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'Raise your voice, not the sea level,' urges UN on World Environment Day

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5 June 2014 – Barbados, a small Caribbean island at the cutting edge of the fight against climate change, will be hosting this year's World Environment Day, leading United Nations-wide efforts to draw attention to the plight of the world's small islands potentially in peril of being lost to sea-level rise.

“On World Environment Day, millions of individuals, community groups and businesses from around the world take part in local projects – from clean up campaigns to art exhibits to tree-planting drives,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message for the Day, marked every year on 5 June.

Mr. Ban was referring to activities and events taking place worldwide – ranging from a 45,000-strong clean-up campaign involving UN staff throughout Kosovo and the Baltimore Orioles baseball team raising awareness of the environment in Sarasota, Florida, to a bike ride around the lakeside in Geneva, Switzerland – all aiming to raise awareness of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the convening of a youth conference on “Eco-civilization and Green Development” in Shanghai.

In support of the UN designation of 2014 as the International Year of Small Island Developing States, World Environment Day will focus on those countries in the broader context of climate change as its theme. Many of the events under way will also spotlight the upcoming Third International Conference on the Small Island Developing States, set to be held in Apia, Samoa from 1 to 4 September.

“Small island nations share a common understanding that we need to set our planet on a sustainable path,” said the Secretary-General, explaining that reaching that goal demands the engagement of all sectors of society in all countries.

“This year, I urge everyone to think about the plight of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and to take inspiration from their efforts to address climate change, strengthen resilience and work for a sustainable future,” said the UN chief. “Raise your voice, not the sea level.”

Home to 62.3 million people, these island nations play a crucial role in protecting oceans while contributing little to climate change - emitting less than 1 per cent of global greenhouse gases.

But they suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change owing to their small size, remote locations, and limited economic resilience. Research shows that by 2100, global warming could lead to a sea-level rise of up to 2 meters, making many of these island States, especially in the Pacific region, uninhabitable.

Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), warned that the very existence of low-lying nations, such as Kiribati, Maldives, Marshall Islands and Tuvalu is threatened by climate change-induced sea level rise.

While climate change adaptation was a top priority for island nations, the lack of financial resources is an obstacle, with, for example, the capital cost of sea-level rise in the Caribbean Community countries alone estimated to reach $187 billion by 2080.

“Investing now to head off such a massive economic impact makes sound business sense,” Mr. Steiner said in his message.

A new report by UNEP says that climate change-induced sea-level rise in the world’s 52 small island nations – estimated to be up to four times the global average – continues to be the most pressing threat to their environment and socio-economic development; with annual losses at the trillions of dollars due to increased vulnerability.

The “SIDS Foresight Report” identifies climate change impacts and related sea-level rise as the chief concern among 20 emerging issues impacting the environmental resilience and sustainable development prospects of SIDS – including coastal squeeze, land capacity, invasive alien species and threats from chemicals and waste.

UN General Assembly President John Ashe, in his message on the Day, also appealed for a global call to action for people across the world to support SIDS and low-lying coastal States endangered by rising sea levels, and disproportionately impacted by climate change, the loss of biodiversity and forests and overfishing.

“Only by transitioning together to a green economy can we ensure a sustainable prosperous future for all countries threatened by rising sea levels,” Mr. Ashe said.

In her message on the Day, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said that while small islands faced many challenges, they are also leaders under that treaty “both morally and practically” in terms of reminding nations of the risks and collective responsibilities to act while driving ambitious national and international action.

She went on to site a host of SIDS-driven initiatives, from improved adaptation of water resources in the Comoros to wind power projects in Cape Verde, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica and methane capture in Papua New Guinea and Cuba, that have leveraged the UN Clean Development Mechanism to build their own clean energy futures. Many of these nations have undertaken National Adaptation Programmes of Action under the Convention.

“Our pathway is clear. Clean energy economies produce profits without pollution, better livelihoods in stable industries, restore health and wider wealth and preserve water and essential resources,” Ms. Said, calling on all raise their voices and their ambition now.

On 5 June 1972, the General Assembly formed UNEP to, "provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations."

That same day was also designated World Environment Day and has since been celebrated as a worldwide day of environmental awareness.

Over the years it has grown to be a broad, global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated by stakeholders in over 100 countries. It also serves as the 'people's day' for doing something positive for the environment, galvanizing individual actions into a collective power that generates an exponential positive impact on the planet.

During the global celebration in Barbados, UNEP designated Ian Somerhalder – an actor best known for his work on the international hit TV series, “The Vampire Diaries,” and on the critically acclaimed drama “Lost” – as a Goodwill Ambassador.

He joined fellow UNEP Goodwill Ambassadors Gisele Bündchen, Don Cheadle and Yaya Touré in sending an SOS to the world on behalf of SIDS. Their ‘message in a bottle’ is: “We are all connected. The challenges faced by islands will face us all. So, every action we take to reduce waste and mitigate climate change counts. Join one of our teams and pledge to make a difference by taking action for WED.”

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As Ethiopia battles devastating drought, UN sends in emergency health team

Dry earth in the desert plains of the Danakil depression in northern Ethiopia. Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN

4 December 2015 – With Ethiopia battling its worst drought in 30 years due to the El Niño weather pattern, with 8.2 million people already in urgent need of food aid, the United Nations has sent an emergency health team to help support the Government’s response to a crisis that is expected to become even worse over the next eight months.

“The food security emergency is coming against a background of multiple ongoing epidemics in the country,” the interim Director of Emergency Risk Management and Humanitarian Response at the UN World Health Organization (WHO), Michelle Gayer, said today.

“This creates an additional burden for people’s health as well as the health system as malnutrition, especially in children, predisposes them to more severe infectious disease, which can kill quickly,” she added.

The current El Niño, among the strongest on record, caused by a cyclical warming in the Pacific Ocean, affects climate over a wide swathe of the world, bringing more floods to some areas and longer droughts to others, as well as stronger typhoons and cyclones.

Ethiopia has experienced two poor growing seasons in 2015. Due to delayed rains attributed to El Niño, its main annual harvest was severely reduced. Every month since January has seen an increase in the number of malnourished children, with 400,000 likely to face severe malnutrition in 2016. In addition, some 700,000 expecting and recent mothers are at risk for severe malnutrition.

Anticipating a major increase in health risks, WHO has mobilized drugs, equipment and human resources. Vulnerable populations, such as children requiring therapeutic feeding and health care, are particularly at risk of illness and death. El Niño can lead to significant increases in diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, diarrhoea and cholera – major killers of children.

