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College football is a lot of things, as anyone who ever watched the old intros to the ABC broadcasts with Keith Jackson can attest to.
It is, at its best, Saturday afternoons and bands and cheerleaders and tailgate parties and great players and greater games, all of it built over the years with ever-building tradition.
But above all of that it is one more thing, the one thing it is losing in its modern form, and that is a game of rivalries.
And that is what's missing here in West Virginia, where nothing is culturally more important than football.
With Pitt and "The Backyard Brawl" a casualty of realignment and Marshall just never having developed into the bitter instate rivalry it should have, there is something terribly lacking from football at WVU, and it is not something that you create a plan to replace.
Indeed, rivalries grow out of the ages and perhaps peeking into how a couple of them began will give you an idea of why it will be difficult for WVU to come up with one.
Take Army-Navy, which started more than a 123 years ago with a "challenge" and that reached such a heated stage just three years later following a Navy victory when an incident between a rear admiral and brigadier general led to a near duel that resulted in President Cleveland calling a cabinet meeting during which it was decided that Army and Navy could continue playing football, but only at home. That effectively kept them from facing each other, a ban that lasted five years.
Rivalries are part of America and produce far more than just a football game.
The Ohio State alma mater "Carmet Ohio" was written on the train ride home to Columbus following an 86-0 whipping at Michigan in 1902.
The Ohio State-Michigan rivalry also gave us one of our most lasting sports clichés, for after Michigan beat the Buckeyes four times from 1930 to 1933, twice claiming the national championship after the game, a reporter asked the Ohio State coach Francis Schmidt the next year if the Buckeyes could beat the Wolverines in 1934.
"Of course we can win, Michigan puts their pants on one leg at a time just like we do," he replied.
It stuck as American folklore after the Buckeyes beat the pants of Michigan the next four years, outscoring them, 122-0.
Rivalries, of course, grow in stature as they match great coach against great coach, be it Barry Switzer and Darrell Royal in Oklahoma-Texas, Bear Bryant and Shug Jordan in Alabama-Auburn, Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler in Ohio State-Michigan, John McKay and John Robinson at USC-UCLA.
Mostly, though, it grows out of memorable games, be it the famed 1950 "Snow Bowl" battle between Ohio State and Michigan played in one of the worst blizzards ever in Ohio, Nebraska's narrow victory over Oklahoma in "The Game of the Century" in the 1970s, Notre Dame and Michigan State's 13-13 tie in a national championship matchup or, dare it be mentioned, Pitt's stunning upset of Pat White and West Virginia when the Mountaineers were on the verge of playing Ohio State for a national title.
Rivalry games are the heart and soul of college football. The Pitt loss will be talked about 100 years from now, just as will the 2010 Auburn-Alabama game when the Crimson Tide jumped off to a 24-0 lead at home only to see Cam Newton and Auburn erase it and win, 28-27. That game carried Auburn to its first national title in 53 years, to say nothing of leading Harvey Updyke to poison Toomer's Trees on the Auburn campus.
Such passion is why Beano Cook once termed the Alabama-Auburn rivalry "Gettysburg South."
Paul Finebaum, the Alabama talk show star, tells a story to explain the passion and how deeply it ran after that upset. Auburn was about to play Oregon for the national championship when a friend of Finebaum's died.
He was supposed to give one of two eulogies and was nervous about it when the first eulogist was reaching the end of his talk, speaking of their friend's final moments with his sister.
"She knew it was near the end, and the hospice nurse walked out of the room so she could say goodbye to Bruce," the man said. "He could barely talk, and she moved in closer. He said, 'I love you' and she hugged him and started to move away, but he had two more words, which would be the final words of his life: "Go Ducks."
This is why WVU must find a way to get Pitt back on its schedule, for you cannot reinvent or create what they had built over more than century of one of sport's greatest rivalries.
Email Bob Hertzel at email@example.com. Follow on Twitter @bhertzel.
HERTZEL COLUMN- WVU lacking the bitter rivalry game
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Post 17 makes quick work of Wheeling to advance: PHOTOS
Fairmont Post 17 scattered 16 hits and plated double-digit runs in a 10-2 rout of Post 1 Wheeling Friday afternoon at Hawley Field.
Fairmont wasted no time getting runs across the plate. Right fielder James Bolander smoked a two-RBI double in the bottom of the first inning to grab a 2-0 lead that Fairmont would never surrender.
A healthy Trickett gives WVU chance to win
You might recall that Pat White's career as West Virginia quarterback began when Adam Bednarik was injured in the Louisville game of White's freshman year, opening the door for him to come on and lead one of the greatest comebacks in school history.
HERTZEL COLUMN: Lingering injury keeps Barber out as season begins
He was off on the sidelines on the first day of practice, where he'll be for quite a while now, wearing the red jersey that signifies a player is unable to practice due to injury.
It wasn't that he was standing around watching the proceedings. That's not how it is with Jared Barber.
No, he'd jog up the sideline, then back.
COLUMN: DeVaul answers when called upon
For the second time in seven days, Post 17 Fairmont called on its veteran leader when it needed a win to stay alive.
As Fairmont and Post 1 Wheeling stepped onto the field for a rematch with the stakes much higher than their previous meeting at the American Legion state baseball tournament, the ball was placed into Fletcher DeVaul's hands.
FURFARI COLUMN: Bob Slonneger widely known as WVU professor, stats crew chief
Robert Dean Slonneger of Morgantown, a widely known college professor and athletic game statistician, has passed away.
"Bob," as he was known to his multitude of friends, died on Tuesday morning, July 29, at Mon General Hospital, after a brief illness.
WVU men's basketball tickets on sale Monday
Season tickets for West Virginia's 2014-15 men's basketball campaign will go on sale Monday, Aug. 4, at the Mountaineer Ticket Office.
West Virginia will play 16 home games at the WVU Coliseum.
Steelers sign Suisham through 2018 season
Shaun Suisham doesn't seem to mind kicking at Heinz Field.
