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Kevin Wilkins, the senior St. Joseph Regional (Montvale, N.J.) offensive guard/defensive tackle, made his pledge to the Scarlet Knights on Oct. 8, adding the type of size and strength the Scarlet Knights will likely look to add to the fold moving into the bruising Big Ten conference. Wilkins projects highly on both sides of the football due to his rare combination of size and athleticism. But let's take a closer look at his skill-set to find out which areas of Rutgers' attack will receive the most benefit from Wilkins' addition.
Projected collegiate position
Defensive tackle
Wilkins possesses adequate height and ideal bulk (6-3, 295) for the defensive tackle position. He has long arms, a well-built muscular lower body and torso and the necessary hip and ankle flexion to be explosive in trenches. Wilkins is versatile enough in his skill-set to compete from both the one and three techniques, inside. And he is just as good at offensive guard as he is on defense, so he fulfills multiple needs. His strength, explosion and agility provide him a built-in advantage on either side of the football.
Wilkins has good top-end speed clocking in as fast as 4.8 seconds in the 40-yard dash. That speed leads to a good initial burst and penetration when opportunities present themselves. Although just settling into the defensive tackle position, Wilkins flashes explosive play-making ability due to his initial quickness.
And even when Wilkins doesn't win the point of attack with speed off the snap, he shows the ability to embrace contact and hold his ground. But he normally does a good job playing with leverage and getting off the football.
Wilkins shows he can defeat half-a-man during pass rush situations, and get to the quarterback with swim and push-pull move discipline. He is athletic enough to be a three-down performer, creating pressure and disrupting the quarterback's line of sight with hands on downs where he won't quite get there.
Wilkins flashes good activity. He has the type of athleticism to run down plays from behind and chase things down both outside the tackles and down the field. Wilkins encompasses good change of direction skills, lateral agility, body control, balance and knee bend. And he flashes the potential of a consistent penetrator.
He also does a good job with read and recognition. Wilkins finds the football, gets into a breakdown position and fires through the lower body of ball carriers. He has the elite ability to change direction in a split second, drop down a level and hog tie opponents.
Areas for improvement
Wilkins will learn to more consistently separate more from offenders as he continues to improve. And he will become more comfortable playing with his hands and using his arm length to keep linemen off his body and disengage, creating more opportunities for mesh points behind the line of scrimmage.
He would also benefit from learning to bend down the line as opposed to getting too far up-field creating trap opportunities for the offense. And Wilkins is an explosive tackler but sometimes leaves his feet instead of bringing them with him and generating a
more balanced follow-through.
Wilkins' effort level is something that has taken a jump during the early part of his senior year. As he continues to improve upon that and further strengthen his motor, Wilkins will become even tougher to deal with.
Overall assessment
Wilkins has the physical tools to be a special player. His pound-for-pound athletic ability is off the charts from a size- strength-speed ratio. Physically, he should be able to compete in the trenches from day one. However, his aptitude to consume the Rutgers defensive scheme and translate the playbook to the field will determine how quickly he gets on the field.
Wilkins should be an active player on the interior for years to come. He also provides
versatility as he possesses the skills needed to compete from both the one and
three-techniques. He is stout and powerful enough to be a two-gap player, yet
explosive and agile enough to be a disruptive one-gap play-maker.
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A hit man for mob boss John Gotti was driven to mafia meetings in a limo owned by Staten Island's John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals. according to papers filed in federal court.
Reputed mob associate and hit man Joseph (Joe the German) Watts, 67 -- formerly of Grasmere -- was spotted meeting Gambino crime family member Leonard DiMaria at Italian restaurants in Brooklyn during the summer of 2006, when the feds were investigating Gambino mobsters, the Daily News reported today.
"It was later determined that the limousine ... was registered to John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals," Assistant Brooklyn U.S. Attorney James Gatta wrote in court papers, according to the paper.
At the time, Watts was not allowed to meet with accused mobsters due to his supervised release for an earlier conviction and faces two years behind bars for the violation. Watts is under indictment for the 1989 murder of New Springville land developer and former Advance City Editor Fred Weiss.
Prosecutors contend that D'Amico and Watts "aided and abetted others in killing Federick Weiss" to prevent the controversial Island real estate developer and one-time Advance editor from testifying in a case against a Gambino-tied waste company. He faces life in prison if convicted of killing Weiss
Police also contend Watts was a backup shooter at Gotti's request for the murder of then-Gambino boss Paul Castellano but he has not been charged in that case.
The owner of the funeral home, who said that the funeral home rents limousines for weddings, trips to Atlantic City and other events, told the Daily News he never heard of Watts.

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'The best young writer in Britain'
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Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She received a BA from Aberystwyth University, Wales, and a MLitt in Creative Writing from St Andrews, Scotland. She is the author of Haweswater, which won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award, and a Lakeland Book of the Year prize.
In 2004, her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region), and the Prix Femina Etranger, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Her third novel, The Carhullan Army, was published in 2007, and won the 2006/07 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tiptree Jr. Award, a Lakeland Book of the Year prize, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Award. The Carhullan Army was listed as one of The Times 100 Best Books of the Decade.
Her fourth novel, How To Paint A Dead Man, was published in 2009 and was longlisted for the Man Booker prize and won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2010. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Her first collection of short stories, titled The Beautiful Indifference, was published by Faber & Faber in November 2011. The Beautiful Indifference won the Portico Prize for Fiction 2012 and the Edge Hill short story prize, it was also short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Prize.
'When you listen to something like that, there's no doubting the power of fiction to get to the grim heart of things.'
Val McDermid, commenting on Butcher's Perfume on Radio 4's Pick of the Week.
The story was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.
Jonathan Ruppin, Foyles Web Editor, recommends the collection here: www.foyles.co.uk
Sarah Hall is an honorary fellow of Aberystwyth University, and a fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (2007). She has judged a number of prestigious literary awards and prizes. She tutors for the Faber Academy, The Guardian, the Arvon Foundation, and has taught creative writing in a variety of establishments in the UK and abroad. Sarah currently lives in Norwich, Norfolk.
