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Gold Standard: Citigroup Joins USOC, NBC For 2012 Olympic Games
March 10, 2011: Citigroup, one of the nation's largest financial services institutions, has signed a deal to become the official bank sponsor of the U.S. Olympic Committee and the 2012 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams, which will compete in London.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
The deal is also with NBC Olympics, which has exclusive broadcast rights to the 2012 Summer Games. Citi's agreement includes television and digital advertising, events and promotional opportunities.
"Supporting the Olympic and Paralympic dreams of America's athletes is one way we can show appreciation for the support of the American people," Vikram Pandit, CEO for Citi, said in a statement. "The Olympic Games are more than just sporting events. They are one of the world's premier venues for showcasing excellence and dedication, two of the values that guide us every day."
The USOC is on a marketing roll, having added TD Ameritrade as a sponsor in February.
Other USOC sponsors include Coca-Cola, Acer, Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser), AT&T, Atos Origin, BMW NA, BP, Dow Chemical, GE, McDonald's, Omega, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, Visa, Nike, 24 Hour Fitness, Allstate, Hilton, Adecco, Deloitte, Tyson, United Airlines and Jet Set Sports.
Among Citi's other sports alliances is a 20-year, $400 million naming rights deal to the New York Mets Citi Field.
"The Olympic Games . . . are one of the world's premier venues for showcasing excellence and dedication, two of the values that guide us every day."
Citi's sponsorship agreement with the USOC and NBC, the official U.S. broadcaster of the Olympic Games, is "part of an innovative, new collaboration between NBC Olympics and the USOC, through which the organizations have brought forth an integrated marketing and media package to the Olympic Games," according to the USOC.
"We look forward to sharing the excitement and competitive spirit of the London Games with our clients, colleagues and community partners across the country," said Pandit.
TD Ameritrade Signs With USOC For 2012 Summer Olympics Activation
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"Rigor Mortis"-The life after death RP(Started/PM for participation)-Arc 4: Closing Loose Ends
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This is your life. The year is 2011 and nothing seems out of the ordinary.
Hello fellow players, the dead and the damned. Welcome to your new life and your new job. You'l reach the apartment in the order I choose, expect more description in the group chat.
Our Co-GM is Link_To_Future.
Evey walked to the door of the apartment the note instructed her to be at, worried about what might happen next.
She was dead, she was sure of that. It had taken a while to sink in, but it had certainly happened. She had died. But now she was alive again, something she hadn't expected, and now she was at the location her mysterious taskmaster had instructed her to be at.
The apartment was wedged between two others, comprising the third floor in a six floor brick building. These buildings were a common sight in the rundown put of the town, next to nearby factories that released unpleasant scents and dangerous chemicals into the air and forest nearby. One could hear the shouts of fans violently echoing through the stairway, coming from above. A game of basketball with a pinch of zealous roars, nothing unusual.
Evey gingerly stepped into the apartment. It looked decidedly less pleasant inside. She stepped carefully around the floor beneath the light fitting, and quietly peered around the still gloomy apartment and waited for someone to reveal themselves. When no being seemed forthcoming, she called out again "Hello?" No answer. "Hello is anyone there? I came like you told me to, but I don't understand what I'm supposed to do. How am I even alive? I was dead, and then you... You resurrected me. How is that even possible?"
His footsteps echoed through the hall as he moved closer to his ultimate destination. A sense of dread anticipation washed over the man as he drew ever closer to a fate he could not understand.
How am I still alive?
Dr. Adrian Hardy was having a terrible day. First his mortal coil had been cut short. For most, that would have been enough. But somehow, it had been stitched back together. He had been summoned from beyond the grave to fulfill a destiny beyond what he could even fathom.
All the man had told him was to find his way to this slummy apartment before four hours had passed. He wasn't going to waste his second chance by being tardy.
He stood before the door and breathed deeply. The air was stale in his lungs...but at least it was air. Adrian noted that there was a light emanating from the crack of the slightly ajar door.
Odd...they must just want us to let ourselves in.
His hand danced across the knob for an excruciating moment before he built up the courage to enter his new world.
"Hello? Is anyone here?"
Inside the apartment stood a squirrely teenage girl. Adrian's face was covered in confusion. He had not expected this to be his greeting party. His hands pulled the hat more tightly over his mop of hair as he looked upon sickly female, quickly realizing that was likely in the same boat as he was.
Still, better safe than sorry.
"You...you aren't the one I'm supposed to meet here, are you?"
Ben sat at the bus stop bench across from the building and watched as others walked into the building.
First was the girl- malnourished, pale, with the fedora she would be memorable, easy to set up as a scapegoat. Next was the short man- much better, more invisible than the girl, better used as a weapon than a face.
Ben smiled, checking the time. There was still plenty of time left, but he didn't want to seem too tardy, third seems a better placement as any. He slowly got up, just as a bus pulled up for him, and walked to the crosswalk. He looked at the bus driver as he crossed the street and smirked as the man flipped him off.
As Ben approached the apartment he felt a shiver run down his spine as he remembered the darkness. What it had felt like, or rather what it hadn't felt like. He shook it off as he reached the door.
Ben turned the knob and entered the apartment, making as little noise as possible. He shut the door, then released the handle slowly.
You...you aren't the one I'm supposed to meet here, aren't you?"
Ben looked at the small man's back.
"No, she looked as confused when she walked into the apartment as you did," Ben said quietly, "and no, I'm not our gracious host either. You know how many of us there are?"
Ben walked over to a chair and pulled it up to the table and sat down, getting a clear view of the door.
Spencer walked up to the apartment building. It wasn't anything special. He briefly considered walking away, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. After all, everyone he once knew thought he was dead. He had nowhere else to go, and nothing else to do.
The door to the apartment was ajar, and he could hear people talking. At the moment he walked into the room, he knew they were just like him. Dead, undead, or whatever the proper term was.
The first person he noticed was the man on the chair. He was staring at the door, almost like he was waiting for someone. Is he the one that brought them here? He seemed unusually calm, and Spencer wasn't even sure he was dead.
He wasn't sure what to think. He turned to the man watching the door.
"Are you the one that brought us here?"
No response. The man was either lost in thought, or just didn't care much for small talk. In any case, he didn't seem to be the one he was supposed to meet.
Spencer's mind was wandering. Who are these people? Whose side are they on? Are there even any sides in this situation? How many of them are there? What are they waiting for? He sat on the couch and listened to the noises coming from outside, trying to clear his head.
Mira walked the empty streets still wondering why she was breathing. What would be in store for her and how is this all even possible. Then Mira noticed the smoky air and smog-ridden chemical factories.
Mira remembered that a few years ago there had been a horrible chemical accident where a vat of sulfuric acid had fallen on a worker, scarring him entirely and slowly killed him. Had he been given the same chance too?
