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But King also learned a lesson in Albany. "We attacked the political power structure instead of the economic power structure," he says. "You don't win against a political power structure where you don't have the votes. But you can win against an economic power structure when you have the economic power to make the difference between a merchant's profit and loss."
Birmingham. It was while he was in his post-Albany eclipse that King began planning for his most massive assault on the barricades of segregation. The target: Birmingham, citadel of blind, die-hard segregation. King's lieutenant, Wyatt Tee Walker, has explained the theory that governs King's planning: "We've got to have a crisis to bargain with. To take a moderate approach, hoping to get white help, doesn't work. They nail you to the cross, and it saps the enthusiasm of the followers. You've got to have a crisis."
The Negroes made their crisis, but it was no spur-of-the- moment matter. King himself went to Birmingham to conduct workshops in nonviolent techniques. he recruited 200 people who were willing to go to jail for the cause, carefully planned his strategy in ten meetings with local Negro leaders. Then, declaring that Birmingham is the "most thoroughly segregated big city in the U.S.," he announced early in 1963 that he would lead demonstrations there until "Pharaoh lets God's People go."
Awaiting King in Birmingham was Public Safety Commissioner Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor, a man who was to become a symbol of police brutality yet who, in fact, merely reflected the seething hatreds in a city where acts of violence were as common as chitlins and ham hocks. As it happened, Bull Connor was running for mayor against a relative moderate, Albert Boutwell. To avoid giving campaign fuel to Connor, King waited until after the April 2 election. Between Jan. 16 and March 29, he launched himself into a whirlwind speaking tour, made 28 speeches in 16 cities across the nation.
Moving into Birmingham in the first week of April, King and his group began putting their plans to work. Bull Connor, who had lost the election but refused to relinquish power, sent his spies into the Negro community to seek information. Fearing that their phones were tapped, King and his friends worked up a code. he became "J.F.K.," Ralph Abernathy "Dean Rusk," Birmingham Preacher Fred Shuttlesworth "Bull," and Negro Businessman John Drew "Pope John." Demonstrators were called "baptismal candidates," and the whole operation was labeled "Project C" -- for "Confrontation."
The protest began. Day after day, Negro men, women and children in their Sunday best paraded cheerfully downtown to be hauled off to jail for demonstrating. The sight and sound of so many people filling his jail so triumphantly made Bull Connor nearly apoplectic. he arrested them at lunch counters and in the streets, wherever they gathered. Still they cam, rank on rank. At length, on Tuesday, May 7, 2,500 Negroes poured out of church, surged through the police lines and swarmed downtown. Connor furiously ordered the fire hoses turned on. Armed with clubs, cops beat their way into the crowds. An armored car menacingly bulldozed the milling throngs. Fire hoses swept them down the streets. In all, the Birmingham demonstrations resulted in the jailing of more than 3,300 Negroes, including King himself.
The Response. The Negroes had created their crisis -- and Connor had made it a success. "The civil rights movement," said President Kennedy in a meeting later with King, "owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln." that was a best an oversimplification; nevertheless, because of Connor, the riots seared the front pages of the world press, outraged millions of people. Everywhere, King's presence, in the pulpit or at rallies, was demanded. But while he preached nonviolence, violence spread. "Freedom Walker" William Moore was shot and killed in Alabama. Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home. There was violence in Jackson, Miss., in Cambridge, Md., in Danville, Va. In Birmingham, later in the year, a church bombing killed four Negro Sunday-school children, while two other youngsters were shot and killed the same day.
Those events awakened long-slumbering Negro resentments, from which a fresh Negro urgency drew strength. For the first time, a unanimity of purpose slammed into the Negro consciousness with the force of a fire hose. Class lines began to shatter. Middle-class Negroes, who were aspiring for acceptance by the white community, suddenly found a point of identity with Negroes at the bottom of the economic heap. Many wealthy Negroes, once reluctant to join the fight, pitched in.
Now sit-in campaigns and demonstrations erupted like machine-gun fire in every major city in the North, as well as in hundreds of new places in the South. Negroes demanded better job opportunities, an end to the de facto school segregation that ghetto life had forced upon them. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, a calm, cool civil rights leader, lost some of his calmness and coolness. Said he: "My objectivity went out the window when I saw the picture of those cops sitting on that woman and holding her down by the throat." Wilkins promptly joined a street demonstration, got himself arrested.
"Free at Last." Many whites also began to participate, particularly the white clergy, which cast off its lethargy as ministers, priests and rabbis tucked the Scriptures under their arms and marched to jails with Negroes whom they had never seen before. The Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, executive head of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., declared: "Some time or other, we are all going to have to stand and be on the receiving end of a fire hose." Blake thereupon joined two dozen other clergymen in a protest march -- and was arrested.
In the months following Birmingham, Negroes paraded, demonstrated, sat in, stormed and fought through civil rights sorties in 800 cities and towns in the land. The revolt's basic and startling new assumption -- that the black man can read and understand the Constitution, and can demand his equal rights without fear -- was not lost on Washington. President Kennedy, who had been in no great hurry to produce a civil rights bill, now moved swiftly. The Justice Department drew up a tight and tough bill, aimed particularly at voting rights, employment, and the end of segregation in public facilities.
