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A new Denali version of the GMC Terrain highlights the 2013 model year, but there's more to this vehicle than the bling. It also has a more powerful V-6 engine and it's a Top Safety Pick from the insurance industry.
Denali cues include a more pronounced and chrome-heavy grille, a Jet Black leather interior with soft-touch materials and French stitching, a mahogany steering wheel, embossed logos, illuminated sill plates, heated eight-way front seats, a rearview camera and a standard sun roof.
Nice details, to be sure, but the real proof of this vehicle's mettle is an available new 3.6-liter engine that delivers 301 horsepower and 272 lb.-ft. of torque. The engine has 14 percent more horsepower and 22 percent more torque than the smaller outgoing engine, yet delivers the same fuel economy at 16 miles per gallon in the city and 23 mpg on the road, for a combined 19 mpg. Those fuel economy numbers don't set the world on fire, but keep in mind this is a big, roomy and heavy SUV, weighing as much as 4,204 pounds.
If you want better mileage, the standard engine is a 2.4-liter four-cylinder that will get you 32 mpg on the highway with a range of more than 500 miles. But that engine produces significantly less horsepower at 182. Both engines are mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission. The Terrain comes in FWD and AWD, and in SE and SLE trims in addition to the Denali.
Automakers are constantly adding power and mpgs to new engines as the industry approaches higher federal mileage rules. As a result, vehicles are getting smaller and lighter. The Terrain, though, has an overall length of 187.8 inches and a width of 72.8 inches, which gives five passengers plenty of room to spread out. There's just as much headroom in the back seat as there is in front (39 inches), and nearly as much legroom (front 41 inches, rear 37 inches). Cargo space is 63 cubic feet behind the front seat with second-row seats folded flat. The second-row seats also can slide fore or aft nearly 8 inches, adding capacity behind those seats or more comfort for those in the second row.
Four state-of-the-art safety features are standard equipment on the 2013 Terrain Denali: forward collision alert, lane departure warning, blind spot alert and rear cross traffic alert. Those systems are some of the reasons the Terrain earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's "Top Safety Pick" award for 2013.
On the road, the Terrain is a roomy and comfortable machine with room for five people and their gear. The new V-6 engine gives the Terrain everything it needs power-wise, and the SUV is surprisingly agile and planted on the road, even in hard turns. Brakes are adequate, steering is linear but without much road feedback, and the suspension is appropriately stiff.
Inside the cabin, the Terrain's top model has a "floating" center stack with warm ambient lighting. GMC's Intellilink is the onboard communications system, combining with OnStar to integrate smartphone capability into the vehicle's systems. Voice command capability allows the driver to initiate phone calls or manage media systems without taking eyes from the road.
GMC also has a new navigation system this year, a color touch system with a 7-inch display that integrates audio and navigation displays. Pioneer handles the sound, and a rear-seat entertainment system is available.
Our AWD test vehicle, painted in Iridium Metallic with a Jet Black interior, had a manufacturer's suggested price of $36,275. The 3.6-liter engine added $1,750, navigation with Intellilink added $795 (a bargain), a cargo package added $235 and a trailering package added $350. With freight, the vehicle touched $40-grand.
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Bemidji Lands 2014 Governor's Deer Hunting Opener
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) - Bemidji has been chosen to host next year's Minnesota Governor's Deer Hunting Opener.
Gov. Mark Dayton made the announcement in Fergus Fall on Friday as part of the 11th annual festivities ahead of the state's firearms deer opener, which falls on Saturday this year.
The Department of Natural Resources says the Bemidji area is a popular deer hunting and travel destination because of its vast forests, including the Chippewa National Forest and the Buena Vista and Blackduck state forests. Lodging, dining and other services and also plentiful.
Dennelle Hilliard, executive director of Bemidji's tourism bureau, says they have a great public land base and wonderful natural resources for people to enjoy.

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Berry Summer Pudding
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If the British are known for any particular type of food, it would have to be their puddings. Of course, in the UK, the word "pudding" functions as a stand-in for dessert and can mean anything from cake to ice cream to an actual molded pudding. This second kind of pudding, often viewed as stodgy and boring by the rest of world, has always been popular in my family. We're suckers for rich, dense Christmas Pudding covered in whisky, set aflame and served with hard sauce; for gooey, sweet Sticky Toffee Pudding; and most of all, for magenta-hued, berry-filled Summer Pudding.
If you've never had Summer Pudding, now's the time. It couldn't be easier to make -- you just line a bowl with some white bread (stale is fine), fill it with berries and a little sugar, top off with more bread and weight it down overnight. The result is the essence of summer: the bread transforms into a sweet, fragrant sponge, and when you cut into the pudding, the berries tumble out like so many rubies and sapphires. And, like many of the best British traditions, this pudding ascribes to the "waste not, want not" philosophy -- old bread and a minimal number of additional ingredients make this a snap to shop for.
Serves 6 to 8
- 5 cups mixed berries (I used a mix of blueberries, raspberries and blackberries)
- 1/2 to 2/3 cup sugar, depending on the sweetness of your berries
- 1 loaf dense white sandwich bread (I like Pepperidge farm)
- Heavy cream for serving
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In ATL waiting to board a flight back to ORD. A passenger waiting for the same flight tells me this a story about one of our new young flight attendants.
There was a baby on one of our new CRJ jets from ORD to ATL that pooped in its diaper. Well, the new flight attendant donned a mask. She then offered all the passengers masks. She took out the hazmat bag to collect the stinky diaper. She then left the hazmat bag sealed with the diaper in the setback pocket of this poor embarrassed mother who did not speak much english.
Can you imagine?
What would a mask do to stop a poopie diaper smell?
Why leave the stinky diaper with the Mom in a hazmat bag?
The funny thing is the flight attendant did the right thing. She followed the procedures in the manual. These are guidelines.
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Definitely hilarious!
Usually parents are trying to hid the diaper in toilet wastebin. Then we flight attendants are trying to find the source of the smell that is floating through the cabin.
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Kate Mara: 'House Of Cards' Screening with Kevin Spacey!
Kate Mara strikes a pose while attending a screening for her Netflix original series House of Cards at The Newseum on Tuesday (January 29) in Washington, DC.
The 29-year-old actress was joined on the red carpet by her co-stars Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Constance Zimmer, Sakina Jaffrey, and writer of the show Beau Willimon.
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According to the report from the OCSO, the body was found Sunday, May 5 behind Gerdau Steel Mill near the Port of Beaumont. Orange County Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Judge Derry Dunn ordered an autopsy.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -
The Schedule
Games No. 54, 55, 56 Cal State Northridge
Friday, May 27, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. (PST)
Saturday, May 28, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. (PST)
Sunday, May 29, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. (PST)
All games at Matador Stadium
Northridge, CA
On Deck For This Weekend
This weekend, the UC Santa Barbara baseball heads to Cal State Northridge for a three-game set beginning Friday, May 27 at Matador Stadium. The Matadors, boasting an 18-33-1 overall record and a 2-16 conference record, host the Gauchos who are 23-30 and 5-13 in conference. UCSB is in the midst of finishing-up its season with 18-straight Big West games.
The Gauchos On KIST
All three of this weekends games will be broadcast live on KIST 1340 AM in Santa Barbara. In addition, all games carried on KIST will be linked to the Gauchos' Official Website at www.UCSBgauchos.com. They will be part of the College Sports Network's College Sports Pass.
2005 Record
UCSB enters its match-up at Cal State Northridge holding a 23-30 record. Last weekend, the Gauchos lost two out of three games at home to UC Irvine. Santa Barbara also salvaged one game the weekend before at UC Riverside. UCSB's only Big West Series came on the weekend of May 6 when it took two out of three from Long Beach State at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. Before that Santa Barbara was swept in consecutive weekends by Cal State Fullerton and Cal Poly. The Gauchos dropped their first conference series of the year to Pacific way back on the weekend of April 1.
