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May 24, 2011: The New York Red Bulls and Kia Motors America have signed a deal making the automaker an official partner of the Major League Soccer team and their Red Bull Arena.
The alliance is part of Kia Motors strategy to expand its sports marketing partnerships worldwide "to raise awareness and consideration for the Kia brand."
Among other deals, Kia is the official automotive partner of the NBA, has a marketing alliance with the LPGA, has a grown presence in motor sports and has a presence in the NHL. The company also ran a pair of commercials during the broadcast of Super Bowl XLV this past February.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Kia Motors joins a Red Bulls marketing roster that includes Panasonic, The Home Depot, Coors Light, Prudential, AT&T, Degree for Men and majority team owner Red Bull.
To kick off the partnership, Kia will be the presenting sponsor of the Red Bulls' match on June 10 when the team hosts the New England Revolution at Red Bull Arena.
"We are excited to partner with the New York Red Bulls and expand our presence with the game of soccer," Michael Tocci, director, Eastern Region, KMA, said in a statement. "Kia has partnerships with FIFA and CONMEBOL's Copa America, and the Red Bulls and Red Bull Arena are the perfect partners for us to continue the growth of our brand by leveraging the most popular sport in the world right here in the United States."
The partnership gives Kia intellectual property rights for the team, as well as Red Bull Arena and the Red Bulls Academy and Training Programs.
"We believe this venture demonstrates the accession of soccer in the United States and the New York Red Bulls' positioning throughout the world."
In marketing support, Kia will be prominently featured throughout Red Bull Arena in such venues as branding on player bench areas, in-stadium signage, presence at the arena's fan Interactive Zone and hospitality. The automaker said it would also be involved in the Red Bulls' Kicks for Kids program, which benefits various local charitable foundations.
"We are thrilled to enter this partnership with Kia Motors and welcome them into the Red Bull family," Red Bulls managing director Erik Stover said in a statement. "We believe this venture demonstrates the accession of soccer in the United States and the New York Red Bulls' positioning throughout the world."
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) — Last year the UW-Eau Claire men's hockey team started the season with a loss to I-94 rival UW-Stout. This year, they played host to the Blue Devils to open the season and made sure to return the favor.
The Blugolds jumped all over the Blue Devils early and opened the 2012 season with a 4-2 victory at Hobbs Ice Center.
Eau Claire native Andrew McCabe (Sr.-Eau Claire, Wis./Memorial) started things off for the Blugolds at 6:41 of the first period. McCabe buried a beautiful pass from Jordan Singer (Sr.-Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial) for the 1-0 lead.
It looked like the first period would end that way, but Andrew Wilcox (Sr.-Rochester, Minn./Century) put home a rebound with 0:52 left in the period on an assist from Jack Callahan (So.-Red Bank, NJ/Christian Brothers) to send the Blugolds to the locker room with a 2-0 lead.
UW-Eau Claire continued to dominate UW-Stout in the second period and took control of the game midway through. At 12:49, Robbie Anderegg (Jr.-Urbandale, Iowa/Dowling Catholic) put home a loose puck after a shot by David Donnellan (Jr.-Eau Claire, Wis./Memorial) snuck behind the Blue Devils goalie. McCabe added an assist along with Donnellan on the goal.
Shortly after, at 14:52, Donnellan another Eau Claire native, buried a backdoor one-timer on a pass from Kurt Weston (Sr.-Roseau, Minn./Roseau). Ross Andersen (So.-River Falls, Wis./River Falls) also assisted on the goal.
With the Blugolds in control, Singer received a five-minute major checking-from-behind penalty along with a game misconduct at 18:48 of the second period. That gave the Blue Devils a little momentum heading into the third period.
UW-Stout scored at 13:12 and 14:50 of the third period to cut the Blugold lead in half and make the final period interesting.
But Brandon Stephenson (Sr.-Saline, Mich./Saline) made sure the Blue Devils would not get any closer. He finished the game with 30 saves and picked up his first victory of the year in goal for the Blugolds.
The Blue Devils are now 0-1-1 after playing to a 3-3 tie at Marian University last weekend. The Blugolds start out the season 1-0-0 and also pick up a big win in NCHA play early in the season.
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For artist Susan Yonkers, a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate and gardening enthusiast, and her craftsman husband, Bill, a large outdoor canvas was a prerequisite.
So the couple found a single-family, ranch-style home on 2 acres in a relatively secluded spot off Mays Chapel Road in Baltimore County.
"It's an oasis; a home for all seasons," said Susan Yonkers, 64, seated at her sunroom table and gazing out through wide windows into her backyard as birds gathered at one of her feeders and hopped on the granite stones of the landscaping. "There's always something in bloom."
But she quickly points out that the main house — at the time, the only house on the property — was quite a different place when they purchased it for $270,000 in 1997. The original 1969 exterior construction, typical for the period, was of very light, almost pink-colored brick, with a large enclosed carport attached to its side.
Today, the exterior brick is painted a dark gray, allowing the home to be more in harmony with the area surrounding it. Focusing on the 3,600-square-foot interior, the couple renovated a hall powder room and a master bathroom. They turned a guest bedroom into a dressing room, replaced the house's roof and all of the windows. They laid quarry tile in the sunroom and hired Mike Eagan of Eagan Enterprises, a construction company, to deal with the obtrusive carport.
The solution was a two-story addition comprising a ground-level mudroom/workroom, a guest room, guest bath, powder room and Susan Yonkers' second-story studio, now used as the TV room. Decorated, like the rest of the home, in what the couple refers to as "comfortable, eclectic decor," the furnishings exude a style very much like the country cottages they visit on their trips to England.
In the living room, yards upon yards of English toile fabric hang at the windows, drape over tables and cover pillows that sit on sofas and chairs.
Portraits painted by Susan Yonkers line the walls leading up to the room, while several completed canvases occupy a far corner, stacked upright, one against the other.
A large, homey and attractive country kitchen is located in the central portion of the house. It is here that Bill Yonkers, a 70-year-old retired financial manager, has put his own artistic stamp. He created cabinet facings from old, worn shutters and replaced some of the cabinet doors with old barn windows. Granite countertops and ceramic tile complement the warm hues of the cabinetry and soft yellow paint on the walls. For contrast, blue plates are hung on the walls above the cabinets. A window above the sink opens to the enclosed sun room with its bamboo furniture.
The home's entrance hall features English wallpaper with a soft red floral print against a gold background. A hall leads toward one end of the rancher where the master bedroom is located along with the former bedrooms of the couple's grown children, Willy and Amanda. All three rooms are decorated in various shades of toile fabric. The walls of the master bedroom are painted a deep shade of red to contrast with the blond furniture.
Books — some 15,000 — fill the couple's home, having previously been the inventory of their now-closed business, The Bookshop of Stevenson Village. Old books, new ones, rare and hard-to-find volumes and complete collections by various authors are found on bookshelves, tables, even mantels in nearly every room of the house. Equally as ubiquitous as the books are the formal family photographs in sepia and black and white in every room.
