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Lukewarm Stove: Soriano, Garza, Darvish, Byrd
An end-of-the-week roundup of the latest news and rumors affecting the Cubs…
- The Alfonso Soriano speculation continues. Bruce Levine reiterates that the Cubs would be willing to eat 80% of the remaining $54 million (over three years) owed to Soriano, and Jim Bowden says the Tigers should consider Soriano to replace Victor Martinez. Thing is? I'm told that, when the Cubs contacted the Tigers about Soriano after learning of the Martinez injury, the Tigers wanted the Cubs to eat 95% of his remaining salary. Yo.
- The primary issue teams have with Soriano? It's those three years. Now, you can say it's all money, so the years don't really matter. But here's why they do: a number of teams are willing to take Soriano on at $5 or $6 million in 2012. But 2013 and 2014? They aren't crazy about taking him on for *any* amount. So, what you're left with is a number of teams wanting the Cubs to eat 90 to 95% of the deal (to yield a "fair" contract in 2012, and "no" contract in 2013/14). It's a matter of perspective, but the upshot is: unless the Cubs are willing to eat $48 to $50 million of Soriano's deal, it will remain a near impossibility to trade him.
- John Arguello from the very well-done Cubs Den reported yesterday that the Cubs had actually managed to secure a Soriano trade with the Orioles earlier in the week, but Soriano nixed it by way of his no-trade rights (with not-so-coincident reports that Soriano would accept a trade only to a contender). To the extent you're reach for your torch, let me offer you two shots of relax: (1) it's hard to blame Soriano, who knows he's on his last contract, for wanting to be where he wants to be in his latter years; (2) I checked with a source on the report, and, while it's true that the Cubs and O's discussed Soriano, it didn't quite get to the stage of exchanging names/dollar amounts. Before the two sides got to that stage, the Cubs checked in on Soriano's thoughts, and he indicated that he wouldn't be accepting a trade to Baltimore. So things ended before they really got anywhere.
- So, Yu Darvish signed with the Rangers on Wednesday for about six years and $60 million (give or take an incentive here and an opt-out there). Together with the $51 million posting fee, the Rangers are into Darvish for six years and over $111 million. Knowing that, have your thoughts changed on the Cubs' bid in the $20 million range (like every other team in the race, other than the Rangers)? I still think Darvish could be an excellent pitcher, and you almost never get the chance to land a 25-year-old stud pitcher for nothing more than money. But, yeah. That's a huge commitment for a guy who hasn't pitched in the States.
- The signing obviously takes the Rangers out of any Matt Garza sweepstakes, such as one exists.
- I'm told the Tigers don't want Marlon Byrd, for whatever that's worth.
- Speaking of Garza, Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland had some interesting things to say about his team's need for a fifth starter. "We have a No. 5 hole and we've got some nice options in our organization, but that doesn't mean we couldn't go outside the organization by way of a trade or free agency," Leyland said. "That's another area that we're still trying to fill – to round out the rotation. With the team that we have – even minus Victor – if we pitch, we'll be right in the hunt …. I don't think we're done. I think Dave will continue to look and put the best team on the field within fiscal responsibility." To me, that sounds like a manager sending signals up the ladder: I'd rather you gave me another proven starter, and not a rookie. Kthxbye.
- MLBTR's Tim Dierkes held a chat this week, and, while they're always interesting, there isn't a whole lot of Cubs goodness in there this time.
- A reminder: follow Bleacher Nation on Twitter and "like" it on Facebook for the latest rumors incrementally sooner than you'd get it by obsessively checking the site (which is, of course, also fine with me).


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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Union workers have begun the first part of a 24-hour strike at Oakland International Airport and at the Port of Oakland.
A spokeswoman for the Service Employees International Union says maintenance and janitorial workers represented by the union walked off their jobs at Oakland International Airport at 9:30 p.m. Monday.
Spokeswoman Anna Bakalis says striking workers were picketing outside both terminals at the airport late Monday, but were not attempting to disrupt air travel.
Bakalis says that in the second part of the strike, about 500 union workers will picket outside the port beginning at 6 a.m. Tuesday. They're hoping other port workers will refuse to cross the picket line.
Port officials have expressed concerns the strike could cause disruptions to harbor operations.

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Legislative bills threaten your right to know
An attempt is being made in the Nebraska Legislature to drastically change the way citizens learn about their government.
Several bills proposed in the Legislature would redirect public notices from appearing in community newspapers to being placed on the Internet, primarily a site operated by the Nebraska Secretary of State. The apparent goal is to save money and to broaden access to the notices.
Rather than shining a broader light on government operations, its effect would actually reduce it. On the surface, that seems to be a laudable goal. Looking deeper, however, it can be seen that the intent would not be achieved.
Public notices—including minutes from city council and school board meetings, notice of future meetings, city ordinances which were approved, etc.—appear regularly in The Times. They are important because they provide a look at what your government is doing.
Public notices typically possess four major characteristics:
1. A public notice is published in a forum independent of the government, such as a local or community newspaper.
2. A public notice is capable of being archived in a secure and publicly available format.
3. A public notice is capable of being accessed by all segments of society.
4. The public and the source of the notice must be able to verify that the notice was published and its information disseminated to the public.
Problematic issues arising from the legislative proposals include transparency, access and permanency and reliability.
With public notices appearing on a government website, there is no independent accountability. Transparency of government activities would be reduced. Who can guarantee that a notice placed on a government website was never altered and that it appeared on the site for the required time?
It may seem that accessing and viewing public notices on the Internet would increase compared to publication in community newspapers. Actually, it would be more inconvenient for the greatest number of people.
Surveys in neighboring states indicate that up to one-third of the citizens did not have access to the Internet or own a computer. Further, half of those surveyed said they never looked at a government website.
Contrast that with the accesibility of a community newspaper.
Every issue of a community newspaper in Nebraska is seen by two or three people. More than 8 out of 10 adults read a Nebraska newspaper. And by the way, more people this coming Sunday will read a newspaper than will watch the Super Bowl in 10 days.
Online public notices—tucked into a little corner of the Internet—won't be seen, or found, by most citizens.
If government is publicizing its official record, it needs to be where people will come across it. That location is in the community newspaper.
Notices posted to some Internet site cannot match the permanency and reliability of the printed word. Once a public notice is in print, it cannot be altered or manipulated. Public notices in newspapers provide a bona fide record that is backed up by an affidavit of publication sworn and notarized by the newspaper publisher. Lawyers confirm that such permanency and reliability is critical in legal proceedings.
Online public notices cannot satisfy that same level of confidence.
Covering state, county, city and school issues has been a staple of community newspapers since their founding. Citizens know they can depend on newspapers to get that information. The best tool to reach the public with this information is the newspaper.
Concerning the issue of cost, there will be a considerable expense to maintain a website. On the other hand, public notices are a minuscule part of state, county, city and school budgets. For instance, it cost 9 cents per actual voter to publish the state constitutional amendments in the last election. The cost per Nebraska resident would be much smaller.
You can help preserve the accessibility of public notices in community newspapers by contacting the Legislature. The issue is a part of a number of bills being considered by the Government and Military Affairs Committee—LB117, LB150, LB363 and LB444.
Members of the committee and their districts are: Bill Avery, Dist. 28; Lydia Brasch, Dist. 16; Charlie Janssen, Dist. 15; Russ Karpisek, Dist. 32; Rich Pahls, Dist. 31; Scott Price, Dist. 3; Paul Schumacher, Dist. 22; and Kate Sullivan, Dist. 41. The Gothenburg area is represented by: John Wightman, Dist. 36, and Mark Christensen, Dist. 44.
Ask that your letters be entered into the public record and send them to: Sen. ____, Dist. __, State Capitol Building, 1445 "K" St. Lincoln, NE 68509.
While the hearing on several of the bills occurred Wednesday (today), public comment is still being accepted.
Ironically, the printed word carries more weight with the senators compared to e-mails, so a letter is suggested.
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Wink is an interesting new search engine. It allows users to search across many "tagging" sites, such as Digg and Del.icio.us, and rate the results. However, it also searches Google, and allows users to "rate" those results. I wish Google had a feature like this. It allows something other than an algorithm to help me determine the most useful results for a search.
Do I think Wink has a bright future? Who knows... But the functionality certainly is interesting. The search engines could learn a thing or two from this idea. Could a "rating" system be another way to help fight search engine spam?


