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Gas prices this summer expected to be lowest since 2010
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Cheaper gas prices could benefit holiday spending
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Gas prices could be below $3/gallon by Christmas
Officials even say that the national average could dip below $3 by Christmas. At a Sheetz in Fredericksburg on Thursday, though, unleaded regular gas could already be found at $2.99/gallon.
Gas prices swing up and down
Local gasoline prices are swinging up and down ever more drastically, a result of a national fuel system that is operating with a shrinking margin for error.
Consumer alert: Milk prices may double, gas prices fall, and chocolate is most popular candy
The price of milk could double, gas prices continue to fall, and chocolate will be the candy that consumers buy most this Halloween season.
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Gas prices drop as summer travel season ends
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District of Columbia sues Joe Mamo over business practices
The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Irvin Nathan filed suit against Mamo for making illegal agreements with gas wholesalers and the people who operate stations that Mamo owns throughout the district.
Virginia gas prices could jump if internet sales tax fails
As the price at the pump has climbed this summer, folks are feeling it across the D.C. region.
Gas prices have fallen, AAA Mid-Atlantic says
The average price in the District of Columbia was $3.89 on Sunday. Maryland drivers were paying $3.69 on average, and Delaware drivers were paying $3.67. Virginia had the lowest price in the region at $3.48.
Gas prices increase, AAA sees further riseComment
American motorists are bracing for further increases in gas pump prices this summer after average national prices rose 12 cents in the past week alone.
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Well, this was probably inevitable. With Christian Bale taking on two Terrence Malick movies in 2012, "Lawless" and "Knight of Cups" which are shooting back-to-back, it made the prospect of him appearing in Darren Aronofsky's dream project "Noah" all the more unlikely. Well, now it's official as Variety confirms his exit, but reveals another intriguing name as possibility to take over.
According to the trade, the rising Michael Fassbender has discussed the movie with Darren Aronofsky and while no formal offer has been made, he's currently available for the movie which shoots next spring. But before everyone gets all hot and bothered there is something to consider: $130 million. That's the pricetag of the movie Paramount and New Regency are tag teaming on, and as much as we love Fassbender, we sincerely doubt that he's going to get this movie greenlit. While the combination of Aronofsky and Bale/Bruce Wayne was a no-brainer for that budget, Fassbender is barely a household name at this point and still mostly celebrated among film nerds than the general public that the studio will definitely want to buy tickets to this movie.
Of course, this isn't the first time Aronofsky has lost a major star. Brad Pitt famously bailed on "The Fountain" weeks before it was start shooting, but he scaled back the budget, snagged Hugh Jackman and got the movie made. So yes, it's conceivable that Fassbender could take the role, but we'd guess the studio might push for a bigger name or reduced budget if that's the case. But Aronofksy plus Fassbender? Hell yeah.
For now, Fassbender's only 2012 project filling up his calendar is Steve McQueen's "Twelve Years A Slave" co-starring Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor. But as the awards season continues to heat up, if Fassbender gets some major nods and nominations, you can see the studio getting more and more keen for him to take on "Noah."
kitcon | November 30, 2011 11:01 PM
12 years a slave is also targeting a spring start and Fassbender's role looks to be bigger than Pitt's so he may not be free right away. Bale w/o a cape isn't that much bigger as a box office star -- Terminator Salvation made less than 2X cost. The studio probably agreed w/ the choice of Fassbender as a replacement before he was approached.
Nolan | November 30, 2011 7:25 PM
Recently watched "Hunger" and "Fish Tank" and I officially really like Fassbender. He's been good in everything I've seen him in, and he practically carried First Class. I'm not Bale's biggest fan, so hopefully this can get done. By the time Noah is ready to be released, Fassbender could very easily be a household name.
Also, Aronofsky probably has more clout this time around. A big, original sci-fi epic from the guy behind "pi" and "requiem for a dream" sounds a lot harder for a mass market to digest than big, biblical epic from the guy behind "the wrestler" and "black swan."
Sara | November 30, 2011 7:06 PM
Michael Fassbender is the hottest guy at the moment. seriously,.. well I like Bale, but i think Fassbender is more ... let say approachable. Fassbender is really charismatic and honestly, i think will work better at the box office than Bale. I know Bale is Batman, and he is already famous. But Fassbender is like a meteor.
Mike | November 30, 2011 7:02 PM
Sheesh, these two can never manage to work together, huh? First Batman Year One, then the Fighter, and now this. I'm not surprised given the Malick projects, but I am disappointed. Not that I don't appreciate Fassbender's work, but I think Bale would have been a much stronger choice.
gonad | November 30, 2011 6:42 PM
Bale is a rotten actor! The way he uses American accents during press junket interviews is so silly.
buntyhoven | November 30, 2011 6:42 PM
Also, as much as I love Bale, didn't he seem something of an obvious choice for this? You get the impression he could do it in his sleep, which is why it might be a blessing in disguise that he had to drop out. We'll get to see Fassbender truly lead a giant tentpole, and meanwhile Bale gets to do two Malick films in a row.
David | November 30, 2011 6:30 PM
It's probably for the best for everyone involved. You don't turn down Malick. You turn others down for him.
Simone | November 30, 2011 6:19 PM
Michael could lead this project on a $130 million budget... he's been in X-men as Magneto for cripes sake! He's been in '300' and 'Inglourious Basterds'. The boy is ready for the big leagues, and if he gains big awards for Shame, and 'Prometheus' opens good, the man is as good as gold. Just give it to him.
buntyhoven | November 30, 2011 6:14 PM
I'm not so sure Fassbender's such a risk on this one. They can sell it some sort of 300/Immortals-esque film from the director of Black Swan. A lot of those types of films have unknowns in the lead. Russell Crowe was not a major star when he was cast in Gladiator. Ditto Gerard Butler in 300. And Fassbender has some recognition as Magneto.
CL | November 30, 2011 5:52 PM
Disney okayed the 250 million $ John Carter of Mars with the relatively unknown Taylor Kitsch (who's got less acting cred than Fassbender, and who's headlining the upcoming Battleship stinker) but the Fass would have trouble getting this tentpole greenlit for 130 million $ on his name basis? Understandable, given his anonymity with the mainstream audience, but frustrating still.

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Happy New Year everyone. I hope the booze washes away the sorrows of 2013, and brings in the clean slate of 2014. I do not know about everyone else, but I am pondering the moves our riddling GM will make. Who knows what will shake down in free agency, but I think there are some surprises in store for us in the draft regardless. No one expected us to take Long or McClellin (who should be playing linebacker) in 2012.
Every shit team in the top 10 outside of Atlanta, Buffalo, and Detroit could have an argument to take a QB. This means some talent is ours for the taking at 14.
Here's a brief list of some possible shockers:
Eric Ebron TE North Carolina: One can never have enough options on offense. Imagine having another 6'4 monster for Jay to throw towards. Think of Martellus as the blocking TE and Ebron as the move/slot TE on certain sets. Cincinnati has a similar situation with Eifert and Gresham.
Mike Evans, WR Tex AM: Huge target at 6'5. Marshall, Jeffery, and Evans...my goodness. As stated above, Cutler loves large bodies to throw at. Our starting receiving corps would be all over 6'3.
