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PLEASANTON -- A Friday student protest of the Sochi Olympics rallied Foothill High School students opposed to Russian anti-gay discriminatory practices and laws.
A group of 21 members of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance and Amnesty International Club turned out for the silent lunchtime protest in the school's quad, where peaceful protesters carried signs supporting their position.
"One of the goals of the protest is to get people to boycott the closing ceremony" of the Olympics, Cori Hartwig, president of the alliance, said in an email.
Although its members did not ask for a boycott, the Amnesty International Club did take part to help raise awareness, said that group's coordinator, Sabrina Luk.
"We at Amnesty International do not support boycotting as a tactic. What we are trying to do is raise awareness and enforce human rights around the world," she said in an email.
Hartwig said another purpose of the event was to show what a "progressive and accepting community Pleasanton really is. Also, it shows that the students of our high school really care about our community, not just here, but the international community as well."
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Standing at death's door, the man called Logan decides to go out with a bang in Marvel's "Death of Wolverine" #2 by Charles Soule & Steve McNiven.
Charles Soule and Steve McNiven deliver a "well written, wonderfully drawn" debut issue for Marvel's "Death of Wolverine."
The beginning of the end is here as Charles Soule, Steve McNiven and Jay Leisten deliver the X-Men event of the decade in "Death of Wolverine" #1.
Marvel has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at Orlando Santiago's "Death of Wolverine" #3 variant cover.
Logan's last stand continues in Charles Soule and Steve McNiven's "Death of Wolverine" #2!
Wolverine and Reed Richards feature in an exclusive first look at Jay Leisten's inks on Steve McNiven's "Death of Wolverine" #1 pencils.
Retailers can celebrate "Death of Wolverine" with special kits featuring postcards, lithographs, a Deadpool-themed variant cover and more.
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The impending death of Marvel's most famous mutant was the topic for Charles Soule and company as a new Storm series from Greg Pak, "Deadpool Vs. X-Force" and the tease of an "Axis" event follow the death of Wolverine.
Charles Soule discusses his four-issue, weekly "Death of Wolverine," which finds the healing factorlless title character marked for death by a number of foes.
Charles Soule and Steve McNiven team to tell Logan's final story this September in "Death of Wolverine."
Check out an exclusive first look at Steve McNiven's variant for "Kick-Ass 3" #8, closing out Mark Millar & John Romita Jr.'s "Kick-Ass" trilogy.
Rick Remender discussed the aftermath of "Ragnarok Now" and how it impacts his upcoming "Uncanny Avengers" arc, "Avenge the Earth."
"Raganarok Now" reaches its conclusion on Feb. 26, and writer Rick Remender and Steve McNiven will kill a universe in "Uncanny Avengers" #17!
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The image by Steve McNiven released for the announcement of "Inhumanity" in July offers possible insight into Marvel's recent one-word teasers for All-New Marvel NOW! books.
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Marvel's "Uncanny Avengers" gets a new artist in November when Steve McNiven joins writer Rick Remender for the biggest, most violent arc the series has seen to date.
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Cabinet is in our great room/dining room. Love the fireplace and it is an additional heat source. We really like it. Our friends were surprised when we turned it on.
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This fireplace media console is beautiful. The delivery was quick. We had it in 6 days. The packaging was excellent and didn't allow for damages to the wood(one small mark and the paint pen filled it in nicely). It was very easy to put together and didn't take long at all. The console is a good quality, it is very sturdy and heavy. The fireplace is so pretty and gives off plenty of heat for our living room. The fireplace is super quiet too. You don't even know it is running because it is super quiet. This console looks rich and of high quality when all assembled. We are very pleased with our purchase and would recommend this product.
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The unit from order to complete setup was just 5 days and that included a week-end. Great service, and the delivery was perfect. The setup was easy and the product is absolutely beautiful.
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The product itself is attractive and functional. A few things to note however: 1) The finish does not look at all like the product photos. The photos look brown. The finish is truly espresso - it basically looks black (super dark brown).2) There is considerable assembly. Not a TON, but it won't be set up in 10 or 15 minutes. Took me about an hour or so. It was simple to assemble, just a little time consuming is all. I didn't realize from the product info that it came in pieces and that it is particle board. It looks nice enough, but I thought it was nicer quality when I ordered it.All of that being said, the fireplace is beautiful (we got the glass embers). And it does put out heat nicely. So it seems to work fine. It is also quiet (although you should know the fireplace doesn't really attach, it just sits in the cavity and I had to adjust it a little to avoid vibration sounds from the fan).
