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An interview with author Sherrilyn Ifill
Courtesy of PublicEye.org
Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer who came to see linkages between the discrimination cases she was trying and the history and memories of lynchings fifty or more years in the past.
Public Eye editorial board member Tarso Luís Ramos interviewed Ifill, a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Law School, about her new book on the subject, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century.
As a civil rights lawyer active on such issues as environmental justice and voting rights, what led you to write a book about lynching?
I found while working on many cases in Texas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Arkansas, and here in Maryland, that when I asked my clients about the history of discrimination in their communities, I would very often hear a story about a lynching or another story of racial terrorism, sometimes decades in the past. I was struck by the accuracy and the detail with which the events were described - usually events they didn't see or they weren't even alive at the time.
When I talked with Whites about the very same incidents, they had vague recollections, particularly where lynchings were concerned. I thought this was alarming because Whites were for the most part the ones who saw lynchings, not Blacks. I'd often seen this in my civil rights work: Whites see their world one way and Blacks see their world a very different way. I thought this disconnect really lies at the heart of race in America.
What legal case brought you to Maryland's Eastern Shore?
The community client was the Jersey Heights Neighborhood Association and we were challenging the decision by the state to build a highway bypass directly next to the Black community in Salisbury.The plan constituted the third time in 60 years that the state had built a major highway through or next to the community. Standing on Route 13, you can see that it cuts right through the community - churches are cut off from where their congregations would be and so forth.
Why did you choose to focus the first part of your book on the stories of Matthew Williams and George Armwood, men killed in separate lynchings in the early 1930s on Maryland's Eastern Shore?
These are the stories that my clients told me about and so I started to look into them. I became fascinated with these men because their stories in some ways were very different. Armwood was a fairly uneducated field laborer, a hard worker on all accounts, who had been loaned out to a family since the 5th grade. His family was very poor and lived in a modest shack in Somerset County. He was accused of assaulting an elderly White woman, apparently in a robbery attempt.
Williams had lost both of his parents and had gone to live with his aunt and uncle in Salisbury and appeared to be living what, at least for that time period, would probably have been a middle class Black life, surrounded by a large family. He is alleged to have killed his boss for reasons that we cannot discern from official accounts. Neither man warranted being hung from a tree on the courthouse lawn in the two different counties where they lived.
Hence the title of the book?
I chose On the Courthouse Lawn because that was the site of a vast majority of lynchings on the Eastern Shore, and I think it was a quite deliberate choice of venue. Lynchings were a message crime directed at the Black community. The White communities that participated in these lynchings and condoned them were making a statement about who was in control of law and order, of the justice system. It was about total and absolute control. The fact that these lynchings were witnessed by, in the case of Matthew Williams, between 500 and 1,000 people and, in the case of George Armwood, perhaps nearly 2,000, means Blacks were also aware that Whites - the people they worked for, the people that they saw in the street - would be complicit. Not everyone in the crowd was actively involved in the lynching but they were willing to watch and say nothing and they were willing later to go before the grand jury and say they didn't recognize anybody.
What was the post-lynching climate like in these communities?
Blacks were faced with the fact that Whites would close ranks and protect each other to maintain White supremacy. The result was that Blacks, for the most part, tried to go along to get along. They went into survival mode, which meant not stepping out of line, not antagonizing Whites by clamoring for political rights, and essentially remaining to themselves.
The Eastern Shore was isolated in this time period. Getting there required a drive of up to six hours from Baltimore, and you had to take a ferry to get across the Chesapeake Bay. During the same period, Blacks on the Western Shore in Baltimore had begun the cases that eventually led to Brown v. Board of Education. Thurgood Marshall was there and, within several years after the lynchings, brought and won a case challenging segregation here at the University of Maryland Law School. That was the first desegregation case in higher education. Meanwhile, Blacks on the Eastern Shore were totally disconnected from this progressive activism.
What do you mean by Whites closing ranks?
It starts the next day. George Armwood had been taken to Baltimore city for safekeeping and then, on the order of the local judge and state attorney, was returned to Princess Anne the next day, even though there had been talk of a lynch mob forming. On October 18, 1933, he was taken from the Princess Anne jail by a mob and lynched that night. They came with a battering ram, knocked the doors down, and the sheriff was outside facing the mob. Armwood was mutilated and hung from a tree, and then his body was dragged to the courthouse, doused in gasoline, and set on fire.
The next day the sheriff reports, "I looked at every face in that mob and didn't recognize a single one. I think they were foreigners from Virginia." So it starts with the signaling to the community - "here's the story." When the grand jury is called, person after person, witness after witness testifies, "I didn't recognize one person in that mob." We know that's not true because we have affidavits from state police, never introduced to the grand jury, in which they identify many local people who were leaders of the lynch mob.
Did Blacks also close ranks?
There were dissident reactions and this is an important part of the history for us to reclaim. After the lynching of George Armwood, Whites in Salisbury apparently prevailed upon three Black leaders - an undertaker and two others - to write a kind of op-ed in the local paper, which they did, essentially saying that the lynching was the fault of these lawless, criminal Black men, and that the relationship between Blacks and Whites was great.
A week later, another group of nineteen Black men met in Salisbury, which was pretty brave in and of itself, given the climate, and sent a response op-ed in to the Black paper, the Baltimore Afro-American, in which they denounced these three leaders, saying, they don't represent us; they are clearly stooges of the white power structure and the conditions were not harmonious and they should have been man enough to support the idea of anti-lynching legislation. This was very important because it showed a split; there was not a uniform response that "we're going to simply acquiesce and go along to get along." Not everyone knuckled under.
Was anybody prosecuted in these or any other lynchings?
What was the overall impact of lynching?
We know what political disenfranchisement meant and how it continued to reach its tentacles into the 20th and 21st century with the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. We have no illusions about what legal and enforced segregation did in maintaining white supremacy and the psychology of white supremacy. Well, lynching was a tool also; it was essential because when other things failed, you had to know there was this violent retribution that could happen if you transgressed the social norm that had been set down by Whites.
When we think about it in this context, you can chart some of the ways in which lynching was employed to quell Black unrest or potential unrest. The '30s saw a great deal of lynching all over, not just in the Deep South. The Depression was raging and the more precarious the White man's economic position became, the more lynching loomed as a way of maintaining White supremacy. After the wars, in 1918 and in the 1940s, Black veterans who would not take off their uniforms were lynched. They had been out in the world, fought for their country, handled weapons, been accepted abroad in a way they never had at home, and had a different idea of their manhood than Jim Crow would have recognized. Lynching was used as a method to remind Blacks of who they still were.
One of the last mass lynchings, maybe the last, was in 1946 in Walton County, Georgia, when two Black men and their girlfriends were shot beneath the Moore's Ford Bridge. The case attracted the attention of the federal government because one of the Black men was a veteran. Truman ordered that the FBI come down and investigate. No one was ever convicted.
What is the impact of this silent denial of the history of lynching?
There is an unspoken sense of how to get along in the community that Blacks have internalized. You, for the most part, stay in your place. These communities are decades behind on the basic idea of political representation of even the most marginal kind. This past year a Black county commissioner was elected for the first time in Somerset County, where George Armwood was lynched - even though the Eastern Shore is quite heavily populated by Blacks. The town of Princess Anne is 65 percent African American. The highway siting case that I worked on was in the 1990s, when finally Black communities said, "That's enough and we're going to sue."
In the White community there was a code of silence that is still in place. Even among themselves, Whites who try to talk about these events in a direct way are subject to being ostracized.
What do these conspiracies of silence mean for dealing with persistent racial inequality today?
When I give talks, invariably someone will say, "Aren't we just talking about this stuff all the time? Do we have to rehash these events again?" And what's fascinating is that we've never talked about them. People are exhausted by a conversation that we've never had. People presume that, because we've talked about slavery somewhat, we must have spoken about lynching. You have a generation that is totally ill equipped for talking candidly about this history and that's what I'm trying to break through with the book.
