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Darren McFadden didn't try and hide his disappointment.
"I can't even lie, it's been hard for me this week because I've been thinking about it," McFadden said Wednesday. "That's something you just have to try and shake it off, come back from it in the next game. It's all about having a short memory."
The fumbling was a recurrence of an old college problem. One of the few knocks on McFadden when he came out of Arkansas as one of the most decorated backs in Southeastern Conference history was his 23 fumbles, nine of which were lost.
When McFadden was drafted, former Raiders coach Lane Kiffin said more than half of the fumbles where when he was either returning kickoffs or playing quarterback in the Wildcat, taking violent shots as opposed to straight handoffs in traffic.
In the 23-3 loss to Denver, McFadden fumbled three times on routine running plays _ including one at the 6-yard line which was recovered by Brian Dawkins that essentially closed the door on any chance the Raiders had of making things interesting. He's fumbled seven times as an NFL player.
"That's what it mainly is, falling back into a bad habit. If you don't think about it much, just going out there running, it doesn't have to be a big hit," McFadden said. "It's just as simple as guy knocking it when they're tackling you and the ball just comes out."
Through 18 games, McFadden's professional career has been one long fuse that went off once in Week 2 last year but has mostly fizzled out. Aside from his 164-yard game against the Chiefs last season, McFadden has broken 100 yards in combined rushing and receiving only once _ getting 46 yards rushing and 68 receiving last season against New England.
In either area he hasn't approached what the Raiders hoped for when he was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2008 draft. As a runner, McFadden has struggled to turn the downhill zone-blocked runs into steady gains and the Raiders seem more intent on going that way than attacking the perimeter.
"it's just the type of offense that we run," McFadden said. "You have to go for it and keep hitting, you get 2 or 3 yards here and there and finally the big one will come so you just have to keep hitting and keep pounding it until you get that open space."
It hasn't helped that opponents are crowding the line of scrimmage to choke off the run in hopes of forcing Russell to pass, although McFadden thinks the yards should come anyway.
"It's very frustrating but I feel I've played against a lot of eight-man boxes throughout my career, college, Little League, high school ,whatever it was," McFadden said. "It's just something you have to keep pushing, try to shake it off and come back out the next week and try to do it better, a better job."
Good news could be on the way in the form of a Houston defense ranked 32nd against the run (204.7 yards per game).
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Napoli and Roma lead the way in Serie A thanks to respective wins over Milan and Lazio on Sunday, while Inter hit seven goals.
Napoli travelled to San Siro on the back of a confidence-boosting 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday, but they showed no signs of a continental hangover by leaving Milan with all three points.
Miguel Britos put Napoli ahead in the sixth minute, with Gonzalo Higuain adding the second after the break.
Mario Balotelli failed to score a penalty for the first time in his professional career as Pepe Reina denied him, and although the Italian did get a goal in spectacular style late on, Rafael Benitez's side held on to the win.
The defeat was compounded for Milan after the final whistle when Balotelli was shown a red card, with his dismissal appearing to be for dissent.
One of Italy's most famous fixtures also took place on Sunday as Roma and Lazio contested the Rome derby at Stadio Olimpico.
Rudi Garcia's side had begun the season in impressive form with three wins from three, and although the score was level at the break, they were well on their way to three points in the second half when
Federico Balzaretti volleyed them into the lead after excellent play by Francesco Totti on the byline.
Lazio's cause was not helped by Andre Dias being shown a straight red card eight minutes from time. Adem Ljajic compounded Lazio's misery by converting a penalty in stoppage time, moving them on to a maximum 12 points.
Inter's resurgence following a torrid campaign last year continued against Sassuolo, as they ran riot against the promoted side to win 7-0 away from home.
Rodrigo Palacio broke the deadlock early on with his third goal of the season before Spahir Taider and a Raffaele Pucino own goal ensured a 3-0 lead at the break.
Ricky Alvarez added a fourth before his Argentinian compatriots Esteban Cambiasso and Diego Milito completed the rout, with the latter scoring twice on his return from injury.
Reigning champions Juventus got back to winning ways following a week which included draws against Inter and Copenhagen. Hellas Verona were their victims in Turin, although the visitors opened the scoring as Fabrizio Cacciatore tapped in from close range.
A brilliant finish across goal from Carlos Tevez followed by a Fernando Llorente header on his home
debut did enough to claim the three points for Antonio Conte's side as they won 2-1, but it could have been far more comfortable.
Fiorentina remained in the top three thanks to a 2-0 win at Atalanta, the hosts' third defeat of the season.
Meanwhile, Torino made a significant move up the table thanks to a 2-1 triumph at Bologna, while Parma and Catania remain in the bottom three after their 0-0 draw.

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History is written by winners. When a conflict ends and a truce is signed, the aims and philosophies of the vanquished — their justifications for fighting, whether they instigated the war or were simply defending themselves against an aggressor — the aims of the vanquished devolve into irrelevancies at the moment of capitulation. This is hardly an argument, however, that might makes right; anyone with even a tenuous grasp of history knows that might and right usually have little to do with one another. Instead, the old saying about history and winners is simply an acknowledgement of an ancient, if somewhat barbaric, understanding between warring nations: to the victor go the spoils, and nothing is more valuable than control of the conflict's narrative.
Photography, meanwhile, possesses a unique and disquieting power to distill that complex narrative — to beat the written word to the punch. The pictures in this gallery, made by LIFE's Alfred Eisenstaedt in Japan in February 1946, offer a prime example of that disquieting power. The 1945 defeat of the Imperial Japanese Army, and by extension of Emperor Hirohito and the country's 2,000-year-old tradition of empire, unleashed in Japan a frenzy of national soul-searching and a desperate need for explication that, in some respects, continues today. After all, by the time it was embroiled in World War II, Japan had been one of the world's great powers for centuries. Its economy was vibrant, its military was feared, its culture and traditions were (largely) respected by people around the world. But when Japan committed to its ultimately suicidal policy of aggression and annexation in the 1930s, the country's always simmering ultra-nationalism and its toxic notions of racial superiority had imbued its leaders and most of its people with a false sense of invincibility.
In the eyes of countless Japanese, the Empire of the Sun could never be conquered. Defeat was literally unthinkable.
Here, on the anniversary of Hirohito's death (he died Jan. 7, 1989), LIFE.com presents these Eisenstaedt pictures as a window into a world where the unthinkable had not only become reality, but had turned the universe inside out. Hirohito — a divine being to millions of his subjects — had been transformed by defeat into a beaten (if still outwardly dignified) man.
