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New York police officers killed two unarmed black people in May and there has yet to be rioting in the streets or even mass demonstrations as the black and civil rights communities wait and see whether police and governmental authorities will either produce credible investigations or turn the matters over to special prosecutors.
Alberta Spruill, 57 and African American, died of a heart attack May 16th after Special Operations police, acting on a bad tip that the apartment contained munitions, tossed a stun grenade into her Harlem apartment as she dressed for work, handcuffing her even after finding no guns in the place. The medical examiner's office has ruled the death a homicide, but blame has yet to be assigned. Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly have apologized for the incident and acknowledged the obvious, that something was terribly wrong with this raid. Bloomberg's response has been noted to be in stark contrast to that of his predecessor in police misconduct cases. Rudy Giuliani almost always sided with the police, exacerbating racial tensions.
The head of the unit that conducts no-knock searches, Deputy Chief Thomas Purtell, has been transferred to the Housing Bureau, but he has not been charged with any malfeasance. Capt. David Driscoll, the Harlem precinct's commander, was transferred to Brooklyn in the wake of the botched raid.
Peter Vallone, Jr., chair of the City Council Public Safety Committee plans hearings on these police procedures on June 12. He told the Daily News, "We want to look into what went wrong. And we really want to make sure that this never happens again." Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, the story said, is asking those who have been subjected to mistaken raids on their homes to call (800) 728-1550 and to appear at a hearing on June 5 at 10:30 AM at her Municipal Building office at 1 Centre Street on the 19th floor South.
There are many unanswered questions in this case, where the police seem to have acted legally in that they obtained a warrant. Why was such an unreliable source used? Shouldn't there be a better system in place to screen sources? Why wasn't the apartment put under surveillance to verify the tip that it was being used for illegal purposes? Why wasn't the most rudimentary investigation done into who actually occupied the apartment, a trustworthy city worker and grandmother?
But the elephant in the room of this case is race. Is it conceivable that police would have conducted the raid in this way in a white neighborhood?
Similar issues surround the case of Ousmane Zongo, 38, the black immigrant from Burkima Faso who was killed by a police officer, Bryan Conroy, at a West Chelsea storage facility where he worked. The officer alleged to a supervisor that Zongo, who repaired African art in one of the storage spaces, lunged for his gun. Conroy shot him four times. He has yet to speak to either the District Attorney's office or police investigators. The Rev. Al Sharpton says that he has spoken to a witness to the incident who only wants to speak with an independent investigator. The witness, according to Newsday, is an "undocumented immigrant fearful of being deported."
Several hundred demonstrators, mostly West African immigrants, demonstrated on May 28th outside the W. 27th Street storage facility where Zongo was killed. Their rallying cry was for Governor George Pataki to appoint a special prosecutor in the case. Michael Hardy, a lawyer for the Zongo family who is associated with Sharpton's National Action Network, said, "There needs to be no question of impartiality in this investigation. The police department and the district attorney may need to be prosecuted."
Sidique Abou-Bakarr Wai, president of the United African Congress addressed the crowd, insisting, "It is not about black rights, it is about human rights." When he said, "Zongo did not fight with a police officer," the West
African demonstrators chanted, "Never! Never!" "Africans don't fight," Wai said. "We are a law abiding people. We don't have a quarrel with the police, but with vigilante officers."
Civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel was also on hand at the rally. "We have been here before," he said, recalling Patrick Dorismond and Amadou Diallo, "another unarmed New Yorker shot dead because of police force. The names change, but the issues are the same: 1) Whether the shooting was justified, 2) Will the truth be discovered and disclosed? and 3) Will there be systemic change in regard to police procedures. The civil rights community wants the truth and the truth is difficult to obtain in these cases. We learned years ago that police cannot investigate police. And the District Attorney's office, because they rely on the testimony of police, has a built-in conflict of interest." He, too, said that a special prosecutor was critical in this case. And he feels that Mayor Bloomberg needs to be educated about the history of these kinds of cases if he is willing to trust the police to investigate themselves.
Zongo, who had intended to return to his native land to be reunited with his wife and children, "was a peaceable man," said Mohammed Dibassy, president of the African Arts Center where Zongo worked and a leader of the Malian Association USA. "We are a peaceful people, but we want solutions. We want justice to be done."
After seeing the cops who killed Diallo acquitted of all wrongdoing in an Albany court, these West Africans are not willing to see this case handled by the same people. Masses of New York civic leaders were arrested outside police headquarters to push for the arrests of the officers who killed Diallo, only to see the case moved upstate. This time, they want a special prosecutor.
Council Resolution to Protect Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
More than 100 civil liberties advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall on May 28 to herald the introduction of a resolution in the New York City Council to call upon the United States to repeal provisions of the USA Patriot Act that "pose a direct threat to the constitutional protections afforded individual freedoms." If passed, New York would join 115 other American cities in petitioning the Congress and the President to restore civil liberties trimmed by the post-9/11 act.
