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Officials knew they had a problem late last month when carpenter ants turned up in the Soldotna Sports Center.
"There were out and about -- nice big fat ones," said Paul Beebe, building supervisor. "We found them in the center of the rink. We noticed them out front. Then we found one spot where it seemed like a mess, where they were all going in and out."
When city officials hired an exterminator to spray, ants, eggs and larvae tumbled out of the wall. Spraying seems to have killed the nest, Beebe said. Left unchecked, though, carpenter ants can be expensive.
"Given time, they can make your house fall down around your ears," said Everett Walton of American Pest Control in Anchorage. "We have a home here in Anchorage that has about $35,000 in carpenter ant damage."
Given what spruce bark beetles are doing to local forests, some observers expect an increase in carpenter ants.
"There will be a lot more," said Boyd Shaffer, a professor of biology and art at Kenai Peninsula College in Soldotna. "They go into dead wood not to eat it but to make channels for brooding chambers. The beetle kill has made so many dead trees for them."
Ken Perry, administrative manager for Paratex Pied Piper Pest Control, agreed.
"I think we're going to see more activity due to the tremendous numbers of trees being cut down because of the beetles," he said. "So many people cut the tree and leave the stump in the ground. That stump is prime habitat for carpenter ants."
Corlene Rose, integrated pest management specialist for the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Alaska in Anchorage, said she often takes calls from people who have felled beetle-killed trees previously infested by ants.
"The ants may migrate or try to forage indoors," she said.
Janice Chumley, integrated pest management technician for the Extension Service in Soldotna, said she has been getting six or 10 calls about carpenter ants each day. Those come mainly from Homer, Kenai and Soldotna rather than from Seward and Hope, she said.
Shaffer said carpenter ants are among the biggest in North America. Workers may reach three-quarters of an inch in length. Queens may be an inch long.
"I know of no other ant in Alaska that looks anything like the carpenter ant," he said. "There's nothing that big."
A carpenter ant also is distinguished from other species by the smooth curve to the top of its thorax and by the single petiole -- like a tiny bead when seen from above -- connecting its thorax to its abdomen. Other species have two petioles or have a lumpy curve to the top of the thorax.
Carpenter ants normally excavate nests in damp, rotting wood, such as stumps and fallen logs. However, they also nest in live trees or house timbers, particularly those that are damp and contact the soil.
The also will dig nests in foam insulation, behind bathroom tiles, around tubs, sinks and dishwashers, under roofing, in attic beams, under floors and in doors or walls. Carpenter ants may forage up to 300 yards for insects, sweets and other foods.
Just finding them indoors does not mean they are nesting in the house. However, piles of sawdust and clicking noises from the walls are ominous signs.
Rose said carpenter ant complaints begin in April, when warm weather stirs dormant nests in people's walls.
"When the sun hits, they forage for food. That's when people start finding them in their houses," she said.
Later in spring, winged queens and drones take flight to mate. Then, the fertilized queens found new colonies. Large numbers of winged ants indoors are a sure sign of an indoor nest, according to information from the University of Minnesota Extension Service.
"In midsummer, when populations have gotten quite large, people see more, because the colonies have multiplied and branch to form satellite colonies," Rose said.
Whether carpenter ants are increasing locally is a matter of debate.
"There are definitely a whole lot more carpenter ants around than normal," said Steve Bonebrake, public works director for the city of Soldotna.
Bonebrake said he has seen more ants around city buildings and more during walks in the woods. Chumley said she has received many more ant calls this year than last.
However, Neither Walton nor Perry have noticed any increase in the number of ant-extermination requests.
"I'm also talking about my experience in Anchorage, not the Kenai Peninsula," Walton said. "Just a few degrees or miles can change everything."
Shaffer said he has taken just 15 ant calls this year, as opposed to more than 30 last year. This year is not so bad compared with an ant explosion 35 or 40 years ago, he said.
"I never saw anything like that," he said. "They (flying ants) clogged radiators. They'd be on trees, even live trees. You could smash hundreds with your hand."
Rose said recent warm weather may have made carpenter ants more active and, therefore, more noticeable.
