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Reconciliation has not been achieved in South Africa – and it never will be unless we urgently find more truth and justice in the way we are seeking to transform society. Reconciliation does not happen in a single day, nor is it a simple condition. It is a complex process that unfolds over time and must be continually renewed. For this, we are in desperate need of leadership and moral authority, the kind that will inspire people to get involved in the struggle for a better society.
It is now commonly accepted that our country would have had a racial civil war, an inter-ethnic civil war, had the violence of the 1980s split over into the next decade and century. If there had been a political settlement, there would have been sustained violence in the country.
It is important to remember that the apartheid state was under siege, but not defeated. The army and police retained considerable might. By contrast, the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto weSizwe, was a guerrilla army with no military power. South Africa did not really experience an armed insurrection or even a guerrilla war. Our population is largely urban, so the struggle was very different from those in Vietnam, Algeria or China, which mainly depended on a 'peasant war' waged in the rural areas. The state also had the support of Inkatha, the witdoeke (vigilante groups), and police assassination units like Vlakplaas, which did not hesitate to use against anyone who identified with the ANC. The balance of forces favoured the democratic movement led by the ANC. While a white state would never have survived, victory in any civil war would have come at an enormous cost to human life. To avoid this, a political compromise became essential.
With the transition, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) offered an essential opportunity for justice for victims of gross human violations. Despite the good work that the TRC managed to do, not enough was done to prosecute apartheid criminals, in particular the top echelons, who refused the generosity of our people. Today we would have been better off if there had been trials for top-level state officials and high-ranking officers in the security forces who did not fully participate in the TRC. Those who did not come clean needed to be put on trial, as happened with the Nazis after the Second World War at the Nuremberg Trials.
Former president P.W. Botha held the TRC in contempt. So too, I would argue, did F.W. de Klerk, all the generals and, much more importantly in my view, big business. Anglo American, Anglovaal, Sanlam, Old Mutual: all failed to do what was necessary for coming clean about their role in apartheid and for doing something to redistribute wealth more equitably. Though I have never since the 1990s advocated the abolition of capitalism, we did miss the opportunity to effect more fundamental changes in overcoming apartheid inequality and its social deficits. This should have been part of the public dialogue preceding the establishment of the TRC. Today, we must seek a path against corporate lalwelessness.
As Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass point out in their new book on inequality in South Africa, it was not the robbery through land dispossession and cheap wages that constituted the real dispossession of black people; it was what Linda Chisholm had called the 'intellectual dispossession' of black people. The wealth that the apartheid state invested in white education is what has allowed most of white society to retain its privilege. There is also admittedly a small minority of black people – a growing minority, but a minority nonetheless – who share in the wealth of white people. Yet, for the majority the greatest dispossession happened as a result of decades of vastly inferior education.
Pass laws, on the other hand, were part of the colonial system of migrant labour. The people essentially responsible for these inhumane laws were mining companies – later also white farmers, but essentially the mining industry – which wanted a supply of cheap labour for the mines. The dreadful consequences of the migrant labour system are well known. It undermined family life and social structure in the rural areas. It destroyed subsistence agriculture, initially through the 1913 Land Act. It ensured that migrant workers were paid a pittance. Harold Wolpe's analysis showed, for example, how rural women subsidized the profits of the mining industry by having to feed their children while the men were away. Lastly, and probably most importantly, the pass laws criminalised tens of millions of people. That there were 4 million convictions under the pass laws in a ten-year period leads us to ask: how many raids were conducted, how many arrests were made, how many people were arrested two or three times, how many families were disrupted? No one has paid for this: not the mining industry, and not the state.
The worst crime of the post-apartheid era has been the continuing intellectual dispossession of black, particularly African and Coloured, working-class and poor children across the country. The inequalities in education today are greater than under apartheid. This based on a number of things. First, it follows from the partial privatisation of former white ('Model C') public schools that was allowed by the charge of excessive fees, which automatically excluded black working-class children. These schools already had established intellectual and physical capital – a well-trained cadre of teachers, laboratories, libraries and large sports grounds – yet they were allowed to charge fees. So today you have in Khayelitsha or Manenberg in Cape Town families unable to afford school fees of R100 or even R50 a year, while in the Southern Suburbs the fees at some government schools are over R17 000 a year. So imagine the disparity.
