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Let Reformation Begin at Ground Zero
Meacham, Jon, Newsweek
Byline: Jon Meacham
The debate over the Islamic center in lower Manhattan--the mosque with a pool and a prayer room--is not a matter of being for religious liberty and thus for the center, nor is it one of being against the center and therefore a bigot. Sometimes life offers such stark moral crises. This is not one of them.
The attacks of September 11--and subsequent bombings in London, Madrid, and elsewhere--embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. Elements of Islam were responsible for these deaths of innocents, and extreme interpretations of the Quran have provided--and, inevitably, will provide again--inspiration and justification for terrorist violence. Muslims flew those planes into the towers and the Pentagon; Muslims were in the cockpit when the passengers brought down Flight 93 in the fields of Pennsylvania. To indict a faith for the sins of a few, though, is a tricky business. Christians have massacred innocents before, too, and they have interpreted Scripture in ways to justify slavery, and the subjugation of women, among other things.
Still, Islam needs reform. There are virulent elements of anti-Semitism and sexism abroad in the faith. There are, as we have noted, big strains of extreme anti-Western, specifically anti-American, hatred. Christianity might offer something of a constructive model in terms of reformation (this is coming from a Protestant): large parts of the Christian universe have managed to adapt to modernity in ways that have at least discouraged the worst excesses of religiously motivated believers. Such work is what the leaders of the Islamic center in lower Manhattan say they wish to be about. The test of their sincerity will come with time.
The controversy in New York has helped create something America largely avoided in the aftermath of September 11: a climate of anti-Muslim hatred. My liberal friends think I am wrong about the seemingly distant autumn of 2001, arguing that the country turned nativist then. I disagree: to me, the remarkable thing about the aftermath of the 2001 attacks was the muted reaction to Islam itself from the broad whole of the nation. Certainly there were exceptions, but when you think of how much worse the anti-Muslim backlash could have been in the emotion of that hour, the country comes out quite well. …


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Combatants for Peace is a group of Palestinians and Israelis who have taken an active part in the cycle of violence in their region: Israeli soldiers serving in the IDF and Palestinians as combatants fighting to free their country, Palestine, from Israeli occupation. Working at the local level in both communities, Combatants for Peace believes that the conflict cannot be resolved, through military means, by either of the parties.
2016 Dr. Jean Mayer Award Recipients
Combatants for Peace
Padraig O'Malley
Padraig O'Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has spent his career helping to resolve conflicts around the world and has written extensively on the subject, including the books Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa, Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes, and The Politics of Despair, one of the New York Times' best books of 1990. O'Malley is the founder of the Forum for Cities in Transition, an international network of divided cities that work together to promote reconciliation, civic participation, and economic development. His new book is The Two-State Delusion: Israel and Palestine, A Tale of Two Narratives.
In September 2007, O'Malley, in collaboration with Nobel Prize winner Marti Ahtisaari's Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) and the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts University, assembled senior negotiators from Northern Ireland and South Africa to meet in Helsinki with their counterparts from Iraq. The partnership was known as "The Iraq Project"; the meeting became known as "Helsinki I." O'Malley spent six months in Baghdad meeting with members of the Iraqi parliament to arrange meetings in Helsinki. There was a second round of talks in April 2008 (Helsinki II), and in July 2008, 36 leaders from all political parties in Iraq met with the same Northern Ireland and South African facilitators and negotiators. This last session resulted in the "Helsinki Agreement," a series of principles that became the basis for exploring political reconciliation in Iraq in 2009.
Ambassador Lamberto Zannier
Ambassador Lamberto Zannier took up the post of OSCE Secretary General on 1 July 2011. Amb Zannier is an Italian career diplomat. From June 2008 to June 2011, he was UN Special Representative for Kosovo and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). From 2002 to 2006, he was the Director of the Conflict Prevention Centre of the OSCE. Previous senior positions include Permanent Representative of Italy to the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague (2000-2002), chairperson of the negotiations on the adaptation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (1998-1999), and Head of Disarmament, Arms Control and Cooperative Security at NATO (1991-1997).
2015 Dr. Jean Mayer Award Recipients
Yevgenia Albats
Yevgenia Albats is editor-in-chief of the Russian political weekly The New Times. She is also an anchor with the Echo Moskva broadcast- ing and a recipient of several journalism awards worldwide. She received the Golden Pen Award in 1989, the highest journalism honor in the then-Soviet Union. She was an Alfred Friendly fellow in 1990 and a fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 1993. Albats is the author of four books, including The State Within A State: KGB and Its Hold on Russia Past, Present and Future. She is a permanent professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
John Artis
Co-Founder Innocence International
Exoneree and Co-Defendant with Rubin "Hurricane" Carter; former Counselor, Timber Ridge Residential Center for Boys; former Correctional Officer, White Post Detention Center
John Artis received the Dr. Jean Mayer Award for Global Citizenship on November 19, 2014.
Marcelo Brodsky
For the recognition of his moral courage in addressing the legacy of Argentina's "Dirty War," the Instutite for Global Leadership was honored to present Marcelo Brodsky with the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award. Brodsky, Argentina's leading Human Rights photographer and conceptual artist, is highly regarded for his contributions and activism within the field of human rights. Having personally witnessed the political genocide resulting from the Argentinian military dictatorship while growing up, through his art and photographs, he was able to connect the personal with the political, intensifying the impact of both. Today, Brodsky's work has been featured in numerous museums, and has also presented a variety of lectures in universities and museums around the world.
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Posthumous Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
After being wrongly convicted twice for a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was exonerated in 1985 and we remember him for his incredibly admirable activist work in helping the wrongly convicted.
(May 6, 1937 to April 20, 2014)
Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen, former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, she has written for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, U.S. News & World Report, Vanity Fair, New Republic, Granta, and Slate. Gessen is the author of The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century, a biography of Grigori Perelman. Her most recent books are Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot; And The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy on the Tsarnaevs and Boston Marathon bombing. Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights and help founded the Pink Triangle Campaign.