"We can't move now," said Bill Yonkers. "We have a lot of stuff and it keeps growing."
Some of that expansion has taken place outdoors, where he constructed several outbuildings. Built with attention to detail, they include a large barn for entertaining, a greenhouse and potting shed, a new art studio for his wife, a garage, two pergola-topped outdoor sitting spaces and an imposing stone tower.
The interior of the barn, in addition to the spacious greenhouse, features a lavishly decorated great room they call the Pub Room. It was designed, according to Bill Yonkers, after the office room in the Henry Ladew mansion and boasts rich wooden paneling, a ceiling of wainscoting, a fireplace, multipaned windows and Colonial-style furniture.
Still, it is in the sunroom in the main house that the Yonkers find most comfortable.
"Hellebores, snowdrops, Adonis, and winter aconites [are] blooming now," Susan Yonkers said. "Our favorite shrub is our philadelphus. It is fragrant and lovely in the spring [along with] the cotinus, callicarpa, hydrangeas and our new edgeworthia."
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Dream realized: "We've lived in this house the longest of any and have put a lot of ourselves into [it], the gardens and the other buildings on the property," said Susan Yonkers. Their 2 acres is a compound of beautifully constructed and placed outbuildings. Most impressive is the stone tower, built in homage to the Maryland 400, members of the 1st Maryland Regiment, who were heroes in the Battle of Long Island during the Revolutionary War.
Dream interior: "The sunroom is our favorite," said Susan Yonkers. "We have decorated it with comfortable furniture and things we love, our antique garden tools, books and plants.
Dream collection: In a home filled with lovely and interesting collections of artwork, china and needlework, picking favorites among these things might be difficult. But Susan Yonkers offered a few. "Some of our favorite collections are our antique garden tools, 20th-century silhouettes, our Lusterware, blue and white dishes, and, of course, our books."
For artist Susan Yonkers, a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate and gardening enthusiast, and her craftsman husband, Bill, a large outdoor canvas was a prerequisite.


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Michael Main's gentle approach to data structures and objects has introduced thousands of beginning programmers to foundational data structures using the practical Java language. This Third Edition makes the most of the enhancements and advantages of Java 5.0 including the use of generic data types. An early group of chapters reviews the key aspects of object-oriented programming giving students the foundation for understanding significant programming concepts. With this framework they are able to accomplish writing functional data structures by using a five-step method for working with data types; understanding the data type abstractly, writing a specification, using the data type, designing and implementing the data type, and analyzing the implementation. Students learn to think analytically about the efficiency and efficacy of design while gaining exposure to useful Java classes libraries. The flexibility of Data Structures and Other Objects Using Java allows instructors to structure their course around a certain emphasis, such as early coverage of recursion and sorting, or to accelerate the pace of the course.
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Journey to the Common Good
By Walter Brueggemann (Westminster John Knox, 2010)
In this compact study, biblical theologian Walter Brueggemann traces a remarkably similar pattern of cause and effect between the crises in today's world—chronic war-making, ecological destruction, economic injustices—and the defining events in Jewish tradition.
Brueggemann's central focus is the Exodus-Sinai story, visited liturgically by Jews as a perennial reminder that "you were once a slave in the land of Egypt." But his is not the customary religious approach to this narrative. Rather, Brueggemann analyzes its political, social, and economic elements, using the themes of scarcity, anxiety, abundance, and neighborhood.
In both the Pharoah's Egypt and today's world, there is anxiety about not having "enough," anxiety that fuels today's materialism and militarism. We ever feel that we need more—luxuries, status symbols, weapons, military bases. A privileged few exploit those upon whose compliance and labor their privileges depend.
Yahweh heard the cries of the enslaved Hebrew immigrants in Egypt and provided abundant food as he led them on a journey through the desert. Neighborliness became the antidote for scarcity and anxiety. Later Pharoah's injustices were duplicated by Solomon, whose wealth, power, and political wisdom were never "enough."
Along this path of corruption, a prophetic tradition was born. Commonly considered purveyors of doom and gloom, the Hebrew prophets were also harbingers of hope, pointing out alternatives to the status quo. Brueggemann mines their hopeful messages and shows how they apply today.
Brueggemann sees the Bible as "an imaginative narrative of God's staggering care for the world, a narrative that . . . builds community precisely by respect for the liberty of [all persons]." That view is evident in this book.
This article appeared in the February 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 2, page 58-59.)


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Everest climber finds 3G signal, sends Tweet
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A British climber has allegedly become the first person to Tweet, use Facebook and make a 3G phone call from atop Mount Everest today, raising the point that nowhere, not even the top of the effin' world, is safe from the reaches of cellphones and social networking.
It was the ninth occasion the unlikely named Kenton Cool has reached the summit, this time with a Samsung Galaxy S II. As well as making the first 3G phone call at the peak of the world's tallest mountain, Cool updated his Twitter and Facecrack status, and uploaded a picture for all to see.
The climber connected to 3G masts erected last year, which brought online services to Nepalese inhabitants and mountaineers, who in past climbs, were forced to lug around heavy satellite phones. Or simply not bother ringing to tell people where they are.
You just can't run from the ringtone can you? Even above the clouds on the world's peak, someone'll get you.
"Sorry, I can't do that - I'm so snowed under right now."
Perhaps London Underground - which has decided against cellular connectivity in time for the Olympics - is the only remaining safe haven.
Well, that and my loo for some reason, but it's more dangerous than Everest in there. ®
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This post originally appeared in Sightings, an online publication of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School.
GRACE acronates "Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment." Its story is well told in Kathryn Joyce's "By Grace Alone," an article in American Prospect (May/June; see "Sources," below). Please read it, since it offers background and details vital to the questions of "abuse."
I get asked, "Why doesn't Sightings do more with the Catholic priest abuse story?" (It's often blurted out as "Catholicpriestchildsexualabuse.") Why doesn't it? First, we don't overdo overly-familiar stories. This one dominates elsewhere annually. Also, we are not anti-Catholic, so we don't need it as an anti-Catholic pitch. In any case, the most persistent critics on this Catholic issue are themselves Catholics, wounded victims of abuse who hope to effect change.
Note, however, that the link "abuse=Catholic" obscures many realities, particularly accounts of abuse by perpetrators within other communions or movements. This week, inspired by the Joyce story, we focus on the non-Catholic world of Evangelicals and Fundamentalists.
We are not dealing with evangelical or fundamentalist outliers. The head of GRACE is Boz Tchividjian, grandson of Billy Graham, There's no marginal evangelicalism in his family line! And note that Liberty University, founded by Jerry Falwell, is the school at which tireless Tchividjian teaches law. Also central to the Joyce story is Bob Jones University, the "mother ship" to some schools of fundamentalism.
GRACE and its allies and supporters claim that, if many evangelical and fundamentalist schools, camps, missions, and movements were to be under spotlights or magnifiers like those focused on Catholicism, many sad and shocking stories of leaders who prey on children would draw attention. Tchividjian claims that the evangelical-fundamentalist situation is even worse than the Catholic story. If so, one has to ask why is it less familiar, less frequently told?