Then Mira came upon the address where she spotted other people entering the building as well to her surprise. Did they have any idea on this as well?
Mira's steps echoed through dingy hallways and eventually she came upon the door. She heard talking resonating from the room and she twisted the door knob.
Mira's presence was greeted by looks towards the doorway. Mira scanned the room as well. There was at least three people from what she could tell all with the look of confusion or anxiousness written on their faces. But none of them looked like the man that took her from death.
"I'm guessing we're all here for the same reason then?" Mira nervously said to the group.
Marcus was about to enter the apartment when he stopped, his hand hovering above the doorknob. While he had taken the news of his own death better than he would have expected and had been confident and decisive in his actions so far, now he was scared. For the first time in his life he was out of his depth. He had no idea what was waiting for him behind that door; no idea what would happen next, and he had no way out. Before now, he had always been able to put himself at ease by taking control over his own actions, but from now on his life would always be at the mercy of other people he didn't know and couldn't trust. He had no plan and it terrified him.
"That's enough!" he told himself. He had no choice, he knew that. His only option was to go through the door and the longer he stood here debating it the worse he was going to make it on himself. Before opening the door he focused on making himself stop trembling and look commanding. Whatever he was about to meet in there he didn't want their first impression of him to be weak and frightened. After all, showing weakness gets you killed.
As far as he could tell the man who had spoken to him wasn't there, but several other people were. His eyes were drawn to a man who looked a little younger than him. even though the was sitting down, Marcus could tell that they were similar in height and stature. He wasn't quite sure why, but some kind of animal instinct that he had relied on since childhood put him on edge, and told him this person was not to be trusted.
He had little problem with the rest of them. His eyes quickly passed over the short, unkempt looking man who he would have guessed was on the cusp of middle age. He was almost certainly an academic. Marcus was reminded a little of his adoptive father. There was a young girl near the back who appeared to be doing her best not to be noticed. He could relate to that. Skinny and pallid looking, something made him feel sorry for her, though he knew that now was certainly not the time to start developing emotional attachments. Another girl, older than him this time, who didn't look much healthier than the other. However, her paramedic uniform and the kind look in her eyes told him that she was the sort of person who liked to help others, and wouldn't hurt a fly if she could help it. She wasn't going to be a problem. Lastly, there was a boy slightly shorter than himself who looked to be in his late teens. The boy looked average in every possible respect, making it hard for Marcus to get a good measure of him. He decided to treat the boy with suspicion for the time being.
Marcus wondered if he should say something. No, on second thought it was better not to. If they wanted to speak to him let them make the first move, then react. That was often the better way. He positioned himself in a far corner of the room, giving himself a view of the door without having to turn his back on anyone in the room. He wondered how many more were left to come.
Spencer eyed the newcomer carefully. Judging by her uniform, she appeared to be some sort of paramedic. Her uniform was covered in blood, but Spencer's own experience with death rendered him unresponsive to that kind of sights.
The woman looked around nervously and went straight to the point, without introducing herself:
No one said anything. Spencer hesitated, but decided to speak up. The woman was obviously shook up and of no threat to him.
"Depends. Why are you here?"
Marcus was beginning to feel more at ease. With the exception of the guy in the chair, everyone around looked at least as scared as he felt, perhaps more so. He was reminded a little of the other kids in the orphanage where he grew up. Behind all of them, even the bullies, was just a scared little kid without a home. Also, he noticed he was probably the most physically capable of the group. Not that he had any intention of being aggressive, but it would be important to note any advantages that he had over the others.
He decided to try and start a conversation with the man in the chair. 'Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer' was a saying he felt was particularly apt in this situation. If he was going to have to work alongside this person, for whatever it was they had all been brought here, then he wanted to get a good measure of him. He approached the man, made a slight inclination of his head towards the large, ugly bruise he had noticed behind the guy's ear and said "What happened to you?"
"A strange man in grey clothes offered me a chance to live again. Gave me a note and told me to go here." Mira said with a winded voice. She could see the worry in their eyes because of the unique situation that they've been placed in. She felt a little content in being with others that shared the same experience. She walked to the side in case anyone else would enter and stepped to the couch where she gently seated herself.
"My name is Mira by the way." She spoke up.
Adrian became more puzzled as each person entered the dingy apartment. At first he had believed that he was to be alone in this new minted life of his. As the others continued to trickle in, a dull befuddlement began to cast itself over his mind.
What on earth are they planning?
The professor could not be sure of anyone's intentions. He had surmised that each of these people had undergone the same process that had been performed on him earlier in the day. Everyone in this apartment had been given a second chance.
But why?
Why us?
Everything was beginning to seem so surreal. Adrian couldn't even be sure if everything that he had experienced in the last four hours was anything more than an elaborate dream. He stood up and walked toward the small kitchen tucked away in the corner and turned the tap. A cool stream of water rushed from the faucet.
He quickly splashed his face and turned to look upon the others loitering around the room. In this light it was apparent that his clothes were covered in mud and a dark brown stain had worked its way to the surface of his cap from below.
"Alright, so this is a real thing that's happening...but why? Why us? We must have been selected for a purpose."
His voice was bold. Even if he was confused, he didn't want to seem out of his element to these strangers.
"If they were willing to bring us all back from...beyond...then we must possess something they want. What did you all do in your life before?"
His eyes studied each of the individuals before him, trying to sort out their demeanor and get some sort of a preliminary read.
"The name's Adrian. I was a professor before I passed."
Ben watched as the new people walked in, analyzing.
Next was the woman- older, but quite striking, but what she was wearing made him grin inwardly. A paramedic, she could definitely be of some use
After the woman came the blond man- fairly unassuming and almost seemed to blend into the background. Ben almost grinned, he would make a great knife in the dark. Yes, he would be an excellent tool.
He turned towards the man who had spoken to him, the one who was his own age.
"I was punched in the head, knocked me out. When I hit the floor, the resulting concussion killed me."
He listened to the others conversation, they were starting to trade names. He quickly grabbed a name in his past, no need to let the others know his real name.
"Brendan. Chemistry student" He said, after Adrian had announced his name.
He turned away from Adrian and Mira towards the unassuming blond man, the one who had addressed him.
"What happened to you to make you a member of our little club?"
Spencer observed as Brendan began talking to the newest addition to their group. He felt like he should introduce himself to someone, but he felt like he couldn't trust the two of them. After ignoring him when he first arrived, Brendan didn't really leave him with a positive first impression, and the other man hasn't even introduced himself yet.
After some consideration, he turned towards Adrian and Mira.
"I'm Spencer."
He thought about the professor's theory. It raised a good question - why them? Why not someone else?
"Honestly, I have no idea what "they" want from me. I was a student. I worked at the library. I never asked to be brought back to life. If that's what this is."
