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UFC champ Georges St-Pierre denies rumors from TMZ, according to Dana White
White said he spoke to St-Pierre on Monday and the fighter "is denying those rumors that TMZ is reporting about those two things." White declined to identify what issues are distracting the fighter.
White also reiterated that he's confident he'll be able to book a rematch with Johny Hendricks soon, despite earlier statements from St-Pierre wanting to retire or take an extended leave:
"As far as a rematch, we're on schedule and I'll have a date within a couple weeks," White said. "I feel confident that Georges is fine with that and all is on track."
St-Pierre was not available for comment Monday, White said, and after spending an extra day in Las Vegas to let his blurred vision improve, St-Pierre is "going off the grid" on vacation, White said.
Originally Posted by Cat--Smasher
So let me get this straight, you think of vomit and feces during your sexual encounters so you can last longer? Sounds like fun.
Next time just think about baseball like the rest of us ;P
Baseball images would literally put me to sleep. If the pussy is really good, I need something equally distracting.
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Thing is you can't make someone take a pill that they don't want to
In Soviet Russia, the pill takes you!
Originally Posted by Pasha K
Even if GSP used a condom and it broke, it is still his fault.
When that happens, you immediately go with the girl to the drugstore and buy the pill, and she must take it in front of you.
If she says "I promise that I will buy it and take it tomorrow" never trust her, never ever. Make her take the pill in front of you.
Thing is you can't make someone take a pill that they don't want to
Even if GSP used a condom and it broke, it is still his fault.
When that happens, you immediately go with the girl to the drugstore and buy the pill, and she must take it in front of you.
If she says "I promise that I will buy it and take it tomorrow" never trust her, never ever. Make her take the pill in front of you.
Originally Posted by Masscore
Or maybe GSP should have I do not know, worn a condom? It's too bad those things are so expensive and so hard to come by. It's not like a box of them cost 3 dollars and you can find them at any convenience store.
Of course this is TMZ, so lets just see if it is true.
did you read the rest of the sentence?
one would think that with the ufc name all over tmz web site that tmz would do some real fact checking
i love how all you need is an unidentified "source familiar with the situation" is all you need to "break news" nowadays.
What defines 'familiar'? I used to watch the jersey shore! i know The Situation I'm very familiar with him I'm a news source now yeah!
Originally Posted by MMA4EVERRR
So, according to Dana, GSP's father dying and unplanned pregnancy with a woman he knocked up is "not a big deal"?
I think we all can remember how Shields fared when his father passed away. Those kinda emotions carry over into a fight, and it's never positive. It def showed this past Saturday, as GSP just didnt fight a relaxed fight, and was making a lot of careless mistakes he wasn't known to do.
I'm with those who think GSP should take as much time as he needs to get over these issues. Why force a fighter into a situation where he wont be giving his best and just risking his career?
the story probably isn't even true, tmz is bordering on star ledger and national inquirer nowadays.
they reported that lil wayne was dead! a remotely reliable resource would not have made such a big mistake if it even was a mistake at all and by that i mean they made it up for attention which they might be doing here.
In TMZ's defense they were the ones who broke the news that Ronda Rousey was coming to the UFC and they were creating the new women's division. Lets wait and see how this all play out.
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Palo Pinto – As District Judge Jerry Ray's retirement date nears, county commissioners voted Monday to replace his office's computer prior to the arrival of his successor, Mike Moore.
Information Systems Manager Joe Fenley explained the project would provide seven new computers to replace outdated models in the offices of the district judge and district clerk.
He said the cost of the computers and one printer is expected to be $6,591.97, noting he feels the project is necessary since many of the computers are more than eight years old. The printer currently used in the district clerk's office, he said, uses costly ink cartridges, explaining a new model would significantly reduce printing costs over time.
The initial cost of replacing the equipment will come from the county computer fund, Fenley said.
County Clerk Janette Green addressed commissioners about a project her office requested in conjunction with a newly acquired plat scanner.
She said existing plats must be entered into the county's database before staff can utilize the new scanner.
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Commissioners unanimously approved the project along with the purchase of additional security cameras for the county clerk's office.
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• Discussed banning or restricting the sale and use of fireworks. County Fire Marshal Buddy Harwell explained the Keetch-Byram Drought Index was 564 as of Monday morning with a 14-day average of 572.
