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Day three of testimony in Granger trial
Day three of Bartholomew Granger's capital murder trial ended after more than 14 family members, Beaumont police officers, attorneys and employees at a local business testified they were caught up in Granger's scheme to kill Claudia Jackson, Samantha Jackson and Rebecca Richards.
All three women survived the shooting, despite what police and prosecutors say were Granger's best efforts to end the sexual assault trial in which Rebecca was set to testify against Granger.
Attorney David Diez said Wednesday, April 24, he was parked near Granger's vehicle and was entering the courtroom when he saw a gunman open fire in the streets of Beaumont.
"I looked toward the sound, directly across the street, and I saw what appeared to be a middle aged black man firing at a girl," he said.
Previous witnesses testified Granger said nothing as he approached his daughter, Samantha Jackson, in the middle of Milam Street and shot at her multiple times.
"She had her hands up and she was twisting like she was being hit repeatedly," Diez said.
Troy Soileau said he was at the courthouse doors near the smoking area when the shooting began. Soileau testified he saw Granger fire a volley of bullets into the courthouse doors as his other alleged targets, Claudia Jackson and Rebecca Richards, tried to flee to safety.
As bullets whizzed by, shattering the courthouse glass, Soileau testified he hid behind a pillar and yelled for those in the area to take cover.
"I was screaming," he said. "I was talking, telling people to hide. Get inside."
Standing close enough to the courthouse revolving doors, Soileau said he saw Minnie Sebolt cut down by gun fire and later die.
"Did her eyes meet your eyes?" Prosecutor Pat Knauth asked.
"They did," Soileau said.
"Did she respond to you?" Knauth asked.
"She didn't," Soileau answered.
Both Soileau and Diez testified they ran to Samantha Jackson's aid in the moments after the shooting. Despite being shot and run over by Granger's truck, they said she was responsive.
"I asked her if she was a Christian," Soileau said, describing his best attempts to comfort the severely wounded Jackson.
"We prayed, as best we could," he said.
Samantha Jackson was in a coma for months as a result of her injuries, but nonetheless testified against Granger, who she said methodically opened fire on her on March 14, 2012.
After opening fire in front of the courthouse, Beaumont police testified Granger made his way to RCI, a fabrication and pipe fitting company blocks away from the courthouse.
"He came in and said something like he was gonna kill everybody, and that's when I realized I had a problem bigger than the one I had on my desk," said Edwin Hoag, who was working at the time.
Two other co-workers testified Granger used their cell phones to phone friends and family, and said Granger was bragging about his crime spree.
RCI employee Steve Nash said Granger, bleeding and passing in and out of consciousness, presented him an opportunity to end the bloodshed.
"When he closed his eyes the third time, that's when I did what I had to do," Nash said.
Nash testified he gave Granger a swift and vicious kick to his testicles and wrestled the assault weapon from his grasp.
"When we got close to the door, we heard, 'Come in! Come in! Somebody's got him!'" said BPD SWAT Team Leader Scott Apple.
Granger was soon placed into custody and was treated for at least three gunshot wounds, police said.
"We placed him in some flex cuffs and called an ambulance," Apple said.
Other BPD officers who guarded Granger's hospital room testified Granger made incriminating statements, showing no remorse while recovering from his non-life-threatening wounds.
Officers testified Granger said he would rather enter prison as a murderer than a rapist.
Det. Frank Coffin, a hostage negotiator testified Granger said "It's good to go to jail for something that's worth it."
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With the second day of testimony in the capital murder trial of accused courthouse shooter Bartholomew Granger under their belts, prosecutors said Tuesday, April 23, that Wednesday's witnesses will include Samantha Jackson, Granger's daughter who was run over by her father's vehicle during the March 2012 shooting that almost killed her.
Granger pleaded not guilty to capital murder Monday, April 23, in Galveston and his defense gave no opening statements. If convicted, Granger will likely receive the death penalty.
The trial was moved to a Galveston courthouse, mostly to avoid jurors having to walk by the very place where prosecutors say Granger gunned down Minnie Sebolt, a 79-year-old bystander who was hit by a hail of gunfire on the morning of March 14, 2012. The Jefferson County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a budget amendment at its meeting Monday, April 22, allowing $40,000 from the contingency fund to be used for the change in venue for the trial.
With Judge Bob Wortham presiding over Granger's trial in Galveston, Prosecutor Ed Shettle gave the state's opening statements, saying Granger's crime was premeditated and cold-blooded.
"He set out in his pickup truck and laid in wait for hours, waited for the people who he thought betrayed him," Shettle said of Granger's supposed targets, Claudia and Samantha Jackson, Grangers's ex-wife and daughter, who had testified against him in a sexual assault case the day before.
"This was calculated," Shettle said.
The chief prosecutor in the case went on to say Granger didn't stop there. Subsequent video of the incident show's Granger's Chevy pickup tearing through the courthouse parking lot before it met his wounded daughter, Samantha, who was sitting in the street.
"He didn't just straddle her," Shettle said, describing Granger's apparent attempt to kill his daughter with his vehicle. "He ran over her with both tires."
The state's first witness was Judge John Stevens, who was hearing Granger's sexual assault case. Stevens described the chaos that ensued about 11 a.m. on that fateful day. Other witnesses included crime lab scientists, investigators with the Texas Rangers, Texas Department of Public Safety and the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office, and Chelle Warrick, who was working for Granger's defense attorney at the time.
Warrick testified Granger had called her on the morning of the March 2012 shooting and was emotional, saying he was angered by his daughter and ex-wife's testimony in Stevens' court the day before.
"He was crying hysterically when he first called me," Warrick testified.
Warrick said Granger had some choice words for Judge Stevens that day.
Warrick said Granger told her Judge Stevens "is allowing them to (purger) themselves in front of the court."
Warrick testified she did her best to assuage Granger at the time.
"He told me he would take care of it tomorrow," she said.
The next day, prosecutors said Granger waited in the parking lot of the Jefferson County Courthouse, arriving at 7:20 and re-parking his silver Chevy pickup at least three times before opening fire around 11:20 a.m.
Beaumont Police Department's Chief Jimmy Singletary was the last witness to take the stand Monday, saying he and his officers were just finishing up a shift change at the police station adjacent to the courthouse. Singletary testified he and other officers heard the shots and ran toward the courthouse. After crossing the railroad tracks, Singletary is seen on video taking cover behind a railroad crossing sign, not firing his weapon to avoid crossfire as other officers repeatedly opened fire on Granger's fleeing vehicle.
