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Stults a dual threat in Padres' fifth straight win
On Friday night, Stults shined on the mound and put on a show in the batter's box, and the result was the club's fifth victory in a row, this time a 5-0 win over the D-backs at Chase Field.
It could not have come at a better time -- or place.
Once considered among the toughest places to play for the Padres -- they trail in the all-time series in Phoenix, 83-42 -- San Diego has now won its last five games in Arizona. Overall, the Padres are 6-4 against the D-backs this season, having outscored them, 42-32, in those games.
"Well, prior to that we lost five in a row and prior to that we won some games, too," Padres manager Bud Black said. "So let's try to alleviate the three- or four-game losing streaks and keep the winning streaks going. We have been playing better since the All-Star break and a little farther back, it has been good baseball."
The Padres have outscored the D-backs, 28-13, in four games at Chase Field this season, but it was the pitcher, not the hitters, who proved to be the difference Friday.
Stults allowed three hits in seven strong innings. He struck out four batters and only walked one in the 103-pitch outing.
"The game tonight was how he pitched, it really was," Black said. "He had command of all four of his pitches and he changed speeds on his fastball like he does. He had the Diamondbacks off balance and was moving the ball in and out. They hit a number of balls hard and were in the right spots to catch them."
Stults also racked up a career-high three RBIs Friday, after having a total of four in his career entering the game. He downplayed the hits during the postgame interview.
"I think it was just luck most of the time," Stults said. "I just go up there trying to put the barrel on the ball and I was able to get a couple of hits, and it was big because we had runners on base. Tonight was a career-night hitting and I'll definitely take it. We were able to score enough runs."
Stults' first hit of the game was two-run single in the second inning off D-backs starter Patrick Corbin to give the Padres an early 2-0 lead.
He was not done.
After Chris Denorfia homered in the third, Cameron Maybin scored the Padres' fourth run in the fourth inning when he came home on a double by Stults.
"I left two fastballs up and didn't locate. As a pitcher, you're just trying to put the bat on the ball, and both times he found a hole and got the ball through to drive in some runs," Corbin said. "That's not what I want to do. I fell behind, I was trying to get over, and I paid for it."
Everth Cabrera doubled in the fifth, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Stults and motored home on Denorfia's sacrifice fly for the 5-0 lead.
"Tonight, I was able to establish the bottom part of the zone and that was key," Stults said. "[Catcher Yasmani Grandal] did a good job of mixing pitches up. I don't think I shook him a whole lot. We were able to keep them off balance, which was great, and get some quick outs in the middle innings."
The D-backs have still won six of their last 10 games, but they failed to make up any ground in the NL West standings.
"We didn't swing the bats very well. [Stults] had very good location," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "He mixed it up well, we beat him up the last time we saw him and he made some adjustments. He had better location and changed up his pitches. Then the balls we did hit hard, they were there."
Jesse Sanchez is a national reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @JesseSanchezMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A veteran, long-term resident of Willmar and baby boomer would describe me.
As a youth, part of my reasoning for serving my nation was to ensure future generations would have the same or greater opportunities that were enjoyed by my peers and me. An opportunity for a quality education provides for an optimistic future. Vote "yes'' on the Willmar education levy.
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As a baby boomer, my future and the future of millions of my generation and the generation ahead of me are in need and dependent on generations following ours. We have a deep-rooted tradition of providing for our young people, of doing what we have to do to make sure that they have a quality education. Our charge is to make sure that the opportunity for a quality education is provided to our young people. Vote "yes'' for the Willmar education levy.
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Once a year EvCC transcribes all Tech Prep classes and students earning a B or better will have an official college record created. Those classes will become part of the students official EvCC transcript. Students can log into their SERS account to retrieve their EvCC SID which they will need to access MyEvCC and get a copy of their unofficial transcript. Students can also order a copy of an official transcript online.
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Waldorf is shaped by the values and beliefs of its Norwegian Lutheran founders: veracity, discipline, the dignity and responsibility of the individual, a commitment to service, and faith in God.
The university was founded in 1903 as a result of "The Great Hotel War of Forest City." This fierce, competitive battle between the two first-class hotels, built simultaneously, left the beautiful Waldorf Hotel vacant after only four months of operation. This provided the opportunity for the Rev. C. S. Salveson to muster the necessary resources to found a Christian college. Thus, Waldorf University came to be located on a prominent corner in the center of Forest City, and the 50-plus acre campus has grown up around this original, and still beautiful, building now called Salveson Hall.
Unlike several other Lutheran colleges founded by Norwegian immigrants and the first generation of their progeny, Waldorf began operation as an academy and business college rather than as a preparatory program primarily for future pastors.
From its earliest days, Waldorf viewed education sponsored by the church as vital for persons who would serve primarily in secular society. The Waldorf emphasis was fundamentally a "stewardship emphasis": human lives are viewed as a gift from God, and the educational enterprise offers the opportunity for the full flowering of one's potential. The Waldorf mission has always stressed service to others as the means to achieve fulfilling lives.
Whether as future business leaders, teachers, professors, scientists, entrepreneurs, ordained clergy, psychologists or musicians, it is hoped that Waldorf graduates will aspire to lives of service.
Since 1920, when Waldorf became a junior college, the curriculum has gradually evolved to fully reflect a liberal arts emphasis. Now, nearly all students enroll with the intent of ultimately earning a bachelor's degree. In the spring of 1994, the college was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools to offer its first bachelor's degrees.
Waldorf became a fully accredited bachelor's degree granting college in February 2001.
The core of the liberal arts program has as its goals that students:
During January of 2010, Waldorf University joined the Columbia Southern Education Group (CSEG) family as the first traditional campus school. The second academic institution operated by CSEG is Columbia Southern University (CSU), an online university offering associate, bachelor's, master's and certificate programs. Columbia Southern Education Group (CSEG) was created to help both schools share resources and expertise.
In January 2010, Waldorf leveraged its partnership with CSU to launch its first three online programs. Today, Waldorf offers a full slate of certificate, associate, bachelor's, and master's degree programs - all completely online - in addition to the programs offered on campus.
Waldorf University faculty are dedicated to the goals and tenets of liberal arts education. The development of an appreciation of "a life of the mind" ought to begin in the home and school, be further nurtured at Waldorf, continue in studies at Waldorf, and become a lifelong process.
We believe the success of the Waldorf program results from the interplay of several characteristics:
Lux et Veritas, reads the motto on the official Seal of the University — "Light and Truth."
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I think my clearest memory of Sunday School as a young child is singing. I've always loved to sing--it's my primary personal method of entering into a state of worship.
It's so strange that I have vivid memories of Wednesday evenings, when a young couple in the church would take care of my sister and me while our parents were in choir practice--we made the burned-match crosses, tissue-paper flower, and other crafts like that. But I don't really have specific memories of Sunday School, even though we rarely missed a Sunday. Now, after age eleven or so, I do have clearer memories of SS. But nothing earlier than that. Strange, huh?
