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Imagine, if you will, a small, predominantly white city with growing poverty and crime in a small, highly segregated black section of its South East side.
Imagine that a black university professor in the city warns the local newspaper that "a black man will be killed this summer by a local police officer, probably under unclear circumstances." The professor also predicts that the town's "citizens will be insufficiently enraged" by the shooting.
Later in the same year, on a warm evening near the end of July, an older white university custodian has too much to drink at a tavern near the city's central business district. As he and his wife leave the bar, the custodian spies a drunken 26-year-old black man fumbling with some bottles in a parking lot across the street. The black man is one of the city's many homeless people who collect cans and bottles for recycling at five cents per container.
The 63-year-old facilities worker crosses the street to verbally harass and physically assault the young black man for spilling some bottles. As a different university professor (this one white) will note later, the white janitor appears to think that he has been specially "deputized to monitor inebriated young black guys and make sure – using physical force if necessary – they clean up their littler."
The custodian insists on forcing a confrontation with the black man despite his wife yelling at him to leave. A bloody commotion ensues. After the white man begins his attack, the black man pulls out a short pocketknife and stabs the white man in self-defense.
A deputy with the local county sheriff's department happens upon the scene. The deputy is a white male, 45 years old. He specializes in evictions, not violent altercations. Still, he carries a deadly .40 Glock pistol as he rushes from his car.
The officer displays his badge, identifies himself as a deputy, and points his gun at the black man. He orders the two men to separate. The janitor violates the order, knocking the black man to the ground with a single shot to the head. Keeping his Glock pointed at the black man, the officer tells the white man to "run away." The janitor screams at the officer, telling him to shoot the black man.
The officer tells the black man to stay down on the ground. When the drunken black man staggers to his feat and allegedly "lurches" toward the officer, the deputy blows him away with a single fatal shot. The black man dies in a matter of minutes.
The white janitor is taken to the hospital to be treated for his pocket- knife wound. He is never charged with assault or anything else. His blood alcohol is not tested. His role in provoking the terrible incident goes uninvestigated.
The local city police department tells the local newspaper that the shooting was justifiable. The killing resulted, the paper dutifully reports, from a terrible assault on a local "citizen" by a menacing "transient." The official police statement, repeated by the local press, reads as follows: "The deputy confronted the knife-wielding transient. The transient ignored the deputy's repeated commands to drop the knife… Instead, the armed transient advanced threateningly toward the already injured city resident and was shot by the deputy." There is no mention of how the white custodian disobeyed the officer's orders and continued to assault the black man.
But a very dissimilar take on the killing appears within days on the front page of a different newspaper, based in a larger municipality thirty miles north. Here are ten paragraphs from a story based on the testimony of two telecommunications workers (who I shall call "Telcom A" and "Telcom B") who witnessed the shooting from inside a car parked in direct proximity to the incident:
"'There was no knife, there was no lunging,' Telcom A said. 'I saw a cop shoot a guy in cold blood.' Telcom Worker B, 22, and Telcom Worker A, 40, who both work for a [local] telecommunications company, got off work at 7 p.m. Friday and drove with another co-worker to [a local bar] to have a drink. As their vehicle was coming out of the alley next to City Electric, which was blocked by bags of cans and bottles and some broken glass, they saw the episode unfolding to their left and turned off the radio so they could hear what was going on."
"A skinny black man was lying on the pavement with his head against the tire of a car about 40 feet away. He was missing teeth, his clothes were dirty and he had blood on his torso."
"The deputy, wearing civilian clothes, had a gun pointed at the man, and a third man — whose side was covered in blood [that would be the custodian] — was standing next to the deputy telling him to shoot, Telcom A and B said."
"The homeless man on the ground appeared to be drunk, they said. The deputy told him not to get up, or he would shoot, Telcom A and B said."
"'I don't give a f—,' the homeless man responded. The deputy repeated the threat, and ordered the man to stay down."
"Again, the homeless man said he didn't care. Then he stood up, spread his arms, and stumbled a few feet to the side before the deputy shot him in the chest from about 15 feet away, Telcom Workers 1 and 2 said."
"The two men insisted the homeless man had no knife when he was shot."
"In fact, Telcom B said, the homeless man was wobbling, and, though he disobeyed the deputy, he never made a threatening move."
"It wasn't aggressive," Telcom A said. 'He was just drunk.'"
"…'He could hardly stand,' Telcom B said of the homeless man."
The Telcom workers do not tell their story directly to the police for an obvious reason: fear. People who believe they have just witnessed a police murder are not generally excited at the prospect of reporting it to the police.
The Telcom workers are served subpoenas by the local police. They reluctantly testify on what they saw.
Other witnesses never testify because of… fear.
A few days after the shooting, the aforementioned black professor convenes a meeting of concerned local residents at the local city's public library. About forty people, at least half of them black, show up to discuss recent events and what to do. Black citizens and one white lady (the mother of two bi-racial young men) stand up to tell harrowing tales of local police harassment.
Half way through the meeting, a local white university liberal suggests that everyone walk over to meet with the city police. During a meeting with a police lieutenant, the professor expresses the group's desire for a full and comprehensive investigation of the shooting.
No such investigation occurs, really.
Under existing law, the state's attorney general's office is required to issue a "finding of facts" related to cases in which citizens are killed by police officers.
The homeless black man is buried. The deputy is placed on administrative leave – standard procedure after an officer shoots somebody. The custodian refuses to talk to anyone.
Nearly two months go by. Then, quite suddenly, the attorney general's review (the "AG report") of the incident is issued, with remarkably short notice to concerned citizens, in late September. To nobody's surprise, the AG report amounts to a complete exoneration of the deputy. The killing was justified, the report claims. The white deputy gets a pass. So does the white custodian, who created the horrible episode in the first place. The Telecommunications workers' testimony is completely disregarded. In the press conference where the report is released, officials discuss the possibility of investigating those workers for false testimony.
A number of black residents and concerned white citizens express anger and concern at the press release. But the AG report, like the shooting itself, elicits little outrage among the local populace, consistent with the black professor's prediction. Released on a Friday, it does not even get mentioned in the local paper's weekend content, which is obsessed with a major university football contest.
Two weeks after the report, the paper prints a column by a local white criminal justice instructor. The report hails the deputy who killed the young black man as a "hero. He was able," the instructor claims, "to accomplish in his career what few peace officers will ever do: He saved the life of another human being. For this he is to be highly praised by all of us. Thank you deputy."
After stating that he "could not believe the fast response times of the local city police and the county ambulance service" in the incident, the instructor ends his column by suggesting that "criminal and civil proceedings" should he brought against the telecommunications workers who "gave false information, under court order, to the police."
