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Originally Posted by STV_Keith Thanks guys. I tried to order one or a set for months, and finally got 4! LOL I've already used it as my pattern and Wshusher has it to make me billet ones. I'll cancel the 4 pair that are shipping tomorrow for you then.
Thanks guys. I tried to order one or a set for months, and finally got 4! LOL I've already used it as my pattern and Wshusher has it to make me billet ones.
This is an old post, Iv talked to Keith and he is all taken care of.
I know some people that work there. I will check on them for you.
My buddy Jason owns a stereo shop in Ontario, Ca. The shop is called Auto Toys. 909-923-7600. He is a memphis dealer, and I have bought several sets of these. Just tell him that you are Derek's buddy, and he will take care of you. Any questions, PM me. Good luck!
Call Frank at Car Toyz. I have MA speakers in my boat which I got from him.
Memphis Audio - can anyone get their stuff?
I'm getting seriously pissed with their lack of support. I have 4 sets of their marine 15-MA8, 8" coaxials and the plasic grilles are unobtainium. I've called them - they won't sell retail. I've called my local dealers - one of the three is still trying, but it's been MONTHS - I first started looking for this replacement grille in NOVEMBER!
No one makes an aftermarket replacement either. Hell, I only want this replacement so I can design my own billet replacement as the stock plastic ones can't take any abuse. Lean against them and they break.
Seriously, how fricken hard is it to get a speaker grille from the manufacturer?
Does anyone have a connection/hookup/whatever that can actually get me a replacement grille?
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Re: Why buy a brand new $150,000 sailboat?
Everything is relative to our own expenses. If I were a rich man I would have the best equipment available. But I am not a rich man so I got the best I could. C&C30 MK1 built in 1981 I had to put an engine in her and a bunch of other work. Mostly time but money too. But I have sailed her 27 times now in 19 months. No one in my marina takes there boat out as much as I do. No one spends as much time with their boats as I do with mine. I am in love with the whole process.
I got her on the cheap at first. But she was not free buy any means. In this process I have learned her every nook and cranny. I know the power she has now. I installed the engine myself. I know how hard it is to get the shift linkage set right. I know the stuffing box well. The cutlass bearing was rebuilt. Its a labor of love. I would never know a new boat as I know this boat. My love affair has a flavor that is real. Not like something you would ever fine buying new.
We have had a chance to fall in love. I know her and she knows me. She and I will be together for life.
To each his own "NEW/USED" for me its a no brainer...
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Thanks to those that buy new boats. This way others can have nice used boats. I don't begrudge anyone for buying a new boat; in fact i envy them at times. When i win the power ball i'll get my custom boat.
Sometimes it makes sense. I met a couple from NYC in a new 57 footer ($840k). They did the math. A new house in NYC, $800k; taxes $25k(or more). It was about the same to live on a new boat on the water! Of course it didn't hurt that they had some money as well.
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..... and so a thread " Why buy a brand new $150,000 sailboat? " looks destined for PRWG. Now does that realy make any sense at all ?
Please people ... leave the politics for Off Topic. The other thread is about to be moved (or may already have been moved) and so will this one if need be.
Once upon a time one of my fellow mods took a mixed up thread ike this one and moved the political posts to Off Topic. For this he was publicly castigated and has vowed not to go through that again. Smart fellow.
Ergo, if the OT stuff continues this thread will go PRWG holus bolus.
Re: Why buy a brand new $150,000 sailboat?
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Penske Blue! Which, IMO, is still the best color for a Corvette!
As for the scandal - yeah that's disappointing. In times past, jockeys and horse owners have gone to jail or worse for doing the same thing. But, if you take it in context of the sport, within NASCAR there is almost bragging rights about who can break the rules and not get caught.
Re: Why buy a brand new $150,000 sailboat?
I won't take anything away from Roger's business building career. They guy came an extraordinary distance. He coulda quit building after he bought his first Chevy dealership and lived a very comfortable life. But that was only a next step in mega building.
How much of a leg up did he get? As a teenager he was fixing and flipping race cars. Not something that can be done on paper route money. And in his 20s bought his first car dealership. Car dealerships cost a lot more today, but relatively speaking not something most 20 somethings could swing back then. Still, it was his vision and his drive ( no pun intended) that built a billion dollar empire. That and Penske Blue! Which, IMO, is still the best color for a Corvette!
As for the scandal - yeah that's disapppointing. In times past, jockeys and horse owners have gone to jail or worse for doing the same thing. But, if you take it in context of the sport, within NASCAR there is almost bragging rights about who can break the rules and not get caught.
Re: Why buy a brand new $150,000 sailboat?
Penske was born pretty middle class, maybe upper middle. Certainly not a silver spoon type like Trump.
I'm surprised that he would cheat that blatantly. Of course there are degrees of what could be called cheating - back in the Trans Am days when Donohue drove for him he came up with the famous "unobtanium" line when asked what some of his Camaro parts were made of.
Like Smokey Yunick famously said "If the rules don't say I can't do it, I have to assume I CAN".
That said, the incident you describe sounds just plain sleazy.
Re: Why buy a brand new $150,000 sailboat?
Penske's an interesting guy. Built an automotive empire. Like many didn't start on the bottom wrung to get that done. But you can't argue with results! he definately took the ball and ran with it! And unlike other rich kid success stories, at least he doesn't a TV show where he fires people.
More recently, Roger has adopted the spirit of the Shine runners where bending a rule or two is the way it's done. He was caught up in his own NASCAR scandal at Richmond. While relative to what happened at Waltrip racing during the same race it could be called scandal lite, fixing a race is still fixing a race. And, ethically it is what it is.
Radio traffic indicates that Penske, on the roof of the grandstand with the spotters at Richmond, cut a deal with Front Row motorsports to allow his driver to get ahead of Front Row's driver. Shortly after the back and forth radio communication took place Front Row's driver slowed down allowing Penske's driver to overtake him. Something he'd been unable to do previously. The payoff would be future tech support to Front Row. Something Front Row had sought from Penske in the past.
