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Wathaurong, also called the Wada Wurrung, are an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula. They are part of the Kulin alliance. The Wathaurong language was spoken by 25 clans south of the Werribee River and the Bellarine Peninsula to Streatham. They were sometimes referred to by Europeans as the Barrabool people. They have inhabited this area for at least the last 25,000 years with 140 archaeological sites having been found in the region, indicating significant activity over that period.[1]
European Settlement[edit]
Coastal clans of the Wada Wurrung may have had contact with Lieutenant John Murray when he charted Indented Head and named Swan Bay. Matthew Flinders met several Wada Wurrung when he camped at Indented Head and climbed the You Yangs in May 1802.
When Lieutenant David Collins founded the colony at Sullivan Bay, Victoria in October 1803, he sent Lieutenant J Tuckey to survey and explore Corio Bay which resulted in several Aborigines being shot and wounded. William Buckley, a convict, escaped from the abortive Sullivan Bay settlement in December 1803, and was adopted by the Wada wurrung balug as they thought he was the resurrected Murrangurk, an important former leader. Buckley lived with this community for 32 years, between 1803 and 1835, before making contact with John Batman's expedition on 6 July 1835.[2]
The European settlement of Wada wurrung territory began in earnest from 1835 with a rapid arrival of squatters around the Geelong area and westwards. Settlement was marked by resistance to the invasion often by driving off or stealing sheep which then resulted in conflict and sometimes a massacre of Aboriginal people.[3]
Very few of these reports were acted upon to bring the settlers to court. On the few occasions when this did happen, such as the killing of Woolmudgin on 7 October 1836 where John Whitehead was sent to Sydney for trial, the case was dropped for lack of evidence. At the time Aborigines were denied the right to give evidence in courts of law. The incidents listed below are just the cases that have been reported, it is likely other incidents occurred that were never documented officially. Neil Black, a squatter in Western Victoria writing on 9 December 1839 states the prevailing attitude of many settlers:
- "The best way [to procure a run] is to go outside and take up a new run, provided the conscience of the party is sufficiently seared to enable him without remorse to slaughter natives right and left. It is universally and distinctly understood that the chances are very small indeed of a person taking up a new run being able to maintain possession of his place and property without having recourse to such means -- sometimes by wholesale..."[4]
Table: reported aboriginal killings in Wada wurrung territory to 1859[5]
|Aborigines involved
|Europeans involved
|Aboriginal Deaths reported
|October 1803
|Corio Bay
|Wada wurrung, possibly Yaawangi or Wada wurrung balug
|Lieutenant J Tuckey and others
|two people
|17 October 1836
|Barwon River, Barrabool Hills
|Wada wurrung balug clan
|John Whitehood, encouraged by Frederick Taylor
|Woolmudgin alias Curacoine
|Summer 1837-1838
|Golf Hill Station, Yarrowee River, north of Inverleigh
|Wada wurrung clan unknown
|A shepherd and a hut keeper, Clyde company employees
|two people
|June 1839 – 1840
|Wada wurrung balug clan
|three people
|25 November 1847
|Anderson and Mills Public House, Buninyong
|Wada wurrung clan unknown
|two people
Aboriginal presence on the Ballarat goldfields[edit]
Historian Ian D. Clark has written on the Aboriginal presence on the Ballarat goldfields in the 1850s noting that while there is no evidence for any direct involvement of Aboriginal people in the events of the Eureka Rebellion in 1854, aboriginal people may be relevant to the Eureka story in situational, contextual and relational ways.[6]
The events of the Eureka Rebellion took place on Wathaurong aboriginal land. Three Wathaurong clans lived in the vicinity of the Eureka diggings: the Burrumbeet baluk at Lakes Burrumbeet and Learmonth, Keyeet baluk, a sub-group of the Burrumbeet baluk, at Mt Buninyong, and the Tooloora baluk, at Mt Warranheip and Lal Lal Creek.[6] There are numerous accounts of aboriginal presence in tha Ballarat area during the 1850s.[6]
The early policing of the Ballarat Goldfields was done by the Native Police Corps, who enforced the collection of the gold miners licence fee resulting in confrontations between diggers and the Gold Commissioner, considered by some historians such as M. Cannon and Weston Bate as preludes to the 1854 Eureka Rebellion.[6]
There is oral history that local aboriginal people may have looked after some of the children of the Eureka miners after the military storming of the Eureka Stockade and subsequent massacre of miners. Although not corroborated by any written sources, the account has been deemed plausible by Professor Clark.[6]
Some further credence, although circumstantial, may be provided to the above information. George Yuille, older brother to William Cross Yuille was not only liked and trusted by the local aboriginals but also had formed a relationship with one of the women. Together they had at least one child also named George Yuille. George Yuille senior died on the 26 Mar 1854. He was at the time of his death a storekeeper on Specimen Hill and hence he was among the miners. As to whether his aboriginal wife was with him is unknown but it is a fair assumption that the local aboriginals would have been very familiar with the miners especially if they were in constant contact with George Yuille.
Structure, Borders and Land Use[edit]
Communities consisted of 25 land-owning groups called clans that spoke a related language and were connected through cultural and mutual interests, totems, trading initiatives and marriage ties. Access to land and resources by other clans, was sometimes restricted depending on the state of the resource in question. For example; if a river or creek had been fished regularly throughout the fishing season and fish supplies were down, fishing was limited or stopped entirely by the clan who owned that resource until fish were given a chance to recover. During this time other resources were utilised for food. This ensured the sustained use of the resources available to them. As with most other Kulin territories, penalties such as spearings were enforced upon trespassers. Today, traditional clan locations, language groups and borders are no longer in use and descendants of Wathaurong people live within modern day society, although still preserving much of their culture.
The Wathaurong territory extended from the southern side of the Werribee River to Port Phillip, the Bellarine Peninsula, the Otway forests,and northwest to Mount Emu and Mount Misery. Their territory encompassed the Ballarat goldfields.
Prior to European settlement, 25 separate clans existed, each with an arweet, or clan headman.[7] Arweet held the same tribal standing as a ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri people.
|Clan Name
|Approximate Location
|Barere barere balug
|'Colac' and 'Mt Bute' stations
|Beerekwart balug
|Mount Emu
|Bengalat balug
|Indented Head
|Berrejin balug
|Boro gundidj
|Yarrowee River
|Burrumbeet gundidj
|Lakes Burumbeet and Learmonth
|Keyeet balug
|Mount Buninyong
|Carringum balug
|Carininje balug
|'Emu Hill' station, Linton's Creek
|Corac balug
|'Commeralghip' station, and Kuruc-a-ruc Creek
|Corrin corrinjer balug
|Gerarlture balug
|West of Lake Modewarre
|Marpeang balug
|Blackwood, Myrniong, and Bacchus Marsh
|Mear balug
|Moijerre balug
|Mount Emu Creek
|Moner balug
|'Trawalla' station, Mount Emu Creek
|Neerer balug
|Between Geelong and the You Yangs (Hovells Ck?)
|Pakeheneek balug
|Mount Widderin
|Peerickelmoon balug
|Near Mount Misery
|Tooloora balug
|Mount Warrenheip, Lal-lal Creek, west branch of Moorabool River.
