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A civil liberties group asked the Organization of American States' human rights commission Tuesday to investigate the U.S. government for what it says are violations of the rights of convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla.
The American Civil Liberties Union says the U.S. violated Padilla's rights when it labeled him an "enemy combatant" a decade ago and subjected him to interrogation that amounted to torture, including sleep and sensory deprivation in solitary confinement.
The watchdog legal group told The Associated Press it had filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which serves as the human-rights investigation arm of the Washington-based OAS.
The U.S. has argued in the past that it is not bound by the commission and views its findings as "only recommendations that the United States can ignore or it can follow," according to Steven Watt, the ACLU lawyer who filed the petition. But the findings could still prove awkward for the U.S., which sees itself as a leader on human rights and is quick to criticize other countries it views as falling short on that front.
"My experience is that there is some moral suasion and the U.S. supports the commission ... and cooperates with the commission's inquiries," said Roger Noriega, a former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States who is now a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think tank.
But Noriega said the United States is not party to the treaty establishing the commission's authority "and there can be no argument that we are legally bound by the Court's decisions."
Jamil Dakwar, the ACLU's human rights program director, said this is the first-ever petition to be filed to the OAS commission by an American citizen against the U.S. government alleging torture and abuse.
It asks the OAS body to recommend that the United States publicly acknowledge the violations and apologize for its unlawful conduct.
The OAS promotes cooperation among the 35 independent countries of the Americas.
State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson referred queries to the Justice Department. Officials at Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday and Tuesday.
Among the allegations in the ACLU's petition are that:
—Padilla's interrogation included "painful stress positions, sleep deprivation and sensory deprivation, which caused him severe physical and psychological trauma that persists to this day." It characterized these as "physical and psychological torture and abuse."
—Padilla was denied contact with his lawyers or family during interrogation.
—He was not allowed to practice his religion, Islam. The copy of the Quran he was initially allowed was confiscated.
—His mental state deteriorated so badly that he often refused to meet with lawyers or his family, fearing that would result in his return to military custody.
The ACLU said it filed the petition on behalf of Padilla and his mother Estela Lebron, contending her rights were also violated when she was not allowed to communicate with or visit her son for years. It said her health has suffered as a result.
Padilla, now 42, a one-time Chicago gang member and car thief, converted to Islam and had lived in Egypt for four years prior to his arrest. He was detained in 2002 in Chicago when he flew back to visit his mother. He was designated an "enemy combatant" — a status applied by the administration of President George W. Bush to al-Qaida and Taliban terror suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. It meant that he was placed in military custody and denied access to the U.S. civilian justice system.
Padilla was initially held as a "material witness" to the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Authorities at the time said he was on a terrorist mission to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major U.S. city, but he was held at the Navy brig in South Carolina for more than three years without being charged. Padilla eventually was added to an existing terrorism indictment, and was convicted in U.S. federal court in 2007 of supporting terrorism in Kosovo, Bosnia and Chechnya, and is serving a 17-year sentence.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights can undertake investigations of complaints, and in the past has probed massacres in Peru, Colombia and Guatemala. It can also issue "precautionary orders" to ask for the protection of the rights of people in cases under review, and has done so in the case of several Guantanamo detainees who were not U.S. citizens.
Watt said the OAS commission would probably give the U.S. government about six months to prepare a response, reflecting the legal complexity of the case, which churned through U.S. courts for 10 years and reached the U.S. Supreme Court twice.
The ACLU's filing says those initial accusations against Padilla, according to a sworn U.S. declaration, were based on statements "made by two unnamed suspected terrorists who had been detained and interrogated outside of the United States," one of whom later recanted and the other who had been drugged during interrogation.
In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Padilla's case against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials in which he claimed he was being held illegally and denied due process. The high court ruled he should have taken the case to a federal court in South Carolina and that the brig commander should have been the target of the case. In June of this year, the Supreme Court declined to hear another appeal of the case.
In September, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Padilla's original 17-year sentence was too lenient for a trained al-Qaida operative who also had a long criminal record as a Chicago gang member. The appellate court granted a request by the Justice Department that Padilla be resentenced. Padilla, according to trial testimony, trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan.
Last month, Padilla's resentencing was postponed until Jan. 29 by a federal judge after his defense attorney, Michael Caruso, argued his client is deteriorating psychologically after years of isolation and needs more time for family visits.
Caruso called the harsh prison conditions akin to torture, which was rejected by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Frazier. "He is not in some black hole of Calcutta," Frazier said.
Counting time off for good behavior, Padilla's current prison release date is Jan. 4, 2022.


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Lake-Sumter Community College has been thoroughly spanked.
Two years ago, the college refused to admit as a dual-enrollment student a then-12-year-old Center Hill girl who was more than academically qualified to study at the two-year community college.
Instead of enthusiastically embracing Anastasia Megan, a brilliant young woman home-schooled by her parents, college administrators took the most backward stance imaginable and fought to keep her out.
Each time they put up a roadblock, Annie's parents dashed it aside. Then the college would create another "problem," ranging from administrators' angst about her social maturity to fears that she wouldn't be safe on campus. At first, they didn't want her attending without a parent. Then they didn't want her attending
Sometimes it seems as if Lake County is competing for a trophy — Most Bush-League Performance by an Educator. If so, we win first place.
However, two people in this scenario — Annie's parents — kept their eye on the goal: the best possible education for the student. Forget the parochial twaddle.
The result is that LSCC today is open to any dual-enrollment student who can meet the academic standards, regardless of age.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in Atlanta, to whom Annie's family complained, recently closed the matter after LSCC eliminated its age requirement, trained employees to stop discriminating and offered Annie a chance to apply.
This is how it should have been in the first place.
Annie, one of a set of triplets, was just finishing her high-school studies in 2010 when she applied to LSCC. Clearly, at 12, she was too young to live alone at college away from her family. At the time, Annie scored a 98 in reading and a 97 in sentence skills on college-placement tests for which passing is 83.
However, by the time LSCC offered to consider Annie in July 2011, it was clear that her course of study already had outstripped what the community college could provide.
Starting in August, Annie, now 14, and another of the triplets, her brother Zigmund, will attend Queens University in Ontario, Canada. She was among 300 successful applicants to the college of business and commerce from a field of 5,000.
"We're delighted, and Annie is beside herself — she's euphoric," said her father, John Megan.
Annie's brother is entering the university's engineering school (Annie's second choice), and the third triplet, Elizabeth, is enrolled in a high-school International Baccalaureate program.
The Megan family has done a real service for other super-smart local kids, and it deserves the community's thanks.
More important, such a ruling by the Office for Civil Rights is likely to have an effect on community colleges statewide. It's all about access in community colleges, and that's the way it ought to be.
