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The field of public administration concerns itself with government, public purposes, and getting the job done. The faculty of the School of Public Administration are here to build knowledge in the discipline through scholarship, and also to provide educational opportunities for those who wish to know more. There are many stimulating challenges facing the public sector, and we offer our five degree programs knowing that our students seek a superb education at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.
The Bachelor of Public Management (BPM) places emphasis on the critical cognitive knowledge and practical skills essential for professional positions in public and nonprofit agencies and organizations.
The Bachelor of Public Safety Administration (BPSA) is a unique undergraduate degree program for South Florida professionals and pre-professionals interested in police, fire, and disaster response practice and administration.
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Farmer shoots worker after 'mistaking him for monkey'
Polokwane – A farmer allegedly shot and wounded a farm worker with a pellet gun in Letsitele, after allegedly mistaking him for a monkey, Limpopo police said on Thursday.
Mathanene Ishmael, 55, was returning from a store room on his bicycle when the farmer allegedly shot him in the head with a pellet gun on Wednesday, Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said in a statement.
"The suspect claimed he mistook him for a monkey."
Ishmael was rushed to a nearby hospital with a head injury.
The 47-year-old farmer was arrested and would appear in the Ritavi Magistrate's Court on Friday on a charge of attempted murder.
Provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Nneke Ledwaba warned gun owners to first make sure they knew what they were shooting at before pulling the trigger.
In KwaZulu-Natal, an 87-year-old man appeared in the Umzinto Magistrate's Court on Monday for allegedly shooting and killing a 12-year-old boy he apparently mistook for a monkey. The boy was climbing a guava tree on the man's property in Braemar on Sunday when he was shot in the head and upper body, Sergeant Patrick Msomi told News24.
In another case, Stephan Hepburn, 38, allegedly shot and killed farmworker Jan Railo, 23, on a Limpopo farm on February 11. He was hunting with his wife and apparently mistook Railo for a warthog. The Modimolle Magistrate's Court granted him R15 000 bail on February 24.
Three separate incidents and no one to connect the dots?
You came to the right place to discuss, moan and complain about government and their politicians who do nothing, except for freeloading and filling their own pockets. Enjoy and please, don't hold back.
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I've emailed some schools for some feedback and I'll share what they said. I'm still waiting on some and I'll admit I'm judging these schools by how long it takes to get back at me. Some haven't responded at all and I'm a little irritated, but that's besides the point.
As for getting a Masters or a second Bachelors… if you want to get specific skills in industrial design you could consider the undergraduate program. This will provide you more core skills as an industrial designer. MFA, on the other hand, will show a more natural progression for your education and will expose you to wider types of opportunities, such as interdisciplinary collaboration, design research and theory, etc. Many grads from our MFA also get jobs as industrial designers but keep in mind that the program does not go as much in depth in core skills.
For the Master's track, you can see the list of undergraduate courses in this link that you would need to take in the first year in order to "catch up" in the master's level courses. This would be the only difference between the 2 year and 3 year tracks, however that is the exact reason why it has been designed. I don't believe you would be at any disadvantage as I imagine the college admits students separately with their desired track in mind.
I would defer to the Design School for more specific questions as they will be most familiar with the two tracks. Ultimately, it would remain a personal decision on whether you wanted to complete at least 30 undergraduate credits to receive the ID bachelors degree or the 42 mixed credits (21 undergraduate level, 21 graduate level) and work toward your masters degree.
As you can see it depends on the school. You'll have to compare the tracks for each school and then see which school has the best program for you. I've reset my search from "which degree should I get" to "what do I want to do and what program is going to get me there". I'm looking for a school that would give me solid sketching skills but also allow me to make actual models and develop it for production. (more than just a one class introduction of each.)
Getting away from cost for a bit. Here's a comparison of what I think the school's focus is based on their website (feel free to correct me if you think I'm wrong)
- +CCAD (prototyping, brand development)
+CIA (3d modeling, rapid prototyping, digital sketching, cars cars cars)
+UW-Stout (welding, very general art education)
+OSU (sketching, analogue modeling, 3d modeling)
+Wentworth (design/sketch/cad, modelmaking)
+Auburn (fabrication)
+RIT (drawing, prototyping)
+Drexel (model making)
+Art Center (everything!!)


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The regional rankings and placements were announced for the 2012 NCAA Division II Regional Tournament by the NCAA. Conference Carolinas Tournament Champion King College will head to North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega, Ga. to take part in the Southeast Regional Tournament, held May 4-6.
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King earned the No. 8 seed and will be one of four teams playing the first regional round. The pool of opponents includes No. 5 Columbus State, No. 4 Augusta State, and top-ranked host North Georgia. The Lady Tornado (34-17) will play North Georgia (45-8) at on May 4 at 6:00 p.m. Depending on the outcome of the game, King will return to the diamond at either 1:30 or 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 5. All games are being played at Haines and Carolyn Hill Stadium.
Information regarding tickets, lodging, directions, and all tournament materials can be found at the regional tournament website (click here).
North Georgia is currently ranked 11th in the country while Columbus State received 15 votes in the latest poll, placing them 28th. King is the only Conference Carolinas school represented in the Southeast Regional Tournament.
The Lady Tornado advanced to the NCAA Regional Tournament by winning four games and the Conference Carolinas Tournament. They defeated Queens University of Charlotte in a 12-inning thriller before eliminated host Coker College and then defeated top-ranked North Greenville University twice to clinch the program and College's first Conference Carolinas Tournament Championship. Four Lady Tornado were named to the All-Tournament team and pitcher Hannah Light was named Tournament MVP.


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Dinner date
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks with the press after a dinner with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, at Alvorada Palace in Brasilia. Chavez is in Brazil to take part in the Mercosur Extraordinary Summit that will be held in Brasilia. This summit will make official Venezuela's Membership to the Mercosur regional trading bloc.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Aug 2012 13:27 UTC, submitted by henderson101
"Over the past couple weeks, we've read a number of bedtimes stories about RIM's next move. They all start with the same trope: once upon a time, late last century, Apple was on the edge of the precipice and still managed to come back - and how! Today, RIM's situation isn't nearly as dire as Apple's was then. Unlike Apple, it doesn't need a cash transfusion and, in the words of Thorsten Heins, RIM's new CEO: 'If you look at the platform it's still growing, if you look at the devices we've got a single phone that's sold 45 million units.' RIM will pull off an Apple-like rebound and live happily ever after. Equating RIM 2012 with Apple 1997 is, in so many respects, delusional. Let me count the ways."


