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A bill to address funding shortfalls for a state hazardous spill cleanup program died in a legislative committee Monday.
For years, an existing 4-cent per barrel surcharge on oil producers hasn't covered the Division of Spill Prevention and Response's costs. And the division has nearly exhausted its savings.
The legislature can keep the spill division whole in the future with one-time budget fixes, or by bumping the surcharge up to 7 cents through House Bill 325. But the bill never got the support it needed in committee, and proponents know they're out of time.
"There's not much time left in this legislature. I mean, nobody is thinking we're going to zoom through both sides of the legislature, on a bill that is — especially one that is, is talking about tax," said Rep. Paul Seaton.
The Homer Republican was speaking to the House Resources Committee. He and Rep. Cathy Muñoz, R-Juneau, carried the bill.
Rep. Mike Hawker, an Anchorage Republican, wouldn't support the bill because he thinks the program's management is lacking and that the existing surcharge is unfair.
"I don't see an analysis that's matching costs and expenses, which is what we need to be doing here. I still remain really concerned that this approach does simply say, 'Tax the guys with the deepest pockets,'" he said.
That tax burden is almost exclusively on crude oil producers, though the revenue is used for any type of hazardous spill from any industry or even private citizens.
Hawker called the spill fund a department "slush fund" in 2013, the last time Seaton tried to raise the tax.
The latest version of the bill that Muñoz and Seaton offered would have spread the tax burden by creating an additional half penny per gallon surcharge on refined petroleum products, like heating fuel.
Spill Prevention and Response Division Director Kristin Ryan said just this weekend, the division responded to a spill from a vandalized fuel storage tank at a Juneau hotel.
"We were there, you know, we got called out there I think in the middle of the night Saturday night, because people smelled, you know, they smelled the petroleum. So we went out there with sensors with the fire department," Ryan said.
They cleaned up what they could and will send the hotel a bill.
This is another cause of the division's budget shortfalls. Theoretically, the party responsible for a spill must reimburse the division. But in reality, there may not be a responsible party, or the party the state thinks is responsible doesn't agree. Historically, the division has only been able to recover about half of what it seeks. In some cases, it can take years and court battles.
The committee held the bill and instructed the division director to continue refining her spill accounting for the next legislature. Seaton and Muñoz say they want to keep the idea percolating in the interim, and will reintroduce the bill next year — if they're re-elected.
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Michael Jackson may have a hit song called "Beat It," but this time around it was the Black Keys who did the beating. The duo's latest album, Turn Blue, outsold the King of Pop's posthumous release, Xscape, last week to claim the No. 1 spot on the new Billboard 200 album chart. Nielsen SoundScan says the Keys opened with 164,000 copies sold, while Jackson started with 157,000 – good enough for the No. 2 spot.
This marks the Black Keys' very first chart topper. But Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have been headed in that direction ever since they released their breakout disc Brothers in 2010. That album debuted at No. 3, while their last studio effort – 2011's El Camino – bowed at No. 2. El Camino, however, did outsell Turn Blue, moving 206,000 copies in its opening frame.
But the Black Keys' visit to the top of the charts isn't expected to last too long. Industry sources say Coldplay should easily take over the No. 1 slot next week with Ghost Stories, which is expected to sell between 350,000 and 375,000 copies before the tracking week comes to an end this Sunday (May 25). That would be the biggest debut of 2014 so far, and would give Chris Martin and company their fourth consecutive chart-topping studio album.

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Simi Valley production provides great music but little back story on country music legend Hank Williams
By Kit Stolz 01/08/2009
Before Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon and countless other rock stars drank and drugged themselves to death at a young age, country music legend Hank Williams died in the back seat of his Cadillac, officially of "heart failure," but with alcohol and morphine in his blood. He was 29. It was 1953, before rock 'n' roll was born. So we can be certain that whatever killed Williams, it had nothing to do with rock music or the excesses of the '60s.
What went wrong? How could such a great and greatly loved American artist fall so fast? Why did he throw it all away? It's a great question for a play, and a great excuse to rehear some of Williams greatest hits. Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams, currently on stage at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, looks good and sounds good, but the narrative doesn't seem to know what it wants to say about the star.
It's a shame, in part because the drama fits Simi Valley so well. At one point in the play, a yearning waitress (portrayed with intensity by red-haired Corban Shepherd) waits for something to happen at a lonely diner she says is just "700 yards from the L & M railroad." She speaks of hearing the train rumble by, much as a train rumbled by the theater during intermission. Our county is still country enough to appreciate a good show about Hank Williams.
Unfortunately, approximately two minutes spent reading Wikipedia will tell you more about the man than the show, which runs more than two hours long. The show hints that he had back problems, for instance, but glosses over the fact that he was born with spina bifida — a birth defect of the spine — which might explain in part his use of painkillers. Actor Tom Mesmer turns out to be a surprisingly good musician, looks and sounds like the tall, rangy, angular Williams, and even gets his yodel right — a crucial test for an actor portraying the country star. Yet although it was possible to imagine Mesmer as Williams when he was singing, the songwriter's inspiration, and even his nature, remained almost as much a mystery after the show as before.
The show includes more than 20 songs. Many are familiar ("Move It on Over," "Jambayala"), but some of the choices clearly are intended to reveal the unheard Williams, such as his hell-raising "Setting the Woods on Fire," his ruminative "Lost Highway" and the spiritual "I Saw the Light."
Both his hits and his lesser-known gems make for satisfying entertainment, and some of the credit has to go to the real band playing behind the ersatz Williams. For this show, some very talented musicians gamely took on roles and dialogue, with more success than not. The lap steel guitar (by M.B. McClellan) and violin (by Peter Blackwelder) added enormously to the solid backing of Al Paulson on bass and Gabe Gonzales on guitar, mandolin and pseudo-dobro.
Yet much of Williams' life goes unmentioned, including the fact that he actually created an alter ego, "Luke the Drifter," in order to record certain religious and melodramatic songs, including his great "Cold, Cold Heart." Nor do we get much insight into the sources of Williams' songwriting, although the drama does show him as a barefoot boy taking singing and writing lessons from a blues singer on the street, played by Keith Borden. Though nearly every performer in the show was mic'd and amplified, and sometimes the production struggled with technical challenges, one had the sense that Borden could have filled the large hall with just the power of his rich, warm voice.