"September 11th shook the city and country to its core," said Donna Lieberman, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, part of the New York Bill of Rights Defense Committee, "but we must be free as well as safe." She cited such infringements as "relentless snooping on our private lives, diminished right of courts to protect us, undermining the right to due process and counsel," and assaults on freedom of speech. If New York adopts the resolution, it will double the population covered by jurisdictions who have passed similar petitions.
Councilmember Bill Perkins is the chief sponsor of the resolution. Councilmember Charles Barron, another sponsor, said that this resolution joins one in the Council calling for the repeal of the Patriot Act. Councilmember Margarita Lopez said that Congressman Jose Serrano (D-Bronx) had urged the New York City Council delegation that went to Washington last month to help in pushing the Congress to reform the Patriot Act. She said that immigrant people are "disappearing" in this country under the Act the way dissenters disappeared in Latin America in the 1970s.
Councilmember David Yassky said, "I honor the men and women in our armed forces, but over history, what makes us strong is not military might, but our commitment to freedom and individual liberty."
Pat Perry, who lost her son, John, a police officer, on September 11, 2001, said that John "strongly supported the Bill of Rights and would be here today" if he were alive. Playwright Tony Kushner said, "It is not surprising that an administration that believes they can create democracy unilaterally through military action believes it can secure democracy here at home by decimating the Bill of Rights."
Bishop Paul Moore, Religious and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 83
The Rt. Reverend Paul Moore, Jr., Episcopal Bishop of New York from 1972-89, died on May 1st after a long bout with cancer. He was 83. I paid tribute to Moore in the pages of the Gay City News for his leadership in the city on the rights of women and gay people. In a town where many religious leaders come down on the more conservative side of issues, Moore was an outspoken champion of the poor, downtrodden, and disenfranchised. When his time as head of the Diocese of New York was up, he worked on more international causes rather than upstage his successor at St. John the Divine Cathedral, including a leading role in securing justice for the people of East Timor. But his home base was Greenwich Village and he continued to be a force for human rights in his beloved city. Despite fourteen years out of office, his funeral was packed in the largest cathedral in the world on 112th St. and Amsterdam Av.
Andy Humm is a former member of the City Commission on Human Rights. He is co-host of the weekly "Gay USA" on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (57 on Time-Warner; 109 on RCN) on Thursdays at 11 PM.


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Related: Kane Brown Announces New Single, 'Good As You'
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Governments need to work closely with the private sector to break down barriers preventing industries in developing countries from becoming competitive. That's according to a vice president for financial and private sector development at the World Bank and International Finance Corp.
Speaking to Devex President Raj Kumar on the margins of the 2012 European Development Days, Janamitra Devan said governments need to understand the private sector's requirements well enough to help take industries to the next level. This knowledge of the private sector's needs, Devan stressed, is what helped Singapore grow from aircraft servicer to avionics expert. It is also what propelled Malaysia's transition from supplying palm kernels to being involved in every aspect of the global palm oil value chain.
Watch the conversation between Kumar and Devan about how the World Bank's competitive industries agenda is helping governments form more effective partnerships with the private sector, part of a series of conversations we video-taped with global development leaders in the center of EDD12 in Brussels.
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Imagine this scenario: One of Hollywood's leading directors releases a much-ballyhooed movie based on a top bestseller, featuring dazzling special effects and a handful of Oscar-winning stars -- and it's a bust, disappearing from theaters after a couple of weeks.
That's basically what happened to Vincenzo Bellini when his opera Zaira opened, in 1829.
Until then, Bellini had been a rising star. He had just scored two consecutive hits at the premiere Italian opera house, Milan's La Scala, with his operas Il pirata and La Straniera. Still in his mid-20s, the successful, young composer was asked to write an opera to dedicate a grand theater in Parma, another leading center of opera in Italy.
The new opera seemed to have everything going for it. It was based on Zaire, a tragedy by Voltaire. The libretto was by Felice Romani, who had already collaborated with Bellini on the two hits at La Scala. The story was brimming with sensational elements: passionate romance, violent conflict, international intrigue and an exotic setting.
None of that helped Zaira. Both critics and audiences reacted coolly at its premiere. The opera ran for just eight performances, and was only heard one more time in the next 140 years.
It's hard to say exactly why Zaira didn't work for Bellini, but it may have been a simple case of musical politics. His two hits were both premiered in Milan. Zairaopened in Parma, where the operatic roost was ruled by one of Bellini's competitors: Gioachino Rossini. So it could be that Rossini's supporters simply didn't want to see an upstart in his twenties celebrating yet another hit on their home turf.
Still, the situation was hardly unusual in the cutthroat world of 19th-century, Italian opera, and Bellini still had options. Often, composers in his situation would simply retool a failed opera, take it to another city, and try again. Bellini decided on a different approach. He took much of the music from Zaira and recycled it into his very next opera, The Capulets and the Montagues, which fared much better. But that success, coupled with the new opera's recycled music, basically forced Bellini to put Zaira on the shelf -- and it's been there pretty much ever since.
Today, though, it could be that Zaira is actually more relevant and timely than the opera that inherited some of its best numbers. Both dramas are about star-crossed lovers; The Capulets and the Montagues is Bellini's take on the Romeo and Juliet story.