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A chorus of prominent conservative voices is worrying aloud that Republican candidate Mitt Romney's play-it-safe strategy is jeopardizing his chance to win the presidency.
As President Barack Obama's campaign intensifies criticism of Romney's background, influential Republicans — right-leaning leaders in business and the media — charge that Romney's message on the economy and other issues is short on detail and muddled at best.
In an editorial Thursday, The Wall Street Journal said the Romney campaign is "slowly squandering an historic opportunity."
"The Romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the White House by saying the economy stinks and it's Mr. Obama's fault," the newspaper said. "We're on its email list and the main daily message from the campaign is that 'Obama isn't working.' Thanks, guys, but Americans already know that. What they want to hear from the challenger is some understanding of why the president's policies aren't working and how Mr. Romney's policies will do better."
The harsh critique comes as Romney nears the end of a weeklong vacation at his New Hampshire lakeside home, where he has been almost totally out of the public eye, except for a brief Fourth of July appearance. Polls show Obama slightly leading Romney nationally and in several states that are critical in the hunt to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win the Nov. 6 election.
Romney has consistently criticized Obama's handling of the economy, health care, domestic spending and foreign policy, but he has offered few specific prescriptions for what he would do differently. The strategy is reflective of a campaign that hopes to make the election a referendum on Obama — in particular his handling of the economy — as economic indicators suggest the pace of the nation's recovery is slowing.
The federal government is set to release a June jobs report on Friday that could have major political ramifications with the election four months away. Regardless of the numbers, conservatives say Romney still needs to better explain his plans.
"Adopting a prevent defense when it's only the second quarter and you're not even ahead is dubious enough as a strategy," William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, wrote Thursday.
The Romney campaign says the former Massachusetts governor has been laser-focused on the economy since he launched his campaign a year ago. And they suggest their critics are misguided.
"I think they have to recognize that we're in a campaign mode where simple, tough, declarative sentences are required, that this is not a campaign to be won on nuance but to be won on making sharp distinctions with the failure of the Obama administration economically, the loss of jobs and the pain that Americans across the country are feeling," former New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu, a key Romney surrogate, said on CNN.
Informal campaign adviser Charlie Black noted that Romney has a 59-point economic plan on his website.
But conservative critics include media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who took to Twitter recently and charged that Obama's Chicago-based team "will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful."
Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp., which owns The Wall Street Journal and Fox News, has also jabbed Romney for playing it safe.
Some of Romney's longtime political advisers go back to his days as Massachusetts governor.
"Governor Romney respects the team that he has and he has full confidence in them," said spokeswoman Gail Gitcho.
The criticism has intensified in the days since the Romney campaign offered seemingly contradictory messages on the Supreme Court's health care ruling. The court ruled that the so-called individual mandate in Obama's signature law is constitutional, in part, because of the federal government's taxing authority.
Republicans seized on the explanation and accused Obama of raising taxes. But that raised questions about Romney's health care overhaul in Massachusetts, which also forces people to purchase health insurance.
A day after a Romney senior adviser declared that the mandate was not a tax, Romney went on TV to say it was.
The president, meanwhile, has launched a two-day bus tour of northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, where he told supporters Thursday that Romney would pursue economic policies that favor the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. And Obama's top political adviser, David Axelrod, cited an Associated Press investigation of Romney's personal offshore investments.
"Why would you transfer your Bermuda business . to your wife the day before you became governor? Why did you not want that on your disclosure form?" Axelrod told ABC News, accusing Romney of being the most secretive candidate since President Richard Nixon.
But there is little doubt that the direction of the economy on Election Day will be critical.
The June jobs report arrives amid a number of mixed signals on the economy. U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in nearly three years, according to a report this week. Private payroll provider ADP reported Thursday that U.S. businesses added 176,000 jobs last month, better than the revised total of 136,000 jobs it reported for May. But shoppers pulled back on spending in June, leading to sluggish retail sales during the month.
Another bad jobs report could undermine Obama's argument that the economy has shown signs of improvement.


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Oct. 31, 2007
The Lipscomb Bisons closed out the home portion of the season with a 9-0 non-conference loss to Evansville Wednesday evening at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex.
The nine goals were a season-high in goals allowed. The Bisons had given up four goals on two different occasions.
The Bisons have been outscored 15-0 in their last three games. They have two regular season non-conference games remaining on the road at Wofford Friday and Furman Sunday afternoon.
The Bisons, who are the No. 4 seed in their first ever trip to the Atlantic Sun Tournament, will have a few days to rest and regroup before traveling to DeLand, Fla., Nov. 15 for the tournament at Stetson.
Evansville out shot the Bisons 24-20, but held a 14-6 advantage in shots on goal.
Bisons senior goalkeeper Jake Goergen gave up eight goals. Mark Williams allowed one in 13:10 minutes as he made his first appearance of the season in goal for Lipscomb.
Cory Elenio scored the hat trick for Evansville. Elenio made a game-high four shots on goal.
The Bisons are 5-9-3 overall. Evansville is 9-7-0.