The music, familiar and unfamiliar, still has much to offer, but the writing seems both uncertain and a little timid. It barely hints at the despair that Williams expressed in songs such as "Cold, Cold Heart" and "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive," and portrays his frustrations only as an inarticulate acting-out of an unspoken pain. Williams sneaks nips of whiskey, becomes irrationally paranoid about his untalented wife sleeping with his long-suffering bandmates, and fires off a gun once or twice, yet we get not a clue as to how such a seemingly petty, unthinking fellow could write lyrics with the insight of "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me." (What a fool I was to go and break the trust she gave/and see her love to turn into sympathy/It's the one regret I carry with me to my grave/Oh, they'll never ever take her love from me...) That Hank Williams, whoever he was, was not to be found on the Simi Valley stage.
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Unless you took a two week vacation to the moon, you have probably seen or heard about tons of people getting soaked with the ALS ice bucket challenge to promote ALS awareness. While the idea is innovative and people are really embracing it, something is missing in this ALS awareness campaign.
Here is how the ALS ice bucket challenge works: The challenge involves people getting doused with buckets of ice water on video, posting that video to social media, then nominating others to do the same, all in an effort to raise ALS awareness. Those who refuse to take the challenge are asked to make a donation to the ALS charity of their choice.
Can you tell what is missing from this ALS awareness campaign?
How about these things:
- What is ALS also know as? Lou Gehrig's disease
- What does ALS stand for? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- What is ALS? a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.
- What are the symptoms of ALS?
- Muscle weakness in one or more of the following: hands, arms, legs or the muscles of speech
- Swallowing or breathing
- Twitching (fasciculation) and cramping of muscles, especially those in the hands and feet
- Impairment of the use of the arms and legs
- "Thick speech" and difficulty in projecting the voice
- In more advanced stages, shortness of breath, difficulty in breathing and swallowing
- Are there different forms of ALS? Yes.
- Sporadic - the most common form of ALS in the United States - 90 to 95% of all cases.
- Familial - occurring more than once in a family lineage (genetic dominant inheritance) accounts for a very small number of cases in the United States - 5 to 10% of all cases.
- Guamanian - an extremely high incidence of ALS was observed in Guam and the Trust Territories of the Pacific in the 1950's.
- What are the various ALS charities we can donate to?
- Are you more aware of ALS after reading this information or were you more aware watching people involved in the ice bucket challenge? That's for you to decide.
Please don't misunderstand, this is a wonderful charitable challenge and has raised more money for ALS than in years past by leaps and bounds. The problem that is being addressed here is that watching an ice bucket challenge video doesn't increase awareness, knowledge or longevity participation in ALS programs or donations. This is the reason people are choosing to stay dry in the ice bucket challenge.
Whether you take the ice bucket challenge or choose to stay dry, please consider making a donation to an ALS charity. Several charities are listed above.
Thank you.
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Says Jordan: "I am seeking out your expert gift-finding skills once again as I am at a loss for a birthday gift for my little brother (well, not quite little - he's turning 29) but still little to me! Anyway, every year I try to get him a cool kitchen gadget as he is the epitome of the true bachelor. I have gotten him eveything from the Pizazz Pizza Oven to the toaster that simultaneously cooks eggs. This year, I am finding it a little trickier and your help would be GREATLY appreciated."
Hi, Jordan! This is Marian the Contrarian, and putting this together has made me hungry. Not that you needed to know that. But Korean barbecue . . . okay, okay.
We've mentioned Alton Brown here on Outblush before, but it's hard not to recommend his 1) I'm Just Here For the Food ($27) to anyone looking for a kitchen tutorial that is actually interesting and actually makes sense. And as for the gadgets? One of the oldest and most useful kitchen gadgets of all (it probably predates the kitchen, now that I think about it) is the 2) mortar and pestle, and this green marble set ($13) is handsome enough that he could just put it on a shelf to look at if he wasn't going to actually cook with it. A really cool gadget that he will want to use, even if not on food, is this 3) Connoisseur mini infrared thermometer ($32), which can be pointed at something and beeped to get a temp reading, all without touching the something. Very useful and very cool. Now if he keeps all of his utensils in one messy drawer, you could try to cure him of that with the 4) Click n Cook ($35). This device is a spatula with interchangeable heads, appropriate for different tasks. And hey. It's also a toy. Ending on another Alton Brown note, the genius himself has said that there's only room for one unitasker in the kitchen: 5) a fire extinguisher ($30). Don't get him just this, that's no fun, but if he doesn't have one and he's not very good with the hot stoves and such...
Anyway, happy birthday to your brother, Jordan, and thanks for thinking of us! Tell me what he ends up making!
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Adlkofer, K; Martini, R; Aguzzi, A; Zielasek, J; Toyka, K V; Suter, U (1995). Hypermyelination and demyelinating peripheral neuropathy in Pmp22-deficient mice. Nature Genetics, 11(3):274-280.
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Peripheral myelin protein PMP22 has been suggested to have a role in peripheral nerve myelination and cell proliferation. Defects at the PMP22 locus are associated with peripheral neuropathies such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A. We now demonstrate that mice devoid of Pmp22 are retarded in the onset of myelination and develop abundant sausage-like hypermyelination structures (tomacula) at a young age followed by severe demyelination, axonal loss and functional impairment. Mice carrying one functional copy of Pmp22 are less affected but they also exhibit focal tomacula comparable to the morphological features in hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP). We conclude that Pmp22 is required for the correct development of peripheral nerves, the maintenance of axons and the determination of myelin thickness and stability.
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This paper offers a revisionist account of the end of the Lebanese civil wars of 1975-90. To do so it draws upon and challenges the "New Wars" paradigm, which developed to explain post cold war conflicts in Eastern Europe and Africa. This approach makes three primary claims. First, these conflicts exhibit unprecedented ethno-religious violence and the deliberate targeting of civilians. Second, that capital accumulation rivals victory on the battlefield as the goal of protracted violence. Finally, it claims that war economies emerge on the ashes of the normal economy, and, marked by criminality, predation and warlordism, they so inhabit politico-economic spaces outside of "normal" trajectories of development and globalization.