Shiv Khemka
Shiv Khemka, Vice Chairman of the SUN Group, is a leading principal investor and private equity fund manager in Russia, India and other emerging and transforming markets. A "Global Leader for Tomorrow" and member of the Global Agenda Council on Education of the World Economic Forumin Davos, he is also member of the Forum's "Foreign Business Leaders' Council" for Russia. He is the chairman of the Russia Country Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry, and also a Co-Founder of the Council of the Moscow School of Management, "Skolkovo." He serves on the Boards of The Wharton School, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, the Eurasia Group in New York, and the International Advisory Council at the International Crisis Group.
Robert Legvold
Robert Legvold is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He was Director of The Harriman Institute of Columbia University and a former Senior Fellow and Director of the Soviet Studies Project at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. A former faculty member of the Department of Political Science at Tufts University, he was the project director for "Rethinking U.S. Policy toward Russia" at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was director of the "Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative" sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His most recent books areThe Policy World Meets Academia: Designing U.S. Policy toward Russia and Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century and the Shadow of the Past.
Suzanne Massie
Suzanne Massie has been involved in many aspects of study and work in the Soviet Union/Russia for 38 years. Her ability as an interpreter of Russian culture and bridge builder between the Russian and American people has been acknowledged by both countries. In Russia she has been the subject of a documentary film, is the winner of a prestigious literary prize and is an active participant in the cultural and social concerns of the city of St. Petersburg. In the United States her books: Land of the Firebird, Pavlovsk, The Living Mirror, Journey and Nicholas and Alexandra, on which she worked with her former husband Robert K. Massie, have been read by millions. She has worked in the development of art exhibitions with many of the foremost art museums of both the United States and Russia including the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum. She has lectured widely in the United States before academic, military, business, government, religious, public affairs, civic and cultural groups. She has been consulted by many members of Congress and the Senate, and from 1984-88 advised President Ronald Reagan, meeting with him 21 times during the critical years of the ending of the Cold War. A fellow of the Harvard Russian Research Center (now the Davis Center) from 1985-97, she has also served on the Board of the International League for Human Rights. In 1991 she was appointed as the only lay member of the Permanent Episcopal-Orthodox Coordinating Committee which has involved bi-annual discussions in Russia and the United States with hierarchs of the church.
Ambassador Jack Matlock
Ambassador Jack Matlock, Jr. is an American former ambassador, career Foreign Service Officer, a teacher, a historian, and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War, and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991. His 35-year career encompassed much of the Cold War period between the Soviet Union and the United States. His first assignment to Moscow was in 1961, and it was from the embassy there that he experienced the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, helping to translate diplomatic messages between the leaders. At the beginning of détente, he was Director of Soviet Affairs in the State Department, and began to participate in the summit meetings between the leaders, eventually attending all but one of the U.S. – Soviet summits held in the 20-year period 1972–91. Matlock was back in Moscow in 1974, serving in the number two position in the embassy for four years. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in early 1980 ended the period of reduced tensions. Matlock was assigned to Moscow again in 1981 as acting ambassador during the first part of Ronald Reagan's presidency. Reagan appointed him as ambassador to Czechoslovakia and later asked him to return to Washington in 1983 to work at the National Security Council, with the assignment to develop a negotiating strategy to end the arms race. When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, arms negotiations and summit meetings resumed. Matlock was appointed ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1987 and saw the last years of the Soviet Union before he retired from the Foreign Service in 1991. After leaving the Foreign Service, he wrote an account of the end of the Soviet Union titled Autopsy on an Empire, followed by an account of the end of the Cold War titled Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended.
Memorial - Accepted by Kirill Koroteev
Memorial--Accepted by Kirill Koroteev, the senior lawyer with Memorial Human Rights Centre (Moscow). He has worked with the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre on numerous cases lodged against the Russian Federation with the European Court of Human Rights. He was also a charge de mission for the International Federation for Human Rights (Paris) on Belarus and Armenia. He is currently an allocataire de recherche at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Matthew Murray
Matthew Murray was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia at the U.S. Department of Commerce in March 2012. On October 1, 2013, following the International Trade Administration's reorganization and creation of the Global Markets unit, Mr. Murray became Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In this capacity, he leads the Department of Commerce's efforts to help form trade policy and solve market access issues facing U.S. firms seeking to expand their business operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He is responsible for developing and recommending policies, strategies, and programs to advance U.S. economic and commercial interests in 117 countries, as well as the European Union. Prior to his appointment to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Murray had a distinguished career in business, law, the non-profit sector, and public service. Murray was most recently President of Sovereign Ventures, Inc., a risk management firm that he founded in 1991 to advise multinational corporations and multilateral institutions on how to reduce governance and corruption risk in Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Mr. Murray led an interdisciplinary team that provided risk-mapping, guidance on compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, forensic investigation, and government relations services. In this position, Murray helped mediate several major commercial disputes between foreign investors and local government agencies in the region. Murray has extensive experience as a busi- ness executive in the energy industry, having served as Corruption Risk Manager at TNK-BP Management Ltd., the third largest Russian producer of oil and gas, between 2007 and 2009. Mr. Murray reported directly to the CEO and Board of Directors on policy initiatives to reduce potential risk in licensing, sales, and gas station and pipeline construction.
Thomas Pickering
Ambassador Thomas Pickering is vice chairman of Hills & Company, an international consulting firm providing advice to U.S. businesses on investment, trade, and risk assessment issues abroad, particularly in emerging market economies. He retired in 2006 as senior vice president international relations for Boeing. He has had a career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, ambassador to the United Nations, ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service. He has held numerous other positions at the State Department, including executive secretary and special assistant to Secretaries Rogers and Kissinger and assistant secretary for the bureau of oceans, environmental and scientific affairs.
Dmitri Trenin
Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program. He retired from the Russian Army in 1993. From 1993–1997, Trenin held a post as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe in Moscow. In 1993, he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. He served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces from 1972 to 1993, including experience working as a liaison officer in the external relations branch of the Group of Soviet Forces (stationed in Potsdam) and as a staff member of the delegation to the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks in Geneva from 1985 to 1991. He also taught at the War Studies Department of the Military Institute from 1986 to 1993.
Major General Pavel Zolotarev
Major General (ret.) Pavel Zolotarev is the Deputy Director of the Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Academy of Military Sciences. He previously served as head of the Information and Analysis Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense and deputy chief of staff of the Defense Council of Russia.


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Lancaster-based sculptor Bob Doster recently installed a student-made metal sculpture at Duncan Elementary School in Spartanburg. The circular design utilized student self-portraits standing beside each other.
