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Is There a future in trying to persuade film makers to useAberdeen if they need ugly locations?
That's the idea of Scottish Screen who take the view that as wellas some sites of beauty in …
Automated systems have a tendency to fill the world with alerts: fire alarms, low-inventory warnings, squawking medical devices in a hospital, and collision alarms in planes or, increasingly, automobiles. Whether you're designing the alarm-generating software or merely deciding which alarms to turn on in a packaged product, the challenge is finding the right balance between too many alarms and too few. Problem: Too many false alarms train users to ignore valid warnings. Resolution: You must combat a "better safe than sorry" attitude among systems engineers, says James P. Bliss, a professor at Old Dominion University who has studied this "Boy Who Cried Wolf" problem extensively in the …
Nations should avoid dropping aid or restricting trade amid the financial meltdown, the head of a U.N. food agency said Wednesday, warning that such steps could increase the risk of hunger and put pressure on food prices in the poorest countries.
Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf expressed concern that the injection of capital into the financial system could push governments to rethink their commitments to development aid.
"If there is a recession, naturally it will be more difficult to mobilize resources for agriculture in developing countries, but also the income of people will not increase," Diouf said in an …
Asian stock markets were little moved in early trading Wednesday after investors in the U.S. seemed to pause and look back on a year of recovery from the market's 12-year lows.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 stock average lost 0.12 percent to 10,555. And the Shanghai composite index fell 0.24 percent to 3,062.
The South Korean benchmark eased 0.22 percent to 1,657. Australian stocks slipped 0.14 percent to 4,813.
Markets in Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia all ticked slightly higher. In the Philippines, stocks rose 0.21 percent to 3,114.
The moves echoed Tuesday …
HONOLULU--The families of two Samoan women who passed on knowledgeof a tree's healing powers will share in profits from any AIDS drugdeveloped from the rainforest plant.
In an agreement announced Thursday, the nonprofit AIDS ReSearchAlliance promised to give the government of Samoa and the healers 20percent of any net profits from an experimental anti-HIV compoundcalled prostratin.
Scientists hope to begin the first trials on humans within a year.
The drug, if successful, could earn millions of dollars a year forthe Samoans, said Irl Barefield, executive director of the AIDSReSearch Alliance, which is licensed to research the drug by theNational Cancer …
ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The owner of an animal preserve who killed himself after freeing dozens of lions, tigers and other exotic animals was deeply in debt.
Court records show that Terry Thompson and his wife owed at least $68,000 in unpaid taxes to the IRS and the county, and he had two federal tax liens filed against him last year. …
Congress passed a sweeping overhaul of America's financial regulations Thursday, securing for President Barack Obama his third major, hard-fought legislative victory.
The White House said Obama likely would sign the bill next week.
He said passage of the giant crackdown on the financial sector will provide long deserved economic security to American families and businesses.
He said the legislation ensures there will be no more taxpayer bailouts of banks and that Americans will not have to foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses.
With the president sinking in public opinion polls that measure confidence in his economic leadership, …
ENTEBBE, Uganda - After three years of closed-door talks, nine nations are quietly edging toward a deal to jointly oversee the waters of the Nile, an agreement that has eluded lands along the great river since the days of the pharaohs.
An expected meeting of water ministers next month may produce a preliminary accord, officials say. "I hope we'll reach a very good result, but I cannot guarantee it," Egyptian negotiator Abdel Fattah Metawie said in Cairo, the likely site for the session.
Such a pact would right a colonial-era wrong that reserved the world's longest river for irrigation in Egypt and Sudan, effectively denying its waters to Uganda and other upriver …
The death toll from two days of militant bombings neared 140 _ the deadliest spate in post-Taliban Afghanistan _ after a suicide car bomb exploded in a crowded southern market, killing 38 Afghans, officials said.
The marketplace bombing Monday, which targeted a Canadian military convoy, came one day after Afghanistan's deadliest insurgent attack since the Taliban's ouster in 2001. The toll from that blast _ set off in a crowd watching a dog fight _ rose to more than 100.
The back-to-back bombings in Kandahar province could serve as a warning that insurgents have turned to collateral civilian deaths to further weaken the Kabul government. Though attacks …
A BRIGHT marketing campaign developed by Bristol-based DuttonMerrifield is being used to launch a pilot scheme offeringelectricity, gas and telephony services to Lloyds TSB customers.
Lloyds TSB's strategy seeks primarily to increase customer loyaltyby involving them in a …
The 22nd Annual BioCycle West Coast Conference - March 20-22, 2006 in Portland, Oregon - is perhaps the most cutting edge event in the world of composting, organics recycling and the renewable energy connections. The conference agenda reflects the critical role that people and companies managing the organic fraction of the waste stream play in building sustainable cities and communities. That role opens up a host of exciting project development, investment and research opportunities. A broad spectrum of organizations are cosponsoring this event, including the Energy Trust Of Oregon, the Portland Office Of Sustainable Development, Metro regional government, the Oregon Departments of Energy and Environmental Quality, the Washington Organic Recycling Council, the Northwest Biosolids Management Association, Norcal Waste Systems and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Over 50 speakers will address what it takes to achieve sustainable cities and communities by focusing on these topics: Organics recycling and future of MSW management; Municipal agencies accelerate composting; Anaerobic digestion of MSW organics; Sustainable steps to energy independence with organics recovery; Storm water management/compost use; Strategies to optimize compost facility success; Crop connections to energy recovery; Expanding markets for recycled organics; and Food residuals recycling strategies. The final agenda appears on pages 15-17 of this issue. And conference activity updates and speaker profiles can be found on the West Coast Conference page of our website - www.biocycle.net.
On Wednesday, March 22nd, the fullday field trip starts with morning tours of the City of Portland's Sunderland Yard, which composts yard trimmings and recycles asphalt and other highway materials; the Portland Food Bank, a nonprofit agency involved in food recovery and nonedible food composting; and the ReBuilding Center, a marketplace for deconstructed and recycled building materials. In the afternoon, the Portland Office of Sustainable Development has put together an amazing walking tour of a host of innovative projects and installations throughout the city. The tour will feature innovative storm water management tools such as green roofs, bioswales and rain harvesting, state-of-the-art green buildings with energy and water conservation innovations, and native plant gardens in community parks.
In addition to the formal meeting sessions and the Wednesday tour, a variety of networking and social events are planned. They start with BioCycle's reception on Monday evening, March 20th, in the exhibition hall. Winners of prizes provided by vendors in the exhibit hall are announced during the reception. Early Tuesday morning, participants can join in a fun run (and a bit slower paced walk) along the banks of the nearby Willamette River. That evening, the Washington Organic Recycling Council and the Composting Council of Oregon are hosting a "Chat and Chow" at a nearby restaurant, providing an opportunity to network, socialize and win prizes in the councils' raffle. Plans are in the works for a Sunday evening get-together for conference participants. Details on all events will be posted on the BioCycle conference page of the website.