In this paper I engage the second and third claim through a multi-sited political economy of the civil wars anchored by three years of fieldwork in Beirut. In tracing connections between the Lebanese "militia economy" and its imagined exterior, I demonstrate the degree to which the civil wars were not about sectarian rivalries, but about capturing the commanding heights of a globalizing Lebanese political economy: the banking sector. Moreover, I argue, it was the integration of the war economy within larger regional and global financial processes and networks – not its exclusion from them – that helps us to understand why the Lebanese wars ended when they did, and how post-war Lebanon was integrated within both regional and global processes of neoliberalization.
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Mulgrew Miller: Dreamsville
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Mulgrew Miller (piano), Steve Wilson (soprano sax).
Composed by Henry Mancini, Raymond Evans & Jay Livingston.
Recorded: New York, June 5-6, 2002
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Mulgrew Miller has been one of the most in-demand sideman pianists for many years, which has found him playing in top-notch groups ranging from drummer Tony Williams's quintet in the 1980s and early '90s to bassist Dave Holland's newly reorganized assemblage today. While Miller has also done several piano trio recordings as a leader, Wingspan has been the larger group that he has maintained off and on. The Sequel came 15 years after Wingspan's first release in 1987, and was also Miller's first recording under his own name in seven years.
For "Dreamsville," a theme from the old Peter Gunn TV series about a jazz-loving detective, Miller and Steve Wilson go it alone, their other four bandmates sitting this one out. Wilson, like Miller a valuable veteran sideman, has graced many groups (e.g., Chick Corea's Origin), with his fine underappreciated alto, soprano and flute work. Together they produce a wondrous track. Miller's heartfelt intro sets up Wilson's purring, deliberately paced reading of the theme on soprano, which makes room for the pianist's magnificent chordal and arpeggiated fills. Miller solos first with a sparkling sound and well-crafted, precisely articulated lines. Wilson responds in kind, mixing legato embellishments of the melody with highly expressive upper-register ascending runs, while Miller contributes succinct yet enhancing accompaniment. Wilson caps this beguiling performance with a concise, beautifully resolved coda.
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According to Friday's Mansfield Journal, you can blame an Ohio dog's disappearance, nearly five years ago, on the wind and a wandering spirit.
The German shepherd, named "Angel," who is now nine years of age, disappeared from the Sinnett-Dekrell family's home four-and-a-half years ago after a door blew open and she walked through an electric fence. Though the family searched high and low for their dog, she was nowhere to be found.
Fast forward to this past Monday when Richland County Dog Warden Dave Jordan called Maggie Sinnett at work with shocking news - Angel had been found. A microchip in the dog's neck led the warden to her true guardian and two days later, Angel was back with her family.
Angel, who had been adopted from the pound as a puppy, as a gift the family's then seven-year-old son, Andrew, officially came home on the teenager's 16th birthday.
The dog's condition, and a collar, indicate that someone had been caring for her during her years away...who that is remains a mystery. The timing could not be better - the family just moved from an apartment where large dogs were not allowed, into a home. Had Angel been discovered just a few months ago, a happy reunion would not have been possible.
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A good sign is the steady volume of building permits. The April permits were almost the same as March with $14,491,592 and brought the year's total to $72,134,661.
This is $5.2 million more than the same period last year. This says a lot since 2000 was the second best year ever for the city.
Residential building continues to remain strong with 67 percent of the volume, while commercial work was at 31 percent.
New home permits are 10 more than last year at this time. The number of homes permitted at less than $125,000 are about the same as those greater than $125,000.
With mortgage rates down two points since the first of the year, housing activity will remain high.
The largest home permit in April was for $315,860 at 8004 Pilgrim Drive in the Colonies. It was followed with $250,883 at 4500 Aberdeen Drive in the Colonies and $238,352 at 7614 Countryside Drive in the Greenways.
The largest commercial permit was $1 million for the interior work at the Amarillo Medical Center near Northwest Texas Hospital.
A new day school will be built at 5901 Hillside for $501,720 and a new storage facility will be at 2000 Hardy for $400,000.
Bob Gleason is executive director of the Panhandle of Texas chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America.
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Photo: Tyson Kid after surgery today
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I dieted harder than normal and didn't miss a day of training or pre op therapy. Dropped 20lbs for this surgery so it'd be easier recovery on my knee
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Recent ruling important to homeowners challenging recorded covenants
Homeowners now have an important ruling enabling them to challenge covenants that were recorded more than five years before they purchased their home. To challenge covenants, homeowners may seek a declaratory judgment asking the court to declare them invalid, or ask for an injunction or other supplemental relief. Associations typically have claimed the statute of limitations barred the lawsuit entirely. They claimed that the statute of limitations "runs" from the date the covenants were recorded, even if the homeowners had purchased their home much later.
For example, in 2009 one of my former clients was sued by the property owners association for violating a covenant requiring all occupants of homes in the community be 55 years of age or older. My client purchased her home in 2006, but the covenant amendment creating the age-restricted community was recorded in 1989. In response to the lawsuit against my client, we filed a counter-claim asking for a declaratory judgment that the POA was not a 55+ community, because the 1989 amendment was void. The association argued the statute of limitations (5 years) had long since run and my client was barred from bringing the counter-claim. The 1989 amendment was void ab initio (from the start) and thus the statute of limitations never began running. Had that not been the case, however, we would have had to argue that the statute of limitation started running from the date my client purchased her home in 2006, and not in 1989.
On August 21, 2013, the Fourth District Court of Appeals ruled on that very issue. In Harris v. Aberdeen Property Owners Association et al, the court reversed the trial court ruling granting summary judgment for the Association. The Court ruled that the trial court erred in finding the limitations period started running when the POA amendment was recorded. The Court reasoned that the plaintiff Leslie Harris did not have a cause of action until she purchased the property that was affected by the covenants. Therefore, the statute of limitations did not start running until that date. This decision allows Harris to continue her lawsuit. At the very least, Harris now has the opportunity to be heard.
