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Garage sales Saturday in Marion and Peabody attracted customers from near and far.
Vonnie Gfeller, selling decorations, dolls, and other items that belonged to her late mother, said many of the customers at her sale in Peabody were from Marion, Hillsboro, and Durham, although they had a pair of out-of-state customers. Dana and Viola Ostrom of Oklahoma City, came specifically to shop at garage sales.
Viola Ostrom said she had joked with someone the day before about finding a piece of Tupperware that had gone missing from her set. It was no joke, though, when she found exactly what she was looking for Saturday morning.
Jennifer Sisemore of El Dorado made a beeline for Eastmoor United Methodist Church's sale, with daughter Alyssa in tow. Sisemore said she had good luck at the sale last year, when she found a bicycle trailer. Alyssa was thrilled by the musical instruments at the sale, trying a trumpet before picking out a toy electronic keyboard to buy.
Maggie Nichols began her garage sale Friday night, but the traffic was slow because of the rain, she said. Despite some early mist, business picked up Saturday morning.
"A lot of out-of-towners are coming in, people you don't know," Nichols said.
The reasons for the garage sales varied from one sale to the next. Shannon Cooper was getting ready to finish the basement in her new home, and she needed to sell things to clear out space. To meet that goal, she priced items cheaply to improve their chances of selling. Anything that wasn't sold she planned on donating to the St. Luke Hospital Auxiliary Shop.
"I'm getting to that point I realize stuff is just stuff," she said.
Gfeller had her garage sale because that's how her mother had wanted her possessions sold, rather than at auction. Gfeller said snowmen and Santa Claus decorations sold very well.
"She decorated for every holiday, and I don't think she ever used the same thing twice," she said of her mother.
Eastmoor United Methodist Church's sale was to support the church's missions projects and local charities. Judith Priest said the sale raised $1,474 on Saturday the Marion County Emergency Food Bank, Circles of Hope, Central Station youth center, and church missions. Some additional sales on Sunday raised the total to more than $1,500.
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CIS (Russia, Ukraine, Others) MDI (Methyl Diphenyl Diisocyanate) Market - Industry Analysis, Raw Material, Consumption Trends, Size, Share And Forecast, 2010 - 2018
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|CIS(ロシア、ウクライナ、その他)のMDI(メチル・ジフェニル・ジイソシアネート)市場:業界分析、原材料、消費動向、規模、シェア、および予測 CIS (Russia, Ukraine, Others) MDI (Methyl Diphenyl Diisocyanate) Market - Industry Analysis, Raw Material, Consumption Trends, Size, Share And Forecast, 2010 - 2018
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This report segments, estimates and forecasts the MDI market in CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) region along with its regional demand for Russia, Ukraine and other CIS nations. The report focuses on MDI consumption level along with the major drivers and restraints prevailing in the CIS market. The research report estimates and forecast the MDI consumption in CIS with respect to volumes (kilo tons) and revenues (USD million) from 2010 to 2018. The report also includes raw material and pricing analysis for MDI in the CIS region for better understanding of the market. This report also analyzes the value chain for MDI to understand the market from both the supply and the demand side.
This study analyzes the competitive landscape in detail, providing company market share analysis along with the company profiles of leading companies operating in the CIS MDI market. The inclusion of the same will help our clients to analyze the competition prevailing in the market. Major MDI producing companies profiled in this report include BASF, Bayer, Huntsman, Dow Chemical Company, Yantai Wanhua and Mitsui Chemicals. The company profiles in the research report include company overview, financial overview, business strategies and recent developments for each of the companies mentioned above, which will help assess competition prevailing in the market.
The MDI consumption volumes and revenues for the CIS region were estimated through the means of secondary research and were further validated with the C level executives and top level managers of leading MDI producers in CIS through the means of primary interviews. The primary interviews were conducted both by telephone calls and by exchanging e-mails. We derived our final results based on both primary and secondary research.
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During my October tour, I gave three presentations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and another in Sardinia, Italy. Two of the Malaysia presentations were at the International Forum on Inclusive Wealth, but I do not yet have recordings of those. The third was an extended presentation and discussion (on October 10) at the Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies titled, A World Without Money and Interest: A pathway toward social justice and economic equity. Here below is the video of the proceedings, or you can watch it on YouTube at https://youtu.be/8BejigzDAVY. The audio only is here, and the slides that were used in that talk can be viewed here.
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If you are looking for a board similar to the kaos, you will be looking at this year's Element, or last year's Nova. They are very similar, just minor refinement and a name change Excellent boards for cruising and freestyle, they have a ton of pop and ride super fast so you get a lot of low end.edt wrote:Despite what you might have heard the contact is not a recoil clone the kaos was supposed to ride most like a recoil but both the recoil and kaos and contact are gone now and you won't find an exact match anymore. 134 is too big, get 130. If you aren't riding until you get to maui you can always buy it there.


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Math Trio Earns Honorable Mention In Global ContestSOCORRO, N.M. April 26, 2011 – A New Mexico Tech trio of students earned Honorable Mention accolades in the 2011 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
Aaron Meurer, Ian Burch and Henry Horton were among the top 30 percent of teams that completed Problem B in this year's event.
|Aaron Meurer, Henry Horton and Ian Burch (from left) earned honorable mention accolades in the 2011 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
The contest asks students to complete a complex modeling problem February 10 to 14. The Tech trio selected Problem B, which involved modeling VHF coverage over a 40 square-mile area.
Out of the 2,775 teams that participated, only 842 earned Honorable Mention. The international competition included only 347 teams from the
Problem B asked contestants to determine the minimum number of repeaters necessary to serve different population sizes and environmental conditions.
For a circular flat area of 40 miles radius, contestants were required to determine the minimum number of repeaters necessary to accommodate 1,000 simultaneous users, assuming that the spectrum available is 145 to 148 MHz, the transmitter frequency in a repeater is either 600 kHz above or 600 kHz below the receiver frequency, and there are 54 different PL tones available to reduce the potential of interference. Then, contestants were required to determine how their solution changes if there are 10,000 users. Finally, students were required to discuss the case where there might be defects in line-of-sight propagation caused by mountainous areas.
Meurer said the competition was intense; the three team members spent three full days working on the project.
"They want to see different ways you can solve the problem," Meurer said. "There's no one way to do it."
The students did some research on VHF repeaters, their operation and their range. They then worked on dividing the geographical area into sectors and calculating how many repeaters would be needed, given one set of population density assumptions.
The VHF radio spectrum involves line-of-sight transmission and reception. This limitation can be overcome by "repeaters," which pick up weak signals, amplify them, and retransmit them on a different frequency. Thus, using a repeater, low-power users (such as mobile stations) can communicate with one another in situations where direct user-to-user contact would not be possible. However, repeaters can interfere with one another unless they are far enough apart or transmit on sufficiently separated frequencies.
This year's contest ran from Thursday, Feb. 10, to Monday, Feb. 14. During that time, participants researched, modeled, and submitted a solution to one of two modeling problems. The 2011 contest was primarily an online contest. Teams registered, obtained contest materials, and downloaded the problem and data via the Internet.
