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For Immediate Release
April 3, 2008
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KAMLOOPS – The Province is investing $18 million for a new library and First Nations House of Learning building at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Premier Gordon Campbell announced today."The creation of TRU as a university in 2005 has already had a positive impact on the Interior, ensuring a wide variety of programs are available for this vibrant and growing region of our province," said Campbell. "A new library and First Nations learning building will support the continued growth of TRU and help ensure Kamloops continues to be a centre of educational excellence for the B.C. Interior."
The new building will include 3,803 square metres of space for the library information and learning commons, including a tiered lecture theatre, and 1,556 square metres for First Nations business, technology and leadership programs. The new facility will be built to LEED Gold construction standards. The total cost will be $29.3 million, with the remaining funding coming from TRU and donors.
"The growth of TRU mirrors the growth of our community," said Claude Richmond, MLA for Kamloops and Minister of Employment and Income Assistance. "This latest expansion is another important step forward in the ongoing development of our university and the services it offers to students."
"This project will celebrate the First Nations heritage of our region, as well as support all students in their studies at TRU," said Kevin Krueger, MLA for Kamloops-North Thompson and Minister of State for Mining. "These investments are critical as we work to address the need for skilled, educated workers here in B.C."
"We are excited about these new projects since they will surely improve students' learning environments," said Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell. "We are investing more than ever before to improve opportunities for students to learn."
Originally the University College of the Cariboo, TRU was established in 2005 as the province's newest university. It serves more than 8,000 students and offers a wide variety of programs, including bachelor's and master's degrees, developmental programs, career programming and trades and apprenticeship training.
"When we transitioned to a university, we identified the need to improve our library and First Nations learning spaces," said Roger H. Barnsley, president and vice-chancellor of TRU. "We have a strong mandate to serve our region, and this new funding means we can continue to offer high-calibre, diverse educational opportunities for our students. These new facilities will mean a lot to our community."
Since 2001, the Province has provided more than $1 billion in new funding for 904 capital and research equipment projects on campuses throughout B.C. and has allocated almost $700 million in capital funding over the next three years to accommodate further growth and building renewal. To date, the Province has also funded almost 16,000 new seats at B.C.'s universities, colleges, and university colleges.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - The Arizona State University wrestling team opened the 2011 Lone Star Duals with a win in their first of four duals on the day as the Sun Devils downed Northern Colorado, 30-19, Saturday morning in Grand Prairie, Texas. The Sun Devils improved to 5-4 on the year while the Bears fell to 0-4 overall.

As it will be all day, the dual opened at 125 pounds where No. 2 Anthony Robles continued to dominate his opponents on the year. Robles moved to 19-0 with the 12th technical fall victory of the season as he downed Sam Bauer, 16-0, for a 5-0 team lead. After David Prado dropped a 6-1 decision at 133, ASU increased its lead to 11-3 at 141 as Kalin Goodsite won by forfeit.

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While ASU was down by two points with three matches to go, it did not matter as the Sun Devils swept the remaining three matches to collect 13 points and win the dual, 30-19. First up, Jake Meredith pinned his opponent in 4:05 in the 184 match for six points before Luke Macchiaroli won a 7-1 decision over Nick Bayer at 197 for three more points. The dual ended after Levi Cooper won a 12-3 major decision over Konner Knudtsen at heavyweight for the final four team points in the decision.

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133 - Casey Cruz (UNC) dec. David Prado, 6-1
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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has announced the 2014-2015 Monsanto Artists-in-Training class, for the program's 25th year. Chosen through a highly competitive audition process, 23 high school students from across the St. Louis region will engage in weekly college-level vocal coaching from faculty at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Washington University, Webster University, and University of Missouri–St. Louis. The program culminates in a recital and scholarship competition at Sheldon Concert Hall on Sunday April 19, 2015 at 3 pm, where awards of over $12,000 in scholarshipswill be distributed.
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National Audition Tour Begins for 2015 Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre
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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Welcomes the Addition of Three New Staff Members in Public Relations, Production, and Development
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Riding high on the success of his recently released film Kick, Salman Khan has decided to go all out and celebrate Eid in a grand manner this time. Usually, the actor only comes out to wave at his fans on the festival day but this time, he definitely has a different plan.
Of what we hear, Salman Khan is planning to throw a lavish party for his close family friends and Bollywood insiders at Galaxy, his Bandra house. He will be throwing the bash on the occasion of Eid which falls on Tuesday, with everyone congratulating him on his performance in his recent film. Kick which released last Friday has already earned Rs 83.50 crore at the box office and is looking at a full house on Eid.
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STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — Police in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain will not be able to use their radar guns for a year after state officials said the department failed to recertify the technology, a step that's required annually.
The problem calls into question the status of 384 tickets issued with radar guns that were not properly certified.
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kevin 2 years, 3 months ago
Then use an AK47. That technology works fine. Why should cops be made to use a BB gun while felons use automatic weapons against them?
FordGalaxy 2 years, 3 months ago
Kevin, did you read the story? What, exactly, does an AK-47 have to do with Stone Mountain police not being able to use radar guns to determine the actual speed of a suspected speeder?
jack 2 years, 3 months ago
To determine if someone's going faster than a speeding bullet?


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The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art is a modern and contemporary art museum located on the campus of St. Petersburg College in Tarpon Springs, Florida. The museum houses a permanent collection which includes paintings by Abraham Rattner and contemporary Florida sculpture [1] including modern art by Abraham Rattner, Esther Gentle, and Allen Leepa, as well as by Rattner's contemporaries, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Auguste Herbin, Georges Rouault, Hans Hofmann, and Max Ernst.[2]
The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art was the result of a gift of art belonging to Allen Leepa (1919–2009)[3] to the St. Petersburg Junior College (then a two-year community college) in 1996.[3] Leepa, a professor of art at Michigan State University from 1945 to 1983 and an abstract expressionist artist in his own right,[4] was the stepson of Abraham Rattner (1893–1978)[5] – a highly regarded 20th-century modern artist who was a friend and contemporary of Pablo Picasso and other early modernists in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s[2] – and the son of Esther Gentle (1899–1991),[6] a sculptor, painter and printmaker.[4] After his mother's death, Leepa inherited his stepfather's estate, which included works by Rattner and his contemporaries.[3]
R. Lynn Whitelaw served as the museum's first director. He was succeeded by Victoria Cooke in 2011 and Ann Larsen in 2013.
