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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Dot Earth Blog: A Closer Look at ?Nonhuman Personhood? and Animal Welfare
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A closer look at the animals we rely on, and the line between ?persons? and other life.
Mali heads to polls for 'fresh start' vote
By David Lewis and Tiemoko Diallo
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Voters in Mali headed to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election it is hoped will they provide a fresh start to a country divided by a coup and a war in its desert north.
Candidates wound up campaigns promising reconstruction and reconciliation but, underscoring security fears despite a successful French offensive against al Qaeda-linked fighters, an Islamist group threatened to attack polling stations.
Separatist and Islamist rebels swept across the desert north of the former French colony last year shortly after soldiers ousted the president.
Thousands of French troops halted a rebel advance in January and United Nations peacekeepers are deploying to stabilize the broken nation. A successful vote on Sunday would take the gold-producing country another step towards recovery.
"I love my country. I want change and security," said Nina Traore, 28, the first person to vote at a polling centre the Aminata Diop school in the capital Bamako's Lafiabougou neighborhood.
Voters arrived early and long queues formed at many of the 21,000 polling stations across the Mali, from the bustling, lush riverside capital in the south to the remote desert garrison town of Kidal, which was at the heart of last year's rebellion.
However, the official 0800 GMT opening of polls was delayed in many voting centers as election workers awaited the last-minute delivery of voting materials.
"We need this election - it is critical," said Abdrahamane Toure, a postal worker who came to the Lafiabougou voting centre a day early on Saturday to check where he would vote.
"Once we have a legitimate state back, things might start getting better," he added.
In a sign of last-minute preparations, residents were still lining up to collect newly-printed ID cards that they will have to show in order to vote. Authorities also instructed some 6.8 million eligible voters how to find their polling stations by sending SMS messages to designated numbers.
Most of the front-runners are established political figures over the last 20 years of Malian politics so there is little likelihood of a radical overhaul.
Two former prime ministers - Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, known universally as IBK, and Modibo Sidibe - are expected to be among the top finishers.
Soumaila Cisse, a respected economist, former finance minister and native of the region of Timbuktu, is also among the leading candidates. Dramane Dembele, chosen as candidate of Mali's largest party, ADEMA, could appeal to youth voters.
In the run-up to the vote, experts had warned that a rushed election might lead to challenges and further crises.
But election officials say they have distributed 85 percent of the ID cards and a free and fair race in a field of 26 men and one women could take place. A second round will take place on August 11 if no candidate wins over 50 percent of the vote.
Louis Michel, head of the European Union's election observer mission, said he was "positively surprised" by preparations and that the conditions for the vote were acceptable.
"A month ago, there were a lot of doubts. But it has come together. Everyone realizes that this interim government has to end as its inherent fragility and uncertainty has been so costly for Mali," said U.S. Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard.
"LOOKING FOR UNITY"
Before last year's collapse, Mali, a poor nation straddling the south of the Sahara, had built up a reputation for stability and become Africa's No. 3 gold producer.
Donors who slashed aid after the coup have promised more than 3 billion euros in reconstruction assistance after the election.
The new president will have to oversee peace talks with separatist Tuareg rebels who have agreed to allow the vote to take place in areas they operate in but have yet to lay down their arms.
France is hoping a successful vote will allow it to scale down its military presence in Mali from around 3,000 troops currently. A 12,600-strong U.N. mission is rolling out.
While there have been few counter-attacks by Islamists since they were scattered from their northern strongholds, MUJWA, one of the groups that occupied Mali's north last year, on Saturday threatened to attack polling stations.
"Places of the so-called election will be a target for the strikes of the Mujaahideen," Mauritania's Nouakchoute News Agency quoted the group as saying in a statement.
The group also warned what it called the Muslims of Mali against taking part in the elections and urged them to stay away.
(Additional reporting by Sami Aboudi and Adama Diarra; Writing by David Lewis and Joe Bavier; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mali-heads-polls-fresh-start-vote-095946137.html
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Rockland man arrested after alleged assault with baseball bat
ROCKLAND, Maine ? A 36-year-old Rockland man is accused of attacking another man with a baseball bat.
Samuel Sanchez was arrested Sunday and charged with Class A elevated aggravated assault, according to Rockland Deputy Police Chief Wally Tower.
Police were called to the Brunswick Rooms apartments on Main Street shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday, the deputy chief said. The victim was an adult male who was taken by Rockland ambulance to Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport.
The victim suffered multiple injuries. Tower said he has heard that the victim has since been released from the hospital.
The reason for the attack has not yet been released.
Sanchez is being held at the Knox County Jail in Rockland on $50,000 cash bail. He is scheduled to make his initial court appearance Monday afternoon in Rockland District Court.
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Derek Jeter HRs on 1st pitch in return to Yankees
NEW YORK (AP) ? Derek Jeter returned to the New York Yankees' lineup ? again ? with customary flair, making an immediate impact on a team desperate for power.
Jeter homered on the first pitch he saw from Tampa Bay's Matt Moore, connecting Sunday soon after being activated from the disabled list for the second time this month.