The three math major are all seniors. Horton went to high school in
The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, or COMAP, is an award-winning non-profit organization whose mission is to improve mathematics education for students of all ages. Since 1980, COMAP has worked with teachers, students, and business people to create learning environments where mathematics is used to investigate and model real issues in our world.
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Today the red chair left the Woods Hole Inn, departing on its latest journey across New England. Friend of the Woods Hole Inn, Kate Kavanagh, volunteered to help the Red Chair reach its destination. There were lots of photographs and a small goodbye as the chair made it's way out of the inn.
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By the end of night three of "The Voice's" Season 5 blind auditions, Christina Aguilera had added four new singers to her team, Adam Levine had snagged two, and Blake Shelton and Cee Lo Green had each scooped up three.
The lucky (and talented) vocalists who'd made it through were all thrilled. That's to be expected. But what's more remarkable about "The Voice," of course, is how respectfully and supportively it deals with even those who fail to advance.
That kindness was underscored on Monday night when veteran singer Malford Milligan — a 54-year-old from Austin, Texas, who has toured with B.B. King but struggled to conquer self-esteem issues after having been bullied as a child because he is, he says, "a black albino" — took the stage.
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"This is almost a perfect show built for somebody like yourself that's had to overcome some prejudices throughout your life," Carson Daly told Milligan backstage, adding that it was "a place … where we celebrate your voice."
Alas, Milligan didn't manage to turn a single chair with his cool, laid-back take on Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," though Aguilera and Levine had clearly been tempted. Still, though the coaches had not offered him a slot on their teams — Aguilera said she'd been waiting for some defining moment that never quite arrived — they offered him ample encouragement. "Great rendition," Levine said. "Man, can you sing, dude." "He can talk good too," said Shelton, who later asked Milligan to make a record so he could go out and buy it.
Milligan, though disappointed, also seemed bolstered by the praise.
"Everybody's been so nice" on the show, he told the coaches. "It's incredible."
"We're a nice show," Aguilera said, ever modest.
"It really is," Milligan chimed in.
It really is.
And perhaps nicer still for those who did advance.
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Among them (in no particular order) were country singer Justin Blake, a 20-year-old truck driver and expectant father who spun only Levine with his somewhat breathless take on Shelton's "Sure Be Cool If You Did." Levine had no idea it had been his bromantic rival's song but was enthusiastic about his new team member. "I think you are a great country singer," he said.
Levine had to fight harder for Preston Pohl, a 26-year-old singer from Hallettsville, Texas, who'd had early success with a Christian rock band before the death of his mentor prompted him to take a break from music. His deliciously sensual "Electric Feel" turned Shelton, Levine and Green. Green seemed to have a bit of an advantage, playing to Pohl's eclectic musical tastes, but Levine fought hardest for him, telling him he turned the song into "a Marvin song." After one of the best bits of coach jockeying for position this season — DJ Screw, indeed — Levine emerged triumphant. "I would have been devastated if he hadn't chosen me," he said. "I wanted that guy worse than I probably wanted everybody so far." Understandably.
Shelton picked up 25-year-old Ray Boudreaux, from Lafayette, La., wresting him away from Green, who'd also turned for Boudreaux's "Use Me." "You look like Blake and you sound like Cee Lo," Levine noted of the blue-eyed soul man. In fact, Boudreaux said he'd come in leaning toward Cee Lo, but "in the moment, Blake spoke to me." Maybe it was the way Shelton described him as "swampy" that won his heart.
The country coach also trounced Green and Levine to take Monika Leigh, a 28-year-old from Boulder, Colo., who'd abandoned her musical dreams at 22 to take a workaday, 40-hour-a-week job as an administrative assistant at a hotel. Levine turned first for Leigh's "The Thrill Is Gone," and Green wasn't far behind. Shelton turned pretty late in the game, but pulled out his big guns – which is to say his three "Voice" trophies. "I can give you three reasons why you should pick me," he said, noting that only one of his winners had been a country artist. It worked. "At first, I thought I was going to pick Adam because he turned first," Leigh said. However, "my gut told me Blake, so I went with it."
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The third addition to Team Blake was Cilla Chan, whose audition was shown only briefly, as was that of Team Christina member Jacob Poole and Team Cee Lo's Anthony Paul.
Green also added Juhi, an Indian American 16-year-old straight-A high school student with blue-tipped hair and highly supportive parents. (Her dad has a PhD in electrical engineering, and Juhi herself is weighing aerospace engineering and computer science.) Aguilera turned first for Juhi's "Mercy," and tried to play the lady card, saying she'd understand the young singer "a little bit better than all the male parts on the stage." But Juhi, who said she was a big Gnarls Barkley fan, felt a stronger connection to Green, who called her "strong," "effortless" and "really impressive" and vowed to fight for her. Green said he felt as if he and Juhi were "kindred spirits."
But if Juhi appealed to Green's heart, Portland, Ore., 19-year-old George Horga Jr., whose family emigrated to the U.S. from Romania, appealed to his head. Horga was, as Aguilera could tell before even seeing him, "cute"; the women in the audience were appreciative. The audience's reaction, Green suggested, may predict America's response, making Horga a strategic choice.
Aguilera added former model from Miami Lina Gaudenzi (her mom was one of the original models for Victoria's Secret), after Levine backed her over Shelton. "I would be very swayed by one of the iconic singers of our time … Christina Aguilera" Levine said, adding that Aguilera spotted Gaudenzi's promise first, turning early for her vibrato-y take on "Landslide," "and she should be rewarded for that, damn it."
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Aguilera also scored big with San Diego 15-year-old Timyra-Joi, whose "Girl on Fire" proved she was precisely that. Again, though both Shelton and Green also turned, Aguilera had Levine's backing. He noted that she was "way first … first by a mile" to push her button. Timyra-Joi said that she'd come in fully expecting to pick Green, but went with Aguilera because she'd fought hardest for her.
Adding still more star power to Aguilera's team is Briana Cuoco, whose sister is Kaley Cuoco of "The Big Bang Theory" fame, for whom she works as a personal assistant. Cuoco's "You and I" prompted button-pushes from both Aguilera and Green. But "girl power," as Briana put it, carried the day.
"You earned this by yourself by nothing more than your talent," Daly told Briana, who stood trembling next to her famous sister. "You should be so proud today, because today was your day."
Aw, see? Nice.
What did you think of Monday's auditions? Did any of the singers especially impress you?


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Cowgirls Fall Short to Aztecs 57-51
The Wyoming Cowgirls hung tough all game long, but didn't have enough to overcome the potent 1-2 punch of Courtney Clements and Chelsea Hopkins of San Diego State in a 57-51 loss Wednesday night at the Arena-Auditorium. The league-leading Aztecs took the lead for good with an 11-3 run at the start of the second half and held off any Cowgirl challenge. Clements and Hopkins combined for 41 of SDSU's 57 points.