Doster was the artist in residence at the school as part of Chapman Cultural Center's Arts Advantage program.
A suspect arrested for the April 5 murder of 20-year-old Randy Tran in Indian Land has been served with additional warrants for firearm and drug violations.
Na'Chon Jakeh Hayden, 22, formerly of Van Wyck, was charged April 15 with possession of a stolen pistol, possession/distribution of prescription drugs and possession of other Schedule I to Schedule V drugs.
Hayden was the last of four suspects arrested in the shooting death of Tran and was previously charged with murder and failure to report a crime.
A swindler working social media conned a 70-year-old Indian Land woman out of nearly $100,000 with talk of an overseas business opportunity, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report.
The April 12 incident report said the Sun City Carolinas resident told the investigating deputy she met a 56-year-old man named "George Millard" on Facebook at the beginning of February.
Sheriff's candidate Billy McCoy has released a slimmed-down strategic plan for the county, but is not answering questions about the new plan or the old one, which he retracted Tuesday after The Lancaster News revealed that it almost entirely duplicated an N.C. police department document.
McCoy said Tuesday evening in a statement labeled "Retraction" that he had reworked his plan because "of the backlash and obvious desire by you, the citizens and constituents to have something different."
An angry Mike Boger says he has been unfairly dragged into the controversy over Billy McCoy's initial strategic plan, and he wants nothing more to do with the mess.
"I've never spoken to Mr. McCoy," said Boger, former police chief of Oakboro, N.C. "I wouldn't know him if he ran out in front of me…. I don't even know who your sheriff is, and I don't like being dragged into this."
A Kershaw man with five previous felony drug convictions was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Friday after pleading guilty to dealing cocaine.
Mitchell Narada Kelly, 36, pleaded guilty in federal court in Columbia to possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine, a statement from U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles' office said.
U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis of Columbia sentenced Kelly to serve 15 years and eight months in prison followed by six years of supervised release.
UPDATE: Due to bad weather, this event has been postponed. We'll post a new date when we hear from the sheriff's office.
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office deputies will take over the Indian Land Chick-fil-A parking lot this Friday for a good cause: the S.C. Special Olympics.
Now in its third year, the annual Cops on Top fundraiser is 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with deputies raising money primarily through the sale of Special Olympics hats and T-shirts.
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Until last week, my three "crazy aunts" – Judy Dingler, Toni Flynn and Carolyn Summers – had never heard of a Bastrop, La.
Now it's a place they won't ever forget. They spent some hard days there, as well as in West Monroe, La., washing laundry at American Red Cross shelters as part of an S.C. Baptist Convention Disaster Relief team effort for the victims of deadly flooding of the Ouachita River.
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Synonyms: Appropriation, infringement, piracy, theft, counterfeiting, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
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Announcing This Year's Financial Literacy Counts Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2015 recipients of our Financial Literacy Counts grant! We received 127 applications from colleges and universities across the country, and while it was difficult, we narrowed the field, awarding $50,000 to 15 schools.
The Financial Literacy Counts grant program is open to any public or nonprofit college or university in the United States. In its five years of offering the program, Higher One is proud to have provided more than $250,000 in charitable support for programs aimed at increasing financial capability among today's college students.
Learn more about this year's recipients:
Program Name: Buckless Broncos Campaign
Type: 4 – Year, Public
Website: www.boisestate.edu
Buckless Broncos Campaign
The Buckless Broncos Campaign will be the first of its kind—a campus-wide financial awareness campaign designed and implemented by students from the College of Business. The program will focus on the top three financial literacy issues identified by students through recent campus surveys: spending, borrowing and financial goal-setting. Highlighting one topic per month will provide themes and target audiences for events and promotions across campus.
Program Name: Credit WI$E Warriors Program
Type: 4 – Year, Public
Website: www.esu.edu
Credit WI$E Warriors Program
This program will provide students with a personal finance skill set that will enhance their ability to refrain from making unplanned purchases, misusing credit cards and getting into further financial trouble. A total of 600 students will participate in the Credit WI$E program as part of the university's First Year Experience program. Seniors of Sigma Beta Delta, the International Honor Society for Business, Management and Administration, will act as "financial gurus" and provide students with presentations and guidance throughout the three-week program.
Program Name: More Money, More Problems – Your Higher One Mentors are Here to Help!
Type: 2 – Year, Public
Website: www.gtc.edu
More Money, More Problems
The goal of this program is to expand the college's financial literacy efforts through the use of peer mentors. The program will provide outreach and specific activities to targeted student groups including veterans, displaced homemakers, nontraditional occupations students, students of color and English language learners. Higher One Mentors will provide students with help in completing a series of online financial literacy modules provided through its partner, SALT; contacting their respective lenders and loan service providers; and completing entrance and exit loan counseling.
Program Name: Money Mentors
Type: 4 – Year, Private
Website: www.gonzaga.edu
Money Mentors
In alignment with the university's strategic plan and institutional commitment to developing a financial literacy program, grant funds will be used to train a group of student group leaders as Higher One Money Mentors. These students will conduct extensive field-based research, develop a sustainable learning curriculum; facilitate workshops and training sessions in credit, budgeting/accounting, investment and mortgaging—areas in which undergraduate students reported feeling uniformed, underprepared and inadequately trained; and hold weekly office hours for personal student appointments.
Program Name: Peer Financial Counseling Program
Type: 4 – Year, Public
Website: www.mga.edu
Peer Financial Counseling Program
The Peer Financial Counseling Program is a student-led group that educates students about financial literacy through workshops and campus-wide awareness campaigns. Workshops provided in First Year Experience classes explore critical issues of budgeting, credit cards, identity theft and student loans. In October, five specific awareness campaigns are planned: Making It on a College Budget; Staying on Good Terms; Being an Informed Borrower: About Student Loans; Paying for College; and Savings and Investments.
Program Name: Student Money Management Center Peer Coaching
Type: 4 – Year, Public
Website: www.shsu.edu
Student Money Management Center Peer Coaching
The goal of this project is to increase the number of Kat2Kat peer coaches, as the number of students attending personal financial consultations has increased by 88 percent in the past two years. Coaches are enrolled, tested and certified as Personal Financial Counselors (CPFC) and are trained in federal and state financial aid, credit and identify theft. They will then provide classroom training and workshops, as well as individual financial literacy consultations.