To cap the summer's great storm of protest, the Negro leaders sponsored the now famous March on Washington. It was a remarkable spectacle, one of disorganized order, with a stateliness that no amount of planning could have produced. Some 200,000 strong, whites and blacks of all ages walked from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. There, the Negro leaders spoke -- Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, Young and SNICK's Lewis.
But it was King who most dramatically articulated the Negro's grievances, and it was he whom those present, as well as millions who watched on television, would remember longest. "When we let freedom ring," he cried, "when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we ill be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing, in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
Even the Unions. The march made irreversible all that had gone before in the year of the Negro revolution. In that year, the Negroes made more gains than they had achieved in any year since the end of the Civil War. A speedup in school integration in the South brought to 1,141 the number of desegregated school districts. In the North, city after city re-examined de facto school segregation and set up plans to redress the balance. In 300 cities in the South, public facilities -- from swimming pools to restaurants -- were integrated, and in scores of cities across the nation, leaders established biracial committees as a start toward resolving local inequities.
New job opportunities opened nearly everywhere, as the nation's businesses sent out calls for qualified Negro help -- and, finding a shortage, began training programs for unskilled Negroes. Banks, supermarkets, hotels and department stores upgraded Negro employees. In Philadelphia, Cleveland and New York, pressure on the A.F.L.-C.I.O construction unions -- the most notorious Jim Crow organizations in the North -- produced progress toward training of Negro apprentices. San Francisco's tile setters, memphis' rubber workers and St. Louis' bricklayers opened their union rolls to willing beginners. Television and Madison Avenue blossomed with Negro actors and ad models in "non- Negro" roles. In Denver, Sears, Roebuck & Co., which hitherto had had one Negro employee (dusting shelves), hired 19 more Negroes for a variety of jobs. To varying degrees it was the same way in Houston, at Grant's five and ten, and in San Francisco, where Tidewater Oil took on a Negro for executive training. Even in the South, the job situation improved. Negroes began moving into professional positions in North Carolina's state government. Three Nashville banks agreed to hire Negroes in clerical positions, and some white-collar jobs opened in South Carolina.
Still, for every tortuous inch gained, there are miles of progress left to be covered. There remain 1,888 Southern school districts where segregation is the rule -- and scores of other districts where desegregation sits uneasily in token form. Though Montgomery buses are technically integrated, the city's other public facilities still are not. Team sports are still carefully segregated in a large number of Southern institutions; the NBC television network recently canceled coverage of the annual Blue-Gray football game because Negroes are not eligible to participate. Only 22 states have enforceable fair-employment laws on the books. And not counting Mississippi, where there is a total absence of integrated public facilities, those in other Southern states are so spotty and inconsistent (a downtown lunch counter, yes; the city swimming pool, no) that it is hard for a Negro nowadays to know where he may go and where he may not.
Backlash. In general, housing is still the Negro's toughest barrier. Here and there -- for example, in Denver's Park Hill residential section, where Negro home buying at first created flurries of panic -- colored families have been able to move into white sections with little trouble. But the major metropolitan areas of Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Los Angeles continue to fill up at the heart with Negroes while whites from a suburban collar on the outside. California used to pride itself on its progressive attitude, and boasts a fair- housing law on the books to prove it. Now it has been struck with a campaign by the 40,000-member California Real Estate Association to nullify the law.
The white counterattack in California reflects one natural consequence of the Negro's militant position: a backlash reaction, derived from the notion that "the Negro is pushing too far, too fast," and that he is also threatening the unskilled white man's job security. James P. Mitchell, Eisenhower's onetime Labor Secretary, now San Francisco's human-relations coordinator and a friend of the Negro feels that "militancy could quite easily antagonize important people who are now prepared or preparing to do something. What Negroes have to remember is something they tend to forget: that they are a minority, and that they can only achieve what they want with the support of the majority." Says Los Angeles Housewife Maureen Hartman: "I don't see why the Negroes are weeping and wailing. This is not Birmingham. They can go anywhere. They can vote, hold good jobs, eat in the best restaurants. Just what do they expect from us?"
Re-examination. What the Negroes expect, and what they are getting to a degree that would have been astonishing at the start of 1963, is a change of attitude. "A lot of people," says Chicago's Negro Baptist Minister Arthur Brazier, "are re-examining their motives. Even if this means that a lot of hidden prejudices have been uncovered in Northerners, good will be gained from the fact that Americans have been forced to act on days other than Brotherhood Days and Weeks."
Often the changes in attitudes are tiny in scope but broad in meaning. No longer do the starters at Miami's municipal golf courses ask a trio of white men if they will accept a Negro fourth; they merely assign the Negro, and foursome heads onto the course. A New York adoption agency is asking white families to take Negro children. Louise Morgan, a former Chicago advertising executive, says: "I had conned myself into thinking I was a liberal. The rude awakening occurred less than a year ago, when a Negro writer and his family sought an apartment in my building and were turned down. I had met him. He was bright and a gentleman. Yet I didn't lift a finger to help him. That's all changed now." In California, Real Estate Dealer Richard S. Hallmark quit his job in protest over the commonly accepted methods of restricting Negro house buying. "I had never sold to a Negro family in my life, but it grated on my conscience," he says. "I'm tired of people telling me they don't give a goddam about the law and that they're just not going to sell or rent to 'niggers.' I'm not a martyr or a crusader, but they made me ashamed. The colored people are here to stay, so we might as well get used to it."