Your book describes a climate of red menace that accompanied fears of Black insurrection.
Even as Whites terrorized the Black communities which lived in fear for their lives, Whites created this fantasy that it was actually Blacks who were the aggressors. What set it off is that Euel Lee, a Black man accused of killing a White farm family, came to be represented by a White communist lawyer named Bernard Ades, who worked for International Labor Defense, the same organization representing the Scottsboro Boys in the same time period. Lee had nearly been lynched and was taken to the Baltimore city jail for safekeeping.
Ades vigorously defended Lee, got a change of venue for his trial, and managed to have Lee's first conviction thrown out. Euel Lee was tried again, convicted a second time, and ultimately executed, but the representation that Ades provided infuriated Whites on the Shore who felt that this was communist interference and that Lee was getting a free pass, having gotten this lawyer and having gotten his first conviction thrown out and the trial moved from the East Shore. The trial, in fact, had been moved because when Ades went out there to file notice that he was representing this client, his car was surrounded by an angry mob and he and his secretary were themselves nearly lynched. The three Black leaders whose op-ed blamed lawless Black men for the Eastern Shore lynchings also blamed Ades.
What are some other legacies of lynching and racial terrorism?
The stories that parents tell their children after a lynching, the survival story - i.e. don't get too educated; don't go to that side of town; don't look at that kind of woman; don't make too much money; don't show off in front of The Man; all that kind of stuff - are strikingly similar to the stories that I hear many of my friends and family members tell their sons about how to treat the police: it doesn't matter if they're right; keep your mouth shut; put both hands on the dashboard; don't tell him you know your constitutional rights; don't argue with him. These survival conversations are almost entirely identical.
The dehumanizing imagery when we talk about criminal defendants is very, very similar. If we refer to a group of young Black boys as a "wolf pack," as they were called in the case of the Central Park jogger - these boys who were later found to be innocent - it sets the public up to overlook discrepancies in the alleged confessions that they made. The same was true in the cases of lynching. As soon as Matthew Williams was arrested for killing his boss, the headlines in the paper described him as "negro slayer." His name was often incorrect in the paper. It didn't matter what his name was. He was "negro slayer," and that enabled people after the lynching to say, "Yes but he killed his boss," without asking why this man, who was very close to his boss and who his boss really liked, who was living a middle class life, suddenly one day shot his boss.
What do you make of the various racial reconciliation efforts currently underway in the U.S.?
They've first of all uncovered an aspect of U.S. history that has remained hidden, so they are producing that dialogue and are forcing it out into the public, which is critically important. I've been asked, "What if we find some people who are still alive who were active in the lynching?" Well, I think they should be prosecuted. In fact, I think criminal prosecution is a form of reparation. I would like to see all of these efforts become much more dynamic and multi-pronged.
I talk in the book about addressing questions of exonerating people who are innocent, naming public places to acknowledge these events, changing educational curricula, providing financial remuneration where appropriate to the family of lynching victims. These are all on the table and there have been a number of groups trying to help communities think through how dynamic this process could be. I have been working with STAR, Southern Truth and Reconciliation. They and other groups have come together to create a national consortium called the Alliance for Truth and Reconciliation. We regard reparation as a key part of reconciliation and we broaden the term so that we're not merely talking about money, which is such a limited and sometimes counterproductive way to think about reparations. It has to be locally driven and the appropriate means of reparation has to be responsive to the particular way in which these events harmed the local community. It remains to be seen and it will vary from place to place. I'm very hopeful. We're only at the beginning of the process, but I'm glad we are at least at the beginning.
Is the focus on extreme acts of racial violence a bridge or a potential barrier to addressing more structural or everyday forms of racism?
Part of the problem with our conversations about race is that they're too big. We try to talk about slavery, affirmative action, police brutality, the middle passage, lynching, racism in sports, and Condoleezza Rice in one conversation. It's overwhelming. You have to get your hands around something real and concrete, a historical event, a fact, and use that as a way to pull the thread and it will lead you inevitably to all the structural problems that are really the most important for the 21st century.
Lynching has won more attention over the last few years, in part due to the "Without Sanctuary" exhibit of lynching photographs and postcards, which emphasized the festively public character of many of these crimes.
The exhibit had a tremendous effect. It had a lot to do with Senator Mary Landrieu's [D-LA] efforts to push the Senate apology for the failure to pass anti-lynching legislation. In Atlanta the exhibit was shown at the King Center, which was the appropriate context for it. But I confess I had some concerns. I am extremely sensitive to the voyeuristic quality of lynching. In real time, a good part of participating in lynching was watching - watching and doing nothing. I was very concerned about the possibility of the exhibit replicating that, that people could come and watch the photographs and do nothing. It's important that an action agenda be connected with the exhibit.
There were many things - the lynching of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming - that came together at the same time to get people stirred up and thinking about this. When I started writing my book, suddenly six books on lynching came out. I'm a religious person, and so I believe there was a divine hand in bringing this conversation to many people at the same time, to push many people to have the same idea: that now is the moment to force this history into the center and make people begin to look at it.
A measure to establish an unsolved crimes section in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department is currently before Congress. It's been dubbed the "Till Bill" in honor of Emmet Till, the Chicago teen brutality beaten and murdered in the Mississippi Delta in 1955 after allegedly whistling at a White woman.
There are a number of such cases during the Civil Rights Movement in which Black activists and others were murdered and no one was either prosecuted or - as in Till's case - convicted. An all-White jury acquitted two men who, soon after, admitted to murdering Till - knowing they could not be retried on the same charges. Those men have since died, and others implicated in the crime were never properly investigated. The reopening and solving of such cases is necessary, in part because a critical aspect of the conversation on reconciliation is the current distrust that many African Americans feel towards the justice system - a distrust that derives directly from the knowledge that the police, prosecutors, and even judges, were often complicit in failing to properly investigate and prosecute Civil Rights-era violent crimes. The justice system has legitimacy because people believe in it, and many African Americans simply don't believe in the criminal justice system of our country.
That also relates to the legacy of lynching. We have this history in which people could be killed publicly with thousands of people on the street watching and no one ever convicted. There are nearly 5,000 lynchings in the history of the United States and from communities all over the country, from Price, Utah to Duluth, Minnesota to the Eastern Shore of Maryland to the Deep South, and yet we have no record of actual convictions for lynching itself. You have this complicity of the legal system in communities all over the U.S. to basically sanction the public murder of Blacks.
Without an acknowledgment and without some effort to repair that, it's very hard to ask for African Americans to trust and believe in an institution that has refused to confront this history. People say, "Should we be prosecuting these old men, taking them out of their trailers? They're on oxygen, these old Klansmen." And I say, "Yes." The only reason we are prosecuting old men, some of whom are now in ill-health, is because we failed to prosecute and convict them when they were young men.
Despite their crimes, they were permitted to live the most productive years of their lives in freedom, instead of behind bars. Better justice delayed than no justice at all. Moreover, it's not only about them. The failure to prosecute these men when they were on their rampage of terror was a failure of the rule of law, and the victim was not just the one who was killed, but the entire Black community. They were essentially told that the rule of law would not be advanced on their behalf. That has to be corrected.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians and economists are straining to get a clearer view of what the economy will look like a year from now, when midterm political campaigns are heating up. Republicans see the glass as half empty; Democrats view it as half full. And the economists aren't sure.
"Our economy is recovering at the slowest rate since World War II," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, lamented to a group of manufacturers. "Quarter after quarter, the growth numbers barely move, unemployment stays about the same."
Democrats beg to differ. "There are a lot of reasons for us to feel optimistic about where we're headed as a country," President Barack Obama tells audiences, citing steady jobs gains, a falling deficit and a more stable housing market.
Which is it? Economic forecasters are torn.