In what one booster calls "the hydrogen bomb of all Christiandisciplines," fasting is gaining in popularity as a way to increasespirituality.
"We have seen this grow and grow," said Bill Bright, a prominentevangelical Christian who has devoted $1 million to promotingfasting.
Particularly linked with the 40-day period of Lent, fastinghelps believers better appreciate the gifts they have been bestowed,and connects them with their Lord, some say."You feel closer to God because you realize how much he hasgiven you," said Jessica Solgers, a ninth-grader at Lincoln-Way HighSchool in Frankfort, who went without food for 30 hours.Some fasters eat less food than normal and give the money theywould have spent on full meals to charity.But health experts warn that depending on how one definesfasting, it can be dangerous.Religion coverage, Pages 32-33.
A money-market mutual fund that "broke the buck" amid a rush of orders to pull out cash has begun returning an initial $26 billion to investors who had been unable to access their money for more than a month.
The first in an unspecified number of distributions from the Reserve Primary Fund began Thursday with checks being mailed to retail-direct shareholders, Reserve Management Co. said. Payments to all other shareholders will be made by wire on Friday.
Each investor is getting about half their current account balance, the company said. It said all investors are being treated the same, whether or not they tendered redemption orders, and that the payout is being done on a pro-rata basis.
"This distribution marks a significant step in the process of liquidating the Primary Fund and distributing money back to shareholders," Reserve Management Co. President Bruce R. Bent said in a statement. "We are committed to making future distributions when more cash becomes available."
The fund had total assets of about $51 billion as of Sept. 30. It held $64 billion in assets on Sept. 12, before a soured investment in Lehman Brothers debt triggered a rush of institutional investors pulling out cash.
On Sept. 16, the rapid sell-off of assets caused the value of fund assets to fall to 97 cents for each investor dollar put in _ the first instance in 14 years of a money-market mutual fund "breaking the buck," or having its per-share value fall below $1.
Reserve Management froze redemption orders. That led institutional investors to pull out cash from that fund and others, creating fears about the safety of the $3.4 trillion in assets held in money-market funds, and a new temporary government money fund guarantee program.
Reserve Management said it is "focused on liquidating the fund's holdings at amortized cost as quickly as possible."
Federal agencies would have to redouble their efforts to identify and recover billions of dollars lost annually to wasteful spending under a bill President Barack Obama was signing into law Thursday.
He also was expected to announce a goal of reducing improper payments by $50 billion by 2012.
With the federal debt and people's worries about government red ink mounting, the bill marked the latest effort by the Obama administration to get a tighter handle on Washington spending.
Improper payments _ from outright fraud to checks issued to the wrong person or for the wrong amount because of a typo _ reached a high of nearly $110 billion last year, according to the White House. Federal auditors found that millions of dollars in benefits went to dead people, fugitives or others not eligible for them.
Key elements of the bill will require more agencies to report waste and to produce audited, corrective action plans with targets to reduce the errors that lead to such improper payments. The bill also requires all agencies that spend more than $1 million to conduct recovery audits on their programs.
The measure, sponsored by Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., and Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., also gives agency heads authority to use any recovered money for purposes not currently allowed, including improving their financial management, supporting the agency's inspector general or for the original intent of the funding.
Agencies would face penalties for failing to comply with the law.
Since taking office, Obama has taken steps to cut wasteful spending in part by reducing improper payments. Last month, he ordered creation of a federal "Do Not Pay List" _ a database that agencies ultimately must search before cutting checks to individuals and contractors.
Toward the broader goal of trimming federal spending overall, Obama has proposed a three-year freeze in spending not tied to national security. He also has instituted changes in how government contracts are awarded to save billions in such costs, and has directed agencies to sell excess or underused real estate.
Obama also has established a special commission that is due to report after the November midterm elections on what spending cuts, higher taxes or combination of the two are needed to control future budget deficits.
HE BROAD BREASTED TURKEY, roasted to golden perfection, is the symbol of our American Thanksgiving. It's a time for family and friends to sit down together for the traditional holiday dinner.
Outside, the late fall air is chilly; inside, we're warmed by sharing familiar foods, as we sit down together and feel thankful for all we have.
Besides the turkey, the table is laden with relishes, corn, sweet potatoes, vegetable dishes and the venerable pumpkin pie.
In Colonial times, everybody pitched in, helping out with the preparations. Why not re-create something ofthat spirit today?
Make it a family affair. Set aside an evening or two to cook and prepare, which will not only lessen the work load, but will add a participatory aspect to the celebration.
It all adds up to a delicious Thanksgiving Day, in every way.
MAPLE GLAZED TURKEY BREAST
Meat
Serves 6 - 8
* 1 (5-7 pound) turkey breast
* salt and pepper
* 1 large orange, cut up
* � cup maple syrup, warmed
* � tablespoon orange marmalade, warmed
* � teaspoon minced garlic
* 2 teaspoons cornstarch
* � cup canned low sodium chicken broth
Pre-heat oven to 4000F. Rub a sprinkling of salt and pepper into the bone side of the breast.
Line a small roasting pan with heavy duty aluminum foil with an overhang of about 8 inches. Place the turkey breast, bone side down, in the pan on top �f the cut up orange.
In a small bowl, mix the maple syrup, marmalade and garlic. Spoon half the mixture over the turkey breast. Bring the foil together pinching to seal.
Roast for 30 minutes. Reduce heat to 325�F. Fold foil back to uncover turkey breast. Baste with remaining maple syrup mixture.
Roast 1 hour longer or until an instant read thermometer reaches 1700F, basting often with pan juices. If browning too quickly, cover lightly with aluminum foil.
When correct temperature is reached, place the turkey breast on a warm serving- platter. Let stand 15 minutes before slicing.
To make gravy, pour pan juices and any sediment into a small saucepan. Blend the cornstarch and broth until smooth. Stir into pan juices.
Stir constantly over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil. Cook for 1 minute. Pour into a warmed gravy boat and pass to pour over turkey.
RAGOUT OF ROOT VEGETABLES
Pareve
Serves 6
A ragout is a thick, well-seasoned mixture of meat, fish, poultry and in this recipe, of vegetables.
* 18 baby carrots
*2 medium onions
* 2 small parsnips
* 6 tablespoons pareve margarine
* 2 tablespoons olive oil
* 1 �teaspoons caraway seeds
* kosher salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
Cut carrots lengthwise into quarters. Slice onions and parsnips thinly.