In addition to marching in demonstrations, clergymen are welcoming Negroes to their all-white congregations in many places, and are mounting mail campaigns to Congress in support of the civil rights bill. Several Roman Catholic archdioceses now require a specific number of sermons on race relations. The National Council of Churches has budgeted $300,000 to support civil rights activities.
A Different Image. The most striking aspect of the revolt, however, is the change in Negroes themselves. The Invisible Man has now become plainly visible -- in bars, restaurants, boards of education, city commissions, civic committees, theaters and mixed social activities, as well as in jobs. Says Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. President Aaron Henry: "There has been a re-evaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the leftovers at the back door rather than demand a full serving at the family dinner table." With this has come a new pride in race. Explains Dr. John R. Larkins, a Negro consultant in North Carolina's Department of Public Welfare: "Negroes have a feeling of self-respect that I've never seen in all my life. They are more sophisticated now. They have begun to think, to form positive opinions of themselves. There's none of that defeatism. the American Negro has a different image of himself." Moreover, says U.C.L.A.'s Negro Psychiatrist J. Alfred Cannon, "We've got to look within ourselves for some of the answers. We must be able to identify with ourselves as Negroes. Most Negro crimes of violence are directed against other Negroes; it's a way of expressing the Negro's self-hatred. Nonviolent demonstrations are a healthy way of channeling these feelings. But they won't be effective unless the Negro accepts his own identity."
Where most Negroes once deliberately ignored their African beginnings and looked down on the blacks of that continent, many now identify strongly with Africa -- though not to the point where they would repudiate their American loyalties -- and take pride in the emergence of the new nations there. Some Negro women are affecting African-style hairdos; Negroes are decorating their homes with paintings and sculpture that reflect interest in African culture. There has been a decline in sales of "whitening" creams, hair straighteners and pomades, which for years found a big market among Negroes obsessed with ridding themselves of their racial identity.
The Lull. There has been an inevitable lull in visible civil rights activity since the March on Washington, and this has disheartened some Negroes. Says Richard L. Banks, secretary of the Governor's advisory committee on civil rights in Massachusetts: "When the Negroes are not in the streets any more, I'm awfully afraid that some of the people who responded will forget it." But the lull is deceptive, and it is probably best described by James Baldwin. Says he, "This lull is like a football huddle. People are reassessing. They are planning. We will flush the villain out."
In fact, most Negro leaders are waiting for the outcome of the civil rights still in Congress, and are counseling patience until at least the end of this month. They are also carefully gauging the position of Lyndon Johnson. So far, the President's resolute support of the civil rights bill has been encouraging. Says the Rev. L. Sylvester Odom of Denver's African Methodist Episcopal Church: "Personally I wouldn't be surprised if President Johnson gets more out of Congress than President Kennedy could have. He may not get as deeply into the hearts of the people, but he may do pretty well with the Congress, and after all that is what counts." Degrees Virginia-born Social Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew: "Johnson will be tougher with the South. He knows them. Kennedy treated the South as if it were Boston. As a Southerner, I know damn well you don't treat the South that way. Johnson won't play patty-cake with them."
Martin Luther King Jr. has already met with President Johnson, and he is similarly optimistic. "I've had a good deal of contact with him in the past several years," says King. "He means business. I think we can expect even more from him than we have had up to now. I have implicit confidence in the man, and unless he betrays his past actions, we will proceed on the basis that we have in the White House a man who is deeply committed to help us."
Thus the support of the President for strong civil rights bill provides a basis for high Negro hopes. Though Negro leaders acknowledge that laws do not change people's hearts, they want the satisfaction of knowing that a federal law support them in, for example, their demands for equal voting rights and the right to share public accommodations with white men. If the civil rights bill circumvents these specifics, or if it should fail to pass altogether, the leaders are determined to push their revolution all the more strongly in 1964.


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The day flowed like a winding creek familiar with its own twists and turns. We're old pros now, all in our work gloves, long pants, and sun screen. Over fifty volunteers, shovels and pitch forks in hand, marched down the newly blazed walking trail at the Tucker Nature Preserve.
Our mission? Clear the outdoor classroom area, cut a fallen log into seats for the kids, and remove invasive plants.
has sponsored the for the past two years, hoping to make it an annual tradition.
"The toughest job is definitely the invasive plant removal," explains Beth White, co-chair of Tucker Civic Association's Parks and Green Space committee. "Many native trees at the Preserve are covered in English Ivy and Wisteria which can damage or even kill the trees if not dealt with."
"My favorite piece of equipment is the weed wrench which is used to pull up Chinese privet," White continues. "The wrench allows even a small person to pull out privet that's 15 feet high. It makes it easy and it's fun to work."
Tucker Civic partnered with Keep DeKalb Beautiful and Park Pride for logistics support and freebies such as t-shirts and bottled water.
"We've (TCA) partnered with Park Pride and Keep DeKalb Beautiful on several projects, including the adopt-the-marta stop program. They're both great resources to help volunteers find ways to improve their community," White explains.
