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Toshe Ayo-Ariyo: Finding My Way
"There's always a way, there's always a door. You just have to find it." -- Leanne Huebner, co-founder of Minds Matter
The University of Pennsylvania has always been, in my opinion, the best fit for me. From the time I began doing college research, I knew I wanted to attend a school that not only had amazing academics, but also a focus on service. The Penn campus is located in West Philadelphia, where a minority community surrounds the beautiful 302-acre campus. If I were to go there, I would have a lot of opportunities to take part in community-enrichment programs. To my disappointment, Penn wait-listed me.
Now, some of you might see getting wait-listed as a sign of failure, a symbol of being "not good enough" for an institution I worked so hard to get into. But I am someone who goes for the things I want despite the odds that may be against me -- so I see my wait-list status as just another opportunity to express my deepest interest in the school I really want to go to. It's another chance to convince them that I will be a great addition to the student body, and that they would be taking more of a risk by not accepting me, because of the diversity I will bring to campus and the things I will achieve in the future. I know very few students are admitted off the wait-list each year, but I believe that if you are genuinely drawn to a particular school, you should do everything you can to get in. I mean, if I truly was not meant to go to Penn, they would have just sent me a rejection letter, right?
I decided to write a formal letter of appeal -- something that many wait-listed applicants do -- to the Penn admissions office to give myself one more shot at a goal I've been aiming at for years. I don't know why my initial application wasn't appealing enough to get me placed in the automatic "yes" pile. Did my desire to go to Penn not come across as strongly as I thought it did? Was I not specific enough? Well, this letter is my second -- and last -- chance to sincerely demonstrate the passion that I possibly didn't express well enough the first time. I also used it to tell the admissions committee about things that had happened since I'd submitted my application, like the fact that I got an internship with the National Institutes of Health in Baltimore, where I'll be conducting research on kidney disease. Penn's overall admission rate may be significantly low, but my hopes and dreams are astonishingly high. Now all I can do is hope that they reconsider me for a coveted seat in the class of 2017
All of this being said and done, I strongly believe that everything happens for a reason. If after sending my appeal, I still don't get the results I want, then I'll know for sure that Penn is not meant to be. Luckily, I am completely happy with my "backup" school: Berkeley. Besides being the top-ranked public university in the country, Berkeley, like Penn, offers many opportunities for service and for, well, anything you can think of! There are more than 2,000 clubs and organizations, and so much cultural diversity, not just within the student body, but also in the city itself. I like the idea of always being able to get involved.
I used to think my ability to be successful would be dictated by the university I attended, even with so many people telling me, over and over, "You'll be successful wherever you go." I'm finally starting to see that what they've been saying is true. Ultimately, it is up to me as a student to make the most of my education no matter where I go. I know I can maximize my potential and experience by taking advantage of all the opportunities and resources that are available to me. And though not every door I open will have something of value behind it or lead me where I want to go, it's still important that I check them all out!
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Ivory Coast leader gets decree power over economy
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's parliament granted President Alassane Ouattara the power to take decisions concerning the economy by decree this year, giving him a free hand to implement programs aimed at spurring the West African nation's post-war recovery.
The world's top cocoa producer is emerging from a decade-long political crisis that ended with a brief civil war in 2011 and is in the midst of an economic revival, having posted GDP growth of 9.8 percent last year.
Heavy investment in infrastructure renewal and energy production coupled with the expansion of the nascent mining and petroleum sectors are intended to restore the country's status as a regional economic powerhouse.
"The president asked for the National Assembly's authorization to act on economic and social issues by decree in order to implement his plan," Marius Ndri, the parliament's director of legislative services, told Reuters on Wednesday.
"It was approved by the majority," he said.
Ndri said decrees issued in the course of 2013 must be submitted to parliament by the end of the year for ratification by lawmakers.
Ouattara won a run-off election against incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo in late 2010. However Gbagbo's refusal to recognize his defeat sparked months of violence that killed over 3,000 people.
Gbagbo was arrested by French and U.N.-supported rebels backing Ouattara in April 2011 and is now awaiting trial before the International Criminal Court accused of crimes against humanity.