However the greater inequality subsists in the number of teachers and the quality of their teaching. The majority of teachers in Coloured and African townships today – and I use these racial terms deliberately because they remain realities – have a greater burden in their shoulders than any other former Model c teacher. They have to be a parent for the child who is not looked after at home; they have to be a doctor for the child who comes to school sick; they have to be a social worker for the child who is neglected, physically abused or sexually abused; they have to be a drug counselor and a policeman for the child who is so brutalized that he comes to school with a knife to stab other children or teachers. This is what a township teacher has to do. Moreover, teachers in township schools are often less qualified than their counterparts in the suburbs. Under apartheid the qualification that most African and Coloured teachers had was matric or a three-year teacher's diploma. A significant minority was barely qualified, with only matric or a Standard Eight plus a teacher's diploma. Teachers with degrees or postgraduate qualifications were impossible to find in rural and urban schools for the majority of our people.
Another aspect of the intellectual dispossession of our children is language. It is true that the majority of African children have been dispossessed of their mother tongue, first through colonization, and later through Afrikaner nationalism. If children do not learn in their mother tongue, at least for the first six years of their education, conceptualization and capacity for abstract thought are underdeveloped. A study by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the HSRC found that the majority of teachers cannot teach properly in their mother tongue, because African languages are not standardised. For the majority of African teachers, English is a second language and Afrikaans is a third and stigmatized language. Also, in the majority of communities where people are taught through the medium of English, the community does not speak English, the family does not speak English, and the teachers themselves do not speak English as a first language. What does that do to a people? The question then arises: where is the reparation from big capitalist publishing houses, particularly those once allied to Afrikaner nationalism? Where is their contribution to ensuring that the apartheid deficit in language development is overcome for indigenous black African languages?
So how can we claim that we have reconciled when we condemn the majority of our children to an intellectual dispossession that will make themselves slaves – not only because they cannot read, write and count properly, but because there is no economic future for them in today's globalised world?
There is nothing to stop the parents at former Model C schools in the Southern Suburbs from saying: 'Ok, we're paying R17 000 in fees a year.R6 000 of that should go to an equity fund to build libraries, to build schools and so on.' Are middle-class parents going to object? Only the odd person will, because the majority will see the value of having every kid in society educated, the value of opening unlimited horizons for a child in Khayelitsha or Manenberg, and the value of building equality in education.
Anglo American, Old Mutual, Sanlam, Anglovaal: these giants that control the economy, that put the wealth of the country into their pockets and leave people destitute of social security, work and healthcare, are enormous danger. They have not yet paid reparation – and reparation for apartheid is essential. There is no way that we can have reconciliation, unless there have been significant reparations – and reparations are not paid to an individual only. There is no reason why all the companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and those that have delisted and gone to America and Britain, should not give two percent of their wealth to an equity fund. This is a reasonable demand. It would allow the state, in addition to the ordinary taxation which we all pay, to address the enormous imbalances that we have inherited. And it would create a sense of unity and social cohesion among all people if it is done properly. It must not be accompanied with finger-pointing, but with an understanding that we all have to invest in the future of the country.
I really believe that it is not only the right thing to do, but it is in every business interest to say: 'Here's two percent of our wealth', and make this ongoing. So whenever money is invested and shares go up, dividends can be paid to the state for education and housing backlogs, public works, job creation, healthcare and social security. But we've not had the national leadership that said: 'Look, this is what happened. We're not blaming you but this is what happened; it was part of a system. Let's all fix it together. This is what we're proposing.' Thabo Mbeki failed us as a leader in this respect, because what he instituted was a policy of racial nationalism that alienated minorities, particularly white people, and allowed white people to go back into the laager and build a new culture of white supremacism, which says: 'We don't care about the rest', 'We've paid our debt' and 'Our children are not responsible for apartheid.'
In a very regrettable article, James Myburgh, for whom I once had enormous respect, wrote that white people, and other minorities as well, have been greater victims of crime than blacks. What people like Myburgh forget is the migrant labour system that destroyed families and social cohesion, the ten years of HIV deaths that weakened the social fabric, and the criminalization of the vast majority of African people by the pass laws simply because they wanted a family life. The difficulty that all of us face now stems from our failure to understand that the whole African population, irrespective of class, was criminalized under apartheid, and did not see the police as an instrument of justice, but as an instrument of oppression. This needs to be considered with the larger problem of social injustice, including the massive unemployment rate and the huge inequality between rich and poor. And as we all know, it is not poverty that cause crime, it is inequality. If I have a cellphone and you have nothing, and your family has been criminalised over generations, what are you going to do? Are you going to have respect for the law? Are you going to see a white or black person as a person, or are you going to see them as someone with something that you want or need? So to argue that whites or coloureds are the greatest victims of crime is not only wrong – the evidence shows that the majority of people affected by crime are African and Coloured working-class and unemployed people – but fails to understand the connection between social injustice and crime.