Marcus was becoming more an more convinced not to trust Brendan. It was clear from looking at the way he observed the others in the room that he too was sizing them up, but for what? He seemed awfully relaxed for a person who had been killed just a few hours before. Was he really here for the same reasons as everyone else? Alternatively, the subtle arrogance in his demeanor could have just been a front, like Marcus himself, or maybe he was just like that as a person. Either way, Marcus decided the best thing would be to play along for the time being.
"Must have been quite a punch" he remarked, deliberately allowing the faintest hint of a smile to cross his face. "My name's Marcus. Some asshole ran me down with their car, didn't even stop."
Next he turned to Adrian, the man who had reminded him of his adoptive father. "What did you teach?" he asked him politely. He had decided to avoid answering any of Adrian's questions if possible. He didn't want any of them to know anything about him while he still knew so little about them.
Ben looked at Marcus, he wasn't trusting him. He didn't need a tool's trust, but it sure helped things along when favors started to get asked.
"Yeah, the man was huge, probably a biker or something."
Ben took a long look at the professor, he recognized him, he was a prof in one of the Earth and Atmospheric Science disciplines.
"Something in EAS, from what I can remember. I passed by his office a couple times last year. I think he's in geology, but I cannot be certain. What about you Marcus, what did you do for your living? I mean, we all had to make do somehow, didn't we?"
"As for why we're here, I'm guessing that we all died at about the same time. They brought us back to do stuff for us. It's probably quite illicit, we're all legally dead, they have a hold on our lives- they could probably put us 6 feet under as easily as bring us back up, and we all have some skillset that could be helpful. I don't trust 'em, but I damn well will work for 'em, that emptiness was horrifying."
Adrian glanced back and forth between Spencer and Brendan. They were both considerably younger than he was. Brenden was likely attending university but it was hard to gauge if Spencer had even graduated high school yet. Looking around the room he realized that he was a likely candidate for the eldest person in the apartment.
Brendan seemed a little bit curt as he introduced himself. Adrian attributed it to him dealing with the frustration of being thrown into a situation as foreign as this one. He decided it was best to give him some grace until they had a better grasp of what was going on.
"I never asked to be brought back to life. If that's what this is."
Adrian curiously surveyed Spencer as he spoke those words.
"But you're here, aren't you? If you had really wanted to stay gone you could have just waited until the four hours were up and gone back into the long sleep."
He slouched against the wall and adjusted his glasses. They were his spare pair so the frames didn't fit on his face as naturally as he would have liked.
"I have given up everything so I wouldn't have to stay in the darkness. I don't think it's too much to think that you've all done the same."
"I think he's in geology, but I cannot be certain."
When Brendan had finished, Adrian nodded at Marcus.
"Yeah, I was a professor of geology. Not sure why they would want me for that though."
Mira listened intently on what the others had to say about why they were her. The question still lingered in her brain but then something answered back. It wasn't a textbook answer or clear cut decision but it was David.
She still could feel the hole in her heart as if it was still fresh despite David's passing five years ago. If she was here then there might be a chance that David might be here as well which raised a predicament. As much as she would like to live again, why would she leave the place that David now exists in?
Mira veered away from thinking into it that hard but she made a mental note of asking the man her brother. She chimed back into what the others were talking about, something about purpose.
"As you could see, I was a Paramedic and other than that I really didn't do anything else. Since we're dead, I wonder if we can see other...dead people as well." Mira asked the group not sure if they would laugh at her statement.
Forget this I hadn't realised there was a discussion thread...
Brendan's premature attempts at trying to guess why they were all here reassured Marcus. If Brendan had really been involved in what brought them all here he would not be drawing so much attention to himself. He was likely just trying to make everyone think he was particularly clever, in which case he wasn't as much of a threat as Marcus first feared. However, it couldn't hurt to keep his guard up. He knew a manipulator when he saw one, and Marcus had no intention of being used.
"Well, I was a waiter, but what I am now is anyone's guess." he responded. "It was just a temporary thing anyway. I often move between small jobs, don't like to get tied down you see."
He was beginning to get a better picture of who these people were. Brendan was still cause for concern, but nothing he hadn't had to deal with before. Adrian and Mira were honest, sincere people (he just wished they'd stop asking questions). Spencer was just a kid, nothing to worry about. The only one who still alluded him was the younger of the two girls, who seemed to share his desire to blend into the background, as she had so far made herself very easy to ignore. Perhaps there was some common ground there...
"But you're here, aren't you? If you had really wanted to stay gone you could have just waited until the four hours were up and gone back into the long sleep."
The professor had a point.
"You're right. I'm here of my own volition. I guess the whole situation just brought out the negative in me."
Suddenly, Mira chimed in with an interesting question.
"Since we're dead, I wonder if we can see other...dead people as well."
He tried to answer her question the best he could.
"I haven't seen anyone else... yet. But whatever we are, I don't believe we're dead anymore. The sensation I felt when I died, it was nothing like this. This, this is life. But if the guy we're waiting for brought us back, he might be able to bring back someone else, too."
He wondered why she asked, but decided it's better not to ask her so soon.
The others were beginning to warm up. The deafening silence that had originally filled the room was slowly chipped away. The ice had been broken.
Adrian knew from his time at the university that the true work could only begin after the initial awkwardness had faded. He had always striven to make his classroom environment as welcoming and relaxing as possible if only to encourage his students to talk. Once the fear of speaking up had dissipated, suggestions would be made; some would be surprising even to him.
As he stood in this room, he realized that something similar was happening here. People were beginning to ask questions. They were beginning to search for the root of the matter.
"Since we're dead, I wonder if we can see other...dead people as well."
Spencer answered Mira before Adrian spoke, adding to what the teenager had said.
"I agree, I'm fairly certain that we are alive again. Plus, after what I went through, I'm fairly inclined to believe anything that's dead is going to experience that vast emptiness the way that we did. There is no such thing as a ghost that walks the ear..."
He briefly choked on his words before quickly regaining composure.
"I often move between small jobs, don't like to get tied down you see."
His head snapped to Marcus, jumping into new topic.
"So are you at all worried that now you may no longer be free? I mean, they gave us a pretty strict time limit to get down here. We are basically at the mercy of their whims right now. Well...at least until we have some sort of idea what's going on."
"So are you at all worried that now you may no longer be free? I mean, they gave us a pretty strict time limit to get down here. We are basically at the mercy of their whims right now. Well...at least until we have some sort of idea what's going on."
This was true. Marcus still couldn't shake the uncomfortable feeling that he was no longer in control. However, he'd be damned if he was going to show weakness in front of a bunch of people he'd only just met, especially Brendan.
"Well, right now I'm just glad to be alive, and whoever did this to us, I doubt we're in any immediate danger from them. After all, they wouldn't go to the effort of bringing us back to life just to kill us again would they?"
