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Elderly Air Force veteran reportedly undergoes multiple patdowns and emerges $300 lighter....read more»
Randall's Island is many a New Yorker's favorite summer day-trip retreat. The recently cleaned up and restored island now offers more than 60 sports fields (including baseball, soccer, and football), a golf center, and tennis courts.
The island offers amazing views of New York City. Take them in as you bike or walk down the many car-free pathways. There's also lots of greenery to satisfy city-dwellers, including well-kept gardens, wild wetlands, and other natural areas.
In the summer, Randall's Island hosts tons of events, including music festivals, art fairs, and sports competitions. ...read more»
This week we had deja vu with a story about another naked passenger in the airport, plus mishaps with pilots and the TSA.
John Brennan was apparently feeling harassed by airport security at Portland International, reports CNN. So he decided to strip naked, saying, "I just took off my clothes and said 'See, I don't have any explosives.'" Brennan was arrested for indecent exposure and disorderly conduct, and if you're curious to see what the free show looked like, CNN has pictures of the incident.
We all know about the dangers of texting and driving, so it would follow that texting while flying is probably not a great idea. However, the Herald Sun reports that a Jetstar flight from Darwin to Singapore had to abort a landing back in 2010. Now, a report's been released saying that the crew was distracted by text message alert sounds coming from the captain's cell phone. When the first officer decided to abort the landing, he tried to tell the captain what he was doing, and upon receiving no response, looked over and saw the captain on his cell phone. Apparently, the first officer had to stop the first touchdown attempt because the landing gear was not properly deployed. ...read more»
At 11:20 AM on April 22, Japan Airlines flight 008, flying nonstop from Tokyo, will land at Boston Logan Airport. That's big news because it's the first North American landing of a scheduled flight in a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Granted, this specific schedule won't affect many of you: After all, Tokyo isn't exactly the top destination for folks in the Boston area, nor is Boston anywhere near the top of the list of big destinations from Japan. But that's the whole idea of the 787: It has the ability to serve long, thin routes—long-range routes with insufficient traffic to fill today's front-line 777s, 747s, and A380s.
The 787 is of special interest because it's the first of the newest generation jets. Latest technology engines promise better fuel efficiency, and aerodynamic tweaks reduce drag. Compared with the planes it's replacing—767s, 757s, and older A330s—it offers a double-digit reduction in operating costs, improved range, lower noise, and fewer emissions.
What's not to like? Despite agonizing delivery delays, airlines should see the 787 as worth the wait. And Boeing already has more than 800 orders on its books, with more coming now that the 787 is actually flying....read more»
An old joke goes like this: On his return from a trip, a traveling salesman told his manager that he had lost his raincoat and wanted to put a new one on his expense account. "No," said the manager. "You can't put a coat on your expense account." So the salesman completed his paperwork and handed it to the manager. "Ah," said the manager. "I see you left out the coat."
"No," replied the salesman. "It's in there—but just try to find it."
That old chestnut came to mind when a reader asked what was up with a promotion posted on Half Off Depot for two round-trip airline tickets from various originating cities to "50 different destinations including Orlando, Mexico, Hawaii, San Francisco, and New York" for just $88. As far as I can tell, Half Off Depot, a flash-sale site based in Atlanta, is listing a deal offered by One Stop Travel, a Florida agency, and that agency is selling a deal put together by My Holiday Break....read more»
Situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, in an area nicknamed the "Swiss Riviera," the Chateau de Chillon is a historic must-see. The castle was built sometime during the Bronze Age, and was intended to defend the passage between northern and southern Europe. There's plenty to explore inside the castle—from underground former prisons to stunning chapels.
Now that it's no longer needed as a military defense spot, the Chateau de Chillon earns its keep as a wine-making operation. Grapes are grown in a vineyard next to the castle, and the wine is produced by Badoux Winery.
For a very special occasion, you can rent the Chateau de Chillon's private beach....read more»
Singing Beach is appropriately named—and not just because if you put a seashell up to your ear you can "hear" the ocean. The beach's sand "sings" (more like squeaks) when you step on it, earning it the name. Located just a 45-minute train ride from bustling Boston, the beach is a popular retreat for harried city-slickers and North Shore locals alike.
Manchester-by-the-Sea is a quintessential New England town, so when you're tired of the sand you can dine on local seafood and handmade ice cream. There's also lots of little local shops to browse as you stroll down the quiet streets. ...read more»
In January 2011, an Air Canada pilot took emergency measures when he thought a mid-air collision was imminent, rapidly descending his plane and injuring 16 passengers and crew (who were not wearing their seatbelts). Was he a hero? Not so much, reports the Huffington Post.
A new report found that what the pilot thought was another plane on a collision course with his aircraft was actually ... the planet Venus. Yes, despite the captain telling the first officer that the nearest plane was 1,000 feet below them, the pilot mistook the bright light of the planet Venus for a threat. ...read more»
As more and more of us travel with an armload of high-tech gadgetry, we need to make sure we can use it effectively. Some new, new-to-me, and been-around-awhile online resources can help. And you may need some help, if you have a timeshare you no longer want to use.
Locating Airborne Wi-Fi
Many big U.S. and international airlines now provide for in-flight Wi-Fi access on some planes. Most U.S. lines have adopted GoGo's land-based system, which involves a large number of ground stations that, in aggregate, cover most of the United States and border areas of Canada. A few, however, have opted for satellite-based systems, which provide connections across the Atlantic and Pacific. Along with the usual fare and schedule information, the online travel agency CheapAir notes which flights offer onboard Wi-Fi, as well as personal video monitors, live TV, and movies. Whether or not you book through CheapAir, the information will help you select flights that provide the particular flavor of online connectivity you're searching.