He explained he will be attending a class in Houston this week to discuss issues associated with fireworks and agreed to meet with commissioners Friday to possibly act on the matter.
Commissioners tabled the item until Friday.
• Discussed the active outdoor burn ban in the county. County Judge David Nicklas explained the existing ban is active for about two more months and Harwell noted little fire activity over the past week.
He said he was called out to several small grass fires, though three were extinguished prior to his arrival and none posed any significant danger.
• Approved appointments to the Palo Pinto County Historical Commission. Mike Lewis, co-chair of the commission, said a number of inactive members were replaced by new appointees.
"We think these are people that will help us grow stronger," he said.
• Accepted sealed bids for motor fuel, road materials, and asphalt.
Wilson Lubricants was the only bidder for motor fuel and commissioners unanimously accepted the bid.
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• Approved setting the bond amount for elected officials, voting to maintain the current amount of $10,000 for sheriff and $1,500 per constable.
• Approved funding agreements for Gordon Library and C.A.R.E. in the amount of $2,500 each.
• Approved the year-end auditor's report for Fiscal Year 2012. County Auditor Sharon Allen explained lower-than-expected expenditures totaling $10,049,009 allowed the county to add $237,255 to its general fund reserves, bringing its balance to $4,651,872.
• Approved the delinquent-tax attorney's report. In his last report of the year, Charles Brady said recent trends show positive momentum in collecting delinquent taxes.
In the past five months, he said outstanding taxes have decreased to $2.141 million from a high of $3.107 million. He said most of those owing taxes are on a payment plan, which he said is far more effective than relying on lawsuits.
"I think we can expect better performance this year than last year," he said.
• Approved changing the description of the commissioner's secretary position to "part-time" instead of attaching specific minimum or maximum weekly work hours.
• Approved District Judge Jerry Ray's expenditures in excess of approved limits prior to the end of his term in office.
• Approved the request to re-plat Phase 3, Section 5A, Lots 783-R and 784-R of The Hills Above Possum Kingdom Lake.
• Approved the request to re-plat Phase 3, Section 5A, Lots 780-R, 793-R and 794-R of The Hills Above Possum Kingdom Lake.
• Tabled the request to re-plat Phase 3, Section 5, Lots 686 and 687 of The Hills Above Possum Kingdom Lake.
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A man discovers that his chronic stomach problems are due to the fact that he has a demon baby living in his colon. Starring Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Peter Stormare, Stephen Root and Mary Kay Place. (World Premiere)
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By kevin on December 12, 2009 at 7:04pm EST
The official website for Hiroaki Matsuyama's Liar Game movie has been updated with a new 33-second teaser. The film picks up after season 2 of the popular Fuji TV drama which began airing on November 10, 2009.
Based on a manga by Shinobu Kaitani, the TV series began with college student Nao Kanzaki (Erika Toda) getting lured into a mysterious game in which participants attempt to trick each other out of 100 million yen. She's promptly tricked by her former teacher, leaving her in debt. Desperate, she enlists the help of expert swindler Shinichi Akiyama (Shota Matsuda) to get her money back.
In season 2, Kanzaki teams up with Shinichi and a former rival named Fukunaga to face off against a trio of opponents in a series of new deception games.
The theme of the final round of the Liar Game Tournament is "believe in each other's hearts". Players are told that if they trust each other fully and cooperate they can all win. However, the mysterious "Player X" lurks among them and threatens to undermine their chance to win. With 5 billion yen on the line, who will be the winner of the LGT? And what exactly is the purpose behind it?
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The most important consequence of the dykes' intensity and thickness variations with bearing is that they cannot be identified through automatic or semiautomatic image processing procedures, because both these procedures identify surfaces only if their characteristics are constant in the entire image.
From the above discussion it follows that automatic or semiautomatic SAR image analysis allows identification of all water-covered surfaces, including shrimp ponds, and high reflective surfaces, including the dykes positioned perpendicularly to the sensor's cross-track direction. It is then necessary to use visual interpretation techniques to recognize the shrimp ponds among these surfaces. These techniques, applied by an operator, take into account the dykes' variations in intensity and thickness with bearing, plus shape and pattern of ponds and dykes. The latter elements are discussed below.