Penske defends himself by saying there was no direct radio communications between himself and Front Row's crew chief. Yet, the driver of Front Row's car could hear all the traffic between his spotter and his crew chief where the crew chief is confirming that the deal is being proffered by Penske himself. The spotter saying "The captain is standing right here next to me." Once confirmed, Front Row's car suddenly got slower. Penske's car just had to keep on doing what it had been doing. it finished in front of Front Row's car.
Gee, a fixed race in NASCAR? Who'd a thunk it? NASCAR didn't buy Penske's claim of innocence and sanctioned both teams. Penske being the billionaire he is didn't get the book thrown at him as did Michael Waltrip, Michael Waltrip Racing, who did pretty much the same thing.
I guess the upshot is it's good that he really does get NASCAR where cheating is an accepted part of the program.( accepted by the teams, not the officials) After-all they started as outlaws! Penske got rich by understanding how the game is played!
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If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. It seems like the perennial questioning about the significance, or lack thereof, of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is back again. This issue seems to make the rounds through various financial media every year, but if you subscribe to the notion that you can't proceed with any forward-looking discussion about a topic unless you know where you've been, you' might enjoy the following research piece on Charles Dow. It was originally published back in 1996, and co-authored with former Fool Randy Befumo. The first part deals with the history of the Dow, which may be of interest to investors seeking ammunition in the "significance debate."
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Charles Dow came from humble origins, yet managed to transform the world of investing more than any high-powered money manager or investment banker. He wasn't born in the center of cosmopolitan New York and he wasn't a financial child prodigy who scanned the stock tables for price/earnings ratios at a tender age. Dow was born in 1851 on a farm in Connecticut. He worked odd, menial-labor jobs from the age of six to help support his family after the death of his father. Although writing appealed to Dow, he did not finish secondary school. Despite this, at the age of 18 he got a job as a reporter for the Springfield Daily Republican. The Republican was a newspaper of national repute edited by newspaper giant Samuel Bowles, renowned for establishing the credentials of aspiring journalists.
Dow continued his reporting work at another prominent newspaper, The Providence Journal, in Rhode Island. He worked under the leadership of George W. Danielson, another outstanding editor of the day. Through a series of articles, Dow established himself as an insightful historian of the local scene with a keen interest in financial affairs. From tracing the corporate transactions of steamship companies to discussing investments in Newport real estate, Dow found that financial reporting not only matched his interests but also suited his temperament.
After a move to New York and a stint with the Kiernan News Agency in 1882, he started Dow Jones & Co. with two partners, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. They first published a two-page daily called The Customer's Afternoon Letter in early 1883. By 1889, The Customer's Afternoon Letter evolved into The Wall Street Journal.
The Customer's Afternoon Letter was nothing short of revolutionary. In Dow's time, consolidated stock tables published every day did not exist. Information about a company's balance sheet was rarely published, with managements often attempting to hide and obscure the full value of their company for fear of takeover. The Letter not only reported consolidated stock tables, but also made public quarterly and annual information regarding company financials -- something only available to insiders before this. Dow's publication leveled the playing field between the Wall Street elite and the individual investor. It would not be until the Securities Act of 1934 that companies would be required to file 10-Ks and 10-Qs that all investors could look at. So for more than fifty years, the only place for the individual investor to get the straight poop on company financials was The Customer's Afternoon Letter and then The Wall Street Journal.
In addition to founding the first daily publication dedicated to the financial world, Dow Jones & Co. was the first to see the need for an index that could be used to gauge the activity of the New York Stock Exchange as a whole. The first Dow Jones Index, the precursor of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, included 11 stocks -- 9 railroads, Western Union, and Pacific Mail Steamship. At that time, railroad stocks represented a key growth industry and were among the the only shares that traded in large volume on the NYSE. That is why they were chosen. The initial average was simply the price of all eleven stocks added up and divided by the number of companies.
Although Charles Dow never wrote anything that claimed he invented the average and, in fact, never really wrote anything at all about his thoughts on investing, the record left by his contemporaries clearly shows that he was the idea man behind all of Dow Jones & Co.'s endeavors, while his partners managed the employees and kept the books. Dow continued to tweak the list of companies making up his average until his death in 1902. Charles Dow left behind the first market average, a barometer for the general pressure of the "market." The investment world would be a very different place without the kind of reporting and financial disclosure pioneered in The Wall Street Journal or the notion of an average used to measure where the broader market was at any given point.
Charles Dow had one goal in mind when he created the Dow Jones Industrial Average: to measure the market as a whole rather than simply focusing on individual stocks. He wanted to make this average and the others he developed the foundation of a comprehensive theory that could be used to explain and predict general market movements. Dow was originally credited with creating the first general market average in July of 1884, although he later modified this and began to publish separate Industrial and Railroad Averages on May 26, 1896. These averages are the foundation of Dow Theory.
What we know today as Dow Theory was actually posthumously attributed to Mr. Dow by S.A. Nelson in his 1902 book, The ABC of Stock Speculation. Dow never wrote a book on investments and confined his opinions to anonymous editorials in The Wall Street Journal. Nelson clearly identified Dow as the intellectual force behind The Wall Street Journal, and lamented that Dow never published a comprehensive text on "speculation." Nelson believed Dow's position at the center of Wall Street would have uniquely qualified him to write such a tome.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has vowed to boost the size of the Navy by roughly 15 percent as part of a broader defense buildup. "Our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917," he complained in Monday night's debate. "That's unacceptable to me."
But for one of Romney's most important advisers on Navy issues, a man who oversaw a massive naval expansion for Pres. Ronald Reagan, there's more at stake than U.S. national security. John Lehman, an investment banker and former secretary of the Navy, has strong and complex personal financial ties to the naval shipbuilding industry. He has profited hugely from the Navy's slow growth in recent years — raising the prospect that he could make even more if Romney takes his advice on expanding the fleet.
That doesn't mean that a bigger or better Navy is necessarily a bad idea. But it does complicate Romney's claim that a larger Navy would merely be "matched to the interests we need to protect." A bigger maritime force has the possibility of personally enriching one of the candidate's top advisers. In fact, it already has.
Lehman is the founder and chairman of J.F. Lehman & Company, a private equity firm. He also sits on several corporate boards.