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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz brought in nearly a hundred players for observation prior to the NBA draft. It worked out nicely, even though Trey Burke wasn't among them.
What next, 100 free agent visits?
Monday marks the start of free agency, which means things are seriously busy. With the NBA's second-most salary cap space (some estimates are as high as $40 million), the Jazz will be lining up like shoppers at a door crasher sale.
Stand back, 'cause here they come, with money to burn.
After the dealing they did on draft night, one can only wonder what the next phase of shopping will bring.
"The nature of it is, there are fewer workouts (in free agency) — and they're a lot more private," general manager Dennis Lindsey said. "We might make 100 phone calls, but we won't have 100 players. That's a logistical nightmare."
Still, it's safe to say the Jazz aren't ruling out much. With an expected cap of around $59 million, they are required to spend no less than $54 million on player salaries next year. The contracts of Derrick Favors, Enes Kanter, Gordon Hayward, Alec Burks and Jeremy Evans total around $20 million. Marvin Williams has an option on a $7.5 million deal.
With the remaining cap space, the Jazz should be able to say, "We'll take that. And that. And that."
Will they be as aggressive as they were on draft day?
"It's hard say. We'll do our diligence and make the calls, and if it's appropriate for us to be very aggressive and make a big offer, we can do so," Lindsey said. "Everybody knows about the room and flexibility we have built in with the threshold. But I will say this: We will not give bad contracts."
In other words, the Jazz will play it like a certain Hall of Fame point guard, noted for his frugality and short shorts.
They may have millions but that doesn't mean they're spending it all in one place.
The team on Thursday traded for the rights to Michigan's Burke. He showed up on Friday at Zions Bank Basketball Center to address the media, his first trip to the Beehive State. Team representatives were positively giddy with how things worked out. They got the national player of the year — a true point guard — and French center Rudy Gobert, who has a 9-feet-7 standing reach. Also acquired was Brazilian guard Raul Neto.
"We couldn't be more pleased," said Miller Sports Properties COO Steve Miller.
Happy as the Jazz management team was, it wasn't about to relax. Lindsey will meet with coach Tyrone Corbin this weekend to confirm the direction they'll go. The unexpected availability of Burke might have altered their plan on free agents. Lindsey declined to specify whether next year's main components will be players they already have, or incoming troops. It's possible the Jazz will skip trying to re-sign any of last year's guards, and they might even skip bidding for Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap.
In any case, there has never been an off-season with so many options. By league rules, the Jazz must get up to 13 players. Right now they have about half that many. There are certainly some doozies on the market, primarily Chris Paul and Dwight Howard. But neither is likely to sign with a small market team, especially one that is nowhere near contention. Next tier down, without regard to whether they're restricted or not: Jeff Teague, Brandon Jennings, O.J. Mayo, Josh Smith, Monta Ellis and Andre Iguodala.
In the department of seen-better-days: Andrei Kirilenko and Manu Ginobili.
The Jazz struggled for years to hold off free agency raiders such as Portland, which wooed Wes Matthews with superior dollars. It tried to make away with Millsap, too.
Now it's the Jazz with the cash — or at least the cap space — and ownership has OK'd the team spending what it must to be a contender. That doesn't mean it will be tossing money at risky players.
"We're going to be disciplined and if the evaluation gets beyond where we think they belong, then we'll move to the next guy," Lindsey said. "If that means being more patient in free agency and being more value-oriented in August, so be it."
Either way, for one of the only times in their history, the Jazz are virtually free to shop 'til they drop.
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Amy Herzog's play "Belleville" begins with a young American in Paris arriving home in the middle of the day to find her husband, the husband she thought was at work as a junior physician, sitting at his computer, consuming pornography.
This ironically titled play — the Paris of "Belleville" is a city of neither lights nor love but of confusion and marital unraveling — is not the first play to consider Internet porn. But the way in which it is handled is indicative of Herzog's formidable skills as a writer. Caught red-handed, Zack (Cliff Chamberlain) is embarrassed. But the marriage that concerns this drama is not yet old enough for him to really know how his beautiful wife, Abby (Kate Arrington), will react. Indeed, Herzog makes very clear that Abby, an intense if well-meaning 20-something with destructive issues of her own, does not yet know how to react.
Does this indicate she married a secretive sleaze or just a regular guy taking advantage of harmless technological pleasure? Does being a cool wife require she be nonchalant, perhaps even encouraging, or should this be a moment to draw some assertive line? Is this symptomatic of a sexual deficiency, a failing in wifely marital duties, of her own? Or is this a telling clue that her seemingly charming husband, also an American adrift from the familiarity of home and trying to find himself in a snooty country, is not what he seems in all kinds of ways?
Luckily for the director, Anne Kaufmann, Arrington is perfectly capable of flicking through all of those colors of neuroses and indecision without the script requiring her character to say very much more than "Hi." And this inciting incident has another advantage: It's just shocking enough for schadenfreude and just ubiquitous enough that a good portion of the audience either is remembering when something like this happened to them or contemplating what the fallout will be when it does.
So "Belleville" has you at that "Hi." And for the next 105 minutes or so, it maintains that hold on its audience without ever leaving the same Parisian apartment, mostly because you know that something is up with this somewhat empathetic, somewhat terrifying couple, yet precisely what is up (I'll try not to give it away) is metered out by Herzog only in very careful bites of information (James Schuette's clever set has quiet, little revelations of its own).
Abby's sister is having a baby back in the States, which means she is calling home a lot, giving us clues to her family and her past. We see that Zack likes to hang with the guy who lives in the building and manages Zack and Abby's apartment, a seemingly kind French-African man named Alouine (Chris Boykin, who underplays and thus shrewdly adds to the enigma) in a very different kind of marriage to Amina (Alana Arenas).
Women are called upon to judge men a lot in "Belleville" (finding them wanting, for the most part), and when you are looking for an actress with both moral authority and the ability to shoot wordless daggers of contempt at males behaving badly, you are looking for Arenas, whose performance acts here as a kind of moral center. This is true even as Abby and Zack oscillate in their mutually destructive force field of sex, lies and self-indulgence, with Arrington, it feels, reaching for all of her character's highs and bringing her down to meet some terrifying lows.
This play, first produced at the Yale Repertory Theater in 2011, was a big hit in New York shortly thereafter, not least because it combines the nomenclature and the narrative tension of a Hitchcockian thriller set against the backdrop of a relationship filled with subterfuge and still manages to be a sympathetic portrait of the early potholes of marriage and an astute exploration of one of life's most common and horrific traps: the peril of one day waking up and finding yourself inextricably linked to someone you do not really know.
If married people will recognize Herzog's acute sense of the soul-swallowing pitfalls of the early years, so too will single people shudder at its understanding of the potential dangers of hooking up with someone you really don't know, however much it feels like you do. That's a broad spectrum of date-night theatergoers, and "Belleville" thus should do well for Steppenwolf this summer as a premiere adult night out in a sultry town. And one wouldn't be surprised if someone filmed this very commercial script. Saturday night, a lot of people around me were talking back to the play.
What you want most in shows like this is never to be pulled out from the narrative by not believing. And both the play and Kaufmann's tense, adroit, nuanced, deftly cast production manage that feat all the way until the last few minutes, when Zack is forced to show more of his hand and has a rapid descent all of his own. The careful pacing and staging suddenly look stilted and less credible — whenever a big knife is being waved around onstage for too long, it can easily stab through many past minutes of apparent truth — and you find yourself not entirely believing, or recognizing, the actions of Chamberlain's Zack. It's the script's rush for a climax that sparks the challenge — Herzog, a whopping young talent, will go on to write yet-finer plays where the pain retains more of its quotidian drip without compromising the drama — but you wish the director and actor still would go back to work on those last few minutes, since Chamberlain's work otherwise is so strong.
You believe he could seduce this needy Abby, and yet you immediately catch what she missed. In other words, you're both ahead of and right alongside the dissembling, despairing characters in this play, which makes for a very juicy night of theater.
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Where: Steppenwolf Theatre,
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Running Time: 1 hour, 45 mins.
Tickets: $20-$78 at 312-335-1650 or steppenwolf.org