Zaira has a similar plot line. Its title character is a young woman who, like Juliet, falls deeply in love with a man her family disapproves of -- violently. But with Zaira's doomed romance, it's not just a case of a local, family feud. Zaira is a Christian woman in love with a Muslim sultan. So the dispute is rooted in global conflict, and religious animosity -- elements that remain all too familiar in today's world.
On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone brings us Bellini's Zaira in a performance from the Valle d'Itria Festival in Martina Franca, Italy. The stars include mezzo-soprano Anna Malavasi and baritone Simeone Alberghini, with soprano Saioa Hernandez in the title role.
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NEW ORLEANS — Pop star Kelly Clarkson will ride as celebrity grand marshal when the Krewe of Endymion parade rolls on the Saturday before Mardi Gras in 2013.
Clarkson was the first winner of the Fox reality show "American Idol" in 2002. Her hits include "A Moment Like This" and "Because of You."
The krewe said she also will perform at Endymion's ball at the Superdome after the parade.
Clarkson may be upstaged at the Feb. 9 parade by a float organizers bill as the largest and most elaborate in Carnival history.
The super float will be 250 feet long and carry more than 200 riders. Its design focuses on Pontchartrain Beach, the amusement park that entertained generations on the New Orleans lakefront before closing in 1983.
The float, which is still under construction, will be divided into sections so it can make turns on New Orleans streets.
Clarkson's role and renderings of the float were revealed during a news conference Thursday at Mardi Gras World, the studio operated by the Kern family. Kern builds most of the floats used in Carnival parades in New Orleans.
Parade floats typically range in length to about 50 feet and can carry about 40 riders. But in 1969, the Bacchus krewe introduced larger floats, sparking a new wave of showmanship at Carnival.
Endymion has long been known for its large and glitzy floats, and for celebrity riders.
"We've even topped ourselves," said Ed Muniz, the krewe's captain who was one of its founders in 1967.
Barry Kern, president and CEO of Mardi Gras World and Blaine Kern Studios, which began building floats nearly a century ago, says the pace of float construction has stepped up because Mardi Gras falls so close to the Super Bowl. The BFL championship game will be played at the Superdome on Feb 3.
Mardi Gras is Feb. 12, but more than a dozen parades roll in the week leading up to Fat Tuesday. The big ones that feature celebrity float riders include Endymion, Orpheus, Bacchus and Muses. Dozens of other parades are set throughout the Carnival season in Louisiana and coastal Mississippi and Alabama.
Kern said more planning went into making the super float than any other in his studio's history. He said it's on target to be the most technologically advanced, with more lights and animated sculptures than any other float Kern has built.
Kern said the float will be on public display after its Endymion debut at Mardi Gras World.
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NEW ORLEANS — Pop star Kelly Clarkson will ride as celebrity grand marshal when the Krewe of Endymion parade rolls on the Saturday before Mardi Gras in 2013.


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I believe you need to get your facts right, in another thread you say 100 years, now in this its 200 years ??
"This eighth century manuscript from Mecca or Medina is one of the two oldest known existing copies of the Quran."
"In 632, just three years later, he was suddenly taken ill and on June 8 of that year, with his third wife 'Aishah in attendance, the Messenger of God "died with the heat of noon."
Both quotes are from www.Islamicity.com History of Islam
What is the math? It could be as low as 100 years or approximately 200 years depending on when in the eighth century it was written.
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Angel responded: "That is because it was in oral transmission, re-read fatima's post about this in the other thread 'I came back to islam'."
But www.islamicity.com History of Islam states:
"With great difficulty, the task was carried out and the first complete manuscript compiled from "bits of parchment, thin white stones - ostracae - leafless palm branches, and the memories of men." Later, during the time of 'Uthman, the third caliph, a final, authorized text was prepared and completed in 651, and this has remained the text in use ever since."
So at least parts of the Quran was written down (on parchment) prior to the "final" (if there is only one would the better word be "only" instead of "final" be more appropriate?) "authorized" text (again that appears to indicate unauthorized text!)
On another side, did the committee do a rough draft first (what happened to it).
Also Uthman "Realizing that the original message from God might be inadvertently distorted by textual variants, he appointed a committee to collect the canonical verses and destroy the variant recensions. The result was the text that is accepted to this day throughout the Muslim world." www.islamicity.com History of Islam
So would it be contrary to this paragraph to deduce that between the death of Muhammad and Uthman's committee's work, there were "textual variants" and "variant recensions" or is www.islamicity.com posting anti-islamic material?
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"There is no new version of the qu'ran, there is only an original/earliest surviving book ..."
Where is that "original/earliest surviving book"? What happened to the first copy that was produced by Uthman's committee back around 640 AD?
By the way, no one (except you) is talking about a "new version of the Quran." I was talking about a surviving copy produced prior to the 8th century that may or may not be exactly like the later copy.
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"To learn anothers beliefs/religion you need to put aside your own beliefs otherwise you will not be objective enough. Fair enough you don't believe certain things but you cannot say that so and so cannot believe in something because you see something as wrong according to you. "
First I am taken to task because I do NOT state my beliefs, then I am taken to task because I did state my beliefs. Now you imply that my beliefs keep me from being objective.