Lehman invested in a government-backed "Superferry" in Hawaii — a business that ultimately failed, but not before boosting the standing of Austal USA, an Alabama shipbuilder that constructed the ferry service's ships. Austal USA's rising fortunes in turn benefited international defense giant BAE Systems, which then bought up shipyards owned by Lehman in order to work more closely with Austal USA.
When all was said and done, the roundtrip deal helped net Lehman's firm a reported $180 million. And besides that, Lehman continues to own shipyards that do lucrative maintenance work for the Navy. Even leaving aside the intricate ferry-and-shipyard series of deals, Lehman still stands a decent chance of profiting from the naval buildup he is helping to plan.
Lehman, through a Romney campaign aide, calls any suggestions that he benefited from shipbuilding operations "kind of amusing." Lehman says he lost enormous sums of money on the Superferry deal, rather than earning it.
But Ryan Sibley — an editor at the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog Sunlight Foundation who has closely tracked the former Navy Secretary's investments — says that "Lehman's involvement with the Superferry shows that he is no stranger to using personal connections to influence costly decisions."
Today the Navy possesses 285 frontline warships, up from a low of 279 under Pres. George W. Bush. For the past five years, the Navy has slowly added ships in order to better meet expanding responsibilities. The goal was 313 combat vessels until early this year, when the Obama administration scaled back shipbuilding plans. Today the Navy aims to grow to around 300 war-ready ships by 2019.
But Lehman said that under Romney the Navy would grow even larger: to a total of 350 warships by 2022. A Romney administration would build 15 ships a year, Lehman added, compared to an average of nine per year under Obama. As Navy secretary from 1981 to 1987, Lehman oversaw the growth of the Navy from 490 combat vessels to a modern peak of 568.
Obama's shipbuilding plan for the next four years is projected to cost between $17 billion and $22 billion per year, according to the Navy and the Congressional Budget Office. Romney's plan would certainly cost more — thought how much more is unclear. "I wouldn't put a number on it," Lehman told Defense News.
Lehman added that a Romney administration would "fundamentally" reorganize the Navy to be more efficient in order to direct more resources into shipbuilding. "We're not talking about we're going to run faster, jump higher, be more efficient. We're talking about fundamentally changing the method of doing business."
In any event, a bigger Navy would mean more contracts for ship construction and maintenance — two activities in which Lehman has had a huge financial stake.
Lehman was the chairman of Hawaii Superferry, a transportation startup based in Honolulu that briefly provided passenger service between the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Maui. It relied on a new type of fast catamaran ferry built by Austal USA, a shipbuilder in Alabama specializing in speedy aluminum vessels.
Founded in 2003, Hawaii Superferry secured a $136-million loan from the Maritime Administration, a federal agency that oversees sea transportation. Lehman's own equity firm, the controlling private investor, put $85 million into company. Hawaii Superferry also benefited from $40 million in port enhancements paid for by the state of Hawaii.
The ferry company bought two ships from Austal USA, each more than 300 feet in length and capable of carrying hundreds of passengers plus their cars at speeds in excess of 30 knots. The vessels cost $105 million apiece.
The first ferry entered service in mid-2007. But with low ticket prices and soft demand, the service was a money-loser. The company was also mired in controversy over the environmental impact of its facilities. In 2009 Hawaii Superferry declared bankruptcy. Lehman reportedly lost his entire $85 million investment, and says his total losses were much, much greater than that.
"The two Hawaii Superferrys that we built — on time, and on budget — were operated in commercial service, with no government customers," Lehman tells Danger Room. "We were put out of service by the chicanery of the State Supreme Court and we lost over $300 million."
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But in another regard, the ferry was a smashing success. Austal USA, which builds aluminum warships for the Navy, was angling to build military versions of the Hawaii ferries to meet a new Pentagon requirement for fast transports called Joint High-Speed Vessels, or JHSVs. "Building the Superferry was very helpful in demonstrating that we can build these ships," said Bill Pfister, Austal USA's vice president for external affairs.
Out of direct public view, Superferry officials touted their ship's military potential. Superferry's pitch to the Hawaiian Public Utilities Commission included a slide claiming the ferry could haul the Stryker vehicles belonging to a Hawaii-based brigade. The company paid a lobbying firm $70,000 to try to convince the Navy to add the ferry to a program that assigns military transportation jobs to civilian vessels.
In late 2008, the Navy tapped Austal USA to build 10 military versions of the Hawaii ferry for $1.6 billion. Some critics have questioned whether Superferry was intended all along to serve as a proof-of-concept — admittedly, a money-losing one — for a much more valuable military program. "The fact that the Superferry was already in the water, proving its seaworthiness while the JHSV contract was being considered, suggests that it may have always been intended as a prototype or demo model for the larger deal," Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander, who penned a book about the ferry controversy, wrote in The Nation.
Superferry president Thomas Fargo, also a J.F. Lehman & Co. board member, denied the claim. "We always get the question, 'Was this designed as a military operation?'" he told The New York Times. "That's absolutely not true."
Regardless, the Hawaii ferries themselves did become military assets. In 2010 the Maritime Administration sued to take over the two ships in order to recoup some of its $150 million investment. The administration later sold both ferries to the U.S. Navy for a total of $70 million.
At first glance it's not clear how Lehman could have benefited from his money-losing investment in Hawaii Superferry. The answer lies in another of the former Navy secretary's investments: the Atlantic Marine family of shipyards. In 2006, Lehman purchased the shipyards in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Boston and Philadelphia for a reported $170 million. In 2009, the federal government awarded three of the yards $2.7 million in stimulus grants for improvements.
In 2010 international defense giant BAE Systems, which handles ship repairs among other specialties, acquired the Florida, Mississippi and Alabama yards for $352 million — ringing up an estimated $180 million profit for Lehman that more than makes up for his "failed" investment in Hawaii Superferry. Lehman held onto the remaining two yards in Philadelphia and Boston. Recently both have received lucrative ship-repair contracts from the Navy. They could receive even more such contracts if the sailing branch were to grow at a faster pace, as Lehman intends.