Representatives from the Tucker Optimist Club donated a Dogwood tree and, with the help from Daisy and Brownie Troop 11587, planted the tree and various flowers near the entrance to the Preserve. Dozens of volunteers laid mulch further down the trails, and local resident Tom Wright put in the last park bench.
The Tucker Nature Preserve now has three benches and one picnic table already in place, with one more table left to be installed.
Local businesses showed their support as well. The Home Depot by North DeKalb Mall donated plants, the Tucker restaurant provided chicken biscuits, and the across the street from the Preserve provided snacks and drinks.
I personally consider the nine-acre Preserve Tucker's new "downtown green space" since it's walking distance from , the , and the newly-renovated Main Street downtown.
We're hoping to plan community events at the Preserve, such as movie nights or a concert series.
Mission accomplished? Not quite. Lots more invasive plants to remove and the outdoor classroom still needs completing. But did the day bring smiles and satisfaction? Absolutely.
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The Gloucestershire valley immortalised in Laurie Lee's memoir Cider with Rosie has been spared from development after a planning inspector ruled that a 112-home housing estate would blight the landscape. Gladman Developments lost two appeals yesterday against Stroud District Council's rejection of its planning applications in Slad Valley. John Chase, the inspector, said: "The damage to the quality of the landscape would not comply with the provisions of the National Planning Policy Framework which seek to recognise the intrinsic character and beauty of the countryside." Two years before Lee
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FishHawk Ranch will present a Holiday Brunch With Santa for FishHawk residents Saturday, Dec. 1 from 9 to 11 a.m. at The Palmetto Club, 17004 Dorman Rd., Lithia.
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WHAT: Fort Gibson vs. Hilldale Alumni Football Game.
WHEN: 2 p.m. Sunday.
WHERE: Hilldale Hornet Stadium, Muskogee.
GATE: $5 for adults, $3 for children.
ETC.: Proceeds from the game will benefit both high schools' football booster clubs.
INFORMATION: Jordan Kelly, (918) 232-8175.
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Head Coach — Fort Gibson
On Sunday, two intense rivals will come together for a mutual benefit — The Fort Gibson Touchdown Club and the Hilldale Quarterback Club will be sponsoring the Tiger-Hornet Alumni Football game.
The new event is scheduled to kick off at 2 p.m. at Hilldale Hornet Stadium in Muskogee.
The event's proceeds will be split between both booster clubs to help each school's football program.
The game sponsor for the event will be ServPro Cleaning Services.
Fort Gibson Alumnus Jordan Kelly came up with the idea after a group came in and sponsored a similar event last season.
None of those proceeds went to either booster club, and the event was well attended.
"There is no need for that money to go to a professional business, when it could actually go and help both football programs," Kelly said.
Information: Jordan Kelly, (918) 232-8175.


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Location and amenities.
Noise level. Walls need more insulation to buff the sound levels
Great hotel for the price..
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July 13, 2014
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It was amazing! Beautiful, across from the lake, and we loved everything about it.
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July 12, 2014
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The swimming pool is amazing... Love the family spa...and beautiful beach. All the staffs are very courteous and professional...Don't want to leave at all. Absolutely will come back and stay longer.
I love the warm welcome from hotel staffs
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July 9, 2014
Great service. Location.
To many boats in front of the beautiful beach, smoke from boats
This is generally a FANTASTIC hotel. Amazing location, across the street from a nice beach.
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July 3, 2014
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It was a 4 star hotel, and it lived up to this designation for the most part. It had a casino on site, and I won some money. Nice pool area, very relaxing. The tap water was amazing, the best water I have tasted in my life.
Our room was on the bottom of an embankment beside the parking lot, so you look outside and all you saw was an unlandscaped slope of dirt. It wasn't the most appealing view in the world. At least we could walk right out our screen door though.
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June 28, 2014
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Good location. Great private beach
All restaurants near the hotel closes at 9pm. Also at 12am we had to change the room as there were bugs on the wall.
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June 21, 2014
June 21, 2014
The atmosphere is spectacular... warm and relaxing! A great "Lodge" feeling... just what we were looking for.
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June 18, 2014
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The location is beautiful. The staff is friendly. No complaints.
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Truly one of the nicest (probably THE) properties I have ever had the opportunity to enjoy. The bar on the pier in Lake Tahoe was a treat. Every detail of the place was taken care of. In case they missed something, the champagne at check in covered it.
Nothing I can think of. It is substantially more expensive than hotels on the south shore, but it is a different and much better experience. I would travel across the country or world for this place.
A true gem. Somewhere every American needs to visit before they die. If you were told you were somewhere fancy around the world that makes your friends think you're cool, they'd believe it.
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Excelsior Youth Center is committed to the treatment and education of young females to enhance their successful re-integration into their families and their communities.
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- We succeed when our girls succeed.
- We are here to serve and develop the mind, body and spirit of our youth, families and employees.
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Excelsior provides a safe and secure environment to young women who, previously, have not been successful in other treatment placements.