GRACE leaders point to several reasons. First is the multi-organization chaos of Protestant life. They know that it is easy to focus on hierarchically formed and led Catholicism, and to plot who is or who should be responsible. But evangelicalisms and fundamentalisms include innumerable and often unaccountable bodies and agencies. It is harder for a TV network to sell a scandal-story about a Baptist summer camp or missionary enterprise than it is to expose bishops and cardinals who fail the Catholic faithful.
Some of the problems arise from theology, as when it takes the form of bad pastoral counseling. Evangelicals and Fundamentalists at Bob Jones--which is now evidently working belatedly to change--excelled at blaming the victims, easily cowing young people who sought counsel but met only authority and punishment.
Add to this the fact that most--but by no means all!--of the accused schools, camps, missions, and movements are fiscally fragile and vulnerable. It their story gets out, they fear they will go under. They cannot outlast persistent legal and financial challenges, so they turn their backs and shut their eyes and mouths. Hence effective cover-ups prevail.
When Sightings returns from its annual August hiatus, we will focus elsewhere, knowing that we have only touched the edges of this story of abuse, but we'll keep a friendly eye on Boz Tchividjian and his colleagues. If Joyce is accurate in her chronicle, they are people of conscience and energy who want to resort to biblical norms of caring and to go about their work imbued by, yes, GRACE.
NOTE: acronate is a new verb which means "the action of creating an acronym." (See Merriam-Webster: the Open Dictionary, "New Words & Slang")
Joyce, Kathryn. "By Grace Alone: As sex-abuse allegations multiply, Billy Graham's grandson is on a mission to persuade Protestant churches to come clean." The American Prospect Longform. Accessed July 25, 2014.
Marcotte, Amanda. "Billy Graham's Grandson Is on a Mission to Root Out Sexual Abuse in the Evangelical Church." Slate, May 7, 2014.
Bailey, Sarah Pulliam. "Billy Graham's grandson: evangelicals 'worse' than Catholics on sex abuse." Religion News Service, September 26, 2013.
Allen, Bob. "Insurance Companies Shed Light on Extent of Sex Abuse in Protestant Churches." Ethicsdaily.com, July 6, 2007, News.
Rosenfeld, Seth. "Church settles sex abuse suit against [Greek Orthodox] priest." San Francisco Chronicle, September 22, 2008, News.
This post originally appeared in Sightings, an online publication of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School.
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Editor's Note: Terra Lawson-Remer is a Fellow at The Council on Foreign Relations and Assistant Professor at The New School University. She was formerly Senior Advisor for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Obama's dark horse nominee for World Bank President-medical doctor, PhD anthropologist, Ivy League college professor, hip-hop impresario, and Dartmouth University President Jim Yong Kim (JYK) took many power-broker insiders by surprise.
JYK is not a politically connected international diplomat, as were his predecessors Robert Zoellick and Paul Wolfowitz, nor a globally renowned financier like former World Bank President Sir James Wolfensohn.
Instead, through Partners in Health, the NGO that he co-founded with Paul Farmer, Kim earned his chops forging a new paradigm in community-based health care that cost-effectively targets the root causes of diseases in the world's poorest countries. JYK will come to the Bank as a lifelong health specialist, educator, and visionary development practitioner.
Human development outcomes like good health and education (called 'human capital' by economists) allow people to become productive workers and technological innovators. This drives economic growth and reduces poverty.
As stated succinctly by the World Health Organization's 2001 Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, "Health is a priority goal in its own right, as well as a central input into economic development and poverty reduction. Increased investments in health would translate into hundreds of billions of dollars per year of increased income in the low-income countries."
Likewise, countries that invest in the education of their citizens realize higher growth and lower poverty rates, a stylized fact long recognized by economists like Mincer, Becker, Spence, and Krueger. Human capital contributes to growth directly, by increasing labor productivity, but also indirectly, by spurring technological change.
Human development and economic growth reinforce or undermine each other in a virtuous (or vicious) cycle. It is extremely difficult to break a vicious cycle by first increasing economic growth. Examining countries across time, development success stories have almost universally been countries that first improved their levels of human development by improving health outcomes, investing in education, and reducing poverty.
The country of Kim's birth, South Korea, is one of the most impressive economic development successes of the past fifty years. In 1960 South Korea's per capita income was just under US$1,800, about the same as Cote D'Ivoire and Sri Lanka. By 2008 its per capita GDP was over US$25,000, earning it entry into the OECD – the elite club for the world's richest countries. South Korea's astonishing economic success can be attributed in significant part to government policies that prioritized investments in health and education.
In addition, JYK's approach to economic development reflects the cutting edge of development practice. Partners in Health prioritizes outcomes like lower HIV/AIDS infection rates, rather than inputs like dollars spent – embracing an evidence-based model to scale-up interventions that have measurable impacts. This approach has gained adherents from the Gates Foundation to MIT to the halls of the U.S. Congress.
Historically the World Bank has assessed staff performance based on the number of loan agreements signed and the amount of money disbursed. In an era of increasingly constrained resources, Kim's focus on results is more important than ever.
At the same time, Kim's work places the power to shape development interventions in the hands of the intended beneficiaries themselves, which builds capacity and ensures accountability. His community-based approach entails piloting locally embedded projects, collaborating with civil society, taking account of local conditions, and responding to homegrown knowledge.
Tackling poverty from the bottom-up addresses the accountability deficit that has long haunted the aid community, creating built-in feedback mechanisms to ensure projects are meeting the needs of the poor. The World Bank has already begun to embrace a more community-empowered framework. Under Kim's leadership this important new direction could develop sustainable roots.
Kim's long experience as an educator will also serve him well. Countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia are now struggling to capitalize on the potential demographic dividend generated by their large populations of young people. Yet if graduates face unemployment rather than opportunity, this dividend will be squandered, sowing the seeds of discontent and stagnation. Ensuring that young people now entering the workforce have the skills they need to match the jobs emerging in dynamic sectors is a critical challenge that Kim is ready to meet.
Most compellingly, Kim has focused his entire life's work on meeting the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable. Aggregate economic growth can sometimes raise the yachts while swamping the dinghies.
Fighting poverty also requires ensuring equity. Although there is a strong correlation between higher levels of economic growth and lower incidences of poverty in countries across time, the nature of this relationship depends on patterns of government expenditures, levels of inequality, fairness in the rule of law, and the sectors favored by growth.
Not content to just improve aggregates, JYK has long prioritized those who have been left-out and left-behind. This approach to economic development, which puts socioeconomic inclusion and exclusion center stage, is the linchpin of inclusive economic development. His leadership in promoting equity and inclusion is a breathe of fresh air, and will steer the World Bank in the right direction.
This article appears in full on CFR.org by permission of its original publisher. It was originally available here.