The instructor criticizes the "set minds" of "the racists who interject race into every event that involves different racial or ethnic groups." He says in essence that you are over-generalizing racist if you think racism was involved in the killing that took place.
Meanwhile, the local city council responds to rising crime and racial tensions in and around the city's small black ghetto by passing an "anti-loitering" law modeled on similar ordinances in larger cities with bigger black populations. The law forbids people from congregating on streets or sidewalks "in such a way as might hinder traffic." It is a useful device to permit escalated arrests of young blacks. It will not be used very much to hinder mass gatherings around predominantly white students in and around the local area.
Now, as it happens all of this took place. None of it is made up. There's no imagination required.
Where did it all occur? Not, as many Americans would probably guess, in a southern town in the 20th century. It took place rather this year in a "liberal," "progressive," and northern university town that is immensely proud of itself for its role in helping make Barack Obama the nation's first black president.
The first local newspaper mentioned – the one that initially reported the police version of the killing practically verbatim – is the Iowa City Press-Citizen, owned by the national Gannet chain.
The second paper mentioned – the one that published the counter-narrative from the workers I called "Telcom 1" and "Telcom 2" – is The Gazette, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Gazette story told of a "cold-blooded" police murder of an innocent black man: "Deputy Shot Man 'In Cold Blood': Witness," The Gazette, July 26, 2009, 1A.
The local university mentioned is the University of Iowa.
The 26-year old black man who was killed was named John Deng, a Sudanese refugee who lived on the streets of Iowa City.
The officer who killed Deng is Terry Stotler, a deputy with the Sheriff's Department that is attached to what local Republicans absurdly refer to as "The People's Republic of Johnson County" (an attempt to claim that the predominantly Democratic country containing Iowa City is "leftist").
The custodian who started the fatal incident is John Bohnenkamp, a long-term employee of the University of Iowa.
The black professor who predicted a police killing of a black male to be followed by local indifference, is Dr. Vershawn Young, who teaches rhetoric at the University of Iowa.
The white criminal justice instructor who praised Stotler as "a hero" and called for the criminal investigation of Telcom 1 and Telcom 2 is Greg Roth, an ex-policeman who teaches at Iowa City's Kirkwood Community College.
The state whose attorney general's office issued the report exonerating the deputy is of course Iowa. That state has the worst black-white disparity in terms of comparative incarceration rates in the U.S. – this in a nation with more than 2 million prisoners, more than 40 percent of whom are black even as blacks comprise just 12 percent of the country.
I am not going to give the names of the telecommunications workers who reported a "cold-blooded" police murder or of other individuals who witnessed a very different version of the events than what was suggested in the initial local police and press reports and in the "final" AG report.
The bar from which Bohnenkamp existed before assaulting Deng is named "The Hawkeye Hideaway." It is located a block west ofGilbert Street on Prentiss Street in Iowa City, Iowa, across the street from The Electric Supply Company, whose parking lot provided the setting for Deng's death.
The white university professor quoted above is named Cliff Messen, who recently noted the following in a courageous Press-Citizen column:
"Deng, who probably died a frightened man who thought he was defending himself against a raging drunk, is buried."
"Meanwhile, the residents of Johnson County look on in silence:"
"The white ones quietly appreciating their privilege;"
"The black ones learning that they cannot be caught even littering."
"Where are the white community leaders who will stand up and say, 'This is simply wrong?'"
No such leaders have been found in Iowa City, where it is one thing to claim to be anti-racist because of your willingness to caucus and vote for a "black but not like Jesse" candidate and president who has bent over backwards not to offend white sensibilities. It is another thing to confront the real daily privileges afforded by white supremacy and the living legacy and ongoing reality of anti-black racial oppression in American life.
For what its worth, the difference between (A) electing a bourgeois president (or mayor or governor) who happens to be black (if thoroughly enmeshed with the predominantly white corporate and imperial elite) and (B) undertaking a serious engagement with deeply entrenched social disparities when it comes to attacking the problem of racism, is well understood in much of the black community. For many black Americans and for anti-racists of all colors, one lesson (already clear to many beneath fading excitement over the emergence of a technically black chief executive) of Barack Obama's election is that there is curiously little to be concretely gained by most black Americans, and more perhaps to be lost (see below) from (A). Only (B) carries serious promise of advancing racial equality.
Here is a message I received from a teacher of black students in the Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) last February:
"Today, I asked a class for which I was subbing (high-school English students, about a dozen, all-black, at one of CPS's actually nice high-school facilities) what they thought of Obama. Their initial reaction was one of, for lack of a better way to say it, pride and joy."
"But upon closer inspection, this turned out to be a rather shallow sentiment. For when I asked them if they expected any real changes under Obama, they all said no."
"So while they are (currently) happy he is in the White House, they know full well that he will be no different from any other president — and it's not something they only know 'deep down.' They know it pretty close to the surface."
I am reminded of the teacher's reflections as I review the John Deng episode in Obama-mad Iowa City. I was also reminded of those reflections at the end of September 2009, when Michelle Obama and then the president himself flew to Copenhagen to join Oprah Winfrey for some high-profile lobbying of the International Olympic Committee in support of Chicago's corporate-Democratic Mayor Richard M. Daley's bid for the 2016 Olympics. As progressive social justice and civil rights activists and community organizers across the city had been pointing out for years, a Chicago Olympics would have primarily benefited the city's downtown business elite at the expense of city taxpayers. The mayor's plans targeted inner-city black residents on Chicago's South Side for clearance and removal, escalating on ongoing urban gentrification project that has pushed hundreds of thousands of impoverished African Americans to the distant margins of the metropolis and its glittering, ever-expanding corporate downtown.
As the black-bourgeois Chicago superstars the Obamas and Winfrey joined the white mayor-for-life in pitching the Midwestern Metropolis as a glorious global city, hundreds of South Side residents planned to attend the funeral of a young black teenager who had recently been clubbed to death outside his high school in a violent melee. City schools staffers noted that bloody battles were common in and around schools set in black Chicago's desperately impoverished neighborhoods, including numerous communities where real unemployment had certainly now climbed to 40 percent and higher. Even while the nation's first black president trumpeted his "home town" as a fit setting for the global games, the reality of black living conditions in Chicago's segregated ghetto communities spoke to the persistence and deepening of the concentrated urban misery that Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. tried without success to overcome in the mid-1960s.