Program Name: S.T.E.P. (Students Taking Economic Progress)
Type: 4 – Year, Public
Website: www.sfcollege.edu
S.T.E.P. (Students Taking Economic Progress)
The new Student Finance Club at the college will continue efforts to program financial literacy through training and outreach. Surveys and interactive polls will be used to establish baseline data on financial awareness, attitudes and behaviors. Other planned events and activities include contests, an annual Financial Literacy Week, and peer-to-peer mentorships on financial and career success. Workshops and presentations will also be offered including: "I Got my Disbursement…Now What?" (budgeting by semester)," Don't Get Hustled" (smart shopping), "What's Your Number?" (credit scores), and "Making Your Money Work in the Workplace" (payroll deductions and taxes).
Program Name: SE Financial Literacy Project
Type: 4 – Year, Public
Website: www.se.edu
SE Financial Literacy Project
The goal of this program is to produce a series of short financial literacy videos to be shown to new freshman during their College Success class. The videos will be produced with the help of a student leadership organization known as the Savage Storm Leaders. This group will determine the video topics by holding focus groups with incoming freshman. Possible topics could include: understanding the financial aid process and how to complete the FAFSA, addressing common financial fears, developing a personal budget, and understanding the terms and conditions of student loans.
Program Name: Mind Over Money
Type: 4 – Year, Private
Website: www.stanford.edu
Mind Over Money
The university will host its first annual weeklong financial literacy workshop for undergraduate students to help them understand the risks of being complacent with or negligent of their personal financial management. Themes throughout the week will be based on student input and could include: choosing a bank, budgeting, investing, loans, navigating my financial aid package, understanding Stanford's billing, how to save money, risk and credit scores. Each day will include speakers, interactive exercises and chances to win prizes for participation.
Program Name: CSS WellU Financial: Savvy Saints for Life
Type: 4 – Year, Private
Website: www.css.edu
CSS WellU Financial: Savvy Saints for Life
This project will launch several student-championed programs developed and implemented by eight students in a renewed effort to expand undergraduate financial skills and knowledge. Program elements will be offered twice during the fall semester and will each feature an interactive "Life Event" and several related workshops. The Life Event operates like a life-size board game in which participants play out realistic post-college situations. Workshops will focus on credit, personal budgeting, taxes, and federal versus private loans.
Program Name: Financial Literacy Series
Type: 4 – Year, Public
Website: www.oneonta.edu
Financial Literacy Series
With input and collaboration from student leadership groups, a new financial literacy series was created in the spring of 2015. The grant will be used to expand and increase the visibility of the series, provide personalized debt information to students, offer an interactive event to introduce students to "real-life" financial management and provide online instruction to at-risk students. Specific planned activities include: branding the program and contacting students via letter/email/portal; sending debt letters to all Federal Direct Loan borrowers to include current amount borrowed, projected total amount and estimated monthly payment; hosting a five-hour event for an estimated 300 students; and offering EverFi's Transit online financial literacy program to three high-risk student groups.
Program Name: Gator-Up for Financial Literacy
Type: 4 – Year, Public
Website: https://www.uhd.edu
Gator-Up for Financial Literacy
Students in the University Honors Program working with several student organizations will create and implement a weeklong series of workshops: "Savor-Gator: Planning Ahead" will focus on the importance of future planning and simple strategies for saving money; "Nadir Gator: Facing Financial Troubles" in which student will role-play to come up with solutions to a series of financial crises; "Greenbacks for Gators: Scholarships" will raise awareness of institutional and private scholarships; "Neighbor Gator – Independent Living" will tackle the challenges of personal independence; and "Gators Give" will stress the value of volunteering and planned giving.
Program Name: Financialsmarts@UMBC
Type: 4 – Year, Public
Website: www.umbc.edu
The goal of this program is to provide comprehensive financial education to UMBC students, faculty and staff. The grant will be used to support a revamping of a student orientation session to focus on how to make good financial decisions, student workers involved with peer-to-peer education and contests and social media marketing, and recruitment and training of students for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, which will serve students as well as the community.
Program Name: Near-Peer Financial Literacy Mentoring Program
Type: 4 – Year, Private
Website: www.washjeff.edu
Near-Peer Financial Literacy Mentoring Program
The focus of this program is "near-peer"—a college mentor matched with a high school student to teach how money works in the real world. The grant will be used to recruit and train Higher One Money Mentors and plan and implement a financial literacy fair. The fair will be open to the public and will feature financial literacy games, presentations and interactive activities.
Program Name: FREE MONEY Management Event
Type: 4 – Year, Private
Website: www.jessup.edu
FREE MONEY Management Event
In collaboration with the offices of student life, residential life, library, financial aid and career placement and planning, the university will host a two-hour financial literacy event. This student-led event will be open to undergraduate students and will include videos from Dave Ramsey's Foundations in Personal Finance—College Edition curriculum, interactive games, an interview with a faculty/administrator about his or her road to financial freedom, raffle prizes and food. Students will be encouraged to sign up and complete the Dave Ramsey program—those that do will be eligible for a gift card.


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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves have signed 14 players to minor league contracts, including right-handed reliever Adam Russell.
Russell pitched in 36 games for the Tampa Bay Rays last season, going 1-2 with a 3.03 ERA. He received an invitation Tuesday to big league camp next spring, along with right-hander Jason Rice, left-handers Dusty Hughes and Yohan Flande, catchers J.C. Boscan and Jose Yepez, infielders Ernesto Mejia, Drew Sutton and Josh Wilson, and outfielders Luis Durango and Jordan Parraz.
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From the streets of the South Bronx to academia, Randol Contreras found his path at TC3.
The College's 2016 commencement was Thursday, May 26. Speaker Justine Lewis ('08) offered a letter with advice for the graduates, callign them all heroes.
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Skip to comments.Controversy Erupts Over NASCO and the NAFTA Super-Highway
Posted on 06/26/2006 7:16:57 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
Last Thursday in a radio interview with the 55KRC Morning Show in Cincinnati, Tiffany Melvin, executive director of North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, told host Jerry Thomas that my June 12 Human Events article on NASCO was "absolutely inaccurate."