In his absence, Gbagbo's political allies boycotted December 2011 parliamentary polls which saw Ouattara's RDR party win a landslide victory, taking 127 of the National Assembly's 255 seats.
Ndri said six lawmakers voted against Wednesday's bill with another four abstaining.
(Reporting By Joe Bavier; Editing by Michael Roddy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ivory-coast-leader-gets-decree-power-over-economy-174601975--business.html
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Biden, Holder push for gun safety measures
As part of a new push for substantial gun control legislation, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday are scheduled to speak about gun violence during an event with law enforcement at the White House.
The 2 p.m. ET event is the latest effort by President Barack Obama and his team to pressure Congress on gun legislation as lawmakers return to Washington from a two-week recess.
Obama traveled to the University of Hartford in Connecticut Monday where he addressed the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, Conn. Twenty children and 6 school personnel were killed in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, prompting the president to call for new gun restrictions.
In his speech, Obama encouraged those gathered at the university as well as the general public to call on lawmakers to give gun control legislation a vote in Congress and support what the White House calls "commonsense" measures to reduce violence.
"If you?re an American who wants to do something to prevent more families from knowing the immeasurable anguish that these families here have known, then we have to act. Now is the time to get engaged. Now is the time to get involved. Now is the time to push back on fear, and frustration, and misinformation. Now is the time for everybody to make their voices heard from every state house to the corridors of Congress," Obama said.
Obama flew home from Connecticut Monday evening with family members who lost loved ones in the Newtown shooting. The White House said the guests had been invited to travel on Air Force One so that they could both attend Obama's Hartford appearance and spend Tuesday in Washington lobbying members of Congress to support the legislation.
Obama is pressing for universal background checks, which is very likely to be the cornerstone of legislation to be introduced by Senate Democrats. Many Newtown family members are lending their support to the proposal.
Some Republicans have lately suggested they will filibuster any gun safety measure, a prospect White House press secretary Jay Carney called "appalling."
First lady Michelle Obama is traveling to Chicago Wednesday to speak about gun violence and Biden will participate in a gun roundtable Thursday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
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Margaret Thatcher, 'Iron Lady' who led conservative ... - World News
Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century and the only woman ever to have held the post, passed away after suffering a stroke. She was 87. NBC's Martin Fletcher looks back at the life and times of the "Iron Lady."
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the ?Iron Lady? who led a conservative resurgence in her home country and forged a legendary partnership with President Ronald Reagan, died Monday following a stroke. She was 87.
Thatcher led Britain from 1979 to 1990, the first and only woman to hold the job and longest-serving prime minister of the postwar era.?
?Margaret Thatcher didn?t just lead our country ? she saved our country,? Prime Minister David Cameron said. ?Margaret Thatcher took a country that was on its knees and made Britain stand tall again.?
Queen Elizabeth II planned to send a private message of sympathy to the family, said a statement from Buckingham Palace, where the Union Jack was lowered to half-staff. Cameron called Parliament back for a special session Wednesday to pay tribute.
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A pioneer for her sex, Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of the United Kingdom for almost 12 years. Take a look back at her life and career.
President Barack Obama hailed Thatcher as an exemplar of British strength and resolve and a role model for young women. Invoking Thatcher?s friendship with Reagan, Obama said that she reminded the world ?that we are not simply carried along by the currents of history ? we can shape them with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will.?
?True force of nature?: World reacts to Thatcher's death
A grocer?s daughter with a sharp tongue and a no-nonsense style, Thatcher was elected to Parliament at age 34 and climbed the Conservative Party ladder. She became its leader at age 50 and swept into 10 Downing St. four years later.
The year she took office as prime minister, Thatcher took note of her place in history: ?Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.?
Ten years earlier, she had predicted that no woman in her time would hold the job of prime minister. She held it for 11 years, longer than Winston Churchill or any other British leader of her century.
Thatcher transformed the British economy and took on its welfare state and powerful unions. Her government cut, closed or privatized state-owned industries, notably struggling steel plants and coal mines, and radically cut taxes and public spending ? strong medicine, she conceded, but precisely what was needed to restart a stagnant nation.