Moments later, Singletary testified he was locking down the scene at RCI, a small business where prosecutors say Granger held multiple hostages, if only for a little while.
"One brave man who had the opportunity took the opportunity and kicked the snot out of (Granger)," Shettle testified.
Prosecutors said Tuesday's testimony will include other investigators and first responders who tended to the wounded moments after the shooting took place. Assistant District Attorney Pat Knauth said tomorrow's witnesses will also include a friend of Minnie Sebolt who was at the scene and Rebekah Richard, Granger's wife.
Moments after his testimony, Chief Singletary looked out of the long windows of the Galveston County Courthouse at the water below. Having relived one of Jefferson County's most high-profile shootings while on the stand, Singletary breathed an emotional sigh of relief.
"It's hard to imagine it was only a year ago," he said.
Day Two
Prosecutors called ten witnesses Tuesday, April 23, most of whom were BPD and Jefferson County Sheriff's officers who fired a barrage of shots at Granger's vehicle, disabling it on that fateful March 2012 day.
William Anderson, a 64-year-old United States Marine from Beaumont, also testified, saying he was parked behind Granger who was waiting in front of the courthouse for hours. Anderson became emotional momentarily as he recalled Granger's apparent dedication to killing his daughter, ex-wife and his current wife after they testified against him in a sexual assault case.
After watching Granger acting suspiciously for hours, Anderson said Granger began shooting as the three women walked into the court room.
"He opened the door completely... and pulled out a rifle," he said.
Sitting in his vehicle only a few feet from Granger as he stood in the street firing at the courthouse, Anderson said he wished he had done more to prevent the death of Minnie Sebolt.
"I was scared to death," Anderson said.
Other witnesses included Leslie King, a bystander who was shot in the hand and Rebecca Richards, Granger's current wife who was to testify against him on the day of the March 2012 shooting.
"He just ran across and started holding the gun up and he just started shooting," Richards said of that fateful day.
Richards, Claudia Jackson and Samantha Jackson fled, but Samantha and Claudia were cut down by gun fire, according to police.
"When I seen him with the gun, we all just really broke out running," she said.
Granger's defense rarely cross-examined Monday's and Tuesday's witnesses and allowed video footage of Granger's vehicle running over Samantha Jackson, footage taken from Officer James Robichaux's police cruiser in the moments after the shooting.
After following Granger's disabled vehicle for a few hundred feet, Robichaux is seen pulling over as he said Granger pointed his assault rifle at him from Granger's open window.
"That round would've gone right through the vehicle and it could've killed me," Robichaux said
Perhaps the most disturbing testimony was that of Vickie Hollingsworth, a friend of Minnie Sebolt's who was standing next to the 79-year-old when she was hit by a hail of bullets.
Rarely did Hollingsworth take her eyes off Granger during her testimony, until she was asked to identify Sebolt's body in pictures by prosecutors. Hollingsworth cried loudly as a few jurors were also overcome with emotion at the sight of Hollingsworth's anguish.
Hollingsworth testified Sebolt was there to help Hollingsworth get VA benefits after her husband's death.
"She just loved to help people," Hollingsworth said.


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Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash, and Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame.
In this article we chat to Charles H. Moore about the design and development of Forth. Moore invented Forth while at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory to help control radio telescopes and data-collection/reduction systems.
Here he chats about why Forth was invented, as well as why he still works with Forth today.
How did Forth come into existence?
Forth came about when I was faced with a just-released IBM 1130 minicomputer. Compiling a Fortran program was a cumbersome procedure involving multiple card decks. I used Fortran to develop the first Forth, which could use the disk and graphics display that Fortran couldn't. Because it was interactive, my programming was much faster and easier.
Was there a particular problem you were trying to solve?
This computer was at Mohasco Industries. Their main product was carpet and the problem was to determine if the 1130 could help design carpets. Forth was great for programming the 2250 display, but ultimately the lack of color doomed the project.
Did you face any hard decisions in the development of the language?
The hardest decision in developing Forth was whether to do it. Languages were not casually designed. It was reputed to require a brilliant team and man-years of effort. I had my eye on something quick and simple.
I write Forth code every day. It is a joy to write a few simple words and solve a problem. As brain exercise it far surpasses cards, crosswords or Sudoku; and is useful.
How did Forth get its name?
I decided to call it Fourth, as in 4th-generation computer language. But the 1130 file system limited names to 5 characters, so I shortened it to Forth. A fortuitous choice, since Forth has many positive associations.
I have read that Forth was developed from your own personal programming system, which you began to develop in 1958. Can you tell us a little more about this?
My personal programming system was a deck of punch cards, [now] sadly lost. It had a number of Fortran subroutines that did unformatted input/output, arithmetic algorithms and a simple interpreter. It let me customize a program via its input at a time when recompiling was slow and difficult.
Why did you incorporate Reverse Polish notation into the language?
Reverse Polish notation is the simplest way to describe arithmetic expressions. That's how you learn arithmetic in grade school, before advancing to infix notation with Algebra. I've always favored simplicity in the interest of getting the job done.


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On October 5, 2010, President Obama signed legislation requiring the federal government to replace the term "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability" in many areas of government. This measure, known as Rosa's Law, strips the terms "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded" from federal health, education, and labor policy. "Intellectual disability" or "individual with an intellectual disability" are being inserted in place of these outdated terms. The rights of individuals with disabilities remain the same.
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The New York Jets' experiment with quarterback Tim Tebow was a colossal failure, an exercise in frustration for the former Heisman Trophy winner who was released Monday.
The Ravens, like the majority of their NFL colleagues, are not likely to be a potential destination for the former Florida star.
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Colonial Players closes its season with Neil LaBute's 2001 dark comedy/drama "The Shape of Things," drawing a striking contrast with the Depression-era romantic comedy that started the theater's run in September.
LaBute's cynical commentary on the contemporary art scene and his cool depiction of couples' doomed relationships seem vastly removed from the artful grace and wit of Noel Coward's 1930 production "Private Lives."
The only thing both shows share is a memorable starring performance by actor Pat Reynolds, who earlier invested Coward's sophisticated, self-assured British hero Elyot with romantic charm and now plays LaBute's English-major college student Adam as a less assertive hero. Reynolds' portrayal of Adam, willingly manipulated by art student Evelyn, gives Colonial Players' audiences insight into LaBute's amiable loser, who improves his image and loses his earlier identity.