Keeping Track of Your Stuff
You aren't unusual if your "don't-leave-home-without-it" list includes a laptop/notebook and a smartphone. Both items are useful—and easy and desirable targets for thieves. Several outfits provide systems to help you keep track of those items and, if you're lucky, help you recover one you've lost:...read more»
The name may sound familiar thanks to the tea and the movie, but Darjeeling is fairly off the tourist trail. Located in the Himalayan foothills under the shadow of Mt. Kanchenjunga, Darjeeling's vistas are unparalleled. Climb to the top of Observatory Hill or Tiger Hill for the best views.
Many trekkers stop in Darjeeling for a few days to acclimatize before tackling nearby Sikkim, and there are lots of preparation hikes you can do here.
Of course, you'll have to sample some of the namesake tea while you're here! There are more than 50 tea plantations in Darjeeling, and you can tour and sample at many of them. If you're still in a touring mood after all that tea, swing by one of the area's Buddhist monasteries or the Darjeeling Zoo. ...read more»


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Baker College of Muskegon Nursing Program Graduates Achieve 100 Percent Pass Rate on National Exam
All 29 graduates from the first associate degree nursing program at Baker College of Muskegon have passed the National Council Licensure Examination for Nurses (NCLEX-RN) on the first attempt. The national pass rate is 87 percent.
"For all of the nursing graduates in a brand new program to have passed the national exam is an outstanding accomplishment," said Mary Ann Herbst, Ph.D., Baker College of Muskegon president. "Sincere congratulations to our students and kudos to nursing program director Jennifer Kaiser, faculty and staff. It was their hard work and dedication that helped our students to develop the knowledge, attitudes and skills essential to the practice of professional nursing."
The nursing program at Baker College of Muskegon was granted initial approval by the Michigan Board of Nursing (MBON) in November 2006. Initial approval and annual renewal by MBON entitles Baker nursing graduates to sit for the RN licensure exam. After the second graduating class, the Muskegon campus will be eligible to apply for full MBON approval and additional accreditation.
Enrollment in the program is currently limited to 32 students per year, winter quarter. However, beginning fall 2010 quarter, an additional 16 new students will be accepted into the program every year.

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B1 to stop doing something or leave a job or a place: Would you quit your job if you inherited lots of money? [+ -ing verb] I'm going to quit smoking. Quit wasting my time! Press Q to quit the program.
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- Despite opposition from his family, he quit school and became an actor.
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I get it, take every available tech director who has ever designed a winning car so that the other teams don't have any, there is hope for Mike Gascoigne and Gary Anderson yet.


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I support it, of course, and I'm going to participate.
But I was thinking...a few years ago I used to send many Xmas cards to family, friends and clients and received many too, but now emails and phone messages took over the Christmas spirit! I miss receiving those lovely and colourful cards
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While working with Mr. DeRosas as he completed the Blakely Building, I found him to be committed, intelligent and forward thinking, I believe his work as an affordable housing developer is most commendable. Read more >
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And I was saying that because the article pretended to make him look like he had violated the teams rules about not taking pictures. Of course that doesn't apply to Adrian or Sebastian. Its THEIR CAR!


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HMRC, and the UK Government as a whole, have been making huge strides with their digital services since the publication of the "digital by default" strategy document over a year ago.
Over the last few years HMRC have moved VAT returns completely online, upped online personal tax filings from 23% in 2006 to 81% last year, and modernised payroll filings through the introduction of RTI. They're not done yet though, and recently launched a consultation on making Self Assessments a totally paperless process.
Although Self Assessments can be filed online, the registration process is a more analogue affair. Registering to complete a personal tax return online involves a fairly baffling back-and-forth with the taxman to receive a Unique Taxpayer Reference Number, and then an activation PIN for HMRC Online Services. This consultation is looking into how HMRC could make the entire process completely electronic, making the Self Assessment process paperless end-to-end.
Of course, this being Government, it's not quite as simple as you might imagine. HMRC cannot simply decide to make the process paperless and start sending emails – they must first amend The Income and Corporation Taxes (Electronic Communications) Regulations 2003 using the powers set out in Section 132 Finance Act 1999. The purpose of the current consultation is to "[seek] views on the necessary legislative changes required to enable the delivery of its Paperless Self Assessment exemplar."
A necessary change
Following the consultation, HMRC is planning to pilot their paperless Self Assessments from April 2014. The proposals include moving all "Statutory notices" (basically meaning everything you currently receive in the post) to email or SMS – however not quite in the way you might think.
Under the proposed changes, you wouldn't actually receive the statutory notices in your inbox – instead you would receive notice of a new message, and would then have to log into a secure HMRC system to actually read the message.
This may seem a little clunky, but given the volume of tax refund email phishing scams, HMRC most likely deemed it a necessary security measure. The electronic communications would be an opt-in process; so it seems Self Assessments will never be – ironically – digital by default. Nevertheless, a promising step in the right direction from the taxman, and one you can read about in detail here (PDF).
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Ken's sad and lonely life in Barbie's shadow.
The golden jubilee of a diamond-bright icon is upon us as the Barbie doll, introduced at the American International Toy Fair of 1959, passes a milestone on March 9. This presents an occasion to praise her timeless charms, to damn her anti-feminism, and, for those wired for negative capability, to hold both ideas in mind. Of the season's two books on the subject, Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her is the more sensible affair. Author Robin Gerber details the career of Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler—who named her celebrated toy after her only daughter—with the precision of a business-school case study. Rather less judicious, Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel, eructed by renowned sleaze broker Jerry Oppenheimer, holds that Barbie's true creator was Mattel research-and-design executive Jack Ryan, who had a thing for dames of a Barbie-esque silhouette, one of whom appears, in the book's first sentence, as his accomplice in "yet another evening of compulsive sex."
Indeed, beyond matters of basic fact, the only quality that the two new Barbiographies share is the short shrift each gives the doll's love interest. Such is the eternal lot of unfortunate Ken Carson, Barbie's long-term beau and ever-ready escort. If history is any guide, Ken—an accessory, an ornament, a cold planet orbiting a hyper-giant star—will not quite be a VIP at this 50th-birthday gala. But his role, however minor, will be critical: Barbie wouldn't be Barbie if she didn't have a steady date.