Ok, please explain to me how my beliefs have anything what so ever to do with the fact that the Quran was compiled by a committee who (according to www.islamicity.com) decided what went into it and what did not go into it. And the "first edition" copy of this (and all those written after it until the 8th century) was destroyed?
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"I can share what i believe in but i won't tell others that they have to or must believe in it, and that is what you are doing, telling others to believe otherwise thinking that you know better ...
Where have I told others what to believe or not believe?
I am merely pointing out issues that I see with Islam. Issues that if they are left unresolved distracts from the message of the Quran!
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You are just repeating the same thing over and over again. You have already got enough warnings. You jump from topic to topic without listening to responses. You raise a question, and when you receive a response, you ignore that and jump to another question, and create another thread. So many threads you created without having any willingness to engage in interfaith discussion, and still keep blaming Islam for all your problems without any evidence.
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Google Changes Algorithm for Low Quality Sites . Algorithmic changes are nothing out of the ordinary for Google. The company tweaks its algorithm several times per year, and many times the changes are not officially announced. The latest change is worthy of an announcement because it affects 11.8 percent of Google's queries.
In an attempt to offer its users better search results, Google has just implemented a significant change to its algorithm. The change will help boost the rankings of what are deemed to be high quality sites, and it will push low quality sites, such as content farms, further down the rankings.
Amit Singhal, a Google fellow, and Matt Cutts, a principal engineer who helps the search engine giant fight spam, announced the algorithmic improvement in a post on Google's blog. The change's main goal is to improve relevancy among search results for users. By rewarding high quality sites for their content and punishing low quality sites for their supposed lack of content, users can get more of what they are looking for without having to weed through irrelevant sites. Google considers high quality sites to be those that offer original content, in-depth analysis, research, and more.
Although the blog post did not name any specific websites, it is likely that content farms are its main target. Content farms produce short, low value articles that are created in response to popular search queries. One such site is eHow, which pays freelance writers small fees to produce short articles on a variety of subjects.
Many content farm articles achieved high search engine rankings in the past, but offered little actual value to visitors. Google sees these sites as a form of spam that clutters its results. Other sites, which post unoriginal content and even go as far as to copy content, are also targeted in the algorithm change. It is unknown exactly how long it will take for the ranking changes to actualize, but they should gradually appear.
Prior to officially changing its algorithm, Google announced the release of the Personal Blocklist extension for users of its Chrome browser. The extension allows users to block specific domains from appearing in search results, essentially creating a blacklist of unwanted sites. Personal Blocklist also allows users to provide Google with feedback and opinions on the blocked sites.
Google stated that it did not use the extension's feedback in making the algorithmic change, but there are some consistencies between the two. Approximately 84 percent of the most unpopular or blocked domains from Personal Blocklist have been negatively impacted since the change, which shows that it has worked in accordance with user opinion.
Algorithmic changes are nothing out of the ordinary for Google. The company tweaks its algorithm several times per year, and many times the changes are not officially announced. The latest change is worthy of an announcement because it affects 11.8 percent of Google's queries.
As of now, the change has only been implemented in the United States. Google does plan to make it global in the future, however. As time passes, it should be interesting to see how the change affects the Internet landscape. With any luck, the rewards of higher rankings given to quality sites should create an improvement in terms of the overall level of quality of online content.
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Red Sox beat Tampa Bay in 10 innings
Shane Victorino's single lifts Boston over Rays
Shane Victorino didn't even notice Tampa Bay's unusual five-man infield. His only thought was to make contact with the speedy Jacoby Ellsbury standing on third base.
Victorino had a well-placed RBI single into an overloaded infield in the 10th inning Saturday, lifting the Red Sox to a 2-1 win over the Rays.
Ellsbury singled with one out against Brandon Gomes (0-1), stole second and advanced on catcher Jose Lobaton's throwing error when the ball deflected off shortstop Yunel Escobar's glove and into short right field. Victorino then hit a hard grounder into the unusual infield configuration that second baseman Ben Zobrist made a diving stop on to his right, but was unable to make a throw home.
"That's the goal right there," a smiling Victorino said. "Just put the ball in play. I've been in that spot before."
Ellsbury knew he'd score easily once the ball got past the pitcher.
"When I saw him dive, I knew I was going to get in," he said. "It's probably got to be hit right at someone to have them make a throw."
David Ross had a solo homer for Boston, which snapped a two-game losing streak.
Red Sox manager John Farrell said he had the "contact play on" in the 10th, where Ellsbury was breaking on any ball hit on the ground.
"We felt like we had the combination we could take advantage of," he said.
Rays manager Joe Maddon felt it was just hit in the wrong spot for his defense.
"The ball was perfect," he said. "You bisect two guys on the same side of the infield and then furthermore, hit it at the right speed. It's just very unfortunate for us. But something we work on. They beat us."
Junichi Tazawa (2-0) pitched one inning for the win, getting out of a jam after giving up a leadoff double to Jose Molina, who was lifted for a pinch runner. Lobaton entered in the bottom of the 10th.