Melvin declined to be interview for this article, stating in an e-mail her current priority was to answer the "accusations, bad information, and false assumptions" in the June 12 article. "After I have a chance to get my life back and return to a normal schedule, I will contact you," she wrote. "In the meantime, I will continue to respond to the inquiries your erroneous reporting has caused."
What is NASCO? It is a non-profit 501c6 organization that functions as a trade association and sometimes lobbying group for the public and private entities that are members. NASCO is an acronym for North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, which is the official title of the organization. According to the group's website, NASCO is "dedicated to developing the world's first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America."
Specifically, NASCO supports the corridor that encompasses Interstate Highways 35, 29 and 94, and "the significant east/west connectors to those highways in Canada, the United States, and Mexico." That NASCO is organized around promoting NAFTA trade is obvious. Again, as stated by the group's website:
From the largest border crossing in North America (The Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada), to the second largest border crossing of Laredo, Texas and Neuvo Laredo, Mexico, extending to the deep water Ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico and to Manitoba, Canada, the impressive, tri-national NASCO membership truly reflects the international scope of the Corridor and the regions it impacts. (Emphasis in original.)
From an industry perspective, NASCO is one of the organizations supporting various north-south corridors identified to facilitate NAFTA trade. NASCO has absorbed the former North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, a non-profit group organized in Mexico with similar goals of internationalizing U.S. highways into a NAFTA structure to facilitate trade with Mexico and Canada. The North American Inland Port Network (NAIPN) is also listed as a NASCO partner. NAIPN functions as a NASCO sub-committee to develop "inland ports" along the highway corridors "to specifically alleviate congestion at maritime ports and our nation's borders."
To get a feel of the NAFTA corridor movement, we also reference CANAMEX, a trade organization that promotes a Western tri-lateral route utilizing I-19, I-10, I-93 and I-15 in the states of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Montana to link the three countries in trade. Another non-profit group, the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI), identifies four bands of NAFTA corridors (Pacific, West, East and Atlantic), all relying primarily upon internationalizing north-south existing interstate highways into NAFTA trade corridors.
One of Melvin's main bones of contention was that NASCO did not stand for the building the NASCO corridor into a Trans-Texas Corridor-type super-highway. "NASCO is working on existing infrastructure," Melvin told 55KRC. Yet, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a NASCO member and NASCO supports the Trans-Texas Corridor as part of that relationship. Melvin's e-mail stated:
The Trans-Texas Corridor is not a NASCO initiative. We support the project in Texas, as it solves critical funding problems and congestion IN TEXAS. I know of NO plans to extend it into additional states. It is not the first section of a NAFTA Super Highway. It is not ready to begin construction next year.
According to the 4,000-page draft environmental impact statement, the plan is to build a 4,000-mile network of new super-highways that will be "up to 1,200 feet wide (at full build-out) with separate lanes for passenger vehicles (three in each direction) and trucks (two in each direction), six rail lines (separate lines in each direction for high-speed rail, commuter rail, and freight rail), and a 200-foot wide utility corridor."
On March 11, 2005, TxDOT signed a definitive agreement with Cintra Zachry, a limited partnership formed by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructures de Transport in Spain and the San Antonio-based Zachry Construction Co. "to develop the Oklahoma to Mexico/Gulf Coast element of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35). This agreement calls for the Cintra-Zachry limited partnership to pay Texas $1.2 billion "for the long-term right to build and operate the initial segment as a toll facility." The initial TTC-35 segment is scheduled to be built roughly parallel to I-35 between Dallas and San Antonio. The final public hearings are scheduled in Texas for July and August. While construction contracts have yet to be finalized, Cintra-Zachry presumably holds those rights as a result of the $1.2 billion payment to Texas, as described in the March 11, 2005, contract. The timeline published on the Trans-Texas Corridor website envisions final federal approval by the summer of 2007, with the construction of the first TTC-35 segment to follow immediately afterward.
In regard to whether NASCO intends to rely only on existing interstate highway infrastructure, the NASCO statement of purpose cited above calls for building "the world's first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system." The TTC-35 project is the first super-highway project in the U.S. proceeding to incorporate railroad as part of the design, producing a truly "integrated" and "multi-modal" highway-railroad system.
Do other states plan to build TTC like roads? Most states today are strapped for cash even to maintain existing highways. Still, the investment banking and international capital pools that put together the TTC project are certain to want to apply the model to additional states along the I-35 corridor. I would also note that Cintra-Zachry is unlikely to be building TTC-35 with the idea that the four-football-fields-wide super-highway just ends at the Oklahoma border. Once the investment bankers have the deal sealed in Texas, the TTC plan and funding are certain to be taken to many other states, including Oklahoma and Kansas.
The city of Kansas City, Mo., and the Kansas City SmartPort are both listed on the NASCO website as NASCO members. The Kansas City Area Development Council has directly confirmed that the Kansas City SmartPort intends to build a Mexican customs facility to facilitate out-going traffic headed to Mexico. A copy of the Kansas City council resolution authorizing the construction of the Mexican customs facility can be found on the Internet.
Melvin also maintained that NASCO is "not competing with West Coast ports or trying to take work from them." This argument is made, however, in a brochure posted on the website of the Kansas City SmartPort, titled "Lazaro Cardenas—Kansas City Transportation Corridor Offers Opportunities for International Shippers."
Yet, in March 2005, Kansas City signed a cooperative pact with representatives from the Mexican state of Michoacan and with representatives from Lazaro Cardenas, a deep-port town on the Pacific coast south of the Baha peninsula, to increase the cargo volume between Lazaro Cardenas and Kansas City. The goal is to bring super-ships carrying 4,000 containers or more from China and the Far East into Mexico so the containers can be moved into the heart of the United States, bypassing the West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Right now transportation costs about double the cost of cheap goods made in China and the Far East. The Kansas City SmartPort plan offers a methodology for cutting out U.S. workers from the International Longshoremen's Association, the United Transportation Union and the Teamsters. As the brochure explains:
Shipments will be pre-screened in Southeast Asia and the shipper will send advance notification to Mexican and American Customs with the corresponding "pre-clearance" information on the cargo. Upon arrival in Mexico, containers will pass through multiple X-ray and gamma ray screenings, allowing any containers with anomalies to quickly be removed for further inspection.