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In the late 1950s, Handler observed her daughter using paper dolls to imagine adult lives and saw an opportunity to "three-dimensionalize" the play pattern. Though Mattel modeled Barbie's physique on that of a German doll with a gold-digger Weltanschauung, she herself entered life as an independent woman. As noted in the definitive critical text on the subject, M.G. Lord's Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, Mattel's ad agency introduced the plastic figurine as a flesh-and-blood mannequin: "She was a teenage fashion model, and the world was her runway." Barbie never demanded a boyfriend, but the fantasies of the little girls consumed with her did. Ken made the scene in 1961, his namesake being Handler's son.
"It all started at the dance," according to the myth marketed by the TV commercial announcing Ken's debut. Here was ball-gowned Barbie swiveling her head toward a young man in a shawl-collar evening suit. The ad continues, "Somehow she knew that she and Ken would be going together." Perhaps what tipped her off was the expression on his blandly handsome face, which splits the difference between eager attentiveness and submissive captivation. After the new couple models some outfits for genteel picnics, polite frat parties, and afternoons of beach-blanket bingo, the commercial climaxes with Ken back in his tux and Barbie in a bridal gown. It's left to your imagination whether they've just turned to face the officiant or have just now tied the knot, but for sure they don't get a honeymoon. Is there any corner of the Barbie universe—among all the board games and sticker books and authorized novels—where the two live as man and wife? Though anything is possible at playtime, the point of Barbie's having Ken around is not for her to marry him but for her to have the option. It is enough for him to be marriageable. Today, the most popular Ken model—one of the few sold in stores by its lonesome—is the Wedding Day Sparkle Groom Ken. Impossibly patient and unfailingly loyal, he's always waiting for her at the altar and always will be until his plastic decomposes.


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San Diego Scripps Green Hospital and UC San Diego Medical Center have been named among the nation's 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Reuters.
The awards were based on an evaluation of publicly available Medicare and Medicaid data on 2,886 nonfederal acute-care hospitals nationwide.
UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest was honored in two categories, earning an award as one of the nation's top major teaching hospitals, and an Everest Award for highest current performance and fastest long-term improvement over five years. Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla was named one of the country's top teaching hospitals.
Thomson Reuters compares facilities of similar size and teaching status, using 10 key indicators: mortality; complications; patient safety; length of stay; patient expense; profitability; patient ratings; meeting national standards of care; and 30-day mortality and readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia.
Boys & Girls Clubs honor Prime leader
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego has honored Dr. Prem Reddy, chief executive of Prime Healthcare Services, with a Golden Achievement Award.
Based in Ontario, Calif., Prime Healthcare owns 16 hospitals, including Paradise Valley Hospital in National City and Alvarado Hospital in San Diego.
Paradise Valley and Prime have supported fundraisers for the Boys & Girls Clubs' National City branch and a former Alvarado administrator served on the club's board, said Michelle Malin, vice president of development.
"We look for people who have not only supported the club but people who have supported the San Diego community," she said. "We felt Dr. Reddy has done that through his work."


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The 2nd Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association of Canada will be held at the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
We invite proposals for papers and/or panels on theories of popular culture, research methods in popular culture, the teaching of popular culture, and any epiphenomena of popular culture, past or present.
Our broad definition of popular culture encompasses communicative texts, practices and experiences, mediated and unmediated, contemporary and historical, Canadian and non-Canadian (including the local and the global).
We share an interdisciplinary vision of this Association. We are particularly interested in featuring papers from scholars and/or producers and practitioners of popular cultural phenomena from the humanities, the arts, and the sciences.
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MIAMI (AP) -- MIAMI (AP) -- LeBron James is heading back to free agency. The four-time NBA MVP has told the Miami Heat that he is opting out of the final two years of his contract. His agent, Rich Paul, confirmed the move with The Associated Press adding that James will become a free agent on July 1.
That does not mean James is leaving Miami - but there's no guarantee that he'll be in a Heat uniform next season, either. A person briefed on the matter and familiar with James' thinking told AP that he has not decided where he will play next season.
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Bujagali Falls on the Nile River, about 15 minutes from Jinja, near Lake Victoria.
Uganda is a landlocked nation of thirty-six million people in eastern-Africa, that straddles the equator, west of Kenya, south of Sudan, with Rwanda and Tanzania to the south. It is a fertile, well-watered country with many lakes and rivers.
Uganda's western border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo is defined by the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the Great Rift System of Africa.
This Rift valley boundary area includes two of African Great Lakes, Lake Albert and Lake Edward, the snow-capped Ruwenzori mountains (considered by many to be the legendary "Mountains of the Moon"), as well as many imperiled species, like the Mountain gorilla.
Uganda is a fertile, well-watered country with many lakes and rivers, including a sizable part of Lake Victoria (a fifth of the country's area is water).
The country is mostly plateau declining in to the north and rimmed with highlands and mountains and volcanoes.
Uganda's major environmental issues are rooted in meeting the human needs for land, firewood, and other natural resources for a rapidly growing population (3.6% per year). Issues include:
- draining of wetlands for agricultural use;
- deforestation;
- overgrazing;
- soil erosion;
- water hyacinth infestation in Lake Victoria; and,
- widespread poaching
The country's environmental challenges have been exacerbated by regional wars and civil unrest.
The colonial boundaries created by Britain to delimit Uganda grouped together a wide range of ethnic groups with different political systems and cultures. These differences prevented the establishment of a working political community after independence was achieved in 1962.
The dictatorial regime of Idi Amin (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton Obote (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,000 lives.
The rule of Yoweri Museveni since 1986 has brought relative stability and economic growth to Uganda. During the 1990s, the government promulgated non-party presidential and legislative elections.
Uganda is subject to armed fighting among hostile ethnic groups, rebels, armed gangs, militias, and various government forces that extend across its borders/ Uganda hosts 209,860 Sudanese, 27,560 Congolese, and 19,710 Rwandan refugees.