San Diego State (20-5, 11-1) built an 8-point lead at the 14:32 mark and saw Wyoming make several pushes, but the Aztecs came through with key shots or key defensive stops. The Cowgirls pulled within two, at 48-46, on a pair of Chelan Landry free throws, but a Clements basket in the paint put them ahead 50-46 and the rally fell short. SDSU hit 7-of-8 free throws in the final 27 seconds to preserve their 11 straight victory.
Cowgirl head coach Joe Legerski said, "I asked the team tonight, let's make sure we give ourselves a chance in the last four minutes. I thought the effort they gave just makes you proud. How they went out to compete for 40 minutes."
Wyoming (19-6, 8-4) went over six minutes of the second half without a point down the stretch, but still held the Aztecs to only three points during the same time frame, which gave UW a chance.
Kaitlyn Mileto said, "What we talked about all game from the start was just being there, right there, every four minutes. The position we were in the last four minutes is really where we wanted to be, and we just came up a little short."
The Cowgirls were led by Chaundra Sewell, who had 21 points and 7 rebounds. Mileto was the only other player in double figures with 11 points. UW shot 19-54 (35.2%) from the field, 3-12 (25%) from deep and 10-13 (76.9%) at the line. The were out-rebounded 40-37 by the Aztecs.
San Diego State was led by Clements with 22 points, while Hopkins added 19 points and 11 rebounds. They went 20-55 (36.4%) on field goals, 4-11 (36.4%) from beyond the arc and 13-21 (61.9%) at the charity stripe.
The first half was a game of runs and droughts. The Cowgirls got off to a hot start, as they made their first five shots and jumped to an 11-2 lead. Then they went more than six minutes without scoring, and San Diego State took advantage and surged in front 19-16. The Aztecs had their own drought of seven-and-a-half minutes. UW capitalized with an 11-1 run that led to a 27-25 lead at halftime.
Sewell said of the early start, "I think we just came out with a lot of energy and pumped up. I don't think they changed anything defensively, but you can't shoot like we did the first four minutes for an entire 40 minutes."
Wyoming hits the road for their next game at UNLV Saturday afternoon. You can listen to Cowgirl basketball on KOWB. Coverage will begin after the conclusion of Laramie High School basketball on AM 1290 around 4 p.m.


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James Durbin Gets Married on New Year's Eve
Rocker James Durbin tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Heidi Lowe on New Year's Eve. The couple, who have a 2-year-old son named Hunter, wed at a chapel on the edge of the redwood forest near California's Santa Cruz Mountains.
"We are so in love and happy that we got to share our special day with our closest family and friends," the couple told People.com. "This wedding was the perfect way to kick off the New Year. We are looking forward to living happily ever after."
Durbin's little man Hunter served as the ring bearer, while wedding guests included some of the singer's fellow 'American Idol' contestants.
A surprise came when Queensryche singer Geoff Tate gave the reception a rock 'n' roll edge. The vocalist performed his band's 1984 tune 'Take Hold of the Flame,' an apparent favorite of Durbin's and his bride.
In November, the 22-year-old Durbin released his debut album 'Memories of a Beautiful Disaster.' Around that time, he stopped by the Loudwire offices to perform a few songs acoustically and talk about the disc. Check out Durbin singing 'Stand Up' and 'Right Behind You' here.
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Now was this an entirely good thing? I vacillate on the matter. During their heyday, I considered Hammerbox to be among the cream of the crop as far as local bands went. I played their self-titled debut on C/Z Records (1991) a ton on my home stereo toward the end of high school and start of college. I saw them several times in small clubs and theaters and enjoyed them every time. A&R reps were apparently as common as mosquitoes, and a major label snapped up Hammerbox almost immediately. But the band's sophomore album and major label debut, Numb (1993; A&M Records), let me down deeply upon first hearing it. At the time, it sounded polished to the point of blindness, and Akre's voice was mixed above everything else. I already knew the songs from live shows, where they sounded much more exciting. (In retrospect, I hadn't been fair. I've revisited Numb lately, and it's a much better record that I thought initially. The rest of the band—Harris Thurmond on guitar, James Atkins on bass, and Dave Bosch on drums—make the meatiest contributions to the record, but I still think Akre's yarling vocals get a little too much emphasis. But that's a discussion for another day.)
We're posting their first single: "Kept House"/"After All" (Big Flaming Ego Records). I'm not positive which year this was released but I suspect it preceded the debut by a year, so let's say 1990. It's a good single, and the band liked "Kept House" enough to put it on their debut. The B-side captures Hammerbox still learning their strengths but also falling into the same trap that ensnared many bands from that era. What was the trap, you ask? Funk. Yes, in 1990, too many of us thought that it was wise and fun to funk-ify our rock. Geez, what in the world were we thinking?
(It would be fun to write a Hall of Shame post that recounts the misguided forays by Northwest bands into funk.)
Revisiting the band, it's now much clearer which part of the grunge spectrum they occupied: somewhere between the genuine article (think Nirvana's "Sliver" single) and the stuff made by more commercial bands—that is, somewhere between grunge and "grunge." Thus, I can identify where A&M found potential, but I can also identify the limits of their mainstream appeal. A&M clearly lost interest in the band sometime between inking a deal and releasing a record, because Numb received no promotion.
Although the band attracted a pretty large local following—enough to merit a spot in Hype!—they didn't last long. After A&M dropped them in 1994, Hammerbox broke up. Carrie Akre has probably kept the highest profile of the former band members, but her follow-up project, Goodness, never interested me in the slightest, and we haven't followed any the members' subsequent projects, although the songs from Thurmond's myspace page, linked earlier, aren't bad at all. The band played a reunion gig at the EMP in 2004; YouTube clips are here and here, although I don't care for these particular songs.
Kept House
After All
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This new, regular feature on NHLNumbers will share interesting stats-related posts from around the web almost every day.
Welcome to your first post lockout links. In this space you will be able to find the best analytical hockey writing from around the internet on a close-to-daily basis. Subject matter will include statistical evaluation, financial analysis, contractual issues, and (sometimes) closely-related tangential works. If you have something you would like to submit for a future edition (your writing or that of someone else) feel free to send it to me via Twitter @JoshL1220 or leave a comment.
I've been tired of writing about the lockout for quite a while now. So, let's sit down and discuss the lockout some more. This time at least we can finally say goodbye to the lockout once and for all. Details are beginning to come out about the new agreement. TSN (giving credit to Aaron Ward, Darren Dreger, and Pierre LeBrun) has the details as we currently know them:
– The players' share of hockey-related revenue will drop from 57 percent to a 50-50 split for all 10 years.
– The league coming off their demand for a $60 million cap in Year 2, meeting the NHLPA's request to have it at $64.3 million – which was the upper limit from last year's cap. The salary floor in Year 2 will be $44 million.
– The upper limit on the salary cap in the first year is $60 million, but teams can spend up to $70.2 million (all pro-rated). The cap floor will be $44 million.
– The 10-year deal also has an opt-out clause that kicks in after eight years.