Container shipments will be tracked using intelligent transportation systems (ITS) that could include global positioning systems (GPS) or radio frequency identification systems (RFID) and monitored by the ITS on their way to inland trade-processing centers in Kansas City and elsewhere in the United States.
The Kansas City SmartPort brochure could not be more explicit: "Kansas City offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to Mexican port cities with virtually no border delays. It will streamline shipments from Asia and cut the time and labor costs associated with shipping through the congested ports on the West Coast."
The plan to put the NAFTA Super-Highway is intended to be done incrementally, designed to stay below the radar of mainstream media attention. The full build-out of the Trans-Texas Corridor's 4,000-mile planned network is projected to be completed in discrete stages, over the next 50 years. This gives plenty of time to expand the super-highway network incrementally, state-by-state up-and-down the various identified NAFTA corridors.
The plan to create a North American Union as a regional government in 2010 is directly stated only in the May 2005 task force report, "Building a North American Community." Still, we must examine how the Security and Prosperity Partnership signed by President Bush with Mexico and Canada in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005, is being implemented. We find that government offices such as the Security and Prosperity Partnership working groups being organized within the U.S. Department of Commerce are signing trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements with Mexico and Canada consistent with the goal of fulfilling the CFR's dream to bring about a North American Union by 2010.
We find the same here. NASCO is a trade organization that will never fund or build a single highway anywhere. Yet NASCO supports its members and NASCO members are hard at work building the NAFTA Super-Highway.
Because all levels of government are broke, the fact that business comes in to "help" is really a transfer of the responsibilities that government use to provide for its citizens as a service to corporations. The corporations want to make a profit. The little lady who receives a 30% increase in her sewer or water bill is not going to understand that the sewer system that used to belong to the city where she lives has now been transferred into a business arrangement that still includes the City as a partner but also has new financial resources with the corporate partner. Who has the real power? Whoever has the money. All across the country and globe, at every level of government, assets are being transferred from government and the citizenry to a new business arrangement in which the goal is a profit.
--Joan Veon
Why do we need this massive system in the middle of the country when the vast majority of the people live on the coast? Who made the decision to "abandon" Long Beach in favor of a new improved super port in Mexico, a nation that hates us?
What do these "business people" know that we dont about the future direction of our country?
The deep question is how do you make Mexico a first class country. This is something that Vincente Fox has brought up frequently recently.
The trouble is that no one quite sees that the very best thing we could do for Mexico is to send their now well trained citizens home.
Suddenly Mexico would have a skilled workforce who knew something about how a world class country worked.
Think these folk would propel a great leap forward for Mexico?
I do.
Basically the ruling class in Mexico is preditory to its own detriment and will not change of its own volition--even if those changes were in its own interest. But it can be forced to change.
The Mexicans in the USA have had the picture of what a well run country looks like tatooed on the back of their eyeballs. And they'll have an idea of how to get there. Send them back to Mexico and they'll get a revolution in Mexico that'll do that country some good.
The shock troops for that would be the 12 million repatriated Mexican citizens. Having seen what a well run country looks like they would not want to be stuffed back in the old wineskin.
There's something more.
I follow water desalination research pretty closely. While water desalination costs have dropped to about a third of what they were 15 years ago--the rate at which prices will drop over the next seven years will accelerate considerably. imo in even the next five years we will see desalination costs drop to 1/10th of today's costs. Or even faster than the fall the 3/4 fall that the LLNL researchers suggest.
Basically, the foundations are being laid today to make it economically feasable to to turn all the world's deserts green. (The proper way to look at this is to recall that cars, tv's and computers were at first rich men's toys but when prices came down they changed the world. Desalinised water is still relatively speaking -- a rich man's toy. But when the price drops sufficiently--desalinised water will change the world--because most deserts are right beside the ocean. Pumping the water 1000 miles inland will require that the scientists collapse the cost cracking out hydrogen from water. I think that this nut will be cracked sooner than desalination.)
imho cheap desalinised water will do for the republicans (if they can get this on their agenda or even the democrats if the pubbies drop the ball) what the great dam building projects & the tva of the 1930's & 40's did for democrats because 1/3 of the US is deserts. We would increase the habitable size of the USA by 1/3.
Dirt cheap desalinised water will also do things like make it possible to double the habitable size of Mexico. Cheap water is no magic bullet but it will give the Mexican Nationalists a way to dream while the Mexican people do the real work.
And desalinated water in tandem with repatriation of now skilled Mexican citizens would propel Mexico into being a world class country.
Oh and one last thing. Mexico will need a stronger dose of of the Peruvian Hernando Desoto ideas. Basically DeSoto asked the question why are some countries poor and some questions rich. His answers are being implimented successfully in countries around the world. http://www.ild.org.pe/home.htm
Hernando de Soto's organization was invited to Mexico and did some work on the question. He says that only 6 percent of Mexican enterprises are legal, the rest are informal. So how do you reverse that so that only 6% of the economy is informal -- as is the case the USA. De Soto would provide the ideas around which the 12 million american trained Mexican returnees could rally.
There is a winner here. The winner is Mexico.
The US profits too by having a prosperous politically stable country with a broad middle class to the south as we do to the north.
If I had the chance to inform an uninformed about what is going on with the North America Union BS. If I could only offer them one article to see what's happening, what would that article be? Remember, I would only get one shot...one article.
Do you have the E.O. number? I'd like to read it.
"The US profits too by having a prosperous politically stable country with a broad middle class to the south as we do to the north."
How will these ideas of yours solve the #1 problem of Mexico, which is massive corruption?
Corruption, payoffs, etc.
Sure they do. They have the authority to pass the North American Cooperative Security Act.
Rechecking the SPP, and its not formed from an EO but a trilateral agreement with Canada and Mexico. It is linked to the Department of Commerce. Through them, you can request documents via FOIA.
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It's a very large subject that can't be wrapped into one article. For starters, I'd go to an article posted here on the Free Republic in 1999, titled:
"Shadow Government of the United States"
Shadow Gov.
Lots of good info. Build your knowledge base from there.
Masssive corruption is what you get when everything is off the books. Hernando de Soto estimated that 94% of Mexico's economy is informal or off the books. Hernando de soto would put everything back on the books. Its harder to cook the books.