He only half believed this statement, but that didn't matter. It was clear that his usual strategy of trying not to be noticed wasn't going to work here. These people were too inquisitive, too friendly (he was again reminded of his adoptive father, who, in the early days of their interaction, had frequently annoyed Marcus in his incessant efforts to 'Get to know him'). So, the only other way to keep a certain amount of control over the situation was to do the exact opposite, step into the limelight and play the Alpha male.
"Besides," he said with a smile "it may sound crazy, but a part of me is looking forward to what comes next. I'd never liked that job much and this is shaping up to be a whole new adventure. Kinda gets the blood pumping, if you know what I mean?"
"It may sound crazy, but a part of me is looking forward to what comes next."
Adrian tilted his head slightly as Marcus spoke. He was unable to tell just how sincere the young man standing in front of him was being. Marcus spoke excitedly but the words seemed to clash with Adrian's own trepidation. He simply couldn't imagine anyone experiencing anything other than dread about the ominous questions that lurked in front of their faces. Still, Adrian couldn't help but smile a little at his excited words.
"Kinda gets the blood pumping, if you know what I mean?"
"Yes, I actually do. But my heart is probably not racing for the same reason that your is."
The professor looked out the window into the run down neighborhood below. He absent-mindedly adjusted the cap on his head into a more comfortable position.
"See, they brought us back from beyond the grave. A technology like that...well, let's just say it would have made the headlines. So how come none of us had ever heard of it before?"
His voice grew soft as he continued.
"The only reason I can think that they would have kept this a secret is because they're using this technology for reasons that are less than savory. Something smells very fish about this deal. I'm just hoping that we aren't suddenly in over our heads."
Marcus shrugged his shoulders at Adrian's response.
"True enough. But the way I see it, whatever 'this' is, we're in it now and there's nothing we can do about that. So letting fear cripple us is only going to make things worse."
The reasons for him saying this were threefold. Firstly, on some level as least, he did genuinely believe it. Second, he was still determined to put on a front; and third, he wanted to make the old man feel better, as, despite himself, he was starting to warm to him.
"We have two choices, adapt or die, and I don't plan on dying twice tonight. You said it yourself, if any of us had wanted to die, we wouldn't be here would we?"
Ben watched on as the others tried to figure out what was going on. He had dropped his two cents on it and left it to boil over. Some interesting theories popped around, particularly the paramedic's. Ben frowned thoughtfully, wondering who had died for her to ask that. His eyes flicked between Marcus, Spencer and Adrian as they started to dominate the conversation. Excellent, now he would be able to learn more from them without revealing any more of his past.
Ben looked at Marcus, he seemed more reassured about Ben now, good, he would still probably be watchful, Marcus seemed like the paranoid sort, but with reassurance, his guard would slowly be let down, and with that he could start to be used.
Ben leaned back and focused on the pale, emaciated girl. She had yet to speak, and Ben had almost forgotten that she was there. Who was she? What part did she play in all of this?
Brendan suddenly remembered a couple of lines from Faustus,
"O lente, lente, currite noctis equi. The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike..." he murmured to himself, almost out of his own hearing. Grim, yet it seemed appropriate for the situation they were in.
Adrian nodded thoughtfully. He knew that Marcus was speaking the truth. They were going to live, no matter the cost. This was not something that would put his mind at ease though. In all honesty, it almost made him more uncomfortable.
"But that's the thing, isn't it? They could literally ask anything of us and we would all be slave to it simply out of our impulse to survive."
He continued to gaze wistfully out the window. The neighbors above yelled fanatically. Apparently their team was winning.
"Fear isn't the right word for it. I'm not sitting here paralyzed. No...I am simply preparing myself for the worst."
His body turned more dramatically than he had intended when he faced Marcus again.
"I can almost guarantee that we are going to do whatever they ask of us tonight. But we have to be willing to face the fact that it will likely be...less than tasteful. If we are able to look that in the eye and prepare for the worst, we won't be surprised by what they ask."
He rose his voice so the rest could hear him clearly.
"So what do you all think? Do you think you would be able to break the law if it allowed you to keep your hands on this new life?"
For the first time, Marcus was able to answer a question with complete and utter honesty.
"Yeah, I would." He took care not to sound confrontational, but simply matter of fact. "I never had anyone to watch my back when I was a kid, I had to look after myself. So that's how I am. I'll do whatever it takes to survive, even if I have to do something I'll hate myself for later, I'll suck it up and do it, because the only person you can ever count on to do the right thing by you, is you."
He held back from saying any more. He was on his guard again, afraid his fondness for Adrian had caused him to misstep and reveal to much about himself. On the other hand, he doubted anyone would want to have an in depth discussion with him about his childhood, and if they did, he could always lie.
"So what do you all think? Do you think you would be able to break the law if it allowed you to keep your hands on this new life?"
Mira's interest piqued from hearing Adrien's question. Ironically Mira did have brushes from the law in her earlier years that was caused by stupid decisions from all parties. All it did was give her a grounding or two and an extra scolding from her parents. Even as a paramedic there was strict parameters set so that there would be no disagreement in either the paramedics or the first responders be it Firemen or Law Enforcement.
"If I had to then I would but like all things, it's easier said than done. In fact, I already broke some laws when I was an EMT but nothing too major. Mostly running red lights or curbs but it's understandable." Mira crossed her legs then leaned back on the couch. She hoped that the man would come sooner but now it was hard not to talk to the group in her mind.
Enough time had passed. Frank had looked at his trusty watch strapped to his left wrist and prepared himself for his introduction. Frank hoped that the ones he had chosen would be better than the previous bunch. Finding proper enforcers was getting tough these days, with them either asking for Jesus or refusing to do their work.
Ben looked at the man, he couldn't get a read on him. Looked young, acted old, voice was as he remembered it when he died.
He's my boss? This should be... interesting
"So, what can we do you for bossman? Need someone offed?" Ben said sarcastically. He didn't care for the man, he made Ben uneasy- even though, or perhaps because, Ben owed the man his life.
Better find a way out of this contract quick, the less time I spend working for him the better.
Ben pulled a pen and a small notebook from his pockets, ready to write, and prepared himself to run for the door in the case something got ugly.
Adrian recoiled slightly at Brendan's flippant response. He was unsure how exactly to address this new man before them but he had a feeling that casual sarcasm was probably not the best greeting.
Their employer's presence alone sent a deep shudder down Adrian's spine. There was something very off about this man. He couldn't quite put his finger on what it was about him that was so unnerving.
Might have something to do with the fact he brought us back from the dead.
The strangeness of the situation was not lost on Adrian. Although he had already reconciled in his mind the fact that he was alive, he was still trouble by the how and the why.
He knew that this man would have the answers. He sat in silence, waiting for a reply to Brendan's question.