The vicious and cult-like Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) operated from 1986 to 2006 in northern Uganda, where it killed tens of thousands of people, abducted thousands of children to serve as soldiers and slaves, and displaced approximately 1.8 million Ugandans. In 2005, the Ugandan military pushed the LRA out of northern Uganda and into neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.). In December 2008, the Governments of Uganda, the D.R.C., and Southern Sudan launched a joint military operation against the LRA in northeastern D.R.C., dispersing groups of LRA fighters across the D.R.C., Central African Republic, and Southern Sudan (now South Sudan), where the group continues to commit atrocities against local populations. In 2011, the United States sent a small number of military advisers to the LRA-affected region to enhance the capacity of the Ugandan and other regional militaries to pursue the LRA and protect civilian populations.
There have been no LRA attacks in northern Uganda since August 2006. As a result, the vast majority of the 1.8 million former internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to or near their homes. Assistance from the Government of Uganda through its Peace, Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) and from international donors has helped communities in northern Uganda rebuild and recover from the 20-year humanitarian catastrophe caused by the LRA.
After decades of internal strife, Uganda has experienced more than 20 years of relative political stability and economic growth. However, rampant corruption and one of the world's highest population growth rates present challenges to the country's continued economic growth and political stability.
Location: Eastern Africa, west of Kenya and east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (whose border region is part of the Albertine Rift)
Geographic Coordinates: between latitudes 4o12' N and 1o29'S and longitudes 29o35'E and 35o00'E
Area: 236,040 km2 (199,710 km2 land and 36,330 km2 water)
arable land: 21.57%
permanent crops: 8.92%
other: 69.51% (2005)
Land Boundaries: 2,698 km. Border countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo 765 km, Kenya 933 km, Rwanda 169 km, South Sudan 435 km, Tanzania 396 km
Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
Maritime Claims: none (landlocked)
Natural Hazards: NA
Terrain: Mostly plateau with rim of mountains. Its lowest point is Lake Albert (621 metres) and its highest point is Margherita Peak on Mount Stanley (5,110 metres)
Climate: Tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to February, June to August); semiarid in northeast
See: Environmental Issues and Natural Resources of Uganda
Topography of Uganda. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Satellite View of Uganda. Source: The Map Library
The following WWF ecoregions are found in Uganda:
1. Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic (AT0721) covers much of Uganda spreading north and east from Lake Victoria.
2. East Sudanian savanna (AT0705) reaches down from the north to encompass much of northern Uganda and reaching further south to encompass Lake Albert in the west to near Mount Elgon National Park in the east.
3. Albertine Rift montane forests (AT0101) in the west of Urganda represent the largest ecoregion in the Albertine Rift, particularly in the middle section. These mountains also support the Mountain gorilla, which is one of the most charismatic flagship species in Africa, and an effective target for much of the current conservation investment in the area.
4. Ruwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands (AT1013) occur mostly above 9,800 feet (3,000 m) in two areas atop the Ruwenzori and Virunga mountains.
5. East African montane forests (AT0108) are found mostly in Kenya to the east, however,six smaller area of this ecoregion occur in Uganda, most notably, encircling Mount Elgon on the border with Tanzania.
Source: World Wildlife Fund
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets (AT0711) cover a large area of eastern Uganda and and across the border in Kenya.
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic (AT0712) touches upon a small are of Uganda's western Albertine Rift region from the north east where its large extent covers the norther east of the DRC and the south west of Sudan.
National Parks
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Kibale National Park
- Kidepo Valley National Park
- Lake Mburo National Park
- Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
- Mount Elgon National Park
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Rwenzori Mountains National Park
- Semuliki National Park
A family of wild baboons sitting along the road from Mbale to Kampala.
The African Grey Crowned Crane, Uganda's national bird (Uganda Wildlife Education Center (zoo) near Kampala).
A small compound usually consisting of an extended family clan: the patriarch and his children and their spouses. The families each have their own houses, but they cooperatively farm the surrounding land. These are nicer homes with painted metal roofs.
A more typical compound with thatched rondavels (huts) built of stick frames packed with mud (or sometimes with bricks faced with mud) and covered with a straw or reed roof.
Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border with Kenya. Two national parks, one on either side of the border, protect the area around the mountain.
Clouds encircle the lofty rim of Mount Elgon, a huge, long-extinct volcano on the border between Uganda and Kenya, viewed in this enhanced satellite image. The solitary volcano has one of the world's largest intact calderas, a cauldron-like central depression. The caldera is about 6.5 km (4 mi) across and formed following an eruption, when the emptied magma chamber collapsed under the weight of volcanic rock above it. For active volcanoes in Uganda, see the Natural hazards-volcanism subfield in the Geography section. Image courtesy of USGS.
Guinea birds are ubiquitous; it is difficult to know whether they are wild or domesticated.
Bujagali Falls on the Nile, about 15 minutes from Jinja.
Downtown Kampala. Source: Andrew Regan
Heavy rains triggered these landslides on the steep slopes of Mt. Elgon in Uganda, on March 1, 2010. The newly exposed earth is slightly pink, raw compared to other patches of bare ground, which are lighter brown. As the older scars hint, landslides are common in the region, but the new landslides are much larger than previous slides. The slides buried three villages, leaving 83 dead and more than 300 missing as of March 8, reported the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
This natural-color image, acquired by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on March 11, 2010, provides clues that the landslide area had been populated. Bright roofs reflect light extremely well. Tiny white dots scattered across the western slopes of Mt. Elgon are probably structures. Several structures surround the slides.
Heavy rain caused the slides, but deforestation may have also played a role, said the Ugandan government. Dark green forest grows on the slope above the slide area. A strip of pale green land, free of settlements, separates the forest from the slide. This region had been deforested since 2007, according to the government analysis. On a steep slope, trees anchor the soil. Deforested mountains are very prone to landslides. Source: NASA. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
People and Society
Population: 35,873,253 (July 2012 est.)