|Woodealloke gundidj
|Wardy Yalloak River, south of Kuruc-a-ruc Creek
|Wada wurrung balug
|Barrabool Hills
|Wongerrer balug
|Head of Wardy Yalloak River
|Worinyaloke balug
|West side of Little River
|You Yang Hills
External links[edit]
- ^ Wathaurong People Geelong City Council website, Accessed November 9, 2008
- ^ Ian D. Clark, pp169, Scars on the Landscape. A Register of Massacre sites in Western Victoria 1803-1859, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 ISBN 0-85575-281-5
- ^ Ian D. Clark, pp169-175, Scars on the Landscape. A Register of Massacre sites in Western Victoria 1803-1859, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 ISBN 0-85575-281-5
- ^ Ian D. Clark, pp1, Scars on the Landscape. A Register of Massacre sites in Western Victoria 1803-1859, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 ISBN 0-85575-281-5
- ^ Ian D. Clark, pp169-175, Scars on the Landscape. A Register of Massacre sites in Western Victoria 1803-1859, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 ISBN 0-85575-281-5 Information condensed from descriptive using reports from historical sources
- ^ a b c d e Ian D. Clark, Another Side of Eureka - the Aboriginal presence on the Ballarat goldfields in 1854 - Were Aboriginal people involved in the Eureka rebellion?, Heretic Press, working paper 2005/2007, accessed 1 November 2011
- ^ Ian D. Clark, Aboriginal Languages and Clans: An historical atlas of western and central Victoria, 1990 as referenced in Aboriginal Heritage Wada wurrung Culture and History Our Precious Heritage website, Accessed November 9, 2008


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An organic product in the United States is considered truly organic when the following conditions are met.
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- When a product contains 95% or more organic ingredients.
The Official Meaning of Organic:
The term organic is not an official term in the United States. The official term for organics that meet USDA organic standards is certified organic, also sometimes called USDA certified organic.
The above said, there are some exceptions to consider when dealing with organic products.
The Term Organic is Not Always Well-Defined:
In the most basic of definitions, organic by most dictionary standards means; "Relating to, or derived from living organisms." However, in the United States, the term organic has come to mean many different things.
The term organic is currently used to describe various sustainable agricultural and food items, textiles, toys, furniture, mattresses, cosmetics, beverages, bath and body care products and many other products. The term organic is also used as an action. For example, "I try to live organically" or, "Organic farming is better for the planet."
In many cases the term organic is used inappropriately. Organic body care products offer a perfect example of when the term organic is used incorrectly; for example, calling a shampoo "organic" that contains harmful chemicals not normally allowed in organic agricultural products.
Exception - Not All Real Organics Are Certified
When a grower uses sustainable growing methods but chooses not to get certified, or is exempt from certification because they sell less than $5,000 worth of organic products annually, it doesn't mean the farmer's products aren't really organic.
For example, an organic blueberry farm may not be officially certified, but may in fact truly grow organic blueberries. This is a tricky exception because it relies on consumer knowledge of sustainable growing methods.
Tricky exception or not, simply not being certified doesn't mean a grower isn't really growing organically, it just means consumers may have a harder time figuring out if the product is truly organic. Without certification to back a product up, the consumer must ask the grower of the product questions about their growing methods to determine organic integrity.
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Dance instructors often suggest that new dancers learn Rumba as one of their first ballroom Latin dance styles.
The dance may not be considered as "flashy" or visually exciting as Salsa or Cha Cha, but if your instructor urges you to start with Rumba, the suggestion is based on sound, practical reasons. As you progress in Ballroom Dancing, you may be very glad you started with this dance.
Rumba is an attractive style for dancers of all abilities and all ages, easy to pick up for beginners, while offering complex variations at advanced levels. Because few dance styles are considered more sensual or romantic, Rumba is sometimes referred to as the "Dance of Love."
Its versatility for social dancing is almost unequaled. Rumbas are played frequently during dance parties in ballrooms, dance studios and recreation centers. It is often the best choice for slower rhythmic Latin music played by a live band or a DJ at hotels, clubs, weddings and private gatherings.
One of the slowest of the Latin dances, Rumba is distinguished by its continuous flowing movement, and a swaying of the hips, described as "Cuban Motion." This is caused by transferring weight from one leg to another. Once learned properly, this weight transfer and hip movement is useful in more fast-paced Latin Dances, including Cha Cha, Salsa, Merengue and Samba.
Adding to its value, especially for beginning dancers, numerous patterns, turns and sequences learned in Rumba can be transferred to other dance styles. This shortens the learning time for related basic steps and patterns. If you decide to move on to that sizzling Salsa or the dramatic Cha Cha, your progress may be much faster.
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The Polish town of Zamosc is named for its founder, Jan Zamoyski. In the 16th century, Zamoyski commissioned the planning and construction of the town, complete with fortifications. Four centuries later, this planning has been preserved and, as a result, has landed Zamosc on the list of Poland's World Heritage Sites.
Zamosc is located near Lublin, in southeastern Poland.
Zamosc's Market Square:
Zamosc's Market Square, with the Baroque style Town Hall, is its most recognizable symbol. Here you'll find the Zamosc Museum, which tells the story of Zamosc through portraits of members of its founding family and other exhibits. The Collegiate Church with its Zamoyski Chapel is also located on the square.
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Benjamin Pickard, Bobby Twitty, Scott Gillespie, Perry Rigby and Cameron Wilkie all hit home runs, while Wellsville's Scott DeJong, Shane Barley and Tyler Lau homered for the hosts.
The Power led the game until the seventh inning, when the Nitros scored three runs to even the score at 6-6. The following inning they scored the go-ahead run.
Micah Mabe (0-1) took the loss for the Power in the first game.
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Searches and Seizures: Dwellings
Dwellings are generally most protected from the searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment. The Court has held that a person in his or her home has the highest expectation of privacy. A warrant is generally required.
However, what if nobody answers the door? Can the police break-in and if yes, then how soon? What if the warrant is defective? What kinds of exigent circumstances may justify foregoing obtaining a warrant? This section deals with these and other issues.
Court Opinions on the Topic:
Illinois v. McArthur (2001)
Opinion by: BREYER
In the circumstances of the case before us, we cannot say that the warrantless seizure was per se unreasonable. It involves a plausible claim of specially pressing or urgent law enforcement need, i.e., "exigent circumstances."
United States v. Banks (2003)
Opinion by: SOUTER
...[T]he argument that 15 to 20 seconds was too short for Banks to have come to the door ignores the very risk that justified prompt entry. True, if the officers were to justify their timing here by claiming that Banks's failure to admit them fairly suggested a refusal to let them in, Banks could at least argue that no such suspicion can arise until an occupant has had time to get to the door, a time that will vary with the size of the establishment, perhaps five seconds to open a motel room door, or several minutes to move through a townhouse. In this case, however, the police claim exigent need to enter, and the crucial fact in examining their actions is not time to reach the door but the particular exigency claimed. On the record here, what matters is the opportunity to get rid of cocaine, which a prudent dealer will keep near a commode or kitchen sink. The significant circumstances include the arrival of the police during the day, when anyone inside would probably have been up and around, and the sufficiency of 15 to 20 seconds for getting to the bathroom or the kitchen to start flushing cocaine down the drain. That is, when circumstances are exigent because a pusher may be near the point of putting his drugs beyond reach, it is imminent disposal, not travel time to the entrance, that governs when the police may reasonably enter; since the bathroom and kitchen are usually in the interior of a dwelling, not the front hall, there is no reason generally to peg the travel time to the location of the door, and no reliable basis for giving the proprietor of a mansion a longer wait than the resident of a bungalow, or an apartment like Banks's. And 15 to 20 seconds does not seem an unrealistic guess about the time someone would need to get in a position to rid his quarters of cocaine.