Spencer wasn't quite sure how to feel about his "new boss". There was nothing unusual about the man's appearance. He knew absolutely nothing about him, except that he's either incredibly powerful, or has access to some very advanced technology. It was without a doubt the same man that brought him back to life.
The rest of the group stood in silence, visibly unnerved by the man's presence, or maybe by Brendan's lack of respect towards him.
Spencer tried to figure out whether he should feel fear or gratitude towards the stranger, while waiting for him to answer Brendan's question.
Marcus supposed he should be grateful. The man had, after all, brought him back from an unpleasant and untimely death, and his first words implied that he had no intention of doing them any harm. However, his presence made Marcus' blood run hot, his teeth clench, and the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. Without meaning to he found himself clenching his fists and standing poised ready for a fight. He was back where he started. Just now he had felt like there was a group dynamic being formed and that he had a place in it. He had felt like he was back in control, but this man's entrance had shattered the fragile hierarchy, and once again he felt like a puppet, who strings were about to be pulled this way and that by a force he had no sway over and couldn't escape from. He was well and truly backed into a corner, and he felt dangerous, with ever part of his body itching to let loose his rage on the man who stood before him. So no, he didn't suppose he was inclined to be grateful.
"So, what can we do you for bossman? Need someone offed?"
For the first time, Marcus felt that he and Brendan were on the same side. Yes, to hell with the pleasantries! Marcus thought, I want answers, and you'd better have them. You want me to kill someone? Just put a gun in my hand and tell me who...
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andexlinger necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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I am a Shiatsu-Practitioner who is starting her own practice and I am looking for a logo that can be used on printed stock as well as on the web.
Shiatsu (Japanese from shi, meaning finger, and atsu, meaning pressure) is a traditional hands-on therapy (massage) origination in Japan. It is based on western anatomical and physiological theory and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Shiatsu can help individuals to find relaxation and happiness and to be more comfortable with their body in general. At the same time Shiatsu is refreshing and supports the self-healing capability of the human body and it gives individuals new energy and power for their daily lives.
The logo should communicate the above mentioned benefits of Shiatsu to my target audience.
I am looking forward to your submissions and will try to post comments and give feedback as quickly as possible. I am from Austria and my mother tongue is German. Therefore I apologize in advance if the English of my comment isn't perfect, as the comments won't be corrected like this text was.
The main target audience are individuals (male and female) between 25 and 55 years old, who care about their health and well-being and are willing to spend some extra money to achieve this.
A focus of my work is to support women during pregnancy and after child birth.
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The design of the logo should be clear, memorable and dynamic, with a simple color palette. It should appeal to men and women alike.
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Update: Empower Texan attorney Joe Nixon said it was too early to respond to the allegation, since the Texas Ethics Commission has not indicated whether it has jurisdiction over the complaint. "All we have is an allegation from Mr. Bresnen," said Nixon. "We will wait and see if the Ethics Commission accepts jurisdiction and go from there."
Austin lawyer Steve Bresnen has filed a new complaint against Empower Texans and its president, Michael Quinn Sullivan, for violating state ethics laws by using the assets of a non-profit corporation to solicit funds for a political action committee.
Sullivan already faces an ethics complaint for failing to register as a lobbyist. That issue is pending before the Texas Ethics Commission.
In the complaint filed Wednesday, Bresnen cites emails to Rep. Bill Zedler, R-Arlington, which he obtained under the Texas Open Records Act, that included a newsletter for Empower Texans. Embedded in the newsletter was an "insert containing a solicitation of political contributions to the PAC. He also cites an email to his wife, Amy Bresnen, which included a newsletter from the nonprofit, with a pitch to donate to the political action committee.
"Empower Texans, whose President and CEO is Michael Sullivan, has used the corporation's email accounts, newsletters and website to solicit political contributions to the Empower Texans PAC, for which he serves as campaign treasurer," Bresnen's complaint charges. He also asserts that the "Empower Texans website constitutes an ongoing violation of the ban on using corporate assets to assist a political action committee, since it includes a button labeled "Donate.'
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City Council hopeful arrested Oct. 16
Adrien Jaymes Meadows, who is running for a seat on the Kinston City Council, is currently facing several allegations stemming from an incident on Oct. 16.
Meadows, 25, was arrested on four charges: assault on a government official, driving with a revoked license, resisting a public officer and failing to heed the light or siren.
Meadows had a court date for the revoked license and expired registration on Tuesday. The case has been continued until Dec. 17.
According to the arrest report, written by Lenoir County Officer Lt. David Wise Jr., Meadows was stopped by State Highway Patrol Trooper W.K. Bennett around 2 a.m. on Oct. 16 at a checkpoint. While Bennett wrote a ticket for driving with a revoked license, Meadows drove off and failed to stop.
The report also stated Bennett pushed Meadows off the side of the road to stop him, but Meadows would not get out of the car, punching Wise in the right arm and leg. Meadows was tased soon after and continued to fight in an attempt to get away.
Meadows was sent to the Lenoir County Jail at 3:24 a.m. and placed on a $3,000 secured bond. He was released the next afternoon and will appear in court on Nov. 19 for assault on a government official and resisting a public officer.
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Another branch moved north into Cumberland soon after the Conquest: Hammond Monceaux was Sheriff of Cumberland in 1290, and it is there that the Mounsey branch is thought to have arisen.
About this time, Walter de Muncy, 1st Baron Muncy (d. c. 1309), was summoned to Parliament and was accordingly granted a peerage on 6 February 1299. This gentleman may be the same person referenced at Thornton in the West Riding of Yorkshire in early times. "This place in the reign of Edward I. belonged to Walter de Muncey, who obtained from that monarch the grant of a weekly market, and a fair on the festival of St. Thomas the Martyr and four following days." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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OROVILLE — After a stormy session Butte County supervisors this morning voted to have staff prepare an ordinance banning fracking.
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Bright future beckons for metrology researcher
A BRIGHT future beckons for a University of Huddersfield metrology instrumentation designer who has recently completed his doctorate, won a national award and will now embark on a project to bring a patented product to the market.
The University has earned a reputation as one of the foremost centres for surface metrology research in Europe through the work of scientists and engineers in the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology, though it was an MSc in Control Systems and Instrumentation that first attracted young researcher Hussam Muhamedsalih (pictured) to Huddersfield.
Now, five years later, Dr Muhamedsalih recently completed his PhD and is also the recipient of the 2013 Postgraduate Award from the City of London's Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers for a product that is already revolutionising embedded surface metrology.
The product is a new optical interferometry system for fast areal surface measurement of microscale and nanoscale surfaces that are immune to environmental noise. The innovative process uses wavelength scanning interferometry together with an acousto-optic tunable filtering technique to measure surfaces with large 'step heights'.