A Look At Last Weekend
The UC Santa Barbara baseball team lost two out of three at home against UC Irvine last weekend. The Gauchos won the first game, 4-3, but were beaten in the final two games of the series 12-3 and 9-5, respectively. In Friday's series opener, Santa Barbara took control of a 1-1 game with three runs in the seventh inning. Matt Wilkerson blasted a two-run shot (12) to help the Gauchos take the lead. Senior closer Alex McRobbie was once again lights-out as he shut the door on a late-inning Anteater rally to record his 12th save of the season. On Saturday, a six-run first inning for UC Irvine set the stage for a 12-3 victory by the Anteaters. In Sunday's series finale, sophomore starting pitcher Andy Graham allowed just six hits and four earned runs in 7.1 innings of work, but four Gaucho errors on the day led to three more UC Irvine runs. Santa Barbara had a total of 10 defensive miscues in the three-game set against the Anteaters. Santa Barbara tied the game at 5-5 in the bottom of the fifth inning thanks in part to an RBI-single by freshman second baseman Alden Carrithers and a double by senior shortstop Chris Malec. The Anteaters scored four runs in the final two innings. Closer McRobbie gave up three hits and two runs (one earned) while striking out four in 1.1 innings pitched. Seniors David Figoni, Loren Fraser, Matt Kalafatis, Matt Stevens, Alex McRobbie, Chris Malec and Matt Wilkerson all played in their final home game as a Gaucho.
The Brontsema File
2005 marks the 24th year of head coach Bob Brontsema's involvement in the UCSB baseball program. He is now in his 12th season as head coach, after ten years as an assistant and two as a player. With a 6-1 victory over San Jose State on Sunday Feb. 13, Brontsema became the third coach in school history to collect career victory No.300. The Gaucho skipper currently owns a record of 319-320. He has been selected Big West Coach of the Year twice, in 1996 when he guided the Gauchos to a 32-20 record and an at-large spot in the NCAA Tournament, and in 2001, when he led the team to a 40-17 mark and another NCAA tourney berth. The .701 winning percentage in 2001 was the best in school history. In 2004, Brontsema's Gauchos posted the second-most overall wins in his career as head coach, going 33-21. Milestone dates in Brontsema's coaching career include win no. 100 in 1997, win no. 200 in 2001, and win no. 300 in 2005.
Probable Gaucho Starters
C - Matt Kalafatis - Six doubles in Big West play.
1B - Bill Rowe - Second on team with 37 RBI.
2B - Alden Carrithers - Leads the team with a .411 OB%.
SS - Chris Malec - Hit .429 last weekend against UCI.
3B - Matt Aidem - Pacing the team with a .331 batting avg.
LF - C.J. Cook - Batting .273 with two HR in Big West play.
CF - Matt Emerick - 5-for-7 in stolen bases this season.
RF - Matt Wilkerson - Tied school record with 41st career home run.
DH - David Figoni - Second on team with 58 base hits.
UCSB Flame Throwers
Although the Gauchos dropped two out of three to UC Irvine, pitching coach Tom Myers has decided to not to make any changes in this weekend's rotation. In Friday's series opener, junior right-hander Steve Morlock (6-7, 6.18 ERA) will get the start against Cal State Northridge. On Saturday, junior Michael Martin (5-7, 5.21 ERA), boasting a team-high 95.0 innings pitched, will be looking to pick-up his sixth victory of the season. In Sunday's series finale, sophomore Andy Graham (4-7, 6.07 ERA) is penciled-in to make his 15th start of the campaign.
An Ace In The Pen
Senior closer Alex McRobbie has been spectacular out of the bullpen for the Gauchos this season. In 37.1 innings hurled, McRobbie has only allowed 32 hits and 12 earned runs. He has struck out 46 while walking only seven, a strikeout to walk ratio better than 6 to 1. The San Anselmo, Calif. native has tallied 12 saves this season, which is tops in the Big West Conference and tied for 13th nationally. His 12 saves set a new UCSB single-season record. With his four saves in the two previous seasons, McRobbie has also set a new UCSB career saves record with 16. In his 12 save opportunities this year, McRobbie has allowed six earned runs while striking out 20 in 16.2 innings. McRobbie has recorded four saves of 2.0 innings or more. Overall in the 2005 campaign, McRobbie is 2-0 with a 2.89 ERA in 28 appearances.
Comeback Of The Year
Since undergoing surgery for testicular cancer on April 14 and chemotherapy sessions in the weeks that followed, no one has shown more courage on and off the field than senior Chris Malec. Since returning on May 6th at home against LBSU as a defensive replacement, Malec has started all but one game and is batting .286 with three doubles, six RBI and one grand slam. Overall, the Laguna Niguel, Calif., native is second on the team with a .327 batting average, third in hits with 53, first in doubles with 12 and tied for second in home runs with five.
Wilkerson Watch 2005
With one home run this weekend against UC Irvine, senior right fielder Matt Wilkerson now shares the top spot with Dave Wilis (1994-97) on UCSB's career home run list with 41. Wilkerson is now only the second Gaucho to hit 41 home runs and is currently one homer shy of setting a new UCSB record. With two RBI this weekend, Wilkerson remained in the No. 5 slot on the all-time UCSB career RBI list with 181. He is four RBI shy of catching Rich Haar (1984-87) for the fourth position. The Santa Margarita, Calif., native is 23 RBI short of becoming UCSB's RBI king.
Lucky Number Six
The weekend, as the Gauchos head to Cal State Northridge to complete the season, Santa Barbara needs to win just once and tally its sixth Big West Conference win to stay out of the record books. Since the creation of the Big West, the Gauchos have only finished with less than six wins only once in 1970 with a 4-7 record. Also, the sixth win assures that UCSB will not finish this season last in the Big West Conference.
Scouting the Matadors
Entering Friday's match-up, Cal State Northridge holds an 18-33-1 record (2-16 conference), having just been swept by UC Davis last weekend. Third baseman Alberto Quintana is leading the Matadors with a .346 batting average, 71 hits and 16 doubles. Center fielder Michael Paulk is batting .333 and has a team-leading 12 home runs, 43 RBI and 114 total bases. Friday's starting pitcher lefty Kyle Jean is 3-3 with a 6.91 ERA in 20 appearances this season. Scheduled to take the hill on Saturday is right-hander Peter Eberhardt. In 26 appearances this year, Eberhardt is 4-5 with a 4.55 ERA. In Sunday's series finale, right-hander Craig Baker (4-5, 7.83 ERA) is penciled-in to get the nod for CSUN.
Series Record
UCSB holds a 54-51-3 all-time record against Cal State Northridge. The Gauchos are currently riding a six-game winning streak over the Matadors, sweeping all five games last season after taking the final meeting of the 2003 season. Santa Barbara is one of just seven teams to have played 100 games against CSUN.


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Tamarind Beach Hotel is a bungalow hotel by the white sandy beaches of the Indian Ocean. Accommodation is set in a peaceful and friendly atmosphere, all rooms facing one of the most beautiful and unspoilt beaches in Zanzibar. This is one of the first hotels to be established in Zanzibar. Tamarind is affordable paradise.
Our hotel is a family place with lots of activities, trips and excursions for the whole family. You will love the white, fine-grained sand and the separate bungalows with the open areas around them. Our beach is quiet and safe, a heaven for children.
We arrange individual excursions. Whatever your interests and needs- we can help you fulfil your dreams. Explore the depths of the Indian Ocean on a diving trip, smell the exotic world of a Spice Trip at a spice farm, or see the historical Sultan's Palace and the old Slave Market in Zanzibar's Stone Town. Play with dolphins in the wild.
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The Tamarind needs a good revamp it is very old the bathroom is ancient beds are very hard and the pillows are like bricks. Not worth the dollars you pay and then to top it when you want to go out for the day they charge you 100 dollars a day for the driver. Not worth a second visit .
