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AUGUSTA, Ga. – If connections were all it took to make a splash at the Masters, Bill Haas would have contended long before now.
"We've had a bunch of family play here," said Haas, whose opening-round 68 catapulted him into the lead.
"A bunch," as it turns out, is hardly an exaggeration. Bill's father, Jay, played the tournament 22 times from 1976 to 2005. His uncles, Jerry Haas and Dillard Pruitt, made the field once and twice, respectively. His great uncle Bob Goalby won in 1968.
But golf is not one of those enterprises where a dad simply hands over the keys with a pat on the back, says "good luck," and the business runs exactly the way it did before.
It's easier to inherit size, strength and speed, apparently, than touch. Even casual fans can come up with the great father-son pairings in most other pro sports: Bobby and Barry Bonds (baseball); Archie and Peyton and Eli Manning (football); Rick and Scooter, Jon, Drew and Brent Barry (basketball); Bobby and Brett Hull (hockey); Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Junior (NASCAR).
To find golf's best father-son tandem, you have to turn back almost 150 years. That would be Tom Morris Sr. and Tom Morris Jr., who were known as "Old Tom" and "Young Tom" to avoid any confusion, since they each won four of the first dozen British Opens.
At least nine father-son tandems have won golf tournaments since, and a dozen have played in the Masters – but never in the same tournament together until Craig and Kevin Stadler did it Thursday.
Asked why golf didn't seem quite as family-friendly as the other sports – at least in terms of success – Haas was ready with an answer.
"I've been asked that before, and I think (it's) purely numbers. The odds of getting out on tour are small. And then you take it down to how many tour players have sons, and then how many have sons that even like golf.
"And then if you like golf," he said finally, "the best part about this game is that you have to earn it."
Haas, from Greenville, S.C., did just that on his sixth go-round at Augusta National with his own scorecard in his pocket. He got off to a shaky start with a bogey at No. 1, then found another gear and tore off six birdies. His second hiccup came at 17, when his iron shot landed just past the flag yet somehow slid all the way off the right side of the green.
"The wind somewhat switched, maybe," Haas said, "at least that's what I'm claiming."
Bill was along for plenty of Jay's rounds and even toted the bag on one occasion. He had no trouble recalling his previously most memorable trip. That was 1995, when Jay was leading by two strokes midway through the tournament. Oddly enough, the wind figured into that one, too.
As Jay stood over a short putt, a gust moved the ball, costing him one stroke. He dropped another when his shot into 15 slid off the green and into the pond.
"I never remember thinking, `Man, I wish I could hit this shot for my dad. But there's some times now, I'm like `I wish my dad could hit this shot for me.'"
Jay, who is 60 and a force on the Champions Tour, won nine times on the PGA Tour. But his dream of getting the locker next to Goalby's in Augusta National's champions room never got closer than that third-place finish.
"That can't happen," Jay told The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C., last week, "but I hope Bill can."
Bill has been aiming at that goal since high school. A friend took Jay and his sons to Augusta back then and they squeezed in 27 holes, in addition to playing in the pre-tournament Par 3 contest.
"Did you beat him?" a reporter asked Bill, referring to Jay.
"I don't think so. I don't beat him much, honestly," Bill replied.
"Even now?" came the follow-up.
"Even now, yeah," Bill conceded. "He's good."


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Cornelius a Lapide created a Scripture Commentary so complete and scholarly that it was practically the universal commentary in use by Catholics (often available only in 30 some Latin volumes) for hundreds of years. As part of the mission of Loreto Publications apostolate we have spent a lot of time and money over the last four years to produce a translation and design a beautiful edition of this priceless commentary so long hidden from the eyes of most Catholics. Now is your opportunity to own this masterpiece.
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The divorce between sanctity and scholarship that has grown ever since the Reformation is perhaps the greatest impediment today to study of the Scriptures or Theology of any kind. For the first fifteen centuries of Christianitys existence, it was presumed that one studied and commented on the Bible as part of ones own personal quest for holiness and salvation. The fathers of the church, those great saints of the first six hundred years, whose commentaries, for the most part have formed the Churchs scriptural exegesis, were just thatgreat saints. So too with the Scholastics of the Middle Ages, such as SS. Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, and Bonaventure, and Bl. Duns Scotus. But from the time of Martin Luther, biblical research has tended to degenerate ever more into either an intellectual exercise or a search for textual weapons with which to belabor ideological opponents. Perhaps one of the last major commentators to bridge the gap between piety and proficiency was the compiler of the four volumes here before you, Cornelius a Lapide (1567-1637).
The facts of his biography are, on the surface, fairly simple. The Catholic Encyclopedia informs us that:
He studied humanities and philosophy at the Jesuit colleges of Maestricht and Cologne, theology first, for half a year, at the University of Douai, and afterwards for four years at Louvain; he entered the Society of Jesus, 11 June, 1592, and, after two years noviciate and another year of theology, was ordained priest 24 December, 1595. After teaching philosophy for half a year, he was made professor of holy Scripture at Louvain in 1596 and next year of Hebrew also. Twenty years later, in 1616, he was called to Rome in the same capacity, where, on the 3rd of November, he assumed the office which he filled with such renown for many years after. The latter years of his life, however, he seems to have devoted exclusively to finishing and correcting his celebrated commentaries. He was a sincerely pious and zealous priest and an exemplary religious. During his professorship at Louvain he liked to spend his holidays preaching and administering the sacraments, especially at the pilgrimage of Scherpenheuvel (Montaigu).
With moving simplicity and truth he portrayed himself in an emotional prayer to the Prophets at the end of his commentary on Daniel: For nearly thirty years I suffer with and for you with gladness the continual martyrdom of religious life, the martyrdom of illness, the martyrdom of study and writing; obtain for me also, I beseech you, to crown all, the fourth martyrdom, of blood. For you I have spent my vital and animal spirits; I will spend my blood too. With his brethren in religion at Rome he enjoyed so high a reputation for sanctity that, when he died, they gave him a separate burial place, in order to be the more certain of finding his bones when eventually, as they hoped, he should receive the honour of beatification.
Illuminating as this account is in terms of bare facts, there is much left unsaid. Douai, where a Lapide spent a crucial half-year, was also the training ground for many of the fearless English Catholic priests who returned to spread the Faith in their unhappy homeland. Without a doubt, he would have met many a young man whose fate and joy it was to be hanged, drawn, and quartered by the minions of Elizabeth at Tyburn Tree. This taste of heroism no doubt affected his decision to join the Society of Jesus, seedbed of so many martyrs at that time, not only in the British Isles but as far afield as Japan.