And their forecasts are suddenly all over the map. Some see U.S. growth stuck below 2 percent for some time, while others — among them the Federal Reserve and the White House — predict it will climb above 3 percent as soon as next year .
While the economy clearly is on the mend, the different forecasts stem from the fact that the recovery's pace is uneven, economic growth remains anemic and the unemployment rate is still stubbornly high four years after the deep 2008-09 recession ended. Feeding the uncertainty are confusion over when the Federal Reserve will start turning off the easy-money faucet and the sharp partisan divides on Capitol Hill over spending cuts, raising the U.S. debt ceiling and funding the government for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.
Assumptions about yet-to-be-made decisions by Washington policymakers can have an enormous impact on forecasts.
"Forecasting these days is difficult. There are a lot of imponderables out there," said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist for IHS Global Insight, an economic forecasting firm. He's telling clients that right now economic growth is likely to remain between 1.5 and 2 percent through September. "Employment growth will be OK but not great."
But a lot depends on Congress. "And the politics are such that the closer we get to the midterm elections, it's more likely that nothing is going to be done," he said.
It's not a new predicament. An exasperated President Harry Truman once famously pleaded for a one-armed economist, complaining, "All my economists say, 'On the one hand ... on the other.'"
"There's still a fair amount of angst over fiscal policy. And the level of the angst is definitely a function of whether you're a Republican or a Democrat," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, another economic forecaster. "And then as you move into next year and the elections, there's going to be more hand-wringing as well because of the political back-and-forth."
Even so, Zandi is optimistic. "We are going to start to see stronger growth. The fiscal drag will fade, the housing recovery will add more juice to growth and the Federal Reserve will be able to manage through this in a reasonably graceful way."
Most economists see a slowly recovering economy, but not all. There's always that "other hand. "
"The economy is as sick today as it was prior to the financial crisis and the Great Recession. Those were caused by fundamental dysfunctions that remain unfixed," said business economist Peter Morici of the University of Maryland.
Federal Reserve economists are moderately upbeat, projecting that economic growth will climb next year to between 3 percent and 3.5 percent for the first time since before the Great Recession. The economy grew at a subpar 1.8 percent annual rate from January to March.
The Fed has signaled that it intends to keep interest rates super low at least until the jobless rate falls to 6.5 percent. It was 7.6 percent in June.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday that the Fed has done what it can to keep the economic recovery going, but that Congress must also help. He told the Senate Banking Committee that the Fed's low interest-rate policies have carried "an awful lot of the burden" to drive economic growth. Fed officials would have been very happy to "share that burden" with Congress, he added.
The Fed chairman says the U.S. central bank had no firm timetable for scaling back its policies aimed at stimulating growth. The Fed would consider reducing its stimulus program if the economy improves, Bernanke told a House panel on Wednesday. But he added that the reductions were "by no means on a preset course."
The White House, in its newly released "midsession review," projected the economy would grow 2.4 percent this year, down from the 2.6 percent it projected in April. White House officials blamed the lower estimate on across-the-board spending cuts that began in March and slower growth in China and Europe.
The White House also projected that the federal budget shortfall would decline to $759 billion for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 — the first time in Obama's presidency that the annual deficit will have dropped below $1 trillion. And it said the jobless rate would fall to 6.8 percent for calendar year 2014, then down to 6.5 percent in 2015 and stabilizing at 5.4 percent by 2017.
Other forecasts aren't as rosy. The International Monetary Fund sees the U.S. economy growing at just 1.7 percent this year and 2.7 percent next year. And the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects the economy will grow just 1.4 percent this year and the unemployment rate will average 7.9 percent — absent changes in current law.
"It's an extremely difficult time to get the policy forecast right and that's driving the economic forecast," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former CBO director who now heads the American Action Forum, a conservative public-policy institute.
What will the Fed, the Congress and the administration come up with?
"Who knows?" he said.
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Child Rights
It has only been since 20 November 1989, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that the world has benefited from one set of legal rights for all children and young people. Today, 193 States parties have ratified the Convention, making it the most widely ratified human rights agreement in the world.
A convention such as this is an agreement between people or countries where everyone agrees to follow the same law. The CRC spells out the range of rights to which children everywhere are entitled. It sets basic standards for children's well-being at different stages of their development and is the first universal, legally binding code of child rights in history.
The Convention states that everyone under the age of 18 (the definition of a child), regardless of gender, origin, religion or possible disabilities, needs special care and protection because children are often the most vulnerable.
Although the Convention has 54 articles in all, it is guided by four fundamental principles:
- Non-discrimination (article 2): You should neither benefit nor suffer because of your race, colour, gender, language, religion, or national, social or ethnic origin, or because of any political or other opinion; because of your caste, property or birth status; or because you are disabled.
- The best interests of the child (article 3): Laws and actions affecting children should put your best interests first and benefit you in the best possible way.
- Survival, development and protection (article 6): The authorities in your country must protect you and help ensure your full development – physical, spiritual, moral and social.
- Participation (article 12): You have a right to have your say in decisions that affect you, and to have you opinions taken into account.


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Skip to comments.Flashback: CBS's 'An American Story' Highlighted Need for Second Amendment
Posted on 02/16/2013 5:37:27 PM PST by Bratch
Yet this fictionalization of the Battle of Athens, the last and best modern example of American citizens forcefully asserting their Second Amendment rights, was actually shown only 21 years ago. The telepicture earned two Primetime Emmy nominations, one for music and another for cinematography.
This well made TV movie, starring Brad Johnson and directed by John Gray, depicted the last time in modern American history when a large group of decent, ordinary citizens were involved in an armed confrontation with criminally corrupt representatives of their own government.
The so-called Battle of Athens, Tennessee in 1946 involved the politically entrenched and brutally corrupt county officials of McMinn County verses local citizens who had finally had enough. Athens was a place where southern kingpin and State Sen. Paul Cantrell, his Sheriff Pat Mansfield and their loyal bully-boy minions made thousands of dollars harassing, imprisoning and fining who ever challenged the status quo including large numbers of recently returned local World War II combat veterans.
Numbers of small town jails and courts across the country were run as out of control, for-profit enterprises in those days, lining the pockets of the local politicians, sheriffs and police officers. A county that had fought for the Union during the Civil War, McMinn County had consistently voted Republican until the early 1930s when corrupt Democrats promised to magically end the Depression.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The STOU speech also highlighted the need for the Second Amendment.
Big time!
How about all able bodied Vets?
We might not be as lean, but we're still pretty mean.
I'd like to see this, I wonder where I can find it.
Yep, I saw this YouTube video and got a thrill up my S&W:
Went out and bought the movie on Amazon, here:
We are about there ...
see my post # 5
Hey, thanks very much for posting that. I will find some way to see the whole thing somehow, that was enough to whet my appetite.
The made for TV movie was actually toned WAY down. Read some accounts of the events. They had to dynamite the jail three times before the deputies surrendered. Vets were beaten and arrested before they started retaliating and arresting the "deputies". This event should be taught in schools but I had never heard of it until a few years ago and I grew up here in TN.
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The Story that Never Ends Might End: Theo Epstein Compensation Decision Expected Soon
Tired of Jorge Soler rumors? Burnt out on Matt Garza trade speculation?
Well, get ready, because now you get to hear about the other endless offseason storyline you're sick of hearing about.
The Theo Epstein compensation drama is probably coming to an end soon.
According to reports out of both Chicago (Carrie Muskat and Phil Rogers) and Boston (Nick Cafardo and Gordon Edes), Commissioner Bud Selig, who has apparently been devoting an inordinately large amount of time to the decision, will soon render judgment with respect to the compensation fight. The Boston sources say the decision will come "very soon" and/or by the start of Spring Training. The Chicago sources say the decision will come by the end of the week, so I suppose that means tonight, tomorrow, or over the weekend.
We'll probably never know the finer details of just what happened to turn this into such a mess. We know the two sides were sloppy in how they handled the permission to interview and hire Epstein. We know that the Commissioner's Office was sloppy in order Epstein to officially join the Cubs, and then telling the sides to "keep working on it." Everyone probably shares some blame.