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Health Care Economics 101
In a utopian health system, recipients of health care would enjoy no limitations on the three corners of the health system resource distribution triangle pictured on the right. Everyone would be able to get everything—right away.
But of the three corners of this utopian health system, real world economics only allows you to have two of the three. Different systems make different choices:
- In the U.S., for example, if you happen to be a hyper-compensated corporate CEO, you can get anything you want immediately. But obviously this isn't available to everyone. In fact, until only very recently, the U.S. seems to have consciously and comfortably chosen not to attempt to provide health care for all.
- In another system, such as New Zealand's, just about everyone can get everything—but it's definitely not available "right now."
- Developing countries like Vietnam offer everyone a modicum of immediate care, but there are significant limitations on what is available.
- The final permutation of this health system resource triangle is what's found in much of the impoverished world: Very little is available to anyone, ever.
I can think of no health system that even attempts to attain all three aspects of this triangle. And when you reflect on it, only the goal of providing care for everyone is without pitfalls.
Take, for example, the immediate provision of care. I know of a patient in New Zealand who had deteriorating cardiac function due to a heart valve problem. For her to obtain even basic diagnostic studies—such as an echocardiogram and consultation with a heart surgeon—meant delay. During this time, aggressive medical therapy (medicines) was undertaken and the patient was monitored closely. Over time, she responded well to medication and improved significantly, to the extent that surgical heart valve replacement was no longer necessary. In the U.S., I'm certain that this patient would have undergone open-heart surgery and valve replacement sooner rather than later. And it may still come to that in this patient's case—but it can be done in a measured, deliberate fashion. I am also convinced that had the medical therapy failed, there would have been enough elasticity in the system to move forward urgently with surgery. Sometimes "immediate," while quite seductive, is not always the best approach. I frequently tell patients that time is a powerful diagnostic tool, but for it to have its full impact there must be open lines of communication, a trusting physician-patient relationship, and easy access for repeated reassessment.
"Everything" can also have hidden costs. CT scanning, for instance, has become the standard in many emergency departments in the United States for assessing a multitude of problems, such as abdominal pain and head trauma. There is now a growing awareness, however, that the significant amount of radiation delivered during CT scanning actually has significant carcinogenic potential. Well-studied assessment and risk stratification tools, such as physical examination, are often very much underutilized because of the clinician's perceived lack of time and, increasingly, lack of understanding of or training in basic bedside assessment.
The underlying principle behind the inability of any health system to satisfy all three corners of the resource triangle has to do with the fundamental driver of all economic activity: scarcity. Ultimately, resources are scarce and economic and ethical decisions must be made by any society as to how these resources will be allocated.
Just as important in the health arena is the fact that demand for health services is what economists would term "inelastic"—something that someone cannot forgo without significant adverse impact as price increases. This would include items like food and, of course, health care. A person with a burst appendix or the parent of a child with meningitis is simply not in a position to be concerned about price or, for that matter, quality comparisons in the way that the proponents of market-based health care seem to think.
Health Care Options at a Glance
From single-payer to buy-in.
The reality is that every society makes choices about their health system and the inevitable compromises that must be made. Relying solely on market principles to make choices about a system so inherently bound up in issues of ethics and human rights simply makes no sense—unless, perhaps, you are a shareholder in a for-profit health insurance corporation. Economically rational solutions, such as a single-payer health plan, have been systematically thwarted in the U.S.—and this betrays the extent to which the decision-making and implementation processes have been hijacked by a self-interested elite.
The recently enacted Obama reforms seem to have been a political necessity in the face of vicious right-wing attempts to destroy both the reforms and his very presidency. I fervently hope in the four years that will elapse before implementation of much of this legislation, there will be a more thorough, intelligent, dispassionate, and successful national dialogue about real changes that will benefit those who are still being left out of the lower right-hand corner of the triangle. We can do with less (maybe even stay healthier), and we don't need everything right away, but the ethical and economic imperative to cover everyone will be the cornerstone of any meaningful reform.
: After 28 years as a primary care physician in the U.S., Dr. Ken Fabert traveled to New Zealand to see what it's like to work within a single-payer system.


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McCutchen, Bucs back Burnett's eight K's
PITTSBURGH -- The overdue recipient of some runs at PNC Park, A.J. Burnett was not the picture of joy Friday night when he was called back from the on-deck circle for a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the sixth.
He looked displeased to walk out on the 5-3 lead he held over the Reds. It could have been intuition, because minutes later Burnett helplessly watched from the bench as Tony Watson surrendered a game-tying two-run home run to Brandon Phillips, his second homer of the game.View Full Game Coverage
PITTSBURGH -- The overdue recipient of some runs at PNC Park, A.J. Burnett was not the picture of joy Friday night when he was called back from the on-deck circle for a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the sixth.
He looked displeased to walk out on the 5-3 lead he held over the Reds. It could have been intuition, because minutes later Burnett helplessly watched from the bench as Tony Watson surrendered a game-tying two-run home run to Brandon Phillips, his second homer of the game.View Full Game Coverage
Watson, the left-handed reliever, thus went considerably out of his way to help prove that the Bucs have moxie. Because clubs thus caught after having held a 5-1 lead since the second inning rarely recover. Andrew McCutchen made sure this would be one of the rarities, leading off the bottom of the seventh with a solo shot off reliever J.J. Hoover to regain a lead that relievers Mark Melancon and Jason Grilli preserved for a 6-5 victory in front of 24,366.
"It shows we aren't going to wait around, that we're a team that's going to fight," said McCutchen, who returned to the dugout after displaying rare emotion -- certainly for early April. "Just because they tied the game up after we had a four-run lead, that doesn't mean we're going to give up."
"It's not like he gave up the home run to a slouch," Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker said. "This guy is one of the best players in the league, and we had chances to come back late, so it's a little deflating, but you can't get deflated in the seventh. You've got to come back in the eighth and ninth, and we've got to put that behind us. We came back once, and we were coming back again, and we had action. We didn't stop. We were one hit away from tying that game up."
The end-game found Phillips again on the spot. But Grilli fanned him on a full-count breaking pitch with two men on base.
McCutchen's blow got Burnett out of the clubhouse and back into the dugout.
"I ran out of here to give Cutch some love after that home run. I never leave the clubhouse [after coming out of a game], but I had to," said Burnett, who did not mind at all that Watson ended up with the win.
"We got the 'W' tonight," Burnett said. "The first game of a series is huge, so that's the most important thing."
Nearly lost in the dogged victory over the defending NL Central champs was Starling Marte's sixth consecutive two-hit game. For good measure, the left fielder also made a headlong diving catch of Joey Votto's liner just prior to Phillips' second homer.
But it wasn't just Marte, for a change. The top four in the Bucs' lineup all checked in with two hits.
"We're capable of doing it," said McCutchen, mindful that the Pirates had brought a team average of .153 into their 10th game -- even including Marte's .333. "We look forward to keep hitting and keep getting on base."