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Wolf Blitzer is "watching very closely" in Tampa, Florida tonight as he moderates a CNN/Tea Party debate between the remaining Republican presidential candidates. On the topic of healthcare, Blitzer asked Congressman Ron Paul what he'd do if an otherwise healthy 30-year-old man without health insurance needed six months of intensive care to survive: "Are you saying that society should just let him die?"
Paul's answer wasn't as simple as "Yes" or "No." But as you'll see in this video, the audience sure made its mind up quickly!


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Monday, Oct. 1, 2012
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's redrawn state house and congressional maps are being allowed to stand.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday summarily affirmed a federal court's ruling that South Carolina's new lines are fair and don't discriminate.
Six black voters sued, claiming the GOP-dominated state Legislature drew lines that segregate white and black voters into election districts and pack black voters into one congressional district. They called it "voting apartheid."
But a federal panel says plaintiffs provided no convincing evidence that legislators drew the lines to dilute the voting power of blacks.
An attorney for voters who sued and a spokesman for state House Speaker Bobby Harrell didn't immediately comment on the decision.
Redistricting is a once-a-decade process to ensure political district lines reflect population changes as shown by the U.S. Census.
(Copyright 2012, The Associated Press)


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ALAMO -- Visit the home of Louis and Neva Giorgi and the first thing you will notice are the exquisite, intricate grounds. Bonsai trees decorate a terrace; rock-lined miniature footpaths curve into tiny bridges; blooming native plants lead the eye to a sacred, central location, where an American flag billows in Mt. Diablo's breeze.
"You see my flag?" the 81-year-old, Italian-born patriarch asks. "Every immigrant should recognize that coming to America to stay is a privilege, not a right."
At the age of 17, although separated by an 11-year age difference, so not simultaneously, the Giorgis each immigrated without their parents to the U.S. from the tiny town of Lucca, Italy, 40 miles west of Florence. Louis spoke only three words of English ("I knew the essentials," he says, "chocolate, water, milk. It was four days on the train: I had to feed myself!") He lacked a high school diploma, but was told to bone up on English and enrolled at the University of San Francisco. Eventually, he completed medical school at Creighton University in Omaha, returning to San Francisco's Saint Mary's Medical Center for an internship in surgery and chief residency.
Neva, 10 years after Louis' arrival in the states, journeyed across sea and land to join her aunt and uncle in Tracy. Grateful to have escaped her family's poverty and to have passed the TB tests proving she wouldn't be a burden on the state of California, she attended private school in Stockton. She filed progress reports every three months, hoping to satisfy what she remembers as "President Eisenhower's law that achievers would be able to apply for citizenship."
And in a Hollywood tear jerker-worthy moment, the two Italian Americans -- having never crossed paths in Lucca -- found love at first sight 6,085 miles from their homeland on Jan. 27, 1961, over dinner at his aunt and uncle's house.
"What do I remember from that dinner?" Louis asks, gazing at his wife of 52 years and thinking back to a rushed meal between rounds at Saint Mary's. "I remember her, mostly."
Neva recalls how he helped wash and dry dishes.
"She liked my eyes," Louis boasts.
Ten months later, they married.
Living in Daly City, Neva suffered the cool climate while she and Louis built the private practice he began after five years at Saint Mary's. Back then, general practitioners could still perform surgery and Louis is proud, saying, "My patients were never sent to anybody without my being there. I was taught to look at the patient first, not at tests."
Meanwhile, Neva was the constant watchdog for her husband's thriving practice and ground zero for the family's five children. A friend induced them to move to Alamo; Neva supervised their home's construction and completed her long term educational goals.
"She was an engineer, designer, seamstress, teacher, chef -- and she's the one with a high school diploma," Louis boasts, finding humor in his own no-high-school-diploma-but-medical-degree status.
"I stayed current and grew with Louis," says Neva, now 70. "I set a high bar for the children; I was involved with the outside world and always made sure they knew to keep moving along."
Inside their home, Neva's magical, colorful touch is apparent everywhere. It's in the table's graceful basket of fruit, the hand-stitched art, the home's architecture -- and it's especially evident in the couple's children, three of whom sat along with their parents for an interview. Collectively, they represent a small but remarkable medical dynasty.