Of course, the young a Lapide did not have to look so far to find heroes and martyrs for the Faithquite the contrary! The Netherlands into which the young a Lapide was born was torn by religious and military strife. The church at Scherpenheuvel in Flemish Brabant (to the east of Brussels), for example, at whose pilgrimage a Lapide was such a renowned preacher, was very much a product of combat. Originally the site of a cross-shaped tree in whose boughs rested a statue of the Virgin (about which many miracles had clustered), the place had acquired a great reputation for answered prayers. Starting with the Beeldenstorm (Iconoclasm) of 1566, in which Calvinist mobs surged throughout the Netherlands (modern Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands were in those days united under the Spanish Crown), mobs of pilgrims arrived in Scherpenheuvel seeking, not just healing, but safety from the Protestants. By 1602, the numbers of visitors (and their alms) allowed a small chapel to be built to house the image. Five years later, two very illustrious pilgrims arrived: Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands, and his wife, the Archduchess Isabella (who was also King Philip II of Spains daughter). They prayed for the defeat of the Protestant forces who were besieging Ostend, and promised that if victory were granted to the Catholic defenders, they would build a new and more beautiful church to house our Ladys statue. The Protestants were in fact defeated and the siege raised; in 1609 the Archducal couple began a new building. By its completion in 1629, the new church was the jewel of baroque architecture we know today (Pius XI declared it a basilica), and the whole town had been reoriented around it.
Having been born the year after the Beeldenstorm, a Lapides entire childhood and youth were dominated by the conflict. When he was five years old, in 1572, the Calvinists executed the martyrs of Gorkum, seventeen priests and religious who refused to renounce transubstantiation and the papal supremacythenceforth, every Flemish child would know of their example. As the war went on (it would come to be called the Eighty Years War) the Calvinists came to dominate the northern part of the Netherlands, and the Catholics and Spanish the southhence the division today between the mostly post-Protestant Dutch (although practicing Catholics now outnumber practicing Protestants in the Netherlands, and prior to the Vatican IIin part because of their history of persecutionthe Dutch Catholics were renowned for their fervor) and the Catholic Flemish, for all that their language remains almost identical.
Louvain, the university where a Lapide became most renowned for his pastoral work, his scholarship, and his piety, was well protected from actual conflict by Spanish and local Catholic troops. But while this haven provided physical security, the religious conflict, in the Netherlands and throughout Northern Europe was never far away. To Louvain came such as the Presbyterian John Ogilivie from Scotland, who was received into the Church by Father a Lapide, followed his mentor into the Society of Jesus, returned to Scotland as a missionary, and after reconciling many of his countrymen to the Faith, was hanged in 1615only to be canonized by Paul VI. Fr. a Lapide played a key role in the life of another saint when, having been transferred to Rome, he administered the last rites to S. John Berchmans.
But for Cornelius a Lapide, his place in the battle lines of the 17th century was neither on the field of combat nor in the missionary field. Instead, he fought the war in two other areas. One, of course, was in himselfthat battle for personal holiness that all of us are called upon to wage, and in which most of us regularly fail. The second, however, was that which lay at the root of the Protestant revolt: interpretation of the Bible.
Martin Luther, John Calvin, and the rest had based their revolt upon the supposed right of private judgmentthe notion that the Holy Ghost will give to each believer the meaning of the often obscure passages of holy Scripture. Of course, this task, heretofore universally accepted to be part of the Churchs mission, had, as noticed, already been extensively dealt with by the Church fathers and doctors. But for the Protestants, all this commentary was simply to be discarded in favor of whatever the Holy Ghost appeared to tell the individual. Practically speaking, however, the Reformers quickly decided that it was what the Holy Ghost told their founders (Luther for the Lutheran, Calvin for the Presbyterians, Puritans, and Reformed) that was to be followed. During the conflictsreligious and politicalthat arose, oceans of ink were spilled publishing a vast array of contradictory books and pamphlets that had one goalattempting to refute the Catholic understanding of Scripture with that of whichever of the Reforming gurus the particular writer favored. It was on this confusing battlefield that Cornelius a Lapide took his stand.
The vast scholarship of the Flemish Jesuit was equaled by his piety and it gives a freshness and a power to his commentaries lacking in those of many other. He adduces both historians and the greatest Church fathers to provide a line by line reading of all the Scriptures save Job and the Psalms. So effective was his work that many converts were made by it, and several Anglican and Lutheran theologians adopted and enjoined its use (obviously, these were of the high church variety). From a Lapides Scriptural studies emerged his views on Marian devotionespecially that of Slavery to Mary. S. Louis Marie de Montfort, the great exponent of this practice, speaks of a Lapides attitude toward it in his True Devotion to MaryCornelius a Lapide, as praiseworthy for his piety as for his profound erudition, having been commissioned by several bishops and theologians to examine this devotion, did so with great thoroughness and deliberation, and praised it in a manner which we might have expected from his well known piety; and many other distinguished persons have followed his example.
Other, later, saints also derived much from our author. S. Gaspar Bertoni, for example, founder of the Stigmatine Fathers and quite a Biblical commentator himself, was heavily influenced by Cornelius a Lapide. S. Anthony Mary Claret was also very fond of his work, and, indeed, the same could be said of many more saints, blesseds, and holy founders.
Unfortunately, the 19th and 20th centuries saw a tragic event which effectively cut off the wisdom of a Lapide from a world ever more in need of it: part of the continuing decay of education in western countries was the gradual abandonment of the study and teaching of Latinto the point that even at Romes Gregorian University, once the great light of the Jesuit Order, and where Cornelius himself had taught, had, until his firing in 2006, only a single Latin instructor, and he was a Carmelite. Clearly, for some, ignorance is indeed strength.
At any rate, what this meant is that the strong meat of a Lapides Commentaries were denied to the vast majority of Catholics and others. In both France and England in the 19th century, one reaction to this was the translation of key liturgical and theological works into the vernacular. Thus, Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B. revealed in French the treasures of the Missal in The Liturgical Year, done into English by Dom Laurence Shepherd; John Mason Neale translated many of the hymns of the Divine Office into English verse; and the Marquess of Bute did the same with the breviary as a whole. As part of this general movement, the Reverend Thomas W. Mossman (1826-1885), Rector of East Torrington and Vicar of West Torrington, Lincolnshire, translated much of Cornelius a Lapides commentaries into English. His translation was the basis for that of the four gospels which you see before you.