Today the Alabama yard, which is adjacent to Austal USA's own facilities, plays a critical role in military programs on which Austal USA and BAE Systems collaborate. "We launch both their JHSV and [Littoral Combat Ship] vessels with our dry docks; we also support Austal with warranty repairs, if requested," BAE Systems spokesperson Stephanie Moncada tells Danger Room. Austal USA did not respond to an e-mail requesting comment on the company's relationship with BAE.
In addition, Austal USA does work on aluminum structures as part of BAE Systems' ship-repair contracts with the Navy. Being in such close proximity to each other makes BAE Systems and Austal USA's collaboration possible, or at least more efficient.
Even before the acquisition of the Alabama yard, BAE Systems enjoyed close ties with Austal USA, namely in providing guns and radios for the Littoral Combat Ships Austal USA builds for the Navy. That made BAE Systems an obvious prospective buyer for Lehman's yards — the Alabama one in particular.
But Lehman's investments in the partially taxpayer-funded Hawaii Superferry reportedly helped Austal score the military transport deal, thus improving the business case for a closer partnership between Austal USA and BAE Systems. That partnership is being facilitated by BAE Systems' Alabama shipyard, purchased at a 100-percent markup from Lehman.
To put it plainly, Lehman's investment in the failed, government-backed Superferry boosted Austal USA, whose rising fortunes also benefited BAE Systems, which in turn bought up Lehman's shipyards — improved by stimulus funds — in order to work more closely with Austal USA. That roundtrip deal helped earn Lehman's firm a reported $180 million profit. In that sense, Lehman in fact more than doubled his $85 million investment in Hawaii Superferry, with a big assist from the taxpayers.
"While I don't know how typical Lehman's conduct is, his involvement with the Hawaii Superferry suggests his expertise lays in the strategic deployment of taxpayer resources for personal gain," Sibley, the watchdog, tells Danger Room.
Lehman calls the allegation "kind of amusing. We have never owned a shipyard that builds Navy ships. We have owned four shipyards that repair, not build commercial ships and Navy ships. The Navy business made up about 15 to 20% of the repairs. We still own two of those four, having sold the other two to BAE."
Ultimately BAE Systems, whose shipyard purchases added significantly to Lehman's already substantial personal worth, stands to earn potentially tens if not hundreds of millions from the ships specified in Lehman's naval buildup scheme. Each LCS costs around $500 million; the Navy plans to acquire at least 55 of the ships. As Romney's naval adviser, Lehman specifically promised to continue the program, and mentioned possibly adding more combat gear to the vessels — gear that could be built by BAE Systems.
In the meantime, BAE is investing heavily in political influence. The political action committee "belonging to the U.S. branch of defense and aerospace giant BAE Systems topped all other foreign-linked PACs, giving $532,000 so far, 59 percent of it to Republicans," according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington, D.C. watchdog group. BAE Systems also sponsored events at this year's Republic National Convention.
Perhaps none of this will have an influence on a Romney Pentagon. Perhaps the campaign's talk of a massive naval buildup will fade as budget realities set in. But if a Romney administration does embark in such an enormous increase in military shipbuilding, it's worth noting that one of the brains behind the expansion has profited rather handsomely by encouraging the Navy to build.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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When a person dies, title to their property, including any vessels they owned, becomes vested in another person(s). A formal legal process guides this action. Legal documents may be available to show who gained ownership of a vessel from the estate, or who has legal authority, such as an Executor or Administrator of an estate, to dispose of a vessel.
By statute, vessels may only be registered by the legal owner (52-7-5). If a living legal owner sells a vessel, a bill of sale from the owner and the owner's registration card are sufficient to transfer the vessel registration to the new owner. Obviously, when the owner of a vessel is deceased, they are unable to sign a bill of sale. The person gaining the vessel from an estate might desire to transfer the vessel registration into their name, or may desire to sell the vessel to another person and the registration would be transferred from the deceased to the buyer's name.
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Letters of Testamentary/Administration, Probated Last Will and Testament, and Year's Support are examples of some legal documents that could show a transfer of vessel ownership from a deceased's estate to a new owner. An Affidavit of Inheritance form from DNR may be used to transfer registration to the inheritor when the deceased left no will or left a will that is not to be probated because it contains only limited assets. A certified copy of the deceased's death certificate must accompany this completed and signed form. If the will is not to be probated because it contains only limited assets, a copy of the non-probated will must accompany this form. If there is only one heir, a certified copy of No Administration Necessary from Probate Court may be submitted in lieu of the Affidavit of Inheritance. An Affidavit of Vessel Ownership may also be used to transfer ownership if the documents described above cannot be obtained.
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Iowa Lakes freshman Ben Nath has earned a trip to the 2012 NJCAA Division II National Tournament on May 22-25 at Swan Lake Resort in Plymouth, Ind.
Nath, a native of Luverne, Minn., is no stranger to championship play – making back-to-back appearances at the state tournament his last two seasons in high school. He says coming to play golf at Iowa Lakes is "one of the best decisions" he has ever made, however golf at the college level is much different than at the high school level.
"College golf is a lot more competitive…it is a lot different than high school because all of the meets and tournaments we play in are 18-hole events," Nath told the Rock County Star Herald. "Playing 18 holes is nice because it's easier to make up for having a bad hole or two."
Laker Head Coach Andy Soper agrees his attitude and ability to move onto the next hole will allow him to perform well at nationals.
"Ben has a great attitude while on the course and doesn't get too worked up about a bad shot. He shrugs his shoulders, says 'oh well' and moves on to the next shot," Coach Soper said. "I look for Ben to continue his success that he has had this year into nationals,"
As a Laker, Nath posted the lowest scoring average during the season with a 76-stroke average. He was also named an all-region and all-conference player.
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PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Strength in the games category enabled Hasbro to increase first quarter revenues by 2% to $664 million compared to $649 million for the same period last year.
First quarter revenues were negatively affected by $3 million due to the impact of foreign exchange and one less week in the reporting period. The first quarter 2013 was a 13-week period compared to the first quarter 2012, which was a 14-week period.
The company also reported a nearly $7 million loss for the quarter, more than double a $3 million loss the prior year. However, on an adjusted basis to exclude pre-tax charges of $29 million associated with restructuring actions as well as favorable tax adjustment of $6 million, net earnings increased 30% to nearly $7 million compared to net earnings of $5 million.