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Sarah Hall: sex, death and the short story www.theguardian.com/books
Sarah's been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature: www.rsliterature.org
RSL welcomes new Director Tim Robertson, he cites Sarah as one of his 'literary lodestars' www.rsliterature.org
Sarah has a short story called 'One in Four' coming up in the RA Magazine: www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-magazine
Sarah was a judge for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2016 Congratulations to Max Porter: www.theguardian.com/books
The Wolf Border has been short listed for the Sky South Bank Show's Literature Award: www.telegraph.co.uk
James Tait Black shortlist: The Wolf Border is shortlisted in the Fiction category. www.theguardian.com/books
Sarah will be appearing at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, in May: www.nnfestival.org.uk
Mumsnet, March Book of the Month: The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall www.mumsnet.com/books/bookclub
Sarah has contributed a short story to a new anthology, Reader, I Married Him edited by Tracy Chevalier. www.harpercollins.co.uk
The Australian: Best Books of the Year: www.theaustralian.com.au
In the Cumbria Life Culture Awards 2015 Sarah was awarded Writer of the Year for 'A powerful depiction of several competing versions of Cumbria. Find out more...
Sarah is one of the judges for the BBC National Short Story Award 2015 shortlist announced:
Sarah's new novel, The Wolf Border published April in the UK and June in the US. Find out more...
The book will also be adapted for Radio 4, Book At Bedtime, week commencing 18th May www.bbc.co.uk/programmes
Sarah appeared on Radio 3, Private Passions - 29th March, listen again: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes
Sarah was the 2014 recipient of the E M Forster Award, announced in March by the The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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In 1993 Christopher A. Lewicki a nineteen-year-old University of Arizona (UA) Aerospace Engineering sophomore received his first taste of NASA R&D through a 1993 AZSGC Undergraduate Research Internship and discovered an insatiable appetite for all things "space"! Through Space Grant he became an integral member of the NASA Mars Observer's Gamma Ray Spectrometer and NEAR missions teams while his enthusiasm, growing expertise, and leadership qualities propelled him to the presidency of UA SEDS, SEDS USA, the NASA Academy at Goddard where his research received the summer's top honors (1996), and a two-year Space Grant Graduate Fellowship to lead the first UA student satellite program (1997-1999)...


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"Battering and frying green beans makes them addictive, obviously!" –Sue Li, recipe developer
- Grilled Green Beans and Peaches
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Alain Passard, who is famous for unusual pairings, inspired this dish." –Chris Morocco, associate food editor
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Green beans are the first bumper crop of the season. Sure, you could saute them–but why not experiment a little? We challenged three members of the BA Test Kitchen team to each come up with an out-of-the-box preparation for these snappy, crunchy veggies, and they did not disappoint. Check out what they came up with in the slideshow above.
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Speaking to reporters early Friday, Minister of Economic Affairs Chang Chia-juch and a Kaohsiung City official said there were indications that the explosions were caused by ethylene, propene or butane, all highly flammable petrochemical products. Several petrochemical plants are located in Kaohsiung. It is too early to say which of the companies' pipelines is to blame for the explosions, the officials said. Many of the casualties involved emergency response personnel as the first explosion occurred when they tried to contain a gas-related incident on a busy street in Cianjhen District. As of early Friday, search and rescue efforts were still going on, with troops going through piles of debris to look for signs of life. Offices and schools in Cianjhen and Lingya Districts were shut down Friday to facilitate emergency work, Mayor Chen Chu said. The city government designated a cultural center and eight schools to be used as emergency shelters. Firefighters from neighboring Tainan City and Pingtung County, as well as hundreds of troops were called in to help as President Ma Ying-jeou ordered "full-gear rescue efforts." (By Lin Chang-shun, Wang Shu-fen and Jay Chen)


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It's Super Bowl week, in case you hadn't noticed, that week where true football fans try to put on a good face while dealing with the emotional devastation brought on by the realization we're a year away from again seeing the majesty that is the Pro Bowl.
So, in our efforts to turn that gridiron frown upside down while pondering why anyone would call a football field a gridiron, we thought we'd offer some football-related humor.
At halftime of the Super Bowl, there was another football game, between the big animals and the small animals. The big animals were crushing small animals and at halftime, the coach made a passionate speech to rally the little animals.
At the start of the second half the big animals had the ball. The first play, the elephant got stopped for no gain. The second play, the rhino was stopped for no gain. On third down, the hippo was thrown for a 5-yard loss.
The defense huddled around the coach, who asked excitedly, "Who stopped the elephant?"
"I did," said the centipede.
"Who stopped the rhino?"
"Uh, that was me too," said the centipede.
"And how about the hippo? Who hit him for a 5-yard loss?"
"Well, that was me as well," said the centipede.
"So where were you during the first half?" the coach said.
"Well," said the centipede, "I was having my ankles taped."
The Super Bowl of insults
(Editor's note: Of course, if you're a fan of any of the teams being insulted, just substitute in the name of a team you hate)
Q: Why do Oakland Raiders (or, if you love the Raiders, San Diego Chargers) players keep their Wonderlic results on their dashboards?
A: So they can park in the handicap spaces.
Q: Q: What do you get when you put the girlfriends of a dozen Carolina Panthers fans in one room?
A: A full set of teeth.
Q: Why did the Kansas City players miss their flight for the big game?
A: They were stuck on a broken escalator.
Q: What do you get if you see a Miami Dolphins fan buried up to his neck in sand?
A: More sand.
Q: How many Arizona Cardinals does it take to win a Super Bowl?
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Do you use store coupons and manufacturing coupons when you shop? How much do you typically save? 50%? 80%? Whether you consider yourself a casual or extreme couponer, I'd like to recommend a very handy spreadsheet tool, created by J. Kelly Charles of WorkingMomCoupons.com.
Kelly appeared on TLC's hit TV series "Extreme Couponing" where she was shown using the spreadsheet on her iPad at the store: View Extreme Couponing Season 2 Episode 6 on YouTube
She has also been an occasional contributor on HLN's "Making it in America". Check out this video to see her demonstrating the spreadsheet on her iPad and sharing some couponing tips.
The spreadsheet is very intuitive and easy to use, especially if you already know something about shopping with coupons. You just list the items, qty, price, sale price, coupon amount, etc. and the spreadsheet will calculate the resulting price for each item and the sum total.
Download the WMC Couponing Spreadsheet
I've created a few spreadsheet templates for Numbers, so I was curious whether Kelly created it herself and whether she really used the spreadsheet all the time or whether it was mainly for the TLC show. I was also curious how much she typically saves (when she's not going for Gold on national TV). Here's what she had to say …
Did you create the couponing spreadsheet yourself?