At this point, the Catholic reader might fear either that the Reverend Mossman might have left something out, or perhaps mistranslated the text. Well, he did in fact leave out about a quarter of a Lapides worknot, however, for party reasons, but because the material is of a technical nature, dealing with linguistic issues, and translations back and forth between Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin; doubtless he felt that these matters would not appeal to the general reader (the fact that the rest would says much about the educated Victorian public). In any case, in the version you have, all of that has been restored. Moreover, his translation was very nearly perfect. All of which having been said, why did he do it, and why should a Catholic employ his work? The answer is at once simple and intriguing: the Reverend Mossman led a double life. He was at once a respected Church of England clergyman, and one of the three duly consecrated bishops in the Order of Corporate Reunion.
Arriving at Oxford in 1845, Mossman became a member of the Oxford Movement, which had been agitating the university and all England since Kebles sermon on National Apostasy in 1833. The year he became an undergraduate, however, John Henry Newman, who had been one of the leaders of the movement from its inception finally decided to join the Catholic Church. Many members of the movement would follow him, but many more remained within the fold of the Church of England. Under the continuing leadership of Newmans one-time collaborator, Edward Pusey, such as these believed in the Movements original goal of re-catholicizing the Church of England. Moreover, they believed in foreign missions and domestic slum work on a grand scale. Thus were the origins of the Anglo-Catholic wing of Anglicanism that has survived until our own day. But within Anglo-Catholicism two separate currents emerged: one held that the point of vestments, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, veneration of our Lady and the saints, etc., was to give Anglicans everything that Catholics had, without having to submit to the pope; the other believed that reunion with Rome ought to be the goal, as the best means of re-evangelizing England and the English-speaking world.
By the time Mossman graduated in 1849, he had definitely adhered to the latter wing of Anglo-Catholicism. The following year he was ordained to the Anglican priesthood, and after serving as a curate in several spots, he was made Rector-Vicar of the Torringtons. Having unsuccessfully tried on his own to revive religious life in the Church of England with a Brotherhood of the Holy Redeemer, in 1856 he joined the newborn Society of the Holy Cross, a non-residential Anglican order. Then as now, it was one of the pillars of Anglo-Catholicism.
The mid-19th century was truly a boom-time for the Anglo-Catholics. religious orders, devotional societies (Society of Mary, Guild of All Souls, Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, Society of King Charles the Martyr) given over to Marian and Eucharistic veneration, and prayer for the deadshunned by the reformersand all manner of works at home and abroad mushroomed. Various elements of the Sarum and Roman rites were revived or adapted, and used to augment the rather sparse liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer. Lights, vestments, and processions revived, and some bishops once again began to wear mitres. But there was opposition as well, and since many of the Protestant forms of worship were mandated by law, a few Anglo-Catholic clerics did jail time for reviving some of these practices, and many more were threatened.
The result was the generation of an enormous body of literature intended to defend the revived practices from every conceivable point of view: scriptural, theological, historical, legal, or whatever came to hand. The men who wrote this stuffmost often graduates of Oxford or Cambridgewere highly educated in a manner almost impossible to conceive of today. Armed with a knowledge of Greek, Latin, and the literatures and histories of those languages (to say nothing of English, French, German, and often others) university graduates were expected to be able to do anything. Some went forth so intellectually armed to govern parts of India and other British colonies. But Mossman put his talents to the service of the church as he conceived her. Among the large number of histories, commentaries, and translations he wrote, the English version of Cornelius a Lapide stands out. It was nothing less than a scriptural defense of the Catholic Church, a shining light in a time of confusion and controversynot unlike those times when a Lapide first set it down.
But just what was that church? So far as Anglo-Catholics (who believed in the validity of Anglican orders), were concerned, the one Catholic Church had three independent branchesthe Roman, the Eastern, and the Anglican (later they would add Old Catholics and some Lutheran bodies). For some Anglo-Catholics, as mentioned, the status quo was fine: the Church of England was simply the Catholic Church in England, no different from the national Churches of France and Spain, save that those were in communion with Rome. Some of such thinkers went so far as to dub the Roman clergy in England the Italian Mission, and to claim that those who converted to Catholicism were abandoning their ancient and ancestral church.
But, as also noticed, others thought that since neither the queen of Great Britain nor the tsar of Russia (the heads of the two leading European national churches during the 19th century) could possibly be considered proper religious leaders, unity with the pope was essential. But rather than convert as individuals, such folk thought it necessary to give the Church of England a makeover, catholicize it, and bring the whole country over to Rome en masse.
There were Catholics of a like mind. In 1857, wealthy Catholic layman, Ambrose Phillipps De Lisle and noted architect Augustus Pugin joined with the papalist Anglo-Catholic cleric and scholar, Frederick G. Lee, the Rector of All Saints, Lambeth to form the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom. Its members bound themselves to work for the reunion of the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches, and the Church of England. For most members of either faith, the goal was the establishment of a sort of Anglican Uniate Rite, united with Rome but preserving a married clergy, vernacular bible, and communion under both species. In 1864, however, the holy see ordered the Catholic members to leave the organization, which they did. Three decades later, Anglican survivors would help found the Catholic League, which still prays for the reunion of Anglicanism with Rome. In all of this activity, however, Mossman remained an interested and sympathetic spectator.
But the holy see was not uninterested in reunion; they wanted to make sure that all aspects of such a move be directed from the Vatican. When Bl. Pius IX restored the hierarchy of bishops to England in 1850, he did not restore the historic sees, as he did in Scotland and the Netherlands later in the century. This was to underline the provisional nature of the Church in England. The pope made it quite clear that if the Anglican bishops wished to return to communion with the holy see, their dioceses would become the units of governance, and they themselves would retain their cathedrals and sees.
But the flurry of Anglo-Catholic activity in England during those years led many, including Pius, to believe that the Church of England was, in fact, in the process of catholicizing itself. One strong problem, however, was the lack of validity of Anglican orders. No less a stalwart than Frederick Lee became convincedin the course of writing a book in defense of the Anglican positionthat the Roman position was correct. Various others, to include Mossman, felt the same way. Eventually, the Order of Corporate Reunion was born, with the precise goal of reuniting the Church of England with Rome through a program of validating Anglican clerics. Due to the literary prominence of Lee and Mossman, who were both members, Rome became convinced of the feasibility of the project. The result was a rather strange ceremony in early 1877.