Courts of Appeals have explicitly taken into account the risk of disposal of drug evidence as a factor in evaluating the reasonableness of waiting time. See, e.g., United States v. Goodson, 165 F.3d 610, 612, 614 (CA8 1999) (holding a 20-second wait after a loud announcement at a one-story ranch reasonable); United States v. Spikes, 158 F.3d 913, 925-927 (CA6 1998) (holding a 15-to-30-second wait in midmorning after a loud announcement reasonable); United States v. Spriggs, 302 U.S. App. D.C. 54, 996 F.2d 320, 322-323 (CADC 1993) (holding a 15-second wait after a reasonably audible announcement at 7:45 a.m. on a weekday reasonable); United States v. Garcia, 983 F.2d 1160, 1168 (CA1 1993) (holding a 10-second wait after a loud announcement reasonable); United States v. Jones, 133 F.3d 358, 361-362 (CA5 1998) (relying specifically on the concept of exigency, holding a 15-to-20-second wait reasonable). See also United States v. Chavez-Miranda, 306 F.3d 973, 981-982, n. 7 (CA9 2002) ("Banks appears to be a departure from our prior decisions. . . . [W]e have found a 10 to 20 second wait to be reasonable in similar circumstances, albeit when the police heard sounds after the knock and announcement"); United States v. Jenkins, 175 F.3d 1208, 1215 (CA10 1999) (holding a 14-to-20-second wait at 10 a.m. reasonable); United States v. Markling, 7 F.3d 1309, 1318-1319 (CA7 1993) (holding a 7-second wait at a small motel room reasonable when officers acted on a specific tip that the suspect was likely to dispose of the drugs).
At common law, the knock-and-announce rule [in executing search warrants] was traditionally "justified in part by the belief that announcement generally would avoid 'the destruction or breaking of any house . . . by which great damage and inconvenience might ensue.'" [...] One point in making an officer knock and announce, then, is to give a person inside the chance to save his door. That is why, in the case with no reason to suspect an immediate risk of frustration or futility in waiting at all, the reasonable wait time may well be longer when police make a forced entry, since they ought to be more certain the occupant has had time to answer the door. [...] Suffice it to say that the need to damage property in the course of getting in is a good reason to require more patience than it would be reasonable to expect if the door were open. Police seeking a stolen piano may be able to spend more time to make sure they really need the battering ram. [...] Attention to cocaine rocks and pianos tells a lot about the chances of their respective disposal and its bearing on reasonable time.
Minnesota v. Carter (1998)
JUSTICE SCALIA, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS joins, concurring:
...[W]hereas it is plausible to regard a person's overnight lodging as at least his "temporary" residence, it is entirely impossible to give that characterization to an apartment that he uses to package cocaine. Respondents here were not searched in "their ... house" under any interpretation of the phrase that bears the remotest relationship to the well-understood meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
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Lower Taxes + More Oil = North Slope Economic Growth
Sharon Koss
June 13, 2013
Oil companies are now committing massive investments to Alaska's economy in response to reduced taxes. Conservatives have long claimed that reductions in taxes help to encourage market investment and prosperity. Without business, there are no jobs, without jobs there cannot be economic growth. The situation concerning the Oil and Gas Production Tax (SB 21) in the North Slope of Alaska is a prime example of this truism. The Tax Foundation ranked Alaska as the fourth-best state tax climate for business for 2013, and the prospects keep improving as this new law begins to take effect. The long-standing fact that Alaska is one of only two states without an individual income tax or state-level sales tax (the other being New Hampshire) greatly contributes to its favorable business climate.
Before SB 21, the task of funding state services and government fell mainly to the oil companies, which paid a progressive tax on net profit with a maximum of 75 percent being collected by the state as part of the 2007 Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share (ACES) Act. This staggering burden upon oil producers, who bring so much investment to the state, was advocated and pushed through by then Governor Sarah Palin. It is ironic that this national icon for lower taxes touts ACES as one of her major accomplishments in office.
For the past three years, Governor Sean Parnell has pushed for the rollback of this tax and finally succeeded with the passage of SB 21 this past April. In response to this reversal, which now sets a flat 35 percent tax on profits, BP has announced plans to invest $1 billion in further investment into Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, which BP lists as the largest oilfield in the United States. BP's promise to create two new drill rigs by 2016 will add 200 new jobs to the already 2,300 that they support in Alaska. Exxon and ConocoPhillips, which each own 36 percent of the Prudhoe Bay oilfield, are looking into plans to team up with BP to commit $3 billion to add 110 more wells to their portfolios.
A look at the past shows that while some may criticize this tax reduction as a "giveaway" to big oil, it is far from that. Alaska is able to enjoy low taxes due to the finances that BP, ConocoPhillips, and Exxon invest in the state. Too often the oil industry is seen as easy plunder for tax hiking politicians, however, the tax reductions were essential for the industry and economic prosperity in the state. Currently, the oil flow from existing rigs is waning and low capacity is threatening to render the pipeline inoperable. The miles of pipeline were built to transport 2 million barrels of crude oil a day—the amount that was being transported at the height of production. A severe cut to the oil flow could cause remaining oil to freeze. Without oil companies' additional and substantial investment it is likely that the Alaskan economy would fail to thrive. Rather than push policies which would make exploration in Alaska less lucrative than pursuing oil elsewhere, the latest actions from Governor Parnell have already been shown to foster continued economic development. So while the rest of the nation remains confounded on how to resurrect the economy, let them look to the North as lowered taxes spur investment and growth.
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Chapter One
It was already dark by the time I zoomed out of the mountains, heading east toward the deserts and the town of Magellan. The elevation dropped, the cool green of pine country fell behind, and the heat returned. Lightning forked far to the south, the approaching storm tingling through my body like a lovers touch.
By the time I reached Winslow and glided through its traffic lights, clouds had blotted out the stars, but still there was no rain. I took the road under the railroad bridge at the same time a freight train rumbled over it, then I headed south to open desert, my Harley throbbing in the quiet.
Fingers of lightning lit the clouds with intense white, and I lapped up the residue like a greedy cat. Im a Stormwalker, which is my fathers peoples way of saying I can harness the power of storms for my own use. On a calm day, I cant work much more than simple spells, but put a storm near me, and I can make the wind, lightning, and rain dance to my bidding. Im good at it. Deadly.
Storm magic drove me crazy and left me more hungover than a three-day bender, but too long between storms had the same result. I hadnt tasted a storm in the two weeks since Id moved to Magellan to investigate the disappearance of Amy McGuire, the police chiefs daughter. I needed a fix.
I took the turnoff that led to Magellan. The smudge of the small towns lights beckoned to me from twenty miles away. The larger glitter of Flat Mesa, the county seat, lay a little north. The red taillights of a pickup bobbed ahead of me as it dipped and rose through the washes. Half of the left light was broken, giving the truck an uneven look. No one else was on the road with us.
A sudden gust of wind threatened to knock me off my bike, and a voice floated on it across the dark desert.
I skidded to a halt, heart hammering, and dragged off my helmet. Wind buffeted me, clouds flowing toward me thick and fast.
Daughter. The whisper was feminine, soft, almost loving.
Oh, holy crap.
The other reason Id come to Magellan was to face my mother and stop her, like I should have stopped her years ago. But Id been too young then, too scared. The invitation to investigate Amys disappearance gave me the opportunity to return, and this time, I would fight her. As soon as I figured out how to.