So you wouldn't stop the corruption but you would scale it back considerably.
Thanks for the ping and keeping us up to date on the latest.
I would search the SPP website, myself. You could use its own words to make your point without sounding like a nutter.
It's worth keeping in mind that Hitler was a National Socialist (Nazi), not a Fascist. The 1920 platform of the National Socialist Party was a typical socialist platform. There was no room for private ownership in it. Mussolini rejected pure socialism, wanting to combine the efficiency of private ownership with the egalitarianism of government control. The results were disastrous. Italy is still stuck with the remnants of Fascism, with certain industries largely being under the control of particular political parties, who traditionally get certain ministries, no matter who forms a government.
desperate people do desperate things. The idea above would make for fewer desperate people.
Can anybody find the E.O. creating the Security and Prosperity Partnership? I've searched back through 2004 and cannot find it.
I corrected that statement.
I'll check out the site now.
The "private sector" has been shipping through Laredo and Nuevo Laredo for years; this is one of the largest PoE's in the US. Again, the corruption of the border officials (and now the drug lords) makes it not so feasible.
What drives these things is that water shipment is cheaper than rail or road shipment. Even a small savings is important when moving lots of merchandise.
A jobs program for thousands of Mexican truck drivers, paid for by the United States. It will also be a five lane expressway for illegals entering the United States.
No Thanks.
What a wonderful hopeful vision you portray. I'll have to check out your link.
You shouldn't believe what Corsi is writing.
This road is but one of the US High Priority Corridors
While Corsi may call this the NAFTA highway, it isn't. The NAFTA Highway is actually the proposed I 69 from Laredo to Port Huron.
As far as the nation, I 69 is the most important. The TTC 35 that Corsi is talking about is most important to Texas because I 35 is is extremely crowded.
Its called pushing out the border.
Thanks for the info. I can be sold on the need for better roads and shipping throughout America. I cant be sold on exporting and importing all these vital goods from a country that is as corrupt and unfriendly to America as Mexico is.
Lets improve our ports first.
American jobs are more important than what this globalist president has in store for us.
Here's a little tidbit about Tower 55 in the DFW area that is a huge bottleneck for rail transportation and will only get worse unless changes are made. This is a portion of the Texas transportation problem and is being looked at as port of the TTC concept.
Tower 55Some reports say that Tower 55 has as many as 120 trains a day on it's busiest days and on average is occupied 70% of the time.
The outlying freight rail corridor could help relieve congestion at Tower 55, a rail hub on the southeast edge of downtown Fort Worth where the north-south Burlington Northern Santa Fe and east-west Union Pacific tracks meet at grade to form one of the worst train choke points in the nation. ("At grade" means that the tracks intersect on the same level rather than one passing over the other.)
The congestion at Tower 55 is akin to the nightmarish auto and truck gridlock that would occur if there were a traffic stoplight at Interstates 35W and 30 in downtown Fort Worth, said Mike Sims, a COG senior program manager for transportation.
"Most rail people say [Tower 55] is the busiest rail intersection at grade west of the Mississippi," Sims said
I know there is talk about having all the containers from LB trucked or railed into a out of the way location.That would be the port of entry and containers would be inspected and unloaded there.
There is a massive bottleneck there and all over America. I would like the President to step up to the soapbox and tell us IF something is being done and what that something is.
I know there is talk about having all the containers from LB trucked or railed into a out of the way location.That would be the port of entry and containers would be inspected and unloaded there.
Thanks, I'll bookmarked it.
So we will wind up shipping most goods through Mexico instead of our west coast ports?
Doesnt this go through Nuevo Laredo? It is not safe for Americans to walk the streets just across the border.
I am not convinced this is good for Americans. Mexico needs to make progress to becoming a good neighbor first IMHO.
Are you nuts? We can barely get our longshoremen to use bar-code scanners.
Yes I am. Nonetheless I believe the cons outweigh the pros.
Walmart has already moved a lot of it's container imports from the West Coast to Houston with a new facility that just opened. They will be shipping up to 28% of the total container imports thru the facility and use the Panama Canal with smaller ships and a longer shipping time.
All said and done there are many options being explored and which will be the viable ones is yet to be determined. But I suspect one or more will come into being as commerce isn't going to be denied, imo. The Luddites are long gone and the buggy whip isn't needed for the current transportation modes.
Now back to the paint brush/roller for a while.
Port Authority and Alliance to Promote Logistics Corridor in China
"Officials of the Port Authority of San Antonio (formerly Greater Kelly Development Authority), Free Trade Alliance San Antonio, Port of Lázaro Cardenas, Hutchison Port Holdings and transpacific shipping lines will travel to China the first week of April to promote a newly developed logistics corridor for Chinese imports into the U.S. market.
In January of 2006, a collaboration of several logistics entities in the U.S. and Mexico began operation of a new multimodal logistics corridor for Chinese goods entering the U.S. market. The new corridor brings containerized goods from China on either Maersk or CP Ships transpacific service to the Mexican Port of Lázaro Cardenas. There, the containers are off loaded by a new world class terminal operated by Hutchison Ports based in Hong Kong. The containers are loaded onto the Kansas City Southern Railroad de Mexico where they move in-bond into the U.S. The containers clear U.S. customs in San Antonio, Texas and are processed for distribution."
History of the the "NAFTA Railway" - "Two Worlds - One Route"
The more I look at this I'm wondering if we'll see Mexican truckers driving these loads all the way to KC or elsewhere and what will be the licensing regulations as well as who or what will monitor the increased truck traffic for safety? Every so often in the Dallas area there's some sort of horrific crash involving these trucks on I-35 and many people in the area avoid that interstate as much as possible.
General and Trans-Texas Corridor SUPER-PING!
My apologies to anyone who was already pinged to this article.
This article seems to be a good one for starters, since it includes an example of rebuttal by a NASCO officer, so you get some balance to the report. I've pinged both my lists to it.
For all the inadequacies of inpections of containers entering our ports, those containers passing thru Mexico and Canada get less scrutiny.
It is important that the US have the authority/ability to control Mexico's and Canada's ports.
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I just got this email from them. Might be time to drop it.
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I really enjoy the diversity Sirius brings from music to sports, but eventually I will say bye, bye to them......If anyone knows Mel, please have him call me and will give him quite an impressive list/reasons why I should get a raise at my job. Thanks.