"We entered 2013 with a heightened focus on our brands, organization and profitability, and delivered a good start to the year," said Hasbro president and CEO Brian Goldner. "In the first quarter, our global Hasbro teams generated revenue growth and strong underlying profitability growth. We are creating innovative consumer experiences across our brand blueprint globally while improving efficiencies and focus throughout our business."
Goldner also indicated the company's emerging markets continued to post double-digit revenue gains while the U.S. and Canada team delivered revenue growth and profitability improvement. The re-invention of our Hasbro's games business led to another quarter of revenue growth and brand innovation and new initiatives delivered gains in the Girls and Preschool categories.
The games category was the company's top performer with sales advancing 26% to $231 million due to the popularity of properties such as Magic: The Gathering, Angry Birds Star Wars, Transformers, Twister and Monopoly. The girl's segment was a close second to games with sales advancing 23% to $115 million with strength from Furby, My Little Pony and One Direction.
It was a different story in the boy's category where sales declined by 20% to $243 million as several unidentified brands faced weakness. The preschool category grew by 8% to $75.2 million, led by Play-Doh and Playskool Heroes.


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The room is comfortable and softly lit. A woman and older man sit facing each other at a small table. A third person performs a sound check and adjusts the participants' microphones. She shares reminders for the session: This conversation is only for the two of you; it's meant to serve as a snapshot of your relationship; there is no right way to do this. Shortly, the facilitator signals to the woman, who nods and begins the interview. "Tell me about your childhood, Dad. What was it like growing up in Nebraska?" "Well," the man says, "I was born on the family farm, the youngest of six. Momma said a neighbor lady—a real old-school pioneer who still lived in a Soddy—came to help out. You know, all birthing was natural in those days. Momma said I was a difficult boy right from the start!" The two share a laugh.
Many people seek to capture the precious memories, thoughts, and feelings of important people in their lives. When a person has Alzheimer's disease though, the task becomes much more urgent. In 2006, a project called the StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative [1] (MLI) was launched to support and encourage caregivers, families, and people with memory loss or Alzheimer's disease to share their life stories, in a way that can be remembered.
The MLI is a project of StoryCorps [2], a nonprofit organization whose mission is to honor and celebrate people's lives through listening. A permanent staff at StoryCorps maintains the MLI. An Advisory Board [3] of nationally recognized leaders in the field of memory loss and Alzheimer's disease, including representatives from NIA-supported Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADCs) and other organizations, guides the project.
The MLI makes it possible to record a conversation between an interviewer—usually a family member or friend—and a person with memory loss or Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's in particular makes it difficult for a person to remember the details of his or her life. The interview process is not designed to test memory but to facilitate a natural conversation between two people who care for each other. Participants are encouraged to think of the interview as a celebration of a person's life, through his or her own words.
Dina Zempsky, the StoryCorps MLI Senior Coordinator, comments:
"The StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative is a special program as it allows people with Alzheimer's to do something joyful and normative; recount their long-term memories. Caregivers and family members have a beautiful radio-quality CD to listen to over and over. It is a gift for all!"
StoryCorps conducts sessions at two main studios in New York City and San Francisco and via two MobileBooths—Airstream trailers outfitted with recording studios—that travel the country year-round. It also conducts sessions at appropriate community locations. Organizations, institutions, and groups can sponsor on-site recording [4]. In addition, StoryCorps provides the Do-It-Yourself Instruction Guide [5]—a free downloadable reference for recording and archiving stories at home, in the classroom, or at a library.
Each 40-minute interview is recorded in a controlled setting to eliminate distractions. Specially trained staff members serve as facilitators to help ensure that participants have a comfortable, meaningful experience. Anyone—a family member, a friend, or a caregiver—can be the interviewer. After the session, participants receive a free CD of their interview to take home and freely copy for family and friends.
With participants' permission, StoryCorps arranges for their recorded conversations to be archived at the Library of Congress. Selected interviews are broadcast on National Public Radio's Morning Edition [6] and can be heard on the Web [7]. StoryCorps activities also can be followed on Facebook [8] and Twitter [9]. Videos may be viewed on YouTube [10], including excerpts from interviews with both caregivers and people with Alzheimer's. StoryCorps offers a book and CD for sale, containing selected interviews from its collection. All of the proceeds go to support StoryCorps.
Through the MLI, StoryCorps collaborates with community partners [11]—organizations and groups who work with those affected by memory loss and Alzheimer's disease. Staff members bring their portable equipment to a community location and record up to six 40-minute interviews per day. As part of the MLI, all fees are waived. Individuals also can record at home through the StoryKit [12] program. The fees for the kit also are waived for participants in the MLI.
Dr. Nina Silverberg, Assistant Director of the NIA Alzheimer's Disease Centers Program, says, "Every time I hear StoryCorps on NPR (which is fairly often), I think of what a great project this would be for an ADC or the family of an Alzheimer's patient." A number of ADCs already have taken advantage of this service, including those at Duke University, Rush University, and the University of California, San Diego (see UCSD Currents [13], page 5).
Lisa Gwyther, a member of the Advisory Board and education director of the Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Duke, adds:
"The Memory Loss Initiative is a celebration of what matters most, the oral history and ties that connect people at risk for feeling disconnected. Participants in the Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Memory Loss Initiative expressed immediate pleasure and purpose both in being heard and in creating this unique legacy for their families and for the national archive. The 20th annual Bryan Alzheimer's conference opened with an audiotape of the first Memory Loss Initiative stories to air on NPR. Their rich warmth and humor set a positive tone for the conference."
Recently, StoryCorps sponsored a National Day of Listening [14]. The project invited people "to celebrate and document the stories, memories, and history of your family, friends, and community…to ask the questions that matter, and record your conversations to enjoy for years to come." Individuals and families can visit the site to see how they might participate. Further, educators and librarians can receive free resources for classrooms, libraries, and groups, such as those dealing with Alzheimer's disease.