Louann Giorgi, 46, is a John Muir Medical Center critical care nurse recently honored with the center's Magnet Nurse of the Year award. And then there's Stephanie Julien, 41, a pediatric cardiac ICU nurse whose scientific mind thrives on the always-learning atmosphere. And Julie Ann Kluj, at age 49 the oldest, who decided as an eight-year old she wanted to become a pharmacist, lives in Pleasanton. San Ramon resident and Sutter Health Clinical Transformation Director Ann Marie Jiusto, 43, and Louis Jr., 45, a urologist in Carmichael, round out the medical quintet.
"My parents were driven; things needed a purpose," Louann says. "From poor backgrounds they made something of themselves. They were always a vessel of hope. They taught us things don't come to you. You fall down, you pick up and keep going."
Added Stephanie, "No matter what, the family is number one. We're not perfect; we're lucky to have each other."
And her parents have 16 grandchildren.
"It was a family affair," Louis says about his family's American empire.
And Neva adds, "He couldn't have done it alone and I couldn't have done it alone. We are a total package."


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Plans are moving forward to reduce the population of double-crested cormorants on Lake Champlain, birds thought to eat too many sport fish and destroy the wooded islands where they nest.
Federal and state wildlife officials from Vermont and New York met recently and agreed to set a target population for the nonnative sea birds on the lake that would not diminish the fish population.
Vermont Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Wayne Laroche told the Burlington Free Press he would like to reduce the number of cormorants from the present figure of 14,000 to 16,000 to about 3,300.
Vermont officials would also like to reduce the number of ring-billed gull nests on Young Island from 5,000 to 300.
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New Jersey Commits to Greatly Reducing its Greenhouse Gas Emissions
July 11, 2007
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed legislation on July 6th that commits the state to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, a reduction of roughly 20%. The legislation also commits to an 80% reduction in the state's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. New Jersey is already a participant in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which will cap emissions from power plants in the region at current levels through 2015, followed by a 10% reduction by 2019. The new legislation sets more aggressive goals and is not limited to the state's power plant emissions.
The devil is in the details, of course, and the job of working out those details rests with the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which will work with other state agencies and stakeholders to develop specific recommendations for meeting the greenhouse gas reduction goals. That evaluation will be done in conjunction with the state's pending Energy Master Plan, which will also incorporate the greenhouse gas reduction goals. The DEP is also tasked with developing an inventory of the state's greenhouse gas emissions for both 1990 and 2006 and creating a system for monitoring the state's current greenhouse gas emissions. And while most of the bill is not specifically focused on utilities, it does allow the Board of Public Utilities to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions and to require energy efficiency measures that reduce the use of natural gas and electricity by 20% by 2020. See the governor's press release and the text of the bill, A3301.


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Mark Potok, The Rise of Hate, the Radical Right, Violence and Extremism
Mark Potok is the editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center's investigative journal, The Intelligence Report and its Hatewatch blog. Both publish researched and nuanced resources that monitor hate and extremist groups.
Potok has also testified before the U.S. Senate and the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights. Before joining the Southern Poverty Law Center, he spent 20 years as a journalist covering transformative historical events such as the 1993 siege in Waco and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
He is interviewed by Dan Leshem, program manager of the Holocaust Denial on Trial web resource. For more information or for a transcription of this recording, please visit www.hdot.org.
This podcast is underwritten by the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.Q. [Leshem]
Could you please describe your background, and how you came to work in your current position as director of the Intelligence Report Journal of the Southern Poverty Law Center?A. [Potok]
I came to the Southern Poverty Law Center after about twenty years in newspaper journalism. I have covered to some extent the radical Right in the United States, but certainly not as a specialty for most of my career. However, in the last few years that I was a reporter I covered the confrontation in Waco, Texas in 1993, which really had the effect of kind of ticking off the militia movement. And I also covered right from the beginning the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, the Murrah Building. I actually arrived on April 19th while the building was still on fire. That for me in fact was really personally a moving experience. I had a very young son at the time so the murder of 19 children in the daycare center there was particularly affecting for me. So that, and a number of other things came together essentially to bring me to SPLC.Q. [Leshem]
And can you describe your current position there and the kinds of work you've done?A. [Potok]
Yes. What I do at Southern Poverty Law Center is I run something called our Intelligence Project, which is the department that monitors and investigates hate groups and extremism on the radical Right in general. A big part of the job is editing and publishing the Intelligence Report, which is an investigative journal.
