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The Man Who Would Be King
On a Sunday morning not long ago, in a part of the city mostly ignored and forgotten, they gathered to honor him. The cars started streaming down Wheatland Road at daybreak, forming a long line of lights glowing in the early morning mist. The news trucks, rarely seen in this part of town outside of breaking crime stories, parked across the street at Carter High School, ready to go live.
By 8 a.m. the crowd was filing through the church's granite-floored lobby, past the picture of a black Jesus and into the massive sanctuary. The man they had come to honor, Frederick Haynes III, sat on the stage while the 250-member choir swayed and sang behind him. The chapel could comfortably seat 6,000, and today it would do just that.
As the choir faded out, Reverend Haynes rose from his seat. He was a tall man of 48, athletically built, with a carefully trimmed goatee and a receding hairline. He wore a dark pinstripe suit, a thick purple tie and cufflinks visible 10 feet away. On this morning, he could barely keep the smile from his face.
Friendship West Baptist Church
For 25 years he had built this congregation, Friendship West Baptist Church, and this month was its anniversary. When Haynes came to the church, it was housed in a small A-frame structure and had a few hundred members. Over time, it had grown into one of the largest and most influential black churches in Dallas, if not the nation. His message of black empowerment had attracted thousands, including three of the most powerful black men in the city—District Attorney Craig Watkins, state Senator Royce West and City Councilman Dwaine Caraway—who were seated with their families on the front two rows.
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For the past month, some of the biggest names in the black church had come to pay homage as part of the anniversary celebration. Two weeks ago, Al Sharpton delivered the sermon. Today, that honor went to the man who had brought out the camera crews, Jeremiah Wright, pastor to Barack Obama. At the time, Wright was perhaps the most controversial religious figure in America.
For weeks, snippets of Wright's sermons had been playing in an endless loop on cable news shows as conservative talk show hosts attempted to tether Obama's message of hope with what they saw as Wright's message of hate. In one sermon, Wright referred to the United States as the "U.S. of K.K.K.A." In another he suggested the American government had created the AIDS virus to kill off black people. Now, thanks to these comments and others, he threatened to derail Obama's candidacy.
Perhaps in deference to Obama, Wright had been laying low. This was one of his first public appearances in weeks, and he was making it solely because of his devotion to Haynes, one of his favorite disciples.
The invitation was an equally bold move for Haynes, who was on the cusp of becoming a national figure in his own right. Several weeks before, word had leaked that he was one of three finalists to lead the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The position would be the fulfillment of Haynes' lifelong dream to be a national civil rights leader, an opportunity for him to become a modern-day version of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As someone who had taken protests to the streets and decried poverty from the pulpit, Haynes seemed like the perfect man to revitalize an organization drifting toward irrelevancy.
Yet for some, Haynes seemed too polarizing. Like his mentor Wright, Haynes preached a gospel known as black liberation theology, which held that the way to lift blacks out of the mire of poverty and imprisonment was not to rely on the noblesse oblige of the white establishment, as had been done for generations, but instead to fight it, to break it down and to build a system in its place that empowered blacks to operate on equal footing with whites.
Others saw him as a hypocrite. For all his talk of helping the poor and sheltering the homeless, he had built a lavish $32 million church in one of the poorest parts of town and stood to profit even more from a planned real estate development on land adjacent to the church. More important, it seemed he had embraced the very white power structure he so often condemned, playing a key role in the 2007 mayoral election of Tom Leppert and becoming a powerful southern sector ally for the new mayor.
But Haynes had answers for his detractors and spun those answers into reasons he should lead the NAACP. His support of Leppert, a pro-establishment candidate, proved that Haynes could work with the white business community, an essential trait for anyone who wanted to lead the civil rights organization.
His association with Jeremiah Wright was another matter. Wright had become a liability to Obama, and it was becoming increasingly apparent that to gain the nomination, Obama would have to denounce Wright or distance himself from him. Already, others were beginning to do just that.
Considering how mainstream the NAACP had become, Haynes was taking no small risk in inviting Wright to speak at his church. In fact, he seemed to relish the controversy that surrounded the man he affectionately called Daddy J. It had made him angry, the way the media had twisted his mentor's words, taking a sound bite out of context and reducing a "brilliant" man to a racist stooge. Like so many other things, it seemed a personal affront to his own blackness.
"They're trying to make a circus out of the whole thing," he said of the news trucks outside his church. "They have tried to lynch him, but the brother keeps coming back."
The rapturous crowd rose to its feet, hollering hallelujahs and waving white hankies as Wright took his place at the pulpit. He made a joke about minding his manners, and then he let it rip. He condemned as racist the criminal justice system that had put Charles Chatman, the 15th black inmate in Dallas County to be exonerated through DNA evidence since 2001, in jail for 27 years. He criticized the U.S. government for the way it ignored the plight of countries such as Darfur, Rwanda and Sudan, while it rushed to the aid of "white" countries. And those who couldn't see racism in Hurricane Katrina and Jena, Louisiana, were blind.
Yes, black people had been wronged again and again. But that wasn't the point. The key was to let Jesus into your life and to stop feeling sorry for yourself. You could do anything you wanted, he said, maybe even become the first black president of the United States. And maybe, if you were lucky, you could become pastor of "the baddest church in Dallas, Texas."
No one can say with certainty what effect Wright's sermon had that day, but by the end of the week, Wright would no longer be Obama's pastor. And by the end of the month, Haynes would no longer be the frontrunner to lead the NAACP.
Had Haynes' commitment to Wright's brand of theology—the very thing that had shaped his ministry and brought him so much success—derailed his chance to lead the nation's oldest civil rights organization?
Like his father and his grandfather before him, Freddy Haynes seemed destined to become a preacher. As a boy, he often stood in his grandmother's living room on Southland Road and delivered sermons while one of his younger sisters played the part of choir director. Even then he had a gift.
Although born in Dallas, he grew up in Palo Alto, California, home to Stanford University, in a progressive, mostly white, middle-class neighborhood. In the classroom, no one made an issue of the color of his skin. His first experience with racism came at the age of 7, when on a Christmas trip to visit relatives in Dallas, he and the other blacks on the bus were required to stay in their seats and eat once they crossed into Texas, while the white passengers got off to dine in restaurants. He asked his aunt why, and she wouldn't tell him. That's just the way things were in 1967.
The next year, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. Haynes does not remember where he was that day, but he does recall sitting in his parents' living room watching the funeral of a man who had once preached in his grandfather's church.
When his family moved from Palo Alto to the urban angst of San Francisco in the early '70s, things started to change. One night he answered the phone to hear death threats against his father from people who thought the popular preacher was connected to the Zebra Killers, a black supremacist group that murdered 16 white people. "My eyes were starting to open up to the fact that there's something in this world that's different as far as blacks and whites," Haynes says.
At 14, Haynes' father had a stroke at the pulpit while delivering the morning announcements. Haynes was sitting in the balcony, not paying attention, when he heard the thud of his father's head as it hit the lectern. When a nurse at the hospital came and told him that his father had died, he ran to a window and thought about jumping. He felt God was punishing him for not listening in church.
For years, he says, he was lost to God and vowed he would not become a preacher. Now the man of the house, he took a job as a busboy in a downtown San Francisco steakhouse to help his mother support the family. One night, a white patron tripped him as he was walking across the dining room. Just 15, Haynes was stunned when he looked up and saw the man laughing. "Hey, Mo," the diner said to the manager, "come get your little nigger because he just wasted our dinner, and I don't appreciate that." Haynes protested, but his boss ordered him to clean up the mess. It was Haynes' first taste of unbridled racism, and the humiliation of it would never leave him.
At 18, he left San Francisco for Dallas to attend the now defunct Bishop College, a Baptist-affiliated, historically black school. Both his father and grandfather were well-known at the college, which had a strong religion department, and Haynes says he was determined to let everyone know he would not follow in their footsteps. "The first year every student has to take a religion class, and I made sure I was going to flunk that class," he says. "I was just not going to be a preacher."
He often found himself in the library, attracted to the section on black literature. He read the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Howard Thurman, a Baptist preacher and civil rights leader whose writings had deeply influenced King and gave Haynes his first taste of black liberation theology. Thurman drew a parallel between the struggles of blacks (an impoverished minority oppressed by the white race) and the life of Jesus Christ (an impoverished Jew oppressed by the Romans).
That summer, Haynes met with Thurman in San Francisco. Haynes would consider it a turning point in his life. "It was right before he passed. And he said, 'Make sure you do that which makes you want to get up in the morning.' And that just kind of stuck with me, and I never forgot about that."
Back at school, Haynes no longer rebelled against the possibility that he would become a preacher. He immersed himself in black liberation theology, which at the time was causing a seismic shift in the black church. The movement had begun in the 1960s, at a time in which the place of the Christian church in the black community seemed in peril. Martin Luther King Jr. was giving way to Malcolm X. Young black preachers were leaving their traditional congregations for the Nation of Islam. For many, Christianity seemed a tool whites had used to keep blacks in check.