Ethiopia is one of the most affected countries by El Niño thus far. “We are very concerned that right now, there are not enough resources to provide an effective and coordinated health response across Ethiopia,” WHO Emergency Response Coordinator in Ethiopia Kebba Jaiteh said. “Without a proper response, El Niño could reverse years of progress on health for Ethiopians.”

WHO and partners predict increases in communicable, water- and vector-borne diseases and medical complications from malnutrition, and there are also concerns about increasing cases of acute watery diarrhoea. Many disease outbreaks are currently ongoing with response already being organized by the Ethiopian Health Ministry and partners.

After a recent measles outbreak, the Ministry and partners started vaccinating 5.3 million children under five in hotspot districts, but a significant funding gap remains for those between five and 14 years. While response plans are still being finalized, WHO estimates its initial funding request will require more than $8 million.

“This is just the beginning of what the health sector is going to need in the coming months to address the health consequences of El Niño in Ethiopia, across the Horn of Africa, southern Africa and in many other parts of the world,” Dr. Gayer said.

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SAINT PETER, Minn. -- Freshman Jimmy Evers ran a Big Sky Conference qualifier while junior teammate Sam Saccoman eclipsed a meet record today at the Drake Alternative Track and Field Meet, hosted by Gustavus Adolphus.

Evers, a Grand Forks product, won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.94 seconds. That time ranked as the second-best by a freshman in the Big Sky as of late Saturday night.

Evers' teammate and classmate, John LeClerc (Grafton, N.D.), placed fourth with a time of 15.26 seconds.

Saccoman, a native of Hibbing, Minn., ran the 5K race in a personal-record time of 15 minutes, 4.68 seconds, which eclipsed the meet record time of 15:10.47. He was the runner-up in the event.

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Politico: Mega Millions tips from Judd Gregg

UNH student government president's feet held to the fire over letter inviting church groups to pray for student body
In Tuesday's issue of The New Hampshire, Coukos apologized for "any confusion the use of UNH stationery may inadvertently have caused," and stated that his "intent was to send the letter as an individual, and not on the behalf of UNH or its students." Coukos also stated that a week after the original letter was sent, he wrote another in order to explain his intentions on Tuesday, Feb. 7. The second was not printed on UNH stationery.

Dartmouth '73 Leon Black donates $48 million for Dartmouth Arts Center

New site-specific wall sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly to be installed at new visual arts center at Dartmouth

Sentencing set for NY man captured in NH who killed 3 relatives

NPR - State Impact: Why The Mega Millions Jackpot Is Extra-Important For New Hampshire

Less than 1 in 10 who apply offered a spot at Dartmouth

Laconia Daily Sun: Lawyers argue over what jury can hear when murder trial starts on Monday

Man arrested in Portsmouth wanted for attempted murder, robbery in Mass.

Starbucks, Stonyfield Paying Their Own Recycling Tabs
Starbucks and Stonyfield are among the growing number of companies in the United States that are fronting some of the costs of their recycling efforts. Municipalities are cutting services due to budgets, and recycling programs are one program that can end up on the fiscal chopping block.

Gannett: 11 tips to help you win a business plan contest, get money for your startup

Celebrity Chefs Announced for 1st New Hampshire Restaurant Week

Fosters: NH laundry company sued by Mass. rival over alleged hacking
NASHUA - General Linen Service, Inc of Newburyport, Mass. is suing General Linen Service Co., Inc., of Somersworth, alleging the New Hampshire firm illegally grabbed information off its web portal to clean out its rival's customer base.

NH timeshare resale company rebranding as

NH buidlings-from-kits maker says it will offer a wider variety of kits for amateurs

19th century robber baron's breath taking 500 acre New Hampshire estate on market for $3.75 Million

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Forty years ago, Etta Goodstein couldn't figure out why, every time she left her New Hampshire commune to grocery shop, people recognized her. Now she gets it. Not everyone who pushes a cart wears a vest made of loops of sterling silver. For the next few weeks, a mannequin at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis will model that vest.

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Jonathan Wasserman, 19, from Kansas City, Missouri, and 19-year-old Kristina Landry from Ellington, Connecticut, are both students at Thomas More College in New Hampshire. As part of their four-year liberal arts course they have been studying in Rome for the past three months.

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Some school districts in New Hampshire that are reporting good results with a controversial math program for elementary students have tweaked, revised and supplemented the Everyday Math program to make sure students learn the basic facts that critics say the program glosses over.

Parents who see their children using the Everyday Math way of doing arithmetic are often confounded as they watch their children getting solutions by working left to right.

The math learning program was designed for elementary schools and stresses understanding over memorization.

Advocates say it builds a foundation that will lead more students to go further in math.

"There are more kids, who could learn more math if it was taught correctly," said Rosanne O'Donnell, a consultant for McGraw-Hill, the publisher of the series. "

Critics include people who excelled at the learn-by-rote methods.

"It stresses self-discovery far, far too much," said Tony Falcone, who holds undergraduate degrees from MIT and a doctorate in mathematics. "What they want is for students to develop conceptional knowledge, rather than rigor or something you can learn by rote."

Falcone was part of an effort to persuade Hollis school officials to jettison the major part of the program.

More recently, parents in Manchester raised objections to the program, citing difficulties students had in mastering high school algebra after exposure to the Everyday Math world of "conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills."

In Bedford, administrators report different results.

"We more than doubled the kids who successfully finished algebra one by the end of eighth grade," said Chip McGee, assistant superintendent in charge of curriculum in the Bedford School District.

After using Everyday Math as it came, out of the box, changes were made.

"We began to make tweaks that were important, given the student performance on the NECAP," McGee said. "We saw the need for kids who struggle to spend more time with these kinds of basic numerical skills."

Parts of the program that testing revealed didn't work well were dumped.

"Some are extremely helpful and we found a couple that we don't think are helpful and we've gotten them out, we don't teach them any more," McGee said.

In Concord, Linda Stuart, the school district math coach, says the core of the Everyday Math program is sound.

"Our kids are coming out with lots of reasoning skills, they're strong math thinkers, they make sense of problems, they are actually even learning to explain their thinking and explain what they're doing," Stuart said.

Everyday Math does a lot of teaching through gaming, which enables teachers to track student performance, but which are sometimes unwieldy in a classroom of 25 pupils.

The answer in Concord was to buy a computer program, Fastt Math, to aid in teaching basic facts.

Stuart said she also gets together with groups of teachers and they observe each other teaching math concepts, then meet to refine the ways in which it is taught.

In Bedford, the school district conducts an annual Curriculm Institute prior to the start of the school year, aimed at district-wide implementation of the best emerging teaching techniques.

Manchester, where parents complain about the transition from elementary to secondary school math, curriculum coordinators have been lost to budget cutting.