The Megan family neither asked for nor received a nickel in damages. The Megans didn't hire a lawyer.
LSCC, however, spent about $12,000 on attorney fees fighting to discriminate against a kid whose achievements were remarkable.
College President Charles Mojock said all students now will be admitted if they meet academic requirements. He said the school will consult with parents about whether the student is mature enough to navigate the campus alone or may need an older "buddy" assigned.
That was easily solved, wasn't it?
Asked why the college ever would fight to keep any student out, Mojock said: "That was then, and this is now. We live and learn too."
The college — and the students who live here — can only benefit by administrators actively seeking the very best of students, regardless of their age. They ought to be trolling the Advanced Placement classes and encouraging those students to dual-enroll.
John Megan said he's pleased with the outcome: "For anyone who has a young hot runner, dual enrollment now is open to them. There are other Annies out there, and I'd like to see them have a chance to go."
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Return of "Ask Philippa"!
"Everybody has some choice, mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between ragpicking and flowerselling, according to her taste. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
Here speaks Vivie in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession, a play about a young woman who gets know the mother who has always been a stranger to her and who, in the process, reveals aspects of her mother in herself.
Have you seen our production of Mrs. Warren's Profession? Do you have questions or comments about the production's themes, creative choices, or anything else? Please leave them in the comments, and I'll be sure to respond.
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Hello Philippa,
I enjoyed your "Grove Talk" Tuesday night, you really helped me get some insight before viewing "Mrs. Warren's Profession". I was wondering if you could give me the source of this productions very first review, I remember you quoting something from the review. I'm writing an essay about this production for my drama class and I wanted to compare and contrast the first review from that time era with a recent review. Thank you very much for your time! -Brittaniy
- July 22, 2010 at 6:43 PM
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- July 22, 2010 at 11:08 PM
- Philippa said...
Hello Deeman,
What does a dramaturg do? Well, it depends on what the director wants, so each show is different. For instance, I wasn't assigned as the official dramaturg for Mrs Warren's Profession, as I was finishing my book in order to ship it off to the press on June 30th. But I ended up having a lot to do with the production anyway, as I loved talking with Timothy and sifting ideas with her in the early stages of rehearsal. She would email or phone and ask questions about what, for example, the word, 'character' means in the play; or about the use of the sun dial - things like this.I also did up a gloassary for the actors.
With other plays - for example, the Macbeth show that has just started in rehearsal - I do the whole gamut. I write a lengthy actors' packet; I have talks with the director (the brilliant Joel Sass) on the phone about ideas; I help prepare the text, suggesting cuts or suggesting inconsistencies in
the director's suggested adaptation (and we liased a lot with our fabulous voice coach, Lynne Soffer, on this); I attend rehearsals. And for all of the shows, whether I dramaturg them or not, I provide much of the dramaturgy material you read in the program. Laura Hope shares the program writing with me - she is the ex-resident dramaturg (who now lives in New Orleans but who came back to work on Pastures of Heaven as its dramaturg. And then, as you know, I also host all of the talk-backs, and I also join in many of the Inside Scoops.
So... this is what I do as a dramaturg. Thanks for your interest.
- July 23, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- Philippa said...
Hello Brittaniy,
The review I quoted was by an anonymous reviewer (they all were then), from the New York Herald in 1905. It reviewed Mrs Warren's Profession at the Garrick Theatre. The review runs as follows:
'… the play is morally rotten. It makes no difference that some of the lines may have been omitted and others toned down; there was superabundance of foulness left. The whole story of the play, the atmosphere surrounding it, the incidents, the personalities of the characters are wholly immoral and degenerate. The only way to successfully expurgate Mrs. Warren's Profession is to cut the whole play out. You cannot have a clean pig stye. The play is an insult to decency because
It defends immprality
It glorifies debauchery
It besmirches the sacredness of a clergyman's calling.
It pictures children and parents living in calm observance of most unholy relations….If New York's sense of shame is not aroused to hot indignation at this theatrical insult, it is indeed a sad plight.'
- July 23, 2010 at 1:47 PM
Thank you very much for taking that time to reply promptly, it's very helpful! I hope i will be able to come and see more of you and Cal. Shakes. soon! :) -Brittaniy
- July 23, 2010 at 4:31 PM
- Alan said...
Had I jumped into the fray at Sunday's talkback, I would have asked this: What WERE the two words that Vivie wrote, but would not say aloud, to describe her mother's profession to the two gents?
Alan in Walnut Creek
- July 26, 2010 at 4:39 PM
- Philippa said...
Dear Alan,
We don't find out what the two words are - but they would be something like 'Brothel Manager' or 'Brothel Madam'
- July 27, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Philippa, I'm hoping you can share this comment with the director and cast. I went to the Saturday afternoon show. Between Shaw's wonderful writing and the cast's terrific interpretation, seeing it with my soon-to-be in college daughter was a powerful experience to say the least. So there I was, sitting, devastated by the ending, needing terribly to think about what had just happened between the onstage mother and daughter, and whether it had to happen that way, going so fast from arm and arm and joyfully at peace with each other to the opposite. And suddenly, it was over and we were supposed to clap. Well, I did, some, but it was the last thing I wanted to do at that point.
Have you ever heard music so wonderful that when it's over, you just want the silence to go on for a minute or two to help with the transition? It was like that. So there I was, glued to my seat, clapping sort of pathetically, wanting to be quiet, and at the same time thinking, we all should be standing up and roaring our ovation but I just couldn't.
So that's what I want the cast and director to know, dear dramaturg. There is a response even better than a standing ovation and the play you all created together got me there. Thanks to all.
- August 2, 2010 at 3:14 PM
Hi Phillipa
Last night was my first ever Grove Talk after years of attending CalShakes and I loved it. You were right: this production of Macbeth is fantastic! Could you please send me the actors packet you've mentioned? I'd love to read it. My e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks! Mariana
- August 19, 2010 at 3:56 PM
- Philippa said...
Thank you for your lovely response, Mariana. I've sent the actor packet to your email address.
- August 19, 2010 at 5:52 PM
Hello Philippa --
Thank you so much for a wonderful introductory talk before last night's preview of Macbeth. I was extremely impressed with the concept and creative vision of the show -- all of the production elements really harmonized beautifully. Very cinematic, film noir-ish -- a true visual feast. And a very interesting and well-executed choice to defer Macbeth's "tomorrow" speech and to share it with Lady Macbeth -- a brilliant, terrifying and unforgettable epilogue. Strong acting all around -- and I found Craig Marker's performance especially moving, having previously enjoyed him in both Macbeth (title role) and Equivocation. Hope to see more of him at Cal Shakes.