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My stories are about characters. I'm unlikely to wow you with my amazingly complex plots. I'm not going to bowl you over with my astounding command of language. And aside from a general theme of "Don't be a jerk", you probably aren't going to walk away from an A. Lee Martinez novel with a profound new insight into the workings of the universe.
But hopefully, if I've done my job right, you find characters you can empathize with. Or at least enjoyed spending some time with.
It's an uphill battle sometimes. Space squids and raccoon gods are the stuff of ridiculous fantasy. I'll admit that. And we, as humans, do empathize best with human characters. My stories tend to be outlandish and absurd, and it's easy to mistake them as lampoons, spoofs, or just a silly little bit of fun.
I'll admit that more and more I find sit harder to take such assessment with a quiet smile. It's never easy to have one's work dismissed as fluffy cotton candy. Especially since I feel like my work has more weight than that. I think, as character studies, you could do a lot worse than my stable of redneck vampire, soldier ogres, and cosmic eating monsters. I'd put my characters up against any other writer's anyday, and I think they're a likable, well-rounded bunch.
Perhaps that's what bothers me the most. I care about these folks. I care about them as people. I care about their struggles, their happiness, their pain, their mistakes. And I think my protagonists have weight, regardless of whatever weird thing they might be. I can certainly live with folks disagreeing, but I sometimes wonder if it's because I've failed as a writer or if it's simply just too much to expect. I'm not calling myself a visionary (nor do I believe in such grandiose titles), but I am the guy who writes about weird creatures and expects them to be taken seriously.
I'm probably wrong to think so. Or maybe I'm not as good a writer as I hope.
My goal in every story is to create characters that are relatable. Emperor Mollusk might be an eight pound squid from Neptune, but he's also a guy just trying to make his way in this world. Mack Megaton might be an indestructible robot, but he's also a being on the quest for purpose we all undertake. And Quetzalcoatl might be a down-on-his-luck god, but he's also trying to turn that luck around while struggling with his own past failings. The Witch with the Unspoken Name faces questions of love, family, and insurmountable limitations. And Vom the Hungering is all about the desire to contain our own baser desires and bad habits. His desires and habits just happen to involve eating everything.
Funnily enough, the struggles these characters go are usually handled with grace and wit. I tend not to write sad sacks who sit around complaining about their lot in life. Even Monster, who is by far my most unpleasant and unhappy character, doesn't spend a lot of time bemoaning his fate. Too bad because he's the guy who could really use some self-examination. But Monster's too busy living his life to bother with that.
And, really, that's what I write about. Life. Living. And looking at my books, they might have exploding universes, monster gods, and robot fights, but they are, at their heart, stories about getting by and the small triumphs and tragedies that shape ourselves. Yes, I'm suggesting that, despite it all, my stories are subtle explorations of the human condition through the eyes of weird creatures, aliens, and undead. Many will no doubt disagree, but you can't please everyone.
I'd like to think out there though is someone who found something worthwhile in the struggles of an ex-supervillain from Neptune or the quiet optimism of a kobold housekeeper. Maybe they won't be remembered forever as great literary characters, but that doesn't mean they're empty souls. I know they matter to someone. Even if that someone is only me.
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LPGA Futures Tour golfer Megan Heckeroth helps me with my golf game (part one)
Megan Heckeroth is a girl after my own heart. Her hot, red Mustang convertible carts around her bag of Cleveland golf clubs. I have a 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible but can't fit my huge Burton bag (filled with Titleist clubs) into the trunk because the subwoofer takes up most of my space.
She says that although she's a bit "chicken" (I doubt that Megs) she's gotten the car up to about 120 mph once, but only for a second ;-)…okay Megan…me too, but only for a sec..wink, wink!. Both of us share similar taste in music on our ipods from Green Day to Eric Clapton. But most interestingly, Megan and I are part of the new media revolution, allowing us to share our thoughts with the public via blogging, cell phone downloads and podcasting (in my case).
But that is where the similarity ends. Megan is a fully exempt member of the Futures Tour, the developmental tour for the LPGA, and I write about the tours and it's players. What a privilege it was when I recently asked Megan a few questions (I had about a thousand but didn't want to keep her awake all night answering them) about her practice habits and game strategies.