"We have a full-time K-8 math and science curriculum coordinator and she identified the issues," Mcgee said. "We instituted a systematic approach to what the gaps were and agreed on changes that we will make and changes we won't make."

Asked about whether the district could improve its handling of Everyday Math by including more professional development time for math teachers, Michael Tursi, the assistant superintendent in charge of curriculum spoke generally about teacher training.

"Any time we have an opportunity for professional development around any type of curriculum and resources I think that will be beneficial," Tursi said in a brief interview."

Supporters of the back-to-basics approach, and advocates of Everyday Math do have one area of agreement.

Teaching - and learning - math requires commitment, not magic.

"If (professional development for teachers) is not there, they're not going to get the full power of Everyday Math," O'Donnell said. "Everyday Math can still change things for the better, but they won't get the full benefit."

Falcone, the mathematician, in convinced that schools would do well to get out the flash cards and assign students to do problem sets.

"I know for an absolute fact that many of the students who get to the higher levels in college have had the idea of describing problems explained to them but are still missing the key ingredient," Falcone said. "It's like getting a membership to a gym and going every day and wondering 'why aren't I in better shape, I watch people work out every day.'"

Concord's Stuart says Everyday Math, with some tweaking, can also get students into math-problem-solving shape.

"If we teach kids to think and reason and understand what they are doing, you will have math thinkers and highly qualified (students)," she said.


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Snow, winds knock out power as late-winter storm hits; Girl, 16, killed in crash

A late-winter nor’easter blew across New Hampshire on Tuesday, blanketing much of the state with more than a foot of snow and knocking out power to thousands.

A 16-year-old Gilford girl lost control of her car on a snow-covered Route 11A and struck a tree about 7 a.m. Police identified her as Ava Doris, a sophomore at Gilford High School and the daughter of emergency dispatcher Tim Doris.

She was rushed to Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia, where she was pronounced dead.

“Ava was a beautiful young woman who held so much promise for our family,” aunt Beth Doris-Gustin said.

One of Ava’s close friends, Joanna Griffiths of Belmont, said it will be tough to go on without Ava.

“She had the ability to see the good in everyone, no matter what their story may have been. She truly was just an angel visiting the earth for a short amount of time,” Griffiths said.

Town police announced a website taking donations for the Doris family, www.mealtrain.com/trains/4d86e2.

Another site was set up to help pay the family’s funeral costs, www.youcaring.com/jenniferhunterdoris-776126.

Car crashes and spin-outs were reported statewide, including two state snowplows and a salt spreader getting struck by other vehicles, said Bill Boynton, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation.

“These vehicles are out of commission and that’s a big deal because we don’t have a lot of back-ups,” Boynton said.

While travel volume was down significantly, there were still 70 accidents reported on state roads by 2 p.m.

The state had about 700 snowplows and other equipment out on the roads, where blizzard conditions were widespread by early afternoon. By 6:30 p.m., Laconia had the highest, reported snowfall total of 18 inches.

High winds, power outages

Utility crews struggled to keep up with the storm. Countless trees blew over onto homes and roads, leaving many impassable.

“The Seacoast is where you will see that is where the majority of the outages are for our customers as well as from Unitil, which has a large chunk of customers in that region as well,” said Martin Murray, Eversource’s chief spokesman.

Coastal winds reached a peak on the Isle of Shoals, which recorded a 75 mph gust after 3 p.m. The National Weather Service recorded high wind gusts in Bristol (56), Newington (59), Meredith (51), Derry (50) and Sunapee (49).

“We are restoring what we can safely,” said Unitil Vice President Carol Valianti, noting trucks to replace downed poles can’t function in winds over 35 mph.

First responders and utility officials reported that downed power lines caused many of the outages and forced road closures for much of the day in Plaistow, Londonderry and Pelham.

The University of New Hampshire experienced a campus-wide outage in Durham.

At 9 a.m. Wednesday, Eversource was reporting 3,082 customers still without power, mostly in the Franklin and Seacoast areas. Unitil had 3,665 customers without electricity, most of them in Hampton, while the N.H. Electric Coop had 11,729 customers without power, mostly in the Lakes Region.

Officials warned people to beware of and to stay away from downed power lines.

A house on Main Street in Hampstead sustained structural damage while others on Gale Village Avenue and Howard Lane in Newton were also damaged by fallen trees.

The railroad crossing gate at the tracks on Front Street in Exeter was also broken in the storm, prompting police to warn drivers not to cross if the lights were flashing.

By early evening, much of Hampton was without power.

"As a result of the heavy, wet snow and high winds, several trees have fallen. Wires are down all over town. Many of these wires are power lines," Hampton Fire Chief Jameson Ayotte said.

He urged residents to call their local fire departments and to stay away from any downed lines.

Utility companies were reporting early evening that not only on the Seacoast but some small towns in the Lakes Region had most of their customers in the dark. As of 6:30 p.m., Sandwich (96% of customers) and Moultonborough (97%) were in that number.

By 6:30 p.m., Laconia had the highest reported snowfall total of 18 inches, followed by New London (17), Milford (16), Ossipee (15), Manchester (14), Concord (12.5), Hudson (12), Merrimack (11.8), New Boston (10.6) and Hollis (10.5).

Driving treacherous

The DOT lowered speed limits to 45 mph on major highways, including all of Interstate 89 and most of I-93.

“I haven’t really driven very much today, but it seems like chaos,” John O’Keefe of Manchester said after stopping to help push a minivan struggling to make it up a hill. “It’s awful — terrible.”

O’Keefe wasn’t looking forward to his commute to the U.S. Air Force station in New Boston, where he works on the security team. He said the drive generally takes 15-20 minutes, but he was leaving two hours early.

“The wife and the baby are hunkered down at home with tons food,” O’Keefe said. “I went out yesterday and did the typical hoarding type of shopping for the snowpocalypse.”

Boynton said the state did not pre-treat the turnpikes and major roads with brine solution due to the nature of the snow and the cold temperatures on Monday.

“It was felt that morning commuters would actually help blow the lighter, drier snow off the roads, which they did,” Boynton said. There was limited use of salt through the morning hours.”

The state allowed non-essential employees to leave at 1 p.m.; the New Hampshire Liquor Commission shut down all 79 liquor and wine outlets at 3 p.m.

“We’re going to stay at home, wait for it to end and then use the snowblower,” Nathan Buczek of Epping said outside a Market Basket. “That’s about it.”

The state’s air travel also came to a halt as airlines canceled all Tuesday departures and arrivals at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.