But we do a number of other things in my department. We write occasional white paper types of reports, we have a blog that covers day to day the American radical Right, we also do things like train several thousand police officers and Federal agents every year in the areas in which we specialize. So that is the kind of work we do, and my job involvers a lot of interaction with the press, with the media, simply because there is so much interest in this area.Q. [Leshem]
I read that the Intelligence Report started out as a sort of status update on where the Klan was finding strength and where they were gathering, as sort of an aid to police officers who were over stretched and couldn't do that sort of investigating on their own necessarily. So how and to what extent has the Intelligence Report moved from being aimed at police officers to being aimed at, I mean to what audience do you feel like it has now, and what purpose beyond simply helping to enforce the law does it have?A. [Potok]
When we began publishing the Intelligence Report it was actually called the Klan Watch Intelligence Report in 1981. It went essentially to several hundred police officers mainly in the South, and it mainly contained news about what was then the resurgent Klan, the Klan of David Duke and some others. It really was a very simple publication which boiled down to a list of crimes and rallies and other activities by Klansmen.
In the years since then the magazine has broadened out very dramatically. We cover essentially the entire radical Right, whole sectors we never wrote about in the past, you know, the Confederate movement, the Holocaust Denial movement, radical Catholics, all kinds of things, anti-abortion extremists, and so on. We also cover the anti-government Patriot movement and the associated militias. Our purpose in publishing this magazine is to inform not only law enforcement but also Human Rights activists, reporters both in broadcast media and in print media, and really all other people who have a reason to study or be concerned directly about the growth in hate groups and hate group ideologies.
A part of our idea in publishing this journal is simply that people are better informed, or are in a better position to deal with the manifestations of this movement. Another piece of it though, I should say candidly, is that often we will publish material that has the effect of actually destroying these groups. It has happened on more than one occasion that we discover, for instance, that the leader of a particular Neo-Nazi group is secretly Jewish, or the leader of a particular Klan group secretly has a Black girlfriend, or is gay, or something along those lines. And as unpleasant as it might sound making those things public actually can have the effect of completely and utterly destroying these groups and very much hurting the radical Right.
So the magazine, while it employs the techniques and really mores and ethics of straight ahead journalism, is used in the service of something else really ‐ an attempt we're making both to inform people about the radical Right but also to suppress its more ugly manifestations.Q. [Leshem]
From what I understand the Southern Poverty Law Center started basically as a legal organization trying to sue to stop the spread of hate-prejudiced violence, but it sounds in your description of the sort of mission of the Intelligence Report that it's not necessarily just about lawsuits any more. How would you describe, sort of, then the new primary focus? What does it all add up to?A. [Potok]
Well, when the Southern Poverty Law Center was started in 1971 it really was a kind of classic Civil Rights organization, although it was very much focused on legal avenues. It was started by a couple of white lawyers in Montgomery, Alabama and we pursued cases having to do with voter dilution, having to do with the involuntary sterilization of certain mentally retarded Black girls, we sued the state of Alabama for maintaining an all-White State Trooper force, that kind of thing.
But the Center fairly quickly branched out into other kinds of Human Rights issues. We did a great deal of work, for instance, on the defense of death penalty cases. This because the death penalty was so much marred by its unequal application in terms of White and Black. We have continued to move outward really in more and more directions. Today in our legal department we focus a great deal on the rights of immigrants and kids, children who are caught in the juvenile justice system, kids who are put in prison of one type or another as well as some other areas. Our efforts are more broadly focused than they were in the past. It used to be that we were an organization that relied essentially on lawsuits, and our lawsuits against hate groups are really what made place probably better known that any other thing we did.