In a large, non-stick skillet, melt the margarine over medium heat. Stir in the oil. Add the carrots, onions and parsnips.
Reduce heat to low. Partially cover. Cook 25 minutes, stirring often until onions are soft and yellow, and carrots and parsnips are soft. Toss with the caraway seeds.
Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve hot.
Note: This may be made ahead and reheated in microwave.
POTATO-ONION CASSEROLE
Pareve
Serves 6
* 3 large baking potatoes (about IVa pounds total)
* � cup olive oil
8 � cup dry unseasoned bread crumbs
* 1 teaspoon salt
* � teaspoon pepper
* 1 large onion, peeled and thinly sliced
Preheat oven to 3500F. Coat a shallow, medium baking dish or 9- or 10-inch pie plate with nonstick cooking spray.
Peel potatoes and thinly slice on a diagonal. Arrange half of potatoes over bottom of dish, overlapping slices slightly.
Drizzle on 2 tablespoons olive oil. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons bread crumbs, Vz teaspoon salt and 1A teaspoon pepper over potatoes.
Spread all of onion slices over potato layer and drizzle on 1 tablespoon olive oil. Top with remaining potatoes.
Drizzle remaining 1 tablespoon oil over casserole. Sprinkle remaining 2 tablespoons bread crumbs, V2 teaspoon salt and 1A teaspoon pepper on top.
Cover lightly with foil and bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes.
Remove foil and continue to bake until potatoes are browned on top and tender, about 15 minutes longer. (A sharp, pointed knife should slide in easily.)
Serve hot.
GARLICKY BRUSSELS SPROUTS
Pareve
Serves 4
* 2 (10-ounce) packages frozen baby brussels sprouts
* 3 tablespoons olive oil
* 3 tablespoons chopped garlic
* salt and pepper
Pat brussels sprouts dry on paper towels.
In a large skillet, cook sprouts in olive oil over medium heat, stirring often, for 5 minutes. Cover and cook 10 minutes, shaking pan several times, until tender.
Stir in garlic, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook 2 minutes longer.
Season with salt and plenty of pepper to taste. Serve hot.
PUMPKIN PIE
Pareve
Serves 8 - 10
A light and easy pareve version of one of the most popular Thanksgiving pies.
* 4 eggs
* 6 rounded tablespoons brown sugar
* 1� cups canned pumpkin
* � cup cold coffee
* � teaspoon salt
* 2� teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
?1 (9-inch) frozen pie shell, unbaked, or make your own crust (recipe follows)
Pre-heat oven to 4000F. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs lightly. Add the sugar, pumpkin, coffee, salt and pumpkin pie spice. Whisk to blend.
Pour into pie shell. Place on a baking sheet to prevent spillage. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 3250F. Bake 35 minutes longer or until mixture is set and slightly puffed up.
Serve at room temperature.
PERFECT
PROCESSOR PASTRY
Pareve
Makes 2 9-inch pie crusts
An unbelievably easy short crust pastry. May be refrigerated for 2-3 days or freeze for several weeks.
* 3 cups all-purpose flour
* � teaspoon salt
* 1 cup (2 sticks) pareve margarine, cut in pieces
* 1 egg
* 1 � teaspoons white vinegar
* ice water to mix
Place the flour and salt in the food processor bowl. Using the pulse button, cut in the margarine until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
In a measuring cup, whisk the egg, vinegar and enough ice water to make 2/3 cup. Add the egg mixture.
Process until dough starts to clump together. Do not let it form a ball and come away from the sides of the bowl.
Remove and divide into two equal pieces. Wrap tightly in wax paper. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or up to 3 days. Let stand at room temperature for 1015 minutes before rolling out on a floured board.
CRANBERRY-PEAR BUNDT CAKE
Pareve
Serves 15 - 20
This golden-crusted, moist coffee cake is studded with chunks of fresh pears and dried cranberries. Scented with aromatic cardamom, make ahead and freeze.
Apples may be substituted for pears.
* 3 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 cups plus 3 tablespoons granulated sugar, divided
* 1 tablespoon baking powder
8 3/4 cup vegetable oil
* � cup walnut oil
* 5 large eggs
* � teaspoon orange extract
* � cup orange juice
* 2 firm pears, cored, unpeeled and cut in '/�-inch dice
* 1 cup dried cranberries
* 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
* confectioners sugar to sprinkle (optional)
Preheat oven to 3500F. Spray a bundt pan with non-stick cooking spray with flour.
In large mixer bowl, place the flour, 2 cups sugar, baking powder, oils, eggs, orange extract and orange juice. Beat at medium speed for 8 minutes, scraping down sides of bowl often.
In a separate bowl, mix the pears and cranberries with remaining sugar and the cardamom. Spoon half the batter into prepared bundt pan. Sprinkle threequarters pear mixture over. Cover with remaining batter and top with remaining pear mixture.
Bake in preheated oven for IVe- 2 hours or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Cool for about a half hour before turning out. Before serving, dust lightly with confectioners sugar.
[Sidebar]
NO TURKEY, NO STUFFING
The first Thanksgiving likely lacked the basics
*1621
When the Pilgrims held the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621,, giving thanks for the year's bountiful crop, it's unlikely that their- menu featured turkey, white or sweet potatoes, bread-based stuffing or pumpkin pie.
According to food historian Kathleen Curtin, "turkey" was the term used by the Pilgrims for any kind of wild fowl (albeit including wild turkeys).
N� recipe exists for pumpkin pie. although there are recipes for stewed pumpkin.
The Pilgrim's original celebration took place sometime between September 21 and November 11. Ninety or so friendly Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive Were included in the feasting.
The festivities continued for three days, based on the English harvest festivals.
* 1863
In 1863, due to the persistent lobbying of Sarah Josepha Hale, President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday (JfewfSH Star, Nov. �4, 20?8). We continue to celebrate thfe purely American tradition.
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Back to Tradition for Thanksgiving
[Author Affiliation]
By ETHEL G. HOFMAN
Food Columnist
Des Moines, Iowa
In its final round of quarterly funding for 2002, the Solid Waste Alternatives Program (SWAP) of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources awarded financial assistance to these recipients:
Krajicek Pallet of Denison received $238,850 to process wood waste generated through pallet manufacturing and refurbishing operations. The mulch will be sold in bagged and bulk form; Sho-Dust Bedding of Randall ($132,500) to open a second retail outlet in Polk County. The outlet will sell both bagged and bulk compost, mulch and animal bedding; Loffredo Fresh Produce Co. ($143,750) of Des Moines, to divert food scraps to local farmers for their livestock feed needs; Computer Renaissance ($20,000) of West Des Moines, to begin an advertising campaign informing consumers about options available for electronic waste; Butler County Solid Waste Commission ($20,000) to establish "Waste Bytes," a new recycling program for electronics; Seedorff Masonry Industries Co. ($15,333) in Cresco to expand wood recycling efforts. Processed wood will be sold as mulch and used for composting.