Manchester trash and recycling trucks were pulled off the road for safety reasons. Customers not serviced Tuesday were asked to remove their items from the curb as soon as possible and put them out again today at 7 a.m.

Staff reporters Kevin Landrigan and Pat Grossmith and Correspondents Dan Seufert and Jason Schreiber contributed to this report.


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Slavery in the 21 st Century - Hollywood actress, UN launch fund for human trafficking victims

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London. 08 March 2011. A global industry worth approximately US$ 32 billion. Millions of goods moved all the time. Is this one of today's great corporate success stories? Hardly - this is the illicit world of human trafficking, a major network which sees around 2.4 million women, children and men trapped in slave-like conditions. Through sexual exploitation, forced labour, domestic servitude, and child begging, people the world over are held against their will.

On 8 March - International Women's Day - the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced a new Small Grants Facility for victims of human trafficking - a symbolic move given that two-thirds of trafficking victims are women and children.

Speaking at the launch of the grants facility, UNODC Goodwill Ambassador and Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino called for the need to prioritize responses to victims: "Through my work in various parts of the world I have seen with my own eyes the unspeakable pain trafficking victims go through: from girls stolen from their homes or sold by their own parents into sex work, to men enslaved and made to perform torturous labour, to children whose innocence and safety are ripped from them at the hands of adults whose only concern is their profitability. As a victims' advocate in the fight against human trafficking, I encourage each and every person to work together in tackling this crime: modern day slavery only exists because we tolerate it."

As part of the UNODC-managed United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking, close to US$ 1 million has been mobilized, with grants to be issued over the coming months to front-line organizations helping those most affected by this crime.

In addressing the event, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov spoke on the critical steps being taken in pushing an increased victim-centred approach to human trafficking: "The launch of this Small Grants Facility is the first concrete step in rolling out the UN General Assembly's Global Plan to Combat Trafficking in Persons adopted in 2010. As a coordinated and comprehensive approach to end human trafficking in all its forms, the Trust Fund will make a real difference to the lives of those who need it most".

Sharing her harrowing tale as a trafficking victim, "Miss S", a Lithuanian national trafficked to the UK for sexual purposes, spoke on the needs of victims and the critical importance of grass-roots organizations in meeting these: "We just want to be treated with respect like 'normal' people. It can often be difficult to get access to things like banking, employment opportunities and further education. We don't want to be judged - we just want to be helped to lead as normal a life as possible"

UNODC estimate that in Europe alone, trafficking is worth an annual US$ 3 billion, with around 140,000 people trapped in a vicious cycle of violence, abuse and degradation across the continent. Globally, a disturbing 1 in 5 victims are children, though this rises drastically in poorer regions: "Our fellow human beings are sold like goods - it's time we renew our stance towards this terrible practice and work to beat this crime" continued Mr. Fedotov.

The Trust Fund supports actual, on-the-ground humanitarian, legal and financial aid to victims of trafficking through a range of avenues and provides the opportunity for people from all walks of life to contribute in a meaningful manner and assist victims of human trafficking to take back their lives and rebuild their futures.

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Pemex sees strength in new reforms

Private companies can compete for possible Mexican oil reserves.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Reforms give Pemex the right to most proven oil reserves, but private firms can compete for the bulk of the possible reserves, the Mexican government said.

Mexican lawmakers last week put the final touches on legislation that opens Mexico up to private investors after more than 70 years under a monopoly controlled by state-run Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex.

Under a new measure, Pemex has the rights to more than 80 percent of the proven and probable oil reserves in Mexico, while private companies can compete for nearly 80 percent of the possible reserves.

Pemex Director Emilio Lozoya said his company would now work to establish joint ventures for new exploration activity to tap into unrealized reserves.

The reform "strengthens and enhances the ability of operation and investment" in the Mexican oil sector, he said in a statement Wednesday.

The legislation is a victory for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who came to power in 2012 with promises of sweeping economic reform. The oil sector accounted for 13 percent of the country's export earnings last year and the government said reforms should draw in nearly $50 billion in new investments over the next three years.

Mexico set a goal of producing 3.5 million barrels of oil per day by 2025, which would be a 40 percent increase from 2013 levels.

The country, a top 10 oil producer, had an estimated 10 billion barrels of proven oil reserves as of 2013.

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" with Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf and Josh Brolin was No. 1 at the U.S. box office during the weekend with $19 million.

The computer-animated "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" was second with more than $16.33 million.

Ben Affleck's "The Town" was a close third with $16.03 million.

All studio gross estimated receipts are via Box Office Mojo.

"Easy A" raked in $10.7 million for fourth; "You Again" was fifth with $8.3 million; "Devil" sixth with more than $6.47 million; "Resident Evil: Afterlife" seventh with $4.9 million; "Alpha and Omega" eighth with $4.7 million; "Takers" ninth with $1.65 million.

"Inception" was 10th with more than $1.24 million.

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'No Problems' for Kenny Chesney

By GARY GRAFF   |   Aug. 4, 2003 at 7:11 PM

DETROIT, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- When Kenny Chesney released his latest album, "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" in April of 2002, the country singer felt like "we had a chance to do something wonderful."

He didn't know how right he was.

"No Shoes...," the seventh release by the Tennessee-born Chesney, not only topped the Billboard country charts but also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200, putting him in the rarefied territory of Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks. And there have certainly been "No Problems" since then.

The album has gone on to sell more than three million copies and has launched five hit singles -- "The Good Stuff," "A Lot of Things Different," "Young," "Big Star" and the title track. Chesney scooped up CMT's Flameworthy Male Video Artist of the Year award and took home three Academy of Country Music trophies, including Top Male Vocalist. CMT aired a primetime Chesney special this past weekend; Wednesday, he's teaming with John Mellencamp to tape an installment of CMT's "Crossroads" that will air Oct. 3.

It all seemed to hit him at once at the ACM Awards ceremony in May, when a teary-eyed Chesney stood at the podium for the male vocalist honor.

"Y'know, I've been doing this awhile, 12 years, been down a lot of roads, seen a lot of things," Chesney, 35, recalls from a tour stop in Phoenix. "I've seen a lot of guys that I looked up to who stood in that same spot, and a majority of those guys were on the front row, looking at me winning that award -- (George) Strait and Vince Gill and Alan Jackson.

"For me to be standing in that spot and them watching me, it was an emotional moment for me."

Having spent plenty of time promoting "No Shoes...," Chesney says he fully understands why the album's popularity has endured -- though he hastens to add that he never could have predicted this level of success. But, in the wake of a romantic break-up, he took a year off to hone the album with co-producers Buddy Cannon and Norro Wilson, and the effort clearly paid off.