It strikes me, though, that "no change" might be an understatement. For many African-Americans, the Obama ascendancy could be translating into change for the worse insofar as the election of a technically black president reinforces the longstanding conventional white illusion that racism has disappeared and that the only obstacles left to African-American success and equality are internal to individual blacks and their community – the idea that, in Derrick Bell's phrase, "the indolence of blacks rather than the injustice of whites explains the socioeconomic gaps separating the races." "It's hard," Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown have noted, "to blame people" for believing (falsely in Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown's view) that racism is dead in America "when our public life is filled with repeated affirmations of the integration ideal and our ostensible progress towards achieving it." In a similar vein, the black scholar Sheryl Cashin noted years ago that "there are [now] enough examples of successful middle-class African-Americans to make many whites believe that blacks have reached parity with them. The fact that some blacks now lead powerful mainstream institutions offers evidence to whites that racial barriers have been eliminated; the issue now is individual effort."
And what could trump the attainment of the U.S. presidency – the most powerful office on Earth – in feeding and locking in that belief? The black Urban Studies professor Marc Lamont Hill said it well in an important CounterPunch critique in early February of 2008: "For whites, an Obama victory would serve as the final piece of evidence that America has reached full racial equality. Such a belief allows them to sidestep mounds of evidence that shows that, despite Obama's claims that 'we are 90 percent of the way to equality,' black people remain consistently assaulted by the forces of white supremacy."
At the same time, Obama's victory could perhaps be stoking the fires of an ugly white backlash that gets taken out on defenseless people like the late John Deng. The arrival of a smooth-talking black president gets one kind of reception from white upper-middle-class AcaDemocratic liberals in a "progressive" town like Iowa City. It may elicit a very different sort of feeling from less privileged white people like John Bohnenkamp, Terry Stotler, and Greg Roth.
Paul Street in an author in Iowa City, Iowa. He is the author of many books, including Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History (New York, 2007). His next book is The Re-Branding: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power and the Politics of Progressive Betrayal (2010).
Source: Black Agenda Report


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So, I have a dilemma right now. I currently own picks 1.01 and 2.10 in my minor league draft and im trying to decide which direction to take as far as players or even moving some key guys. Right now i have a nice solid team that finished 4th out of 14 last season in a 11year and counting dynasty league. There are two pretty monster teams that i still finished 1000 points behind and im still far away i think so im contemplating moving Prince Fielder and Cliff Lee to further bolster my minors and buy time for the corner stones i have to develop.
My Lineup:
C: Geovany Soto
1B: Prince fielder
2B: Aaron Hill
3B: Ryan Zimmermann
SS: Stephen Drew
IF: Eric Hosmer
OF: Justin Upton
OF: Matt Kemp
OF: BJ Upton
UTIL: Carlos Beltran
*Carlos Ruis
My Rotation:
SP: Cliff Lee
SP: Roy Oswalt
SP: Mat Latos
SP: Dan Hudson
CL: Huston Street
CL: Chris Perez
My Minors:
Manny Machado
Jameson Taillon
Ryan Kalsih
Players I am considering at 1.01:
Anthony Rendon (love him, but shoulder?)
Jurickson Profar (love him but only in A ball plus have Manny in system)
Trevor Bauer (absolutely love him)
Gerrit Cole (high upside/high risk)
Yu Darvish (read Cole)
Players I am considering at 2.10:
Gary Brown (love him)
Francisco Lindor (monster tools, can he hit?)
Yasmani Grandal (hate the move to SD)
Bubba Starling (doubt he lasts here but could)

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Beautiful 3/2 HEATED Pool Home - Spring Deal! in Vero Beach
- bedrooms 3
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washer and dryer
2 car garage with garage door opener
ceiling fans in every room
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In the screened pool area: patio table, 4 chairs, 1 recliner, and
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Gas grill with burners also
All kitchen appliances and housewares
All linens/towels/extra sheets/blankets
Master bedroom - 1 king bed
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About the district:
How big will it be? Between 4,000-4,500 students.
Can the district afford it? Studies show the current tax base can support the proposed district.
When will it take effect? The most realistic goal is for the 2014-2015 school year.
How will the district be run? A school board will be elected from zones within the new boundaries that will have representation from just the community.
Will taxes go up? No. Every feasibility study performed has shown that the district can afford it at the current millage rate. Any future millage increase would be voted on by the people within the boundaries of the school district.
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (KTHV) - Community members met in Jacksonville Tuesday night to discuss their plans moving forward to form their own school district.
Education Corps says the proposed Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District would help stem the steady decline in enrollment and address school needs much quicker.
Daniel Gray, Education Corps spokesperson, said splitting from Pulaski County would be beneficial for both of districts.
"They would be more financially stable. We would be able to address our facility needs out here. There's great needs to improve the facilities to stop declining enrollment," explained Gray.
Gray said addressing their facilities is a top priority, and a feasibility study is ongoing. He hopes to have it updated in December to submit to the state.
An election could follow the study within a year.
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It seems as though every big city has an aviation museum, and I have visited many of them during my travels. As wonderful as these museums are, seeing perfectly restored aircraft in far better condition than anything that ever rolled off an assembly line makes me long for something unique.
AIN Blogs
Naturally, the editors of Business Jet Traveler hope that you'll find every article we publish to be tailor-made for your needs. But of course that's impossible: last time I checked, we had 35,633 subscribers and—beyond the fact that they presumably share an interest in business aviation—they're all different. Some of them love golf; others have never set foot on a golf course.
Like many pilots, Bill Voss is concerned about the extent to which automation has changed the role of the professional pilot today. But as president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, Voss is also better placed than most to do something about the problems he perceives.
Just a few years ago, no one in the aviation safety business anywhere on earth would have seriously asked if the FAA is losing its safety edge. For more than half a century, the FAA was the unquestioned leader in airline safety around the globe, the one all other nations looked to for leadership in setting the safety bar.
While far from inevitable, the proposed merger of US Airways and American Airlines seems to have garnered support from virtually everyone who matters but the management of bankrupt AA
The New York City Department of Education has sent a list of words to companies bidding to revamp the city's standardized tests. The words are considered to be inappropriate and make some people uncomfortable. Among them: dinosaur, pepperoni and dancing. Seriously.
Buzz Aldrin's importance in the history of the world cannot be overstated, and yet I get the impression when reading Matt Thurber's interview (and others)–in the April/ May 2012 edition of Business Jet Traveler that Aldrin views 32 years of sobriety as his greatest achievement.
Lightweight, head-worn displays designed for military aircraft might eventually find a home in commercial cockpits as well. Researchers at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., have developed an eyewear clip-on display for use by pilots during airport surface operations, the subject of recent solicitation to industry for possible commercialization.