The most accurate kicker in Pittsburgh Steelers' history parlayed his consistency into a four-year contract extension that runs through the 2018 season. Financial terms for the deal, announced Friday, were not disclosed.
Kicker sees second chances after gondola accident
Maikon Bonani knows all about second chances.
The native of Brazil is back with the Titans for a second year with the kicker job wide open for the taking, and he's the only guy in training camp with any NFL experience if kicking in a preseason game counts.
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NORMAN — Norman Superintendent Joe Siano is calling 2013/2014 an "application year," as the district will capitalize on staying ahead of the curve in upcoming state reforms.
"This year the focus is on understanding the standards and what changes in instruction need to happen — next year we'll see it in the classroom and you see us moving toward it now increasing strategies with reading," Siano said.
The State Department of Education has set the Common Core standards' implementation deadline for the 2014/2015 school year, meaning districts have until then to make adjustments to respective curriculum and instruction methods.
In anticipation of this deadline, NPS has already been making changes such as raising literacy benchmarks for K-12 students during the 2012/2013 year. Since 2014/2015 will be the school year that students are taught with the new curriculum, this year will be about reinforcing the district teachers in their understanding of the reforms.
"I think one of the great things about this year is that we started Common Core standards last year, and this year we're able to deepen our understanding of it," said Assistant Superintendent Shirley Simmons. "This is not a year of new things so much as taking initiatives we've already started and really diving into the implementation of them. Raising the standards before we have to is an effective way we're easing in."
New standards and rigor in instruction have informed the district's adoption of supplemental tools like Achieve3000, a literacy-boosting online platform or AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), a college-readiness system for K-12 students accelerating learning.
"I'm excited about the opportunity to introduce AVID at the high school level. It was a long-term goal of the schools to get a bigger variety of kids into AP courses. AVID is the piece that was missing for us in creating the safety net and preparatory work for students to be able to take those courses," Siano said.
High school instruction will be a priority on another major feature of the 2013/2014 school year: the next bond issue. Estimated to be proposed to the community in February 2014, Siano said this capital improvement project will go beyond just facilities.
"A number of investments we'll prioritize will be another technology investment and a solid vision for instruction at the high school level. We're currently completing our demographic and facilities study and expect to finalize and present our plans in the fall," Siano said.
Fall also will likely include a workshop with the board of education detailing the district's evaluations on school safety with international nonprofit Safe Havens International — including revamped intruder and storm shelter procedures.
"For topics like this that are very in-depth and of high importance, I like to have work days with the board members to take a detailed look at our findings and what we'll do with the information. I suspect we'll schedule a workshop in September or October," Siano said.
Overall, Siano and Simmons anticipate a year focusing on continuing what has been set in motion and placing quality classroom interaction and student well-being above all else.
"One of my big goals is to make sure our teachers can see the connection between all these reforms and changes and see how they complement each other and bottom line, help our students reach their potential," Simmons said.
"What we've come to in the district is this: Outside quantitative measures like the A-F system are there for whatever they're worth and we can't control those. What we can control is best practices and quality instruction," Siano said. "If we put our resources in the right place, if you do the right things with kids every day, the quantitative assessment will reflect that."

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Rumors of an approaching violent incident circulated through four Putnam high schools Thursday, prompting authorities and school officials to probe student chatter.
The following came from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office Thursday evening:
Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports that his office, working today in conjunction with school officials, investigated and dispelled false rumors of impending violence at four high schools in the county.
In separate incidents today, school officials at the Brewster, Carmel, Mahopac and Putnam Valley High Schools notified the Sheriff's Office that rumors were circulating in those schools that some violent act would happen tomorrow (Friday) on their respective school campuses. The rumors were brought to the attention of the school resource officers ("SROs")—deputy sheriffs assigned
to the schools. In each instance, the SROs investigated the rumors and determined them to be unfounded.
"In each of the four cases, it was determined that the information being circulated was a false and baseless rumor, and did not represent any credible danger," said Sheriff Smith. "None of the
cases involved any student who made a direct or overt threat to commit an act of violence."
The Sheriff noted that security precautions at schools throughout Putnam County have been heightened since the deadly attack last week at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Dr. Jane Sandbank, superintendent of Brewster Central Schools, said she had been in touch with several other district leaders from across the area Thursday. She noted that talk of the "end of the World" may have played into the rumors, which reportedly started on Twitter.
"It's like a game of telephone," she said.
Brewster High School Principal Dr. Joseph Castagnola addressed the rumors Thursday afternoon with an announcement intended to assure students that reported threats were unsubstantiated, Sandbank told Patch.


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State Rep. Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood) made national news late last month when he released a report stating that since Hurricane Ike struck the Texas Gulf Coast more than four years ago, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has paid out more than $1.2 billion dollars on individually litigated claims related to the disaster.
When Hurricane Ike devastated a large section of the upper Texas Gulf Coast, it exposed not only the vulnerability of man-made structures to nature's fury but the inadequacy of the measures put in place to deal with the resulting financial ruin.
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PORTLAND – Multnomah County Animal Control took a snake into custody after someone found it on a downtown street Thursday morning.
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Mt. Malady: 'For their comfort and recoverie'
About 25 years ago, according to Dennis A. J. Morey, leaders of Henrico Doctors' Hospital got into a discussion about whether the institution could claim the banner of Henrico's first hospital.
When officials looked into their hold on that claim, however, it turned out that they had been well off the mark.
More than three centuries off, as a matter of fact.
And that, Morey told a lecture audience, was how he got involved with the Henricus Foundation.
"I was chief of staff at Henrico Doctors' Hospital," said Morey. "We learned we weren't the first Henrico hospital, and the staff thought it'd be good if we rebuilt [the first one]."
A week after that brown-bag lecture, at Henricus Publick Days 2003, it was Morey who gave the order to a dozen or so men to lift a 1,000-pound wooden wall into place – the first wall of the reconstructed Mt. Malady.
After those discussions of the 1980s, and the commitment to rebuild the first hospital, the retired gastroenterologist had gone on to become a founder of Henricus Historical Park – the setting for the original Mount Malady.
