees as disabled when they are not disabled also violate the ADA. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company, Civil Action No. 1:13-cv-03126) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC is seeking reinstatement, back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for the employee, as well as injunctive relief designed to prevent future discrimination.
"An employer cannot terminate an employee because of a disability, or merely because it perceives that person to be disabled," said Robert Dawkins, regional attorney for the EEOC's Atlanta District Office. "Here, the employee was ready, willing and able to work, but was fired based on preconceived notions about his abilities. Such conduct violates the ADA."
Bernice Williams-Kimbrough, district director of the Atlanta office, said, "The EEOC is committed to stopping workplace disability discrimination in Georgia and across the country. Given the size of the employer, this lawsuit could assist in protecting the rights a large number of employees."
The Atlanta District Office of the EEOC oversees Georgia and parts of South Carolina.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) was convicted yesterday on 24 separate federal corruption charges, which could cost him up to 20 years in prison. However, ABC, CBS, and NBC could not be bothered to even mention the conviction of this disgraced ex-mayor of a major, blighted American city on their nightly news programs.
Perhaps they were busy with what are clearly weightier matters. Monday's NBC Nightly News, for example, found time to mention Justin Timberlake's recent appearance on Saturday Night Live, the ten worst places to retire in America, and the plight of penguins in Antarctica.
The CBS Evening News and ABC World News both broadcasted from the Vatican and focused most of their attention on the pending election of the next pope. But even when they got around to other news, there was not a peep about Detroit's ex-mayor.
PBS, to their credit, did mention Kilpatrick on the NewsHour. However, the story was condensed into a 25-second blurb and stuffed into the "Other News of the Day" segment. What's more, PBS failed to mention that Kilpatrick is a Democrat. Here is the news brief, narrated by Hari Sreenivasan:
"Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted today on 24 counts of racketeering and other federal corruption charges. Witnesses in the five-month trial said Kilpatrick steered city contracts toward a friend for a share of the spoils. He also used political donations and a non-profit fund for personal spending. Kilpatrick could get 20 years in prison. He already served 14 months in an unrelated obstruction of justice case."
Kilpatrick's political career has been a mess of corruption, scandal, indictments, and prison time. One would think he would be a national laughingstock by now -- especially given that he's the son of a former congresswoman -- and if he were a Republican, he may very well have become one of the most ridiculed men in America. But because of the "D" that follows his name, the liberal media hold back on the venom, opting instead for either the kid gloves treatment or complete silence.


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The elite currently in power in the Western mass media is never going to comprehend the Middle East. There is a problem with bias, for sure, but the big problem is the impenetrable ignorance of the very people who are entrusted with explaining the region to others. They insist on imposing their own misconceptions on the situation while ignoring the evidence.
Consider Janine Zacharia. What a distinguished resume: Jerusalem bureau chief and Middle East Correspondent for the Washington Post (2009-2011); chief diplomatic correspondent for Bloomberg News (2005-2009) and before that five years working for the Jerusalem Post in Washington DC and another five years working for Reuters and other publications from Jerusalem. Right now she's a visiting lecturer at Stanford University in communications.
Surely, such a person must understand the region's issues and if anyone isn't going to have an anti-Israel bias in the mass media it would be her. And she isn't anti-Israel in a conscious, political sense. Indeed, she obviously views herself as being sympathetic. Rather, it is her assumptions that make her type of views inevitably anti-Israel and more broadly inevitably destructive of U.S. interests on other issues.
So here's her article in Slate. The title is "Why Israel's Gaza Campaign is Doomed." Not, why this response is the best of a set of difficult options; not why the world should support Israel; not why Hamas should be removed from power with international support but why Israel is wrong and stupid to fight. "Doomed" is a pretty strong word.
The subhead—adapted from Zacharia's text—is "Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to bomb Hamas militants will leave Israel more isolated, insecure, and alone." Not the decision of Israel's unanimous leadership including first and foremost its military and defense experts but that of a prime minister who now plays a role for the American media most closely approximated to that held by former President George W. Bush.
And by defending itself against an onslaught of rockets—120 in one week–Israel will be worse off even though by the way every Western country I'm aware of has supported Israel. Why will Israel be more isolated, insecure, and alone? Because the unspoken assumption of the Western media elite is that anyone who uses force, even in self-defense, ends up worse off.
It is quite reasonable to state that the campaign will not end the problem. Everyone in Israel and in Israel's leadership and all the generals and Netanyahu know this very well. They also know that a country that does not defend itself and maintain its credibility and deterrence is going to end up doomed, isolated, insecure, and alone.
They also know that the best that can be expected given this situation is to force Hamas to deescalate for two or three years before the next round. One of the goals of the operation is to destroy the large military stockpiles–especially longer-range missiles–that Hamas has accumulated since 2009. Thus, Hamas will have to start all over again to smuggle in weapons. The next time they start a war it will be from a far weaker position than if they had not taken such losses.
Much of the Western elite no longer understands concepts which their predecessors took for granted during the last two centuries. You can go back even further than that to Joshua 7: 8-9 when Joshua prays after a military defeat:
"What can I say after Israel has turned tail before its enemies? When the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear of this, they will turn upon us and wipe out our very name from the earth."
Zacharia, however, faithfully represents the current standpoint of the Western elite. Here is her prescription:
"Israel needs a far more sophisticated, diplomatic, long-term strategic policy for dealing with Gaza and all the threats around it—from Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and perhaps Egypt. A new Israeli approach may have to include a willingness to at least try talking to Hamas, which is fighting its own internal battle against even more radical, anti-Israel groups in the Gaza Strip. It may mean putting more pressure on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, languishing in irrelevance in Ramallah, to make peace with Hamas so there can be negotiations with Israel and a permanent end to this rocket-war madness."