Ethnic groups: Baganda 16.9%, Banyakole 9.5%, Basoga 8.4%, Bakiga 6.9%, Iteso 6.4%, Langi 6.1%, Acholi 4.7%, Bagisu 4.6%, Lugbara 4.2%, Bunyoro 2.7%, other 29.6% (2002 census)
Uganda's population is predominately rural, and its population density is highest in the southern regions. Asians constituted the largest nonindigenous ethnic group in Uganda until 1972, when the Idi Amin regime expelled 50,000 Asians who had been engaged in trade, industry, and various professions. After Amin's overthrow in 1979, Asians slowly began returning, but Uganda's Asian population has never reached its pre-1972 numbers.
Age Structure:
0-14 years: 49.9% (male 8,692,239/female 8,564,571)
15-64 years: 48.1% (male 8,383,548/female 8,255,473)
65 years and over: 2.1% (male 291,602/female 424,817) (2011 est.)
Population Growth Rate: 3.582% (2012 est.) - the fourth highest in the world after Qatar, Zimbabwe, and Niger.
Birth Rate: 47.38 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)
Death Rate: 11.54 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.)
Net Migration Rate: -0.02 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2012 est.)
Life Expectancy at Birth: 52.34 years (2008 est.)
Total Fertility Rate: 6.81 children born/woman (2008 est.)
Languages: English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
Literacy (2002 census): 66.8% (male: 76.8% - female: 57.7%)
Urbanization: 13% of total population (2010) growing at an annual rate of change of 4.8% (2010-15 est.)
Britain granted internal self-government to Uganda in 1961, with the first elections held on March 1, 1961. Benedicto Kiwanuka of the Democratic Party became the first Chief Minister. Uganda maintained its Commonwealth membership. A second round of elections in April 1962 elected members to a new National Assembly. Milton Obote, leader of the majority coalition in the National Assembly, became prime minister and led Uganda to formal independence on October 9, 1962.
In succeeding years, supporters of a centralized state vied with those in favor of a loose federation and a strong role for tribally-based local kingdoms. Political maneuvering climaxed in February 1966, when Prime Minister Milton Obote suspended the constitution, assumed all government powers, and removed the ceremonial president and vice president. In September 1967, a new constitution proclaimed Uganda a republic, gave the president even greater powers, and abolished the traditional kingdoms. On January 25, 1971, Obote's government was ousted in a military coup led by armed forces commander Idi Amin Dada. Amin declared himself president, dissolved the parliament, and amended the constitution to give himself absolute power.
Idi Amin's 8-year rule produced economic decline, social disintegration, and massive human rights violations. The Acholi and Langi ethnic groups were particular objects of Amin's political persecution because they had supported Obote and made up a large part of the army. In 1978, the International Commission of Jurists estimated that more than 100,000 Ugandans had been murdered during Amin's reign of terror; some estimates place the figure much higher.
In October 1978, Tanzanian armed forces repulsed an incursion of Amin's troops into Tanzanian territory. The Tanzanian force, backed by Ugandan exiles, waged a war of liberation against Amin's troops and Libyan soldiers sent to help him. On April 11, 1979, Kampala was captured, and Amin fled with his remaining forces.
After Amin's removal, the Uganda National Liberation Front formed an interim government with Yusuf Lule as president. This government adopted a ministerial system of administration and created a quasi-parliamentary organ known as the National Consultative Commission (NCC). The NCC and the Lule cabinet reflected widely differing political views. In June 1979, following a dispute over the extent of presidential powers, the NCC replaced Lule with Godfrey Binaisa. In a continuing dispute over the powers of the interim presidency, Binaisa was removed in May 1980. Thereafter, Uganda was ruled by a military commission chaired by Paulo Muwanga. December 1980 elections returned the UPC to power under the leadership of President Obote, with Muwanga serving as vice president. Under Obote, the security forces had one of the world's worst human rights records. In their efforts to stamp out an insurgency led by Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA), they laid waste to a substantial section of the country, especially in the Luwero area north of Kampala.
Obote ruled until July 27, 1985, when an army brigade, composed mostly of ethnic Acholi troops and commanded by Lt. Gen. Basilio Olara-Okello, took Kampala and proclaimed a military government. Obote fled to exile in Zambia. The new regime, headed by former defense force commander Gen. Tito Okello (no relation to Lt. Gen. Olara-Okello), opened negotiations with Museveni's insurgent forces and pledged to improve respect for human rights, end tribal rivalry, and conduct free and fair elections. In the meantime, massive human rights violations continued as the Okello government murdered civilians and ravaged the countryside in order to destroy the NRA's support.
Negotiations between the Okello government and the NRA were conducted in Nairobi in the fall of 1985, with Kenyan President Daniel Moi seeking a cease-fire and a coalition government in Uganda. Although agreeing in late 1985 to a cease-fire, the NRA continued fighting, seized Kampala in late January 1986, and assumed control of the country, forcing Okello to flee north into Sudan. Museveni's forces organized a government with Museveni as president and dominated by the political grouping called the National Resistance Movement (NRM or the "Movement").
A referendum was held in March 2000 on whether Uganda should retain the Movement system, with limited operation of political parties, or adopt multiparty politics. Although 70% of voters endorsed retention of the Movement system, the referendum was widely criticized for low voter turnout and unfair restrictions on Movement opponents. Museveni was reelected to a second 5-year term in March 2001. Parliamentary elections were held in June 2001, and more than 50% of contested seats were won by newcomers. Movement supporters nevertheless retained firm control of the legislative branch. Observers believed that the 2001 presidential and parliamentary elections generally reflected the will of the electorate; however, both were marred by serious irregularities, particularly in the period leading up to the elections, such as restrictions on political party activities, incidents of violence, voter intimidation, and fraud.