Six years had passed since Id met my mother, in, of all places, a diner in Holbrook, where shed scared the shit out of me. It was easy to convince myself that I was ready to confront her while safe behind the heavily warded walls of my new hotel, not so easy out here in open desert with the vortexes beckoning to me. Here in the darkness, alone under this vast sky, I had to admit that she still scared the shit out of me.
Come to me.
Like hell. When Id met my mother, shed done her best to make me her willing slave, but I had this problem with free will. I liked it.
Not this time! I shouted.
The whisper died on the wind as lightning flared. The electricity of it sparkled through my fingers and pinged across my helmet.
The storm magic was earth magic, which Id inherited from my grandmother, a small Navajo woman who was stronger than she looked. My mother came from Beneath, the same realm that created the skinwalkers, and Id inherited magic from her too. My mother didnt much like earth magic, because although earth magic had enabled me to be born at all, it also made me strong enough to withstand her.
I put on my helmet, my fingers shaking, and glided onward. A curtain of rain washed over me, its sudden chill welcome. I caught up to the pickup, whoever it was traveling slowly, and I realized that the encounter had taken only a few short moments.
I pulled into the oncoming lane of the two-lane road to pass the truck. Another sheet of lightning ran through the sky, reaching from the mesas to the south and spreading in all directions. It lit the clouds in cold, white radiance, and in that light I saw a giant figure burst from the side of the road, heading directly for me.
I hit my brakes, cranking my bike sideways, trying desperately to avoid the impact. A horrible stench filled the air as the figure missed my front wheel and struck the pickup with a resounding boom.
My back tire skidded out from under me on the rain-soaked pavement. At the same time, the pickup rose into the air, almost in slow motion. It rotated once, twice, before it crashed to the pavement, landing on its cab. The pickup screeched forward upside down a few yards, sparks flying into the night, before it lay still like a dead thing.
My bike kept skidding. I missed the truck by inches, was thrown free of the Harley, and landed facedown in a rapidly filling ditch.
I lay unmoving in the wet dirt, the face shield of my helmet cracked. My bike sprawled on its side next to me, front wheel bent, my legs just as bent under me.
No one moved inside the pickup. It was black dark out here; I couldnt even discern the color of the truck. I could still smell the skinwalker, though, lurking in the darkness beyond us. My mother could control the things, who thrived on the energy of the vortexes, and shed sent this one to discipline me. Not kill meI knew she didnt want me dead, just obedient. I wouldnt be useful to her if I were dead.
I struggled out of my helmet. My gloves had ripped, and blood slicked my grip. I unfolded myself painfully and climbed to my feet, dragging in aching breaths.
I heard the skinwalker coming back. The legends of my people said that skinwalkers were human sorcerers who dabbled in dark magic, wrapping themselves in skins of dead animals to take on that animals characteristics. True about the dead animals part, usually after theyd tortured them, but skinwalkers werent human. They were throwbacks to the previous shell world, the one Beneath, where my mother was a goddess. Skinwalkers were evils, like demons, that should never have made it through to this world with the rest of humanity. But they had, clawing their way out and breeding down the generations.
It charged me. The thing was huge, about eight feet tall, wrapped, as far as I could tell, in the skin of a dead bear. Faster than fast, stinking like the worst charnel house, it picked me up and slammed me down on the road again. I hit and kicked, making no more of a dent than if Id hit a wall. It put its filthy face close to mine, lips pulling back from yellow teeth.
I screamed. Not that it would help. No one lived out here, and whoever had been in the pickup wasnt getting out.
The storm answered me. Thunder cracked in the distance, and I reached desperately for the lightning. I couldnt create storms or move them; I could only use what nature decided to give me, but if the storm was close enough . . .
Lightning flowed from the black cloud and into my outstretched hands. I exhaled in relief. It wasnt very strong, the storm still too far away, but it would help. I gathered what lightning I could and threw it at the skinwalker. The skinwalker grunted with the impact and danced back a yard or so, but that was about all I could manage. I scrambled to my feet.
Skinwalkers are damn hard to kill. This one was shambling toward me again. I reached for the wind and raised my hands to direct it at the disgusting thing. The skinwalker stumbled. I hit it again and again with wind power, throwing sparks of lightning into the mix.
The skinwalker ran at me again, bent on destruction. I didnt think my mother wanted it to kill me, but did it know that?
The creature made it back to the road. Instead of pummeling me, it turned and kicked my bike.
No! I shouted. That bike was my baby. This old girl and me had racked up a lot of miles. She symbolized my freedom, my independence, me. I grabbed a handful of lightning and blasted the skinwalker. Electricity arced around him, but he still didnt die.
At times like these, I regretted riding away from Mick, my man of wild fire magic. Id seen Mick burn up a skinwalker without breaking a sweat. Mick had made me crazy with his mixture of bad-boy charm, protectiveness, and elusiveness, but my time with him had also been the best of my life.
Before wed parted ways, Mick had given me six light spells locked into little silver balls. I had one in my pocket now, the last of the remaining two. The balls, when activated, radiated a white light that drove away every shadowtemporarily. They had no heat, only light, but they were useful in emergencies, against skinwalkers or demons or Nightwalkers, creatures that shunned the light.
The electricity ebbed, the storm diminishing. The skinwalker came at me, a murderous look in its red eyes.
The situation definitely qualified as an emergency. I dug into my pocket, digging out the spell that was about the size of a ball bearing. It didnt take much magic to activate them, which meant I could use them whether I had a handy storm or not.
The skinwalker loomed over me, huge fists ready to crush me. I lifted the spell ball, but before I could call it to life, the skinwalker gave a sudden cry of anguish. A blue nimbus sprang up to surround it, one not created by me. The skinwalker fought it, trying to beat its way out, while I stood with my palm outstretched, watching in astonishment.
The skinwalker ran off into the darkness, still surrounded with glowing blue, until it was lost to sight. I blew out my breath in sudden relief and returned the spell ball to my pocket.
The stench receded, a sure sign the thing had gone. Had Mama called off her pet? Or had some other entity interfered? I didnt know, and at the moment, I didnt care.
I limped toward the pickup. The next burst of lightning revealed a dusty red truck that looked familiar, and my heart sank as I read the words on the now upside-down door, Fremont Hansen, Install and Fix-It.
Shit, I whispered. Fremont was the plumber Id hired to help me restore the derelict hotel Id bought on the outskirts of Magellan. Fremont was a friendly guy with a receding hairline and innocent brown eyes, who claimed to have a little magical ability of his own. I can fix anything, hed boasted, wriggling his fingers.
I closed my bloody hand around my cell phone, but the fall had smashed it. Plastic shards stuck to my fingers, and the batteries dangled from useless wires.
I tossed the phone aside and crouched on the road next to the pickups cab. Blood coated the inside of the drivers window, and I saw a head pressed against it.
Fremont. I tried the door, but I couldnt budge it. I hobbled around to the other side of the truck, my leg hurting like hell. The passenger window was open. I saw no gleaming pebbles of glass, so the window must have already been open before the wreck. The man lay in the blackness inside, upside down, neck bent unnaturally.
I fumbled in the debris inside the truck and found no cell phone, and the frame was too crimped for me to open the glove compartment. I withdrew, my nose wrinkling with the stench of death.
Another flash of lightning lit the sky, farther to the east, the storm moving on. The lightning died, and red and blue lights took its place, accompanied by the wail of a siren. I sat down, exhausted, my back against the pickup, as a vehicle came charging toward me, headlights blinding.