"I felt like it was the first time I've made a record where I could say there was my whole life in basically every song,'" Chesney explains. "You can listen to `No Shoes...' and see what I went through in the three years, personally, since I had my last studio album out. It felt like a lot of me, emotionally, in the record.

"When we got done mixing the record, me and my producers sat in the mastering studio and turned the lights out and cranked it up. Every song I went, `Well, I know why I recorded that.' There were different reasons, a different story, a different emotion for every song. That never happened on an album of mine before."

Now, however, Chesney has to figure out what comes next -- but he's not rushing to decide, either.

"We went in and recorded a few songs," he reports, "and I don't even know if those are gonna make the next record, to be honest with you. We're that early in the creative process. We're not going to have another studio album out, probably, until April of next year."

And even BNA, his record company -- which would surely like to cash in on "No Shoes..." sooner rather than later -- isn't pressuring him to start on his next project.

"They feel like it's a good idea if we take a deep breath before we put the next one out, too," Chesney says. "I'm glad. We've been pushing really hard for two years (on `No Shoes...'). Before we release the next one, we should collectively take a deep breath to re-focus and get ready."

One thing that will be coming out -- on Aug. 19 -- is a cover of the late Waylon Jennings' "Luckenbach, Texas," which Chesney and good pal Kid Rock teamed up on for the Jennings tribute album "I've Always Been Crazy." Chesney describes their rendition as "a little more edgy" than Jennings' original, "but still pretty straightforward."

He also hopes that he and Rock -- with whom Chesney recently vacationed in the Virgin Islands -- will have a chance to collaborate more in the future if the right opportunity came along.

"He's become a really good buddy of mine," Chesney says, "but I wouldn't do it just for the sake of doing it. If we had a song that made sense, then maybe one day we'll do it. I never say never."

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GLENDALE, Ariz., April 18 (UPI) -- Detroit forward Henrik Zetterberg will miss the Red Wings' playoff game against the Phoenix Coyotes Monday because of his injured knee.

Zetterberg is listed as day-to-day.

He has been out since April 6 after suffering the injury when checked by Carolina defenseman Bryan Allen.

Zetterberg led the Red Wings with 80 points on 24 goals and 56 assists during the regular season.

Detroit will be gunning to take a 3-0 Western Conference quarterfinals series lead over Phoenix in the first of two games at Joe Louis Arena.

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CALGARY, Alberta, March 26 (UPI) -- Longtime NHL assistant coach and Team Canada official Wayne Fleming has died at age 62 in Calgary after battling brain cancer, Hockey Canada announced Tuesday.

The group said Fleming, a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, died Monday.

Fleming served as an assistant coach for the New York Islanders, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Calgary, Edmonton and Tampa Bay at various time during a span between 1997 and 2012.

In between, he was vice-president of hockey operations and head coach of Canada's National Men's Team, leading Team Canada behind the bench at the 2001 and 2002 IIHF World Championships while serving under Pat Quinn as the Canadiens won the 2002 Olympic gold medal in Salt Lake City.

Earlier he had worked under legendary Team Canada head coach Dave King to help the squad take a silver medal at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France -- Canada's first Olympic hockey medal since winning bronze in 1968.

"Hockey Canada has lost a great friend, and the hockey world has lost not only a tremendous coach, but a wonderful man," Hockey Canada Chief Executive Bob Nicholson said. "We send our condolences to Wayne's wife, Carolyn, their four children and the rest of the Fleming family."

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Senate Republicans are trying to hold up the confirmation vote on President Obama's defense secretary nominee, Chuck Hagel, a Senate aide said Wednesday.

Hagel's nomination was expected to come up for a vote Thursday, but Republicans want more financial information from him, an unidentified Senate aide told The Hill. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., was trying to resolve the issue and so had not scheduled a vote, the Washington publication said.

Some GOP senators say they have questions about paid speeches Hagel, a Republican former senator from Nebraska, has made and want more financial documentation for organizations with which he is affiliated.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., told The Hill she signed a letter circulating among GOP senators urging a delay on the confirmation vote until they get what they want.

"Let's get everything we need. That's what I want," Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the committee, said.

Hagel sent a letter to the Republicans Tuesday saying he had "made every effort" to meet the committee's disclosure requirements.

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Sweden introduced an official memorial day, Aug. 27, to honor diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, whose actions in World War II saved 100,000 people from the Holocaust.

Swedish Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and Wallenberg's sister, Nina Lagergren, called for the honor in an opinion piece published Friday in the newspaper Dagens Hyheter.

"It is time to manifest the individual's responsibility to tackle oppression and xenophobia and to underscore Sweden's traditions of openness and tolerance," they wrote.

While there is no official process for introducing a memorial day in Sweden, the date was chosen to coincide with the start of the school year and comes after celebrations in 2012 to mark Wallenberg's 100th birthday, the Swedish news agency TT/The Local said.

As a Swedish special envoy to Hungary in World War II, Wallenberg was responsible for saving the lives of Jews by providing passports and safe locations. He died in 1947.

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Game 139, Mariners at Royals

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Taijuan Walker vs. Ervin Santana, 5:10pm

This should be interesting. Taijuan Walker’s MLB debut was excellent, and the poise he showed in pitching around some serious Mariner defending can’t be overstated. But, many have pointed out, it’s a lot easier to pitch around Raul-being-Raul when you’re dealing with the Astros. And that’s true: the Astros have a team wRC+ of just 88, and they have the lowest contact rate (by far) in MLB. Today’s opponent comes in at #1 in all of baseball in contact rate, which means more might be asked of Mariner defenders – a group Walker’s probably not all that confident in right now. But what level of production have the Royals gotten from that best-in-baseball contact rate? Their wRC+ is, er, 88. The Royals hit everything, but they hit everything poorly. The Royals have some actual hitters, so I’m not going to say that this is an identical test, especially as the Royals can review tape and prepare for Walker a bit more than the Astros could. But this is not a fundamentally more difficult test, it’s just fundamentally different. It’ll be interesting to see how he approaches this start.

Ervin Santana could come home with the Comeback Player of the Year award in the AL this year, as he’s posting a lovely RA/FIP for the Royals – the team lambasted for picking up his salary this offseason. Santana’s always had HR problems, and while he’s not exactly eliminated them, it’s instructive to see what can happen when a player takes a peripheral from “lol” to “OK” or “decent.” Santana has always essentially been a three pitch pitcher, with a four-seamer, a slider and an occasional change. He occasionally worked on a sinker, but not terribly often. His slider’s his bread and butter pitch; he throws it to RHB and LHBs alike, and he’ll throw it in any count. Over his career, it’s consistently gotten low batting-average-on-contact as well as whiffs, but that many sliders mean a lot of opportunities for hangers. As such, he’s given up a number of HRs on it. That’s actually not a huge problem; he’s given up *10* HRs on sliders this year, which is kind of astonishing, but as I mentioned, his overall HR rate is OK. His problem has come in years when his *fastball* gets annihilated. Last year, he gave up 22 HRs on his four-seamer. This year, he’s at 8.