– Each team will be allowed two amnesty buyouts that can be used to terminate contracts after this season and next season. The buyouts will count against the players' overall share in revenues, but not the team's salary cap.
– The salary variance on contracts from year to year cannot vary more than 35 per cent and the final year cannot vary more than 50 per cent of the highest year.
– A player contract term limit for free agents will be seven years and eight years for a team signing its own player.
– The draft lottery selection process will change with all 14 teams fully eligible for the first overall pick. The weighting system for each team may remain, but four-spot move restriction will be eliminated.
– Supplemental discipline for players in on-ice incidents will go through NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan first, followed by an appeal process that would go through Bettman. For suspensions of six or more games, a neutral third party will decide if necessary.
– Revenue sharing among teams will spread to $200 million. Additionally, an NHLPA-initiated growth fund of $60 million is included.
– Teams can only walk away from a player in salary arbitration if the award is at least $3.5 million.
– The NHL had hoped to change opening of free agency to July 10, but the players stood firm and it remains July 1 in the new agreement. But with a later ending to the season, free agency for this summer will start at a later date.
The article goes on to chronicle the bargaining process since it began if you're a masochist and into that kind of thing. More reactions are after the jump.
* Katie Carrera of The Washington Post compiled the Twitter reactions to the end of the lockout of the Washington Capitals. Interesting note: Wojtech Wolski is a Capital. I wasn't aware. As Derek Zona pointed out, Mike Green's reaction is pretty funny.
* David Pollak of Mercury News has the reaction of San Jose Sharks players who "hope fans will return".
* Kevin Allen of USA Today has his winners and losers of the lockout. We're all winners today, Kevin.
* Rich Chere of The Star Ledger caught up with Lou Lamoriello. Lou's take on today:
"I just think it's a great day for hockey. Everything that transpired is in the past and what we have to do is work towards getting ready."
He followed that up by pleading complete ignorance about what comes next:
"I don't know what the schedule is. I don't have any information right now from the league on what exactly has transpired," he said. "I haven't seen anything.
It's like he thinks someone is going to come break his knees if he says anything. (They might.)
* Hockey Prospectus brought us some on ice things to read. Corey Pronman wrote about what the world would have been like if the NHLPA decertified and killed the draft. Matthew Coller took a deeper look at AHL goaltending during the lockout. Rob Vollman wrote an interesting piece about passes and identifying playmakers.
Hockey. It's coming.
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EEOC Office of Legal Counsel staff members wrote the following informal discussion letter in response to an inquiry from a member of the public. This letter is intended to provide an informal discussion of the noted issue and does not constitute an official opinion of the Commission.
ADA: Disability-Related Inquiries and Medical Examinations; Health Risk Assessment
March 6, 2009
Dear ____:
On August 7, 2008, you sent this office a letter asking whether ____County may require employees to participate in a health risk assessment as a condition for participating in its health insurance plan. In a letter dated January 6, 2009 from former Legal Counsel Reed Russell, we responded that although the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC" or "Commission") has not taken a formal position on this issue, this office believes the policy you described would violate provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") that require disability-related questions or medical examinations of employees to be job-related and consistent with business necessity. See 42 U.S.C. § 12112(d). Our response went on to describe the circumstances under which employers could offer employees inducements to participate in wellness programs without violating the ADA. We said that a wellness program would be considered voluntary and any disability-related inquiries or medical examinations conducted in connection with it would not violate the ADA, as long as the inducement to participate in the program did not exceed twenty percent of the cost of employee only or employee and dependent coverage under the plan, consistent with regulations promulgated pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA").
Because your letter did not raise the question of what level of inducement to participate in a wellness program would be permitted under the ADA, we are rescinding the portion of the January 6, 2009 letter that discusses this issue and have enclosed a revised version of that letter that answers only the specific question you asked. The Commission is continuing to examine what level, if any, of financial inducement to participate in a wellness program would be permissible under the ADA.
I hope this information is helpful to you.
Peggy R. Mastroianni
Associate Legal Counsel
ADA: Disability-Related Inquiries and Medical Examinations; Health Risk Assessment
March 6, 2009
This responds to your August 7, 2008 letter to the Office of Legal Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in which you pose the following question: "Does the requirement to participate in the [Clinical Health Risk Assessment (CHRA)] . . . to qualify for participation in the [____ County (County)] health plan constitute a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act?" Your letter states that the County has implemented the CHRA "as a requirement to obtain coverage under its self-funded plan." Employees must agree to participate in the CHRA, which includes answering a short health-related questionnaire, taking a blood pressure test, and providing blood for use in a blood panel screen. Employees declining to participate in the program and members of their families become ineligible for coverage under the County's health plan. Your letter also notes that information from the health risk assessment goes "directly and exclusively" to the employee; the County only receives information in the aggregate.
Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) limits when an employer may obtain medical information from applicants and employees. Before a job offer is made, the ADA prohibits all disability-related inquiries (i.e., questions likely to elicit information about a disability) and medical examinations, even if they are related to the job. After a conditional offer is made, an employer may ask disability-related questions and require medical examinations as long as it does so for all entering employees in the same job category. Once employment begins, an employer may make disability-related inquiries and require medical examinations only if they are job-related and consistent with business necessity. See 42 U.S.C. § 12112(d); 29 C.F.R. §§ 1630.13, 1630.14; EEOC Enforcement Guidance on Disability-Related Inquiries and Medical Examinations of Employees Under the ADA, 8 Fair Empl. Prac. Man. (BNA) 405:7701 ("Enforcement Guidance"). (This document is available on our website at http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/guidance-inquiries.html.)
Although the Commission has not taken a formal position on the question you have asked, requiring that all employees take a health risk assessment that includes disability-related inquiries and medical examinations as a prerequisite for obtaining health insurance coverage does not appear to be job-related and consistent with business necessity, and therefore would violate the ADA. A disability-related inquiry or medical examination of an employee may be job-related and consistent with business necessity when an employer "has a reasonable belief, based on objective evidence, that: (1) an employee's ability to perform essential job functions will be impaired by a medical condition; or (2) an employee will pose a direct threat due to a medical condition." Id. Q&A 5, at 405:7708. The Enforcement Guidance further notes that an employer may seek disability-related information or require a medical examination that follows up on a "request for reasonable accommodation when the disability or need for accommodation is not known or obvious," id. Q&A 7 & 10, at 405:7711, 7713; or where the examination or other monitoring is conducted under specific circumstances not applicable here (e.g., where periodic medical examinations are required of employees in positions affecting public safety). Id. Q&A 14-20, 405:7715-18.
Disability-related inquiries and medical examinations are also permitted as part of a voluntary wellness program. A wellness program is voluntary if employees are neither required to participate nor penalized for non-participation. Id. Q&A 22, at 405:7718-19. In this instance, however, an employee's decision not to participate in the health risk assessment results in the loss of the opportunity to obtain health coverage through the employer's plan. Thus, even if the health risk assessment could be considered part of a wellness program, the program would not be voluntary, because individuals who do not participate in the assessment are denied a benefit (i.e., penalized for non-participation) as compared to employees who participate in the assessment.
