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LOS ANGELES Michael Jackson's struggle against drug addiction was put on display Monday during opening statements at his mother's wrongful death case against concert promoter AEG Live.
Competing portraits of Jackson emerged during the first hours of the trial, with Katherine Jackson's attorney acknowledging the pop star's drug problems while also trying to show he was a caring son and father.
AEG's attorney Marvin S. Putnam said, however, that the singer's guarded private life meant the company was unaware that he was using the powerful anesthetic propofol.
"The truth is, Michael Jackson fooled everyone," Putnam said. "He made sure that no one, nobody, knew his deepest darkest secrets."
A jury of six men and six women will determine whether AEG should pay Jackson's mother and three children after his 2009 death from an overdose of propofol. Millions and possibly billions of dollars in damages are at stake in the case that opened with private photos and video clips of Jackson dancing.
"This case is about personal choices," Putnam said about Jackson's decision to be treated by physician Conrad Murray. "Also, it was about his personal responsibility. There's no question that Michael Jackson's death was a terrible tragedy.
"I believe the evidence will show it was not a tragedy of AEG Live's making," Putnam said as he ended his opening statement. Testimony will begin Tuesday.
Katherine Jackson's attorney, Brian Panish, said AEG created a conflict of interest for Murray and forced him to choose between a large payday and Jackson's care. He told the jury AEG was feeling competitive pressures and wanted the Jackson tour to work at all costs.
"They didn't care who got lost in the wash," Panish told the jury.
Panish played a song that Jackson wrote for his three children, and a note the singer had written for his mother that brought tears to her eyes as she sat in court.
Katherine Jackson sued AEG Live in September 2010, claiming it failed to properly investigate Murray before allowing him to serve as Jackson's doctor as he prepared for his "This Is It" shows. She is also suing on behalf of her son's three children - Prince, Paris and Blanket.
AEG denies it hired Murray, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death. AEG's attorneys have said the company could not have foreseen the circumstances that led to the singer's death at age 50.
Panish told jurors that AEG executives ignored warning signs about Jackson's health and were motivated to push the singer and his doctor to improve their own financial fortunes.
"We're not looking for any sympathy," Panish said. "We're looking for truth and justice."
With Jackson's mother, brother Randy and sister Rebbie seated in the front row of the courtroom, jurors were shown numerous slides and several scribbled notes.
A couple of jurors nodded when the lawyer referenced Jackson's achievements, including successful concert tours and a Super Bowl performance.
Katherine Jackson dabbed her eyes after Panish read a note that her son wrote to her, detailing his feelings about her.
"All my success has been based on the fact that I wanted to make my mother proud," the singer's note said, "to win her smile of approval."
The personal touches came after Panish spent the first half of his presentation detailing Jackson's struggles with prescription drug abuse throughout the last half of his life.
He also showed jurors numerous emails sent between AEG executives concerning Jackson's health and their concerns that he wouldn't be able to perform 50 planned concerts in London.
Putnam recounted the chaotic days following Jackson's death as investigators and the public tried to figure out how the singer died unexpectedly. He urged jurors to remember that propofol killed Jackson.


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Royals Game Preview: September 24 at Detroit
The Royals start a four-game series at Detroit tonight. This game replaces an April 30 rainout. Tonight's 6:05 Central start will be on the Royals Radio Network (no local TV).:
Kansas City lineup: Dyson – CF, Escobar – SS, Gordon – LF, Butler – DH, Perez – C, Moustakas – 3B, Francoeur – RF, Hosmer – 1B, Giavotella – 2B, Hochevar – RHP
Detroit lineup: Jackson – CF, Berry – LF, Cabrera – 3B, Fielder – 1B, Young – DH, Dirks – RF, Peralta – SS, Avila – C, Infante -2B, Verlander – RHP
Royals Game Notes (PDF file): Game_153_at_Detroit
Royals Trivia Fact: Royals first base coach Rusty Kuntz played for Detroit in 1984 and 1985. He delivered the game-winning RBI in the deciding game of the 1984 World Series.

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New Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - Move over, Pat Summitt and Tennessee, you
have company.
Connecticut put an end to Louisville's unlikely run in the NCAA Tournament
Tuesday in a 93-60 drubbing at New Orleans Arena for the program's eighth
national championship under head coach Geno Auriemma, matching the record held
by Summitt and the Lady Vols.
Freshman Breanna Stewart finished with 23 points and nine rebounds, while
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis made five of UConn's 13 3-pointers en route to an 18-
point effort.
The Huskies reached their eighth final by solving Notre Dame in the Final Four
after losing to their Big East rival three times this season.
Another conference foe stood in the way Tuesday, and Connecticut (35-4) came
away with a convincing triumph, denying Louisville its first title and a
chance at winning both the men's and women's championships the same year.
Connecticut is still the only school that has accomplished that feat, doing so
in 2004.
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El Esfuerzo Group
Update on El Esfuerzo GroupThe members of the group continue in their businesses. Erika, a 21-year-old young woman, is married and has a two-year-old male son. She works raising and selling pigs. She requested her loan to buy some young pigs and pig feed. She started her business two years ago because of her husband, who likes animals. He taught her to feed and care for the pigs. Her business is important because of the profits she gets when she sells the pigs. She likes to see the pigs grow and get fat. She uses the profits to buy pigs and feed.
Her dreams and hopes are for the pigs to grow and achieve, and for her entire family to be well and not get sick.
The members of the group want to say to Kiva and Fundación Realidad, "Thank you very much for your loans. They help us to grow our businesses and to continue working and helping more people who need it."
Previous Loan DetailsThis group is called "El Esfuerzo" (The Effort) and includes Avelardo, Israel, and Leoba. They will use the money from this loan to buy fertilizer, bags, and avocado plants. Erika will buy five piglets to fatten up. Wendy will buy shoes and catalogs. Avelardo is 20 years old, single, and ra... More from El Esfuerzo Group's previous loan »
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This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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The rise of The Turk
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - It's difficult to call what West Virginia's basketball team has accomplished of late a surge.
The Mountaineers have won two games in a row for the first time since late December and have a chance to match a season's best by winning a third straight Saturday at TCU. But the last two victims, Texas Tech and Texas, are near the bottom of the Big 12 standings and TCU occupies the cellar.
In other words, until West Virginia beats a team that at least has a winning record, it's probably not time to celebrate.
There have, however, been signs of life of late. The Mountaineers are, for the most part, shooting the ball better than they have all season, and coach Bob Huggins likes the way they have defended.
But perhaps the most encouraging sign for Huggins is that he is finally getting what he expected all along this season from senior center Deniz Kilicli. Huggins has lamented time and again that that this team is not getting the kind of play from its veterans that he would like, and given that Kilicli is the only fourth-year player in the program, that points to him.
Of late, though, Kilicli has been making plays. He's scoring, rebounding and blocking shots. And West Virginia will be better for it if he continues to do so.
"He hasn't made plays like that. He hasn't been that active,'' Huggins said after Kilicli scored 14 points and made six of his eight shots in Monday's 60-58 win over Texas. "If we can keep him that active, that helps our team a bunch.''
Kilicli has spent much of the season bouncing back and forth between relevancy and irrelevancy. His playing time has gone up and down with his performance. He will play six minutes one game and 22 the next.
It has frustrated him, of course, but no more so than his performance frustrates Huggins. Lately, Kilicli seems to have simply accepted that his playing time will fluctuate and that he just has to make the best of what opportunities he gets.
"That's up to [Huggins] how much I play,'' Kilicli said a few weeks ago. "If I'm in a game six minutes I have to make the most of those six minutes.''