"I wanted to say: No! The Christian gospel is not the white man's religion," James Cone, the father of black liberation theology, recently told The New York Times. "It is a religion of liberation, a religion that says God created all people to be free. But I realized that for black people to be free, they must first love their blackness."
Cone and others reinterpreted Scripture through the eyes of their slave grandparents, holding out that God cared for blacks, because God himself was black. "It's very important because you've got a lot of white images of Christ," Cone told USA Today in a 1989 interview. "In reality, Christ was not white, not European. That's important to the psychic and to the spiritual consciousness of black people who live in a ghetto and in a white society in which their lord and savior looks just like people who victimize them."
In a series of books that would become the canon of black liberation theology, Cone called for a new breed of preachers who would speak boldly, even militantly, against the white-run power structure.
As Haynes progressed through college he felt a pull to heed this call. He began to take religion classes and to meditate about what he should do with his life. One day while reading the words of King he came across a quote in which the civil rights leader said his own calling had not been a cataclysmic event, but rather a submission to a deep-seated urge to serve humanity through the gospel ministry. Haynes said the quote liberated him because he had been waiting for a sign from God that he should preach.
Haynes began preaching on campus and quickly caught the eye of one of Reverend Zan Holmes of St. Luke United Methodist Church, one of the largest black churches in Dallas. Holmes was impressed with Haynes' gift as a preacher and took him under his wing. Holmes' church, which was deeply involved in building up the black community and speaking out against social injustice, meshed well with Haynes' vision of the kind of church he hoped to pastor.
In 1982, Haynes took over Friendship West, which then occupied a small building on Polk Road. "I didn't have a clue," he remembers. "All I knew is I had witnessed pastors' preaching, so I just thought if I preach, marry people when they want to get married, counsel, I would do all right."
What he could do decently enough, he says, was preach. But for the church to really take off, Haynes would have to find something that made it unique. So he turned back to the basics of black liberation theology. "In college, black liberation theology was more of a theory, and I readily came to appreciate and identify with it. The problem was how to practically apply it, because there were not a lot of black churches out there really doing liberation theology."
In 1987, Haynes went back home to San Francisco to celebrate the 135th anniversary of the church his father and grandfather had pastored. While there, he met Jeremiah Wright, who was giving one of the sermons. Haynes had seen Wright on PBS, talking about the unique needs of the black community and how the church must adjust to meet them. The two struck up a friendship, and Wright began to teach Haynes how he could put in practice the teachings of Thurman, Cone and King.
In 1991, they traveled to Africa together to attend a summit which sought to stimulate economic development in Africa. At the summit, the two grew closer, and eventually Haynes would begin to see Wright as an adoptive father.
With Wright as his mentor and Zan Holmes his local guide, Haynes involved Friendship West in programs designed to build up Dallas' black community from within. In the mid-'90s, he and Holmes formed a group called the African-American Pastor's Coalition, which, among other things, took over a credit union with the goal of extending small business loans to low-income minorities. The coalition also financed and built around 300 moderately priced homes in South Dallas.
But the incident that for Haynes would redefine the identity of his church came in 1995. His congregation had outgrown the church's original location and had moved to Kiest Boulevard. At the same time that Haynes was hosting a revival, three young black men were tied up, shot in the back of the head and piled on top of each other in a bathtub at the Tropicana Apartments across the street.
"I read that the next morning in the paper," Haynes says. "So we're having church, and across the street some young men are getting killed? There's something wrong with that picture."
The following Saturday, Haynes led a silent march, the male members of his church dressed in black to demonstrate their displeasure with violence that had taken hold of the neighborhood. They then conducted door-to-door surveys around the block to figure out what needs, in terms of education and social services, were not being addressed. That gave birth to a ministry called Operation Transformation.
Haynes' relationship with Wright continued to grow. They traveled the country together and co-edited a book. When Haynes wrote his first book, Soul Fitness, Wright wrote the introduction. Haynes became more outspoken and critical of racism, social injustice and politicians who advocated what he called "the status quo" of "plantation politics." His role, he believed, was to shake things up.
From the pulpit and in the press, he began skewering politicians he considered insensitive to the plight of blacks and others living in minority communities, from former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller to George W. Bush, whom he publicly condemned to hell at a church in Indianapolis in 2006. He blasted preachers who built mega-churches and then forgot the Bible's admonition to help the poor. He created ministries dedicated to fighting homelessness, drug addiction and prison recidivism. He showed up at job fairs for ex-cons and took over a black prep school in Oak Cliff and rechristened it the Frederick Douglass Academy. He organized a voter mobilization drive that included members from 200 black churches.
As word of Haynes' unique message of black empowerment and community involvement spread, his church grew from 100 members in 1985 to 7,000 members in 2001 to 12,000 members today.
"To me, Friendship West represents empowerment," says Katrina Smalls, a former member who now works for another church. "In the ministry they encourage people to go vote and to educate yourself in the political process, which is something I had never thought about doing before."
Today, the church sits at the top of a slow-rising hill on Wheatland Road, in a part of town Haynes' own people call the hood. In the last year alone, police have responded to a shooting at the high school across the street, a double murder at the nearby Southwind Apartments and a February rape at the same complex that ended with a mob-style beat down of the victim's attacker.
In this dreary neighborhood, defined by grubby pawnshops and dollar stores interspersed with long stretches of undeveloped land, the presence of Haynes' church is startling. A sprawling cream-colored edifice that takes up an entire block, it is capped with a roof of copper designed to evoke memories of the Egyptian pyramids. Throughout Haynes' church, there are other African symbols, and the church's own logo is a globe turned toward Africa. The idea is not just to remind Haynes' parishioners of where they came from, but also of God's promise to liberate and bless his chosen people, in the same way he freed the Hebrew slaves from their Egyptian masters. This lesson is a theme Haynes often returns to in his sermons, and it forms the bedrock of the theology to which he and Wright subscribe.
The goal, he says, is to make people proud to be black. "If anything, I am trying to uplift and set free, especially mentally, those who feel that they are not worthy of society, not worthy of being first-class citizens."
Haynes says the church is one of the largest employers in South Dallas, with 45 different ministries that offer everything from job training to financial counseling to support to those suffering from HIV/AIDS. As a businessman, Haynes presides over a multimedia empire that includes books, DVDs, a magazine and a Web site that carries his sermons to all reaches of the globe. As impressive as his church is, it is only the beginning of his ambitions. On the land south of the building, now 60 acres of weeds, Haynes envisions a sort of black Vatican City, complete with a grocery store, a retirement community and tennis courts.
Building a mega-church has left Haynes open to the criticism that he has done the very thing he once railed against: Peter Johnson, a prominent black preacher and former staff member of Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said spending $32 million on a church building is a "vulgar, even sinful" investment. "If you can raise that kind of money on the backs of black people, why not sell it and give that money to the poor?" Johnson wonders.
But Haynes counters that his church is a symbol, both of what the community can become and the value of the people living in it. Already the building has drawn new development to southern Dallas such as a Target, and he says more is on the way. "When we were building the church, people would come up to me and thank me, just because it had been so long since they had seen cranes in this part of town," he says.
It is easy to be skeptical of Haynes' intentions. The cynic would see his talk of community building as a well-crafted sales pitch. His church, after all, is the owner of the land where he plans to build his urban village, and his wife, a commercial real estate agent, has already listed the planned retail space there for sale. Every week, Haynes' deacons pass around the collection bucket, often with a not-so-subtle nudge from Haynes, reminding them of the village they all want to build together.
Tithing is made easier by Haynes' captivating, even mesmerizing pulpit presence. He hops around the stage, drenched in sweat, his voice rising and falling as he sprinkles Scripture with well-known gospel lyrics, at times adopting a sort of hip-hop cadence. In his finely tailored suits, he seems a man with a larger-than-life personality, imposing and unapproachable.
But friends say that away from the pulpit, he is just the opposite—shy, introverted, more likely to sit and listen than to dominate a conversation, a man whose idea of a good time is to bake cookies with his 15-year-old daughter.
In many ways, Haynes is a throwback to the role traditionally held by black ministers. He is part political activist and part community organizer, after the order of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. In December, he took 10 busloads of people from Dallas to join Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for a march in Jena, Louisiana, where tension between blacks and whites had bubbled over in a series of racial incidents that resulted in violence. In January, he stood on the steps of Arlington City Hall, a member of his congregation beside him, demanding that the city pay for her garage door, which had been defaced with the words "Die Nigger."