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8:00 pm
NOVA "Decoding Neanderthals" A team led by geneticist Svante Paabo announces in 2010 they have reconstructed much of the Neanderthal genome, and the analysis shows modern humans and their Neanderthal cousins interbred widely outside Africa. The film looks at these findings and a range of new evidence for Neanderthal self-expression and language.G
9:00 pm
Secrets of the Dead "Cavemen Cold Case" A tomb of 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidron, a remote, mountainous region of northern Spain, leads to a compelling investigation to solve a double mystery: How did this group of Neanderthals die? And could the fate of this group help explain Neanderthal extinction? Scientists examine the bones and discover signs that tell a shocking story of how this group may have met their deaths. Some bones bear distinct signs of cannibalism. Was it a result of ritual or hunger? Neanderthal experts are adamant that they were not bloodthirsty brutes. D
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Life In Cold Blood "Land Invaders" Among chorusing frogs in Panama, Sir David Attenborough asks how amphibians first managed to invade the land. The Australian lungfish, an ancient relative of the amphibians that can breathe air, and the giant Japanese salamander give vital clues about their first tentative steps. They also demonstrate their fiercely protective parenting skills. Part 2 of 5G
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(No matter what's in theatres before New Year).
This made me want to make a movie again!
It reminds me of Richard Lester's "Running Jumping Standing Still"
and Norman McLaren's "Neighbours." Both of which I love.
Running Jumping Standing Still Film (excerpt)
Hope David Berry continues with "The Tourist," and tells its story.
Quite compelling watching.
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Goodness is powerful
There is no way evil, wrong and injustice can have the last word
By Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu ('07H)
On the 2007 International Day of Peace, Sept. 21, the JMU Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence presented its highest honor to Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. In accepting the Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award, Tutu shared these words with a capacity crowd of students, professors, alumni, staff members, special guests and community members at the Convo.
Thank you so very, very much for your very, very warm welcome. I am sure you will join with me as we send our good wishes and assurances of prayer for God's blessings for the Muslim and Jewish communities who at this time are commemorating very holy seasons for them. We pray that God will pour God's abundant blessings on them so that they will become conduits of that blessing to the rest of us.
It's very wonderful to be here and to receive your wonderful welcome. I remember one day going through the security checkpoint at the Atlanta airport, and the senior security officer thought she recognized me. And she was gushing, "Oh, Archbishop Tutu." It was very nice. And then she called a younger colleague across, and the younger colleague came sauntering. And the older security officer says, "This is Archbishop Tutu." Blank stare. "You know, Bishop Tutu." Blank stare. So the younger officer saunters back to her post and as she goes through she says, "He must have been before my time."
It is a very great honor to have been awarded this prestigious Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award. I am so deeply aware that the people you really want to honor are the millions of my compatriots who are the true heroes and heroines of our struggle against the injustice and awfulness of apartheid's oppression. It is on their behalf in a representative capacity that I accept the award. I usually say what is so patently obvious, that when you are in a crowd and you stand out, it is only because you are being carried on the shoulders of others. I am so very cognizant of this. And don't go away thinking, "Oh, isn't he nice and so modest." I am nothing of the sort. We once visited West Point Military Academy, and at the end of the visit the cadets presented me with a cap to commemorate the visit. It didn't fit me. A nice wife would have said, "The cap is too small." My wife said, "Oh, his head is too big!" Thank you.
Lessons from oppression
In our struggle against apartheid there were so many occasions when we seemed to have reached the end of our tether when the upholders of apartheid and all its injustice and evil seemed invincible. At such moments we would tell our people, "This is God's world, and God is in charge." Of course there were many moments when we wished we could whisper in God's ear, "God we know you're in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"
Yes, we asserted categorically, "This is a moral universe. There's no way that injustice, evil and oppression could have the last word. Ultimately right and goodness will prevail." This belief was vindicated when apartheid was toppled and freedom and democracy came into their own. I can hear the cynic say, "Well yes, it might have turned out that way in this exceptional case. The evidence almost universally points to a sadly unhappy picture." So, what in fact is the truth?
We shouldn't subvert our thesis by burying our heads in the sand. Only the willfully blind could pretend that our world is a paradise, that our world is an ideal one. There is almost overwhelming evidence that evil is real, that injustice, oppression, suffering are prominent features of life as experienced by far too many in our world. In recent times there have been the ghastliness of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, the gulags in Stalin's Communist Soviet Russia, there have been dictatorships in Spain, Portugal, even Greece, the cradle of democracy, there has been the repression in the former communist dictatorships behind the former Iron Curtain -- the catalog is endless and depressing -- just think of communist China, the military dictatorships in most of Latin America and in Asian countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Burma, not to mention Africa which sometimes has seemed to take the cake with its almost endemic conflicts and genocide thrown in for good measure. At present just look at Darfur, at the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Somalia, the excesses in Rwanda, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Liberia. Oh dear, it just seems to go on and on.
I have a book of cartoons by the late Mel Colman of the London Observer -- charming line drawings in a collection titled My God! One shows God somewhat distraught and exclaiming, "Oh dear, I think I have lost my copy of the Divine Plan." Looking at the state of the world in the recent past and in our day we might be forgiven for wondering if God had ever had a plan at all. I mean you have floods in one place and a drought in another. Couldn't God have organized it a little better that there was enough water for all everywhere? Look at the morass in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in the Middle East. Phew! You couldn't have better evidence that God had lost the plot, and my assertion about our inhabiting a moral universe being shown to be utter poppycock, baloney, unrealistic daydreaming. The ruthless, the aggressive, the macho rule the roost. The powerless cower impotently watching the powerful strut the world stage arrogantly as almost invincible cocks of the walk. It seems all so hollow, such a mockery to tell people who are suffering so grievously as they do in Darfur or Zimbabwe or in Burma. "Hey," we say to them, "take heart, this is a moral universe. Your resistance to evil will succeed, your suffering will end." It seems like so much whistling in the dark, totally disregarding the harsh reality, which is their daily lot. But is it being totally unrealistic, is it to inhabit a cloud cuckoo land?
Is goodness impotent, destined to be dragged through the mud? Or does it ultimately, in fact, triumph?
The award that I am privileged to receive today is named for Mahatma Gandhi. He spent nearly two decades in South Africa, where he and other people of color were discriminated against quite harshly with very few political rights. He was thrown off a train because he sat in a whites-only first class compartment, even though he had paid the fare. Am I glad that he suffered this great indignity, he, a London-trained lawyer? I am glad because it aroused a righteous anger in him and provoked him to develop his Satyagraha methods of nonviolent resistance. He honed the methods in South Africa as he campaigned nonviolently to improve the lot of his fellow Indians. Then he returned to his motherland, India, which was ruled as a colony by the British Raj. Mahatma, the great soul, galvanized his people and took on the might of the British Empire. This slight figure, a slip of a man in his quaint garb, took on the British Raj without resorting to violence and prevailed. Independence came for India. Freedom and democracy prevailed where previously the hegemony of a colonial power had ruled the roost.
Gandhi was to influence greatly Martin Luther King Jr., the leading light in the American Civil Rights Movement, as well as the South African National Congress of Nelson Mandela. So many, many people expected our country to go up in flames, enveloped by a catastrophe, a racial bloodbath. It never happened. It never happened because in the struggle against an evil of injustice, ultimately it did not take recourse to violence, and because you and so many others in the international community supported the struggle.
A tribute to youth
I want to pay a very warm tribute to young people, for it was young people -- not exclusively, but largely young people -- at university and college campuses who nonviolently by demonstrations and protests actually brought about a change in the moral climate in this country. You had a president who was opposed to sanctions and divestment, but because of those who supported us in the anti-apartheid movement, your Congress ultimately passed anti-apartheid legislation with a presidential veto overnight. And today we are free. Today we are free.
And you, you young people, don't let us oldies with our cynicisms divert you and turn you away from the dreams that you dream. For you dream God's dream. You dream of a new kind of world. You dream that yes it is possible for there to be no war any longer. You dream of a world where poverty will be history. You dream of a world where there will be laughter and compassion and caring and gentleness. Go on dreaming. Go on dreaming.
And so you in the international community certainly helped us so that those who have formerly seemed so invincible almost all end up coming up cropper. Biting the dust and doing so ignominiously. Almost all without exception have had it. Where are such as Stalin, Pinochet, Amin, Hitler, Mussolini, Marcos, the perpetrators of apartheid's injustice? They have become the flotsam and jetsam of contemporary history.
I was intrigued by the recent goings on in Pakistan. A few years ago General Mushraff staged a military coup and set up a military dictatorship and he seemed unassailable, ensconced in unaccountable power. Currently, he has been constrained to parley with Ms. Bhutto whom he had overthrown. His hold on power is quite tenuous, this one who was cock of the walk only fairly recently. The late Milosevic had seemed untouchable and likely to be in power for a long while, yet, when the end came, he was a shadow of the cocky ruler, as he had to defend himself in The Hague. Charles Taylor was master of all he surveyed in Liberia. He, too, is now in the dock as an accused in the International Criminal Court for the abuses and atrocities he presided over in Liberia. We could multiply examples that seem amply to support my thesis that mercifully we do indeed inhabit a moral universe. Right and wrong matter. That there is no way in which evil, wrong, injustice can have the last word. No, it is their glorious counterparts, right, justice, freedom and goodness, which do indeed ultimately prevail.
Goodness will prevail
It is quite wonderful, yes amazing, that in a hard headed, cynical world such as our own, those we admire most, indeed revere, are not as we might have expected, the macho, the aggressive, even the successful. No, amazingly, it is such as Mother Teresa, a Dalai Lama, a Mahatma Gandhi, a Nelson Mandela.
I was telling people that the Dalai Lama is quite mischievous, you know. He is almost like a schoolboy, wonderful for someone who has been in exile for many, many years. That he can bubble so with joyousness that is irrepressible, and sometimes I have to say, "Watch it, watch it. The cameras are on us, you know. Try to behave like a holy man."
There are many things we could say about Mother Teresa, but macho is certainly not one of them. Why do we revere such as these? If the Dalai Lama were to come here, this venue is too small for the people who would want to come and hear him. Why, why?
It is because they are good and our hearts rejoice, exult in their presence. They make us feel good about being human.
And you know something, we, all of us, have been made for goodness. We have been made for laughter, we have been made for gentleness, we have been made for caring, for sharing, for compassion; for we do indeed inhabit a moral universe and, yes, goodness is powerful.
There is a story of a farmer, and one day in his backyard he sees a strange-looking chicken. A traveler comes by and says, "No, no, no, that's no chicken, man; that's an eagle." The traveler takes that chicken, and he goes and climbs a mountain. And he gets to the top of the mountain and waits for the sun to rise, and as the sun rises, he turns toward the rising sun and holds this strange-looking chicken, and he says, "Fly eagle, fly." The strange chicken shakes itself, spreads out his pinions, lifts off, and he soars and he soars and flies away to the distance towards the rising sun.
God says to you, to us, "Hey, you are not a chicken. You are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly." God expects us to shake ourselves, to spread out our wings, to lift off, to soar, to soar toward goodness, to soar toward laughter and joy and compassion and caring. For you, you are made for goodness.
Learn more about Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at www.jmu.edu/gandhi center/, and learn how you can Be the Change at www.jmu.edu/beingthechange
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Friday on his Fox television show, Glenn Beck described public policy changes along a spectrum from right to left, dubbing the range of current policies "the Overton Window." He borrowed the term my colleagues and I gave to a theory of change developed by the Mackinac Center's late vice president, Joseph Overton. When Joe died in 2003, I built a presentation around his idea, known as the Overton Window of Political Possibility, and I still use it to show how think tanks can shift public policy.
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When social and political forces change, the window of political possibility shifts up or down the spectrum, and it can grow narrower or wider as well. The window presents a menu of policy choices to politicians: Relatively safe choices are inside the window, and relatively risky or radical choices are outside the window.
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Politicians who choose policies outside the window before it has shifted are one of two kinds — true leaders who have the rare ability to shift the window by themselves, and politicians who invite very tough re-election campaigns because they are perceived as out of touch. This explains why key senators and representatives are reluctant to support a massive federal health care bill perceived as unpopular among the people. They know a vote outside the window will subject them to the political furies.
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In 2013, the full-year realization of generic erosion on Singulair will undoubtedly have a significant impact on Merck's performance (at its peak, Singulair accounted for about 11% of total revenues). Although we expect other core products and new launches to help pick up the slack, we believe it will likely take some time for these contributions to fill the substantial void left by Singulair. The recently announced delay of promising pipeline candidate Odanacatib will likely slow this process to a certain degree. The osteoporosis drug was set to debut in 2013, but due to an expanded safety and efficacy study, it is now looking more likely to be released in 2014. All told, we expect both earnings and sales to be materially lower in the year ahead, relative to 2012. Management issued its 2013 earnings guidance range of $3.60-$3.70 a share. For the time being, we are maintaining our full-year estimate at the higher end of this guidance ($3.70).
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As expected, American Airlines and US Airways announced their $11 billion merger on February 14. The good news for consumers is that the Justice Department has not approved the deal -- and if there are still antitrust laws in America, Justice's decision should hinge on how much of a price increase consumers will pay for increased industry concentration.
The new company -- dubbed American Airlines and 72 percent controlled by American Airlines creditors and 28 percent by US Airways shareholders -- will fly "950 planes and 94,000 employees, would be based in Fort Worth. It would retain key hubs in Phoenix, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, New York and Los Angeles, with 6,500 daily flights," according to the Washington Post.
The industry is doing quite well and does not need further mergers to achieve profitability. With 2012 profits of $6.7 billion and an $8.4 billion profit forecast for 2013, according to Reuters, the airline industry is making plenty of money. And according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the price of a domestic round-trip flight has climbed "nearly 20 percent, when adjusted for inflation" between 2002 and 2012, according to AP.
But when it comes to predicting how this merger will affect future airfares, there seems to be quite a diversity of opinion -- ranging from no inflation-adjusted increase to as much as a 10 percent fare increase for consumers.
For example, PwC US conducted a study indicating that airline mergers result in a drop in inflation-adjusted airfares. PwC US's December 2012 study reviewed federal transportation data and found that "the average domestic ticket price rose 1.8 percent a year from 2004 to 2011," according to USA Today. Inflation averaged 2.5 percent during those years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
William S. Swelbar, a researcher at the MIT International Center for Air Transportation is on the board of Hawaiian Airlines -- that serves $14 meals and $12 cocktails, according to BusinessInsider.
Mr. Swelbar favors the merger, noting that "it's not going to impact airfares significantly," he told the Post. That is as long as the costs of fuel and labor don't rise because airlines are already "passing on the increased cost of fuel and labor to the consumer."
As someone who has been traveling for decades, I can remember a time when airlines did not charge travel fees and they provided great food at no extra charge. For example, there used to be an airline called Midwest Express that flew a convenient direct flight from Boston to Milwaukee. Midwest Express flew a two-by-two leather seat, all-economy class service that included gourmet food served on polished China and fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.
In recent years, the food disappeared but the chocolate chip cookies lingered. Midwest Express was taken private by TPG, acquired in 2009 by Republic, which was in turn bought by Frontier Airlines and in 2011, Frontier cut the direct flight from Boston to Milwaukee.
Now we cannot get a convenient flight from Boston to Milwaukee so we fly to Chicago and drive to Milwaukee.
As for airfare, to reflect the consumer's actual costs, it helps to include the new fees that airlines are charging. Airfarewatchdog found that American Airlines charges the industry's highest travel fees. For example, American Airlines possible fees per flight total $1,119. This includes:
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Meanwhile, Rick Seaney, co-founder of FareCompare.com, claims that airlines pushed through six fare increases in 2012. And he expects airfares to rise between 3 percent and 6 percent in the U.S. because "airlines will succeed in properly balancing supply and demand by trimming the number of seats they offer to match decent, but bordering on tepid, demand," according to the Chicago Tribune.
But those fares could rise even higher. As George Horbica, a co-founder of Airfarewatchdog, told BusinessInsider, more airline consolidation in recent years means passengers have fewer other airlines to choose from in order to avoid fees. This means "fare increases [that Mr. Horica] expects to be lower than 10 percent."
And higher fees and airfare are not the only factor in considering value to consumers. The Justice department should also consider a decline in the quality of service. And by that measure, this combined airline promises to deliver more passenger misery than most any other airline.
How so?
When it comes to on-time performance American ranked 14th out of 15 airlines in government rankings for in 2012 -- while US Airways was fifth. To be fair, United was the worst when it comes to the rate of complaints -- American and US Airways shared the next worst rank on that measure, according to AP.
I hope that Justice will protect the middle class and stop letting the airlines enjoy their profit spurt by siphoning cash from consumers through competition-reducing mergers like this one.