Lately, Kilicli has begun to make the most of all of his minutes. He's not putting up huge numbers, but he's playing hard and, for the most part, playing well.
If he continues to do that he will continue to play. His 34 minutes on the floor Monday against Texas were a season high.
In fact, since playing just six minutes in a loss at Purdue on Jan. 19 - that was the end of a nine-game stretch when he played just 14.6 minutes per game after averaging 24.4 in the first eight games - Kilicli has averaged 25.4 minutes. He's also averaging 12.2 points in those last five games and is shooting 58 percent. He's not rebounding a lot, but he's had five blocked shots over that span after having just four in the first 17 games.
Most of all, though, Kilicli is giving the effort Huggins wants to see.
"He has a lot of energy right now,'' Huggins said. "He was terrific in practice. He actually dove out of bounds, which you don't see Deniz doing a lot.''
But then TCU somehow knocked off No. 5 Kansas 62-55 at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum in Fort Worth. It was TCU's first win since joining the Big 12.
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The men of Kappa Chi invite you to come to the Tiger Den and enjoy some live music from some of the most talented men and women on campus. Did we mention that we'll have all the hot chocolate and (Starbucks) coffee that you can drink? Admission is $3 for singles and $5 for couples.
meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
Beta & EEE Mixer
|food and a slideshow honoring our seniors
TC and Eta plan to have a mixer and play Kickball together
meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
Overview of the Show
The main goal of "The Tonight Show with Coleson and David" is to gather the student body together for entertainment purposes. We want to lay this show out to be one that imitates or mimics that of late night television shows, popular since the inception of television. With the likeness and charm of Johnny Carson, but the relevance and wit of Jimmy Fallon, Coleson and David want to bring an informative, yet lighthearted ness to Ouachita through the form of comedy and current events. Not only this, but much more will be unveiled through this overview.
Every semester Tri Chi gives a little party for their beaus to let them know how much we love them. We will just be playing some fun games and have some snacks.


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Interview and Giveaway from author Jennifer Estep
We have the pleasure of once again having author Jennifer Estep with us today to talk about her Elemental Assassins series and her most recent release, By A Thread.
Make sure to keep reading after the interview to learn how you can enter to win a copy of the book for yourself.
What is Gin, Bria, Finn, and the rest of the Elemental Assassins gang up to in By A Thread?
I've been calling this my "Gin on vacation" book. Basically, Gin decides to get out of Ashland for a few days so she can rest, relax, and recharge after everything that happened in Spider's Revenge. But Gin's vacation ends up being anything but relaxing. One of Bria's friends is being threatened by a particularly nasty vampire, and Gin decides to come to the rescue – and finds herself in just as much trouble as ever. There's also some emotional fallout between Gin and Bria because of what happened in Spider's Revenge, so Gin is dealing with that as well.
Has Gin changed since her battle against Mab Monroe?
Gin has changed. Killing Mab was such a big focus for Gin for so long, and now that Mab is dead, Gin sort of finds herself at loose ends. One of the things I wanted to explore with By a Thread and the next few books in the series is what happens when the heroine finally defeats her nemesis. What are the consequences of that? What's the emotional fallout? So those are some of the things that Gin has to deal with in By a Thread and beyond.
What is Jonah McAllister up to since Mab's death?
Oh, that Jonah. He's always scheming. Now that Mab is dead, Jonah realizes that he needs a new boss, so he's been putting out feelers to the other underworld figures in Ashland. He's also got his sights set on Gin – and is busy plotting her death.
Has your series unfolded the way you originally planned?
The overall story arcs have gone pretty much how I thought they would – Gin going after Mab, Bria coming back to town, Gin and Mab having their showdown.
But I'm a panster so I never know what will pop up while I'm writing a book. For example, at first, I thought Roslyn was going to be a minor character, but as I wrote Spider's Bite, Web of Lies, and Venom, I kept coming back to her, until now, she's part of Gin's inner circle. The same sort of thing happened with Jonah McAllister. At first, he was just going to be one of Mab's flunkies, but I've had so much fun pitting him against Gin that he's developed into another nemesis for her.
What do you have in store next for this series?
Widow's Web, the seventh book, will be published on Aug. 21. That book delves into Owen's backstory, and readers will learn more about his growing up in Ashland.
There will be at least three more Elemental Assassin books after that, so I'll be writing about Gin and the gang for some time to come.
Is there any celebrity chef Gin would like a chance to cook with?
Hmm. That's a tough one, but I would say Sandra Lee. She has a lot of tips and tricks, and I think those would help Gin with her cooking and still leave her plenty of time to battle the bad guys.
Thank you to Jennifer for answer a few questions for us. If you'd like to learn more about Jennifer and her books, visit her website and blog or check her out on Facebook and Twitter.
Jennifer is giving away a copy of By A Thread. Open to U.S. residents only.
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Only (minor) gripe: I think the map would look even better if you had only used one tree-symbol (especially as it seems it has nothing to do with geographic concernes that you switch to the broadleaf trees). I like the fir tree symbol better than the round one.
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We're talking about a total meltdown if they go through with their gambit. President Obama and Democrats should not negotiate with terrorists - foreign or domestic. Republicans will be held responsible for the ensuing disaster. It will be the final straw that will ensure the GOP's utter demise.
Go ahead and do it, suckers. I dare you!
House GOPs New Gambit: Tie Obamacare To The Debt Limit
Even as their hardliners refuse to let up, senior Republicans have all but conceded that theywont end up defunding Obamacare in a continuing resolution to keep the federal government open after the money runs out on Sept. 30. And even if they do shut down the government, top Republicans observe, it wont actually stop Obamacare.
The strategy makes little sense.
But House Republican leaders are taking so much fire from conservative advocates that theyre weighing a more dangerous gambit: taking the United States ability to pay its bills hostage to advance the partys goal of disrupting and dismantling the Affordable Care Act. The countrys borrowing authority is set to expire later this fall and senior Republicans made a series of promises to their members since January that appear likely to culminate in a showdown.
GOP leaders dont see a way to persuade their members to lift the debt ceiling without attaching it to fiscal reforms. So a strategy theyre considering, first reported in the conservative news outlets National Review and Washington Examiner, is to pass a two-month continuing resolution to keep government funded at existing levels until, roughly, the debt limit is reached. Then they would offer a sequester replacement in exchange for delaying or defunding Obamacare in order to avoid economic disaster.
A House Republican leadership aide described this plan as an option, but cautioned TPM that no decisions have been made yet. I do, however, expect that the Presidents health care law will certainly come up in some form or fashion in the debt limit debate, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy.
A second House GOP leadership aide also said no decisions have been made.
House Republicans are right that sequestration is a significant leverage point for them theyve largely embraced the indiscriminate spending cuts passed in 2011, while Democrats are eager to replace them. But a strategy of tying Obamacare to the debt ceiling carries a series of seemingly fatal flaws and potentially disastrous outcomes.
For starters, President Obama and his senior officials have vowed, repeatedly, not to negotiate on the debt ceiling under any circumstances. Their view is that the countrys borrowing limit is too important to subject to ideological debates, that raising it is Congress responsibility, and if they stand firm Republicans will be forced to back down. Back in January, when Obama refused to negotiate over the upcoming debt ceiling breach, they caved and ended up temporarily raising it without any substantial strings attached.
We are not negotiating on the debt ceiling, Obama told Democratic lawmakers just weeks ago.