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Over ten years ago, I walked into a small gun shop on the West side of Indianapolis and placed a down payment on my first 1911 pistol a Kimber Classic Stainless. I was fortunate growing up to have parents who embraced the shooting sports and at that time in my life had logged many days of range time with my father shooting. It wasnt until I had graduated college and secured my first real job that I was finally able to purchase the one handgun I had been reading about and coveting since I was a kid. When I began researching the 1911, I found plenty of historical and technical information on the Internet but I couldnt find a community dedicated to the pistol like I had found for other hobbies and interests I had at the time. While waiting to begin work at my job, I rented server space, purchased a UBB forum software license, and started 1911forum.com.
Its been an absolute thrill being a part of this growing community over the last decade. Ive met and worked with many great people, learned technical skills that Ive applied to my career, and acquired more knowledge about my favorite handgun than I ever thought possible. As with any project that requires attention and devotion, Ive reached the point in my life where I feel its time to move on to other things. For that reason, Ive decided to sell 1911forum.com to pursue other interests.
The new owners of the forum have expressed their desire to maintain the current staff and management style. LW McVay will take the lead staff role and Ill be working with him to ensure a smooth transition. The new owners of the forum will introduce themselves shortly.
I want to thank the staff members who have volunteered their time and effort to maintain a community for all to enjoy. Your efforts have shaped the forum into what it is today and Im forever grateful.
Thanks to everyone for making the first decade of this forum an astounding success. And on this day of remembrance, God bless the military veterans on this forum and those serving around the world so we can live free.
I look forward to working with LW and the rest of the team and watching the forum continue to grow and strengthen as a community in the coming decades.
All the best,
We all owe you a huge debt of gratitude for creating and maintain one of, if not the best forum on the internet. No easy task that.
God speed in your new pursuits Jason and we hope you won't be a stranger!
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Jason, thanks for everything and for building such a great community.
I'm one of the new owners and excited to be part of the team here and working with LW McVay to keep the site running smoothly and helping to preserve the quality of the information here. I'm originally from New Hampshire and grew up just a short drive from the SIG and Ruger campuses. In the past i've been part of the team at policeone.com & firerescue1.com and most recently working with survivalistboards.com. Also joining the team behind the scenes is Kevin a vbulletin expert, he'll be helping LW with any forum technical issues that come up.
I'm sure you'll see me around the forum but if you're wondering, nothing is going to change except a few improvements like faster servers and a few subtle upgrades in the future. We like the forum just the way it is and our goal is to preserve the valuable information that's available here. If anyone has any questions or suggestions for the forum please feel free to send myself or LW a PM, otherwise see you around forum!
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BubbaBuddhist wrote:I think it says in the Dhamapada somewhere that "Expectation makes an ex out of Pec and some other guy named Tation." Or maybe I saw that in the men's room at Penn Station. Anyway, it's true. I think a lot of people bring on their own misery by trying to meet other's expectations of them. I believe in this case that other people's expectations are their kamma, not mine. As for my own expectations I do have them, even of other people, but when I do I try to discuss them and reach an understanding. For example, if I'm in a relationship with someone, I expect communication, cooperation, shared trust, not stabbing me in my sleep, things like that. If I wake up with a knife sticking out of me, I realize my expectations were unrealistic and I try to figure out whether I'm Pec or Tation. In either case, I'm definitely an ex.
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New RSV Policy
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a new policy statement Monday concerning RSV infections and the use of the medication Palivizumab (Synagis), which is a monoclonal antibody.
Synagis has been used since 1998 in preterm infants as prophylaxis against serious RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) infections. RSV is one of the most prevalent respiratory infections during the winter months and causes the infection known as bronchiolitis. Bronchiolitis causes cold like symptoms in all ages but has been associated with wheezing and at times respiratory distress requiring hospitalization and supplemental oxygen in infants. The majority of children will have had RSV by the time they are 2 years of age.
For years it has been the standard of care to give preterm infants born at less than 32 weeks gestation (or 35 weeks with certain risk factors) a shot of Palivizumab every month during RSV season in hopes of preventing serious RSV infections and subsequent hospitalizations. Palivizumab is also not an inexpensive medication and dosing is based upon a child's weight so cost went up as the babies weighed more each month.
But multiple studies are now showing that palivizumab prophylaxis really provided limited benefits in terms of total RSV hospitalizations, effect on wheezing and no measurable effect on mortality. Overall, about 2-3% of infants in the first 12 months of life are hospitalized with RSV infection each year. More than 80% of RSV hospitalizations in the U.S. occur among full-term previously healthy infants in their first 3 months of life. These healthy children were never recommended to receive the prophylactic medication.
So, based on newer data the recommendations will change and palivizumab prophylaxis will now be recommended for infants born before 29 weeks of gestation during their first year of life.( as well as for certain other groups at high risk).
The good news is that the care of premature infants has improved dramatically which has helped to prevent chronic lung disease. There are now fewer than 100 deaths a year due to complications of RSV. With that being said, the best way to prevent RSV infections in all infants, especially those born at preterm is by promoting breast feeding, practicing good hand and cough hygiene, avoiding smoke exposure,immunizing household contacts with flu vaccine and limiting attendance in large group child care during the first winter season if at all possible.
With temperatures across the country now in the "sweltering" range it is hard to think about winter respiratory infections, but these changes are important for both the medical community and new parents as well.
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New Southern Maryland Paintball!
Posted 28 June 2010 - 06:56 PM
Posted 30 June 2010 - 06:15 PM
Southern Maryland Paintball, its great, not to many people come. We need some more experienced players there... Im going wednesday... tell me if you can make it! OH!! we also have night paintball.. its the closest thing to me now because OA Bowie closed down..