?The problem with socialism,? she once said, ?is that eventually you run out of other people?s money.?
In 1980, when fellow conservatives were fretting that her tough, anti-inflation economic policy was driving up unemployment, she addressed the prospect of whether she would make a political U-turn: ?You turn if you want to. The lady?s not for turning.?
Under her leadership, Britain fought and won a war with Argentina for the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean ? determined to preserve one of the last outposts of the British empire.
Thatcher?s military worries became focused on a speck of land halfway around the world in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falklands, a British archipelago. After American mediation attempts failed, Thatcher decided to retake the islands, a feat accomplished in a few weeks. The war was a huge boost to Thatcher?s popularity.
An estimated 650 Argentinians and 255 Britons were killed in the war. Argentina still asserts a claim to the islands, but the people there overwhelmingly voted last month to remain under British control. One islander told Reuters on Monday that Thatcher was ?our Winston Churchill.?
Thatcher survived an assassination attempt when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a Conservative Party conference in the British city of Brighton in 1984, killing five people and injuring a cabinet minister, among others. Thatcher gave the keynote speech hours later and said: ?This attack has failed. All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail.?
She took on the British coal industry, nationalized and seen as politically untouchable. The coal union had brought down the government of another conservative, Edward Heath, with a strike a decade earlier, and coal workers walked off the job again in 1984 after the Thatcher government announced job cuts.
During the strike, she told the House of Commons: ?We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.?
Thatcher, anticipating the confrontation, had stockpiled coal to keep the country?s energy supply humming. The strike collapsed in March 1985.
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, of the Labour Party, told Sky News on Monday that Thatcher?s economic regime was to blame for many of the problems that Britain still faces.
?She created today?s housing crisis. She created the banking crisis. And she created the benefits crisis,? he said. ?In actual fact, every real problem we face today is the legacy of the fact that she was fundamentally wrong.?
Thatcher had a well-known friendship with Reagan during his two terms as president in the 1980s. They shared an allegiance to free-market principles and opposition to the Soviet Union.
Thatcher recalled in her memoir, ?The Downing Street Years,? that she met Reagan in 1975, when she led the political opposition in Britain and Reagan was the ascendant governor of California. She said that she was won over by his ?warmth, charm and complete lack of affectation ? qualities which never altered in the years of leadership which lay ahead.?
When Reagan died, in 2004, Thatcher delivered a recorded eulogy and said: ?We have lost a great president, a great American and a great man. And I have lost a dear friend.?
Nancy Reagan on Monday said the world had lost ?a true champion of freedom and democracy.? She said that Thatcher and her late husband had a strong personal friendship.
?From the very beginning, the first time they met,? Nancy Reagan said in a telephone interview on the MSNBC program ?Andrea Mitchell Reports.? ?She was at the first state dinner we had at the White House, and the last state dinner was for her.?
Thatcher was forced out of office by her own party in 1990, unhappy with some of her policies. Her reduction of British social spending also earned her the scorn of some pop culture figures and helped spawn the British punk movement. Billy Bragg and Sinead O?Connor lashed out in song, and Morrissey recorded a track called ?Margaret on the Guillotine.?
Meryl Streep, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of the former prime minister in ?The Iron Lady,? said that Thatcher had endured hatred and ridicule unprecedented for ?a public figure who was not a mass murderer.? While praising her conviction, however, Streep suggested that Thatcher had contributed to a widening income gap.
?Her hard-nosed fiscal measures took a toll on the poor, and her hands-off approach to financial regulation led to great wealth for others,? Streep said in a statement. She said that she would leave history to settle the matter of Thatcher?s greatness.
Thatcher played polarizing role in pop culture
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said Monday that Thatcher?s views had been vindicated ? on unions, on communism and on the movement toward European political integration, of which she was extremely skeptical and urged Britain to stay out.
?The country is deeply in her debt,? Johnson said. ?Her memory will live long after the world has forgotten the grey suits of today?s politics.?
Her successor as prime minister, John Major, said that Thatcher?s economic reforms and the British victory in the Falklands War ?elevated her above normal politics, and may not have been achieved under any other leader.?