A July 2005 national referendum resulted in the adoption of a multiparty system of government, but in September 2005 Uganda's parliament amended the constitution to remove term limits for the president, enabling President Museveni to run again in the 2006 elections. In February 2006, the country held its first multiparty general elections since 1980. Ruling NRM candidate President Museveni was declared the winner with 59% of the vote, giving him a third term in office. Opposition Forum for a Democratic Change (FDC) leader Kizza Besigye captured 37% of the vote, while the remaining contestants received less than 2% of the vote each, according to official figures from the Electoral Commission. Besigye challenged the results in Uganda's Supreme Court, which ruled that serious irregularities had occurred but were not significant enough to alter the outcome of the elections.
On February 18, 2011, Uganda held its fourth presidential and parliamentary elections since Museveni came to power. Seven opposition presidential candidates, including FDC leader Kizza Besigye (the Inter-Party Cooperation candidate) ran against Museveni. On February 20, the Electoral Commission declared Museveni the winner with 68% of the vote; Kizza Besigye came in second with 26% of the vote.
Government Type: Republic
Capitol: Kampala - 1.535 million (2009)
Administrative Divisions: 112 districts; Abim, Adjumani, Agago, Alebtong, Amolatar, Amudat, Amuria, Amuru, Apac, Arua, Budaka, Bududa, Bugiri, Buhweju, Bukedea, Bukomansimbi, Bukwa, Bulisa, Bundibugyo, Bushenyi, Busia, Butaleja, Butambala, Buvuma, Bwikwe, Dokolo, Gombe, Gulu, Hoima, Ibanda, Iganga, Isingiro, Jinja, Kaabong, Kabale, Kabarole, Kaberamaido, Kalangala, Kaliro, Kalungu Kampala, Kamuli, Kamwenge, Kanungu, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Katakwi, Kayunga, Kibale, Kiboga, Kibingo, Kibuku, Kiruhara, Kisoro, Kitgum, Kiryandongo, Koboko, Kole, Kotido, Kumi, Kwene, Kyegegwa, Kyenjojo, Lamwo, Lira, Luuka, Luwero, Lwengo, Lyantonde, Manafwa, Maracha, Masaka, Masindi, Mayuge, Mbale, Mbarara, Mitooma, Mityana, Moroto, Moyo, Mpigi, Mubende, Mukono, Nakapiripirit, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Namayingo, Namutumba, Napak Nebbi, Ngora, Nsika, Ntoroko, Ntungamo, Nwoyo, Nyadri, Otuke, Oyam, Pader, Pallisa, Patongo, Rakai, Rubirizi, Rukungiri, Sembabule, Sheema, Sironko, Soroti, Tororo, Wakiso, Yumbe, Zombo
Independence Date: 9 October 1962 (from UK)
Legal System: mixed legal system of English common law and customary law. Uganda accepts compulsory International Court of Justice ( ICJ) jurisdiction with reservations; and, accepts International Criminal Court (ICCt) jurisdiction
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
International Environmental Agreements
Uganda is party to international agreements on: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, and Wetlands, It has signed, but not ratified an international agreement on Environmental Modification.
Total Renewable Water Resources: 66 cu km (1970)
Freshwater Withdrawal: Total: 0.3 cu km/yr (43% domestic, 17% industrial, 40% agricultural).
Per Capita Freshwater Withdrawal: : 10 cu m/yr (2002)
Access to improved drinking waters sources: 67% of population
Access to improved sanitation facilities: 48% of population
Agricultural Products: coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), potatoes, corn, millet, pulses, cut flowers; beef, goat meat, milk, poultry
Irrigated Land: 90 sq km (2003)
Natural Resources: copper, cobalt, hydropower, limestone, salt, arable land.
Uganda is an energy poor nation with limited access to electricity (less than 10% of the population, 3% in rural areas) and a heavy reliance of wood for the needs of most Ugandans. This is connected to economic poverty and continuing deforestation.
A drop in the water level of Lake Victoria in 2005/6 led to a major reduction in the nation's electricity supply and an energy crisis. Uganda has rapidly expanded and diversified its energy supplies away from its near exclusive reliance of two hydroelectric facilities, but still has a supply shortfall.
New energy hydroelectric and fossil fuel electric generating facilities are projected to come online over the next few years. Oil has recently been discovered in the western part of the country.
Oil experts estimate Uganda's Albertine Basin has about 2.5 billion barrels of recoverable oil, positioning Uganda to become one of sub-Saharan Africa's top oil producers and potentially doubling current government revenues within 10 years. Most of Uganda's known oil reserves are located along Lake Albert and the D.R.C. border, in one of Africa's most ecologically sensitive areas. Uganda and several private oil companies had hoped to begin small-scale production as early as 2012, but production has been delayed due to a capital gains tax dispute and a parliamentary resolution blocking new agreements with oil companies pending passage of oil legislation. Potential construction of a domestic oil refinery and export pipeline are contingent upon ongoing feasibility studies and negotiations between oil companies and the government.
These developments should help Uganda sustain the brisk economic growth experienced during much of the past two decades and broaden the access to modern energy supplies. However, growing Uganda's energy supplies include significant financial and environmental challenges.
Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile soils, regular rainfall, small deposits of copper, gold, and other minerals, and recently discovered oil. Uganda has never conducted a national minerals survey.
Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy, employing over 80% of the work force. Coffee accounts for the bulk of export revenues.
Since 1986, the government - with the support of foreign countries and international agencies - has acted to rehabilitate and stabilize the economy by undertaking currency reform, raising producer prices on export crops, increasing prices of petroleum products, and improving civil service wages. The policy changes are especially aimed at dampening inflation and boosting production and export earnings.
Since 1990 economic reforms ushered in an era of solid economic growth based on continued investment in infrastructure, improved incentives for production and exports, lower inflation, better domestic security, and the return of exiled Indian-Ugandan entrepreneurs.
Uganda has received about $2 billion in multilateral and bilateral debt relief. In 2007 Uganda received $10 million for a Millennium Challenge Account Threshold Program.
The global economic downturn has hurt Uganda's exports; however, Uganda's GDP growth is still relatively strong due to past reforms and sound management of the downturn.