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GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Work to repair a landslide that took out a section of a Smoky Mountains highway has begun.
Still, it will likely be around Memorial Day before U.S. 441 will reopen between Newfound Gap and Smokemont.
The National Park Service said Tuesday that an initial contract was awarded to APAC-Atlantic, Harrison Division to build an access road to the slide area. The contractor will also remove slide debris and stabilize the slope.
The second phase includes reconstruction of a 200-foot section of roadway that slid down the mountain on Jan. 16. That work could cost up to $7 million, and the contract is expected to be awarded in mid-February.
Work on the access road began Monday.


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LAPLACE, LA (WAFB) - Louisiana Alcohol and Tobacco Control (ATC) and the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office report the arrest of a LaPlace, LA bar owner for operating without a valid state permit. His permit was suspended because he didn't pay the fines associated with other ATC violations. The bar was also cited for failure to maintain a clean and sanitary premise for the public.
Kenny Gray, owner of Kenny's Rhythm & Blues Club in LaPlace, was arrested late Saturday evening.
"This business owner has shown a total disregard for state law by continuing to sell alcoholic beverages after receiving several warnings not to do so," stated ATC Commissioner Troy Hebert in a news release Wednesday morning.
Gray was charged with R.S. 26: 75/275 Sale of Alcohol without a Valid Permit (high/low content) and booked in the St. John Parish Correctional Facility.
The business also received an administrative violation for failing to maintain a clean and sanitary premise for the public.
The ATC released a photo of a vending machine in Kenny's Rhythm & Blues Club showing a mouse sitting on top of a bag of peanuts.
LaPlace, LA is about 55 miles from Baton Rouge, LA.
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Big 12 Campus Correspondent
When freshman Lauren Chamberlain came to Norman, she was set on fighting for a spot in the Oklahoma starting lineup.
She ended up chasing the school's home run record.
In just her first season of college ball, Chamberlain has already broken OU's single season home run record with 22 long balls through May 6. The freshman's 22 homers lead the Big 12 and are two shy of the conference's record.
Chamberlain's credentials have been noticed nationwide, where she ranks third in the home runs. One of three Sooners named to the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Finalists list, Chamberlain was the only freshman in the nation to make the prestigious 25 player list.
A native of Trabuco Canyon, Calif., Chamberlain entered the year looking to contribute in any way possible.
"My goal coming into this season was to be in that starting lineup," said Chamberlain. "I wanted to get in there and swing the bat. I was willing to play wherever they wanted me to in the field. I wanted to come in and be a sudden-impact player and help our team get to the championship."
Lucky for Chamberlain, she already had a friend waiting in Norman to help ease the transition. Junior Jessica Shults, who currently sits second on OU's career home runs list, grew up with Chamberlain and played on the same travel team in high school.
"Shults is obviously a great a team leader," said Chamberlain. "She was a leader on our travel team as well. I take to heart any advice she gives me. Once I knew she was coming here, I became interested in Oklahoma. I knew then that OU must be a great school if she was coming here."
Having already played with Chamberlain, Shults already knew what type of player Oklahoma was getting before the season began.
"When we first met I was a senior in high school and she was a sophomore," said Shults. "We played travel ball together and I just knew right away that she could crush the ball. She was putting up big numbers as a high school sophomore and now she's doing it as a freshman here. It's been awesome to play with her here."
Piecing together her lineup, Oklahoma Head Coach Patty Gasso saw instant potential in Chamberlain and planned on moving the third baseman across the infield to first. Chamberlain welcomed the transition and saw it as a chance to improve and contribute.
"I was frustrating sometimes, but overall I was working toward a goal," said Chamberlain. "I looked at it positively. It took hard work and most of the fall I was working on different things at first, but overall it was an easy transition."
Once in the Sooner lineup, the freshman didn't take long to start turning heads around the clubhouse and around the league.
"She had instant credibility when she came in," said Gasso. "Once she started swinging, everybody took notice immediately. With this ability of her swing, also comes the ability of her to grab the attention of people and be a competitor. She backs up what she preaches because she works hard for what she gets. She is just a dream come true as a freshman, not just with her ability but who she is as a person. She's just so enjoyable every day."
Chamberlain has worked hard to fight her way to the top of the Sooners' record book, but she's the first to say that she couldn't do it alone.
"This team doesn't allow for you to just hover where you are," said the freshman. "You are constantly competing with your teammates. Each of them are bringing me up in different ways. I feel like we're always pushing each other to be the best athletes we can be. I owe a lot of it to my teammates."
With Chamberlain's name already on top of OU's list of home run champions, Shults isn't afraid to call out her teammate on other talent that Sooner fans are yet to have seen.
"She can sing," said Shults. "And she's good. Real good."
Call it freshman hazing or a rite of passage, but the upperclassman Sooners are determined to see their first baseman behind a microphone.
"The girls always give me a hard time because I can sing, I guess," said Chamberlain. "They're always telling me to sing. The seniors have even gotten onto me about not singing for their senior day. They asked me to sing the national anthem and I said no way. That's way too nerve racking. It's too scary."
Time will tell if Oklahoma ever sees Chamberlain sing before a ballgame, but Sooner fans can be assured that they'll see a special career from their home run queen.