Although we're not going to know just what was said between the sides, we might be able to glean a bit based on the size of the compensation. Considering precedent, fair compensation would be a good (top 15/20) prospect and cash. If that's the compensation Selig chooses, there's probably little more to know. If the compensation is more than that (the "significant player" Boston keeps clamoring about, perhaps), then I'm going to suspect there's a lot more to the story than we know. And we might never know.
But at least we'll get that compensation piece "soon."


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2011 Hognostications Week 6
Congratulations to our Hognostications Week 5 winner, DarthMonk, with a very dominating 11-2 record! Rounding out the top 4 were Hoss, tribeofjudah and andyjens89 with a very impressive 10-3 record. Great picking last week fellas!!! Read the rest of this entry »
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posted by Adam S on Mon 3rd Apr 2006 12:06 UTC
Abraham Lincoln once said "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." Apparently, Tuttle, OK city manager Jerry Taylor never got the memo. Barely a week after his humiliating brush with celebrity after the CentOS fiasco, Taylor has definitively proven that arrogance and ignorance make a humorous combo. The Tuttle Times covers the embarassing incident, along with Taylor's gotta-see-it-to-believe-it response.


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A Pokémon collector was apparently so keen to catch 'em all that he forcibly cut the Pokémon off a 6-year-old girl's clothing with scissors.
The incident began with a 6-year-old girl playing by her house in Yamagata prefecture. She was approached by two young men "with the air of highschoolers" on bicycles.
Saying "I'll take these as mementos," one of the pair used scissors to cut out the three Pocket Monsters on the girl's T-shirt (not pictured), leaving her with a 10cm hole over her chest. The girl was unharmed.
The little girl reported the attack to her parents, and her father reported the matter to police. Police are treating the incident as a malicious prank and are looking for the suspects with a view to charging them with assault.
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In June 2007, the FDA published the final GMP regulation specific to dietary supplements (21 CFR 111). In order to keep the NPA GMP Certification Program relevant and reflect the highest level of industry good manufacturing practices, the NPA GMP Standard has been revised to include all of the FDA GMP requirements of 21 CFR Part 111 and retains certain requirements from the 2000 version of the NPA GMP Standard that exceed requirements of the FDA GMPs, or reflect best industry practices, and/or are necessary for the evaluation of compliance to the NPA GMP standard. NPA GMP Certification is awarded to companies that meet a high level of compliance to the NPA GMP Standard as verified through comprehensive third-party inspections of facilities and GMP-related documentation.
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Michael Keaton's film career took off when he was cast as crime-fighting playboy Bruce Wayne in the hugely successful Batman film franchise. Because his prior work was largely comedic at the time, fans of the Batman franchise were doubtful of Keaton's ability to successfully portray the caped crusader. However these critics as well as other less biased moviegoers would be in for a shock when the handsome actor pulled off the part splendidly. Keaton's performance in 1989 gave him the credibility needed to once again nab the part in the 2005 sequel, titled Batman Returns.
Fresh off his first appearance in Batman, Keaton would go on to star in a string of films covering different genres throughout the 90's. Some of his more notable roles during this time period can be seen in the films Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Paper (1994), Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997) and Desperate Measures (1998).
In 2010, Michael Keaton voiced the character of Ken in Pixar's animated adventure tale Toy Story 3. On top of receiving overwhelmingly positive acclaim, the movie grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it one of the most financially successful films ever. Keaton also had a minor role in the 2010 hit comedy The Other Guys, acting as Captain Gene Mauch alongside Will Ferrell & Mark Wahlberg.


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A bishop for all seasons
Over the holidays my wife and I got a chance to see the movie version of Les Misérables. As I did almost a quarter century ago, when we saw the musical production here in Chicago, I again told myself: I really ought to read Victor Hugo's novel sometime. Despite an opportunity for a productive New Year's resolution, I have to admit that, given Les Miz's 1,200-page length, that "sometime" is not likely to be anytime soon.
But I was struck again by the wonderful character of Bishop Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel of Digne (in the French region of Provence), who has a key role in the novel as well as the musical. In fact, for the whole first of the novel's five parts the bishop is apparently the main character of the narrative. But even in his much briefer cameo in the musical and movie, the bishop manages to inspire Jean Valjean—and the audience—with the way he lives out the gospel through welcoming the poor.
Patheos blogger Mark Roberts fills out some interesting background on the fictional bishop in Victor Hugo's novel, whose story is based on the real Bishop François-Melchior-Charles-Bienvenu de Miolli, who was the bishop of Digne from 1805 to 1838 and who received his nickname "Bienvenu" (Welcome) because of his charitable hospitality and care for the poor.
So even if we may not get around to reading Hugo's venerable tome for a while, perhaps another New Year's resolution would be even better: That the example of the bishop of Digne inspire us all to strive harder to live the gospel values of charity and hospitality this year and offer to others the good bishop's welcome to Valjean:
Come in sir for you are weary
And the night is cold out there
Though our lives are very humble
What we have we have to share
There is wine here to revive you
There is bread to make you strong
There's a bed to rest till morning
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Sunday, August 14, 2016
Myasthenia Gravis
Can the flu lead to such a disease?
I have two friends that have recently been diagnosed with autoimmune diseases; one has been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, and the other has not had a name put to her diagnosis as yet. Both friends, not in physical contact with each other at that period, had flu symptoms just before they contracted the disease(s). Are flu symptoms a precursor to autoimmune diseases and/or can the flu lead to such a disease?
We do not believe that viral infections or vaccinations cause myasthenia gravis by triggering the immune response. (This is of course different in diseases such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, within which there is a clear relationship between viral infections &vaccinations causing many, but not all cases of the syndrome.)
With Myasthenia Gravis, there is an autoimmune trigger within the body (thymus pathology) that is often the driving factor in the autoimmune attack of myasthenia gravis.
I say this because in the large majority of cases of Myasthenia Gravis, thymus hyperplasia or a thymoma is found. This is not to say that it is impossible for a viral infection in rare circumstances to trigger the disease. It has not been identified as a strong factor.
As mentioned, viral infections can often worsen myasthenia gravis in patients who already have the disease. Hope this information helps.
John G Quinlan, MD
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HAMDEN, Conn. – Quinnipiac women's ice hockey head coach Rick Seeley has announced the five members of the Class of 2016 that will join the squad for the 2012-13 season. Defenders Cydney Roesler (Stittsville, Ontario), Kristen Tamberg (Toronto, Ontario), and Lindsey West (Ajax, Ontario), as well as forwards Nicole Brown (Oshawa, Ontario) and Nicole Connery (Newmarket, Ontario), have all committed to Quinnipiac and will suit up for the Bobcats next fall.
"We are very excited about our incoming class in the fall of 2012," said head coach Rick Seeley. "We understand that we are losing a lot to graduation in terms of ability, contribution and leadership so we know how important this class is. As a group, we believe these five individuals have the potential to be one of the strongest recruiting classes in the nation. All five of our signees played for Team Ontario Red and earned gold medals at the 2011 Canadian National Championship this past November. Connery and Roesler have previously represented their country on the Under-18 national team, and will participate in the U18 World Championships in the Czech Republic this January as members of Team Canada. We are confident that once they all adapt to the speed and physical play of the Division I level, they should all play a big role in taking our program to the next level."
Nicole Brown, a member of the Whitby Jr. Wolves (PWHL), will add size, composure with the puck, and exceptional ice vision the Bobcats' line-up. Coach Seeley describes her as having the ability to make plays other players do not recognize, finding the open teammate wherever they may be on the ice. The Oshawa native is currently having a tremendous season for Whitby in the Provincial Women's Hockey League (PWHL), ranking first on her team in overall points (19). She is also tied for fifth in points among all PWHL skaters, with nine goals and 10 assists in 16 games.