The Rays went 0 for 11 with runners in scoring position.
"In my career, I've noticed early in the season a lot of teams struggle with that," Tampa Bay's Shelley Duncan said of his team's clutch hitting woes. "Sometimes guys press a little more earlier than they do in the middle of the year."
Boston's Koji Uehara escaped a ninth-inning jam after closer Joel Hanrahan had his second poor outing this week. Gomes then got Stephen Drew to line out to center field with a pair of runners on, sending it to extra innings.
Hanrahan, who gave up five runs in the ninth of a loss to Baltimore on Wednesday, opened the ninth by walking Evan Longoria and Zobrist. Uehara then struck out pinch-hitter James Loney looking before retiring the next two hitters.
The anticipated matchup of prized lefties, reigning AL Cy Young Award winner David Price and Jon Lester, lived up to its billing.
Lester held the Rays to one run on five hits, walked one and struck out five to move into sixth place ahead of Luis Tiant on the club's career strikeout list with 1,078. Tiant had 1,075 from 1971-78.
"We had to make a couple of adjustments where I had to get the ball down," Lester said. "You have those days where you've getting the ball up."
Price, coming off a miserable start when he allowed a career-worst eight runs last Sunday against Cleveland, pitched six innings, allowing just the solo homer to Ross and three other hits while striking out eight and walking four.
Price mostly mixed a sharp cutter with a fastball and an occasional curve to make the Red Sox hitters look as if they were guessing most of the time.
"I felt a lot better. It started with my bullpen last week," he said. "Just going to continue to get my work in. Like I said before, six innings over here just isn't enough. That's a very good team and Lester threw the ball extremely well today."
With the Red Sox trailing 1-0 in the fifth, Ross belted a homer out of Fenway Park, sending a hanging changeup over the Green Monster seats. Before that, Boston had just one infield hit - a bouncer to deep short that Victorino barely beat out.
The Rays jumped ahead 1-0 in the third, but Lester stranded Sean Rodriguez on third base after he reached with no outs. Desmond Jennings singled and scored when Rodriguez's doubled down the left field line didn't carom very far and stayed deep in the corner. He advanced on a wild pitch.
Lester then fanned Longoria on a cutter, surpassing Tiant, Zobrist was robbed on first baseman Mike Napoli's diving catch of his liner and Shelley Duncan grounded out.
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With two quick-strike goals early in the third period last night, the Rangers defeated the Washington Capitals, 4-3, to tie the best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarterfinals at two games apiece. Game 5 is at Verizon Center tomorrow night.
Each side has held serve at home, but the Rangers had to hold on for dear life for the rest of the final period, with the Madison Square Garden crowd roaring in unison. Joel Ward just missed tying it as his last-second attempt slid under Henrik Lundqvist along the goal line and past the far post. Lundqvist finished with 27 saves.
"We gutted it out and Hank made some big saves," Ryan Callahan said.
With the score tied at 2, Dan Girardi's power-play slap shot from the left point 59 seconds into the third restored the Rangers' lead to 3-2 (they had led 2-0 midway through the second period). Derick Brassard, who has five points in the last two games, fed Girardi for his second assist of the game, while Jason Chimera was in the penalty box. As time expired in the second period, Chimera had shoved Anton Stralman into the net.
"Brass made a heck of a play to get it to the middle," Girardi said. "I knew I was going to shoot far side. It just happened to go in."
Derek Stepan cashed in on a pretty passing play at 6:02 after Hagelin's touch pass, with Braden Holtby (30 saves) and defenseman Jack Hillen down in the crease, for a 4-2 lead. But Mathieu Perreault, with his second of the game, trimmed the lead to 4-3 with 12:29 left.
The Rangers dominated territorial play for the first half of the game and not only led in shots 22-9 but 2-0 on the scoreboard on goals by Brad Richards and Carl Hagelin, who had three points. But the Capitals rallied in the second period.
Troy Brouwer tied the score at 2 with just 17.1 seconds left in the second, after Mike Green kept a clearing try in at the blue line -- a call that Brian Boyle disputed. Brouwer cut across the slot and his backhander found the net past Lundqvist's glove.
The Capitals mounted sustained pressure in the Rangers' zone after Ward set up a goal to cut the Rangers' lead in half when he stormed down the left side, faked a shot and went around a sliding Michael Del Zotto at the doorstep. Lundqvist made the save, but Perreault was alone at the right post for the tap-in at 13:08
It turned into a close game, in part because the Rangers did not capitalize on a five-on-three at the end of the first period that carried into the second.
Leading 1-0, Del Zotto was sent off for tripping with 3:11 left, but Callahan, on the third shorthanded rush off the penalty kill, was pulled down by Martin Erat. Alex Ovechkin crashed into both of them from behind and was whistled for charging (Erat was injured on the play and did not return).
When Del Zotto came out of the box, the Rangers had a five-on-three and Holtby made two big saves near the end of the two-man advantage. There was 26 seconds left, which carried over to the second period, but the Blueshirts could not add to their lead.