But we have a lot of other efforts going now. We have since the 1980s had for instance a teaching tolerance program, which is all about putting materials into K through 12 classes around the country that we hope will prevent the growth of future hate groups and hate in general. In addition in my own department, the Intelligence Project, we are very much about trying to essentially expose and end expressions of hatred in the mainstream, coming from politicians and news commentators and so on. We think that's a very important aspect of the way radical Right Wing propaganda is making its way into the larger society.Q. [Leshem]
I take it that there is something about, in terms of your selection of which groups you're going to focus on and target, that there's something that they share in common. Is it fair to discuss hate groups as a group in order to sort of get at, for instance, what their motivations are? I mean are those sort of in common amongst all these different hate groups you monitor?A. [Potok]
Well, I would express our work in this way ‐ almost everything we do in some way relates to the 14th Amendment. The idea that citizens of this country deserve equal justice no matter who they are, no matter what they look like, where they came from, what god they worship, what color their skin is. And I'm sorry, repeat the question. I've quite forgotten the bulk of it.Q. [Leshem]
Is there something that in your approach to trying to stop these groups or to expose them, do you find that they share certain commonalities, certain traits that you could analyze them as a group?A. [Potok]
Yes. In describing the groups we really look at I would say the following. Hate groups essentially we define as groups that in their platform statements, in their websites, in the speeches or writings of their leaders, say that an entire group of human beings is somehow less. All White people are blue-eyed devils, all Black people are criminals, all the Jews are whatever it may be. So it's those kinds of characterizations, characterizations that do not allow for an individual to be different but instead to be somehow damned by his or her membership in a particular group ‐ that's really what our focus is.
Now we also look at other kinds of groups on the radical Right in the United States ‐ anti-government hatred groups, so called, are not as a general matter animated by racial or ethnic or religious hatred. However they are very much a part of the extreme Right. They are consumed with conspiracy theories that have always been on the Right, often times that began as anti-Semitic or racist conspiracy theories. They believe, in the case of the Patriots, that the government is an evil entity, that it has secret plans to impose martial law in this country to force Americans into a so-called New World Order, and so on.
You know, it seems to me the commonality is that these are all groups that basically share very particular views of the government. The hate groups, just as much as the Patriot groups, despise the government, see it as an enemy of the people, as an enemy of their quote/unquote 'freedoms' and so on. We also see a lot of movement between the various sectors of the radical Right. So for instance we may be following a particular individual who's a leader in the Patriot world who believes the government's up to no good, has secret plans for a New World Order, and it's very frequent to see that person move over into a more explicitly White Supremacist or anti-Semitic group.Q. [Leshem]
What do you think, other than sort of world domination, what do you think success looks like for these groups? What is their main aim, and what makes them feel good about themselves? I mean are they trying to create clones or are they all trying to just add more members, and to what end?A. [Potok]
Well, I think that varies from group to group. Some of the Klan groups in particular are really just opportunistic little setups to fund the leaders. I mean, very often Klan leaders are people who don't have a job, and who basically are living off the dues of their members. However I don't think that's a fair description of the large majority of these groups which really do angrily seek to end a world which is becoming less and less White around them. I think that these groups would by and large dearly love to see the United States become an all White country, or at least a very much White-dominated country.
Of course the truth is they have completely and utterly lost that battle already. Even if we were to end immigration absolutely today this country will still lose its White majority simply as a matter of differential fertility rates, in particular between Whites and Latinos. So I think that what these groups are seeking, you know, they are really incredibly angry and desperate, because I think they know in their heart of hearts that they have lost, that there is no turning back the sands of time, the march of multiculturalism, of globalization and diversity, and so on.
Nevertheless they come up with theses schemes and this has been going on for some thirty years now. For instance many of the groups pursue what they call the Northwest Imperative ‐ the idea that the only salvation for White people in the United States is to carve a kind of country out of the Pacific Northwest, which of course is the Whitest part of the United States still today, and make this a country only for White people. And so their more elaborate schemes. They actually have maps in which they imagine a future dividing up of the United States. It's a whole series of country ‐ you know, sort of give New York to the Jews, and give south Florida to the Cubans, and it goes on and on from there ‐ give the Southwest to people who are Latino, but they ultimately revolve around the idea of creating a White homeland.Q. [Leshem]
How do these groups recruit? I mean, who do they target? What kind of, I guess, carrots... what are they offering?A. [Potok]
Well, they recruit in different ways. I think it is worth saying that a great many of the young people who come to these groups do not come in on the basis of ideology. In other words probably something like half of the young people who come into hate groups don't come in because they have a preexisting hatred of Black people or Jewish people or brown people or of gay people, or of whatever it may be. Quite the contrary; these are very often people who are simply lonely, whose own families are dysfunctional in some very serious way. So it's a phenomenon very much like we see in other kinds of street gangs, that these are young people in many cases who are simply kind of creating an alternative family, a family on the street that seems more warm and welcoming than their own.