South Africa has one of the largest public police forces in the world, and also the largest privatised police force in the world. Whom does the privatized police force protect? It protects middle-class and business people like us with alarms, barbed wire and armed response. Yet all of these protections are ignored by the vast majority of white people and all of business.
If you take these things together – the crime situation, unemployment, the education system, the lack of justice for crimes against humanity committed under apartheid – the question we have to ask is: Have we averted a civil war or have we simply postponed it? Unless we address these and other questions, there is no way we are going to avert a civil war. Black men are killing black men at an alarming rate. People have been so brutalized through lack of education and economic opportunity, through dispossession and criminalisation , that they fail to see another person as a human being. Black women and children carry an even greater burden of violence.
What we are seeing now is that violence is shifting from the private to the public sphere. This is manifest in rape in shebeens, women's skirts being pulled off at taxi-ranks, and black working-class lesbians being targeted for murder. The most extreme example of this violence has been the attack on other African people over the last few years, which resulted in xenophobic pogroms in 2008. What this underlines is that there are serious racial, ethnic and class-based fault lines in society and that poor people are struggling against each other for the limited resources available.
The conflict will continue to expand and eventually it will engulf all of us, unless we take steps to fix our education system, improve social security and make business understand that without social justice, business will not survive, just as people will not survive.
The conscious struggle for social justice and social equality is the most important route to reconciliation. The Constitution, which came out of negotiated settlement, is of enormous benefit to that struggle, but it requires active citizens. In small ways the Treatment Action Campaign, the Social Justice Coalition (which emerged from xenophobic pogroms) and Equal Education are places where non-racialism, freedom, equality and reconciliation are built daily through struggle. After all, here is where I learnt that for a whole generation of children, 'Die Stem' – which until this year I never sang – means reconciliation, and not what we used to sing: 'Uit die blou van Bonteheuwel /Uit die diepte van Diep Rivier /Oor die ver verlaate Distrik Ses /Waar die bulldozers antwoord gee /Ons sal klipgooi tot die einde /Ons Sal opfok tot die end /Ons sal lewe, ons sal sterwe /Ons vir jou, Azania.'


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2013 Ohio Budget Included Many Other Controversial Bills
When you look back at what the Ohio legislature did this year, you'll discover a lot of controversial bills didn't actually pass both chambers. Perhaps the biggest bill passed this year, the $62 billion dollar budget, also had some of those controversial bills attached to it.
WhenGov. John Kasich introduced his version of the proposed two year state budget in January, it included expanding Medicaid in Ohio and raising the sales tax to offset a break in income taxes. Some lawmakers and political pundits immediately couched Kasich's plan as a tax increase, a point that prompted Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett to fire back.
"The budget cuts taxes for every Ohioan by one point four billion dollars," said Bennett.
Ohio Democratic Party Chair Chris Redfern liked the part about expanding Medicaid but claimed the tax reform shifted the burden to middle and low income Ohioans. Redfern described them this way:
"As you are shifting the burden around, you are moving seats around on the Titanic."
But Republicans took issue with the Governor's budget for several reasons. Ohio House Speaker Bill Batchelder pretty much guaranteed the house wouldn't accept the Governor's budget because of expansion of Medicaid and opposition to severance taxes.
The sentiment was similar in the Senate, where President Keith Faber said it wouldn't be likely the governor would get everything he wanted. The House stripped out the Medicaid expansion, the severance tax on gas and oil and reduced the sales tax increase and income tax cut. Then it went to Senators. The Senate's spending plan means tested the homestead tax cut so that those who turn 65 in the future won't automatically qualify for the property tax relief. Several controversial abortion related amendments at the last minute and those remained in the budget when the house and senate approved the final version of the budget in late June. Governor Kasich signed the two year state budget, including the abortion provisions, but promised to revisit a couple of items.
"Medicaid is not in there," said Kasich. "The leaders say they want to do something, but let me be clear: this is not over. The severance tax fight is not over. Medicaid expansion fight is not over. We are going to stay on this thing until we get it."