Not a god. Not the latest manifestation in the seemingly unbroken line of deified Japanese emperors. Just a man.
The world over which Hirohito ruled in 1946 was, as these pictures attest, a realm comprised largely of ruins. The ceremonial aspects of Hirohito's power — specifically, the multitudes bowing to him as he passes by — might remain unaffected by the cataclysm that his military adventurism brought down on his people, but the landscape of collapse and humiliation that surrounds him in these photos suggests another kind of loss, on an irreversible scale. Japan would, of course, rebound in the following decades, forging the second-largest economy in the world (behind the U.S.) by the time of Hirohito's death. But the Japanese empire was gone; the myth of Japanese superiority — racial, military, cultural — was exploded; and the emperor was shown to be blatantly, disastrously fallible.
That Hirohito was not tried for war crimes — as so many members of his military were — remains one of the most questionable decisions made by the Allies, and specifically by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, after the war. Hirohito was, by most accounts, fully engaged in the military decisions and the culture of domination that sparked the murderous invasion of China in the 1930s and spawned the savagery that defined the acts of so many Japanese troops throughout the Second World War.
In the end, Eisenstaedt's pictures from February 1946 remain invaluable reminders of war's toll not because they celebrate the destruction of an enemy, but because they illustrate the cost of defeat. We don't have to feel sorry for Hirohito; no one is less-deserving of our pity. But all these years later, perhaps we can at least consider, dispassionately, what these photographs really show us. Namely, a man and a nation undone by the oldest and most human of sins: simple, unbridled hubris.


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THOMPSON — It all began with a simple and brief conversation earlier this year. Julia Ford was talking with her father, Ryan, lamenting the fact that Marianapolis was losing a host of good female basketball players to graduation when her father made an observation.
"He said to me that maybe Rachel Aho could come and play (at Marianapolis). I told him that she wouldn't come here," Ford remembered.
Aho, a 6-foot-2-inch post player, was going to be a junior at Wachuset Regional High School in Massachusetts. Ford had played with Aho on the New England Crusaders, an AAU team based in the Boston area.
The way Ford looked at it was that female high school basketball players, unlike their male counterparts, don't transfer schools simply to play basketball.
"It wasn't common. I didn't think anybody would think of doing that," Julia Ford said.
This past Sunday, not only was Aho on the Marianapolis gym floor sporting a Marianapolis warm-up jersey, but so were fellow Crusader teammates junior Caroline Soucy, post-grad Nicole Viselli — who recently committed to Post University — and sophomore Madison Springfield — already being recruited by a host of Division I schools — along with their coach, Lauren Moore. Together, they comprise the inaugural Marianapolis varsity I girls program, which will play against Class A opponents in the New England Prep School Athletic Council.
"This is a first, a first for NEPSAC. We're the pioneers," former Marianapolis girls varsity head coach Charlie Baron, now the school's athletic advisor, said.
Julia Ford gets the credit for putting the ball in motion. The 5-foot-7 junior guard told her AAU teammates of her love for the Thompson prep school and Moore decided last year to come down and check it out.
Moore played college hoops at Bentley University, where she found her love for coaching. After graduation, she took on a role as graduate assistant at Southern New Hampshire University for a year before being hired by the University of New Hampshire as the full-time Director of Basketball Operations. The administrative side was nice, but she missed the court and took on an assistant's role with the program the following year. Unfortunately, the head coach was "released" following that season and so was the entire staff. Moore moved on to the University of New Haven as an assistant for two years, before the New Hampshire native got a little homesick. She moved back to Boston and took over as Director of Operations for the Crusaders, a position she still holds, watching over 15 teams and 150 athletes.
"There was a position open for assistant athletic director and that's what my master's is in, sports administration, so this all came together and fit perfectly," Moore said.
Very successful
Marianapolis had been very successful in the Southeastern New England Prep School Council and Class C, so much so, "that it almost didn't make sense to continue along that path," Moore said.
But there was a model for the girls to follow.
The Marianapolis boys program has successfully fielded a Varsity I program which competes at the AA level in NEPSAC, as well as a Class C, SENE-level program. The idea was broached over the summer to the Marianapolis Board of Trustees and was approved this fall.
"We used to have squads of 15-18 kids. Now we're carrying squads of 11, to give more kids a chance to play was the reason we went to the 11 and the three teams (Marianapolis also sponsors a JV team)," Baron said. "It becomes a scheduling nightmare. You have to find 20-plus games in both brackets plus gym time. That's given us some challenges."
Six teams on one gym floor, plus intramurals for the school population, is not easy to schedule.
Something that was much easier than Julia Ford thought it would be was getting the players. Aho said the decision was easy. She wanted to become a better basketball player and getting the opportunity to work with Moore on a daily basis on campus seemed to be the right direction.
"It's a beautiful school, a great education at the same time. You couldn't beat it," Aho said.
It was a difficult decision to leave friends she had known "since kindergarten" in Massachusetts, her family and a new baby niece to play for the Knights.
"Coming here with my AAU teammates, it wasn't that hard, because we already all knew each other," Aho said. "We're already a family."
Some adjustments
Some local players have had to make adjustments as well. Jill Bodreau was a catalyst for the Knights last year, helping them to a Class C championship. Now, the Thompson native, along with Brooklyn's Liz Sisko, will have to adjust to a higher level of basketball.
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We are a new high quality dog and cat only animal hospital located in the Ottawa, Canada region. We are looking for a logo that will be used on letterhead, uniforms, products, and that will accompany the clinic name.
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We are looking for a logo that is memorable, clean, and non-static. We specialize only in dogs and cats, promote the bond between pets and their owners, and emphasize high quality care and compassion. We are looking for an over-arching logo whose elements can be used in other related businesses: canine rehabilitation, mobile practice. We want to emphasize warmth and caring, not sterile, clinical.We would like to see playful, fun elements, but not silly. Owners looking at the logo should feel they are visiting a professional establishment that is as inviting as their own home.
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PHOTOS - a slideshow of old photographs from the Mount Street Club Farm
As Ireland experiences yet another unemployment crisis, is it time to take a fresh look at the responses to unemployment in earlier eras?
One of the most innovative was a 1930s initiative by a small group of Dublin businessmen and professionals, the Mount Street Club.
A new book, currently being researched (for publication later this year), will tell the intriguing story of the club and of those who passed through it. The author is seeking out oral histories, archives or memorabilia - letters, diaries, photos – which might add to the book.