Is it a change in approach, a change in luck? I can’t see much change in how he uses it, but the one thing that jumps off his BrooksBaseball pitcher card is the use of a sinker. Last year, the manually-reclassed pitch type system Dan/Harry use picked up no sinkers. This year, he’s using it for over 20% of his pitches. Is it a great pitch? No, not really, but it’s another look for hitters. This is pure speculation, but this would seem to be a much more important factor in Santana’s improvement than the ballyhooed return of some velocity; Santana’s four-seam velo is up less than 1mph from 2012 to 2013. Santana was just extremely predictable in 2012, using a four-seamer to lefties over 70% of his first pitches and over 70% of the time the batter was ahead in the count. To righties, it was a fairly consistent 60:40 split in those situations. With the re-introduction of a sinker, it’s a lot harder for a batter to guess fastball. This may help his HR rates, and his GB% is up this season as well, which lends some credence to the idea that he’s throwing a lot more sinkers.

All of that said, having the kind of bullpen the Royals have can’t help but make their starters look a bit better than they are. The M’s saw it on Labor Day, when Will Smith came in to strike out Kyle Seager in a key situation, and then stuck around for another 4 innings of dominant relief. As such, it’d be lovely if the M’s got to Santana early. The M’s have faced lefty starters in the past four games, and seven of the past nine, and as you know, the M’s are terrible against lefties. So much of the hand-wringing about situational hitting, or the lack of offense, etc. can be explained by this run of lefty starters. Of course, knowing what’s causing the problem and having a solution are two different things. The M’s are very left-handed right now, and until they acquire actual right handed threats, they’ll be vulnerable to teams rejiggering their rotations to give the Travis Blackleys and Bruce Chens of the world a spot start or two.

1: Miller, SS
2: Gutierrez, RF
3: Seager, 3B
4: Morales, DH
5: Ibanez, LF
6: Smoak, 1B
7: Ackley, CF
8: Zunino, C
9: Franklin, 2B
SP: Taijuan Walker wooooooo

As you may have seen on TV, twitter, or however it is that you access noteworthy baseball feats these days, A’s 3B Josh Donaldson made a sublime catch of a foul pop-up last night against Texas. The debate about whether baseball itself or certain baseballing acts rise to the level of art is ultimately unresolvable, but I can now point to this poem by Seattle’s own Patrick Dubuque as proof that baseballing acts can inspire art.

The Royals have been staring at the contact rate leaderboard too, it would appear. Today, they called up Carlos Pena from AAA Omaha – the man who was a little bit too three-true-outcomes for even the Houston Astros has arrived to shake things up and get his teammates to live a little, much in the manner of an 80s teen comedy. The article notes that Omaha qualified for the playoffs with a 70-74 record, while the solidly-above-.500 Rainiers’ season is done. Even in the minors, division strength is a huge influence on playoff odds. (hat-tip: Divish).

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  1. Westside guy on September 4th, 2013 3:44 pm

    Zduriencik is “a big fan” of Eric Wedge – so you’re going to continue seeing these sorts of lineups throughout 2014.

    Get used to it.

    Actually the only spot I take issue with is Raul… but, seriously, it’s a BIG issue. And since Z has “nothing to worry about”, I expect we’re going to see another Morse-like pickup in the off-season. So, yeah, get used to it. Defense doesn’t matter.

  2. scraps on September 4th, 2013 3:54 pm

    Yes, baseball can inspire art. On the other hand, baseball can inspire bad art. Just yesterday, I discovered Ben Gibbard’s (as in Death Cab for Cutie) “Ichiro’s Theme”.

  3. The_Waco_Kid on September 4th, 2013 4:45 pm

    Honestly, I’m more interested in Raul setting HR records than winning meaningless games. Much as I like Condor. Seeing Almonte instead of Guti would be nice though. I’m concerned that Guti and/or Ibanez are in our long term plans.

  4. Snuffy on September 4th, 2013 4:52 pm

    MSaunders on the bench again. I’ll check the boxscore after the ‘game’ to see how things went for Walker.
    Wedge & Jack must go.

  5. Eastside Suds on September 4th, 2013 4:55 pm

    Deep resigned sigh……….

  6. Paul B on September 4th, 2013 4:59 pm

    In Wedge’s defense, Raul has not had a platoon split this year. However, this is overwhelmed by:

    1. Having a horrible fielder behind a very young pitcher against a team that puts the ball in play a lot
    2. Thinking about next year, which of these three player is likely to help out next year: Ibanez, Saunders, or Almonte? And which of those three is playing?

  7. Paul B on September 4th, 2013 5:03 pm

    Ah well, at least Morse is gone. Maybe next year we will only have 2 DH’s instead of 3.

  8. scraps on September 4th, 2013 5:09 pm

    They’re not “meaningless games”. I don’t care about Raul setting a meaningless age-related home run “record”; I want something to care about the Mariners’ future in the last 24 games.

  9. Westside guy on September 4th, 2013 5:14 pm

    Raul has sucked big-time since the all-star break. It’s very unlikely he’s going to reach Teddy Ballgame’s age 41 record at this point.

  10. Paul B on September 4th, 2013 5:19 pm

    Raul has sucked big-time since the all-star break

    So, yeah. Although his value in the field makes up for it.

  11. jordan on September 4th, 2013 5:21 pm

    Ervin Santana and Tai Walker pitch very similarly.

  12. msfanmike on September 4th, 2013 5:23 pm

    You are killing me, Paul. Nicely done.

  13. Sports on a Shtick on September 4th, 2013 5:24 pm did an article today about which MLB team is the next Pirates, so to speak. The writer had the Mariners pegged as contenders by 2017. That sounds about right.

  14. Paul B on September 4th, 2013 5:25 pm

    What do we think about Walker? Off to a good start tonight in the first.

  15. californiamariner on September 4th, 2013 5:25 pm

    Nice first inning Taijuan!

  16. Paul B on September 4th, 2013 5:26 pm

    Maybe if I dis Raul some more he will hit a homer.

  17. Westside guy on September 4th, 2013 5:34 pm

    In the Olympics, all of the karate matches occur over the course of one day. They do this because, if they space it out, the competitors’ bodies get too beat up and sore, making them unable to continue.