An SUV with Hopi County Sheriffs Department painted on its side stopped a few feet from me, its tires sliding a little on the wet pavement. The door popped open, and booted feet hit the asphalt, followed by sharply creased khaki pants. The boots were polished to a sheen, strange for a man who worked in the dusty desert all day.
Nash Jones, sheriff of tiny Hopi County, squatted down next to me, regarding me with eyes ice gray in the glare of his headlights. Blearily I heard another truck pull up and more boots crunch on dirt and pavement.
Janet Begay. Nashs voice was flat and hard. He didnt like me. When I first arrived in Magellan, Id tried to talk to him about Amy McGuire, and hed shut me down before Id done more than introduce myself. Amy McGuire had been his fiancée. Jones had hated me before hed even met me.
He turned on a pinpoint flashlight and trained the light right into my eyes. You all right?
Im alive, I croaked.
You ran into him with your motorcycle. His voice held no sympathy. The impact flipped the truck. Am I right?
Something hit him. Not me.
He didnt believe me. Can you get up? Do you need the paramedics?
I think Im okay.
Nash didnt believe that either. A woman in a black coverall came over at his signal, and she helped me stand. Nash abandoned me while the woman got me to the back of a paramedics truck and cleaned the blood off my hands. She checked me over, took my blood pressure, felt my limbs for breaks, asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital. I said no but asked her for a lift into town, my motorcycle wheel bent like it was. She agreed but said she had to wait for the sheriffs okay.
I felt hollow inside. Fremont was dead in that truck. Dead because a skinwalker sent by my evil goddess mother had missed me and hit him.
Nash Jones and his deputies surveyed the accident and started cutting the body out of the truck. I sat there sick and miserable. The storm was dying, leaving me drained and sick as usual. I really wanted some coffee. Or a stiff drink. I was a lightweight drunk, so I never drank much, but tonight Id make an exception.
Nash returned and beckoned with a curt gesture. Begay. Come with me.
Probably the only reason he didnt manhandle me was because the paramedics woman might get mad at him. Nash Jones had made it clear as soon as I arrived in Magellan that he resented the hell out of my presence and the fact that Chief McGuire had asked me here. Nash had never been officially charged regarding Amys disappearance, but hed been questioned as a suspect, and the talk on the street was that no one knew for sure. The things Chief McGuire had told me about Sheriff Jones were . . . interesting.
Nash didnt touch me, but he made me hobble in front of him to his SUV. He opened the back door. Get in.
Why? The nice lady with the blood pressure cuff is giving me a ride home.
Im taking you to the sheriffs office. For reckless driving, possible manslaughter.
You are kidding, arent you?
I dont kid.
Jones could glare. He had gray eyes that could turn on you with the intensity of a supernova, black hair cut in the military style hed brought back from his army time in Iraq, and a hard, handsome face. Id seen women in Magellan and Flat Mesa turn their heads to watch him go by, his looks marred only by a scar on his upper lip.
Theres something out there, I said. It hit Fremonts truck, hard enough to flip it. It ran off, but the storms dying, and it could come back anytime. It can tear this SUV apart like a paper bag if it wants to. Skinwalkers are frigging strong.
He answered me with a flat stare. Nash Jones was an Unbeliever, one of those people who didnt buy the fact that Magellan was built near a mystical confluence of vortexes, where the paranormal was normal. Hed grown up here but derided those who made money from the tourists who flocked to Hopi County in pursuit of the supernatural.
Get in before I throw your ass in.
Were you like this in the army? Not believing anyone who warned you of danger?
There I was with trained men. Youre a Navajo girl from a sheep farm. Get in the damn truck.
It killed Fremont, easy as anything. I was close to hysterical tears. I liked gossipy, quirky Fremont.
Its not Fremont.
I looked at him in shock. What?
Its his assistant. Charlie Jones.
Id seen Charlie helping Fremont work on my hotels plumbing, a quiet, kind of scruffy kid in his late teens whod kept to himself. Id known his first name was Charlie, but that was about it.
Jones? I repeated.
My fourth cousin.
Oh, Nash, Im sorry. Im so sorry.
Nash gripped me under the elbow and all but threw me into the backseat. Stay there.
He slammed the door, clicked a remote, and the locks engaged. As I suspected, the windows wouldnt roll down for the prisoner in the back, and a black grill separated back from front, with another one blocking me from the storage space to the rear. I decided to be thankful that Nash hadnt handcuffed me.
I slumped down in the seat, but I knew I couldnt hide. If the skinwalker wanted to find me again, it would. I didnt sense it nearby, though. The flashing emergency lights and activity might be keeping it away. Skinwalkers didnt like light, noise, crowds. That didnt mean it wouldnt rise out of the desert and attack again when Nash drove me away.
I also worried about my bike. Would Nash leave it by the side of the road like a mangled toy? I could imagine him doing that, sending impound to retrieve it when he felt like it.
I didnt have much in the way of possessions, feeling freer without them, but that Harley was important to me. Id ridden her across this country and down into Mexico, first on my own, then with Mick, then alone again, when Id finally left him five years ago.
The bike represented my means of escape. No matter how many roots I put down or how much trouble I got into, I could always throw a change of clothes into my saddlebags, swing my leg over my Harley, and disappear into the night.
I saw the poor thing in the flicker of police flares, the wheel bent, the handlebars sticking up forlornly. It was a machine, a piece of metal, I told myself, but it was like looking at the twisted body of my own child.
When Nash finally opened the drivers door, I smelled no stench of skinwalker on the night. I inhaled, tasting the ozone tingle of the storm. I toyed with the idea of snatching the lightnings power and zapping Nash with it, but that would make me no better than the skinwalker. Hurting for the fun of it. I shuddered.
Should I consider myself under arrest? I asked.
Nash slammed the door and put on his seat belt. Being taken in for questioning.
My bike?
Deputies are impounding it. Its evidence.
Damn you, Jones, I didnt run into that truck.
Save it. He put the SUV in gear and pulled out past the flipped pickup as the deputies lifted my Harley and tossed carelessly it into the back of their truck.
Nash didnt turn on his emergency lights, but he gunned the SUV and roared down the highway. Ten miles along, the road ended in a T-intersection, another narrow highway heading north to Flat Mesa, the other south to Magellan. My hotel stood here, at the Crossroads, a dark, forlorn square against the darker sky. The Crossroads Bar, which shared a parking lot with the hotel, was lit and swarming with people.
I gazed longingly at the hotel, picturing my bedroom in the back with its waiting bed and bathroom, even if the water didnt work yet. That hotel was my haven, my defiance if you like.
Nash turned left, passing the hotel without stopping, and drove north toward Flat Mesa.
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Smoot says people have him all wrong
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BY SEAN JENSENPioneer PressAs one of the Vikings' newest players, cornerback Fred Smoot is adamant that he is being inaccurately portrayed in the Twin Cities, especially in light of his connection to the Oct. 6 boat party on Lake Minnetonka.
But Smoot said he doesn't want to hurt any of his teammates in the process of repairing his image.
"Operation Clean Up, that's what I call it," Smoot said. "I just worry about how people perceive me. I think they perceive me very wrong right now.
"I just want to clear my name, by not throwing nobody else on the bottom. That's the key."
Smoot, quarterback Daunte Culpepper, left tackle Bryant McKinnie and running back Moe Williams were charged Thursday with indecent conduct, disorderly conduct and lewd or lascivious conduct. They face fines of $1,000 and 90 days in jail on each count, though prosecutors said jail time is not likely. As many as 30 Vikings players were present at the boat party, authorities said.