Today, Friendship West hews as closely to black liberation theology as any church in America. In so doing, the church is going against the grain. "Historically, the black church was the only place African-Americans could go to speak their minds, to hear a word that would comfort the racism and injustice that was haunting them, and there's been a total shift away from that," says Stacey Floyd-Thomas, director of black church studies at Texas Christian University's Brite Divinity School. "Friendship West represents the best of the black church tradition. It is a village, a community and a place where black people who have been oppressed and ignored and treated as less-than are affirmed and celebrated."
His congregation has felt that affirmation as Haynes has quietly built a base of power at Friendship West. Three years ago, he led a drive to kill Laura Miller's strong mayor referendum, which Haynes considered racist, mobilizing blacks in southern Dallas to vote in record numbers. The next day, May 9, 2005, at Friendship West, a 71-year-old man who had lived in Dallas his entire life told The Dallas Morning News he had never seen anything like it. "Black people are finally going to realize how much power they have," he said, fighting back tears. "In future years, when we win more elections, we're going to remember [this] day."
And yet for all his sermonizing about white oppression, Haynes seems something of a contradiction, recently aligning himself with the same white power structure in Dallas that he preaches against. Last spring, he became the first prominent black minister to support Leppert, a Turner Construction chief executive with no political experience, in his bid for mayor. Haynes also opened up Friendship West to a well-attended mayoral debate, a departure from a previous promise to make his pulpit off-limits to political candidates.
To some, it seemed Haynes had done an about face, opting for Leppert over the only black in the race, former city Councilman Don Hill. How could he support a man who had the backing of the Dallas Citizen's Council, a secretive organization that once fought the NAACP over allowing blacks and whites to ride together on the bumper cars at the Texas State Fair?
Haynes' endorsement of Leppert, which played out in radio advertisements that ran in heavy rotation on the city's hip-hop and gospel stations, proved pivotal, and Leppert carried the black vote on his way to taking the race in a rout. The relationship did not end after the election. Leppert still shows up at Haynes' church, often when the mayor needs help, as he did last fall when he needed votes to defeat the Trinity River referendum.
"It's an illicit relationship, and it's not a healthy relationship for people of color or low-income people," Johnson says. "They've allowed the good old boy structure to come back...Freddy Haynes is part of that inner circle now. He's a gatekeeper for the rest of the black community."
But Haynes says his critics are missing the point. "I never asked [Leppert] for anything in exchange for my support," he says. "My only request was that he be true to his vision for an economic balance in the city and work with us to help lift up this side of town."
His association with Leppert also gives Haynes' message a broader appeal, one that incorporates the spiritual needs of a burgeoning black middle class that must work within the established order as it attempts to change it. Much of his church's recent growth has been fueled by the growth of this group, which has moved into suburbs as far north as Allen, McKinney and Denton. Like the white mega-churches that began springing up in the '80s, churches like Friendship West have become a spiritual home to blacks who have left their traditional communities, or to those who feel the black church has abandoned its true message. "There is a rootlessness that I think people in the suburbs feel, and that's why they make the drive, because there's a sense of connection that I think everyone wants to feel," Haynes says.
Several prominent members of Friendship West say they were attracted to the church for precisely these reasons. Dwaine Caraway, who has belonged to the church for 10 years, said his work tearing down hot-sheet motels and crack houses as a city council member has been inspired by Haynes' message of social activism and community involvement.
District Attorney Craig Watkins, who was baptized a member two years ago, says his much-publicized effort to exonerate wrongfully convicted inmates, the majority of whom have been black, was inspired by Haynes. "I think he's given me the courage to do what I know is my duty, in the face of tremendous opposition."
On May 25, Freddy Haynes returned to the pulpit after a brief absence. The time away had not been good to him or his mentor. At two public appearances immediately following his sermon at Friendship West, one before the NAACP in Washington, D.C., and the other before the National Press Club, Wright appeared defiant and repeated several assertions—among them, how the government created AIDS to kill blacks—that had made him a lightning rod in the first place.
"His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate," Obama said at an April 29 press conference. "They certainly don't portray accurately my values and beliefs."
Obama's disavowal of Wright stung Haynes. The Illinois senator had met privately with Haynes, seeking his counsel, when he was still mulling a presidential bid. And when Obama later came to Dallas for a February rally, Haynes gave the opening prayer, asking God to protect Obama from all the "haters."
But Haynes' ultimate allegiance was to Wright and what they both stood for.
"A lot of you are mad at Daddy J for what went down on Monday," Haynes told his congregation on May 3, the Sunday following Wright's speech before the National Press Club. "And I'm sorry, I know y'all ticked off at him, but he was a cornered lion... And when a lion's got cornered and they're already wounded, THEY DON'T BACK DOWN!" he shouted.
All Wright was trying to do, Haynes explained, was to educate the nation about the black church. "And then they talk about how he didn't tell the truth about AIDS, how it got here," he said. "Well, you know, I don't know about all that. I do know that if he didn't tell the truth about it, it's understandable. It ain't like the government ain't capable."
His congregation erupted in cheers.
Had Haynes' close relationship with Wright hurt his chances to lead the NAACP? On May 16, he had gone to Baltimore and fully expected to come back to Dallas as the organization's new president. For two months, he had been told that he was the sole candidate for the job, and that the vetting of the two other finalists was a mere formality. And then something happened.
In Baltimore, he sat before the NAACP's 64-member governing body and immediately the questions began. Would he leave his church? No, he said. That was something that had been discussed in the previous interview. Besides, he wouldn't be the first full-time pastor to lead the organization.
"It was like I was being attacked," he would later say. "I told them, 'I'm not your enemy. I never lost you a contract. I never closed a door in your face.'" The NAACP board deliberated for eight hours behind closed doors. In the end, they went with Benjamin Jealous, a 35-year-old Columbia University grad and Rhodes Scholar. According to several news accounts, no one clapped or celebrated when the tally was announced. Many left the room in disbelief that Haynes had not been selected.
Not long after, on blogs across the country, supporters of Haynes expressed their disappointment with the decision. Some wondered if NAACP chairman Julian Bond's alleged support of Hillary Clinton had been a factor. Others wondered if Haynes was too polarizing a figure for the organization at a time in which it seemed a great possibility the United States would elect its first black president. Heber Brown III, a black liberation preacher in Baltimore, wondered on his blog, Faith in Action, if Haynes' ties with Wright had been a problem for the board.
"It's no secret that Haynes is a protégé of Wright and is doing a fantastic job continuing in the Black Liberation Theology tradition," Brown wrote.
Had Haynes' relationship with Wright done him in? At a press conference at his church the day after the decision was announced, Haynes said he didn't think it was a factor. "That is grapevine gossip," he said. "Reverend Wright said, 'Don't let them make me an issue.'"
Haynes was told that the only reason he had not been selected was because he refused to leave Friendship West. While possible, this seems unlikely. The board had known about his commitment to the church for months. The only thing that had changed between then and now was his defense of Wright and Obama's repudiation of him.
But a week after the announcement, when Haynes was again asked if his relationship with Wright might have influenced the organization's decision, he said he had heard that and considered it a possibility.
But now standing at his pulpit, at what was supposed to be a triumphant return, he said he had no regrets. He had put the NAACP in the rearview mirror, and he suggested his congregants do the same. After the sermon, a long line of parishioners snaked around the stage, waiting to embrace their beloved preacher. He picked up a small girl and let her hug him. He looked intently at a middle-aged woman as she told him some personal problem.
He had been denied, his mentor disgraced, but his work would continue. The groundbreaking for the second phase of his urban village was around the corner, he was about to announce an ambitious new plan to help the people living in a dilapidated apartment complex down the street, and before long he intended to transform his Oak Cliff school into an academic powerhouse for black children. God was not done with him yet.
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Crystal Palace striker Kwesi Appiah made his debut for Notts County last night after completing a one-month loan move to the League One strugglers.
Unfortunately for the 23-year-old, who came off the bench at Peterborough United, it was a losing start in a 4-3 defeat.
Appiah, who has made seven first team appearances for the Eagles, has already enjoyed a successful loan earlier this when he went to Skrill South outfit Cambridge United and scored 10 goals in 17 games.
The move to the County Ground sees Appiah link up with former Palace midfielder Shaun Derry, after he took over as manager in November 2013.
But before signing his loan deal at Notts County, Appiah also put pen to paper on a one-year extension to his contract at Selhurst Park, which ties him to Palace until the summer of 2015.
The club also have the option of extending this deal by a further two years.

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Georgetown College recognizes that business and culture are inextricably linked. Opportunities for students to participate in the global society and to engage effectively in business will be enhanced if students have studied business, language and culture in an integrated and reflective manner.
Interdisciplinary Major
(B.A. degree) A total of 60 hours is required for the major. The major requires a business foundation of 24 hours, a language foundation of 18 hours, 15 hours from the interdisciplinary component, and one 3-hour elective chosen with Program Coordinator's approval. (No minor is required.)