    I wonder if 41-year-old Raul had that problem. As long as he was kept moving every day, he was fine – but, after four days off in a row, his body locked up and can’t function any more. 😀

    I know I’ve had that happen to me…

  18. mrakbaseball on September 4th, 2013 5:34 pm

    2017? 40th anniversary party!

  19. californiamariner on September 4th, 2013 5:37 pm

    Walker pitching and Zunino behind the plate. This is very refreshing

  20. Paul B on September 4th, 2013 5:44 pm

    Walker pitching and Zunino behind the plate. This is very refreshing

    On this day in 2011, the Mariners lost 8-5 to the A’s. Beavan went 5 innings, Olivo was the catcher.

    So, yeah.

  21. jordan on September 4th, 2013 5:46 pm

    Olivo… I miss that guy

  22. californiamariner on September 4th, 2013 5:55 pm

    Ok Paul this is weird. I looked up the 2012 starters on this day and it was also Beavan and Olivo. Glad we broke that September 4th tradition.

  23. Paul B on September 4th, 2013 5:59 pm

    I was looking at 2011 because I was hoping it was Vasquez. But then I thought, hey, Blake is close enough.

    Too strange that it would be the same battery. In 2012 it was a 4-3 loss to Boston.

  24. WTF_Ms on September 4th, 2013 6:12 pm

    Good thing Raul had new tennis balls on his walker! No pun intended.

  25. WTF_Ms on September 4th, 2013 6:35 pm

    Well, 4 run lead blown. Welcome to the big league Tai! Good thing a base running mistake saved him.

  26. Sports on a Shtick on September 4th, 2013 6:58 pm

    Nick tends to do silly things like that poor bunt there. There are a lot of… blunders with him.

  27. juneau_fan on September 4th, 2013 7:00 pm

    This f-ing bunting is going to the be f-ng death of me.

  28. Breadbaker on September 4th, 2013 7:42 pm

    That was definitely the old, bad Ackley.

  29. msfanmike on September 4th, 2013 7:48 pm

    Watched three pitches (all strikes) and swing at none … With the go-ahead run on base. No excuse for it. Hard to believe, yet not too hard to believe.

  30. msfanmike on September 4th, 2013 7:50 pm

    Good golly – swing the bat you choked up chumps.

  31. Westside guy on September 4th, 2013 7:51 pm

    I wonder which of Wedge’s old man rules Saunders broke? He’s obviously not hurt.

  32. msfanmike on September 4th, 2013 7:55 pm

    That last defensive play by Franklin … Ackley does not make, IMO.

  33. msfanmike on September 4th, 2013 8:06 pm

    AFT someone gets a big hit.

  34. Breadbaker on September 4th, 2013 8:06 pm

    Kendrys decided station to station baseball wasn’t going to work this time.

  35. Longgeorge1 on September 4th, 2013 8:07 pm

    Give that man a contract! (ugh)

  36. Breadbaker on September 4th, 2013 8:12 pm

    I love totally uneventful bottoms of the ninth on the road.

  37. Longgeorge1 on September 4th, 2013 8:14 pm

    How strange was that?

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AUSTIN, Texas - UT Arlington's bid for its first win against Texas in nine attempts fell short on Friday night. The Longhorns rallied to top the Mavericks 72-69 at the Frank Erwin Center.

"We came in here on their home court and played well, but you have to find a way to win and that is the bottom line," UT Arlington coach Scott Cross said. "There are no moral victories in this game. It is time that we have to figure out how to win ball games."

The Mavericks (2-6) closed out a four-game trip by coming up short in all four contests. UTA returns home Tuesday to face Dallas Baptist at 7:30 p.m. at College Park Center.

Shaquille White-Miller put UTA up 69-68 with two minutes to go when the senior hit a deep 3-pointer as the shock clock expired. However, two turnovers plagued the Mavericks late and Texas (6-1) posted back-to-back buckets to push ahead. Senior guard Reger Dowell had an attempt to tie the game, but his half-court attempt as time expired went wide.

"We looked nervous at the end," Cross said. "They really took control in transition and when they get out and run they are really good. I thought that was the biggest difference tonight."

Dowell led UTA's offense with 17 points, snapping his streak of 20-point games at seven. Senior forward Brandon Edwards totaled 16 points, while grabbing a team-high seven boards. Junior guard Jamel Outler ended with 14 points, shooting 3-6 from behind the arc.

The Mavericks had three double-digit scorers in a first half, taking a 41-33 lead into the break.

Texas clawed back to begin the second, starting by scoring the first six points before Dowell and Outler converted on back-to-back buckets.

Jumping out to its first lead since early in the first half, Texas outscored UTA 12-1 and built a 68-64 lead with less than four minutes left in the contest.

Dowell hit two free throws to bring the Mavs back to within one, and Shaquille White-Miller knocked down a 3-pointer to put UTA back into the lead.

Costly turnovers down the stretch sealed UTA's fate on the night. The Mavericks turned the ball over 16 times compared to UT's nine, and the Longhorns size advantage showed with 12 blocked shots.

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Opening Statement: "Our guys played a really hard game, we fought. I thought we improved defensively. Texas hurt us down the stretch, they pounded the ball inside, but they especially took control in transition. They did a great job of blocking shoots, getting stops, and capitalizing on that on the opposite end of the floor. Demarcus Holland is so good in transition, he gets out and runs. They get out and find him which made the biggest difference in the game. I am proud of our guys. We have definitely made some strides in the last week defensively. We are coming along, we have to find a way to keep getting better."

On whether or not this is a moral victory for UTA: "No, at this point there is no moral victory. It was a good showing but there is nominal victory. It is time were we have to figure out how to win basketball games. Texas is a good basketball team. They just beat DePaul by 18 points. We came in here and played well but you have to find a way to win; that is the bottom line. We came up short. You have to give them credit, they made the plays, they looked like they had been in the position before to win close basketball games. We were nervous and unsure of ourselves; that is why we came up short."

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When fellow Executive MBA students welcomed Jonathan Silk back to class recently, he was honored for dedication to more than one kind of duty.

The Army captain had not only returned safely from a tour of Afghanistan but also heroically managed to keep up with his School of Management class work on the six-month deployment. The achievement was the result of determination and support from back home – not to mention several triumphs over technological difficulties.

Silk thanked the University “for allowing me to stay” enrolled even after his unit shipped out to help French, German and Italian NATO forces train Afghan police.

He also thanked his wife, Staci, and his group project team for helping him stay plugged in to what was happening in his School of Management courses.

Silk, a career soldier for more than 20 years, said that after President Obama announced a 30,000-troop Afghanistan surge early this year, he recognized that he probably would be part of the call-up. “I knew I couldn’t defer,” Silk said.