Excelsior's history begins with the Catholic Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters. In 1912, the Sisters operated a home for young girls known as The Home of the Good Shepherd on South Colorado Boulevard. The Sisters and the girls did the laundry for the railroad and for several hotels. In 1968, the Sisters built a new facility and relocated to Aurora. Around this time, social service agencies, juvenile courts and the mental health system needed to place girls that were more difficult than the Sisters were able to handle. In 1972, they decided to close their program. At the time, the program capacity was 60; however there were only 28 girls in the program.
The facility was acquired by community and business leaders to continue providing for emotionally and behaviorally troubled young girls. It was renamed Excelsior Youth Center, which has largely expanded with additional cottages, a teen center and swimming pool and now houses 180 girls.


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Pets and their masters turned out in force recently at Pearson Springs Park for the 2nd Annual Smoky Mountain Pet Fair sponsored by the Blount County Humane Society.
Members said it was their best event ever as participants browsed vendor booths, ate good food and enjoyed music from several local acts.
Executive board member and no-kill animal shelter designer Todd White said attendance doubled from the Critter Fest held in the spring and that there were more vendors.
"The enthusiasm was amazing, and the weather was perfect," he said.
White said there was a face-painting booth for children, a bloodhound demonstration and a search and rescue demonstration. "The giving and mood of the public was very good. We raised a lot of money and, more importantly, awareness of programs the Human Society is participating in, particularly the No Kill Animal Shelter, which is our big push," he said.
White said the crowd enjoyed entertainment by Chris and Candy Kagay from Avenue C, Paul Beasley and Ted Thompson played from Moonshine Cherries and Phillip and Valerie Sharpe performed.
Brianna Gresham, 12, who attended the fair with her 4-H group, filed this report of the day:
The Blount County Humane Society held the 2nd Annual Smoky Mountain Pet Fair on Sept. 21 at Pearson Springs Park to raise money to build a no-kill shelter. My 4-H group, the Smoky Mountain Explorers, helped by picking up trash, walking dogs, disposing of dog poop and running carnival style games for the kids. The games included: Bean bag toss, Go Fish, Lucky Duck, Football Toss, and Giant Kitty Litter Box. There were ''bouncies'' for the kids to jump on.
There were many other events at the pet fair. There were silly pet contests which included: cutest pet, best trick, best costume, loudest bark or howl, owner/pet look alike, fastest licker, and best rescue pet. They also had many other dog rescue groups and vendors including: people selling gourmet dog bones and costumes, an elephant sanctuary (they didn't bring any elephants, of course!), and a rabbit and guinea pig rescue. Many people brought their pets. Some interesting ones I saw were a potbelly pig named Pork Chop and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier in a pink baby stroller.
My favorite thing was seeing Lycan, a three-legged Yankee Terrier who is my favorite Blount County Humane Society rescue dog. He had previously been adopted and his owner brought him to the pet fair to see us again.
The Smoky Mountain Pet Fair was fun. Kade and Davis Parker, Niki and Andrew Perkins, Emily McIntyre and I got to help out a lot. If you want more information about the pet fair or want to know how you can help, visit www.blountcountyhumanesociety.org.


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To print ascii value of a character this is the the simplest way to change the type a character. Here in the example given below we will select character from a given string and change their type to integer that will be their ascii value.
Method charAt() of String class is used to select character in the given string on basis of given index value as argument.
public class GetAsciiValue {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String s = "Java";
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System.out.println("ASCII value of: "+s.charAt(i) + " is:"+ (int)s.charAt(i) );
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Activists: airstrikes kill at least 30
Regime airstrikes hit a gas station in northern Syria Thursday, setting off a fiery explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens, opposition activists said. Amateur video showed thick black smoke engulfing the scene.
Earlier Thursday, a Syrian military helicopter crashed near the capital of Damascus, and Syria's Information Ministry said the helicopter went down after its rotor accidentally clipped the tail of a Syrian passenger plane with 200 people on board. The larger aircraft landed safely at Damascus International Airport and no one was hurt, the ministry said.
The Syrian conflict appears to have reached a stalemate. The rebels are holding some territory despite the government's military superiority but have been unable to score decisive victories. The international community is averse to getting involved militarily and instead hopes economic sanctions will squeeze President Bashar Assad's regime
Graveside fashion shoot angers Poles
KIEV — Poland on Thursday protested a Ukrainian photo exhibition featuring models dressed as Catholic nuns posing next to the graves of Polish soldiers, an incident that threatened to upset close ties between the two neighbors as Kiev relies on Warsaw's help in its push to integrate closer with the European Union.
The protest came during a visit by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, who is pressing Ukraine to commit to European democratic and human rights standards if it wants to join the union.
The photographs, taken by a Ukrainian fashion magazine and displayed at a museum last week, showed the women striking provocative poses next to a bare-chested young man and against the backdrop of crosses at a cemetery in Lviv. The graves are of Polish soldiers who died when Poles and Ukrainians battled for control over Lviv after World War I.
Poland's Foreign Ministry said Thursday its diplomats in Lviv protested "the impropriety of the exhibition, which could hurt feelings and provoke controversy" and were able to get the exhibit closed.
Libya's leader on Clinton forum roster
Libya's newly elected leader will join Egypt's president and the U.N. secretary-general for the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City.