The Club was jokingly named in the style of the gentlemen's clubs on nearby St Stephen's Green, and was aimed at alleviating the hardship of unemployment by providing occupation and basic sustenance for unemployed men.
Famously, there was "nothing for nothing at the Mount Street Club." Its founders loathed the idea of "charity" and sought to create the circumstances where these men could rejuvenate themselves and keep themselves motivated. According to the club's philosophy, the men were members, not beneficiaries, and they elected representatives to help run the club.
PHOTOS - a slideshow of old photographs from the Mount Street Club Farm
At the club, they engaged in various jobs for which they were paid in an alternative currency, tallies; these could be exchanged for the produce of members' work and for club facilities (meals; a shower; vegetables from the club's allotments and farm, photographed; perhaps a new pair of handmade boots).
The club's heyday was during the war years. Later, improved social welfare and opportunities for emigrants led to a gradual decline in demand. The club venue and farm closed in the early 1970s; today, the Mount Street Club Trust funds various initiatives in the area of unemployment.
The trustees have now commissioned a book on the club's history. Dublin journalist Colin Murphy is one of a number of historians and writers contributing to it; he hopes to write an oral history of the club, based on interviews with surviving members and on the children of members from the earlier decades.
"There are people now in their seventies who grew up in the tenements of inner city Dublin in the 1930s and 40s, whose fathers were members," he says. "I've spoken to some already, but am keen to speak to more. It's extraordinary to think how close this history is - it's the Dublin of Sean O'Casey's great plays, with families of 11 living in one room at the top of an old Georgian pile on Mount Street - and yet there are people alive and strong who grew up in this world and remember it vividly. The Mount Street Club was one modest but vital institution in the lives of some of these people. I'm intrigued to learn more about what the families who were supported by it thought of it."
Murphy and the Mount Street Club Trust archivist, Sarah Perrem, may be contacted at email@example.com or at Mount Street Club Trust, C/o 1, Monaloe Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin.
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OAKLAND — The city's bid to restore a "working waterfront" took a big leap forward Friday as construction officially began on a $500 million project to transform much of the long-shuttered Oakland Army Base into a logistics and warehousing center.
Although it lacks the glitz of a new ballpark or convention center, the decidedly blue-collar plan for the former base is seen as a cornerstone project for the city. The Oakland Global Trade and Logistics Center is expected to help the adjacent Port of Oakland become more competitive, reduce truck pollution throughout the city and generate several thousand jobs, replacing many of those lost in the 1999 base closure.
"I believe that jobs prevent violence and prevent crime, and that is a critical part of this project," Mayor Jean Quan said during a festive groundbreaking ceremony that also was attended by Gov. Jerry Brown and Rep. Barbara Lee.
The groundbreaking culminates more than a decade of discussions over what to do with the 366-acre base that was divided between the city and Port of Oakland. The city had entertained plans for a movie studio, Indian casino and convention center before settling on the more industrial vision offered by the development team of ProLogis and Phil Tagami, who heads Oakland-based California Capital & Investment Group.
The project that now is underway on Oakland's share of the former base includes 1 million square feet of new warehouses that is expected to reduce the need for truck trips from the port to storage facilities scattered throughout the region. It also includes infrastructure improvements, two recycling centers and a new a facility that will allow the port to better handle cargo that can't be transported in shipping containers.
The project is expected to take nearly five years to complete. Funding is coming primarily from a state grant and the developers, along with two federal grants and $54 million from the city. The Port of Oakland is chipping in nearly $16 million, primarily for a new rail yard on its property.
The port still is seeking funding for a $700 million complimentary project on its share of the Army Base land that would pay for additional storage facilities, road improvements and improved rail access to shipping terminals.
When the port eventually develops its share of the base, the entire Army Base redevelopment is forecast to generate $2.9 million a year in local tax revenue.
The Army Base was one of Oakland's biggest employers, and community advocates fought to secure hiring preferences for Oakland residents for many of the new jobs generated by the project.
Overall, job estimates have tumbled since the City Council approved the project last year. Initially, the developers forecast the project directly generating 2,810 construction jobs and 2,032 permanent jobs. But as it became clear that the construction work would not be as labor intensive as initially anticipated, the figures dropped to 1,523 construction jobs and 1,832 permanent jobs.
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After cutting his list of potential colleges to three finalists, St. Frances small forward Dwayne Morgan has spent the past two weeks deciding between Maryland, Georgetown and Nevada-Las Vegas.
On Wednesday, Morgan made his decision in front of an assortment of family, friends and classmates in a makeshift press room at St. Frances. One of the top recruits in the Class of 2014, he announced his intention to play for coach Dave Rice and the Runnin' Rebels.
"When I went on my visit, I felt like I was at home. The coaching staff really made an effort to recruit me," Morgan said. "Their playing style fits me, and I just felt comfortable there."
Morgan, who is rated No. 13 overall in the Class of 2014 by Rivals.com and No. 29 overall by ESPN, cited UNLV's coaching staff as the primary reason he committed to the Rebels. He said the coaches made him a priority, attending all of his summer league games and treating him as though he was "their guy."
And if his mind wasn't already made up, Morgan was likely convinced by the raucous crowd he saw at the Thomas & Mack Center during his official visit to campus last month.
"The fans there are crazy," Morgan said. "They treated me like I was from there. I didn't feel like I was away from Baltimore."
He won't feel like he's that far from home when he finally gets to Las Vegas, either.
Rebels assistant coach Heath Schroyer graduated from DeMatha, and he has used his local ties to help create a pipeline to UNLV, recruiting Daquan Cook, a St. Frances graduate, and Connecticut transfer Roscoe Smith, a Baltimore native and former Walbrook star.
Morgan and Cook played together in Amateur Athletic Union basketball for Bmore's Finest.
"That played a small part in my recruitment," Morgan said. "But I realize that by the time I get to UNLV, Daquan will be a junior and Roscoe will be a senior. I'm pretty much going to have one or two years at the most playing with them guys."
When he arrives on campus in 2014, Morgan will join a team budding with young talent. The Mountain West runners-up, who earned a No. 5 seed in this year's NCAA tournament before losing to California, had nine players average more than nine minutes per game this season, and five of them were freshmen or sophomores.
The Rebels also have a strong group of 2013 recruits coming in next season. Rivals.com ranks their class No. 22 in the nation.
Morgan chose UNLV over Maryland and Georgetown, both of which made strong runs at the athletic wing. Terps coach Mark Turgeon targeted Morgan from the beginning of his recruiting process, and the Hoyas made a late push for the St. Frances star.