Conducted in strictest secrecyallegedly aboard a boat off Venice and so out of any diocesan territorythe cardinal archbishop of Milan, the patriarch of Venice, and an Armenian Catholic bishop co-consecrated, using the Ambrosian Rite, three Englishmen as bishops for the Order of Corporate Reunion. These were Mossman, Lee, and John Thomas Seccombe (1835-95), who had been instrumental in the attempt to form a Western Orthodox Church. Upon their return to England in June, the trio issued a pastoral explaining the doctrinal decay of the Anglican Church and the necessity of what they were doing. Given that the work of the order was to remain secret, the three new bishops signed their letter to the English with pseudonyms: Thomas, Pro-Provincial of Canterbury (Mossman); Joseph, Provincial of York (Seccombe); and Laurence, Provincial of Caerleon (Lee). Seccombe quickly lost interest, and drifted out of the picture. Mossman, soon notorious for his validation work, was expelled from the Society of the Holy Cross, and died in 1885, received on his deathbed into the Catholic Church by his old friend, Cardinal Manning. Dr. Lee soldiered on, retiring from his parish in 1899, being received into the Catholic Church in 1901, and dying the following year; before this, he destroyed all his files relating to the Order, so that little can be known for sure. Still, today, many Old Catholic groups claim descent from it.
Although the O.C.R. did not achieve its goal, it does show that Mossman was willing to make sacrifices for the tenets of the Catholic Faith, in which he believed completelyto include the infallibility of the pope. As with a Lapide, he combined action in a time of controversy with prayer and study. In this way, he certainly became a worthy translator for the greatest single work of biblical exegesis in recent centuries.
Which brings us at last to ourselves. As noted, this edition includes the quarter-portion of technical stuff left out of Mossmans original. Here and there his translation needed a bit of touching up. All-in-all, this is an edition that will go far to open up the riches of a Lapide to the general public. Not a moment too soon, either. As with he himself and Mossman, we live in a world of controversy and strife. Knowledge of the four gospels is as powerful a weapon against falsehood and error in the 21st century as it was in the 17th and 19th centuries. Let us all be grateful we now need not be unarmed.
Charles A. Coulombe
27 July 2007
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I am just a hobbyist in photography. And I do not have specific interest areas (as of now). So while looking for different things to try with photography, I kept coming across things which require use of an external flash. Also a lot of my photographer friends have one (or more).
I want someone to tell me why it would be good to have one (or not) and what things I can try achieving when I get one. Also a note: I am thinking of cheaper or cheapest flashes when I say flash. Something like YongNuo series and Not Canon 600Ex.
(Edit: There one other question which has answers that list every advantage of using an external flash. I could get that from Google god. But I want to know the needs/thinking in photography that leads to it.)


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Perform the following on the primary server, wherever the iSCSI Target server is online at the moment.
- From Server Manager, navigate to File and Storage Services and select iSCSI. Click on the link "To create an iSCSI virtual disk, start the New iSCSI Virtual Disk Wizard". (Alternatively, select New iSCSI Virtual Disk from the TASKS drop-down menu on the upper right of the screen.) Note: Windows Server 2012 Server Manager inherently takes some time to display or update the information presented to the user.
- On the New iSCSI Virtual Disk Wizard, you will see the server and the volume. Select the DataKeeper volume and click Next. (Note: The server name is the name created in the "previous step" and the volume is the DataKeeper volume exposed.)
- Follow the next panel to configure the iSCSI Virtual Disk.
a. Specify iSCSI Virtual Disk Name.
b. Specify iSCSI Virtual Disk Size. (Note: Multiple files can be created. If file size spans the entire disk, the OS may warn that disk is low since the VHD file(s) created can consume the entire disk.)
c. Designate whether the iSCSI Virtual Disk will be assigned to an Existing iSCSI Target or a New iSCSI Target on the Assign iSCSI Target screen. (See below for an explanation on when to select Existing iSCSI Target.)
d. Specify iSCSI Target Name.
e. On the Access Servers screen, select Add. Add the iSCSI Initiators that will be accessing this iSCSI Virtual Disk. Note: The iSCSI Initiators should be added one at a time.
- Once all the answers have been provided, the iSCSI virtual disk/target creation is complete. Proceed to configuration of the iSCSI Initiator.
Setting Up Multiple Virtual Disks Within the Same Target Name
It is also possible to set up multiple iSCSI virtual disks within the same iSCSI target name. Whenever an iSCSI initiator connects to such a target, it will connect to all of the virtual disks that have been assigned to that name.
You need to have a plan ahead of time that describes which files you want to create and whether those files should all be accessed simultaneously or if the disks need to be accessed separate from one another.
To set up multiple virtual disks within the same target name, on Step 3c, instead of selecting New iSCSI Target on the Assign iSCSI Target screen, select Existing iSCSI Target and specify the iSCSI target name that was created previously. This target name will appear in the list of "targets" when an iSCSI Initiator connects to the iSCSI Target Server. If a target has more than one virtual disk associated with it, then the initiator will get a connection to each of those disks (they will appear as a new Disk in Disk Management).


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The articles in the Facility Services overview pertain to information that could be used for anything inside a building on LSU's campus. Facility services pertain to automotive repairs, building automation systems, building maintenance, carpentry, custodial services, electrical service, environmental services, fire alarms, HVAC installation and repair, keys, landscape services, moving services, painting, plumbing, roofing repairs, sheet metal, table and chair rental, and utility services. Professional services include construction/renovation, engineering & design, interior design, and planning & development.
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One week following the aftermath, it's worth another look to dissect and analyze what went right and what went horribly wrong in order for PR people to understand how to prevent crises and also know how to react when they inevitably arise.
Gasp. Is it true? Can apple actually "do" wrong?
Yes indeed, but before you can call em on it, Steve Jobs swoops in and saves the day, again.
Yes, we all know by now that Apple reduced the price of the Apple 8GB iPhone by $200 and killed off the 4GB model after only two months of being on the market. However, this post is part of my Crisis Communications 2.0 series which analyzes how companies react in crises.
Let's remember that this was a press event to launch the new iPod line. So in that regard, the price cut practically eclipsed this important news and demonstrated that Social Media is a powerful force that can work for or against you, whether or not you try to control the conversation and the message.
There are two camps on this. One side says that Steve Jobs and the Apple PR team screwed the pooch, while others believe that Steve's honesty might have actually positioned the company for aggressive growth across the desktop and portable PC, media and cell phone markets. And by growth, I mean stealing market share away from existing anchors in each segment.
After much thought, I can say that I have been a visitor of both camps and now reside comfortably in the church of Apple. I'll explain more in a bit.
So what went wrong?
First, the new iPods did not get their due spotlight even though this was the stage for an amazing set of individual stars.
Second, the only people talking to the community were upset customers and the media and bloggers that cast the spotlight on them.