The complaint last week charged that Smoot used a sex toy on two women. Smoot said at the time: "That upsets me bad because I didn't do anything on the boat. They just really are trying to put stories on certain guys. I didn't do any of that."
But Smoot said Monday that in clearing his name, he does not want to create any trouble for teammates.
Asked how he planned to do that, Smoot's attorney, David Valentini said: "It's premature to comment right now. It's too early in the ballgame. But we intend to assert our innocence and see what our best approach is."
All four players have hired lawyers. Culpepper has selected Earl Gray of St. Paul, and Williams has chosen Joe Friedberg of Minneapolis. Joe Tamburino represents McKinnie. All of the attorneys have received the police reports from the prosecutor's office and have begun reviewing them.
In the near future, all four attorneys for the players are expected to meet and discuss the case.
Smoot said he is no worse for wear after playing in about 20 plays Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers and making one tackle as the third cornerback.
"I'm sure he is frustrated by not starting, but we weren't in a lot of nickel (defense)," coach Mike Tice said. "Right now he comes on the field when we are in nickel and dime, and we were not in a lot of that because of the type of offense they run."
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12-20-2005, 01:45 PM #2SamDawg84 Guest
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da smooter sooter
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Re: Smoot says people have him all wrong
Smoot has a LOT of work to be done-----both on and off the field!!!
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Is it me or is smoot the second coming of Kenny wright?
He looked so good in washington and he looks like crap in Minny.
Re: Smoot says people have him all wrong
Smoot will do better.
Re: Smoot says people have him all wrong
"DaScRuM" wrote:
Smoot has a LOT of work to be done-----both on and off the field!!!
Has nothing to prove "off the field" ... still has been found guilty of nothing.
On the field, injuries and a new system .... Neither of which he has not had to deal with since he first entered the NFL ... He will come back strong next year, he's too much of a competitor ....
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Smoot will come along...people are so quick to judge a player so fast, like jamie said, new system and nagging injuries have really not let smoot shine. I know hes a playmaker...just give him a lil time.
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Re: Smoot says people have him all wrong
ya no crap! everybody made such a big deal out of that crap but if it wasnt a professinal team or sumbody famous nobody would give a rats ass! but since it is the vikings...they all gotta strap their pannies in a bundle and whine and shout to everyone that they are all pimps(which is true) to try to make the vikings look like sh!t! Well let me tell them sumthin...i dont care wat neone does to try to make the minnesota vikings look like crap...guess what...it aint workin b!tches..cuz they got about 50 gazillion fans supportin the purple people eaters....im out!!!!!!![img]http//i6.photobucket.com/albums/y217/SkolPepper11/thefraycopy.jpg[/img]
Re: Smoot says people have him all wrong
you gotta respect the fact that he doesn't wanna bring down any of his other teammates with him, whether or not he's guilty. That should earn him some respect with the players that might have been lost when the boat party incident happened.;-)
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jkot Posts: 6Ingtonge18, I though I might have missed something, so I did as you suggested. And as I thought, there is no actuator in the drivers side door. Only the Passenger door has a power lock. My lanos is a 2001 Sport. Maybe the 2000 and ealier models had them in both doors? I also asked the dealer because I would like to put on "keyless" entry. The also stated I would need to have the selonoid installed on the drivers side.
So anyone interested in the Lanos Sport, there is only a power lock solenoid on the passenger side of the car. (you can lock and unlock the passenger door from the drivers side,not vice - versa)
Aside from this minor technicality, the car is still Great! I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone.
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The Washington State Patrol has issued a $1 million warrant for the driver charged with causing a crash near Sedro-Woolley last month that killed a Bellingham woman.
Alfredo Navarro III, 19, of Mount Vernon, was released last weekend from Seattles Harborview Medical Center, where he was recovering from injuries suffered in the crash. Navarro has a broken right arm and leg and was wearing a neck brace when he was released.
"We were not expecting him to be released that early," said Trooper Mark Francis. "When a detective went to check on him Monday morning, he was gone."
Navarro was charged Monday with three counts of vehicular homicide and another charge of vehicular assault, for another man injured in the accident. The state patrol released a photo of Navarro, but Francis said his hair is now more closely cropped than it appears in the photograph.
According to a state patrol report, Navarro's eastbound Audi A4 crossed the center line around 5:10 a.m. May 23, on Highway 20 near Minkler Road, just east of Sedro-Woolley. Troopers suspect the car had been speeding when it slammed into a Ford Fusion driven by Frederick A. Brand, 65, of Concrete, according to troopers. Brand died that morning.
The Audi flipped into a ditch on the north side of the highway. Two passengers inside Megan L. Brown, 21, of Bellingham, and Nicole A. Washington, 23, of Sedro-Woolley died at the scene.
Beer cans were found in the Audi, Francis said. Navarros blood was drawn after the crash but test results have not been given to state patrol yet.
Anyone who witnessed the crash or saw the cars shortly beforehand is asked to contact Detective Scott Witman of the state patrol's Criminal Investigation Division at 360-654-1204.


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By Sharron Hudson
As we move along in the month of April one big Parker County event that made front page news had great results for one of our local ladies.
Congratulations to Mrs. JuanEtta Gilbert on being named first runner-up in the 12th Annual Ms. Senior Parker County Pageant!
JuanEtta was Ms. Millsap Garden Club and did a fantastic job in evening wear and interview at the competition held at Weatherford College. To top it all off, our contestant was the winner of the talent portion of the event.
Her comedic skit of Maxine, the advice columnist, had the packed house roaring with laughter.
Mrs. Gilbert had some great support in this endeavor, with the profits going to Meals on Wheels, and we are extremely proud of her for representing our community.
Also, on the other side of the competition, Millsapian and Precinct 3 County Commissioner Larry Walden graciously lent his time to the pageant as one of the judges. A great evening for a worthy cause, and congrats to Ms. Senior Parker County 2013 Billie June Cox.
As we look into May, Millsap ISD school-board elections will be held on Saturday, May 11, at the Millsap Community Center. Early voting will also take place there April 29-May 7, on weekdays, with hours fluctuating, day to day, 7 or 8 a.m. to 5 or 7 p.m. There are two seats open for a three year term. The candidates are Tommy Lucia, Jerry Walker and Timothy Kukuk.
Also on the same date the Log Cabin Days Festival will be taking place on the cabin grounds and the Millsap High School prom will be held at Clark Gardens in the evening. A very busy day!
Speaking of the Log Cabin Days Festival one of the best parts of the event will happen on Friday, May 10, when the fourth-grade students from Millsap and Garner have learning day.
Historical ways of life will be presented in a hands-on way, as the students are shown how to shoe a horse, make soap and start a fire with flint. Some of the adults will dress in period clothing as the kids will be taken back in time with calvary re-enactments and tomahawk tactics. Since history is such a prevalent subject for fourth graders, this experience helps get them off on the right foot.
Everyone involved in this has a great time and the Heritage Society is deep in planning so that this day will be a memorable time for the kids.
Congratulations to Waldens Farm and Ranch Supply as they prepare to celebrate their 10th anniversary on May 18. This is a celebration for all customers and everyone is invited to the store, located at 201 Fairview, in Millsap, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Everyone there wants to show their appreciation and say, "Thanks for your business."