A re-creation of the second successful English settlement in North America, Henricus today boasts numerous colonial-era buildings constructed in the wattle and daub style, not to mention a blacksmith's forge and tradesman's area, crop and tobacco fields, tobacco barn and husbandry buildings.
But the Mount Malady building – re-created with the help of a $250,000 contribution from HCA Richmond Hospital – might be called a centerpiece.
Built in 1612, the original Mt. Malady was not merely the first hospital in Henrico.
As the first hospital in North America, its establishment ranks No. 13 on the Henrico Citizen's list of the most significant moments in Henrico's 400-year history.
At the 2006 dedication of the new Mount Malady, Peter Marmenstein, CEO of CJW Medical Center, and Del. John O'Bannon were among the speakers who lauded the collaboration among localities, citizens and corporations that had brought the project to fruition.
"This is a wonderful story," said O'Bannon. "Local government partners, working together, had the foresight to realize what this could become, [and joined] HCA from the private sector and citizens on the Henricus Foundation. "
'For the sicke and lame'
In the first written mention of the original Mount Malady, Robert Johnson of London noted in a description of settlement construction, "Here they were building also an Hospitall with fourscore lodging, and beds alreadie sent to furnish them for the sicke and lame, with keepers' to attend them for their comfort and recoverie."
Most likely, the original Mt. Malady was a a long, narrow structure protected by a palisade or paled fence. It held about 40 beds for 80 patients – a step up from the typical European hospital of the time, which might have housed four or more patients of mixed gender per bed, forcing them to sleep head-to-toe in rotating shifts.
Modern hospital amenities such as white linens and sanitized instruments were unheard of. As were doctors, for the most part.
Colonists were cared for by friends, family, and even the soldiers assigned to protect the hospital. Barber-surgeons might have also staffed Mount Malady, performing such duties as tooth extractions and bleedings and treating intestinal worms – in addition to shaving and cutting hair.
Mt. Malady also differed from modern hospitals in its foremost purpose, which was to serve as a retreat or guest house similar to today's "assisted living."
For many colonists, Mt. Malady was the first stop as they arrived in the New World. After an Atlantic voyage lasting two to four months, a stay at the hospital gave settlers time to recover from their journey and become acclimatized or "seasoned" to Virginia's unaccustomed heat and humidity.
But when those incoming settlers brought infectious disease with them – or when settlers contracted typhoid fever, dysentery and salt poisoning by drinking contaminated water from shallow wells or the James – Mt. Malady would become an acute care facility.
Protecting 'investments'
Probably no one wanted Mt. Malady to succeed more than The Virginia Company officials.
After all, many settlers represented significant investments to the company, which had financed their passages with the expectation of several years of indenture in return. If a settler died owing years of work, The Virginia Company lost money.
As a "herbologist" mixed potions at the 2006 dedication, he reminded guests how perilously close the Virginia colony came to failing due to illness at Jamestown. The settlers almost gave up and went home before Lord de La Warre arrived at Jamestown in 1610.
"Of the first 3600 who came to the colony, 3,000 didn't make it past a year," the herbologist said. As someone told me, 'Come to Virginia and Die' doesn't make a real good bumper sticker!"
But in 1611, Sir Thomas Dale headed upriver from Jamestown to the healthier and more secure environment on the high bluff at Henricus.
And this past May, as Henricus celebrated its 400th anniversary with a weekend devoted to Mt. Malady activities, a crowd of hundreds came to observe demonstrations by barber-surgeon re-enactors and participate in making home brews, remedies, and potions. They heard talks about the role of women as primary healers within the home in colonial and Virginia Indian cultures, and saw for themselves what settlers described four centuries ago as a "convenient, strong, healthie and a sweete seate to plant a new Towne in."
And if visitors wondered how a hospital perched on that "sweete seate" on the banks of the James could be tagged with such a negative name, they wondered no longer.
The name, which at first glance seems to be a corruption of the French word for illness, is not French at all. According to Dr. Morey's research, Mt. Malady's name is actually derived from "Milady," or the Virgin Mary.
For details about Henricus, call 748-1613 or visit http://www.henricus.org
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden raises admission $1
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden's admission has increased by $1 across all categories. Admission is now $12 for adults; $11 for seniors ages 55 and older; and $8 for children ages 3–12. Admission remains free for children ages 3 and younger and for members.
The last price increase was in 2011, before the Garden consistently hosted Butterflies LIVE! (which is included with admission). > Read more.
Garden tails
The threat of bad weather didn't keep visitors away from Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden July 10 for the facility's weekly Flowers After 5 event (which pairs music and food with a chance to stroll the garden) and its monthly Fidos After 5 (which allows dog owners to bring their pets with them to enjoy the evening). > Read more.
Western Henrico Rotary helps fund Midwives For Haiti Jeep
Thanks in part to a $10,000 gift from the Western Henrico Rotary Club, another bright pink Jeep modified to travel extremely rough terrain has been delivered to Midwives For Haiti so that more pregnant women in the quake-ravaged country will have access to prenatal care and a greater chance of surviving childbirth.
The funds were raised at the annual casino night held in February, club president Adam Cherry said. The Rotary Club also helped purchase the Virginia-based charity's first pink jeep three years ago. > Read more.
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US Army Field Band to perform in Henrico Aug. 3
The United States Army Field Band will present a free public performance at Deep Run Park in Henrico on Sunday, Aug 3 at 3 p.m.
Members of the band are soldiers who also serve as "musical ambassadors of the Army" and perform for schools and communities nationwide.
The Concert Band will be performing along with the Soldiers' Chorus. > Read more.
Weekend Top 10
Take in a show at several locations this weekend! West End Comedy will provide laughs at HATTheatre; the production of "Pump Boys and Dinettes" will close Sunday; and the youth theatre company CharacterWorks will present "Footloose" at The Steward School. Another show perfect for the kids – "Despicable Me 2" is playing at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center tonight. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
Is there an Echo in here?