But even if Democrats agreed to package a debt ceiling hike with other reforms, theyve rejected repeated GOP efforts to damage Obamacare and theyre not about to cave now, on the eve of the laws rollout. Not only would it show dramatic weakness and send the wrong signal at the wrong time, it would disrupt the frantic efforts of administration officials to make sure the laws central provisions are ready to go live on Jan. 1. Enrollment on the insurance marketplaces begins on Oct. 1, after which delay is even less likely. And Obama is all but certain to veto a bill that meaningfully damages his signature achievement.
Which is why the gambit is extremely dangerous. If Republicans cater to conservative demands and raise expectations that Obamacare will be weakened in a debt limit deal, it could push Congress to the brink of letting the United States default on its debt, a move that stands to send shock waves through the economy, if not grind it to a halt.
The likelier endgame is that Republicans ultimately come up with a shiny object to distract their base and portray it as a concession by Democrats. That could include symbolic moves like Senate Democrats permitting a vote on House GOP legislation to delay parts of Obamacare, such as the individual mandate. Of course, Democrats would vote down such a bill, but itd give Republicans a political weapon to use against vulnerable red-state Democrats in the 2014 elections, when they hope to win the Senate majority.
It wont be easy for Republicans leaders to pull their members back from the brink, but as things stand, they probably wont have a choice. As the White House sees it, ideological concessions such as weakening Obamacare and spending cuts are out of the question, and the debt ceiling debate ends either in a GOP cave or default.


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Under Indiana's Federal Accountability Waiver, schools who receive a "D" or "F" school designation are considered to be in federal school improvement. If a school received a "D" in 2012-2013, that school will be classified as a Focus school in 2013-2014. If a school received an "F" in 2012-2013, that school will be classified as a Priority school in 2013-2014. Beginning in the 2013-2014 school year, any school that received a "D" or "F" in both the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years will be classified as a Priority school.
- Focus and Priority Schools – Requirements and Support Presentation
- Requirements for Indiana's Focus and Priority Schools
- 2014-15 List of Priority and Focus Schools – will be posted after State Board approval
Date to Remember
- November 30, 2014 – submit SAP to Outreach Coordinator
- By January 1, 2015 – Priority schools hold public hearing and allow public testimony concerning improvement status
- By February , 2015 – Submit your public hearing notice to Outreach Coordinator (find sample here)
- February 28, 2015 – Ensuring Leadership Documentation due to Outreach Coordinator
Focus/Priority Schools Monitoring Information
- Priority School requirements
- Administrators Handbook
- Student Achievement Plan
- Student Achievement Plan EXEMPLAR
- Root Cause Analysis – The 5 Why's
- Root Cause Analysis – Hypothesis Setting
- Ensuring Leadership
- Leadership Documents (to be signed and submitted by Superintendent) – Updated!!
- New - District Response Page (to be signed and submitted by Superintendent)
- Ensuring Leadership Memo
- Year 3+ principals
- Ensuring Strong Leadership Rubric Word | PDF
- Ensuring Strong Leadership Page
- Removal or Replacement Letter
- Year 1 or 2 principals
- Focus and Priority Schools Implementation Progress Report
- Focus and Priority Schools Implementation Progress Report Exemplar
- Onsite Monitoring Checklist
- Guiding Questions for Focus Group Interviews
- Classroom Observation Form
- Classroom Observation Indicators of Success
- Summative Monitoring Report Indicators
- Turnaround Principles Rubric
- Data Analysis Resources and Tools can be found at MA Rooney foundation website at http://www.marooneyfoundation.org/


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Summary:The enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.


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Three iconic buildings, built in the early 1900s, doubled the College's physical plant and are still fully utilized today, though for different purposes.
By the early 1900s, North Central College's need for space beyond Old Main became a crucial concern. College President Herman J. Kiekhoefer and Judge John S. Goodwin initiated contact with philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to seek out funds for new facilities.
After much discussion, Carnegie agreed to donate $25,000 to then North-Western College for a new library building. Carnegie Library, as it was formerly called, was one of only a few academic libraries in Illinois that received funding from Carnegie.


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I have a dead server with corrupted hard, but managed to rescue the emial folders from it. Is there a way to inject this folder into zimbra message store. I guess the other option would be to create an account on another IMAP server put all the email there and use imapsync to tranfer to Zimbra.
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'Catechisms with flesh on'
Q&A | Stories, says novelist Nate Wilson, can powerfully shape who we are and how we look at a wondrous world
Nate Wilson at age 33 is the father of four children and seven books of young adult fiction, including such titles as the 100 Cupboards trilogy and Leepike Ridge. From his Idaho base he's also put out a terrific video apologetic, Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World. Here are edited excerpts of our interview before students at Patrick Henry College.
Was it a blessing or a curse to be both a preacher's kid and a writer's kid, with your dad, Doug, writing influential books? The disadvantages turned into advantages for me. I knew from a very early age that my father took his qualifications seriously, and I was one of those qualifications. So I, at a very young age, felt I was in a position to ruin everything-I could ruin all of it. But our house was joyful. He was a pastor, but we weren't a house of rules: We were a house of jokes and rock songs. I benefited immensely from the education that he worked to build-the classical education model in Christian schools.
And you saw antithesis? I remember being taken along to events where he'd been invited to come be the crazy Christian, the one guy in the room who they could all scream at and spit on, and watching him smile and laugh while writing a note to a moderator to please call the police.
You've said you learned more philosophy, maybe even theology, from C.S. Lewis and Tolkien than from anything you studied in college. Is that one reason you write fiction rather than theological tomes? Christians have sometimes been suspicious of stories, because they really can influence you. If you read the Twilight novels once a month for a year, I think you'd be a different human afterward-and not a sparkly one. Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
In Tilt-a-Whirl, the video, you have some dark subjects, including walking through a graveyard. In anything I write, I want to engage with darkness in the same way that God engages with it in His story. The story of the cross, the story of Moses and Pharaoh, the story of Samson: I look at those stories and want to imitate them in every way, but one of the most important ways is in the ratio and use of goodness and evil.
How powerful is darkness? I don't like the Joker in Batman because he's an omnipotent Satan: He's just psycho and everywhere at once. I also don't like Batman in Batman because he's just a billionaire in a bat-suit with no superpowers, sneaking into people's bedrooms.
In Tilt-a-Whirl, you deal with the problem of evil essentially by saying that God is a writer producing a narrative. Once the questions of, "How dare you, God?" get to a certain point, Paul says, "Who are you, pot, to ask the Potter why He made you?" Could you, if you were Frodo the hobbit, raise the problem of evil to Tolkien? Frodo might say, and this is a traditional postulation, Tolkien is either bad at writing, or evil. Or, option three, he doesn't exist." Does that argument hold water? Can Frodo look at his reality and say, of the author, "There either isn't one, or he sucks, or he's really evil?"
Those are the philosophers' choices. That's what they give us. But we look at Frodo and we can say, "You idiot. It's a good story. The evil is here to be beaten. It's here to be overcome. It's here to be broken-break it. Go throw the ring in the volcano. Don't sit there and look at it and say, "There is no Tolkien, because if there was, how could such an evil exist?"
Hamlet could deny the existence of Shakespeare. Or Hamlet could say that if Shakespeare does exist, he's a bad writer, bad at controlling his narrative, or he's an evil writer. We do the same thing, but when we are Frodo the hobbit, or we are Hamlet, it appears to hold water for us.
The world God created is in many ways even stranger than the fictional worlds human authors present to us. I want kids to realize that they live in a fantasy world: They should not finish a novel and think, "Now back to my un-magical, boring existence." This world is crazy. The grass outside is made out of thin air by sunlight. Heat from a ball of fire in the sky turns into carbon dioxide, air grabs some heat from the sun and rips the carbon out and makes itself a leaf. It's not made out of the dirt, it's made out of thin air. We're on a ball of rock flying at Mach 86 around a ball of fire in the sky, right now, just around and around.