What a wonderful legacy to have generations married in the same church. The church my parents were married in has been closed. Too bad because the inside of the upper church was so beautiful. Life size angels held the supports like buttresses on the inside of the church. Each angel face was different.ReplyDelete
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Executive Director Walter Stearns Announces Mercury Theater Subscription Series
Executive Director Walter Stearns announced today that he will launch a subscription series at the Mercury Theater including four full productions, which will transform the Mercury into the largest producer of musicals in the city of Chicago; employing almost one hundred theater professionals. Plans are to produce Rogers and Hammerstein's A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING which features songs such as 'Oh What a Beautiful Mornin', 'Some Enchanted Evening' and 'If I Loved You' in January. In March, the Mercury will stage a revival of BARNUM, the Cy Coleman circus musical centered around legendary showman P.T. Barnum, complete with professional circus performers. August brings the regional premiere of THE COLOR PURPLE, the Broadway hit based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel and subsequent Steven Spielberg film. The season concludes with the return voyage of the popular holiday musical,THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER. Single tickets are available for $29 and up, and 3 show subscription packages start as low as $80. Season packages and A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING tickets go on-sale November 16th.
One of Chicago's leading musical theater producers, Walter Stearns, has lovingly renovated the Mercury Theater over the past two years. The Mercury now boasts a new front of house layout and state of the art lighting and sound systems. When asked what spawned the shift to a subscription season, he stated: "The Mercury Theater has been successful at long-running shows, but those audiences come maybe once a year. The Mercury Theater will be a place where people return to meet up with friends and see something new. It is more than a once-a-year experience, the Mercury Theater and its partner restaurants are a perfect place for people to meet up. When we shift to a season subscription, the shows change every 3-4 months and audiences will come to think of The Mercury Theatre as a place where there is always something new. "
The Mercury, which has been a well-respected venue for long-running commercial theater, is an intimate playhouse in the heart of a sophisticated neighborhood of restaurants and shopping steps from Wrigley Field. Notable past productions include A TWIST OF WATER (now running off-Broadway), THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, THE IRISH AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY and OVER THE TAVERN. The smash hit original production of FREUD'S LAST SESSION ended a nine-month run on November 11th, and the second 'season on the water' for THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER begins November 23d. When asked if the Mercury will still be available for commercial rentals, Stearns said "Absolutely. Producers who want to book the theater months in advance can become part of our subscription series. We hope to be the place where off-Broadway shows are incubated in Chicago." The Mercury adjoins two restaurants; Cullen's Bar and Grill and Deleece, who offer dining and libations before and after the show.
Tickets are available online at MercuryTheaterChicago.com, over the phone at 773-325-1700, or in person at 3745 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago 60613. Discounts of up to 50% are available for groups of 10 or more.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING
Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
January 10 - March 10, 2013
Broadway's tribute to the genius of Rodgers & Hammerstein is truly A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING. This Tony Award®-nominated Best Musical showcases Richard Rodgers' timeless music and the incomparable lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein. It will take you on a romantic musical journey from young infatuation to the touching and funny complexities of commitment and marriage, the joys of parenthood, and finally, the power of enduring love. From "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" to "Some Enchanted Evening," A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING features over 30 of Rodgers and Hammerstein's greatest hits from shows such as Carousel, Oklahoma!, The King and I, South Pacific and more -"something wonderful" indeed for all lovers of classic musical theater. It doesn't get any grander than this!
Book by Mark Bramble, lyrics by Michael Stewart, and music by Cy Coleman.
March 27 to June 30, 2013
The greatest show on earth is the setting for the life story of Phineas Taylor Barnum. Celebrating its Chicago professional premiere, BARNUM sets this colorful personality inside the center ring of his own circus. Audiences will be thrilled with high flying acrobatics as BARNUM tells the story of America's greatest showman. This show bursts with toe tapping melodies; ballads, marches, and ragtime tunes by Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart.
Based upon the novel by Alice Walker
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Book by Marsha Norman, music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray
August 14 to November 10, 2013
From the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker and the moving film by Stephen Spielberg, comes the soul-stirring musical THE COLOR PURPLE. It is an inspiring story of a woman who, through love, finds the strength to triumph over adversity and discover her unique voice in the world. With a joyous score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music and blues, THE COLOR PURPLE is a story of hope, a testament to the healing power of love and a celebration of life.
Book by John Reeger, music and lyrics by Julie Shannon
November 22 to December 29, 2013
Returning for its annual voyage, THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER has become Chicago's holiday tradition. The whole family will enjoy this heart-warming story of the first Christmas tree ship and the family who risked their lives to fill Chicago with the Christmas spirit. The Chicago Tribune calls this show "a sacred part of a Chicago Christmas". The Chicago Sun-Times raved, "An inheritance to be treasured". A timely and uplifting tale of love and loss, THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER reminds us of tradition, and our responsibility to celebrate the living while honoring our heritage.


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It's tough to make a living these days by running a small family farm. But Jennifer Gleason and her Robertson County family have found a way. Since 1992, they have operated Sunflower Sundries, a thriving mail-order business that sells soaps, jams, jellies, mustards, and other products that they make themselves. And the benefits of their cottage industry extend beyond their own 60-acre farm: Neighbors supply some of the ingredients and are paid to help with tasks like wrapping the soaps.
All the ingredients are natural—Sunflower Sundries jams, for instance, use only fruit and sugar, with no artificial filler added—and grown using organic methods. They are then converted into the final products, from rhubarb marmalade to a line of spicy mustards, using recipes and techniques handed down through generations.
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Western Wonderland
Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park
Our next segment is a brief tour of Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park, on Kentucky Lake in Marshall County. It's one of the most popular parks in the state system, and even this short overview demonstrates why: It offers extensive choices of accommodation, including a lodge, cottages, campgrounds, and even a lighted airstrip and "air camp" where you can camp close to your private plane, in an area blessed with an abundance of recreation options. The nearby Land Between the Lakes nature preserve offers hiking trails and a chance to see the wildlife, while the manmade lakes themselves make the region a mecca for water-sports enthusiasts.
Host Dave Shuffett gets a guided tour from Park Manager Frank Waggoner and talks about some of the amenities with Business Manager Kevin Branham.
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Trail Blazers
Building the Pine Mountain Trail
Our final segment is for those who like their recreation a little "rougher." At the other end of the state from Kentucky Dam Village, volunteers are building a trail that will connect several other parks—Breaks Interstate Park, Pine Mountain State Resort Park, and Cumberland Gap National Historic Park—and give hikers access to some of Eastern Kentucky's most spectacular scenery.
Expected to take 10 years to complete, the construction of the Pine Mountain Trail is a mostly volunteer effort, organized and supported by a broad coalition of local and state government agencies and private groups. When they're through, they hope, the trail will stretch 120 miles through Bell, Harlan, and Letcher counties. At the time of our visit in fall 2001, about 28 miles had been completed, and a group of volunteers from Lewis University in Romeoville, IL was hard at work marking routes, clearing vegetation, and hand-grading to control water flow.
Volunteers also did a lot of political legwork, promoting the idea of creating a new state park—120 miles long but only 1,000 feet wide—along the route of the trail. That work paid off in early 2002, when a bill authorizing the purchase of land for the park passed the General Assembly and was signed into law by Pine Mountain Trail booster Gov. Paul Patton.