This ruling is also important to associations. The Court distinguished other cases on which the POA relied, stating they were inapplicable to a challenge to the validity of association covenants. Therefore, this ruling is binding precedent in Florida until and unless there is a conflicting appellate opinion or it is overruled by the Florida Supreme Court. Associations will no longer be able to assert the statute of limitations defense in cases like this. Instead, they will need to respond to the merits of the homeowner's claims. Based on the facts of this case, the Association may well have a tough time doing that.


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Massacre In Luxor: Islamic Schools to Blame, Says Egyptian Editor
Normally the Western press, after such massacres as that of Luxor on November 17, 1997 explicitly try to exonerate Islam itself from responsibility for the murders. The argument usually goes something like this: "These barbarians are dishonoring a great religion, they are simply manipulating Islam for their political purposes. The real Islam advocates peace, and has nothing in common with its fundamentalist interpretation. These fanatics have arisen because the corrupt regimes supported by Western powers have forced Western secularization down their throats. Indeed, it is this more subtle, insidious, Western neo-colonialism that is responsible for the barbarous slaughter of 100,000 people in Algeria, Egypt, Afghanistan...."
How refreshing then -- nay, even revolutionary -- to read in the Egyptian daily Al Goumhouriya on the day after the massacre that the real responsibility lies with all Egyptians in general, and the religious schools in particular: "All Egyptians are responsible. It is our society which has incubated these criminals and we are their refuge since they live, hide, kill and come back amongst us. [The religious Islamic University of Al Azhar and its Koranic schools] fill the heads with Islamic teaching, which is but a kind of brain-washing," states Mahfouz al Ansari. Describing the Al Azhar and its religious schools as factories for producing extremists, Ansari also drew a direct parallel with the massacres in Algeria, and criticized the silence of the religious sheikhs.
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NEW YORK — Deep down, Jacoby Ellsbury probably knows he's going to hear it from Red Sox fans the first time he steps to the plate at Fenway Park wearing No. 22 for the New York Yankees. But Friday, at his news conference after signing a seven-year, $153 million contract, he spoke about the good memories and the good treatment from Boston fans, but mostly how he looked forward to "the next chapter" of his career.
"I'm not sure," Ellsbury said when asked what kind of a reception he expects when he returns to Fenway Park. "I guess how I look at it is, like I've mentioned numerous times, I have great memories and the fans were great to me. They treated me well. The winning, the championships, it was all good. I guess we'll see, but I appreciate how they treated me.''
And if the fans boo? "Fans like to boo,'' he said. "It's fun to boo."
Ellsbury, who took out a full-page ad in the Boston Globe to thank the fans, didn't have an offer from the Red Sox. According to his agent, Scott Boras, it was clear from early conversations with the Red Sox that they were not going to get into the years it would take to get a deal done.
Boras informed the Red Sox the market was moving fast. In other words, once the Yankees knew they were not going to commit $235 million to Robinson Cano, they were willing to commit $153 million to Ellsbury, and do it in a hurry.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said he went to ownership and told them they needed to be "ahead of the market" on Ellsbury. The Yankees acted swiftly and although it isn't Boras's style to move that quickly with his free agents, the offer hit the items on the checklist — years, money.
"In early discussions they made it very clear they really wanted me now and in the future,'' Ellsbury said. "That was important for me to hear."
The recruiting began in earnest. Ellsbury got calls from Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira.
"Those guys said I was really going to enjoy it here,'' Ellsbury said. "You're going to have a good time. Obviously they stressed what the city has to offer, the fans, how the organization is first class. With the history, but I knew about the history, all of those things weigh on your decisions.''
Ellsbury, who was joined by his wife Kelsey, as well as Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner, president Randy Levine, Boras and others, said he had dinner with Dustin Pedroia on Thursday and Pedroia, one of his closest friends, told him he understood the decision. He even got a call from Cody Ross, who went to Arizona from Boston when the Red Sox wouldn't go three years with him after the 2011 season.
Boras revealed some details about his conversations with the Red Sox, but Ellsbury did not.
"There'll be a time to talk about that,'' Ellsbury said. "Not going to get into that now. It's a valid question.
"There were numerous teams I had to make a decision on. The Yankees called and let me know how much they wanted me. That's when discussions moved fast. I had never been a free agent, so I didn't know how fast things could move. They moved quickly and they were done in a quick and timely manner. "
Ellsbury said he will feel "comfortable" playing at Yankee Stadium.
"It's very enticing," he said. "I always liked playing here. It's a comfortable place. I don't have to change my swing. My style plays well in this ballpark."
Cashman was asked if he thought Ellsbury would hit for more power with the short porch in right field and he said, "We just want Jacoby to play like he did in Boston. He's a difference–maker. After seeing him against us for all these years, we want him to do those things for us. He's a great player."
Which is why Cashman said he didn't dismiss Ellsbury's injury history; it just wasn't enough deter him from signing Ellsbury.
Ellsbury defended and explained his injuries.
"I play the game hard the right way,'' he said. "I take pride in playing every day. Two unfortunate things happened when I collided with Adrian Beltre [in 2010], a big guy to hit. It was a freak accident. It healed and I have no ill effects. And then trying to break up a double play for Dustin and had the guy land on me [shoulder]. Those things can happen to anybody."
And then there was the broken bone in his foot and swollen left hand late in the season. He played through both.
"That bone [in his foot] doesn't heal in a couple of weeks," Ellsbury said. "The foot is good now. I'm doing all my training. It didn't feel good [in the postseason]. It was still healing but I felt I could go out and play and not make it worse. There was no question I wasn't going to miss time. I was going to play no matter how it felt. There was a risk of fouling a ball off the foot and making it worse. The risk/reward was worth the risk. I feel fortunate nothing happened. It feels good now."
Manager Joe Girardi feels the Yankees are getting a great player and, "he's no longer going to be a thorn in my side.''