The museum's 20th-century collection is made up of art from the estate of Abraham Rattner, donated by Allen and Isabelle Leepa, along with a collection of over 2,000 words of art by Rattner, Leepa, and Gentle which the Leepas had previously donated to the Tampa Museum of Art in 1997 and which the Tampa museum donated to the Leepa-Rattner Museum before the latter's opening.[6] Rattner's retrospective works account for over 60% of the collection, including lithographs, tapestries, sculptures, clay works, paintings and stained glass.[2] Works by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, and others are kept in storage and exhibited from time to time.[6]
The museum was designed by Tampa architect Edward C. Hoffman Jr.[5] and built by Creative Contractors, Inc.[2] The interior of the museum resembles the bow of a ship, created by the effect of large skylights that sweep towards the rafters of the building. This image pays tribute to Tarpon Springs' fishing and sponge harvesting industries.[5]
The 53,000 square feet (4,900 m2) complex[2] consists of three buildings in one – the museum, the Ellis Foundation Art Education Center, and the Michael M. Bennett Library[7] – designed in such a way that the buildings appear as if they are pressed together.[2] The Tampa Bay chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented the 2002 H. Dean Rowe FAIA Award of Excellence to Hoffman Architects for the museum design.[8] On April 18, 2012, the American Institute of Architects' Florida Chapter placed the museum building on its list, "Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places[9]
- ^ "Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Targon Springs, Florida". Museums USA. 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f "About the Museum". Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ^ a b c Bennett, Lennie (30 June 2009). "Allen Leepa, founder of the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs, dies at age 90". Tampa Bay.com. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ^ a b "Metro's Museum Guide to Fine Arts & History". Tampa Bay Metro Magazine. 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ^ a b c Cataldo, Jamie L. (May–June 2000). "Art is a Draw: The Leepa-Rattner Museum". Tampa Bay Magazine: 159.
- ^ a b c Marger, Mary Ann (20 January 2002). "Pilgrim artist finds a home". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ^ Anderson, Anne W. (16 March 2010). Insiders' Guide to the Greater Tampa Bay Area: Including Tampa, St. Petersburg, & Clearwater. Insider's Guide. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-7627-5347-5.
- ^ "Design Award Winners – 1992 to Present" (PDF). American Institute of Architects, Tampa Bay Chapter. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
- ^ "Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places."" (PDF). American Institute of Architects, Florida Chapter. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
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Balcony seats are still available for Saturday April 27 and Sunday April 28 to see Charlotte's Web staged by Wild Swan Theater. The show is for grades K-5. Location is Towsley Auditorium. From the Wild Swan website: "Charlotte's Web is possibly the best loved of all American stories for children. Set in the rural Midwest, it tells the touching story of a rare friendship between a little pig, Wilbur, and Charlotte, a most uncommon spider. The magical words that Charlotte spins in her web not only earn Wilbur a county fair blue ribbon and save his life, but inspire all of us to value what we can share with each other." More information is here.


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New directors--Carl Icahn included--will meet Monday and Tuesday with likely topics being opposition to Google and Yahoo's proposed ad deal, The Wall Street Journal says.
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The Internet company, which is due to add two Carl Icahn-approved nominees to its board of directors on Friday, reportedly is close to that decision.
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From the September 18 edition of Fox Business' Varney & Company:
Over the past year, Fox News has repeatedly taken President Obama's remarks out of context or distorted his words in order to attack him. The Romney campaign has amplified several of these attacks, and in turn, Fox News has at times hyped those attacks.
The Daily Caller's dubious report suggesting a connection between a David Axelrod tweet about Gallup's polling methodology and a Justice Department lawsuit filed against that company found its way to Fox News, which embellished the already problematic story by fabricating the existence of direct communications between Axelrod and Gallup's employees.
On his Fox Business program this morning, Stuart Varney claimed that Axelrod, "reportedly furious" over a May Gallup poll unfavorable for President Obama, "personally contacted some Gallup employees who now say they felt threatened."
Here is the sum total of Axelrod comments cited, directly or indirectly, by the Daily Caller article Varney was pushing. Note how "furious" Axelrod appeared to be.
The Caller article did not show that Axelrod directly contacted anyone at Gallup at any time. While it alleged that internal Gallup emails show him "attempting to subtly intimidate" the firm, it provided no direct or indirect evidence that he actually spoke to anyone there. The piece referenced the tweet, and an email in which a Gallup employee mentioned that "the White House 'has asked' a senior Gallup staffer 'to come over and explain our methodology too," with another Gallup employee making a Godfather joke about Axelrod.
Given that the story is clearly being pushed by someone at Gallup who wants to attack the Obama administration, if such direct communications existed they would surely have been given to and then reported by the Caller article's author.
Even conservative bloggers have pointed out that the timeline the Caller article lays out regarding the DOJ's lawsuit against Gallup debunks the article's suggestion of a connection between that lawsuit and Axelrod's single tweet from four months earlier.
A new report from the Energy Information Administration finds that U.S. carbon emissions are at a 20-year low, in part because energy companies are transitioning from coal to natural gas. Fox is seizing on that news to claim that "the free market [is] cleaning up our air," and that the current availability of cheap natural gas undermines the need for government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say that a variety of factors contributed to the emissions drop, and that shifting to natural gas is not a long-term solution to climate change.
The Energy Information Administration announced earlier this month that U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions in early 2012 were the lowest measured for a January-March period since 1992. The report attributed the decline to a combination of three factors: reduced household heating demand during an unusually warm winter, a decline in coal generation due to low natural gas prices, and low gasoline demand as a result of a slowed economy and the shift towards more fuel-efficient vehicles.