The Pirates homering -- it was McCutchen's second and the team's third in 10 games -- was nearly as extraordinary as them scoring with Burnett on the PNC Park mound.
In the first inning, they got him his first run in 37 innings at their home field, and the next inning got him four more.
Burnett's first lead was immediately erased by Phillips' first homer, leading off the second, and he let the Reds take small bites out of that second lead.
Devin Mesoraco's RBI grounder in the fourth plated Jay Bruce, and Mesoraco's run-scoring double in the sixth made it 5-3.
"Games are nine innings for a reason," manager Clint Hurdle said. "You give up things sometimes, and fight to get something back. It's kinda what we expect when these two teams meet. A battle."
Burnett remained on a strikeout binge in his six innings, adding eight for a season total of 27 in 17 innings. They also increased his career total to 1,998. He allowed six hits and three runs, plus three walks that helped push his pitch total to 106 and him out of the game.
The four-run second against Reds starter Mike Leake was built on five hits, easily the season's biggest splurge by the Bucs, who had averaged 3.7 hits through their first seven games. The payoff knocks were singles by Neil Walker and McCutchen, each driving in two runs.
Walker's safety was as near to predictable as baseball can get: It came with the bases loaded, a situation the Pittsburgh Kid owns. After that hit, he has a career average of .500 with the bases loaded, with 42 RBIs in 32 at-bats.
"I like Neil hitting with runners in scoring position, always have," Hurdle said. "He usually does a good job finding outfield grass with runners in scoring position."
Marte did not score it but again was responsible for the Bucs putting a first-inning run on the board for the fourth time in five games. He led off with a hit for the sixth consecutive game and, after moving to second on a walk to Walker and McCutchen's fly to right, was erased at home on Garrett Jones' infield grounder.
Yet the situation Marte had created was converted on Russell Martin's single to score Walker for a 1-0 lead.
And, just like that, Burnett's team backed him with a run at home for the first time since Aug. 27, six starts ago.
As the rest of the night evolved, however, he still does not have a win.
"I hate that we couldn't get him the win," McCutchen said. "But he'll have another chance, and we'll have another chance to get it for him."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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3rd SR Crapometer #19
Below you will find my submission for your pending Crapometer, a very short story: The entire piece is only about 2000 words. It has not been submitted elsewhere. This query and the story fragment total 736 words.
I have no published fiction. I have published approximately 150 articles under my real name, with and without a co-author, most of them appearing in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, although I have had one in the Loyola Consumer Law Review; two in the Illinois Bar Journal; and several in the CBA Record, the magazine of the Chicago Bar Association. The vast majority of these concerned new court opinions. And for each of these pieces I received exactly zero dollars. On the other hand, judges before whom I appeared were often familiar with my articles. It gave me an 'edge' coming in, or I thought it did – which is much the same thing.
(there's no point to this..why waste words?)
Although my protagonist is drinking vodka, I want to assure you that this e-mail was thoroughly soaked in Tanqueray before being launched into the ether.
Thank you for your consideration.
The Curmudgeon
The New Associate
I was complaining about the loss of a new associate. He'd been with our law firm for only three months, but had announced today that he was moving on. More money. Fewer hours. That's what he said; I'm sure that's what he was told.
I was skeptical that these promises would be kept. But this guy's future was no longer my concern. Still, I mused to my companion, three months was an awfully short time for anyone to stay with a law firm, even in this mobile age.
George laughed bitterly. Of course, he only laughed bitterly. He was a very bitter man.
He twirled his finger in the tumbler in front of him, watching the lemon peel swirl in the vodka and ice. "That's nothing," he said.
"It was in the mid-90's," George began, looking up now and smiling that nasty smile of his, apparently relishing the recollection. "1994 maybe. Matt and Tony were going to hire someone to work exclusively for me. I wasn't unhappy about it; I could have used the help."
Matt Clifton and Tony Clark were the founding and managing partners of Clifton & Clark, the 17-lawyer firm in which George was a junior partner. Of course George and his three fellow junior partners were only a few years' junior to either Clifton or Clark, and now that George's head was entirely gray he was looking less junior by the day. I often theorized that this minimal age difference may have been one source of the continuing friction between the two partner groups.
George hated Clifton and Clark with a passion came across as truly frightening until you learned to appreciate George's gift for exaggeration. In our few social encounters, for example, I'd always found Matt Clifton pleasant, even charming. He may have been somewhat short and a little pudgy, but he was neither ugly nor deformed. George, though, called Clifton "The Evil Dwarf" – you could hear the capital letters when he spoke somehow – and that was one of the nicest, least profane things he called him.
Trying to see past George's odium, I had long ago concluded that Clifton and Clark, like so many lawyers, must be control freaks. I found it understandable that two people who'd formed a business would want to thoroughly control it, but these were not opinions that could be discussed rationally with George. He insisted that Matt Clifton's real ambition was to be the firm's office manager. He claimed that only Clifton or Clark could open the mail in the morning unless special dispensation was first obtained. George claimed that Clifton personally approved every vendor invoice on every single file in the office – not just his own – every court reporter bill and every record copying invoice, and if it took him 60 or 90 days to get through any one stack, that was the vendors' own tough luck. Like I said, George was quite an exaggerator.
And he was warming up, now: "Moses and Elijah" -- i.e., Clifton & Clark -- "didn't do any billable work for about six weeks while they sifted through the résumés and conducted interviews. They'd huddle together for hours before and after interviews, too, comparing notes, I suppose. Who could tell? Their office doors were always closed." George took a swig from his glass.
If you want me to dive into a story quit telling how blue the water is, how sparkly the tiles are and how hunky the lifeguard is. Push me off the diving board. Get me IN the damn water.
I realize that this is foreign to someone who makes his living with billable hours but in fiction less is more.
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Holy cow. The whole story is less than 2000 words and we're seeing what? 500 of them? That doesn't leave much room for something to happen.
- 9/02/2006
The writing is solid and I see hints that George is going to be a fun character, but this is aaaaaaall backstory and telling. Show more; describe the setting and make it vivid. Chop out the backstory and let the reader fill in the details from the hints dropped into conversation.
I liked the paragraph that started with:
"It was in the mid-90's," George began, looking up now and smiling that nasty smile of his, ...
You could have started the story right there, and then continued with more dialogue. I would have kept reading, wondering about George and his nasty smile.
There's promise here, but it's buried under a lot of "telling". Dig out your editing razor and good luck with it, Author.
- 9/02/2006
- class-factotum said...
Yes! I was excited in the first couple of paragraphs. I especially liked, "More money. Fewer hours. That's what he said; I'm sure that's what he was told."
Then I thought the story was going to get started with "'It was in the mid-90's,"' but all I got after that was a bunch of details about Matt and Tony. I could have figured out who they are if they are important to the story. Otherwise, tell me the rest of the story!
- 9/02/2006
Hard to know where you might place a story like this. It's just not working. In a 2000 word (about 8 page) short short, you've got very little discourse time (pages) to get the thing done. You need to be approaching crisis action almost from the beginning. Before you even establish a story you move into back and fill. But in a piece this short there's really no time for back and fill. Moreover, what do we care about someone leaving? Will he come back later in the story? That's the only reason to start with something like this.