Girardi went through the litany of things Ellsbury had done against the Yankees over the years. "I've seen him beat us hitting home runs, I've seen him steal second, I've seen him steal third. I've seen him steal home off Andy Pettitte," Girardi said.
Ellsbury said winning a second championship with the Red Sox was something he'll never forget.
"Boston Strong, the bombings, a lot of things went into that season,'' he said. "I know Jonny [Gomes] said we picked up the city, but the city helped us as well. The cheering, the support. A season I'll never forget and happy to have been a part of two World Series with the Red Sox."
But the reality is he's a Yankee. He's wearing the same No. 22 that Roger Clemens wore with the Yankees.
"It's definitely sunk in," Ellsbury said. "Just today during the press conference, I enjoyed it. I had a good time. I'm looking forward to getting to spring training and getting to know my teammates. There's a lot that goes into building a team. Opening Day will be special at Yankee Stadium. I'll be looking forward to that."
And accepting his 2013 World Series ring as a Yankee?
"I know what it takes to win. It's not an easy task. It was a lot of hard work, good memories. It will be a proud day when I get that ring. A lot of work went into it," Ellsbury said.Nick Cafardo can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @nickcafardo.


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Lynn Kaziah Gissing's very ordinary life changed when she heard God say, "Go to Africa". With much trepidation, and without knowing what this entailed, Lynn obeyed. In 2000, she pulled up roots from the United Kingdom, and flew to East Africa to care for children dying from the HIV/AIDS virus.
From this simple act of obedience, Light in Africa came into being. Light in Africa (LIA) is an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) based in Tanzania, at the footprint of Mount Kilimanjaro. The organization's mission is to provide care for sick, abandoned, and disabled children with dignity and love, as well as those who lack food, medical support, and resources in the Kilimanjaro and Manyara regions.
What started out as one small rental property with two children has now grown to nine homes that house over 200 children ranging in age from infant to 18 years. It has been estimated that more than 350,000 children and adults have been impacted by the work of LIA through a food kitchen that feeds hundreds of vulnerable malnourished children every week, and through medical outreaches to rural villages throughout the country.
Known to all as "Mama Lynn", she does the Lord's work with the help of a small staff and a network of volunteers. LIA provides the basic needs for each child in its care: a quality education, vocational training for the older children, clothing, food, and most important, nurturing love. The word "orphan" or "orphanage" is not in the language of Mama Lynn or LIA, because of the stigma it places on parent-less children. LIA is all about giving children a sense of belonging to a family, and launching each child into a productive future once they reach adulthood.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NASB) says, "'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.'" LIA is all about giving children a future—even if that future is just to be loved and comforted until they pass into Heaven. In the first year of LIA, Mama Lynn did just that. "Within the first year of my opening the center, I held 15 children until they died."
But children infected with the HIV/AIDS virus are not the only concerns of LIA. Disabled children are also in danger of being abandoned. Kelly Bennett, a Los Angeles-area publicist who supports LIA's work bluntly stated, "Certain tribes do not accept deformity— they will kill the children."
One of LIA's first charges, a baby who was named Mark, was abandoned in the woods to either starve to death or be eaten by wild animals.
"[It was] just a total amazing miracle why he survived," Mama Lynn explained. "This old lady every day walked down the same path picking up sticks for a fire for her evening meal. This one day she decided to come off the path, and go in where there were some trees. And instead of finding sticks, she found this baby wrapped in a towel."
Then there is the case of Albino children. In Tanzania, a child born with this genetic condition is literally under a death sentence; from superstitious beliefs such as the conviction that the child is cursed, to the vision and skin problems associated with the lack of melanin, to witch doctors who want to hack off albino limbs to put in magic potions, claiming this produces prosperity and healing. According to National Geographic, a complete albino "set"—ears, tongue, nose, genitals, all four limbs—can sell for $75,000. In a country plagued by poverty and drought, this is beyond tempting, and gangs make it their mission to scout out albinos in the hopes of bloody lucre.
LIA is the sole place that offers a safe haven for these children, where they can learn, grow, thrive and live without fear of death.
Fourteen years since she heard God's call, Mama Lynn's vision has birthed an organization that produces and encourages life and love to counteract the culture of death. "The best things I've seen since I took the children off the streets in 2000 when I arrived, those children are now in colleges in Dar es Salaam," Mama Lynn said. "One to be a teacher—she's just done her certificate, she now officially starts her diploma. Another girl, who was selling peanuts on the street at 8 years of age, she's now becoming a social worker. My oldest boy who came knocking on our gate one night at 8 o'clock, his father had badly beaten him and he'd been living under the Coffee trees, he's now going to be a business administrator. And my other oldest boy, who was starving to death with his siblings because there was no food, he is now still at school, doing his A-levels—he's going to be a doctor.
"So that is what I've been blessed to see: what can happen if you obey God. These are the very first ones who have passed through LIA."
The rich inheritance of the lives saved and changed through Mama Lynn's obedience was not without personal loss. Mama Lynn left behind three adult children in the UK, and assumed that she would never see them again. Peter lamented to Jesus in Mark 10:28 that he had left all to follow him. Jesus replied to Peter, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel's sake, but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life."
Mama Lynn has seen the fulfillment of this scripture in the growth of the organization, as well as the children who she houses, clothes, and protects. She refers to them as "her treasures".
"My other blessings have been that two of my children came out to help me with this mission," Mama Lynn continued. "My daughter came out with my three grandchildren, the youngest was just four years of age. They were coming out for one year, and actually stayed six and a half years!"
The fruit of her submitted life is also reflective in God's call and commitment to serve a foreign nation being passed down to her children and grandchildren. "My oldest granddaughter needed to go back to university and be trained as a teacher. She now lives sixty kilometers away from me and she's an international teacher at an international school, and has married a local Tanzanian, has two children, they're my great grandchildren."
Mama Lynn's fulfillment was most complete when her youngest son Marcus followed his sister to Africa. He remains in Tanzania and is a pivotal part of the daily administration and oversight of LIA.
"It's been a wonderful thing for my son. He's my prayer warrior, he's the one who's at my back, and he's very, very strong in the faith." Marcus has married a local Tanzanian woman, and they have three children.