I hope this information is helpful. Please note that this letter is an informal discussion of the issues you raised and does not constitute an official opinion of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Peggy R. Mastroianni
Associate Legal Counsel
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I know, I know. We're all sick to death of the story of Elevator Guy (I refuse to call it ElevatorGate, come on people, that hasn't been funny since CrackerGate). That is to say we're so sick of it that we feel compelled to read every blog and watch every video we find on the topic and then pontificate on the subject at length in the comments section in the most smug, sarcastic and polarising manner possible. That goes for people on both sides, by the way, but more on that later.
So, I have decided it will probably save me time and effort in the long-run if I just put all of my thoughts on the main aspects of this drama into one post that I can refer people to later. It is impossible to address EVERY side event which has since happened so you'll have to forgive me if I pass over what you feel to be an important response.
The Elevator
Rebecca Watson was invited as a panelist to the World Atheist Convention in Dublin. During her talk she highlighted the under-representation of women at these events and discussed the experiences that she and other female participants have dealt with and which she feels is most responsible for the problem. Namely, that many of the men at these conferences appear to have some quite outdated notions about how to interact with women and are treating them PRIMARILY as potential conquests rather than equal contributors. To put it plainly, many of the women come to these events hoping for thought-provoking exchanges with like-minded individuals but leave them wondering if they had just accidentally stumbled into a singles bar during happy-hour.
Later on that evening Ms. Watson was in the hotel bar with several other attendees discussing this and other topics. At 4am she decided to call it a night, saying that she was exhausted and really needed to go to bed. She then left the bar and went into the elevator, a few moments later a man who had also just been in the bar got on also.
Note: I am not in any way accusing Elevator Guy (henceforth to be referred to as EG) of deliberately following her, for all I know when he heard her make mention of the late hour he could have thought to himself, "Wow, it is late. I might call it a night too." I don't wish to assign guilty motives where innocent ones can easily be inferred.
It was at this point that EG put his foot in it and said to Ms. Watson;
"Don't take this the wrong way, but I find you very interesting and I would like to talk more. Would you like to come to my hotel room for coffee?"
There are numerous reasons why this, while very polite, was a very thoughtless thing to do. They are as follows,
1: She made it perfectly clear that she was exhausted, don't tell someone you think they're interesting and immediately follow-up with proof that you weren't paying attention to a word they said.
2: She had just spent the day explaining that she finds advances at these events highly annoying. So doing something that can easily be construed as a come-on, such as inviting her back to your room at 4am, is a no-no. If your intent really was to just have an engaging conversation, then you should have simply said that you hope you can discuss it further tomorrow morning, she is exhausted after all (see point 1).
3: If you did have something else on your mind besides coffee, that's nothing to be ashamed of and it's not a crime. However, this was obviously not the time or the place, especially since you had not spoken so much as one word to her all evening prior to this. You had several hours to engage with her in conversation in a setting that was much more comfortable. If instead, you had spoken with her and others around her throughout the night and THEN asked her on the elevator if she wished to carry on the conversation, at least there would have been a conversation to carry on. As it was, however, the invitation came out of nowhere and immediately and understandably put her on the defensive.
4: It showed complete thoughtlessness in terms of how the other person would most likely perceive the situation. Lets assume for now that EG's motives WERE completely honest and innocent. Is there anyway, bar telepathy, that Ms. Watson could have been expected to know that? Or, is it more reasonable, given the setting, for her to consider the likelihood that "coffee" meant more than just coffee. Perhaps it seems unjust to you that EG had to suffer for other men's sins, but please consider the situation. Ms. Watson was, as she pointed out;
in an enclosed space,
with a man she didn't know,
in an unfamiliar location.
That is to say she was in the exact kind of situation every parent and police officer warns young women to avoid whenever possible. In such a situation would you not advise that it is in her best interest to err on the side of caution, politely decline and exit as soon as possible (i.e. do exactly what she did)? If not, why? Also, if you believe that it was unreasonable for her to be wary, can you please explain at what point a woman SHOULD become concerned in such a situation?
(Disclaimer: These are honest questions, attempts to use them to construct straw-man arguments will be summarily ignored.)
In defense of EG, I think he was guilty of social ineptitude and thoughtlessness, little else. If he had paused for a moment to consider how it looked from the other side my guess is he would have simply said goodnight and left any attempt to initiate a conversation until the morning. Given the fact that it was 4am and alcohol was involved it is somewhat understandable that he exercised poor judgement but that does not absolve him of his personal responsibility to consider the other person. He made a mistake and (hopefully) learned from it.
The Video
A few days later and Ms. Watson posts a video detailing her trip to Ireland and participation in the conference. Towards the end of the video she makes mention of the elevator incident as follows;
"I loved talking to you guys…all of you except for the one man who didn't really grasp, I think, what I was saying on the panel because at the bar later that night, actually at four in the morning, we were at the hotel bar…
4AM…I said, "You know I've had enough guys, I'm exhausted. I'm going to bed."
So I walk to the elevator and a man got on the elevator with me and said, 'Don't take this the wrong way, but I find you very interesting and I would like to talk more. Would you like to come to my hotel room for coffee?'
Just a word to the wise here guys, don't do that.
You know, I don't really know how else to explain how this makes me incredibly uncomfortable but I'll just sort of lay it out that I was a single woman in a foreign country at 4am in a hotel elevator with you, just you and don't invite me back to your hotel room right after I finish talking about how it creeps me out and makes me uncomfortable when men sexualise me in that manner.
So, yeah. But everybody else seemed to really get it and thank you for getting it."
I have already covered most of the points raised by this but I have to take issue with Rebecca on one small point here. When she says "…don't invite me back to your hotel room right after I finish talking about how it creeps me out and makes me uncomfortable when men sexualise me in that manner" she has, by default, inferred that EG was definitely sexualising her and leaves no room for more innocent motivations on his part. Unless you have absolute certainty about a situation it is best to avoid absolute statements of fact.
Within hours the video comments section was full of comments that completely ignored all context and launched straight into melodramatic hyperbole, such as
"How dare men sexual a woman?! That's just insane! Stupid bitches, it must be pretty terrible to always be a victim."
"The only sexism I see here is women assuming that a man who politely asks them up to his hotel room must, naturally, be a deranged rapist."
There were also similarly fallacious comments assuming EG's absolute, automatic guilt from the other side. These occurred much less frequently but that may have more to do with the fact that the video has since become swamped with trolls. (italics mine);
"…dude, it was 4am and he followed her into the elevator, but you conveniently disregarded that little slice of reality so you could impose your very own hateful reality."
"… here's the smoking gun: the dude never spoke to her, but as soon as she leaves he follows her, which smacks of predation…"
To such people I have a question. If you must gut out all of the context and details of someone else's position or assume things as true with little or no evidence before you can make an argument, what does that tell you?
Like I said, I think she was incorrect in stating that he had sexualised her but, given the details of that particular incident, she had every right to be wary. In fact, I don't think it is going too far to say that it would have been foolish of her NOT to be concerned, at least to some degree.