'Earth to Echo' aims to become this generation's 'ET'
It's no secret that all found-footage genre movies are the same. Grab a couple of characters, give one of them a camera, and expose them to something supernatural that's content to lurk just off-screen until the last five minutes. Everything else will just fall into place.
But that formula isn't particularly family friendly, if only because that thing waiting a few feet to the left of the cast is usually plotting their violent doom.
That's what sets Earth to Echo apart from the pack. It, too, follows a group of characters armed with a camera and a tendency to encounter unknown life forms. But all those familiar parts have been rearranged just enough to make it suitable for a much younger audience. > Read more.
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A deer crashed through the front window of a Johnstown, Pennsylvania bus. And -- it safely left the same way every other passenger gets off the bus.
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A Pennsylvania bus driver had a surprise passenger recently that entered the bus unconventionally but left just like any other passenger.
The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat reports that a deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown on Tuesday evening.
The CamTran bus driver's bus-driving instincts quickly kicked in.
"The driver immediately stopped the bus," Yoder told the paper. "He opened the door, and the deer just walked off the bus."
The bus was only carrying one female passenger at the time, and no injuries were reported. The bus was taken in for repairs.
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Multisession Workstations
Go to the Citrix Web site, look for the XenApp Linux client and download it. Copy the downloaded file into your chroot system. In your chrooted session, untar the Citrix client file. After decompression, you should have a new folder named linuxx86 and a few extra files, including the install script called setupwfc. To install, as root, execute ./setupwfc, and answer the text wizard questions. You may have to fill in some dependencies for your distro, but after a few moments, your LTSP image will be Citrix-enabled.
The Citrix server configuration is beyond the scope of this article. You should start with a working Citrix XenApp Server. The good news is that you don't even need to be one of the Citrix server administrators at your company, you just need to have the user name and password for an account with published applications on the server. In other words, if you already have access to a desktop or an application via Citrix, you can set up that connection as one of the screens on your multisession terminal server. Simply log in to your Citrix session as a regular user and download the session definition ICA file (Figure 5). ICA files are actually text files that contain the information and settings to establish a connection to a XenApp server. The easiest way to download this file is to right-click on one of the icons displayed on your Citrix server Web interface and select Save link as.
Once you have your ICA file, copy it to the Citrix client install directory on your chroot session:
$ cp my-ica-file.ica /usr/lib/ICAClient/desktop.ica
Now, let's create the screen script for the Citrix session in /usr/share/ltsp/screen.d. We'll call this script citrix1:
#!/bin/sh # Copy the ica file to a temp file because # wfica deletes the file on execution. cp /usr/lib/ICAClient/desktop.ica \ /usr/lib/ICAClient/temp-file-desktop.ica sudo xinit /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica \ /usr/lib/ICAClient/temp-file-desktop.ica
Notice that XenApp is the new name for the Citrix presentation server, so any Citrix server XenApp or presentation server will work.
Finally, exit your chroot session and add the new screen parameter for the citrix1 script in your lts.conf file. It should look like this:
[default] ... SCREEN_05 = citrix1
Now you can rebuild your LTSP image with the ltsp-update-image command, and test the Citrix session on your PXE boot client when you press Ctrl-Alt-F5.
The rdesktop client and script are included in the LTSP install package, so you won't have to create scripts or install new packages. All you need to do is include their screen parameters in the lts.conf file. Your final file should look like this:
[default] VNC_OPTIONS = "-FullColor -passwd /usr/share/ltsp/vnc-passwd" VNC_SERVER = your.mac.ip.address RDP_OPTIONS = "-a 16" RDP_SERVER = your.windowsTS.ip.address SCREEN_01 = shell SCREEN_02 = rdesktop SCREEN_03 = ldm SCREEN_04 = vnc1 SCREEN_05 = citrix
This time, you don't need to run ltsp-update-image. When you use the /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf file, it's read directly from the server and not from the ltsp-image. Be aware that there is another lts.conf file inside the chroot directory; avoid using that one.
If you've tested each step of your progress, you surely know by now that sometimes different "screens" suddenly take over the monitor output. They seem to be fighting each other to be top dog. This is not a bug. It happens when a remote session login screen timeouts. Windows and Citrix wait patiently for your login credentials, but after some inactivity time, they drop your connection. When this happens, X dies. Then your LTSP terminal restarts X and restarts the connection. This pulls the visible screen to the newly started X screen, taking over the monitor output.
To avoid this effect, you need to log in to all of your available sessions. Logged-in sessions also have timeouts, but they are much longer.
The simplest solution is based on an idea I found in an older version (from LTSP 3.0) of the rdesktop script. The script included a "read" statement just before the xinit call. That way, users had to press a key to start their rdesktop session. You can use that same approach. It's not fancy, but it works.
A more stylish solution is to use zgv to show a picture just before the session start line. zgv closes when users press the Enter or Esc key. Remember to add a "Press Enter to start" banner to your image.
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Collaborated with and written by Stan Slap. Stan will be the first speaker at BusinessNext Social, the Social Business conference where business leaders share "Great Ideas Worth Executing".
I don't know Yahoo Yahoo! personally; they're not one of my company's clients. But I know how cultures work and how to work them. The turnaround that Marissa Mayer is attempting will be decided by the reactions and actions of its manager, employee and customer cultures – in that order. You may not know Yahoo! either but these are the same three groups that are deciding the success of your own company while you read this sentence. Listen up.
A culture is not simply a bunch of managers, employees and customers. When they form as a culture, each of these groups is far more self-protective, far more intelligent and far more resistant to standard methods of corporate influence.
Restoring Yahoo! to former glory starts with its manager culture's willingness to deliver emotional commitment: to treat the success of the company like a personal cause. Emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for managers' discretionary effort, worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined. The key neurobiological source of emotional commitment is the ability to live one's deepest personal values in a relationship or environment. For Yahoo! managers this means living their own values in their relationship with the company and the environment at work.