Like me, I'm sure, you have far too much to do every day. So when you're asked to participate in a survey, you usually take a pass. I generally do. Not only don't I have the time, but I can rarely find a compelling answer to what I admit is one of the first questions to cross my mind: what's in it for me?
Last week, I walked through my local grocery and happened to come across the displays of new light bulbs. You know, the ones with the odd shapes and higher prices. The ones that our government has determined to be more environmentally correct.


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RESIDENTS say their lives will be ruined if plans for 50 homes on Colchester's Gas Rec playing fields go ahead.
Developer Denis Diggin said the flats and houses, off Bromley Road, will secure the future of Gas Recreation Football Club and the 8th Colchester Scouts.
One of the two football pitches would be retained and a clubhouse, Scout hut, astroturf training pitch and drop-off area for Roach Vale Primary School are included in the plans.
Homeowners in Salary Close, which would be used as the entrance to the development, say the plans will ruin their community.
The group Save Our Salary Close has been set up to protest against the proposals. Spokesman Zena Smart said: "This area can't cope with the increased traffic this development would produce.
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12:36pm Tue 28 Jan 14
angryman!!! says...
12:48pm Tue 28 Jan 14
zt00013 says...
angryman!!! wrote:We are not building enough houses. A simple truth which eludes you and every other fanatical nimby fool on this site.
With 1,000s of homes being built the council has to draw a line. This land was brought with no planning convent. He now turns around trying to be god like saying I will leave half of it undeveloped! How about no, we will have it all left. If the council Agrees to this then the flood gates are open
12:54pm Tue 28 Jan 14
Boris says...
"All very well to report the views of the chairs of residents' associations, but what about ordinary residents? And what about the people involved with the football club? Do they all agree with the Dishland project?
It is up to them. if they don't like it, they should write in and object to the planning permission being granted."
Predictably, we now have at least one local resident, with her new group, who are opposed.
It is up to these people to write in to the planners and comment on the plans,. for or against. This is much more important than declarations to this newspaper.
1:01pm Tue 28 Jan 14
Jack222 says...
It's a NIMBY complaint, ignore it.
1:03pm Tue 28 Jan 14
Boris says...
zt00013 wrote:I am not going to descend to zt's level of personal abuse. It is true that we need to build more houses, but they must be social housing and not upmarket private housing.
angryman!!! wrote:We are not building enough houses. A simple truth which eludes you and every other fanatical nimby fool on this site.
With 1,000s of homes being built the council has to draw a line. This land was brought with no planning convent. He now turns around trying to be god like saying I will leave half of it undeveloped! How about no, we will have it all left. If the council Agrees to this then the flood gates are open
Meanwhile I agree with angryman that developers should not be surprised when they are told that no, they can't build on land designated for leisure purposes. Colchester needs plenty of football pitches, both to cater for people's need for exercise and friendly sporting contests, and to provide green lungs for the housing estates all round them.
I don't live in that part of Colchester so I am not coming down hard on one side or the other, but I'm with angryman in saying that we need to keep our football pitches. How can reducing the number of pitches from 2 to 1 be right?
1:07pm Tue 28 Jan 14
Boris says...
Jack222 wrote:There speaks a supporter of the property developer.
Get a sense of proportion - some houses which we desperately need means 'lives will be ruined' - try Syria for ruined lives!
It's a NIMBY complaint, ignore it.
Sure, some people use over-the-top language. So do we all, sometimes. But let's not use that as a reason for supporting someone who is only in this to make a profit out of depriving the neighbourhood of open space.
2:18pm Tue 28 Jan 14
cynicalsubber says...
4:00pm Tue 28 Jan 14
Colonel Kurtz says...
That's why we are the fastest growing town in Britain.
Brown envelopes from property developers are always welcome at the Town hall.
5:35pm Tue 28 Jan 14
angryman!!! says...
Yes the country needs housing but cramming them into one small part of the country around the capital is just going to cause it to so self combust!
Colchester has had more than its fair share of development and for a couple of years was the fastest growing borough in the country! Topped with huge developments at severals, mile end and the hythe plus lots of smaller developments at stanway and the garrison not include decelopments in tendering that will have huge impacts on Colchester like the proposed development around elmstead market. We need to try and preserve the little green space we have already and ensure new developments give u the best possible space.
Also the argument about Syria is childish, pathetic, yes somebody has always got it worse than you but does that mean we just except everything bad in praise that it could be worse. Get a grip you fool
12:49pm Wed 29 Jan 14
Harry.Brown says...
goes on all the time anyone can be bought everyone has a price?
are you telling me if i went along to any of those types and chucked a case full of cash on the floor and said i want this or that done they would go oh la di dah cant do that
ruin our neighbourhood or quality of life what a load of *******
its tough you will never beat the system its all about consumption and cash
stop living with rose color specs you got to get real
neil diamond......money talks! ! !
you got money
you get power
you got power
that gets you more money!
6:16pm Wed 29 Jan 14
stevedawson says...
10:28pm Wed 29 Jan 14
Hamiltonandy says...
8:50am Thu 30 Jan 14
zena smart says...
11:55am Thu 30 Jan 14
zena smart says...
4:50pm Mon 3 Feb 14
U.T.G EDD says...
Be careful what you wish for!!!!
Mark gas rec
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Pam Fikes, executive director of the Red Cross Walker-Marion chapter, oversaw the day's activity Thursday morning. Fikes has worked at the Red Cross in Jasper for three years, and she always looks forward to this particular time of year.
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•You, or your church, or your school can make cards and bring them to us for delivery by close of business Nov. 22.
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•Please refrain from choosing cards with glitter or using loose glitter as it can aggravate health issues of ill and injured warriors.
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Now that test images for all three cameras are available on dpreview, it might be interesting to hear comments about what raw-file Kodak color chart comparisons show. My initial impressions: both the D600 and the 5D III do a better job with color and contrast than the D800, which is probably not surprising.
The D600 is the high ISO noise champion.
The color and contrast comparison between the D600 and the 5D III is harder to evaluate. They each do better in some comparisons and worse in others. Generally, the D600 shows less saturation (at least in this test, hard to know whether settings make a difference). At times the lower saturation makes the D600 colors look more controlled, at other times, especially in middle densities, the greater saturation in the Canon colors makes them appear to separate better.
The comparisons seem to switch around a bit with changes in ISO.
Both cameras fail, or nearly fail, to resolve a few color pairs, and it tends to be the same pairs that trouble each camera, but not to the same degree. One will show a bit more trouble in dark greens, the other in deep magentas, etc. I think the Canon does just a tad better in the pastels.