Let's dig a little deeper though as to why a price drop would be an issue in the face of the eagerly awaited new iPods…
The iPhone is considered to be one of the most successful consumer product launches in history and combining this caliber of news from two different, but beloved product lines was a recipe for disaster..
As many have said, the iPhone launch was the moon landing for geeks. Many camped out, albeit unnecessarily, for the opportunity to purchase the sacred device. And, while many have said that if the iPhone was worth $600 to you and you happily paid it then, why would you be upset that the price went down.
Hey, it's tech right? The price always inevitably goes down.
But this is no ordinary customer base. This is the church of Apple. And, in this case, church goers are early adopters – people who support all new products from Apple without the care or benefit of peer-to-peer influence or regard for price. So a price drop after only two months doesn't come with evolution, it arrives with the stinging and the embarrassment of an unexpected bitch slap.
As you could imagine, the army of iPhone zealots, myself included, were a little upset at the news of the massive and sudden price drop. And most of us shared our stories, creating a tsunami of memes that washed out all other news and topics for several days.
It's hard to believe that Apple communications didn't see this coming. It's unclear as to the role PR specifically played in preparing Steve or the press for an "expected" negative reaction. It's also unclear as to PR's involvement in helping to broker the information between the company and the people – or whether they jumped, at all, into conversations with customers directly.
What we do know, is that this news was embraced with nothing short of anger, bewilderment, and intensity. The fallout could only be described as a revolution that spilled into the global streets of Social Media and only grew stronger with every new post, link, tweet, video, podcast, livestream, and comment.
You couldn't go anywhere online without seeing the discussion of Apple's iPhone fiasco.
But where was Apple PR?
Where were the community evangelists? And I'm not talking about iJustine here – who has my vote for Guy Kawasaki 2.0 by the way. I'm talking about Apple representatives engaging in the conversations. This is inevitably what every company will have to do anyway.
The only people talking (and shouting) were customers, press and bloggers, and I can assure you that none of them heard a peep from Apple marketing.
But it's not just marketing. It's investor relations. The stock took a hit.
At this point, there really was only one choice and the ultimate evangelist himself, Steve Jobs stepped up to make things right.
Jobs responded with a remarkable open letter to iPhone customers.
Jobs wrote, "I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions…Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T;, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store."
He continued, "We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple."
From a crisis communications, customer service, PR, and investor relations perspective Jobs, did exa
ctly the right thing here.
He acknowledged the mistake with an apology for disappointing "us" and extended an olive branch.
Almost immediately, the blogosphere, Web, and search engines lit up with links to the letter and discussions about its content.
But it was much more than a tactic to silence the angry mob, it was a peek into a new Apple, Inc. – and it still has people talking.
It's the opening of his letter that is the most revealing , "First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to 'go for it' this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone 'tent'. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season."
That's right…"go for it this holiday season." In fact, it's mentioned twice in just one paragraph.
Welcome to Apple 2.0. Not only is Steve trying to calm the anarchy, but he's steering the conversation, and the company, towards the discussion about how it plans to reach the mainstream – and it just might work. Think about how brilliant this is. He turned a negative into a business and vision discussion about how the iPhone is going to capture significant market share. And we're still talking about it, just like we're all still talking about Britney Spears – regardless of how disastrous her performance was.
Since the price cut, only one week ago, Apple strategically timed, or simply lucked out, with news that it sold its 1 millionth iPhone.
From Apple 2.0, "Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, whose 50-hour survey of Apple (NADAQ:AAPL) stores produced the most definitive estimate of iPhone sales to date, has combined his data with yesterday's report that Apple sold its 1 millionth iPhone on Sunday to calculate the effect of last week's 33% price cut."
Jobs responded, "One million iPhones in 74 days — it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod. We can't wait to get this revolutionary product into the hands of even more customers this holiday season."
Everyone loves the underdog.
And then there's also the news that the iPhone has been successfully unlocked, freeing it from the stranglehold of AT&T; – without worry of penalty or loss of features. It's almost perfectly timed to help the iPhone quickly consume market share.
According to engadget, "We've confirmed the hack! Yes, it's fully restore-resistant, too, which is great news."
And, also within one week, Apple's stock has regained $6 per share just $10 shy of its 52 week high.
But how does Apple's recent rollercoaster apply to the rest of us?
Well, first of all, all but a precious few have a iconic CEO such as Steve Jobs running their company. And secondly, it's about running through a series of responses and predictions and lining up the direct and indirect strategies to deploy in such cases.
Aside from strategic PR and investor relations, companies also need a Guy Kawasaki-like community evangelist to engage in conversations and participate in all important forms of social media. It's these discussions that remind us that people hold a company's brand within the confines of their conversations and will incubate and grow wildly out of control if not pruned by proactive, and sincere, conversationalists. Note, we're not talking about marketers, nor are we talking about speaking at our "audiences" with "messages." We're talking about hearing and talking to people and coming back to them with something of value.
Crisis Communications 2.0 will have a plan, ready to go, that combines traditional and social activity that each place people at the center of the discussion – the rest are just the tools to execute. But nothing can go live without first listening to the conversations taking place.
I think at some point though, Jobs is going to realize that he can not control every conversation – or is he the exception to the rule?
UPDATE: Apple Activates $100 Offer For Early iPhone Customers
UPDATE #2: Guy Kawasaki responds on Twitter,
guykawasaki @briansolis My pleasure. Thanx for the mentions. No one is asking, Does a company lower prices on stuff that's selling well? I say no.
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For a fun story, read BBspot's, "Jobs Offers Apple Lisa Early Adopters Store Credit"
The gutsy marketing and strategy behind Apple's iPhone price cut – BlackFriar's Marketing, "What people don't get is that Apple is waging a marketing war to reshape the value chain for the mobile phone industry…Apple is going to use its iPod playbook all over again"
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I asked a question on security.stackexchange, but was told it would be a better fit here:
My question is: Assume I'm an attacker trying to break a weak-but-unknown encryption algorithm. i.e., someone not too bright made a home-brew encryption algorithm, and I'm trying to break it.
BIG FAT DISCLAIMER: Using home-brew security algorithms is very bad for many reasons. Everybody in the security community agrees about it. It's very hard to keep algorithms secret. Please don't answer this question explaining why it's a bad idea to use a home-brew algorithm. I know it's bad. Assume the algorithm is completely unknown.
Okay, now back to my question.
How would you approach a completely mysterious ciphertext when you have no idea what algorithm was used to make it? For me it would look like a meaningless stream of hex, but I'm very curious to know if there's a method to analyze such data and try to break the code.
Here's an example of such a ciphertext.