"Yes. I have a spreadsheet for almost everything (as do you, it seems!). When TLC asked me to appear on the Extreme Couponing show, it was only logical to me to prepare a spreadsheet for the trip. The objective of the show is to shop with coupons, and at checkout to save the most amount possible. I was not about to be caught off guard by an unexpected total on national TV, so I created the spreadsheet so I could change items, quantities, etc. on the fly while filming and always know what my final total would be. As I was using the spreadsheet on my iPad throughout the show, viewers immediately wanted to know where to find a copy. So I prettied it up a bit and posted for download on the site."
How often do you personally use the Numbers version in your shopping?
"Every time. Although I prefer Excel, and usually use that version with the Documents to Go app on the iPad. Numbers tends to lag a bit, and also does not accommodate cell locking so it is easy to inadvertently alter a formula. The functionality is the same. I use the spreadsheet with each shopping trip because it holds me accountable to a total and I am not only aware of my savings, but am less likely to purchase spontaneous unnecessary items and go over budget."
What % do you typically save through couponing?
"The shopping totals on the show were almost 100%, but that is not typical of every day shopping. I usually save 60-70% when shopping by combining good sale prices and coupons. The spreadsheet helps me see when an item is an exceptional price vs. an okay price."
At only $5, getting a copy of Kelly's couponing spreadsheet is a no-brainer. I don't make any money from this recommendation. I just think what she's created is really awesome.
If you are interested in couponing, but are new to the process, you can learn more by ordering a copy of Kelly's new book, Keeping Couponing Real (see her website for more info).
I also found an interesting series of youtube videos put on by WDEF News 12 (wdef.com) and Time2SaveWorkshops.com that covers a lot of useful material related to couponing. You can find the videos by going to YouTube and searching for "Couponing with Time 2 $ave Workshops."


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OK, so she's no Bob Dylan. But Kacey Musgraves' songwriting is undeniably earnest. Her new album, Same Trailer Different Park, laments life in a small town. The songs reflect honest country music -- the way it was before being hijacked by the pop machine and engulfed by lyrics about pickup trucks and red Solo cups.
The undertones of 'Merry Go 'Round' are woefully dark. Yet Musgraves balances the haunting lyrics with a jaunty banjo and a saccharine voice that mask the true tragedy of the song. So, no, she's not Bob Dylan. But she's also not Taylor Swift. She's a new old breed of country musician -- one that we will hopefully hear more from very soon.
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Bellevue students reduce cafeteria waste in recycling contest
The challenge: How to reduce the amount of garbage sent to a landfill from a cafeteria filled with hundreds of students? Thirteen Bellevue elementary schools accepted that challenge, and one school got it down to less than half a can for more than 500 students.
The Bellevue School District and the City of Bellevue issued the "Green Genius Cafeteria Challenge" to reduce lunchroom waste, to coincide with America Recycles Day on Nov. 15. On "Measurement Day", schools competed to see how little trash they could generate in one day, by composting food scraps, recycling, using reusable containers for packed lunches and bringing leftovers home for snacks. The results are in:
1st Place: Enatai Elementary (514 students) – Enatai generated less than half of a garbage can of trash. The school launched a campaign to use "ReUsies" reusable baggies and Tupperware to reduce waste. They also broadcast tips to students, staff, and parents.
2nd Place: Cherry Crest Elementary (620 students) - Cherry Crest filled a trash can three-quarters full. Their green team promoted the competition with posters, announcements and classroom presentations. They formed a green ambassador team with representatives from all levels.
3rd Place: Medina Elementary (519 students) - Medina filled a trash can three-quarters full. They recruited a team of students and parents to help in the cafeteria with sorting recycling and composting to make it a community event.
The 13 participating schools represent more than 6,700 students and staff. Combined, they generated a total of just 17 garbage cans of trash on Nov. 15. On average, that is a little more than one full can of trash per school.
The first-, second- and third-place winners will receive a "Recycle Robot" made from recycled materials and engraved with their school's name. All 13 schools will receive a certificate in a frame made from recycled computer parts.
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As the former mayor of the City of Muskegon, it is my honor to endorse D.J. Hilson for Muskegon County prosecutor. Over the past 10 years, it has been my privilege to work with Hilson on a number of community programs, going back to 2002 when he was the community prosecutor in the Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
Hilson devoted hundreds of hours, outside of work, to five of Muskegon's toughest neighborhoods, attending meetings, working with community groups, patrolling with the police, and interacting with the residents. The program contributed to a 30 percent average decline in crime in those neighborhoods, and became the blueprint for future programs in other Muskegon County cities and neighborhoods.
More recently, Hilson has been involved in truancy programs and curfew sweeps targeting at-risk youth in the City of Muskegon because he knows the most effective way to stop kids from being involved in crime is to keep them in school and off the streets at night.
Over the years, Hilson's desire to serve and protect the public has only grown. He is a member of volunteer agencies like the Jaycees and the Knights of Columbus. He has amassed a stellar trial record including a 100 percent conviction rate in murder, armed robbery, rape, and child molestation cases. He has worked hand-in-hand with police agencies on numerous task forces focused on armed robberies, breaking-and-enterings, and cold case investigations.
Hilson has the experience to protect the public and the desire to serve the community. I know he will work tirelessly for Muskegon County and is the candidate with the leadership skills to run the Prosecutor's Office. I urge you to join me in voting DJ Hilson for Muskegon County Prosecutor on Aug. 7.
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Rep. Michael McMahon (D-Staten Island/Brooklyn) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan/Brooklyn) will offer an amendment to the stimulus package to increase capital funding for transportation by $3 billion.
The amendment would bring the $9 billion in funds slated for transporation to $12 billion, and will likely increase the transit funds New York City receives by over $214,000, according to a release from McMahon's office.
"With this additional money, we can set into motion various transit projects within the city that are ready-to-go, such as the construction of new access and egress ramps along the Staten Island Expressway and West Shore Expressway," said McMahon in the release. "These projects will not only create jobs - one of the main concerns of our citizens - but will also alleviate traffic congestion, reduce our carbon emissions by creating cost and energy efficient commuting alternatives and cut down on our dependence on foreign oil. In the long run, the projects will bring secondary economic benefits by generating revenue on the state and local levels."