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When learning pre-tajweed - the rules and the makhaarij and all - do the students have to master each individual..
as salaam alaikum wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh,
I will be taking a tajweed class soon, insha'Allah. And I have a few concerns as a student learning a second language. When learning pre-tajweed - the rules and the makhaarij and all - do the students have to master each individual makhaarij before reciting?
The reason I ask is because, as a Native English speaker, I feel as though if I do not master each makhaarij before practicing to read out loud - I will be reinforcing bad pronunciation that will be harder to correct later.
Jazaakum Allahu khaira.
as salaam alaikum.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
May Allah bless your time and grant that you learn a great deal in the course you take. Almost always tajweed classes involve learning rules and practicing them immediately. It is not a requirement for all the articulation points to be mastered before reciting, in fact this would be a great burden on many students who struggle for years to get a particular articulation point down correctly. As long as the student is aware that the letter is not correct and he/she continues to try his/her utmost to correct the letter, there is no reason that recitation cannot continue. With recitation to a trained teacher and continued correction, the student is more likely to correct the letter than if he/she just worked on the letter without reciting the Qur'an. Once the letter is corrected, insha' Allah, it will be applied in the recitation, especially if the student has been working on it while reciting.
We ask Allah to make easy for you're the recitation of the Qur'an as it was revealed to our beloved Prophet, .
Wa iyyaakum. Wa assalaam alaikum wa rahmatullah.