Marqise Lee WR USC: If Speedy Rodriguez had a twin brother, he would be named Marqise Lee. I watched USC's bowl game and he absolutely torched that secondary with straight-line speed. Imagine him in the slot with the BranShon (power couple name for our wideouts) on the outside. My god Dom Capers, if he's there next year, might just shit himself.
Best available offensive lineman. Who knows how the combine and free agency will effect need, but there are some athletic freaks on the line this year. For instance Greg Robinson from Auburn comes out he would be a lock for a pick in the top half of the draft. I think the trend towards coveting offensive lineman early continues this year. If teams were picking guards in the top 10 like last year, would it really be out of the question to have more of the same?
On the defensive side of the ball, I would follow the most athletic prospects available. Phil likes 'em big and fast. Someone like a Vic Beasley OLB type might fit that mold. Maybe a pass-rushing linebacker, think DeMarcus Ware, that fits a hybrid 4-3 could come our way. I wouldn't be one bit angry if we picked Khalil Mack.
I would love to hear people's input on this. I don't think our first rounder will be a predictable event like the last few years. Then again, the draft isn't until May, but one can hope and ponder for a brighter future. Bear Down.


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As we head into year four of Gene Smith's rebuilding of the Jaguars, I wanted to take a look at what Gene has done in the first round of his previous three drafts to try and better understand and possibly predict what will happen this year.
Drafted 8th overall Eugene Monroe the OT from Virginia. This was a surprise pick at the time in that no one thought that Monroe would slide all the way down to the Jags at eight. At the time we were in need for a LT and we were fortunate enough to get top five talent when we did. In this case Gene recognized the value of both the position and the athlete that Monroe is. He did not make what was thought to be the "fan's choice" of Michael Crabtree.
Drafted 10th overall Tyson Alualu the DT from California. Again another surprise pick but not like the previous year. At the time of the pick, more than a few fans (myself included) did not know who this was. This did not dissuade Gene who did not take the popular choice of Tim Tebow. This again shows that Gene was able to recognize a talent that few people knew of at the time. Again he showed that he values the position of a lineman by making it his second 1st round choice.
Drafted 10th overall Blaine Gabbert the QB from Missouri. This once again was surprising for several reasons. First Blaine was at one point considered a top 3 talent in his draft class. Secondly this was the first time Gene made a trade in the 1st round. This pick shows that Gene recognized again a top athlete that some others ignored. Secondly it shows again that Gene is not afraid of the bold choice as long as he deems the reward worth the risk.
Overall I would say based on the very limited amount of data, that Gene Smith has certain things that he uses in making his first round grades. First would be his emphasis on getting people who are not just very good athletes but some of the best when measured up against their draft class companions. Secondly he places values on certain positions. Lineman, and quarter back are priorities for how Gene plans to build our team. While it is safe to assume that he will not be drafting another QB for some time, it shows that he does recognize that without an effective passing game we will not be successful. While it also shows that DE is something that he has stayed away from despite big "names" still being on the board when he made his selection. Another important thing to not is that while all of Gene's choices were not 4 year starters at their prospective schools, they were all consistent and productive during their college careers. This would eliminate "workout wonders" and "underachievers" from his list. Finally Gene has chosen with his three 1st round choices that he values intelligence, hard work, dedication, and responsibility.
With all of this info I offer the following prediction(s).
1. Forget Blackmon: Too short, too light, to much hype.
2. DE is a no go: Gene said it is a weak class.
So I offer the following three names as who Gene will be targeting on draft day whether it be through a trade or taken at #7
1. Morris Claiborne
2. Riley Reiff
3. Michael Floyd
All three are impressive athletic specimens, play in very important positions for the modern NFL, and have been consistent and productive at the college level.
Let the debate begin.....


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By Robin Jedlicka - bio | email Lakeland, GA (WALB) - Investigators believe Molotov cocktails were used to start the fire in the home where six people were staying. Along with the young girl who died, two adults were seriously injured.
The call came in to 911 at 2:13 AM. Based on evidence found at the scene, this fire is being considered an arson and a homicide.
The fire started near the front of the house at 807 Davis Avenue. Family members were forced to escape through windows near the back of the house. The home owner's 12-year-old niece, LaQuita Bowens, was sleeping on a couch near the front door, and died in the fire.
Five adults escaped, though two of them were seriously burned. They've been transported to a burn center in Augusta. At the scene, investigators found traces of home-made gasoline bombs, commonly called Molotov cocktails.
Rescue workers were eventually able to reach the little girl, but she was already dead, probably from smoke inhalation. Neighbors are shocked by this fatal attack.
"You know, we ain't never had this kind of stuff happen around here," said Jeffrey Gloster. "There's been a lot of things going on over the last couple of months, like the killing three or four months ago. It just makes you wonder how can these things happen in this little community here."
"It's just a tragedy you know, because I've known Anthony all my life. He and his mom--we mostly grew up together. I can't think why someone would do something like this here."
Investigators discovered traces of home-made gas bombs, often called Molotov cocktails, at the scene.
"Some gas and probably some flammable substance had been used. I still have to take some evidence to the crime lab," said Paul DiCharia, Chief Investigator.
The insurance commissioners office says police are looking for possibly two suspects. "Arson's one charge. The fact that we had a death makes it a homicide," said DiCharia.
All suspicious materials are being sent to the state crime lab for testing. Police say the culprits will face charges of arson and homicide.
Police are investigating two men who supposedly had a recent argument with the West family. The family provided them with those names and police are now trying to locate these men.
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'Argo' Screenplay Now Available For Your Consideration
The awards machine is now in full throttle. Not that we necessarily care what pundits think about the awards race (or even the awards themselves), but we may have the pundits and their chatter to thank for our latest screenplay available for legal download for consideration: the long-awaited Argo, written by Chris Terrio, adapted from Joshuah Bearman's Wired magazine article and Tony Mendez's autobiography.
For some reason, if you've been asleep since September, here's the trailer for Argo:
Certainly, critics of the film have said that the ending of Argo is much too Hollywood, but a film about the CIA employing Hollywood to rescue hostages hiding out in Tehran during the crisis in 1979 is, well, inevitably going to feel like a Hollywood movie. While the critics may be right that the ending may take liberties to create a dramatic climax (I'm not a history expert, so I couldn't tell you either way), what the film does extremely successfully is create an incredibly suspenseful ending out of an historical event where everyone in the audience already knows the outcome. And that is good screenwriting.
Here's a link to the screenplay:
- Argo, screenplay by Chris Terrio, based on the May 2007 Wired magazine article entitled The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman, and chapter nine of the book entitled The Master of Disguise by Antonio Mendez
As always, please use this screenplay for your educational purposes only, and don't wait to download the screenplay as we never know when these screenplays will be taken offline.