Earlier today, Obama argued before the House for the economic stimulus plan, saying the nation is at a "perilous moment" requiring swift and decisive action.
"We don't have a moment to spare," Obama said in the East Room of the White House, just hours before a crucial House roll call vote. The measure intended to steady the ricocheting economy was expected to pass, but likely with little of the bipartisan support that Obama wanted. The issue then goes to the Senate where the new president hopes to draw more GOP backing.


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"Instead of continuing to be embroiled in ancient local and regional conflicts in Afghanistan, we must accelerate the transfer of responsibility for Afghanistan's development to the Afghan people and their government," said the letter, which was delivered to the White House on Wednesday.
"We should maintain our capacity to eliminate any new terrorist threats, continue to train the Afghan National Security Forces, and maintain our diplomatic and humanitarian efforts. However, these objectives do not require the presence of over 100,000 American troops engaged in intensive combat operations," the letter from 27 senators said.
The push by Merkley is just the latest sign from Congress that lawmakers believe the United States has met its obligation in Afghanistan and should begin bringing home a large number of the 100,000 troops stationed there. The letter, which was co-signed by Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden as well as Republicans Mike Lee and Rand Paul, does not mention a specific number but aides to Merkley said he wants at least 15,000 troops to come home in July, including those combat units.
Obama, in consultation with Gates and Gen. David Petreaus, will decide on how many of the 100,000 U.S. troops he should withdraw.
In arguing for major reductions, Merkley and his co-signers argue that the prime missions have been achieved. The Taliban government that sheltered terrorists has been removed and al Qaeda has been seriously wounded.
"This is misguided. We will never be able to secure and police every town and village in Afghanistan. Nor will we be able to build Afghanistan from the ground up into a Western-style democracy," it says.
The letter closes with an argument that is being voiced with increasing volume and power both in Congress and across the nation.
"While it is a laudable objective to attempt to build new civic institutions in Afghanistan, this goal does not justify the loss of American lives or the investment of hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars," the letter says.
The letter arrived on the same day that insurgents shelled Afghanistan's largest police training center, a $106 million facility built mostly with U.S. dollars.
No one was hurt, but the attack pointed to the serious gaps in security, as NATO spends billions to build a modern police force out of a recruitment pool that is almost entirely illiterate and remains terrified of Taliban attacks even after graduation.
Congress has set aside nearly $30 billion since the start of the Afghan war to develop the country's army and police force. By the end of this year, NATO estimates it will have spent $20 billion in two years.
The sentiments expressed in the letter from Merkley and his colleagues parallels public opinion.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released June 9, found that 39 percent of those surveyed say that all American forces should be brought home now - an increase of nine percentage points from a poll conducted the day after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Another 35 percent say that some troops should be brought home, up one point from last month.


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Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov has slammed President Georgi Purvanov's comments on March 21 which were highly critical of the Coalition's military operation against the Gaddafi regime.
"President Purvanov's comments are absurd. I don't think that a Nato member state ought to comment on the character of the entire Alliance," Mladenov said, cited by Dnevnik daily.
Purvanov expressed concerns about the ongoing military operation against Libya, saying the decision to strike the Gaddafi regime should have been taken unanimously by Nato, and most importantly, the decision should have been made before the operation and not the other way around, Bulgarian news agency BTA reported.
According to Purvanov, the so called Coalition of the Willing (a name given to the coalition that decided to attack in Iraq in 2003), "should not become a recurring tradition".
But the Foreign Minister disagreed.
"There is no need for us to make a drama out of all this (the war in Libya)," Mladenov said.
"Nato is our best security guarantee, Nato and the EC are the best allies and friends that Bulgaria has ever had, and even when we do have disagreements, we discuss them among ourselves first," Mladenov said.
However, no mention was made by the Foreign Minister regarding the very similar comments made on March 21 by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, who also expressed his doubts about the combat operations, saying Bulgaria was not participating in the mission because there were "no clear goals" and that the operation had "raised too many questions", TV 7 reported.
According to Prime Minister Borissov, an economic blockade would have been "a lot more effective" against Muammar Gaddafi and his regime, and the resolution would have been brought about "quicker", Borissov said, adding that in such wars, countries like Bulgaria suffer from volatile financial markets and raised commodity prices.
The president is simply a mouthpiece of the Russian foreign policy .
Seems that the President was correct..
The war-mongers have already vastly exceeded the UN mandate..
Full credit to President Purvanov for saying exactly what he and 99% of the EU population thinks, as opposed to Nikolai Mladenov who will swear black is white as it tows the EU Ltd line. Sad muppet.


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Defense cuts risk lives
Defense cuts risk lives
"How important is Redstone Arsenal?" asks a Times headline.
If you think the economy - as bad as it is - is our biggest problem, you really need to speak with people who have left everything they owned behind and risked their lives to escape an oppressive regime.
People matter much more than things. You may not be able to speak with them face-to-face as I have had the privilege of doing, but you can read their stories.
Some folks are worried about defense spending cuts costing jobs. I am worried about cuts costing lives.
Redstone Arsenal is much more than a source of income for local workers. Brilliant scientific developments on Redstone Arsenal keep our military personnel and contractors as safe as possible while they do their job to maintain the freedoms we all enjoy.
If the "occupy" protesters really want to make a difference, they should join the "less than 1 percent" who put their lives on the line to protect the 99 percent plus, if they can qualify to do so.
A. Morton Archibald, Jr.
U.S. Army, Retired
Huntsville, 35803
Biblical view of politics
I have retired and have time to pursue various interests, one of which is the Christian Bible. I was reminded of this while considering the upcoming national election in November. I thought I had read something about our leaders and there it was: Ecclesiastes 10:5. "There is an evil I have seen under the sun; the sort of error that arises from a ruler.
"'Fools are put in many high positions."
George Williams
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I read and write letters to the editor a lot less than I used to. It seems that for every conservative view there are two or three liberal letters. Last November after returning from a trip to Greece, I wrote to say we do not want to become Greece. Our current administration is almost certain to make that happen. The letter was never printed.
Things did not seem they could get worse in Greece but they did. It is so easy to want "free stuff" except getting such is addicting and you keep wanting more "free stuff."
Of course eventually there is no more "free stuff" and the country goes broke and the people riot and destroy things because the "well ran dry."