Oil revenues and taxes will become a larger source of government funding as oil comes on line in the next few years.
The service sector was the largest contributor to GDP in 2010 (at 50%). Manufacturing and agriculture contributed 26% and 24%, respectively. Despite their dwindling shares of Uganda's GDP, the agriculture and fishing sectors provide approximately 80% of employment in Uganda. Uganda is Africa's second-leading producer of coffee, which accounted for about 17% of the country's exports in 2009 and 2010. Exports of nontraditional products, including apparel, hides, skins, vanilla, vegetables, fruits, cut flowers, and fish, are growing, while traditional exports such as cotton, tea, and tobacco continue to be mainstays.
Most industry is related to agriculture. The industrial sector has been rehabilitated and resumed production of building and construction materials, such as cement, reinforcing rods, corrugated roofing sheets, and paint. Domestically-produced consumer goods include plastics, soap, cork, beer, and soft drinks.
Rising food and fuel prices in 2011 led to protests. Instability in southern Sudan is a risk for the Ugandan economy in 2012 because Uganda's main export partner is Sudan, and Uganda is a key destination for Sudanese refugees.
GDP (Purchasing Power Parity): $45.9 billion (2011 est.)
GDP (Official Exchange Rate): $16 billion (2011 est.)
GDP- per capita (PPP): $1,300 (2011 est.)
GDP- composition by sector:
agriculture: 21.8%
industry: 26.1%
services: 52.1% (2011 est.)
Industries: sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles; cement, steel production
Exports: coffee, fish and fish products, tea, cotton, flowers, horticultural products; gold
Imports: capital equipment, vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals
Currency: Ugandan shilling (UGX)
Ports and Terminals: Entebbe, Jinja, Port Bell
Roads are the most commonly used transportation infrastructure in Uganda, accounting for more than 90% of cargo freight and passenger transportation. Uganda has about 78,100 kilometers (48,529 mi.) of roads. Only 3,000 kilometers (1,864 mi.) are paved, and most roads radiate from Kampala. The country has a 321 kilometer (200 mi.) rail network, much of which is not currently in use. Uganda's road and rail links to Mombasa serve some of the transportation needs of the neighboring countries of Rwanda, Burundi, and parts of D.R.C. and Sudan. Entebbe International Airport is on the shore of Lake Victoria, some 32 kilometers (20 mi.) south of Kampala.


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My daughter's third birthday party is this Saturday. She's a social girl who will have 10 or so kiddies at the celebration, which will be held inside a local museum's play room. Seems easy enough: We bring the cake and drinks, the kids play and everyone goes home happy.
But once I got to thinking about stuff–meaning I began to over-analyze the situation, something I am talented at–all of these questions came up. I've already written about whether the kids should sing "Happy Birthday to You," since my daughter cries every time she hears that song. Now I'm wondering: At a preschool party do kids open up presents during the party or later, at home?
My husband says at the party. He believes it's polite, and the guests (probably meaning the parents, because I don't know if preschoolers care that much?) like to see the Birthday Girl's reaction to their gifts. I'm inclined to go with opening them after the party. Why waste precious play time? Why focus on the gifts? And what if my blunt daughter tells a gift-giver how she really feels about a present, as in: "I don't like this." (Yes, I know it's an opportunity to teach her about gratitude and kindness, but I'd rather do it privately, so we don't hurt a child's feelings).
Here's where I'm also inserting myself in the equation. I can be a shy person in certain situations, and one of those is when I am at the center of attention, in a large crowd, opening gifts. For me, the feeling is akin to public speaking. I'd just rather not. My daughter is more like my husband: social, outgoing, loves hamming it up in a crowd. I adore those fun qualities about my husband and daughter, and I wish I had them.
I could go the route of a no-gift birthday party, and avoid the situation altogether. But I'm of the thinking that kids should have one special day when they're showered with attention and gifts. So I'd love your thoughts. What has worked best for you and your kids: Opening presents before or after the party? And why?


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For close to 15 years, I've been preaching a simple strategy for getting maximum value from travel loyalty programs: Redeem earned points sooner rather than later.
That's for a simple reason. A mile or point redeemed today is almost certainly going to have more value than a mile or point redeemed next week or next month or next year.
That's because the long-term trend among travel rewards programs has been toward ever-escalating award prices. And as award prices rise, the value of miles and points declines.
Conversely, hoarding miles—as many do, with the vague idea in mind of using their miles in retirement for "dream trips"—is a sucker's game. It's akin to holding a stock that's declined in price since you bought it, and is expected to continue losing value indefinitely. The smart move, for both mile-collectors and investors, is to cut the losses and cash out now.
So, what's changed today? Absolutely nothing.
The 2013 award-price changes announced by Hilton, Marriott, Starwood, and Wyndham are just the most recent reminders that miles and points are in constant danger of devaluation. All the changes amounted to overall price increases; in several cases the increases were precipitous. Program members with the largest account balances stand to lose the most when the new higher prices take effect.
So much for the rewards of loyalty.
In addition to the prospect of rising award prices, there's another specter looming on the horizon for airline programs. If there is a move by Delta and the other full-service carriers to convert their programs from traditional mileage-based schemes to revenue-based schemes, like Southwest's, the value of miles earned under current program rules will be seriously undermined as the opportunity to get 3 cents or 5 cents or more per redeemed mile by cashing in for pricey tickets is taken off the table.
There's no relief in sight for mileage collectors. On the contrary, all signs point to a continued worsening of loyalty programs' value proposition.
And that, once again, should be taken as a "sell" signal by program members.
What to do?
- Stay focused on short-term goals.
- The fewer miles or points in your account, the less you'll have at risk when the inevitable negative program changes take place.
- If you have enough miles for a trip, put in for vacation time and take it.
- If you're short of an award level, focus on reaching it (a credit card sign-up bonus, perhaps?) sooner rather than later. Redeem. Begin again.