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Oct. 24, 2006
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. - Backed by one of the best performances in team history, MIT rifle hammered Mass Maritime Academy last weekend in Buzzards Bay. The Engineers totaled the highest air rifle score in head coach Jerry Mulloy's eight years at the Institute, while MIT also secured its best score this season in smallbore.
The air rifle contingent was paced by Anton Katz, who fell one point shy of a career high after shooting a match-best 586. Freshman Emily Houston closed six points back with a score of 580, while Nathan Pfaff (570) also added a season-high in sparking the Tech attack. Jake Latcham (538) set a personal high for the second consecutive week in capping the MIT scoring, while Laura Fallon also shot a personal high with a total of 517.
MIT finished with a season-best 2274 in air rifle, but the team was just as dominant in smallbore after firing a season-high 2178. Mass Maritime finished with 1940 in air and 1860 in smallbore.
Houston paved the way for MIT on smallbore with a new personal record of 572. Houston also registered the first perfect score for the Engineers this season after firing a 100 on her second target card in the prone position. Anton Katz finished second in smallbore with a score of 566.
Last week, MIT lost to Akron on both smallbore and air in a MAC postal event, while the Engineers did upend Princeton in both guns. For the season, MIT is 4-1 in smallbore and 3-1 in air.


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Well, happy New Year everyone! I hope you all went out and partied like it's 1999. As for me and Mr. H, we stayed home last night and watched the Twilight Zone marathon and texted with our 17 year old. I know, pretty pitiful huh?
After going to bed last night at 10:00 (that's 12 o'clock Miami time), I woke up this morning refreshed and ready to start the new year off right by my mopping my floors (the glamour never ends around here). To fortify myself I had a wonderful breakfast of leftovers from last night (this is where it gets good).
You might remember that we were given a Honey Baked ham from some very thoughtful neighbors for Christmas. We have eaten on that ham for the past week without getting tired of it at all. We had finally eaten it down to the point where it was no longer spiral sliced, so last night I cut the remainder of the ham off of the bone, chopped it and made a soup supper for us.
This was such an awesome, easy supper I knew that this had to be my first post of the New Year. I served it with some French bread and butter and lots and lots of sparkling wine which was fantastic! So, for all of you out there trying to use up that Christmas ham, and from the length of the line in front of the Honey Baked store I know that there's lots of you out there, this one's for you.
1 tablespoon oil
1/2 medium size sweet yellow onion, finely chopped
2 celery stalks, finely chopped
2 large carrots, peeled and chopped into small cubes
1 large garlic clove, crushed
1 – 1/2 to 2 cups chopped ham
2 cups chicken broth
2 – 15.5 ounce cans great northern or navy beans, drained and rinsed (or feel free to cook your own from dried if you have the time or energy)
1 large bay leaf
1 large sprig fresh rosemary, optional (because dried rosemary tends to be "woody" if I don't have fresh I prefer not to use it)
Lots of freshly ground black pepper
Pour oil into a large saucepan over medium high heat. When oil is hot and shimmering add the onions, celery and carrots; sauté until the onions are slightly transparent.
Add the garlic and the ham to the vegetables and stir for a minute or two before adding the broth and beans. Mash the beans slightly with a potato masher, mashing about one half of them. Add the bay leaf, rosemary and pepper.
Bring the contents to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer and cook for approximately 15 minutes or until the vegetables are tender but still a bit crisp to the bite and the broth has thickened slightly.
Remove from the heat, discard the rosemary and bay leaf. Serve immediately.
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650 Maple Espresso
This rich, dark finish is a luxurious sable color and is often the backdrop of upscale décor. It is especially useful in rooms where drama is the desired effect.
Maple Espresso Color Story
I was four years old the first time my father put me on his lap and placed my hands on the smooth, cool piano keys. But from that moment, I was hooked-all I've ever wanted since was to play. When I was older, working as a server and trying to find my big break, there was a small piano shop I would visit every day. I would roll up my sleeves, sit down at that grand instrument with its rich, luxurious dark color, and play. I could usually get in a couple of hours before the shop owner would kick me out. The day I could finally afford to buy a piano, I knew exactly which one to choose. The shop owner escorted me in with excitement, practically bouncing as he showed me where they were stocking my first album. I laughed as I headed over to the piano that had been a faithful friend to me for all those years, and ran my hand across the cool, dark, dramatic surface. "I'll take this one."


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January 13, 2012 by RVBusiness · 2 Comments
Representatives from www.RVDailyDeals.com launch its "Daily Deal" platform today (Jan 13) during the Florida RV SuperShow in Florida.
According to a press release, the new online platform will connect RVers with products they want at steeply discounted prices.
The company said that a recent consumer survey completed by BowStern, an integrated marketing firm specializing in the RV industry, showed 46% of the RV community is already using some form of daily deal platform such as GROUPON or Living Social, but none specific to the RV industry. The online survey was completed during the fourth quarter of 2011 by 680 RVers. The full report will be available through BowStern in the coming weeks.
"We're seeing significant growth with deal-based programs across the country. Our online platform opens up an entirely new world of savings, specifically for the niche RV community," said founder Tom Derzypolski. "We spent the past several months developing the software and building a platform that will give the consumer an opportunity to easily purchase products at steeply discounted prices while allowing unprecedented exposure for companies worldwide."
RV Daily Deals will feature both national and regional products. Consumers can receive the RV Daily Deals by signing up at www.RVDailyDeals.com.