Former President Bill Clinton announced the lineup for the high-powered gathering of more than 50 other current or former heads of state. The meeting starts Sunday.
President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are expected to speak Tuesday.
A potentially explosive development is the turbulence in the Middle East that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya. At the conference, leaders in government, business and philanthropy will have a chance speak to Libyan President Mohamed Magariaf, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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WELFARE REFORMS: Claimants told they'll be worse off
6:00pm Monday 1st July 2013 in News By Freddie Whittaker
OXFORDSHIRE Welfare Rights adviser Peter Turville said people from all walks of life would be affected by changes to welfare reforms.
He said universal credit would leave lots of claimants worse-off, and said the complicated nature of the new system would create extra work for councils and advice centres.
He said: "In effect what they're doing is combining existing complex means-tested benefits. There will be winners and losers, although there will be more losers.
"The group which is going to be the worst affected will be people with disabilities because the current additions they get to their benefits will be cut.
"In the worst case scenarios this could mean people losing more than £200 a week in income. There will be scenarios in which people will be hit by several different things at once."
He added: "They're not simplifying the system. That's the big myth. If you look at the detail of the means test it's more complicated than the current system.
"It's all about saving money, and it's a legitimate Government policy to look at the social security system, but the spin they have put on it is so inaccurate.
"I think they have been very successful at spinning this, with their saints and scroungers message, to make people believe that the problem with the welfare system is the people who claim benefits."
DWP spokesman Dan Barnes said claims that universal credit would not simplify benefits was "nonsense".
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"Universal Credit will be a lot simpler for people to understand what they are getting and how that will change if they go to work."
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6:16pm Mon 1 Jul 13
Quentin Walker says...
The welfare system in this country was second to none. It is down to the economic climate and the abuse of the regime by professional claimants that have destroyed it - and destroyed it for the people who really need it and whom it was designed to help.
I hope the abusers feel thoroughly ashamed - but I very much doubt that they will.
7:22pm Mon 1 Jul 13
Dilligaf2010 says...
.....it would be nice to be getting anywhere near that in the first place.
I agree with Quentin Walker though, the abusers have ruined it for many
8:47pm Mon 1 Jul 13
EMacb says...
I agree the current system is complicated and needs simplification but this is not the way to do it.
10:59pm Mon 1 Jul 13
WitneyGreen says...
I find it astonishing that anyone is obtaining this kind of money without working.
Those people who have abused the benefits system systematically for many years should be ashamed that they are causing hardship for genuine claimants.
11:32pm Mon 1 Jul 13
Dilligaf2010 says...
WitneyGreen wrote:I completely agree, I didn't have a day out of work for over 20 years before my mental breakdown, and was paying £10K a year, into the treasury for a decade leading up to it, and was in the RAF for 12 years prior to that, but it still took me 16 weeks to get my benefits sorted, and through all that time I was on suicide watch.
"In the worst case scenarios this could mean people losing more than £200 a week in income"
I find it astonishing that anyone is obtaining this kind of money without working.
Those people who have abused the benefits system systematically for many years should be ashamed that they are causing hardship for genuine claimants.
Even now, I'm on just over £100 a week, which is plenty, and I'm solvent, which is more than I can say for a lot of benefit claimants who seem to have the latest TVs, games consoles, phones, fashions etc. on credit, and complain they're not getting enough money.
The genuine people are going to suffer, because of those that have been milking the system.
9:52am Tue 2 Jul 13
Lord Palmerstone says...
10:20am Tue 2 Jul 13
Quentin Walker says...
Lord Palmerstone wrote:Hear, hear.
OXFORDSHIRE Welfare Rights - it would be helpful if the language of "rights" ceased. We are not talking of rights. Welfare is a privilege.
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- Arrange cucumber slices in a single layer in the bottom of a bowl. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add a layer of onions, and top with a layer of yogurt. Continue layering all the remaining cucumbers, onions, and yogurt this order. Top off with a final layer of yogurt. Sprinkle with garlic powder, and parmesan cheese.
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This was just OK. I would suggest using chive onions for a little more flavor...or if not, perhaps the addition of dill would help. It wasn't very flavorful, but if it were coupled as a side dish or side salad to a main course that was abundant in flavor, it could pair ok. I would still consider adding a bit of sourcream to the plain yogart...
Great idea, first cut way back on the yogurt: put in just enough to "coat" the ingredients like a salad dressing - then add more herbs like dill, basil and for fun add fresh diced tomatoes. It will be very refreshing and enjoyable.
I tried this recipe and maybe I did not enjoy it because it really just tasted like the yogurt and never really got any flavor . I like the idea but like the other review maybe using sour cream instead of yogurt would help it out??
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As we humans become more and more numerous, I believe- and I'm fairly sure this is a non-controversial belief- that we will have to become more and more metropolitan. Cities are the only typology with much hope for a sustainable, large-population society. And yet there are many holes in this. Where, for example, will food come from? How will waste be managed? How will humans, who have evolved with predominantly horizontal movement, deal with an overwhelmingly vertical landscape?