Thank you for all the high-quality writing and speaking you do for Cal Shakes -- we are very lucky to have you!
Best regards,
Rachel Kayhan
- August 20, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Philippa said...
Dear Rachel,
What a beautiful comment! Thank you so much for sharing this with our blog.
best wishes, and see you soon.
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I'm a bit of a cereal nut. Growing up, we were limited to healthy cereals (and when we were really, really good, an occasional box of Peanut Butter Crunch). This meant we ate regular ol' Cheerios quite regularly. And after a short phase of sugar cereal binges during my freshman year of college, I returned to my love of plain Cheerios with milk or a sprinkling of sliced banana mixed throughout.
I get excited when I see new cereals. But I got really excited when I saw both of these new cereals in particular - Dulce de Leche Cheerios and Peanut Butter Cheerios. Why? Let's see. We mix my love of Cheerios with my love of dulce de leche (which I originally experienced in Argentina) and peanut butter, and you get a terrible bit of excitement. And cereal is just one of those awesome things - eat it any time of day, no cooking required, and the crunching is a stress reliever : ).
I love the original Multi-Grain Cheerios. They have the perfect hit of sweetness that accentuates the grains. No, really. Those be curvy grains. I wonder why Cheerios didn't start with a blank slate of plain Cheerios? I want to like the peanut butter flavor but there is no real punch of flavor to set them apart from anything else. Better in a cereal bowl than as a snack, the Cheerios don't have quite enough "oomph" in the peanut butter department. Honestly, if you're jonesing for some peanut butter cereal - just go have a bowl of Peanut Butter Crunch. The one advantage that these have over PBC is that they will not wreck the roof of your mouth.
|Lackluster Dulce de Leche Cheerios
And the Dulce de Leche? Frankly, my first bowl left me quite disappointed. The flavor seemed overly artificial (which is funny as they are "naturally flavored"). I don't even want a second bowl and cereal is a regular part of this gal's diet. I suppose I expected with both flavors, that rather than having the new additions mixed into the actual cereal batter, that they would instead have a light coating on the outside - like a glaze. I found both (although DdL especially) to not be dense enough in the texture. I wanted to hear and feel a more audible "crunch" when biting down. There seemed to be more aeration in each cute little circle than I am accustomed to in my other favorite flavored Cheerio (Honey Nut). My positive discovery after the fact was that while I did not enjoy these with milk, they were far better as a straight snack, no milk necessary.
But this brings me to what I would recommend to my friends. If given the choice to take 'em or leave 'em, I'd leave 'em. No ifs, ands or buts.


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I am now the proud owner of an EMachines E350 netbook. Well, proud is probably overstating it. It's about the same spec as most of the other netbooks out there and it was cheap.
This particular model boasts 1GB RAM, a 160GB HDD, and an Intel Atom N450 processor.
It also comes with Windows 7 Starter as the OS. Hmmm, not sure about that last bit.
My purpose in obtaining this machine is to replace the venerable Laptop I've been carting around on the train for the last several months. Like the Emachines, it also has 1GB RAM. Unlike the netbook, it's running Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS.
So, all I need to do now is to wipe away Windows and install Ubuntu. Oh, and make sure the wireless network card still works ( which has often been a problem with this kind of exercise).
So, what follows is the steps taken to install and configure Ubuntu on my netbook, with all the mistakes and associated cursing removed so I can pretend I really do know what I'm doing.
If you want to follow along, you will need :
- a machine to experiment on ( or your new netbook)
- a machine running Ubuntu already
- a wired network connection
- a USB stick with at least 2GB capacity
- a bit of time (such as a Bank Holiday)
By the way, I'm going to ruin the suspense here and say that I've typed this on and posted it from the netbook in question, using OpenOffice Writer and a wireless connection. You can probably tell by the fact the typing is a bit slower and there are probably some amusing spelling mistakes. I put this down to getting used to the new keyboard.
A word of warning here – apart from the wireless card, I'm really not too bothered about the other peripherals on this machine. So, I'm not worried about the web cam, for example and have not covered this here. Continue reading


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Norton, MA – MIT's women's swimming team continue its unbeaten season on Thursday night by picking up a 205-94 road victory at Wheaton College. The women's team won 12 of the 16 events and took two or three of the top spots in several of them.
As usual, MIT's 200 yard medley 'A' team started off the meet with a victory. Christy Rogers, Calley Murphy, Anna Kokensparger and Elina Hu beat out the Lyon's 'A' squad with a time of 1:49.70.
In event 3, Engineer freshman Sarah Weiss won the 1000 yard free in 11:09.79. Wheaton won two of the next three events, but Rogers took the 100 yard back in 1:01.56 for MIT, Katelyn Rossick won the 200 yard fly in 2:15.53, and Kokensparger sprinted to victory in a 24.08 second 50 yard freestyle.
Kokensparger also won the 100 yard freestyle (53.24), while Rogers and Rossick took first and second, respectively, in the 200 yard backstroke. Alexandra Hall captured the 500 yard freestyle for Tech in 5:16.86, with Weiss grabbing second place points.
MIT took the top three spots in the 100 yard butterfly, with the victory going to freshman Joanna Yeh (1:00.53). The Engineers also grabbed the top three places in the 200 yard IM, led by Kokensparger (2:13.64), Rossick (2:14.94) and junior Allison Alwan (2:23.40).
In diving competition, Beth Stavely and Elise Stave went 1-2 on both the one meter and three meter boards. Stavely, a senior, scored 251.17in 1 meter competition and 264.53 in 3 meter, while the sophomore Stave scored 197.85 and 217.12, respectively.
The women will be back in the pool next Saturday afternoon when they travel to Colby College for a 1 PM meet.


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New Spring Catalog: Samurai GirlsPost Reply
Who else thought Samurai Bride was a new series? I never knew it had a previous season.
ohh well, license owners realy like to trown money down the toilet...
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Good to see that CR got Samurai Girls. Good on agila61 for predicting it. Of course, I also had an inkling too in the Spring 2013 anime thread when Samurai Bride got annouced.
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CR just got Samurai Bride
For US and Canada
Starting tomorrow April 5 at 7 pm pacific
From those regional restrictions, It looks like Crunchyroll also get Samurai Girls as a catalog title (Phi Brain had a very similar situation there).
EDIT: A 12-hour delay? Ouch.
And for the record, since there will be complaints, both season were licensed by Kaze in the UK so they had no rights to get. as Kaze doesn't share UK rights with Crunchyroll. I forget who has the Australian rights, but yeah.
I watched the first episode of the new season, and from that realized it was a sequel. After that, I do want to watch the show, and this enables me to, but ... if censorship is prevalent, I guess I'll default to some effeminate crying and frail running away ... to my queue that is already plenty saturated.