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This hotel was in a more remote part of the Island - ideal if you want to be away from the main tourist areas. Beautiful beach and all rooms are literally a few metres from the beach. No cashpoint - bring plenty of US dollars or shillings - all food/drink for the week is paid for on departure. As with anywhere on Zanzibar, you can guarantee you will be hassled by locals for a massage or to buy things from nearby beach hut shops selling artwork. The massages are not professional - a local woman rubs oil onto you for $10 dollars (30 minutes) and you wake up with more knots in your back than you had to start with. Potentially dangerous if your back is delicate in the first place and the massages are 'administered' on the sun lounger - not in the slightest bit ergonomic! Hotel staff are friendly and speak reasonable English. There is no rush whatsoever here, time is almost irrelevant so if you want to get to the airport on time, ask for the taxi early (we waited 30 minutes extra for our return taxi - no urgency whatsoever). Breakfast is normally a set menu - 3 pieces of fresh fruit (e.g. papaya, banana, watermelon) followed by something bread-based or eggs on toast. Remember to ask for milk with tea/coffee as it is not provided automatically for some reason! Lunch and dinner menus have something for everyone - chicken is variable in quality! Overall a pleasant and most relaxing week, accommodation is basic, adequate, but on the whole comfortable and clean.
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Perfect place for relaxing and romance. The staff is very friendly and the food is very good. Its a quiet place and you can enjoy the best of what Zanzibar has to offer.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance will present Zodiaque Dance Company Oct. 17-21 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, UB North Campus.
18.104.22.168 -- Countdown to Celebration 40 begins the dawning of the 40th anniversary of Zodiaque Dance Company. The fall concert is a four-day eruption of diverse programming that includes new and recent works by faculty and distinguished guests that are performed by current UB Theatre and Dance students.
Among the highlights of the evening are group works choreographed by UB Dance faculty members Melanie Aceto, Tressa Gorman Crehan, Jon Lehrer (artistic director of LehrerDance) and Kerry Ring. Invited guest choreography includes a new work by Nailah Bellinger, international choreographer and teaching artist at Harvard University. Bellinger's new work is sponsored through the generosity of First Niagara Bank.
Adding contemporary classicism to the program is a work by guest artist John Magnus, former artistic director of Joffrey Ballet in New York City, and now artistic director of Poland Festival Ballet. The evening will also feature work by a 2005 graduate of UB's dance program, Amy Van Kirk, who recently completed an MFA in dance at the University of Arizona.
Tickets for Zodiaque Dance Company are $20 for general public and $10 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at the Center for the Arts Box Office (Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). To charge tickets call 1-888-223-6000. For more information call 716-645-2787.


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PERTH, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 6, 2013) - IMX Resources Limited (ASX:IXR)(TSX:IXR)(TSX:IXR.WT) ('IMX' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce the appointment of Heavenlight Edward Kavishe ('Kavishe') as Country Manager, Tanzania, reporting to the Company's Managing Director, Neil Meadows.
As Country Manager, Kavishe will be responsible for general administration at IMX's offices in Dar es Salam, where he will be based, and will work closely with Tanzanian government authorities and industry stakeholders. Kavishe will also support the Company's activities in community relations and regulatory and legal compliance.
While he was born and raised in Tanzania, Kavishe has lived, studied and worked in Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada and the U.S.A. He holds degrees in Engineering and Business Administration and post-graduate qualifications in business administration, project management, privatization and utility regulation.
Kavishe has held leadership positions within Tanzanian government agencies, including the National Development Corporation and the Parastatal Sector Reform Commission, which was responsible for the restructure and privatization of state owned enterprises under the office of the President of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Managing Director Neil Meadows commented: "Kavishe's appointment enhances our in-house capability and better positions the Company to manage the development of the Ntaka Hill Nickel Sulphide Project and to execute our growth strategy."
NEIL MEADOWS, Managing Director
About IMX Resources Limited
IMX Resources Limited is an Australian based mining and base & precious metal exploration company dual-listed on the Australian and Toronto stock exchanges (ASX:IXR)(TSX:IXR)(TSX:IXR.WT), with exploration projects located in Australia, Africa and North America.
In Africa, IMX owns and operates the highly prospective Nachingwea Exploration Project in southeast Tanzania, which includes the potentially world-class Ntaka Hill Nickel Sulphide project. Nachingwea is highly prospective for nickel and copper sulphide, gold and graphite mineralisation. The Ntaka Hill Nickel Sulphide Project is one of the world's best un-developed nickel sulphide projects and has the potential to produce a very clean, high quality premium nickel concentrate.
In Australia, IMX operates and owns 51% of the Cairn Hill Mining Operation, located 55 kilometres south-east of Coober Pedy in South Australia, where it produces a premium coarse-grained magnetite-copper-gold DSO product at a rate of 1.8Mtpa.
IMX is actively developing the Mt Woods Magnetite Project on the highly prospective Mt Woods Inlier in South Australia. IMX currently has a JORC Inferred Resource of 569Mt @ 27% Fe at the Snaefell Magnetite Deposit and a Global Exploration Target of between 200-380Mt @ 25-35% Fe elsewhere in the project. Studies indicate that coarse grained concentrates that could be produced at Snaefell have the potential to produce a direct sinter feed product which has the potential to attract a significant price premium.
IMX has also entered into a joint venture with OZ Minerals (the Mt Woods Copper-Gold JV Project) to explore the Mt Woods tenements for copper and gold. OZ Minerals is spending a minimum of $20M for a 51% interest in the non-iron rights, with IMX retaining a 49% interest in the non-iron rights and 100% of the iron ore rights.
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By Michael Stott and Samia Nakhoul
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - U.S. support for Syrian rebels may lead to more attacks on American soil like those of September 11, said a senior Syrian official who warned that Islamist fighters would spread "the fire of terrorism" around the world.
Western powers are alarmed at al Qaeda militants joining a revolt that began two years ago with rallies for democracy and President Bashar al-Assad has seized on that unease; now, 10 days after the Boston Marathon bombings, Syria's deputy foreign minister told Reuters that U.S. aid to the rebels may backfire.
"Once the fire of terrorism spreads in Syria it will go everywhere in the world," Faisal Mekdad said in an interview.
Referring to foreign jihadists whose presence has made the United States and European allies wary of arming Syrian rebels, he said: "These chickens will go back to roost where they came from because encouraging terrorism definitely backfires ... Once these terrorists succeed in Syria, they will go everywhere."
Speaking in fluent English at the heavily guarded white, stone-clad complex in central Damascus which houses the Foreign Ministry and prime minister's offices, Mekdad drew a comparison, made also by Assad himself, with the U.S.-backed Muslim holy war against Soviet occupiers in Afghanistan that fostered al Qaeda.
And asked whether the Boston bombings, blamed on radicalized Muslim immigrants, might change American views of a Syrian conflict that Assad has long painted as a war on terrorism, he replied: "I hope the American administration will remember again the September 11 attack - which we strongly condemned in Syria - and not repeat these policies which encourage terrorism."
Of 37 nationalities of "terrorist" he said were fighting in Syria, many were European, Mekdad said, including some from Russia's Chechnya region, ancestral home of the Boston suspects.
Assad's critics have argued that he himself is paying a price for helping Islamists from Syria and elsewhere - letting them cross into Iraq to fight U.S. forces there; some of those seasoned fighters have now joined the campaign to overthrow him.
Like other senior officials interviewed lately in Damascus, Mekdad projected a breezy confidence in Syrian forces' ability to win the civil war and denied the rebels were gaining ground.
While condemning support for the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels from Sunni neighbors such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, as well as the Western powers, he said his government enjoyed broad international support, not limited to Russia or to Iran, whose Shi'ite branch of Islam is close to Assad's Alawite minority.
"I would like to say, with all confidence, that all Syria is controlled by the government but there are places where armed groups have been armed, financed, by certain circles - namely Qatar, Saudi Arabia, France and the UK and other European countries - who due to logistical reasons may control this or that part of Syria," he said. "But this is moving every day."
A man living near the Foreign Ministry, who did not want to be identified, told Reuters the complex had been attacked four times in recent months, twice with mortars and twice by men firing machineguns: "We are very frightened," he said, recalling how he took cover during the last mortar attack 10 days ago.
Asked when the government might win, Mekdad said it was combating "terrorist groups and usually in all those countries which have suffered the plague of terrorism it takes time".
"Once this support from neighboring and European countries ceases we can easily deal with it," said Mekdad, who hails from Deraa where protests began in March 2011 after teenagers were jailed for pro-democracy graffiti inspired by the Arab Spring.