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Well, I don't have answers for the latter two questions, but I do have an example of a solution to the farming question. The Harlem Edge, designed by PRAUD is a proposal for a highly versatile urban farm. Typical problems for this typology are space, seasonality, and irrigation. And the responses put forth by PRAUD might be characterized by a single roman character. The (/). The potential problem with the backslash is that something can, instead of doing one thing quite well, do two things rather poorly. So someone should get this Harlem Edge built. Not only to provide fresh produce to the inner city and things for kids to do after school, but to see if it works and works well.The 'lid' of the 'Edge is designed to be lowered down over the farm when winter arrives, creating an urban greenhouse in order for cultivation to occur year-round. When spring arrives the lid is raised and here it becomes a little fuzzy for me. Moisture is released in cloud form, creating a new, surprising environment for those experiencing the transformation. Where this moisture comes from is… unclear. Could it be moisture that has been stored up?
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Where is it stored? Also after the transformation to 'fully-extended-lid-condition' there is, according to the architects, the possibility for the upper mass to 'create a rainy environment as an environmental attraction as well for irrigation'. Is this a rainy environment that is created and provided by the building? Or is it something natural that happens around the building, which the run-off from then creates a wall of water sort of thing? A potential answer to this is the importance PRAUD places on natural irrigation. They state that while a necessity in rural farming, artificial irrigation should be avoided as much as possible in the urban environment, tending towards a reliance on natural conditions. I leave off with a statement by the architects, speaking of this aspect. I find it to be a question without being phrased as such. 'Unlike in a farm land where developed irrigation systems are, urban farming should strictly depend on natural climate conditions. Together with mechanical means, the system allows different types of climate so that climate conditions for urban farming can be more controlled.'
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"The Ronald McDonald House in both Cleveland and Akron do such great work in the area," said Don Padgett with the Bridgestone Invitational.
But it is what the Bridgestone Invitational does on a yearly basis that touches the lives of sick children and their families. Each of the local Ronald McDonald houses will receive $50,000 from the 2013 World Golf Championship Bridgestone Invitational.
"They help out hospitalized kids, help them get back to a normal life, helps put a face to the charitable dollars that go back to Northeast Ohio. We're delighted to partner with them."
19 Action News is a co-sponsor for the tournament that airs on CBS 19.
This is 28th year for Akron's Ronald McDonald House. They are working to raise $10 million so they can add 50-60 rooms.
It truly is the house that love built. Last year they helped more then 14,000 people. The sad news is they had to turn down more than 3,200 people.
"There's things you get used to and there's things have to do but that's one thing is never easy cause it's just tough. You just have to say we don't have a room," said Anne Collins with the Ronald McDonald House
"We have a 20-room facility. At this stage of our house we're always full with a waiting list and we serve primarily Akron Children Hospital," she added.
Despite all that they work miracles for the sick kids and their families by providing a home away from home.
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Let me see if I got this right. First you deny people the freedom to marry and then you criticize them for having "unmarried sex".
Constitutional rights are not subject to a popular vote. Within the past year, 15 federal courts have considered the constitutionality of state bans on same sex marriage. All 15 courts have decided that such bans violate the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The list includes District Courts in Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin as well as the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals that affirmed the lower court's ruling in Utah. Oral arguments in the 6th Circuit for Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee are scheduled for early next month. There is a good chance that SCOTUS will hear a marriage equality case in their next term. Since the Federal DOMA decision last year, opponents of marriage equality have not been able to come up with a single argument that stands up in court.
Pam's Points: Tea party tallies cuts, not costs
There are ways that domestic partner coverage could be added without increasing the total cost. For instance, the city could implement a waiting period for new employees before they could cover their dependents. If you tell a 20-year employee that the city can't afford to cover their partner of 10 years while then covering the dependents of a new hire, the affordability explanation is not credible.
I think the magnitude of the retiree benefit funding shortfall is such that minor adjustments to the employee benefit program would be insufficient to overcome it.
Pam's Points: Tea party tallies cuts, not costs
Whether the city made the right decision when terminating health coverage for retirees while continuing to provide coverage for dependents of active workers is not the question on the ballot.
Pam's Points: Tea party tallies cuts, not costs
Voting down the domestic partner ordinance won't bring back the retiree benefits. All it will do is continue to deny equal benefits to some current city employees (including police officers and fire fighters) who have served the residents of Chattanooga for many years and who have been short changed on their benefits compared to their co-workers for their entire careers.
Pam's Points: Tea party tallies cuts, not costs
If cost were the motivation for this petition, then it should have blocked coverage for all new dependents rather than just those of same sex couples. I haven't heard any objections from those who organized the petition drive to adding the spouses of newlywed city employees. Each employee who covers a new spouse results in an incremental cost.
Cities and companies across the country have been providing partner benefits for decades. There is ample statistical evidence upon which to base cost estimates.
But in any event, the issue will probably be moot within a year. By this time next year the Supreme Court will likely have ruled on one of the many marriage equality cases working its way through the federal court system now and same sex couples will be able to get legally married in TN and the rest of the country.
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Libby Workman, your letter points out just one of the issues with Representative Todd's proposal. Unlike Arizona, where they are always in the same time zone as some of their neighboring states (even though which ones varies), the proposal to keep TN on CDT/EDT year round would mean that Eastern TN would be a "time zone island" for four months of the year. No other state in the country would be on the same time as Eastern TN. The time zone would be shared with Puerto Rico, however.