Marissa must overcome an executive's natural reluctance to allow managers to prioritize their own values over company objectives. This isn't licensing chaos; it is ensuring control. There is no greater way for the company to become the cause than by not always insisting on being the cause. Any expert in human behavior will tell you that if you want an emotionally committed relationship then people must be allowed to be true to who they are in that relationship. Yahoo! managers must believe that to protect the company is to protect the ability to be who they really are. If it wants to retain and attract top management talent, Yahoo! must move beyond the commodity aspects of compensation that this talent can always get and create the best possible place for managers to practice true fulfillment.
Yahoo!'s employee culture has seen many strategies come and go, sold by managers who never really bought them, and it has every reason to be cynical about the new CEO's grand plan. Marissa shouldn't be intimidated by this kind of reaction. Cynical doesn't mean the culture doesn't care; cynical means it hurts to care and the culture will support her turnaround strategy when it believes it's safe and sane to do so.
Neither business logic, nor management authority, nor any compelling competitive urgency will ever convince an employee culture to adopt a corporate cause as if it were its own. If Yahoo! wants its employee culture to buy a new management plan it has to know how to sell it. A culture exists to protect itself and so it would seem reasonable that if it helps the company survive it will ensure its own survival. But only if the culture perceives a reliable thru line between company fortunes and its own and there are plenty of reasons for the Yahoo! culture to currently believe otherwise.
The Yahoo! employee culture is preconditioned to be initiative weary and wary. Marissa shouldn't ask for its full trust since she isn't going to get it. Instead, she should ask for a small amount of trust – 90 day's at a time based on small commitments – and keep renegotiating for more. A culture doesn't trust strategies; it trusts leaders who bring it strategies. Until it knows her better the culture will be reluctant to extend full credit.
Based on its own perceptions, an employee culture rarely does anything illogical or unpredictable. Neither is it asking for motivational fairy tales. It is asking for management demands to be imbedded with respect for what's most important to the culture expected to deliver on them. The Yahoo! employee culture wants to do the right thing. It believes that the right thing is to protect itself. Honoring this, not fighting it, is the difference between the culture's compliance and defiance.
I am reading Stan's book now. His approach makes sense as it not only outlines a path to regain the emotional commitment of the three consituents, but it also addresses a key that I think is often misunderstood. Many strong corporate boards, investors and leaders seem sold on the notion that you win loyalty and success through callous treatment of the team. I do think building the right team is essential. It appears as though Marissa is doing that. But once that is achieved, the practicality of top leadership actually earning trust and conviction in short steps and by encouraging and embracing the teams' values, rather than simply trying to force it seems obvious. This is indeed "the hard stuff".
FWIW, I tried to get Stan in here at Yahoo! to do his 'Bury my Heart' preso for an offsite event several years ago when I was in IT management but I was unsuccessful. Senior management balked at the expense and we ended up saving a few bucks and putting everybody to sleep with an unremembered speaker who provided little long-term value.
Stan provides a service that goes far beyond simple motivational bromides. I watched real and lasting change occur in myself and others over a period of months after attending his "Dealing with Difficult People" program while at Inktomi. I do hope Marissa considers bringing him here some time and see what happens. If she does and I'm not invited to his presentation, I'm sneaking in :)
Being in touch with emotions will always get you further in the workplace and in everyday life. Managing others takes sensitivity to what's going on externally in work conditions. Likewise, internal cycles can impact focus and ability to get along with fellow workmates. A good manager knows how to lead: by example, by being approachable, with communicating in way that's understandable, checks if the message is being digested and offers chances to hear comments and ideas. When people are heard on an emotional level, they tend to be on board for the present.
Having received a couple of those heart-warming Christmas messages and worse, I particularly appreciated the Yahoo Christmas message as an example of what is wrong in many companies. Short and not so sweet.


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Art On The Square Arts League is a nonprofit arts organization, created by a dedicated group of volunteers, more than seven years ago. AOTS is one of the groups seeking use of the building known as the Little Red Schoolhouse, on Washington Street.
AOTS has a long-respected reputation with the city of Athens, Limestone County, Athens State University, TRAIL (county wide youth civic service organization), Redstone Federal Credit Union, and others who recognize AOTS' superior work in this community. AOTS hopes to use the Little Red Schoolhouse to showcase and promote the arts in the Athens community, while drawing attention to its' unique culture.
The goal will be to establish a center that reflects local history, as well as the future, by integrating an artistic vision into the space; sponsoring a year-round gallery with art shows; providing plein-air instruction in the historic district; offering a variety of classes; and engaging visiting artists and musicians to perform.
On Sept. 8, 2012, juried artists from far and wide will sell their works for the seventh consecutive year under the trees around the Limestone County Courthouse. The festival showcases some of the highest quality art from the region and beyond. Thousands of people attend the highly anticipated art festival.
A Budding Artists' Tent allows young artists from this community to sell their own work during the show. Families bring their children to enjoy the all-art KidsZone. Everyone is invited to participate in creating a public art project that is presented to the community for display. Renowned guest musicians will perform. This year, a writer's conference — Kudzu Chronicles: A Southern Writers Event at Art on the Square (see story on page 1A) — will add another dimension to the fine arts festival downtown, at the Center for Lifelong Learning. On Saturday, Sept. 8, attendees can come free to hear authors speak on a variety of topics, and join discussions on writing, getting published and historical research and genealogy. Tickets to the Friday night kickoff party are $20 each and attendees can meet the authors and have them sign books, as well as participate in a silent auction of books signed by a variety of Southern authors.
The Art On the Square board understands the importance of children growing up in a community that invests in its' culture and art. AOTS currently reaches approximately 2,000 children in North Alabama. We want to do more.
Creative arts drive the cultural success of a community. Art On the Square hopes to establish an art hub, like so many successful small towns and cities enjoy. From this center, art events can be easily accessed by the community and for tourists, year-round. Art On the Square volunteers have varied backgrounds and educations, yet remain singularly committed to seeing Athens succeed as a city that appreciates and supports art in community.
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This is probably because you can't think for yourself. Riv shouldn't have had to tell you that anyways.
Originally Posted by rivethead
If Fedor had come to the UFC, if he'd beaten Randy and brock, sure, he'd be the GOAT.