Formed about 270 million years ago, Pine Mountain is a 125-mile-long ridge, slightly more than 3,000 feet high at its peak near Whitesburg. Because the terrain is rocky and rugged and the only natural break is at Pineville, where the Cumberland River passes through, it has always been a formidable barrier to human movement. Settlers generally went around rather than over it; even today, population patterns in the area show its influence. As a result, Pine Mountain has remained relatively wild, and today it hosts the greatest diversity of plant life in Kentucky.
It is also a land of impressive rock formations. In the photo, Dave checks one out with Shad Baker of the Letcher County Cooperative Extension Service.
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Ghana's Leading car website Cheki.com.gh has rolled out initiatives to take the sale of cars a notch higher.
The company, which has been in Ghana for about a year, started active operations six months ago.
With its headquarters in Kenya and branches in over 10 African countries, Cheki.com.gh intends to monetize, form a vibrant association for car dealers, partner banks and insurance companies to ensure a one-stop shop for everything automobile.
In a special seminar designed for car dealers in Accra last week, Eric Amoako-Twum, Country Director, Cheki.com.gh pointed out that the event was part of his outfit's plans to strengthen its relationship with car dealers.
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Is there anything I can do to stop slippage after a head is already mounted? After I set the head aside to dry I noticed a small patch where the hair is falling out. The head is completely dry now and the rest of the hair is locked in tight. I'm afraid to check by the small spot to see if any more hair will come out.
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At this point, I wouldn't think there was anything that could be done about it. The epidural layer has slipped (assuming it was slippage and not just the hair pulling out). Check it now and repair it if need be. Don't let the customer find out "by accident".
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ive been hearing that it might also work on tanned capes also
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I have not used the Stop Slip yet, but gave it a cursory read...
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Dragon Age: Inquisition - Mage vs. Templars - A Rivalry Explained
Game Informer continues their coverage for DA: Inquistion. This time it is all about how Bioware set up the Templar vs. Mages conflict in the universe that is Dragon Age. And how the Inquistion deals with this conflict:
This time around, it's not about extreme viewpoints, though. You've seen both groups at their worst; now it's time to see the other side. [....] "And now in Dragon Age: Inquisition we want to show the player the people who feel that they're right. That they're on the side of good, not from the side of, 'I am an extremist who has this view that might be hard to understand,' [but] more, 'This is why my position is morally correct.'"
Decisions will be even more diffcult and harder this time around:
The questions are bound to get more complicated, and BioWare has put a lot of thought into your role as the Inquisitor. "Making the decision harder is stopping and thinking, 'What is the right outcome? What do I want out of this problem? What do I need to have happen?'" Gaider says. "For some players that's very simple, but if you can have an argument about it, that makes it Dragon Age."
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KoA: Reckoning - Answers from the Team
Time for the latest Reckoning Answers from the Team. A "meaty" answer:
Meaty content and special "epic" events, found in hidden spaces and far corners of the world is very rewarding and exciting for most RPG-players but one could think that spending a lot of resources on this kind of hidden-away content would be very unrewarding for the developers. A lot of people might not even find this content because they are not interested in exploring. Is this something that you think about? Do you have to find a good balance when it comes to how much resources you put into something that to some will be awesome, whilst others might not find this content at all. – By Goatrek
A: Actually, creating special areas for hidden content was one of my favorite things to do when creating the world. When we're handed new exploration reward items that we need to find homes for, it's like a field day for the world design crew. Crafting secret areas and visual stories relevant to that item really give us a chance to come up with ideas that no one has thought of yet and lets us give context to the world in our own way.
True, it's a fairly involved process to come up with some of this stuff. Often the idea starts in design, gets passed to concept, then to character or environment art, maybe even animation and then to us (world designers) to integrate into the world. For art, it's a chance for them to flex their muscles and come up with their own ideas that aren't dependent on quests. On our end, it means sculpting out passages in mountains, setting up particular encounters and traps, locking the treasure away behind hidden doors and using a whole slew of other devious toys at our disposal to make you really work to find the content.
When I found out that our Lead Designer, Ian Frazier, was designing a set of unique armor to be hidden throughout the world, I was super excited to start working on their hidden locations – because, with Ian being our D&D group's DM, each of the five armor pieces of the set were named after our characters. We had free creative reign for these one-off moments and somehow they all turned into the area where they either died or were laid to rest with varying degrees of brutality and serenity (it's surprisingly fun to kill your beloved D&D character – don't tell the DM!). I was even able to work with one of the narrative designers so that when you wear my character's helm, you'll find that some NPCs have commentary for it. At that point, when you're having so much fun with the project, it's all about the time you want to put into it to make it really special.
We know that there is the possibility that some folks will never find the things we've hidden away, but when people do, it's extremely exciting and gratifying. One of my favorite moments was hearing that one of the Narrative Designers stopped play-testing quests when he discovered a piece of the unique set we had hidden away, and spent hours searching the rest of the world to obtain the rest of the armor set. – By Jessica "Meridian" Hara Campell, Principal World Designer
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Since Galileo first started gazing at the stars atop a mountain in Italy, to modern-day astronomers who can see billions of miles into space, the general design of a telescope has pretty much remained the same.
In fact, even if you're looking at the stars using only the light-sensitive cells in your eyes, the image-forming process works the same way. Both methods collect light from an object and then reflect that light to form an image. Just like observatories and science classrooms use telescopes to gaze up, satellites use telescopes, too. That's how we get map images and weather forecasts, and you may recognize the most famous of these eyes in space, the incredible Hubble Space Telescope.
From space, the need for higher-resolution imaging to resolve far away objects requires bigger and bigger telescopes to the point where the size, weight and power of the telescope can completely dominate a system. Plus, it's also really expensive to put big, heavy objects in space.
"We can only scale the size and weight of telescopes so much before it becomes impractical to launch them into orbit and beyond," said Danielle Wuchenich, senior research scientist at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, California. "Besides, the way our eye works is not the only way to process images from the world around us."
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SPIDER flips that concept, staring instead from space, and trading person-sized telescopes and complex combining optics for hundreds or thousands of tiny lenses that feed silicon-chip photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to combine the light in pairs to form interference fringes.
The amplitude and phase of the fringes are measured and used to construct a digital image. This provides an increase in resolution while maintaining a thin disk. It's a revolutionary concept analogous to the idea that helped replace your bulky old television with a thin display that can hang on your living room wall. It's also how Lockheed Martin's imaging technology, called Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-optical Reconnaissance (or SPIDER), could reduce the size, weight and power needs for telescopes by 10 to 100 times. This concept could make a big difference for commercial and government satellites alike.
"What's new is the ability to build interferometer arrays that have the same number of channels as a digital camera," said Alan Duncan, senior fellow at Lockheed Martin. "They can take a snapshot, process it and there's your image. It's basically treating interferometer arrays like a point-and-shoot camera."
SPIDER's photonic integrated circuits do not require complex, precision alignment of large lenses and mirrors. That means less risk on orbit. And its many eyes can be rearranged into various configurations, which could offer flexible placement options on its host. Telescopes have always been cylindrical, but SPIDER could begin a new era of different thin-disk shapes staring in the sky, from squares to hexagons and even conformal concepts.