A forward on Mississauga Jr. Chiefs (PWHL), Nicole Connery will bring a great deal of intensity to the ice, translating into a plethora of scoring opportunities. Seeley believes that her commitment to fitness and her ability to make plays on the puck will enable her to succeed in the ECAC Hockey League. With her team in second place, Connery is currently tied for the team lead in points (17), scoring eight goals and adding nine assists. This past summer, Connery netted the game-winning goal on a late third period breakaway in Team Canada's first of two victories over Team USA during the annual three-game summer series between the two countries' Under-18 National Teams.
Tamberg, who suits up with Connery for the Mississauga Jr. Chiefs (PWHL), is an intelligent, mobile defenseman with the ability to make a great first pass out of the zone and distribute the puck on the blue line. She skates well and understands how to take care of business in her own end of the ice. She has experience with the national program, having been invited to Team Canada's Strength and Conditioning Camp last May.
Roesler, the Captain for the Ottawa Jr. Senators (PWHL), is a threat at both ends of the ice, utilizing her size advantage during battles for the puck along the boards and in front of the net. She has an exceptional snap shot from the point that should translate into many offensive opportunities for the Bobcats, who already do an excellent job pouncing on loose puck rebounds. Seeley expects Roesler to contribute both on the power-play and penalty-killing units. Roesler is currently tied for second in the PWHL among all defensemen with 14 points on six goals and eight assists. This past November, Roesler was named the Top Defenseman at the National Women's Under-18 Championship in Saguenay, Quebec, helping lead her team to the Gold Medal. She will represent Team Canada for the second time in January at the U-18 World Championships in Prerov and Zlin, Czech Republic.
West, a defenseman and Assistant Captain for the Whitby Jr. Wolves (PWHL), currently plays with fellow Bobcats recruit Nicole Brown. She is one of the best skating defensemen in her class. She will be expected to join the rush, contribute offensively from the blue line for the Bobcats, and her powerful slap shot from the point should help her see some power-play time. West is the leading scorer among defensemen for the Wolves, with nine points on five goals and four assists. Her nine points also have her ranked tied for ninth in the PWHL among all defensemen. This past summer, West was selected to participate both Team Canada's Strength and Conditioning Camp and the U-18 National Team Selection Camp
For more information regarding Quinnipiac women's ice hockey, please visit the team homepage at the Official Website for Quinnipiac Athletics, www.QuinnipiacBobcats.com.
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Hey guys,
I participated in the get one give one thingy that OLPC did back in November and I've had my XO for a while. It's fun to tinker on, very cool hardware! I haven't gotten much real use out of, but I'm glad some kid somewhere has one to enjoy.
I recently stumbled upon a post about someone putting CRUX on their XO, and it sounded like a cool idea to try Arch on mine.
Also, those eee pc zealots have a huge thread! wink Those machines look sharp! I quite wish I had one instead of the XO, I just feel like I'd get more use out of one, but it's hard to feel bad about supporting some cool education programs.
Anyway, any other XO owners out there? any that have tried Arch? I'm stuck at work now, just digging through what it might take to give this a shot tonight, I think it would be cool!
If I make any progress at all, I'll throw the info on a wiki page.


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The first time I ate cold sesame noodles was when I lived in Tucson. The gourmet sandwich shop where I worked made them extra spicy and kept them extra cold. They were perfect when it was 108 outside and just the thought of hot food made my stomach rumba. Never having made them myself I looked to Tyler for some help. I found what I was looking for in his Cold Sesame Noodle recipe that is heavy on the peanut butter and flavored with just the right amounts of soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, chili sauce and rice wine vinegar. Next time a heat wave hits you know where to find me. Standing in front of the open fridge with a fork in my sesame noodles.
This is my entry for Tyler Florence Fridays. A talented group of foodie bloggers who love Tyler…and his recipes.


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On Tuesday, the price of crude oil (NYMEX:CLN14) wobbled between gains and losses throughout the session as mixed data and profit taking weighed on investors' sentiment.
As a result, light crude reversed after an increase to the resistance zone and declined below an important medium-term support line. Will this event be strong enough to trigger a sizable correction?
The major factor that has driven crude oil higher in recent days was the deteriorating situation in Iraq - the seventh-largest oil producer in the world last year and OPEC's second-most-important producer country.
Thanks to the Iraqi crisis, light crude increased to a nine-month high, but it seems the impact of the Iraq violence on the price could be short-lived. Investors figured out that active oilfields remain far south from the insurgency and disruption fears are overdone – especially when we take into account the fact that U.S. oil production is booming and most of that oil cannot be exported under current law.
Additionally, mixed data encouraged oil investors to jump to the sidelines. Yesterday, the Commerce Department reported housing starts dropped by 6.5% in May, while the number of building permits issued fell by 6.4% in the previous month. Although these numbers disappointed, upbeat inflation data supported crude oil. Please note that the Labor Department reported that the U.S. CPI rose 2.1% on year in May and 0.4% from April.
How did these circumstances influence the technical picture? Let's check (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com).
Looking at the weekly chart, we see the situation has deteriorated slightly, as crude oil moved lower and reached the rising black support line. If it holds, we will likely see another attempt to break above the long-term declining line which triggered a pullback earlier this week. However, taking into account the position of the indicators (the CCI and Stochastic Oscillator are overbought), it seems to us that further deterioration is just around the corner – especially if crude oil breaks below its major medium-term support line (marked with black).
Will we see such price action in the coming days? Let's take a closer look at the daily chart.


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SANTA ANA — A man and woman doing yard work in their Southern California home have unearthed what police believe to be a human skull and bones.
Santa Ana Cpl. Anthony Bertagna says the couple discovered the remains while landscaping their new home Sunday and called police.
Bertagna said the remains were partially buried, and authorities planned to send an anthropologist to the yard Monday to excavate the bones and analyze them.
He said detectives were talking with the property's previous owners.


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Artikulate is a learning software that helps improving pronunciation skills.
We seek for non-coding contributions in essentially two areas. One area is the creation of language specifications, the other area is the contribution of courses and native speaker recordings:
In construction
Currently it is necessary for every contributor to compile and install Artikulate by herself/himself. Having an up to date KDE SC system in your distribution (KDE SC >= 4.10) makes this rather simple.
Details on how to set up your build system and how to set up environment variables to run Artikulate please refer to:
All course material for Artikulate can be found and edited in the following repository:
For licensing information please see:
You can contribute to this repository with a KDE Developer account. But also if you do not have a KDE Developer account (yet), we are happy to get contributions. For those cases, please write to the mailing list [1].
To work with Artikulate directly at this course material repository please create a local copy of it (git clone). Then start Artikulate and go to the dialog "Settings" (top-left button) and select the root folder of your local copy in that dialog as your course material repository. After restarting Artikulate the training mode as well as the editor mode operate only on the data from the repository.
For details on how to edit or add course skeletons to Artikulate please refer to:
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Oilers waive Ben Eager… my thoughts…
I like this.
Wait, the pessimists will say that the Oilers are losing an asset for nothing, and they will hate this. "Why did we sign him just to waive him?" I will definitely grant that. But we gave it a shot with Eager. I like that we tried. When we first got him, he was a hockey player.. and the guy we were looking for. He could skate fast (still does) and was a willing combatant and worked hard. That seems to have dropped off a cliff. He doesn't seem to be at all helpful to the team anymore. He did fight once this year, but it's starting to become clear that for whatever reason, he isn't interested in that role. He's not protecting his teammates anymore, and Mike Brown has come in and robbed him of his job.
Mike Brown has been doing all the things we could expect of him. He's played with a lot of energy, already drawn a couple penalties, gotten into two scraps, PKed a small bit, gotten himself a goal, and one of his drawn penalties led to a PP goal (can't remember if the one last night did too). He is exactly what I'd hoped for. He's made Ben Eager completely unnecessary. A lot of people hated that we picked up Mike Brown, but the way I saw it, we were picking up a guy to replace Darcy Hordichuk and Ben Eager, and I think we did that perfectly.