I am a patriot and I love my country. The direction we are headed is so wrong and we need to change who our leaders are. Please research a little on Greece to understand what happened there. You will be reading your own future if things keep going the way they are under President Obama. You are still in control people. Let's keep it that way.
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HUDSONVILLE, MI -- A 57-year-old Wyoming man is expected in court this afternoon for allegedly burning several American flags at locations in Hudsonville, including one at city hall.
Hudsonville District Court records show that prosecutors have filed two counts of arson of personal property worth less than $200 against William Mayhew Howerton.
He is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon.
Police made the arrest Tuesday evening, after a witness saw a man fleeing the scene of the front yard at Hudsonville City Hall on 32nd Avenue.
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In June, Phil's Grill will bring its burgers to the hungry and rushed office workers of the CBD. The new addition, called L'il Phil's Grill, will be inside the Place St. Charles food court.
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De Gruy has recently been in the news for his tussle with the NFL's legal team. Lawyers from the league contacted de Gruy with concerns about his charity "Burger Bowl."
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Shame on beck for making this a political issue
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Beck must have some stock options in SNL for all the articles written. just remember beck does not give cents about you.. just keep sending him the money monthly
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beckbots.. you do realize that the drivers are employees in a corporation. So why do you seem to think the drivers get to choose where they do interviews. they should just quit and leave? I wonder how many blazers colllect disability in some form or another
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GERRY - The Gerry Republican Party Committee has endorsed a new candidate for the Town Board.
Cherin Mehs, town Republican Party chairperson, said the committee has endorsed Todd Anderson to be a candidate for the fall council election. Mehs said Robert B. Heitzenrater, who has been on the board for several years, has decided to retire from serving on the board and will not be up for re-election. This decision led the Gerry Republican Party Committee officials to advertise they were looking for interested candidates in February.
Last month, Mehs said the Republican Committee interviewed two candidates for their endorsement. She said Anderson was selected because he is qualified to be on the Town Board.
"He attends board meetings regularly. He is interested and active in the town. He is a member of the fire department," she said. "Honestly, he is a great young man, and will be a real asset."
Mehs said Anderson is a member of the town's Republican Committee. He is also a county Sheriff's Department deputy and owns property on 28 Mile Creek Road in Gerry.
The Gerry Republican Party also endorsed incumbents John Crossley, town supervisor, Linda Bartholomew, town councilwoman, and Recia Myers, town clerk. However, the Republican Party Committee couldn't reach a decision on who to endorse for the town highway supervisor position. Mark Risley is the town's highway supervisor. Mehs said Brian Anderson is also interested in the position. She said with no committee endorsement, if the men want to run for the position they will have to have petitions signed by town residents to run in a primary election.
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What can I do about these mouth sores but mainly the sores that look like I have cold sores from my braces rubbing constantly against my lips and the insides of my mouth. I have tried warm salt water but that does not help the sores at the sides of my mouth.
Mouth sores and sides of lips from rubbing braces. What can I do?
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Are you using any dental wax to cover the braces to prevent rubbing? I remember when I had braces, I had horrible mouth sores from the braces digging in to the soft lining of my cheeks and it is so painful!! I almost fainted once the pain was SO bad! I had a friend who told me about dental wax. You can purchase it at most pharmacies. Look by where they have dental floss and those sorts of things. It is a soft moldable wax that you can press over the areas that are rubbing. This will stop that friction and allow those areas to heal. Warm salt water is good to use. If it doesnt work then try a 50% warm water and 50% hydrogen peroxide rinse (be sure that you never swallow this mixture) just rinse the mouth with this a couple of times a day especially right before bedtime. First though, you have to eliminate the rubbing/friction for the areas to heal and dental wax works quite well. After a while, your mouth will toughen up and it wont bother you quite as much.
If you cant find the wax at the pharmacy, then ask your orthodontist for some. Last time I was at CVS buying dental products, I remember seeing the dental wax and it brought back these wonderful memories, lol! I had my braces put on right before Thanksgiving weekend and so I couldnt get a hold of the orthodontist for 4 days and I thought I would die from the discomfort! The wax covered the sharp areas and took most all the pain away and let those big white patches heal. Most of the inner cheek area was raw-I will never forget how bad that hurt, so I feel for you!
Thank you. I do use the wax when I can get it to stick on to my braces and actually stay there! But I haven't tried the 50/50 salt and peroxide gargle. I'll give that a try. I hope that the outside corners will toughen up also. Its been 18 weeks since I've had these on and I look like a mess. Everyone insists they are cold sores but they are connected to the insides of my cheeks. You would think the orthodontist could give you some kind of salve to help speed the process so you don't look like you have cold sores.
The mouth is just FULL of bacteria, it is one of the most bacteria laden areas of the body! Be sure when you use the peroxide/water solution that you soak the area well and if there is any crusting or scabbing, be sure you use a soft, clean washcloth gently rubbing in circles to remove those crusty areas where they are scabbing up. They may bleed afterwards but that is ok.You might try a little triple antibiotic ointment on the lip area-externally-after you swish with peroxide and water solution. This will help to heal the lip skin but you have to remove the crusty scabbed areas first so that the medicine can get in to work. Staph that lives on your skin and in the mouth can cause this crusty scabbiness. You poor girl! I'll bet that hurts miserably. I get cold sores too and they really hurt. Next time you see your orthodontist, have him look at them. You may need something stronger to get rid of it.
For the sides of your mouth you should use triple antibiotic or Burt's bees lip balm. For the inside you should get a special mouthwash made just for sores and you should use tylonal. Good luck
I am a student in a business class and I am have come up with a business idea to help people stop braces cutting the inside of their mouths. The idea is that their are plastic/rubber covers for each individual brace to reduce irritation if this was created how likely are you to try it?
Dental wax, dental wax, and dental wax!! I had braces as an adult, and the orthodontist gives it out for free. (they should, it doesn't cost them much at all!) Plug up as may places as you can, and keep on putting it in if it falls out. Hopefully your irritations should clear up soon. Think of how beautiful you will be!!
I agree with the ladies, dental wax is a life-saver when it comes to braces. Just remember that persistence pays off! There is a prescription your Orthodontist can give you for the lesions in your mouth to help them heal faster and less painfully. It's called Oralone. The generic brand is Triamcinolone Acetonide Dental Paste. It looks like an ointment and has a gritty texture which helps it adhere to the sore spots. Sounds unpleasant but you can't feel it once its applied. I hope this helps!