I have recently been having confidence problems around the green because I don't practice much although I have a very solid putting stroke. Megan's response was honest and to the point.
"If you shoot a million you should honestly say that you put 100% into each and every shot. If you think that you are a good putter then you have to learn to let go and let your subconscious take over. Sometimes when you loose confidence and start playing bad you actually try too hard. So my advice is to stick with the same routine for every shot and just let whatever happens, happen and be satisfied with that. The biggest thing that I have learned about this game is that you can never perfect it."
I have been to Megan's website on several occasions, mostly to post to her blog, check out her Futures Tour schedule and to compare her very fluid and confident swing to mine. And yes, I will post my latest swing as soon as I get out to the driving range.
I noticed that her mental coach, Dr. Joseph Parent, has not only helped Vijay Singh with his mental game, "he's (Dr. Parent) given me very effective methods for working with thoughts and emotions, and for taking the negatives out of the picture", but has also written the wildly successful book "Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game". Wow, I hit the jackpot! With Dr. Parent as one of Megan's "guides" I just knew I could get responses that could help both myself and our audience, so I asked Megan about how she keeps her focus during a tournament.
"My very favorite thing that I always do in between every shot is look down at my feet and focus on each step that they make. I feel the ground under my feet and take slow deep breaths at the same time. Just completely focusing on the walk to my next shot. This Doctor Parent method really works for me because it keeps me in the present and you actually forget what's going on around you."
So many questions, so little blog space. Part two touches on both Megan's course management and practice strategies, the distance she hits her golf clubs (I wanted to get a comparison) and how often she upgrades her Clevelands. To be continued…and thanks, Meg, for the birthday wishes!
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it took off 3-4 strokes from my avg round (mid 80s to low 80s).
His putting and bunker videos in megan's cswing section also helped me stop squeezing my putter and blading the ball out of the bunker.
I hear he is coming out with a new book next year called zen putting...that should definetely help me get in the low 70s...
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Andrew Noticed that his X server started dying when he tried to run mozilla, and while my X server doesn't die when I run gimp on some photos all hell breaks loose on the display. I blew something up, probably related to my MMX copying code. I should be able to track it down and have it fixed today, but if you haven't updated your kernells I recommend waiting a bit. -Matt


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A truck delivering a commercial explosive overturned north of Nashville, causing state troopers to close Interstate 65 in both directions for most of the day.
The interstate reopened around 6 p.m. eastern time.
Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeremy Heidt said the load of ammonium nitrate spilled when the truck rolled onto its top.
There was no indication of injury.
Heidt said the area was sealed off because if diesel fuel from the truck were to leak and mix with the load, there would be the potential for fire, although there would be no explosion because the blasting agent wasn't confined.
The incident occurred near the White House interchange, about 12 miles south of the Tennessee-Kentucky state line.
Traffic was diverted onto US 31-W around the crash site.
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"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular." —Tony Robbins
By Elizabeth Stincelli, DM
What's Important?
With so many priorities fighting for our attention, how do we know where to direct our leadership focus? While many situations require temporary focus, there are some areas that warrant consistent focus. You must focus on your people and your vision for your organization. You must also focus on yourself and your personal mission. As a leader, how do you know if you're focusing on the right things? How would you answer the following questions?
Are you leading with you head and your heart?
Are you contributing to the personal and professional growth of your employees?
Are you including others in your leadership?
Are you encouraging your employees to challenge the status quo?
What do you want your legacy to be?
How will you impact the world?
Do you know what your goals are?
Can you see the route for achieving them?
Are you developing and maintaining a strong character?
Once you can see where you need to focus you will be less distracted by day-to-day busy work. You will experience less stress and frustration. You and your employees will be able to maintain a better work/life balance. Focus keeps you from drifting off course. It allows you to keep a finger on the pulse of your organization and your life. Make the commitment to focus on what's important.