When Shaquille O'Neal returns to action, the Bulls plan toexperiment with covering the 7-1, 330-pound center with a singleplayer for much of the game.
The next meeting with the Orlando Magic isn't untilFebruary, so O'Neal, who's expected to make his season debut Fridaynight, should be in midseason form by then.
Bulls coach Phil Jackson believes O'Neal is going to get hisshare of points and rebounds even if he's double- or triple-teamed.The key to beating the Magic, Jackson believes, is containing theother players.
Orlando won last season's playoff matchup with the Bullsmainly because support players Nick Anderson, Horace Grant and DennisScott had an outstanding series.
"I think that's the way you have to beat them, like Houstonbeat them last year (in the NBA Finals)," Jackson said before theBulls posted their 112-103 victory Wednesday night in the UnitedCenter. "They didn't help out until (Hakeem) Olajuwon was in foultrouble and gave some help when appropriate."
That's one of the reasons Jackson wanted Luc Longley to bethe starter this season before Will Perdue was traded to San Antoniofor Dennis Rodman. At 7-2, 290, Longley has the size needed tocontend with O'Neal.
"The thing with Orlando is they have so many options,"Longley said. "You also have to give them different looks so theycan't figure you out. Shaq doesn't need to know that there's adouble coming from this side every time. Playing me solo for a whilewill give them a different look."
Of course, the key to how long the Bulls can play that wayis how long Longley can stay out of foul trouble. Wednesday night,with O'Neal on the bench, Longley picked up two fouls 27 seconds intothe game. No Hack-a-Shaq
With the single coverage, Jackson said the Bulls won't feature aHack-a-Shaq philosophy.
"I have not discussed it at all with my players aboutfouling him," he said. "We don't want to foul him. That's not partof what we're trying to do. We're just going to play him straightup, play basketball. Anybody that has an easy shot, we expect tomake it difficult for them, not give them layups. I don't think he'sany different than anybody else." Welcome back
Jackson said before the game he didn't expect the regular NBAofficials to make much of a difference right off the bat because theydidn't return to work until last weekend and might be rusty. ButMichael Jordan said he noticed a difference from the outset.
"The control factor was there for the entire game," Jordansaid. "I'm glad they're back." Flu-bugged
Bill Wennington played nine minutes in the first quarterWednesday night but soon was heading to the locker room because ofthe stomach flu and did not return.
The Bulls were able to overcome the absence because O'Nealnever got off the bench. The Magic went small when substituting forJon Koncak, so Toni Kukoc saw more action for the Bulls. THE JORDAN WATCH Michael Jordan came into Wednesday night's game having scored 30 ormore points in six of his last 10 games. We had a tough time trying to beat this team in the playoffs. - Jordan, on the Bulls' trying to beat Orlando THE PIPPEN WATCH Scottie Pippen, off a season-high 28 points against Milwaukee onSaturday, is averaging 19.7 points per game. I would rather have had Shaq playing. - Pippen, on Magic without Shaquille O'Neal THE RODMAN WATCH Dennis Rodman has has had three consecutive 20-rebound games, thefirst Bull to do that since Tom Boerwinkle in 1970. With Dennis back in the lineup, we're a much better team. - Jordan
2011 — Gerrit Cole, rhp (Pittsburgh Pirates)
2010 — Bryce Harper, c-of (Washington Nationals)
2009 — Stephen Strasburg, rhp (Washington Nationals)
2008 — Tim Beckham, ss (Tampa Bay Rays)
2007 — David Price, lhp (Tampa Bay Devil Rays)
2006 — Luke Hochevar, rhp (Kansas City Royals)
2005 — Justin Upton, ss (Arizona Diamondbacks)
2004 — Matt Bush, ss (San Diego Padres)
2003 — Delmon Young, of (Tampa Bay Devil Rays)
2002 — Bryan Bullington, rhp (Pittsburgh Pirates)
2001 — Joe Mauer, c (Minnesota Twins)
2000 — Adrian Gonzalez, 1b (Florida Marlins)
1999 — Josh Hamilton, rf-lhp (Tampa Bay Devil Rays)
1998 — Pat Burrell, 3b (Philadelphia Phillies)
1997 — Matt Anderson, rhp (Detroit Tigers)
1996 — Kris Benson, rhp (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1995 — Darin Erstad, of-1B (California Angels)
1994 — Paul Wilson, rhp (N.Y. Mets)
1993 — Alex Rodriguez, ss (Seattle Mariners)
1992 — Phil Nevin, 3b (Houston Astros)
1991 — Brien Taylor, lhp (N.Y. Yankees)
1990 — Chipper Jones, ss (Atlanta Braves)
1989 — Ben McDonald, rhp (Baltimore Orioles)
1988 — Andy Benes, rhp (San Diego Padres)
1987 — Ken Griffey Jr., of (Seattle Mariners)
1986 — Jeff King, inf (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1985 — B.J. Surhoff, c (Milwaukee Brewers)
1984 — Shawn Abner, of (N.Y. Mets)
1983 — Tim Belcher, rhp (Minnesota Twins)
1982 — Shawon Dunston, ss (Chicago Cubs)
1981 — Mike Moore, rhp (Seattle Mariners)
1980 — Darryl Strawberry, of (N.Y. Mets)
1979 — Al Chambers, of (Seattle Mariners)
1978 — Bob Horner, 3b (Atlanta Braves)
1977 — Harold Baines, of (Chicago White Sox)
1976 — Floyd Bannister, lhp (Houston Astros)
1975 — Danny Goodwin, c (California Angels)
1974 — Bill Almon, inf (San Diego Padres)
1973 — David Clyde, lhp (Texas Rangers)
1972 — Dave Roberts, inf (San Diego Padres)
1971 — Danny Goodwin, c (Chicago White Sox)
1970 — Mike Ivie, c (San Diego Padres)
1969 — Jeff Burroughs, of (Washington Senators)
1968 — Tim Foli, inf (N.Y. Mets)
1967 — Ron Blomberg, 1b (N.Y. Yankees)
1966 — Steve Chilcott, c (N.Y. Mets)
1965 — Rick Monday, of (Kansas City Athletics)
He has been running.