Hagelin, with his second of the series, gave the Rangers the 2-0 lead at 10:13 of the second period from the left side, hammering a cross-ice feed from Brassard high glove side past Holtby. Ryane Clowe, playing his first game since being injured on April 25, set up the play with a pass to Brassard.
Holtby's gaffe late in the first period led to a goal by Brad Richards, his first of the playoffs.
"I think our resiliency really has shown in these past two games," John Tortorella said.


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November is that month when a lot of people try their hand at writing a novel. The task of writing fifty thousand words might seem easy at first, but you'll (undoubtedly) get stuck somehow. A part that's missing, a part that doesn't work, or maybe the words don't want to flow anymore. It's easy to lose motivation, and when you get behind with your word count, you might even start to panic.
So here are some useful tips for successful NaNoWriMoing.
1. Tell everyone you're writing a novel. Your relatives, your friends, the mailman, the landlady, anyone needs to know. Tell them you're going to do it in just one month. The more you tell people about this crazy endeavor of yours, the more likely it is that some of them will keep asking you about it. And you don't want to disappoint them, do you? This is a good way to keep you motivated.
2. Outline, make a plan, or just come up with a bunch of ideas of scenes. But don't overdo it. I found that the more I know about a story (or the more I tell people all about it,) the less I feel the need to write it down. I have 3-4 different ideas for novels that plot-wise are complete, but I don't feel like writing them. Indeed, this might not be your case, but for me every story I write has to feel like an adventure, a journey of discovery.
3. Make time to write. No matter what. No excuses.
4. Don't check your word count every ten seconds or less. Just write.
5. If you don't write enough, don't panic. Don't try too hard to write more the next day. Just write. Take a deep breath, relax, and write. Some days you'll write five thousand words, some days you'll write only a single sentence. It's called being balanced in an artistically unbalanced manner.
6. Experiment. A lot. Write at night, write in the morning, write in the bus. Try to find out what setting and time of day inspire you most. You'll never know if you don't try.
7. Remember, NaNoWriMo is for fun. No one expects you (and you're not supposed) to write a brilliant novel. Set out to have fun, to write a crappy first draft. In that regard, don't worry about plot holes and inconsistencies and characters dying twice in the same chapter. That's what editing is for.
8. Don't edit. Just write. It'll make it much easier for you to reach your goal. Actually, don't even think. Just write.
9. If you get stuck, don't panic. It will come to you. Do a brainstorming session, go out, have some fun, drink a couple of beers, play some darts. Read some books, watch a movie. You never know what might inspire you. If you have the time, fall in love, get your heart broken. That usually helps quite a lot.
10. Last but not least, don't let people read your novel. Not now. That's why it's called work in progress. You don't want feedback now, you don't want people to tell you what's wrong with your story (that way you'll either be tempted to revise, or even worse, give up). Just write. That's the most important tip of all: just write.


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in which the law of unintended consequences takes its nasty course
You may remember that a few weeks ago, Congolese President Joseph Kabila suspended all mining in the country's eastern North Kivu, South Kivu, and Maniema provinces. This ban was ostensibly undertaken to curtail the use of mineral exploitation as a means of financing the region's various and sundry rebel movements.
But then it turned out that it actually wasn't a ban on all mining; rather, only the activities of artisanal miners were put to a stop.
Predictably, this didn't go over well with the 50,000 or so people who suddenly found themselves out of a job. That's because mining in the eastern Congo is not simply an activity in which warlords engage; it's part of the regional economy. Without mining, people don't eat. And that includes people who are in no way directly involved in the mining industry. As one Western donor told Reuters, "It's already damaging the economy in the east so badly we are considering humanitarian aid."
Now Martin Kabwelulu, the Minister of Mines, says that he will allow mining to resume in the provinces around October 15. He says this can be done because:
"...we have stopped some of the illegal mining and put in place measures so that when we re-start we want to be sure that the production is coming from one known source and going to the next stage. We had to improve our control because there was total chaos."And the DRC government - which, let's remember, has been incapable of really controlling the east for the last 16 years - managed to do this in less than a month?
Clearly the question we should be asking is not whether the mining ban will stop all the violence in the east (it hasn't), but rather who is now benefiting from the trade. The source of most violence and human rights violations in the Kivus for the past few years has not been rebel groups, but rather is the national army itself. Since presumably Kabila couldn't take control of the mineral trade without the army, odds are that they're now getting a cut of the profits.
Most observers also believe that the detente between Kabila and Kagame (which ended fighting in January 2009, which is why Nkunda is under house arrest outside Kigali rather than marauding in North Kivu) almost certainly involved some guarantee of Rwandan access to Congolese minerals since Rwanda lacks minerals of its own and needs the revenue. I seriously doubt that access will be permanently cut off any time in the near future, especially given the fairly credible reports that Rwandan troops are currently in North Kivu to support (read: force) the redeployment of CNDP troops who've been integrated into the FARDC.