- 9/02/2006
Go to library. Read Ellery Queen short stories. Read LOTS of short stories.
Get to the freakin' point.
So many character names, so little space, so unable to finish the 500 words. I've enough eyeglaze here for a BBQ.
- 9/02/2006
And what is the point of querying an agent with a short story anyway? Hasn't MS said, repeatedly, that she only handles books?
- 9/03/2006
Holy cow. The query letter sounds like s/he's channelling Kurt Vonnegut: "...and here is what they paid him: doodly squat."
- 9/03/2006
Second the length comment. Why are you bothering to query a novel-agent with a blathering short story? 2,000 words? That's about how many I write daily when I'm writing a novel.
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On several occasions, including a few Father's Day columns, I've written of my late father and those particularly special moments in his all-tooshort 57 years.
This year, I'm going to memorialize another great father, my late father-inlaw, Joel Clifford Bollinger, known all his life as Jay or J.C.
The reason he was known by the initial is somewhat amusing. Jay was an identical twin. His brother was Horace Paschal Bollinger, thus was known as H or H.P. As the youngest two of seven children, five of them boys, it was perhaps easier for their parents and siblings to alphabetize them.
It was never difficult for me to tell them apart, but that was not necessarily so for many people.
That produced some truly unforgettable moments over the years.
Our sons, Chris and Weston, absolutely adored their "Papaw." And, Jay was a particularly doting grandfather for both of them, as well as for his only granddaughter, Claire, daughter of Julie's sister, Becky.
Perhaps the crown jewel moment was when Chris, perhaps two, saw Jay's identical twin H for the first time. His eyes became huge as he swiveled his head back and forth between the two, then exclaimed with great delight: "Two Papaws!!!"
Papaw Jay and Mamaw Charlotte retired early from the Baytown schools and bought 2.5 acres on the north side of Cypress Creek in Wimberley. There was a century-old tworoom stone house on the property and in which they set up something we called sort of "camping out" housekeeping.
They also bought eight pre-fabricated cabins, set them up on the property and hooked up water, electricity and sewage and rented out the cabins. Summer was peak season and the cabins rented by the day or week. It was a family-oriented place and kids loved swimming, canoeing and tubing in the icy-cold waters of Cypress Creek in the Texas Hill Country.
And, it was summertime heaven on earth for Chris and Weston.
In the fall, winter and early spring months — a period of time that coincides with fall and spring semesters for schools — the cabins were usually rented to students at Southwest Texas State College (now Texas State University) in nearby San
The 11th Commandment for our family in those days — decreed by Mamaw and Papaw, implored by Chris and Weston and restfully (for a while) enjoyed by Julie and me — three months of "Wimberley Camp" for the boys.
We grabbed as much summer time at creek side ourselves as possible.
With a weekly newspaper editing and publishing schedule that often stretched to 70-80 hours, such a respite was divine intervention for Julie and me.
On the Bollinger porch, 40 feet from the rushing waters in rocky Cypress Creek, was a bench swing where I usually anchored myself with a book and something cool to drink. Being tired and hearing the soothing rush of that water, I was often in lullaby land before finishing a page in the book. Later, the in-laws gave me a bench swing of my own with the words engraved on the top board of the backrest: "Willis' Exercise Machine." Oh, well, I do have the strongest ankles in town.
Occasionally, Jay and I would walk to the town square, just for exercise. A couple of houses away, those neighbors had two huge Doberman dogs. On my first stroll down the lane with Jay, the dogs came galloping and growling toward us. Then, suddenly when they were about 40-50 feet away, they yelped and began to run back toward their house.
"What happened?" a fearful but relieved me said.
"They know me as 'Old Man with Rock'," Jay said with just a hint of a smile. I was glad and relieved. My arm wasn't that accurate or that strong. Coach Jay's obviously was.
WILLIS WEBB is a retired community newspaper publisher of more than 55 years experience. He can be reached by email at email@example.com.


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MADISON, Wis.—Senior Liz Powers was the recipient of the Robert M. Hobbs Trophy, the top award for sportsmanship in all of college sailing, and junior Alan Palmer received All-America honorable mention at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association's national banquet Thursday night.
The banquet wrapped up the 2010 ICSA Spring Nationals, hosted by Wisconsin on Lake Mendota. The 10-day event saw team captain Powers and the Harvard women's team place seventh, while captain Palmer led the coed squad to a runner-up national finish.
The Hobbs Trophy was the second-to-last award of the evening and was presented to Powers for the positive attitude she brings to competition and her positive influence on teammates and competitors. It is the culmination of a season in which Powers earned All-New England honors and was named the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Sportsman of the Year.
"She is one of the most positive, happy people you'll ever meet, and she's part of what makes college sailing fun," says Crimson head coach Mike O'Connor. "It's a matter of the manner in which she conducts herself every minute of her life. When she gets out of a van and walks into a facility for a regatta, everybody smiles."
The award takes into account the consistent show of sportsmanship across a season. Competing at a high level on the race course and starting for a successful Harvard squad, Powers had many opportunities to display great sportsmanship. The Wellesley, Mass., native was a continual uplifting force for teammates and competitors.
Powers was not in attendance for the awards ceremony but received a standing ovation. Adam Werblow, head coach of St. Mary's and chairman of the ICSA awards committee, told the crowd, "As anybody who has ever hosted Liz for a regatta, anybody who's ever sailed against her, anybody who's ever coached against her, anybody who's ever had anything to do with Liz Powers can attest, Liz is a deserving recipient."
Palmer completed an outstanding season by leading the Crimson to its highest national coed dinghy finish since 2003 and its first podium appearance since 2006. He sailed Harvard to a third-place finish in the A division in the championship regatta.
The Yarmouth, Maine native was previously named a second-team All-New England skipper. He and crew Meghan Wareham paced Harvard with a fourth-place finish in the A division at the ICSA semis, winning three races. They finished fifth in the A division at the New England Coed Dinghy Championship.
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John T. McGrath
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Fire Chief John T. McGrath was appointed on February 1, 2006. He is the third chief hired from outside the Raleigh Fire Department. He served 32 years in the Philadelphia, Pa. Fire Department and retired as the Operations Chief.
He attended LaSalle University (Philadelphia, Pa.) and received a Bachelor of Science degree in management and accounting. He's a graduate of the Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government's "Senior Executives in State and Local Government" program. He is a graduate of the National Fire Academy's "Executive Fire Officer" program and he is also a graduate of the University of North Carolina's Institute of Government "Municipal Administration" program.
Chief McGrath has been associated with the National Fallen Fire fighters Foundation since 1998 and he has served as the incident commander of the annual Memorial Weekend since 2002.


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The organizers of Computex Taipei 2008 boasted big growth on Wednesday that could someday make the computer and electronics show the biggest in the world.