Now I don't want to rag on Ben Eager too much. Enforcer is absolutely the hardest role in hockey. I don't know why he has stopped being that guy to stand up for teammates. My best guess is that the concussions he's suffered have played a big part, and for that I feel bad for him, if it's true. I don't think he's become soft, or a pansy or anything like that.. something is holding him back other than him just wanting to turn into a scorer, I believe (which isn't going to happen). So I wish him best of luck, but I hope he is claimed on waivers. That will bring the Oilers down to 48 contracts, and be a good move in trimming more fat from this team.
Next goals by deadline day: move Ryan Whitney, Eric Belanger, and (sorry Steve-O) Ales Hemsky for better parts.


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While agency IT officials are realizing tangible benefits from data center consolidation, they are having a hard time demonstrating cost savings, according to federal IT professionals surveyed in a new report by MeriTalk. And only half of them think the federal government will hit its goal of closing 1,200 data centers by 2015.
Federal agencies are making data center consolidation progress but are unsure if they will meet the 2015 goal of closing 1,200 data centers, according to a MeriTalk study. The study found that:
71 percent say their agencies have closed data centers; on average, each of those agencies has closed 31 centers.
32 percent of agencies report quantifiable cost savings.
50 percent think agencies are on track to meet the FDCCI goal of closing 1,200 data centers by 2015.
56 percent graded their agency's consolidation efforts at 'C' or below.
The challenges they have to overcome include finding money for consolidation, overcoming the objections of agency mission-owners, application consolidation and security, the report states.
Agencies are about halfway to the 2015 goal of closing 1,200 data centers set by the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative launched by the Office of Management and Budget in 2010. And IT managers are seeing real benefits, including better use of IT staff (60 percent), reduced energy consumption (57 percent) and increased use of more efficient computing platforms (47 percent), the report, "The FDCCI Big Squeeze," reveals.
Nearly three out of four (71 percent) of the federal IT professionals surveyed say their agencies have closed data centers as part of FDCCI. These same respondents estimate that an average of 31 data centers per agency have been shut down, according to the study, which surveyed 66 federal IT pros and was underwritten by storage vendor NetApp.
OMB reports that agencies have made significant strides consolidating data centers to date, closing 420 centers as of February 2013, according to a March 27 memo. To help monitor consolidation goals, OMB integrated FDCCI more closely with PortfolioStat, a program introduced in March 2012 to help the government scrutinize an agency's entire IT portfolio with an eye toward eliminating duplicative IT services.
Still, consolidation is not without challenges. More than half, or 56 percent, of the IT professionals surveyed graded their agency's consolidation efforts at "C" or below. And only 50 percent of IT managers surveyed think the government is on target to close 1,200 data centers by 2015. Despite reporting real benefits as a result of consolidation, only 32 percent of agencies report quantifiable cost savings.
Other industry experts in recent months have acknowledged that data center consolidation and optimization efforts are under way, but the process appears to be moving at a snail's pace. And some doubt the government will meet the goal of shuttering about 40 percent of the nearly 2,900 targeted facilities by the end of 2015. Data center consolidation efforts are "either going slowly or stalled because the government is trying to figure out what their budget situation is, or how much money they have to spend," Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal sales at Brocade, a developer of network solutions that help organizations move to virtual environments, said in a November 2012 interview.
Not surprisingly, finding the budget for consolidation is cited by 48 percent of the IT professionals surveyed as one of the primary challenges to achieving success with federal data center consolidation. Other challenges include overcoming mission-owner objections (45 percent), shutting down or consolidating applications (33 percent), security issues (18 percent) and completing data center inventories (15 percent).
The respondents cited the Defense and Homeland Security departments and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as the agencies doing the best job of consolidating data centers, making them role models for other agencies. The report recommends that the government showcase agencies that meet FDCCI checkpoints and encourage others to comply. Better tools must be developed to demonstrate consolidation cost savings, the report states. Plus, cost-savings numbers should be shared with agency mission owners to give them a better understanding of how data center consolidation can benefit them.
"Data center consolidation benefits are real, but federal CIOs need more and better tools to help draw a clear, direct line between cost savings from consolidation and payback to mission owners," Mark Weber, president of NetApp's U.S. Public Sector, said in a statement.
Reaping real savings from the consolidation effort will require agencies to adopt new technologies, including unified computing and improved business analysis systems, to achieve a more meticulous accounting of costs, a sharper focus on cutting duplicative systems and a commitment to tapping shared services opportunities, according to government and industry executives involved in the consolidation drive interviewed by GCN.
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Ya think!!?? This is funny! While a 3rd grader can see the anecdotal value of moving all your computing resources to a data center, the reality of the WAN cost getting to that data is hitting home. Because our congress is, well, our congress, they forgot to quintuple the agency budgets for WANs to make sure the non-paying customers see little or no difference when all their data is moved. At my agency we're stuck with the twinkle-eyed DC folks preaching the benefits of DCs and the rest of the top brass wanting all the rest of the parts of the IT pie cut - including WAN costs. So, whatever's being saved by moving to DCs sure isn't having any of those saving invested in the WAN that enable them. So these DCs too will fail... Many are just as happy with that, who wants their data a two-day drive away?
Not everybody has the nearly unlimited budget that DoD appears to have, so I can't wait for the tide to shift back to decentralization.. Management of people and data processing centers too. And you might ask people to define closed DCs. "My" agency has opened DCs, but we have yet to turn the lights out at the locations where the applications moved to. So, a better question might be, "Has the former compputer room been turned into office space, the HVAC units moved out, the Room-level UPSs moved out, and them not just moved to a new room in the facility?" I'll bet not....
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Leicester 0 Cardiff City 1
Peter Whittingham's superb second-half free-kick ensured Cardiff will defend a slender lead in the Welsh capital on Wednesday night in the second leg of their Coca-Cola Championship play-off semi-final.
Leicester keeper Chris Weale was caught out by the set-piece specialist in the 78th minute as Whittingham whipped a left-footed shot inside the near post from out on the right-hand side.
Cardiff boss Dave Jones will feel it was a deserved victory after watching his side create the most chances.
Leicester created little until the closing stages. Their best opportunity fell to substitute Matty Fryatt but keeper David Marshall stood up to block his shot when one-on-one with the striker.
Marshall then produced a superb reaction save deep into injury time to claw away Alex Bruce's header to edge Cardiff closer to a return to the top flight for the first time in 50 years.
Leicester made five changes. Weale returned in goal and Bruno Berner was recalled at left-back. Joint-leading scorer Martyn Waghorn came back into the side along with midfielders Andy King and Lloyd Dyer.
Michael Morrison failed to sufficiently recover from an ankle knock so Bruce kept his place alongside Jack Hobbs in the centre of defence, with Morrison on the bench.
Just like against Derby a week ago, Cardiff made nine changes. Mark Hudson and Chris Burke were the only survivors from Pride Park.
Joe Ledley, Whittingham, Jay Bothroyd and Michael Chopra were among the key players to return.
Cardiff created three chances during the first half.
The first came after 10 minutes. Bothroyd brought down a long clearance from Marshall midway inside the Leicester half before turning and advancing towards goal.
His left-footed shot from the edge of the area rolled just wide of the post with Weale beaten.
It was from another surging run from Bothroyd midway through the first half that Cardiff went close again.
Bothroyd released his strike partner Chopra down the right side of the area but his shot across goal went wide of the far post when he really should have at least worked Weale.
Five minutes before the break, Ledley put Burke clear down the right-hand side. Chopra got across his marker at the near post but could only flick Burke's low cross against the woodwork from close range.
Cardiff carried their goal threat in to the second half and Bothroyd powered a header over the crossbar from Kevin McNaughton's cross.