Your people
Sabrina Bryan explained, "You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support." Sabrina Bryan's quote is a two-way street. As a leader, you need passion, drive, focus, and the support of your people to succeed. Your people also need you to inspire passion and drive, they need you to guide their focus, and they need your support. Only when your people receive what they need from you will they give you what you need in return. Focusing on your people is an investment in mutual success.
Get out on the floor and really connect with your people. Engage them in participating in leading the organization and developing solutions to real problems. Encourage the creativity and collaboration that builds strong teams that can work together to achieve mutually beneficial goals. Celebrate accomplishments. Align the individual goals of employees with organizational goals. Focus on making sure every employee knows how their decisions and actions contribute to achieving organizational goals and give them the skills and tools necessary to be successful.
Venus Williams said, "I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest." It is easy to get distracted from what's important by the chaos that surrounds us. Concentrate on goals that guide you toward making a positive impact on the world. Develop a plan; when you have a plan to focus on you can respond rather than react to situations as they arise. Focus on pushing yourself to think and act differently and to seek opportunities where others see only obstacles. Always consider the "what ifs?" to ensure that your focus doesn't become an excuse to put on blinders.
Focusing on yourself is not about what you do, it's about the type of person you want to be. To be that person you must be authentic and consistent in both your professional and personal life. Remember to always keep a picture in the back of your mind of the impact you want to make. Knowing where to keep your focus will help prevent you from straying off course.
Leadership Focus
Denis Waitley suggested, "Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer." As a leader, develop a plan; know which direction you are going and what your objectives are. Then, focus on supporting and developing your employees and developing goals that will have a lasting impact. Focus will help you remember why you're doing what you're doing and will keep you heading in the right direction. Minimize distractions and maximize your leadership focus.
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Oh. My. Gosh.
This is mind blowing.
Prepare for a series of questions :]
What language is the writing in, and what does it mean?
The other question I had in mind now seems irrelevent.
Seriously awesome.
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lol funny thing was i was first starting so metalurgically i had no idea what i was doing. o_O the knives i make now are typically made from 5160 spring steel (truck leaf springs) while this is a really difficult steel to work with it is a great steel that provides an awesome combination of superior edge holding capabilities and flexibility. if i took one of my recent knives and put it edge on edge with this one and then hit it repeatedly with a hammer on the spine i could easily cut my first... (more »)
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Wow, cut the old with the new? That's pretty amazing.
I love how technically eloquent you are about the knives.
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Army Pvt. Malcom-Jefrey C. Barril, a 2008 graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School, has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies, Army history, core values and traditions, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, map reading and land navigation, foot marches, armed and unarmed combat, and field maneuvers and tactics.
He is the son of Maria-Nove Barril, of Juneau.
Army Pvt. Christopher L. Wetherell, a 2009 graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises.
He is the son of Louanne Wetherell, of Sitka, and Roger Wetherell, of Juneau.
On Sept. 14, Christina Capacci-Daniel, a 1999 graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School and 2003 graduate of Seattle University, successfully defended her doctorate in chemistry, titled "Crystal Growth of Polymorphic Bis-Diphenyl Ureas on Self-Assembled Monolayer Templates," from Georgetown University. She is now employed as a senior scientist at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass.
The AMA Foundation recently awarded the Arthur N. Wilson MD Scholarship to Juneau's E. Sophie Spencer, who attends the University of Washington School of Medicine. Spencer received a $5,000, which is awarded to a medical student who graduated from a high school in Southeast Alaska. After completing her residency, she plans to return to Alaska to work with a Native corporation or Indian Health Services. As an intern, Spencer provided health care to Cambodian children and landmine victims.
This program recognizes the important role that rural physicians play in their communities. The scholarship was made possible by a bequest from Arthur N. Wilson, a physician who was an integral part of his community in Ketchikan, and his family.
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Mission Trail Baptist Hospital opens its doors
Mission Trail Baptist greets business on time, under budget.
Updated 8:47 pm, Monday, June 27, 2011
Mission Trail Baptist Hospital opened its doors right on schedule Monday morning, completing a massive move from the now-shuttered Southeast Baptist Hospital in just 11 days and under budget.