"Imagine a 120-pound bowling ball coming at you at 6 to 8 mph," explained Jeff Mitchell, who is in charge of the zoo's aquatics and reptiles.
Mitchell attributes Tank's freakish behavior to the weird, stormy-hot weather we've had in Chicago — it's messing with the reptile's metabolism.
Just how weird has it been here this summer?
On June 30, golf ball-sized hail shattered the glass at Garfield Park Conservatory — the first time that has happened in the building's 100-plus-year history.
The July 11 windstorm that smashed the Chicago area is now considered the worst storm on record — disrupting service for about 900,000 customers, ComEd said last week.
And then there was the record 11.15 inches of rain we got in July — more than half of it on one day,
There's been so much banging and rumbling and flashing in the skies that even meteorologists are having a hard time keeping track of it all.
"That kind of speaks to the volume of severe weather, severe thunderstorm events, we've had in and around Chicago recently," said Mike Doll, a meteorologist with Murray & Trettel in Palatine. "It's hard to even think back and remember them individually. They all blend together."
By now, you've probably heard about the "heat dome," the term meteorologists use to describe the great compressed mound of hot, moist air that has covered a great swath of the Midwest and stubbornly refused to move for weeks on end. Our city has been on the northern edge of the dome, the perfect place for thunderstorms to develop.
But if you think this summer has been weird, spare a thought for what some of your ancestors had to endure.
On April 10, 1815, Mount Tambora erupted on the Indonesian Island of Sumbawa, burying an entire civilization under searing ash, gas and rock. The eruption shot 400 million tons of sulfuric gases into the atmosphere, causing global cooling and creating what historians call "The Year Without a Summer." Farms in Maine suffered crop-killing frosts in July.
If you aren't keen on bugs, you probably wouldn't have wanted to be around in the summer of 1874, when millions upon millions of grasshoppers swarmed across the prairies from the Dakotas to Texas.
"The insects arrived in swarms so large they blocked out the sun and sounded like a rainstorm," according to the Kansas Historical Society. "Crops were eaten out of the ground, as well as the wool from live sheep and clothing off people's backs . . . Hoppers were reported to have been several inches deep on the ground and locomotives could not get traction because the insects made the rails too slippery."
Closer to home, many folks remember the heat wave of 1995, which caused more than 700 heat-related deaths.
While the vast majority of us have survived this year's ferocious weather, don't overlook what it can do to your head.
Being awakened night after night by what sounds like boulders crashing together in the heavens can lead to sleep deprivation.
"It can exacerbate mania in people who are bipolar," said Gail Saltz, a psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. "Lots of sleep deprivation can definitely bring on depression."
Contributing: Associated Press
A Yorkville resident photographs lightning during an intense storm on Tuesday. | Steven buyansky~sun-times mediaSteven BuyanskyBrookfield Zoo's 120-pound tortoise "Tank" has started running because the weather has messed up his metabolism. | courtesy brookfield zoo
BUFFALO, N.Y. - The "Hugging Bandit" - the plus-size pickpocket who put the squeeze on tipsy men and their wallets in upstate New York - is behind bars, police said. Myra Castleberry, 48, was being held without bail and police hoped they had seen the last of a decade-long spree of thefts.
"Hopefully, she'll be hugging her pillow in her prison cell for a long time," Detective Sgt. Tom Donovan said Tuesday.
The Hugging Bandit targeted dozens of unsuspecting men outside bars over the years, distracting them in the wee hours of the morning by fondling them and then secretly stealing their wallets. She would use the victims' credit cards within hours of the thefts.
Castleberry, who has been arrested 17 times between 1998 and 2005 and has two felony convictions, was suspected in the thefts, but police said most victims were too drunk to identify her.
That changed when a Tonawanda man called police after reading a February newspaper account and reported he had lost $238 to the Hugging Bandit in August 2005.
"We set up a photo array, and he picked her out immediately," Donovan told The Buffalo News for its Wednesday edition. "He said, `I'll never forget a face.'"
Police apprehended Castleberry Sunday night on a felony warrant charging grand larceny. She is scheduled to appear Friday in Buffalo City Court.
Mitchell Johnson and Brad Hogg struck late Thursday to remove V.V.S. Laxman and Rahul Dravid just as the India pair was threatening another big partnership against Australia.
Laxman scored 109 and Dravid notched 53 in a 175-run second-wicket partnership as India made a strong reply to Australia's 463 on day two of the second test.
The home team's late strikes left India at 216 for three at stumps, with Sachin Tendulkar (9) and Sourav Ganguly (21) at the crease.
Laxman and Dravid combined for 300 run-plus partnerships in two of India's last three wins over Australia, so the hosts were desperate to get them out.
"We got two crucial wickets right at the end there ... to get Dravid and Laxman," Australia paceman Brett Lee said. "For us to go in with one wicket down would have been a different story, but to get those two were brilliant. We're in a good spot right now."
Laxman said India, coming off a 337-run loss in the first test in Melbourne last week, was only thinking only of positive outcomes.
"I was disappointed that we lost two quick wickets because I really wanted to be not out and carry on tomorrow," Laxman said, adding that Tendulkar was eager to take up the challenge.
"I'm sure Sachin is going to get a double (hundred) tomorrow _ he's looking forward to it, he's batting brilliantly."
Tendulkar scored 241 of India's 705-7 declared in the draw here four years ago _ the last time these teams met at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
"If Sachin and Sourav can build a big partnership we can have a big first innings total and put pressure on the Aussies," Laxman said.
India had Australia in trouble on the opening day at 134-6 before Andrew Symonds came to the rescue with a career-high unbeaten 162, helping add 329 with the last four batsmen.
Lee contributed 59 in a 114-run partnership with Symonds and then took the first Indian wicket with the total at eight, beating Wasim Jaffer for pace with an away-swinging yorker in the eighth over.
But for the next 45 overs, everything went India's way.
Laxman and Dravid had the benefit of some umpiring decisions and some uncharacteristically sloppy Australian fielding and were starting to build momentum when Johnson struck.
Dravid had just reached his 50th test 50 when he slashed outside off stump at Johnson and edged to Matthew Hayden at first slip.
He had just started to cut loose after another of his agonizingly cautious starts, with his 53 coming off 160 balls.
Laxman was in a more attacking frame, stroking 18 boundaries and making his third hundred in as many tests at the Sydney Cricket Ground before driving wrist spinner Hogg to Mike Hussey at short cover in the next over as India lost two wickets for two runs.
India missed out on some big opportunities on Wednesday, and it was Australia's turn on day two.
Adam Gilchrist, No. 2 on the list of most dismissals for a test wicketkeeper, put down two catches, missed two sharp chances and a potential stumping.