Duncan's team, which includes Wuchenich, is developing this capability in the heart of Silicon Valley at the Advanced Technology Center. This is also the home of the Optical Payload Center of Excellence, which brings together the collective expertise of Lockheed Martin's space observation professionals. Alan and other scientists form the research base of the center so that one day, developmental technologies like SPIDER could be an option on production spacecraft.
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However, the team envisions a future where a telescope could be scaled up to serve in a similar capacity as telescopes that are currently photographing the planet, and at a fraction of the cost. In fact, SPIDER could even be able to operate on a spacecraft as a hosted payload, where it could simply be mounted to the side of a vehicle with minimal size, weight and power impact.
"SPIDER has the potential to enable exciting discoveries by putting high-resolution imaging systems within outer planet system orbits such as Saturn and Jupiter," said Duncan. "The ability to reduce size, weight and power could significantly change the game. With 10 to 100 times the resolution of a comparable-weight traditional telescope, imagine what you could discover."
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Fwd: Information regarding Human Rights Violations by CPIO- HPCL

From: pankaj khanna <email@example.com>
Date: 26 Feb 2007 07:14:15 -0000
Subject: Fwd: Information regarding Human Rights Violations by CPIO- HPCL
Dear friends,
Great job indeed! This is the right thing to do at the moment. CIC is really the biggest enemy of RTI movement.I wish i was there to support you in my extremely limited capacity. Having some problems due to an injury, so unable to travel and move. I want to share the last second appeal sent to the CIC. The same is forwarded. The annexures are enclosed in the zip folder. Have also sent a complaint to the President u/s 14 against Ansari.Also sending complaint to NHRC agaisnt Ansari against his abetment in the crime of human rights violations by not calling me for hearing in any of the 16 appeals pending with him for a varying period of 1 to 14 months.Kindly circulate this email to all friends doing wonderful job in the field of RTI ,if you find it ok. Regards. Please keep it up!!!
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To: email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com Subject: Information regarding Human Rights Violations by CPIO- HPCL- Kindly
consider this second appeal as S
Respected Sirs and Madam,
Reproduced below please find the second appeal dated 19/2/07 against the denial of information by the CPIO –HPCL Shri L.M.Motwani misusing Section 8 (1) j on the subject of repeated issuance of hate emails against the Petitioner by the HPCL Officials , including the CPIO himself, since May 05.
All that the Petitioner wants to know is the action taken by the Management of HPCL against the senders of the hate emails from the email system of the Corporation but the CPIO and the AA- HPCL consider even such information as 'Personal Information' and have refused to provide the information. In fact, this is not for the first time that the CPIO/AA have refused to provide the information misquoting section 8 (1) j. They have disposed off 16 requests
for information, in the last 15 months, on the subject of (a) Corruption/Misuse of Office, and (b) Human rights violations; misusing Section 8 (1) j ,with total impunity from penal action from CIC, as a straight jacket formula to cover up their acts of Omissions and Commissions. For details, kindly see the second appeal dated 19/2/07 or any other second appeal pending with the CIC. All the Enclosures of the Appeal 19/2/07 are enclosed in a Zip folder named 'CIC'.
Hard copies of this Appeal are being sent today itself to Shri P.K.Gera – Registrar – CIC for an earlier hearing on the matter in the letter and spirit of the RTI Act – especially the preamble of RTI Act which lays special emphasis on transparency and accountability.
Respected Sirs and Madam, Kindly consider this appeal as SOS as it is about human rights violations and indeed it is a matter of right to life (which means to be allowed to live with human dignity) and liberty. The Petitioner may please be heard by the full bench of the Commissioners, in view of the facts mentioned in the Appeal, before disposing off the Appeal routinely on the basis of ex parte decisions.
With Regards
Pankaj Khanna
Chief Information Commissioner and all Information Commissioners
Central Information Commissioner
Block No.4 (Fifth Floor)
Old JNU Campus New Delhi 110067
Subject: Matter of Human Rights violations. Appeal under Sec 18/19 against CPIO-HPCL. Kindly grant an opportunity of the hearing please. (PK/HPCL-16).
Respected Sirs and Madam,
The Petitioner has yet again been denied information under the Section 8 (1) j by HPCL Authorities on the subject of repeated issuance of hate emails (Enclosures B, D, E, and F) by the HPCL Officials from their email system in violation of the Human Rights of the Petitioner. The Commission is requested to kindly have a look into the Background of the case to appreciate the facts in the right perspective from the RTI Angle.
Background: The Petitioner is a Conscientious citizen who has always been a performing Officer and has received 19 appreciation letters from 1984 to 2000 before Blowing the Whistle on HPCL. The Petitioner has been fighting most unsuccessfully for the last six years against Corruption/misuse of Office. Consequently the Petitioner has been facing the wrath of the Management of HPCL ever since he sent the Petition to DPG/Ministry of Petroleum in Dec 03 for the Redressal of the Grievances arisen due to Corruption/Misuse of Office. The matter was also taken up with the CVC through Public Interest Disclosure Complaint dated 4/8/04 under the whistle blowing mechanism introduced by the GOI at the instance of the Hon'ble Supreme Court. However instead of getting relief, the Petitioner is being
victimized relentlessly and most inhumanly. The Petitioner has not been allowed to work in HPCL since Aug 04 end despite representations sent to all concerned in the Executive/Bureaucracy. The HPCL Authorities issued vindictively a Charge Sheet in March 05 against the only but fabricated Charge of 'unauthorized absenteeism' with effect from 28/2/05 to cover up their acts of Omissions and Commissions and have started distributing derogatory hate emails against the Petitioner from its email system to all employees of the Corporation since May 05; which is the main subject matter of this second Appeal.
The Petitioner saw a ray of hope with the enactment of the RTI Act in
October 05 and has requested for Information from HPCL through several applications under RTI Act on basically two issues: (a) Human rights violations of the Petitioner since 2003 (like not allowing to work, non payment of wages, non –payment of bonus/Productivity Incentive, reimbursement of expenses and most importantly the repeated ferocious attack on the dignity, honor and reputation of the Petitioner through hate emails from the email system of HPCL since May 05) ; and (b) Corruption/misuse of
Office in HPCL since 2001.
However, the CPIO's/AA of HPCL have rejected all these applications most irresponsibly u/s 8(1) j without giving the desired information. Total 16 Second appeals have been sent to the CIC separately in the last 14 months regarding denial of information on the above two basic issues. Out of these 16 appeals, six have been rejected by the Commission out rightly without considering the documents submitted by the Petitioner and the remaining 10 are pending with the Commission for a varying period of 1 year to one month.
What is most objectionable is that the Commission has not provided any opportunity of hearing to the Petitioner till date in any of the 16 cases reported to them so far despite the assurance given by the CIC Shri Wajahat Habibullah during personal Discussion on 31/10/06 in his Office. A petition dated 13/9/06 had also been sent to the Commission in larger Public interest which too is pending for a long time now. As the Petitioner had exhausted all the options available in the Executive to fight against the menace of Corruption in HPCL; he had resorted to seek information hoping naively that at least CIC will help a hapless and powerless citizen in the fight against Corruption/misuse of Office in the light of the preamble of the RTI Act.