Is there a way to break it using a single ciphertext? If that's very difficult, I'll be happy to learn how to do it from multiple ciphertexts. I can create more ciphertexts using the same home-brew algorithm, if someone here thinks he can use that to figure out the algorithm.


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The McLaren Group is a British conglomerate based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. Founded by Ron Dennis shortly after his acquisition of the McLaren Formula One team in 1981, it was originally named the TAG McLaren Group due to a partnership with Mansour Ojjeh's TAG Group. It was renamed to simply the McLaren Group in 2003, then to McLaren Technology Group in 2015. The group was originally formed from a Formula One team established by New Zealander Bruce McLaren in 1963 and is now focused around the McLaren F1 Team, the group's second most profitable company.
The company hoped to expand its market from Formula One to manufacturing cars with its launch of the McLaren F1. In recent years, the group has branched out to other precision manufacturing areas, such as motorised devices for the solar and wind industries. For three years, McLaren Group's technology subsidiary McLaren Applied Technologies worked closely with GlaxoSmithKline. Together they also planned to open a new building at the McLaren Technology Centre, called the McLaren-GSK Centre for Applied Technology.
In December 2014, founder, CEO, Chairman, Director and McLaren shareholder Ron Dennis attempted to purchase 50% of McLaren Technology Group from Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Mansour Ojjeh, after shareholder relations worsened, but the investment deals Dennis had arranged failed to materialise and the shareholding structure remained as before. Dennis tried to purchase the company again in October 2016, with an estimated bid of ?1.7bn, but Ojjeh and Mumtalakat wanted Dennis out, refusing his bid and consequently placing him on garden leave. Dennis left the company upon the expiry of his contract in January 2017.
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Thanks to Paula for this awesome challenge. A lot of us just adore fussy cutting and we hope you all get to play along with us this week!
So what is fussy cutting?
Fussy cutting is a Quilting term but we papercrafters have done this for years too. Basically it's cutting out intricate pieces of paper for your card or scrapbook page.
Like it? We did ... and here's what the Design Team came up with -
Delys Cram
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Patrice Easton
Nikki Spencer
Chantell Randall
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Mae Collins
Paula Dobson
Gardenia Pepworth
And our final submissions from our two wonderful Guest Design Team members..
Thanks so much for all of your gorgeous creations this month Clare and Liam!
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Explanation: This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not only tremendously complex, but appear to have less mass than expelled in the original supernova and a higher speed than expected from a free explosion. The featured image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, is presented in three colors chosen for scientific interest. The Crab Nebula spans about 10 light-years. In the nebula's very center lies a pulsar: a neutron star as massive as the Sun but with only the size of a small town. The Crab Pulsar rotates about 30 times each second.
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Samsung and Sony end mobile phone production in China due to high labour costs
2 min readSamsung Electronics has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals in the world's biggest smartphone market.
The shutdown of Samsung's last China phone factory comes after it cut production at the plant in the southern city of Huizhou in June and suspended another factory late last year, underscoring stiff competition in the country.
The South Korean tech giant's ceased phone production in China follows other manufacturers shifting production from China due to rising labor costs and the economic slowdown.
Sony also said it was closing its Beijing smartphone plant and would only make smartphones in Thailand.
But Apple still makes major products in China.
Samsung's share of the Chinese market shrank to 1% in the first quarter from around 15% in mid-2013, as it lost out to fast-growing homegrown brands such as Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi Corp, according to market research firm Counterpoint.
"In China, people buy low-priced smartphones from domestic brands and high-end phones from Apple or Huawei. Samsung has little hope there to revive its share," said Park Sung-soon, an analyst at Cape Investment & Securities.
Samsung, the world's top smartphone maker, said it had taken the difficult decision in a bid to boost efficiency. It added it would however continue sales in China
"The production equipment will be re-allocated to other global manufacturing sites, depending on our global production strategy based on market needs," it said in a statement, without elaborating.
Samsung declined to specify the Huizhou plant's capacity or its numbers of staff. The factory was built in 1992, according to the company.
South Korean media said it employed 6,000 workers and produced 63 million units in 2017.
That year, Samsung manufactured 394 million handsets around the world, according to its annual report.
The company has expanded smartphone production in lower-cost countries, such as India and Vietnam, in recent years.


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We've had a few days of really hot weather and I never think to change the temperature of the fridge to compensate for the extra heat. Subsequently some milk started to go off. It was only a bit off, off enough so it tasted strange in tea. In an attempt to be resourceful and thrifty (not a quality that comes naturally to me) I set about turning it into something else. However I didn't really think it through. I could have made some scones or added the milk to the mixture when making a chocolate cake but I messed up big time and ended up with a house that smelt disgusting and a dish of tasteless rubbery cheese that would have needed other things added to it to make it even vaguely palatable. I had wasted a good hour of my time and the 'cheese' went in the bin.
Perhaps it is just me, but the whole idea of making use of leftovers makes life feel grim and miserable. Just the word 'leftovers' is depressing. As the need to be more mindful of waste becomes increasingly necessary, someone needs to rework the subject to make it appealing. We need a new vocabulary that makes food scraps and stale stuff exciting.
While I was scrabbling around trying to find a use for my sour milk I found an old household encyclopaedia that I had collected primarily for its colourful dust jacket. Set out in an A to Z format, for sour milk it says:
SOUR MILK This is very good for polishing linoleum. It will remove iron rust from white fabrics.
So next time perhaps I'll give that a go, not that I have any linoleum in the house. I spent quite some time reading through the book though, which is filled with useful nuggets of information as well as much that is quaint and outdated.
BED to ascertain if damp. Put a mirror for a few moments between the sheets. If it is misty when removed, then the bed is damp.
CHIMNEYS These can be kept reasonably clear of soot if potato peelings mixed with a little salt are burnt in the grate at least once a week. It will form a glaze inside the chimney and thus prevent its becoming clogged.
COFFEE GROUNDS Dry coffee grounds filled into a suitable covering make excellent pin-cushions; the pins and needles struck therein will never rust.
FLY-PAPERS to make. Take pieces of strong, thick paper, smear with treacle, and place in prominent positions. Always burn fly-papers after use.
(You just know your hair will become tangled up in one of these!)
HEDGEHOGS Keep in a cage during the day and release at night if it is desired to use them as beetle-catchers. Feed on bread and milk and an occasional earth-worm.
LAVENDER SACHET Mix together 75 parts powdered lavender, 20 parts powdered benzoin and 1 part oil of lavender.
(This actually sounds lovely and I think is worth trying out. Benzoin has a scent similar to vanilla so I imagine this combination would work beautifully.)