Business Foundation
BUA 210, 211, 335, 353; ECO 221, 223, MAT 109 or 121; MAT 111
The business foundation courses provide a sound foundation to enable students to understand the world of business. It includes accounting (the language of business), economics (the underlying theory beneath business study), finance (the major tool for evaluating business decisions), and international business operations that introduce students to the interaction of business and international matters.
Language Foundation (Students will select one language set.)
- FRE 230, 235, 335, 355, 301, and either FRE 310, 312 and 321
- GER 230, 235, 301, 355, 310 and 312
- SPA230, 235, 301, 355, and either SPA 310 and 320 or SPA 312 and 322
The language foundation courses will enable students to reach the intermediate-high proficiency level, as defined by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, in the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the target language. Furthermore, by means of a study of the great literary works, the arts, theater, music, geography, political structures, family life, and history, students will be prepared to understand, enjoy and participate in the foreign culture.
Interdisciplinary Component
CLC 319; INS (as approved by program director); BUA 423, 450, 460
These courses bring together the separate strands developed in the business and language foundation courses. On-campus courses are team-taught. The internship and study abroad requirements enable students to convert classroom knowledge into working knowledge tempered by experience.
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319. Foundations in Culture (3 hours) This course introduces the student to the concept of culture and related theoretical questions as well as to aspects of the French, German, Japanese and Spanish-speaking cultures that are part of the CLC program. Prerequisite: admission to the CLC Program and FRE/GER 230, SPA 255, or instructor's permission. Odd Falls


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GALVESTON, Texas - A man died after he was found hurt in the parking lot of his Galveston bakery, investigators said.
Galveston police said an officer was patrolling the 3800 block of Avenue J about 2 a.m. on Saturday and found Juan Navarro, 59, lying in the parking lot of Navarro Bakery.
Navarro suffered head trauma and was rushed to a hospital, where he died several hours later, investigators said.
Detectives said Navarro's vehicle, a Lexus SUV, was missing from the parking lot. It was found near the intersection of 37th and Avenue M on Sunday and towed to the Galveston Police Department to be processed for evidence.
Relatives said Navarro opened the bakery six years ago. It was his dream come true.
"He started in his house," said Juan Pablo Lopez, Navarro's nephew. "Came from the bottom like everyone does. That was his passion. His dream he always talked about ... 'One day I'm going to open my bakery.'"
Anyone with information about Navarro's death is asked to call Galveston police at 409-765-3370.
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Worcester Park race ace Howard Fuller may be in awe of the big names on the Brtish Touring Car Championship grid, but that will not stop him ruffling a few feathers.
The 20-year-old makes his BTCC debut at Rockingham this week after securing a one-off drive in a Team HARD Honda Civics this weekend.
Fuller has already tasted victory at the Northamptonshire circuit in the VW Cup in a Team HARD Golf GTi, having cut his teeth in Formula Palmer Audi and Formula Renault BARC
And after getting to grips with an S2000-spec Touring car at Brands Hatch last week he is confident of a good showing.
"There are some huge names on the grid and it's going to be fantastic being on the same grid as them," he said.
"It really is the big time even though for now it's just a one-off.
"Driving the Civic at Brands enabled me to appreciate just what a terrific bit of kit a modern day BTCC car is – it is on another
level. There's a definite wow factor.
"It was shared sessions with other categories and that can get quite busy on-track, but we still managed to put in some decent laps.
"In the final session the team put the car into race trim and the times were comparable with the top five from earlier this year."
Touring Car veteran Tom Onslow-Cole is also in action at Rockingham where the New Malden 25-year-old is playing down his chances of closing the gap on independent drivers' championship leader
Andrew Jordan.
"We've been improving the BMW all the time and it'd be nice to at least continue my current run of podiums," added Onslow-Cole.
"I've had five in the last four meetings and I think there probably should have been more.
"I had a slow start to the season, which put me on the backfoot, but I'm catching up fast – although I'm not looking at any championship until one is an option."


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We are pleased to announce that there is now a version of the Flash Player for Linux that supports 16 theoretical exabytes of physical memory. This technological feat is accomplished using a bleeding edge type of processor known as a 64-bit CPU.
Pictured: the next big thing– an 80-bit CPU; but 64 bits will have to do for now
So we have this x86-64 version of the Linux Flash Player available for those Linux users who have moved on to fully 64-bit computing environments. Go get it now on Labs. Be advised that this is pre-release quality. We hope to receive useful feedback about what areas need to be improved. You can help. You can report bugs at the Flash Player bug tracker. Hey, it gets results– the 64-bit issue is approaching resolution. Or you can try the customary drive-by bug report in the comments section ("I tried it on XYZ distro and it didn't work!") which is almost guaranteed to help no one.
I feel a bit sentimental about it all. It's weird, but I think I'm going to miss the hundreds of comments on every post gently requesting a 64-bit version. So don't be afraid to pop in with a "64-BIT NOW!!!1!!" comment every so often, you know, just for old time's sake.


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Raiders Spoil Bucaneers Post-Season Hopes With 31-24 Win
Hey Philadelphia Eagles fans, you're welcome. Didn't think the Raiders could travel from west to east and pull a road win? Didn't think the Raiders could win two in a row since…who knows? Think the Raiders didn't stand a chance with top receiver Ronald Curry and pro bowl corner Nnamdi Asomugha out for the game?
You know where I'm going with this. In a game where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a 6-1 home team, desperately needing to win to keep their playoff hopes alive, the Oakland Raiders went into Tampa and gave the Bucs more than they could handle.
Despite throwing a late interception returned for a touchdown, Jamarcus Russell settled down and led the Raiders down the field on two efficient 4th quarter drives sealing the game.
As for Michael Bush, a top 10 running back out of the 2007 draft had he not broken his leg at Louisville, the second year back ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns including a beastly 4th quarter run to the right blowing through every Tampa Bay defender. You can watch the game highlights here at the NFL.com site. Bush's run is on around the 2:30 mark.
As for the final game of the 2008 season, the Raiders reaffirmed hope across Raider Nation that the team is progressing. Managing to beat a tough Houston team at home and traveling into Tampa on back-to-back weeks, Jamarcus Russell has clearly developed and the new Raider backfield tandem of Fargas-McFadden-Bush provides intrigue for the 2009 season.
At 5-11, the Raiders will have the 7th overall pick ahead of the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2009 Draft.
As for next season's schedule, the Raiders will face the San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Cincinnati Bengals, and Baltimore Ravens in Oakland. On the road, the Raiders will travel to San Diego, Denver, Kansas City, Dallas, New York for the Giants, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
The Raiders have shown a lot in the final two games this season. Yet a tough off-season awaits the team as direction and guidance still remains hazy. Al Davis needs to re-evaluate his own future role in the Raiders organization. If Tom Cable doesn't remain the coach, the Raiders need to begin their search. Asomugha becomes a free agent and the league would certainly offer him the world.
But amidst everything, Raider Nation heads into another hopefilled off-season.


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When Nicholas G. Carr wrote IT's obituary in his famous 2003 article, "IT Doesn't Matter," few thought IT would soon be returning from the dead. Carr's argument -- that IT was becoming commoditized and could no longer provide a competitive advantage -- struck a nerve and was parroted faithfully throughout the corporate world.
Fast-forward to the predawn of 2006, and even Mr. Carr is starting to change his tune. Nobody's partying like its 1999 again, but across many industries companies are demonstrating that IT can be a key ingredient in a winning business formula. Here, we highlight three such companies -- JetBlue Airways, Netflix, and BNSF Railway -- as market leaders that make aggressive, innovative use of IT.
Management gurus are also turning more bullish on IT as a source of competitive advantage. But they note that the game has changed, that IT alone cannot create sustainable advantage in a competitive global marketplace.
Nick Carr was half right," says Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and management guru. "You've got to combine IT with smart people and good business processes that are supportive of a distinctive capability the organization has."
Davenport rattles off a roster of companies -- Wal-Mart, Harrah's, Capitol One, Amazon, and Marriott -- that have "focused IT on what really matters to their business" to become tops in their categories. And he claims it may take a decade for their competitors to catch up.
John Hagel, a high-profile consultant and co-author of The Only Sustainable Edge, goes one step further, claiming that emerging IT capabilities such as SOA and virtualization are enabling more cost-effective, incremental innovation than legacy hardwired systems ever allowed.
"None of the individual improvements will be sustainable; people will over time try to copy," Hagel says. "But if you keep moving forward, they'll never catch up. It's all about getting better [and] faster than others."
JetBlue: IT with a human touch
With several large U.S. airlines either in bankruptcy or on the brink, the airline business is reeling. Fuel costs are high, employees are grumbling, and discount carriers such as Southwest prevent competitors from raising prices.