But Fox is ignoring the confluence of factors and touting the decline as a triumph of the free market. A Fox Nation headline today declared: "Free Enterprise Makes the Air Cleaner." On Varney & Company, Fox Business contributor Charles Payne said: "The free market, cleaning up our air. Says a lot about the free market, doesn't it?" And on Money with Melissa Francis, Fox Business reporter Tracy Byrnes called the EIA report "proof that free markets can work better than government overregulation." Byrnes went on to ask her guest why carbon dioxide emissions -- which are not "poisonous" or "inflammable" -- are even a problem in the first place:
Members of the right-wing media have promoted the claim that President Obama has "gutted" Medicare in order to fund health care reform, while GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is attempting to preserve the program. In fact, though Obama and Ryan have advocated similar spending reductions, the Affordable Care Act would not affect Medicare benefits, while Ryan's plan is projected to harm current and future seniors' care.
During his Fox Business program today, Stuart Varney used deceptively edited video of President Obama praising government action on General Motors to wonder if Obama is advocating "bailouts for everyone." However, Fox didn't play the portion of Obama's remarks in which he made clear he wasn't proposing bailouts or government control of private industry. Obama instead proposed to keep jobs in America through tax code reform and "tax breaks to companies that are investing here."
Varney began the segment by asking, "Is President Obama really saying bailouts are good for everyone?" and then played Obama's remarks at a Colorado Springs, Colorado, event in which he said "the American auto industry has come roaring back" and "what we did with the auto industry, we can do it in manufacturing across America":
VARNEY: Is President Obama really saying bailouts are good for everyone? Listen to what he said yesterday and you decide.
OBAMA (VIDEO CLIP): I said, let's bet on America's workers, and we got management and workers to come together, making better cars than ever, and now GM is number one again, and the American auto industry has come roaring back. So now I want to say, I want to say, what we did with the auto industry, we can do it in manufacturing across America.
Varney responded by asking: "Really? Bailouts for everyone? More government help, that's the answer? Is that what the president is implying and saying?"
If Varney was unclear about what Obama was proposing to helping boost jobs, he probably shouldn't have cut off Obama's speech. Obama said moments later: "I don't want to outsource. I want to insource. Let's reform our tax code and let's make it simpler. And let's make sure that we're providing tax breaks to companies that are investing here in Colorado Springs, here in Colorado -- not overseas."
After hyping exaggerated claims about potential Keystone XL pipeline related jobs, Fox News is now simply inventing them. Fox is claiming that 114,000 U.S. veterans are heading north of the border to build the Canadian portion of the Keystone XL pipeline. In fact, the jobs are "not at all related to the Keystone pipeline," according to the company recruiting workers in Alberta, Canada.
Fox News got the story - and clearly did not check it - from Veterans of Foreign Wars, which sponsors the jobs-listing website, VetJobs, that partnered with the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation to advertise skilled-labor jobs available in Alberta. VFW's press release suggested the jobs would involve the Keystone XL pipeline, stating: "Though America's Keystone Pipeline is delayed, the Canadians are moving forward on their side of the border and have an immediate need for tens of thousands of workers." But in a phone conversation, VetJobs founder Ted Daywalt said he was not trying to imply that the jobs were related to the Keystone pipeline, and that media reports "jumped the gun."
As world leaders gather for the UN's Rio+20 Earth Summit this week in Brazil, Fox is taking the opportunity to once again deny the threat of climate change. Here's David Asman on Fox Business claiming "it's getting colder":
No. It's not.
Stuart Varney mocked the UK's Prince Charles for issuing a statement on the urgency of addressing climate change, arguing that he has no credibility on climate change because "he's not a scientist." But that's never stopped Fox.
From the April 16 edition of Fox Business' Varney & Co.:
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After the EPA proposed regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, several conservative media outlets claimed that the new rule would increase electricity prices for consumers by prohibiting the construction of coal plants without carbon dioxide controls. But economists and other analysts say that because low natural gas prices are already suppressing coal-plant growth, the rule will not significantly affect electricity rates.
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"Completely wrong." "Simply ignorant." "Scientifically incorrect." "Utter Nonsense." "Very odd." These are words scientists have used in the past to describe the nationally televised ramblings of weather forecaster Joe Bastardi, who Fox News hosts from time to time in an apparent effort to dismantle whatever its viewers might know about physics.
When we last saw Joe, he was breaking the news that the world's climate scientists had overlooked the first law of thermodynamics. (He was wrong.) After a thorough round of mockery in the blogosphere, we thought surely Fox would throw away Bastardi's phone number. But here he is on Fox Business this morning, declaring that carbon dioxide "literally cannot cause global warming":
BASTARDI: CO2 cannot cause global warming. I'll tell you why. It doesn't mix well with the atmosphere, for one. For two, its specific gravity is 1 1/2 times that of the rest of the atmosphere. It heats and cools much quicker. Its radiative processes are much different. So it cannot -- it literally cannot cause global warming.
Asked about Bastardi's statements, Kerry Emanuel of MIT said: "Utter rubbish. Sorry to be so direct, but that is just the case." NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt added: "Bastardi is attempting to throw out 150 years of physics." "He seems very confused," said physicist Richard Muller.
Fox News is calling for President Obama to somehow require a single national blend of gasoline instead of the multiple blends tailored for seasonal and local pollution conditions in accordance with the Clean Air Act Amendments and state regulations. But doing so would lead to increased pollution or increased gas prices and disrupt what a Bush administration task force called a "cost-effective" approach to cleaner air.
As income disparities continue to increase, and the effective tax rate paid by the rich remains at historic lows, right-wing media figures work hard to make sure none of that changes. They routinely attack the poor and programs designed to assist them, while simultaneously extolling the rich and defending them against any attempt to get them to pay their fair share of taxes.