He cited apparent success in offensives in Homs and near the western border, where rebels say Lebanese Hezbollah fighters are supporting Syrian troops. Going was also slow, he said, due to "the care practiced by the government with civilians".
The United Nations has said more than 70,000 people, have been killed and many countries have condemned shelling and aerial bombing by Syrian forces of residential areas.
Mekdad dismissed Western and Israeli claims that government forces had used chemical weapons, saying it was a "big lie" that Syria was blocking a U.N. investigation into the allegations.
He said Damascus had an initial agreement with the U.N. to look into claims that chemical weapons were used in the Khan al-Assal area near Aleppo but matters were complicated when the U.N. wanted to broaden the probe to include other allegations:
"We are ready to receive immediately the team to investigate the case of Aleppo, to provide all the logistics, help and support and protection and it is the responsibility of the U.N. secretariat if this delegation doesn't arrive in Syria."
A former Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Mekdad accused Britain and France of trying to complicate the U.N. investigation to prevent evidence emerging of rebel use of chemical shells, but did not offer evidence for the allegation.
The United Nations wants inspectors to investigate claims of chemical weapons use in Homs in December; France and Britain say the mission should look into a third alleged case in Damascus.
President Barack Obama has warned Assad that deploying chemical weapons would cross a "red line" that could prompt the United States to intervene in unspecified ways in the conflict - so far, however, Washington has said firm evidence is lacking.
Mekdad denied that Damascus was receiving arms and military support from Russia or fighters from Iran or Hezbollah, Tehran's Lebanese Shi'ite ally; foreign supporters were providing only humanitarian aid and Syria had ample reserves of its own.
"We are not isolated, we don't feel isolated," he said of efforts to impose international sanctions. "Besides Russia, we have China, India, South Africa and we have almost all Latin American countries, and Africa and other Asian countries."
He warned the EU against helping rebels sell oil from captured fields in the north: "That is a direct theft of Syrian property," he said. "We are still a government and a strong government. We will stop them," he added without elaborating.
Mekdad reflected the government's contention that Syria has been targeted by U.S.-allied Sunni Arab powers because it was part of "an axis of resistance", along with Iran and Hezbollah, and accused Sunni-led states of secretly supporting Israel: "We believe the main objective in attacking Syria is to weaken it as a major power and to implement Israel's policies in the region in connivance with the United States and Western interests."
Asked how he believed the conflict would end, Mekdad sketched two scenarios: "Either we opt for a political solution as projected by President Assad in his speech on January 6 ... or the other scenario where the main objective of arming, harboring and smuggling armed groups into Syria will continue."
"In this case, we have a strong army, we have a strong country, we have determination by the majority of Syrians to combat terrorism. But our preference and the preference of the Syrian leadership is to work for a political settlement."
Assad offered in that speech in January to negotiate with the opposition if they laid down their arms but he refused dialogue with "gangs recruited abroad" and his foes dismissed the offer out of hand as it did not mention Assad stepping down.
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What if Darth Vader had been around for Luke Skywalker's childhood — not as a distant threat, but as a loving and devoted father? That's the concept behind "Darth Vader and Son," a new book from comic artist and writer Jeffrey Brown. The book reimagines the Dark Lord of the Sith parenting an adorable 4-year-old, his days filled with potty breaks, Lego, bicycle riding and bedtime stories. Brown, the author of "Clumsy" and "Bighead," chatted with Hero Complex about the book, "Star Wars" and fatherhood.
HC: How did this idea come about?
JB: I got a phone call from Ryan Germick at Google, and he works as one of the homepage designers. Sometimes, for holidays, they'll have an outside artist or someone do a drawing. And the idea he and a coworker had come up with was wanting to do something with Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader for Father's Day, particularly just playing on how awkward a holiday dinner, you know, getting together for Thanksgiving with Luke and Vader, would be. Just Vader doing normal parenting things. I'd actually done a little doodle at some point of the combination of how I draw my son, Oscar, but made him like Luke Skywalker, so like a little 4-year-old Luke Skywalker. So immediately I thought of doing some sketches with Luke as a 4-year-old and Darth Vader teaching him how to ride a bike and trying to make him breakfast and trying to get him to go to bed. So I did a series of sketches for them to show, and in the end Google decided to go with a different concept. But that idea was so much fun. I really don't want to just let it disappear. So I asked them if I could take the idea and develop it into a full book, and they said, "Go ahead."
HC: The book is copyright Lucasfilm. How was working with that company? Were they supportive of the concept?
JB: "Star Wars" was the first film I saw in the theater, and half my toys growing up were "Star Wars" toys. So on the one hand, the idea of doing something that was official "Star Wars" was appealing, but I think also, in order to make the book satire or parody without copyright infringement, I would have had to change so much that it would have lost a lot of what made it worth doing for me. So Chronicle has published a few books of mine, particularly these two kind of cute cat books, and the vision I had for this book fit right along the lines of those books. And Chronicle has also done some different "Star Wars" books, and so they had an existing working relationship with Lucasfilm. Their response has been great. Right from the beginning, I think they understood the idea and were not just supportive, but also they really let me have relatively free rein for what working on a licensed property like this.
HC: Was there any part of the "Star Wars" universe that you weren't allowed to touch?
JB: There was nothing that I wanted to put in that they didn't let in. Nothing that they wanted me to change. Most of their suggestions were kind of minor tweaks. Sometimes I would forget to capitalize the word "Force" or things like that.
HC: This seems like a bit of a departure from your previous work, which has been primarily autobiographical, or satire.
JB: In a way it is, but in another way, it still feels totally natural. In terms of the autobiographical work I've done, which is maybe a little more serious in a way, a lot of this book is based on or at least inspired by dealing with my own son, who's 5-and-a-half now, but was around 4 when I was really working on the book. Just coming up with all these things, the little frustrations that being a parent of a 4- or 5-year-old entails.
HC: Like what?
JB: Like one of the strips is where Darth Vader makes eggs for breakfast, and Luke isn't happy with them. My eggs are apparently OK for my son, but there are definitely other things I've made where he's been like, "I don't like this." And you know, just trying to get him to go to bed. There are a lot of those universal touch points that are in there.
HC: Was it difficult to work with established characters instead of creating your own?
JB: When you're working with any characters like this, there's so much to them that comes attached. I don't want to say "baggage" in a derogatory or negative sense, but they come with so much built in. … It's the same thing like with when you're working with superheroes. There's a certain amount of back story, and the people who are super-fans are going to know all these kind of minute details, but even people who are only vaguely acquainted are going to pick up on certain things really easily. … Even the people who aren't that familiar with "Star Wars" know at the very least that Darth Vader is this bad guy and Luke Skywalker was his son, who was rebelling against him. It just makes it easier to layer on meanings or story without having to really do the work of creating it.
HC: Why "Star Wars"? What is it about that film that has such universal appeal?
JB: I think a lot of it is just the timing that "Star Wars" started at. What it did for not just film, but maybe storytelling. This kind of fully realized universe that just popped into existence. And just in terms of what Lucasfilm was doing for special effects for film at the time. Nowadays, it's a little harder to have that kind of impact. You have the Internet, and the way hype is built up for things doesn't work the same. It's a little bit harder to create something that's going to have that kind of impact. At the time, "Star Wars" was just something so new and different. At the same time, a lot of what it is built on was kind of these classical ideas of mythology and love story and father-son stuff. You have the classic Greek myth of Oedipus, which is a bit of different, but in a way, the relationship of Darth Vader and Luke is this kind of almost archetypal father-son rivalry which maybe thousands of years from now will have that same kind of presence as a myth.
HC: It's fun to see Darth Vader as sort of a sensitive guy.
JB: I think part of what was so fun about this idea is like, as a parent, there's things you just kind of have to put up with. They can be really frustrating. So the idea of this dark master, lord of the Sith, having all that power, and in the end, here's this 4-year-old who can be, "Eh, no Dad. I don't want to do it." And he's powerless against it. He's gotta maintain that presence of power in the universe, but when it's his own son, he has to rein it in a little bit. That tension is what was fun to play with.
HC: What else are you working on?