When Morgan made his announcement, though, he had hats from UNLV and Georgetown sitting on the table in front of him. There was no Terps hat in sight.
"I really wanted to go out and do something different for once," Morgan said. "It's a lot of pressure put on a hometown kid to go to a hometown school. But this is a decision that I have to live with for the rest of my life, so I picked the school that I felt I'd be most successful at."
Morgan is the Rebels' first commitment in the Class of 2014.
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Barack Obama's distant cousin Henry Healy has landed a new role as a television star – promoting Ireland as a tourist destination.
Moneygall native Healy and local Church of Ireland rector Stephen Neill have been signed up by Irish tourist authorities ahead of the President's visit.
The two locals are credited as the men responsible for President Obama's historic visit to his ancestral homeland next Monday.
Now they will promote more visits to Irish shores as the faces of a new Tourism Ireland campaign abroad.
Healy, a distant cousin of President Obama, expressed his delight at the campaign and his part in it.
"I feel it is my civic duty to promote Ireland abroad and to boost tourism," said Healy as the likes of CNN, ABC, BBC, Reuters, the Boston Globe and Time arrived in Moneygall.
President Obama's advanced security team also landed in Moneygall on Monday, accompanied by staff from Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs.
Currently the focus of media attention ahead of Obama's arrival in the small Midlands town, both Healy and Neill have described their selection for the ad campaign as an 'honor' and a 'privilege'.
"We haven't got the fine details yet but they want us for an ongoing tourism campaign," Canon Neill told the Irish Independent.
"This is about more than Moneygall. Tourism is one of the possible areas that we can grow our country. There's a product there waiting to be developed."
Critical of the absence of tourist chiefs in Moneygall ahead of the visit, Canon Neill urged the government to take action before Monday's arrival of the Presidential entourage.
"President Obama's visit is a huge opportunity for Ireland," added the Church of Ireland rector.
We still have time - it's one week until the president comes; the queen of England is here now so there is every possibility that we can make both of these visits a huge success and showcase Ireland to the world.
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For the time being, $95,291 dollars represents minimum wage for members of the California Assembly and the State Senate.
The independent commission that sets salary levels for the legislature and constitutional offices decided that their current wages are low enough for the time being. In fact, not a single one of the commission's six members opposed the motion to maintain salary levels. An earlier motion to cut pay by five percent didn't get a second. The decision came as leaders in several Califorina cities demand wage concessions from their employees as the price for saving jobs.
There are several factors behind the commission's vote. For starters, legislators already make 18 percent less than they did last year when their salaries reached slightly more than $116,000. Commission members say they want to see the details of next year's state budget before they trim salaries again. Given the status of the budget, that would seem to give the commission plenty of time.
Beyond that, Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell warned that lowering the pay of elected officials any further might affect the quality of candidates willing to run for the state legislature.
There is a path to higher wages for California legislators. Leadership positions in both the Assembly and the Senate pay $109,584. And constitional office holders make up to $173,987. Those salaries will remain unchanged as well.


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The Abington Police Department made three drunk driving arrests over the long weekend, including one driver who crashed his car into a Plymouth Street home.
ABINGTON – While residents across the state celebrated over Memorial Day Weekend, Abington Police charged three individuals with drunk driving.
Luis Castro, 36, of 60 Dunbar St., Apt. 1, was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, marked lanes violation, operating a motor vehicle as to endanger the public, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, wanton destruction of property over $250 and using a motor vehicle without authority.
Police responded to 292 Plymouth St., at about 10:30 p.m., on Saturday when Castro's vehicle crashed into the front porch of the residence.
It appeared as if the vehicle just drove off the road with no skid marks leading to the accident scene, said police.
On Wednesday, the aftermath of the crash could still be seen as a number of the porch's floorboards had been dislodged by the accident and the columns holding the porch's roof tilted to the right or were knocked over.
"We had just gone to bed, and we heard like an explosion," said Nadine Hill, who lives at the residence with her husband Donald.
Hill added that the accident caused foundation issues to the property and that the entire porch had been pushed to the left by the crash.
"We feel blessed that nobody died because it would have happened," Hill said. "Homes can be repaired, a life can never be taken back."
Later in the evening, police made a pair of arrests while operating a sobriety checkpoint with the State Police on Route 18, Bedford Street, late Saturday night into early Sunday morning.
Officers from the Abington Police Department stopped all northbound traffic while state troopers stopped all of the southbound traffic.
Shannon Kelly, 23, of 545 West Water St., Rockland, and Jamie Baker, 30, of 16 Sagamore Terrace, Hull, were stopped by Abington Police at the checkpoint and charged with operating under the influence of alcohol.
The State Police also made several drunk driving arrests at the roadblock.
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Since the doors opened at 10:30am this morning, Record Store Day 2013, at each of the three Amoeba Music stores it's been hectic and hella busy. Above and below are some photos from Amoeba Berkeley in the early afternoon today a few hours after opening. Also below is a video clip of E-Lit at the Berkeley Amoeba store talking about some of the most popular Record Store Day items. And if you have still not made it out to Amoeba for Record Store Day 2013 - there is still lots of time (and goodies) left. More Record Store Day at Amoeba Music info here.
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Established in 2010, this excellent Shoreditch venue quickly cemented itself as one of the most on-point clubbing spaces and gig venues in London, thanks to a booking selection that ignored genre and simply focused on quality. Scores of London's hippest punters and party-lovers flock to XOYO every weekend to hear the latest DJs, producers (and – on weekdays – bands and singer-songwriters) do their thing over the club's two floors.
XOYO has run a regular residency series since 2014, asking top DJs (Eats Everything, Jackmaster, The 2 Bears, Simian Mobile Disco) to curate the club's Saturday night programme for three-month slots. The series proved extremely successful and 2016 brings yet more awesome selectors to whip up the crowds. There seems to be no stopping XOYO, and that's a fine thing indeed.
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One of the best nights out in London!
Huge upgrades to the sound system and lighting over the years have made Xoyo probably the best night for me in London!
I always go on a Monday and Tuesday for their student nights, sometimes even on the weekends to see the big DJs play! Have so much fun with my friends there, great drinks prices, friendly staff and cool music!
Have been to 2 of Benji's residency shows and they were both great, can't wait for the Bicep residency to start..want to go to loads of them!
Great club! Really good vibe and everyones friendly. The Martin Audio system is insane in the basement and makes the music and atmosphere of the whole club!