Magic. Imagine describing to Frodo how we fly around, in a steel tube the size of school buses, and then we have this vapor our alchemists make, and you light a match to it. We sit in this steel tube, somebody stands up front and says, "Buckle up," we strap in, and then we light that stuff and we go whipping through the sky, six miles up. We hurtle along, hop a continent, and then I get off. I tell Frodo that, then I say, "Man, I wish I lived in a fantasy land that is magical like yours."
Are our lives comedies or tragedies? A tragedy has at its end a fundamental and complete hopelessness. But if you've ever talked to people who have had a deep tragedy in their lives, some say, "It was the best thing that ever happened to us." Sometimes they're saying that because they think they're supposed to, and sometimes they really mean it: It's not a tragedy, there's an up-tick after.
Death is not the end. We all forget very quickly that human mortality rates are 100 percent. All of us die. But when we go off the stage, we don't just turn into mulch, like an atheist would say: We go off the stage and we still exist. If we think that death is the end, it's tragic-but death is an enemy to be overcome, it's an enemy that's been beaten. However I end a story, whether it's in death or darkness or a place of sadness, I never want to say, "That enemy stands unbeaten." The story of Samson is glorious: a bittersweet tragedy at the end, but a beautiful story.
Does that hopefulness even amid dire events characterize the best Christian writers? Flannery O'Connor's short fiction tells the story of the apostle Paul: Here's this self-righteous, super-smart, clean-cut rich kid who dabbles in murder: He's not throwing rocks but he is holding the coats when Stephen is murdered. Then he gets knocked off his donkey and blinded-but there's always the promise of more coming. In O'Connor this granny gets shot by the outlaw-but the best thing that ever happened to her was getting shot by that outlaw.
Listen to a portion of Marvin Olasky's interview with Nate Wilson onWORLD's radio news magazine The World and Everything in It.


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CADIZ _ A good kicker in high school football is a bonus.
A very good kicker is a weapon.
Bellaire used the big right leg of Dalton Conroy to slip past Harrison Central, 29-28, on Friday night at a jam-packed Wagner Field in Buckeye 8 action.
The 240-pound Big Reds' senior booted a 22-yard field goal as time expired to give his team an improbable victory against the stunned Huskies and their faithful.
"That is probably the most pressure I've ever felt in my life," Conroy explained.
Bellaire trailed 28-26 after junior quarterback Spencer Badia capped a seven-play, 67-yard touchdown drive with a 5-yard quarterback draw. His two-point pass was batted away by a diving Fletcher Watt to preserve Harrison Central's slim lead with 3:25 remaining to play.
With the Huskies expecting an onside kick, Conroy boomed one deep that Josh Moore fielded at the goal line and returned to the 15.
Running back Maurtice Hython gained 4 yards on first down, but lost one on second as Logan Koshenka made a tackle.
On third-and-7, Harrison Central quarterback Rashaen Mitchell dropped back to pass. With the rush in his face, he spun around a couple of times to elude defenders, but soon found himself in the end zone. He got a step out of the end zone before getting flagged for intentional grounding. That left the Huskies with fourth-and-24 from inside their own 1.
David Miser's punt was fielded by Brendon Ross at the 36 and returned to the 28. On third-and-4, Badia laced a rocket into the arms of Hunter Westlake that moved the ball to the Huskies' 11. Badia gained 6 yards on a pair of carries that lined Conroy up for his game-winning attempt.
After a pair of timeouts, one by each team, the snap from Wyatt Back to Badia was perfect and Conroy's kick split the uprights as the Bellaire sidelines and bleachers erupted in joyous celebration.
"Dalton is the weapon we talked about earlier in the year," Bellaire coach Jose Davis said. "We know where we have to get to be in his range. That was a chip shot for him. He probably had 20 or 30 yards to go on that kick."
While the kick made winners out of Bellaire for the fifth time in seven outings, and halted a two-game losing skid, the loss was really hard to swallow for the Huskies on Homecoming.
"They made one more play than we did," Harrison Central coach Justin Kropka said. "Our kids played hard and were in the right places. It just didn't work out."
The game was a tale of two halves as the Huskies bolted to a 28-20 halftime margin thanks to a 21-point second quarter.
Hython picked up 119 of his 211 yards and all four of his team's touchdowns in the first half. Only two of his 15 second-half carries went for more than 7 yards.
"We really didn't make any big adjustments defensively at halftime," Davis explained. "They (Harrison) were just muscling us up and down the field. Our kids had to man up and they did."
Badia finished 26 of 44 for 306 yards and a touchdown. Patrone landed nine catches for 99 yards, with Maffe gaining 95 on five receptions.
Mitchell was 6-for-11 for 98 yards and an interception, which was pilfered by Patrone.


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Republic of Kenya
Area: 582,646 sq. km. (224,960 sq mi.); slightly smaller than Texas.
Cities: Capital--Nairobi (pop. 2.9 million; 2007 est.). Other cities--Mombasa (828,500; 2006 est.), Kisumu (322,000; 1999), Nakuru (219,366; 1999), Eldoret (193,830; 1999).
Terrain: Kenya rises from a low coastal plain on the Indian Ocean in a series of mountain ridges and plateaus which stand above 3,000 meters (9,000 ft.) in the center of the country. The Rift Valley bisects the country above Nairobi, opening up to a broad arid plain in the north. Highlands cover the south before descending to the shores of Lake Victoria in the west.
Climate: Tropical in south, west, and central regions; arid and semi-arid in the north and the northeast.
Nationality: Noun and adjective--Kenyan(s).
Population (June 2007 est.): 36.9 million.
Major ethnic groups: Kikuyu 22%, Luyia 14%, Luo 14%, Kalenjin 11%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 5%.
Religions: Christian 80%, Muslim 10%, traditional African religions 9%, Hindu/Sikh/Baha'i/Jewish 1%.
Languages: English (official), Swahili (national), over 40 other languages from the Bantu, Nilotic, and Cushitic linguistic groups.
Education: First 8 years of primary school are provided free by the government. Attendance--92% for primary grades. Adult literacy rate--85.1%.
Health: Infant mortality rate--57.4/1,000. Life expectancy--55.3 yrs (2007 est.).
Work force (1.95 million wage earners): public sector 30%; private sector 70%. Informal sector workers--6.4 million. Services--45%; industry and commerce--35%; agriculture--20%.
Type: Republic.
Independence: December 12, 1963.
Constitution: 1963.
Branches: Executive--president (chief of state, head of government, commander in chief of armed forces). Legislative--unicameral National Assembly (parliament). Judicial--Court of Appeal, High Court, various lower and special courts, includes Kadhi (Sharia) courts.
Administrative subdivisions: 69 districts, joined to form 7 rural provinces. Nairobi area has special provincial status. The government has gazetted 37 more districts, whose ratification was still in process as of October 2007.
Political parties: Over 100 registered political parties. The ruling party, the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), made up of 14 separately registered parties, broke up in 2003, although it is still a registered party. A Government of National Unity composed of Members of Parliament from all political parties was created in 2005. In September 2007, President Kibaki and his supporters formed the new coalition Party of National Unity (PNU). KANU, the official opposition party, is now a member of this pro-government coalition. The main opposition party is now the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), whose leaders were formerly allied with President Kibaki.
Suffrage: Universal at 18.
GDP (2006 est.): $22.79 billion.
Annual growth rate (2006): 6.1%.