There will be a Shop and Win Contest, Door Prizes and guest speakers. They are going to have some great prizes that you must be present to win: Grand Prize John Deere Zero Turn Lawn Mower, first prize is a Bayou Classic Cypress-series grill and second prize is a Mighty Mule automatic gate opener. Plan to go celebrate with these folks and wish them many more great years!
Here's something that the Millsap chapter of Masons do every year and it's sure to be outstanding. They are going to have their Annual Spring Fish Fry on May 18 at the Log Cabin Grounds.
The cooking will start at 10 a.m. and they will sell lunch until all of the food is gone. In conjunction with this, there will also be a delicious bake sale.
These guys work hard to make funds for two scholarships for Millsap seniors every year. And they are responsible for other charitable endeavors and volunteer jobs.
We appreciate their willingness to support the community and all of their efforts. Please mark you calendars to go have a great meal with them.
Last Reminder: Millsap Ex-Students Reunion on Saturday, April 27, at Millsap Elementary School, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Bring food for lunch at noon.
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---- — Welcome to the late seasons. There are various small game species back in the hunt, all great challenges in the cold and snow. The last deer season is underway, the flintlock season.
If you are heading out for deer with the flintlock, you are after a very different animal now. They've been chased around quite a bit, and even though they've not been bothered for a while, they are still very eager to keep distance between predator and prey.
I like to dabble a bit in black powder hunting. I'm not into it as some are, but it is fun to carry a flintlock rifle in the woods. It is a much different feeling than carrying a regular rifle or even a bow. If you have your flintlock tuned right, it will go off, but lots of things can go wrong. Just ask old Craig Pretzel. If I have it right, I believe his clicked about four times before the deer ran off. Your pan powder can leak out and disappear. The pan powder can collect moisture. The flash hole can clog. The flint can break. Then if everything is right, you still have to hold the gun still and follow through on the hold when you pull the trigger.
All that said, there are some very deadly flintlock shots out there. There are also a lot of guys who can't hit the broad side of a barn door. It comes down to practice. Cleaning the gun is a bit of a pain, but it's part of the routine. The guy that is good and quick at cleaning his gun is probably the guy that is a good shot with it.
I have to admit I missed my share with the muzzleloader. I'm not sure why, but I've gotten better with it lately. Part of it is patience and part of that is waiting for a good shot.
One of the things I like to stress about flintlock hunting is to follow up your shot. Track the deer 150 yards or more. We have found deer dead that far away from the shot that showed no sign of a hit. Finding no hair or blood at the spot where the deer was shot at does not mean you didn't hit it. If there is no snow, search the area where you last saw the deer heading into.
Patched roundballs are deadly, but they don't do near the damage a rifle bullet does. I have heard of some hunters having good luck with maxi-balls and sabots. I've never used them, but I have had good success with powerbelt bullets. I tried them for the simple fact of having a larger projectile. My .54 Renegade shoots the 348 grain copper bullet quite accurately, though I have heard that different bullets shoot differently in various guns. The patched round ball is the traditional choice and for many years it was the only legal projectile in flintlock season. I've burned up my last pack of powerbelts and this year I'm going to go back to the roundball. Getting any deer with a flintlock is an accomplishment, and there are still some nice bucks running around out there.
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Product placement and overstaffing of digital divisions are hurdles for television producers and creators as they craft extensions of their shows, said Tim Kring. The executive producer and showrunner of NBC's "Heroes" took part in a panel discussion Wednesday at NATPE's LATV Festival in Hollywood.
"At NBC you have this giant corporate, vertically integrated company, and what ends up happening is the digital division at NBC had seven people a few years ago and then three weeks later there were 67 people and there was this giant mandate from GE to put a lot of eggs into the digital basket," he said.
"What wound up happening once the corporate entity took hold on the TV show and now 67 people in this job want to feel they are controlling this … the big fear for us is that when that material and content start to be generated by people who are outside the main or inner core of the creative force of a show, you have all sorts of pitfalls and things that can go wrong," Mr. Kring said. "You throw a little bit of sponsorship and product placement into the show and you have a recipe for all kinds of serious problems."


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We're back at Nationals Park tonight, where the Nats start a six-game homestand after a 4-4 road trip, one of their best showings away from home this season. Things get a little tougher tonight against the Marlins, who have swept Washington three times this year and have won 23 of their last 26 against the Nats.
Before we get to lineups, a couple pregame news items:
—Ryan Zimmerman is out of the lineup tonight with a sore left shoulder, an injury lingering from the pitch that Pittsburgh's Charlie Morton hit him with on Monday night. Zimmerman said he'd probably have played if he could. He thought it was better to treat the injury all day Tuesday and see how he feels on Wednesday.
—Austin Kearns is also out of the lineup — and out of the ballpark — because of his injured right thumb. Kearns was seeing a hand specialist on Tuesday, and interim manager Jim Riggleman said the Nationals would know more about the outfielder's status on Wednesday.
—Jordan Zimmermann makes a rehab start for Class A Potomac tonight, and it will be determined after that whether he's ready to return from elbow tightness or whether he'll need another rehab start.
—Lastly, Nick Johnson is back at Nationals Park. Only he's in the visitors' clubhouse for the first time since being traded to the Marlins on July 31. Johnson said he came to Washington last night and was able to sleep at home. His wife is in the process of moving his family to Florida, while Johnson adjusts to playing for a new team. "It's a little different," Johnson said of facing the team he'd been with since its days in Montreal. "But you get over it pretty quick. It's about winning a ballgame."
That's all in the way of pregame news. Here are the lineups:
Coghlan LF
N. Johnson 1B
Ramirez SS
Cantu 3B
Uggla 2B
Hermida RF
Ross CF
Baker C
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Morgan CF
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The RNC Web page has a section called Why Are You a Republican? where they invite their people to give sound-bite explanations of their deepest values. Kos and I pointed and laughed (☺ ☞) at the low quality and absurdities of the site. Still, I don't see any reason why we should be left out, so you can add something below if you like. But the more interesting question to me is why so many of the alleged Heroes of Republicans on the same RNC site are not Conservatives, as the term is understood today.--Cherlin 05:15, 14 October 2009 (EDT)
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These are taken from the LOL Republican National Committee Heroes page. The entire point of the page is to claim credit for advances in Civil Rights that the Republicans now vehemently oppose. All of these people were Liberal/Progressives (even Ronald Reagan before marrying Nancy). Almost all are pre-Nixon Republicans, back when the GOP still stood for the rights of minorities and women, the environment, and even sometimes for trust-busting, before the Southern Strategy of racism that Nixon launched and Reagan perfected.
Susan B. Anthony
Ronald Reagan
The Great Prevaricator, previously an equally convincing Liberal/Progressive. You should hear him denouncing the evil corporate bosses. But let's give him credit where it is due. He insisted on trying terrorists as common criminals in civilian courts, and signed the international Convention Against Torture.
Pinckney Pinchback
Active in Post-Civil War civil rights.
Octavius Catto
Co-founded the National Equal Rights League.
Mary Terrell
Mary Terrell, along with Ida Wells, was one of two African-American Republican women who in 1909 co-founded the NAACP. The daughter of former slaves, Terrell became a prominent writer and civil rights activist. She campaigned tirelessly for women's suffrage.
As president of the Women's Republican League, Terrell campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Warren Harding in 1920. Her husband was an African-American attorney who served in the administration of Republican President Benjamin Harrison and later received judicial appointments from Republican Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
In the words of Mary Terrell: "Every right that has been bestowed upon blacks was initiated by the Republican Party."