"The Shape of Things" raises many questions and intrigues us with shifting characters. Evelyn is at times a free spirit, helping to improve uptight, nerdy Adam; at other points, Evelyn is a dominatrix — a contemporary Eve grooming Adam for a fall of biblical proportions.
When we meet Adam, who is working as a college art museum guard, he is a good-natured dork who tries to dissuade gallery visitor Evelyn from spray painting the fig leaf on an antique sculpture of a man. Sensible Adam might deduce that gallery visitor Evelyn is strange, but she tells him he is cute, and in doing so alters his initial impression of her.
Evelyn spray paints her phone number in the lining of Adam's coat and invites him to call her. Student Adam has two friends — Phillip and Jenny. He's had few romantic encounters until this strange meeting with Evelyn. Adam soon becomes involved with Evelyn, and his life begins to change. Our obsession with appearance is evidenced in Adam's shedding his old clothes, 25 pounds, his glasses (replaced by contacts) and an unattractive part of his nose. Adam gains confidence along with attention from friend Jenny, the fiancee of his best friend, Phillip, who forms an instant aversion to Evelyn.
Colonial Players' "The Shape of Things" is directed by Gary Seddon, who is making his CP directing debut with this production. Aware of the challenge this play presents, Seddon lists in his director's notes in the program that playwright LaBute explores the definition of art — is it subjective or objective? Noting that LaBute presents his audience with questions rather than answers, Seddon asks if LaBute has created truthful characters in their actions and language, and whether "the explicit language and sexual context of the play remove it from consideration as a work of art?"
Anyone planning to attend this play should be aware of the sexual content and raw language. Clearly, director Seddon has done his best to meet the challenge of this difficult, sometimes disturbing work.
The set design falls somewhat short, especially in the creation of a gallery setting bereft of a single piece of real art.
The Colonial Players production boasts excellent performances by all four members of the cast. Pat Reynolds has given us an amazing season, portraying a series of characters from Elyot in "Private Lives," to Paul Gauguin in "Inventing Van Gogh", to the enigmatic antihero David Ames in "Earth and Sky." Now he becomes Adam, a character he invests with layers of painful humanity. In his program bio, Reynolds tells us that "this will be the final time that he will play a character in his 20s" — something I'm not ready to accept.
In the other leading role as Evelyn, Karen Grim, who was seen in CP's one-act festival, creates a fascinating independent woman who never allows love to interfere with her using sex to subjugate others.
Lawrence Griffin is strong as Phillip, a character that he assures us is "radically different" from himself. Griffin summons believable fury and the necessary boorishness, along with an intriguing naiveté to be convincing as Phillip.
Stephanie Morelli creates a sweet, shy Jennie who may be stereotypical but nonetheless is made real enough by Morelli to make us care about what happens to her.
We should stress that LaBute's "The Shape of Things" will more likely please those adventurous theater-goers searching for biting commentary on the contemporary scene and who are not offended by crude language or staged sexual depictions. Additionally, it might cause anyone knowledgeable about art to question why a character who is a sculptress never mentions any 20th-century role models.
"The Shape of Things: continues weekends through June 25. Call 410-263-7373 to order tickets.


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LeBron James' Mother Gloria Arrested At Miami Beach Hotel!
Lebron's mom Gloria James taken into custody at the landmark Fontainebleau Hotel — police charge her with assaulting a parking valet!
Gloria James — mother of NBA mega-star LeBron James — was arrested April 7 after an early-morning incident at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, police tell the Miami Herald.
TMZ.com reports Gloria was partying at the hotel's LIV nightclub with friends and got into a dispute with the parking attendant when she was leaving. Police were called at 4:47am.
Miami Beach police say Gloria confronted valet Sorel Rockfeller after he brought her car for pickup, allegedly saying, "Where are my [expletive] keys?"
Miami's CBS4 news, citing the arrest report, says Gloria "struck the victim with an open hand across the right side of the face" and then she fell to the ground herself. Officers say Gloria's eyes were bloodshot and that she had a "strong odor of alcohol on her breath."
Gloria — who gave birth to LeBron when she was 16 — had another run-in with the law in 2006, when she was arrested on a DUI charge in Ohio.
LeBron, 26, played for the Cavaliers in Cleveland until joining the Miami Heat in a blockbuster deal to play in South Florida this season.


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v. 1) in civil lawsuits and petitions, the filing of any document (pleading) including complaints, petitions, declarations, motions, and memoranda of points and authorities. 2) in criminal law, the entry of plea of a defendant in response to each charge of criminal conduct. (See: plea, pleading)
plead(Allege in a legal action), verb advance, affirm, affirm explicitly, allege, assert, assert formally, assert posiiively, attest to, bring forward, contend, emphasize, maintain, make an affidavit, make an assertion, present, proclaim, put forth, put forward, put in an affidavit, reaffirm, reassert, set forth, state, state emphatically, stress, swear
Associated concepts: plead a cause of action, responsive pleading
plead(Argue a case), verb advocate, argue at the bar, argue the point, bring into court, causam agere, contend for, defend a case, maintain by arguments, prosecute one's case, put one's case, speak for, speak up for, stand up for, state one's case, urge reasons for, use arguments
plead(Implore), verb address a request, beseech, call upon, charge, clamor for, entreat, importune, make a reeuest, obsecrare, orare, petition, prefer a request, press, put up a request, request, solicit, supplicate, urge
See also: address, adduce, allege, answer, bear, depose, exhort, importune, intercede, persuade, petition, pray, press, pressure, reason, reply, respond, solicit, sue, testify
TO PLEAD. The formal entry of the defendant's defence on the record. In a popular sense, it signifies the argument in a cause, but it is not so used by the profession. Steph. Pl. Appx. note I; Story, Eq. Pl. Sec. 5, note.


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"World growth is still alive and well," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago, after 3M Co. MMM, +0.56% topped first-quarter profit expectations, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average component and maker of Post-it Notes benefiting from U.S. industrial demand. Read more on 3M.
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Of the roughly 130 S&P 500 companies that have reported so far, 83% have beat on earnings, 73% have beat on revenues, and year-over-year earnings growth is 6.3% versus expectations of about 1%, according to Hogan's tally.