Gross national income per capita (2006): $455.
Natural resources: Wildlife, land.
Agriculture: Products--tea, coffee, sugarcane, horticultural products, corn, wheat, rice, sisal, pineapples, pyrethrum, dairy products, meat and meat products, hides, skins. Arable land--5%.
Industry: Types--petroleum products, grain and sugar milling, cement, beer, soft drinks, textiles, vehicle assembly, paper and light manufacturing.
Trade (2006): Exports--$3.1 billion: tea, coffee, horticultural products, petroleum products, cement, pyrethrum, soda ash, sisal, hides and skins, fluorspar. Major markets--Uganda, Tanzania, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Egypt, South Africa, United States. Imports--$7.2 billion: machinery, vehicles, crude petroleum, iron and steel, resins and plastic materials, refined petroleum products, pharmaceuticals, paper and paper products, fertilizers, wheat. Major suppliers--U.K., Japan, South Africa, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Italy, India, France, United States, Saudi Arabia.
Kenya has a very diverse population that includes three of Africa's major sociolinguistic groups: Bantu (67%), Nilotic (30%), and Cushitic (3%). Kenyans are deeply religious. About 80% of Kenyans are Christian, 10% Muslim, and 10% follow traditional African religions or other faiths. Most city residents retain links with their rural, extended families and leave the city periodically to help work on the family farm. About 75% of the work force is engaged in agriculture, mainly as subsistence farmers. The national motto of Kenya is Harambee, meaning "pull together." In that spirit, volunteers in hundreds of communities build schools, clinics, and other facilities each year and collect funds to send students abroad. The six state universities enroll about 45,000 students, representing some 25% of the Kenyan students who qualify for admission. There are six private universities.
Fossils found in East Africa suggest that protohumans roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near Kenya's Lake Turkana indicate that hominids lived in the area 2.6 million years ago.
Cushitic-speaking people from what is now Sudan and Ethiopia moved into the area that is now Kenya beginning around 2000 BC. Arab traders began frequenting the Kenya coast around the first century AD. Kenya's proximity to the Arabian Peninsula invited colonization, and Arab and Persian settlements sprouted along the coast by the eighth century. During the first millennium AD, Nilotic and Bantu peoples moved into the region, and the latter now comprise two thirds of Kenya's population. The Swahili language, a Bantu language with significant Arabic vocabulary, developed as a trade language for the region.
Arab dominance on the coast was interrupted for about 150 years following the arrival of the Portuguese in 1498. British exploration of East Africa in the mid-1800s eventually led to the establishment of Britain's East African Protectorate in 1895. The Protectorate promoted settlement of the fertile central highlands by Europeans, dispossessing the Kikuyu and others of their land. Some fertile and well watered parts of the Rift Valley inhabited by the Maasai and the western highlands inhabited by the Kalenjin were also handed over to European settlers. For other Kenyan communities, the British presence was slight, especially in the arid northern half of the country. The settlers were allowed a voice in government even before Kenya was officially made a British colony in 1920, but Africans were prohibited from direct political participation until 1944 when a few appointed (but not elected) African representatives were permitted to sit in the legislature.
From 1952 to 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the "Mau Mau" insurgency against British colonial rule in general and its land policies in particular. This rebellion took place almost exclusively in the highlands of central Kenya among the Kikuyu people. Tens of thousands of Kikuyu died in the fighting or in the detention camps and restricted villages. British losses were about 650. During this period, African participation in the political process increased rapidly.
The first direct elections for Africans to the Legislative Council took place in 1957. Kenya became independent on December 12, 1963, and the next year joined the Commonwealth. Jomo Kenyatta, an ethnic Kikuyu and head of the Kenya African National Union (KANU), became Kenya's first President. The minority party, Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), representing a coalition of small ethnic groups that had feared dominance by larger ones, dissolved itself in 1964 and joined KANU.
A small but significant leftist opposition party, the Kenya People's Union (KPU), was formed in 1966, led by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, a former Vice President and Luo elder. The KPU was banned shortly thereafter, however, and its leader detained. KANU became Kenya's sole political party. At Kenyatta's death in August 1978, Vice President Daniel arap Moi, a Kalenjin from Rift Valley province, became interim President. By October of that year, Moi became President formally after he was elected head of KANU and designated its sole nominee for the presidential election.
In June 1982, the National Assembly amended the constitution, making Kenya officially a one-party state. Two months later, young military officers in league with some opposition elements attempted to overthrow the government in a violent but ultimately unsuccessful coup. In response to street protests and donor pressure, Parliament repealed the one-party section of the constitution in December 1991. In 1992, independent Kenya's first multiparty elections were held. Divisions in the opposition contributed to Moi's retention of the presidency in 1992 and again in the 1997 election. Following the 1997 election Kenya experienced its first coalition government as KANU was forced to cobble together a majority by bringing into government a few minor parties.
In October 2002, a coalition of opposition parties formed the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). In December 2002, the NARC candidate, Mwai Kibaki, was elected the country's third President. President Kibaki received 62% of the vote, and NARC also won 59% of the parliamentary seats. Kibaki, a Kikuyu from Central province, had served as a Member of Parliament since Kenya's independence in 1963. He served in senior posts in both the Kenyatta and Moi governments, including Vice President and Finance Minister. In 2003, internal conflicts disrupted the NARC government, culminating in its defeat in 2005 in a referendum over the government's draft constitution. Two principal leaders of the movement to defeat the draft constitution, Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka, who are both former Kibaki allies, are now presidential candidates for the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party and the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya (ODM-K) party, respectively. In September 2007, President Kibaki and his allies formed the coalition Party of National Unity (PNU). KANU joined the PNU coalition, although it serves in Parliament as the official opposition party. Kenya is scheduled to hold presidential, parliamentary, and local government elections on December 27, 2007.
The unicameral National Assembly consists of 210 members elected to a term of 5 years from single-member constituencies, plus 12 members nominated by political parties on a proportional representation basis. The president appoints the vice president and cabinet members from among those elected to the assembly. The attorney general and the speaker are ex-officio members of the National Assembly.
The judiciary is headed by a High Court, consisting of a Chief Justice and High Court judges and judges of Kenya's Court of Appeal, all appointed by the president.
Local administration is divided among 69 rural districts, each headed by a commissioner appointed by the president. The government has proposed 37 more districts, but these are not yet ratified by Parliament. The districts are joined to form seven rural provinces. Nairobi has special provincial status. The Ministry of State in charge of Provincial Administration and Internal Security supervises the administration of districts and provinces.
Principal Government Officials
President--Mwai Kibaki
Vice President--Moody Awori
Minister of Foreign Affairs--Raphael Tuju
Ambassador to the United States--Peter Ogego
Ambassador to the United Nations--Zachary Muita-Muburi
Consulate General Los Angeles--Ms. Nyambura Kamau
Kenya maintains an embassy in the United States at 2249 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel. 202-387-6101, website: http://www.kenyaembassy.com) and consulates in Los Angeles and New York.
Since independence, Kenya has maintained remarkable stability despite changes in its political system and crises in neighboring countries. Particularly since the re-emergence of multiparty democracy, Kenyans have enjoyed an increased degree of freedom.
In December 2002, Kenyans held democratic and open elections, which were judged free and fair by international observers. The 2002 elections marked an important turning point in Kenya's democratic evolution as the presidency and the parliamentary majority passed from the party that had ruled Kenya since independence to a coalition of new political parties. The government lost a referendum over its draft constitution in November 2005. This vote too was widely accepted as free, fair and credible.