Against this backdrop, New York-based JetBlue has soared from zero to more than a billion dollars in annual revenue in just less than six years. And IT has been a decisive factor in that growth, according to Tim Claydon, senior vice president of sales and marketing. "We were the first airline to be born in the Internet age," Claydon says, describing how the company uses IT to enable everything from home-based service reps, to seat-back satellite TVs, to paperless cockpits and all-electronic flight booking.
Although JetBlue is a low-fare airline, explains Claydon, IT's main contribution to competitive advantage has been in supporting a customer-friendly strategy. "We're in a service industry," Claydon says. "Even if the satellite TVs are what gets people on board for the first time, it's customer service that gets them to come back again."
Claydon notes, for example, that JetBlue's paperless cockpits -- the company gave pilots wireless laptops to replace the bulging briefcases they used to carry around -- free up pilot time so they can greet travelers from the front of the cabin. "It makes our pilots happier, less grumpy, more accessible, and gives them more time to interact with the customer," Claydon says.
And although the company has invested heavily to make its Web site and kiosks easy to use, Claydon adds that they don't want these to get in the way of customer interaction. "If you call 1 (800) Jet-Blue, you will not get caught up in IVR [interactive voice response] hell; you'll quickly be able to get through to a live human."
"The key to technology as strategic advantage at JetBlue is a very strong partnership between IT and marketing," says JetBlue CIO Todd Thompson, who used to report to Claydon but now reports to the CFO. "The technology doesn't get in the way of the brand." Thompson also notes that technology investments help keep costs low. "Our cost structure is as much of a competitive advantage as the JetBlue experience is."
Between the home-based agents and the paperless cockpits, Thompson estimates the company saves several million dollars a year. And whereas traditional airlines take in less than 40 percent of their bookings via the Web, JetBlue.com garners 80 percent. "A huge cost savings," Claydon adds.
How sustainable is JetBlue's IT advantage? "There's definitely some technology secret sauce," CIO Thompson says, specifically citing the sophisticated antenna for receiving satellite TV for passengers. And the company's 160-person IT team is working on a next-generation, componentized reservation system that will offer built-on-the-fly, custom vacation packages for customers.
But in reality, Thompson admits, "You can duplicate a Web site, a kiosk, or dynamic packaging." JetBlue's edge really lies in the mind-set of using technology to innovate, he says, plus the laborious process changes the company has gone through -- in getting the paperless cockpit approved, for example. "We had to convince the FAA that we could keep the data current electronically," Thompson recalls.
Also, adds Marketing SVP Claydon, it doesn't hurt that JetBlue CEO David Neeleman sees the potential of technology. "He made the TV thing happen," Claydon recalls. "He understood we were going to have to do something to fully differentiate us. From a technology perspective, nothing was discounted."
Netflix: A logistical edge
In an age of instant downloads and video on demand, who'd have thought a service that sends DVDs through the mail would stand a chance? California-based Netflix has confounded the skeptics, growing to more than 3.5 million subscribers since launching in 1999.
Tom Dillon, the company's COO, attributes much of Netflix's success to using IT to hold down costs. "IT is not a strategic weapon in most companies," Dillon says. "But in our company, IT is the business. We live and breathe [the idea] that the way you get more competitive, lower your costs, and provide better service is through continuous improvement of the information technology."
Dillon, who oversees DVD fulfillment as well as "back-end IT" (everything but the Web site), says Netflix's Web site provides a better customer experience than its major competitor, Blockbuster.com, offering features such as customized recommendations and separate "queues" for each family member.
But he asserts that the true source of the company's competitive advantage is Netflix's investment in proprietary software for inventory management, logistics, and shipping. In 1999, for example, when Netflix had 75,000 customers and was using packaged software for customer support, Dillon says the company had 100 staffers in support. Today, with 3.5 million subscribers, Netflix has just 45 support people, thanks to Web self-service and home-brewed support software that enables reps to handle higher volumes.
"We firmly believe in building IT from scratch; this is a custom business," Dillon explains. "If you want to get it done exactly the way you want, build it yourself." On the logistics and shipping side, Netflix originally began with an Oracle ERP system, which it still uses for financials. But the company quickly realized that "it was too big and bulky and was hindering innovation" in shipping DVDs, Dillon says.
So Netflix wrote its own system, designed to enable its 37 shipping centers to provide one-day delivery of 1.3 million movies per day. Processing time is the critical factor, Dillon explains, because the DVDs all get returned in the morning and must be turned around quickly to meet tight postal service deadlines. "You need to run a big supply-and-demand algorithm that says who are the customers I now owe a movie to, what inventory do I have at what locations, and then generate 1.3 million orders," Dillon says.
Netflix's software completes that batch process each day in about 25 minutes, claims Dillon, thanks to proprietary algorithms that run entirely in memory. "With normal IT, this could easily be a two- or three-hour job, but we don't have that kind of time. It's about fine-tuning IT so you minimize any wasted steps."
Dillon adds that the company is hooked on continuous improvement and measurement. "We have more metrics than I've ever seen in any other company," he says. "I'd say one thousand we look at on a continuous basis." And top management, including the CEO, pull raw data straight from the warehouse and analyze it in Microsoft Excel or Access "because a polished executive information system would be too costly."
How do lower costs translate into competitive advantage for Netflix? Dillon estimates that the company's fulfillment costs are about half what Blockbuster's are, which enables profitability at a lower price. "Every penny counts in a high-volume business," Dillon says. "As we keep lowering our cost, we're able to lower our price. It's [a] very elastic market; so, the lower the price, the more our market grows."
BNSF Railway: Customers first
Texas-based BNSF Railway -- formerly Burlington Northern Santa Fe -- is one of the largest North American railroads, and arguably the most successful in terms of profits, operating efficiency, and other metrics.
Railroads may seem like relics, but these days they're taking on a new cachet and are starting to win business back from trucking companies, thanks mainly to investments in new technologies that make them more efficient and easier to do business with.
"If you spoke with our CEO and CFO, they would tell you that IT is not only integral but has been one of our strategic advantages," says Jeff Campbell, CIO of BNSF. Campbell has developed a five-year IT plan dubbed the eSynchronous Railroad, which will leverage new technologies such as GPS and Wi-Fi on locomotives to enable real-time, event-driven management -- "as opposed to trying to tactically muscle the railroad business every day," Campbell says.
In the meantime, the $12.5 billion company has already launched a host of IT projects to push the envelope in three areas: customer satisfaction, railroad operations, and human resources.
For starters, says Campbell, "We focus on ease of doing business with us." BNSF worked with other railroads, for example, to develop a Web services application to provide one-stop shopping for customers who want to send shipments across multiple railroad networks but who previously had to get a separate rate quote from each carrier.
BNSF is the only railroad running "multiple channels of technology simultaneously in our customer portal," Campbell asserts, a setup that enables customers to track shipments, pay bills, and check an invoice status -- all on a single screen. "We've invested time and money in BNSF.com," Campbell says. "It's not just about lipstick; it's about the content as well, … taking out the railroad-speak, simplifying the intuitiveness of the Web site."
On the operations side, the railroad has replaced traditional paper-based systems for train and crew dispatching with a combination of voice and e-mail technologies to "optimize velocity, performance, and availability," Campbell says. "We used to have over 400 crew-callers," Campbell recalls, referring to those who assign crews to trains. "Now, all our outbound crew-calling is done by computer, and inbound is done by IVR with voice authentication if crewmen want to call in sick or for a schedule change. Today, we have less than 100 people in that area."
As for overall results, Campbell says, "Productivity in terms of gross ton miles and tons per employee has improved dramatically," partly thanks to IT investments. On the customer-facing side, the company has seen a "slow, sustained improvement in customer satisfaction scores" during the past two years.
But how sustainable are BNSF's IT competitive advantages? "We have a momentary advantage" when it comes to operations, Campbell responds. "We've spent the most on this and have the most advanced systems." As for the customer side, Campbell says, "I think we have a competitive advantage, just half a step. The runner-up that gives me a run all the time is Canadian National Railway."
Campbell is also quick to note that the technology journey has not been all straight-ahead. "In 1999, we got caught up in the hype, drank the Kool-Aid, and invested several million in an Internet startup to buy and sell rail capacity online, separate from the railroad," he recalls. "We thought capital-intensive old companies were has-beens."
The lesson learned? "Build the technology right in to the railroad," Campbell says. With the right IT, "Sometimes being an old railroad ain't bad."


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State and Local Law Enforcement to Search for Drunk Drivers During "Operation Pull Over" Beginning Friday
The Evansville Police Department and Vanderburgh Sheriff's Department will join the Indiana State Police for the roughly two week program aimed at getting drunk drivers off the street, and cause people to think twice before getting behind the wheel after a night out.
Using federal grant money, the law enforcement agencies will set up DUI checkpoints and send a heavy patrol of officers out to the streets in an effort to spot and stop impaired drivers from harming themselves or other motorists.