Former President George W. Bush said that Thatcher guided Britain with confidence and clarity.
?Prime Minister Thatcher is a great example of strength and character, and a great ally who strengthened the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States,? he said in a statement.
Thatcher?s daughter said in 2008 that she had been suffering from dementia for eight years, and had to be reminded that her husband was dead.
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born Oct. 13, 1925. At the hand of her grocer father, she later said, she learned both thrift and capitalist principles.
?Before I read a line from the great liberal economists,? she wrote, ?I knew from my father?s accounts that the free market was like a vast sensitive nervous system, responding to events and signals all over the world to meet the ever-changing needs of peoples in different countries, from different classes, of different religions, with a kind of benign indifference to their status.?
Cameron?s office said that Thatcher would receive a ceremonial funeral with military honors at St. Paul?s Cathedral.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
British Prime Minister David Cameron expresses his sorrow at the death of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who passed away at 87 after suffering a stroke. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
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Japan's quake-crippled nuclear plant "losing faith" in leaking water pits
TOKYO (Reuters) - The company that runs a Japanese nuclear power plant destroyed by a tsunami two years ago said on Tuesday it was losing faith in temporary storage pits for radioactive water - but it doesn't have anywhere else to put it.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it had found a suspected new leak at one of the pits at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. If confirmed, that would mean three out of seven storage pits were now leaking, compounding clean-up difficulties after the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.
"We cannot deny the fact that our faith in the underwater tanks is being lost," Tepco general manager Masayuki Ono told a hastily arranged news conference.
"We can't move all the contaminated water to above ground (tanks) if we opt not to use the underground reservoirs," Ono said. "There isn't enough capacity and we need to use what is available."
A tsunami crashed into the power plant north of Tokyo on March 11, 2011, causing fuel-rod meltdowns at three reactors, radioactive contamination of air, sea and food and triggering the evacuation of 160,000 people.
The suspected fresh leak was found in the No. 1 storage pool where contaminated water from the leaking No. 2 pit was being transferred. Tepco has halted the transfer of the contaminated water.
Ono said on Monday Tepco did not have enough tank space should it need to move the water out of the storage pits, which were dug into higher ground away from the damaged reactors and lined with waterproof material. The company has stepped up construction of the sturdier tanks, he said.
Tepco said over the weekend about 120,000 liters (32,000 gallons) of contaminated water leaked from the No. 2 and 3 pits. The plant's cooling system has also broken down twice in recent weeks.
The government instructed Tepco to carry out a "fundamental" review of the problems at the plant, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Monday.
Tepco's president, Naomi Hirose, was also summoned to the Industry Ministry to explain the leaks and got a public dressing down from the minister, Toshimitsu Motegi.
In the immediate aftermath of explosions at the plant, Tepco released some radioactive water into the sea, prompting protests from neighboring countries. Many nations put restrictions on imports of Japanese food after the disaster.
It was the worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Last month, a senior Tepco executive said the company was struggling to stop groundwater flooding into the damaged reactor buildings and it may take as long as four years to fix the problem.
(Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori, Risa Maeda and Mari Saito; Editing by Aaron Sheldrick and Nick Macfie)
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NY moves toward adopting wind, other green energy
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A new study says New York could get the power it needs from wind, water and sunlight by 2030 with a concerted push, though the state's decade-long effort to significantly boost green energy shows how challenging that could be.
The study, led by researchers from Stanford and Cornell universities, provides a theoretical road map to how New Yorkers could rely on renewable energy within 17 years. It would require massive investments in wind turbines, solar panels and more from the windy shores off Long Island to sun-exposed rooftops upstate.
"It's doable," said co-author Robert Howarth, a Cornell professor of ecology and environmental biology. "It's way outside of the realm of what most people are talking about ... But I think people have been too pessimistic about what can be done."
In fact, New York has been committed to significantly increasing green energy production for the past nine years under its renewable portfolio standard, which is funded by a surcharge of less than a dollar on monthly electricity bills. Then-Gov. George Pataki began the program in 2004 with the goal of New York relying on renewable resources for a quarter of its electricity by 2013.