"It was fun ? I'm tired," Jeter said. "I worked hard to try to get back on the field."
The captain's drive ended the Yankees' nine-game homerless drought and helped them beat the Rays 6-5 to avoid a three-game sweep. It was New York's first long ball by a right-hander since June 25.
Jeter received a loud ovation and came out for a very quick curtain call, waving his cap from the next-to-top step of the Yankees dugout.
"Derek provided a lot of spark for them," Rays manager Joe Maddon said.
The 13-time All-Star played shortstop for the first time this season and went 2 for 4 with an intentional walk and two runs scored. He was on base for Alfonso Soriano's two-run drive in the third and for his game-winning hit in the bottom of the ninth.
"A lot of great memories here with Sori," he said of his teammate from 1999 to 2003, "and it was almost like old times."
To make room for Jeter, the Yankees placed designated hitter Travis Hafner on the disabled list with a right rotator cuff strain. Hafner has slumped to a .205 average. He hit the last of his 12 homers on June 25, a span of 67 at-bats.
Jeter had his much-anticipated return July 11 ? as the designated hitter ? after missing the Yankees' first 91 games because of a twice broken ankle. He was first injured during the opener of the AL championship series in October.
But he sustained a Grade 1 strain of his right quadriceps running out a groundball against Kansas City and went right back on the DL.
Fourth in the AL East, the Yankees went 4-8 during his second absence and are 55-50. New York has scored fewer runs than all but three teams in the American League this season.
"Hopefully I can help in any way, but we need contributions from a lot of people," Jeter said beforehand. "It's not like I'm some savior coming in here all of a sudden we're just going to start winning."
Manager Joe Girardi hopes he'll be penciling the Yankees' career hits leader in the batting order nearly every day from now on.
"It changes our lineup. There's no doubt about that," he said. "And just his presence is important to this club. It's been important for such a long time."
A favorable schedule should help keep Jeter playing every day at the start. The Yankees have off days Monday and Thursday next week, then only play six games before their next open day.
Girardi said he's been preaching a cautious approach for Jeter when he runs the bases, at least in the first few games of his comeback, to protect the leg.
And despite having difficulty embracing the concept before the game, Jeter appeared to hold back a bit running out to grounders.
Jeter still wasn't endorsing the style of play afterward.
"I don't want to learn how to do it. I understand I have to do it, especially the first week or two," he said. "I feel awful doing it. I don't like doing it. I hope nobody watches me do it."
A career .313 hitter, Jeter was eligible to come off the disabled list Saturday but the Yankees instead had him participate in a simulated game that was shrouded in secrecy.
The location of the workout was not disclosed until after the Yankees' 1-0 loss to the Rays.
"I don't know, it wasn't my idea. They needed to see some things," Jeter said. "Evidently they saw what they needed to see."
NOTES: RHP David Phelps (forearm strain) said he will make his second rehab start Tuesday, for Double-A Trenton. ... Injured INF 3B Jayson Nix (strained right hamstring) should be activated when the Yankees visit the Dodgers on Tuesday.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/derek-jeter-hrs-1st-pitch-return-yankees-173717807.html
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Rick Warren returns to pulpit after son's suicide
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Nearly four months after his son's suicide, popular pastor Rick Warren returned to the pulpit Saturday afternoon at the Southern California megachurch he founded.
Warren, dressed in his usual casual black T-shirt and jeans, took the stage at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. with wife, Kay Warren, and was greeted with a long standing ovation by the congregation.
A shout of "We love you!" came from the crowd before Warren began.
"I love you, too," a smiling Warren replied. "Have I told you lately that I love you?"
It was the first time Warren had taken the Saddleback pulpit since his 27-year-old son Matthew shot and killed himself on April 5.
In the sermon, first in a series called "How To Get Through What You're Going Through," Rick Warren said he had the perfect role model for his struggles.
"God knows what it's like to lose a son," Warren said.
He remained mostly composed, but choked back tears at times, including when he thanked his surviving two children.
"How proud I was of Amy and Josh, who for 27 years loved their younger brother," Warren said. "They talked him off the ledge time after time. They are really my heroes."
He delivered a formal, prepared speech with notes and quotes from Scripture but often broke off to talk frankly about his son.
"I was in shock for at least a month after Matthew took his life," Warren said.
But, Warren said he was grateful to come from "a family of spiritual redwoods."
"Satan picked the wrong team to pick on," he said.
Warren has been an essential figure in the modern, megachurch brand of Christianity.
His multimillion-selling book "The Purpose Driven Life" made him a national star in the realms of religion and self-help, and he delivered the opening prayer at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration.
Saddleback, the church he founded in 1980, has grown to 20,000 members, according to Warren's biography on the church's website.
But in April, Matthew Warren, after a lifetime of struggle with depression, shot and killed himself in what Warren at the time called "a momentary wave of despair."
"For 27 years I prayed every day of my life for God to heal my son's mental illness," Warren said.
But Warren said Saturday that he intended to turn his grief into a message of service and hope.
"God wants to take your greatest sorrow and turn it into your life's greatest message," he said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rick-warren-returns-pulpit-sons-suicide-235912447.html
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