A word to the wise, as tempting as may be to put the key in the ignition and head home because you "only had a few" (we've all been there, myself included), stop and think if the potential for a $500 fine and up to 60 days in jail is worth it. That $20 cab ride home doesn't seem so bad now does it?
"Operation Pull Over" is scheduled to run through September 2nd.


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Mexico City -- Wal-Mart de Mexico SA reported Tuesday that profit for the fourth quarter increased 14%, citing newly acquired stores in Central America for the improved performance.
The Mexican unit of Wal-Mart Stores said that net income rose to $539 million in the fourth quarter, up from $474 million in the year-ago period.
Revenue rose 25% to $8.3 billion.
Walmex recently acquired stores in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.


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Hence we can develop a storyboard that informs us of function, narrative, and mood, all of which enables us to explore design concepts. At this point the client and DS9 collaborate to refine the designs and move on to the actual blueprint phase.
With our architecture in hand, we mix in other key ingredients. We add style, of course, vocabulary, logic and a little serendipity to create another smashing DS9 marketing tool.
Whether our work is contemporary, guerilla or traditional, our designs always have a magical sense of space and flow, and a splendid quality of light. Got a few minutes? Pull up a chair. Let's talk about your world.
The development of new products and services is accompanied with a lot of thought, experience and market research. And yet, a shocking number fail. 90% to be exact.
Why is this? clearly there is a benefit and clearly a market exists. But it takes more than a good product or a novel service to get customers to switch. We believe the manner in which benefits are communicated is often just as important as the product or service for which the communication is being built. To inspire action we need to create a catalytic communication strategy that draws from elements of your competitive superiority and give it a marketing treatment that sparks imagination.
To create breakthrough communications we delve in deep to understand unarticulated needs being met, study the marketplace to observe its constituents and functioning, and understand the mindset of intended audience. Only after going on this fact finding journey do we attempt to connect producer and consumer.
DS9 Corp. was hired by Gatorade to do some product design concepts for a new secret formula that they had been working on. We were told to do endless brand marks, vehicle concepts, look & feel and packaging explorations.
We sent twenty 11x17 pages of designs, most of which are amazing and one of which is shown here. One thing worth mentioning is that we drink Vitamin Water.
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Weird, colorful and deep website showcasing the style and mind of the kooky florist Zita Elze and her hopeless romantic husband Christian.
PLS Check Cashers is the biggest currency exchange in the United States. DS9 Corp.® created PLS's brand standards, designed the design system for online and offline marketing initiatives.
Pyromaniac.com is the first fantasy football news site with a soul. A brand concepted by Derek Noonan, head of operations and founder of DS9 Corp.®
After moving back home to Pittsburgh from New York, Maggie Kopf wanted to bring some life to the Iron City. Her well traveled aestethic, prolific in her styles from days in Telluride, New York, San Francisco and now Sidney Crosby-ville. We enjoyed the creative collaboration with this client to an unmatched level; Maggie is a smart, open and detailed woman.
LRMR Marketing, LeBron James' marketing agency commisioned DS9 to do various design explorations to help LeBron be the most famous athlete on the planet by the time the Seoul 2008 Olympics began on August 8th, 2008.
IceSpace was a "cool" ice lounge concept located along the River Thames in London in the middle of the summer. The archived website DS9 did for this client can be viewed here.
Blackbird is the web browser for the African American community. DS9 developed the brand identity system, designed the website and the browser itself.
On this "Business Building Process" microsite project for Van Kampen Investments, DS9 brought a traditionally boring brand out from under a rock with this piece of interactive design.
DS9 created Jade's logomarks and logotext, produced all print marketing materials and developed it's website as well.
This project runs from identity system work, to email marketing thru Campaign Monitor, to Website and facebook consultation.
This project is proof that one can build a solid eCommerce website on a shoe-string budget using DS9 design. We worked with an off-shore Indian development company and used an open-source cart framework to help the client keep costs down.
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"Erratic" is an installation piece by Swedish architects Norell/Rodhe that shows a lot of personality. Daniel Norell and Einar Rodhe recently completed the project, which was featured in Helsinki Design Week this past September.
Made from a thick custom-made sack restricted at hundreds of points, the massive 3 x 3 x 3 meter piece illustrates the tension between meticulous design and temperamental materials. — bustler.net
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Experience Means Nothing – Judgement is Everything
What we need our leaders to do about the oil spill is to listen to things from all sides and exercise judgment - calm, sound judgment. Not a soul on the earth has any experience capping a mile-deep oil well. Nothing in our leaders experience will help them. We're going to have to hope that they are smart and not unnerved by the ridiculous pressures that come from outside the problem. We're going to have to hope that what the public thinks about what they are doing to work the problem doesn't change how they actually work the problem. The situation itself is pressure enough.


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WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. –In the second tournament of the spring season, the women's golf team teed off Monday in frosty conditions at the Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational. The ladies finished the first two rounds with a 336-320—656 and in ninth place.
Leading the Lions was Lauren Petty who followed up an 80 in the opening round with an impressive 72 in round number two. The 80-72—152 total for Petty was good enough to put her tied for ninth place overall on the individual leaderboard.
Clare Connolly was next in line as she fired an 80 and 79 respectively in the opening two rounds for a first day total of 159. Trailing Connolly by three strokes was Lauren Shuford who carded an 82-80—162. Rounding out the Lions' four scores was Heather Petronis who fired a 94-89—183 in the first day. Alyssa Barrett shot a 97 and 94 in the first two rounds.
The Lions would have quite a bit of ground to make up to jump up to the eighth spot which is held by Florida Tech—who totaled a 310-318—628.
Currently in the lead is Nova Southeastern who fired a 295-295—590 in the opening two rounds.
The Lions will look to make up some ground tomorrow with a tee time for 9:00 a.m.
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Following an E. coli outbreak linked to raw milk from a Tennessee dairy, officials have cleared the dairy to continue distributing its raw milk.
According to WBIR News, officials with the Knox County, Tenn., Health Department said that health scare surrounding raw milk from the McBee Dairy near Mascot, Tenn., appears to be over. Recent samples from the dairy's milk came back clean.
The investigation into the outbreak, which prompted a raid on the dairy, revealed that the E. coli contamination likely occurred in early October. Nine children were infected, and three developed complications that required hospitalization.
One child, a five-year-old, remains hospitalized on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome. According to the family's Facebook page, she has received five blood transfusions, and after less than two weeks of dialysis, doctors are confident that she will soon "turn the corner."
Officials urge that the outbreak doesn't reveal a problem with the McBee Dairy. Instead, it was the inherent risks of consuming raw milk.
"Our investigation has not identified any specific problem with McBee Dairy Farm; it's just the nature of the raw milk industry," KCHD Director Dr. Martha Buchanan is a release. "Milk can be so easily contaminated given the proximity of the source of the milk and the source of the contamination, which is frequently fecal bacteria, that even with safety precautions in place at the dairy, there is no way to guarantee that raw milk is safe for consumption."


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My Father as I knew him
December 8, 2008 — Mt. Juliet, Tennessee
Strong, Indenpendent, self reliant, responsible, helpful to others, strong work ethic and family man.
He was a S/Sgt. with the Third Infantry Division, 7th Inf. Reg, Company M.
My father never talked much about the war. The only time would be when he was around others who were there. He made the statement once "If they talk about it all the time chances was they wern't in the action much".
We would ask him to take us camping.......His statement to us was "If you had to camp the way I did you wouldn't want to camp anymore.
We would ask him to take us hunting.......Hist statement to us was "If you done the hunting I did you wouldn't want to hunt again. I never saw my father with a gun in his hand but one time. My uncles were target shooting at oil cans. My father made the statement " Ya got to shoot from the hip". Uncle gave him the gun and said " Lets see ya do it Jr.". My father shot once and the can fell. He gave the gun back to my uncle and said " Ya got to shoot from the hip". Never saw him with a gun again.
We would hear my father screaming in his sleep at night........War has got to be Hell.
Thanks to all my fathers for the freedom I enjoy. Charles Cole Jr. - WWII, Charles Cole - Navy WWI, William H. Cole - CSA, AA Surgen, Elisha Cole - War of 1812, Joseph Cole - Revolutionary War


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Improved weather forecasts for major South American grain and soybean growing regions undercut the U.S. grain and soybean complexes Wednesday and those losses continued in Thursday morning trading. Traders also seemed concerned about the likely result of the latest weekly report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), since the preceding release indicated ethanol industry activity has slowed to a crawl. The mid-morning report actually stated ethanol production for the past few days only 1% above the comparable week-prior figure, but the subsequent futures rebound suggests traders were expecting another significant decline. March corn had edged 3/4 cent higher, to $7.21 1/2 in late-morning activity, while December had fallen 3 3/4 cents to $5.86 1/2 per bushel.