In its latest attack on American electric vehicles, Fox is echoing claims that the Chevy Volt is costing American taxpayers $250,000 per vehicle in subsidies and tax incentives.
Fox's source is a wildly inflated estimate from James Hohman of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, an oil-funded, conservative think tank known for its "low quality" research.
By the author's own admission, Mackinac's analysis uses "simple math": "I added the known state and federal incentives that have been offered and divided by the number of Volts sold." Hohman also acknowledged on Fox Business that he is "not an expert on the auto industry." But it doesn't take expertise to realize that Hohman's methodology is deeply flawed.
First, he does not take into account future Volt sales, which, as Fox Business' Stuart Varney pointed out, will substantially reduce the cost-per-vehicle number. In the coming months, GM plans to expand manufacturing plants and increase production of the Volt to keep up with rising demand from dealerships. As production and sales ramp up, the per-vehicle subsidy cost will continually drop.
Furthermore, the $3 billion figure includes a broad range of state and federal incentives not only to GM, but to any company supplying parts for the Volt. For example, it includes $100 million in tax credits and subsidies to Compact Power, which manufactures lithium ion batteries for the Volt. But the company also supplies batteries to several other automakers, including Ford, Renault, and Hyundai. Therefore, it is misleading to include the full $100 million as government support for the Volt.


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Your 16-year-old wants a credit card for essential shopping trips and school excursions. That way, she explains ever so reasonably, she doesn't have to carry wads of cash or drag you along to the mall, and she's covered in case of an emergency.
Meanwhile, you envision wild spending sprees and whopping credit card bills. Should parents ever add teens as secondary card holders to their accounts? The answer depends on a variety of factors, and there is no correct answer for everyone. Here's what you should consider:
Financial experience before credit card
Children who have handled a savings account, earned money from household chores or a part-time job, and saved money for special purchases are better prepared for handling financial responsibility than those who haven't had any experience with making and saving money. Make sure your child is grounded in some basic money know-how before handing over a credit card. Have you taught your child about interest rates and how credit cards work?
Your kid's maturity
Kids mature at widely varying rates. Consider your child's personality and maturity level. Can you trust your kid to keep track of a credit card and follow your limits for credit card use? Not sure if they'll be able to handle it? This may not be the area you want to give them a chance to prove you wrong.


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MBA/MPH in Global Health and Management
The Master of Business Administration/Master of Public Health in Global Health dual degree program is offered by the Health Sector Management Program in the School of Management and the Global Health Department in the School of Public Health.
The MBA/MPH is an accelerated, full-time program leading to the award of both the MBA and the MPH degrees in two years, including the summers preceding and following the second full academic year.
The goal of the MBA/MPH full-time program is to provide students with a solid foundation in both management and public health in an integrated, structured curriculum that focuses on international health systems and global health issues. Students will have the opportunity to apply management skills to practical challenges in their field of programmatic interest.
The dual degree requires the completion of a minimum of 80 credits between the schools.
MBA Core Programs
During the first year, MBA/MPH Health Policy and Management (HPM) candidates will take foundational MBA courses in the Graduate School of Management (GSM). During the summer after the first year, students will complete a required internship through the School of Management. In the second year, students will take additional MBA coursework for a total of 46 credits across the two years. Students must maintain a 2.70 GPA (B-) to be considered in good academic standing at GSM.
MBA Core Courses – Required:
- GSM AC710 Financial Reporting and Analysis (3 cr)
- GSM ES721 Teaming (0 cr)
- GSM ES722 Executive Communication (0 cr)
- GSM ES723 Career Management (0 cr)
- GSM ES724 Professional Skills (1 cr)
- GSM FE721 Finance 1 (3 cr)
- GSM IS710 IT Strategies for a Networked Economy (3 cr)
- GSM MG700 Ethical and Global Foundations (1 cr)
- GSM MG790 Ethical Leadership in a Global Economy (3 cr)
- GSM MK723 Marketing Management (3 cr)
- GSM OB713 Managing Organizations and People (3 cr)
- GSM OM725 Creating Value Through Operations and Technology (3 cr)
- GSM PL700 Introduction to Business Law (2 cr)
- GSM PL727 Organizations, Markets, and Society (3 cr)
- GSM QM716 Business Analytics: Data Analysis and Risk (3 cr)
- GSM SI750 Competition, Innovation, and Strategy (3 cr)
- One (1) general MBA elective of your choice (3 cr)
Health Sector Management Courses – Required:
- GSM HM703 Health Sector Issues and Opportunities (3 cr)
- GSM HM710 Health Service Delivery: Strategies, Solutions, and Execution (3 cr)
- One (1) Health Sector Management elective course (3 cr)
The following Graduate School of Management courses are approved for elective credit at the School of Public Health; MBA/MPH students must complete at least 15 credits (5 courses) from this list of courses while completing School of Management coursework:
- HM710 Health Service Delivery: Strategies, Solutions, and Execution (3 cr)
- HM817 Health Information Technology (3 cr)
- HM833 Health Sector Marketing (3 cr)
- HM840 Health Sector Consulting (3 cr)
- IM852 Global Social Enterprise Field Seminar Brazil (3 cr)
- IM853 Indian Field Seminar (3 cr)
- AC840 Nonprofit Financial Management (3 cr)
MPH Core Courses
MBA/MPH GH candidates will be required to successfully complete (B- or better) the following MPH core courses in the School of Public Health and must earn a 3.0 cumulative grade point average at the School of Public Health.
- SPH EP 713 Introduction to Epidemiology (3 cr)
- SPH EH 717 Introduction to Environmental Health (3 cr)
- SPH LW 751 Public Health Law (4 cr) or SPH LW 719, Essentials of Public Health Law (3 cr)
- SPH IH 720 Social and Behavioral Science for Global Public Health (4 cr)
Due to overlapping coursework, two MPH core course requirements for the MPH degree (the biostatistics core course and the health policy and management core course) are satisfied through School of Management coursework.