Lee was denied a confident lbw appeal against Laxman on 15, and Johnson missed out when Hussey claimed a catch in the gully off an edge from Dravid, but the TV umpire ruled it a bumped ball.
Ricky Ponting later declined to appeal for a catch because he was not sure if the ball touched grass as it reached his hands.
Dravid, on 47, had already started walking to the pavilion when Ponting signaled he was unsure if he'd taken the catch, so the Indian opener was recalled.
The incident was the latest in this test to raise the question of where honesty and sportsmanship sits in cricket.
Ponting had a reprieve in his own innings on Wednesday, then was given out lbw to Harbhajan Singh for 55 despite hitting the ball onto his pads.
Symonds, on the other hand, admitted he should have been given out when he edged a catch to the wicketkeeper on 30, but stood his ground and was given not out.
He also got the benefit of the doubt on 48 when the TV umpire ruled that a stumping decision was too close to call.
Symonds ran out of partners when Anil Kumble took the last three wickets on Thursday morning, but his innings ensured Australia's bid for a record-equaling 16th consecutive test win is still alive.
Morgan Stanley said Wednesday its second-quarter net income rose to $1.58 billion, easily topping forecasts as its Smith Barney brokerage helped the bank recover from a loss a year ago.
Morgan Stanley joined other banks in reporting that its trading revenue fell from the first quarter, the result of the stock market's spring plunge. But the company, which was hurt a year ago by a conservative trading strategy and steep losses on real estate investments, was able to beat analysts' overall revenue and profit expectations for this latest quarter.
Morgan Stanley's net income after payment of preferred stock dividends rose to $1.09 per share from a loss of $1.10 per share a year earlier, when it lost $1.26 billion.
Earnings from continuing operations, which excludes special charges, were 80 cents per share. Revenue jumped 53 percent to $7.95 billion.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters forecast earnings of 46 cents per share on revenue of $7.93 billion.
Shares rose $1.60, or 6.3 percent, to $26.82 in pre-opening trading.
Morgan Stanley's results came a day after competitor Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported an 83 percent drop in profits as trading revenue fell sharply. Goldman also took charges to cover its civil fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and costs tied to paying taxes on employee bonuses in Britain.
The slowdown from the volatile market wasn't as pronounced at Morgan Stanley, which saw trading revenue, or money made on buying and selling stocks and other securities, fall 11 percent to $3.35 billion compared with the first quarter.
Morgan Stanley was criticized last year for being too passive in its trading and missing out on some of the big profits that other banks made during the stock market's big rally. Trading revenue nearly doubled from the second quarter last year.
Morgan Stanley also has a huge retail brokerage business that it draws much of its revenue from, unlike Goldman Sachs, which is highly reliant on institutional clients for its business. The brokerage unit, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, generated $3.07 billion in revenue during the second quarter, compared with $1.92 billion during the year-ago period. Morgan Stanley acquired a majority stake in Smith Barney from Citigroup Inc. during the middle of the second quarter last year, so year-ago results don't include a full quarter of business.
Morgan Stanley set aside $3.89 billion during the quarter for compensation, including $361 million to cover a special tax on bank employee bonuses in Britain. Compensation costs accounted for 49 percent of revenue during the second quarter, the same amount seen in the first quarter.
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers dispatched the defending champions, and now they're headed to the NBA finals for the first time in four years.
Bryant scored 17 of his 39 points in the fourth quarter, and the Lakers rallied from an early 17-point deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 100-92 on Thursday night and win the Western Conference finals in five games.
The Lakers are 12-3 in the playoffs, including 8-0 at Staples Center, where they haven't lost in two months. They've won 14 straight home games and 21 of their last 24 postseason games at home.
They get a week off before opening the NBA finals next Thursday night at Boston or Detroit. The Celtics lead the Eastern Conference finals 3-2 with Game 6 on Friday night in Detroit.
A basket by Lamar Odom gave the Lakers an 83-76 lead with 5:40 remaining, but a 3-pointer by Brent Barry and a basket by Tony Parker drew the Spurs within two points. Manu Ginobili missed a 3-pointer that could have given San Antonio the lead before Bryant's jumper with 3:33 to play made it 85-81.
A foul shot by Tim Duncan drew the Spurs within three, but two more baskets by Bryant made it 89-82 with 1:47 to play, and the Spurs weren't closer than five points after that.
Odom added 13 points and eight rebounds, while Pau Gasol had 12 points, a career playoff-high 19 rebounds and five assists for the Lakers.
Parker scored 23 points and Duncan had 19 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists for the Spurs. Michael Finley scored 13 points, Barry and Kurt Thomas added 11 each and Ginobili was held to nine, shooting just 3-for-9.
Former Lakers star and executive Jerry West presented the Lakers the Western Conference championship trophy on the court following the game. By that time, the players were all wearing T-shirts and caps denoting their championship status.
Lakers coach Phil Jackson has won nine championships, tied for the NBA record with former Boston coach Red Auerbach.
"I like not to get involved personally in this and think of this as a team effort," he said regarding what playing in the NBA finals means to him. "As much as I appreciate the league trying to emphasize the Western Conference trophy, that doesn't mean too much when that big prize is still out there.
"We look at both those opponents (Boston and Detroit) with a great deal of respect and know that we have a great, great hill to climb to be able to finish in the finals and win."
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich pointed to his team's offense _ and the Lakers' defense _ as the keys to the series.
"I thought we did a fine job," he said. "We just didn't muster the offense, for a variety of reasons. The fact that we didn't come through offensively is a disappointment, but part of that is a credit to the Lakers.
"(The Spurs) just played a team that was better. That's why the Lakers won. The better team won. You get a seven-game series, you win four games, you're the best team."
The Lakers clinched their berth in the finals a year to the day after Bryant called the team's front office "a mess" during a radio interview. A day later, he demanded a trade, ultimately saying he preferred playing on Pluto rather than returning to the team he joined as an 18-year-old in 1996.
The situation calmed down until Lakers owner Jerry Buss told reporters during training camp in October he was listening to offers for Bryant, angering the superstar once again.
But once the season began, Bryant bonded with his teammates, led the Lakers to the No. 1 seed in the rugged West and won his first MVP award.
The Lakers will be playing in the finals for the 23rd time since moving from Minneapolis to Los Angeles in 1961 and the 29th time overall. They have won 14 championships _ nine in Los Angeles and five in Minneapolis.
The Lakers and the Celtics have met 10 times in the finals, with Boston winning the first eight matchups and Los Angeles the last two _ in 1985 and 1987. That's the last time the Celtics advanced to the championship round.