Not saying this is the case with you, but you may be allergic to the braces themselves. I was concerned about getting braces because my Orthodontist gave me a paper saying there could be allergies from the metals. It sounds suspicious to me that you are still battling this problem so severly. Just a thought...
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March 18, 2010
HKU School of Nursing partners with Singapore's Temasek Foundation
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Temasek Foundation, Singapore has awarded the School of Nursing of The University of Hong Kong ("HKU") a grant of S$896,000 (about HK$5million) to conduct the "Training-of-Trainers (TOT) Programme for Advancement in Nursing for Nurse Managers, Nurse Educators, and Community Nurse Leaders in Guangdong Province, China" for a period of two years. This is the first time Temasek Foundation, Singapore, has awarded a grant to a university in Hong Kong, and this project also marks the foundation's first joint partnership with HKU.
A donation ceremony was held today (March 18) at HKU. Professor SP Chow, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of HKU and Mr Goh Geok Khim, Chairman of Temasek Foundation, Singapore officiated at the ceremony. Following the donation ceremony, a launch ceremony will be held tomorrow (March 19) in Guangzhou. A Memorandum of Understanding will be signed between HKU and the Health Department of Guangdong Province during the ceremony, signifying the official launch of the project.
HKU School of Nursing aims to train 180 nurse managers and educators in Guangdong who will then serve as trainers and transfer their knowledge and skills to at least 6,300 nurses in the Province which is about 5% of the 128,043 nurse population in the Province. The project includes 6 tailored training programmes with contents such as nurse teaching, health services management, tobacco control and a series of study visits to Hong Kong and Singapore hospitals. The programme has just commenced in March 2010.
"The strategic partnership between HKU and Temasek Foundation, Singapore demonstrates a shared objective to build capacities and capabilities of nursing professionals in Asia through cross-cultural collaboration and knowledge exchange," said Mr Goh Geok Khim, Chairman of Temasek Foundation, Singapore.
Professor Sophia Chan, Director of School of Nursing, HKU and Director of the TOT project, said, "This is the first programme of its kind in Guangdong Province, and it aims to improve the management skills of nurse managers, advance the teaching skills of nurse educators, and promote community nursing, in particular the awareness of chronic disease prevention and the skills in tobacco dependency treatment".
The Guangdong Province is the most populated province in China and there is a shortage of nurses. At the same time, China is undergoing health care reform to enhance the overall standard of the nursing profession should be one the major focuses. Prof Sophia Chan added, "With the successful implementation of the programme, we hope to build a model of nurse management training which may eventually be applied to other parts of China and contribute to enhance the overall standards of health care in China."
To kick start the programme, the School of Nursing conducted a study on the learning needs of Chinese hospital nurse managers in Guangzhou in November and December 2009. Findings of the study showed a strong need for management training among nurses in Guangzhou. While some nurse managers had received management training in China, their standards varied, and training that offered practical management skills applicable to daily practice was found lacking. Furthermore, nurses expressed a need for greater exposure outside mainland China, which would help enhance their development, especially in improving their communication skills, team building techniques and quality assurance models.
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Temasek Foundation is a non-profit philanthropic organisation anchored in Singapore that seeks to contribute to sustainable growth and a bright future of hope and opportunities for people in Asia. The foundation works with partners to support programmes that develop people through health care, education and research, programmes that build bridges between peoples, programmes that build institutions of excellence through good governance and ethics, and programmes that rebuild lives and livelihoods affected by natural disasters.
For more information, please visit www.temasekfoundation.org.sg
(From Left) Dr. Agnes Tiwari, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, HKU; Mr. Benedict Cheong, Chief Executive Officer, Temasek Foundation; Professor S P Lee, Dean, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU; Mr. Goh Geok Khim, Chairman Board of Directors, Temasek Foundation; Mr. Christopher Cheng, Member, Board of Directors, Temasek Foundation; Professor SP Chow, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Vice-President, HKU; Professor Sophia Chan, Head, School of Nursing, HKU; Bernadette Tsui, Director, Development & Alumni Affairs Office, HKU
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529s on 5/29
On Saturday, the College Savings Plans Network (CSPN) is celebrating 529 College Savings Day. The May 29 date corresponds to the name of the most popular vehicle for saving for college: the 529 plan. As part of the celebration, plans from states across the country are planning events giving additional incentives for people to open new accounts, ranging from cash bonuses to ice cream cones.
The overall goal of the day, however, is to educate people about 529 plans and the choices they have to help them save for college. Too many people have false beliefs about how 529 plans work, and those myths can lead them to make bad choices with their money.
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In particular, some see 529 plans as being solely for the wealthy. But every state has at least one plan, and most have options that let you get started with modest monthly contributions of as little as $25. If you do have more to save, though, they have a lot of capacity; most plans let you put aside $200,000 or more toward each child's education.
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A lot of performers have died on stage, meaning they bombed.
West Michigan actor Ben Cole wants to ensure that, in Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company's all-male production of "Cymbeline," neither he nor any of his fellow cast mates expire for real.
In addition to playing the female lead, Imogen, Cole is serving, along with Michael Empson who plays the male lead Posthumous, as the show's fight choreographer.
Under the guidance of out-of-state guest director Bob Jones and opening its five-city Michigan tour June 17 at the Red Barn Theatre in Saugatuck, "Cymbeline" includes several fights. Most of them have actors wielding swords.
Cole's primary goal: make the stage combat look authentic, but keep the players intact.
He's "trying to effectively communicate violence on stage so that it looks real to the audience while keeping the actors safe," said Cole, a 29-year-old Jenison native and member of the Society of American Fight Directors. "As audience members, we want to fear for the characters, but we don't want to fear for the actors. You might, as an audience member, have seen a fight where you thought, 'Oh, my God, that was really horrible! That looks really dangerous.' And you feel scared. But that can either be scared for the character or scared for the actor.
"When you're scared for the character, you get excited, and that fear is exhilarating. But when you fear for the actor, you don't feel good. You feel that someone personally could get hurt, because they are getting hurt."