There is only one anime left to announced
One piece challenge - Rewatching 532/856+
pistolsaf wrote: Good to see that CR got Samurai Girls. Good on agila61 for predicting it. Of course, I also had an inkling too in the Spring 2013 anime thread when Samurai Bride got annouced.
As I said in the comments to the news story:
Woot! Called it! (obviously not the only or anything like the first to call it )
pistolsaf wrote: And for the record, since there will be complaints, both season were licensed by Kaze in the UK so they had no rights to get. as Kaze doesn't share UK rights with Crunchyroll. I forget who has the Australian rights, but yeah.
Madman has the Ozzie rights ~ both distribution and streaming (Madman Screening Room). And, yeah, Madman doesn't share Ozzie rights with Crunchyroll (at least, not as of yet ~ maybe one day Ozzie Crunchyroll members will direct their complaints to Madman and get some movement on that front).
So for the normal regions for a Sentai license, its Scandinavia and South Africa that got blocked out.
Mastergold wrote: There is only one anime left to announced
Two: there were three open catalog boxes after Uta No Prince Sama 1 was announced, this accounts for one of the three.
8 years as a premium member, but no more
Wait a minute, you bolded plot in a sort of ironic way as if you aren't planning to watch this series for the plot at all!
But-but, I'M totally planning to watch this entire series for the plot. I don't know that much about it, but the reviews I skimmed seem to indicate a good plot and the part of the first episode I saw on Hulu had great use of film-grain effects and artistic Street Fighter IV-style ink splashes flying around.
Plus that little girl in the picture looks really cute, like the kind of kid that you vicariously want to have as your daughter. Except if I had one, I'd encourage her to wear pants and stuff.
This--is in my physical backlog. It's nice this was added, but I'll be passing since I already bought the show. Now one of these days I need to get around to WATCHING it!
My backlog...
Thank you Crunchyroll for putting the first season uncensored.
I already have the blu ray of the series but it's nice to know that you guys have the uncensored streaming
Damn, I just finished watching it today. Was looking for it here but couldn't find it.
I tried so hard to get into this show. It honestly seems like something I'd really enjoy but the art style is just too much for me. I heard that Samurai bride isn't as heavy with the ink stroke type things so I'll probably give it a shot though.
i been wanting to watch samurai bride but didn't want to start with out watching the first season. great pick CR
It has such a sexy plot that some of the english voice actors were listed by some funny aliases in the credits
Mina Jetoi (sounds like the French word for threesome)
Eileen Dover (I leaned....)
Ophelia Cox (well, you can figure this one out yourselves)
Although you already received a reply, it is worth pointing out again for those that don't read earlier messages that yes, it is uncensored.
I checked again to be certain and TAN's subtitled version is still the censored one they originally received as a simulcast, which is also true of the episodes at Hulu. That makes CR the only place to legally watch a subtitled uncensored version online.
Yes, that's my real age
Yeah, great add to the catalog, CR. Thanks!


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Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan surprised Koreans with a contrite apology Tuesday for an entire era of Japanese colonial rule that began a century ago this month and did not end until the Japanese surrender on August 15, 1945, ending World War II.
The "deep remorse" and "heartfelt apology" offered by Mr. Kan, however, is not likely to have a significant effect on a society accustomed to Japanese apologies in recent years and doubtful about Japan's intention to ever compensate for forcing more than 1 million Koreans to work in Japan as slave laborers and thousands of Korean women to serve as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers.
"To me it's not inspiring or impressive," says Park Ho-chan, who works in an office in central Seoul. "It's a total cliche from one of those politicians."
Yet the apology resonates among conservative Korean leaders at a time when they are deeply concerned about confrontation with North Korea, which is strongly allied with China. Kan followed the apology with a 20-minute telephone conversation with South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak in which Mr. Lee seemed impressed by "the sincerity" of the apology and called for "wise and sincere" cooperation.
Where is the compensation?
Those honeyed words, though, were not likely to satisfy those who have been highly critical of some of the failure of Japan to agree to compensation for the suffering of millions of Koreans under Japanese rule, which grew steadily more harsh as Japan was suffering defeat after defeat in the final period of World War II.
Lee Guk-eon, speaking for the elderly women who protest every week outside the Japanese embassy here for having been forced into sexual slavery during the war, criticized Kan for avoiding the issue of compensation for them. Kan's promise to return invaluable records of the Chosun Dynasty that ruled Korea for 600 years until the Japanese colonial era hardly compensates, he says, for that omission.
Nor did the statement mention other contentious issues, ranging from the wording of Japanese textbooks that Koreans say glosses over Japan's aggression over much of Asia to the question of who really has rights to an outcropping of rock midway between the Korean peninsula and Japan. Korean police control what the Koreans call Dokdo and the Japanese call Takeshima.
Kan's statement, Mr. Lee told Korean journalists, failed to "break the mistrust and other barriers existing between the two countries."
Kan appeared to have timed the apology as a preemptive strike before the 65th anniversary Sunday of the Japanese surrender, observed as an important national holiday in North as well as South Korea. The actual anniversary date of Japan's annexation of Korea is August 29.
Apology diplomacy
Korean officials made much of the fact that Kan's apology said specifically that Japan had annexed Korea against the will of the Korean people. That phrase, said a spokeswoman for President Lee, bore "a meaning" that advanced the level of the apology beyond that offered by a former Japanese prime minister, Tomiichi Murayama, 15 years ago.
"No Japanese prime minister has ever said that before," says Choi Jong-won, an office manager. "That's pleasantly surprising. It's a good gesture."
Japanese prime ministers have so often apologized for the evils of Japanese imperialism and colonialism that they are sometimes said to be practicing "apology diplomacy."
Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologized at least twice, on different occasions, for Japanese aggression over the Korean peninsula and much of the rest of Asia. The impact was negated, however, by his visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, which honors Japanese killed in wartime, including a number judged to be war criminals and executed.
The emphasis now is on cooperation while China begins to flex its muscle around the region as a growing military as well as economic power. Kan in his conversation with Lee suggested that Lee come to Japan before the G20 summit of economic powers that Lee is hosting in November.
The friendly tone reflects the relationship with Japan that Lee is pursuing while worrying about China's position toward North Korea and the North's threats of war.
"Lee Myung-bak is so pro-Japan," says one critic, talking anonymously. "He's so sycophantic to the US and Japan" – an allusion to Lee's meetings with President Obama here and in Washington and also with Japanese leaders.
Meanwhile, Kan's apology, approved by his cabinet, seemed unqualified. "For the enormous damage and suffering caused by this colonization," he said, I would like to express once again our deep remorse and sincerely apologize."