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Netflix Inc. NFLX, +1.87% shares tumbled 14% after the online video-streaming provider reported first-quarter results late Monday. Read Market Extra on Netflix.
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Still, Tuz added, Apple tends to "beat quite handily and be conservative on their guidance."
"It's been a tremendous stock, but in the last month or so, it has started to wobble as the thought is, 'how much better can it get?'" Tuz added.
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Economic data reported Tuesday proved a mixed bag, with a gauge of consumer confidence dipping some but little changed in April, while sales of new homes for March came in stronger than anticipated, signaling some stabilization in the beleaguered real-estate market. Read more on consumer confidence.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) Tiger Woods made it look easy on a dreary day at Torrey Pines and wound up in a place he hasn't been in five years.
He had the 36-hole lead by himself at one of his favorite PGA Tour stops.
Woods didn't miss a shot during a four-hole stretch around the turn on the North Course that included a 5-iron to 5 feet for eagle and a wedge that one-hopped off the pin to set up birdie. It carried him to a 7-under 65 on Friday and gave him a two-shot lead in the Farmers Insurance Open.
Woods was at 11-under 133 and had a two-shot lead over Billy Horschel, with six other players two shots behind. Already a favorite with seven wins as a pro at Torrey Pines, Woods had even more in his favor going into the weekend. He had a 74-0 edge in PGA Tour wins against the next seven players behind him.
Horschel, who had to go back to Q-school to get his card last year, had a 69 on the South Course.
Woods caught a break in the draw by playing the easier North - it's about 600 yards shorter - on a day of light rain, a late breeze and soft conditions.
Brad Fritsch, a rookie from Canada, had a 67 on the South Course to lead the group of six players at 8-under 136. The others were Casey Wittenberg, Steve Marino, Jimmy Walker, Josh Teater and Erik Compton.
Phil Mickelson struggled to keep his hands dry in the wet weather and finished bogey-bogey on the South for a 71 to make the cut on the number, though his work isn't over. There were 87 players who made the cut at 1-under 143, meaning there will be another cut to top 70 and ties Saturday.
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Whether painting the Native Americans in a dramatic, picturesque setting, or the American cowboy in the dusty cattle-working pens, Martin Grelle captures the spirit, beauty, and vastness of the West in his historically-accurate, compelling images. Grelle studies diligently to portray the diverse cultures of the American West accurately and with sensitivity. His knowledge of the cowboy's way of life, gained from his time spent horseback on ranches during the annual Cowboy Artists of America's (CAA) trail ride, as well as the time spent with local ranchers and friends, is evident in his contemporary cowboy paintings. The many hours spent in museums, at historical re-enactments, in visiting with experts on Native American culture, and reading from his extensive library, have helped him to bring his vision of the Plains Indian culture to life on canvas.
For more than 30 years Grelle has made a career of his art, and has won awards of both regional and national importance. In 1995, he was elected to the Cowboy Artists of America, and he is one of the younger active members. He is currently serving his second term on the board of directors for that organization, and participates in the Annual CAA Exhibition and Sale at the Phoenix Art Museum each October. Grelle won the CAA People's Choice Award in 2002, for his painting Monarchs of the North, and the Ray Swanson Memorial Award in 2008, for his painting Newlyweds. He has also been privileged to participate in other major juried shows across the United States. Included in that list are the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, which he has participated in each year since 1995, the Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition & Sale at the Autry National Center, and the inaugural Quest for the West Exhibition & Sale at the Eiteljorg Museum. Awards of merit include the Prix de West Purchase Award, which he won in 2002 for his painting Teller of Tales, and again in 2005, for his painting Two Coups, making him one of only 6 artists to have won the top award twice. Grelle has also won twice the Nona Jean Hulsey Ramsey Buyer's Choice Award at Prix de West, first in 2004 with Signs Along the Snake, and again in 2006, for Dust in the Distance. The artist is represented by Overland Gallery of Fine Art, in Scottsdale, Arizona, where a one-man show is held for Grelle each March. The 2008 show marked Grelle's 20
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President Obama has in recent weeks begun a behind-the-scenes courtship of Muslim-American groups in the United States, working with organizations across the country to drum up support for his administration as it preps for a second-term battle.
Now that Obama's Muslim outreach has become public knowledge, critics are divided over whether the president's attempted alliances will work -- and what they'll mean for American opinion of his White House:
- Obama's talk with Muslim groups is a positive sign for Arab-Americans accustomed to a lack of substantive change, Andrea Elliott writes for the The New York Times. Although Obama has yet to meet publicly with leaders in the Muslim community, his work behind the curtain has given rise to newfound appreciation from the group, Elliott writes. "His administration has reached out to this politically isolated constituency in a sustained and widening effort that has left even skeptics surprised," she writes.
- The private coalitions with American Muslim groups may not be substantive steps toward policy change but will help to legitimately change the dialogue regarding the U.S. Muslim community, Carol E. Lee writes for Politico. Though debate has arisen across the aisle over whether Obama's much-hyped pro-Muslim promises have begun to take effect, there's no doubt the president has made moves to increase positive relations with the Arab-American community, Lee writes. "There's little question that he's made a pronounced shift in how the U.S. talks about the rest of the world," she writes, "and in a way that has opened him up to charges of being soft in the face of America's enemies."
- Regardless of how effective Obama's talks with the Muslim community are, they're nothing new, Daniel Pipes blogs for the conservative Corner blog. Obama isn't the first to reach out to Arab-Americans -- George W. Bush did it, and better, Pipes writes, with "substantive steps" like adding a Koran to the White House library and initiating a Ramadan celebration. "Yes, Obama is bending over backwards to win Muslim opinion. But Bush did the same," Pipes writes.
- A gesture from Obama deserves action from the Muslim community, says Fouad Al-Hashem, who writes for Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan. "The Arab world needs to take 10 steps toward Obama, if Obama takes one step," says Al-Hashem.


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The Jordanian government will raise electricity tariffs to counter an expected loss of more than JD1.5 billion in the energy sector resulting from the halt in Egyptian gas supplies, a Cabinet official said Monday.
Minister of Public Works and Housing Yahya Kisbi, also acting minister of energy, noted that the Kingdom's energy bill exceeded JD4 billion in 2011 and stressed that everyone must share responsibility in addressing the financial burden of increasing energy import costs. The announcement was made during a press conference held by Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Rakan Majali along with Kisbi, Minister of Industry and Trade Sami Gammoh, Chief Commissioner of the Electricity Regulatory Commission Ahmad Hiyasat and Ministry of Energy Secretary General Farouq Hiyari.