Size, shape and pattern of ponds and other water-covered surfaces
The characteristics of all kinds of water-covered surfaces in the study area must be analyzed to infer the peculiarities in the appearance of ponds and groups of ponds in SAR imagery, and define both the identification criteria and the minimum identifiable pond size.
As indicated, two kinds of shrimp farms are present in the study area (Fig. 10): industrial and artisanal shrimp pond systems.
Both kinds of shrimp farms are located along rivers, canals and creeks.
Other water-covered features present in the study area are reservoirs, lakes, rice paddies and flooded surfaces of various kinds.
Lakes and reservoirs (Fig. 11) cannot be misidentified as shrimp ponds because they are large, isolated features with irregular shape. Moreover, part of their surface may be roughened by wind, or covered by vegetation; in these cases they appear noticeably less dark than ponds or paddies.
Fig. 10. Industrial and artisanal shrimp farms ERS 1 SAR 18/04/96
Fig. 11. A reservoir ERS 1 SAR 18/04/96
Fig. 12. Rice paddies and their appearance on the 18/04/96 ERS 1 SAR image (grey-outlined area)
Rice paddies (Fig. 12), when flooded in the early stage of rice cropping, are surrounded by very small dykes, and are characterized by varying size, almost rectangular shape and lack of regular pattern. Therefore adjacent paddies, when flooded, may be easily confused with groups of artisanal shrimp ponds.
Three potentially flooded surfaces occur in the study area: agricultural fields, bare soil and grassland along rivers and creeks (see Fig. 13).
Flooded agricultural fields (Fig. 13a) have regular shape; their appearance on SAR images is indistinguishable from shrimp ponds or rice paddies.
Bare flooded soils (Fig. 13b) are characterized by irregular shape and low response intensity, and are located along rivers and creeks. This position may cause them to be confused with shrimp ponds whenever their extension is small and their irregular shape cannot be appreciated.
Fig. 13. Flooded surfaces in the study area
The analysis of size, shape and pattern of water-covered surfaces allows an easy identification of large water bodies and water body associations, such as reservoirs and industrial shrimp farms. Difficulties arise in recognizing artisanal shrimp farms, due to their limited size. Small flooded surfaces may also lead to misidentification errors.
Theoretically, a water body is detectable in an image even if its surface is smaller than a pixel's, because of the saturation effect. When a portion of the ground corresponding to a pixel (12.5 x 12.5 m) contains a small and very low-reflective feature, the pixel's value is low as well, and can easily be identified as a water-covered surface. Unfortunately its shape and pattern are not defined, so it is impossible to infer its nature.
Thus, even if it is possible to identify water bodies up to 10 x 10 m in size, a shrimp pond must be at least a few pixels wide to be recognized as such. Even so, the identification is uncertain.
The artisanal shrimp ponds are generally small, and the surrounding dykes are not always evident. Often these shrimp ponds are also irregularly grouped, and consequently they may be confused with paddies or small flooded surfaces.
Thus, to confirm the identification of artisanal shrimp farms, the operator must analyze their location and previous land use, as explained in the following sections:
Location of shrimp farms
Shrimp farms require brackish or salt water. Consequently, shrimp ponds must be located along rivers and creeks, in proximity to lagoons. A system of channels carries water from the river through the connected ponds, and then back to the river.
The topographic maps of the study area, produced in 1984, show that the majority of shrimp ponds have been built over uncultivated land, such as mangroves and swamps. In some cases the ponds are located over former forest and coconut plantations; only rarely has there been a conversion of land use from rice paddies to shrimp ponds.
Thus the former land use may help in distinguishing between shrimp ponds and other water-covered surfaces.
Water coverage throughout the year
Another characteristic that differentiates shrimp ponds, paddies and flooded surfaces is the water coverage throughout the year. Shrimp ponds usually are covered by water, while paddies are flooded only during the early stage of rice growth.
Sri Lanka has a tropical climate, and therefore the stages of rice cultivation may not be related to the seasons. Thus all phenological stages of rice can be present at the same period of the year. Consequently, it is not possible to distinguish between paddies and shrimp ponds by a temporal criterion only: whenever a SAR image is acquired, both flooded and dry rice fields may simultaneously occur on it.