Further details about the fight can be found from any of the several CD's submitted to the Commission.
The Facts about the denial of Info by the CPIO on repeated hate mails are as below:
(1) An application dated 18/12/06 (Encl A) was sent to CPIO HPCL Shri
L.M.Motwani, who himself is the sender of the hate email dated 5/5/05 (Encl B), for very specific information under Section 7.1 of the RTI Act about repeated issuance of hate emails from HPCL Authorities in the months of Oct to Dec 06. The information requested was to know the action taken by the Corporation against the senders of the hate emails as per their own Circular dated 8/5/05 (Encl C). This is to submit that the repeated issuance of such
hate emails is a matter of human rights violations and hence matter of life and liberty under Section 7.1 of the RTIA which flows from the Article 21 of the Constitution. Copies of a few subsequent and self explanatory hate emails sent to 11000 employees of the Corporation from email system of HPCL are enclosed herewith for the records of the Commission as Encl D, E and F respectively. All these emails have been issued from the high ranking Officials of HPCL from their own mail boxes granted to them through email system of the Corporation. All these emails have damaged the honor and reputation of the Petitioner.
(2) The CPIO –HPCL refused to provide any information vide his letter dated 2/1/07 (Encl G) maintaining that the information requested is 'Personal Information' and that it is exempted under Section 8(1) j of the RTIA.
However, the CPIO did not advise the grounds on which he considered the information requested as 'Personal Information' though as per the RTIA the onus is on the CPIO to prove that the desired information is indeed exempted. In nut shell, he simply and casually rejected the request to cover up his and others' grave crime of spreading hatred and contempt against the Petitioner through the email system of HPCL.
(3) First appeal dated 8/1/07 (Encl H) was sent to the Appellate Authority Shri V.Vizia Saradhi against the decision of the CPIO. The Appellate Authority Shri has also refused vide his order dated 17/1/07 ( Encl I) to provide the information and has regarded the information requested as the 'Personal Information' exempted u/s 8 (1) j. While he has refused to provide the information about these hate emails which have been generated in the months of Oct to Dec 06; he has also referred to the CIC Decision dated 14/3/06 that he himself has not complied with till date in the last ten months.
Shockingly, he is considering the decision dated 14/3/06 of CIC,
which is silent on the hate email dated 5/5/05 (Encl B), as a kind of
authorization given by CIC to the Public Authority HPCL to continue to send more hate emails (Encl D, E, and F) in future against the Petitioner for ever from the email system of the Corporation. It may please be recalled that the Petitioner had also requested for the information from the CPIO on the hate email dated 5/5/05 through the very first appeal dated 5/1/06 to CIC as the CPIO and the AA both had refused to provide any info on the hate email dated 5/5/05 .The CIC had not commented at all on the subject of hate email in the Order dated 14/3/06. Request dated 10/4/06 against (i) non-compliance of the limited decision dated 14/3/06 and (ii) for the review of the larger issues of the Appeal dated 5/1/06 is still pending with CIC.
(4) The Public Authority HPCL has been misusing Section 8(1) j most
incorrectly to cover up their arbitrary and corrupt functioning. First of all, they are violating human rights of the Petitioner in the form of distributing such hate emails and then secondly taking shelter of Section 8(1)j of RTI Act and the CIC Decision dated 14/3/06 which they have themselves not complied with till date.
(5) The Commission has been abetting, though probably unintentionally, in the crime of human rights violation by not giving the Petitioner a chance of hearing even on the issues of human rights violations which have been reported with the very first appeal dated 5/1/06 disposed off by CIC on 14/3/06 through a very limited decision but which too has not been complied with by the HPCL Authorities. The silence of the Commission on subsequent
appeals and not giving an opportunity of hearing to the Petitioner in any of the reported cases is surprising and undemocratic to say the least.
This is to summarize that the information asked through the request dated 18/12/06 is about prolonged human rights violations of the Petitioner by the HPCL Authorities including the CPIO and the Appellate Authority-HPCL and that the desired information is not 'Personal Information' and that it is not exempted under Section 8(1) j of the RTI Act as can be seen from the Application dated 18/12/06 itself. Following prayer is submitted to the Commission in view of the above facts:
(1) The Petitioner may please be heard before disposing off the Appeal.
(2) The appeal may please be considered by the full Bench of all
commissioners in view of the serious issues raised in this Petition which also reveal the lack of transparency and accountability in the benches of individual Commissioners.
(3) The information sought from the CPIO – HPCL vide request dated 18/12/06 may please be provided by the CPIO most urgently please.
(4) Appropriate penalty under the provisions of the RTI Act may please be imposed on the CPIO u/s 19 and 20 of RTI Act for willfully hiding the information.
(5) Disciplinary proceedings may please be recommended against the CPIO/AA u/s 20 for intentionally hiding the information which they do have but do not want to disclose to cover up their acts of Omissions and Commissions.
(6) The Petitioner may please be compensated adequately, u/s 19, for the detriments suffered by him due to non receipt of information on the repeated hate emails.
Thanking You,
Yours Truly
(Pankaj Khanna)
Address: 21, Rajan Kunj, Roorkee Road, Meerut 250001
Phone : 0121-2611146.


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Where is Winter? So far we've only had a 1/2" dusting. Makes me want to get out there but know March can be a brutal month. What's everybody up to and which seeds, plants and bulbs would you like to try this year? And which ones did you try last year that for one reason or another didn't meet your expectations?
Everyone is welcome to join us! The more the merrier.
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Where is Winter? So far we've only had a 1/2" dusting. Makes me want to get out there but know March can be a brutal month. What's everybody up to and which seeds, plants and bulbs would you like to try this year? And which ones did you try last year that for one reason or another didn't meet your expectations?
I'm trying all the different seeds that I have bought over the years with good intentions. Hopeful some of them will be nice to me and grow. lol
1 to 3 inches of snow predicted here today. We shall see..
Is that a tulip on the picuture??? In november I planted some bulbs of tulips. It is cold, here in Holland, the tulips are still in the soil. The daffodils made a quick start, in januari, but now also are waiting for warmer temperatures. I long for the moment the tulips and daffodils bloom.
I started with sowing Brugmansia's and Canna's. Now I will take my seed box by looking for beautiful perennials.
Other years I sowed many annuals. That cost me a lot of time every year. Who has good suggestions?
afternoon all flint change over to perennial for your zone you will find they are less work , if ya can keep the weeds out ;))
i just got my seed order from seedman yesterday i forget what all i ordered will list them when i go out to the house .
just came in to sit with daddy while jim works on my car .
Garage want $176. to change a $12.00 part & Jim said no way he will change it for me :0 so it is costing me for the part witch he just went to get ,& i will fix super :).
well off to marinade the chicken back later
Flinter, that's a pic of Tulip 'Mickey Mouse' either last year or the year before. I have some up now about 4" with buds starting to form. How close are you to the fields? It would be awesome to see pics of them and blooms from your garden too. Catalogs make me want a whole field myself.
We're having the same, Susie, with steamed veggies.
I'm excited for Spring. I started some Kenaf and Rosella Hibiscus :D Already germinating.