I'm seeing this on a calibrated NEC 27-inch monitor. Obviously different setups will show it differently, and different eyes will see it differently.
Based on what I see in these color and noise comparisons, the D600 has moved up a notch in consideration of what this Canon user will be recommending to friends who ask about a camera for family use. But the 5D III is hanging in there as a body, and those who ask about more lens-challenging applications, especially for less-expensive longer zooms, will probably get that recommendation.
It will be interesting to see if anything worth noting happens when the Canon 6D is added to the mix.
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You said it best near the end. You are a Canon user and likely an engineer and both are cool
Someday someone with way more brains than myself and a likely Canon shooter too boot a doctor of sociology could parse it out but your expressed concerns are not things that get the Average Nikon shooters blood moving. It is amazing to me but if you posted this same tread over in the Canon forum it would go on for pages and pages. It will barely get a nod over here
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It appears that the $2100 D600 goes head to head, IQ and features, with the $3500 Canon 5D MK III. The, unavailable,6D appears to compete on price but not on features. That's a big price difference!
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I've been shooting with both D800 and D800e for about a month now and just spent 3 days comparing them to the D600. Yes the saturation from the 600 is lower but more importantly to me was the fact that compared to the D800 cameras, the D600 results tend to lack sharpness. I assume that this is due to the fact that it has a full fledged anti aliasing filter in place rather than what both D800 cameras have to offer and that I have grown spoiled by the sharpness out of the D800 bodies, but fact is fact...an anti aliasing filter is going to detract from the sharpness, and it is quite obviously the case when comparing these cameras side by side. I considered purchasing a D600 but don't think I am going to do so due to this.
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Thanks for those. Keep them coming. So far, nobody seems to have gone to the dpreview site and actually looked at the Kodak color chart and set it up to compare these 3 bodies. It's worth a look.
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Having been a Canon 5D series user for several years, and now D800e user for a couple of months, I will challenge anyone to produce a color with one camera that can not be created by the other camera.
The colors are nothing but how Raw files are interpreted. I am assuming that OP looked at the Raw version which is using Adobe's profile. Hence the reason that D600 and 5D appear so close. The built-in camera profiles that produce jpeg are not so close.
Now where you may see difference is with 16-bit raw on MFDBs, which display smoother gradation, specially in skin tones.
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It appears that the $2100 D600 goes head to head, IQ and features, with the $3500 Canon 5D MK III.
When reading specifications, then yes. When holding them in your hands or manipulating their files, you start to see differences beyond what the specifications suggested. For example, I find it easier to see the entire VF frame with my eyeglasses with the D600. Or I find the 5DIII to handle quite substantially better, etc. Overall you do feel that the 5DIII deserves a higher price, although it's true it's lacking in a few areas in comparison to the Nikon (low ISO sensor performance comes to mind).
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I am assuming that OP looked at the Raw version which is using Adobe's profile. Hence the reason that D600 and 5D appear so close.
Not sure how this relates. Can you say it again in other words? Maybe suggest a different way to look.
What I based my remarks on were not direct camera-to-camera comparisons of colors and densities. That's something I would have no idea how to do.
Instead, I peered at the Kodak color chart at various ISO values, looking to see how well each camera distinguished the most similar color pairs. On my monitor (which is a fairly good one), with my eyes, none of the cameras produced perfectly distinguishable boundaries between all the color squares, at least not without wiggling the image back and forth, and maybe not even then in some cases. Perhaps you can explain to me how RAW data that produces no visible difference between two samples from the same camera is nevertheless able to do so if processed differently, which is what I think you are saying. (And of course someone with a different monitor or better eyes (mine aren't bad) might not see it the same.
I thought the D600 and the 5D III were about evenly matched with regard to how often they failed, that they had their troubles in similar areas, but that each camera had strengths and weaknesses particular to it. They both seemed to edge the D800 at higher ISOs, but the the D600 did so by a larger marginenough to make the difference notable. The D600 also seems to be the most noise-free at high ISO.
I would like to encourage others to take a close look and report what they find, because I don't pretend at all that what I see ought to be definitive. I would like to hear from as many folks as possible.
I should add that I presume the Kodak color chart is not an adequate test of dynamic range, given that nothing about the appearance of the colors and densities on the chart would lead anyone to believe what I take to be well demonstrated: that the D800 does a much better job of holding shadow detail than the 5D III.
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Not sure how this relates. Can you say it again in other words? Maybe suggest a different way to look.
All cameras in question here use Bayer array. Which means that each pixel is recording luminosity of either Red, Green, or Blue light, with pixels recording green values twice as many as each of the other color. Hence no individual pixel records full color. It is only through interpolation (some mathematical algorithm) that a final color for each pixels is achieved.
There are two factors that may impact the color output. The first is the color of filters placed over each pixel. The color filters are part of sensor assembly and the hue is optimized to achieve best color fidelity for the given sensor. Although the filters are pretty standardized, there are minute differences that can vary from camera to camera even within manufacturer (e.g. the 5D.2 had a slightly different color filter array from the original 5D).
The second factor is the technique used to convert the individual RGB luminance value into a color for each pixel site. These techniques are built onto Raw conversion programs (whether in-camera or out-of-camera). Every Raw converter has its own profile; camera manufacturers actually provide multiple profiles.
What we see on dpreview site is simply the rendition that Adobe has perfected over time. They have a certain output fidelity in mind and so they vary their algorithm to adjust for the difference in camera color filters (although the differences are minimal). So it is for this reason that color output looks so close from each camera.
On the other hand if you take jpeg output from a camera created with landscape profile and compare it to jpeg out from even the same camera, created with standard or neutral profile, the colors will be wildly different, So, in summary, the colors that we see, are simply how the Raw files are "cooked" by Raw converters.
On top of that there is also the question of color space. The color fidelity (gamut) of modern cameras well exceeds that of sRGB, and Adobe RGB space. So to get the best colors out of a given profile you want a 16-bit TIFF file in ProPhoto color space. However jpg files (those served to our browsers) are mostly only sRGB and many LCD monitors struggle even with the limited color space of sRGB.
So then the question becomes, how well are the colors mapped into the limited color space of sRGB and then how well does the monitor render sRGB colors to its own gamut (this last point being related to your calibrated monitor).
This is why I believe all cameras are able to create all kinds of colors, the limiting factor are the skills of person processing the files. The only exception that I have seen (on web) are in high level medium format backs (such as those from Hasselbad and P-One) with 16-bit Raw. However I have never really held or tested MFDB myself to be sure about this.
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the difference is so small that it should not matter. what matters to me are the difference in ergonomics and built.
for amateur it should be more camera then he will probably ever use, pro on other side should value the built and extra features more then "some more" image quality.