That goal, tweaked three years ago, is now for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to support the production of about 10.4 million megawatt-hours of energy from hydro, wind, solar, biomass and landfill gas annually by 2015. The authority reported this week that it was 46 percent of the way to the goal at the end of last year.
The goal could lead to roughly 30 percent renewables by 2015, once clean-energy purchases by consumers and resources added by the Long Island Power Authority are factored in.
With two years to go, clean energy advocates say it will be difficult for New York to hit the 2015 renewable target. But they believe the larger point is that New York is making progress.
"To me, the long-term commitment to continue to invest in resources is more important than the particular target you set," said Valerie Strauss, interim executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, a group that represents renewable energy interests.
Looking at energy generated in New York, which excludes imported power that can be used for the energy authority's targets, about 20 percent came from hydro, which includes decades-old projects along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers. Wind accounted for 2 percent, and other renewable sources accounted for another 2 percent, according to 2011 figures from the operators of the state's power grid.
"Exclusive of hydropower, the state has developed more renewable energy than any other state in the Northeast," said authority spokeswoman Kate Muller. "Including hydropower, New York's renewable energy capacity is comparable to the entire renewable energy capacity of the other eight states in the Northeast."
New York has made a lot of progress in harnessing wind power, jumping from 48 megawatts of wind capacity in 2004 to more than 1,600 megawatts now, including large-scale development on the windy Tug Hill Plateau east of Lake Ontario.
The university researchers say half of the state's renewable power in 2030 could come from wind, mostly from 12,700 off-shore turbines. But wind power demonstrates some of the challenges of swapping out fossil fuels for green energy.
Industry watchers say wind development slowed down when the economy soured and natural gas prices dropped. There's also uncertainty over the future of a federal tax credit for wind installations.
Offshore wind farms can be particularly costly and controversial. The New York Power Authority in 2011 nixed a plan to put up to 150 turbines offshore between Buffalo and Chautauqua County, citing costs. The authority is now working with downstate power providers to explore the feasibility of wind turbines off the shore of Long Island.
Clean energy advocates point out the switchover to renewables often has less to do with available technology and more to do with market forces and political choices.
"It depends on the political will we can muster and our ability to invest in these resources," said Katherine Kennedy, of Natural Resources Defense Council.
Strauss said an important step would be for the state to extend its renewable program beyond 2015. The state will consider the program's future as part of a review this year.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ny-moves-toward-adopting-wind-150002201.html
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Bernanke notes 'stress tests' show stronger banks
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Federal Reserve's annual "stress tests" of major U.S. banks have become better able to detect risks, Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday night. He said the tests show that the banking industry has grown much healthier since the financial crisis.
Speaking in Atlanta, Bernanke noted that this year's tests showed that 18 of the biggest banks had collectively doubled the cushions they hold against losses since the first tests were run in 2009. He says the tests are providing vital information to regulators.
The latest test results were released last month. They showed that all but one of the 18 banks were better prepared to withstand a severe U.S. recession and an upheaval in financial markets. The tests are used to determine whether the banks can increase dividends or repurchase shares.
Bernanke's comments came in a speech to a financial markets conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He said he viewed the first stress test conducted in 2009, months after the financial crisis struck, as "one of the critical turning points in the crisis."
"It provided anxious investors with something they craved: credible information about prospective losses at banks," he said.
Bernanke said that in the ensuing years, the Fed has worked to improve the stress tests so they could serve as a resource for banking regulators to monitor and detect threats to the financial system.
The stress tests have been criticized by some banks because the central bank has kept secret the full details of the computer models it is using to evaluate each bank. The Fed has defended this practice. It has argued that it is similar to teachers not giving students specific questions that will appear on a test to guard against students memorizing the answers.
"We hear criticism from bankers that our models are a 'black box' which frustrates their efforts to anticipate our supervisory findings," Bernanke said. He said that over time, the banks should better understand the standards the tests are measuring.
In this year's test, the Fed approved dividend payment plans and stock repurchase plans for 14 of the 18 banks outright.
Two of the banks, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, were told by the Fed that they could proceed with their plans but would need to submit new capital plans. Two other banks, Ally Financial and BB&T, were forbidden by the Fed to go through with their dividend increases and share buybacks.