If you missed our other posts about screenplays available for legal download for your consideration, you can find them at the links below:
- Django Unchained
- Looper
- Flight, Wreck-It-Ralph, Promised Land and Hyde Park on Hudson
- Silver Linings Playbook, The Master and Quartet
- Middle of Nowhere, Lincoln, Les Misérables and Frankenweenie
- Amour
- Rust and Bone and Anna Karenina
- Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Sessions, Hitchcock and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Arbitrage and Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Smashed and Celeste and Jesse Forever
- Moonrise Kingdom, Paranorman, The Lorax, Snow White and the Huntsman, Ted and This is 40
What do you think of the depiction of events in the screenplay for Argo? Do you think a screenwriter has creative license to adjust historical facts to tell a more compelling story? Share your thoughts with us in the Comments.
Link: Warner Brothers Awards Screenings – Argo
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Jason on 01.22.13 @ 1:35PM
Finally, been waiting for this one. Thanks Christopher!
Brynn on 01.22.13 @ 2:33PM
To answer the question in your post, I think a screenwriter has license to change whatever historical facts they want for whatever reason they want. I always appreciate it when deviations form historical fact are acknowledged, but when watching a movie there is always (in my mind) some level of expectation that things will be bent a little.
Fresno Bob on 01.22.13 @ 3:13PM
Even with all the dramatic licence taken with the story (and there is a hell of a lot – way more than you list above), it's still lacks any real suspenseful scenes. And the whole fake film angle goes absolutely nowhere.
Ryan O'Rourke on 01.22.13 @ 3:53PM
Did You not see the movie?
Fresno Bob on 01.22.13 @ 6:24PM
Of course.
The two 'dramatic' moments in the story never actually happened.
And as for the fake film thing, yes it sounds great in the trailer, but in the pivotal scene there was clearly no need for it ever having been set up – just a fake poster and a CIA guy at the end of the phone would have done.
It seemed like it was 2 hours of waiting for basically someone to get away buying alcohol with fake I.D.
marklondon on 01.22.13 @ 11:39PM
I totally agree with you. This film has many long shots of Ben looking wistful, that builds to a climax that never happens. Oh, and it throws NZ and Britain under the microbus.
Script is good though, if not remotely accurate.
Buffaluffasaurus on 01.23.13 @ 5:55AM
Finally. Someone who I can agree with. Yes, the whole fake movie thing is a cute hook, but a completely underdeveloped one. Plus it doesn't help that the movie can't seem to decide whether it's a breezy caper movie (with a tone like Catch Me If You Can, Ocean's 11 or Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) or a serious political thriller. It comes off halfway in between, and though not an actively bad movie, I'd have a hard time calling it a particularly good one.
Brynn on 01.22.13 @ 4:04PM
So, the title page of the script says "This script is the confidential and proprietary property of Warner Bros. Pictures and no portion of it may be … quoted … without prior written permission."
So… it will forever be illegal to quote any juicy one-liners from the movie? :)
Brynn on 01.22.13 @ 4:05PM
I was really looking forward to using "This is the best bad idea we've got." Guess that's out now.
Did I just break the law?
keith on 01.23.13 @ 3:23PM
That's the sound of WB Legal typing up a cease & desist….
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|ThingMagic Presents Google Maps RFID Demo for Locating People and Objects, Conducts First Public Demonstrations of Mercury5e® Embedded RFID Readers At RFID World
|March 27, 2007
Cambridge, MA, March 27, 2007– ThingMagic, Inc. (www.thingmagic.com), a leading developer of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, is presenting a location awareness and asset tracking RFID application, utilizing the Google Maps service, during the company's opening keynote address at the 5th Annual RFID World conference in Grapevine, Texas, today. ThingMagic VP Kevin Ashton and CTO Yael Maguire will demonstrate the application live, following reviews and demonstrations of the most advanced RFID reader and tag technologies on the market, and some recent applications beyond traditional retail supply chain, enabled by this latest technology.
"Last year, we had an emergency evacuation in our building. Our staff was unexpectedly separated by several stairwell exits, making it hard to account for everyone, or even confirm, who was on site or out of the office that day. That incident, and some work on a number of location awareness and facility asset tracking applications with various customers, led our engineering team to apply Mercury® reader technology to an internal application for our headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.," said Maguire. "We integrated a system of Mercury5 readers and antennas, employee RFID badges on lanyards, and our office floor plan, with Google Maps. This demonstration application allows us to track staff wearing the badges and record their location history within our office space. We are able to quickly locate every employee and guest in the event of another building emergency, or preparedness drill, that requires fast, full evacuation -- but there are many other uses for an application like this, notably tracking assets."
ThingMagic is also conducting the first public demonstrations of the Mercury5e embedded RFID reader in its booth and during the keynote. This new reader utilizes the Intel RFID Transceiver R1000 chip, which integrates a number of components into a single integrated RFID circuit, and enables digital signal processing and analog data processing on the same chip. This has enabled ThingMagic to develop the lower energy-consumption, higher performance, smaller Mercury5e, for use in RFID desktop, label, mobile and wearable printers, and handheld and mobile devices.
The Mercury5e embedded RFID reader module:
"Given its processing power, Mercury5e is the smallest, most accurate and cost effective embedded RFID reader module, due to the combination of our RFID expertise and the use of the Intel R1000 Transceiver chip," said Kevin Ashton, Vice President, Marketing, ThingMagic. "By significantly reducing the size of an embedded reader, and capitalizing on the Intel R1000 Transceiver silicon, ThingMagic is enabling many more RFID applications, especially those that require powerful, mobile RFID readers with low power consumption and high processing power. Though it is half the thickness of the Mercury4e, the Mercury5e consumes less energy, operates in dense reader environments and works in multiple regions -- which is exactly what many of our customers have been requesting."
For a demonstration of the Mercury5e, RFID World attendees may visit ThingMagic in Booth 1400.Clustered nearby, ThingMagic partners Avery Dennison, MARKEM, MediaCart, SATO America, and Zebra Technologies will be demonstrating RFID enabled systems that utilize embedded Mercury reader modules.
Mercury5e is available on an OEM basis to manufacturers of label makers, print and apply machines, and other embedded, mobile and handheld RFID devices.
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Greenwood became the most recent Upstate town to ban texting while driving Monday evening.
The City Council voted six to one to pass the ban, which fines drivers who text or email while driving.
Ward 3 Councilwoman Betty Boles, who voted for the ban, admitted to texting while driving and said she believes it should be outlawed.
Councilman Kenn Wiltshire, of Ward 4, voted against the ban, saying that distractions while driving, like putting on makeup or eating, should also be included.
"I think this will be very difficult for law enforcement to enforce," Wiltshire said. "I agree with the principal of the idea, and you shouldn't be texting while driving."
No members of the public spoke up in favor or against the ordinance. Greenwood Mayor Welborn Adams said the ordinance will save lives.
"I started thinking about it when I realized the state was not going to pass ... and I said we had to do it," said Adams. "They have done it Columbia and other cities."
The new ordinance went into effect immediately, and the fine is $100. Drivers can still talk on the phone while driving and can send messages when they are stopped.
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dry, windy weather is keeping firefighters busy and on Tuesday there was no
The fire danger in west-central Wisconsin is listed as
high. The rest of the state is
considered moderate.
On Tuesday
afternoon crews were called to a grass fire in the town of Tainter
in Dunn County.