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They're just cameras.
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I traveled by truck from Maine to Los Angeles - an old fisherman going to meet a much older one - finally riding an elevated tramway along the precipitous edge of a Santa Monica mountain. I don't like heights, preferring sea level, and was hit by vertigo as I peered down at the highway below. Finally, I arrived at pilgrimage's end - the lofty stone halls of the Getty Center, a museum holding some of the finest pieces of early Greek and Roman art.
Built from the same travertine used to construct Rome's Coliseum, the Getty Center seemed appropriate to my quest. Walking up the stairway leading to the West Pavilion was much like entering the hallowed archives of ancient Rome's Temple of Peace, the first of all museums as built by Emperor Vespasian in A.D. 71.
The object of my travels was a platter depicting an amazing invention. I suppose if you were a Roman you'd refer to the invention as a torqus. But the fact is, we don't know what it was actually named. For lack of a better English term, we'll call it a "fishing reel," a handy little item first used in the 6th century.
In China, reels were recorded in the late 12th century, when paintings show them in use. The open-framed oriental model was made from wicker, the angler's finger poking through spokes to wind in the line. For the better part of angling history, the Chinese reel was considered the oldest.
Then, the J. Paul Getty Museum purchased an extremely interesting plate with relief decoration, measuring two feet in diameter and presumably found in either the Aegean or Black Sea. Its motif is taken from Hellenistic art. The silver dish was used as a serving platter for fish, gilded and titled, "Plate Showing an Old Fisherman."
Tucked under the fisherman's arm, the rod holds a reel affixed just above the grip, probably fashioned from hardwood and built with a center pin similar to a French model of the 1700s, the only real difference being 12 incredibly long centuries.
The torqus appears to be side-mounted, as later Chinese and French models were. Being simple and turned from wood, I suppose the salt water "Good Luck" model - as built by Newark, New Jersey's August Meisselbach in the early 1900s - also fits this category. Most likely the center pin of the Roman device extended through the lower portion of the rod shaft, similar to early British "spike reels."
Old Piscator sits upon a bench, intent at removing his hook or fly from a scarus (wrasse). His rod is cane, a species of harundo, indicated by nodes spaced a foot apart. Two baskets are depicted, each containing flatfish, squid, and Mediterranean lobsters among the cornucopia.
The reel itself is small in comparison to the fisherman's hand. This leads me to think it was built from a very common nautical item - a sheave, a wooden "wheel in a block," as Noah Webster's dictionary phrased it. It's exactly the correct size, and certainly a sea angler would be familiar with maritime sailing tackle.
If a broken block was indeed the basis for this invention, the angler may have drilled a hole to one side of the sheave, tapped a short chunk of dowel into it for a handle, poked a bronze spike through the bearing hole, slid two washers up the spike and nailed his wheel to the fishing rod. Building time? Fifteen minutes.
That's what I'd do!
Strengthening my hypothesis, the names "winch" and "wheel" were used by fishing authors Izaak Walton and Thomas Barker some 1200 years later. And the original pedigree may have survived if we heed Colonel Thomas Williamson's The Complete Angler's Vade Mecum, published in 1808. In it, Williamson describes a "flat wheel, used in some parts of France, of turned wood ... deeply grooved around its circumference, like a pulley."
To find a reel used in Late Antiquity is shocking news, blowing away our notion of the European winch as a 17th century British invention. In a sense it's the last spike in the coffin of Anglophilia - in the history of angling, the days of Rome were greater than those of late Renaissance England.
Putting this gadget in perspective, the English people had yet to arrive. During this reel's lifetime, their ancestors were a bunch of axe-wielding Saxons and Northmen. Perhaps most important, this reel was a salt water invention, visible proof that marine angling reached a high art in our far distant past.


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Creamy Pumpkin Soup
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- 1 3-pound sugar pumpkin or 3 pounds kabocha or butternut squash—peeled, seeded, and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- kosher salt and black pepper
- 4 leeks (white and light green parts only), chopped
- 4 to 6 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- sour cream, croutons, and paprika (preferably smoked), for serving
- Heat oven to 400° F. On a rimmed baking sheet, toss the pumpkin with 3 tablespoons of the oil, ½ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Roast, tossing once, until tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the leeks and cook, stirring frequently, until tender, 4 to 6 minutes. Add the roasted pumpkin, 4 cups of the broth, and ½ teaspoon salt and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
- In a blender, working in batches, puree the soup until smooth, adjusting the consistency with the remaining broth as necessary. (Alternatively, use a handheld immersion blender in the saucepan.) Top the soup with the sour cream and croutons and sprinkle with the paprika, if desired.
Nutritional Information
- Per Serving
- Calories 324
- Fat 18g
- Sat Fat 3g
- Cholesterol 6mg
- Sodium 677mg
- Protein 10g
- Carbohydrate 36g
- Sugar 9g
- Fiber 3g
- Iron 5mg
- Calcium 125mg
What does this mean? See Nutrition 101 .
Quick Tip
To get out the dirt that gets trapped between a leek's layers as it grows, swish the cut-up white stalks around in a bowl of cold water a few times, remove, change the water, and repeat until the water is clear.
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High in vitamin C, these hard, tart berries are grown in bogs in colder regions of North America and Europe. They're almost always eaten cooked, as in the classic Thanksgiving relish.


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PassPort is a simple port forwarding utility. The program runs as an NT Service and can forward various ports from any of local interfaces to whatever remote IP address. It is easily manageable with a simple Windows GUI.
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It does work with more recent versions of Windows. I've just got it working with Windows 8 (64 bit). The trick is in the readme.txt file, where it says: "Go to the Programs menu and find the PassPort shortcut. Open the properties of the shortcut, then open the advanced page and make sure that the shortcut is executed with Administrator's rights. Otherwise the program will not be able to save configuration file in the installation directory." Having set the properties of the shortcut to "Run this program as an administrator", it works fine. Before that, it was not able to start the service, which was probably because it was unable to save the configuration file, like it says. However, I would not have discovered the readme.txt file if I hadn't looked in the installation folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\PJS\PassPort
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Mark Colbourne's 'incredible impact' on paracycling
The Executive Director of Disability Sport Wales says Mark Colbourne has made an 'incredible impact' on the world of paracycling.
Colbourne announced his retirement from the sport today.
– Jon Morgan, Disability Sport Wales
His record speaks for itself. He is a world class rider and will be a sad loss to British and Welsh sport.