Months later, Kasich used a legislative panel to push through the Medicaid expansion he wanted but that move is being contested in court. The fight over the abortion amendments isn't over either. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio is suing the state over those provisions.
2013 was the year that Ohio lawmakers decided to ban internet café sweepstakes. In June, the Ohio legislature passed a plan to shut down those storefront places known as sweepstakes parlors after Senate President Keith Faber said Senators had decided to adopt a house passed plan with some minor changes. Why the change of heart?
"I am convinced that these entities are not only illegal but many of them also engage in criminal activities within their facilities so the time to act is now," said Faber.
Internet café operators disagreed they were doing anything illegal in their businesses and they vowed to gather signatures to let Ohio voters decide the issue. But this fall, backers of that plan said they didn't collect enough signatures to put it on the ballot in time to stop the closure of those facilities.
Ohio lawmakers also passed some controversial elections bills, including one that would make it harder for minor parties to get on the ballot. And the impact of that one could prove important in 2014 when Governor Kasich is up for re-election.

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Mining committees share regulation-change ideas
Both parties suggest new deadline for permit approval
MADISON, Wis. — The leader of a state Senate committee researching how to streamline state iron mining regulations has released provisions he wants in a bill, including a two-year deadline for permit approval and a chance for the public to challenge the decision.
The current approval process is open-ended.
A GOP bill that would have established a one-year deadline for a decision and eliminated contested case hearings — proceedings where the public can challenge the ruling — died last spring. Republicans plan to revisit the issue next year, however.
Democratic Sen. Tim Cullen has formed his own committee to research mining regulations. On Tuesday he released provisions he wants to see in the next bill that also calls for a two-year approval deadline.
Cullen's provisions also include collaborating with federal regulators and American Indian tribes plus a contested case hearing.


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To sponsor an organization like Lost Creek Ranch, dedicated to helping veterans struggling to overcome PTSD, it takes an extreme level of compassion and integrity. Phil Long Ford in Denver not only meets these standards, but surpasses them.
With a powerful history of local Colorado involvement, the level of dedication to the community has been demonstrated time and time again. Dating back to 1941, the founder of Phil Long Ford, Mr. Philip Long, demonstrated his urge to serve by joining the military to volunteer as a Navy pilot in WWII. After engaging in over 120 missions, being shot down twice, and being honorably discharged and decorated as Lieutenant Commander, Mr. Philip Long, returned to the States to bring that passion home.
A month later, he bought his dealership that evolved into today's Phil Long Ford.
His enthusiasm for community growth and involvement was matched in 1975 when he recruited Jay Cimino as his partner – a partner in both business and service. Their team expanded their dealership into a franchise that established roots throughout Colorado, not only selling cars, but changing lives of employees and their families as they grew. Even after Phil Long's death in 2001, the Phil Long Ford name and the dedication to the community were carried on by Jay Cimino.
Mr. Cimino's efforts to support the residents of Colorado started within his company and expanded beyond his work. Within his company, he offered holiday meals, employee picnic, generous benefits, and opportunities and programs for healthy lifestyles. He instilled a thriving energy among his staff members and teammates.
Beyond his own business, he carried his impact to the many residents of Colorado. He developed programs and donated to various youth organizations across the state. The Phil Long Ford name is responsible for the development of multiple Colorado parks through its partnership with the Denver Broncos "Fantasy Playground" initiative.
On top of encouraging an active lifestyle for Colorado youth, Jay Cimino and the team at Phil Long Ford extended their generosity to assisting civil servants from firefighters to police officers through sponsorships and awareness programs. He even offered vehicle assistance to those in time of need. In fact, after the Waldo Canyon fires, Jay Cimino provided over thirty vehicles to the emergency crews to aid both employees and others affected by the tragedy.
It goes without saying, then, that Jay Cimino upholds the history of Phil Long with his dedication to supporting the military, both current soldiers and veterans. He has reinstated "Operation Home Support," donated to Fort Carson's Resiliency Campus, offered supplies and funding to the American Red Cross, and created the non-profit, Mt. Carmel Center of Excellence, all in the hopes of providing support to those who have served our country.
While he has been recognized consistently for his contributions to his community, it is our turn at Lost Creek Ranch to honor his involvement with our PTSD retreat in Colorado. He and the team at Phil Long Ford have earned the title of one of our esteemed benefactors who make our dream of healing come to life. It is the support from heroes like Phil Long and Jay Cimino that motivates us to continue our work in bringing peace to those who have sacrificed so much on our behalf.