JB: Earlier this year, the movie I co-wrote — it's called "Save the Date" — premiered at Sundance, and right now that's just playing at various festivals. Hopefully we will find theatrical release later this year. And then I have an autobiographical book coming out maybe September or October called "A Matter of Life," and that's essentially about fatherhood, also, but it's stories about me and my son Oscar, and also growing up with my dad, who's a minister, so there's a lot of stories about growing up in the church.
HC: Would you want to make other books like "Darth Vader and Son"?
JB: There is a follow-up that I'd like to do with, of course, Princess Leia, but I don't know when I'll be ready to do that, and I'll see if Chronicle and Lucasfilm are still interested.
— Noelene Clark
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|Chicago Cubs signed free agent 1B Kevin Millar to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
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|1B Kevin Millar elected free agency.
A TALE OF TWO SEASONS: Millar was batting .269 (80-for-297) with 5 homers, 25 RBI, a .348 on-base percentage and a .384 slugging percentage in 85 games through July 19, but in 65 games the rest of the way, he hit .336 (71-for-211) with 13 homers, 49 RBI, a .429 on-base percentage and a .602 slugging percentage.
HOME, SWEET HOME: Excelled at Fenway Park, where he hit .350 with 12 homers and 53 RBI in 77 games...batted .242 with 6 homers and 21 RBI in 73 road games...his .350 home average was 3rd-best in the A.L. behind Baltimore's Melvin Mora (.356) and Detroit's Ivan Rodriguez (.354).
CLUTCH: Hit .313 (40-for- 128) with runners in scoring position, .339 (21-for-62) with men in scoring position and 2 outs and .350 (7-for- 20) with 18 RBI with the bases loaded.
BEAST OF THE EAST: 13 of his 18 homers and 47 of his 74 RBI came against A.L. East foes...batted .322 (19- for-59) with 5 homers and 10 RBI in 17 games against the Yankees...hit 4 homers and knocked in 14 vs. Tampa Bay, and went deep 4 times with 12 RBI vs. Baltimore...didn't homer but knocked in 11 in 19 games vs. Toronto.
GOOD THINGS COME IN THREE'S: Millar slammed 3 solo home runs July 23 vs. New York, becoming just the 24th player in Red Sox history to register a 3-homer game, the first since Bill Mueller July 29, 2003 at Texas...the 3-homer game was the 13th by a Boston player at Fenway Park, the first in exactly 2 years, since Nomar Garciaparra celebrated his birthday with 3 homers in game one of a July 23, 2002 doubleheader vs. Tampa Bay...Millar became just the 2nd Red Sox player to hit 3 home runs in a game against the Yankees...Mo Vaughn turned the trick May 30, 1997 at Fenway...the only New York player to ever slam 3 home runs in a Red Sox-Yankees game was Lou Gehrig in 1927...Millar homered in each of his last 3 at-bats, the 4th player in club history to go deep in 3 straight trips to the plate in the same game...also turning the trick: Ken Harrelson June 14, 1968 at Cleveland, Mo Vaughn September 24, 1996 vs. Baltimore and Nomar Garciaparra July 23, 2002 vs. Tampa Bay (game one).
INSIDE THE NUMBERS: 9 of his 18 homers were hit in 2-strike counts...batted .325 (77- for-237) with 11 homers and 42 RBI when playing first base...hit .273 (65-for-238) with 6 homers and 26 RBI in the outfield...posted a .349 average (37-for-106) with 4 long balls when leading off an inning...hit 5 homers and knocked in 25 in 81 games before the break and 13 homers and 49 RBI in 69 games after...the Sox were 33-11 (.750) when Millar had an RBI in 2004 and are 77-23 (.770) when he has an RBI over the last 2 years.
MORE 2004 HIGHLIGHTS: Matched his career high with 4 hits May 6 in Cleveland, his first 4-hit effort since June 24, 2003 vs. Detroit...posted a 9-game hitting streak from May 1- 10, during which he hit .485 (16-for-33)...hit a solo homer off Baltimore's Eddy Rodriguez May 31, his first long ball in 32 games and 116 at-bats since April 23, then went deep again off Anaheim's Bartolo Colon the next night...homered in 3 straight games July 21- 23 for the first time since August 19-22, 2001 with Florida with 5 blasts in that span...was named the American League co-Player of the Week for the week of July 19-25 after batting .583 (14-for-24) with 6 homers, 11 RBI, a .615 on-base percentage and 1.333 slugging percentage in 6 games...shared the honor with Baltimore's Miguel Tejada...had an RBI in 6 straight games from July 21-26 (13 RBI)...August 11 vs. Tampa Bay, matched his career highs with 4 hits and 3 runs...hit safely in a season-best 10 straight games August 9-18...batted .438 (14-for-32) with 10 runs, 2 homers, 5 doubles and 11 RBI during the tear...fell a triple shy of the cycle September 7 at Oakland, clubbing his 99th career home run and matching his career-high with 3 runs scored...crushed his 100th career homer September 15 vs. Tampa Bay as part of a 2-for-4 effort with a double and 2 RBI... September 16 vs. Tampa Bay, went 2-for-4 with a homer, double and 4 RBI (to match his season high) to cap a 3-game series vs. the Devil Rays in which he went 6-for- 11 with 2 homers, 3 doubles and 6 RBI...was the hero September 28 at Tampa Bay, slugging a 2-run homer off Tampa Bay's Danys Baez in the 11th inning to lead the Sox to the 10-8 victory.
IN THE POSTSEASON: Posted a .238 (10-for-42) average with 4 doubles, a home run, 6 RBI, 8 walks and 7 strikeouts in 14 post-season contests as the Red Sox won their first World Championship in 86 years...started the first 12 games of the postseason at first base before David Ortiz played first in Games 3 and 4 of the World Series in St. Louis, where there was no designated hitter...Millar went 3-for-10 (.300) with a homer, 4 RBI and 2 runs scored in the ALDS against the Angels...was 2-for-4 with a homer and 2 RBI in the Red Sox' 9-3 Game 1 win at Angel Stadium...his 2-run homer off Jarrod Washburn gave the Sox a 3-0 lead and ignited a 7-run 4th inning...went 1-for-3 with a run scored in Game 2...batted .250 (6-for-24) with 3 doubles, 2 RBI, 5 walks and 4 runs scored in 7 ALCS games against the Yankees...was 1-for-4 with a 2-run double off Mike Mussina to ignite a 5-run 7th in Game 1...went 2-for-13 in Games 2-5 before a 2-for-4 effort with a double and a run scored in Game 6...added a hit, a walk and a run scored in the pennantclinching Game 7 win in the Bronx...was 1-for-8 with a double and 2 runs scored in 4 games in the World Series vs. St. Louis...started Games 1 and 2 at first base before appearing as a pinch hitter in Games 3 and 4...his lone hit of the Series came in the first inning of Game 1, a double high off the Green Monster off Woody Williams, part of a 4-run inning that got the Sox off and running.2003 Millar begins his 2nd season with the Red Sox after playing for the Marlins from 1998-2002...enters the year a .290 career hitter in 648 big league contests...undrafted out of Lamar University, he made his pro debut with the St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League in 1993 before signing with the Marlins in '94...Acquired from the Marlins for cash considerations on February 15, 2003, Millar enjoyed his finest major league season in his first Boston campaign...established career bests in virtually every category, including 25 home runs and 96 RBI...also registered personal bests with 148 games, 544 at-bats, 83 runs, 150 hits, 60 walks, 3 stolen bases and 9 sac flies (6th-most in the A.L.)