Mark has also been the perfect role model, inspiring many young riders to further their own personal goals. In this sense Mark is an important part of our legacy and we hope that he will continue to act in an ambassadorial role for Disability Sport Wales and continue to help us to inspire a new generation of athletes.


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With pummeling death metal riffs, start-stop arrangements, double kick-drums, and both hardcore barks and clean vocal harmonies, are all spun together through a dizzying maelstrom of technology; and, really, all the listener can do is hang on for dear life. Future Fusion Metal band Mnemic has done it again. Denmark's Mnemic offer a futuristic metal style evocative of post-industrial outfits such as Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad. Formed in the town of Aalborg, circa 2000 the group unleashed its debut album, Mechanical Spin Phenomena, in 2002, through Nuclear Blast. Timely appearances at Europe's major outdoor summer festivals followed, and having gained generally rave reviews and a small but loyal following, Mnemic proceeded to record their second album, The Audio Injected Soul and now the moment we've been waiting for is here. If you like Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad, and Meshuggah, then u will definately wanna get this.
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Every track from Dream State Emergency is better than the one before. If you like soilwork then you will like Mnemic.
why does everyone say they sound like meshuggah and fear factory? If anything they sound like new soilwork which is NOT a bad thing. This cd is great with a wide range of vocals and catchy electronic elements that make them stand out from alot of other bands.This cd is better than their last piece of crap. Get this cd if your into soilwork!
Many people have said the new Mnemic album offers nothing new, and it's all been done by Meshuggah with the "odd time signatures", or by Fear Factory with the "futuristic mechanical metal" genre. But the thing is, (and many closed-minded people may argue) it's never been done this well. Mnemic truly come into their own on this album and though they're a bit more melodic on The Audio Injected Soul than they were on Mechanical Spin Phenomena, they don't really compromise any heaviness at all. Plus, The Audio Injected Soul is very polished and well produced. Best tracks on here are "Dreamstate Emergency", "Door 2.12″, "Deathbox", and from track 7 til the end. The last track, "Wild Boys" is a brilliant cover of an old Duran Duran song. That's why it doesn't fit the album, cause it's not their song, and a lot of bands tend to throw a cover at the end of the album if they recorded one. Also, a couple notes: Towards the end of the album especially, Mnemic sound A LOT like Soilwork (which isn't a bad thing by any means). And the only semi-gripe I have about this album was the hype of it being recorded with AM3D Audio Technology for a full, surrounding experience on headphones, and it is, but only for the 2 songs they recorded with the technology. And even then, one of the songs is the short intro to the cd, which is of a man walking with a drill of sorts… Cool, but no music. So other than "Deathbox" and the aforementioned intro titled "The Audio Injection", all other songs are recorded like any other. Regardless, being a huge Mnemic fan since the last cd, this album definitely gets a 5 out of 5 from me.
I have both Mnemic albums and since this one came out I was ready to get myself a copy. Mnemic is really a distinctive band beside having Meshuggah's influnces in their music but they made it their own unique metal sound. I love all the different odd time signatures incorporated into their songs blending with heaviness, harsh and clean melodic vocals and melodic passages. I can't get enough of Mnemic!!! To execute this type of musical performances takes brilliant minds and talents. Top notch metal work from Mnemic. I am sure there will be more awesome albums to be put out by them over time and I am also certain that they will be huge!!! Highly recommended for metal fans!!!


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The Fort Wayne Derby Girls participated in Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kids sake for the 4th year in a row and are proud to announce they raised $480 for this wonder organization!
About Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana
Big Brothers Big Sisters Serving Northeast Indiana and South Central Michigan
We're growing because our children demand it.
Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies have been working to make this region a better place since 1972. Kids in our program stay out of gangs. They do better in school. They grow up to be contributing members of our community.
Our vision is to provide a caring adult mentor to every child in need across 13 counties in Indiana and Michigan.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana grew in 2006, taking on Steuben and Lagrange Counties in Indiana and Branch and St Joe counties in Michigan. In 2007 Hillsdale County in Michigan was added to the list.
We are a 501c(3) not-for-profit agency serving Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Wells and Whitley Counties in Indiana and Branch, Hillsdale and St. Joseph counties in Michigan
Our headquarters are in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We have hundreds of "matches" between caring, responsible adults and at-risk children throughout the 13 counties, and over eighty program sites where we partner with local schools. This year we expect to serve 1,800 area children.
We're growing to serve more kids.
Our intention is to grow to serve 2000 children a year by 2010. It's not ambition that makes us want to do this - there are 20,000 kids aged 7 - 17 that would benefit from a mentoring relationship.
We currently have over 400 kids waiting for a Big Brother or Big Sister
Kids who have the potential for greatness, but no one to believe in them; kids who need someone to look up to because their neighborhoods are tearing them down; kids who just need a friend they can trust.
Kids who are one friend away from turning their lives around. Our future demands that we grow to serve this need.
Our Mission
"To help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with measurable impact."
Our Vision
To provide a caring, responsible adult mentor to every child in our service territory who wants one.
About Fort Wayne Derby Girls Inc.
Roller derby, once a common sport in mid-'70s, has staged a comeback. Fort Wayne is at the pinnacle of Indiana's roller derby resurgence. Since October 2005, the Fort Wayne Derby Girls, a non-profit, volunteer-run organization, has raised $47,000 for local women's and children's charities. Charities benefitting from its efforts include: SCAN, Erin's House, Charis House, Sexual Assault Treatment Center, Hoosier Burn Camp, Great Lakes Burn Camp, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity- Women Build, Easter Seals ARC, Turnstone Center for Disabled Children, Victim's Assistance Program, Make A Wish Foundation, Black Pine Animal Zoo, Ft Wayne Women's Bureau and Crossroad Children's Home.


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Mae Hellerman - Great-Grandmother (deceased)
Davis Meeks - Grandfather (deceased)
Winnie Meeks - Grandmother (deceased)
Lionel Thornton - Father (deceased)
Shawna Thornton - Mother (deceased)
Reverend Daniels - Husband
Ruby Jean Reynolds - Sister
Lafayette Reynolds - Nephew
Tara Thornton - Daughter (undead) (destroyed)
Lettie Mae Daniels (née Thornton), is a recurring character on the HBO original series True Blood. Played by American actress Adina Porter, Lettie Mae first appeared on the episode "The First Taste" in the series' first season, and remained a prominent character through the series' second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons. The abusive, alcoholic, and religiously crazed mother of Tara Thornton, Lettie Mae recovers from her alcohol abuse, and ends up marrying the preacher of the local church in Bon Temps, Reverend Daniels.