It was not until the 53rd minute that Leicester produced their first noteworthy effort on goal as Richie Wellens' driven, low shot from 25 yards flew narrowly wide.
Whittingham put Cardiff ahead before Fryatt went clear in the 83rd minute.
McNaughton got back to make a challenge but the ball broke to Fryatt again only for Marshall to make the save.
Paul Gallacher curled a shot wide as Leicester searched for an equaliser.
It looked like they had got it at the death but Marshall's heroics to thwart Bruce preserved Cardiff's lead


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natejohnson78 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 133 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
S3 Service Success System
We've developed and are marketing a unique informational product called the S3 Service Success System to help small businesses get off the ground. The tone of the manuals are confident, edgy, and fresh. We're looking for a logo that portrays the same image. We want our prospects to know that we are the leading service business consultants and will lead them successfully into their field.
Our target market is individuals who are starting or are just about to start their first service business. The demographic is quite varied...from fresh 20-something entrepreneurs to folks struggling along mid-career who are looking to change their track completely.
We're really up for starting with a clean slate here. You can see from the initial product banner the old color scheme that we began with. Two themes that you might choose to follow are funky, colorful, & clean or alternatively an industrial feel. We'd certainly welcome any retro attempts for fun as well. "S3" is actually the name of the product and "service success system" is simply sub-texting and does not need to be very bold. The logo should be usable for both website (banner, header. etc.) as well as print material. This will be used extensively for branding the printed manuals.
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COLDWATER � Many reasons to smile.
A 19-0 second quarter run helped the Coldwater Lady Cardinals take a 58-24 win over Carleton Airport in the consolation game of the Coldwater Holiday Hoops Tournament on Saturday afternoon.
The Jets jumped out to a 5-3 lead in the opening moments, but Coldwater captured a 7-5 lead and never looked back; as their defensive play helped fuel their offensive effort. Coldwater ended up going on an 11-4 run to close the opening quarter with a 14-9 lead.
The second quarter proved to be the pivotal time, as the Lady Cardinals shut out the Jets with that 19-0 run to push their advantage to 33-9 at the half. The drought continued for the Jets as they failed to score a field goal until the fourth quarter � a drought that started late in the opening quarter � as Coldwater went on a 34-3 run through the second and third quarters. Coldwater coach Ken Smoker was happy with the effort.
"Good things happen offensively when you play well defensively," said Smoker.
Kenzie Galloway led Coldwater with 22 points and eight steals and Sister Kendall added 14 points � a career high � after putting in seven points in Friday night�s game as the sophomore has been contributing more and more each night out.
Senior Meghan Schorfhaar added five points, Carlee Smoker and Michaela Gillette added four points each; Shelby Bowers had three points and four rebounds; Haley Reincke had two points and four rebounds; Jordan Shiery added two points and eight rebounds; Kellie Pierucki had two points and five rebounds and six steals; and Andrea Sowles had four rebounds and two blocks.
Coldwater, 2-4, is back in action on Jan. 10 at home against Sturgis in a SMAC East tilt.
In the JV girls� championship game, Coldwater topped Fremont (Ind.) 37-31. Stacy Guzy had 15 points and Megan Hoath, Payton Watson and Mackenzie McGuire had five each.
In the freshman tournament at Comstock, Coldwater lost to Sturgis, 44-38. Megan Lippert led with 16 points. Madison Marsh added eight points and eight rebounds; and Hannah Parrish had nine points and 10 rebounds.
On the boys� side, Coldwater�s fortunes were the opposite, as a 21-4 first quarter from Dexter was key in Coldwater�s 68-49 loss in the championship game.
The game started out as a 2-2 tie, but Dexter went on a 19-2 run to close the opening quarter with a 17 point lead that was built on three-straight triples by Dexter. In the second quarter, Coldwater was unable to really chip away at the deficit; as Dexter went on a 14-5 run en route to a 42-20 halftime advantage.
Coldwater tried to make a comeback in the third quarter, going on a quick 6-0 run to open the quarter. Coldwater continued the run, cutting the deficit to 15 points (46-31) after a triple from Ryan Hadley. But Dexter went on a 13-2 run to close the quarter and effectively closing the curtain on any Cardinal comeback.
Logan Targgart led Coldwater with 15 points and five rebounds after a slow start. Luke Stempien added 14, Ryan Hadley had 11; Grant Maurer had four points and five rebounds; Luke Beckhusen and Ryan Mock added two points and Michael Magocs added a point.
Coldwater, 1-4, are at Bronson on Jan. 8 for a non-conference contest.
In the boys� JV championship game, Coldwater topped Fremont (Ind.) 57-51. Collin Warner led with 18 points and three rebounds; Nate Waterbury had 10 points and seven rebounds; Nick Akers had nine points and seven boards; Austin Krzeminski had seven points and two rebounds; Brandon Lewis had six points and eight rebounds; Brayton Rzepka had four points and Brendan Spangler had three points and nine rebounds.
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The Lady Vikings won the consolation game of the A&K?Printing Holiday Tournament played at Sturgis High?School, topping Sturgis 41-39.
Sturgis held a 21-16 lead at the half, but a 15-8 third quarter by the Lady Vikings provided for a 31-29 lead going into the fourth quarter; which was a 10-10 affair.
Bronson�s Skyler Sobeski led Bronson with 23 points and seven boards. Kinslea Blouin added five points, and team highs of five steals and four assists. Liz Baker and Kelsey Robinson had five points each, Mallorie Bassage added two; and Grace Pyles added a point.
On the boys� side, Bronson lost 71-55 to Kalamazoo Christian. The game was tied at 47 after three quarters, but K-Christian went on a 24-8 fourth quarter run to open the game up.
Jordan Alger led Bronson with 13 points. Eric Toledo had 12 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and two steals; Chase Carpenter had 11 points, two rebounds and an assist; Sean Kenny Had eight points and five rebounds; and Noah Roberts added seven points and three rebounds.
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Some may consider it vindication that Danny Briere is going to the All-Star Game after all. He prefers to look at it as the chance to keep a promise he made to his children several years ago.
The Flyers centerman was added to next weekend's lineup in place of Calgary's Jarome Iginla, who will miss the festivities because of personal reasons. Briere's addition allows the league to silence the outcry wondering how the leading scorer on the NHL's top overall team was not one of its All-Stars.
"There's politics involved," Briere shrugged. "That's what I was told and I understand how it is sometimes. There are things you can't understand, I was told, and decisions that have to be made. It is what it is, but the one thing I can tell you is that I am really excited to have the chance to take my kids to it."
Briere leads the Flyers with 24 goals and 41 points. Right behind him is Mike Richards with 40 points. Richards is not an All-Star. Hmmm …
"Danny's play is deserving of being in the All-Star Game, but how can you argue with the process?" said general manager Paul Holmgren, taking the high road. "You can't get into that."
The NHL mandates that at least one player from each team be represented in either the All-Star Game or among the 12 rookies that will compete in a skills competition, so there was a numbers crunch. Still, conspiracy theorists had taken Briere's original exclusion as a personal affront against the Flyers franchise.
"We're certainly happy for Danny, that he was added and that his boys will be excited," Holmgren said. "Hopefully, he can go and have a good time and enjoy that time with his family. It's a unique experience."
This year's All-Star Game is being hosted by the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday, Jan. 30. The skills challenge is the night before.
Briere will be bringing his three children, Caelan, Carson and Cameron. Flyers teammate Claude Giroux will make his first All-Star appearance. Sure to make it an even neater experience for the kids is that Giroux, lives with Team Briere in their South Jersey home. Giroux is the tall one.
Briere had originally planned to go to Florida to attend hockey tournaments his kids were playing.
"I'm sure some of the coaches won't be happy," he chuckled shortly after learning he was an All-Star. "I better start making some phone calls before it comes out."