Attended a lot of the Eats Everything & Jackmaster nights over the past few months and every one of them was wicked. The fact they can bring in really big name DJ's such as Disclosure, Tale Of Us, Joy Orbison and Kenny Dope to such an intimate venue is great. All of the staff at the club are really accomodating and there are never really any queues in the club unlike some venues around London. Gotta mention that the lighting is always on point too!
Looking forward to heading to more nights there during the Simian Mobile Disco residency!
I have been to a number of nights at XOYO during the Jackmaster residency series and every time have been blown away and itching to come back. Each time on arrival, Ive been greeted by friendly and welcoming door staff and reasonable queues. The drink prices and selection are good and the queues for the bar/cloak room/toilets are never too big. The main room in the basement has an excellent sound system and always an electric atmosphere, there is always a good crowd at XOYO who are there for the music and the party! Can't wait to get back to XOYO for the next residency series with Simian Mobile Disco!
highly recommended
I went to XOYO back in Feb to see Simian Mobile Disco and Joakim. Had an amazing night. Really good atmosphere, good sound... Definitely going back soon! A must!
can't beat the dj line ups at xoyo but the crowd and group that runs the venue holds it back. Mostly male crowd that needs lessons how to act from the likes of fabric and dc-10
Seemed like a bunch of underage kids who snuck in and got shitfaced. Sort of detracted from the whole vibe of the place.
Safe, sanitised place with an immature crowd. The bookings are good, but the vibe is poor. Expect to be groped, snapchatted and stared at by a mix of first time clubbers who 'know this great place in Shoreditch' and city boys. Not a place for the freaks.
Favourite London club. There's always a good crowd at XOYO, can't wait for my next trip to see Bicep for one of their residency parties this weekend!
If your a guy they will ask you 21 questions to find a reason not to let you in. Pure discrimination and bias door policy, dont bother planning your night here
Brilliant venue. Great line ups and vibey place. Friend came to visit London so took her there on a Friday night with pre-booked tickets. Had a blast. Going back again. A definite visit if anyone's looking for a good night out.
XOYO was a great experience. I have been twice since February seeing The Neighbourhood and Simian Mobile Disco. Both great nights out!! Cool atmosphere and great staff.
XOYO has been one of my favourite London clubs for a long time. There's always a great atmosphere and when the downstairs room is bouncing it's one of the best vibes in town. An essential visit for any clubber in London
I wouldn't say I have ever had a fantastic time there however I have spent a fair amount. The nights are quite repetitive, you don't have the same feeling of having a massive night out in the same way that you do when you go to Fabric. There is also an awkward mix of men in suits and women in heels with others in jeans and trainers. I don't think this club really knows what it is as I would assume jeans and trainers kind of night.
Attend this dump last week. Would recommend that you avoid it like the plague. Please see below for e-mail I sent XOYO about our experience: Hello I attended the Sunshine Underground gig at your venue on Wednesday. The whole experience of visiting your venue was very disappointing and the least customer friendly experience I have had in a long time. My two friends also found it disappointing, from your over officious and frankly rude staff to the enforcement of rules that appear to serve no purpose and that your staff refuse to explain. When my friends and I arrived there was no queue so we headed toward the door to be told that we had to cross the road and stand next to a wall on the pavement opposite where one of your staff was stationed, who then said "Right, you can go in now!" 1) What was that about? 2) Why were we made to cross the road and queue up like naughty children when it was unnecessary? About 5 mins after being in the venue I realised I had left my glasses in a pub. The pub was about 60 seconds from your venue, in fact, you could almost see it, yet when I asked to be allowed to go and retrieve my glasses was told that if I left the venue I wouldn't be allowed back in. When I asked why I was told that "They're the rules". I again asked why, and also questioned what the point of stamping my hand on the way in was if I am not to be allowed to retrieve my glasses, to be told by your staff that he didn't need to explain any rule & I would not be allowed in if I went to get my glasses. 3) Why do you stamp people's hands if you do not allow people to leave? 4) Why do you not allow people to leave and then re-enter when they give a perfectly valid reason? Let's not bother discussing £4 for a small can of crap lager. Let's just say that you know it's a rip off, I know it's a rip off, Stevie Wonder knows it's a rip off, and move on. Finally, the sound in your venue is atrocious. I commented to my friends during the support band and then the music being played before TSU came on that I was concerned at the sound quality and for me, it totally ruined TSU's performance. I have seen them on a number of occasions and know their songs well, but the sound was so bad in your venue that there were songs that were frankly almost unrecognisable. All in all, the experience of going to your club can only leave one to think that it is purely a money making exercise with no thought whatsoever about the customer or customer service. I shall certainly never return. In fact, The Beatles could reform, including a miraculous recovery of the two dead ones, and I could have guest passes for me and all of my friends and I wouldn't enter your venue. Please can you answer the questions raised in this e-mail, and also provide me with a list of any other venues that XOYO and any of it's owners or managers hold a stake in so that I can avoid them too? Yours faithfully Peter Wileman
Went down to XOYO on Friday to see the last ever DURRR and although Todd Terje had to cancel, they still came out with an amazing show. We had the opportunity to get our ticket refunded and i'm glad I didn't. I've now booked to go back this week!!
My friends came down from Newcastle especially for last weekend and I thought they held an amazing night. We were all really surprised with the friendliness of the staff and quick service all round.
My first time at XOYO was last year for there New Years Eve party where Simian Mobile Disco were playing. Been to a couple things since, saw Simian again and Felix Da Housecat. All my times there have been amazing. They get such an impressive line-up of DJ's, the staff are always really friendly and every time I go I meet really cool people just there to have a good time and soak in the amazing music and vibes. I think its fast becoming the best club in London, massively up there for me.
My partner and I prepaid for our tickets online and were asked to bring ID and credit card for conformation for entry to Oxyo Club. We anticipated that there would be long queues to get into the venue. But we wer plesently surprised that there was no queue. The door staff where frienly and were even shown the smoking area by a one of the door staff. Cute! The music of Djs dropping deep house music was cool and vibe in the Oxyo club was relaxed friendly, people of all nationality and ages. The price of drums were reasonable. For a small rosa and bottle of water basically under £8. The club is dark inside, strobe lights most people just dancing to the deep bass of house music. The good thing about the night we went to Oxyo was an all day event, and its nice to arrive to a club in the day light and leave being able to get home by public transport. A good night and a highly recommended venue for lovers of under ground deep house music, on the days that house Djs are playing either in the evening or all day.
Always lineups are really good. Great atmosphere every time I've been and a cool crowd. Went to their day party too at The South Place Hotel and was an incredible party.