Good for you, Ang. How your BF's father doing?
Here I am!
oh gosh I thought you were CLOSED and freaked out! LOL
Okay Fruity, how come you have things blooming? I am warmer than you, right?
Gosh, who ever said that squirrels won't dig up your tulips if you plant daffodils around them is full of you know what cuz they dug up all the daffodils I planted.. PFFFTTT
I would LOVE a field of tulips..
ANyhoo, i AM BACK.. and have so many seeds sprouting it is crazy.. the window ledge in bedroom is getting full..Anyone heard from Sandy?
I think poor Sandy is grieving. I have been wondering about Sandy as well.
well I found a packet with her address on it, so I am going to send her a card with some seeds, maybe gardening will get her thru all this sadness, it does me when ever I have ANY problems.. just go and Garden my worries and problems away for awhile.. I used to think it was a bad addiction, until I talked to a therapist and she told me it was theraputical to be addicted to Gardening..
I sent her a dmail a few days ago but haven't heard back. I hope she's ok
My BF's Dad is doing good and is going to physical therapy regularly. They still need prayers since they are now facing other issues.
FruitOfTheVine: I live in an area with a farmers. Tulip farmers, in my area don't have a lot of land of their own, often they rent fields from other farmers. So it is possible to have a tulip field next to my house (oh, I hope so...).In spring, when the sun shines en there is no wind, you can smel the tulip field and here the bee's and other insects. I will take a picture for you.
That sounds lovely, Flinter.
LOL Debra. I actually enjoyed weeding a couple of weeks ago. Need to start mulching again to help keep them at bay.
I've been lurking on this one for awhile, but thought I'd poke my head out of my corner :)
I'm not sure who all I told last summer about my crazy son deciding to grow plants from seed, which he had NEVER done before.. and the knucklehead had great success with tropicals, of all things!
Well, he had a ton of flowerheads from some celosia and he planted them a couple of weeks ago.. and they are now sprouting. The last I heard from him was this morning and he has counted 175 plants so far ROFL!! He said they're sprouting about 4 plants an hour LOL..
I may be offering free plants later this spring ^_^ He has 4 trays of seed and he said only about 1/4 of one tray has all these little plants LOL
oh Chris that is so exciting..!
well we have a nice wet snow all over everything, and I planted 6 more water bottles of Moonflower vine seeds, so those are now in the other south window.
Will be making seed balls soon, I have two kinds of celosias.. yellow and fuchia pampas blooms. Red cockscomb, too.
Hi everyone, they are predicting BAD weather for us, snow, and really really cold and windy, but we will see. I have plants pushing thru on the west side, some daffs and surprise lilies both I noticed last weekend! Not good, now we are looking at single digits.
Oh I bet the tulip fields are amazing Flinter, we have tulip fields in Iowa just north of where I live in Pella, Iowa. Nothing like you have but very pretty. http://www.pellatuliptime.com/
I haven't done many seed starts ever, but have managed to collected alot of seeds....rofl. I say every year I am going to start some, but not having water in the garden room really makes it hard, altho DH is talking about buying a backhoe to do some other work and the carrot he put out for me is that we could run a water line to the garden room......which would be heaven. Nothing like hauling 2 buckets of water thru the dark night, cold, and windy.....to make you not do it....
How come I did not know about this thread,,,,,
poor Elfie sitting in Corner,, very bad Elfie
oh, we got snow.. about an inch when melted.. 6 inches on top of the car this am.. it is almost gone now.. that would be a good thing, Joyce, getting water to the garden room.. I have hoses and hook ups downstairs for a washer, so I use it, since I don't have a washer down there.. I fill a big blue tub, add my stuff and use big pitchers..
Elfie! You are HERE! :D
I ate all the chocolate pomegranite candy that was sent to me in the SSS swap, and now that container is holding a special hybrid coleus seeds. Hope it sprouts soon!
Elfie - you are not bad silly girl. Just needed a thread where we could chat when there was a lull in the trading. :D
Glad you're back. Get out of that corner.
Welcome elffie:) we welcome new chatterers :))))
Susie, do I owe you some seeds, I have lost my list of promised to sends.. you wanted some japanese morning glorys, didn't you want some jewel of opar seeds?
I'm lurking...to stay connected.
awwww.. looks like she is still a pretty baby... you havn't lost her Elfie, she is just improvin'!
She is beautiful. I've always called my nephew Goober. He's almost old enough to drive and is still a Goober. They have birthdays but are still our babies.
Kris she looks so sweet! Yes she does look some kind of fancy and maybe a little taller than when I saw her last. :D
I'll bet she's still just the charming-est Goober there is.
Goober is much taller! But still tiny for her age. She will be 12 @ the RU in VA! She will be so happy to see you.
DEBRA I HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANY AS OF YET BUT OUR MAIL HAS NOT GOTTEN HERE YET oops sorry for cap.
our mail comes about 2 pm so will let you know after that .
well off to do my hair then fix daddys lunch & put a carrot cake in the oven ;0
Cold and over cast today. This may be our winter finally showing up. I don't know if we will get any moisture out of this. Yesturday it was in the 80's. Our weather is so crazy sometimes that I worry my WSing will just get confused and give up.
anyone wanting to join us come on over
definately winter here, snow, below freezing temps and wind.. ugh. more to come, sleet, rain and ice. My feet hurt. I have two pairs of socks on.
OMG. It is going to be 20 degrees tonight here!!! I am staying in my bed room it is the easiest room to heat!! They need to install a new heater for the house and it will not be here till next week,, so we are using space heaters for now.....cold here,, burrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Cold here too, suppose to be 23 tonight and tomorrow night....coldest we have had so far. The wind has been howling all day and they said wind chill would be around 17....DOUBLE BRRR!
My son and I had a yard sale yesterday and today to start getting rid of some of the 'junk' we have accumulated over the years. A lot of stuff did not make the move, just don't have the room anymore and it needed to be passed on anyway...a lot of toys and my babies are 16 & 19 so they don't need those anymore. Daughter turned 16 Wednesday and went on her first date tonight. My poor husband is going nuts!!
Everyone try to stay warm!!
Rest In Peace, Whitney Houston... so sad, only 48, and such a beautiful voice.
I thought I'd share something with y'all. Since I started dating my best friend I've gone girl. I'm pretty sure the tomboy in me got a beat down in the process. I've grown my nails out, started painting them, bought a pretty girly dress, and even tried mane & tail to make my hair look better. Hilarious really. I think my family is a bit surprised.
In gardening news I have Kenaf and Roselle Hibiscus sprouts! They haven't gotten their first leaves yet. I have golden jubilee sprouts. I planted my misc hibiscus seeds in hopes of them germinating. Hoping to find Cajun Hibiscus cuttings or seeds for fairly cheap, but turns out I'm TOO cheap lol.
In relation to the temps, I think my thermostat is broken because it says 67 and yet I'm freezing.
I Love my electric infrared heater it sure Heats my little place here for back up I Have a MR Buddy Propane Heater & it works well
Its about 20* outside & 72 here in the house with just my space heater & This was once a 2 car garage :) 24x24 & Is heated with the infrared heater. our electric bill went up about $20-25 a month . much better then $200. for gas.
well time for this gal to turn in GN All
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Hey Guys,
I recently upgrated my computer from XP to Win7. It is actually working fine but i do have one problem.