Under the presidency of Mwai Kibaki, the NARC coalition promised to focus its efforts on generating economic growth, improving and expanding education, combating corruption and rewriting the constitution. The first two goals were largely met, but progress toward the second two goals has been limited. President Kibaki's current cabinet consists of Members of Parliament from allied parties and others recruited from opposition parties who joined the cabinet without the approval of their party leaderships.
In early 2006, revelations from investigative reports of two major government-linked corruption scandals rocked Kenya and led to resignations, including three ministers (one of whom was later re-appointed). In March 2006, another major scandal was uncovered involving money laundering and tax evasion in the Kenyan banking system. The government's March 2006 raid on the Standard Group media house conducted by masked Kenyan police was internationally condemned and was met with outrage by Kenya media and civil society. The government did not provide a sufficient explanation. No one has been held accountable.
Kenya is scheduled to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on December 27, 2007. President Kibaki is running for re-election. Opposition candidates include Raila Odinga of the ODM party and Kalonzo Musyoka of the ODM-K party. More than 2,500 candidates are vying for Kenya's 210 Parliamentary seats.
After independence, Kenya promoted rapid economic growth through public investment, encouragement of smallholder agricultural production, and incentives for private (often foreign) industrial investment. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annual average of 6.6% from 1963 to 1973. Agricultural production grew by 4.7% annually during the same period, stimulated by redistributing estates, diffusing new crop strains, and opening new areas to cultivation. After experiencing moderately high growth rates during the 1960s and 1970s, Kenya's economic performance during the last two decades has been far below its potential. The economy grew by an annual average of only 1.5% between 1997 and 2002, which was below the population growth estimated at 2.5% per annum, leading to a decline in per capita incomes. The decline in economic performance in the last two decades was largely due to inappropriate agricultural policies, inadequate credit, and poor international terms of trade contributing to the decline in agriculture. Kenya's inward-looking policy of import substitution and rising oil prices made Kenya's manufacturing sector uncompetitive. The government began a massive intrusion in the private sector. Lack of export incentives, tight import controls, and foreign exchange controls made the domestic environment for investment even less attractive.
From 1991 to 1993, Kenya had its worst economic performance since independence. Growth in GDP stagnated, and agricultural production shrank at an annual rate of 3.9%. Inflation reached a record 100% in August 1993, and the government's budget deficit was over 10% of GDP. As a result of these combined problems, bilateral and multilateral donors suspended program aid to Kenya in 1991. In the 1990s, the government implemented economic reform measures to stabilize the economy and restore sustainable growth. In 1994, nearly all administrative controls on producer and retail prices, imports, foreign exchange and grain marketing were removed. The Government of Kenya privatized a range of publicly owned companies, reduced the number of civil servants, and introduced conservative fiscal and monetary policies. By the mid-1990s, the government lifted price controls on petroleum products. In 1995, foreigners were allowed to invest in the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE). In July 1997, the Government of Kenya refused to meet commitments made earlier to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on governance reforms. As a result, the IMF suspended lending for 3 years, and the World Bank also put a $90-million structural adjustment credit on hold.
The Government of Kenya took some positive steps on reform, including the establishment of the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Authority in 1999, and the adoption of measures to improve the transparency of government procurements and reduce the government payroll. In July 2000, the IMF signed a $150 million Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), and the World Bank followed suit shortly after with a $157 million Economic and Public Sector Reform credit. The Anti-Corruption Authority was declared unconstitutional in December 2000, and other parts of the reform effort faltered in 2001. The IMF and World Bank again suspended their programs.
Net foreign direct investment (FDI) was negative from 2000-2003, but started trickling back in 2004, as demonstrated by an increase in the number of enterprises operating in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) from 66 to 74 between 2003 and 2004. The value of total investments increased from Ksh18.7 billion (U.S. $247.3 million) in 2005 to Ksh20.1 billion (over U.S. $278.3 million) in 2006. Following the end of the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) textile agreement in January 2005, several textile and apparel factories closed, leaving 68 EPZ enterprises. In 2006, this number increased to 70 EPZ enterprises.
The economy began to recover after 2002, registering 2.8% growth in 2003, 4.3% in 2004, 5.8% in 2005, and 6.1% in 2006. Under the leadership of President Kibaki, who took over on December 30, 2002, the Government of Kenya began an ambitious economic reform program and resumed its cooperation with the World Bank and the IMF. The National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) government enacted the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act and Public Officers Ethics Act in May 2003 aimed at fighting graft in public offices. There was some movement to reduce corruption in 2003, but the government did not sustain that momentum. Other reforms especially in the judiciary, public procurement etc, led to the unlocking of donor aid and a renewed hope of economic revival.
In November 2003, following the signing into law of key anti-corruption legislation and other reforms by the new government, donors reengaged as the IMF approved a three-year $250 million Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and donors committed $4.2 billion in support over 4 years. In December 2004, the IMF approved Kenya's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement equivalent to U.S. $252.8 million to support the government's economic and governance reforms. However, the government's ability to stimulate economic demand through fiscal and monetary policy remains fairly limited while the pace at which the government is pursuing reforms in other key areas remains slow. Although the Privatization Law was enacted in 2005, modest steps have been made on privatizing of parastatals apart from Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and the concessioning of Kenya Railways, while civil service reform is limited despite the government's assertion that reforms would be undertaken. Accelerating growth to achieve Kenya's potential and reduce the poverty that afflicts more than 56% of its population will require continued de-regulation of business, improved delivery of government services, addressing structural reforms, massive investment in new infrastructure (especially roads), reduction of chronic insecurity caused by crime, and improved economic governance generally.
The current expansion is fairly broad-based and is built on a stable macro-environment fostered by government, and the resilience, resourcefulness, and improved confidence of the private sector. Nairobi continues to be the primary communication and financial hub of East Africa. It enjoys the region's best transportation linkages, communications infrastructure, and trained personnel, although these advantages are less prominent than in past years. On January 31, 2007, the government signed a $2.7 million contract with Tyco Telecommunications to perform an undersea survey for the construction of a fiber-optic cable to Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) called the East African Marine Systems (TEAMS). Two other fiber-optic cables projects are being pursued to link Kenya to the rest of East Africa and India. Once TEAMS and the domestic fiber-optic cables planned by the government are completed, the economy is expected to benefit significantly from reduced internet access prices and improved capacity. A wide range of foreign firms maintain regional branches or representative offices in the city. In March 1996, the Presidents of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda re-established the East African Community (EAC). The EAC's objectives include harmonizing tariffs and customs regimes, free movement of people, and improving regional infrastructures. In March 2004, the three East African countries signed a Customs Union Agreement paving the way for a common market. The Customs Union and a Common External Tariff were established on January 1, 2005, but the EAC countries are still working out exceptions to the tariff. Rwanda and Burundi have since joined the community. In May 2007, during a Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Summit, 13 heads of state endorsed a move to adopt a COMESA customs union and set December 8, 2008 as the target date for its adoption.
Tourism is now Kenya's largest foreign exchange earning sector, followed by flowers, tea and coffee. In 2006 tourism generated $803 million, up from $699 million the previous year. Africa is Kenya's largest export market, followed by the European Union (EU). Kenya benefits significantly from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Although Congress renewed the AGOA third-country fabric provision in December 2006 to provide more time to develop local cotton and fabric production that meets the buyers' rigorous standards, its apparel industry is struggling to hold its ground against Asian competition. Kenya's main exports to the U.S. are AGOA-program garments, but it continues to run a trade deficit with the U.S.
Kenya faces profound environmental challenges brought on by high population growth, deforestation, shifting climate patterns, and the overgrazing of cattle in marginal areas in the north and west of the country. Significant portions of the population will continue to require emergency food assistance in the coming years.