Ally Financial, the former financing arm of General Motors, fared the worst on the stress test. The Fed's data showed that Ally's projected capital level was below the minimum the Fed thinks a bank would need to survive a severe recession. Ally officials said they believed the Fed's testing models were unreasonable.
BB&T, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., said it would resubmit its capital plan and that it believes that it will be able to address the factors which had led to the Fed's objections.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bernanke-notes-stress-tests-show-stronger-banks-231820928--finance.html
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South Africa: Mandela discharged from the hospital
FILE - In this June 17, 2010 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela leaves the chapel after attending the funeral of his great-granddaughter Zenani Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa. The South African presidency says Mandela has been discharged, Saturday, April 6, 2013, from a hospital after an improvement in his condition. Officials say he was treated for pneumonia. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool, File)
FILE - In this June 17, 2010 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela leaves the chapel after attending the funeral of his great-granddaughter Zenani Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa. The South African presidency says Mandela has been discharged, Saturday, April 6, 2013, from a hospital after an improvement in his condition. Officials say he was treated for pneumonia. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool, File)
An ambulance believed to be transporting former president Nelson Mandela arrives at the home of Mandela in Johannesburg, Saturday, April 6, 2013. The South African Presidency has confirmed that Mandela has been discharged after spending nine days in hospital in Pretoria. Spokesman Mac Maharaj says the elder statesman was discharged, ?following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condition,? and thanked all South Africans and people around the world for their support. He says Mandela will now receive home based high care. Mandela was admitted to hospital on March 27 with pneumonia. Since then the 94-year-old former statesman has had fluid drained from his lungs to ease his breathing. (AP Photo)
An ambulance believed to be transporting former president Nelson Mandela arrives at the home of Mandela in Johannesburg, Saturday, April 6, 2013. The South African Presidency has confirmed that Mandela has been discharged after spending nine days in hospital in Pretoria. Spokesman Mac Maharaj says the elder statesman was discharged, ?following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condition,? and thanked all South Africans and people around the world for their support. He says Mandela will now receive home based high care. Mandela was admitted to hospital on March 27 with pneumonia. Since then the 94-year-old former statesman has had fluid drained from his lungs to ease his breathing. (AP Photo)
Visitors to Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg beneath a giant statue of the former president Monday, April 1, 2013. The presidential spokesman says former president Mandela spent Monday with family members in the hospital where he is being treated for a fifth day for a recurring lung infection that developed into pneumonia. The 94-year-old who helped free South Africa from white minority rule has had weak lungs ever since he quarried stone on Robben Island during some of his 27 years of imprisonment. He contracted tuberculosis there. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
Children play ball in front of a giant portrait of former president Nelson Mandela in a park in Soweto, South Africa, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Mandela remains in a hospital while he receives treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia. Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj says there are no updates on 94 year old Mandela since an official statement Saturday on his condition. That statement reported the anti-apartheid leader was breathing without difficulty after having a procedure to clear fluid in his lung area. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from a hospital on Saturday following treatment for pneumonia, the presidency said in news that cheered South Africans who had waited tensely for health updates on a beloved national figure.
Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who spent 27 years in prison for opposing white racist rule, was robust during his decades as a public figure, endowed with charisma, a powerful memory and an extraordinary talent for articulating the aspirations of his people and winning over many of those who opposed him. In recent years, however, 94-year-old Mandela became more frail and last made a public appearance at the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament, where he didn't deliver an address and was bundled against the cold in a stadium full of fans.
South Africans hold the former leader dear as a symbol of sacrifice and reconciliation stemming from his pivotal role in steering South Africa from the apartheid era and into democratic elections in 1994, at a time of great hope but also tension and uncertainty. The new South Africa, beset by economic inequality, crime and corruption, has not lived up to the soaring expectations of its people, but they still see hope through their icon, Mandela.
Primrose Mashoma, a South African, said she wished that Mandela would live, basically, forever.
"I wish him to stay maybe a hundred more years," she said.
A statement from the office of President Jacob Zuma said there had been "a sustained and gradual improvement" in the condition of Mandela, who was admitted to a hospital on the night of March 27.