The hospital's relocation to its gleaming $100 million digs at Brooks City-Base went off without a hitch — save for the swipe cards that wouldn't allow some staff access to certain restricted areas.
"Just little operational nightmares that drive you crazy," said Landon Lawson, the Baptist Health System official who shepherded the hospital's move. But the glitch quickly was fixed.
The 110-bed, 220,000-square-foot hospital admitted its first emergency-room patient one minute after its 7 a.m. opening and delivered its first baby — a boy — at 9:51 a.m.
Dominic Ibarra, weighing 8 pounds, 5 ounces, helped christen the hospital with his birth. He's the grandson of a hospital employee.
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"We never moved a hospital before, so we really didn't know what to expect," Graham Reeve, Baptist Health System's president and CEO, said during a dedication ceremony. "Ignorance is bliss in our case."
Southeast Baptist Hospital had been a Southeast Side institution for 40 years, and hospital officials wanted to keep it around, but issues with ceiling heights and asbestos scrubbed any ideas of renovating.
The three-story Mission Trail Baptist Hospital includes all-private rooms, an upgrade over Southeast's semi-private rooms. Mission Trail has room to expand to six floors and 300 beds. It currently employs 567 people.
Southeast officially shut down at noon June 16. The hospital started to ramp down operations June 10, so there were only seven inpatients who needed to be transported to other area Baptist hospitals the day before closing.
Planning for the move started 20 months ago and included more than 100 people — not counting the movers. But officials didn't have a manual to offer some direction.
"Believe me, I Googled as much as I could to find it," Lawson said.
In addition, the hospital needed nine local and federal agencies to sign off on various parts of the facility before it could open.
Some 4,500 pieces of equipment made the move from Southeast to Mission Trail. That included a 4,000-pound CT scanner, a specialized X-ray machine that took a day to move and eight days to set up. Movers had to place metal plates underneath the scanner during the move so its weight wouldn't damage the hospitals' floors. (A second CT scanner, faster and emitting less radiation, is slated to arrive this fall.)
Also making the move was a catheterization laboratory. Its diagnostic-imaging equipment got a digital upgrade as part of the move. Technicians were working out the final kinks Monday morning.
Besides the equipment from Southeast, nearly 6,000 pieces of new medical equipment were bought for Mission Trail.
Baptist budgeted $550,000 for the move, which came in at less than half that, $213,000, Lawson said. Asked to explain the disparity, he answered, "We were able to negotiate. I'm an attorney, so that's one of my hobbies."
Mission Trail has applied for silver LEED certification. If granted, it would be the first San Antonio hospital to achieve such certification, officials said.
Baptist expects to save nearly a million gallons of water a year using low-flow water fixtures, and the building is about 16 percent more energy-efficient than a similar building.
"We are a green hospital," Mission Trail President Andrew Harris said.
It's also high-tech. Smartphone users can point their device at any of about 20 QR codes — short for Quick Response codes — throughout the hospital to help them get to where they need to go.
Meanwhile, Southeast's fate isn't certain right now. Baptist has put it up for sale.


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You probably do all that you can to make sure the exterior of your home looks well-maintained and attractive. However, a badly cracked window can make all your hard work go, well, out the window. Broken windows can make other-wise perfectly good homes look abandoned and uncared for. Shards of broken glass can make the area a safety hazard; and a boarded up, empty window can make your heating and air conditioning costs go sky-high.
If you're smart (and I know you are) you want to get that cracked window fixed – and fast. How? With the help of a trained professional, of course. The first step in this task is figuring out how much you want to spend. You can learn all about that in this guide to how to price a cracked window repair.
Broken windows can make other-wise perfectly good homes look abandoned and uncared for.
1.What's your budget?
Figure out how much you want to pay for the job. Of course, this isn't as simple as naming a random number, and thinking your contractor will honor it. You have to be smart about it, do some research. Call up a few different professionals. Explain to them what your problem is and what kind of window you need fixed. Ask them to quote you prices. Go online and research the kind of window you have and the kind of crack you have. You may find a lot of information - things like the kind and cost of materials, the average cost of labor - that will help you determine how much you should be paying.