Love a good old party at XOYO. It looks and feels like an underground warehouse in New York or something, the line ups are always amazing on both floors and it's round the corner from me in Old St, perfect for an impromptu rave up! It's also really nice to go to a club that's hassle free getting in and getting served, compared to most other venues in London... indisputably my favourite club.
Love this club, I live super close, its got massive line ups and its my go to place. I went to one of their events XOYO Loves which was on Dalston Roof Park a few weeks back and was an awesome day party that led to a messy evening at XOYO. Definitely check it out!
I ve been there last saturday,when the party was over i tried to get my jacket from the wardrobe but they didn't have it anymore. In the jacket there were my keys and my id card,i went to the police and they told me i need a declaration from the club that they lost my id card but i tried to contact them several times,nothing to do . Just be careful guys,i hope they just lost it but my jacket was a 500 pounds jacket,i'm asking to my self: have they been "shopping" in that wardrobe?
I was at XOYO on friday night and it was amazing , it had a great vibe amazing dj's , great people and a lot of partying , I had a great night out , meet wonderful people.
I'm pretty excited to see the newly renovated XOYO at it's official opening tonight! I've always been a massive fan of the venue due to its unfailingly brilliant lineups and they're only getting better with the launch of their new night Spin Off. This place has a great vibe! The crowd has always been up for it whenever I've been. Thoroughly recommend this place to anyone with good taste in music following cutting edge artists.
Great venue! I would personally recommend this place to any of my friends: Amazing music and always a great ambiance. And let's not forget the gallery space with their exhibitions...
Great club, great music, great sound system! Always fun for club nights and so many good gigs as well!
Was there for The Let Them Eat Cake private view last Feb. Was incredibly packed. Impressed by what xoyo can provide and support emergent artists. Really looking forward for their forthcoming exhibitions and gigs. Besides, I was lucky to meet the hot curator, she's a doll.
I was really worried about going to this place after reading the reviews below, not really sure what they are all going on about, so felt compelled to put a review on here in case anyone else is put off. The doorman were in fact incredibly polite for doorman, this applied throughout the staff working there, there was no queues, in fact contrary to what some reviews say below i was actually too cold as the air con was on too much, even through the dance floor was packed. Its not the best club in the world to be honest, but its not awful either. but thought id put my thoughts on here seeing as it seemed to be so slagged off below! its just a standard club really! got served at the bar really quick too, always a bonus.
really am amazed by peoples comments on this venue, just saw a gig there and was very impressed. though it was slighty hot it was all forgivable just for the simple opportunity to be able to see a band in the intimate setting that xoyo can provide. staff were as you would expect at anywhere in london and the ambiance when the band started playing was great, would without doubt reccomend this venue to anyone looking for a way to connect with a band in a environment that is hard to come by
Worst door staff in the world. I was standing underneath an overhang down on the corner to get out of the rain to be told by the gold tooth gutless wonder door staff not to stand there as he grabs my arm to move me. I told him not to touch me. Then he told me he was going to kick my white ass down the street. I told him he would lose his door license. Then he told me he would get the police to remove me. I told him call the police, because I would have him arrested for assault and racist slurs. When he realized I was not going to back down from his thuggery he just made dumb comments and left.
Be careful when you go to this place. Super agressive bouncers, especially around clearing out time. Could easily get out of hand.
XOYO? Basically - it's awsome! Location wise it couldn't get any better - literally by Old Street tube - sweet! The variety of music being played is more vibrant and eclectic for both live and clubs than any other venue in London and it's always the first listing I check. Went and saw a gig the other day and the atmosphere was top. Drinks were not over priced - if you think so I don't know where you've been hanging out as it's the same as all over Shoreditch. To be fair I know the place has been seriously hot recently but the breeze was coming in steadily last week. Friendly staff and security even on a road block night I went to that had 2manydjs playing where a lesser venue would have had problems with the crowds. This is a great venue and will definitely keep it as one of my favourit places in London. Nuff said.
Only giving one star as not allowed to give it no stars. In all the years I have been going to gigs, this is probably the worst ever venue. Sound was awful. No air, ventilation system not working. Impossible to see the band. Loos disgusting with missing doors, blocked toilets. Bars too small. Over-priced. It was like being in a sauna listening to music on your next door neighbour's transistor radio. At least the staff are nice !
xoyo is officially the WORST place to go! The amount of arrogance at the doors is unbelievable! The bouncers run the show, thinking they know who is who, and let in only the ones they like. The club needs to review its door policy. The worst club I have ever been to! STAY AWAY! Horrible staff. Anyone who says this place is exclusive is kidding themselves. DONT SAY YOU WERENT WARNED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic venue, I can't understand why it gets these negative reviews, fair enough it may have had some problems when it first opened, but I don't think your going to find a better venue in London that has a fantastic mix of live and clubbing events with the cities best promoters, been there several times and it's always been great! Seriously recommend XOYO to anybody who loves great music and atmosphere!
As a promoter, I looked into hiring this place for a gig (very high hire fee of £1000) and agree with negative reviews; great location, terrible everything else. Also, the soundsystem is awful, very low level sound levels. This place has some potential but at the moment it's just hype.
xoyo is in a great location, right by old street stationa nd close to shoreditch etc. however this is where the positives end. this is quite simply the worst club i have ever had the misfortune of visiting, it is so flawed it beggars belief! ive been there twice and both times it was wholly unpleasant for many reasons. the layout is beyond a joke, everything funnels into one narrow short corridor leading to chaos throughout the night. the smoking area accomodates approximately 25 people, this in a club with a capacity of 800! the soundsytem is poor (think the sort of sound you would get at a walkabout pub), the bars are pretty crap, and there is absolutely no decor at all. the 'lighting' stretches to a measly and pathetic looking 6 school disco style lights above the dj booth. i really cannot think of one good thing to say about this venue, i find it absolutely incredible how the team behind this venture could make such a hash of the project- hang your heads in shame.
XOYO great venue but needs work, enjoyed my night was really packed but the security and staff where helpful and polite you could see they handle the whole crowed situation very well i give the a hands up as its not there fault, the female security has been the best iv meet yet very stern and polite at the same time and dose her job well, shame about the smoking area would be nice if it was bigger. overall i'd go back.
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Congress should invest in success
With last year's campaign season behind us, it is time for Democrats and Republicans to join forces and govern. Just last week, the outgoing Congress passed, and the president signed, a bipartisan agreement to temporarily avert the worst effects of the fiscal cliff. This was the first of many issues in a queue of challenges that loom on the horizon for the new Congress, including controlling our national debt, job creation, immigration and education reform and putting in place a comprehensive strategy to help prevent tragedies like the one in Newtown, Conn.