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Check out our full review of the Samsung Galaxy Camera.
For the better part of the last year, digital camera talk has shifted from being focused entirely megapixels, sensor sizes, and lens quality to connectivity and OS concerns. The digital imaging industry was turned on its head not by a revolutionary new pocket point-and-shoot or a faster-than-fast DSLR, but by a dark horse known as the smartphone.
Appropriately, manufacturers are responding with all sorts of experimentation to keep digital cameras competitive in their own right. Wi-Fi connectivity is starting to become a more popular feature, although it's being implemented to varying degrees of usability, and several names have tip-toed into Android integration.
And the trail blazer is proving to be Samsung. In addition to bringing a bevy of connect cams to market this year, the manufacturer recently unveiled its Galaxy Camera at IFA. The part-camera, part-smartphone device is the first to really bring this sort of hybrid to the mainstream.
Today, Dropbox announced it would integrate its cloud storage service into the Galaxy Camera, giving users the ability to sync their images to their other connected devices. And then there are the expected features you're going to get with this thing, such as instant Instagram posting – which there should be some mixed feelings about. Personally, I'm anti-non smartphone-captured images making their way to Instagram, but to each their own. But there are other apps which will have easy access to the Galaxy Camera's photos, most notably Facebook and Flickr.
When it comes down to it, Samsung took their Smart Camera lineup (16.3 megapixel sensor, 21x optical zoom, manual controls and pre-set modes), and attached a Galaxy phone to it – complete with Jelly Bean and 3G/Wi-Fi or 4G/Wi-Fi connection options. I was a big fan of how easy the WB150F's Wi-Fi settings were to navigate, but this is a whole other level of easy use.
It's certainly exciting, and the newly announced Dropbox integration is extremely promising for where this thing can go. But it begs a really big question: Why isn't anyone else doing this? I can't help what's happening with Polaroid's ambitious SC1630 Smart Camera – last I heard, back in March, the camera was still in production and samples were unavailable for reviews. And where are Nikon and Canon? Clearly, Samsung's mobile prowess is giving the brand a serious leg up, which is at once wonderful and frustrating. Samsung's never quite been a digital camera powerhouse, offering up decent but never cutting-edge quality devices. As a user, I want the best of the best of the best and I want it to have every featured I crave – and that now means connectivity for cameras.


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Silicon Valley startup ZeroVulnerabilityLabs has made available a free program it claims stops malware from exploiting a wide range of software vulnerabilities regardless of whether these flaws are publically known or not.
Available now in a beta version for consumers and non-profits (the business version requires a license), ExploitShield Browser Edition is designed to be "install and forget," the company said.
Once installed, the software named 17 applications as being protected, including the most common and troublesome ones such as Adobe Reader and Flash, Java, Microsoft Office, various browsers and a number of video players. Others may be added in future.
Security innovations pop up from time to time and this one represents a lateral approach to what has become a major - possibly the major issue - for consumers and businesses alike; how to secure PCs when software flaws crop up on an almost daily basis.
The overwhelming majority of Windows malware attacks now hook into common flaws as a way of infecting their targets with many automated using commercial exploit kits serving attacks from compromised websites. Patching is one answer but this can be exhausting. The number of flaws has become a major overhead even for single consumers.
At the same time it has become apparent that conventional antivirus software isn't stopping all or even most of this kind of malware which raises an obvious question: what is ExploitShield doing that is different?
The company is keeping its technology to itself but describes the approach as "anti-exploit" or "application shielding," and claims it was able to block recent high-profile zero-day exploit attacks that hit Internet Explorer and Java.
If ZeroVulnerabilityLabs has come up with software that can do that with any reliability it will become a very hot property indeed.
What it is not, for now, is whitelisting, blacklisting, sandboxing, nor does it fingerprint malware, an approach it rightly identifies as obsolete. Heuristics? The company seems not to like that term either in its online literature.
"When ExploitShield detects a shielded application being exploited it automatically stops the malicious code from executing. Once stopped it will automatically close the attacked application," the company said on its website.
"ExploitShield does not need to disinfect as it prevents all vulnerability-driven infections in the first place."
Corporate users will be able to select and manage each protected application individually. The software - version 0.7 - can be downloaded from the firm's website with beta testers being sought.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's some evidence to suggest that putting prebiotics in baby formula protects children against the skin condition eczema, according to a fresh look at past research.
The theory is that babies who can't breastfeed can drink formula fortified with prebiotics, which are food particles that promote the growth of healthy gut bacteria or flora, and build immunity against some allergens.
"When you change the gut flora your immunity changes as well," said Dr. John Sinn, the review's senior author from The University of Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital in Australia.
The analysis, published on Thursday by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research, is an update to a previous review from 2007 that did not find enough evidence to say whether putting prebiotics in baby formula had any benefits.
Previous research had found that about 8 percent of children will develop a food allergy, 20 percent will develop eczema and up to about 34 percent will develop wheezing or asthma.
For the new analysis, the researchers were able to include four studies that randomly assigned a total of 1,428 babies to either regular formula or formula fortified with prebiotics.
The studies reported whether or not the children developed allergic reactions, such as asthma, eczema or hives between four months and two years of age.
Overall, the prebiotic formula did not prevent babies from developing asthma or hives compared to babies fed regular formula, but there was evidence to suggest it may protect against eczema.
Specifically, about 8 percent of 634 babies fed formula with prebiotics developed eczema, compared to about 12 percent of 586 babies fed regular formula.
According to the authors, 25 babies would need to be fed formula with prebiotics to prevent one from developing eczema.
However, the researchers warn that the evidence behind this finding is weak, because it's only based on four studies that were different from each other. Also, they cannot say whether any benefit from prebiotics would last beyond infancy.
Dr. Frank Greer, a professor of pediatrics at Meriter Hospital's Wisconsin Perinatal Center in Madison, said he was not "very impressed" with the evidence.
Greer, who co-authored the American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) clinical report on probiotics and prebiotics, said the only strategy they found to possibly prevent eczema was four months of exclusive breastfeeding.
"My basic recommendation for parents is if your child is at risk for allergies the best thing you can do is exclusively breastfeed for four months. And if you have to supplement, supplement with hydrolyzed formula," said Greer, who was not involved with the new analysis.
He said hydrolyzed formulas don't carry the same risk of allergic reactions as formulas that use cow's milk. And while he said prebiotics don't hurt, he can't say that they offer any real protection.
The AAP currently recommends women breastfeed their newborns exclusively for about the first six months of life, after which some foods can be added along with continued breastfeeding.
SOURCE: bit.ly/14yoLHR The Cochrane Library, online March 28, 2013.