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Obama spikes the football
Finally, President Barack Obama can say his health care law is beating the expectations.
Well, one of them, anyway. It's safe to say that no one — not even him — predicted that the Obamacare sign-ups would soar as high as 8 million, the figure he announced in an appearance in the White House briefing room Thursday. That number, at least on its face, truly does go beyond the enrollment goals the administration set for itself — and makes the recovery from the website debacle even bigger.
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That doesn't mean the number tells everything the public needs to know about who's really covered, of course. And not all of Thursday's numbers beat the expectations — the share of young adults still isn't ideal, according to some health care experts.
( WATCH: Timeline of Obamacare deadlines)
But the final enrollment numbers, along with other recent survey findings, are strong enough to give the Obama administration a cushion against some of the most common criticisms of the enrollment trends. Here are the takeaways from Thursday's announcement:
Obama spikes the football
OK, Obama's proud of the final enrollment number. We got it.
Technically, Obama's appearance in the White House briefing room was unscheduled, but White House aides had been hinting at it for hours — suggesting that this time, they actually want reporters to be there. This time, Obama wouldn't look miserable taking his hits for the clumsy rollout and telling reporters that "we screwed it up."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama: 8 million enrolled in ACA)
This time, Obama repeated the new sign-up figure twice so no one missed it: "Eight million people. Eight million people."
He rattled off other numbers, too, which were helpfully circulated in a White House fact sheet at the same time: 3 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, 3 million young adults who have been able to stay on their parents' plans, and 5 million people enrolled in health plans that meet Obamacare standards but were sold outside the health insurance exchanges.
"We've got a sizable part of the U.S. population now that are, for the first time in many cases, in a position to enjoy the financial security of health insurance," Obama said.
He felt confident enough to blast the Republicans for their "endless, fruitless repeal votes" and to declare — in a phrase that Republicans are vigorously disputing — that "the repeal debate is and should be over. The Affordable Care Act is working."
( WATCH: Inside POLITICO: How to get an answer from the president)
And when a reporter brought up the Affordable Care Act during the question-and-answer session, Obama chimed in, "Yeah, let's talk about that!"
Still a lot of buts
There are still key details that the White House hasn't included in past enrollment announcements, and it didn't this time either. The numbers still don't say how many of the 8 million people have paid their premiums, because they're not officially enrolled until they've paid. The best estimates from the insurance industry have suggested that anywhere from 15 percent to 20 percent haven't paid yet, though at least some of those have been trying and some will likely settle their bills.
And the numbers still don't tell us how many of the new customers were uninsured before, and how many were just swapping out one health insurance plan for another.
In fact, the Obama administration didn't release a full enrollment report on Thursday, as was widely expected. Instead, it just circulated the topline figures in the White House fact sheet, which gave health care experts — and the critics — less information to go on.
And when it did release the numbers, it played up the best ones. The number that leaked early in the day was the age mix: 35 percent of the people who signed up in the federal health insurance exchange were under age 35. But that figure includes children. The number that mattered more to most health care experts was the young adults age 18 to 34 — and 28 percent of the new customers were in that group.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama tells Democrats: Defend my law)
That's "almost identical" to the share of young adults who signed up in Massachusetts, under the health care reform law that became the model for Obamacare, according to MIT's Jonathan Gruber, who consulted on the design of both laws.
But the Kaiser Family Foundation's Larry Levitt said that number is "still short of the target population" of young adults. He added, though, that it looks "decent enough" to keep premiums stable for next year.
The buts matter less
Republicans hammered away at the lack of information on which customers have paid and which ones were uninsured — and they're both valid questions that health care experts and journalists are trying to determine, too.
But based on the latest evidence, it's looking less likely that either question is urgent enough to sink the health care law.
For one thing, the 8 million sign-ups is a high enough figure that even if you take the highest estimate of unpaid customers — 20 percent — and remove all of them from the tally, that still leaves 6.4 million people. And that assumes that none of the unpaid customers will ever pay their bills, when the likelihood is that at least some will.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the conservative American Action Forum, a frequent critic of the law, was unimpressed by the lower figure, but he didn't depict it as a disaster.


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