Earlier in the day crews in Chippewa
County were needed at a grass fire
south of Stanley. Because of the conditions a burning ban has
been issued for all of Chippewa
County. That means no fires are allowed except for
"We've been out on three grass
fires over the last 18 hours or so, Boyd fire just had one and called Stanley over. So
conditions are getting right and we'd prefer not to have to go out and try and
chase these versus better weather conditions and allowing people to burn,"
says John Andersen, Chippewa Fire District.
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A Shady Side couple took second place at a state championship barbecue competition in Harrisburg, PA last Saturday.
Thanks to their increasingly popular brisket recipe, husband and wife duo Joel and Erin Matteson earned second at the fifth-annual Keystone Classic Barbecue State Championship in Pennsylvania.
The Mattesons, who comprise " Pepper Monkey BBQ," both have normal day jobs working as a federal agent (Joel) and analyst (Erin). But ever since discovering their passion for barbecue, the couple began competing in regional cooking competitions. Last week's contest, their 10th of the year, helped them earn the highest prize they've received so far.
"It was a pretty big deal for us. We started 10 competitions this year, which is a lot for us. It was a big competition," Joel Matteson said.
Cooking quality barbecue is nothing more than just a hobby for Joel Matteson and his wife, who said they had to turn down several catering jobs because they don't technically cook for profit—yet.
"We are kind of looking into transitioning into doing some catering because of all the public exposure we've been getting," Joel Matteson said.
The local couple's brisket took fourth against all other briskets, but it was their complete recipes for chicken, pork, and ribs that earned them the No. 2 spot.
Joel Matteson said he and his wife don't plan to compete in any more competitions in 2012. But as the spring rolls around, the two will begin prepping for the next season of barbecue battles.


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SIOUX CREEK - Plans for a large frac-sand mine in Barron County take a big step forward.
The Sioux Creek Town Board voted unanimously last night to start negotiations with Superior Silica Sands.
The company is planning a sand mine and wash plant on a nearly 600 acre site, southwest of Chetek.
The town and sand company started negotiating Friday on things like the hours of operation, protections for adjoining landowners, and how much money the town will receive for every ton of sand that is moved. That money will be used for infrastructure, road improvements and eventually tax relief.


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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) - The Georgia House has passed a new version of an immigration bill that toughens one passed by the Senate just 12 hours earlier.
Rep. Matt Ramsey, the bill's sponsor, presented a new version of the bill on the floor of the House on Tuesday that puts back in a key provision that would require many private employers to check the immigration status of new hires using a federal database called E-Verify.
The bill now goes back to the Senate which will decide whether or not to accept the new version.
If the Senate rejects the changes, Ramsey said the bill will likely head to a joint committee, which would hammer out a compromise bill.
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Shreveport Police have arrested three men and recovered an assault rifle in connection with an attempted home invasion late Monday night.
The incident began at the Southfield Apartments in the 100 block of Southfield Road, where police say three people tried to break into an apartment.
The two teenaged males who were in the apartment at the time told police they heard a knock at the door, and when they looked outside, they saw two men standing there. As they went to unlock the door, the two men allegedly tried to force their way in, punching one of the teens in the face.
While they were able to shut the door again and lock it, they told police one of the suspects pointed an assault rifle at him through the glass door on the back patio.
That's when they fled to the Southfield Albertson's store next to the apartments, where an off-duty Shreveport Police detective was able to capture one of the suspects chasing the victim.
That suspect, identified as 17-year-old Gunner Hendrix, of the 700 block of Woodvale Drive in Shreveport, was treated for minor injuries he received during the police chase, SPD Cpl. Marcus Hines says.
Authorities at the scene of the crime also recovered an assault rifle believed to have been used in the attempted break-in. Police say there is no connection between the recovered assault rifle and the AK-47 that was stolen last Sunday from a car in the parking lot of a Walmart at the Westport Shopping Center in West Shreveport.
During the course of the investigation, detectives were able to confirm the identities of the two other men believed to have participated in the botched robbery.
Hunter Johnson, 18, of the 100 block of Southfield Road in Shreveport along with 17-year-old Dillon Woodard of the 200 block of Roma Drive in Shreveport were apprehended by authorities at their respective residences after information gathered during the investigation linked them to the crime.
All three suspects in the robbery were charged with attempted armed robbery and booked into the Shreveport City Jail.
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Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. the Lowcountry Harley Davidson on Dorchester Road has a motorcycle benefit ride to raise money for My Sisters House, an organization which works to serve and empower victims of domestic violence in Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties.
The ride is $15 per motorcycle plus $10 per passenger.
According to the organization, in 2011, South Carolina ranked second in the nation with the highest homicide rate for female victims by male offenders. South Carolina's rate for this type of homicide is more than twice the national average.
The previous year, there were over 48,000 victims of domestic violence in South Carolina.
Sunday's proceeds from the ride will be donated to My Sisters House, Inc. There will be live music, raffles, 50/50, silent auction, bike wash, and bike show.
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I used to think that description only accounted for 10-15% of the political left in this country, and the vast majority of it confined to the far (loony) left. Even that was forgivable, in a sense, because the far left has been dominated by varieties of Marxism for over a century and they, as a group, are too ideologically stupid to be anything other than ignorant, intolerant and narrow minded.
However, of late ignorant, intolerant and narrow minded has gone mainstream in the Democratic party. For example, you have these morons claiming in the name of tolerance you cannot have pluralism. And for another, more distressing, example you have the main streaming of anti-Semitism called BDS:
What is particularly scary about this state of affairs is there seems to be no dissent from these positions in the entire Democratic party. In fact the Democratic party seems more monolithic about, well, everything than it has been since the 1860's. To be left of center in America increasingly means living in a monoculture where different ideas and ways of life are viewed as being anathema to every tenet of common human decency. Indeed you would be hard pressed to find an example of a mainstream Democratic writer who even pays lip service to the idea that one can disagree with a Democratic party policy and NOT be morally bankrupt. However, in the increasingly Orwellian newspeak of the Democratic hegemony intolerance is branded tolerance, moral zealotry is called open mindedness, and intellectual chicanery is called scholarship. I call myself frightened.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
The Ignorant Intolerant and Narrow Minded Left
I used to think that description only accounted for 10-15% of the political left in this country, and the vast majority of it confined to the far (loony) left. Even that was forgivable, in a sense, because the far left has been dominated by varieties of Marxism for over a century and they, as a group, are too ideologically stupid to be anything other than ignorant, intolerant and narrow minded.