"The former President will now receive home-based high care," the statement said.
Mandela had received similar treatment at his home in Johannesburg after a stay at a hospital in nearby Pretoria in December, when he was treated for a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones. Earlier in March, the anti-apartheid leader was hospitalized overnight for what authorities said was a successful scheduled medical test.
During Mandela's latest hospitalization, doctors drained fluid from his lung area, making it easier for him to breathe.
On Saturday afternoon, shortly after the presidential statement on Mandela's discharge, a military ambulance was seen entering his home in the Johannesburg neighborhood of Houghton. In recent years, Mandela had been spending more time in Qunu, the rural area in Eastern Cape province where he grew up. But his delicate condition required that he be moved to South Africa's biggest city.
Many South Africans refer affectionately to Mandela by his clan name, Madiba. Buildings, squares, and other places have been named after him, and his image adorns statues and artwork around the country. The central bank issued new banknotes last year that show his smiling face.
"I'm really happy about Madiba coming out," said student Anele Gcolotela, using Mandela's clan name, a term of affection. "I think it's been too long now."
After Mandela's release from prison in 1990, he was widely credited with averting even greater bloodshed by helping the country in the transition to democratic rule, negotiating with the guardians of the same system that had deprived him of freedom for decades. He became South Africa's first black president in 1994 after elections were held, bringing an end to apartheid.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been particularly vulnerable to respiratory problems since contracting tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment under apartheid. Most of those years were spent on Robben Island, a forbidding outpost off the coast of Cape Town where Mandela and other prisoners spent part of the time toiling in a stone quarry.
The elderly are especially vulnerable to pneumonia, which can be fatal. Its symptoms include fever, chills, a cough, chest pain and shortness of breath. Many germs cause pneumonia.
South African officials have said doctors were acting with extreme caution because of Mandela's advanced age.
In Saturday's statement, Zuma thanked the medical team and hospital staff that looked after Mandela and expressed gratitude for South Africans and people around the world who had shown support for Mandela. The South African government has sought to balance efforts to satisfy wide public interest in Mandela's condition with an intense campaign to preserve the privacy of an ailing figure who already has his place in history.
The African National Congress, the ruling party that led the struggle against apartheid and has held power since its demise, expressed its "happiness" at the discharge of its former leader from the hospital.
"We acknowledge the important role played by President Zuma and his office to keep the nation, the continent and the world informed about progress made on his treatment on a regular basis," the party said in a statement.
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Officials: 'Anti-government' couple may be at sea with kidnapped children
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office via AP
Joshua and Sharyn Hakken may be sailing out to sea after Joshua Hakken allegedly kidnapped their children.
By Ian Johnston and Matthew DeLuca, NBC News
An ?anti-government? man alleged to have kidnapped his two young sons from their grandmother?s house may be trying to escape in a sailboat, according to officials.
Police say that Joshua Hakken, 35, apparently broke into his mother-in-law?s Tampa home after 6 a.m. on Wednesday, tied up his mother-in-law and then fled with the boys, Cole, 4, and Chase, 2.
Cole Hakken, 4, left, and his two-year-old brother, Chase.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said that Joshua Hakken and his wife Sharyn, 34, may be traveling together in a 25-foot, 1972 Morgan sailboat, NBCMiami.com reported Friday.
The vessel is blue and has the name ?salty? with a picture of a paw near the back of the hull on each side. It has a white sail with blue trim and its registration number is FL3717BK, the FDLE added.
The United States Coast Guard scoured a swath of sea spreading from Key West to Mobile, Ala. with helicopters and boats on Saturday in an ongoing search, said Petty Officer First Class Crystalynn Kneen, a USCG spokeswoman in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Coast Guard issued an ?urgent marine information broadcast? on Friday, Kneen said.
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office told NBC station WLFA.com that Hakken had recently bought the boat.
Deputies told the station a witness saw the boat going under the Johns Pass bridge a couple of hours after the abduction Wednesday.
"We've said all along, making irrational decisions doesn't always make you unintelligent. We know he's a very intelligent individual. He's an engineer," Hillsborough County Sheriffs spokesperson, Larry McKinnon, told WFLA.com.