The presence of flooded surfaces is instead related to the occurrence of rainfall, which is in turn seasonal. By acquiring SAR images in a dry period of the year it is possible at least to minimize the occurrence of flooded surfaces, thus improving the identification of shrimp ponds.
The rainfall over the study area in 1998 is shown in Fig. 14. From the graph it is evident that the SAR image acquired in April 1996 corresponds to a rainy period, while the two ERS SAR images acquired in 1998 (Table 2) correspond to a dry (July) and a wet (October) period, respectively. By comparing the water-covered surfaces identified in the two 1998 images, it is thus possible to improve the discrimination between shrimp ponds and flooded surfaces.
The inherent characteristics of shrimp ponds and of other kinds of water-covered surfaces in SAR images, as indicated in the previous paragraph, allow an image analysis methodology to be designed in order to identify and map shrimp farms.
All water-covered surfaces have a peculiar appearance in SAR images. They may be easily identified and mapped using automatic classification techniques. It is then necessary to recognize shrimp ponds among the different kinds of water bodies.
Unlike other water bodies, shrimp ponds are delimited by dykes. The dykes are identified in the image using automatic boundary detection and classification techniques. Therefore to identify shrimp ponds it is necessary to search the images resulting from classification of water bodies for evidence of dykes in the strip of terrain surrounding the water-covered surfaces. This is done by means of proximity analysis techniques.
Fig. 14. Monthly rainfall at Puttalam, Sri Lanka, 1998
This approach produces images containing water-covered surfaces and the terrain surrounding them, showing strong-reflecting and weakly-reflecting boundaries. These images are the result of automatic procedures, and summarize the information on shrimp farms that can be obtained from a SAR image. They are thus named "summary images".
The summary images must then be visually analyzed by an operator, who identifies shrimp farms among the other water-covered surfaces by means of visual interpretation techniques. These include the evaluation of shape and pattern of water bodies and of the presence of well-defined boundaries surrounding them.
Finally, a confirmation of the identifications is made by examining the location and previous land use of the selected areas, obtained from topographic maps.
The analysis procedure is summarized in Fig. 15. The steps are discussed in the following paragraphs.
The first step of the procedure aims at preparing the data for the analysis proper.
The study area is covered by pairs of frames that must be mosaiced, i.e. attached together to form a unique image, from which the study area is selected and extracted. The images of the study area must then be filtered to minimize the typical noise of SAR images, called speckle.
Fig. 15. SAR image analysis procedure
Image mosaicing
The three georeferenced ERS SAR frames that cover the study area (Table 3) partially overlap. They have been attached overlapping the northern frame (3447) over the southern (3465).
Fig. 16 Location of test sites
From each of the three mosaics a strip containing the study area has been selected and extracted (Fig. 1 and Table 2). These three strips have been used as reference images for further analysis, after geometric correction to ensure that they would perfectly overlay.
Inside the study area, three sites characterized by different kinds of shrimp farms have been selected to test the image processing procedures:
The location of the test sites is shown in Fig. 16, and their coordinates are listed in Table 4.
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My mother has been wife, cook, nurse, educator, worker, sister, aunt and has given far more love to those around her than she has ever received. My mother was born during the Great Depression era and was the youngest of eight children. She then met and married my dad as a teenager and they have managed to keep a 66-year marriage happy with love, humor and wit.
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Facilities at The Reach, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, include a private beach, access to a neighboring property's pool, a cafe, a fitness center, and on-site rental of bicycles, Jet Skis, sail boats, kayaks, and snorkeling gear. Other activities available nearby include parasailing; excursions for fishing, snorkeling, and scuba diving; and sunset catamaran trips. Pool-side concierge services are included in the resort fee.
The property offers a ballroom and multiple meeting rooms with 4,700 square feet of space. Event catering is available. Complimentary wireless Internet access is provided in public areas.