"Last year, the energy consumption bill reached alarming figures compared with previous years, so we started taking measures that should not have a direct impact on the lower and middle classes. We are counting on the citizens' understanding and their sense of responsibility to do their part as well and ration their energy consumption," Kisbi said. He added that the Kingdom's electricity sector had incurred losses of over JD1 billion last year and is expected to lose JD1.5 billion this year if the situation continues as is.
"The government has taken several austerity measures aimed at rationing consumption in order to address the budget deficit. In the meantime, we are working on finding alternatives to offset the shortage in supply of Egyptian gas, and in that regard we have received some positive signs from several Gulf states and from Iraq," added Gammoh, who is also acting finance minister.
Hiyasat said the government plans to raise the electricity tariff to compensate for part of the loss incurred by the sector, adding that the cost of energy imports this year is expected to exceed JD5 billion. "Practically, we have dropped the Egyptian gas supply from our calculations, due to the fact that in 12 months the gas pipeline has been attacked more than 14 times. Therefore, we have to admit that we have a problem and a challenge that everyone must take part in addressing," Hiyasat said.
He said that producing one kilowatt-hour of electricity costs JD0.189, while the public on average pays JD0.073 per KWH with the government subsidising the difference. "The amount of losses incurred by the National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) gave the government no choice but to reconsider the electricity tariffs to partially pay for the losses and reschedule the rest over the coming years," Kisbi said.
Hiyari, for his part, highlighted the challenges facing the energy sector and their impact on the economy, pointing out that more than 98 per cent of the country's energy is imported. He pointed out that the unexpected increase in the cost of oil derivatives since the beginning of the year had compelled the ministry to take action.
The energy ministry official noted that the government spent JD555 million on fuel subsidies last year in addition to JD1 billion in support for NEPCO, which is expected to double this year if nothing is done to address the underlying problem.
"We have devised a two-way plan that aims at raising the public's awareness on the ramifications of the current financial burden resulting from the challenges facing the electricity sector as well as enlightening citizens on the best means of rationing power consumption," he said, adding that this plan is currently awaiting the Cabinet's endorsement.
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text: Like the title says...this podcast is a little different than our usual shows. These Geek Out episodes will be about essentially anything that comes to mind, won't have a set topic, and should give you a little insight into who the hosts really are! Enjoy as Dave, Tom, and J.D. talk about anything and everything that pops into their geeky minds!


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Understanding Your Competition on Facebook
Facebook is one of the leading platforms where companies try their social media meddle in hopes of drawing followers to their brand or products. However, this is not as easy as posting articles on Facebook and the readers/purchasers will follow. Facebook is a highly competitive arena based around a person's newsfeed. Unless you are a high profile celebrity, the vast majority of your posts will be viewed in your follower's news feeds, not by them coming directly to you Facebook home page. In general, your competitors on Facebook are not the ones you have in the real world. They are everyone else who is in a users news feed.
- Posts from their friends and family
- Pictures of their friend's kids doing funny things.
- Photos of cool trips their friends have taken.
- The latest cat videos, Gangnum style dances and other Internet memes.
- And Facebook itself, limiting views of your posts via its edge rank algorithm in favor of promoted and sponsored posts.
These are what you are competing with for the attention of users. And to make matters worse, many users may have followed you to state that they like your products, but don't necessarily want to hear from you. While they anticipate news from their friends, you have to avoid being seen as a corporate entity that is crashing their party.
So how do compete against friends, family and comic pets?
Short, focused and interesting posts with Pictures
I don't need a new camera, but I'm going to click on this since its colorful and enticing.
Your Cover Photo
Changing of your cover photo has a higher chance of attracting views than a simple article does, so do this about once a week. Just remember to stay within Facebook's Guidelines.
Humanize Your Company
Be "Bob" Not "Mr. Corporation" – there's a congressional analogy here. The approval rating of Congress as a whole floats in the single digits to low teens, yet the popularity of individual congress critters is in the high 40s, 50, 60s, even 70s.
The takeaway – people like individuals, not entities, be they governmental or corporate. Your goal is to get your followers to see you as a person or collection of people instead of as "mega corp." Invite them behind the scenes and into your world at work. Feature community service activities in which your company engages, company events and outings, post in real time from shows and conferences you attend with videos, and show pictures of a day in the life at your company. Use real names where possible.
Don't Forget Your Timeline
While the Timeline feature is no longer new, most companies have failed to embrace it. Pepper your Timeline with relevant events in your company's history – release of major products, important dates in your industry, key initiatives, events you have or will be attending. Having an extended history lends legitimacy and suggests a certain gravitas to those who visit your pages.
Top 10 Tips for Killer Community Engagement
Recently a colleague of mine asked me "what are the most important things to do when building an online community?" I got to thinking about it and quickly had a list of about 40 things you HAVE to do being technology marketers. After spending a little time looking at the list and matching up similar concepts, I reduced the list to about 10 really important things you should do not only build, but maintain a strong community. I've written this list as to be platform agnostic. Whether you have or are just starting a company blog, running a forum or bulletin board, or developing your presence on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc., these tips will be of some use to you. So, the term "Community" that I use throughout this article refers to your user base, your potential customers, your followers and in general everyone who engages in any way with your products, brands and/or information; not so much your specific type of online community.
That being said, here are my Top 10 Tips:
1) Post all the time – In the early stages of any social media operation, you'll need content and lots of it. It's what search engines index and what brings people to your site. When just starting out, your community will be quite small and there won't be much organic posting. Potential users who visit and see little activity will likely leave and not come back. It's up to you to create content that attracts eyes, generates engagement and grows your community. It doesn't just have to be you. A small team can easily create 5-10 forum posts a day (or Facebook posts, tweets, etc.) or post at least a blog entry daily. Work with folks in your company for content support and turn to your moderators, pull in your friends or social media colleagues. Heck once you have a growing community ask them directly to write about something specific.
2) Create awesome content, or at least content that is interesting – When I say "awesome", I'm not saying you need to write the next Harry Potter, just quality content that is relevant to your user base and invites them to engage, be it through text, video, or some other media. Keep up with the interests of your community, track what types of posts are most viewed through Google Analytics or your platform's native tools. Know what they like to read and what drives them to engage, and then target your writing towards these topics. This isn't to say that you should steer away from rote news, second-string information that relates to your industry, or niche topics that interest only a small portion of your community. You should continue to write about these things, but understand that the bulk of your time is best served covering areas that are of the most interest to your community.