So the world, for instance, of racist skinheads can be a very appealing one to young alienated White kids because it's not merely a world in which people stand around and say, you know, "We need to kill the Jews in order to make the world a better place." There's a whole subculture that comes with the world of skinheads, and that involves music, it typically involves drugs, it involves girlfriends, and it involves a whole subculture, a whole kind of weird culture in which the leaders sit around and tell the kids, you know, "You're right. Your parents really are idiots. They actually believe that the Holocaust occurred," that kind of thing. So that I think describes one kind of kid that comes into this world.
Especially with older people, those who are attracted to this world do tend to have preexisting hatred. If you look at adults going into Klan groups, for instance, or Neo-Nazi groups, they very typically are people who are very angry over some experience they've had or they have come to decide through things they've been reading that Black people, or Jewish people, or whoever it might be, are responsible for all the ills of the world.
In addition to what we've talked about these groups use sometimes very specific techniques to reach very specific kind of sectors of the population. Probably the single most effective outreach that the groups use to get kids, to get youth into their organizations, is White power music, which has grown from being tiny cottage industry some fifteen/twenty years ago to in fact being a multi-million dollar international industry today. The music is very often, for White kids who get into this world, the first taste of it they have. You know, after they've listened to some of this music, the lyrics of which are quite unbelievable and wouldn't be printed in any family newspaper ‐ after they've listened to that time after time after time, very often they get more and more interested in the world from which that music is coming, and ultimately make their way to an actual skinhead concert, a live concert. And there they come into contact with people like them. As I said earlier they come in contact with the world, with girls, and drugs, and people who are very affirming to them, so that can be very attractive.
Finally I'd say that some groups have experimented with things like video games and other kinds of games, particularly online games with the idea that this would bring kids into their groups. I think it's been dramatically unsuccessful. Nevertheless they continue to make these kinds of efforts.Q. [Leshem]
Are there any emerging trends that you find especially troublesome and unsettling?A. [Potok]
Well yeah, things are going in a very bad direction and they have been for some time now. We have seen over the last 10 years or so this steady if relatively slow increase in the number of hate groups to the point where we have seen something like 55% growth in these groups since the year 2000. What is particularly scary is that in the last 2 years specifically ‐ really since Barak Obama was nominated in 2008 as the Democratic candidate for president ‐ a real explosion in all kinds of groups on the radical right. We've seen significant growth on the part of hate groups. We've seen a very rapid growth ‐ something like 80% in one year ‐ of the groups that make up the extreme anti-immigration right. Then we have seen a veritable explosion, an almost 250% expansion in the number of anti-government patriot groups or militia groups.
So, all of that together tells us that something very significant is going on. I think that what's really happening is that we are living through a backlash that is associated with a number of t hings, but in particular with the election of Barak Obama, the first black president. I think for a great many Americans ‐ hundreds of thousands of people ‐ Obama's election represents something that really is going on in this country: namely, a major demographic change. Both thanks to immigration and fertility rates, this country is becoming less white every day, and that has very much driven some people to distraction. When they saw Obama nominated and then ultimately elected, there was a real backlash. You may remember that we saw all kinds of botched plots to assassinate Obama, two skinhead plots: A man in Maine who was found to be building a dirty bomb, a radioactive bomb, set to go off at Obama's inauguration, and any number of other cases. All of these things reflect a real anger out there, and I think perhaps even more a king of real fear and frustration. In any event, that really is the worry.
Beyond that, I would say that what is particularly worrying ‐ beyond the very rapid growth of these groups on the right ‐ is the role that ostensibly "mainstream" politicians and cable media pundits and "personalities" have had in pushing into the mainstream demonizing propaganda and conspiracy theories. It is one thing when you have a group like the Aryan Nations out there at the fringe of the fringe of the fringe saying "in order to make the world right we need to kill the Jews" or carry out some other drastic action. It is quite another when we hear Michelle Bachman, a congresswoman from Minnesota saying that Barak Obama is secretly setting up political re-education camps. Or when we hear Glenn Beck, a commentator on Fox News, talking about the possibility that FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is secretly running a string of concentration camps in this country. Or when we hear Tom Tancredo, the former republican congressman from Colorado talking about how Mexico has a secret plan to invade and reconquer the American southwest.