This field is Great. its 25$ for field fee and its BYOP!. Tomorrow we are making a regulation sized field 150'x120' with 42 bunkers. The current hours of operations is wed and thur 12-530 fri 12-930 and sat and sun 9-930. we deffinatly need more players to come and play but on a saturday we usually have 5v5s goin. there is 3 fields a woodsball field, a spoolfield, and the field mentioned above. On July 17th there will be a 2v2 fun tournament held and there with a cash prize for 1st! so signup at the field
Posted 28 July 2010 - 01:42 PM
gear - starframed ETEK, ninja 50/45, dye rotor
Posted 28 July 2010 - 01:45 PM
were is this field located i usually play at oc paintball or pro-action paintball
Posted 30 July 2010 - 01:44 AM
Posted 03 October 2010 - 03:45 PM
Setup: System X NME LE, Dye Rotor, Guerrilla Air 88/4500 Myth G2
Posted 23 November 2010 - 08:36 PM
Posted 25 November 2010 - 12:39 PM
southern maryland paintball is very nice just came out with a new x-ball field only the southern mayland team can play on it but it is stilll nice
yea i was there last weekend, very nice xball field. couldnt play it though. there were team tryouts the day i went so i got to watch them play it. maybe next time if i get there before they wash the bunkers down i get get in on a game or 2.
Setup: System X NME LE, Dye Rotor, Guerrilla Air 88/4500 Myth G2
Posted 10 February 2011 - 05:33 PM
i used to play at rosedale and had a good group of people that organized days when people would come out so you knew there would be a good turnout. since this place is closer to where i live, im hoping to find a group of people to do the same at this field. ive only been there a couple times and every time there hasnt really been a group of walkons that were interested in anything other than camping in the woods until everyone's paint was gone. anyone who plays here should subscribe to this thread so we can try to organize something
Posted 14 February 2011 - 03:02 PM
Posted 14 February 2011 - 03:09 PM
This field is about 5 mins from my house lol
So do you play there?
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Posted 01 March 2011 - 05:48 AM
What are the rules their as far as ramping and bunkering and what not I would like to know because I what to go their to play some time soon.
In walk on play I will generally ramp my gun at 12.5, but only when everyone else has the ability to do the same. I have never seen anyone blatantly ramping to extreme rates of fire, since it would stick out so obviously when everyone else is at 12.5.
Bunkering is generally decided upon before playing. I have seen people ask to not be bunkered and people are generally fine with that. Just ask the group before you start playing whether they are ramping and whether they want to do bunkering or not.
Posted 02 March 2011 - 08:19 AM
Posted 02 March 2011 - 08:39 AM
I'm sure under some situations you could get away with ramping a little higher but I've never seen it. Most of the refs are xball players and know what 12.5 sounds like. No one has ever expressly said that it's the limit, but you're playing x ball on a psp field, so everyone just sort of goes with that.
Ok thanks, I wasn't planing on ramping high the 12.5bps but it is allowed right or is 12.5bps just the limit? And I understand the Bunkering thing I wish PAP did that.
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Posted 18 April 2011 - 03:45 PM
Thinking about making this my new field. Has the field attracted more people or is it still in the works? Looking to play some airball and after watching the video of the field is the psp field always up? Also are the hours still the same like are you open on Fridays and are times from 9am to 9pm or is everything different now?
Psp field is usually only up for team practice but if you are there on a day where the team practices you can usually get on.
Posted 23 June 2011 - 07:39 AM
were always looking for more players to head out to the field
it really is a great field
we just bought a 3rd airball field that should be psp as well
were investing in turf to turn one fo the field into a tourney only field as well
along with the entire back part fo the open field is being turned into an urban scenario field
im up there LITERALLY every weekend
and they are open wednesday-sunday, though speedball players are mainyl there weekends
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Posted 01 December 2011 - 02:02 PM
teams are typically there sunday mornings to practice, and scrimmage sunday afternoons
were always looking for more players to head out to the field
it really is a great field
we just bought a 3rd airball field that should be psp as well
were investing in turf to turn one fo the field into a tourney only field as well
along with the entire back part fo the open field is being turned into an urban scenario field
im up there LITERALLY every weekend
and they are open wednesday-sunday, though speedball players are mainyl there weekends
Do they have a pro store there? Just moved here and my wife and I are trying to get back into the sport and would like to find a new place might check it out this weekend.
Posted 01 December 2011 - 02:27 PM
Posted 07 December 2011 - 08:40 PM
I have played at some of the other fields such as Robinhood paintball and Paintball Sportsland, both are ok, but have had the best experience at Paintball Adventure Park. I would like to go to Southern Maryland Paintball, but just too far south of me.
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using all Valken paint
we have a decently stocked Proshop as well
and me and the owners son are the gun techs
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I've never been a big fan of watching television, probably less than a few days worth of time a year honestly. However with the purchase of a recent tv for the bedroom I have to say there's an interesting quality that's bugging me.
It's difficult to explain but some shows, mainly the "super hd" ones on Netflix looks to real, it causes the show to lose its "movie" touch. Instead it's like I'm watching it from the set or as if it's being recorded through a camcorder.
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Fox's Claim That Obama Administration Is "Selling Amnesty" Is Bogus
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Fox Nation is claiming that the Obama administration is "selling amnesty for $465" through a policy that allows some young undocumented immigrants to stay in the country and possibly avoid deportation. In fact, the $465 is the cost of the application process for deferments from deportation; it is not "amnesty" since applicants are not guaranteed approval and the policy does not confer legal status. The policy is simply a temporary reprieve from deportation that allows immigrants to apply to work in the country legally.
On June 15, the Department of Homeland Security announced:
[C]ertain young people who were brought to the United States as young children, do not present a risk to national security or public safety, and meet several key criteria will be considered for relief from removal from the country or from entering into removal proceedings. Those who demonstrate that they meet the criteria will be eligible to receive deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal, and will be eligible to apply for work authorization.
This policy change predictably led to bogus cries of "amnesty" from the right-wing media. Now, Fox Nation is claiming that the Obama administration is "selling amnesty for $465":
Of course, Fox Nation's claim isn't true. The website linked to an ABC News blog post stating:
The Department of Homeland Security today announced details of the application and approval process for the DREAM Act-like program, outlining specific eligibility requirements and a $465 fee. It will begin Aug. 15.
A Detroit Free Press article explained that "[t]he total cost for the application process will be $465," but applying for deferment from deportation does not mean it will be granted. As has been explained before, DHS announced that the policy will allow undocumented immigrants who arrived in America as children and meet other eligibility requirements to request "consideration of deferred action" on a "case-by-case basis" starting on August 15.