The Wednesday news concerning South American weather proved particularly negative for soybean futures, since it was most pertinent for a large portion of the Argentine grain/soy growing region; emerging dryness has recently become a real issue for those areas. Unfortunately for producers and bullish interests, the EIA news didn't have a great deal of import for the soy complex, so CBOT prices remained under general downward pressure through much of the morning futures session. Moreover, the March contract proved unable to push back above support/resistance associated with its 40 and 50 day moving averages, thereby rendering it vulnerable to technically motivated selling as well. March beans fell 15 3/4 cents to $14.19 1/2 per bushel by late Thursday morning, while March soyoil had declined 0.20 cents to 51.83 cents/pound and March meal dove $7.0 to $409.5/ton.
In contrast to the improved weather forecasts for South American fields, all signs seem to point to continued dryness over the Southern Plains of the U.S. That implies little relief for drought stricken winter wheat fields, as well as diminished production prospects for spring and early summer. Nevertheless, wheat futures posted a stunningly weak performance Thursday morning. Some might blame concurrent losses in corn and soybean prices, but the fact that the wheat losses were substantially larger than those suffered by nearby corn futures undercuts that argument. We're inclined to blame technical factors, especially the inability of the March CBOT to top the $8.00/bushel level Tuesday for the decline. March CBOT wheat had fallen 8 3/4 cents to $7.66/bushel just before the lunch hour, while March KCBT wheat plunged 9 3/4 cents to $8.20 1/2 and March MGE futures dipped 5 3/4 cents to $8.54 3/4.
Recent news concerning the livestock and meat markets has offered CME live cattle traders little apparent cause for optimism. From Russian threats to restrict its red meat imports, to sliding cash and wholesale values and to the seemingly negative implications of pre-report surveys published ahead of the Friday Afternoon USDA Cattle on Feed report, the latest information has not been supportive. We should also point out that nearby futures remain at substantial premiums to the latest cash values despite the recent CME losses. Thus, the modest Chicago gains posted Thursday morning look rather impressive. On the other hand, we would warn that the early-January cattle futures breakdown looks very much like a huge 'bear flag' formation on the charts. Such patterns often presage a follow-through breakdown of similar size. We cannot say we expect such a move, but we worry about that possibility. February cattle had gained 0.22 cents to 126.00 cents/pound around midsession Thursday, while April was up 0.07 cents to 130.52.
Hopes for seasonal strength seemed to support CME lean hog futures again Thursday morning, with traders very likely focusing upon cash market strength at this juncture. That is, surging cash prices have actually pushed the CME lean hog index to a premium over nearby futures. For example, the exchange-calculated cash equivalent is expected to reach 87.78 cents/pound Friday morning, which means late-morning quotes for nearby February futures remained below the spot value. Moreover, the hog/pork complex has a history of rising seasonally into mid-February, so traders are probably justified in thinking the February future enjoys significant upside potential. February hogs had jumped 1.00 cent to 86.97 cents/pound just before the lunch hour, while June futures climbed 0.70 cents to 96.70.


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Medical Definition of Aging
Aging: The process of becoming older, a process that is genetically determined and environmentally modulated.
Research into aging: To sum up the state of research into aging is well beyond the confines of this space (and this writer's talents). However, here is one type of research into the genetics of aging.
A gene has been discovered that helps determine the life-span of the fruit fly Drosophila. When the gene is mutated (altered), it can extend the life-span of fruit flies. It doubles their life-span. The gene has been named Indy (for I'm not dead yet). It appears that the protein encoded by this gene transports and recycles metabolic byproducts. Defects in the gene may lead to production of a protein that renders metabolism less efficient so that its body functions as if the fruit fly were dieting, even though its eating habits are unchanged. Mutations in Indy thus appear to create a metabolic state that mimics caloric restriction, which has been shown to extend life-span.
Reference: Rogina B, Reenan RA, Nilsen SP, and Helfand SL. Extended life-span conferred by cotransporter gene mutations in Drosophila. Science Dec 15 2000: 2137-2140.
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TRANMERE Rovers' League Two campaign continues with a game against Shrewsbury Town at Greenhouse Meadow on Saturday.
Kicking off at 3pm, it will be the 39th time the two clubs have met with Tranmere holding a 20 wins to 8 advantage.
Last season a goal from Andy Robinson gave Rovers a 1-0 win at Greenhous Meadow while Max Power and Junior Brown earned Tranmere a 2-1 victory at Prenton Park in April.
Rovers' biggest away win is the 3-1 victory in October 1973.
Manager Rob Edwards hopes to have Marcus Holness and Jake Kirby available for tomorrow's game.
The pair missed the midweek game against Nottingham Forest but will have their fitness assessed in the build up to the match.
Liam Ridehalgh remains on the sidelines with an ankle injury while Liam Davies is also in the treatment room with a knee injury.
Tranmere go into the match on the back of a 1-1 draw against York City on the opening day of the season, while Shrewsbury also drew their opening fixture as two goals from James Collins helped them to a 2-2 draw against AFC Wimbeldon.
Shrews boss Micky Mellon has an injury concern over midfielder Mark Ellis after he picked up a knee problem, but the former Rovers player has no other injury concerns.
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ASCO Annual Meeting
May 16, 2012
A small analysis of a larger study showed that combining two different targeted therapy drugs, dabrafenib and trametinib, stopped advanced melanoma from worsening while causing less severe side effects than the current standard targeted therapy drug. Targeted therapy is a treatment that targets a cancer's specific genes, proteins, or the tissue environment that contributes to cancer growth and survival. Specifically, dabrafenib targets changes in the BRAF gene, and trametinib targets changes in the MEK gene to stop melanoma growth.
About half of melanomas have a specific genetic change in the BRAF gene that drives cancer growth. In these tumors, the MEK gene often contributes to tumor growth, as well. The current standard targeted therapy approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2011, vemurafenib (Zelboraf), also targets the BRAF gene. However, the drug eventually stops working for most patients, highlighting the importance of additional treatment options.
This analysis included a subgroup of 77 patients (out of 125 patients in the main study who received dabrafenib and trametinib) with advanced melanoma who had not yet received any treatments that target the BRAF gene. Although the study is ongoing, so far these patients have not had their cancer worsen for about 7 months, which is similar to studies on vemurafenib. This means that the new drug combination appears to work as well as the current standard targeted therapy. However, studies on vemurafenib have shown that up to 25% of patients develop skin side effects, such as skin cancer and other precancerous skin conditions. In this recent study, 2% of the 125 patients receiving dabrafenib and trametinib developed these skin conditions, which means the combination of these drugs appears to cause fewer side effects than the previous research on vemurafenib has shown.
What this means for patients
"Not only are the two drugs shrinking the cancer, but we're seeing that a second anticancer therapy may actually lower the side effects of the first," said Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD, a senior member at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Director of the Donald A. Adam Comprehensive Melanoma Research Center in Tampa, Florida. Research on dabrafenib and trametinib is ongoing, and these drugs are not yet available outside of clinical trials. Talk with your doctor about all treatment options for melanoma, including clinical trials.
Questions to ask the doctor
- What stage of melanoma do I have? What does this mean?
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A long stretch of humid and muggy weather didn't keep away MBA section leaders, community and public service volunteers, task force and committee members and the bar's 50-year honorees from celebrating with nearly 200 of their colleagues and friends.
While the year-end reception held on June 24 at the John Adams Courthouse was a night to socialize and network, it was also an opportunity to specially recognize section chairs, President's Award recipient Margaret "Mardee" Xifaras and attorneys who have been members of the bar since 1958.
"You are truly the heartbeat and workhorses of the organization," said MBA President Edward W. McIntyre. "Because of your considerable sacrifices and contributions to our vibrant organization, the Massachusetts legal community as a whole is better off, the public needing legal services are better served and access to justice is better preserved for those who need it most."
Denise Squillante, a long-time colleague and friend of Xifaras co-presented the MBA President's Award.
"Mardee likes to do her work where it most counts—in the trenches," said Squillante, who chronicled Xifaras' admirable career in public service, accentuating Xifaras' professional strengths as she "talked the talk and walked the walk."
While accepting the MBA's high honor, Xifaras described herself as "an old-fashioned organizer." She emphasized the importance of the "values of community," taught to her at a young age.
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text: Photographer Léo Caillard and photo retoucher Alexis Persani made this hilarious and thought provoking series called Hipster in Stone. The clothes transform the timeless grace of the statue's expression to the cool "i'm over it" modern look. The striking similarity makes me look at antiquity differently, have we really changed that much?