However, of late ignorant, intolerant and narrow minded has gone mainstream in the Democratic party. For example, you have these morons claiming in the name of tolerance you cannot have pluralism. And for another, more distressing, example you have the main streaming of anti-Semitism called BDS:
Posted by Rich Horton at 7/03/2014 10:59:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: morons, pessimism (its what's for dinner), reason (hate filled people being beyond), the new anti-Semitism
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
The New York Dumb Times
I have often lamented that we live in an era of degraded journalism. Journalists of today are less independent, less articulate, less well read, and less intelligent than journalists of decades past. The depth of their deficiencies comes to the forefront when you read, frankly, garbage like the following from the editorial board of the New York Times:
The Supreme Court's deeply dismaying decision on Monday in the Hobby Lobby case swept aside accepted principles of corporate law and religious liberty to grant owners of closely held, for-profit companies an unprecedented right to impose their religious views on employees. It was the first time the court has allowed commercial business owners to deny employees a federal benefit to which they are entitled by law based on the owners' religious beliefs, and it was a radical departure from the court's history of resisting claims for religious exemptions from neutral laws of general applicability when the exemptions would hurt other people.For starters, in what way does Hobby Lobby not paying for abortifacients "impose their religious beliefs" on anyone? Here is the answer: it doesn't. Hobby Lobby employees are free to spend all their spare time taking abortifacients if that is what floats their boat. They just have to pay for them. Secondly, a mandate is NOT a "federal benefit." If the federal government wants to provide cheap abortifacients to people they can fund a program to do so, if they can get the votes. The moment you require a private party to provide something via a mandate you automatically have the possibility of running against other rights. The idea that the you can make Hobby Lobby or any other private company or organization a de facto arm of the government that is forced to give up ANY constitutional protections by issuing of governmental mandates is simple nonsense. (It wouldn't be in a fascist or communist system, but we don't live in either of those... unless Justice Ginsburg has her way of course.) "The full implications of the decision, which ruled in favor of employers who do not want to include contraceptive care in their company health plans, as required by the Affordable Care Act, will not be known for some time." Of course this isn't what this case was about. None of the three companies involved claimed a right to not cover all contraceptives, nor did the Supreme Court assert any such thing. This is a product of the over-heated imaginations of the chronically stupid and insipid. And, indeed, if you are unfortunate enough to read the rest of the Times' editorial, and you have a functioning brain, you will be left saying three things: 1) What the hell are they blathering on about? 2) I wonder what color the sky is in their world? And 3) When did real journalism die?
Posted by Rich Horton at 7/01/2014 12:50:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: journalism, morons
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Your Domestic Terror Update
In case you were wondering, yes, all of the suspects on the FBI's Domestic Terrorism list are still of the ideological left.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Posted by Rich Horton at 6/10/2014 09:01:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: evil scum bags
Saturday, June 07, 2014
Federal Judge Declares Voting "Unconstitutional"
"In any voting situation," stated the judge Ty Rant, "there is inherently the chance voters might vote for something our elites do not favor. As our elites must be catered to in every particular, being that they are better than the hoi polloi, voting must be considered outmoded and something we have progressed beyond."
Judge Sonia Sotomayor immediately signaled her acceptance of judge Rant's opinion.
Posted by Rich Horton at 6/07/2014 07:24:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: law, political culture
Monday, June 02, 2014
It's Garbage Like This That Gives Social Science A Bad Name
From the WaPo: Female-named hurricanes kill more than male hurricanes because people don't respect them, study finds
People don't take hurricanes as seriously if they have a feminine name and the consequences are deadly, finds a new groundbreaking study.The lack of even rudimentary scientific methodology is staggering. For starters, comparing the effects of pre-1970 storms with post-1970 storms is difficult because of an important historical change, namely the introduction of satellites to accurately track hurricanes. This "study" blindly treats these two era the same. Well, they are not the same. Pre-1970 storms (oh, and all of this data was collected from their supporting data) averaged 35.4 deaths per storm. Post-1970 storms averaged 16.8 deaths per storm.
Female-named storms have historically killed more because people neither consider them as risky nor take the same precautions, the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes.
Researchers at the University of Illinois and Arizona State University examined six decades of hurricane death rates according to gender, spanning 1950 and 2012. Of the 47 most damaging hurricanes, the female-named hurricanes produced an average of 45 deaths compared to 23 deaths in male-named storms, or almost double the number of fatalities.
They cannot even make the Prima Facia case for their paper. Male names have only been in use since 1979. Since 1979 male named storms have produced an average of 17.9 deaths. Females storms have produced on average 15.8 deaths per storm.
Honestly, this paper took 15 minutes to completely destroy. How it could be published by the National Academy of Science is beyond me.
Posted by Rich Horton at 6/02/2014 11:40:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: crappy social science, hurricanes
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Juliet Lapidos Is A New York Times Fascist
Just got to call them as they are. Fascist is the only appropriate label for someone who believes they have the moral right to remove people from the political process because they deem them "inferior" in some manner, be it because of their race, ethnicity, religion, or because they fail a preferred ideological litmus test.
Anyone who engages in such behavior is anti-democratic, pro-authoritarian, and 100% all scum-bag all the time.
Posted by Rich Horton at 5/13/2014 07:16:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: media as fascist co-conspirators, morons
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Thought For The Day
The worst thing about the internet is that it convinces me almost weekly that huge swaths of my fellow Americans are blithering morons who lack the capacity to read or think. On the other hand, they are fantastic at being moralizing prigs.
Posted by Rich Horton at 4/13/2014 04:51:00 PM 0 comments
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Progressive Equivalencies I
From your ongoing guide to progressive political "discourse":
Rejection of Democratic policy preference in any context for any reason = Threat to the very existence of democracy.
Posted by Rich Horton at 4/03/2014 07:55:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: progressive equivalencies
Saturday, March 22, 2014
The Intellectual Bankruptcy Of (Portions Of) The Left
Go read this long (and long-winded) piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates, but only if you have a half-hour of your life you don't mind throwing away. And why is that exactly? Well, in this piece Coates basically argues that neither whites nor blacks in America are capable of exercising moral autonomy. For Coates no negative consequence ever faced by a black person in any context can be justified because of the existence of white hegemony, the perpetual existence of which is taken to be axiomatic. Consequently, blacks are assumed to never have free meaningful choices to make which means, of course, that they lack a prerequisite of moral autonomy.
Whites, on the other hand, are denied moral autonomy simply of the basis of needing to fulfill the role as hegemonic oppressors. Whites being "wrong" has nothing to do with decisions they do or do not make, it has to do with the color of their skin. In such a view there is no difference between a white person choosing action A and another white person choosing ~A. By definition each decision is a "product of white hegemonic society" and therefore equally "wrong." So, just as in the case for blacks, whites also lack the ability to make free meaningful choices, and thus are denied a prerequisite of moral autonomy.
This is exactly the sort of situation elites like Coates want, because by denying the existence of moral autonomy in these types of questions they can claim that these issues should be above the ken of normal democratic public policy decision making. There is no room for differing opinion or disparate value judgements, there is only the role of oppressor (or oppressed) to enact.
Of course it is a dream come true to live in a world where one's preferences are impossible to gainsay, and Mr. Coates would probably be quite reluctant to leave the very same world he has constructed for himself, but there is no reason why we need to go and live there with him.
Posted by Rich Horton at 3/22/2014 04:38:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: journalism, nonsense, political culture
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
It May Be Time For A Rethink Here
I've never taken a hiatus from blogging that has felt more permanent than this one. The truth is a lot of the things that I always wanted to say on this blog I did over the years I was active, and at some point there isn't all that much that is "new" about the news.
That isn't to say I've completely run out of things to discuss. Actually, its quite the opposite. The trouble is the things I want to say don't really fit into blogging, at least the way I had been doing it. For some time I have been flirting with the idea of publishing far fewer but far more in-depth essays. A longer format is needed to get to where I want to go, at least from the standpoint of intellect.