- 24-hour front desk
- ATM/banking
- Babysitting or childcare
- Number of floors - 5
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop or café
- Elevator/lift
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-out
- Health club
- Beach/pool umbrellas
- Free Wi-Fi
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 150
- Garden
- Porter/bellhop
- On private beach
- Restaurant
- Room service (limited hours)
- Conference space size (feet) - 4706
- Conference space size (meters) - 437
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Pool sun loungers
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa services on site
- Outdoor pool
- Wedding services
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Furnished balcony
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Climate control
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Cable TV service
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Refrigerator
- Flat-panel TV
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Espresso maker
- Dining
The Strip House - Steak house with prime cuts, signature side dishes, and extensive wine list. Menu includes Truffle Creamed Spinach, Goose Fat Potatoes, and 24-Layer Chocolate Cake. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service is available.
- Recreation
The hotel offers direct access to a private, sandy beach and use of a neighboring property's pool. Jet Skis, sailboats, kayaks, paddle boats, "ocean bikes," snorkel gear, scooters, and bicycles are available for rent. Parasailing is available on the beach. From the resort's pier, guests can take snorkeling and scuba-diving excursions, go deep-sea or flats fishing, and sail aboard a catamaran at sunset.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible parking
- Roll-in shower
The Reach, A Waldorf Astoria Resort Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is 11 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed, Only dogs are allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 2, Pet maximum weight in lb is 25
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- Unless otherwise indicated, the charges below are not included in the overall room price. If not included in the overall room price, they will be charged by the property at check-in or check-out. Charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book. This property told us they will charge you for the following:
Hotel resort fee inclusions (may be listed elsewhere in this description as complimentary or available for a surcharge):
- Resort fee: USD 25 per accommodation, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Pool access
- Beach access
- Beach loungers
- Beach towels
- Internet access (may be limited)
- Phone calls (may be limited)
- Concierge/valet service
- Additional inclusions
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Self parking fee: USD 18 per day
- Valet parking fee: USD 30 per day
- Pet fee: USD 75 per room, per night
- Late check-out fee: USD 50
- Additional Details
Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. This property allows pets in specific rooms only (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can request one of these rooms by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- Details
- A Green / Sustainable Property - First Party CertifiedThis property has performed a self-assessment, also known as First Party certification, of its sustainable tourism practices through Florida Green Lodging Program thus taking steps to understand its impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. The property's claims have not been independently verified by a second or third party certification program.
- This property is affiliated with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) and welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) guests.
- Details
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Book a stay in a "Best of Waldorf" rate plan category and receive the following:
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A discrimination case filed against corporate franchise chain Dunkin' Donuts has been amended to include three New Jersey plaintiffs, all of whom claim they were treated unfairly by the company because of their race or gender, it was recently announced.
Louis Tambaro and Jerry Marks, of the Red Bank law firm Marks & Klein, LLP, are representing Priti Shetty, of Montville, and Reggie Pretto and Amy Pretto, a husband and wife from Montclair.
The firm was originally representing just Shetty in the case, but the lawsuit was amended to include the Prettos and filed with the state Superior Court in Middlesex County on Monday.
According to Tambaro, the Prettos, who are African American, had signed a franchise agreement with the company in 2006 and requested to open a store in the greater New York area.
"Ultimately, they were strongly suggested to open a store in Bowie, Md.," Tambaro said. "The area was not thriving, to say the least."
The Prettos' store was unsuccessful and the couple eventually declared bankruptcy after losing about $750,000, Tambaro said. Tambaro said the Prettos feel that they were discriminated against because of their race and therefore not allowed to open a Dunkin' Donuts store in New York, where they originally wanted to.
Further, Tambaro said a small percentage of stores in the Dunkin' Donuts franchise system are owned by African Americans and almost no Dunkin' Donuts stores in New York are owned by African American people.
"In addition to the money damages, we're seeking a declaration that Dunkin' has discriminated against these individuals based upon race or gender," Tambaro said.
Shetty, 45, said she feels she was discriminated against by an area manager because she is a woman of Indian descent. Shetty said she had opened two stores in 2006–one in Wantage and another in Oak Ridge. She claims the area manager would visit the stores and harass her, commenting that she is "not servile enough" for a woman. She would often argue with the manager, she said.
"I'm a woman from Indian origin. I was smart enough to stand up for myself, which he didn't like," she said.