To heighten the excitement but eliminate bloodletting, Cole and Empson have choreographed "Cymbeline," in detail that the cast practices in slow motion. Most of the fights require hand weapons clanging: two-hand broadswords like the ones Mel Gibson's put to bloody use in "Braveheart," Roman short swords that patrons might equate with the movies "Lord of the Rings" and "Gladiator, and metal shields rendering significant bang for the buck.
One actor, Ross Currier of Whitehall in the role of the preening egomaniac Cloten, at one point has his neck broken and head cut off.
Currier will take his bows intact. His decapitation and the other violence in "Cymbeline" is only make believe.
"I'm showing you a reflection of something, not actually doing it," Cole said. "When I'm in a combat sequence, I'm not actually trying to kill the other performer. I am pretending, using skills that hopefully make it look real, but keep us both safe."
Cole is pursuing a life in the theater, a tenuous profession in which, for most, unemployment is the norm.
He wouldn't have it any other way. His career so far has included both performing and helping others do the same.
Realizing that "It's a very tough way to make a living," Cole remains firm that "I don't think I ever seriously considered any other career path, other than being an actor."
He spent the last three years as a visiting assistant professor of theater at Grand Valley State University, and "I think that being a teacher is my career path as well. I don't think that those who can't do teach, because it heightens your awareness of the kinds of things that you can do, that's makes you better at the skills that you profess."
The acting bug bit Cole early, although he didn't at first grasp the symptoms.
"As a child I never could decide what I wanted to be when I grew up because I wanted to be everything," he said. "Career Day in elementary school was really more of an excuse to dress up as a different character and imagine what life would be like as someone else."
After his mother took him to a production of "Twelfth Night," Cole before long was playing such Shakespearean characters of Bottom and Flute in separate productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Prince Hal in "Henry V" and Cassio in "Othello."
Holding theater degrees from Central Michigan and Western Illinois universities, Cole is headed down a life path that requires constant discipline, training, fortitude, resilience and a willingness to never abandon the natural truths of childhood, sometimes sword in hand.
"In order to be a professional actor," he said, "you need to have the physical control of a star athlete ... the mental control of a rocket scientist and the imagination of a 3 year old."
In addition to Saugatuck, "Cymbeline" will also play in Muskegon, Spring Lake, Grand Rapids and cross-state in Midland.


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Several midstate supermarkets have pulled certain fruits from store shelves due to a national recall.
Officials say white and yellow peaches and nectarines as well a plums and pluots are being recalled from Wawona packing company in California as the result of a potential listeria contamination. Listeria is an organism that's particularly dangerous to young children and the elderly.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reporting no illnesses linked to the recall.
The stores include Giant Food Stores, Costco and Wegmans as well as Trader Joe's and Martin's Food Markets. The fruit impacted from the recall was packed between June 1 and July 12.
Shoppers who purchased the fruit are urged to contact their supermarket.
Giant Food Stores: The fruits are packed under the Orchard Perfect name and shoppers are urged to return the product for a full refund. For more, go to: www.giantfoodstores.com/shareddev/prodrecall/
Wegmans: Wegmans is recalling the fruit and about a dozen baked goods including cakes, pies and tarts made with the fruits. Shoppers are asked to dispose of the fruit and visit the store's service desk for a full refund. For more, go to www.wegmans.com
Costco: Customers are asked to dispose of the fruit and contact Wawona (see below). For more, go to www.costco.com/recalls.html.
Customers with questions may contact Wawona by calling 888-232-9912 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.


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Emergency crews are on their way to rescue a woman from the Susquehanna who reportedly capsized while kayaking and was subsequently hit by a motorboat.
Dauphin County dispatch confirms River Rescue has been called out.
The condition of the woman is unknown at the moment.
UPDATE: The accident occurred at the Dauphin Narrows near the statue of Liberty. The kayaker was aided by the boater as well as River Rescue. She has been taken to the hospital. Condition still unknown, but not believed to be life-threatening.


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|In the late 1970's Patrick R. Colee was an ambitious and aspiring young entrepreneur who took advantage of several opportunities to be involved in diverse areas of real estate development. He formed a company then known as Westgroup Partner, Inc., and became a buyer of diverse interests in commercial, retail, office, residential, and multi-family real estate projects. The projects Westgroup Partner, Inc. undertook became unique commercial structures in harmony with local culture and the environment.
After fruitless attempts to hire an effective hotel management company to operate the hotel, Mr. Colee decided to lead a charge to fully renovate the hotel and create his own hotel ownership and management organization. The result was the genesis of Noble House Hotels and Resorts and the revitalization of one of the most historically significant luxury hotels in the United States. For the next twenty-five years under the tutelage of Mr. Colee, the Adolphus thrived in its tradition of elegance, charm and excellence.
Consumed with a passion for all aspects of the hotel business Mr. Colee and his Westgroup Partner colleagues steadily increased their interest in hotel ownership through the acquisition of unique properties, each of which had its' own culturally significant reputation.
In the ensuing decade, Westgroup acquired the Edgewater Inn in Seattle, Washington – at that time and today the only waterfront hotel in Seattle.
Recognizing that he and the Westgroup Partner, Inc. staff now exuded a genuine passion for the hotel ownership and management business, and an uncanny ability to select properties with great potential, Mr. Colee next acquired the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach (Los Angeles), California. Shortly after the takeover, the hotel was demolished by a "storm of the century", leaving Westgroup Partner, Inc. with a structural shell of a previously viable operation. Against significant odds, Mr. Colee rebuilt the hotel, and to avoid recurring catastrophe, encouraged the local community to construct the now famous Redondo Beach breakwater directly in front of the hotel.
In the early '90's the company changed its name to Noble House Hotels and Resorts, Ltd. (Noble House), and added its first Florida hotel, the Daytona Beach Hilton, which had been constructed by the Root family. The Daytona Beach acquisition signaled Mr. Colee's entry into the desirable Florida market. Following Daytona, Mr. Colee acquired Little Palm Island, the world-class island resort located in the Florida Keys.
Known in the travel industry as one of the most exclusive and desirable island retreats in the world, Little Palm Island became the centerpiece of the portfolio and the crown jewel of Noble House Hotels and Resorts. Florida quickly burgeoned into the bastion of Noble House Hotels, with the addition of the Grove Isle Hotel located in Miami's exclusive Coconut Grove neighborhood, the Ocean Key Resort in Key West, and the LaPlaya Beach and Golf Resort in Naples.