I suppose that is the good thing about writing one of these one man dog and pony shows. At the end of the day this blog doesn't need to be all things to all people. It only needs to be something to me.
Posted by Rich Horton at 2/26/2014 09:43:00 AM 0 comments
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Happy Halloween
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Labels: holidays
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Let's Go Cardinals
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Labels: sports
Reason #5634 Why Politfact is Useless
So, we now all know that when President Obama said "If you like your insurance you can keep it," he was lying through his teeth. This made me wonder how those brave souls at PolitFact had graded the issue when it came up in the past.
Well, according to them the President spoke the truth! Yes, they claimed what Obama said was only half true, but that was only because, according to PolitFact, the dastardly insurance companies could change the plans, or, in a completely unrelated aside, people might voluntarily change plans. However, THAT wasn't the point. The claim was "If you like you current insurance you can keep it." . Obamacare, PolitFact insisted, wouldn't alter anything.
PolitFact was, obviously, wrong. But, of course, they had to be wrong. After all, their only source for the veracity of the statement in the first place was the Obama administration itself, which is par for the course as far as I can tell. They obfuscate that fact by prattling on about off-topic issues; a bit of misdirection which is also, sadly, par for the course.
Posted by Rich Horton at 10/30/2013 09:26:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: journalism
Sunday, September 01, 2013
An Unmitigated Disaster
I know it's early, but its not too early to decide that NBC's takeover of EPL coverage in the United States is nothing but a disaster for actual FANS of the game.
I was open to the switch until today when I realized NBC Sports had zero intention of covering the deadline as news.
My disgust knows no bounds. Being a fan sucks because you perpetually get screwed over with impunity. What am I, or any other real fan of the English game, gonna do? Stop watching the games?
Posted by Rich Horton at 9/01/2013 04:35:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: pessimism (its what's for dinner), sports
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Take Your Nap Now
The best hours to watch the Perseid meteor shower – in some ways the most viewer-friendly show of shooting stars in the northern hemisphere – will begin just before midnight Sunday and persist through Monday night.
It is one of the annual can't-miss events for stargazers – promising abundant shooting star-sightings and coming during the height of vacation season, when late-night temperatures are pleasant and folks have more time to dawdle under the night sky.
This year, it might be more of a can't-miss event than normal. Next year, the moon will be in a waning gibbous phase (a three-quarter moon on the way from full to half) during the the best time for viewing meteor showers – after midnight. That means the light of the moon will wash out much of the night sky right when viewing should be peak.In days of distant past my favorite meteor shower was the Quadrantids in early January. The winter sky always seemed clearer and the Quads always seemed to offer more slow long track meteors, which are always the most spectacular. However, since I moved I've been way too far north to make being outside in the early morning hours anything but miserable.
That being the case, the Perseids have moved to the top of the list. The nice thing is there isn't too much summer haze to worry about up here (most of the time), so the viewing is generally above average. I keep thinking I should find a venue even further out to eliminate even more light pollution, but that will have to wait.
As does my bed. I'll need a nap if I'm gonna be up to all hours. I'm not as young as I used to be.
Posted by Rich Horton at 8/11/2013 05:25:00 PM 0 comments
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"SilverStripe – Das umfassende Handbuch" is now in German bookstores and available online to purchase for €39.90.
At 450 pages, it provides a more structured and comprehensive set of SilverStripe technical documentation than what is currently available at doc.silverstripe.com, so we strongly encourage German developers to buy the book and become a much more educated, sophisticated SilverStripe developer!
(To our English readers: we aim to have the book in English later this year.)
The book is written by SilverStripe core developer Ingo Schommer (pictured below), and German tech-writer Steven Broschart.
As I looked minutes ago, there were only 3 books available on Amazon Germany - that`s what I call a Bestseller :D Congratulations!
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If you're looking for an island getaway, then consider getting flights to Corfu. Being on the north-western sea border of Greece, the island has inevitably been the site of battles, sieges and conquests over thousands of years involving the likes of the Ottomans, Napoleon, Mussolini and the British, and there are many impressive castles and ruins across the island that bear the imprint of these conflicts. Corfu Town itself is completely surrounded by the walls of two castles and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The wonderful weather and island life are good reasons to book cheap flights to Corfu, not to mention the beautiful scenery dotted with Cypress trees. The island has a long, sickle-like shape with the northern part wider and more mountainous: perfect for stunning views from elevated heights of secluded bays with crystal clear waters. Visit Nymphes on the northern edge to see a charming village built around a waterfall. The south part of Corfu has long, sandy beaches and places like Chalikounas in the west with the nearby Lake Korission and the former fishing village of Benitses on the east coast are particularly enchanting.
In English culture, Corfu is not only famous as the birthplace of Prince Philip, but also for being the childhood home of Gerald Durrell, naturalist and author of classics such as My Family and Other Animals. Corfu's incredible range of wildlife, some of which Durrell attempted to keep as pets, inspired his later conservation work as an adult.


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This course focuses on the domestic and international politics of Africa since Independence. The main themes have been selected to familiarise students with some of the key issues in contemporary debates about African politics, in both its domestic and international dimensions. Throughout an emphasis is placed on the critical questioning of mainstream orthodoxies in both the academic and policy-oriented literature. The core themes in the domestic politics part of the course are the state, conflict, local and 'traditional' politics, new social forces and democratisation. The international politics part of the course covers 'new' conflicts, humanitarian intervention, governance, human rights and external efforts to bring about democratisation.
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- To acquire a basic understanding of the relationship between the analysis of African politics and the theoretical analysis of politics in general, with reference both to some normative and empirical issues.


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The Showdown over the use of American Indian Logo
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The Showdown over the use of American Indian Logo
Chuck Haga, Star Tribune
GRAND FORKS, N.D. - In the showdown over the use of an American Indian nickname and logo, the NCAA leads its series with the University of
North Dakota 3-0.
But the Fighting Sioux are still fighting.
Trounced last year by an NCAA mandate to change its 80-year-old
Fighting Sioux nickname or lose some postseason rights, then rebuffed twice on
appeals, the university now wants to take the battle of wills into
court. On Thursday the State Board of Higher Education gave its blessing.
After conferring in closed session with state Attorney General Wayne
Stenehjem and UND President Charles Kupchella in Williston, the higher
education board voted 8-0 "to authorize a lawsuit to be filed against the
NCAA concerning its recent action on the Sioux nickname and logo," said
Pat Seaworth, general counsel to the board.
A defiant Kupchella had suggested the action, and the board asked
Stenehjem to review the matter. The attorney general recommended going ahead
with a suit, Seaworth said.
Timing and whether the suit would be filed in state or federal court
and other aspects "will be decided by the attorney general," Seaworth
said. The board directed that it be paid for by privately collected funds,
not taxpayer money.
Some oppose retaining logo
Kupchella had described himself as "angry" before heading to Williston
for the board meeting. "This is a crime," he said.
He recently sent a stinging letter to the NCAA in which he accused the
association of "careless, irrational, arbitrary, capricious and
ultimately harmful behavior."