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PHOENIX (AP) — A gravely wounded detective exchanged fire with a wanted ex-convict as the officer lay bleeding on the pavement before the suspect was killed in a chaotic daylight shootout near a busy Phoenix intersection, police said Tuesday.
John Hobbs, 43, a 21-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department, later died from gunshot wounds. His partner, a 44-year-old nine-year veteran of the force who authorities have not identified, remained hospitalized in stable condition Tuesday after also being shot.
"Today is a tragic reminder that our officers risk their lives for us every single day," Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton said at a news conference Tuesday morning.
Police identified the suspect, who was killed in the shootout Monday afternoon, as William Thornton. The 28-year-old was wanted on a probation violation warrant after having just been released from prison Jan. 9 where he served time for a drug conviction and resisting arrest.
In addition to the warrant, Thornton was a key suspect in the attempted murder of a man who was shot in the chest on Feb. 25, Phoenix Police Chief Daniel Garcia said.
"The suspect immediately opened fire on our officers," Garcia said, noting the shooting highlights the dangers detectives encounter when tracking fugitives who don't want to go back to prison. "They'll do everything they can do to get away, including a reckless abandon for human life and that's what we saw yesterday."
Garcia said the undercover detectives were conducting surveillance outside a north Phoenix business that Thornton was known to frequent. When the suspect arrived at about 3:30 p.m. Monday, Garcia said it appears he immediately noticed the officers and tried to flee in a vehicle before causing a three-car collision in a nearby intersection.
Thornton then attempted to run away from the scene before exchanging gunfire with the detectives. Hobbs was shot first, but immediately began returning fire while lying on the pavement, striking the suspect multiple times. It wasn't immediately clear if Hobbs fired the fatal shots that killed Thornton.
Neither detective was wearing a bullet proof vest at the time of the shooting.
"They didn't have time" to put them on, Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos said while commending Hobbs' action after being shot.
"Heroic, absolutely heroic," Martos added. "We're talking about an officer who was shot and didn't give up the fight."
Hobbs and his partner were members of the department's Major Offenders Bureau tasked with tracking down and arresting violent offenders and fugitives.
Witnesses described the shooting as a scene of chaos with people fleeing from the crowded street corner as gunshots rang out.
"It was obvious that the guy was out of control," said Wayne Monton, who owns a nearby business. "After the crash and the shooting, everybody just took off running ... It was crazy. We thought it was a drug war."
Authorities said Hobbs leaves behind a wife and three young children.
"He is absolutely loved by everyone," Martos said. "He will be greatly missed."


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WINNER: Coating prolongs life of turbo blade
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Innovation: The turbocharger's blade has a special coating that protects against erosion and corrosion caused by condensates from gases. The results: reduced emissions, improved engine response and better fuel economy.
First customer: 1.6-liter diesel engine in Renault Scenic and Grand Scenic, 2011
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Barbara Vanlangendonck took a moment to rest on Tuesday evening inside an office set up in one of the barns at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. sales grounds.
Barbara Vanlangendonck took a moment to rest on Tuesday evening inside an office set up in one of the barns at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. sales grounds.
It was the end of one of the more successful days for the Marion County-based consignor of yearling thoroughbreds. Summerfield Sales, owned by Frances and Barbara Vanlangendonck, sold more than $1.2 million worth of yearlings on Tuesday, including the top three sellers.
"It has just been an amazing day. We were truly blessed to have good clients, good horses and our crew, which always does an excellent job," said Barbara Vanlangendonck.
Summerfield's sales also boosted the selected portion of the three-day OBS yearling sale, which posted gross sales of more than $7.5 million for 137 yearlings sold. That was a 30 percent increase from 2012's selected session, which saw 132 horses sell for nearly $5.8 million.
Two horses sold for $250,000 to share the sales-topper title.
The first sold to Nick de Meric, who bought the colt by the stallion Concord Point for Klaravich Stables. The noted Ocala pinhooker said this horse was bought to race by Klaravich, which is owned by William Lawrence and Seth Klarman.
"There are always the string of cliches you can give about him being balanced and classy and correct, all of which he was, but beyond that, he was one of those horses that spoke to me," de Meric said. "He was a horse that when I left the sales ground, I was thinking about him; when I went to bed, I was thinking about him; when I woke up in the morning, I was thinking about him."
The other $250,000 horse was a Florida-bred colt by Scat Daddy, which was purchased by EQB for Zayat Stables. The colt also was purchased to take to the race track, rather than to pinhook, which is when a younger horse is purchased for the purpose of selling it at a later date, hopefully for a profit.
Closing out the Summerfield sweep was a Florida-bred colt by Unbridled's Song, which sold for $220,000 to Passion Stables.
"We left some good horses down here, specifically to sell at this sale and to get people's attention," said Barbara Vanlangendonck.
Still, the final sale prices reached on Tuesday were beyond her expectations.
"They all had very modest reserves on them. I'm just glad that they are going to excellent horsemen," she said.
The average price for the session was also up nearly 36 percent to $55,058 from $43,803 last year. The percentage of horses that did not sell plummeted to only 17 percent from just under 26 percent in 2012, and the number of horses sold for $100,000 or more doubled from six to 12.
The sale continues Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. with the first of two open sessions of yearlings.


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SAN ANTONIO — Eighty percent of the economic impact from the advent of drone technology will be in agriculture, an expert in remote sensing said during a seminar held at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention.
Kevin Price, a Kansas State University professor, said there will be 10 times more applications for agriculture than in other fields, and farmers should get with the program.
"Now is not the time to be dragging your feet if you want to get into it," Price said.
In a fast-paced seminar that resembled a college lecture, Price showed how he's used unmanned planes and helicopters equipped with cameras and sensors to document wheat field damage, track spray drift and locate sickly plants in large fields.
Using light-weight, battery-powered planes equipped with sensors, "You can fly for an hour and cover 2,000 acres at one-inch resolution, in a little foam plane," he said.
Price's seminar was one of the most popular break-out sessions held during the convention, with approximately 200 people attending, many of them standing at the back of the conference room.
Price said an industry group study projects a $13.6 billion economic impact related to drone technology in the first three years, and $82 billion by 2025. The same study predicts the technology will bring 34,000 manufacturing jobs in the first three years, and 70,000 other jobs. Price said California and Washington will be the top two states for using drone technology. In Oregon, they could be put to excellent use over vineyards or other specialty crops, he said.
But Price said the U.S. is "way behind other countries," because the Federal Aviation Administration has not yet approved drones for commercial use. The agency is concerned about safety, but is developing rules to assimilate drones into the national airspace by 2015. In the meantime, university researchers and hobbyists can fly them below 400 feet.
"If we're going to use them we've got to be very, very good stewards and not mess up," Price said. "If we mess up, they're going to shut us down."
Unmanned planes weigh about 5 pounds and have a wingspan of about 5 feet. Models made to date can be programmed to fly over fields in overlapping patterns, collecting images that can be downloaded and electronically "stitched" together.
"One of biggest challenges is extracting useful decision-making information from tons of data," Price said.
In the audience, West Virginia cattle ranchers David Ash and Mike Merinar speculated drones could be used to find cows that had wandered from pastures or to pick up the thermal images of predators.
"We're in the infancy, but it's going to be interesting," Ash said.