Global Health Concentration and Culminating Experience
MBA/MPH Global Health candidates will be required to complete a minimum of 20 approved credits in the Global Health track, including:
- SPH IH 704, a 4-credit class taken during the first year's Spring Semester, which provides an introduction to organizing and financing health systems and medical care delivery in low- and middle-income countries.
- At least 16 credits from approved elective course options taken during the second year. MBA/MPH students will be encouraged to work with their faculty advisor to choose an area of focus within global health and complete their credits in this area of focus.
- A culminating experience (CE) project during the second year spring semester that synthesizes learning from prior courses and internship. The faculty advisor will assist students in identifying possible projects and client organizations. The student will develop a scope of work to address a practical problem facing a country or an individual organization in the global health field. Once the scope of work is approved, the student will undertake the project including background research, applying business models and analytical skills, and presenting findings in a written report. The experience includes an industry analysis, documentation of networking opportunities, career plans, and an explanation of experiences that the student brings to potential employers. This culminating experience may be taken for up to two credits. If the CE is taken for credit, it counts toward the 16 credits of elective courses.
MBA/MPH students must take all courses that they wish to count toward the MPH at the School of Public Health. No courses taken outside of the School of Public Health will count toward the MPH, including courses taken at other Boston University schools and colleges.
Summer Internship/Practice Requirement
Students will fulfill the Master of Public Health practicum requirement through the School of Management summer internship program after the first year. This summer internship requirement includes 400 hours of on-site work, which is greater than the requirement for SPH student practice placement on-site work. Students will be strongly encouraged to work overseas with a global health nongovernmental organization, private company engaging in a public-private partnership, multilateral or bilateral donor agency, or international financial institution. To allow adequate time for an overseas internship, no other coursework is scheduled for the summer after the first year.
Applicants must apply simultaneously to the School of Public Health and the School of Management. Separate application to both schools is required.


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I never have my head in the clouds cause they could go gray
from Elzhi – Detroit State of Mind Lyrics on Genius
This is a really clever line.
Elzhi says he never has his head in the clouds dreaming and wishing, because both his hair and the clouds could go gray at any instant.
When hair turns gray, it's either from old age (spending your whole life dreaming) or stress (when shit gets hard in his neighborhood). When clouds turn gray, it's a sign that a storm is coming, and bad things are on the way.
So kids, be like Elzhi, and stay down to Earth.
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A Moral Adventure
Is Barack Obama as much of a foreign-policy realist as he thinks he is?
- By James TraubJames Traub is a fellow of the Center on International Cooperation. "Terms of Engagement," his column for ForeignPolicy.com, runs weekly. Follow his Twitter feed at @JamesTraub1 or his presidential alter ego at jqaspeaks.tumblr.com.
Late in the summer of 2007, I watched Barack Obama speak to a small crowd gathered in the backyard of a supporter in Salem, New Hampshire. He had a lot to say about foreign affairs. Abroad as at home, he said, we need "a new ethic of mutual responsibility" based on the recognition that "we have a stake in each other." Thus the need to reinvigorate the United Nations, increase foreign aid, and end torture. Afterward I asked him whether that ethic really arose from pragmatic calculation, as opposed to moral duty. "You don't want to oversimplify it," he told me. But it was true, he went on, that U.S. national security was tied to human security across the globe. Failing states produced transnational problems, including massive refugee flows and epidemic disease. And because how people in poor or abused countries felt about their own lives would shape their attitudes toward the West, it behooved the United States to address their suffering. "The hard case," he added, "may be convincing people that we can do anything about it."
I thought back to that conversation when I listened to Obama's March 28 Libya speech. At its core was the president's assertion that "it was not in our national interest" to permit Muammar al-Qaddafi's troops to carry out a massacre in Benghazi. But what was that interest? After all, Defense Secretary Robert Gates had said only the day before that the United States did not have a "vital" interest in Libya, while critics of the mission have ridiculed the notion that Americans should be pouring scarce resources into a civil war in one of the least strategically significant countries in the region. A lot of things, after all, are in America's national interest; why act here?
Obama labored to explain how failing to act in Libya could compromise U.S. interests: A massacre in Benghazi would have "driven thousands of additional refugees across Libya's borders," endangering democratic transitions in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia; emboldened regional autocrats to resist calls for reform; and undermined the credibility of the U.N. Security Council, which had called for action. Those are hardly trivial concerns; but — as arch-realist Ted Koppel pointed out on Meet the Press on March 27 — 700,000 people had already fled the violence in Ivory Coast, where the United States had no thoughts of intervening; and inaction in Libya could add only a mite of damage to a Security Council that had watched while Darfur burned.
In short, Obama's application of conventional definitions of national interest wasn't much more convincing than it had been in my conversation with him four years ago. Perhaps, then, the realist critics are right: Obama has embarked on a moral adventure, and quite possibly an ill-fated one, under the flimsy cover of national interest. And it's certainly true that Obama has the "liberal" view — now shared by neoconservatives — that American power must at times be used for moral purposes, which is to say for the benefit of others rather than to advance American interests. That is why, right after the assertion about national interest, he added, with uncharacteristic passion, "I refused to let that happen." Obama believes — like virtually all presidents, to be sure — that the United States has a singular moral status that carries with it singular obligations. "Some nations" might ignore atrocities abroad, he declared. (Obama is addicted to this particular straw-man device.) "The United States of America is different." Realists cringed.
Of course it's in the interests of any state to act in conformity with its own expressed principles — even George Kennan would concede that. But Kennan, who was no fan of democracy, practiced diplomacy, and wrote about it, in an era when statecraft took place behind closed doors; the American public knew virtually nothing, for example, about the vast world of intelligence activities and shadowy diplomacy during the Cold War. Today's advocates of realpolitik often write as if this continues to be true — as if the United States incurs no real costs for publicly supporting friendly autocrats. The deep anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Middle East, where the U.S. government supported hated rulers for decades, proves the contrary. In fact, as Obama said in that backyard in Salem, the way the United States is seen to behave in the world enormously affects its capacity to shape events. That's a national interest, whether or not you call it "vital."