"So these are my blessings, because when I left I never knew if I would see any of them again," Mama Lynn concluded.
LIA is a non-denominational ministry—it does not align itself with any denomination or faith, and takes in children no matter what the personal or religious background. It is just as open in its handling of volunteers who assist in the day-to-day operation of the programs.
"The first thing that would happen is that people would go on to our site: Light in Africa dot org, and they would click on where it says "Volunteer Information Pack". So they would then show their interest in receiving the package. Then I would pick that up, and I would respond to that, and send them the information pack."
Excluding airfare to the Kilimanjaro International Airport, it cost about $35 a day to stay at Torchbearer, one of the vocational homes of LIA that provides lodging for guests, coupled with hospitality training and management for LIA's adult children.
Publicist Kelly Bennett stayed at Torchbearer, and has seen the work of LIA up close. "Depending on what projects you want to do, you could spend anywhere from a couple of hundred dollars to a couple of thousand dollars," Kelly explains. "A medical outreach dispensary is $200. That pays for the doctors, the nurses, all the drugs that you would be using. They see as many people as they can from eight o'clock in the morning until sundown.
"It all depends on how much, and how far you want to go."
LIA's busiest volunteer times are between June and September. Secondary schools, universities, nursing and medical schools use this time to come and assist in the various missions. "We are blessed to have them," Mama Lynn said. "Some volunteers specifically come out for Christmastime, because they want to get involved in all the Christmas activities."
The slowest period for volunteer involvement is February-April. "We might only have five to six volunteers, where any other time, in those other months we can have 40 volunteers on site."
Mama Lynn conceived and has run LIA without any appeals for funding. No sad-eyed children on video or postcard, no pledge drives; merely unbridled faith that it is the Lord's work, and he will provide. "The way I run the organization is totally different from any business or anything else. Although I've got all these children to feed, I never, ever ask for money. I made this commitment that I would never, ever ask for any money or funds, or materials. And that's how it's always been. The only thing I do is I pray. That's what I do, I pray for the needs of the center. I don't see further than the next day."
Mama Lynn has many stories of God's provision, and with the help of Kelly, She has codified her journey and the many miracles of God's provision and healing into a book appropriately titled, A Light in Africa. "The reason why I wrote the book is that if I can reach people, and if they can believe that there is a God, then I will be happy that the book has been written."
Since late March, Mama Lynn has been on a mini-tour in the UK and the U.S. to talk about the work of LIA and to promote the book. The initial reports coming through the Amazon page and Mama Lynn's new blog on the LIA website show that people are being reached by the power of her story. "What we're getting back from the blogs and from the Amazon quotes is that, 'I am reevaluating my faith.' People are now looking again at their faith, and their God. So yes, I'm very happy about that."
In the 14 years of commitment, prayer, trials, tribulations, and triumphs, Mama Lynn's own faith has been tested, stretched, and transformed. She has grown from Mustard seed to Mustard tree. "When I started out, my faith was lukewarm. Now, with the Holy Spirit, I am on fire. I never preach, I'm not a preacher, I'm not an evangelist. All I do is tell my story."
Her story is worthy of the telling, and is transforming the country of Tanzania. The book allows for the further reach of Mama Lynn's life and the transformational work of the Holy Spirit to be shared with others.
You can purchase A Light in Africa via Amazon.com. To learn more about the work of Light in Africa, volunteer, or contribute to the mission, visit the LIA website.


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Miami fifth-year senior Ryan Williams suffered a knee injury Friday and will undergo surgery early this week to repair a torn ACL, as first reported by the Miami Herald.
UM officials confirmed that Saturday night, posting on Twitter, "Miami senior QB Ryan Williams suffered an ACL injury to his right knee Friday night. He will undergo surgery next week."
Williams, 22, grew up in Pembroke Pines and led Miramar High School to a state football championship in 2009 during his senior season. He then started 10 games as a true freshman at Memphis in 2010 before transferring to Miami in 2011. The senior was having a fantastic spring for the Hurricanes and was set to take over as the starting quarterback after serving as Stephen Morris's backup for two seasons.
The Miami Herald reported that Williams "injured his knee while rolling out during a play in Friday night's closed scrimmage at Greentree Field — minutes after throwing a 76-yard touchdown to Stacy Coley. The specific knee was not revealed."
Depending on the severity of the tear Williams's football career could very well be over. If it's a full tear it could sideline Williams for six months and the entire 2014 season.
Next up at quarterback for Miami is redshirt freshman Kevin Olsen, who is expected to be the starter while Williams is out. Miami's third string-quarterback is sophomore Gary Crow. In addition, Miami also has two scholarship quarterbacks arriving this summer in Brad Kaaya and Malik Rosier.


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Cadbury, the wellknown confectionary company, recently completed an implementation that saw it roll out a mobile sales order processing solution, from JustEnough Mobile, to its sales force.
According to Pieter Spies, sales director at Cadbury South Africa, this is giving the company a significant competitive advantage, boosting revenue and reducing costs.
ŌĆ£We are anticipating a five percent growth in revenue as a direct result of more efficiencies in the system,ŌĆØ he says.
The solution allows reps to process orders, check stock levels in real time and print invoices. Simple enough tasks, but itŌĆÖs making a big difference to Cadbury. Says Cadbury national sales manager Gary Whittock: ŌĆ£The project kicked off in April 2006 with the gum part of the business.ŌĆØ
Gum had a separate system to chocolate and the sales force on that side started out with what Whittock calls a ŌĆśrugged versionŌĆÖ. Sales reps work on the road, selling stock literally out of the back of a van.
Says JustEnough VP Mark Morris: ŌĆ£These guys pretty much draw stock from the depot during the day, go out and see customers and do top-up sales [on site], so they have to manage the process of drawing stock, making sure they have enough of the right stuff because if they get the mix wrong they sell less. They make up orders at the customers. Once itŌĆÖs made up, they can now scan goods outside the van and the mobile processing system produces admin, like goods received notes and delivery notes, etc.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Based on that [success] we decided to implement the solution for chocolate too,ŌĆØ says Whittock, ŌĆ£bearing in mind they donŌĆÖt sell off a van ŌĆō itŌĆÖs all done via SAP.ŌĆØ The chocolate implementation kicked off in April 2008, says Whittock, and has been hugely successful.