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James Madison felt compelled by events to declare war on Great Britain.
Credit: Courtesy of American Memory at the Library of Congress.
According to the essay James Madison, 'Creating the Balance' on the EDSITEment resource The American President, "Madison's presidency was dominated by a crisis with Great Britain, which for years had been grossly violating American shipping rights." This crisis over U.S. shipping rights actually began while George Washington was president and grew during Thomas Jefferson's term in office (1800-1808), when Madison served as Secretary of State. Between 1805-07, a large number of American ships were seized and impressments of American sailors into service on British ships increased, leading Congress to pass an extreme measure, the Embargo Act of 1807. The act restricted trade with foreign nations. A state of war that began in 1803 and would continue until after Napoleon's abdication in 1814 resulted in a loss of commerce that devastated the American economy while doing little to change the policies of France and Britain.
Abuses to American commerce on the part of Britain and France continued. But in 1810 Napoleon's announcement that France would no longer seize American ships convinced President Madison to allow trade with France. The announcement had conditions attached, and France continued to interfere with American shipping. In the end, however, the U.S. declared war only on Great Britain.
The decision to go to war is one of the most serious an American president faces. On June 1, 1812, President Madison sent a letter—later dubbed his war message—to both houses of Congress. In it, he listed a series of transgressions Great Britain had committed against the U.S. He also explained his decision not to recommend war with France at that time. EDSITEment resources offer primary documents that illuminate key points in President Madison's War Message. Help your students understand the reasons the president gave for going to war, while heightening their appreciation of the value of archival sources.
After completing this lesson, students will be able to:
Read with or to the class "President Madison's War Message, Full-Text Version" in the Master PDF. An edited and annotated version is shown in the activity. If desired, use the Written Document Analysis Worksheet on the EDSITEment resource Digital Classroom to guide your follow-up discussion.
Read with or to the class "President Madison's War Message, Full-Text Version" in the PDF. An edited and annotated version is shown below. If desired, use the Written Document Analysis Worksheet on the EDSITEment resource Digital Classroom to guide your follow-up discussion.
Ask students to point out any statements in the text they do not understand or about which they have questions. Note the troubling passages. Write down their questions. What documents/information do the students hypothesize would be useful to their understanding of Madison's message? The class will return to the War Message at the end of the unit, at which time their understanding should be deeper.
All of the language in the document below is from the original. However, the following edits have been made to allow for the document to be read aloud smoothly:
War Message to Congress, June 1, 1812To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
I communicate to Congress certain documents, being a continuation of those heretofore laid before them on the subject of our affairs with Great Britain.
Without going back beyond the renewal in 1803 of the war in which Great Britain is engaged, and omitting unrepaired wrongs of inferior magnitude, the conduct of her Government presents a series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation.
British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it … British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong …
… under the pretext of searching for these (British subjects), thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag, have been torn from their country and from everything dear to them; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation … to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors …
British cruisers have been in the practice also of violating the rights and the peace of our coasts. They hover over and harass our entering and departing commerce … and have wantonly spilt American blood …
… our commerce has been plundered in every sea, the great staples of our country have been cut off from their legitimate markets, and a destructive blow aimed at our agricultural and maritime interests …
… Great Britain…formally avowed (declared) a determination to persist in them (insults to American maritime rights) against the United States until the markets of her enemy (Britain's enemy, France) should be laid open to British products, thus asserting an obligation on a neutral power (the U.S.) to require one belligerent (combatant in a war) to encourage by its internal regulations the trade of another belligerent
In reviewing the conduct of Great Britain toward the United States our attention is necessarily drawn to the warfare just renewed by the savages (Native Americans) on one of our extensive frontiers -- a warfare which is known to spare neither age nor sex and to be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking to humanity. It is difficult to account for … their hostility … without recollecting the authenticated examples of such interpositions (British intrigues with the Indians) …
We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain.
Whether the United States shall continue passive (not to take any action) … or, opposing force to force in defense of their national rights, shall commit a just cause into the hands of the Almighty Disposer of Events … is a solemn question which the Constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the Government. In recommending it to their early deliberations I am happy in the assurance that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation.
… the communications last made to Congress on the subject of our relations with France will have shown that since the revocation of her decrees, as they violated the neutral rights of the United States, her Government has authorized illegal captures by its privateers and public ships, and that other outrages have been practiced on our vessels and our citizens … I abstain (refrain) at this time from recommending to the consideration of Congress definitive measures with respect to that nation (France), in the expectation that the result of … discussions between our minister … at Paris and the French Government will speedily enable Congress to decide with greater advantage on the course due to the rights, the interests, and the honor of our country.
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Kate Bosworth: Earrings for Charity!
Kate Bosworth and JustJared.com's Jared Eng are teaming up to raise money for DoSomething.org, an organization that enables teens to convert their ideas and energy into positive action.
The 28-year-old actress and stylist Cher Coulter have a jewelry collection named JewelMint and recently kicked off the brand's new charity initiative – the JewelMint Celebrity Guest Curator Series.
Now through June 15, 50% of sales generated from the JewelMint "Brixton" earrings – available for $29.99 (that includes shipping and tax) – will be donated to DoSomething.
Check out the black resin spike earrings at JewelMint.com. Thanks Kate and Cher for supporting DoSomething!
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Three Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have been inducted into the agency's Science Hall of Fame for research accomplishments that include improving rice varieties, increasing crop productivity in arid climates, and enhancing human and bovine health by focusing on safeguards to dairy cattle and milk.
Geneticist J. Neil Rutger, soil scientist B.A. Stewart and dairy scientist Max J. Paape will be honored in a ceremony tonight at the ARS U.S. National Arboretum.
"These researchers' results have had long-term, lasting value to science and society, and contribute important national priorities of responding to climate change, food safety and health, and global food security," said ARS Administrator Edward B. Knipling. "They serve as exemplars of excellence in scientific research because of their creativity and dedication, the range of their scientific contributions and their service to both the agricultural community and the public."
ARS has been honoring former and senior agency researchers with the Hall of Fame program since 1986. Nominees are retired or eligible to retire. They are selected by their peers for outstanding career-long achievements in agricultural science and technology.
Neil Rutger was an ARS researcher for 18 years in California before he became director of the Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center in Stuttgart, Ark., in 1993. Over the years, he developed semi-dwarf varieties of rice that increased crop yields by up to 20 percent. His first semi-dwarf rice cultivar, Calrose 76, was integral to the development of dozens of dwarf varieties now used to breed rice around the world. By some estimates, Calrose 76 and successors developed in California added an estimated $1 billion to California's economy.
Rutger also was instrumental in developing jasmine rice cultivars for United States growers, and his search for genes among rice's weedy relatives to resist stem rot disease was the first such attempt in the United States. Subsequent research has identified several genes among weedy relatives that resist other rice diseases.
In a career spanning almost 50 years, B.A. Stewart contributed to areas as diverse as animal waste management, soil and water conservation, crop production and environmental quality. As director of the agency's Conservation and Production Research Laboratory in Bushland, Texas, he focused much of his work on managing scarce water and soil resources in harsh arid and semi-arid regions.
Stewart conducted the first experiments on use of anhydrous ammonia as a fertilizer, and his work on nitrate accumulation in fields and feedlots opened the door to research examining the environmental impacts of various agricultural practices. As a member and chairman of various soil and water quality management panels and task forces, he was instrumental in developing national environmental guidelines still used today.
Max Paape, a researcher with the ARS Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., is an internationally recognized authority on bovine mastitis, the most costly disease to the U.S. cattle industry. In studies with researchers at Oklahoma State University, he found that subclinical mastitis is common in beef cattle, but that giving antibiotics at weaning reduces its prevalence. The findings are credited with saving the beef industry $1 billion annually. He also developed several treatments for mastitis, including alternatives to antibiotics that changed the way many drug company scientists view the effectiveness of non-antibiotic therapies.
Early in his career, Paape developed procedures for using milk somatic cell counts (MSCC) as an index of udder health, and he was a pioneer in using MSCC to assess milk quality. He also led research into how long dairy and meat products should be withheld from the market after cattle are treated with antibiotics. The Food and Drug Administration used the results in establishing relevant food safety standards.
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Bond investors are gaining confidence that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will unwind the central bank's unprecedented $3.3 trillion balance sheet without sparking a crash similar to 1994, when Alan Greenspan surprised the market by doubling benchmark lending rates in 12 months.
Though sovereign debt levels have more than quadrupled to $23 trillion, yields for 10-year Treasuries are 5 percentage points lower than they were in 1994 and forward measures show the current 1.74 percent level rising only to 2.04 percent in a year. Policy makers' forecasts of no rise in the target interest rate for overnight loans between banks until 2015 are damping yields in a market dominated by the Fed's $1.84 trillion, or 15.4 percent of the $11.94 trillion in marketable U.S. debt.
While BlackRock Inc. is trimming investments in longer-term Treasuries to protect against a rise in yields and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. invokes the memory of 1994, when U.S. bonds lost 3.35 percent as then-Fed chairman Greenspan didn't prepare investors for the speed of rate increases, money managers from JP Morgan Asset Management Inc. to Fidelity Investments say this time will be different, in part because of Bernanke's clearer and frequent statements on what would cause central bank policy to change.
"The Fed has been very transparent and their transparency should help offset the risks that were experienced in 1994," Edward Fitzpatrick, money manager and head of U.S. rates at the JPMorgan unit in New York, which oversees $1.5 trillion, said in a telephone interview April 30.
"There are still hurdles, not the least of which is that they have to end the quantitative easing program before they would contemplate tightening," he said. "The Fed will have time to craft their message well."
Yields Rise
Yields on 10-year Treasuries, the benchmark for everything from corporate bonds to mortgages, rose to 1.74 percent May 3 after the Labor Department reported the jobless rate fell to 7.5 percent in April, from 7.6 percent the month before, as payrolls expanded by 165,000 jobs. The price of the benchmark 2 percent note due in February 2023 was at 102 10/32.
The Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement following a two-day meeting in Washington on May 1 that it will maintain its bond buying at the current monthly pace of $85 billion and is prepared to raise or lower the level of purchases as economic conditions evolve. Policy makers also left in place their statement that they plan to hold the target rate around zero as long as unemployment remains above 6.5 percent and the outlook for inflation doesn't exceed 2.5 percent.
Most Fed officials don't anticipate raising the benchmark rate until 2015, according to their estimates provided with forecasts released after the March 19-20 FOMC meeting.
Blankfein's Concern
Confidence that the Fed can avoid triggering a 1994-style rout isn't universal.
"I worry now," Lloyd C. Blankfein, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, said May 2 at a conference in Washington. "I look out of the corner of my eye to the '94 period."
Blankfein said investors are complacent due to record low rates for more than four years, and recalled that the market was shocked by the losses caused two decades ago when they went up.
"Rates could rise rapidly for at least two different reasons," Antulio Bomfim, senior managing director at Macroeconomic Advisers LLC and a former Fed economist, said in a telephone interview May 1. "The Fed could bungle its communication effort and spook the market. Or despite the Fed's best efforts on communications, the economic data could end up being a lot stronger than what people thought. That one is a little harder to deal with."
'Spring-Loaded Effect'
With the central bank's asset purchases holding down rates, "at some point you are going to have this spring-loaded effect, where once the Fed starts pulling back, maybe you get a little bit of inflation, 30-year yields will say move up 50 to 75 basis points," Rick Rieder, chief investment officer for fundamental fixed income at BlackRock in New York, said in a Bloomberg Television interview April 29. That "move leaves a real mark."
Investors buying $10 million in 30-year bonds at 2.83 percent would lose $874,000 if the yield rose 75 basis points to 3.58 percent by the end of 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The value would decline by $1.2 million if the rate increased this year.
In 1994 the U.S. bond market fell 2.75 percent, the worst annual performance since 1978 according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data, as the central bank raised its benchmark rate to 6 percent by February 1995 from 3 percent 12 months earlier. Treasuries posted an annual loss of 3.35 percent, the worst performance until the 3.72 percent drop in 2009, according to the bank's Treasury Master index.
Low Yields
Government bond yields worldwide were at record lows of about 1.3 percent as of May 2, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Global Broad Market Sovereign Plus Index. The amount of debt tracked in the index has more than doubled to $23 trillion over the past five years as the Fed, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan have pumped cash into the financial system. It's more than four times the $5 trillion in 1996 when data was first collected.
BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda last month pledged to double monthly bond purchases to about 7 trillion yen ($71.8 billion), while the ECB last week decreased to a record low its main refinancing rate, to 0.5 percent from 0.75 percent.
Road Map
At a March 20 press conference, Bernanke provided the clearest road map on what needs to happen before the Fed trims its monthly bond purchases, while avoiding any hint that a cut is imminent. The central bank will adjust in a "sensitive way" based on several measures, including payrolls, wages and jobless claims, he said.
That's not how the central bank communicated in 1994.
"As Fed chairman, every time I expressed a view, I added or subtracted 10 basis points from the credit market," Greenspan said in an August 2012 Bloomberg Businessweek article.
"So you construct what we used to call Fed-speak. Nobody was quite sure I wasn't saying something profound when I wasn't. It's a self-protection mechanism," he said, "when you're in an environment where people are shooting questions at you, and you've got to be very careful about the nuances of what you're going to say and what you don't say."
Until 1994, the Fed didn't publicly disclose when it raised or lowered the overnight bank lending rate.
Light Bulb
"This Fed, as compared with 1994, is so different in terms of transparency and communication," Michael Materasso, a senior money manager and co-chairman of the fixed-income policy committee at Franklin Templeton Investments in New York, which oversees about $394 billion, said during a telephone interview on May 1.
"They go to great lengths to make sure you understand what they're saying. In 1994 what you had to do was refer back to a speech Greenspan gave in October where if you held it up to the light and turned it 45 degrees, well of course it said: 'We're going to raise rates in three months.' That's not the goal with this Fed."
When the central bank begins raising rates, short-term bonds and floating-rate notes, whose yields reset periodically, will be attractive, Materasso said.
"Part of the 1994 bond market sell-off was really a policy error," Gemma Wright-Casparius, who manages the $43.2 billion Vanguard Inflation-Protected Securities Fund at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Group Inc., said in a telephone interview May 1. "The Fed at that time was very bluntly moving the Federal funds rate and the communications strategy was not as efficient as it is now."
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With nothing to separate the two nations the game went to penalties, where Jesus Navas proved to be the hero as he scored the crucial spot kick as the shoot-out finished 7-6 to Spain.
SPAIN's Line-Up : Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Álvaro Arbeloa, Gerard Piqué(106' yellow card), Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Xavi Hernández, Andrés Iniesta, Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma(79' Juan Mata), Fernando Torres(94' Javier Martinez), David Silva(53' Jesus Navas)
Shootout Goal: Xavi 120+2' Shootout Goal: A. Aquilani 120+3'
Shootout Goal: Iniesta 120+4' Shootout Goal: D. De Rossi 120+5'
Shootout Goal: Piqué 120+6' Shootout Goal: S. Giovinco 120+7'
Shootout Goal: Sergio Ramos 120+8' Shootout Goal: A. Pirlo 120+9'
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Shootout Goal: Jesús Navas 120+14'
7-6(spain win on penalties)
Although the World Cup holders stormed to a 4-0 win over the Azzurri in the Euro 2012 final, this encounter proved far more evenly-contested. Vicente Del Bosque's men monopolised possession but lacked a cutting edge in attack, while Italy were missed numerous missed chances throughout as the match ended goalless.
With nothing to separate the two nations the game went to penalties, where Jesus Navas proved to be the hero as he scored the crucial spot kick as the shoot-out finished 7-6 to Spain.
Cesare Prandelli switched to a three-man defence and his side began impressively, despite letting the Spaniards control possession of the ball.
The Azzurri, though, with the Fortaleza crowd backing them, looked superb on the counterattack. After Alberto Gilardino had failed to pick out the bottom corner from Antonio Candreva's cross, they became increasingly confident and forged yet more chances to find the net.
Christian Maggio was unable to guide a header from Andrea Pirlo's exquisite pass past Iker Casillas in the 17th minute and Daniele De Rossi's glancing header missed the target 60 seconds later.
In the 19th minute Claudio Marchisio missed the best of the bunch, though, as he nodded the ball well wide of the target from Candreva's cushion despite finding plenty of space between the two centre-backs.
That flurry of activity encouraged Spain to reduce the tempo and steady themselves, but the Azzurri were again next to test the opposing goalkeeper.
Jordi Alba was being nullified by the adventurous combination of Candreva and Maggio, and the latter was only denied a goal when a brilliant Casillas save kept his 36th-minute header out of the net.
Spain almost immediately punished Prandelli's side for their profligacy in front of goal one minute later, but after turning Andrea Barzagli in wonderful fashion Fernando Torres could not find a finish to match as he pulled his shot wide of the target.
With La Roja failing to show an increased threat immediately after the restart Del Bosque introduced Jesus Navas in the 50th minute. The new Manchester City signing had a positive impact, calling Gianluigi Buffon into action with a driven shot from 20 yards shortly before the hour mark.
The conditions began to sap the life from the game as Italy lost the intent on the break and Spain continued to lack creativity. Andres Iniesta attempted to take matters into his own hands, yet after a mazy run from the half-way line he sliced an attempt wide of the goal.
There were chances for both sides to win the game in normal time, though neither team could break the deadlock. Marchisio's attempt from a Candreva cutback was blocked by Gerard Pique before Pedro and the Barcelona centre-back wasted two great opportunities to work Buffon, and extra time ensued.
After three minutes of the additional period Italy had their best chance of the night. Maggio's cross rolled through to Emanuele Giaccherini at the back post, whose thumped attempted crashed back off of Casillas' post.
The tempo to the game quickly picked up again and Iniesta's beautiful lifted pass over Leonardo Bonucci was volleyed over by Alba in the 99th minute as La Roja got nearer to breaking the deadlock.
With five minutes left to play Xavi was denied an absolutely magnificent winner when his long-range shot was turned onto the post by Buffon. The Juventus keeper was forced to make another save from Navas one minute later to ensure the game went to penalties.
Candreva got Italy off to the perfect start by dinking the first penalty straight down the middle and all subsequent spot kicks were scored until Bonucci skied from 12 yards with the score level at 6-6. Responsibilty fell to Navas who slotted the ball home to send Spain into the final.
Spain will now take place in Sunday's final against Brazil at the Maracana, while Italy will contest the third-place play-off against Uruguay in Salvador on the same day.