Indeed, no president has ever been as acutely sensitive to this species of "soft power" as Obama, whose early speeches were full of the imagery of outsiders looking at the United States — of the "desperate faces" of people in remote countries gazing up at an American helicopter, feeling hope or perhaps hate. One of Obama's mistakes early on was to put too much stock in the idea that the world was looking at him — his face, his voice, his biography — as evidence of American renewal. That was why his June 2009 Cairo speech was long on autobiography and noble sentiment, and short on new proposals. And the speech, so giddily received at home and, initially, abroad, did very little to change the way the United States was seen in the Middle East.
Obama has learned that only deeds will change America's standing in the world. The Libyan intervention was such a deed, and was certainly intended to be seen as such. The politics of the decision were at least as compelling as the morals; in a setting where Western military power really could prevent mass killings and where — unlike Iraq — Arab neighbors were imploring the United States to intervene, the failure to act would have been understood across the Middle East as a decisive statement of American indifference. Is the calculus of national interest there really so complicated?
A lot of the talk-show chatter beats up on Obama for moral inconsistency: Why Libya and not Ivory Coast, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Some of those critics would like to see more intervention, but most would like to see less, or none. I'm pretty sure, for example, that Koppel wasn't advocating bombing Abidjan. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Michael Doyle recently asserted that the "slaughter of civilians" does not "automatically qualify" as a threat to international peace and security, and so should not trigger Security Council action. Would the United States protect its vital interests better by adopting such a view, keeping its powder dry until some hypothetical Rwanda-level genocide came along? The answer is obvious — and Obama gave it by observing that the fact that the United States can't always act to stop mass violence "cannot be an argument for never acting." Rather, he said, the United States will "measure our interests against the need for action."
It's not a simple calculus. Obama might have saved more Libyan lives by acting earlier, before the Arab League and the Security Council had authorized an intervention. But by reminding the world of the Iraq invasion, carried out without U.N. support, he would have generated enmity that might have doomed the mission over time. The same is true with making regime change the explicit goal of the bombing campaign; doing so would rupture the coalition and lose Arab support. But at the same time, agreeing to limit the mission to humanitarian protection has trapped Obama in a contradiction, because he has openly called for Qaddafi to leave. And if the bombing succeeds in protecting civilians but Qaddafi stays in power, the mission will inevitably be seen as a failure — thus damaging American prestige. The skeptics who have predicted that the battle will end in a stalemate have a point — but not a good enough point to justify inaction.
We need to examine the premise that realism is realistic. Realists like to think that they look out for America's interests while progressives, or whatever you call the other side — and it badly needs a presentable name — have a moralistic preoccupation with America's values. Maybe Eugene McCarthy, the Vietnam-era dove who ran for president in 1968, was such a progressive; Obama certainly isn't, which is why, even as the United States attacks Libya, the White House has preserved a careful neutrality toward Bahrain and Yemen, key allies that have brutally repressed mass protest. But there's a price to be paid for that, too. Arab citizens are no longer passive or resigned. And they will increasingly judge the United States not on remote but emotionally charged issues like Palestine or counterterrorism policy, but on the way American policy affects their own lives and prospects. A ruthlessly realist calculator would say that the United States would be well advised to put itself on the right side of history.
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Josh Rogin covers national security and foreign policy and writes the daily Web column The Cable. His column appears bi-weekly in the print edition of The Washington Post. He can be reached for comments or tips at email@example.com.
Previously, Josh covered defense and foreign policy as a staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, writing extensively on Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, U.S.-Asia relations, defense budgeting and appropriations, and the defense lobbying and contracting industries. Prior to that, he covered military modernization, cyber warfare, space, and missile defense for Federal Computer Week Magazine. He has also served as Pentagon Staff Reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading daily newspaper, in its Washington, D.C., bureau, where he reported on U.S.-Japan relations, Chinese military modernization, the North Korean nuclear crisis, and more.
A graduate of George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, Josh lived in Yokohama, Japan, and studied at Tokyo's Sophia University. He speaks conversational Japanese and has reported from the region. He has also worked at the House International Relations Committee, the Embassy of Japan, and the Brookings Institution.
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Critical Review by Jack Kroll
SOURCE: "You Gotta Have Heart," in Newsweek, Vol. CXX, No. 18, November 2, 1992, p. 104.
In the following review of The Sisters Rosensweig, which premiered at New York's Lincoln Center under the direction of Daniel Sullivan, Kroll maintains that Wasserstein's female characters are poorly developed and that the play's humor, while entertaining, evades rather than confronts serious issues.
There's a fine borderline between entertaining an audience and ingratiating oneself with it. In her new play The Sisters Rosensweig Wendy Wasserstein violates that border. Wasserstein, who won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for her play The Heidi Chronicles, has dealt deftly with the thorny ironies of the young feminist middle class. But in her new play she settles for—no, insists on—the clever laugh, the situation that charms rather than challenges. The play deals with three Jewish-American sisters celebrating the 54th birthday of the eldest, Sara, in London, where she's become a big-shot banker. Sara (Jane Alexander) has been on the cover of Fortune, but her emotional life is in a spiritual safe-deposit box. Pfeni (Frances McDormand) is a travel writer who restlessly ricochets between the world's flash points. Gorgeous (Madeline Kahn) is a housewife who's embarked on a radio career as Dr. Gorgeous, a kind of non-Teutonic Dr. Ruth. Consider the possibilities.
Wasserstein considers them, evokes them and then gaily abandons them with gags and banter that use her undoubted comedic gifts to evade rather than confront. The breakup of the Soviet Union, the American recession, the plight of the homeless, the question of Jewish identity, the problem of bisexuality—all these are embodied in specific situations, and all are disposed of with a winsome superficiality that would look one-dimensional in sitcom land.