He said he has broad support on campus and among alumni, but he
acknowledged that some American Indians on campus and off oppose retaining the
Sioux nickname and logo. The university offers more than 30 programs
for American Indians and counts about 400 native students in its
enrollment of about 13,000.
David Gipp, a Lakota Indian from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation
and a 1969 UND graduate, now president of a tribal college in Bismarck,
had urged the board in a letter not to extend the logo controversy by
suing the NCAA.
"We would hope that rather than spend funds on a lawsuit, the funds
were instead used to create more opportunities for American Indians, and
all North Dakotans, to improve their lives and to promote diversity,"
Gipp wrote. "Indeed, a university president's valuable time would be
better spent on issues of academic opportunity and diversity. That is a
tradition of which we all can be proud."
On a bulletin board outside an Indian Studies office at UND, a poster
says, "For a better UND -- people, not logos." A cartoon posted there
shows a white man dressed in a feathered headdress and buckskin and
carrying a tomahawk. "Hey, it's to honor you, Dude," he says to a skeptical
Leigh Jeannote, director of American Indian Student Services at UND,
said the dissenters on campus include many non-Indian students and staff
"Using people as mascots is the wrong thing to do," Jeannote said.
"This has really divided our campus community. We're getting calls from
parents asking about 'the hostile environment' here."
Others dropped nicknames
Scores of colleges and universities have dropped Indian nicknames and
logos in recent years, and the NCAA last year directed several holdouts
to follow suit or forfeit the right to host postseason tournaments or
use their logos and nicknames on uniforms during those tournaments.
"The great weight of authority, and information gathered [by the
NCAA]," show that use of Native American imagery, when exploited in
athletics, creates an environment that is demeaning, insensitive, hostile or
abusive to the Native American community," the chairman of the NCAA's
executive committee wrote in a letter last month to Kupchella.
Some tribal officials in North Dakota have told the NCAA that they are
not offended by UND's use of the Sioux nickname, but others have taken
stands against it.
The NCAA has allowed some schools to retain their Indian nicknames,
such as the Florida State Seminoles, because the schools could show they
had tribal support.
"The fundamental irrationality of calling what we do hostile and
abusive ... and then saying that a white guy in war paint, carrying a flaming
spear while riding a horse into a stadium, leading [Florida State] fans
in a tomahawk chop while singing an Indian chant, should be obvious to
any jury," Kupchella told the NCAA.
He said this week that the university "is in dialogue with the tribes,
exploring ways we can take [the Sioux connection] and morphing it into
something more inclusive [and] respectful." At the suggestion of a
Dakota spiritual elder who visited the campus, UND changed plans to paint a
Sioux logo on an athletic court floor, Kupchella said, and stopped
calling its concession-stand hot dogs "Siouxper dogs."
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i read about that today.
i wonder if the sioux would be content with them not necessarily gettng rid of using indians as their logo but making the mascot into a more honorable character.
white folks have the patriots, the yankees, the rangers, the cowboys... etc and i would think the reason they don't rally againt those images is because they are percieved to be shows of respect.
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for what and for whom
White folks got the whole dang country practically, I seriously don't think they are going to miss one more Indian mascot/logo. And even if North Dakota State should change their logo, there is still the Washington Redskins, the Cleveland Indians, and the Chicago Blawkhawks. And by the way the Texas Rangers was that name given to an armed militia in Texas who killed Indians for a living, at one time that is. So yeah, the Texas Rangers.
The only thing left is for some really wealty casino rich tribe to buy their own team and call it the fighting whitees and see how that goes over. Besides, the whole ND thing is about an alumni who basically gave something like a katrillion dollars to his alma mater to emblazon the Fighting Sioux mascot all over the school, and the school probably doesn't have the money to tear it all down and start over again, which is what they will be forced to do should they lose this court battle.
And to water down the Fighting Sioux logo and mascot, an image that to my mind dehumanizes Native people (and Native men specifically) through the imagery of the blood thirsty and noble savage, is no less wrong. Change the mascot, I say, and let's move on. To allow these cases to keep coming, would be a green light to the NCAA to reverse its decision. I remember where I was when I heard the news. I was quite happy to hear that the NCAA had made a political decision to respect the wishes of so many Native people who wrote in and said, "no more." I was among those who wrote to the NCAA committee. So, to think that these mascots can be changed to represent a "good character"... I can't swallow that. Tell it to the student who plays NCAA basketball and has live through white people yelling racial ephitets on the court during the game. It happened at Texas A & M to a basketball player.( In some way what these mascots do is allow even uglier racism to go unaddressed because there is a larger culture out there that is told it cannot be held accountable.) And, tell it to the woman who has been fighting this issue for the past twenty years. I hope the NCAA sticks to its decision. I hope more people find it in themselves to think about what these mascots and logos represent. There are several articles written by a lot of people on this issue, and they have put forth an entire arguement that should be learned and relearned until we get this right.
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so if you had a team what would you have as a mascott?
do you think most people fighting against the UND logo prefer the geometric logo? or something completely different? and if completely different, what?
or do you think the whole worldview that requires logos and mascotts in the firstplace need to be examined and perhaps discarded?
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I don't have a team so I really can't say. Maybe the Skylarks.
I am not sure what people prefer with regards to the ND logo.
I do think that the University of North Dakota should follow the decision of the NCAA committee and honor its wishes. I don't think we have think in terms of excess to think this matter through carefully.
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I agree. I think the NCAA's ruling should be enforced.
I just learned that the Ghanaian national soccer team is called the BlackStars... so I was wondering what teams would be called if Indians ran the school.
I'd call my team the Alchemists or the Liberators. Or maybe the Medicene Men. Or maybe the Creators. They might sound better in different languages too...
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This is short piece is dated in that there have been new twists and turns in the NCAA's decision making process. But it does contain a list a schools whose logos/names/mascots are being banned by the NCAA. The question is too: why haven't more people made their voices heard on this issue?
NCAA Bans 18 Racist Mascots
The National Collegiate Athletic Association launched a storm of controversy when it announced last Friday that it is banning the use of 18 Indian mascots and nicknames during NCAA-sanctioned events beginning next February. Among those banned are the Florida State Seminoles, sparking criticism from Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Governor Bush said the decision insulted the Florida State University and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Bush said, "It's ridiculous. How politically correct can we get? The folks that make these decisions need to get out more often." Florida State University is planning an appeal and Attorney Barry Richard, who represented George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential recount, has agreed to represent FSU if needed.
The Native community has been working for more than 50 years to ban images and names like Cleveland's chief wahoo, the Washington Redskins, the Kansas city chiefs and the Atlanta Braves.
A Spokesperson from the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media said: "The American public has been conditioned by the sports industry, educational institutions and the media to trivialize Indigenous culture as common and harmless entertainment. On high school and college campuses Native American students do not feel welcome if the school uses as its mascot a Chief, the highest political position you can attain in our society. Using our names, likeness and religious symbols to excite the crowd does not feel like honor or respect, it is hurtful and confusing to our young people."