Meanwhile, many civil society and community leaders in the region are distressed over the loss of livelihoods for thousands and thousands of Congolese who were already on the brink of starvation. As a general concept, just about everyone agrees that allowing the population to benefit from the mineral trade would be a good thing for the region. But the actual steps to doing that - especially when it's not at all clear that these latest measures will benefit the population - are quite harmful to normal people. Without institutions in place to ensure the rule of law, the fair distribution of resources and resource revenues, and basic security, as civil society leaders in Walikale pointed out, this move was premature.
This series of events also underscores the need for advocates not to oversimplify narratives, which is exactly what happened with the story of conflict minerals and the consumer's capacity to change the DRC. The legislation passed in the US this year made it seem to the DRC government that they had to do something about the situation, but the lack of serious institution-building support on the part of the US government -which passed an ill-conceived law without addressing any of the underlying issues that actually drive fighting in the region - coupled with the DRC's massive norms of corruption in almost every sector means that the government's actions are likely to only cause a shift in who exploits the minerals on the backs of the population. It's certainly not going to bring about peace or help the DRC's poor.
In the short term, this decision created very serious suffering for the population who was dependent on their work in the mines. I have no doubt that children have become malnourished - and may die - as a direct consequence of the ban. You cannot cut off an entire sector of a weak economy overnight without severe consequences, and the most vulnerable are hit the worst by shocks like this one. That's why it's so terribly important for advocates, policy makers, and politicians to get it right.


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What's So Funny About a Number Sentence?
Comedian Louis C.K. recently went on a social-media rant about the Common Core State Standards and testing, as my colleague Catherine Gewertz blogged this week.
Within the Twitter barrage of complaints was a jarring one about how his kids used to love math, but "now it makes them cry."
The New Yorker ran a piece today about C.K.'s recent standards outrage. Rebecca Mead wrote:
Math looks different these days from when Louis C.K. and his contemporaries attended school, and many similarly aged parents have found themselves puzzled by the manner in which math concepts are being presented to this generation of learners as well as perplexed as to how to offer the most basic assistance when their children are struggling with homework. If you are over the age of twenty and not yourself a teacher, it is unlikely that you will have an intuitive facility with a "number line," or know how to write a "number sentence," or even understand what is meant by the omnipresent directive to "show your work."
Comedian Stephen Colbert, in his faux-conservative persona, made a similar joke in his own common-core bit recently, saying, "If you don't know what a number sentence is, you could use a word equation or formula paragraph."
But the thing is, I'm not sure the claim in the New Yorker makes any sense. Despite being more than a decade over the age of 20, I distinctly remember my math teachers telling me to show my work, especially on tests. And when I was a classroom teacher, years before the common core came to be, I certainly taught with number lines and called equations number sentences.
But the kicker? The phrase "number sentence" doesn't appear in the common standards even once.
It's true that the common core requires some elementary math topics to be taught in nontraditional ways. I've had many discussions with teachers about the emphasis on understanding place value over calculation, and know this can be confusing to parents, too. I've heard that teachers are learning to ask new kinds of questions and that they're still a bit perplexed about the new progression to algebra, which begins earlier than it used to in most places. I've heard that some kindergarten teachers don't quite understand why the first standard in the math common core asks children to count to 100 by 10s. (Note: This language is part of a cluster under the heading "Counting and Cardinality," so it's not necessarily the first thing kindergartners need to learn.)
More than anything, I've heard talk about the new way of teaching fractionsnow beginning in 3rd grade rather than several years later. Three math teachers told me, completely independently of each other, that they themselves didn't know why "invert and multiply" worked for dividing fractions until they learned how to draw a picture of it.
The common standards do ask elementary students to represent fractions and decimals on left-to-right number linesand that may be different than what some parents and teachers are used to doing. But the number line itself is not a new concept.
As for number sentences and having students show their work, from what I can tell, these are not keeping anyone up at night.
As always, please share your thoughts by posting a comment below.


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Friday, February 10, 2012
Meaningful Literacy Experiences - Winter Style!
Jan Brett's The Hat
This horse is wishing for a "hat" like Hedgie's.
He can find one on the clothesline!
Hedgie laughs and says, "Don't they know that animals should never wear clothes?"
Denise Fleming's The First Day of Winter
Predicting (our focus during the month of January) what snowman accessories are hidden under the sheet.
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Statement from LaVarne A. Burton, President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Kidney Fund
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, May 31, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ — Nearly 200 Congressional Democrats and Republicans sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price this week in a very strong bipartisan effort to urge that HHS protect the right of Americans to rely on help from charities to afford health insurance coverage.
On behalf of the patients we serve—low-income people who need dialysis to stay alive—we are grateful to Reps. Kevin Cramer and Doris Matsui for their leadership on this issue, and to each of the members of Congress who put patients ahead of politics by signing on to the letter.
Americans with life-threatening chronic conditions are facing a crisis in 2017. Increasingly, these policyholders are receiving letters from health insurance companies telling them that no longer will they be allowed to use charitable assistance to pay their insurance premiums. Patients have lost coverage because they cannot pay the premiums on their own. This is a needless crisis that the federal government must address. We are heartened that 40 percent of the House chamber has turned its attention to finding a solution to this serious issue.