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Message from LEGO, this refers to the UK Chrome Vader promo:
I am sorry, you seem to have been given the wrong date I am afraid! This promotion will be held exclusively by Toys'R'Us, but not until the 7th of June this year. You will be given one of these chromed figures when buying a LEGO Star Wars set apparently. But only as long as stock lasts!
Dear Chris,
The Chrome Darth Vader promotion in the UK will start on the 7th of June and is exclusively done by Toys'R'Us UK. All UK TRU stores will participate and presumably the consumer will get a figure if buying a LEGO Star Wars set until stock runs out.
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ONEIDA (GHMI) — ROWVA District 208 will have a new superintendent as of July 1.
Joe Sornberger, superintendent of Palestine Community Unit School District 3, resigned Tuesday and was hired by the District 208 School Board the same night.
He will be paid $123,400 and has signed a three-year contract. He replaces Lloyd Little, who is retiring June 30. Little came to the district in 2007.
Sornberger is the grandson of A.W. "Sandy" and Beverly Sornberger of Victoria. Sandy Sornberger is a former ROWVA School Board member. Sornberger's father, Bob, graduated from ROWVA in 1970.
Sornberger began his educational career in Palestine as a student teacher in 2002. He has been a disciplinary aide, special education teacher, and junior high social studies teacher and basketball coach. He became principal of Palestine High School in 2008 and superintendent in 2012. He has a master's degree in education school administration and supervision from Indiana State University.
In 2011, he was the recipient of the James V. and Dorothy Moon Scholarship from the Illinois Association of School Administrators. The scholarship is given to superintendent candidates who demonstrate outstanding potential as an administrator.
"I believe that ROWVA has a great family-friendly atmosphere where students receive an exemplary education," he said. "My wife and I have two young children who will attend the school district, and they are excited to be in a new preschool-through-eighth-grade building with multiple learning opportunities at their fingertips."