But he didn't.
it makes my brain hurt to agree with you about fedor.
Originally Posted by roaddawg
So you at no point considered Fedor GOAT?
At his peak, he was the GOAT. But the time aspect of Greatest of All Time has moved on; Fedor made some poor career decisions in following the Fink, and there are other fighters who have done things comparable to his accomplishments. You could make an argument that Anderson and Georges have done enough to be in the running. All three fighters have their flaws, and it appears Anderson may well be making the same shit quality decisions that Fedor did in his twilight.
If Anderson had the heart or fight anyone mentality of say a Hendo/Nog/Vitor...Hands down he'd be the GOAT to me..But his prissy bullshit attitude/picking and choosing fights has him behind Hendo/Nog IMO.
Originally Posted by Fedorlei Gomipierre
You are such a walking facepalm.
GSP didn't get beat up by Shields in the standup by any stretch. Especially when you factor in the significance of eyepoke that GSP sustained early on in the fight, which messed up his vision and depth perception for almost the entire fight, and yet he still managed to cruise through with basically one good eye.
Once again, you simply don't have a clue what you're talking about.
He's a pretty blatant troll. I mean comon, he called Kongo vs OSP a superfight.
So you at no point considered Fedor GOAT?
If Fedor had come to the UFC, if he'd beaten Randy and brock, sure, he'd be the GOAT.
But he didn't.
Originally Posted by rivethead
There isn't a fighter that can really be considered the GOAT, so it really wouldn't effect that, either.
Except for Fedor since he fought world class opponents who were bigger than him on a regular basis...
Originally Posted by rampage9712
Yep... He went up and tested himself after having a lot of success at LW... He was never a big LW to begin with(although most LW's werent at that time)
and many want Anderson to go up and face Jones who is a lot bigger any way you cut it...
yet when does GSP have to do it?
The minute he says he has no interest in fighting the #1 contender in his weight class, and starts talking about superfights.
Until he does that, the two situations are absolutely not comparable, unless you are an idiot.
He really doesnt have to do anything, its his choice... but when we are talking legacies, P4P status, GOAT, etc... It would have to be an issue.
A fight between Georges and Anderson would have zero impact on p4p unless Georges somehow won. A fight between Jones and Anderson would have zero impact unless Anderson somehow won.
There isn't a fighter that can really be considered the GOAT, so it really wouldn't effect that, either.
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I'm satisfied with my overall appearance, yet I often feel conflicted about certain aspects of my body.
If I do feel beautiful, it's because:
1) I had parents who affirmed my beauty and built my confidence.
2) Research has led me to believe in True Beauty.
3) I learned to spew the disgusting food the media insists on shoving down women's throats and internalize positive messages instead.
The average American sees 3,000 advertising messages a day. That seems high, but when you consider that the barrage starts on our cereal boxes and includes magazines, television, billboards, computer screens and countless other images, it's probably accurate.
Responding to the media is difficult for women, because women are portrayed differently than men.
Years ago, I swore off crime dramas because I got sick of seeing the female detectives in tank tops while the men wore suits. Were they in the same room but in different climates? That was years before I discovered Susan J. Douglas' book Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media, but I wanted to throw my remote at the screen. Douglas would have given me permission.
Douglas says women are angry at the media because even decades after the women's movement, "diet soda companies, women's magazines, and the… 'swimsuit issue' still bombard us with smiling, airbrushed, anorexic and compliant women whose message seems to be 'shut up, get [plastic surgery] and stop eating.'"
As a result, we women have become "alienated" from our own bodies.
There is more pressure for women to have the perfect look, in part because of the sheer number of images of women in advertising compared to images of men, but also because of how women are portrayed (though this is changing, as men are often objectified now, too — not a desirable equality).
We are forced to compare ourselves to images that aren't even real.
Jean Kilbourne's Killing Us Softly series studies the messages ads send to and about women and shows how images are "constructed." Pictures of four or five women are photo-shopped to create one "perfect" woman, or one woman's features are graphically altered, sometimes 20 to 30 rounds, until she barely resembles the original model (as in Dove's "Evolution"—seen 7:30 into Killing Us Softly 4.)
"I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford," Cindy Crawford once said.
In my True Beauty curriculum for teen girls, I call false messages
"media myths."
Striving to live up to unrealistic images leads to bulimia, depression, poor body image and low self-esteem. We overspend and are still dissatisfied. The beauty industry thrives as it continually proffers the next best thing to give us what we "need," what we will never find from the hand extending its "treasure."
Nicole Johnson, in her book Fresh-Brewed Life, describes "female schizophrenia:"
"I think Vogue is a magazine for skinny women who wear clothes that are too small. But I still buy it. I think the fashion industry is outlandish, and I wouldn't be caught dead wearing some of that stuff. ... But I still try it on. I think cosmetic surgery can be destructive … but I've thought about it. … I am angry over the exploitation of women … but I wish I had a body like that. We pretend we don't care. But we do. We act as if it doesn't matter. But it does. We wish we weren't disappointed. But we are."
It's no wonder we have a love-hate relationship with the media, with beauty itself.
We must talk to our daughters before the beauty industry does. The dialogue starts in the toddler years. Advertisers have found children to be "brand-sensitive" at 18 months of age. Drive past the Golden Arches and your child wants fries and a toy.
Drive a little further, to the mall, and you'll be bombarded.
I remember walking past Victoria's Secret with my then 10-year-old daughter, who looked at the larger-than-life poster of a lingerie-clad model and exclaimed: "Mommy, that's not very modest!"
No one knew the truth of her words better than the 20-something young man who was trying to keep his mind on selling phones in the kiosk across the aisle.
"She's right!" he said.
Talk with your daughter about the media myths you see. Use them to springboard ongoing, healthy discussions about true beauty. Encourage your daughter to share her thoughts and desires.
Beauty matters. It's important to girls and women (and even to men!) Until we acknowledge and affirm this longing, we can't really combat the lies that tell our girls they have to look a certain way to be beautiful.