Thank you, Phil Long Ford.


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Web-editorKari-Anne Røisgård
EditorTherese Riiser Wålen
These pages contain information in English about Norway's National Budget for 2010, presented to the Storting as Report no. 1 (2009-2010) on 13 October 2009. The National Budget presents the Government's programme for the implementation of economic policy and projections for the Norwegian Economy.
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Finance
Kristin HalvorsenMinister of FinanceOctober 2009
Measures to counter the effects of the financial crisis are working – 2010 budget to support the positive economic development
The National Budget 2010 - A summary
Main features of the Government's tax programme for 2010
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7 Fun St. Patrick's Day Crafts to Do With Your Kids
Are you looking for a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with your kids?
Hoping to bring some luck o' the Irish to your family (or at least some good old green fun)?
Look no further. The editors of My Kids' Adventures searched the Internet for St. Patrick's Day crafts that are easy and fun to make with your kids.
In this article I'll share our favorite lucky seven St. Patrick's Day crafts to do with your kids.
Why St. Patrick's Day Activities?
You don't have to be Irish to join in the spirited fun of St. Patrick's Day on March 17. The holiday celebrates the Irish and Irish-at-heart with food, fun and lots of green for shamrocks (the leaf of the clover plant) and leprechauns (little green "fairies").
Green beer aside, there are lots of ways to celebrate—and decorate for—St. Patrick's Day with kids. We hope you'll like this roundup of seven super projects, recipes and games from around the web.


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Beşiktaş have grabbed their first victory in the Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadium against dark horse Medipol Başakşehir on matchday 4 of the Spor Toto Super Lig 2015-2016 season.
The Black Eagles wanted to win their final game before their first European match against Skenderbeu this Thursday and did this with a 2-0 scoreline in a very good game. Mario Gómez was the big man with a brace, which were his first goals in Turkey.
The German striker scored the opener after roughly 15 minutes into the game. Goméz did a step-over at the edge of the box and got the ball behind goalkeeper Babacan with a powerful diagonal shot in the right corner.
He could have repeated this 5 minutes later with another shot from just outside the box, but this time Babacan had an answer to his effort and pushed the ball to a corner kick.
It was just the beginning of many good chances for Beşiktaş, while Başakşehir couldnt create a single chance in the entire first half. José Sosa got past his man, inside the box and tried his luck but his shot was blocked twice by the defence.
Oguzhan Ozyakup, who suffered a minor injury during training this week and wasnt completely ready, was subbed of at half time for Necip Uysal.
Başakşehir didnt impress in the second half either. They started taking more risk and gaveBeşiktaş a lot more space in defence, but it didnt result in a lot of good chances for the club from Istanbul. Doka Madureira took a shot after a long run but it went wide of the right post.
Beşiktaş took advantage of the space Başakşehir gave away in a counter. Sosa played a long ball in front of Töre, who shook off the man marking him and went straight at one defender ofBaşakşehir . Töre then passed the ball in front of Gómez who sent goalkeeper Babacan into the wrong corner, scoring his second goal of the game.
The Black Eagles now had a comfortable lead, but forgot to kill the game completely, wasting many good opportunities. Başakşehir almost got back into the game, but Tolga had 2 great saves up his sleeve. He firstly pushed a good and powerful strike of Visca to a corner kick and had another good save after a shot from Mehmet Batdal after a corner.
Olcay didnt play a good game and was subbed off for Ricardo Quaresma. In a very good counter attack Quaresma missed a glorious opportunity, the ball was cleared off the line. The Portuguese player did however put up a very good attack later on. Töre, who played an amazing game and was arguably the best man of the match, got past 3 man of Başakşehir and crossed the ball to the right side of the pitch to Quaresma. He got past his man as well with a lovely step-over and crossed the ball towards Gómez, who headed the ball but missed the empty goal.
The German wasted another good chance in the final minutes of the game. He had some good combinations with Dusko Tosic, who finally put Gómez up against the goalkeeper but the striker shot it right at Babacan.
The game ended with a 2-0 score and this win puts our Black Eagles temporarily at a joint first place with Antalyaspor with 9 points. However rivals Fenerbahçe are playing later tonight. A good win right before an European game, but Şenol Güneş will definitely have something to say about the many wasted chances.