"They are at a prime age for these kinds of things," Briere continued. "I know they're going to be very excited about it. They're 9, 11 and 12. Three boys. They all play hockey, so obviously the All-Star Game is a big thing for them. That's probably the biggest thrill for me, having the chance to share it with them."
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Schools were always believed to be beyond the effect of recessions, and colleges flourished in the past decade, increasing enrollment of 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.S. by 4% from 2000 to 2008. But both public and private schools have begun to flinch. "Education used to be recession-proof, at least until the last economic downtown," says Fritz McDonald, vice president of creative strategy for Stamats Inc., a leading higher-education marketing firm. "But in this particular recession, endowments took a huge hit, and obviously state budgets have taken a huge hit, and those two events are having a huge impact on the college and university world."
One study by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (an association of private colleges) "predicts that by 2025, half of all the private colleges or universities in this country are going to have to close, merge or change their missions if they're going to survive," says Mike Connor, president of Connor Associates Strategic Services, a school marketing and planning consultancy. "That's a pretty sobering fact because we're only 15 years out from that."
As a result, schools must visibly change the ways they market themselves. McDonald points out that colleges have become conservative with their marketing plans, yet they're adopting social media at a faster rate than Fortune 500 companies. "They've been in the old recruiting model for a long time, and what they're going through is a kind of sea change because of digital technology," he says. "They're confronting the fact that, for example, the Web is becoming the hub of their marketing and recruiting."
Yet, it's still proven that promotional products have a lower cost-per-impression than even prime-time television, with just 0.5 cents per impression as compared to TV's 1.8 cents. When social media is paired with promotional products as a marketing strategy, several audiences can be conquered at once.
Connor sees value as becoming even more important for schools to justify, starting with what he terms "internal marketing" (word of mouth among a school's current students and parents) and coinciding with regarding the entire school as a marketing organization. "They just can't claim it," he says about schools' demonstrating their value. "They can't just say, 'We're the best.' They got to be able to prove it."
The task for schools is going to be incredibly difficult as they grapple with what exactly constitutes a 21st-century curriculum. The standard brick-and-mortar school is no longer the only game in town. Home schooling is increasing by 15% per year. Charter schools now enroll over 1.5 million students in more than 5,000 schools. Independent study, online education, specialty schools and more all threaten the current order of education. "Education is going to be available anywhere, and from a variety of different sources," proclaims Connor.


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MANCHESTER - Cathleen A. Schmidt, former president and chief executive officer of Citizens Bank of New Hampshire and Vermont, has joined the law firm of McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton as executive director and chief executive officer.
Schmidt spent more than five years as president and CEO at Citizens, where she was responsible for overseeing the 108 branches and 1,200 employees in New Hampshire and Vermont.
She has served on the boards of the New Hampshire Business and Industry Association, the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, the Manchester Economic Development Corporation, and the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts and has been involved in several other nonprofits.
"Cathy steps up and gets involved in important issues that affect the quality of life for so many in our community," said Dick Samuels, McLane's managing director.
As executive director, Schmidt will be responsible for overseeing the operational, financial, marketing and human resource functions of the firm.
She takes over from Mike McCluskey, who announced that he would be stepping down after a 14-year tenure this spring. Under his direction, the firm grew to employ 90 attorneys practicing in four offices in two states.
Beginning July 8, Schmidt can be reached at her Manchester office at (603) 625-6464 or by e-mail at email@example.com.


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Palo Alto Networks has announced enhancements to its enterprise security and Wildfire threat analysis systems that speed up the discovery and elimination of malware, zero-day exploits and advanced persistent threats, according the firm.
The upgrades are designed to address new methods criminals are now using to evade more traditional security measures, including firewalls, intrusion detection and anti-virus systems. Such legacy tools often address only a single type of threat across a limited range of network traffic, says Palo Alto, resulting in high rates of attack and costly damage control measures.
To meet more sophisticated enterprise threats, Palo Alto says a highly automated and scalable "closed loop" approach is required. This includes positive security controls to minimize the attack surface, inspection of traffic to block all known threats and the use of new protections to block all new or previously unknown threats.
The firm says its enhanced enterprise security system is pioneering this approach, starting with a new firewall as the core defense within the network and including advanced detection and analysis features from its WildFire service.
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Phil Cummings, security administrator for the Health Information Services – Nova Scotia, said the Palo Alto platform gives the agency an extra layer of security.
"By having our firewall, URL filtering, threat prevention natively integrated and managed from a single dashboard – instead of multiple niche products, we have a clearer picture of our threat landscape. Ultimately, the platform gives us what we need to effectively detect, analyze, block, and, more importantly, quickly remediate issues."
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Tomorrow is small business Saturday
November 23, 2012
If you're not familiar with it, Small Business Saturday is a marketing effort spearheaded by American Express to try to help small businesses on the same weekend they'd otherwise get buried by Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The goal is to get you to remember small businesses on the weekend when the big businesses make a killing.
In the writing community, it's a good time to visit an independent bookstore instead of ordering from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Maybe buy a gift card to an Indie for someone.
Or, given that most writers are also small businesses, maybe it's time to just support a writer, perhaps someone you know. And let them know you did it.
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When the Louisiana-Lafayette Rajin' Cajuns decided to turn their attention to Nicholls guard K.K. Babin, it was up to her Colonel teammates to take matters into their hands.
When the Louisiana-Lafayette Rajin' Cajuns decided to turn their attention to Nicholls guard K.K. Babin, it was up to her Colonel teammates to take matters into their hands.
Senior Alisha Allen did just that.
While Babin still finished with 12 points, it was Allen who powered her way to 28 points in the paint and nabbed 10 rebounds as the Colonels defeated the Cajuns 71-62 Monday night in Stopher Gymnasium.
With the win the Colonels improved their record to 4-1, the best start for any woman's basketball team in school history.
"I wanted to play hard and show that I am capable of playing to the best of my ability," Allen said. "We're excited, but we know we still have things to work on. We want to keep this momentum and be the best team that we can be."
Nicholls coach DoBee Plaisance credited Allen for taking the initiative to step up when her team needed it the most.
"She took control of that, she saw how the tempo of the game was going and took control," Plaisance said. "I am so proud of her and the way our team played in general. We played hard. I give K.K. credit for the way she handled the pressure."
The Colonels opened the game on an 11-2 run capped off by four points from Allen before the Cajuns used a 5-0 run to close the gap to 11-7 following a lay-up by Ashley Benjamin (14 points).
Four more Allen points triggered a 7-0 run and 18-7 Colonels lead with 10:44 to play in the first half before a 15-4 swing eventually tied the game at 22 behind Benjamin's eight points.
The Cajuns (2-2) took the lead 24-22, and again 26-24 before a 12-2 Colonel run, sparked by a Jenny Nash 3-pointer and three points from Kishaun Williams, gave the Colonels a 36-28 halftime lead.
In the second half, the Colonels appeared to take control at the 16:07 mark when an Emani White (11 points) 3-pointer put Nicholls in the lead 48-33 but the Cajuns refused to go away.
A 10-0 Cajun run was lead by five points from Keke Veal (19 points), and Louisiana-Lafayette pulled within five, 48-43 with 14:10 to play.
However, the Colonels added a 5-0 run of their own following a free throw by Babin to increase their lead to 53-43.
The Cajuns got it down to six (53-47) at the 12:09 mark but failed to pull any closer the rest of the way as Nicholls out-scored the Cajuns 18-15 the rest of the way en route to the nine point win.
The win over the Cajuns also marked another feat for the Colonels. It was the 12th win in the last 16 home games for Plaisance's team.
Defending the home court is something the Colonels take pride in, Plaisance said.
"We certainly want to own it here," she said. "We made history tonight but this team is so humble that none of that fazes them. We just take it one game at a time and this is going to be a special year for that group and this is a very special group."
Nicholls out-rebounded the Cajuns 41-35 and had more second chance points (17-10) and points in the paint (32-30) to assist in the win.


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