ŌĆ£The vast majority of our sales force is out in the country, not in the urban centres,ŌĆØ he says. ŌĆ£Information flows could take days or weeks. Reps are also not necessarily dedicated [Cadbury reps], they could be representing ten principals on a day, they donŌĆÖt have time to phone and gather information.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£The vast majority of our sales force is out in the country, not in the urban centres,ŌĆØ he says. ŌĆ£Information flows could take days or weeks. Reps are also not necessarily dedicated [Cadbury reps], they could be representing ten principals on a day, they donŌĆÖt have time to phone and gather information.ŌĆØ
Since the implementation, information flows are instant, and reps can see on their PDAs what is in stock.
Other information reps have access to includes a customerŌĆÖs history, their sales targets, how they are tracking against said target and snapshots of customers theyŌĆÖre scheduled to see on a day.
In the past, says Cadbury sales capability manager Dean Maritz, reps needed to call in to activate deals in SAP and it took 45 minutes to an hour to do a free stock deal [a volume incentive, e.g., buy five get one free]. ŌĆ£Now itŌĆÖs instantaneous.ŌĆØ
Cadbury needed to reduce its discount claims, Maritz says, which the system has helped it do because the PDAs get pricing that is correct at the exact moment the deal is being done, where in the past reps would have to work it out. And with the number of variables involved, and the timing, errors were common.
ŌĆ£This has a big impact,ŌĆØ says Whittock, ŌĆ£because some customers will not pay an entire invoice if there is a claim on it.ŌĆØ
All this information, Maritz points out, is useless unless Cadbury can report on it, so JustEnough created a SmartClient package that lets individual users report back on daily sales, missed calls and so on.
From its customersŌĆÖ point of view, says Maritz, they want to know what they need to buy, if they need to buy it, is it in stock? ŌĆ£We feel the interaction between reps and customers is more professional as the information reps take to them is more complex, and theyŌĆÖre being seen as more knowledgeable as a result. Order fulfillment is better and they can substitute items [immediately] if something is out of stock. Order placing is better and they can get an idea of how they are tracking for the month.ŌĆØ
Cadbury now has 180 users on the system, which has been rolled out nationally. The company learnt some valuable lessons along the way.
Says Maritz: ŌĆ£For me the biggest lesson was that if you donŌĆÖt make middle management part of the process from the beginning, there is potential for them to feel left out. Whittock says the choice of software partner is critical. ŌĆ£We were fortunate ŌĆō JustEnough could satisfy our current needs but almost pre-empt how the project formed and be proactive in terms of future releases.ŌĆØ


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Joe Hill's latest Kindle single, which hit the market today, centers around a couple of kids who come across the carcass of a local legend that acts as an expy of the Loch Ness Monster while playing near a lake.
It's established early on that the kids all have a rather active imagination. The story opens with one of the girls pretending to be a robot and then they pretend to find the wreckage from a shipwreck. It was a great way to establish characters, but I was honestly expecting the big reveal to be that the creature itself was the product of their imagination. No one else really reacts to it and even the other kids shrug it off despite looking right at it.
That theory does get tossed out the window by the story's end. While what happens makes for a great "wham" moment, I'm not sure how much sense it makes. The creature was clearly dead and from what had been described, it was pretty grisly. I'm not sure how it was still alive, unless we're talking about some sort of undead monster?
The story also has a fairly abrupt end. It would have been nice to see other characters reacting to what was unfolding, but such is not the case.
The child characters are all likable and they play well off each other. While the story is light on conflict, the interactions between the kids make up for it and it makes for a rather fun read. Alas, I can't say the same thing for the parents. I get that Gail's mom is exasperated, raising 4 kids and nursing a hangover, but she still came off as unnecessarily harsh. Threatening suicide and telling your kids to go drown themselves seems excessive, even if it is in jest. I don't know, maybe it's just me.
The story's fairly short so it makes for a brisk read and at only 99 cents, it won't take too huge a bite out of your wallet.
For those who enjoy the sneak peeks that are often featured in these singles, alas, there isn't one here. I figured that would be the case as it's still a bit early to start teasing "The Fireman", Hill's next novel. It would have made for a nice surprise, though. Still, the story is definitely worth checking out.


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Two Minutes with Harry Reid on Border Security and Obamacare
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On Meet the Press, July 14, Harry Reid dodges and weaves around the question of false border security promises in the Senate Immigration bill S.744. In the process he white-washes Obamacare yet again.
Thanks, Nevada, for sending this guy back to the Senate in 2010! We all owe you one … or two.


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Caprese Pizza with Balsamic Reduction Sauce
Do you ever have one of those days where you are a complete disaster and have no right to be in the kitchen? Like, have you ever spilled almost an entire bottle of vinegar all over the place? Twice? Yeah, that was me yesterday, while making this pizza.
It probably had something to do with the complete and total exhaustion I have been feeling since last week. The week and weekend went by so fast, I don't think it has really sunk in yet that I finished! This weekend was graduation so my family came into town for the ceremony which was bright and early Saturday morning. It was a great time, but it was a crazy busy weekend. So busy that I woke up yesterday and my legs felt so sore, I could barely walk! Going to the grocery store was difficult!
And now that I have my dissertation out of the way, I can make my next exciting announcement which is that I have accepted a post-doc position at Arizona State University in Phoenix! My current advisor got a great offer to go there and she asked me to go with her! Me and Hubs will be moving out west at the end of September! But, now this means packing…the bane of my existence…sigh…
Now that I have had a little more free time, I have finally been able to share a recipe for #tomatolove hosted by Cassie from Bake Your Day and Ali from Gimme Some Oven!! These fabulous ladies are hosting a huge tomato party for the Recipe For Change Campaign which is trying to end modern day slavery on the tomato fields. It's such a great cause and this week they are having a fabulous giveaway sponsored by Pizza Home Chef. Visit Recipe For Change to learn more about how to support tomato farmers.