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Baltimore is opening four "community job hubs" to help residents looking for employment, the city said Wednesday.
The hubs, intended to supplement the city's three one-stop career centers, will offer free courses on such topics as job search techniques and resume development. Residents can also get information on in-depth training, job fairs and other employment-related activities.
The hubs, some open and some about to open, are at the Academy of Success Inc., 200 S. Franklintown Road; Govans Ecumenical Development Corp., 5502 York Road; My Brother's Keeper, 4207 Frederick Road, and Southern Community Action Center, 606 Cherry Hill Road.
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Kallis rested for England ODIs
South Africa have given the clearest indication yet that Jacques Kallis will form part of their World Twenty20 plans by resting him for the ODI series against England. Kallis has not played T20I cricket for South Africa since the 2010 World Twenty20, apart from a one-off game against India in his honour in March, but was named in a 30-man provisional squad for Sri Lanka last week.
His place in the 15-man party for the five-match ODI series with England will be taken by the uncapped allrounder Dean Elgar. He was named in South Africa's squad to face Sri Lanka in January, before torn knee ligaments prevented him from making an international debut.
Imran Tahir, whose last ODI appearance came in the 2011 World Cup, is recalled, while the seamer Ryan McLaren, who played the last of his 10 ODIs in 2010, also returns after recovering from a side strain sustained while playing for South Africa A earlier in the month. Wayne Parnell remains in the squad despite allegedly testing positive for drugs after a rave party in Mumbai in May following his IPL commitments.
"Dean has been in our plans for some time and might well have made his debut last year but for injury," CSA selection convener, Andrew Hudson, said. "Imran is a genuine wicket-taking bowler and his selection enables us to explore our options in this area.
"Ryan has just come off some exceptional form for the South Africa A side and the added depth he provides in the seam bowling department will allow us to rotate players if we feel the need arises."
Parnell, Faf du Plessis, Justin Ontong, Elgar and McLaren are due to travel to Ireland with South Africa A for two four-day matches and an unofficial ODI, before joining the rest of the squad in England. South Africa will name their squad for the Twenty20 international series against England, as well as the World Twenty20, in August.
South Africa squad AB de Villiers (capt), Hashim Amla (vice-capt), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Dean Elgar, Imran Tahir, Ryan McLaren, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Justin Ontong, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Graeme Smith, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe


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Excerpted from article by great curator Maria Popova:
"Tim O'Reilly recently admonished that unless we embrace open access over copyright, we'll never get science policy right. The sentiment, which I believe applies to more than science, reminded me of an eloquent 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush, titled "As We May Think."
Much of what Bush discusses presages present conversations about information overload, filtering, and our restless "FOMO" — fear of missing out, for anyone who did miss out on the memetic catchphrase — amidst the incessant influx. Bush worries about the impossibility of ever completely catching up and the unfavorable signal-to-noise ratio.
Bush makes an enormously important — and timely — point about the difference between merely compressing information to store it efficiently and actually making use of it in the way of gleaning knowledge.
To that end, I often think about the architecture of knowledge as a pyramid of sorts — at the base of it, there is all the information available to us; from it, we can generate some form of insight, which we then consolidate into knowledge; at our most optimal, at the top of the pyramid, we're then able to glean from that knowledge some sort of wisdom about the world.
He stresses, as many of us believe today, that mechanization — or, algorithms in the contemporary equivalent — will never be a proper substitute for human judgment and creative thought in the filtration process.
He presages hypertext, the internet, and even Wikipedia — and, perhaps more importantly, laying out a model for what excellence at the intersection of the editorial and curatorial looks.
Bush nails the value of what we call today, not without resistance, "information curation":
Bush wrote: "There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were erected."
He concludes by considering the cultural value and urgency, infinitely timelier today than it was in his day, of making our civilization's "record" — the great wealth of information about how we got to where we are — manageable, digestible, and useful in our quest for knowledge, wisdom, and growth..."
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Forget elf shaming, try a little Hanukkah Harry Guilt! (Not gelt).
This post is a time machine back to the year twenty-twelve, but it's the only one I have for Hanukkah.
That year I was all alone. Again.
Happy Chanukkah or Hanukkah or Hannukah or Channukah 2014!
However you spell it, it's eight days of prezzies!
…or the continuing saga of my life.
As my first husband's mother said to my mom, "isn't it such a shame you wasted so much money on her education. She doesn't really seem to do much of anything, does she?"
Looky here, readers, you all need to stop whining right now. Right now, I say!
I've peeked inside your private lives. Here's a typical scenario:
8:00 a.m. You're home with your spouse before leaving the house to go to work or he goes to work while you "stay home to take care of the kids" which really means you're going to Tweet and shop all day and change a diaper or two, only if necessary. Not all of you, but enough to make it true. And I know it's true 'cos who do you think I tweet with all day?
Spouse: "I'll home home at six. See ya."
{Smooch goodbye}
Wife pulls the ratty bathrobe a bit tighter and rebelts it because an important message is acoming…
"Now you come right home after work, don't stop anywhere; no bars, no strip clubs, nothin'. You come right home, ya hear me? I'm making something special for dinner tonight."
Spouse: "OK"
He walks out to the car. Five seconds after leaving the house, before the car even backs out of the driveway, he totally forgot everything his wife said. Typical, right?
6:00 p.m.- no hubby
6:15 p.m – no hubby
6:30 p.m. Here it comes…the power texting, phoning, emailing commences.
{no response}
7:00 p.m. Dinner burns. wife drank all the wine, spends time sharpening knives. Candles burnt down to nubs, the smoke of one burnt out candle with its acrid scent floats through the air.
The scissors come out to make a few strategic alterations in his favorite t-shirt.
She opens another bottle of wine.
8:00 p.m. His car drives up, front door opens, "Hi honey, I'm home!"
'Wha? Why is it so dark in here?"
"Where. were. you. I called. I emailed. I texted."
"Ohhh…didn't I mention I'd be late today? I -uh- thought I did."
OK, I could go on and on but the point is that when 99% of you get mad at your significant others when they're late; when work or whatever–delays their arrival at the appointed hour–you all need to STOP WHINGING AND WHINING about it!!
Since the world revolves around me, take a walk around South Coast Plaza in my shoes (not the Gucci ones, tho. I wear a 5 1/2 and your feet'd stretch 'em all out.) I was expecting the captain tomorrow, Thursday. I cleaned the house, washed the windows, planned and anticipated the whole homecoming–even made a new welcome home sign–and he called and said he'd be LATE.
I'm not saying not to be pissed at your inconsiderate spouse–I would never think to deprive you of that joy–just think about ME next time.
Your "late" and my "late" are two different things altogether.