Price increases happen. At least they told you vs charge you unknowingly like directv. They're pretty small. I'll keep it.
Just got my SiriusXm renewal notice this week. I pay annually via credit card charges include $159.39 Subscription fee as well as a $15.62 Music Royalty Fee so the total is $175.01. Dang thats a little high. I have two subscriptions on different renewal dates. thats 350 bucks to listen to the radio? Mid level package no spice channels.
Gotta have Sirius. At least for another 4 years...when Howard Stern's contract is up and he retires. Hopefully he resigns again.
I always call XM and tell them Im willing to pay 7 bucks per month and thats it. They always gladly accept.
What devices do you use to listen to Sirius? The computer at work doesn't really let Sirius work right, the blackberry app is crap and I haven't had much luck with the iPad app either. I'd love to get Sirius (with a discounted rate) but besides buying a radio, I'm having trouble finding a reliable source.
I just redid my three year, and now I don't get streaming free anymore. I am going to cancel streaming and but a pandora subscription instead.
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Ex-Marine sentenced in ID theft, tax fraud scheme
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MIAMI — An ex-Marine from South Florida has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for stealing the identities of more than 100 fellow Marines in a tax return fraud scheme.
Jobsen Cenor of North Miami pleaded guilty Oct. 3 to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He was sentenced Friday to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami says Cenor and a co-conspirator agreed in 2011 to file fraudulent tax returns using stolen identities. According to court documents, Cenor provided the names, birthdays and Social Security numbers of more than a hundred Marines. Prosecutors say that many of the Marines served in Cenor's unit in Afghanistan.
The co-conspirator was sentenced in July to nearly six years in prison.
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Double quakes in Iran kill over 200, injures hundredsZahra Hosseinian
Two powerful earthquakes have killed at least 220 people and injured around 1 500 in north-west Iran, Iran's state news agency has reported.
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The West must be held to account for stoking Iran's post-election unrest, the president said on Sunday, as a third mass trial got under way.
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A Tupolev passenger aircraft crashed in north-western Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board, Iranian media reported.
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Oklahoma football: Sooners experience Irish sport
Oklahoma football standouts Blake Bell, Gabe Ikard and Trey Millard experienced sports abroad this summer while studying in Ireland.
Along with volleyball senior Morgan Reynolds, the football trio traveled as part of an upper-division sociology course called "Sport and Culture in Ireland."
Among the biggest takeaways for Ikard and Millard? Most Gaelic Athletic Association athletes aren't paid.
"It was interesting to see guys that play at the highest level, just playing for pride and for country and the love of the game, not monetary reward," Ikard said.
They even got to try their hand at some traditional Irish sports. Through a company called "Experiencing Gaelic Games," the Sooners played Gaelic football and hurling — two of the country's most popular sports.
Gaelic football is similar to soccer with a few differences, including the ability to use your hands.
Both Ikard and Millard said hurling, similar to field hockey and lacrosse, was one of the hardest sports they've ever played.
"Hurling is impossible," Millard said. "I did the Gaelic football and I was a lot better at that one. But the hurling was insanely tough."
Bob Stoops admitted that if Bell is the OU starting quarterback, the Sooners could turn to a new trigger man for their short-yardage offense.
During Big 12 Media Days on Tuesday, Stoops said there are advantages to using Kendal Thompson or Trevor Knight in a form of the Belldozer, the short-yardage package that's been incredibly successful the last two years with Bell in relief of Landry Jones.
Stoops said he "wouldn't shy away" from using Bell in the Belldozer, if Bell becomes the starting quarterback.
"But you bring up good points," Stoops said. "In thinking through this, you put Kendal or Trevor back there, they're faster. You've got more options. If they do hit a crease, they're not likely to be caught. It does give him (the starter) a break. And what you're alluding to, allows you not too many hits."
But Stoops said Bell would be effective, too, even as the starter.
"Going no huddle, snapping it, we'll do that, too," Stoops said. "I'm not sitting here wanting to tip my hand. Blake is a big, strong, sturdy guy. But we never want our quarterback to take too many hits."
Oklahoma running back Roy Finch had a complicated junior season in 2012.
Finch, who started eight games with 196 carries, 1,003 yards and five touchdowns over his first two seasons, barely saw the field on offense last year, recording only seven carries for 62 yards.
Coaches often alluded to off-the-field and practices issues being the reasons behind the speedy back's lack of playing time in 2012, when he was used almost exclusively as a kick returner.
At Big 12 Media Days, Stoops said Finch did a good job working through the winter and spring, and believes he could play a bigger role as a senior.
"I'm not able to be with him through the summer, but some of the grade and academic up-checks have been pretty positive for him," Stoops said. "That's a good thing. Hopefully that's the case. We really like Roy. Always have. He really is a spark. Hopefully that will happen."
Stoops isn't the most Twitter-savvy college football coach.
He has a Twitter account but keeps it locked down and uses it primarily to connect with recruits but doesn't use it to engage fans the way his brother, Kentucky coach Mark Stoops, Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin or others do.
"I don't have the personality those guys have," Bob Stoops said Tuesday at Big 12 Media Days.
But Stoops doesn't see social media interaction going away, even though fan interaction with recruits is technically an NCAA violation.
"In today's world, once things get rolling, it's not stopping," he said.
He later said he didn't know how the NCAA could enforce that rule.
So Sooners fans should start contacting recruits through Twitter, the way Kentucky fans have done?
"I'm pretty sure that's what it means, yeah," Stoops said. "Hear that OU fans? Get on board."
Ikard has been impressed with junior college transfer Tony Feo so far.
"He might be the strongest guy on our team," Ikard said. "He's close if he's not. He's got a chance to be a special lineman, once (new offensive line) Coach (Bill) Bedenbaugh's able to work with him throughout camp, I think he could help us for sure."
Feo was a late addition to the class, signing with the Sooners in early May, more than three months after signing day.
Stoops said he was a little surprised a player like Feo was available that late.
"Yes and no," Stoops said. "It's amazing sometimes where guys all of a sudden finish up and you really like them.
"We're excited to have him with us."
Feo (6-foot-4, 275 pounds) figures to be in contention for playing time somewhere on the offensive front.