Orders for computer and communications hardware placed at the event, which runs from June 3-7 in Taiwan, are expected to rise to US$20 billion from $15 billion last year, and the space for companies to show off their wares has soared by 53 percent to 4,482 booths, organizers said, from 2,926 last year.
They estimate that sales related to the show but made later in the year will be around $50 billion.
Computex already ranks among the top five electronics shows in the world. But expanding to another exhibition hall near Taipei gave organizers more room for companies that have been begging for added booth area. Despite the new space, some companies were still left out.
"There is still a waiting list to get into Computex," said Walter Yeh, executive vice president at the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), co-organizer of the event.
Computex show space will be at two locations this year, with exhibition halls at the World Trade Center in the capital of Taipei, and Nangang.
The organizers have set up free shuttle buses to ferry people back and forth between the exhibition halls, and project the average ride will be 30 minutes, based on the time it has taken during other major shows held concurrently at both areas.
The show will highlight a few product categories this year, including environmentally-friendly computer hardware and devices able to connect to the Internet wirelessly via WiMax, organizers said.
Low-cost laptop PCs, rivals to Asustek's popular Eee PC, will feature prominently. "As far as we know, every major vendor will announce their own kind of this product at Computex," said Li Chang, deputy secretary general for the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), the other organizer of the event.
Taiwanese companies will be the main exhibitors at Computex, as usual, followed by vendors from the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea.
China will figure more prominently this year, due to a creative solution to the naming of the show.
Literature aimed at China calls Computex a "Cross-Strait Exhibition" instead of an "International Exhibition," careful wording aimed at avoiding political problems with China, which claims Taiwan as a province.
"China is also a very important market, a booming market," said Yeh.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 amid civil war, and China has vowed to use force if necessary to take the island back.


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MILPITAS, CA, August 18, 2010 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, announced today its intention to commence an underwritten public offering, subject to market and other conditions, of $1.0 billion principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due in 2017 pursuant to an effective registration statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, the Company expects to grant the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional $150 million principal amount of notes from the Company to cover overallotments.
The Company currently intends to use the net proceeds of the offering for general corporate purposes, including (1) the repayment at maturity or repurchase, from time to time, of a portion of its outstanding $1.15 billion aggregate principal amount of senior convertible notes originally issued in 2006, which bear interest at a rate of 1% per annum and mature on May 15, 2013; (2) capital expenditures for new and existing manufacturing facilities; (3) development of new technologies; (4) general working capital; and (5) other non-manufacturing capital expenditures. The net proceeds may also be used to fund strategic investments or acquisitions of products, technologies or complementary businesses or to obtain the right or license to use additional technologies. The Company currently has no such commitments or agreements for any specific acquisitions, investments or licenses. In addition, the Company intends to use a portion of the net proceeds of the offering to fund the cost to it of the privately negotiated convertible note hedge transactions (after taking into account the proceeds to it from warrant transactions) that the Company intends to enter into with one or more dealers, each of whom may be an affiliate of an underwriter in the offering. The Company also intends to enter into separate warrant transactions with such dealers or their affiliates, and anticipates that the warrants will have an exercise price that is up to approximately 75% higher than the closing price of the Company's common stock on the date the warrants are issued. These convertible note hedge transactions and warrant transactions are expected to reduce the potential dilution with respect to the Company's common stock upon conversion of the notes; however, the warrant transactions will have a dilutive effect with respect to the Company's common stock to the extent that the market price per share of the Company's common stock exceeds the strike price of the warrants.
In connection with hedging these transactions, such dealers or their affiliates expect to enter into various derivatives transactions and engage in other activities that could have the effect of increasing or preventing a decline in the price of the Company's common stock in connection with the pricing of the note offering. These activities may be discontinued at any time. In addition, in connection with any conversion of the notes, the dealers or their respective affiliates may enter into derivative transactions and engage in other activities that could adversely impact the price of the Company's common stock and of the notes.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and Goldman, Sachs & Co. are the joint book running managers for the offering.
A preliminary prospectus supplement related to the offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Printed copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering may also be obtained from Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014 (telephone no. 212-761-6775) and Goldman, Sachs & Co., Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282 (telephone no. 212-902-1171, facsimile: 212-902-9316, email: firstname.lastname@example.com).
The Company has filed a registration statement (File No. 333-157078) (including a prospectus and prospectus supplement) with the SEC for the offering. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and prospectus supplement to that registration statement and other documents the Company has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and the offering. You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov.
SanDisk will provide a live webcast of a management presentation on Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 8:00 A.M., Pacific Daylight Time. Interested parties can access the webcast for the duration of the presentation, which is expected to be approximately one hour, at
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the Company's intent to offer the notes, enter into related transactions and intended use of proceeds from the offering that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others:
We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards, from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.
SanDisk and the SanDisk logo and are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s).
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When Ithaca first admitted physical education students, in 1917, we helped pioneer the training of professional educators in the field. Expanded to offer training in health education as well, our program has long been recognized for the quality of its graduates.
The Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education's master of science degree program in health education is designed for individuals with an undergraduate degree and initial teaching certification in health education or a closely related field. After completing the program you'll be eligible for New York State professional certification.
For individuals who hold a teaching certificate in health education, the master's program requires just 30 credit hours of graduate coursework, usually taken over two semesters and one summer. In order to let you to match your program of study to your professional interests and career aspirations, our program offers either a thesis or non-thesis option. For both options the curriculum includes classes on topics such as research methods and epidemiological approaches to disease prevention, teaching and learning in the school and community, and models and theories of health education.
Health Education welcomes students with non-teacher certification. All students, both teacher ed and non-teacher ed, are eligible to take the national certified health education specialist (CHES) exam and practice as community health educators.
In keeping with the College's mission, we keep our class size small, which ensures you'll have opportunities to work closely with faculty and assist in teaching and research. You'll be well prepared for the career opportunities that await you, including
school health education teacher
community health educator
college or university educator
school or community prevention specialist
school district health/physical education coordinator
state or local advocate for health prevention and promotion efforts


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Do you know the name Aaron Tveit? No? Well you should. Get on the Aaron Tveit bandwagon now so you can be a total Tveit hipster when your friends eventually catch on.
Chances are, you've probably seen Aaron in action — he had a recurring role on 'Gossip Girl,' where he starred in 10 episodes as Tripp Vanderbilt (holy crap that name), and he's had small roles in films like 'Ghost Town' and 'Howl' with James Franco.
Tveit got his start in the theater biz with parts in 'Rent' and 'Hairspray' before hitting it big by playing Leonardo DiCaprio's role in the stage version of 'Catch Me If You Can' (oh we will, Aaron Tveit — we will).
It was that seasoned theater experience that landed him a role in the Academy Award-nominated 'Les Miserables' last year as Enjolras (holy crap THAT name), a soldier and a damn fine showman.