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Tuesday June 25th: Saint-Gaudens Historic Site
Tuesday June 25th: Saint-Gaudens Historic Site
Over 100 works by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens can be seen in the galleries at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. Visitors are welcomed to Cornish, New Hampshire to check out this beautiful exhibit in honor of the American Renaissance artist.
Just a stone's throw from the hub-bub that most tourists visit, is one of the most timeless, charming, and authentic ways to experience the Old Port City that most people aren't aware of. Come with us tonight at Jennifer Crompton checks out Portsmouth's South End.
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In the winter of 1980, two very memorable events occurred in upstate New York: Lake Placid was on a national stage as it hosted the XIII Olympic Winter Games, and my dad came home with a color TV (a big upgrade from our 13-inch black-and-white boob tube).
For my entire childhood, I lived without many of the current-day electronics, like video games, microwaves, garage door openers, VCRs, and touchtone phones. Instead of buying the latest newfangled gadget, my parents would wait approximately 20 years before making a purchase to ensure that the technological kinks were resolved. My brother and I would often lament our life in the Dark Ages. While my neighbors played Atari and microwaved their grilled cheese sandwiches (they called them "mush sandwiches"—made with Velveeta cheese), we played Monopoly and had to actually grill our cheese sandwiches … on the stove. Every time we wanted to "channel surf" through our four channels, we had to get up, walk over to the television, and use the dial. Whenever I tighten the gas cap on my car's gas tank (click, click, click), I am reminded of the sound of changing the channels on that old TV set, which was our new color TV in 1980.
Thirty years later, on the cusp of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, it appears that I haven't evolved much from my childhood. My cell phone is not an iPhone, I use my library card to borrow books rather than read them on a Kindle, and I am without any sort of television reception at all. I will, however, have the chance to watch the Olympics live on a giant screen in the streets of Vancouver and, with some luck, witness some "live and in person" at a venue since I will be in Vancouver for the last week of the Games. And, my parents are upgrading their television for the Vancouver Olympics and giving me their cast-off 13-inch color TV (this one comes with a remote and will be my fourth hand-me-down television from various sources) so I can watch borrowed library videos. I am thrilled.