Mulling his education alternatives, he consulted teammate and friend Pamela Foster Brady and asked: “How do I keep up with class?”

“If you commit to the program, the team and I will commit to you,” she recalled telling him.

She explained that the group consisted of “several of us that travel extensively for our jobs. We asked to be put in a team of kindred spirits because we knew logistics would be different.”

Backing from fellow students aside, Silk had the option to suspend his schoolwork, said Phil Sanchez III, director of the Executive MBA program. He recalled several serious discussions in which he had asked Silk: “Are you sure you want to do this? Are you sure?”

Silk had firm resolve, e-mail access and a global cellphone that the Army provided. Nonetheless, technical difficulties crept in across the nearly 7,700 miles between Richardson and Kabul.

On the Internet, “because Jonathan had limited bandwidth in Afghanistan, it was very difficult for him to pull down professors’ presentations, handouts, agendas, etc.,” Brady said.

So after various experiments, “it came down to snail mail and DVDs,” Brady said. After each class, his team would send Silk a DVD of the lecture, scanned copies of each  others’ notes, handouts, professors’ PowerPoint presentations and more. “We even sent him two reams of paper so that he could do his own printing,” Brady said.

Silk stayed in touch with his classmates several times a week via e-mail—“hundreds of e-mails,” according to Brady—and a few international phone calls.

A combat veteran who served in Iraq, he unknowingly was injured there in late 2003, when a rocket-propelled grenade bounced off his chest armor. The grenade failed to explode, but the force of impact caused a tear in his heart’s mitral valve. Later, he had surgery to replace the valve with a mechanical one.

Silk told his classmates that his latest tour of duty had been a worthwhile endeavor. Even though much work remains to be done, he said, “We made a lot of progress.”

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Dedication to his management studies may have helped Capt. Jonathan Silk reap another reward. Silk’s next Army assignment—after he graduates next spring—will be teaching leadership to the cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

It isn't the first recognition of his talents. Silk's wife, Staci, went to Washington, D.C., in April to accept a General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award on her husband’s behalf.

His command had nominated him for the recognition, for raising about $4,500 in one month for the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit dedicated to helping severely injured service members.

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Reports from the scene suggest a gunfight broke out between police and seven militants, including one woman. At least two policemen are in hospital.

This is the latest in a string of violent attacks in the area, which China has blamed on separatists.

Xinjiang is home to many Muslim Uighurs, some of whom want independence in the region they call East Turkestan.

In the most deadly recent attack, 16 police were killed in Kashgar on 4 August - four days before the Olympic Games began in Beijing.

Beijing regularly accuses Uighur extremists of seeking a separate state, but critics say such threats are exaggerated.

The latest outbreak of violence is said to have happened on Wednesday in Jiashi County, close to Kashgar.

Both Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the World Uighur Congress based in Germany, and a local official confirmed that two policemen had died.

Mr Raxit said witnesses had heard gunfire and people being arrested.

Between two and six police officers are in hospital.

Mr Raxit said mass detentions were taking place following the clash, and called for the international community to stop the crackdown.

Celil allowed to meet with mother, sister - (Oct 13 2008)

China: Uighur Writer Detained (Oct 09 2008)

US Court of Appeals blocks release of Guantánamo Uighurs as government resorts to ‘scare tactics’ - (10 October 2008)

2 Chinese Policemen Killed, 7 Wounded in Xinjiang - ( 8/28/2008 )

US disappointed Olympics didn't open China more - ( 8/24/2008 )

Uyghurs stand up to China over East Turkistan - ( 8/18/2008 )

Few answers in violence-hit Xinjiang - ( 8/16/2008 )
Uyghur Canadian Society (UCS)
3205 Nawbrook Road, Mississauga, Ontario L4X 2V6
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Home Timeshares Caribbean US Virgin Islands St. John Westin St. John Resort Villas Timeshare ID#97644
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Timeshare ID#97644: Timeshare's Owner:
Westin St. John Resort Villas
St. John, US Virgin Islands

Rent: US$3,955/week
Buy: Not for Sale
Availability: Week #50 (Dec 10 - Dec 17, 2017)
Listing Address: St. John N/A, US Virgin Islands

Unit Size: 3 Bedroom/3 Bath (sleeps 10)
Check-In Day: Sunday
Available Season: Any Season
Use Type: Annual Fix Wk (1 Points)
Points Based Timeshare: 1 Points

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Owner's Name: Greg
Owner's Location: N/A, USA
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Timeshare Owner's Description:

General Description:
The Westin St John 3 bedroom pool villas are very unique as they are very private with a walled in court yard that has your own pool, dining area with umbrella, BBQ grill, lounge chairs, pass thru snack bar from kitchen and glass doors that open from the living room and master suite.

Week #50 Sunday Dec 10 - 17, 2017 7 nights @ 565.00 per/nt = 3955.00 (Includes all Resort Fees and Taxes)

Week #3 Saturday Jan 20 - 27, 2018 7 nights @ 850.00 per/nt = 5950.00 (Includes all Resort Fees and Taxes)
3 Bedroom Pool Villa

Resort Description:
Use of all The Westin Resort amenities including 1/4 acre pool, hot tub, 1200 ft white sand beach, Westin kids club ect.

Unit Description:
The villas were completely remodeled in 2010 including kitchens with granite tops-new appliances-tile-cabinets, Carpet and paint through out, baths with new tile-granite tops-plumbing fixtures, New furniture and decorating.

Nearby Attractions:
Check out the many beautiful beaches on the Island. Cruz Bay water sports is on site offering many boating activities and tours.
Sailing, scuba diving, jet ski rentals, tours to the British Virgin Islands, snorkel tours, Sunset sails.

Nearby Restaurants:
Three restaurants on site from fine dining to lunch poolside. Also a deli on site for pizza, sandwiches, breakfast items ect.

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All-Inclusive Air Conditioning
Beach Nearby Boating Nearby
Casino Nearby Child Care On-Site
Dish Washer in Unit Water Skiing Nearby
Snow Skiing Nearby Excercise Equipment
Fireplace in Unit Fishing Nearby
Games Room Golf Nearby
Grocery Store Nearby Handicapped Unit
Health Club Housekeeping
Kitchen in Unit Lake Nearby
Laundry on Premises Elevator on Premises
Microwave in Unit Racquetball
Restaurant Nearby Sauna
Scuba Diving Nearby Shopping Nearby
Snack Bar Spa
Squash Swimming Pool
Telephone in Unit Tennis on Premises
Washer & Dryer in Unit Jacuzzi/Hot Tub