The Case Of The 'Privileged' Professor
So the flame wars were well and truly underway in the comments section and soon other bloggers were making mention of the topic and adding their particular take on the events described. When PZ Myers posted aPharyngula entry supportive of Watson's position it was soon responded to by Richard Dawkins in the comment section. The response went as follows;
"Dear Muslima
Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and . . . yawn . . . don't tell me yet again, I know you aren't allowed to drive a car, and you can't leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you'll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with.
Only this week I heard of one, she calls herself Skep"chick", and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course she said no, and of course he didn't lay a finger on her, but even so . . .
And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.
Many in the thread were unsure as to what, precisely, was the point he was attempting to make and if he was suggesting that because there are much worse things happening elsewhere western women shouldn't complain about less harmful things closer to home. He replied thusly;
"No I wasn't making that argument. Here's the argument I was making. The man in the elevator didn't physically touch her, didn't attempt to bar her way out of the elevator, didn't even use foul language at her. He spoke some words to her. Just words. She no doubt replied with words. That was that. Words. Only words, and apparently quite polite words at that.
If she felt his behaviour was creepy, that was her privilege, just as it was the Catholics' privilege to feel offended and hurt when PZ nailed the cracker. … She was probably offended to about the same extent as I am offended if a man gets into an elevator with me chewing gum. But he does me no physical damage and I simply grin and bear it until either I or he gets out of the elevator. It would be different if he physically attacked me.
… The equivalent would be if PZ had nailed not a cracker but a Catholic. Then they'd have had good reason to complain."
In a subsequent post, wherein Prof Myers confirmed that it was the actual Dawkins making these statements, Dawkins gave his (thus far) final opinion on the matter
"…But my point is that the 'slightly bad thing' suffered by Rebecca was not even slightly bad, it was zero bad. A man asked her back to his room for coffee. She said no. End of story.
But not everybody sees it as end of story. OK, let's ask why not? The main reason seems to be that an elevator is a confined space from which there is no escape. This point has been made again and again in this thread, and the other one.
No escape? I am now really puzzled. Here's how you escape from an elevator. You press any one of the buttons conveniently provided. The elevator will obligingly stop at a floor, the door will open and you will no longer be in a confined space but in a well-lit corridor in a crowded hotel in the centre of Dublin."
All in all, I have to say that Prof. Dawkins initially made the same mistake of completely erasing all context from the situation. If this conversation had taken place at 2PM in a large, crowded, public space then things would have been completely different. But that's not how it occurred and when I see people consistently avoiding context when making a counter-argument I can't help but suspect that they are aware that that is the case. Also, while the hotel may have been "crowded", at 4am I doubt its corridors were considering that the vast of its occupants were probably fast asleep in their rooms. So I'm sorry, but that argument is simply a non-starter.
As to the rest of his points I believe Prof. Myers addressed them better than I could so I will post his complete reply here. This post has been updated several times so make sure to scroll all the way to the end to make sure that you're not missing something that wasn't there if/when you originally saw the post. One thing I disagree with Prof Myers on, as I did with Ms. Watson, is the assumption of sexualisation on the part of EG. Other than that I agree with almost everything he says. The main points I want to emphasise are;
"However, the existence of greater crimes does not excuse lesser crimes, and no one has even tried to equate this incident to any of the horrors above. What these situations demand is an appropriate level of response: a man who beats a woman to death has clearly committed an immensely greater crime than a man who harasses a woman in an elevator; let us fit the punishment to the crime. Islamic injustice demands a worldwide campaign of condemnation of the excesses and inhumanity of that religion.
The elevator incident demands…a personal rejection and a woman nicely suggesting to the atheist community that they avoid doing that. And that is what it got."
"I'm taking one last stab at explaining this. Imagine that Richard Dawkins meets a particularly persistent fan who insists on standing uncomfortably close to him, and Richard asks him to stand back a little bit; when he continues, he says to the rest of the crowd that that is rather rude behavior, and could everyone give him a little breathing space? Which then leads to many members of the crowd loudly defending the rudeness by declaring that since the guy wasn't assaulting him, he should be allowed to keep doing that, and hey, how dare Richard Dawkins accuse everyone present of trying to mug him!
That's exactly analogous to Rebecca Watson's situation. She did not make these hysterical accusations everyone is claiming, she did not compare herself to the oppressed women of the third world, she did not demonize the clumsy sap in the elevator — she asked for some simple common courtesy, and for that she gets pilloried.
Sorry, people, but that sends a very clear signal to women that calm requests for respect will be met with jeers by a significant subset of the atheist community, and that's not right."
The Boycott
If Ms. Watson chooses to boycott Prof. Dawkins that is her decision but I will not be following her example. I personally do not feel that disagreement on this one issue is sufficient to warrant a complete boycott of anything and everything Dawkins, this is purely a matter of subjective opinion and everyone is free to decide based on their own feelings on the matter.
Watson Vs. McGraw
While I disagree with Ms. McGraws opinion on the substance of her argument and agree with Ms Watson for the most part, I cannot agree with the manner in which Ms. Watson 'called out' Ms. McGraw over a dissenting blog. She did so at the beginning of a talk in which she was scheduled to speak on the Religious Rights effects on feminist issues, not that of the atheist community. If she had wanted to mention this issue she could easily have worked it in during the question and answers session afterwards. This left Ms. McGraw in a position where she then had to sit through a one hour talk before she even had the option of offering a rebuttal, poor form in my opinion.
I feel that it is much better manners to continue exchanges in the appropriate forum, namely that in which it was initiated and where both parties have equal ability to respond to the other. It may not have been Ms. Watson's intent to come across as petty and somewhat spiteful in this instance, but remember, it may not have been EG's intent to come across as creepy either. Ms. Watson was just as responsible for the perception created by her choice of timing as was EG.
In Conclusion
It is an unfortunate truth in our society that sexual assaults and rape are still relatively common, with some estimates stating that 1 in 4 women will be victim of a rape or attempted rape.
(For anyone thinking of making the point that this means 3 out of 4 women are unduly paranoid, don't. That's not how it works and you know it. There is no way of knowing which side of the line you'll end up on until after the fact, the best you can do is exercise due caution. Consider how much convincing you would need to play a one man game of Russian Roulette? There's a 5 out of 6 chance that your brains WON'T end up on the ceiling, right?)
Finally, The people at these events are grown men, predominantly aged 30-60, who should know better by now. Sorry guys, but boys will be boys simply doesn't cut it. It is not a woman's role to constantly monitor your behaviour and to be blunt, you need to grow the hell up and take some personal responsibility. I have just as much testosterone in my veins as any other man, not all of us (or even, I hope, most of us) use it as an excuse. It is the responsibility of everyone, man or woman, to consider the perspective of the person they are dealing with and if necessary adapt their behaviour to suit the given situation.
For those of you who still, after all this, consider Ms. Watson's initial unease in the elevator to be completely unjustifiable, here's some reading material that you should familiarise yourself with before making proclamations that women are simply over-reacting.