The American people are losing hope that Washington can resolve national problems but have made it clear they want elected officials to get our fiscal house in order while investing wisely to strengthen our country. Because tough choices must be made, this is a moment to invest in programs that work, reform those that can work better, cut others and draw from smart compromises being negotiated by policymakers and leaders outside Washington. It can be done, and there are examples around the country that prove it.
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As Congress works to solve our country's fiscal issues, it also must make smart investments in programs that are generating real results. We must call for the use of measurable outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of federal programs. As policymakers chart the course forward, they should replicate efforts around the country that are working across sectors and ideological lines to support innovative programs that generate positive outcomes and maximize impact.
While education bills languish in Congress, determined school districts from New York City to Richmond, Ind., are taking significant steps to boost high school graduation rates through strong school leadership, rigorous curricula, more personalized learning environments and supports for students whose attendance, behavior and course performance signal early trouble. In areas with high dropout rates, such as Cleveland, Republican Gov. John Kasich joined Democratic Mayor Frank Jackson to work with the teachers union on a plan that includes evaluating teachers on student performance, as well as seniority and tenure, and expanding school choice for families while giving the city and district a voice in which charter sponsors can open new schools.
In states across the country, employers are partnering with community colleges and high schools to develop enterprising pathways for students that give them the credentials and skills businesses need for today's 29 million middle-skill jobs.
As Congress sets the course for federal education policy through the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, they should look to Ohio, and other places, where stakeholders have joined to develop effective measures to get results.


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In a game Wednesday between the Brooklyn Nets and the Toronto Raptors, NBA referee Courtney Kirkland ran at Kris Humphries as the Nets forward is about to shoot a free throw in the fourth quarter.
Humphries took two dribbles, lined up, and was about to release when Kirkland jumped toward him with his hands in the air, forcing Humphries to stop his momentum just as he's about to shoot.
Maybe Kirkland is a huge Kim Kardashian fan, and when he saw Humphries standing by his lonesome at the free throw line, he couldn't contain himself.
Or maybe Kirkland was trying to prevent Humphries from shooting until the subs checked into the game.
Either way, it was a pretty good block.
Humphries went on to make his second free throw, finishing with 11 points on nine-for-10 free-throw shooting in the Nets' 94-88 win.
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I'm reading "Lectures on black holes and the $AdS_3/CFT_2$ correspondence" by Kraus.
I don't know how one can obtain Eq.7.12. My stupid question is how to obtain this equation. After this equation, it is stated that "one has to take care to consider only variations consistent with the equations of motion and the assumed boundary conditions". What are the variations consistent with the equations of motion and the assumed boundary conditions? What Krasu says is as follows.
To compute the bulk functional integral, we need to evaluate the bulk action for the solutions which contribute, including boundary counterterms if necessary. For an on-shell solution around the $AdS_{3}$ vacuum, one can evaluate the action at the $AdS_3$ vacuum by using the variation of the action with respect to the boundary metric $g^{(0)}$ and the gauge fields $A^{(0)}, \tilde A^{(0)}$
\begin{equation} \delta S= \int d^2x \sqrt{g}\,\left[ \frac12 T^{ij} \delta g_{ij}+\frac{i}{2\pi} J^{i} \delta A_{i} +\frac{i}{2\pi}\tilde J^{i} \delta \tilde A_{i} \right]~. \end{equation} where the superscript $(0)$ is omitted for brevity. Reexpressing this in complex coordinates of the boundary metric, we obtain:
\begin{equation} \delta S=4\pi i \left(T_{ww}\delta \tau+T_{\bar w\bar w}\delta \bar\tau +\frac{\tau_2}{\pi} J_{w}\delta A_{\bar w}+\frac{\tau_2}{\pi} \tilde J_{\bar w}\delta \tilde A_{w}\right)~. \end{equation}
One can integrate the above equation to get: \begin{eqnarray} \mathcal{S}(\tau) & = & - 2 \pi i \tau \big(L_{0} - \frac{c}{24} \big) + 2 \pi i \bar\tau \big(\tilde L_{0} - \frac{\tilde c}{24} \big) \cr && \; - \frac{i\pi}{2} k \big( \tau A_{w}^{2} + \bar \tau A_{\bar w}^{2} + 2 \bar \tau A_{w} A_{\bar w} \big) + \frac{i\pi}{2} \tilde k \big( \tau \tilde A_{w}^{2} + \bar\tau \tilde A_{\bar w}^{2} + 2 \tau \tilde A_{w} \tilde A_{\bar w} \big) \, . \end{eqnarray}
I would like to know the derivation of the last equation.


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First Pro Basketball, Then Boxing, Now Tennis Finds Its Way To Brooklyn
By Barry Janoff, Executive Editor
September 12, 2010: Back in the day, Brooklyn, NY was the sole possession of baseball's Dodgers. Since the franchise moved to Los Angeles following the 1957 season, there have been some significant sports events, but only the Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league affiliate of the New York Mets, have permanently rooted in the borough.
Now, with the NBA's Nets officially and (mostly) legally cleared to move from New Jersey to a new arena, Brooklyn is becoming focal point of pro sports. Manhattan still gets the spotlight with the New York Knicks and Rangers, The Bronx has the Yankees and Queens has the Mets and the U.S. Open. But Brooklyn is coming out of the shadows and claiming some spotlight of its own.
Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, the sales and marketing arm of the planned Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and a sibling division to Nets Basketball, has signed a deal with sports talent management and event production firm Lagardère Unlimited to bring major professional tennis to the Barclays Center.
According to Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, Barclays Center is scheduled to open in "late spring/early summer 2012." Through this alliance, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment and Lagardère Unlimited said they would develop and co-promote at least two tennis events annually at the Barclays Center, which will include both current and former stars of the sport. Lagardère Unlimited represents several top-ranked tennis players, including Andy Roddick, Justine Henin, Caroline Wozniacki, Bob and Mike Bryan, John Isner, Sam Querrey and Mardy Fish. Lagardère has also produced national and international tennis tournaments and events around the world.
"We are thrilled to align with Lagardère Unlimited to bring big-time professional tennis events to Brooklyn as we continue to demonstrate that first-class programming is in-store for the Barclays Center," Brett Yormark, president and CEO of Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment and CEO of Nets Basketball. "The Barclays Center will offer our visitors the best in sports and entertainment and we look forward to making several additional major programming announcements in the coming months."