As the company matured, Mr. Colee diversified the geography of the collection by adding unique, one-of-a kind hotel properties in locations including Santa Fe, New Mexico and San Diego. Simultaneous to these strategic acquisitions Noble House was also accumulating a collection of management agreements coupled with interests from hotel ownership companies and "REIT's", covering properties located in prime locations such as Seattle, Southern California, Newport, Rhode Island and the Florida panhandle.
|Today Noble House Hotels & Resorts, Ltd. is a privately held, fully integrated hotel ownership and management company. The Company currently owns and/or operates 18 upper segment boutique hotels. With its present portfolio of over 2,300 rooms, the Company is consistently ranked by industry and peer organizations as among the top hotel management firms in the country.
|The Company is ready to acquire new and additional unique one-of-a-kind, 'high barrier to entry' lodging and other hospitality projects. The Company possesses all of the ingredients required to take advantage of the myriad opportunities that are about to arise. Those ingredients include a stellar reputation in the industry, a strong balance sheet, evidence of ability to thrive in the maintenance of its own portfolio during difficult economic times, liquidity and financial stability.
A period of unsurpassed opportunity for those prepared for the recent economic climate is about to emerge. Noble House stands ready to participate in an ambitious yet controlled fashion.
|Noble House is in search of equity partners with whom to join forces in an active campaign to acquire lodging properties and management agreements. The nature and structure of such an equity transaction is junior in importance to the requirement that the 'partners' share the same investment philosophy, seize upon the same sense of pride and satisfaction brought by together, creating a stronger, more reputable Company.


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Dear editor,
I am obliged to reply to Father John Neff's letter in the October 29, edition of the Times Observer.
This November, it is not only Catholics who will be put to the test, but rather all Christians who follow the second greatest commandment, to love their neighbor as themselves.
I will reserve my comments on issues 1 and 2 of his letter, and limit my reply to the third, health care in general and Obamacare in particular.
I am reminded of the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 22. The Pharisees plotted to trap Jesus about the census tax, asking, "... is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?" Jesus answered them by asking, "Whose image is this and who inscription" is on the coin. They replied, Caesar's." Jesus then told them to render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar and unto God what belongs to God.
Unfortunately, Jesus is no longer with us to heal the sick, cure the leper, relieve the hemorrhaging woman, restore sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf. Those, like the poor, will always be with us. Health care is beyond the ability of the individual, and is a right that must be available to all. Health care is now "Caesar's", not God's. Catholics who believe health insurance violates their religious freedom and liberty are free to refuse its benefits, but, like the census tax, are required to pay for it, rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
Bernard J. Hessley
Holy Redeemer Parish, Warren
University of Notre Dame, 1964


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A decomposed body was uncovered in eastern St. Bernard Parish on Tuesday about 3 p.m. and LSU forensic anthropologists were expected to continue excavating into the evening, according to authorities. The body was buried several feet below ground, off Florissant Highway, a thin road that weaves down to Shell Beach.
The body is believed to be that of a New Orleans man killed in New Orleans and then transported to the rural area between Reggio and Yscloskey. St. Bernard Sheriff's Col. John Doran said Tuesday afternoon that the body is believed to be that of a man who disappeared sometime last year, and that the NOPD has been investigating his disappearance for several months.
An associate of the alleged victim supposedly came forward and gave the NOPD an idea of the murdered man's location. On Tuesday, St. Bernard Parish government workers, with the help of the NOPD and LSU's Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services -- the FACES laboratory -- dug a hole around the suspected grave site.
FACES anthropologists were working late Tuesday by hand to carefully dig out the body, which was to be transported to the Orleans Parish coroner's office for further analysis. Once the coroner receives the body, identification should not take too long because the NOPD already has an idea of who it is, Doran said.
Last Thursday, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office obtained a warrant to excavate at the site and the NOPD used dogs to narrow down the burial location. But inclement weather late last week and through the weekend forced authorities to wait until Tuesday.
The area off Florissant Highway, once filled with camps before Hurricane Katrina, now is an overgrown stretch leading to the fishing communities farther east. The police and sheriff's vehicles, along media caravan on Tuesday afternoon, seemingly were the only commotion for miles.


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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Alabama State University's search for a new president is down to three candidates.
The university confirmed today that Jorge Haddock, dean of the school of management at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., has withdrawn his name from consideration.
"We thank Dr. Haddock for his interest and accept his withdrawal," said Trustee Marvin Wiggins, chairman of the search committee.
Wiggins added that he remains satisfied with the remaining three finalists and looks forward to interviewing them next month.
The remaining candidates are as follows:
- Brigadier Gen. Samuel Nichols Jr., the former commander of the U.S. joint task force at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is a native of Biloxi, Miss. and a graduate of Mississippi State University, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in education. He currently resides in Virginia.
- Gwendolyn Boyd, an engineer and executive assistant to the chief of staff at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. She is a native of Montgomery and a graduate of Alabama State University.
- Sen. Quinton Ross Jr., D-Montgomery, who is currently serving his third term in the Alabama Senate. A native of Mobile, he has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in education from Alabama State University. He currently serves as director of the Adult Education Consortium at H. Trenholm State Technical College Senator Ross recently completed a doctoral degree in educational leadership, policy and law at Alabama State.
Haddock holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, a master's degree in management engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a doctorate in engineering from Purdue University.
Haddock's letter to the university did not give a reason for his withdrawal.
It comes as the university remains embroiled in a dispute with the governor's office over a damaging report from a forensic auditor hired by the governor to investigate allegations of financial wrongdoing at the university.
ASU has denied the allegations, but said it is investigating them.
The search for a new president comes after ASU trustees voted in
December to pay former President Joseph Silver $685,000 to resign after
just 13 weeks on the job.
Silver alleged at the time that he
had been curbed for questioning suspicious contracts at the school,
leading Bentley to launch the forensic audit.
preliminary report from the auditor, Forensic Strategic Solutions of Birmingham, alleged financial waste and
conflicts of interest at the school.
In lawsuit against the auditor, ASU alleged the report was intentionally false and that Bentley was attempting to seize control of the school.
Bentley had requested the university halt the search for a new president, but he later withdrew that request, saying he still had concerns about the openness of the process.
One of the presidential
candidates, Ross, has already spoken against the report's findings and
Bentley, telling the governor to "let my people go" during as a guest speaker at the school last month.