3) Know what you want out of your community, but… There is a reason that your company has moved into the social media space. Whether it's to cut down on service and support time, get user feedback and spend less money on testing, to get greater visibility for your brand and products, to create or repair your company's image, to provide traffic to your main site content, to create evangelists, for user-generated content (UGC), or for direct sales and revenue generation – you need to be aware of the priorities and focus your community in that direction. But, you also have to be flexible because as your social media community grows its interests may shift a bit and develop different interests than originally planned. This is fine. Allow the community to become what it will and provide them tools to do so, but continue to root the site where your company wants it to be.
4) Set and maintain the proper tone – I've talked about this at some length in my own blog, but it doesn't hurt to reiterate here. Setting the proper tone for your community is one of the most important things you will do and will have the greatest effect on how your community will grow and what kinds of people you will attract.
5) Establish good site rules – Site rules tie in closely with setting the tone for your site. They create a safe community where users know what is off limits and give your moderation team guidelines to follow. It is important to note that no matter how thorough your blog rules are, they won't cover everything that can possibly happen, so make sure to write something akin to these two lines into your site use policy:
- The owners, administrators, and moderators of this site reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any post or ban any user for any reason. By agreeing to registering, you agree to this rule and to all of the other site rules and guidelines.
- These rules and guidelines are subject to change at any time without notice.
6) Find your 1% – Every successful community has its 1% of ferociously active participants who seem to live on your site. While small in number, they are your biggest generators of content, your strongest supporters and your best evangelists. They love your products, your brands, etc., so much that they will spend their free time writing about them and communicating with others about them. They probably know more about your products than you do. Locate these folks and give them additional tools to help support your site. Invite them to provide guest blogs, where they can write about their expertise and enjoy the privilege of by-line. Let them know they are important to you so they continue to provide quality UGC and provide user support so that you don't have to.
7) Be a NYC doorman, not a bouncer – Remember, your goal is to grow your community, not to create an exclusive club. Be helpful and courteous to those who venture into your site for the first time. Even if a question is incredibly simple or has been answered 10 times before, make the effort to be welcoming. If a new user asks a question that you can't answer personally, respond to them with a welcome message and find someone in your organization who can. The simple act of providing the welcome lets your new user know they are in a good place. This is also a major part of setting the proper tone. That new user could turn out to be your most helpful poster, a creator of awesome content and your strongest evangelist.
8) Keep up with your inboxes – This is something that can easily fall through the cracks if you're not attentive. While you will receive personal messages sent to you through your social media platform, you need to follow up with all pathways through which users send communiqués. Make sure you are on the distribution list for any "Contact Us" links. This is where users are most likely to submit problems they are having with site or its tools. This is also one of the most direct ways to engage and support your user base. You find everything from users who need help with their passwords, can't figure out how to post on your platform, or just need personal attention. If you are not paying attention to this inbox, a lot of potential users will get fed up and never come back. Yes, answering these questions and providing support is time-consuming but something that as a technology marketer, is crucial, and think of it as an investment in your community.
9) Be as honest as you can – If you are running a corporate social media endeavor to attract IT buyers, there are things you simply cannot talk about for legal, ethical or competitive reasons. Like it or not you are in the marketing business. As a company representative in a social media endeavor, you are on the front lines of communicating with your company's community. How you act, what you say and how you treat people reflects directly upon your company. You don't want to violate your company's communication policies on things like stock prices, forthcoming products, shake ups within your organization, etc. If users ask about these things simply tell them that you cannot divulge that information. Be forthright and honest. Let them know that as soon as you can talk about it, you will.
10) Let's see…you write, you support, you protect, you market…but that's not all – As if you don't already wear enough hats, you have to embrace your role in ADVERTISING as well. We all dream of that community that grows completely organically, with your desired users finding you without having to lift a finger, but that simply isn't the reality. Since most companies will not spend a lot on advertising their social media presence, that responsibility will rest on your shoulders. You will need to engage in a number of advertisement strategies to grow and maintain your community. These include, but are not limited to smart use of SEO to get your articles ranked highly, use of social media sites to leave breadcrumbs to your content and engage users who may not have found your site, keeping up with and engaging with important industry figures that have a social media presence.
So what about you? What strategies do you find most useful for growing your community?
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Setting the Tone for Your Community
In the first few entries, I focused on some rather conceptual ideas. This entry will be a bit more concrete as we discuss how to set the tone for your community. Whether you have just launched new social media endeavor or you have a long standing forum or blog, finding and maintaining the proper tone for your site is of paramount importance. The tone you set for your site is a signal to everyone who visits as to what behaviors are allowed and how to treat others.
So how does one set a tone? Well, it's not all that easy and it's not a set it and forget it kind of thing. Tone has to be held and maintained. You have to work with your mods and your users to maintain it.This is done through 4 main tools and processes
- Your Site Rules
- Working with your moderators
- Engaging with your users
- Managing user-to-user interactions
Strong forum rules keep everyone in line and everyone from yourself, your organization, your mods and your users safe. The majority of users want clear and accessible forum rules to know what exactly they can and should not do. Of course you'll have line steppers and those who feel the rules are too restrictive, but you are not writing for them.Another key is to make sure your rules are applied as evenly as possible.As in every aspect of life, your forum will have people who are more valuable than others (your 1%, we'll talk about them in a future entry) and those whom you personally like or dislike.Do your level best to treat them all the same way in public when rules are broken.
In most instances, your moderators will spend more time functionally engaging your social media sites than you will. They are the front line of tone setting. Make sure they understand how you want them to engage the user base and all of them are acting more or less with the same focus.Having an extremely harsh or lenient individual moderator can lead to problems as their actions can be seen as precedent setting by your users.Spend some of your time reviewing the interactions of your moderators with the user base and adjust accordingly.
Engage your users when they step the lines or try to cause problems. Arguments and personal animosities between users are going to crop up. Your job is to separate the parties when it moves beyond a technical discussion into personal attacks. Unless it's obvious that one party is completely to blame, you need to pull both aside privately and just tell them to cool it.You don't want to spend a lot of time in he said she said arguments or playing the sides.Just get them to agree to leave each other alone. Praise in public, rebuke in private unless you want a war.Your users have more time than you do to argue, dissemble your words, and search the site for instances where things were handled differently.It's generally not worth it.