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If somebody wanted to commit benefits fraud, it would seem that a sham marriage would be the more attractive option. Unlike Domestic Partner benefits, with a marriage there's no 1-year waiting period and the city contribution to the premiums is not taxable income.
Private employers and government employers in other locations have provided Domestic Partner benefits for more than 20 years. Fraud hasn't been a big issue.
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Mr. Orr ...Please review the opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California at:
It contains a very robust analysis of how the subject of your comment leads to the subject of mine.
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Northborough voted to formally join and share resources for veterans by forming a regional Veterans District. Westborough recently voted to join the district, which will officially go into effect on July 1 of this year to start FY2014. Shrewsbury and Grafton have also voted to do so.
Perron originally planned to retire in April, but will "stick around to the end of the fiscal year," said Assistant Town Administrator Kim Hood, who explained the change to the district at the Board of Selectmen meeting on Monday.
For a town of Northborough's size, explained Hood, if it did not become part of a district, it would have to employ a full-time veterans' agent. Presently, there are two veterans in Northborough. Among the four towns, the caseload is 36.
"There are economic reasons and efficiencies to joining into this with other towns," said Hood.
With this regional proposal, it would employ one full-time director to handle all four towns, as well as two part time agents, which would schedule office hours across the towns.
"With this proposal, the cost would be shared based on the population," said Hood.
Following the board's approval (which was unanimous), the towns move forward with the proposal by filing it with the Department of Veterans Services and would seek approval from the state.


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By Bob Hertzel
For the Times West Virginian
On Oct. 7, 1916, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland, 222-0, in the greatest display of offensive football in college football history.
Twenty-three years to the day later, Bill Snyder was born.
In a way, it is fitting, that the two share the same date in history, for if Tech set the standard for offensive football, Snyder has spent his life dedicated to reaching such perfection.
Although caught up in something of down season in 74th year on this Earth, his Kansas State Wildcats standing at 2-4 and 0-3 in Big 12 play as Saturday's game with West Virginia University approaches, one cannot erase the memory of last year's 55-14 beating put on the Mountaineers or so many other accomplishments that have been carved out during his career.
Indeed, he has grown into something of coaching legend.
Clint Trickett is a coach's son, his father, Rick, being the veteran offensive line coach at Florida State who spent a couple of tours of duty with the Mountaineers.
As such, Trickett has a warm place in his heart for the coach he will try to beat this weekend, Bill Snyder of Kansas State.
"I'm excited to play against a legend," Trickett said. "He really is. The stadium is named after him, and he's still there."
Indeed, the stadium is Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
"I've always looked up to Bill Snyder because he doesn't have the best situation at Kansas State as far as recruiting and everything like that, and he keeps winning," Trickett said.
This success, as with so many others, is the result of the input of others.
On the football side, he is a disciple of the one-time Iowa coach Hayden Fry, who was his mentor.
But, as Berry Tramel, the NewsOK columnist pointed out recently, Snyder credits his mother with creating the person who became the legendary football coach.
"I would never cross her. She was as tough as anyone could be. She taught me so much about values," Snyder said.
He offered this tale as an example. His parents had been divorced, his father buying him a 1954 yellow Mercury convertible which surely would make him at Lafayette High School.
"I took the liberty of starting to hang out with friends and have my car, do all the things kids will do," Snyder said. "Amazing car."
The Snyder Rebellion, as Tramel labeled it, lasted two weeks.
"After two weeks, my mother called my father," Snyder said. "'You come and get this car.'
"She took my car away from me. About two years later, she allowed me to buy a 1947 Chevrolet, from my grandfather, for $50."
That was the kind of principles this 4-foot-9 woman ingrained into her son.
"My mother was a fascinating person in my life," Snyder said. "Toughest person I've ever known."
From his upbringing and his early coaching experiences under Fry, he developed a code for his football teams to live by, his 16 principles for success:
1. Commitment
2. Unselfishness
3. Unity
4. Improve
5. Be tough
6. Self-discipline
7. Great effort
8. Enthusiasm
9. Eliminate mistakes
10. Never give up
11. I don't accept losing
12. No self-limitations
13. Expect to win
14. Consistency
15. Leadership
16. Responsibility
This is the code he has lived by and the code he has passed on to those who have worked for him and played for him.
It led to much success for him and for those who became his disciples. In fact, in 2008, the national championship game was played between Oklahoma, coached by Bob Stoops, and Florida, coached by Urban Meyer.
It was Snyder and Rich Rodriguez, working separately, who developed the spread option offense, which remains today alive and well in college football and which was responsible for much of the scoring explosion and for Meyer inventing Tim Tebow.
Perhaps more amazing, however, is that he has been able to remain relevant coaching college kids into his mid-70s.
WVU coach Dana Holgorsen understands what Snyder has meant to Kansas State and its program.
"It starts with Snyder and the job he has done as a head coach and the program he has built over his 22 years he has been there. I know he was gone for a few years, but he got it right back on track with their record and what it has been over the last couple of years," Holgorsen said. "He is a tremendous football coach that has done a lot of things for our profession. He does a lot of things for his kids, like building character, being a disciplined football team on all three sides of the ball and getting kids to play with tremendous effort."
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