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Blue Jays 3, Rangers 2
Yu Darvish paid a high price for making one bad pitch to
Toronto's top hitter.
Edwin Encarnacion hit his 31st home run, J.A. Happ won his
second straight start and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Darvish and
the Rangers 3-2 Friday night, handing Texas its fourth loss in five
"He was good," Rangers manager Ron Washington said of Darvish.
"We just didn't support him with runs."
Darvish (12-9) lost for the second time in three starts,
allowing three runs and three hits in seven innings. He walked one
and struck out 10.
"From the beginning, I don't think my fastball had a lot of
life to it," Darvish said through a translator. "But more often
than not I was able to keep the ball down with my cutter, slider,
all my other pitches. Overall, I think I was able to stay down and
be effective."
For Darvish, it was the seventh time this season he's reached
double figures in strikeouts, tying him with Jim Bibby (1973) for
the Rangers rookie mark.
Darvish failed to win consecutive starts for the first time
since a three-game winning streak in June, but allowed three earned
runs for the second straight start after giving up 18 runs in his
previous three outings.
"I was able to throw with confidence tonight," Darvish said.
"Even if I fell down 2-0 I didn't panic. I was able to relax and
make my pitches."
Encarnacion, who became the first major leaguer to homer off
Darvish when he took him deep in an April 30 Texas win at Rogers
Centre, did it again with a second deck blast in the first, his
Rangers catcher Geovany Soto said location was to blame on
Encarnacion's homer, with Darvish leaving a pitch up in the
"Only one (bad) pitch to a guy that's having an unbelievable
season," Soto said. "It was just that one pitch, too. After that
he had a really impressive outing. He was pounding the zone with
his fastball and he was accurate."
Encarnacion returned to the lineup after sitting out Thursday's
loss to the White Sox with a sore shoulder and wrist, the result of
a diving play in left field Wednesday.
Happ (2-1) matched a Blue Jays record by striking out six
straight batters in the second and third innings. Ted Lilly struck
out six straight against Boston in 2004, and Marc Rzepczynski did
it against the New York Yankees in 2010.
"I just wanted to throw everything with conviction, along with
the cutter," Happ said. "Sometimes I don't quite throw that with
enough conviction. Tonight I was able to."
Happ gave up one runs and two hits in six innings. He walked one
and struck out eight.
"You've got to tip your hat to him," Washington said. "If it
was one of our pitchers that did it, I'd be raving."
Steve Delabar and Brandon Lyon each got two outs, Aaron Loup
struck out the only batter he faced, Brad Lincoln got the final out
of the eighth and Casey Janssen finished for his 16th save in 18
Held without a hit through the first four innings, Texas got on
the board in the fifth. Michael Young and David Murphy led off with
back-to-back singles and both runners moved up on Soto's sacrifice
before Young scored on Craig Gentry's RBI groundout.
Toronto restored its two-run lead in the fifth. Anthony Gose
tripled on a broken bat hit that dropped in front of a diving
Gentry in center and scored on Rajai Davis' single.
"I don't know if I've ever seen a triple on a broken bat
before," Blue Jays manager John Farrell said. "Some kind of
electrifying speed with Gose on the basepaths."
Darvish was upset with himself for not bailing Gentry out by
keeping the third run off the board.
"That's a time where I have to back him up," he said. "The
fact that I couldn't do it was very upsetting."
Davis stole second and third but was left stranded when Kelly
Johnson struck out.
Texas cut the gap to 3-2 with an unearned run off Delabar in the
seventh. Third baseman Omar Vizquel made a fielding error on Mike
Olt's bases loaded grounder, allowing Adrian Beltre to score. Lyon
came on and ended the inning by getting Ian Kinsler to ground into
a fielder's choice.
"We had some chances for a base hit to make a difference,"
Washington said. "If we had made the difference with one base hit,
it would have been our victory, I feel."
NOTES: Rangers RHP Ryan Dempster is not with the team and will
miss his scheduled start Saturday for personal reasons, the team
said. Recently demoted starter Roy Oswalt will start in his place.
… Texas OF Nelson Cruz (right hamstring) was held out of the
starting lineup but came on as a pinch hitter in the seventh.
Beltre, who is also nursing a sore hamstring, started at DH for the
Rangers. … Toronto OF Jose Bautista (left wrist) took the day off
Friday after hitting in the cage the past two days. Bautista, out
since July 17, is expected to take part in full batting practice
Saturday and Sunday before beginning a rehab assignment. …
Farrell had little to say about reports that he is a candidate to
take over as manager of the Boston Red Sox. "I'm under contract
here," said Farrell, who served as Boston's pitching coach from
2006 to 2010. "I'm not going to comment on speculation and


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Ballymore Group have submitted a planning application for Terry Farrell & Partners Masterplan for Embassy Gardens - the area of land around the new US Embassy in Nine Elms, London. The Hybrid application covers the outline for the entire 15acre masterplan, as well as detailed design for phase one of the development which has been carried out by a host of big-name architectural practices led by Farrells.
Sir Terry said today: "This whole stretch from Tower Bridge to Battersea Power Station presents an incredible opportunity to restore this area, which was once a part of central London. Industrialisation led to it becoming a hole in the city's fabric and this is about joining it up and planning for liveability with a vibrant mix of uses and high quality public realm."
Embassy Gardens will deliver up to 2,000 new homes and the potential for over 500,000 sq ft of office and flexible workspace. New leisure facilities, including a new Heath and Well Being Centre, a 100 bed hotel, 130,000 sq ft of retail, bar and restaurant space, a new grocery store and other varied uses will support the new community, as well as the 1,800 people working in and visiting the new Embassy every day.
Embassy Gardens occupies a key site within the 195 hectare Vauxhall, Nine Elms, Battersea (VNEB) Opportunity Area and will regenerate 15 acres of riverside 'backlands' currently occupied by light industry and warehousing, creating a new Central London neighbourhood just 10 minutes walk from Westminster.
The site is currently disconnected from its surrounding neighbourhoods by the busy Nine Elms Lane and a Railway Viaduct. Farrells' first move was to step beyond the boundaries of the Masterplan area to address this isolation.
The Embassy Gardens masterplan is to be delivered in two phases. For phase one, which was submitted in detail, Farrells led the collaboration of a team of architectural practices that included Fielden Clegg Bradley, AHMM and FLACQ.
Working with landscape architects Camlins, Farrells have designed a public realm that combines a variety of public spaces together with a series of private courtyard amenity spaces. The masterplan aims to create a new district that reflects the liveability of London and completes the final piece of Southbank Jigsaw.