The key independent print media in Kenya are the Nation Media Group, the Standard Group, People Limited, and the Times Media Group. The Nation Media Group publications, which include the Daily Nation, the Sunday Nation, the Business Daily, the weekly East African, and the only Swahili publications, Taifa Leo and Taifa Jumapili, have the largest circulations. The Standard and the Sunday Standard, published by the Standard Group, are also popular newspapers, although with smaller circulations. Approximately 120 foreign correspondents representing 100 media organizations report from Nairobi. There is no government-owned or controlled newspaper.
Major independent radio and television media are the Kenya Television Network (KTN), the broadcast media arm of the Standard Group; Nation Radio/TV, owned by the Nation Media Group; and Citizen Radio/Television, owned by Royal Media Services. The government owns and controls the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) and its subsidiaries. KBC is the only national radio and television network.
Kenya also has hundreds of FM radio stations, some broadcasting in Swahili or in local languages. Radio has a wide reach in Kenya, especially in rural areas. Some major international broadcasters, including British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Voice of America (VOA) and Radio France Internationale (RFI), rebroadcast their programming in Kenya.
Despite internal tensions in Sudan and Ethiopia, Kenya has maintained good relations with its northern neighbors. Recent relations with Uganda and Tanzania have improved as the three countries work for mutual economic benefit.
Kenya has hosted and played an active role in the negotiations to resolve the civil war in Sudan and to reinstate a central government authority in Somalia. The Sudan peace negotiations have made major progress, resulting in the signing in Kenya of agreements between the Khartoum Government and the southern Sudan rebels to put an end to the two-decade-long war. On January 9, 2005 a Sudan North-South Comprehensive Peace Accord was signed in Nairobi. Negotiations in the Somali National Reconciliation Conference resulted at the end of 2004 in the establishing of Somali Transitional Federal Institutions (Assembly, President, Prime Minister, and Government). Until early 2005, Kenya served as a major host both for these institutions and for refugees from Somalia as well as Sudan. Between May and June 2005, members of the Somalia Transitional Federal Institutions relocated to Somalia.
Kenya maintains a moderate profile in Third World politics. Kenya's relations with Western countries are generally friendly, although current political and economic instabilities are sometimes blamed on Western pressures.
The United States and Kenya have enjoyed cordial relations since Kenya's independence. Relations became even closer after Kenya's democratic transition of 2002 and subsequent improvements in human rights.
More than 9,000 U.S. citizens are registered with the U.S. Embassy as residents of Kenya. In 2006 a record 86,528 Americans visited Kenya, up 17.6% from 2005. About two-thirds of resident Americans are missionaries and their families. U.S. business investment is estimated to be more than $285 million, primarily in commerce, light manufacturing, and the tourism industry.
Al Qaeda terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi on August 7, 1998, taking hundreds of lives and maiming thousands more. Since that event, the Kenyan and U.S. Governments have intensified cooperation to address all forms of insecurity in Kenya, including terrorism. The United States provides equipment and training to Kenyan security forces, both civilian and military. In its dialog with the Kenyan Government, the United States urges effective action against corruption and insecurity as the two greatest impediments to Kenya achieving sustained, rapid economic growth.
U.S. assistance to Kenya is substantial. It promotes broad-based economic development as the basis for continued progress in political, social, and related areas of national life. The U.S. assistance strategy is built around five broad objectives: Fighting disease and improving healthcare; fighting poverty and promoting private sector-led prosperity; advancing shared democratic values, human rights, and good governance; cooperating to fight insecurity and terrorism; and collaborating to foster peace and stability in East Africa. The Peace Corps, which has 150 volunteers in Kenya, is integral to the overall U.S. assistance strategy in Kenya.
Principal U.S. Officials
Ambassador--Michael E. Ranneberger
Deputy Chief of Mission--Pamela Slutz
USAID Mission Director--Erna Kerst
Public Affairs Officer--T.J. Dowling
The U.S. Embassy in Kenya is located on UN Avenue, Nairobi, P.O. Box 606, Village Market, Nairobi (tel. 254-20-363-6000; fax 254-20-363-6157).
Short URL: http://m.state.gov/md94959.htm


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Royals All-Star Review
Royals All-Star Gil Meche will be looking to help the American League team pick up their 10th straight win over the National League in the 78th Midsummer Classic in San Francisco tonight, 7 p.m. (CT) on FOX.
Did you happen to catch the home run derby last night? How many of you were dreaming of the day when Billy Butler and Alex Gordon will be the stars of that show? All accounts say that day is closer than we think. Meanwhile, here are some Royals All-Star facts to get you ready for tonight…
The Summer of '69: Catcher Ellie Rodriguez was the club's first All-Star in 1969. That year, E-Rod batted .236 (63-for-267) with 10 doubles, two homers and 20 RBI in 95 games. It marked his first of only two seasons in a Royals uniform…in 1971 he jumped on with Milwaukee.
All-Star Pitchers: Including Gil Meche, the Royals have had 20 pitchers represent the club at the All-Star game, but only 13 of those pitchers ever taking the mound during the game. Dan Quisenberry and Jeff Montgomery – with three All-Star games each – lead the Royals All-Star pitching staff with the most appearances.
Repeat Performance: No big surprise here, but George Brett is the definite overall leader for repeat All-Star appearances in a Royals uniform. The Hall of Famer went to the Midsummer Classic 13 straight times from 1976-1988. Amos Otis, Mike Sweeney and Frank White are next on the list of Royals to earn multiple All-Star game selections with five each.
DNP for Meche?: The last two Royals pitchers – Mark Redman, 2006, and Mike MacDougal, 2003 – to go to the All-Star game didn't get to show off their All-Star skills, but, hopefully that streak doesn't get extended tonight. Meche seems to be more than ready to take the mound for an inning or two.
K.C. Hosts: The Royals have hosted only one All-Star Game at Kauffman Stadium and that was way back in 1973 when Buddy Bell was an All-Star third baseman for Cleveland who had a full-head of blonde, blonde hair. With all the renovations and upgrades to take place in the next few years here at The K, sounds like another All-Star Game – which is now really an All-Star Week – will be coming our way again. What year would you like to see the All-Stars back in K.C.?
Royals Report Trivia: Which two former Royals players received the highest number of votes in the American League when voted onto their respective All-Star teams?
Of course, that's George Brett (3B) in 1981 and Bo Jackson (OF) in 1989. FYI…This trivia question is provided courtesy of the Royals Report email newsletter. If you haven't checked out the Royals Report, sign up to receive the weekly newsletter here.


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By Jeff Mason and Ghazwan Hassan
TIKRIT Iraq (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Thursday he was sending up to 300 U.S. military advisers to Iraq but stressed the need for a political solution to the country's crisis as government forces battled Sunni rebels for control of the country's biggest refinery.
Speaking at a news conference after a meeting with his top national security advisers, Obama said he was prepared to take "targeted" military action later if deemed necessary, thus delaying but still keeping open the prospect of U.S. air strikes against a militant insurgency. But he insisted that U.S. troops would not return to combat in Iraq.
Obama urged the Shi'ite government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to take urgent steps to heal the sectarian rift, something U.S. officials say the Iraqi leader has failed to do so far and which an al Qaeda splinter group leading the Sunni insurgency has exploited.
"We do not have the ability to simply solve this problem by sending in tens of thousands of troops and committing the kinds of blood and treasure that has already been expended in Iraq," Obama told reporters. "Ultimately, this is something that is going to have to be solved by the Iraqis."