Colleges and universities subject to the new policy:
Alcorn State University (Braves)
Central Michigan University (Chippewas)
Catawba College (Indians)
Florida State University (Seminoles)
Midwestern State University (Indians)
University of Utah (Utes)
Indiana University-Pennsylvania (Indians)
Carthage College (Redmen)
Bradley University (Braves)
Arkansas State University (Indians)
Chowan College (Braves)
University of Illinois-Champaign (Illini)
University of Louisiana-Monroe (Indians)
McMurry University (Indians)
Mississippi College (Choctaws)
Newberry College (Indians)
University of North Dakota (Fighting Sioux)
Southeastern Oklahoma State University (Savages)
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aanikenz Wrote:The question is too: why haven't more people made their voices heard on this issue?
for me personally, it's just a symptom of a larger problem.. and so rather than spend valuable time attacking this one symptom, i'd rather work on attacking the root of the problem.
but perhaps someone could write a commentary on this for the liberator? you perhaps?
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No, I would decline that invitation. Sure, it is a symptom of a larger problem, and it doesn't sound like something that you personally are going to spend your valuable time on. Had I not posted it here... it wouldn't have even been a topic. That tells me that mascots are not something that make you uncomfortable. So, no. Let's end this discussion here.
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no, no, no. please don't get offended.
that wasn't my point.
what i'm saying is that me personally, i look for the roots of problems. even when dealing with my friends, i'm not a very emotional person. that's just my personality. very direct and straightforward. my good friend just passed away and i'm hurt, but i'm not one to linger on those feelings... i want to act to attack what i percieve to be the reason that my friend was murdered in the first place.
to me... i'm honestly disgusted by the fact that people actually defend this mascot. but the question i ask, is, why are they defending it?
what is it about them that makes them feel it's okay?
and once that "it" is identified, then i feel my job is to fight against that "it" rather than go to a protest about banning the mascot... (metaphorically speaking)
i feel like even if we did win the mascot battle, that the "it" would merely be manifested in a different way. so in that way you could say i am a more radical thinker.
it's like bono and U2 and the "live aid/8" thing... i'm not too interested in that... because i view it as them just putting a band aid on the situation.
to me what needs to happen is a shift in people's worldview and paradigms... i feel like if we spent more time promoting that, we could topple that "it" at its root...
i feel like the dr. john henrik clarke's and the w.e.b. dubois' of the world were on that path and that's the path that i should be on also.
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The importance of financial education in social and political landscape
Within the social and political landscape, it is indeed difficult to find any issue that garnered wide-ranging consensus. He has not even been possible, for example, on a problem as significant as that of global warming. This makes it so appealing for financial education that does seem to be unanimous creditor to more endorsements, about the need to increase among citizens of all countries. Not in vain, for years, quite in sight before the current global financial crisis has unfolded, first stealthily and then within an international crusade, a current generalized as such, under the impetus of bodies and international institutions like the OECD, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund or the European Commission, which are adding national public and private entities, in addition to individual specialists.
Why the trend that is perceived to be unstoppable at all latitudes? First, the existence of a diagnosis based on a large body of empirical evidence, which shows the insufficient level of awareness of population about the basic economic and financial issues. Thus, various studies indicate that in some countries, a high percentage of people know the real meaning of the concept of inflation, while many are unable to assess differences in cost, performance and conditions of financial operations offered in the market.
Moreover, if we ignore the evidence of Niall Ferguson, professor at Harvard University and author of the bestseller "Money and Power in the Modern World", who has stated that many students he has taught in the best Universities in the world, including MBA programs, did not know the difference between nominal interest rate and real interest rate, we should conclude that the problem would be far more serious than it appears. Furthermore, it is particularly disturbing fact that often overestimate their understanding of financial services to the extent that the European Commission has indicated that the first step is to sensitize those who 'do not know they do not know' financial affairs .
While the problem is international, in Spain the field was especially paid to the aggravation, under the traditional marginalization of studies of Economics at the primary and secondary education. Today, the educational system, inexplicably and in open contradiction with institutional statements that recognize its relevance in today's society, remains refractory to the economic and financial matters.
Financial education benefits individuals in all stages of life: children, making them understand the value of money and savings; youth, preparing them for the exercise of responsible citizenship, to adults, helping them plan decisions economic crucial as buying a home or preparing for retirement. It also helps to enable families to adjust their saving and investment decisions to their risk profile and needs, thereby promoting confidence and stability of the financial system. It also enhances the development of new products and quality services, competition and financial innovation.
A number of recent factors tend to increase the importance of financial education, such as the growing range and sophistication of financial markets and products, which increases the vulnerability of users or the greater responsibility of employees in the preparation stage retirement as a result of changes in social welfare schemes.
The European Parliament has highlighted three key aspects to be covered financial education: basic knowledge in finance, training to use these concepts for themselves and exercise proper financial accountability. In short, financial education should enable individuals to improve their understanding of financial products and concepts, and acquire the skills needed to improve its financier culture, i.e. to be aware of the risks and opportunities and to make informed decisions cause when choosing their financial services.
The challenge ahead is enormous and justifies the amount of effort that has begun to be deployed from various public and private initiatives. One of these is that, in a pioneering way, has been promoted from Malaga, through a tripartite project between Unicaja, International University of Andalusia and the University of Malaga, which has resulted in the development of an Internet portal (www.edufinet.com) and a series of complementary actions.
Precisely at a meeting recently discussed the alleged hostility of financial and economic knowledge as an explanatory causes difficulties for assimilation by the public. However, in my view, there is no inherent hostility, but it stems from a lack of familiarity with such concepts naturally and gradually from the early stages of the educational cycle. For years, Professor José Luis Sampedro, in the prologue to the Castilian edition of the Handbook of Economics Samuelson, he wrote that "the bachelor or middle school students and pre-university classrooms out of knowing, e.g., what is chalcopyrite, but without receiving the slightest information about what is a bank …"
Paraphrasing, remotely and with the utmost respect, a famous German dramatist, one could say that all knowledge is good and useful in themselves, many may become necessary for work, but some are for the lives of the citizens: those are the indispensable.
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Sara Paxton stars as just about the dorkiest, most lovable heroine a horror movie has ever had. Asthmatic, ambitionless, and adorable, she's working the last weekend at a small-town hotel, a kind of modest Overlook that's possibly haunted. She and her co-worker, a Simon Peggish Pat Healy, are amateur paranormal enthusiasts, hoping for one last ghostly encounter. West broke through in 2009 with The House of the Devil, a Satanic slasher that evoked, without wink or kitsch, the horror films of the late 1970s. Here, he explores a different subgenre: the haunted house (or haunted hotel) movie, often drawing on an 80s, Spielbergian charm.
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Suddenly a sign from heaven shows itself. Bryant Mckinnie is possibly being released from Baltimore? This being stated from numerous sources on the internet and even Mckinnies own twitter account? Is this the same tackle I wanted when he was cut from the Vikings? Sure is. So with the mess our line is in and this occurring so miraculously at the same time.... why the hell aren't we jumping all over this?
I love what Bidwill Jr. has done for this organization and I would say he's definitely different than his father. But how different is he really? Is he just as cheap but in a different way? We are way under our cap from what I understand and this is a perfect situation to improve our line significantly. We should be jumping all over this or watching it closely.
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