The system can be used for online or in-process measurement for assessing a wide range of surface textures. The Huddersfield system has the potential to achieve nanometre measurement accuracy within the context of manufacturing shop floor systems.
Dr Muhamedsalih used the research as a basis for his PhD and he has been working with Dr Feng Gao and eminent surface metrology professor, Professor Xiangqian Jiang.
The team have patented the product and it has already caught the attention of a major company that are keen to take it into production.
Born in London himself, Hussam Muhamedsalih was raised in Iraq and studied at the Baghdad College, which also boasts scientist and BBC TV presenter Professor Jim Al-Khalili among its former pupils.
Dr Muhamedsalih completed his undergraduate degree and Masters in laser and optoelectronics at the Al-Nahrain University in Baghdad before casting his eye overseas to enhance his qualifications in Britain.
"I looked at a number of universities, but Huddersfield particularly impressed me," said Dr Muhamedsalih. "I met the course leader Professor Gary Lucas and saw the facilities. But it was the modules on the course that finally persuaded me, because they were just what I was looking for.
"I completed my Master's thesis under the supervision of Professor Jiang on the design of an objective lens and from this she offered me a PhD position. My aim when I came to Britain was for a PhD, so this was perfect."
His Master's research formed the backbone of his doctoral work, which was to design the entire instrument. The finished design can measure surfaces up to hundreds of micrometres – a micrometer is one thousand times smaller than millimetre – and it attracted considerable attention when it was unveiled at the EUSPEN exhibition (European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology) in Berlin in May earlier this year.
Hussam Muhamedsalih will officially receive his doctorate at the University's Awards Ceremonies this month, but he will not be leaving Huddersfield as he has now been offered a research fellowship to continue his work on the project.
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Ro2010 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 109 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
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We are owners, developers and general contractors of commercial and residential, both multifamily and single family real estate. We also manage commercial and multifamily properties.
http://www.spinrep.com/ I like all but the colors on this
http://thedenunziogroup.com/ I like the font, dark background, photos. It looks very professional
http://www.kuchmacorporation.com/ Mainly the homepage, not so much the colors
You can use the content of the builder's page. We have some different bios for Ro & Bryan which I have attached. We're having trouble with the current design because it looks too much like a home builder and not enough like a developer. Also, we'd like to use a mix of our photos and stock photos. The designer can choose which photos if any from our website they want to use.
Our target audience is diverse. As developers, we want to look professional and experienced to lenders and investors while also appealing our services to architects and homeowners as general contractors. We ran a 99 contest for our logo and we're very happy with it.


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I'm wondering if anyone has configured https using stunnel without using apache or any web server. I will be using this to replace our hudson build system which currently is running via apache https (winstone is proxyed via apache) which is kind of heavy.
I was the one who configured the apache https in our hudson build system but I can't seem to understand as to how to do it the stunnel way.
Here's a sample run of stunnel in my CLI:
buggedtech~$ stunnel
Reading configuration from file /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
Snagged 64 random bytes from /Users/icasimpan/.rnd
Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /Users/icasimpan/.rnd
PRNG seeded successfully
Using DH parameters from /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
DH initialized with 512 bit key
ECDH initialized
Certificate: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
Certificate loaded
Key file: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
Private key loaded
SSL context initialized for service https
Configuration successful
Clients allowed=125
FD=8 in non-blocking mode
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On June 25, 2013 Chief Justice John Roberts invalidated the application of Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act in a five to four opinion of the US Supreme Court. In a case out of Shelby County, Alabama, the Court held that the criteria adopted in 1965 by which jurisdictions were identified for coverage under the pre-clearance provision of the Act were based on outdated "decades-old data and eradicated practices" and constituted an irrational violation of the Constitution.1
|Voting Rights, June 30, 2013. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Republished by permission of Mike Luckovich.
The opinion ignored the fact that Congress actually developed thousands of pages of testimony, data, and information providing evidence of substantial new voting rights problems for people of color in the states covered by Section 5. Why did the Court conclude it was irrational for Congress to continue coverage when the record clearly showed otherwise? The answer is found in the most troubling part of Roberts' opinion, largely ignored outside of legal circles. In essence, the Court ruled that this voting rights case was primarily a competition between the constitutional right of citizens to vote and the "constitutional equality of the States"—and held that states' rights won.2 As Roberts wrote: "Not only do States retain sovereignty under the Constitution, there is also a 'fundamental principle of equal sovereignty' among the States" that the Voting Rights Act failed to observe.3
In the US Constitution, the words "state sovereignty" invoke the notion of the United States government as a federal system of fifty state governments, each possessing powers that the national government cannot abridge without a compelling reason. This constitutional concept arises from the Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The claims of state sovereignty have a long history in the US South, originating largely around questions regarding black people and their rights as persons, especially their right to cast an equal vote to elect representative government. In the constitutional debates of 1787 when the founding convention considered what to do about slavery in their corner of the new world, most southern delegates claimed their states should have a sovereign right to govern their internal affairs without interference from a national government—largely to protect slavery. The primary compromise from these debates led to the adoption of a provision in the Constitution that prevented the federal government from interfering with slavery where it existed and by allowing states to treat enslaved blacks as non-persons or chattel property—while counting them as three-fifths of a person for purposes of apportioning voting power among the states in electing the nation's president and the House of Representatives.
During much of the first half of the nineteenth century, most southern states followed the leadership of South Carolina's John C. Calhoun, who defended states' rights—or state sovereignty—and slavery "in the slaveholding States . . . instead of an evil, a good—a positive good."4
Calhoun developed a theory of state sovereignty called "nullification" as the South faced mounting opposition to slavery every time Congress considered acquiring new territory or adopting a new state, which had to be declared "free" or "slave." Calhoun held that any state had the sovereign power to nullify any law that the federal government passed. This paramount power of southern states would allow the South to remain a separate section of the nation with slavery.
Much of the Lincoln-Douglas debates developed around Stephen Douglas' theory of "popular sovereignty"—a doctrine that would have affirmed Calhoun's notion of states' rights and permitted states to decide for themselves about the legality of slavery.
As Lincoln became president, South Carolina declared that his election foretold that "the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy."5 South Carolina proclaimed its secession and less than four months later fired on Fort Sumter.
The Civil War, the nation's bloodiest conflict, ensued in the South as a "War Between the States"—language that sustained the claim that southern states were not rebelling against the nation but were defending their sovereign states' rights.
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments adopted after the Civil War declared the abolition of slavery, equal rights and privileges of all persons born or naturalized throughout the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
|Compromise, Indeed!, Harper's Weekly, January 27, 1877, 64. Cartoon by Thomas Nast.
These national principles were upended in barely more than a decade with the presidential election of 1876 and the Tilden-Hayes Compromise, a political agreement that gave Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in return for withdrawing federal enforcement of the Civil War Amendments in the South, including the new constitutional right to vote regardless of race. There was no proclamation about the restoration of "state sovereignty" in the Congress, but the compromise restored the principle of states' rights as the political framework by which the states of the former Confederacy would handle the legal, social, and political status of African Americans.