Mervyn Kane (Robert Klein), a faux furrier who falls for Sara, speaks of the anti-Semitism he's encountered in his travels. So? So nothing, there's no follow-through—Wasserstein can't wait to get to a party scene where she dispenses shop-worn gossip about hanky-panky between Laurence Olivier and Danny Kaye. Pfeni's improbable affair with a bisexual English director ends even more improbably when he informs her that a lecture he gave to a women's club made him realize that "I miss men." Wasserstein even commits the mortal sin of betraying her own characters. In a cheap-laugh scene, she has Tess (Julie Dretzin), Sara's idealistic daughter, give up her "revolutionary" zeal, putting on the Bergdorfian baubles of her aunt Gorgeous.
Such japery demeans the work of this gifted writer. In her collection of essays, Bachelor Girls, she confesses that "being funny for me [has] always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed." Director Daniel Sullivan and a notable cast can't conquer the play's final effect of likability smothering substance. Wasserstein's most appealing character is Merv the furrier, played with fine with and heart by comic Robert Klein. It's nice to see a feminist writer show her pivotal female character saved by a real mensch.
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Marcellus Fee Plans Largely Benefit Eight Drilling Counties
New report finds this approach is a departure for state tax policy and out of sync with most voters
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — This week, the state Legislature will vote on a 2011-12 budget that makes deep cuts to schools and human services, despite a growing economy and a $550 million revenue surplus.
One item not on the voting schedule is a Marcellus Shale drilling tax or fee. Lawmakers say they will take up that issue in the fall, but the leading proposals now being debated in Harrisburg are problematic.
According to a new report from the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, those plans would give the lion's share of local funding to only eight drilling counties, while doing nothing to address state cuts to education and local services. View the report here: http://ow.ly/5rjAa.
Most voters see a drilling tax as a means to avoid cuts to education, early childhood and other state-funded services. A Quinnipiac poll released this month finds that 69% of voters would support a new tax on drilling companies to balance the state budget.
"For the second year, state lawmakers have failed to tap gas drillers to avoid cuts to public schools and vulnerable people, despite widespread public support for this approach," said PBPC Director Sharon Ward. "Instead, lawmakers are promoting narrowly-targeted bills that benefit a small share of Pennsylvanians, and leave other taxpayers to foot a larger bill for education and drilling-related impacts."
Few Benefit from Drilling Fee Proposals
The PBPC report looks at the demographic and economic characteristics of Marcellus and non-Marcellus counties and tracks the distribution of local revenue in leading Marcellus Shale impact fee legislation.
Only 16% of the Commonwealth's population resides in 24 Marcellus shale counties, defined as having more than 10 wells. 84% of Pennsylvanians live in the 43 non-Marcellus counties. Non-Marcellus counties have been the state's economic engines, accounting for 84% of population and 86% of the major state tax collections. Workers in these counties earned 89% of state wages in 2009, the last year for which data are available.
The report looks at the distribution of local share revenue in leading Marcellus Shale impact fee bills. SB 1100, sponsored by Senator Joseph Scarnati, allocates 75% of the local share revenue in 2012, $44.3 million, to just eight counties. Sixteen counties would split $14.2 million, while eight of the state's remaining 43 counties would receive less than $1 million in total.
Representative Marguerite Quinn's bill, HB 1700, limits the local share to half of all revenue raised from the fee, but provides more revenue, $89 million, to the top eight gas-drilling counties; $28.6 million to the next 16 counties; but only $1.5 million to the state's remaining 43 counties.
"The natural gas deposits in the Marcellus Shale are a Pennsylvania resource that should benefit all Pennsylvanians, not just a select few," said Neal Bisno, President of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania. "The people support a fair tax on these drillers. With the draconian budget cuts the Governor has proposed, the people need these revenues now more than ever."
The report found that Marcellus area residents are as likely and, in some cases more likely, to use General Fund services, including education and health care.
Marcellus counties are home to a greater share of school districts that receive a higher ratio of aid from the state to support K-12 education. Two-thirds of school districts in the Marcellus Shale regions have state aid ratios of 60% or more, compared to just 45% of districts in non-Marcellus counties.
"Most state taxpayers will benefit little from these drilling fee proposals," Ward said. "But they will be forced to pay more for their own schools, while continuing to subsidize school districts in the gas-rich region."
Marcellus residents were almost as likely to enroll in Medical Assistance as people in the rest of the state, although enrollments outside the shale region were slightly higher. In June 2011, 17.3% of residents in Marcellus counties received Medical Assistance, compared to 18.5% of non-Marcellus residents.
Marcellus Distribution Departs from Standard State Practice
The report finds that the shale bills depart from the standard distribution of state revenue and from the distribution systems in many gas-drilling states.
Only two of 13 gas-producing states examined in the report allocate no funds from drilling taxes or fees to general state services.
Three states, including Texas, provide no revenue from gas drilling taxes to local governments. Instead, local governments – including schools – recover costs through local property taxes on reserves and equipment, as they do with most industries.
"Lawmakers are traveling down a new road in tax policy and it's time to reverse course," Ward said. "Our Commonwealth does not dedicate state sales or income taxes based on the county of origin, and we should not start that practice with a shale tax."
This approach could have dire effects for some of the state's most vulnerable, said Alan Edelstein, Executive Director of Family & Community Service of Delaware County.
"We will be forced to cut cost-effective, local services that vulnerable people in Delaware County depend on," he said, citing anticipated budget cuts. "It's hard to do that knowing the state has better options. The natural gas industry is making a lot of money here, and they should be doing their part, like the rest of us, to protect Pennsylvania's vulnerable."
Christie Balka, Director of Child Care and Budget Policy at Public Citizens for Children and Youth, said that drilling tax revenue could help ensure greater access to quality child care, full-day kindergarten and a good K-12 education.
"Pennsylvania's elected officials should stop playing musical chairs with funding for children," Balka said. "… Unless they act now, many of our children won't have chairs to sit on next year."