Now the up-and-coming actor has a new TV show to call his own this year: 'Graceland,' in which he stars as Mike Warren, one of several government agency workers forced to live in a California beach house together. So basically it's like 'The Real World,' but if everyone worked for the DEA, the FBI, and U.S. Customs. You know those Customs fools will be the ones complaining about people stealing their wine coolers.


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Dear [Mr. Zero],
I am sorry to inform you that the Junior Appointments Committee has decided not to pursue your candidacy further at this point. We received nearly two hundred responses to our advertisement, including a great many from highly talented and accomplished applicants. Obviously there are many different considerations on which our decisions are based, and I hope you will appreciate that I cannot go into specifics about individual cases. We will keep your dossier on file until next year, when we shall probably be advertising a junior position again.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to consider your credentials, and let me wish you the best of luck in your job search.
Sincerely yours,
John McDowell
Or this one, from UChicago, which I received in the spring of '08:
Thank you very much for your application to our advertised position. After a long and careful process, I regret to say that we are not furthering your candidacy. I wish you the very best in your further endeavors, and look forward to many years as colleagues in our common profession.
"Yours very warmly, ...
In comments here, Zombie mentions another, from UDelaware, that isn't bad:
Dear applicant,
Thank you very much for applying for the position of assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Delaware. I am sorry to have to tell you that we are only able to interview twelve of the four hundred candidates who applied and you were not among those selected.
I hope you will excuse the impersonal nature of this email and accept our best wishes for success in your search of a suitable position.
Search Committee Chair
--Mr. Zero


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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A Cleveland man has pleaded not guilty to holding three women captive in his home for a decade and raping them.
Fifty-two-year-old Ariel Castro was arraigned Wednesday on an indictment charging him with murder, kidnapping and rape in more than 300 counts.
The murder charge involves Castro's allegedly starving and punching a pregnant woman in captivity until she miscarried.
A Cuyahoga County grand jury returned the indictment Friday against the former Cleveland school bus driver, who was fired last fall.
His $8 million dollar bond was continued.
(Copyright 2013, The Associated Press)


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Crowdfunding Sites Get Scrutiny
Regulators are scrutinizing about 200 websites set up by entrepreneurs to profit from a more lenient law on the sale of shares in small companies. Rick Brooks joins digits. Photo: Kickstarter.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Those who have read Frank Miller's Sin City series have known that there would be a slight hiccup when it came to casting Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, namely the part of Manute. In Robert Rodriguez's 2005 film the character was played by Michael Clarke Duncan, but the Oscar nominated actor sadly died earlier this year. Given that Manute has a big role in the sequel's titular story Rodriguez has to find a replacement actor for the part, and today it seems he has found his man.
Dennis Haysbert, best known for playing President David Palmer on the hit television series 24 and voodoo powered slugger Pedro Cerrano in Major League, will play the vacant role in Rodriguez's new movie, according to THR. He is actually not the first actor to replace a performer from the first movie, as it was previously announced that Jamie Chung will take over for Devon Aoki as the dangerous Miho. That said, many of the original's heavy hitters - including Mickey Rourke (Marv), Jessica Alba (Nancy), Jaime King (Goldie), and Rosario Dawson (Gail) - will be back and playing their parts.
Regarding Haysbert's casting, Rodriguez and Miller said in a joint statement, "Manute is a character that has been part of the heart of the Sin City tales and the late Michael Clarke Duncan beautifully established that role on screen. We could not tell the story of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For without Manute and are thrilled to welcome Dennis Haysbert to the cast."
What remains a mystery is the identity of the actors who will play the film's two leads. In A Dame To Kill For, Dwight (played by Clive Owen in Sin City) finds himself drawn back into a relationship with his femme fatale ex, a woman named Ava. The character of Dwight underwent massive facial reconstruction in between the events of A Dame To Kill For and The Big Fat Kill (the story that played out in the first movie) so it's possible that Rodriguez could find a new person for the part (with perhaps a cool cameo by Owen at the end).
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For will be released on October 4, 2013.


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After a stream of choppy home-building data for recent months, investors cheered a surprisingly strong earnings report released Wednesday by one of the country's largest builders and traded up KB Home shares 7% by late morning.
The report signaled that the all-important spring selling season for the building industry might get off to a "reasonable start" after an unusually harsh winter, one analyst said.
KB Home, a Los Angeles-based builder, said net orders in its first fiscal quarter, which ended Feb. 28, rose 6% from the year-earlier period, while the value of orders jumped 18%. Those trends were "decent," said Jack Micenko, a housing analyst with Susquehanna Financial Group.
Elsewhere, Robert Wetenhall, managing director at RBC Capital Markets, wrote in a research note: "Management is optimistic and believes that the company is well positioned to capitalize on the spring selling season given its substantial investment in inventory."
KB Home recorded a first-quarter profit for the first time since 2007 as it cranked up prices across its sales regions. The company's chief executive said he is confident heading into the spring season.
"Our balanced approach to sales price and pace, combined with our focus on both top-line growth and profitability, will produce strong results in the coming quarters," Chief Executive Jeffrey Mezger said in a statement.
Some builders have reported that rapidly rising prices are cutting sales volume. In its first-quarter report, KB Home said the number of homes delivered on the west coast fell from the year-earlier period, but rose in its other sales regions. Meanwhile, the unit volume of net orders fell on the west coast and in the Southwest, but rose in central and Southeast regions.
Thanks to demand and limited inventory, KB Home was able to increase prices across its sales regions. On the west coast, the average sales price for the first quarter hit $525,200, up 30% from the year-earlier period. Elsewhere, prices rose 26% to $286,400 in the Southwest, 16% to $256,300 in the Southeast, and 13% to $210,400 in the central region.
Builders have faced a number of challenges in recent months. There's been unseasonably harsh weather, and some prospective buyers are scaling down purchase plans as mortgage rates and home prices rise. Government data released Tuesday showed that the pace of new-home construction declined last month, as did the rate of permits filed to start building new single-family homes.
However, projects that have been delayed by a tough winter could show up in coming months, economists say.
--Ruth Mantell
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OS2::Process - exports constants for system() call on OS2.
use OS2::Process;
$pid = system(P_PM+P_BACKGROUND, "epm.exe");
the builtin function system() under OS/2 allows an optional first argument which denotes the mode of the process. Note that this argument is recognized only if it is strictly numerical.
You can use either one of the process modes:
P_WAIT (0) = wait until child terminates (default)
P_NOWAIT = do not wait until child terminates
P_SESSION = new session
P_DETACH = detached
P_PM = PM program
and optionally add PM and session option bits:
P_DEFAULT (0) = default
P_MINIMIZE = minimized
P_MAXIMIZE = maximized
P_FULLSCREEN = fullscreen (session only)
P_WINDOWED = windowed (session only)
P_FOREGROUND = foreground (if running in foreground)
P_BACKGROUND = background
P_NOCLOSE = don't close window on exit (session only)
P_QUOTE = quote all arguments
P_TILDE = MKS argument passing convention
P_UNRELATED = do not kill child when father terminates
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spawn*() system calls.