Earlier this year, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment said it would offer 25 major college basketball and college hockey events annually at the Barclays Center. In conjunction with Golden Boy Promotions, whose president is ten-time world champion Oscar de la Hoya, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment will also promote a minimum of 12 major professional boxing events a year at the Barclays Center, making the Barclays Center the premier boxing venue in the northeast. In addition, the Barclays Center will also host world-class concerts, family shows, and much more.
"Partnering with Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment to bring world class tennis to one of the most anticipated new venues in the United States, the Barclays Center, is an exciting win for tennis and the fans alike," Kevin O'Connor, COO of Lagardère Unlimited, said in a statement. "Brooklyn has always been an important part of sports history and now tennis shares that space."
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Bring the jobs home to the United States. Target, Walmart, Penney�s and other stores should urge their manufacturers to bring clothing manufacturing jobs back to this country. The stores need to reexamine manufacturing overseas. Decades ago garment manufacturing moved from the Northeast to the Southeast, namely North Carolina. The movement continued overseas where cheap labor was sought. Recently with the deaths of almost 1,200 people in Bangladesh and also the 112 fire deaths in another factory, bringing manufacturing home is good policy.
After the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in NYC factories here were regulated to prevent another tragedy. In 1911, 149 young girls died in the Triangle fire or they jumped to their deaths to avoid the fire in a building lacking sufficient exits. The 1,200 people who died recently in Bangladesh were forced to return to a building that engineers had already deemed dangerous from cracks indicating an imminent collapse. The management of the factory forced these people back to work with threats.
The fire and collapse of these factories in Bangladesh is a warning to all of us. Unregulated, free markets result in unsafe conditions for workers. When governments do nothing to protect the health and safety of workers accidents happen. This is a question of human rights and too many people have forgotten history and think regulation of businesses by the government as bad for business. The death of hundreds of people in any country is bad for business.
The current political philosophy of ignoring regulations and controls in this country is also responsible for workplace deaths. A recent example here is the BP explosion that killed 11 people. Managers at BP are being prosecuted. No inspections had been conducted at a Texas fertilizer plant for decades and they were illegally storing large quantities of dangerous chemicals where 13 firefighters died in the fire and explosion.
Manufacturers looking for countries where there are no regulations and cheap labor are condoning unsafe working conditions. The death rate is just too high in these overseas factories. There is no oversight by their governments to protect the workers from the abuses of cost cutting manufacturers.
Bringing manufacturing back to this nation might be less expensive than the cheap labor overseas. Savings could come from the cost of shipping and paying off corrupt politicians in these countries. We have successful, safe business models here in Burlington. Cooperative businesses are thriving in Alamance County. Wages start low to keep prices low, but with cooperatives the workers share in the profits as the business grows.
It is difficult to avoid products and clothes produced in these unsafe factories, but as consumers we need to try. Ask the manager at stores why there are no USA clothing products in their stores. In North Carolina we grow the cotton and manufacture shirts here that are selling well and making profits for the companies, workers and farmers. Consumers should start speaking up in the stores where they shop. The safest and best place to manufacture clothing today is right here at home. Tell the store where you shop to be a good citizen and ask their manufacturers to come home.
Diana Muller lives in Whitsett.


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Gunmen kill at least 29 in latest raids on Kenyan coast
The raids will hammer Kenya's beleaguered tourist industry after a wave of militant attacks and will deepen public frustrations about poor security, a day before a big opposition rally in the capital. The Interior Ministry said one of the Saturday night attacks killed nine in the trading town of Hindi in Lamu County, close to where 65 people were killed by gunmen last month in Mpeketoni.
Another was further south in the Gamba area, where 20 died.
"They went around shooting at people and villages indiscriminately," said Abdallah Shahasi, a senior official for the Hindi area, which lies near the old trading port of Lamu.
Militant raids on the coast have fanned an already tense political atmosphere in Kenya, which has sent troops to join African Union soldiers battling al Shabaab in neighbouring Somalia.
Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, spokesman for the military operations of al Shabaab, told Reuters in Mogadishu the group was behind both attacks.
The group, which attacked Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last year killing 67 people, had also said it was responsible for the Mpeketoni attacks.
But, just as President Uhuru Kenyatta dismissed al Shabaab's claim last month and pointed the finger at local politicians over Mpeketoni, his deputy on Sunday suggested political rivals were again to blame.
"We want to tell our friends they cannot blackmail us using criminal elements in our country," Deputy President William Ruto said on a visit to the Lamu area. He offered no names.
"If you are unable to wait for the next general election, you are in a hurry, you want to make the country ungovernable so you can get into office through the backdoor, that will not happen in Kenya," he said. "You can forget about it."
The comments are likely to stoke an already fierce row with the opposition, which has denied any role.
Police Deputy Inspector General Grace Kaindi also cast doubt on al Shabaab's role, saying a blackboard ripped from a school, scrawled with slogans and placed at a junction near Hindi could implicate the separatist Mombasa Republic Movement (MRC).
"At first we thought it was al Shabaab, but now it is turning out that it is MRC as they have put it there clearly," she told a news conference.
She said other scribbled phrases seemed to back opposition leader Raila Odinga.
Slogans included "MRC – You are sleeping", "Muslims your land is being grabbed", "Raila is adequate" and "Uhuru down".
The MRC swiftly denied any role.
"The government should stop using us as a scapegoat," Randu Nzai Ruwa, the MRC Secretary General, told Reuters by telephone.
Veteran opposition leader Odinga, defeated by Kenyatta in last year's election, has held rallies over the past month criticising the government over frequent militant attacks.
He planned to hold a major rally on Monday in Nairobi.
Police said attackers hit government offices and burnt a church in Hindi during the latest raids.
Lamu County police chief Ephantus Kariuki told Reuters victims were shot in the head with their hands bound, and said the attack could have been prompted by land disputes between rival ethnic groups on the coast.
Al Shabaab claimed it had broken into the police station at Gamba during the raid on Saturday and freed suspects from detention cells.
A police source corroborated that account, saying the numbers for those released was still being checked. Gamba lies in Tana River County, which neighbours Lamu County.
"They killed some of our colleagues and freed Muslim detainees," the source told Reuters. "Some of those freed were linked to the Mpeketoni attacks two weeks ago."
In a separate criminal incident in the port city of Mombasa, a Russian woman tourist who was with two companions was killed by a gang, which robbed them, police said.-Reuters