Speak truth: How your daughter looks, right now, is beautiful. It's not wrong to feel great in a particular outfit or to enjoy make-up. These things help us feel pretty but they are not what makes beauty truly shine. Offering our smile, our encouragement, our positive presence, these things make us most attractive.
Feminine allure is a treasure, not to be flaunted, wasted, or compared to still, photo-shopped images or headless mannequins. Real women have brains, and it's time we encourage our daughters to wrap their minds around this fact: True beauty matters.


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My wife and I drive about 60,000 miles a year and we are naturally concernend about gasoline prices.
Retailers say the prices are regulated by the distributors. Distributors say the prices are regulated by the market.
What's a body to do?
Maybe instead of of paying $3.49 for a gallon of gas in Somerset, I can buy it for $3.13 at Walmart in Corbin if I'm going south; $3.19 at the College Food Mart in Richmond if going north; $3.24 at the Spur in Barbourville if going east; or $3.29 at the Walmart in Lebanon if going west.
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November 21, 2008
November 21, 2008
2008 National Lawyers Convention
The following audio and video were recorded on November 21, 2008.
The Latest in the Financial Services Crises:
Government Control v. the Free Market 11-21-08
Running Time: 01:41:15
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12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
State Room
Financial Services: The Latest in the Financial Services Crises: Government Control v. the Free Market
- Mr. Bert Ely, Ely & Company, Inc.
- Mr. Scott M. Polakoff, Office of Thrift Supervision, U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Mr. Alex J. Pollock, American Enterprise Institute
- Mr. Andrew Redleaf, Whitebox Advisors, LLC
- Mr. John Taylor, National Community Reinvestment Coalition
- Hon. Peter J. Wallison, American Enterprise Institute
- Prof. Todd J. Zywicki, George Mason University School of Law
- Moderator: Hon. Douglas Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit
Mayflower Hotel
Washington, DC
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The following is a recap of the football game, written by Norcross High assistant football coach Corey Richardson.
Thursday night, the JV Football Team (5-2) ended a very successful season by
beating the Mountain View Bears 34-14.
Griffin Barker to Xavier Triche - 12 Yard Touchdown Pass
Griffin Barker to Jared Pinkney - 39 Yard Touchdown Pass
Jibri Hicks - 2 Point Conversion Run
Rudy Guillen - Fumble Recovery
Jacob Gassert to Jared Pinkney - 27 Yard Touchdown Pass
KaDarius Garrett - 31 Yard Touchdown Run
Ferdinand Aka - Interception
Griffin Barker - 8 Yard Touchdown Run
Friday's Game - Varsity (8-0, 6-0 Region) @ Peachtree Ridge - 7:30 p.m.
Radio: AM 680 The Fan
Come out to pack the stands... Go Blue Devils!!
See also:
- Norcross Plays Peachtree Ridge This Friday
- Norcross v. Mountain View Football Recap
- Norcross High Vs. Habersham Football Recap
- Football Spotlight: Norcross High Coach Keith Maloof
- Norcross 2012 HS Football Schedule Released


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Last weekend I dropped by the studio of John Vias, a Berkeley based night photographer. We had an interesting conversation about fine art photography, with a focus on presentation and marketing issues. John talked about a marketing seminar he attended awhile back where the presenter discussed barriers that customers use to not buy your work. One of the big hurdles in the artistic medium of photography is the potential customer saying "I could have taken that."
I spend a lot of time finding unique locations to shoot, and then make long exposures at night, sometimes applying additional lighting with flashlights or strobes. I'd like to think the "I could have taken that" barrier doesn't apply too much. But during open studios this year, a lot of the questions I received were about night photography technique and locations. While most people were probably just curious about these details, I wonder if some people were trying to create barriers?
John learned at the marketing seminar that print size can be an effective way to reduce the "I could have taken that" syndrome. Most regular folks get 4×6″ prints from the drugstore, and maybe an occasional 8×10″ print to be framed. John's big prints are 24×30″, and they look fantastic. John's found that even if people don't want to buy the biggest size, having a few on display will help sell your medium sized prints.
This echoes a story that photographer Jay Watson told me years ago — one of his photography professors had this advice about selling fine art prints: "make it big, and make it red." Sounds crazy until you see Edward Burtynsky's amazing 40×50″ prints, or Andreas Gursky's gigantic prints, many of them in the 8 feet by 10 feet range.
Now these fellows are surely using large format cameras to print this big. Yes, there are some long winded discussions on photography message boards about the guy who made a poster sized print from his 20D and it looks great. If you're going to print huge and can't afford a 39 megapixel back that costs more than a new car, the best option seems to be medium format on a high end scanner, or large format.
My standard print size used to be 8×12″, but I soon realized this was too small. My current standard is a 12×18″ print framed to 18×24″. My comfort zone with the Canon 5D ends at about a 20×30″ print. Yes you can print bigger and make it look pretty good. Heck, you could put the damn thing on a billboard, but there is no comparison to the level of detail available in a big print from a 4×5 camera.
The technology cycle of digital SLRs is much like computers. You may be hypnotized into wanting a new one every 2-3 years. At a certain point with your photography, you may want to make some really big prints. Is a 1×1.5″ sensor going to cut it for a 30×40″ print? The enlargement factor with 35mm is about 30 times, whereas a 6×7 negative is about 12 times, and a 4×5 negative is about 8 times. Pardon my inexact math, but you get the idea. Simply put, the bigger the negative or sensor size, the bigger your maximum print size.
I'll continue to explore some of the equipment choices that will allow big prints over the next few days.


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Maryland's football recruiting class wasn't stellar, but Randy Edsall just made it a little better with a late surprise commitment.
Remember him? He's back.
Everyone could use a little good news, right?
Good news in football recruiting is somewhat unusual for Maryland. But there's some today.
Maryland needs a good season to get commitments. They might also need one to keep some.
Maryland's football recruiting has turned around 180 degrees. Do you feel better about the coaching staff because of it?
Maryland now has commitment #7, and guess what? He's from the South again.