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== Obtaining Yhc ==
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1 Obtaining Yhc
Either download a binary distribution, or compile it from source (see Yhc/Building). A binary distribution is probably easier, but there aren't any yet until the first release.
2 Setting the Package Path
The easiest way to use Yhc is to first set the YHC_PACKAGE_PATH environment variable to the root of the packages. <say how to do this, give an example>
3 Compiling Hello World
Take a sample file, HelloWorld.hs
=========== File HelloWorld.hs ===============
module Main where
main = putStrLn "Hello, World!\n"
$ yhc HelloWorld $ yhi HelloWorld Hello, World!
3.1 yhc
The yhc command takes a haskell source file, and generate a haskell bytecode file (extension, .hbc). The program always runs in make mode - so it will compile all requirements automatically.
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I guess some of you expected a blog entry about the
generational GC in Mono, given the title. From my
understanding many have the expectation that the new GC will
solve all the issues they think are caused by the GC so they
await with trepidation.
As a matter of fact, from my debugging of all or almost all those issues, the existing GC is not the culprit. Sometimes there is an unmanaged leak, sometimes a managed or unmanaged excessive retention of objects, but basically 80% of those issues that get attributed to the GC are not GC issues at all.
So, instead of waiting for the holy grail, provide test cases or as much data as you can for the bugs you experience, because chances are that the bug can be fixed relatively easily without waiting for the new GC to stabilize and get deployed.
Now, this is not to say that the new GC won't bring great improvements, but that those improvements are mainly in allocation speed and mean pause time, both of which, while measurable, are not bugs per-se and so are not part of the few issues that people hit with the current Boehm-GC based implementation.
After the long introduction, let's go to the purpose of this entry: svn Mono now can perform an object allocation entirely in managed code. Let me explain why this is significant.
The Mono runtime (including the GC) is written in C code and
this is called unmanaged code as opposed to managed code
which is all the code that gets JITted from IL opcodes.
The JIT and the runtime cooperate so that managed code is compiled in a way that lets the runtime inspect it, inject exceptions, unwind the stack and so on. The unmanaged code, on the other hand, is compiled by the C compiler and on most systems and architectures, there is no info available on it that would allow the same operations. For this reason, whenever a program needs to make a transition from managed code to unmanaged (for example for an internal call implementation or for calling into the GC) the runtime needs to perform some additional bookeeping, which can be relatively expensive, especially if the amount of code to execute in unmanaged land is tiny.
Since a while we have made use of the Boehm GC's ability to
allocate objects in a thread-local fast-path, but we
couldn't take the full benefit of it because the cost of the
managed to unmanaged and back transition was bigger than the
allocation cost itself.
Now the runtime can create a managed method that performs the allocation fast-path entirely in managed code, avoiding the cost of the transition in most cases. This infrastructure will be also used for the generational GC where it will be more important: the allocation fast-path sequence there is 4-5 instructions vs the dozen or more of the Boehm GC thread local alloc.
As for actual numbers, a benchmark that repeatedly allocates small objects is now more than 20% faster overall (overall includes the time spent collecting the garbage objects, the actual allocation speed increase is much bigger).


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Wash. Times equated Reid's criticism of Clarence Thomas with Lott's praise of Strom Thurmond's segregationist campaign
A December 9 Washington Times editorial [1] criticized Democrats for remaining "awfully quiet" over Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) recent comments [2] regarding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and compared this reaction to the bipartisan criticism of former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's (R-MS) December 2002 comment [3] that if then-segregationist Dixiecrat presidential candidate Strom Thurmond had won the 1948 election, "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years." The Times accused the Democrats of applying a double standard.
Here's what Reid said during a December 5, 2004, appearance on NBC's Meet the Press:
TIM RUSSERT (host): Why couldn't you accept Clarence Thomas [as chief justice]?
REID: I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written. I don't -- I just don't think that he's done a good job as a Supreme Court justice.
Here's what Lott said at the December 5, 2002, 100th birthday party of Thurmond, who ran on a pro-segregation platform in 1948:
I want to say this about my state [Mississippi]. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.
Lott stepped down [4] as majority leader as a result of the furor surrounding his remarks.
On December 11, 2002, The Washington Post noted [5] that Lott made a similar remark in 1980: "Twenty-two years ago, Trent Lott, then a House member from Mississippi, told a home state political gathering that if the country had elected segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond to the presidency '30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today.' The phrasing is very similar to incoming Senate Majority Leader Lott's controversial remarks at a 100th birthday party for Thurmond last week."
A December 12, 2002, Scripps Howard News Service article [6] titled "Lott Critics Cite History as Civil Rights Opponent" documented the reasons that both Democrats and Republicans blasted Lott for his apparent endorsement of segregationist policies:
In 1982, Lott voted against the extension of the Voting Rights Act, which authorizes the Justice Department to review election law changes in Mississippi and other Deep South states and to monitor elections.
In 1983, he was one of 90 House members who voted against creating a national holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Six years later, Lott was one of seven senators who voted to abolish the King holiday commission, and in 1994, he was one of 28 who favored scrapping its federal funding.
Lott was one of 34 senators who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1990, which reversed five Supreme Court rulings that had limited the ability of minorities to win job discrimination lawsuits and damages. After President George H. W. Bush vetoed the bill, Lott voted for a different version in 1991.
And in 2001, Lott was the only senator who opposed President George W. Bush's nomination of Roger Gregory, an African-American from Virginia, to the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In 1999, when Lott was embroiled in another racial controversy, he had only one African-American worker, a mail clerk, out of a staff of 65.
In 1981, Lott filed a brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit seeking to overturn an IRS decision to deny a tax exemption to Bob Jones University because of the school's ban on interracial dating.
In 1995, Lott criticized Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) for intervening with 39 other lawmakers to get the FBI to release documents in the 1966 death of civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer to Forrest County prosecutors.
In 1999, it was reported that Lott had spoken to and met with the segregationist Council of Concerned Citizens on a few occasions. Lott then condemned the group.
Last year, Lott and the other white members of the Mississippi congressional delegation refused an entreaty from former Netscape president James Barksdale to declare that they would vote in favor of a statewide referendum to remove the Confederate emblem from the state flag. The proposal lost.
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