I am part of a home network and i want to connect to my dad's pc. His pc is running on XP. I'm able to ping him but when i connect it logically asks me for the right credentials. I fill in the right username and password and than it tells me that the credentials are not right.
Everybody in our house is part of the same workgroup and we don't have a DOMAIN.
I attached 2 pictures showing what i mean.
Thanks, Oliv3r
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The quickest way would be for you to choose the option to "Use another account" and then enter
your dad's machine name followed by a backslash and a user account name on your dad's machine and then the password for that account on your dad's machine..the format is machinename\username
password for that account
another way is to create your account "rossum" on your dad's machine with the same password you use on your machine. Hope this helps
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Thanks dude,
It helpt indeed!
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cute dog, first off are you now having issues with your shifting that you didnt have before your incident??
secondly, your bike is new? ill bet if you bring it to the shop you bought it from they will fix it for a minimal cost if not free.
and thirdly (is that a word) replacing a cable housing is not very difficult. if you were planning on trying your hand at bicycle maintenance at all this is a perfect opportunity. Worst case scenario, you try, you fail, then you bring it to your lbs for help.
There is a good chance your shifting will not be affected by this. Its hard to see in the picture but if its only the outer plastic casing that separated and the inner metal coils are intact, you should be fine.
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Annie J. "Ann" Carey (nee Holcomb), 67, of Elyria, died Friday, June 16, 2007 of natural causes. Born in Camden, AR, Mrs. Carey attended the Arkansas school system, graduating, and coming to Elyria in 1966.
A member of Mt. Nebo Primitive Baptist Church, Mrs. Carey was a church mother, a member of the kitchen committee and a pastor's aide, and assisted in feeding the homeless in the community.
An employee of General Motors for 25 years, Mrs. Carey enjoyed reading, cooking and doing puzzles.
She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Noel Carey Sr.; daughter, Deborah Whitfield, Alice Colbert, Amanda Phillips, Sharon McGee, all of Elyria, Sanrae Onyeneke of Avon; son, Noel Carey Jr. of Elyria; father, Artis Holcomb; mother, Ruby Harris; sisters, Mary Ida Ford, Ruby Jean Porchia, Helen Manley, Delores Montgomery, Ernestine Mackenzie, all of Camden, AR, and Mary Frances Evans of Pine Bluff, AR; brother, John Harris Jr., of Camden, AR; and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.
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BOSTON The cold, rainy, windy, foggy and overall miserable conditions at Fenway Park Wednesday night were suited to just about anything other than offensive success.
When Jarrod Saltalamacchia stepped to the plate with two outs and Carl Crawford on first in the eighth inning Wednesday night against Tigers lefty Daniel Schlereth, he had gone hitless and his team had just three hits, all singles.
But on the fourth pitch of this at-bat -- a 2-and-1, 90-mph sinker -- he lashed a double off the Wall in left-center, scoring Crawford for the games only run.
"It felt good to come out with a win obviously, Saltalamacchia. This weather has been crazy. So for us it seemed like the first team to score was going to win the game. Both pitchers pitched great. They had a lot of situations to score and we had Clay Buchholz to hold them down.
I've been hitting the ball hard, but haven't always got the results. Felt good that it turned my way for once.
Saltalamacchia entered the game hitting just .217 (18-for-83) overall and just .150 (3-for-20) against lefties. He had a slow start to the season. His average
poked above .200 just once in April and in May, he has struggled to keep it above that dubious line of demarcation.
But with Wednesdays go-ahead double, he has hit safely in 12 of his last 16 starts, going 15-for-56 (.268). Six of his last 12 hits have gone for extra bases, with five doubles and a home run.
When you start out as slow as he did, its not always going to come back in one chunk, said manager Terry Francona. But I think hes making progress and he'll be fine as long as he lets the ball travel and doesnt get overanxious like he did early. Hes a big, strong kid. That ball was about as well-struck as youre going to see. And hes plenty quick, just needs to swing at pitches he can handle. That at-bat early in the game he offered at two of their off-speed pitches, kind of check-swing and then took the fastball. So sometimes hes in between.
Saltalamacchia has noticed a difference in his swings over the last couple of weeks.
Just feeling more comfortable the last two weeks, Saltalamacchia said. The more ABs, you get the better you feel. Always felt like second half of the season I'm better. I don't know what to credit that to. But like I said, me and hitting coach Dave Magadan sat down and started talking and slowed everything down. Just slow it down and put good wood on it.
And if the ball didnt hit the Wall?
"If it didn't, I would have walked off right there, Saltalamacchia joked. I hit that ball well. That's the way it's been going. I've hit the ball good and it just hasn't fallen in.
Although Buchholz didn't earn the win, having pitched seven scoreless innings before giving way to Daniel Bard, he could appreciate Saltalamacchia's effort.
That was awesome, Buchholz said. He squared that ball up. Might have been a home run in a lot of parks. Good to see everybody was part of a team effort to win a game like this considering everything that went on.
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Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis is closely watching for any decline in giving because of fallout from the ongoing clergy sexual-abuse scandal in Minnesota.
But so far, officials for the nonprofit that's been helping immigrants and the poor for 144 years say donations are holding steady.
The mounting scandal involving the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis could even result in more donations going to the charity. That's because some faithful and high-profile donors are channeling their money away from the archdiocese and its Annual Catholic Services Appeal, which provides a tiny percentage of income to Catholic Charities, and instead funneling donations directly to Catholic Charities.
But it's too early to discern any pattern, and some people — believing that the archdiocese and Archbishop John Nienstedt control Catholic Charities' budget, an assertion the charity says is wrong — say they are side-stepping the social-service organization.
One lifelong Catholic, a 75-year-old St. Paul woman, told me she worries any donations to Catholic Charities would "be under the control of the archdiocese.'' The woman, who spoke only on condition her name not be used because she didn't want to get involved with the church controversy, said she gives about 5 percent of her income each year to a variety of social-service, art and environmental groups — including organizations that have connections to the Catholic Church, such as the Dorothy Day Center in St. Paul — but not to Catholic Charities. The woman, who has cut off donations to Catholic Charities because of the scandal, said "I give to organizations that may be served by Catholic Charities'' instead.
Donations stay 'exclusively' with Catholic Charities
In response to such views, Tim Marx, the nonprofit's chief executive officer, said donations to his organization stay "solely and exclusively" with Catholic Charities "to serve and advocate" for those most in need in the community. He added that his staff is monitoring the situation carefully and responding to concerns by many "stakeholders, donors and partners."
Marx said that donations over the last couple of years and over the past several months are "steady to increasing'' and that the organization has seen "no discernible impact from the controversy surrounding clergy misconduct.''
"We hear some people might be giving to us because of that and some people might not be giving to us because of that,'' Marx said.