The Lakers and Pistons have met three times in the finals, most recently in 2004, when Detroit won in five games. Shaquille O'Neal, who teamed with Bryant to lead the Lakers to three straight championships starting in 2000, was traded a month later, and the Lakers hadn't won a postseason series since until last month.
San Antonio's elimination might signal the end of its era of dominance. With Duncan leading the way, the Spurs won championships in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007, but with a rotation made up solely of 30-something players except for the 26-year-old Parker, the future seems uncertain.
Meanwhile, starting guard Derek Fisher and seldom-used reserve Ira Newble are the only players on the Los Angeles roster over 30.
Ultimately, it was the Lakers' youth, quickness and athleticism that determined this series. The turning point occurred in Game 1, when the Spurs took a 20-point third-quarter lead before the Lakers outscored them 44-20 for an 89-85 victory.
San Antonio had a shot in Game 4, but the Lakers held on for a 93-91 victory that put the Spurs on the brink of elimination. And that came Thursday night.
A 3-pointer by Luke Walton and baskets by Jordan Farmar and Bryant gave the Lakers a 74-68 lead with 8 1/2 minutes remaining, and they were on top the rest of the way.
The Spurs led by as many as 10 points early in the third quarter, but the Lakers turned up their defensive intensity during a 19-8 run that gave them a 61-60 lead _ their first since the opening minute. Bryant scored nine points during the spurt. Los Angeles led 64-63 entering the final period.
The Spurs got 3-pointers from Finley, Ginobili and Barry during a 15-1 run that gave them a 33-16 lead early in the second quarter. The Lakers went nearly 7 1/2 minutes without a field goal until Farmar scored three straight baskets to trim San Antonio's lead to 11.
It was 46-31 before the Lakers went on an 11-2 run to finish the second quarter, cutting the Spurs' lead to 48-42.
The Lakers wound up shooting 38-for-85 (44.7 percent) while the Spurs went 36-for-74 (48.6 percent).
Notes:@ Only eight teams in NBA history have rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-seven series. The Spurs are now 0-7 in such situations. ... Phoenix was the last NBA team to overcome a 3-1 deficit in a best-of-seven series, accomplishing the feat against the Lakers two years ago in the first round. ... Bryant attempted only 11 free throws in this series after attempting 96 against Utah. ... Ginobili, who turns 31 in July, and Duncan, who turned 32 last month, can hardly be classified as old in NBA circles. But Robert Horry is almost 38, Bruce Bowen is nearly 37, Barry is 36 and Finley and Thomas are both 35.
Why reward slick enemies?
Did you notice how Gov. George W. Bush refused to spell out a clear, positive position on Affirmative Action during that final debate with Vice President Al Gore?
He just sputtered and sputtered until finally rescued by debate moderator Jim Lehrer.
Bush obviously was embarrassed because he was forced into exposing his true posture for or against specific vehicles for fairness towards Blacks, Hispanics and women. To do that he had to go against that powerful cadre of Republicans who handpicked him to seek the White House.
Playing ball with racists and all who think Blacks, Hispanics and women have advanced "too high" is a Republican decision made several years ago, one designed to give racist Democrats a home in the Republican Party. It grew out of the 1948 presidential election, when diehard reactionaries broke with Democratic President Harry S. Truman and joined renegade Sen. Strom Thurmond's States Rights Party, known as "The Dixiecrats."
While successfully defying society, Southern racists still remained outside of the political mainstream. But then came a corps of slick, unprincipled GOP strategists who offered them the luxury of unity within a major political party.
In 1964 the scheme became super obvious. When lynchings, assassinations, and police brutality had become commonplace, the Republicans nominated Sen. Barry Goldwater, the ultraconservative Arizona senator, for President. Goldwater fought tenaciously in the Senate against passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He lost.
While Southern violence and Northern race riots exploded, Goldwater proudly declared, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." Too crude.
In 1968, Republican candidate Richard Nixon revived the scheme by pointedly opening his Midwestern campaign at Pontiac, where Michigan whites had halted integration by burning busses. Another message. It helped him win.
Then in 1980 came candidate Ronald Reagan, who chose Philadelphia, Mississippi, as the launching site for his Southern campaign. Another message.
For the Republicans, Philadelphia maintained one memorable claim to notoriety. It was the site of the 1964 multiple lynchings of three young Civil Rights workers, James E. Chaney, a Black, and two whites, Michael H. Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. It worked again.
Passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act alone had been torture for unreconstructed Democrats who also had to stomach the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. More bitterness grew after passage of the 24th Amendment which banned the Southern poll tax.
However, the GOP noted that in 1964 an unreformed Alabama race monger named Gov. George Wallace made big inroads in the Democratic primaries of Maryland, Indiana and Michigan. The Republicans, like their current heirs, showed their tricky side once more. The GOP platform endorsed the 1964 Civil Rights Act while the delegates nominated for President Sen. Barry Goldwater, the act's ferocious enemy, but, Goldwater was too much for America, which the Republicans felt could accept a toned-downed version.
Just as Reagan won, while recalling memories of Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman, it was Republican George Bush, the former president, who sponsored those scary, Willie Horton race-crime commercials in his winning campaign. Bush did give Gen. Colin Powell a shot at national fame, but still, in the Republican tradition, he also appointed Justice Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, where Thomas can damage Black hopes for 30 more years.
One example of a proper Black response to the clever Republicans is the 1964 election when 95 percent of the near six million Black voters rewarded Democratic President Lyndon Johnson and punished Sen. Goldwater.
If politics is the art of rewarding friends and punishing enemies, what better time for doing it again than on November 7.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A gauge of future economic activity rose in January for the fourth straight month, providing evidence the economy is strengthening in the new year.
The Conference Board says its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.4 percent in January, following a 0.5 percent rise in December.
Seven of the 10 indicators that make up the index increased in January, led by strength in the spread between short-term and long-term interest rates. Four indicators held the index back. The largest negative was a drop in consumer expectations.
Cooke, Sam , one of the most popular and influential black singers to emerge in the late 1950s; b. Clarksdale, Miss., Jan. 2 or 22, 1931 (although some claim Chicago, Jan. 2 or 22, 1935); d. Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 11, 1964. The son of Reverend Charles Cooke, Sam Cooke was raised in Chicago where he was a member of the family gospel quartet, the Singing Children, at age nine. Performing in the gospel group The Highway Q.C.s in high school, Cooke joined the Soul Stirrers, one of the most popular and influential gospel quartets of the 1940s, as lead vocalist around 1950. He remained with the Soul Stirrers until 1956. Cooke also briefly manned the Pilgrim Travelers with Lou Rawls.