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Obviously, you cannot throw the burden of proof onto the doctor just to make it easier for you. In order for your lawyer to plead res ipsa, you have to satisfy three conditions:
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ormally happen in the absence of medical malpractice or dental malpractice.
Like the patient finding his shoulder was damaged after an appendectomy, the injury has to be something that cannot be easily explained as a normal complication, such as having a sore foot for a few weeks after foot surgery, or your 90 year-old grandmother dying of a stroke. It has to be something out of the ordinary, and something the doctors never warned you about, such as finding that your baby is brain damaged after you were led to believe your pregnancy and delivery were normal.
2. Whatever was done was under the physician's or dentist's exclusive control.
The best example of this is a surgery in which the doctor has full authority and responsibility for everything that is done. It is known as the Captain of the Ship theory.
3. You were either unconscious at the time of your injury or doing exactly what you were told to do by the physician or dentist.
What happened was not due to any voluntary act on your part, and you were not guilty of contributory negligence.
In a New Jersey case, a doctor treated a woman for a chronic chest complaint without ever taking a chest x-ray. Finally, after six years, another doctor took an x-ray and found she had tuberculosis. When the first doctor was sued, he said it was the patient's fault. If she did not improve in six years, she should have consulted another doctor. No one forced her to keep going back to him when she was not getting better. The court disagreed, stating that the patient could not be criticized for misplaced confidence in her doctor and following his orders faithfully. He had exclusive control and was the only one to blame.


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If you're in the market to buy a home this season, stick with it. Homebuyers face challenges in any market, and today's is no exception. But if you persevere, your decision to purchase a home will be worth the effort in the end. In fact, a recent survey from Bankrate shows homeownership is so powerful that:
"Nearly three in four homeowners say they would still buy their current home if they had it to do [sic] all over again."
That means the results – owning a home and the benefits that come with it – outweigh the effort needed to achieve their goal. If you're a homebuyer, let that provide you with the confidence to know the work you're putting in today will pay off for years to come. Here are a few reasons to stick with your search and focus on the outcome.
Homeownership Contributes Significantly to Your Financial Well-Being
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) lists several motivations to consider if you're thinking about buying a home. One of the top financial reasons is the equity you build. As NAR says:
"Money paid for rent is money that you'll never see again, but mortgage payments let you build equity . . . Building equity in your home is a ready-made savings plan."
Your equity is a powerful tool you can leverage in a number of ways. And with recent home price appreciation, homeowners are seeing record levels of equity today. That may be one reason why so many people view owning a home as a great investment and a top indicator of financial well-being. As the survey from Bankrate mentioned above shows:
". . . Americans place a higher value on homeownership than on any other indicator of economic stability, . . ."
Owning a home ranks above other major accomplishments like retirement, having a successful career, and getting a college degree. That indicates just how impactful the financial benefits of homeownership truly are.
The Emotional Benefits of Owning a Home Are Powerful
Of course, homeownership is more than an investment. In their list of top reasons to buy a home, NAR also highlights some of the powerful, non-financial aspects of homeownership. Among them is the opportunity to customize your home to reflect your personality and needs. As they say:
"The home is yours. You can decorate any way you want and choose the types of upgrades and new amenities that appeal to your lifestyle."
Another benefit homeowners enjoy is the stability it provides. Homeowners typically stay put longer than renters. According to NAR, when you remain in one place longer than a few years, you can grow closer to your community. And that can enhance your sense of pride and lead to better relationships.
What Does That Mean for You?
The benefits of homeownership are powerful, as Leslie Rouda Smith, President of NAR, says:
"From building personal wealth and fostering communities, to strengthening social stability and driving the national economy, the value of homeownership is indisputable."
Even if you face challenges in today's market, the payoff when you succeed and purchase a home will be worth it.
Bottom Line
If you're planning to buy a home this year, there are incredible benefits waiting for you at the end of your journey. Speak with a trusted real estate advisor today about everything homeownership has to offer.


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It's hard to believe that it's been over a decade since Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise split. There are rumors -- if you believe Vanity Fair -- that Kidman was ushered out of Cruise's life in 2001 by Scientology superiors who considered her a "suppressive person."
But now Kidman, who once said that she still loved her unhinged ex even after their divorce, has risked the wrath of his so-called religion by going on the record with her memories of life as Mrs. Tom Cruise.
(Nice knowing you, Nicole.)
"It was like, 'I'm here and I'm clutching onto your arm, and it all feels a little overwhelming and really strange,'" the statuesque Oscar winner told Harper's Bazaar about red carpet appearances with the munchkin-sized Cruise. "And I was shy. Deeply shy. I didn't feel comfortable at all. But I felt very comfortable at home."
On the flip side, her second marriage to country singer and fellow Aussie Keith Urban had the exact opposite effect on her. "He just gave me confidence," she said about her well-coiffed baby daddy. "Through just being very kind to me and understanding me, opening me up to trying things, my sexuality, those sorts of things."
And now we know what has long been suspected: Keith Urban is better in the sack than Tom Cruise. Quelle surprise.
Still, Nic didn't grab popcorn and a ringside seat during Cruise's incredibly public split with Katie Holmes, and even though she was perfectly entitled to yell KARMA, BITCHES!, she found no joy in their breakup. In fact, it was barely a blip on her radar.
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It's been over a year since the election of 2008 and yet Sarah Palin cannot show up in the news without a barrage of vicious attacks from the media. Although she is no longer a candidate for vice president, the vitriol continues to spew over the release of her book, "Going Rogue: An American Life." Many think the anti-Sarah sentiment stems from her solid pro-life position but I would like to explore reasons that go way beyond her feelings about abortion.
As you look back in history to the late 1960s and 1970s, you see a wave of feminist ideals being sold to women, including the notion that they needed to delay motherhood to get ahead in their careers. Many women bought into this belief that giving birth and career advancement didn't mix. So what happened?
Many women chose the birth control route, delaying marriage and childbirth well into their thirties and even forties. Their biological clocks ticked away and they sacrificed the most fertile time in their lives for career advancement and what they thought would be true happiness.
Some, when faced with an unplanned pregnancy they believed would interfere with their careers, chose the abortion route. They sacrificed the life of their unborn child for their own personal career advancement. Now enter Sarah Palin, a woman with a husband, children and a high-profile career. Yes, this hockey Mom went from school board, to mayor, to governor to a vice presidential candidate! And her own unplanned pregnancy ended not in the hands of an abortionist, but in the loving embrace of the Palin family.