Advice to women to reduce instances of sexual assault (see anything familiar?):
Peer-reviewed literature regarding Victim blaming and the prevalence of Rape Myth Acceptance (can you guess which gender is by far most likely to perpetuate false stereotypes regarding rape?)
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Yes live your life worrying about other peoples irrational fears and dont talk to anyone.
The fact is she handled the situation end of story. To bring up that the guy was creepy was her saying she didnt like the situation this one time. In a different mood with a different guy this may have been her happily ever after story. It didnt mean that they guy did something wrong and its a projection of a possible crime that never happened to demonize the guy. For every woman that is offered coffee in such a manner and turns in down there will be 10 more that would accept it.
Her being tired is a stupid argument since there are plenty of times when a person says im feeling tired as a way to leave a social situation for a different social situation. Im sure every man can give at least one and maybe more accounts of women who were "tired" and then ended up engaging them in conversation and possibly more well after.
Bringing sexual assault into the situation is hyperbole. Half of assaults are by family or long time acquaintance. Stranger danger is as unlikely for rape as it is for kidnapping or murder. Just because people have an irrational fear doesn't mean we need to buy into it.
Also keep in mind its a blogger. The situation may be over dramatized and or complete fantasy on her part. Never believe a writer they live to make things that are dull and mundane into the interesting by any means possible.
Keep in mind when i say it was trivial im not being impolite or an ass though.
I just believe that we attach special hatred and fear towards sexual assault and therefore give it alot of weight.
If she had been speaking about robbery among atheists all day and then said this inferring that she was in danger of robbery because the guy asked her for coffee, i think alot would have laughed it off as trivial. Statistically its nearly twice as likely that she would have been robbed, however the attitude by the readers would have supported dawkins comments not condemned them.
You must admit the anecdotes use was a bit of a stretch to use an underscore of misogyny that she had spoken about all day as well.
The example i can think of is its like spending all day speaking on catholic sexual assault of children and then using a story about how a nun in the park said hi to your children playing ball and then walked away, to underscore the horrors of it. A bit of stretch in both cases and really just detracts from whatever you had to say.
Oh we are in agreement there.
Jiminy Cricket. Don't tell us that if we don't agree with Ms. Watson and her supporters we need to read about rape stats. I know enough women, and a few men, who have been raped, molested, etc. I have narrowly escaped a couple of scary situations myself, and I mean really scary, not "a man told me I was interesting and invited me for coffee!!!" scary. And a close friend of mine was raped and murdered when we were teenagers. I most definitely am NOT under-sensitive to the issue of rape. But this was not about rape. Not at all. It was about a man telling a woman he found her "interesting" and politely asking her for coffee at a very late hour. Would it have been okay for a man to get onto the elevator with her and not speak? Would it have been okay for him to speak if only he had not invited her for coffee? Would it all have been okay if he had done and said what he did at 1 am instead of 4 am? Should no man have gotten into the elevator with her at all? Should no man EVER get into an elevator with any lone female or is that only to be the rule after a certain time of night? Or does this only apply to people of some modicum of celebrity status? Would it have been okay if the sexes were reversed or if it was 2 women or 2 men? What if the woman was a lesbian? Would it be okay if the lesbian told Ms. Watson she found her "interesting" and invited her back for coffee? And so on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
If we are indeed to be hypersensitive to everyone's personal fears, whether we know those people or not, whether we know their fears or not, should no black person board an elevator if there is a racist white person in the elevator lest that racist fear he or she is about to be attacked? Should no bald man get on an elevator with a Jew in case that Jewish person fears the bald person is a "skinhead"?
It is fine and dandy that Ms. Watson has her boundaries and that she expresses them. It is not fine that everyone is now expected to apply her personal boundaries to themselves and everyone around them. I am an atheist, a femininist, and a woman, and I have been to numerous atheist and skeptic conferences. If a fellow attendee wishes to say hello to me in an elevator, I promise I won't accuse you of being a prospective rapist. And I also wish to say that if human beings didn't "sexualize" each other... the human race would die out rather quickly. We are not solely cerebral beings, thank goodness!
I have gotten yummy yummy candy from a lady before after she used the 'I'm tired' line. So I agree , that is a stupid argument! It is most definitely possible and people will say things all the time but mean something else.
Great post though , I read all of it and was on the edge of my bed the entire time!


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The Daily Caller has a report about a letter purporting to be sent by a family member of George Zimmerman-the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin-to the head of the Seminole County NAACP, Turner Clayton.
The letter rips the NAACP for the way that Zimmerman has been convicted in the public mind, and says that the entire Zimmerman family has gone into hiding out of fear for their safety.
Here's a sample:
If something happens to George as a result of the race furor stirred up by this mischaracterization of George there will be blood on your hands as well as the rest of the racists that have rushed to judgment. You need to call off the dogs. Period. Publicly and swiftly.
But the most interesting part of the letter letter includes a brief story of how Zimmerman did activist work on behalf of a black homeless man who was beaten by the son of a Sanford, Florida police officer-work he did alongside the NAACP.
You will recall the incident of the beating of the black homeless man Sherman Ware on December 4, 2010 by the son of a Sanford police officer. The beating sparked outrage in the community but there were very few that stepped up to do anything about it. I would presume the inaction was because of the fact that he was homeless not because he was black. Do you know the individual who stepped up when no one else in the black community would? Do you know who spent tireless hours putting flyers on the cars of persons parked in the churches of the black community? Do you know who waited for the church-goers to get out of church so that he could hand them flyers in an attempt to organize the black community against this horrible miscarriage of justice? Do you know who helped organize the City Hall meeting on January 8, 2011 at Sanford City Hall?? That person was GEORGE ZIMMERMAN. Ironic, isn't it?
The Daily Caller has posted the full letter online.
Clayton has been in the news for disagreeing with some other civil-rights activists who have called for stepped up civil-disobedience, or economic "sanctions" against local businesses in Sanford Florida.
We called the NAACP for comment or confirmation about the letter's claims, but haven't heard back yet. We'll let you know what they say.
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Lancashire police have issued shocking CCTV footage of two alpacas being attacked.
The incident happened at about 10.15pm on August 4th when two men went into the grounds of Danesmoor Nursing Home on Helmshore Road in Haslingden and threw a large wooden bench and two plastic garden chairs at the two Alpacas, named Bill and Ben, in the grounds.
The offenders also entered the animals' enclosure and chased the Alpacas around with one of the broken legs from the chairs.
Fortunately Bill and Ben, who are brothers and have lived at the home for about 5 years since they were babies, weren't seriously hurt.
They have both been checked by a vet and given a clean bill of health.
Community Beat Manager PC Claire Scott said: "This unprovoked and mindless attack on two defenceless animals is a disgrace to say the least and we will do all we can to identify these men.
This unprovoked and mindless attack on two defenceless animals is a disgrace to say the least and we will do all we can to identify these men
"Bill and Ben are there for the elderly residents to enjoy and this sort of behaviour is simply intolerable. It beggars belief that anyone would find this amusing.