text: Biblical and Theological Studies Department Professor of Old Testament On Faculty since 2001 Office: BGC 544 Phone: (630)752-5276 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Education Ph.D. 1981 Hebrew and Cognate Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dissertation: The Tower of Babel M.A. 1975 Biblical Studies: Old Testament; Wheaton Graduate School A.B. 1974 Economics/Accounting, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA About John Walton It was in my college years that I encountered a book by Joseph Free, a former Wheaton professor, called Archaeology and Bible History. It was apologetic in focus but brought to my attention the tremendous impact that archaeology and cultural background studies could have on our understanding of the Old Testament. It was in the very year that I read that book that I made the decision to pursue Old Testament studies as a vocational discipline. Instead of training to be an archaeologist, I determined to focus my attention on studies comparing the culture and literature of the Bible and the ancient Near East. I have never lost my fascination with this subject. But comparative studies only provide one of the means by which I try to get people excited about the Old Testament. I am saddened by how little exposure to and understanding of the Old Testament many Christians have, but I am passionate in doing whatever I can do to remedy this spiritual and theological loss. For twenty-five years I was active at South Park Church in Park Ridge, IL teaching at every level from adults through pre-school. As I have taught high school Bible studies, adult Sunday school classes, Introduction to doctrine for sixth graders, or Bible stories to four-year olds, I have been driven by the desire to offer people a greater familiarity with God's Word and a greater confidence in understanding God's revelation of himself in its pages. After moving to Wheaton, I got involved in the same areas of ministry at Glen Ellyn Bible Church and now am involved in the Blanchard Alliance Church. I came to Wheaton after twenty years of teaching at Moody Bible Institute. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity I had there to train students for ministry and am no less enthusiastic about the interaction with students here. Whether in teaching or writing, I am constantly challenged in my own life because the material that I am presenting stretches me as much as it stretches my students or readers. Whatever I am writing or teaching also has a way of infiltrating my family. My wife, Kim, was trained as a biochemist, which has made for interesting dinner conversations-especially when I was working on my Genesis commentary. My three kids often have gotten involved in the discussions, and it has been fun to respond to them and see our family grow together. Courses Taught Old Testament Lit and Interpretation OT Book Studies: Genesis, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Minor Prophets Pentateuch OT Historical Literature I OT Historical Literature II OT Historical Literature III Old Testament Wisdom Literature Hebrew Grammar Hebrew Exegesis Introduction to Biblical Archaeology Introduction to Old Testament Exegesis History of the Ancient Near East Ancient Near Eastern Backgrounds Old Testament Criticism Bible Introduction Senior Seminar (Capstone course) Theories of Origin Membership in Professional Societies Society of Biblical Literature American Schools of Oriental Research Evangelical Theological Society (Chairman, Midwest, 1986) Institute for Biblical Research (Fellow) Awards Christianity Today - "Award of Merit" for Biblical Studies (2016) Research Recent research has focused on comparative studies between the Old Testament and the ancient Near East. In biblical studies my particular interest is in Genesis. I am currently serving as the general editor for a five volume series, The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, and General Editor of a 20 vol. Baker Commentary Series, "Teach the Text." Publications Lost World of Adam and Eve (IVP:2015) Lost World of Scripture (IVP: 2013) with Brent Sandy Job, NIV Application Commentary (Zondervan: 2012) Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology (Eisenbrauns: 2011) Bible Story Handbook (Crossway: 2010) with Kim Walton The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Old Testament (General Editor, Zondervan, 2009) The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (IVP, 2009) Jonah (Expositor's Bible Commentary, Zondervan: 2008) Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament (Baker: 2006) Essential Bible Companion (Zondervan: 2006) Old Testament Today (Zondervan: 2004) Genesis, NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001) IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000). Co-authored with Victor Matthews and Mark Chavalas The Tiny Tots Jesus Story Book, Chariot Books, David C. Cook, 1996 Covenant: God's Purpose, God's Plan (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994). The Tiny Tots Bible Story Book, Chariot Books, David C. Cook, 1993 Translated in Spanish and French and also produced as a video series A Survey of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1991; Third Edition, 2009). Co-authored with Andrew Hill Ancient Israelite Literature in Its Cultural Context: A Survey of parallels between biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989). Obadiah - Jonah: A Bible Study Commentary (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982/1988). Co-authored with Bryan Beyer. Chronological and Background Charts of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978, Revised and Expanded Edition, 1994). Numerous foreign language translations Editorial Boards The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis (Zondervan) The NIV Application Commentary (Zondervan) Translation Projects The New Living Translation, Isaiah Revision Team (Tyndale House) The New Century Version, 1 & 2 Samuel (Word) The Message, 1 & 2 Samuel (NavPress) Articles "Genesis 5 and the Antediluvian Section of the Sumerian King List", Biblical Archaeologist 44 (1981) 207-8. "New Observations on the Date of Isaiah" Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 28 (1985) 129-132. "Daniel's Four Kingdoms" Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 29/1 (1986) 25-36. "The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4" The Genesis Debate, ed. R. Youngblood (Nelson:1986; Baker:1991) 184-209. "Deuteronomy: An Exposition of the Spirit of the Law" Grace Theological Journal 8 (1987) 213-225. "Isaiah 7:14--What Is In a Name?" Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 30 (1987) 289-306. "The Decree of Darius the Mede in Daniel 6" Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 31 (1988) 279-86. "Vision Narrative Wordplay and Jeremiah xxiv" Vetus Testamentum 39 (1989) 508-9 "Psalms: A Cantata About the Davidic Covenant" Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 34 (1991) 21-31. "The Place of the Hutqattel Within the D-stem Group and its Implications in Deuteronomy 24:4" Hebrew Studies 32 (1991) 7-17. "The Object Lesson of Jonah 4:5-7 and the Purpose of the Book of Jonah" Bulletin for Biblical Research 2 (1992) 47-57. "Bible-based Curricula and the Crisis of Scriptural Authority" Christian Education Journal 13.3 (1993) 83-94. "Joshua 10:12-14 and Celestial Omens of the Ancient Near East" in Faith, Tradition, History: Essays on Old Testament Historiography in its Near Eastern Context, ed. A. Millard, J. Hoffmeier, D. Baker (Eisenbrauns, 1994) 181-190. "The Mesopotamian Background of the Tower of Babel and Its Implications" Bulletin for Biblical Research 5 (1995) 155-175. Reprinted in Bible and Spade 9.3 (1996) 77-96. "The Anzu Myth as relevant Background for Daniel 7?" The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception, Vetus Testament Supplement, FIOTL 2, ed. John Collins and Peter Flint (Brill, 2000) "Recovering the Vitality of the Old Testament in Preaching" PreachingToday.com (2001) 17. "Equilibrium and the Sacred Compass: The Structure of Leviticus" Bulletin for Biblical Research 11.2 (2001) 1-12. "Inspired Subjectivity and Hermeneutical Objectivity" The Master's Seminary Journal 13/1 (2002) 65-77. "The Imagery of the Substitute King Ritual in Isaiah's Fourth Servant Song" Journal of Biblical Literature 122 (2003) 734-743. "Creation in Genesis 1:1 - 2:3 and the Ancient Near East: Order out of Disorder after Chaoskampf," Calvin Theological Journal 43 (2008): 48-63. "Interpreting the Bible as an Ancient Near Eastern Document" in Israel-Ancient Kingdom or Late Invention? Archaeology, Ancient Civilizations, and the Bible, ed. D. Block (Nashville: Broadman/Holman, 2008) 298-327. Book Reviews The History of Israel and Judah in Old Testament Times, François Castel; in JETS 29 (1986) 505-507. A New Chronology for the Kings of Israel and Judah, J. Hayes and P. Hooker; in JAOS 110 (1990) 767-70. The Bible in Light of Cuneiform Literature, W. Hallo, B. Jones, and G. Mattingly (eds.); in Hebrew Studies 33 (1992) 69-71. Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther, M. V. Fox; in Ashland Theological Journal 24 (1992) 111-13. Deuteronomy, Eugene Merrill; in JETS 39 (1996) 469-471. The Torah: Theology and Social History of Old Testament Law, F. Crüsemann; in JETS 42 (1999) 714-16. Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel, O. Keel and C. Uehlinger; in JETS 43 (2000) 535-37. Reference Works (Contributed To) Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible, ed. W. Elwell (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988) Revised International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. G. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans) The Complete Bible Study Tool Kit (Downers Grove: IVP, 1991) The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis, ed. W. Van Gemeren (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997) "Principles For Productive Word Study" I:161-71 in addition to several lexical articles Foundations for Biblical Interpretation, ed. Dockery, Mathews and Sloan (Nashville: Broadman, 1994) "Cultural Background of the Old Testament" 255-73. Eerdmans Handbook of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, projected 2000) "Biblical and Babylonian Flood" IVP Dictionary of the Pentateuch, ed. D. Baker and D. Alexander (Downers Grove: IVP, projected 2002) "Creation: Biblical and Ancient Near East" "Flood: Biblical and Ancient Near East" "Sons of God" IVP Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (IVP, 2005) Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Baker, 2005) IVP Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Psalms and Writings (IVP, 2008)