For almost six decades, the Supreme Court largely followed the basic terms of this political compromise honoring the state sovereignty of each state of the former slave-holding section. As the Court stated in striking down some of the first federal attempts to enforce the Civil War Amendments to protect the rights of former slaves and their descendants: "Sovereignty, for this purpose, rests alone with the States."6
In its deference to states' rights over the new national rights of individuals, the Supreme Court acted as if it saw no evil. For example, in 1898 it upheld Mississippi's new state constitutional provisions that resulted in disfranchising almost all African Americans by concluding that the provisions "do not on their face discriminate between the races, and it has not been shown that their actual administration was evil, only that evil was possible under them."7
White political leaders in the South resurrected the theories of state sovereignty that Calhoun and Douglas advanced before the Civil War as the constitutional ground for maintaining racial segregation and disfranchisement built in the era of Jim Crow. Their arguments failed to stop the Court from outlawing the all-white primaries and from issuing Brown v. Board of Education, which declared that segregation—separate and unequal—was unconstitutional.
In the era of massive white resistance to court-ordered desegregation, white political officials justified their actions on the basis of states' rights and state sovereignty. In response to Brown, the vast majority of the South's congressional delegation signed a "Southern Manifesto" in 1956 condemning the Court's opinion and declaring:
We regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as clear abuse of judicial power. It climaxes a trend in the Federal judiciary undertaking . . . to encroach upon the reserved rights of the states.
. . . we have full faith that a majority of the American people believe in the dual system of government . . . and will in time demand that the reserved rights of the states . . . be made secure against judicial usurpation.8
Six years later, after making a name for himself as a local state court judge who refused to follow the mandate of a federal court to permit black citizens to register to vote, Alabama's new governor declared: "Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland. . . . I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."9
George Wallace justified his segregationist stance by invoking states' rights:
This nation was never meant to be a unit of one . . . but if we amalgamate into the one unit as advocated by the communist philosophers. . . . We become, therefore, a mongrel unit of one under a single all powerful government."10
Within a few weeks of his inauguration, Governor Wallace created and funded the Alabama State Sovereignty Commission, which became a major agency in fighting civil rights activities, spying on activists and advocates, distributing racist propaganda, making grants to the Citizens Councils of America (a private group that opposed desegregation), and advising voter registrars on how to block or frustrate black voting after the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Alabama's spy commission was patterned after the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, established by the legislature in 1956, two years after Brown. Its objective was to "do and perform any and all acts deemed necessary and proper to protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states."11 As in Alabama, Mississippi's Sovereignty Commission operated as a secret police force that aided and used the White Citizens' Council and others to spy on activists, oppose passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, help local registrars block blacks from registering, and build a publicity campaign to discredit civil rights activists as "subversives."
After the federal voting law took effect, southern states challenged it frequently before the Supreme Court primarily on the constitutional claims of state sovereignty under the Tenth and Eleventh Amendments. South Carolina and other state and local governments, especially those under the coverage of Section 5, claimed that the federal law encroached "on an area reserved to the States by the Constitution" and violated a "principle of the equality of States" in the US Constitution. For nearly fifty years, the Supreme Court rejected these arguments because the "principles of federalism that might otherwise be an obstacle to congressional authority are necessarily overridden by the power to enforce the Civil War Amendments."12
Now, under Chief Justice Roberts' leadership, the Court has reversed the direction of its constitutional interpretation by holding that the equal rights of states prevail over the equal right of citizens in the field of voting. The decision jeopardizes the fundamental notion that Congress has powerful means to assure individual rights cannot be abridged anywhere by federal, state, or local governments.
Several southern state attorneys general welcomed the Court's Shelby County decision as a landmark for states' rights. "For nearly fifty years, Sections 4 and 5 have imposed an extraordinary intrusion into state sovereignty in certain states, including South Carolina," observed that state's chief legal officer as he assured everyone that he would protect all citizens' voting rights.13 In Texas, where Governor Rick Perry claims the right of his state to secede, the attorney general has moved quickly to try to prevent civil rights leaders from challenging a state redistricting plan by using another section of the Voting Rights Act. His spokesperson stated: "In a desperate effort, partisan groups are once again attempting to cede the state's sovereignty."14 Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange called the decision "an important victory for the fundamental constitutional principle that all states enjoy equal sovereignty."15
|Tea Party tax day protest, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 15, 2010. Photograph by Fibonacci Blue. Courtesy of Fibonacci Blue.
Outside of courtrooms state sovereignty has been gaining new momentum in recent years as a part of the battle cry of the Tea Party whose leaders have condemned a wide range of national concerns, including health care and education standards, on the ground that they violate the rightful sovereignty of the states.
There is also a movement to amend the federal constitution to advance a new state sovereignty. In 2010, the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates announced an effort to promote a "Repeal Amendment" to the US Constitution to provide states with the collective power to nullify any act of Congress with which two-thirds of the states disagreed. It has been endorsed as a way to begin to restore states' rights by Virginia's attorney general (who is seeking to become governor in 2013), governor, and lieutenant governor; South Carolina's house speaker; Texas' attorney general and speaker; and Florida's attorney general and president of the state senate. The Florida legislature has become the first state to pass a resolution for a process by which states can amend the federal Constitution.16
The defenders of today's movement for state sovereignty claim that "modern Americans who decry the erosion of federalism are not pining for a return to segregation or some pre-Civil War version of states' rights."17 But, the Supreme Court's decision to allow states' rights to trump black citizens' rights in voting is a profoundly disturbing setback. In the wake of Shelby County, many of the southern states' white political leaders have loudly rejoiced, and some have announced renewed plans to use this new-found state sovereignty to further restrict voter registration and redistricting.
Moving quickly, the U.S Department of Justice has begun challenging state attempts to suppress minority voting. Seeking to overturn a redistricting plan and to challenge a photo identification law, attorney general Eric Holder signed on to two lawsuits against Texas in August. "This represents the department's latest action to protect voting rights," said Holder, "but it will not be our last." Texas Republicans immediately raised the cry of "states' rights." "A politicized Justice Department," complained state senator John Cornyn, was "bent on inserting itself into the sovereign affairs of Texas. . . . We deserve the freedom to make our own laws, and we deserve not to be insulted by a Justice Department committed to scoring cheap political points."18
In the future, southern states will no longer have the burden of proof in showing that voting changes do not have a racially discriminatory effect. By invoking the constitutional principle of state sovereignty, Chief Justice Roberts' opinion maintains a long, consistent pattern in which state sovereignty has primarily been used in government and politics in the South to permit and justify belittling the humanity, citizenship, or constitutional rights of black people. Still unfulfilled, the Civil War Amendments offer democratic ideals that hold an enduring promise to make our future better than our past, especially in an increasingly diverse United States.