"If you know anything at all about this or recognise the men in the CCTV then please contact us."
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AiG's Creation Museum is being challenged once again by the secularists, this time in the renowned magazine Scientific American.
Both the Creation Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of History have impressive exhibits, but if you look closer, you'll find an eternal difference.
Our Creation Museum will be welcoming naturalists from Kentucky state parks, reports Louisville's Courier-Journal.
Because of the enormous financial and personnel costs associated in building this unique facility, many of our core ministries have been restricted—but there is a solution.
AiG has received a tremondous outpouring of support for the Creation Museum from scientists and teachers alike.
As AiG began to design the Creation Museum, the leadership team made many adjustments and changes. One of the biggest was the museum's size and, therefore, its cost.
AiG's Creation Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio unveiled its newest exhibit last week—a 4,500 square foot, two-story Dinosaur Den.
AiG, through the wonderful support of God's people, has been able to build a museum with outstanding exhibits—"world-class" displays, as some visitors have described them—using cutting-edge technology
Although these two sample articles were written by the same journalist, they both reveal how easy it is to "slant" the very same information in two very different ways.
Two guests stood out last Friday; the couple, prior missionaries in Vietnam, wanted to spend their 50th wedding anniversary at our new museum.
We recognize that even during this joyous, celebratory time, there will likely be attacks on the museum project . . . and the AiG ministry in general.
Answers in Genesis has raised the necessary $27 million in donations to cover the costs associated with the design and construction of its new Creation Museum and its displays.
The following pictures are just a sampling of the amazing fossils that you will find at the museum. They provide testimony to the undeniable evidence of a global Flood.
Imagine being responsible for the content in what is sure to be the most scrutinized museum on the planet. That is my job.
"The very idea that $25 Million will be spent on a Creationist Museum is absurd in and of itself, but even more so considering the number of actual living human beings in dire need of help..."
What happened to our culture when God and His Word were systematically removed and outlawed from the public forum?
How do you communicate the gospel to a culture that no longer believes the Bible because they have been taught that it is full of error?
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With under three-quarters of a year to go until its grand opening, progress on the Creation Museum continues to accelerate.
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Tuesday's takeaways
It was a big night for the GOP establishment Tuesday, as Thom Tillis won the Republican Senate nomination in North Carolina, clearing the 40 percent threshold to avoid a runoff.
The speaker of the state House now has six months to train his fire on vulnerable Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan. The result secures the Tar Heel State's status as a top GOP pickup opportunity this fall.
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Here are our five takeaways from Tuesday night:
The establishment will be emboldened to play in more upcoming primaries.
Coming at the start of a string of primaries, the victory will only intensify Republicans' confidence that they can win the six seats necessary to seize the majority.
Outside groups spent more than $10 million boosting Tillis and bloodying Hagan through the primary. American Crossroads alone spent $1.6 million backing him over the final month, the first big test of its promises to stop the party from nominating more Todd Akins. Crossroads even seeded money to other outside groups, like Grow NC Strong, to run radio ads promoting Tillis' conservative stands on social issues.
( Also on POLITICO: Rand Paul endorses Thom Tillis)
If Tillis had been forced into a July 15 runoff, he almost certainly would have won the nomination. But there would have been hand-wringing in Washington about whether groups like Crossroads and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce should have done more — or less. Tea party forces might have felt inspired to pour money into the state, and there would have been days of stories about the GOP's continuing primary problem.
Instead, there was not just jubilation but chatter about where the big outside groups can play next.
The Chamber is already spending in Mississippi to help Sen. Thad Cochran win his primary. He's currently the only GOP Senate incumbent who looks like he might lose this cycle. Just today, it also booked fresh time in Idaho to help Rep. Mike Simpson beat his primary challenger. And there's talk the the business lobby could spend more to help Rep. Jack Kingston win the crowded Georgia Senate primary.
Tillis was by far the most viable candidate in a general, so Democrats invested big to try and bring him down and force him into a runoff. Senate Majority PAC spent $2.4 million blasting Tillis — including a spate of negative ads over ethics in the closing weeks — and $1.4 million boosting Hagan through the primary.
( Also on POLITICO: Thom Tillis beats tea party challenge in North Carolina)
But GOP groups won out Tuesday night.
"We engaged early and worked closely with other center-right groups to help Tillis overcome a late dirty-tricks campaign orchestrated by Hagan and national Democrats," American Crossroads President and CEO Steven Law said in a statement. "It was clear from the start that Thom Tillis is the only proven conservative who can defeat Kay Hagan and take on President Obama's liberal agenda."
The electability pitch works.
The North Carolina results are a strong indication that the GOP rank and file is undergoing a shift from prioritizing purity to prizing victory. Just like D.C. strategists, voters watched Akin and Richard Mourdock blow it in 2012 and didn't want a repeat this year.
Tillis had the backing of blue-chip surrogates like Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, and he rounded up endorsements from the National Rifle Association and the National Right to Life. The candidate and groups supporting him argued repeatedly that he was the one candidate who could beat Hagan.
"They fear Tillis the most," says a poster in his Charlotte-area campaign office, with pictures of President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Hagan.
Tillis won with less than a majority, so some caution is warranted in interpreting the returns. We also don't have exit polls to give us a breakdown of who voted for Tillis and why.
But reports from the ground suggest that the electability argument resonated.


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The average wholesale heating oil price jumped nine cents from the previous week to $2.60 per gallon on October 29, 2007 (see the table at the end of this report). The graph below shows the spread in Nebraska prices from month to month and from this year compared to last year. This week's average price was 70 cents (or 37 percent) higher than the price at this time last year.
Other states in the Midwest Region had comparable prices ranging from $2.54 to $2.72 per gallon resulting in a regional average of $2.61. States near in proximity to Nebraska, such as Iowa, North Dakota, and Minnesota, had prices of $2.56, $2.65, and $2.72, respectively. The average prices for the states of Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin were not available this week.
For the week ending October 26, the Midwest distillate inventory level was above the normal range for this time of year at 2.4 million barrels.
Notes: The annual report for the 2006-2007 winter season is available. An archive houses annual reports from previous years.
Heating Season
The Oil Price Information Service collects wholesale heating oil prices each week for Nebraska and twelve (12) other states in the Midwest Region during the heating season (October to March). The Energy Information Administration, the independent statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy, uses the prices collected by the Oil Price Information Service to calculate a state average price, a regional average price, and a national average price which can be seen in the report Wholesale Heating Oil Prices by Region and State.
Off Season
Prices are not collected during the off season (April through September).
Midwest Region
For statistical purposes, the Energy Information Administration defines the Midwest region to include the states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.


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Return to the Sea: An interview with Motoi Yamamoto
Despite our best efforts, memories eventually fade away. For centuries, people have created memorials sites, and used objects and images to honor and preserve the remembrance of those that have passed. These sites are often designed to document existence, while inevitably underscoring absence. For over a decade now, Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto has been engaging with his memories through the physical act of creation. Building[…..]