Shetty said she was not permitted to open a third store in Stockholm because it did not have a drive-thru window. However, after she sold her stores to a Caucasian male, Shetty said the new owner was immediately permitted to open a store in the same location. Within six months, though, the new owner was unsuccsessful in the business and abandoned all three locations. Shetty had attempted to re-enter the franchise agreement with the corporation, but was no longer permitted and said she was notified by the company that she was not a good owner.
"The actual refusal to let her back into the system was a higher-up decision," Tambaro said.
Shetty also alleged that she was discriminated against for being a woman when the area manager would force her to be in the store for inspections and visits knowing that she had a child to care for at home. While the alleged discrimination was the result of the one manager, Shetty said she had attempted to reach out to the corporate managers for support.
"I have spoken to his boss and I have made Dunkin' aware of what is going on. I never got any help," she said.
Michelle King, a spokesperson for Dunkin' Donuts, based out of Canton, Mass., said the company denies the allegations and is proud of its ethnic diversity.
"We categorically deny the allegations made in the lawsuit filed in New Jersey Superior Court and will quickly move to have the claims dismissed," King said. "Dunkin' Donuts is comprised of a racially diverse body of franchisees, and we are very proud of that diversity.
"We are equally as proud of having a strong relationship with our franchisees. To maintain that relationship, we work closely with our franchisees through our operating and marketing field teams and through our Franchisee Advisory Council system.
"We believe the fact that more than 90 percent of new Dunkin' Donuts store growth in the U.S. comes from existing franchisees is proof of the strength of our relationship and of our franchisees' confidence in the brand. While we cannot comment further as to the specific allegations made in the lawsuit, our franchisee diversity and our franchisee relationships are a source of pride for us and a strength within our system."
While the Prettos are not still financially tied to their stores, Shetty is locked into a 10-year lease agreement on both the Wantage and Oak Ridge establishments. She said the expiration on both will be in 2014. She decided to move forward with the lawsuit not only to possibly receive compensation from the company for the thousands of dollars she said she lost as a result of the "harassment," but also because she feels she was not treated fairly by the corporate managers.
"Right now, it's not my place to go after [the area manager]. The only thing I can do is make corporate responsible for him because I signed a contrct with them, not with that gentleman," she said.
Dunkin' Donuts will have 35 days since the amended complaint was filed to either accept or move to dismiss the claims. Tambaro said the lawsuit has been endorsed by several civil rights organizations throughout New Jersey, including the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.


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Mark Gregory Pegg is an Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. His most recent book, A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom, looks at a pivotal moment in world history, the world's first genocide. In the article below Pegg reflects on religious violence today.
It never ceases to amaze me that as religious violence has become an all too familiar fear for great swathes of the world's population, whether in the supposedly secular West or the supposedly sectarian Middle East, commentators of every political (and religious) stripe piously intone that such horrifically specific violence is always an aberration from the eternal essence of religion. This is nonsense — and it is dangerous nonsense at that.
I'm not arguing that violence is an inherent aspect of religion. Far from it. What I'm arguing is that there's nothing inherent about religion, one way or the other. Religion is a way of understanding the world, whether in past or in present, and so any explanation (pulpit, soapbox, bar stool) must take into account the specific world that gives a religion meaning at a particular time and place.
The great seductive achievement of religion is the denial of history. This sense of being part of an unchanging tradition, that prayers to God today resemble prayers to Him a millennia ago, that something is wonderfully immune to the burden of time and space, is a comfort. As a historian, though, this essential balm is denied to me; or at least denied to me if I want to try and grasp why murder and bloodshed has been, still is, and always will be, considered by many as the only path to salvation.
Too many recent debates take it for granted that religion is defined as abiding doctrines, perennial philosophies, and timeless ideals. This assumption leads to sterile thought, a historical platitudes, and way too many mindless editorials (and blogs). The fallacy behind it all is that pure principles form the core of every religion and that no matter how many civilizations rise and fall through the millennia, how many prophets come and go, these principles enduringly persist. Weightless, immaterial, untouched by historical contingency, they waft over centuries and societies like loose hot-air balloons. Detecting apparently similar ideas (symbols, gods, a certain way with wives) through time and space is only the beginning of an explanation and not the concluding proof. The past isn't simply another country, it's an entirely different universe. At a time when the world is haunted by religiously inspired warfare, religion must be seen as more than floating ideas, more than just ideology with gossamer wings.