About the Author
A native of Winston County, Alabama, Steve Suitts is an adjunct faculty member of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University and vice president of the Southern Education Foundation.
- 1. Shelby County v. Holder, 570 US ____, 3, 18 (2013).
- 2. Coyle v. Smith, 221 US 559, 580 (1911), quoted in Shelby, 570 US at 10–11.
- 3. Shelby, 570 US at 10. This "fundamental principle of equal sovereignty" was articulated by the Supreme Court in Northwest Austin Municipal Util. Dist. No. One v. Holder, 557 US 193, 203 (2009), emphasis added by Roberts in the Shelby County v. Holder decision.
- 4. John C. Calhoun, "Slavery a Positive Good," TeachingAmericanHistory.org, February 6, 1837, accessed, August 22, 2013, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/slavery-a-positive-good/.
- 5. "Confederate States of America—Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union," Avalon Project of Yale Law School, accessed August 22, 2013, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp.
- 6. United States v. Cruikshank, 92 US 542, 553 (1876).
- 7. Williams v. Mississippi, 170 US 213, 225 (1898).
- 8. "Southern Manifesto on Integration," Congressional Record, 84th Congress Second Session, Vol. 102, part 4 (Washington, DC: Governmental Printing Office, 1956), 4459–4460, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html.
- 9. George Wallace, "Inaugural address of Governor George Wallace, which was delivered at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama," January 14, 1963, Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections, http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/voices/id/2952/rec/.
- 10. Ibid.
- 11. "Sovereignty Commission Online," Mississippi Department of Archives and History. http://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/sovcom/
- 12. City of Rome v. United States, 446 US 156, 178, 179 (1980).
- 13. "Attorney General Alan Wilson Issues statement on Shelby County v. Holder," Alan Wilson: South Carolina Attorney General, accessed August 22, 2013, http://www.scag.gov/archives/9396.
- 14. Gary Martin, "Redistricting Debate Hears New Argument," My SA, July 9, 2013, accessed August 22, 2013, http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Redistricting-debate-hears-new-argument-4655908.php.
- 15. "AG Strange Praises the US Supreme Court for Declaring Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act Unconstitutional," State of Alabama Office of the Attorney General, June 25, 2013, accessed August 22, 2013, http://www.ago.state.al.us/News-340.
- 16. Elizabeth Price Foley, "Sovereignty, Rebalanced: The Tea Party & Constitutional Amendments," Tennessee Law Review 78 (2011): 751–764, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1904656.
- 17. Ibid., 752.
- 18. Charlie Savage, "US Is Suing in Texas Cases Over Voting by Minorities," The New York Times, August 22, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/us/politics/justice-dept-moves-to-protect-minority-voters-in-texas.html.


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The soldier who helped Wikileaks publish classified diplomatic cables, Bradley Manning, should get a 60-year prison sentence, prosecutors told a military judge on Monday.
That's on the high-end of the 90-year range that's possible for the various charges Manning was found guilty of.
After a military trial that lasted several weeks, Manning was convicted on most counts on July 30. While he was found not guilty of "aiding the enemy," the most serious charge he faced, he was found guilty of 20 other charges including espionage, theft, and computer fraud charges.
"There may be no soldier in the history of the Army who displayed such an extreme disregard," the prosecutor, an Army Captain, told the judge, according to an account in the Chicago Tribune. "At least 60 years is justified. Pfc. Manning is young. He deserves to spend the majority of his remaining life in prison."
Manning's defense lawyer didn't recommend a specific punishment but said Manning should not receive a prison sentence longer than 25 years under any circumstances, because the classified status of some of the documents he leaked expires in 25 years.
"He had pure intentions at the time that he committed his offenses," said Manning's lawyer, David Coombs, according to an AP report. "At that time, Pfc. Manning really, truly, genuinely believed that this information could make a difference."
Family members and a psychologist also testified on Manning's behalf, saying that he felt extreme mental stress due to "gender-identity disorder." After a May 2010 incident in which Manning was found rocking on the floor in his office in Iraq, he should have been taken to the behavioral health unit, his lawyer said.
The prosecutor, Capt. Joe Morrow, dismissed those excuses. Other soldiers in Manning's unit were openly gay, and Manning did not hide his sexuality from them, according to the AP report.
"It wasn't the military's fault, it wasn't the command's fault, it wasn't because he saw something horrible—it was because he had an agenda," Morrow said.
In addition to leaking thousands of diplomatic documents, Manning's most famous leak was a video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack that killed civilians and a Reuters journalist. The video ultimately became known as the "collateral murder" video. Seeing that video pushed the 25-year-old Manning to become a leaker, a transformation he described at his trial in February.
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In sports, everyone is a winner- some people just win better than others. Like Amy Williams, whose gold in skeleton summarily refuted two British stereotypes - that they suck at the Winter Olympics, and that they don't have purty teeth.
With her victory, Williams became Great Britain's first Winter Olympic Champion in thirty years, and the first ever to be cheered on by an in-attendance Richard Branson. Alas, her triumph was not without controversy. After the second of her four runs, a number of countries filed a protest relating to alleged "spoilers" attached to her helmet (the twist in A Perfect Getaway, perhaps?). But the protest was dismissed and, in the spirit of true imperialistic temerity, she soldiered on, nailing her last two runs to bump the mighty Germans down to silver and bronze. If the Queen ever slips and goes tumbling down an icy mountain slope, we now know just who to dispatch to save her.
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Brazilian artist Will Murai has worked extensively in the video games, comics and advertising industries. But that's not why we're here today. We're talking about Will because of his amazing fan art.
Using a style that's halfway between 'classic pin-up" and "newspaper caricature", Murai has paid the ultimate, illustrative homage to some of his favourite characters and series.
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Gulfport Energy Corp. agreed to acquire another 22,000 net acres in the Utica Shale in Eastern Ohio from Windsor Ohio LLC for about $220 million as the oil-and-natural-gas producer continues to boost its presence in the shale basin.
The Utica Shale, which stretches through Ohio and Pennsylvania, is a relatively new and very promising shale basin that consists of a potentially significant liquids-rich gas source.
Gulfport paid about $300 million in December to take over 37,000 net acres in the Utica Shale from Windsor Ohio LLC, an affiliate of the Greenwich, Conn., hedge fund Wexford Capital LP.
Gulfport said the latest deal, which should close by the end of the month, will increase its working interest in the acreage to 93.8%.
The company also said it plans to fund the transaction with a public offering of 7.75 million common shares.
Gulfport reported in November its third-quarter profit slumped 98% as it logged a $15.5 million income-tax expense related to its oil and natural-gas interests in the Permian Basin.