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC) is a non-partisan policy research project that provides independent, credible analysis on state tax, budget, and related policy matters, with attention to the impact of current or proposed policies on working families. To learn more, go to www.pennbpc.org.
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Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Richard Sankovitz on Monday awarded $4.2 million in legal fees to attorneys in an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp.
That's far less than the more than $22 million the attorneys were seeking but far more than what Microsoft, in an unusually aggressive move, argued that the attorneys deserved - nothing.
Sharon Nelles, an attorney for Microsoft, argued that the attorneys had been deceitful in their billing practices. She said Monday that she was pleased with the award.
Richard Hagstrom, lead attorney on the case for the Minneapolis law firm of Zelle, Hofmann, Voebel, Mason & Gette, did not respond to a reporter's request for comment.
Sankovitz's written opinion says the firm did a substantial amount of work and represented its clients well.
Although Hagstrom's team was not candid with the court on fees, it should not be denied fees altogether, the opinion says.
The lawsuit was one of three brought on behalf of Microsoft customers in Wisconsin that resulted in a $224 million settlement last year.
Attorneys for the other two class-action groups received fees totaling $10.367 million, an amount that Microsoft earlier agreed to pay.
Some Microsoft customers in the state are to receive coupons that can be used to purchase a variety of computer software and hardware from Microsoft or its competitors. But Sankovitz noted that the value of the coupons was not very large. A purchaser of Windows 98 Office suite would be entitled to a coupon valued at $23.
Some of the settlement is to go to needy schools, and Sankovitz credited the Hagstrom team with engineering that part of the deal.
"Microsoft's stingy approach to this fee request is inconsistent with its willingness to pay arguably exorbitant fees to other lawyers representing other plaintiff classes," Sankovitz's opinion says.
The Wisconsin settlement came on the heels of a similar settlement in Minnesota, Sankovitz noted.
"Call it covetousness, call it a Big Ten rivalry, call it keeping up with the Ericsons, call it the ratchet effect of serial settlements, call it what you will - the amount and terms of the settlement in this case were largely predictable, given the timing of the Minnesota settlement," Sankovitz said.
The ruling came in an interim decision in the case, in which several legal issues still are to be resolved.


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MILAN Kaitlyn Fischer proved to be a tough customer on Sandusky St. Mary Central Catholic bats Monday in a Sandusky Bay Conference softball game.
The Edison freshman allowed just one hit in a 12-0 win. The Lady Chargers improved to 5-1 overall, 1-0 in the league and are scheduled to play Wednesday at Clyde.
Fischer allowed a second-inning single to Kaity Reidy, while fanning six in the five-inning contest.
"We were solid in just about all aspects of the game," Chargers softball coach Mark Vanderpool said. "Kaitlyn did a good job pitching and whenever they put the bat on the ball, we were able to make the plays."
She received plenty of help from her teammates. Ashley Elber led the 11-hit attack with two hits, including a three-run homer and five RBI. Elisa Butler also contributed two hits with two runs and one RBI.
Logan Jessee and Fischer each went 1-of-3 with doubles. Fischer scored three runs, while Katey Feltman drove in one run.
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Norwalk rebounded from a tough loss to Bellevue April 3 with a win over Tiffin Columbian Tuesday in Northern Ohio League action.
The Lady Truckers improved to 6-1 overall, 1-1 in the league. and are scheduled to play at Shelby today in a league game.
Lisa Patusky struck out nine batters in raising her record to 4-1. Norwalk had six hits, including Courtney Wheeler with a pair of doubles. She added three RBI.
Sarah Luc posted a hit and RBI. Bridgette Hinckley, Amanda Reamer and Elle McGue also had hits for the Lady Truckers, who played good defense in preventing Columbian from tying the game late with runners in scoring position.
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WP: Patusky. LP: Elchert.
2B: Wheeler (N) 2, Gibson (TC), Meisher (TC)
Mohawk 20, SP 0
St. Paul had a rough outing as Mohawk tallied 11 runs in the sixth inning Monday for the win.
The Lady Flyers dropped to 1-7 and are scheduled to host Mapleton Wednesday in a Firelands Conference game.
Stacia Fritz, Bri Missler and Danielle Leto all gained hits for St. Paul. Chelsea Cooper went 5-of-6 with four runs, five RBI and two doubles for Mohawk. Brittany Rospert and Missler both pitched for the Lady Flyers.
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Bellevue 8, Willard 2
BELLEVUE Leading 2-0, Bellevue erupted for five runs in the bottom of the fourth inning Monday to pull away for a NOL win.
The Lady Flashes are 4-2 overall, 1-1 in the NOL and scheduled to host Upper Sandusky today in a league contest.
For Willard, Bri Clark slugged a two-run home run in the seventh inning with Nici Fluharty, who had singled, on base. Annette Benich doubled, while Tiffani Wallrabenstein and Sam Kamann both added singles. Fluharty dropped to 2-2 with the pitching loss.
Willard 000 002 0 2 6 1
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2B: Benich (W), Nasonti (B). 3B: Carter (B). HR: Clark (W)


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|2 Clove (10 gm), crushed
|Fresh mushrooms
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|Green onions with tops
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|Sliced ripe olives
|2 1⁄4 Ounce, drained
1. Trim fat from beef steak. Pierce beef several times on both sides with fork. Place beef in rectangular dish, 11 x 7 x 1 1/2 inches. Mix wine, oil, Worcestershire sauce and garlic; pour over beef. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour, turning beef over occasionally.
2. Prepare charcoal fire for grilling. Just before grilling, cover beef and marinade tightly and microwave on high 4 minutes.
3. Place beef, 5 to 6 inches from medium coals, on grill; reserve marinade. Cover and grill beef 7 to 8 minutes, turning beef over after 4 minutes, until desired doneness.
4. Place 1/4 cup of the reserved marinade, the mushrooms, onions and olives in 4-cup measure. Cover tightly and microwave on high 4 to 6 minutes, stirring after 3 minutes, until boiling. Serve with beef.


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