If you allow doorkeepers to hammer every noob question upon arrival, you'll lose a lot of potential members. From my own experience I usually ask a tepid question the first time I post in a forum or a blog. I want to make sure that the members are decent people and gauge the level of experience/knowledge therein before fully committing. If I'm greeted by a surly individual and no one shows up to say "Ignore Mark, he's like that. I'm Don, How can I help…" I usually don't stick around. It's especially bad form if your moderators act like this as it signals your community that it's open season on noobs and everyone else for that matter. Don doesn't even have to be particularly helpful. He just needs to show that that type of abuse is not allowed. Being "Don" is a habit you need to get your moderators into. Again being friendly and helpful even if they are simply bridging the gap until someone truly knowledgeable can answer the question that has been asked.
So what to do about "Mark"? Private Message – stop doing that.Simple and to the point.Get him to acknowledge this.
You'll know you've set the proper tone when your user base commits to helping you maintain it.
So What's All This About Pool Cleaning?
Whenever I talk to other community managers about how they view their role, most answer that that they see themselves as a gardener, a farmer, a bonsai bush trimmer, or even a parent. I refer to this as the community manager as nurturer worldview. They see themselves as taking something tiny or even helpless and through careful tending, they get it to grow it and keep it pure.
While this is a popular point of view, it's not one to which I subscribe. Forums are not living beings. Forums are places. Places of engagement, places to find information, answers, entertainment, community with like-minded individuals, to demonstrate the size of one's brains or simply a place where users belong and feel safe. And then of course there are the assorted malcontents, trolls and spammers who absorb the bulk of your time, but I digress. That's a discussion for the not so distant future.
My favorite analogy of the forum as place is indeed the swimming pool. Think of the pool itself as the meeting place of your community on a very hot day. You have to skim the leaves and bugs from the surface so that the water seems appealing. Behind the scenes you have to apply the proper chemicals to keep the water crystal clear. Lighten up on the chlorine and algae (spam, trolls, etc.) will grow and no one will want to swim. However, you don't want to get too aggressive with the chemicals (moderation) else you create a toxic environment. The goal is to achieve balance and it's something you have to work on constantly. Check the pH, add water that's been lost to evaporation, tell the kids not run while near the pool, etc. Think of how these activities would relate to running your community. Plus in this analogy I have a killer tan and get to wear shades.
This isn't to say that there is no validity in the nurturer worldview. It's as valid as the Pool Cleaner analogy. In the end, these are only perceptions of the manager's role within the community. But one's perception helps to determine how you approach the management of the community. More importantly, how one perceives their forum colors the tone they try to set for their community; and the idea of "tone" is where we'll pick up the narrative next time.
So how about you? How do you see your organizations community manager? And if you are a community manager, how do you see yourself?
What is Community Management?
So why a blog on community management? It seems a mundane topic. Something that should just happen naturally, right. You build a forum, start a blog, create a presence on Facebook or Twitter; and bingo you have a community! Users who like your products and services seek you out and provide traffic, quality user generated content (UGC) and buy your products. What could be simpler? Since your users already love you, there will be no problems, right?
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Whether you recognize it or not, you have a community by simply having a company, a brand or a website. Those who engage your products or visit your site, whether by searching out your company's name or via search engine ARE your community. The members of your community have a wide variety of needs. Some want products, some want information, some want answers, some are looking for entertainment, and some just want to vent. The key is how to harness your community so that they provide value to your company at the same time you provide access to what they need. And that's where community management comes in.
Next Tuesday we'll focus on more traditional aspects of community management and why this blog is about pool cleaning.


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Braunsbedra, Germany,
August 16, 2013 - The German Volleyball Federation held their annual Volley All
Festival in the city of Braunsbedra. There was an excellent turn-out with 1,500
participants taking part in the competition, including players from Poland,
Lithuania and Slovakia.
The city of Braunsbedra and
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For discussion of Electric Universe and Plasma Cosmology. The ideas and opinions expressed on this forum do not necessarily reflect those of T-Bolts Group Inc or The Thunderbolts Project(TM)
Just exactly how does an investigative journalist conduct an investigation without investigating the facts? Maybe we should ask Linda Howe. The one time pillar of scientific UFO research seems to have fallen straight off the cracker truck within the last few years, plunging head first from forward fact-based journalist to what some call a sensationalistic hocus pocus promoter....
However, I've found all too often that 'need to believe' is the most powerful and dangerous factor in this field. The 'need to believe', where a desire and willingness to believe in and/or promote something is placed ahead of common sense judgement and investigation of the facts. When we begin doing this and not asking or attempting to answer hard questions or hold people accountable, this is when we start to become part of the problem and not part of the solution. This is when we actively engage in spreading disinformation, that hot button word UFO and conspiracy buffs have associated with evil cabals and propaganda machines aimed at silencing another over-used catch-all, 'the truth'.
junglelord wrote:Need to believe, is a security blanket statement, like conspiracy theory, just stated another way. Makes them feel better in their own world with a need to not believe.
The findings of the molecular biologists Dr Pjotr P. Garjajev and Dr. Vladimir Poponin of the Russian Academy of Science concerning the 'Phantom-DNA Effect' have a radical connection with the formation of crop circles in the United Kingdom and throughout the world in recent times. According to these scientists the DNA is emitting electromagnetic waves that continue to manifest even after the DNA sample has been removed from the experiment. Hence the name 'Phantom-DNA Effect'. The genetic procedures being adopted by these scientists have been commented on and explained by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf in their book Vernetzte Intelligenz, who have put forward the theory that self-radiating balls of light often seen in the sky and mistaken for extra-terrestrial visitors are in fact a group consciousness phenomenon brought about by hypercommunication within the DNA. This theory by Fosar and Bludorf can also explain the formation of crop circles which are also commonly attributed to extra-terrestrial visitors. In addition it will be shown that the precise technology being adopted by the aforesaid scientists in Moscow represents a new energy source, previously unknown to mankind, that is capable also of creating crop circles.
Fosar and Bludorf also describe other findings of this Moscow Group particularly concerning the 90 percent of human DNA that does not code for protein synthesis, and is therefore considered to be biologically inert. They point out that these days we refer to the DNA quite naturally as a 'genetic code', and we look upon it as a systematic encoding of information.