Ahem. Now, to give equal time to my cultural background as a full blooded Jewish American Princess, may I formally present to you my Hannukah installation….with the one and only Hairy Hannukah Harry holding the torah. Eight candles represent the eight days that I had to wait before I could spend more of the captain's hard earned money.
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Professor of Archaeology at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
"Work, Labour & Hegemony: Structures, Mechanisms and Ideology of Production In Early South Asia"
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China's economy is slowing, profits are falling and its stock market is drifting down, but its corporate bond market is moving in the exact opposite direction: it is booming.
Bond issuance was up about 60 per cent by volume in the first half from a year earlier. By comparison, virtually all other forms of financing were sluggish. Equity issuance fell, new bank loans were barely up and off balance-sheet lending contracted.
The fact that corporate bonds have bucked this trend is an important and positive development. It indicates that China is gradually making the transition to a direct financing model, reducing an over-reliance on bank credit that officials and analysts see as one of the major dangers for the economy.
Banks have long been the primary source of capital in China. Total outstanding bank loans were 123 percent of gross domestic product at the end of 2011, while corporate bonds were just 11 percent of GDP, according to Credit Suisse.
"The whole financial system has been highly skewed towards banks. The government itself has realized that a lot of risk is concentrated within the banking system and they want to diversify the risks," said Daisy Wu, an analyst with Credit Suisse.
"They have found that both from the issuers' perspective and the investors' perspective, bonds are something they really can do. There is both a big potential supply and demand."
A series of China's biggest state-owned companies, from oil giant Sinopec to China National Nuclear, have taken advantage of the appetite for bonds to issue debt with coupon rates below bank lending rates. Private companies such as Goldwind and Chang'an Automobile, which traditionally have had a slightly harder time getting bank credit, have also met strong demand in the bond market.
Total debt issuance by Chinese non-financial corporations was Rmb853bn ($134bn) in the first half of 2012, the most on record and up from Rmb530bn during the same period last year, according to Wind, a Chinese data provider.
Moreover, the funds that companies have raised through bonds this year equate to about a third of the total that they have borrowed from banks, versus a quarter last year. This indicates that while bank financing is still dominant, its grip on Chinese corporate balance sheets is diminishing.
The major reason for this has been regulatory reform, with officials clearing away some of the obstacles that have stood in the way of the development of the bond market.
China's corporate bond market has long been divided into three separate fiefdoms. The National Development and Reform Commission, a central planning agency, controls enterprise bonds, which are issued by state-owned companies. The China Securities Regulatory Commission manages bonds that are issued by listed companies and traded on a public exchange. And finally, the central bank oversees commercial paper and medium-term notes, which are traded only in the interbank market.
Each regulatory regime has different approval requirements, some truly arduous. The NDRC has traditionally made companies wait up to a year while it vets their application, while the securities regulator has also been notorious for long delays.
But the situation began to improve in 2008 when the central bank injected vigor into China's sclerotic bond market with its promotion of medium-term notes. It greatly simplified the issuance process, opting for a registration system rather than an approval system – a move that forced investors, not regulators, to assess credit risks.
The relative ease of issuing made a huge difference: the volume of medium term note issuance was nearly twice as large as that of exchange-listed bonds over the past two years.
The central bank's success has, in turn, prodded the other regulators to follow its example. The securities regulator has made especially big strides this year. It has started to fast track issuance approval, cutting waiting times to just over one month. And in June it launched a new high-yield 'junk' bond market, adopting a registration, not an approval, system, just like the central bank.
These initiatives have had an immediate impact. Exchange-listed bonds have clawed their way to be about level in issuance volume with medium-term notes this year, according to data from Thomson Reuters.
Just as vital for the development of the Chinese bond market, secondary trading has increased dramatically. Many bonds used to be held by banks to maturity, making them little different to loans. But with the increase in exchange-traded bonds, a wider variety of institutions plus retail investors have been clamoring to add fixed-income securities to their portfolios.
"Liquidity used to be extremely weak, but market infrastructure has now improved, the investor base is bigger and liquidity has increased quickly," said Shi Lei, a senior bond analyst at Ping An Securities.
But despite its speedy growth, this year has also served up a reminder that China's bond market still has a lot of maturing to do.
Shandong Helon, a rayon maker, was on the verge of defaulting on Rmb400m in commercial paper in April. It would have been the first major default in China's corporate bond market, teaching investors a lesson about risk. But instead, the local government intervened and ensured that state- owned banks would bail out the company.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska's Cleveland Volcano is undergoing a continuous low-level eruption following an explosion early Saturday morning, scientists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Satellites and cameras suggest low-level emissions of gas, steam and ash, scientists said, and satellites detected highly elevated surface temperatures at the summit. A faint plume of ash extended eastward below 15,000 feet, but the Federal Aviation Administration said there were no flight restrictions as a result.
"Sudden explosions of blocks and ash are possible with little or no warning," scientists said. "Ash clouds, if produced, could exceed 20,000 feet above sea level."
The aviation alert level was raised from "yellow" to "orange." A major ash emission could threaten international flights.
The activity began with an explosion at 5 a.m. Saturday, followed by two others at 9:17 and 11:44 a.m. A nearby seismic network detected long-duration airwave signals that indicate a sustained eruption.
The volcano is in an isolated region of the Aleutian Islands, 940 miles southwest of Anchorage. Its most recent significant eruption began in February 2001 and featured three explosive events that sent ash clouds as high 39,000 feet above sea level. It also produced a rubbly lava flow and hot avalanche that reached the sea.
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CONCORD, N.C. – The King University women's cross country team successfully defended its 2012 Conference Carolinas championship on Friday at Frank Liske Park, winning the 2013 conference title behind a stellar run from conference champion Hannah Witt.
Witt, who missed the majority of last season due to injury, won her first conference championship by an astounding 33 seconds over her next closest competitor, finishing in 17:40.08. After setting a new school record in her last event, Witt ran the second-fastest time in Tornado history on Friday, and now owns four of the top five times ever run by a King athlete.
Kendra Sokol set a personal record to finish in the sixth position overall in 18:47.15. Evan Ferrell and Eliza Parker finished in the ninth and 11th positions, respectively, less than six seconds apart. Tiffany Gargiulo was the final scorer for the Tornado in 18th position in 20:04.30.
King has now won two consecutive Conference Carolinas championships and, since the Tornado began NCAA Division II competition in 2011, the team has two conference championships and a runner-up performance in three seasons.
Witt was impressive in leading the race from the start, stretching out a modest lead into an insurmountable advantage by the two-mile marker. Her pace was 18 seconds off her school record performance from two weeks ago.