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Advice: My husband wants me to lose 30 lbs before we try to have a baby
Dear Carolyn:
My husband of three years and I have finally gotten to where it is practical to try to start a family. We've known for a few years that I have a fertility problem that gets progressively worse each month, but we weren't ready so we decided to wait.
I have given up everything I am supposed to including alcohol and caffeine, even caffeine-free diet soda at his request, and am taking dance classes twice a week to try to get to a healthier weight.
I will be the first to admit that I am not in the best shape I have been in since we have been together, but I am active and only 15 pounds overweight.
I thought we were on the same page about starting to try until he told me that I need to be healthier, and part of that request is that I first lose 30 pounds.
Now he wants to attend my next doctor's appointment to prove to me that I am not physically prepared for what I thought we wanted. I'm not sure what to do next and would appreciate any guidance.
-- Michigan
I've been at this gig for 15 years and still, somehow, I can be surprised by the abundance and variety of ways people find to treat their supposed-loved-ones like dirt.
Your doctor won't say this to you, so I will: Your husband's insensitivity, sense of entitlement and casual disregard for boundaries between his body and yours do far more to disqualify him as father material than your extra pounds do to rule out motherhood for you.
While I realize you are invested in this marriage to the point where you're ready to bring children into it today, I'm nevertheless -- or perhaps because of that -- going to beg you to look closely enough at your years together to see whether this recent bit of arrogance, objectification and, yes, misogyny out of your husband is wildly out of character for him, or just the one time it's been blatant enough to catch your full attention.
If it's the former, then go ahead, bring him to your appointment, and let the doctor handle his weight concerns -- and also hear about your discomfort with his asserting what you can and can't eat, what you can and can't weigh, and what you can and can't be trusted to discuss with your doctor yourself.
If it's the latter -- and please note, this "if" is a nod to the limits of this medium, not to the limits of my conviction -- then please deal with this painful truth about the man you married. Better now than when the self-image of a child is wet clay in his hands.
Dear Carolyn:
How can you let anger go when you still get treated the same way by those involved, and they refuse to see that anything's wrong?
-- Anonymous
Release requires distance. To understand the people who mistreated you, the effect of the mistreatment and any contribution you made to the problem, you need to step back emotionally and try to think objectively about the whats, the whys and the how-not-to-perpetuate-the-cycles.
When you're too close to think objectively, then you likely need physical distance.
One place to start: Why are you standing in harm's way, waiting to feel safe?


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Group: 2 more Tibetan monks self-immolate in China
BEIJING (AP) — Two Tibetan monks set themselves on fire in a western Chinese city in the latest in a wave of self-immolations protesting against Chinese rule, exiled monks and a Tibet advocacy group said.
The conditions of the two monks were not known after the simultaneous immolations Friday in Maerkang, London-based Free Tibet said. The exiled monks in Dharmsala, India, said one protester died, and police took him and the other monk to a government hospital to prevent them from becoming a focus of larger demonstrations.
The monks, identified as Tenpa Darjey and Chimey Palden, came from a monastery 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. When fellow clergy learned of the immolations, they set out for the city only to be blocked by police about halfway there, said the exiles, Losang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering.
Police and government offices in Maerkang, which is known to Tibetans as Barkham, either declined comment or said they had not heard about the protest when reached by phone Saturday.
If confirmed, they would bring to more than 30 the immolations staged in a little more than a year to protest the increasingly heavy security and intrusive controls on the Buddhist religious practices that are at the center of Tibetan life. Many of those burning themselves are monks and nuns, who have long been in the forefront of protests against China's often heavy-handed rule of Tibet.
One of the monks in Friday's immolation, Chimey Palden, had been detained for a month in 2010 while visiting Lhasa, the exiled monks and Free Tibet said. Police searched him and found a photo of the exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a Tibetan national flag and a nationalist song recorded on his mobile phone, said the exiled monks.
Published Date: Saturday, March 31st, 2012 | 08:10 PM


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Westat is currently seeking motivated individuals who are committed to excellence and are experienced in working with primary and secondary school students to work as Assessment Administrators (AAs) for the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). AAs will conduct assessment sessions using tablets in participating schools. In addition to conducting the assessments, AAs also assist with other assessment-related activities and work with their Assessment Coordinator (AC) to prepare for the assessments. This opportunity is ideal for retired educators.
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Hello June, Hello Free Doughnuts!
In celebration of National Doughnut Day (which is today, June 1), participating Krispy Kremes will be giving customers a free doughnut of their choice. National Doughnut Day was originally created back in 1938 by the Chicago Salvation Army in order to raise funds for the Great Depression, as well as to honor the WWI Salvation Army volunteers who prepped doughnuts for soldiers. It's celebrated every year on the first Friday of June.
"National Doughnut Day is a perfect time for us to give a little something back to our loyal customers throughout the country," said Stan Parker, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Krispy Kreme. "It's also a great opportunity to build awareness and acknowledge the continued good work of the Salvation Army."
So go out there and help them build awareness by eating free doughnuts!
And sorry I didn't let you in on it earlier, I just found out myself!
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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler today said user fee increases helped his administration meet its main objectives for the City's first biennial budget - no property tax increase, no major program cuts and no use of one-time money for ongoing programs. The City Council today holds its public hearing on the proposed 2012-2014 City budget.
"The substitution of user fees for property taxes in this budget helped us meet our objectives and properly assess the cost of government services to those who benefit directly," Mayor Beutler said. "It doesn't always make sense to ask all taxpayers to fund services they may never use when costs can be recovered from those who do."
The Mayor said creating a structurally sound budget has required sacrifice - since he took office in 2007, about 140 jobs and $7.6 million have been cut from the budget. The cuts have reduced the City's workforce by more than 6 percent total and nearly 10 percent for non-public safety employees. At the same time, the City grew 12 percent in population and 7 percent in area. All civilian labor unions also have agreed to reduce the two-to-one retirement match for new employees, the first change since the match was implemented 40 years ago.
Personnel costs make up about 70 percent of the City budget, and State law mandates that City salaries and benefits be comparable to other cities its size. The cost per FTE (full-time equivalent) has increased 15.72 percent over the past four years, outpacing the Consumer Price Index (8.95 percent) and sales and property tax revenue (6.47 percent).
"We have made hard choices on revenues, putting in place the increases that prevented the closure of parks and libraries across the City and prevented devastating cuts in police and fire services," Beutler said. "At the same time, we have made several bold choices to invest in Lincoln's future. We have put more funding into roads which are opening Lincoln to new economic opportunities. The Pinnacle Bank Arena, the Innovation Campus, and numerous private sector investments across the City are helping to generate sales tax at a rate that is 6 percent higher than last year and creating good jobs for our citizens."
Beutler said public involvement has been very important in creating the City budgets. Through the Taking Charge public engagement process, 3,900 people have taken the budget surveys in the last two years.
"In the past only a handful of people were able to make their voices heard because of the challenge of missing work or family time to come testify at a public hearing," Beutler said. "As a result, those paid to offer opinions on behalf of interest groups dominated the conversation. Now thousands are relaying their budget priorities, and it is making a difference in creating a broad consensus for success."
Out of every property tax dollar, the City receives about 15.6 cents, and Lincoln's property tax rate ranks 12th when compared to the State's 15 largest cities. The proposed tax-funded budget for 2012-2013 is $153.6 million, a 4.98 percent increase over the current fiscal year. The proposed tax-funded budget for 2013-2014 is $158.8 million, a 3.43 percent increase over 2012-2013. Over seven budgets, the increase averages 2.89 percent a year
The City Council will vote on final budget changes at its meeting beginning at 3 p.m. Wednesday, August 8. The City Council will vote on adopting the budget at its meeting beginning at 3 p.m. Monday, August 20. These meetings will be in the City Council Chambers at the County-City Building. They will be carried live on 5 CITY-TV (government access cable channel 5) and will be available through video-on-demand at lincoln.ne.gov.
Budget information is available online at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: budget).