In Moscow, however, the genetic code is being examined precisely as an exercise in linguistics. By examining speech one ascertains the basic rules of syntax (the creation of words from letters or characters), of semantics (a study of the meaning content of words) and these together make up the foundation for a grammar. By applying this scientific form of linguistic examination to the genetic code the Moscow group has found that the DNA follows similar grammatical rules as human speech.
Fosar and Bludorf also relate the findings of the Russian physicists Alexej Dimitrijev and Vjatcheslav Djatlov. These two were commissioned by the Russian military to investigate the many sightings of self-radiating balls of light that appear regularly in Siberia on the border with China. They came to the conclusion that these UFOs were actually caused by vacuum domains where gravitational forces can change into electricity, and vice versa. This theory introduces a sensational new element into the New Physics because it opens up the possibility of hypercommunication through stable wormholes into other parts of the Universe.
It is now known that DNA functions as a superconductor at body temperature and is able to store light and information. Fosar and Bludorf have come up with the theory that the DNA itself acts as an intelligence network which enables hypercommunication via these wormholes. Effectively then these sightings of mysterious balls of light in the Russian sky can be explained as a phenomenon based in group consciousness brought about by hypercommunication through the wormholes in the DNA
In order to demonstrate the connection between wormholes in space and wormholes in the DNA, Fosar and Bludorf refer to the theory of the Finnish physicist, Matti Pitkänen, who some years ago formulated a new theory about the construction of the universe, based on an eight-dimensional space geometry. The theory is called TGD (Topological Geometrical Dynamics). In this complex theory magnetic wormholes play a very significant biological role. Contained in the DNA is much more than simply the instructions for synthesizing proteins for the construction of living cells. These powerful genetic biomolecules also contain the data for the operation of magnetic wormholes as biological communication channels.
According to Pitkänen, Wormhole-Magnetic-Fields, which present as Space-Time-Layers, are contained in the normal biological material, and are excellent candidates for a physical explanation of perception. Magnetized wormholes can really be seen as the quintessential living system. Fosar and Bludorf explain that Pitkänen's TGD theory demonstrates the long suspected connection between Gravitation and Consciousness – namely, that Gravitation and Consciousness represent antipoles.
There is a lot of material on the internet concerning the ability of DNA to react to various vibrations and electromagnetic waves. Much of this material seems to be based on the findings of Popp (2) that DNA emits quantum coherent photons. The Institute of Heart Math at Boulder Creek, Colorado presents published articles concerning the modulation of DNA by heart frequencies. There are theories about DNA resonance actually emitting information as well as acting as antennae.
According to Fosar and Bludorf this natural energy is brought about by hypercommunication via magnetic wormholes in the DNA. The crop circle is a group consciousness phenomenon. Dr Poponin himself states: "Perhaps the most important finding of these experiments is that they provide an opportunity to study vacuum substructure on strictly scientific and quantitative grounds. This is possible due to the phantom field's intrinsic ability to couple with conventional electromagnetic fields." This surely has to mean that the waves emanating from the DNA are resonating with external electromagnetic fields, which implies as a matter of logic that these waves from the DNA are capable of changing and directing the external electromagnetic fields.
The geometrical and philosophically significant shapes of the crop circles can be explained, as pointed out by Fosar and Bludorf, in terms of Jungian archetypes in the collective unconscious.
arc-us wrote:However, I've found all too often that 'need to believe' is the most powerful and dangerous factor in this field. The 'need to believe', where a desire and willingness to believe in and/or promote something is placed ahead of common sense judgement and investigation of the facts. When we begin doing this and not asking or attempting to answer hard questions or hold people accountable, this is when we start to become part of the problem and not part of the solution. This is when we actively engage in spreading disinformation, that hot button word UFO and conspiracy buffs have associated with evil cabals and propaganda machines aimed at silencing another over-used catch-all, 'the truth'.
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A new version of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes out more than 200 instances of the n-word and replaces them with "slave."
Without getting into why slave is also offensive, this is a bad idea.
I know. "The n-word"—as it has been sanitized—is wholly disturbing, one that reminds us of a shameful era of our history.
Let's not forget, or in this case rewrite, history. The story occurs in antebellum Missouri. Americans owned slaves and referred to them by one of the few words that still causes chagrin when it's uttered. It's not a nice thing to think about, but it happened.
Changing literature smacks of Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Winston sits in an office all day and removes references to people who have been relegated to "unperson" status by the totalitarian state. They are dead, more than likely shot in the head, but the Inner Party also wants them erased. A document or record bearing the name of the persona non grata is cut out and thrown into the incinerator. He excises them from ever having been.
Changing the words in Huck Finn is no different.
This is a slippery slope. First it's the word; then it's the book; finally, it's the writer. Start banning or censoring books, and before you know it, the fire department is torching your house.
Of course, the language in Huck requires context so people don't assume Mark Twain was just some jerk who hated black people. School children need to know our history; they need to talk about it. But removing words disses Mark Twain, condescends to students, and ignores history and, most importantly, the people who suffered through it. And if we forget the past, we'll just have to do it over again.
Leave it alone.
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Last week, reports surfaced that a 16-foot-long great white shark was spotted off the coast of New Jersey, near Atlantic City. While the sighting caused a good deal of commotion, great whites are actually spotted on occasion in our area.
Additionally, species like the smooth and spiny dogfish, sandbar sharks and sand tiger sharks are also found in our area. In the summer months, tiger, dusky, common threshers, shortfin makos and blue sharks will also frequent the deeper waters in our area.
It's important to note that shark attacks are rare. Sharks are not the "man-eating machines" they are often perceived to be. In fact, species like the great white far prefer seals and other marine mammals as their choice meal. Shark incidents usually occur if the animal mistakes a human for prey.
To avoid any confusion with these animals, here are some important safety tips for beach-goers this summer:
- Don't swim alone.
- Don't swim at dawn or dusk.
- Avoid areas where seals live.
- Don't swim in areas where you see active bait (small fish) near shore.
In reality, sharks have more to fear from us than we do from them. Over 100 million sharks are killed by humans every year. Did you know great white sharks are a federally protected species? From bycatch (when animals are caught unintentionally) to shark finning (the practice of slicing off the fins of a live shark and then discarding the animal at sea), even the largest predatory fish on Earth is not immune to human-related threats.