...appeared in 148 games: 101 games (96 starts) at first base, 19 games (12 starts) in left field, and 12 games (10 starts) in right field...Singled in his first Red Sox at-bat March 31 at Tampa Bay, the 1,500th at-bat of his M.L. career...went 3-for-5 with a double, a homer, 4 RBI and 2 runs in a 14-5 win April 3 at Tampa Bay...went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run in his April 12 Fenway Park debut vs. Baltimore...drove in 4 in his 2nd career 2-homer game in a 9-1 win June 8 at Milwaukee...hit a 3-run homer in the 3rd and a solo shot in the 8th...drew a career-high 4 walks June 12 vs. St. Louis...matched career highs with 4 hits and 5 RBI in a 10-1 win June 24 vs. Detroit...Posted a .996 fielding percentage at first base, charged with only 4 errors in 943 total chances in 101 games (96 starts)...came within 2 putouts of tying the major league record for putouts by a first baseman in a 9-inning game June 14 vs. Houstonwith Derek Lowe on the hill, Millar had 20the record is 22, shared by 4 American Leaguers (last by Seattles Alvin Davis on May 28, 1988) and a lone National Leaguer (Chicagos Ernie Banks on May 9, 1963)...made one error in 54 total chances in 31 games (26 starts) in the outfield, good for a .981 fielding percentage...had 3 outfield assists, 2 from left field and one from right...The Red Sox went 44-12 (.786) when he drove in a run with wins in 30 of his last 35 games with an RBI...hit .356 (21-for-59) with 6 doubles, a triple, 3 homers and 17 RBI in 16 interleague games...batted .289 with 5 homers vs. lefthanders and .268 with 19 homers vs. righthanders...hit .288 with 10 homers at Fenway Park and .258 with 14 long balls on the road...posted 36 multi-hit games, including 6 games with 3 hits and a 4-hit game...drove in 2 or more runs 26 times, including 5 games with 3 RBI, 3 games with 4 RBI and his 2nd career 5-RBI game June 24 vs. Detroit...hit 7 homers and knocked in 13 runs in 18 games vs. Toronto, and added 5 long balls and 12 RBI in 14 games against Tampa Bay...homered in back-to-back games 3 times: April 17 vs. Tampa Bay and April 18 vs. Toronto, June 7 and June 8 (2 homers) at Milwaukee and July 19-20 vs. Toronto...June was his finest month of the season, as he hit .373 (31-for-83) with 9 doubles, a triple, 5 homers and 24 RBI in 22 games...Appeared in all 12 post-season games against the Athletics and Yankees and hit .240 (12-for-50) with a home run and 3 RBI in his first career playoff action...batted .238 (5-for-21) in the ALDS vs. Oakland...hit .241 (7-for-29) with a homer and 3 RBI in the ALCS against New York...was 2-for-5 with an RBI in Boston's wins in Game 1 and 6...hit a 4th-inning solo homer off Roger Clemens to give Boston a 4-0 lead in Game 7. 2002 Played in 126 games, hitting .306 with a career-high 41 doubles, 16 HR, 57 RBI...Ranked seventh in the N.L. in doubles, the fourth highest total in Marlins history...Tied for 2nd in N.L. with 24 doubles after the All-Star break...Recorded a career-high 25 game hitting streak from 8/24-9/19, the third longest streak in the M.L (45-102, .441)) with 17 doubles, 3 HR and 17 RBI that included 18 multi-hit games...Had career-best six straight multi-hit games from 9/5-10...Reached base safely in 43 straight games from 8/10-9/28 with a .408 on-base pct. and .608 slugging pct....Ranked 8th in N.L. with .333 batting avg. at home...Hit .269 with 17 doubles, 5 HR and 19 RBI in 58 games before the All-Star break; hit .335 with 24 doubles, 11 HR, and 38 RBI in 68 games after the All-Star break...Hit .385 with RISP after 7/1...Recorded a hit in 29 of last 33 games...Raised batting avg. 57 points (from .249 to .306) over last 50 games...Was fifth different Opening Day RF for Fla. in last five years...Placed on D.L. from 5/4-27 with left abdominal strain...Had three-game rehab stint w/Portland (AA) 5/25-27...Had first career multi-HR game 7/15 at NYM...Matched career-high with four hits 9/14 vs. Atl.... Made 110 starts, including 87 in LF, 21 in RF, one at 1B and one at 3B...Acquired by Red Sox from Fla. for cash considerations on 2/15/03. 2001 Became first Marlin to receive two postseason awards from the So. Florida chapter of BWAA in same season as Most Improved Player and Charlie Hough "Good Guy," awarded annually to the player who best fosters positive relations with the media...Set career highs in many offensive categories, including avg. (.314), G (144), H (141), 3B (five), HR (20), RBI (85), R (62) and AB (449)...Had 39 doubles, second on the team...Surpassed his M.L. doubles total entering the season (31)...Led Fla. with a .368 batting avg. (39-106) with RISP, 7th in the N.L....Collected 64 extra-base hits, second on the team... Had 35 multi-hit games and 21 multi-RBI games...Collected season-high four RBI four times...Ranked 12th in N.L. with .320 (81- 253) batting avg. in 73 games after the All-Star break... Hit .306 (60x196) in 71 games prior to the break...Hit 20th HR on 10/2 vs. Mont. off T. Armas...Named N.L.'s Player of the Week for 7/9-15 when he hit .600 (9-15) with two HR and five RBI...Started 111 of Fla.'s final 128 games, splitting time at 1B, 3B, LF and RF...Overall, made 116 starts (65 in RF, 20 in LF, 15 at 1B, 10 at 3B and six as DH)...Led Fla. with a .412 batting avg. (28x68) in Interleague play, ranking 3rd in the M.L....Hit in 16 of 18 Interleague contests, including 8 multi-hit games...Had 12-game hitting streak from 8/27- 9/7 and hit .395 (17-43) with four HR, two doubles, one triple, and nine RBI... Hit in 20 of 21 games from 8/17-9/7...Hit first two grand slams of career (6/23 vs. Phil, A. Telemaco; 9/4 vs. CHC, J. Lieber)...Combined for a .993 fielding pct., including errorless apps. at 1B (123 TC), 3B (16 TC) and LF (50 TC). 2000 Set then career highs with 14 HR and 123 games, including 62 starts..Set new career high with four hits in Fla.'s'4-3 win over R. Johnson and Ariz.7/ 30...Started 62 games, including 31 at 1B, 12 at 3B, 13 in LF and six as DH...Hit safely in 12 of last 17 starts from 7/18-10/1, hitting .305 (18-59) with six HR, eight doubles and 14 RBI...Hit .375 (12-32) with two HR and six RBI in 20 games in July...Began season as Fla's Opening Day 1B after hitting .400 (22- 55) with a team-high five HR and 13 RBI in Spring Training. 1999 Reached base by hit or walk in first 18 M.L. games, including one game in 1998 and first 17 of 1999...Finished 5th in N.L. with .367 batting avg. with RISP...Had career-high five RBI 7/3 after two three-RBI games...Had contract purchased 5/21 from Calgary (AAA) and had double, triple, two RBI and run scored that night vs. Pitts...Hit two-out, two-strike, three-run, inside-the-park HR for game-winner in 9th of 6-5 win 5/24 at CHC, his first M.L. homer (off R. Aguilera)...Had 9-game hit streak from 7/23-31 (.455, 15- 33)...Played 36 G at Calgary (.301, 7 HR, 26 RBI)...Extended his streak of reaching base safely to 72 straight pro games from 7/11/ 97-4/19/99...Included final 46 games in 1997 at Portland (AA), one in 1998 with Fla., 14 in 1998 at Charlotte (AAA) and 11 in 1999 with Calgary...Streak was snapped 4/25 at Albuquerque...Hit .342 (94-275) over the 72-game streak. 1998 Contract purchased from Charlotte (AAA) 4/7...Made M.L. debut 4/11 at Pitts. as a PH and walked vs. F. Cordova in his first plate app....Stayed in game defensively and singled off R. Loiselle to lead off 9th inng. in first official AB...Made first start on 4/19 at Arizona...Fractured bone in left wrist while fouling off a ball in his first at-bat...Placed on D.L. on 4/20... Transferred to emergency D.L. 7/28...Played in 14 games at Charlotte from 6/14- 28 while on injury rehab assign. and hit .326 with four HR and 15 RB I...Hit grand slam in first game 6/14 vs. Columbus and hit four HR and 13 RBI in his first 5 G...Reached base safely in all 14 games. 1997 Named the Eastern Lg. Player of the Year and the Marlins Organizational Hitter of the Year...Came within five HR of becoming the fifth triple crown winner in the Eastern Lg.'s 75 seasons...Led the league in batting avg. (.342), RBI (131), hits (175), total bases (309), extra-base hits (68), doubles (34), on-base pct. (.423), assists (93), and double plays turned (116)...His 131 RBI were seven short of the league record set by Binghamton's Ken Harrelson in 1962...Named the MVP of the Eastern Lg. All-Star team..Hit safely in 18 straight games from 7/18-8/6...Reached base safely by hit or walk in 25 consecutive games from 4/25-5/21. 1996 Ranked fourth in the Eastern Lg. in hitting with a .318 average. 1995 Twice named Florida State League Player of the Week (6/19-25; 8/28- 9/1)...Tied for third in league with 32 doubles...Ranked fourth in the league in total bases (207)...Played for Navojoa in the Mexican Winter League. 1994 Selected to Midwest Lg. All-Star Game and Postseason All-Star Team...Led lg. with 240 total bases, finished second with 56 extra- base hits and seventh with a .302 batting avg. 1993 Played for the St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League.