Lettie Mae is a very religious woman, believing anything in life has a purpose. She started out as rude, abusive and neglecting, which was displayed to her daughter in particular. Her behavior took a turn for the better when she sobered up from her alcohol abuse.
Like her sister and nephew, Lettie Mae seems to possess some characteristics of a medium, although not as pronounced as theirs. She is also highly susceptible for spiritual influences such as when she underwent an exorcism in an attempt to solve her drinking problem.
When her daughter Tara was turned into a vampire, she visited her one last time to bid her farewell. She stated that as a preacher's wife, she could not have a vampire for a daughter and that Tara was now dead to her. She later got back in touch, when her guilt of neglecting Tara during her childhood became too much.
Lettie Mae is a single mother to Tara Thornton. Tara's father's whereabouts are currently unknown. She has one sister, Ruby Jean Reynolds, who is currently in a clinic for her schizophrenia.
Lettie Mae was an alcoholic. While Tara was growing up, Lettie Mae would frequently steal money to buy alcohol and ignore her daughter. This caused Tara to spend a lot of time with Sookie Stackhouse, so much so that Sookie's grandmother, Adele Stackhouse, became a second mother to Tara. This caused animosity between Adele and Lettie Mae, and, at more than one point, Adele called social services on Lettie Mae, though she managed to keep custody of her child.
Although Lettie Mae has spent much of Tara's life drunk and being abusive, there is still a strong bond between them.
Lettie Mae is first shown drunk in her home, belligerent and angry with Tara. Lettie Mae throws a bottle at her, causing Tara to leave. ("The First Taste")
Lettie Mae attended Adele Stackhouse's funeral, slightly sober, to pay respect to Adele. It was at the funeral that she told Tara she needed money for an exorcism, as she believed there was a demon inside of her forcing her to do evil. Tara eventually agreed to pay for her mother's expensive exorcism. ("Cold Ground")
Later, mother and daughter journeyed into the woods outside Bon Temps to meet with a woman named Miss Jeanette who preformed Lettie Mae's exorcism, curing her alcoholism. The power of Lettie Mae's belief in her "exorcism" led her to recover from her addiction. Things started to look up for Tara and Lettie Mae's relationship.
Tara even found her mother making her Hoe Cakes one morning. ("Burning House of Love")("I Don't Wanna Know")
In the season finale after Tara is arrested for drunk driving, Lettie Mae arrived at the jail to tell Tara that she wasn't going to bail her out so as to save her soul from Tara. Tara angrily berates her mother for making her life terrible yet finally having the chance to help her and doing nothing. She accuses her mother of never loving her and tells her to get out of her sight.
Lettie Mae allows Lafayette to bring Tara to the house while she is under Maryann's influence. However, after Tara tells her mother that if she was a true mother that she would let her escape, Lettie Mae threatens Lafayette with a gun. Tara escapes and tries to save Eggs. Later on, Lettie Mae is seen when Sookie surprises her and knocks her out to save Lafayette.
She is seen apologizing to Lafayette who does not accept her apology.
Lettie Mae calls Reverend Daniels to help Tara through Eggs' death. Lettie Mae however, seems more occupied with him, than helping her own daughter. She fails to keep an eye on Tara, who locks herself in the bathroom and swallows a bottle of pills. Lafayette stops Tara and kicks Lettie Mae out. ("Bad Blood")
The next time Lettie Mae is seen is when Tara discovers her mother having an affair with Reverend Daniels. Tara runs out of the house and Lettie Mae explains that Reverend Daniels will divorce his current wife to marry Lettie Mae. Lettie mentions she is in love and requests Tara to be happy for her. Lettie expresses her desire to become a preacher's wife and Tara wishes her luck; hugging her before leaving. ("Evil is Going On")
Lettie Mae arrives at Terry and Arlene's with Reverend Daniels. They are now married. Lettie Mae appears to be more formal, polite, and proper. Lettie Mae is shown to be religious and spiritual when she yells "Praise Jesus!" Also when Arlene says you people, Lettie Mae questions her by what she means by that and Arlene responds religious people. Also Reverend Daniels begins to yell at a sign that says Baby Not Yours, presumably written by Mavis. It is hinted around that Lettie is currently working at the Bon Temps Church to help with blessings. They begin to sing and cleanse the house for any unwanted entities. When they enter the master bedroom Arlene states how the smoke smells like pot. Lettie Mae shakes smoke in a corner, which Reverend Daniels says "That's were the Devil hides." Lettie Mae mentions how she was possessed by a demon once but a slightly thrown Arlene states that all they have is a ghost. ("Me and the Devil")
Lettie Mae learned of her daughter's fate and visited Fangtasia. Upon seeing Tara being a vampire now she hurls accusation against her daughter that she cannot have a vampire daughter as a minister's wife. Tara taunts her that they will see each other again. ("In the Beginning")
When the arrangements are being made for Terry Bellefleur's funeral, Arlene tells Andy that she would like Reverend Daniels to perform the service as Terry liked him. The Reverend agrees and, when he arrives at Terry's funeral, Lettie Mae also attends. She encourages Big John to speak at the funeral. ("Life Matters")
At the vampire-human social thrown by Sam and Arlene at Bellefleur's Bar and Grill, Lettie Mae approches Tara and asks to speak to her alone. She tells Tara she feels guilty for neglecting her in her childhood. She offers to feed her daughter her blood as a way to compensate for her past behavior. At first Tara seems hesitant and rejects the offer. She later gives in and feeds from her mother. ("Radioactive")


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The season's coming, and today we start giving fans a look ahead at the upcoming 2013-2014 season, starting with a look back at how we got here.
With 48 days remaining until the Coyotes' first preseason game, we take a look back at how last year's 48-game season came about.
When it comes to hockey team ownership, should we feel sorry for owners who lose money? Or should we envy them for getting to play with grown-up toys?
The NHL and NHLPA reached a tentative deal at 5:00 AM Sunday for a new collective bargaining agreement. The agreement is expected to be ratified by mid-week, with a 48 or 50-game season starting...
Some radical ideas for how to structure a shortened season.
All eyes will be on New York today, where talks are expected to continue between owners and players, and speculation builds that a 48-game season may commence later this month.
We need someone to blame, and I have just the goat for the job.
When put to a simple question as to whether we'll have a hockey season, NHL Vice Commissioner Bill Daly said "yes". Is such optimism to be believed? We may not know the answer to that for a few...
I force Bettman, Daly, and the Fehr brothers to play a Cthulhu board game with me to teach them a lesson about teamwork.
Today we have a Nashville Predator actually saying something interesting(!) about the lockout, another call for the NHL to contract several teams, and progress for the advanced stats analysis crowd...
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