Based on the results, Witt was first team all-conference and Conference Carolinas Runner of the Year. Sokol and Ferrell earned second team honors while Parker garnered third team honors. Head coach Peter Dalton was also named Conference Carolinas Coach of the Year for the second straight season.
With the regular season and conference championships now complete, the Tornado will set their sights on the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship at McAlpine Park in Charlotte, N.C. on November 9. The venue is the same as this month's Royal Cross Country Challenge, which saw all six Tornado athletes that competed set personal records.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bryce Harper showed why his manager put him in the No. 3 spot for his fifth career game.
The 19-year-old phenom hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the sixth inning, lifting the Washington Nationals to a 2-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday night.
Ross Detwiler (3-1) did his part as well. The left-hander allowed one run and three hits over 6 1/3 innings in his longest outing this season. He retired the first eight batters he faced and didn't allow a hit until the fifth inning.
Ian Kennedy (3-1) lost for the first time in 13 starts, snapping a personal nine-game win streak.
The NL East-leading Nationals took two of three from Arizona and have won five of their six series this season. Henry Rodriguez pitched the ninth for his sixth save.
Washington manager Davey Johnson moved Harper up four spots in the lineup a day after he went 3 for 4 with two doubles, and the rookie delivered. He is now 6 for 16 in his five games, with four doubles and three RBIs.
Harper also had an interesting night on the basepaths.
He hit a weak grounder back to Kennedy in the first, but the pitcher's throw was wide and the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 amateur draft took second on what appeared to be an error.
The Diamondbacks decided to appeal and Harper was called out for failing to touch first base.
Ian Desmond, who hit a game-ending homer in Wednesday's 5-4 victory, started the Washington sixth with a double. He moved up on Steve Lombardozzi's sacrifice and scored on Harper's opposite-field double down the left-field line.
Jayson Werth followed with a hard grounder to third baseman Ryan Roberts. Harper waited, then broke for third on Roberts' throw. Harper just beat the return throw from first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, but he was stranded at third when Chad Tracy flied out to right.
Both starters posted a strong outing, with Kennedy yielding four hits in seven innings with four strikeouts and one walk.
The Nationals scratched out a run in the second for a 1-0 lead. Werth led off with a double and Chad Tracy followed with a walk. They advanced on Kennedy's one-out balk, and Werth scored on Rick Ankiel's bouncer to first.
The Diamondbacks tied it in the sixth inning. Willie Bloomquist walked with one out and scored on Aaron Hill's double which eluded a diving Werth in right-center.
NOTES: Nationals 1B Adam LaRoche, the team's regular cleanup hitter, was scratched because of a sore right side muscle. Chad Tracy took over for LaRoche at first base. ... Harper was the youngest player to bat third in a major league lineup since Andruw Jones did for Atlanta in 1996, according to STATS LLC. ... Kennedy's previous loss was on August 18, 2011, in Philadelphia. He gave up three earned runs in three innings, then was removed after a rain delay.


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Giants sunk by A's in Bay Bridge Series finale
SAN FRANCISCO -- While Gregor Blanco took Thursday afternoon's final at-bat, "Let's go, Oakland" chants cascaded from the AT&T Park stands, where the preeminent color was green.
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The Giants' bats were quiet again and the A's batted around during a four-run sixth inning en route to clinching the 2014 Bay Bridge Series, three games to one, with a 6-1 victory at AT&T Park on Thursday afternoon.
Judging by the Giants' last four games, they're currently much farther away than a trip across the Bay Bridge from their Bay Area rivals, who boast the Majors' best record. The once-dominant Giants lost for the 19th time in their last 23 home games.
The A's opened the scoring in the second when an Alberto Callaspo sacrifice fly scored Brandon Moss. Backup catcher John Jaso hit a two-out triple in the fifth and scored one batter later on a Stephen Vogt single. After Tim Hudson flied out with two on and two out in the bottom of the fifth, things got hairy for the Giants.
Moss led off the sixth with a double and scored on Josh Donaldson's two-run blast to right in the next at-bat. A two-out, bases-loaded double by Vogt off Javier Lopez -- who was pitching in relief of Hudson, after he allowed four consecutive extra-base hits for the first in his career -- later in the inning scored a pair to extend the lead to 6-0.
"There were a couple bad pitches that they took advantage of, and they hit a couple decent pitches, I thought," said Hudson, who was tagged for six earned runs on nine hits in 5 1/3 innings. "A little bit of a weird inning [in the sixth]. I don't really know what to say. Kind of unraveled on us a little bit."
The same can be said for the team's offense lately -- the Giants didn't have a hit until the fifth inning Thursday and they've scored just 40 runs in their last 18 games. An RBI single by Pablo Sandoval in the eighth scored Ehire Adrianza to stave off what would've been the Giants' fifth shutout in their last 11 games. A's lefty Scott Kazmir earned his 11th win of the season after allowing just three hits in seven shutout innings.
"It just looks like we're caught in between as an offensive group," manager Bruce Bochy assessed after the game. "Late on fastballs, out in front of offspeed pitches.
"It was a tough series, but we played a good club with a great staff. The guy we faced today, he's on the All-Star team, so a lot of clubs haven't done well against him. Still, we need to find a way to plate some runs."
Oakland's tremendous depth provided the spark offensively Thursday. Their No. 3 hitter, Yoenis Cespedes, went 0-for-5 with four strikeouts and a double play. No big deal, though. Thursday's starting catcher, Jaso, went 2-for-3 and was pinch-hit for by All-Star catcher Derek Norris. Vogt, the team's third catcher, who played first, had three RBIs on a pair of hits to raise his batting average to .367. Leadoff hitter Coco Crisp got the day off, but it was his replacement, Craig Gentry, who made a stellar running catch to rob Hudson of a game-tying double in the fifth.
Depth, depth, depth. The A's have it and the Giants lack it, which has caused them to continue to reach lower ones, ones that would've seemed preposterous in early June.
"How we've been playing the last month, that's not the kind of team we are," Hudson said. "We just got to do the little things a little better and get healthy -- we've got some guys beat up. No excuses to be made, but still ... we don't have the depth in a lot of positions to really have guys be hurt for an extended period of time."
Still, the panic meter certainly isn't reading red in the Giant clubhouse.
"This has been a little long, there's no getting around that," Bochy said of the team's struggles, "but the fact is, of where we're at ... we know we're lucky. That's what we have to keep reminding ourselves of -- where we're at -- and there's a lot of baseball left."
Hudson hopes to play some more against the team that victoriously headed across the bay Thursday evening.
"I feel like we're just as good as they are," Hudson said. "They've caught us as bad as we can be. Hopefully sometime this year we can face them again and we'll be a lot better."
Ryan Hood is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @ryanhood19.