Now when the women who sacrificed motherhood either by abortion or birth control look at Sarah, they can't stand her, even if they can't explain why. Because she was able to have a family and a career, they see her as having the best of both worlds. They see, in this confident, self-possessed, accomplished woman, surrounded by a loving family, everything they gave up.
In a nation that has lost more than 50 million children to abortion, we have millions of women who have these repressed feelings. Many have suffered silently from these negative consequences since their abortion. I know first-hand about this trauma and I invite anyone still dealing with the pain, shame and regret of abortion to visit www.SilentNoMoreAwareness.org.
The next time you hear Sarah being attacked so viciously, consider that it might be because we are a nation that has been wounded by abortion.
Janet Morana, Executive Director, Priests For Life
Co-Founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign


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Jeter reached with an infield single on his first pitch following the long layoff, immediately testing his healed left ankle Thursday in the first inning of the New York Yankees' series finale against the Kansas City Royals.
Jeter didn't acknowledge the fans as he made his long-awaited return. He turned on a 95 mph fastball from Ervin Santana and sent a three-hopper up the third-base line that fell from Miguel Tejada's throwing hand.
Fans chanted "De-rek Je-ter! De-rek Je-ter!" as the 39-year-old shortstop ran up the line well past first base, then returned to the bag. The ankle got more tests when he raced to third on Robinson Cano's single up the middle and came home without a throw on Vernon Well's sacrifice fly to right.
Jeter was the designated hitter and batted second in his first big league game since he broke his left ankle during the AL championship series opener Oct. 13. He said after the initial injury he would return by opening day, then fractured the ankle again in April during his rehabilitation and missed the first 91 games of the season.
Jeter had not been introduced at Yankee Stadium by Bob Sheppard's recording in 271 days, since he sprawled onto his stomach while trying to field Jhonny Peralta's 12th-inning grounder up the middle, immobile on the infield dirt and yelled out in pain. He hobbled off the field on his good ankle, one arm draped around manager Joe Girardi and the other around trainer Steve Donahue.
New York cut short his rehabilitation assignment in the minor leagues after just four games following injuries Wednesday night to Travis Hafner and speedy Brett Gardner.
"He can DH tonight in Scranton or he can DH today in New York," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. "Might as well bring him in and DH him in New York."
Cashman made the decision when he was driving home after New York's 8-1 win Wednesday's and spoke with Jeter by phone. Jeter went 1 for 9 in his tuneup at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, including 0 for 3 with a throwing error during seven innings Wednesday night.
Girardi said Jeter is likely to start at shortstop for Friday's series opener against Minnesota.
"I think Derek would run himself out there the next 70 games if it was up to him," Girardi said. "I mean, that's just who he is. He expects to play every day. So from that standpoint I think we have to guard against rushing him back too much, and we have to pick days off, and we have to pick DH days. In the perfect world, you have a month of spring training, but this has not been a perfect world around here this year."
Jeter did not speak with reporters before the game.
Cashman said former GM Gene Michael was at Wednesday's game and gave a positive report on Jeter's mobility. Girardi said he expects Jeter "to be the Derek that he was last year. There's nothing that tells me right now that he can't be."
A 13-time All-Star with a .313 career average, Jeter hopes to jolt a batting order that is next to last in runs in the AL. The Yankees started Thursday fourth in the AL East at 49-42.
Six players have appeared at shortstop in his absence, hitting a combined .211 with two homers and 25 RBIs, according to STATS. Only Seattle shortstops had a lower batting average.
New York hopes to get third baseman Alex Rodriguez back this month following January hip surgery and center fielder Curtis Granderson next month after his broken pinkie has healed. First baseman Mark Teixeira is out for the season following wrist surgery.
Rodriguez began Thursday 2 for 15 (.133) with one RBI in six minor league games for Tampa and Charleston, both Class A farm teams. Cashman said Rodriguez will be given the full 20 days of the rehab assignment, which runs through July 21.
"There's a reason he's in A-ball, and there's a reason we were able to put Derek in Triple-A right from the start, because Derek was obviously much farther along," Cashman said.
NOTES: The Yankees cleared a roster spot by designating 1B Travis Ishikawa for assignment. ... Hafner bruised his left foot and Gardner his right leg when he was hit by a pitch for the second time.
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By Jonathan P. Hicks
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It is an office within the executive branch of the federal government that is little known, but the Office of Minority Health has been playing an active role in raising consciousness about health disparities while helping to educate millions of Americans to live healthier lives.
The office was established in 1986, during the administration of President Ronald Reagan. But the office, which is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, has been particularly busy during the presidency of Barack Obama.
The office works with federal and state agencies to develop policies and practices that help advance health among minorities who have traditionally lagged far behind white Americans in health patterns.
"We also are able to fund projects in communities that are working to address health disparities and improve minority health," said OMH Director J. Nadine Gracia, in an interview with BET.com.
"We also help to advance and set policy that will help to improve the health in minority communities," she said.
Gracia also served as deputy assistant secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services.
One of the most successful campaigns, she said, has been in curbing the disparity in infant mortality, which has long had far higher rates in the African-American community. Through a program called "A Healthy Baby Begins With You," the office has trained more than 2,000 college students to serve as counselors to go into communities and discuss the importance of health conscious lifestyles for women who are pregnant, she said.
"The program takes place on more than 90 colleges, including historically Black colleges and universities," Gracia said, adding that the lead spokeswoman for the campaign is Tonya Lewis Lee, the wife of filmmaker Spike Lee.
"We see a greater awareness and we see that among students, many become leaders, health ambassadors and then pursue education in public health," Gracia said.
Another area where the office has been particularly involved is in assisting people who emerge from prison and are diagnosed with HIV. The program is known as HIRE, which stands for Health Improvement for Reentering Ex-Offenders.
"We help them to be able to re-enter their communities and have a successful reentry," Gracia said, explaining that HIV rates have long been highest in the African-American community.
"We assist them with [housing], education and ways to deal with suffering from substance abuse," she added. "The program is in place in New York, Florida and Texas. They were chosen because they have the highest number of ex-offenders with HIV in the country."
A pediatrician by training, Gracia has served in academic medicine and government for several years. From 2010 to 2011, she was the chief medical officer for the Health and Human Service's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. She coordinated a number of programs in the fields of child and adolescent health, disaster preparedness, environmental health, global health, Haiti recovery and the White House Council on Women and Girls.
She led the development of the department's 2012 environmental justice strategy, which addresses the disproportionate exposure of minority and low-income communities and Indian tribes to environmental hazards and promotes healthy community environments.