- But that was then. Check out Jackie Robinson, below.
Joseph Rainey
Joseph Rainey (R-SC) was the first African-American congressman, born in 1832.
José Celso Barbosa
On July 4, 1899, Dr. Barbosa established the pro-statehood Puerto Rico Republican Party. The next year, President William McKinley (R-OH) appointed him to the territorial governor's advisory council. In 1907, he established the newspaper "El Tiempo", the first bilingual newspaper on the island. In 1917, he was elected to the territorial legislature.
- A Democratic Socialist, it turns out. In an article in El Tiempo called Negrofobia (Negrophobia) he wrote, "¡Negro!, ¡Negro!, ¡Negro! ¡Y bien! Estamos orgullosos de serlo..." ("Black! Black! Black! Good! We are proud to be such...")
John Langston
John Langston was the first African-American public official, elected in 1855 as a township clerk in Ohio. He later worked for the Freedmen's Bureau to assist emancipated slaves. Langston helped establish Howard University Law School and the National Equal Rights League. His great-nephew, Langston Hughes, is named after him.
Jackie Robinson
In 1960 Robinson had supported Nixon, who seemed to have a better record on Civil Rights than Kennedy, but the 1964 Republican Convention gave him the willies. Robinson said that he "had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
Hiram Revels
The first African-American in the U.S. Senate was a Republican, Hiram Revels.
Frederick Douglass
Already a renowned anti-slavery activist, Frederick Douglass campaigned for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and became one of his key advisors. Years later, as a token of their friendship, Mary Lincoln presented him with her husband's walking stick.
Douglass served in a total of six Republican administrations. President Ulysses Grant appointed Douglass to the Santo Domingo Commission, and President Hayes appointed him Marshall of the District of Columbia. During the Garfield and Arthur administrations, Douglass served as Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia. He served on an envoy to Haiti during the Benjamin Harrison administration. Many prominent Republican, including Members of Congress and Justices of the Supreme Court, attended his funeral in 1895.
Frank Johnson
Frank Johnson was a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention. He managed Alabama's "Veterans for Eisenhower" during the 1952 campaign.
Johnson was a resolute foe of the Democratic Party's segregationist policies, which the Republicans soon took over. President Eisenhower named him U.S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and then to the federal bench. In 1956, Judge Johnson ruled in favor of Rosa Parks, striking down the "blacks in the back of the bus" law. In 1965, it was Judge Johnson who struck down attempts by Alabama's Democrat governor to block the Selma voting rights march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everett Dirksen
Senator Dirksen strongly condemned a Southern Democratic-led 57-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act: "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing of government, in education, and in employment. It must not be stayed or denied. It is here!"
Senator Dirksen co-authored the 1965 Voting Rights Act and helped outmaneuver Southern Democratic opposition: "This cannot go on forever, this denial of the right to vote by ruses and devices and tests and whatever the mind can contrive to either make it very difficult or to make it impossible to vote."
- And he had a little bit of help from President Lyndon Johnson and the northern Democrats, but that's not worth mentioning on an RNC page.
Ellen Foster
Ellen Foster was one of the first female attorneys in the United States. Beginning with the 1884 campaign, she campaigned for Republican candidates across the nation. In 1888, she became the first president of the Women's National Republican Association and established dozens of Republican Women's clubs across the country.
In a first for either major political party, two women – Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attended the 1892 National Convention in an official capacity, as alternate delegates from Wyoming. Speaking at the convention, Ellen Foster declared: "We are here to help you. And we have come to stay."
Edward Brooke
One of the most prominent of the early post-Nixon Black Republicans, Brooke was elected Senator from Massachusetts, the first Black Senator in the 20th century. A liberal on most issues except the economy and national security, he was also a key Senate supporter of allowing abortions funded by Medicaid. Brooke's reputation and liberal politics, together with his political skill and personal charm, meant that he was able for a time to secure support from Democrats as well as Republicans in his state. Following an easy re-election victory in 1972, Brooke's seat seemed secure until 1978 when the Boston Globe reported a series of financial and ethical problems including the fact that Brooke had lied about his financial worth in divorce proceedings.
Dwight Eisenhower
His administration opposed the Democrats' segregationist policies. President Eisenhower appointed to the federal bench southern Republicans such as Frank Johnson, John Wisdom, and Elbert Tuttle, who would become civil rights champions. The day after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, President Eisenhower ordered public schools in Washington, D.C. desegregated immediately, not waiting for judges to make "all deliberate speed." He sent troops to Little Rock to force the Democratic Governor of Arkansas to obey a Federal court order to racially integrate the public schools.
- Hey, what happened to Earl Warren? He was a Republican.
- Interstate Highway System
- Favorite Book: The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer, warning against the authoritarians who were about to take over the Republican Party
Clara Barton
Clara Barton volunteered at field hospitals during the Civil War and became Superintendant of Nurses. She later campaigned for many Republican candidates and was a political ally of Senator John Logan (R-IL). In 1880, Barton campaigned for the Republican presidential nominee, James Garfield.
The following year, Senator Omar Conger (R-MI) convened a meeting in his home at which Barton made plans to establish the American Red Cross. Her friend Frederick Douglass, the Washington, DC Recorder of Deeds, registered the new organization. She then met with Secretary of State James Blaine, a future Republican presidential nominee, and President Garfield to discuss setting up chapters nationwide.
President Abraham Lincoln
- Freed the slaves
- Asserted Federal power over states to regulate slavery and prevent secession
- Actually bipartisan
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The RNC forgot to mention these.
Edmund Burke
The Father of Conservatism, Mr. Tax and Spend himself.
President Theodore Roosevelt
- National Parks
- Major scientific publications
- Trust-busting
Economist F. A. Hayek
- Why I am Not a Conservative
President Richard Nixon
- Voted for early Civil Rights legislation as Senator
- Guaranteed minimum income
- Ended Vietnam War
- Went to China
- Crook
Senator Barry Goldwater
- Favored gays in the military
- Despised Christian Right intolerance
- Supported Roe v. Wade
Senator Bob Dole
- Food stamps
- International school lunch program
- The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics was established to bring bipartisanship back to politics.
- "We're the new liberals of the Republican Party," Goldwater told Dole, who was then facing criticisms from hard-line conservatives in the presidential campaign. "Can you imagine that?"
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Designed for use in Meridian Digital Theatre applications, this multipurpose two-way digital active loudspeaker promises power and clarity in places that are short on space. Since it's sold separately, it's easy to put into your system as the center channel, and even comes with a molded rubber mount for angling the speaker and keeping it scratch-free. It also works for surround action, but you're going to need to double up. However, that same mount does work for vertical placement.
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Kate Kaye at ClickZ.com is reporting that the Utah House has passed H.B. 450, which is another law the state is considering to regulate keywords advertising. The Senate has until Thursday to pass the law, as Utah's legislature only meets 45 days a year.
Unlike past regulation attempts, this version would give immunity to the search ad providers like Google and Yahoo. Instead, the burden would be on the advertisers. Even then, advertisers would be subject to injunction and attorney's fees. In other words, advertisers wouldn't face damages under this law. (I'm sure some lawyers will try to find other nifty laws to facilitate the extraction damages.)
Additionally, this law restricts its reach to Utah only. Advertisers using geotargeting to reach Utah consumers would be affected.
The law is being lobbied for solely by 1-800 Contacts, which has a history of being a proponent of keyword regulation. The major search engines are against the bill, despite its limited scope.
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