Kod:Stadium: Atatürk Olimpiyat Officials: Serkan Çınar, Kemal Yılmaz, Ali Saygın Ögel, Tarık Ongun (4th official) Beşiktaş: Tolga, Beck, Rhodolfo, Ersan, Tosic, Atiba, Oğuzhan (46' Necip), Gökhan (81' Kerim), Sosa, Olcay (63' Quaresma), Gomez Reserves: Günay, Serdar, Necip, İsmail, Kerim, Quaresma, Cenk Head coach: Şenol Güneş M. Başakşehir: Volkan, Bekir, Uğur (63' Cenk Ş.), Ferhat, Yalçın, Sedat (63' Sokol), Mahmut, Visca, Doka, Mossoro (81' Alparslan), Mehmet Reserves: Ufuk, Gençer, Alparslan, Cenk A., Cenk Ş., Sokol Head coach: Abdullah Avcı Goals: Goméz (15', 62') Yellow cards: Bekir (32'), Sedat (40'), Gökhan (54'), Mossoro (70')Besiktaş-ınternational.com


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This article offers a qualitative empirical examination of the ways in which Israeli family members of elderly persons evaluate live-in elder care and translate their evaluations into monetary value. The author explores the relationship between family members' views of appropriate wages for live-in elder care providers and their perceptions of their own power relations with their parents' caregivers.


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Watchlist season continued Monday with the release of the 2014 Chuck Bednarik Award watch list by the Maxwell Football Club. A total of 76 players were named to the watch list.
The Chuck Bednarik Award is awarded to the nation's top defensive player as determined by the Maxwell Football Club. Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald was named the Bednarik Award winner each of the first two years the award was presented (1995 and 1996), and Penn State has had four Bednarik Award winners, the most of any school. Pittsburgh defensive tackle Aaron Donald was the 2013 Bednarik Award winner.
This year's watch list includes three of last year's semifinalists, Clemson defensive end Vic Beasley, Oregon cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu and USC defensive end Leonard Williams. Georgia has three linebackers on the watch list and Stanford continues to gain respect on defense with four players named to the watch list.
Here is the 2014 Bednarik Award watch list:
DE Henry Anderson, Stanford
LB Stephone Anthony, Clemson
DE Vic Beasley, Clemson
DT Michael Bennett, Ohio State
DE Joey Bosa, Ohio State
LB Kelby Brown, Duke
DT Malcom Brown, Texas
DE Shilique Calhoun, Michigan State
CB Alex Carter, Stanford
S Sam Carter, TCU
S Jeremy Cash, Duke
DE Frank Clark, Michigan
S Landon Collins, Alabama
DT Christian Covington, Rice
S Su'a Cravens, USC
DT Carl Davis, Iowa
LB Trey DePriest, Alabama
CB Quandre Diggs, Texas
CB Lorenzo Doss, Tulane
S Kurtis Drummond, Michigan State
DE Alvin Dupree, Kentucky
DE Mario Edwards, Florida State
CB Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, Oregon
LB Kyler Fackrell, Utah State
DE Devonte Fields, TCU
DE Try Flowers, Arkansas
LB Leonard Floyd, Georgia
DE Dante Fowler, Florida
CB Kendall Fuller, Virginia Tech
DE Markus Golden, Missouri
DE Randy Gregory, Nebrska
LB Bryce Hager, Baylor
CB Vernon Hargreaves III, Florida
DE Eli Harold, Virginia
S Anthony Harris, Virginia
LB Ben Heeney, Kansas
DT Chucky Hunter, TCU
DE Martin Ifedl, Memphis
LB Myles Jack, UCLA
DT Grady Jarrett, Clemson
LB Jordan Jenkins, Georgia
LB A.J. Johnson, Tennessee
S Karl Joseph, West Virginia
LB Eric Kendricks, UCLA
LB Hau'oli Kikaha, Washington
CB Jordan Lucas, Penn State
DT Luther Maddy, Virginia Tech
LB Tyler Matakevich, Temple
LB Lorenzo Mauldin, Louisville
LB Benardrick McKinney, Mississippi State
DE Ryan Mueller, Kansas State
DE Shawn Oakman, Baylor
DE Norkeithus Otis, North Carolina
LB Denzel Perryman, Miami
LB Terrance Plummer, UCF
S Cody Prewitt, Ole Miss
LB Hayes Pullard, USC
DE Cedric Reed, Texas
S Jordan Richards, Stanford
DE A'Shawn Robinson, Alabama
DT James Rouse, Marshall
CB KeiVarae Russell, Notre Dame
LB Jake Ryan, Michigan
LB Frank Shannon, Oklahoma
DT Danny Shelton, Washington
S Derron Smith, Fresno State
LB Jaylon Smith, Notre Dame
LB Eric Striker, Oklahoma
DE Charles Tapper, Oklahoma
LB A.J. Tarpley, Stanford
S Robenseon Therezie, Auburn
LB Shaq Thompson, Washington
CB Trae Waynes, Michigan State
DE Leonard Williams, USC
CB P.J. Williams, Florida State
LB Ramik Wilson, Georgia
Earlier today the Paul Hornung Award watch list was released. The Maxwell Award watch list was released alongside the Bednarik Award watch list as well.