I chose to do a simple caprese pizza…or is it a margherita pizza? They seem like the same thing…Whatevs. I used red and yellow tomatoes, but you can use whichever tomatoes you want! And I also drizzled some balsamic reduction all over the pizza. It adds such a great flavor!
Caprese Pizza with Balsamic Reduction Sauce
Yield: serves 3-4
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
For the balsamic reduction:
- 1 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 1/2 tbs. brown sugar
For the pizza:
- 1 lb. raw pizza dough
- 1 tbs. plus 1/2 tbs extra virgin olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- salt and pepper
- 1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 2 small tomatoes (sliced; can use any combo of tomatoes)
- About 7 fresh basil leaves
For the balsamic reduction:
- While the pizza is baking, add the balsamic vinegar and stir in the brown sugar in a small sauce pan on medium heat. Bring to a simmer and heat until the vinegar is reduced by half. Remove from the heat. Drizzle over the pizza as desired.
For the pizza:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Roll out the pizza dough on a floured surface. Place the dough on a baking sheet lined with a baking mat or parchment paper.
- Brush the olive oil evenly over the dough. Sprinkle the minced garlic over the dough. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on the dough. Spread the shredded cheese over the pizza. Arrange the tomatoes and basil on top of the pizza. Drizzle 1/2 tbs. olive oil on top of the tomatoes and sprinkle with a little more salt and pepper. Bake for about 15-20 minutes or until the dough is a light golden brown on the bottom.
19 Responses to "Caprese Pizza with Balsamic Reduction Sauce"
My biggest congratulations my friend :D
This pizza looks like a fabulous way to celebrate!
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I am totally drooling! I love this idea! I love balsamic reductions so much that any time I've made one, I always end up eating it straight out of the pot with a spoon (is that gross???) This pizza is so pretty!
Congratulations to you again!! Your pizza looks of out this world and I love that you added balsamic reduction to it!
mmm. this looks lovely. The balsamic really makes it. congrats on the dissertation!
Another great salad pizza!! I am loving this for summer time meals. :) It looks gorgeous. :) You're moving to AZ!! How very cool and HOT too. I hope yo love it out there. My Brother-in-law and wife moved to AZ last year… they love it. Congratulations on the new position.
that happens to me too. I hate spilling vinegar b/c it smells your kitchen up for like YEARS. haha! Love this pizza though :)
Fantastic pizza! Love the reduction on top.
Wow, what great news! Congrats on the position. You must be ecstatic! This pizza is right up my alley. I love it. And thank you so much for helping to spread the word!
Congrats you AND to ASU. This pizza looks amazing, I love the balsamic glaze.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! They are lucky to get you! And your pizza looks fantastic…I love the idea of the balsamic reduction…yum!
Congrats! This pizza looks so good and I love the reduction on it!! I'm excited for you!
I hate days like that in the kitchen – but yours ended up with a big success :)
This pizza looks wonderful and really delish! No problem, everyone does something or the other, similar to your spilling the vinegar. I loved the pizza….it shows what a great baker you are!
Oh my goodness yes!! This looks so good!! I would DEMOLISH this pizza, no joke. :-D
This pizza… is the most perfect pizza i've EVER seen. Literally want to jump through the screen and have it for breakfast with my coffee. sounds weird, but I wouldn't be able to resist! I love your photos so much!
Congratulations, Stephanie! This is such exciting news.
This pizza looks absolutely amazing, with its caramelized bits on the edges of the tomatoes. My mouth is watering just looking at it. Yum!
Good luck packing!
That is so pretty with the multicolored tomatoes…and I know what you mean about being a disaster in the kitchen! Let's just say much of my prized sea salt was spilled all over the kitchen not too long ago. I'm still not over that.
I know those days where I should be locked out of the kitchen all to well. I usually end up ordering pizza and throwing in the towel, but I'm so glad you stuck with this…it looks fantastic! PS: So excited for you and all the opportunity that ASU/Phoenix will bring. Did you have luck in finding a place to live?


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Disney has agreed to pay $4 billion in cash and stock deal for Marvel, which values the company's shares at $50 a piece. That's a 29% premium over Marvel's $38.65-a-share price on Friday.
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Miriam Goderich came forward as the editor of the bio, claiming to remember the distant circumstances, and apologized in a press release for what she claims was "nothing more than a fact checking error" committed back in 1991 by publishing Barack Obama's birthplace as "Kenya," and further mentioning that he had been raised in both Indonesia and Hawaii (the mistake was, however, apparently not corrected until 2007). Goderich quickly exonerated the sitting president in the statement, adding, "There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii."
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Yet, Miriam Goderich was quick to come forward once the news broke. The White House has not yet issued an official response, as of the time of writing.
The bio, and background information on it developed by Breitbart.com, demonstrates that Obama was promoted by a literary agent for years as a Kenyan-born mover/shaker worthy of a PR front while the president of Harvard's Law Review.
Yahoo! News, who spoke with Goderich, released news of the apology. In doing so, writer Dylan Stableford makes his own ridiculous attempt to further spin the elephant in the room on the basis of the "mistake" explanation with prose that would make Orwell shutter. He opens his article with the declaration that a "possible source" of rumors about Obama's birth in a foreign country "has been identified," all while refusing to acknowledge the serious implications that should be met with equally serious investigation. Meanwhile, the AP ludicrously tried to re-write reality by raising the question: Did 1991 mistake spark 'birther' issue?.
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Instead, this bio, published over a 16 year period according to Archive.org records, is only the latest piece of information to pin Kenya as Obama's birthplace and/or to cast serious doubt on claims of his U.S.-proclaimed birth, and especially of supporting documents thereof. Other "sources" of the "rumor" have included statements from Barack Obama's own family members– including his wife, Michelle, Barack himself via "joko" and, of course, reports concerning his Kenyan grandmother, who claims to have witnessed his birth. That, and missing records in Kenya, et al., allegedly-forged documents irreconcilable accounts of his life, and so much more.
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"Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago's South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White."
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