Catholic Charities has an annual budget of $44 million and serves about 35,000 people each year by helping to house, feed and otherwise aid the poor. The charity receives about $1.4 million from the Annual Catholic Services Appeal, an archdiocesan fundraising effort, and Nienstedt is one of Catholic Charities' 42 board members. In 2013, 37.4 percent of Catholic Charities' revenue came from individuals, organizations, wills and bequests. Government contracts made up 41 percent of the budget.
Donations this year to Catholic Charities on Give to the Max Day on Nov. 14 at first were down — $82,000, compared with $110,000 last year. But Jessie Sorensen, vice president of development and external affairs for Catholic Charities, said that's not a fair measure of donors' attitudes because technical difficulties forced a five-hour shutdown of the Give MN charity fund's website that day. While the Give MN website was malfunctioning, donors turned to the Catholic Charities website, Sorenson said Monday, with the upshot being those donations about equaled last year's numbers. Matching grants that day generated additional funds, she said.
High-profile donors
Among high-profile donors supporting Catholic Charities but not the archdiocesan leadership are Tom Horner, a Twin Cities public-affairs strategist who ran for governor as an Independence Party candidate in 2010.
Explained Horner: "My wife Libby and I were strong, loyal supporters of Catholic Charities before Archbishop Nienstedt and we will be strong, loyal supporters of Catholic Charities after Archbishop Nienstedt."
Horner said "the concern we have is with the archbishop" and his handling of abuse cases as well as the archdiocese's $1 million campaign to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage.
Horner would not reveal the size of the Horners' donation — only that it is not in the "top tier.''
Others redirecting their giving include James R. Frey, president and CEO of the Frey Foundation of Minnesota, which donates funds to many nonprofit and Catholic-related organizations serving the poor.
In an email response to my questions, Frey said he and his wife, Mary, have stopped donating to the archdiocese and increased direct monetary gifts to Catholic Charities and other organizations because of concerns about the leadership of the archdiocese and its past expenditures.
Smaller donors
Those who make more modest donations are also upset by the church's response to the sexual-abuse cases and are protesting with their checkbooks.
Bob Walz, a lifelong Catholic and retired Catholic church employee from North Branch, used to allocate about $50 a week to his parish.
That has ended. "I have stopped contributing to anything the archdiocese shares in,'' said Walz, who was educated in Catholic schools and studied for a time to become a priest.
Instead he contributes to the cemetery fund and a homeless shelter at Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Oakdale where he worked until retiring last year.
"There are a lot of Catholics who feel the way I do,'' Walz said, adding that a fellow parishioner told him, "The only thing this church understands is money. And if people would stop contributing, then they would feel the financial pressure to do something.''
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An Exercise in Hair Splitting
While I understand the distinction between these organizations, and further understand the charity arm panicking at the prospect of its sister firm crashing and burning, I think that this would be an opportune time to point out that there are many worthy destinations for charity dollars which do not involve hide-bound, archaic belief systems.
The church is paying out MILLIONS, in St. Paul alone, in settlements to the abused. Maybe if we talk about this in terms of the money more Catholics will stand up and protest. In my experience most parishooners don't want to think about it - and shouldn't have think about it, but they need to demand better from their church. Only then will real change happen.
Time for transparency
Given the lack of transparency in the Archdiocesan finances it is hard to see how much , if any diocesan money goes directly to the poor. Open sharing by the hierarchy is likely to increase support for programs that do good for our brothers and sisters in need.
When scandal flares , the church is always quick to point out the excellent charitable work done in its name. It is equally important to point out that government dollars are the biggest funder of Catholic Charities' efforts.
On being "Catholic" (all-embracing).
Blessings to you who have found ways to be all-embracing outside the confines of Nienstedt's archdiocese. There ARE many ways.
Thanks, Cindy- great piece
I contribute to Catholic Charities
because I know it irritates the secular humanists. And I'm not even Catholic.
Doesn't irritate me in the least..
in fact, it's amusing to think that a supposed grown man would actually assume anyone would care. Besides, do you issue a press release when you write your check? How could anyone be irritated by something they don't even know?
Catholic Charities and Clergy Sexual Abuse
Since 2002, the Catholic faithful here in America have witnessed time and again, the duplicity, insincerity, hypocrisy and untruthful conduct, behavior and decision-making of many of the religious leaders of the dioceses and archdioceses across this country. Over the past several months, Bishop Myers as well as Archbishop Nienstedt in Minneapolis-St. Paul have been shown, via statements, evidence, correspondence, etc., to be unable and unwilling to protect the children and young adults of the Catholic faithful in their charge. Along with Bishop Finn in Kansas City, it is well past the time that any further consideration be given these "leaders" and push for the tough and necessary legislative proposals that will help to protect ALL children, now and in the future.
Even here in Philadelphia, this past weekend witnessed the removal/resignation of a pastor of 12 years as a result of an abuse allegation that was received in the beginning of 2013 and the parishioners, famillies and children were notified 11 months later.
Why do I bring these details up? Because, quite simply, if I cannot trust you (Catholic Church leadership) with the safety of our children, then I certainly cannot trust you with the safety of our monies (via Catholic Charities).
It is unreasonable to trust an organization that destroys the lives of children and young adults, since many of the leaders are simply not honorable men.
Michael Skiendzielewski
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Horner said "the concern we
Horner said "the concern we have is with the archbishop" and his handling of abuse cases…."
I do not believe that many Catholics realize that the way this archbishop handled sexual abuse cases is the way that popes in the Vatican in Rome and hierarchy have handled clergy sexual abuse cases for centuries. I am a cradle Catholic and I still take my faith seriously. I am also a physician who has met many who have been sexually abused by priests, brothers, nuns, bishops. I have learned that cover-up and secrecy about clergy sexual abuse, protection of the sexual predator priests, denial of the truth, revictimization of the victims are part of the clerical culture. It was just a few years ago that Cardinal Rigali in Philadelphia said there were no predator priests in active ministry. Two grand juries later, it was found that there were 37 sexual predator priests still in active ministry. Cardinal Rigali was never disciplined and is in comfortable retirement.The celibate and childless men of the Roman Catholic Church continue to put children at risk. They say one thing to appease lay people, and continue their cover ups. Sadly, predators and their protectors can be charming and charismatic. Because they have no conscience about the rape of children, they easily deny the truth. Something has to be done worldwide to make the church leaders accountable for the crimes that they and their clergy have been involved in. Here in the USA, these crimes must be dealt with by civil law, since the church cannot be trusted to police its own. Unfortunately the clergy are master manipulators and have manipulated police, lawyers, judges and politicians to do their bidding and protect them from accountability. For example, Cardinal Dolan of New York paid sexual predator priests to leave the priesthood and gave them monthly stipends and health care benefits when he was Archbishop of Milwaukee. Dolan never notified police, so children remain at risk of these predators whose names are unknown by police. Has Cardinal Dolan been made accountable? No, he just smiles it off as no big deal. It is a big deal to parents and to their children, if the children are to be protected from harm.
Other ways to give to the poor
I agree completely with Chris Bjorklund. What worries me about giving money to a religious group that provides for people in need, is that these people in need will be too easily coerced into being evangelized. Religion feeds on desperation.
Catholic Charities likely gets a lot of money from the government as well. Can't we provide for people directly, with no expectation that they convert to any religion, and cut out this middle man?
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