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Netflix Is Sticking With Just One Season of Arrested Development
"We don't anticipate being able to do seasons five, six, seven. We have less of a stake in it."
It's been a greedy kind of joy to even imagine any amount of new Arrested Development beyond Netflix's forthcoming fourteen episodes. But as of today, all hopes can be redirected straight to "four seasons and a movie" territory. "We don't anticipate being able to do seasons five, six, seven. We have less of a stake in it," said Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. "Arrested Development is a wildly successful tactic as opposed to fundamental to the strategy." He also referred to the new batch of episodes as a "fantastic one-off" that came together through "non-repeatable" circumstances. A Netflix spokesperson added it would be "extremely difficult to get the cast together." Series creator Mitch Hurwitz told Vulture in September, "The episodes are an outgrowth of the design of what we hope will be the movie. They precede it. They function as an act one of a movie that we all want to do, but haven't 'sold' yet." While at least one more new season (act two?) had seemed like a possibility, maybe the movie has been the next step all along and this is just confirmation. Still, if you won't hear and won't respond to this news, we get it.


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Justin Bieber: 'Nothing Like Us' - Listen to Selena Gomez Breakup Song!
Check out your first listen of Justin Bieber's new song "Nothing Like Us," which he wrote about his breakup with Selena Gomez.
The 18-year-old singer is currently featured on the cover of Billboard magazine's latest issue and talks about his new album Believe: Acoustic and the new track.
"I'm not in the happiest place that I've ever been. I'm trying to get through what I'm going through. Like I said, I have my really close friends to cheer me up and keep me going," Justin told Billboard about his breakup, which premiered the song this afternoon.
"Because at the end of the day, there's nothing like us, you know? That's just it. It is what it is. People are going to relate to that," he said about the song.
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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- The Pace University men's and women's swimming and diving teams are competing in the Northeast-10 Conference Championships.
The men's and women's swimming and diving teams head to Southern Connecticut State University for four days at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships from Thursday, Feb. 5 through Sunday, Feb. 9.
The men's team was selected to finish in fifth place out of seven schools by the NE-10 swimming coaches. The team totaled 16 points in the poll with Southern Connecticut selected to win the championships with 36 points.
Similarly, the Lady Setters were picked to finish in fifth place out of nine schools by the NE-10 swimming coaches. The Lady Setters totaled 36 points in the poll with Southern Connecticut selected to win the championship with 61 points.
In other Pace athletics news, Pace basketball has announced that it will host its annual Play4Kay fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 8 as the Setters host the American International Yellow Jackets in a Northeast-10 conference contest at the Goldstein Fitness Center.
Play4Kay is a national initiative by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) across all divisions of NCAA women's college basketball to create awareness and raise money for breast cancer research.
Pace athletics will be selling Play4Kay Pace basketball T-shirts for $5 with all proceeds going to the Kay Yow Fund.
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Les Payne: Journalism's Role in Democracy
June 12, 2012 | CUNY Lecture Series, Issues in Journalism, LaGuardia Community College
In the early 1970s, as the number of heroin addicts in New York City started to explode, the Long Island newspaper Newsday sent a team of investigative reporters to find the source of the scourge. "That's how journalism works," says Les Payne, about his work on "The Heroin Trail," the Pulitzer Prize-winning series that uncovered an international ring of heroin smugglers. You find a problem, see no quick answers, so you begin to investigate, says Payne, who wrote a column for Newsday until retiring in 2008. Payne spoke with students at LaGuardia Community College about the invaluable role that investigative reporting plays in a healthy democracy.


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Huifeng wrote: However, in the 小小戒可捨 "the minor precepts may be rescinded" case, as well as this, they refer to a minor issues of decorum (perhaps the siksapadani) and cultural issues (eg. bathing times). While I don't recall if it has been raised in this thread, such alterations seem hardly to extend to issues such as how the ordination process takes place, the precepts of "defeat" (parajika), and other more core issues.
The definition of "minor precepts" differs according to the school as you know. Nevertheless, the Buddha is on record saying the sangha could abandon minor precepts and change things accordingly. Naturally as a śramaṇa that wouldn't entail abandoning precepts against sex and theft, but nevertheless modifications could be made. That says to me that the Buddha was fine with changing the system as needed.
In fact modifications were made and hence the Vinaya literature differs from school to school (there's even apparent Mahāyāna adaptations to be seen in some places). The core essentials are still largely identical, but then the original Japanese monastic systems not based on the Vinaya are not so different either. Things changed and now priests get married and so on, but before it was a respectable system that worked and plenty of monastics had long careers full of practice and fulfilment without having to defer to Vinaya texts.
In any case, life is short and we're all going to die sooner or later. Having rules for organizations is necessary, but acting like Pharisees and clinging to rules and procedures as if they're god-given commandments that are prerequisites for liberation is not going to help anyone. It should be an organic process, which I believe was the Buddha's intent. The Japanese managed fine without all the Vinaya procedures for many centuries. They had rules and procedures, but these were adapted to and organic to their environment. That should be commended and emulated where necessary.