2.Who is doing the work?
You might think you can save money by having your hairstylists'-best friends' brother-in-law come over and fix the window for you, but you could end up paying dearly in the long run. That's because it really is best to have a trained professional do any kind of work on your home. Pros are usually insured and bonded against any mishaps that could happen while they are on the job. Also, they're more likely to do a good job that will not only look professional, but last the test of time. You can find a reliable professional by asking friends or neighbors who have experienced a similar issue who they used to fix it. If the company was good, they should have no problem passing along their number to you.
3.A simple equation
There is a simple rule of thumb you should remember to help you know about how much a contracted job will cost you. Simply take the amount of time a job will take to complete and multiply that by the hourly rate. Try to remember this when getting quotes from pros you are considering hiring. That's the beauty of getting more than one quote – if a number seems too high or too low, you'll know why.
At first, the idea of pricing the cost to repair a cracked window might sound frustrating or even a little boring – but it doesn't have to be either. Windows that are clean and in good shape add to your home's property value. And in these tough economic times, there is no such thing as being too careful of every nickel and dime. Spend your money wisely by staying in the know!


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Russell Simmons Joins the Calls to Boycott Lowe's
Entertainment mogul Russell Simmons has stepped into the controversy about home improvement chain Lowe's withdrawing its ads from TLC's reality TV show All-American Muslim due to pressure from a right-wing Christian group, the Florida Family Association (FFA). Simmons has bought up all the ad space that Lowe's gave up. New York Magazine quotes his announcement on Twitter that "The show is now sold out!" and "keep your money @lowes and we will keep ours."
Lowe's has protested that it has "a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion," a statement quite contradicted by its pulling its ads from All-American Muslim, which follows the lives of five Lebanese families in Dearborn, Michigan. Others including actress Mia Farrow have joined Simmons and strongly criticized Lowe's for its anti-Muslim stance and calls for a boycott have arisen.
California State Senator Accuses Lowe's of Religious Discrimination
California state senator Ted Lieu sent a strongly-worded letter to Lowe's CEO Robert A. Niblock on Saturday, saying that the decision to withdraw the ads was "bigoted, shameful, and un-American" and also "profoundly ignorant."
"Lowe's religious discrimination is the equivalent of a company asserting that it is pulling advertising from the Christian Broadcast Network's 700 Club because the program somehow 'riskily hides' the agenda of Christian radicalized groups such as Aryan Nation. That assertion would, of course, be utter nonsense and religious bigotry."
Lowe's should apologize and reinstate the ads and also carry out "outreach to the community about bias and bigotry." If not, says Lieu, the company could face a boycott and even legislative action for discrimination against Muslims, in possible violation of California laws. ThinkProgress also quotes from the responses of other politicians including State Senator Rashida Tlaib, who is the first Muslim elected to the Michigan legislature and who wrote a letter to Niblock, expressing deep disappointment with Lowe's in effect giving "credibility to these hate groups."
Lieu has said that he expects to make a decision about calling for a boycott of Lowe's on Wednesday or Thursday. The hardware chain has issued a statement that attempt to be conciliatory, but rather suggests that Lowe's, having found itself in the proverbial hot seat for withdrawing the ads, is trying to say, hey, we just sell home improvement supplies, why is everyone getting all political on us?
From Lowe's statement:
"Individuals and groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and this program became a lightning rod for many of those views. As a result we did pull our advertising on this program. We believe it is best to respectfully defer to communities, individuals and groups to discuss and consider such issues of importance."
Suehaila Amen's family is featured on All-American Muslim; she notes that Lowe's has "succumb[ed] to bigots and people trying to perpetuate their negative views on an entire community."
As Lieu points out,
"The show is about what it's like to be a Muslim in America, and it touches on the discrimination they sometimes face. And that kind of discrimination is exactly what's happening here with Lowe's."
Yes indeed. Lowe's response to the demands of FFA clearly shows why there is a huge need for a show such as All-American Muslim.
A full list of the 65 companies that have withdrawn ads from All-American Muslim due to FFA's pressure is posted at the website of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
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