Obama, who withdrew U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of 2011, said the United States would significantly increase support for Iraq's beleaguered security forces, including sending up to 300 military advisers. But Obama stopped short of acceding to Baghdad's request for the use of U.S. air power.
Senior U.S. lawmakers have called for Maliki to step down, and Obama administration officials have also made clear their frustration with him.
While Obama did not join calls for Maliki to go, saying "it's not our job to choose Iraq's leaders," he avoided any expression of confidence in the embattled Iraqi prime minister when asked by a reporter whether he would do so.
In the meantime, the United States began flying F-18 attack aircraft from the carrier George H.W. Bush on missions over Iraq to conduct surveillance of the insurgents. The carrier was ordered into the Gulf several days ago.
The sprawling Baiji refinery, 200 km (130 miles) north of the capital near Tikrit, was a battlefield as troops loyal to the Shi'ite-led government held off insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its allies who had stormed the perimeter a day earlier, threatening national energy supplies.
A government spokesman said around noon (0900 GMT) that its forces were in "complete control."
But a witness in Baiji said fighting was continuing. Two Iraqi helicopters tried to land in the refinery but were unable to because of insurgent gunfire, and most of the refinery remained under rebel control.
A day after the government publicly appealed for U.S. air power, there were indications Washington is skeptical of whether that would be effective, given the risk of civilian deaths that could further enrage Iraq's once-dominant Sunni minority.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, a NATO ally, said the United States "does not view such attacks positively," given the risk to civilians. A Saudi source said that Western powers agreed with Riyadh, the main Sunni state in the region, that what was needed was political change, not outside intervention, to heal sectarian division that has widened under Maliki.
Video aired by Al-Arabiya television showed smoke billowing from the Baiji plant and the black flag used by ISIL flying from a building. Workers who had been inside the complex, which spreads for miles close to the Tigris River, said Sunni militants seemed to hold most of the compound in early morning and that security forces were concentrated around the refinery's control room.
The 250-300 remaining staff were evacuated early on Thursday, one of those workers said by telephone. Military helicopters had attacked militant positions overnight, he added.
Baiji, 25 miles north of Saddam Hussein's home city of Tikrit, lies squarely in territory captured in the past week by an array of armed Sunni groups, spearheaded by ISIL, which is seeking a new Islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria. On Tuesday, staff shut down the plant, which makes much of the fuel Iraqis in the north need for both transport and generating electricity.
ISIL, which considers Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim majority as heretics in league with neighboring, Shi'ite Iran, has led a Sunni charge across northern Iraq after capturing the major city of Mosul last week as Maliki's U.S.-armed forces collapsed.
The group's advance has only been slowed by a regrouped military, Shi'ite militias and other volunteers. The government announced on Thursday that those who joined up to fight in "hot areas" would be paid about $150 a week.
Sunni fighters took the small town of Mutasim, south of Samarra, giving them the prospect of encircling the city which houses a major Shi'ite shrine. A local police source said security forces withdrew without a fight when dozens of vehicles carrying insurgents converged on Mutasim from three directions.
ISIL, whose leader broke with al Qaeda after accusing the global jihadist movement of being too cautious, has now secured cities and territory in Iraq and Syria, in effect putting it well on the path to establishing its own well-armed enclave that Western countries fear could become a center for terrorism.
The Iraqi government made public on Wednesday its request for U.S. air strikes, 2-1/2 years after U.S. forces ended the nine-year occupation that began by toppling Saddam in 2003.
Asked whether Washington would accede to that appeal, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told NBC only that "nothing is off the table."
(Additional reporting by Raheem Salman, Ned Parker and Oliver Holmes in Baghdad, Susan Heavey,; Roberta Rampton, Mark Felsenthal and Matt Spetalnick in Washington and Amena Bakr and William MacLean; in Dubai; Writing by Ned Parker and Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Giles Elgood and Cynthia Osterman)


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Houston, TX (Sports Network) - Abby Wambach scored twice to reach the 150-goal
plateau for her career Wednesday night, and the United States women's national
team defeated China, 4-0, at BBVA Compass Stadium.
Wambach opened the scoring in the 20th minute and added her second goal in the
63rd minute to become just the second woman to score 150 international goals.
Former United States forward Mia Hamm had 158 goals in her career.
Carli Lloyd Amy Rodriguez also scored for the United States, which closes out
a busy year with a third straight friendly against China on Saturday in Boca
Raton, Fla. The United States won the first friendly, 2-0, last weekend.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- The U.S. Travel Association has launched a texting campaign urging Congress to fix the sequester and warning that starting next week, travelers could be looking at big delays.
Nearly two-thirds of us already think flying is too much of a hassle and many Americans do what they can to avoid it. The Travel Association says the sequester is likely to smack us with even more headaches.
Travel experts say if the sequester goes through, we're likely to see a sea of red on airport message boards. Delayed, delayed, delayed. Waits of an hour at TSA checkpoints. Two to three hours if you have to go through customs.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says $689 million in FAA cuts will force him to furlough employees, including air traffic controllers and safety inspectors, for 11 days over the next few months.
TSA workers will face seven days of furloughs.
The Travel Association wants you to text your Member of Congress while you're waiting in line. "They can text 'delayed' to 877 877 and let their Member of Congress know how they feel about the process," Geoff Freeman,Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President said.
Some Republicans complain the White House is exaggerating the impact. "There are easy ways to cut this money that the American people will never feel," said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma). "What you hear is outrage because no one wants to cut spending."
But the Airline Pilot's Association says travelers will feel it. "Make no mistake, we will maintain our current level of safety," said association vice president Sean Cassidy. "And the only way we can maintain that level of safety.... is if we turn down the level of air traffic."
Might be wise to avoid flying in the coming weeks in hopes Congress finally straightens this out.


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Future recently said that he played a role in the creation of Drake's "Started from the Bottom."
"When I was in the studio, when [Drake] made the record, he was in the studio session with me," Future told Los Angeles, California radio station Power 106. "That's when I had 'Chosen One.' So I was like, 'When you make it from the bottom, you the chosen one.' So, when we was in the studio, Drake came by the studio and I always tell my engineer, 'Start it from the bottom.' So when I said, 'Start it from the bottom,' [Drake] thought I was talking about the song ['Chosen One.']"
According to Future, Drake was grateful for the inspiration.
"[Drake] bought me a bottle of Louis XIII [de Remy Martin Grande Champagne Cognac] that I never opened up because of this story," Future said. "I was like, 'Man I don't want a bottle. I need publishing.' But Drake, that's the homie. He was like, 'Man, start it from the bottom, it stayed on my mind. I instantly got in with the driver and told him to put the CD in. I already had the beat and I just started saying, 'Started from the bottom, now we here.'
"I was like, 'Man, why you didn't tell me in the studio?'" Future continued. "That's the first time I ever told somebody that story on the air, in the public. I'm not doing it for the publicity, just being honest."
Future also said that he and Drake are currently working together on new material.
"We working now," he said. "You never know what to expect. I know we on the tour together, so one thing at a time."
Future said he has recorded songs with Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus, a star he says has matured. "She's growing up," Future said. "It's different times. She's in a different place in her life. She's older than when she first came out. I never really followed the younger Miley...But she started the twerk videos. She wasn't the first one to twerk somethin' but she twerked the video."
The Minaj, Drake and Cyrus collaborations are scheduled to be a part of Honest, Future's upcoming album, currently slated for a November 26 release.
"Honest is the new me," Future said in an interview published August 8. "It represents the truth I try to bring to my music...I plan to break the mold with this album so that it will be nothing like you've heard from me or any other artist out. You can either tell the truth or face the Future."
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