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Five weeks in Uganda. Five weeks is enough to get over jet lag – even for a family of four. Five weeks is enough to share a proper greeting with several close, longtime friends. Five weeks is enough to conduct surveys and interviews of 263 community members within eight of the twelve villages where KIBO has completed sanitation campaigns and installed water wells. Five weeks is even enough to compile the data from each of these villages. Five weeks is enough to share long meals and even longer conversations about problems regarding clean water, poverty, and development in Uganda. Five weeks is enough to problematize simple answers. Five weeks is enough to scratch beyond the superficial and delve into real issues that haunt people on the ground. Five weeks is enough to transform a romantic view of people and place, as one is constantly exposed to malaria, dangerous traffic conditions, and the complexities brought on by Western involvement, so often in the form of "development." Five weeks, however, is not long enough to say goodbye, neither to beloved friends nor to enduring issues.
In this trip I have been fortunate enough to revisit a project that I worked with for over three years. The five weeks in research with Kibo Group has reinforced a long-standing conviction: Water development is extremely complex. As this trip has been enabled through the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, the complexity pertains as much to the "ethical aspects" of water development as to anything else. One reason for this is that water development is not a thing. All water development enters into the complex network of water access, clean water production, and distribution. Once again, amadhi n'obulamu, water is life, and life is social, political, and economic. The work of water development does not exist in a vacuum, but is connected to all things, all aspects of life.
The Kibo Group organization, like any other non-government organization working in Uganda, is responsible for acknowledging this complexity and working with a number of issues that arise with the history and continued presence of foreign involvement. What is the responsibility of the government to its people with regard to water resources? What has the government committed to the people of Uganda? Where is the government getting resources for provision? How are the resources used? Does Uganda have the infrastructure for production of equipment needed for water wells, for recycling water, for treating water? What questions is one allowed to ask? Which questions will facilitate government cooperation and which ones will obstruct cooperation? One of the recurring jokes on our trips to the village and our time working with the accumulated data was: "In Uganda there is freedom of speech, but there is no freedom after speech."
In addition, what are community members responsible for providing? Why is it so very hard for communities to pull together enough local resources to access clean water? How does the presence of NGOs affect the local political and social processes of discernment of responsibility and trust? Is the global demand for sugar and the increased planting of the cash crop of sugar cane actually causing the water level to drop? Without communication among government, NGOs and personal wells, a new well may draw from a limited underground water source of another well. More holes in the ground is not always a solution. One of the problems with development is that most often every solution on the part of the West raises three questions on the ground, at least in Uganda.
The issues go all the way down to the family. In Busoga, fetching water is mainly the job of women and children. Most families will make two trips a day for water – one in the morning and one in the evening. In more than one of the villages we surveyed, the biggest problem reported was the number of people in the village using the water well. The well opened at 4 a.m. and was functioning until midnight every day. For those living far from the water source, this meant not only increased labor but also less time for school work and an increased risk for women and young girls of being targeted by sexual predators.
And we have not even touched on issues of health yet. Many of the community members we surveyed reported a decrease in water-borne illness but no change in the frequency of overall sickness as malaria and HIV/AIDS continue to plague people in the Busoga region of Uganda. In addition, providing more water without addressing issues of sanitation within the home may very well result in an increased medium for sickness. Where is the well in relation to the nearest pit latrines? Where are the pit latrines in relation to the home? Where are the animals kept? Where does the family dry the dishes? How clean are the containers used for fetching the water? Which plants are planted next to the house? Do these plants provide a breeding ground for malaria? These questions are not simply questions of "development"; these are questions of life.
Interaction with members of the eight communities that we visited also reinforced the realization that we who are involved in water development are not ultimately involved in a project. We are not simply involved in trying to get the right answer to a problem. We are involved in the lives of people. These are people who are working tirelessly to provide the best education possible for their children. These are people who ache when their children get sick – people who are concerned about the quality of health care in their country. These are people who are trying to discern whether to plant sugar (for cash) or beans (for family sustenance) on land that is becoming increasingly scarce as the population skyrockets. And these are people who were overwhelmingly appreciative of work that brought clean drinking water to the community.
Amidst the complexity of issues surrounding life as it relates to clean water, I submit this final post with hope that Kibo Group (and all others involved in the lives of people who travel miles for the water that gives them life) will continue to ask better questions and continue to ask questions better. I know of no better approach than by starting with listening to those who experience the problem of clean water access firsthand. May we not seek a quick fix but listen to the wisdom of in the Soga proverb, atambula mpolampola, a tuuka wala – The one who walks slowly reaches far.


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New Dinkytown Greenway connects Saint Paul and suburbs to downtown Minneapolis
After years of planning, the Dinkytown Greenway is now open to bicycle traffic. The trail runs through the U of M's East Bank campus and connects the U of M Transitway with the west bank of the Mississippi River. Bicyclists from Saint Paul, Falcon Heights and the northeast metro can now pedal to the edge of downtown Minneapolis without encountering motor vehicle traffic for most of the way.
Much of the Dinkytown Trail runs within a railroad trench that cuts through the East Bank campus. Putting bike traffic within the trench was first proposed back in the 1990s. Construction began on this in 2012 and wrapped up late last month.
The Dinkytown Greenway includes an old railroad span over the Mississippi River that's been converted into a bike and pedestrian crossing. Next year, construction will extend the greenway under Interstate 35W and connect it to downtown Minneapolis streets. Mayor R.T. Rybak also plans to allocate a portion of his 2014 City budget for a staircase connecting the greenway with the heart of Dinkytown at 15th Ave and 4th Street.
Bikeways like the Dinkytown Greenway separate bicycle transit from motor vehicle traffic. This reduces on-street congestion and the potential for bicycle-motor vehicle conflict in areas that get a lot of bicyclists. In fact, the Dinkytown Greenway passes directly beneath 15th Avenue SE, which is the city's busiest on-street bikeway.
For more information on bicycling in Minneapolis, go to www.minneapolismn.gov/bicycles.
Published Aug 6, 2013


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With the clock ticking down to the start of the season, the NHL and its locked-out players are talking again.
They even agreed on some minor issues Friday before breaking for lunch. The sides are to return to bargaining at league headquarters in the late afternoon.
These are the first talks since the lockout was put in place and they come a day after the league canceled the remaining preseason games. The regular season is to start Oct. 11.
The players said Friday's agreements concerned player safety and drug testing, although no details were given. The core issue separating the sides is the division of more than $3 billion in annual revenue.
The negotiations are expected to last through the weekend.


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VYSA has several Manuals & Policies that can help guide you through the procedures and help you to understand them.
Please note: These are VYSA Policies & Procedures that apply to all VYSA Members. Clubs and/or leagues may have further rules & policies, so check with your club or league. All the manuals are in PDF files. If you don't have Adobe on your computer, you may go to www.adobe.com and download a free version.
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An English archbishop's recent warning about social networking sites has been getting a lot of attention in news stories and blogs — to the tune of hundreds of Google search results.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminister told the Telegraph that the Internet and cell phones are "dehumanizing" community life, and that sites such as Facebook and MySpace promote transient relationships for teenagers and place too much emphasis on the number of friends you have.
"Among young people often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships," Archbishop Nichols said. "They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships. Then it collapses and they're desolate. … It's an all-or-nothing syndrome that you have to have in an attempt to shore up an identity — a collection of friends about whom you can talk and even boast. But friendship is not a commodity; friendship is something that is hard work and enduring when it's right."
The archbishop has gotten a lot of criticism from social networking fans. Mostly, though, reaction has shown an understanding of his concern, but also an understanding of the benefits of social networking sites, wrote Luke Coppen, editor of the Catholic Herald in London, in an e-mail to Catholic News Service.
"My own view is that the decline in community life in Britain began decades ago and that online networking is a reaction to this decline rather than a cause of it," Coppen wrote. "I imagine that our communal life would be even more impoverished if we didn't have tools such as Facebook, Bebo and Twitter to draw us out of our solitary routines. The archbishop is right that online communities are fragile, but they are surely better than having no community at all."
He added that the church should use online communities to draw people into the deeper community of faith.
That's the idea at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Don Clemmer, assistant director of media relations, in an interview with CNS. The conference uses its Facebook , Twitter and blog to get the church's message out through the most popular media.
But when it comes to personal networking, Clemmer also warned against letting online habits become superficial.
"Like so many tools, it can be used to build up or to tear down," he said. "Relationships are supposed to be built on love and a deeper sense of authentic community."
But if used in constructive ways, networking sites can actually enhance communities, said Bill McGarvey, chief editor of Busted Halo, an online magazine for spiritual seekers. The archbishop's comments should not be interpreted as a ban on Facebook, but as a warning sign to be careful online.
Jonathan Wynne-Jones, the Telegraph religious affairs correspondent who wrote the original story, followed up with an Aug. 5 story about the criticism floating around the Internet.
"If people actually bothered to read the story and read the quotes they would see that the archbishop actually has an impressive grasp of modern culture and cares deeply about its future," Wynne-Jones wrote. "Much of the criticism of Nichols derives from a hostility to the Church and a drive to have its leaders' pronouncement pushed from the public square, no matter how pertinent their comments are. Some also no doubt comes from those who are addicted to these sites and don't want to face the facts."