Any meditation upon the past that starts with the presumption that some things are universal in humans or in human society — never changing, inert, immobile — is a retreat from historical explanation. At present, though, one thing after another keeps arguing for eternal verities, keeps trying to erode history as a meaningful analytic category (as opposed to a merely entertaining one). It's unfathomable to me that studies are funded and lauded which argue that there is, say, a pervasive male manner (with other men, with women, with meat) imprinted into masculine genes over a month of prehistoric Sundays. Or that minds always respond in similar ways to tragedy. Or that hereditary behavioral traits impose habits (and occasionally beliefs) from one generation to the next. Or that religion is a primal response to primal fears. Millennia are flattened out, if not totally erased, in essentialism. Historical specificity is either dismissed as irrelevant or seen as epiphenomenal graffiti scratched upon (and so disfiguring) unchanging customs and concepts. Arguing for immutable values from biology is no different to arguing for immutable values from theology — selfish genes, selfish doctrines, they both deny history.
Assuming that why we do what we do, why we think what we think, is somehow or other beyond our control, and that we would be this way in mind and body whether we lived a thousand years ago or right now, forfeits the vitality and distinctiveness of the past to the dead hand of biological determinism, cognitive hotwiring, psychological innateness, liberal pleas for bygone victims, conservative pleas for God-given principles, and amaranthine mush about authenticity. Atheist and believer (and one candidate for high office after another) crowd the same historically meaningless page when it comes to religion, violent or otherwise.
As I wrote A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom, the question of religion and violence was always on my mind. The crusade was proclaimed by Pope Innocent III in 1208 against the count of Toulouse and the heretics apparently infesting his lands between the Garonne and Rhône Rivers (a vast area that is now southern France). From start to finish, it lasted twenty-one years. An ethical obligation to mass murder, a moral imperative to genocide, defined the most holy war from the very beginning. Christians were guaranteed salvation and redemption through slaughtering other Christians.
(By the way, the Albigensian Crusade was not against the Cathars. For more than a century this has been the standard assumption passed on from footnote to footnote, code to code, crystal to crystal, by scholar, novelist, and seeker of hidden knowledge. Unfortunately, this assumption was, still is, and always will be wrong. To a large extent, this enduring historical error is related to what I'm saying about religion and violence.)
The most holy war wasn't a brutal travesty in the history of Christianity. Quite the contrary. It epitomized the sanguine beauty and bloody savagery of thirteenth-century Christendom, the century of Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, and Louis IX. The threat from heresy and the necessity of eliminating that threat were fundamental in creating the Christ-like world that Innocent III struggled all his life to achieve. The ability to resemble Christ through day-to-day activity, so much so that you really were Him, was the sublime religious phenomenon of the Middle Ages. No other monotheistic religion has celebrated or promoted such a godly imitative ideal amongst ordinary believers. The love of Christ necessitated great and small holocausts between the Garonne and Rhône.
If the specific historical intimacy between religion and violence in the Albigensian Crusade is dismissed or ignored, then the most holy war is incomprehensible. If we dismiss and ignore this intimacy right now, then so much of what's happening in the world (Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Darfur, Tibet) is incomprehensible too.
5 Responses to "A Most Holy War and Religious Violence"
Your overall point is well taken, but I wish you would have used a smaller hammer to make it. I think your larger argument supposes a narrowly normative system of beliefs and practices for a category that also includes 1) more or less descriptive historiography 2) plurality of thought as to just what is meant by this historiography.
to d. johnson: sorrry to disagree, but the hammer was no where large enough. throughout history the catholic church has, and will always murder those who differ with them wheever they think they can get away with it. the media has always turned a blind eye to the the pope and his murderous ways.
Religion and government serve no other purpose other than to use,abuse,and menipulte those who serve them
i think that religion is silly
Sorry for being late guys:) Joe, what do you mean religion is silly? Tell me what's wrong with religion? Are you saying you are against churches and Vatican, that only are interested in gainin more power? Then i agree, but religions have nothing to do with it. If only every person would follow the rules that catholic should follow, i believe, the world would be much better place to live.
For example take a look at catholic meditation and tell we what's wrong with it?
I hope you still follow this post and we will have some great discussion.


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