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Glasgow beat Blues to go top
ESPN Staff
March 2, 2013
Duncan Weir was on target for Glasgow with three conversions and a penalty as Glasgow went top © PA Photos
Munster 13 - 13 Ospreys Connacht 23 - 19 Zebre Glasgow 29 - 13 Cardiff Blues Scarlets 14 - 13 Edinburgh Ulster 29 - 29 Benetton Treviso Dragons 19 - 26 Leinster
Glasgow went top of the RaboDirect PRO12 with a 29-13 victory over Cardiff Blues at Scotstoun Stadium on Friday night.
Three tries in eight second-half minutes were enough for home side to take advantage of Ulster's draw with Treviso and climb to the top of the table. Nikola Matawalu's double, along with a try each for Peter Horne and Duncan Weir, who also chipped in with nine points from the boot, were enough for the Warriors after a slow first half. It was their seventh win in a row and fifth successive five-pointer to claim a new league record surpassing the one set by the Dragons in 2004. The bonus-point win puts them equal with Ulster on 61 points at the top of the league and with the better points difference they claim top spot.
At Ravenhill, Ulster had to settle for a share of the spoils in a 29-29 draw against Treviso, which means Mark Anscombe's men have won just one of their last four games. A hat-trick of tries from flanker Dean Budd, a single score from Robert Barbieri and a penalty and three conversions from Alberto Di Bernardo earned Treviso the draw, which also saw them register a try bonus only five days after putting Munster to the sword in Italy.
Though they avoided defeat, thanks to tries from Andrew Trimble and Stuart Olding and 19 valuable points from Paddy Jackson, Ulster's slump in form has done considerable damage to their push for a home semi-final. After leading 20-10 early in the second half, the home side let their lead slip - and their cause was hardly helped by having Iain Henderson and Lewis Stevenson sent to the sin-bin in the first and second halves respectively. The Italian side sealed the draw in the last move of the game, which could have been a second successive Ravenhill win for them had Di Bernardo landed the difficult conversion.
Leinster consolidated their place in the play-off zone with a bonus point 26-19 win against struggling Newport Gwent Dragons. The European champions ran in four tries at Rodney Parade, two each for Sean Cronin and Dave Kearney, to record their eighth consecutive victory. Leinster were bolstered by the presence of fullback Luke Fitzgerald, scrum-half Eoin Reddan, hooker Cronin and lock Devin Toner, who five days earlier had been on Six Nations bench duty for Ireland against Scotland. It meant they were far too strong for the Dragons, who had won four of their last five matches in all competitions but never looked like derailing Leinster's play-off push.
Munster and Ospreys matched each other point for point as they drew 13-13 at Thormond Park. Ronan O'Gara opened the scoring with a penalty four minutes in, but Matthew Morgan brought the Welsh level with a penalty of his own. Morgan added a second, but O'Gara drew Munster level just before half-time. In the second half hooker Damien Varley scored the first try, which O'Gara converted, but Osprey's No.8 Jonathan Thomas powered over and Morgan hit the conversion to ensure the match ended with honours even.
Scarlets climbed back into the play-off places after securing an unconvincing 14-13 victory over struggling Edinburgh at Parc y Scarlets. Andy Fenby scored an early try for the hosts, but they then surrendered an 8-0 lead as Dougie Fife hit back with a try and Harry Leonard weighed in with a conversion and two penalties. Eventually Scarlets' fly-half Aled Thomas kicked a penalty and then his replacement Owen Williams kicked another 13 minutes from time which was enough to condemn Edinburgh to an 11 straight defeat in all competitions.
Connacht's Dan Parks kicked a late drop goal and penalty to guide his side to a battling 23-9win over Zebre at the Sportsground. Eoin McKeon's first try for the province had Connacht ahead within two minutes, and Gavin Duffy also touched down for a 14-3 lead, but only a point separated the sides at the break, with Paolo Buso kicking his second penalty and converting Leonardo Sarto's 31st-minute try. Parks and Buso swapped penalties before a 71st-minute penalty from Gonzalo Garcia had the Italians within touching distance of their first victory. However, despite being below par, Connacht showed their resilience as Parks' right boot ensured they finished on top at the end of a competitive encounter.
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It's a big year for the teams of the NHL's Northwest Division. Two teams are celebrating milestones years, one team is looking for redemption, one is looking to break through with a young group of burgeoning superstars, and one truly in the throes of transition.
For your Vancouver Canucks, it is a critical year. They are picked by many members of the hockey media world as a favourite to win the division, the conference, and possibly even the Stanley Cup. They have their entire top 6 forward until returning. They have bolstered their third line and have revamped their 4th line. They have improved and deepened their defense. They have reinvigorated their superstar goaltender and provided him with a young stud backup.
Is this their year? Or will a division rival take their crown?
Once the biggest dogfight in the NHL, the Northwest Division has undergone many changes over the last couple of years. How will these five teams fare this year? Let's take a look, in our predicted order from first to worst.
1. Vancouver Canucks
Prediction – 109 Pts – 2nd in conference
This isn't me wearing my homer hat. Almost every hockey media outlet has picked the Canucks to win the division, if not the conference and possibly even the Stanley Cup. TSN, Rogers Sportsnet, CBS Sports, Yahoo! Sports (Puck Daddy) all have the Canucks on top of the Northwest this year. Why? Depth and balance. And plenty of it. The Canucks will have arguably the best top 3 lines after GM Mike Gillis went out to fix what went wrong last year. The Canucks were exposed during their second consecutive 2nd round playoff loss to the Chicago Blackhawks. While most Canucks fans won't admit this, the Blackhawks did Vancouver a favour. They dominated the Canucks in two such clear areas that it made the Canucks management's job over the summer fairly simple. Not easy, but simple. The Canucks needed to get tougher, grittier and bigger on their bottom 6 forwards, and they needed to deepen their defense, which was exposed to injury last year. So the Canucks went out and acquired Manny Malhotra, Raffi Torres, Dan Hamhuis, Keith Ballard and others, and shed themselves of Pavol Demitra, Kyle Wellwood, Steve Bernier, Shane O'Brien, and Darcy Hordichuk and chose to let Willie Mitchell go.
While the Canucks did much to improve, others in their division are in transition. The Canucks will likely feast on the lesser lights in the Northwest. Their main concern, with Sami Salo and Alex Burrows already out to start the year, is to stay as healthy as possible, especially into early April.
Medal of Honour – Henrik Sedin. Let's face it. He's the reigning MVP and scoring leader and will likely be named team captain in the next 48 hours. Unless a catastrophe befalls him, he will see a repeat as the team's Most Valuable player.
In the Targets – Roberto Luongo. He relinquished the captaincy (or was forced out of it…. whichever) to devote his time to simply stopping pucks. Well he had better damn well do that. He has no excuses now. So it's time to put up or shut up.
2. Calgary Flames
Prediction – 88 Pts – 9th in conference
Is there a team under more scrutiny than the Calgary Flames? At every level? GM Darryl Sutter spent the summer reacquiring former players to try to re-ignite the fire in the lineup. Sorry for the puns. Those acquisitions included Olli Jokinen and Alex Tanguay, with the much maligned Jokinen under the microscope to try to bring up his game again. Miikka Kiprusoff is looking to maintain his form, despite being one year older and one year slower. Will he be able to keep up his game? Jay Bouwmeester is under pressure to produce. In general. He is entering his eighth NHL season and has yet to play a single NHL playoff game. Not one.