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Sherry Deckman's chapter, "Engaging Critical Diversity in Educational Reform," has been published in the new edited collection, Leading Educational Change: Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole-System Reform.
The book, edited by Helen Janc Malone, explores contemporary issues affecting educational change, and the portion of the book in which Deckman's essay is featured focuses on equity and educational justice. Linda Darling-Hammond, of Stanford University, notes, "This book tackles critical issues and conundrums about how to create productive educational systems by a group of exceptionally knowledgeable thought leaders from the U.S. and around the world."
Dr. Deckman focuses her scholarship on issues of diversity in teacher education and higher education. She joined the Education Department in Fall 2013.
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April 29, 2016
PANAMA CITY BEACH - The 16th annual Seabreeze Jazz Festival at Pier Park is celebrating its last day.
Sunday more than 7,000 jazz lovers came out to enjoy the food, wine and of course the music at Aaron Bessant Park.
This is the sixth year that panama city beach has hosted the festival.
Event coordinators say each year more and more people travel to the beach for the weekend.
"Its been absolutely crazy here. it's been fun. A huge crowd; we had sell outs. We were sold out on Saturday and almost sold out Sunday. Wonderful weather people from all over county have come out this year showing their love for music," said Mark Carter, event manager.
Jazz Funk Soul and the Family Stone were the final bands to take the stage Sunday night.
The event manager says they plan to make the event even bigger next year.
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12-28-05 - Sherman fire investigators say an apartment was ransacked before it caught fire on Tuesday afternoon. They say its clear that fire was intentionally set at the Parkview apartments on Taylor Street.
The fire damaged the unit so badly that the family can no longer live there. No one was home at the time, and police have not made any arrests.
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April 29, 2016
State media say China has safely carried out the world's first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades.
State television showed pictures of the moon's surface as the Chang'e 3 lander touched down Saturday evening.
The lander carries a moon rover called "Jade Rabbit" that will separate from the lander and embark on a three-month scientific exploration.
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Perry, C.K., & Weatherby, K. (2011). Feasibility of an intergenerational Tai Chi program, a community-based participatory research project. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 14, 1-16.
Steinman, L., Doescher, M., Levinger, D., Perry, C., Carter, L., Eyler, A.A., . . . Voorhees, C. (2010). Master plans for pedestrian & bicycle transportation: community characteristics. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 7 (Suppl 1), S60-S66.
Perry, C.K., & Hoffman, B. (2010). Assessing tribal youth physical activity and programming using a community-based participatory research approach. Public Health Nursing, 27(2), 104–114. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2010.00833.x
Perry, C.K., Rosenfeld, A.G., & Kendall, J. (2008). Rural women walking for health. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 30(3), 295-316. doi: 10.1177/0193945907303036
Perry, C.K., Rosenfeld, A.G., Bennett, J.A., & Potempa, K. (2007). Heart–to–Heart: Promoting walking in rural women through motivational interviewing and group support. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 22(4), 304-312.
Perry, C.K., & Bennett, J. (2006). Heart disease prevention in women: Promoting exercise. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 12, 568-73. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-7599.2006.00182.x
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I have to admit, I'm feeling *much* better now. I may still *look* like a lump, but I feel stupendous!
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012
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Friday, August 24, 2012
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Serious acronym overload, hunh? Sorry - couldn't resist!
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
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So, I'd planned to bike to work yesterday, right?
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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Did you know you can get an overuse injury within 2 short weeks?
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Monday, July 16, 2012
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You got it.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
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Jesse Wierzbicki has fourth straight multi-hit game to go to 9-for-17 with 9 RBIs on home stand
DAVENPORT, Iowa (JUNE 14, 2013) – The Quad Cities River Bandits managed to out-hit the Burlington Bees, 7-5, Friday night, but they left 11 runners on base in a 3-1 loss to the visitors in front of 5,196 at Modern Woodmen Park.
Bees right-hander Patrick Lowery (3-3) allowed a leadoff single by River Bandits center fielder Teoscar Hernandez but only allowed two runners to reach third base in six shutout innings. He gave up five walks and four hits but struck out three batters. River Bandits right-hander Vincent Velasquez (4-3) gave up all three Burlington runs to suffer his first loss in exactly one month.
Burlington (25-37) started quickly against Velasquez, as third baseman Sherman Johnson singled to right-center field leading off the game, and right fielder Kyle Johnson followed with a single to center. Velasquez then walked first baseman Wade Hinkle before striking out designated hitter Andrew Ray. Bees second baseman Chance Ross then bounced a ball back to Velasquez on the mound, but he threw wide of home plate, and catcher Jobduan Morales could not make the catch, as Sherman Johnson scored for a 1-0 lead.
In the fourth inning, Ross drew a leadoff walk, and left fielder Kevin Moesquit was hit by a pitch. Center fielder Chevy Clarke then singled to right field to grow the lead to 2-0. Two batters later, shortstop Wendell Soto added an RBI groundout for a 3-0 advantage. Velasquez completed five innings, allowing three hits, two walks and two earned runs while striking out six batters.
Right-hander Jamaine Cotton started the sixth inning with a 3-0 deficit and retired the first six batters he faced. He also struck out the side in the eighth inning to match a career high with six strikeouts. He allowed a leadoff single in the ninth inning by Clarke, who reached third base but did not score. Cotton tossed four shutout innings and allowed just two hits.
The Bees bullpen opened in the seventh inning with right-hander Joseph Krehbiel, who issued Hernandez a one-out walk before second baseman Austin Elkins hit a single. Designated hitter Miles Hamblin lined out before Wierzbicki hit a two-out RBI single for his second hit of the game. He has four straight multi-hit games and is 9-for-17 with 9 RBIs in the home stand.
With a 3-1 lead, right-hander Kurt Spomer worked around a two-out single in the eighth inning, and right-hander Robert Powell pitched a perfect ninth inning for his second save. The River Bandits left at least one runner on base in each inning except the fourth and ninth – for a total of 11 left on base. Quad Cities (36-30) went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position.
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