With that, Maryland has more commitments from Florida than Maryland.
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He came to America in 1982 to attend Suffolk University, then shortly after returned to Israel when his father died.
Hartstein would go on to earn a bachelor's degree and MBA from Suffolk in just four years, while also working full time. Over the course of his career... Click here to read more
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Mrs. Ratcliff's fourth-grade class has been working on figurative language. They are creating a book of figurative language with meanings and illustrations.
Ms. Watson's fourth-graders are exploring who traveled to the North American continent hundreds of years ago. The exploration will take students to the present day, which also will explore how the government works.
Fifth-graders interviewed each other and wrote biographies about their classmates. They are continuing their study of biographies by focusing on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Also, in honor of King's birthday, Mrs. Ashley's fifth-graders will write down their dreams of how to make the world a better place. Each student's dream will be written in a cartoon bubble and placed around King's picture.
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Niagara Gazette — Gerald Tidd has seen how bad it can get out there.
He's visited the Homeless Veterans Center in Buffalo. He's seen men, women and children who have been sleeping on the street, in old houses, in cars, under bridges.
"If a person went down there and saw the condition of these men and women, he'd cry," said Tidd of North Tonawanda, commander of the Chapter 120, Roll of Honor, Disabled American Veterans. "These people come in, sometimes they have no socks on. Or they're wearing a summer coat, or a coat that's torn. They have no razors. They have no toothbrush.
"You'd cry."
For the past few years, the chapter has ramped up its campaign on the part of disabled and homeless veterans and their families in the Western New York area, collecting clothing and other items for those in need of help. Items are passed on to the Homeless Veterans Center in Buffalo and other organizations.
Right now, there's a desperate need for such things as new long johns and underwear, socks, toiletries and nonperishable food, Tidd said. Those who wish to donate can drop items off at 460 North Ave., North Tonawanda or at 1945 Parker Blvd., Town of Tonawanda. For more information, those interested can call Tidd at 310-2004.
"We want to feed them," he said of "We want to get them help. To make their lives a little better ... give them some hope for the future, get them back to a normal life. Because living on the street is not a normal life."
Chapter 120 of the Disabled American Veterans was founded in 1950 and currently has 650 members, ranging from a few remaining World War II veterans through the Vietnam and Korean eras right up to those from more recent wars, Tidd said. He has been commander about 2 1/2 years, during which time the group also has given out out hams for Easter, dozens of turkeys (and dinner trimmings) for Thanksgiving and over thousands of dollars in Walmart and Burger King gift cards, as well as bus tokens.


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St. Norbert College is a private institution that was founded in 1898. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,229, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 108 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. St. Norbert College's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 134. Its tuition and fees are $31,866 (2013-14).
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Respected for its academic rigor, far-reaching international footprint, beautiful campus and dedication to service and community, St. Norbert College is recognized for encouraging students of all faiths to develop their full potential in understanding and serving the world. Students have the opportunity to participate in collaborative research fellowships with faculty as early as their first year. Internship opportunities are plentiful, not only on campus, but in the community and throughout the world. St. Norbert was the first college or university in the United States to meet new national standards of best practice in study abroad developed by the Forum on Education. Students here who wish to study abroad have more than 75 program sites in 29 countries on six continents from which to choose. Compared to a national average of 4 percent, more than 30 percent of SNC students spend a semester abroad, reflecting the strong commitment to internationalization on campus. To further enhance that globalization, students from 30 or more countries choose to study at St. Norbert each year. SNC offers academic excellence, personal attention and faculty members who make student success their top priority. We challenge students' viewpoint and encourage their exploration of ideas that may be new or different from their own. They live in a community where students from around the world come together in consideration of local and global perspectives. St. Norbert has been honored by the Corporation for National and Community Service as the only institution in the state to be admitted to the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with distinction. Our graduates enjoy a 94 percent success rate of professional employment or graduate and professional school acceptance within nine months of graduation. A four-year graduation guarantee makes St. Norbert an exceptional value. St. Norbert College is the only institution of higher education in the world sponsored by the Norbertines, a Catholic order devoted to living in community and serving others. One of the Top-10 Catholic liberal arts colleges in the nation, St. Norbert continues to experience great momentum. Our Fall 2012 class was the largest and highest achieving in the college's history, causing the college to implement a waiting list for the first time ever. That record class had the advantage of a newly renovated student union and dining hall, and a new welcome center for visitors. A new $40 million science facility is under construction, and the Medical College of Wisconsin has selected St. Norbert College for their northeast Wisconsin satellite campus. Students have much to be excited about, and their school spirit is reflective of that enthusiasm.
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The student-faculty ratio at St. Norbert College is 14:1, and the school has 39.9 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at St. Norbert College include: Business/Commerce, General; Elementary Education and Teaching; Speech Communication and Rhetoric; Biology/Biological Sciences, General; and Sociology. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 82.5 percent.
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St. Norbert College has a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,229, with a gender distribution of 41.5 percent male students and 58.5 percent female students. At this school, 75 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 25 percent of students live off campus. St. Norbert College is part of the NCAA III athletic conference.
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This is in response to the letter by Diana Cundy of Paris and her criticism of Aug. 25 against the Sun Journal and Cal Thomas for writing and printing material that exposes the building of a mosque near ground zero for what it is: a travesty of all that is decent in this country.
Moderate Islam, indeed. Can Cundy find more than a handful? Some moderates have spoken out and have denounced that proposed mosque.
The proposed mosque is opposed by a huge majority of Americans and it should be. It is yet another Muslim symbol of victory planted near the point of their conquest.
Cundy has no clue. Does she know that the name "Cordoba House" comes from the Islamic memorial in Spain from an earlier jihad? Does she know that Imam Rauf is a staunch supporter of Sharia law? Does she know what Sharia law entails? Is she aware they won't divulge where the funding is coming from?
I suspect not.
Can we bury our heads in the sand and whine about religious freedom while the radical Islamists would deny us of all our freedoms, all under the banner of liberal, politically-correct tolerance?
Jared J. Bristol, Hebron