This year, no matter how good JayBo is, he is going to go another year without chasing Lord Stanley's grail. The Flames start the year plagued by injuries, a lack of depth at center and defense (beyond their main roster), and questions in net. The questions in net aren't to suggest that Kiprusoff won't have a good year. But if he gets hurt, or does stumble, the Flames have a unknown rookie backup and little depth behind him. If Kipper struggles at all, or if the injury bug starts to bite the Flames, they are going to be in for a long year. They have a lot of "if"'s to get them into the playoffs – IF they can improve their scoring… IF Jokinen and Tanguay can find the goal… IF Iginla can score 40 goals again… IF Bouwmeester can get the monkey off his back and produce again… IF Kiprusoff can stay healthy and stay solid. If all those "IF"'s happen, then the Flames will get into the playoffs, and likely in a 7th or 8th spot. I think they'll be a big chasm between 8 and 9 in the conference, so they will have to see the stars align and all those IF's take hold for them to see time in the playoffs. I don't think Jokinen and Tanguay will be the answer to what ailed the Flames last year, so there's one IF off the list.
Medal of Honour – Brendan Morrison. After being cast off fro the Canucks following a failed tryout, the Flames picked up the veteran center to fill gaps left by a ravaging injury bug up the middle. He is in a win/win position here, because all he needs to do is hold down the fort until the cavalry returns. And if he fails, he was a cheap pickup with little risk.
In the Targets – Who isn't? Jay Bouwmeester, Olli Jokinen, Darryl Sutter just to name a few. But those are the big three. I will go on record now as saying that Darryl Sutter WILL be fired this year. His bizarre transactions and salary cap management over the last couple of years will catch up with him this year, and ownership and fans will have enough.
3. Colorado Avalanche
Prediction – 86 Pts – 10th in conference
The shadow of Joe Sakic has left the team on the ice finally, and they're truly into their transition phase now. Luckily they had a few years of disaster in order to draft high, and they took advantage and drafted well. However this year will see the young Avs hit a sophomore slump and Craig Anderson's star fall back down to Earth a little.
The Avs defense is either old and overpaid, or young and inexperienced. Their offense is just straight-up young and they have no toughness whatsoever. Four of their roster forwards are still on their entry level contracts including 2nd year phenoms Matt Duchene and Ryan O'Reilly. I expect them take a step back this year, overwhelmed by the expectations thrust upon them.
And it will be damn near impossible for Craig Anderson to improve or even repeat what he did between the pipes.
Add to that – the Avs are dead last in cap space this year, and didn't acquire any notable players at all during the off-season
Medal of Honour – TJ Galiardi. I like this kid a lot. He's elusive, loads of skills and has flown under the radar because of Duchene, Stasney, and Anderson. He could be a real difference maker for the Avs this year.
In the Targets – Paul Stasney. He's making an unwarranted and ridiculous $6.6 million this year. Unless he scores 115 points this year, he's overpaid. So as such, he;s overpaid.
4. Edmonton Oilers
Prediction – 80 Pts – 12th in conference
The Edmonton Oilers going to be an exciting, fast paced team this year. And they're going to be improved over last year. But not enough to make the playoffs. Not by a long shot.
With Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, and Magnus Paajarvi joining Sam Gagner , Andrew Cogliano and Ales Hemsky, the Oilers are going to have a fast, young and skilled forward unit. But they have a shaky, shallow overpaid defense and suspect goaltending. They have already sent Sheldon Souray to the minors to shed salary and rid themselves of yet another disgruntled player. But they are still paying Tom Gilbert $4m, No I don't understand it either.
The Oilers will be better simply because Hall, Eberle and Paajarvi are indeniable talents. But they won't get to the playoffs because they are have no depth on defense or goaltending. And goaltending is the big issue in Edmonton, with Nikolai Khabibulin sitting on uncertain ground. He faces a criminal conviction for his extreme DUI case last year. His lawyer is fighting to appeal the case until after the season is over. However, that isn't a certainty. If Khabibulin is forced to go back to court in the middle of the season, he could end serving jail time right away. That, in and of itself would be a massive distraction for the club. But then you're faced with having Jeff Deslauriers-Drouin or Devan Dubnyk in goal, both of whom are flat-out terrible. We also have to remember that Khabibulin missed most of last year rehabbing from surgery, so there is also a bit of an unknown as to how he will actually perform, court case or not.
Medal of Honour – Sam Gagner. With all the attention in Edmonton falling on the three new rookies, Gagner is going to fly under the radar this year, and all for his benefit. I think Gagner is one of the more underrated players in the league, mostly because he's in a market that most hockey fans don't pay much mind. With having some true talent beside him this year, he should flourish.
In the Targets – Dustin Penner. But just because he is always the focus of attention and scrutiny, given his sizable contract. Like Gagner, Penner should benefit from having the new kids on his block. If he doesn't make the most of it, the critics will come out in waves.
5. Minnesota Wild
Prediction – 68 Pts – 15th in conference
This team seems to be just thrown together from leftovers and remnants of other Northwest division teams. Kyle Brodziak, Chuck Kobasew, Andrew Brunette, Eric Nystrom, and several recent Chicago players (Martin Havlat, John Madden, Cam Barker). They have a decent top line, featuring Havlat and Koivu, but after that it's adequate at best. Their defense is more of the same – adequate at best. With Brent Burns they have their legit #1 D, after that they have a few decent but overpaid D in Zidlicky, Schultz and Barker, then it drops off with a real lack of depth.
Injuries have to be the biggest concern in "The State of Hockey". They have already lost G Josh Harding for the year and signed the oft-maligned Jose Theodore as his replacement. The Wild had better hope that #1 goalie Niklas Backstrom doesn't get hurt for any period of time, and plays to the top of his game.
Furthermore, the Wild have to expect that Havlat will go down with an injury at some point – he always does. With their top sniper out of the lineup, goals will be hard to come by.
And if Brent Burns is out of the roster, their blueline will be stretched to keep up with their opponent's best players
Medal of Honour – Nicklas Backstrom. This poor guy is going to get shelled this year, earning every penny of his $6m contract. His defense is not going to offer much help to him this year, so he's going to be under constant mortar and fire.
In the Targets – Martin Havlat. He was terrible with Minnesota last year, proving that he is really only plays well when he is surrounded by a really good cast. Well he isn't. He is the Big Man on Campus and he's proving that he's not up to the challenge. The pressure is on him to prove that last year was an anomoly and that he can rebound and play well as the top dog. He won't be able to do it, and he'll end up with another sub-par year and another injury.
There you have it… my preview and predictions for this year's Northwest Division.
1. Vancouver – 109 Pts (2nd in West)
2. Calgary – 88 Pts (9th)
3. Colorado – 86 Pts (10th)
4. Edmonton – 80 Pts (12th)
5. Minnesota – 68 Pts (15th)
Now let's play 82 games and find out how these predictions pan out!


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International News
GlobalPost Series Examines HIV/AIDS in European, MENA Regions
December 10, 2012
As part of its ongoing series, titled "The State of AIDS," GlobalPost published two articles examining the epidemic in different regions. In Eastern Europe, rates of HIV/AIDS diagnoses have risen in several countries, including Ukraine and Russia, according to the first article, which discusses some of the potential reasons for the increases. Also, "with the economic crisis affecting much of Western Europe, there is concern that declining health spending and cuts to research budgets could hurt AIDS treatment across the continent, even in nations that are leading the way in HIV/AIDS prevention and care like the United Kingdom," the news service writes (Ames, 12/7).
A second article examines HIV prevalence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), "one of just two areas where HIV infection rates continue to grow -- and where antiretroviral treatment is the least accessible due to traditional societal stigma and intransigent authorities," GlobalPost reports, adding, "The United Nations says the region is the only one that has yet to see a reduction in the number of children newly infected with HIV each year" (Cunningham/Habib, 12/9).
Back to other news for December 2012
Global Health Funding Cuts Threatening Fight Against HIV, TB in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, NGO Report Says
This article was provided by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. It is a part of the publication Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report. Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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