Insurers refusing to accept charitable premium assistance for people living with certain chronic illnesses is discriminatory and limits access to coverage for some of the poorest and sickest patients. By engaging in this discriminatory behavior, insurers are threatening the health and financial stability of their policyholders who are living with life-threatening conditions.
Why is this happening?
In 2014, HHS issued interim guidance on the topic of charitable premium assistance for plans in the Affordable Care Act marketplace exchanges. The interim guidance is highly ambiguous and unclear, and some insurers have interpreted it as being a license to refuse all charitable premium payments for certain high-cost patients. They are refusing charitable payments not just for exchange plans, but also for Medicare supplemental coverage and other insurance products.
Patient advocacy groups have been urging HHS for three years to clarify the guidance so that legitimate, bona fide nonprofits like the American Kidney Fund can continue assisting patients as we have for many years.
Charitable assistance provides a critical health safety net for our nation's citizens living with chronic diseases that are complicated and expensive to treat. Patients who cannot afford their health insurance or their medications should be able to turn to charities for help. They should not have to lose their homes, or declare bankruptcy, or spend down their life's savings to get the treatment they need. Insurers should not be permitted to shirk their responsibility to cover these patients, but when insurers tell people that a charity can't help them pay their premium, that's exactly what they are doing. The federal government must not allow this situation to stand.
AKF continues to condemn anecdotal reports of healthcare providers "steering" patients into private coverage by use of charitable assistance programs. AKF continues to take strong actions to guard against such behavior its own assistance program.
We must not lose sight of the fact that the primary issue at hand is that, because of insurers' discriminatory actions, low-income Americans with chronic illnesses are at risk of losing their health coverage. Secretary Price can take action to protect Americans' right to receive charitable assistance, while at the same time issuing sensible guidance to prevent health care providers or insurers from engaging in practices that interfere with patients choosing the plan that best meets their health care needs. The fact remains that of the 13 million people enrolled in Affordable Care Act plans, fewer than 4,000 nationwide are being assisted by the American Kidney Fund.
AKF has provided charitable premium assistance to low-income dialysis patients for two decades under a federally approved program. Without help from AKF, our grant recipients would not have access to the care they need and they would be financially devastated by kidney failure. Nearly two-thirds of AKF's grant recipients use AKF's help to pay their Medicare Part B and Medigap premiums. The remainder depend on AKF to stay insured under COBRA, employer plans and commercial plans, including a small number on the exchange.
It is important to note that the letter from Congress asks Secretary Price to clarify that charitable premium assistance from bona fide nonprofits should be available for all types of insurance plans. Insurers' recent actions to deny premium payments for Medicare supplemental insurance (Medigap) places Medicare patients in great jeopardy. People on Medicare who lose their Medigap coverage as a result of this issue will be exposed to an unlimited 20 percent out-of-pocket cost, a financially devastating proposition for dialysis patients who are treated three times per week and frequently see numerous physicians and specialists. Without Medigap coverage, dialysis patients on Medicare are also much less likely to be able to have a kidney transplant.
We are grateful to the Members of Congress who have taken action to protect their constituents, and we are hopeful that Secretary Price will provide sensible guidance to address this issue on behalf of low-income, chronically ill Americans. Needing charitable assistance should never disqualify any American from having access to appropriate health coverage.
About the American Kidney Fund
As the nation's leading nonprofit working on behalf of the 31 million Americans with kidney disease, the American Kidney Fund is dedicated to ensuring that every kidney patient has access to health care, and that every person at risk for kidney disease is empowered to prevent it. AKF provides a complete spectrum of programs and services: prevention outreach, top-rated health educational resources, and direct financial assistance enabling 1 in 5 U.S. dialysis patients to access lifesaving medical care, including dialysis and transplantation.
For more information, please visit www.KidneyFund.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Alice Andors
American Kidney Fund
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Source: EIN Presswire


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Report from Zach Bell at the UCI Center in Switzerland
Zach Bell and Gina Grain are doing their final preparation for the Beijing Olympic Games in Aigle Switzerland, and Zach sends the following report
"We are heading into the last days of preparation for the Games here at the UCI center in Aigle, Switzerland. The training has been going very well with Gina and I both getting just what we need at the Facilities with Richard's (Wooles) help and the help of the other staff here at the UCI center.
So far we have been balancing our time with track sessions and a fair amount of road work as well. Both have been very easy to get done due to the fantastic riding available here on the road and the great condition of the track. This situation has made focus on the task at hand easy and because of this the training goals are being met and we are going into the games with the best preparation we could have asked for.
Personally some highlights of the camp thus far have included listening to an Alpen Horn as I climbed up to the local Ski resort after a hard session on the track.
We still have a week here in Switzerland before we head to games and after the hard block of work last week we will be looking for some good quality on the track to sharpen ourselves for the games without building any fatigue. But as it stands Gina and I are both feeling very good about where we are leading into these last weeks before we compete thanks to the support of Richard and Cycling BC as well as the Canadian Olympic Committee, the CCA and all the other many people that have helped me get where I am today.
Thanks, Zach Bell"
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