In 1956 Sam Cooke, under the name Dale Cook, began recording pop material for Specialty Records. In late 1957 he scored a top R&B and pop hit on Keen Records with "You Send Me," written by his brother Charles "L.C." Cooke. Subsequent smash R&B and major pop hits through 1960 included "I'll Come Running Back to You" on Specialty and "You Were Made For Me, "Win Your Love for Me, "Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha, the classic "Only Sixteen" and "Wonderful World" on Keen.
In 1960 Sam Cooke accepted a lucrative offer to join RCA Records. Recorded with cloying pop arrangements featuring strings and horns under producers Hugo (Peretti) and Luigi (Creatore), Cooke scored a series of hits between 1960 and 1964. These included the pop and R&B smashes "Chain Gang, "Twistin7 the Night Away" and "Another Saturday Night"; the hits "Cupid, "Bring It on Home to Me" backed with "Having a Party, "Nothing Can Change This Love, "Send Me Some Lovin', "Frankie and Johnny, and "Little Red Rooster. "(Ain't That) Good News" and "Good Times" became major R&B and pop hits.
In 1961 Sam Cooke launched Sar Records, followed by Derby Records in 1963. R&B/pop hits on Sar included "Lookin7 for a Love" (1962) and "It's All Over Now" (1964) by the Valentinos (later covered by the J. Geils Band and the Rolling Stones, respectively), "Soothe Me" by the Sims Twins (1961), and "Meet Me at the Twistin7 Place" by Johnnie Morisette (1962). "When a Boy Falls in Love" became a moderate hit for Mel Carter on Derby in 1963.
In early 1964 Cooke announced that he was going to cut back on his touring to concentrate on running his record labels. Later that year the live set At the Copa was issued, but a far more representative set, Feel It! Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, recorded with saxophonist King Curtis, was eventually released in 1985.
Sam Cooke's career was secure by 1964, with enormous promise for the future, but on Dec. 11, 1964, he was shot to death in Los Angeles. Posthumously, his "Shake" (covered by Otis Redding in 1967) became a near-smash hit in 1965, followed by his most enduring composition, "A Change Is Gonna Come, only a few days later.
Cooke was one of the first black recording artists to successfully synthesize a popular blend of gospel music styling and secular themes. Eschewing the harsher shouting style of Ray Charles and emphasizing his high, clear, sensual tenor voice, Cooke, along with Charles, helped pioneer the sound that became known as soul music, influencing black singers from Smokey Robinson to Al Green, and Otis Redding to Aretha Franklin, and white British singers such as Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart. Along with James Brown, Cooke was one of the first black artists to write his own songs and gain control over his recording career (also founding two record labels). He demonstrated a growing sense of social consciousness with the moving "A Change Is Gonna Come." Cooke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in its inaugural year, 1986, and the Soul Stirrers were inducted into the Hall as Early Influences in 1990.
SAMCOOKE : Two Sides of Sam Cooke (1957); Sam Cooke Sings (1958); Encore (1958); Tribute to the Lady (1959); Encore, Vol. 2 (1959); Hit Kid (1960); I Thank God (1960); Wonderful World (1960); Cooke's Tour (1960); One and Only (1960); Sam's Songs (1961); Only Sixteen (1961); So Wonderful (1961); Sam Cooke—Swing Low (1961); My Kind of Blues (1961); You Send Me (1962); Cha Cha Cha (1962); Twistin' the Night Away (1962); Mister Soul (1963); Night Beat (1963); Ain't That Good News (1964); At the Copa (1964); Shake (1965); Try a Little Love (1965); The Unforgettable Sam Cooke (1966); The Man Who Invented Soul (1968); One and Only (1968); This Is Sam Cooke (1970); Sam Cooke (1970); The Unforgettable Sam Cooke (1973); Golden Sound (1973); Sings the Billie Holiday Story (1973); Interprets Billie Holiday (1975); You Send Me (1975); Right On (1975); Feel It! Live at the Harlem (1985); Forever (1986); The Man and His Music (1986); The Rhythm and the Blues (1995). SOUL STIRRERS : Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers (1959); The Gospel Soul of Sam Cooke, Vol. 1 (1970); The Gospel Soul of Sam Cooke, Vol. 2 (1971), The Original Soul Stirrers (1971); That's Heaven to Me (1972); In the Beginning (1989); Jesus Gave Me Water (1992); Heaven Is My Home (1993); The Last Mile of the Way (1994).
J. McEuen, S. C.: A Biography in Words and Pictures (N.Y., 1977); D. Wolff with S. R. Grain, C. White and G. David Tenenbaun, You Send Me: The Life and Times ofS. C. (N.Y., 1995).
—Brock Helander
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Off Terenure Road East, it was built around 1895 as part of aterrace of two-storey over garden level town houses built as citypads for the landed gentry. To get to the front door you have tonegotiate 16 steps unless you are using what was originally theservant's entrance at garden level. Douglas Newman Good is asking[euro]1.1 million …
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JaJuan Johnson and Purdue just rejected Washington's desperate attempt to stay in the NCAA tournament. Now comes top-seeded Connecticut.
Johnson scored 22 points and had two huge blocks in the final minute as fifth-seeded Purdue held off a frantic charge to beat the fourth-seeded Huskies 76-74 Saturday to advance to its first regional semifinals since 2000.
E'Twaun Moore scored 14 points and made the clinching free throws with 5.5 seconds remaining. The Boilermakers (27-9), the Big Ten tournament champions, led the entire game, but nearly blew a 14-point lead to the desperate, determined Huskies.
Isaiah Thomas scored 24 points, Quincy Pondexter had …
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CAROLYN ALDRED
LONDON - Employers are facing more and more compensation claims for stress at work, repetitive strain injury and discrimination, according to a survey published this month by the Trades Union Congress, the London-based organization representing U.K. labor unions.
The survey of the TUC's legal services for 1997 showed that unions won GBP301 million ($503.5 million) in compensation for members last year, taking their total compensation won for workplace injuries and occupational illness to GBP1.5 billion ($2.5 billion) during the past five years.
Legal services offered by trade unions have expanded significantly in recent years as a means of …
BYLINE: AZIZ HARTLEY
CAPE TOWN harbour's maintenance and repair facilities are so inadequate that vessels in need of servicing are being turned away - with the loss to the industry of millions of rands and thousands of job opportunities.
Also, with docking costs being among the highest in the world and the harbour cranes, built in the 1960s, ageing, shipping companies are turning their backs on the city.
This was disclosed yesterday when the provincial standing committee on finance and economic development met industry leaders at the harbour.
Shocked by these details and that repairs worth R2 million a day to two oil rigs had been lost …