"Wouldn't put it past them to be able to pull into one of these coves or one of these inlets and then board a vehicle. So we're not gonna eliminate our land search, we're still maintaining the Amber alert. We're now expanding it into the Gulf of Mexico, " McKinnon said.
"Hopefully, we're going to find them soon. As we've mentioned before, our goal is to reach out to them in a peaceful manner and to allow them to open an exchange of communication and dialogue so we can get this resolved without anyone getting hurt. "
Craig Johnson, an experience boater and volunteer search and rescue participant, said, "If I was him, he's probably heading towards Cancun or Cuba. If he's going to Cuba, he's gotta go around Key West. That wouldn't be too smart."
In a previous release, the sheriff?s department said that "both suspects are anti-government and have attempted a previous abduction at gun point in Louisiana.??
Joshua Hakken was arrested in St. Tammany Parish, La. on June 17, 2012 after attending an ?anti-government rally,? the Hillsborough County Sheriff?s department said in a press release. He was charged with the unlawful sale of narcotics in the presence of minors and possession of marijuana and spent one day in jail before making bond, said Officer Ben Sciambra of the Slidell city jail.
The couple was acting ?in a bizarre manner that alarmed officers? during the arrest, according to press release issued by the Slidell Police Department on April 4. With both children present, the couple told officers that they were ?completing their ultimate journey? and planned to ?take a journey to the Armageddon,? according to the release.
The Louisiana Office of Child Services determined that the two young children needed to be placed in foster care after the arrest, according to the Slidell Police Department release. Officers also took several weapons at the time of the arrest.
NBC News' Craig Giammona contributed to this report.
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Pickup found in suspected Florida double kidnapping
?Authorities: Man kidnaps his 2 young sons in Fla.
?Amber alert issued for Tampa siblings
This story was originally published on Sat Apr 6, 2013 8:29 AM EDT
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Catholic Gonzaga University won?t allow Catholic students to form Catholic group
Roman Catholic, Jesuit-affiliated Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington has refused to recognize the Knights of Columbus as an official student group because ? wait for it ? the Knights of Columbus is a Catholic organization.
Gonzaga administrators notified the students who had sought the school?s official seal of approval last month, reports The Cardinal Newman Society?s Catholic Education Daily.
?The Knights of Columbus, by their very nature, is a men?s organization in which only Catholics may participate via membership,? reads a letter written by Sue Weitz, vice president for student life. ?These criteria are inconsistent with the policy and practice of student organization recognition at Gonzaga University.?
Right here seems like a sufficiently good place to observe that Gonzaga is under the umbrella of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) ? a men?s organization in which only Catholic men may participate via membership.
Anyway, Weitz?s letter went on to explain that she feels ?strongly? about Gonzaga?s ?commitment to non-discrimination and inclusivity? and is troubled by the fact that ?all members of a student Knights of Columbus group must be Catholic.?
?If Gonzaga was an institution that served only Catholics and limited the benefits of the collegiate experience only to them, the decision-making process may have been different,? she also opined. ?To embrace the diversity and yet endorse a group based on faith exclusivity is a challenge that cannot be reconciled at this time.?
Weitz did not respond to queries from Catholic Education Daily.
The Knights of Columbus, founded in 1882 by a Connecticut priest, is the world?s largest Catholic fraternal service organization.
A student-organized Knights of Columbus branch was successfully established at Gonzaga in 1999. At some unspecified point thereafter, though, the group?s officially-sanctioned status lapsed.
There also appears to be a building on Gonzaga?s campus named after the Knights of Columbus. According to the GU Bulldog Blog, the bland, brick edifice houses a members-only bar called the Christopher Columbus Club. Members must pay a $20 fee, get referred by another member and be at least 21 years old. (There?s also free food involved, and a t-shirt.)
The students seeking to resurrect the Knights of Columbus at Gonzaga spoke ? anonymously ? to The Catholic Daily. They said they are now weighing other options. One alternative is to form a group that is wholly separate from the school. Another possibility might be to establish a Knights of Columbus student group as part of the campus ministry.
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