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First Look: All the Cocktails at Parson's Chicken & Fish, Chicago
Preview brand-new spots to drink (or fresh new menu items) here.
Note: First Looks give previews of new drinks and menus we're curious about. Since they are arranged photo shoots, we do not make critical evaluations or recommendations.
If adult summer camps were a thing, then a spot like Parson's Chicken & Fish could serve as the genre's commissarial lodestar. It has all the makings of the ultimate fair-weather snack bar: judging by the squat, hut-like architecture, the building that houses the dining room, main bar, and kitchen was almost certainly once a lowbrow fried-chicken shack to begin with; more of the restaurant is outside than in, with a large majority of the seating concentrated, beer garden-style, in a picnic-table-filled lot around back; and much of the food, by chef Hunter Moore (Girl & the Goat, Lula Café, Nightwood), arrives by way a deep fryer.
If the food and vibe say stay awhile, the cocktail program aims to make the argument more compelling. Max Wolod, Parson's general manager (XOCO, North Pond), and Charlie Schott, its principal bartender, have put together a debut drink list that in its broad strokes is light and playful and in step with the food, yet also betrays creative flourishes that keep things interesting over the course of, say, a long summer afternoon of day-drinking.
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Parson's is the latest restaurant venture of Land & Sea Dept., a Chicago-based cohort of design-savvy entrepreneurs whose best-known work, Longman & Eagle, is at once an ambitious, Michelin-starred dining destination and an old-school whiskey-pouring neighborhood tavern. With the introduction of Parson's, LSD's methodology grows clearer: melt down a few cultural-historical references (Southern rock, classic American cars, a black-and-white photo depicting circa-1970s-style revelry), tap a promising chef to stir the pot, and leaven with a sprinkle of unassuming, modern-eclectic design. Big crowds are already thronging to the two-week-old spot when the weather abides.
On a recent evening, Schott greeted me at Parson's to walk me through the ingredients and inspiration behind all of the debut cocktails. Before joining the bar team at Parson's, he spent the past three years behind the stick at Longman. I sensed that during his time there he cultivated a sensibility that favors unfussy presentations and relies little on ingredients like elaborate syrups and to build flavor. He prefers drinks where the inherent qualities of the spirits, juices, and liqueurs do most of the talking.
Check out the slideshow for an in-depth look at all the cocktails at Parson's Chicken & Fish.
Parson's Chicken & Fish
2952 West Armitage Street, Chicago, IL 60647 (map)
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This first spring day my father turned 92. He was in the hospital for a fall, but without much damage, so he bounced back fast.
His room provides a terrific view of the harbor and snow capped Mount Baker of the North Cascades.
The hospital staff conveyed one key point – Dad has a great sense of humor. Everyone who knows him will concur. Whether I live past 60 or 100 I know that the soul of wit and levity is too dear to be lost. Forsaking humor for the sake of discomfort or fear is to lose all.
My father taught me patience of a particular sort born of persistent focus such as time may not weaken. Humor sharpens focus and disassembles diversion, hence reinforcing patience.
I visit my folks every month and am looking forward to Dad's 93rd day of birth when we may share a laugh in the new spring morning.


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Lemongrass Cymbopogon citratus
Lemongrass is a lemon-scented grass that grows that is said to have originated in Malaysia or the Philippines.
Most famous as a culinary herb, especially as an ingredient in Asian cooking, lemongrass is also used in many African countries to make herbal tea, and its essential oil has a delicious uplifting aroma.
As well as making use of its fresh, pungent flavour in soups, curries and stews, lemongrass can be used as a preservative and pesticide.