Those are the things that I find frightening because the sad reality is that tens of thousands, in not hundreds of thousands or even more, Americans who hear these completely false allegations actually believe them; whereas not many people really listen to what the Aryan Nations have to say as far as prescriptions for setting our society right. Sad to say though that there are millions of people who do listen to leading politicians and media commentators who have played a really awful role, in many cases, of essentially aiding and abetting the narratives of the extreme right.Q. [Leshem]
It seems to me that when one thinks of conspiracies he will think of the "lone shooter" theory of the Kennedy assassination or the "faked" moon landing. Yet, the kinds of conspiracies you are describing, such as believing that president Barak Obama is not a citizen of this country or that Mexican nationalists are trying to take back Texas are different kinds of conspiracy theories. That is, they are in the service of a different goal. How do you understand that relationship between conspiracy and ideology?A. [Potok]
The conspiracies that emerge from the American radical right ‐ and really they animate the radical right here ‐ are conspiracies that have the effect of demonizing very particular enemies. So many of the groups that we cover believe that Mexico, which is to say "people with dark skin" are conspiring to invade our country, carry off our daughters and turn American culture into something looking more like Mexico or central America. They engage in conspiracy theories that paint the federal government, or a cabal within the government as evildoers.
This kind of conspiracy theorizing has the effect, of course, of isolating these federal officials and law enforcement as somehow being "jackbooted thugs" in the service of some imperial government that doesn't care a damn about the freedom of Americans, and the list goes on. This goes all the way back to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It is propaganda that identifies a very particular group as the group which is behind the evils of society and then eggs people on to attack or to marginalize that group. So I think that conspiracy theories play a very important role in America's radical right.
They help to focus people's hatred on very particular objects, and the sad reality is that these kinds of words have consequences. Lou Dobs, who for many years had a show on CNN in which he routinely demonized Latino immigrants with complete falsehoods, I would argue helped to raise the anti-Latino hate crime rate by some 40% between the years 2003-2007. During that period Dobs was routinely broadcasting falsehoods like the idea that "criminally illegal aliens" fill 1/3 of American prison cells, or the allegation, again false, that immigrants were somehow related to a supposed rash of leprosy cases, a rash which never occurred, and the list goes on. It was precisely in the period when Dobbs was saying these things that we saw an uptick in anti-Latino hate crime, and that is the ultimate consequence of these kinds of theories.Q. [Leshem]
It seems obvious that the SPLC can go after a hate group for specific damages when they have property, but how does the SPLC combat groups spreading more subtle forms of hate speech such as Lou Dobbs' broadcasts or conspiracy spreading congressmen whose words have real world implications.A. [Potok]
Well it is a good question: how does one go after people who are not imperial wizards of the Ku Klux Klan or neo Nazis, but are having incredibly damaging impacts on our society. I think the real answer is to "name and shame" them. The SPLC spent several years, at first talking very nicely to Lou Dobbs in order to convince him to stick to the fact regardless of his personal opinion on immigration and border enforcement. Ultimately, we went public and became more and more critical as Dobbs became more extreme. In the end, in the summer of 2009, Lou Dobbs crossed a Rubicon of sorts when we suggested that Barak Obama needed to show his birth certificate in order to prove his American citizenship. In other words, Dobbs threw in with the so-called "birthers."
At that point, the Southern Poverty Law Center called for the first time for Dobbs to be fired from CNN. Our position was that this man is obviously incapable of even attempting to tell the truth. He can't be controlled, and if CNN wants to hold on to any type of reputation as a reputable provider of news, aught to get rid of him. After we made that call several other human rights organizations and immigrant rights organizations threw in as well. Ultimately CNN was forced, at the cost of $8 million, to get rid of him. I think that was a very effective campaign. Getting Lou Dobbs kicked off of CNN did not cure all the ills of the world but it was a demonstration case. Our thinking was that it is important for people in positions of responsibility or authority on a news desk at major television and cable stations to be held to a standard: Truth.
At the same time you plan a difficult game when you run these types of campaigns: We are very much in favor, as an organization, of the first amendment. We will not seek in any way to suppress people's free speech rights. That said though, Lou Dobbs absolutely does not have any particular "rights" to report on CNN. That is very much a privilege that is afforded to him by the people that actually own and run CNN. What I'm trying to say is that we attempt very much to get people in the mainstream, who are quite plausibly doing more damage than people in any of the hate groups, to be responsible for their words.Q. [Leshem]
These conspiracy trends you notice are similar to the developments in the world of online Holocaust denial where deniers constantly shift their methods and their arguments to suite the ever younger and more naïve audiences by appealing to the rebelliousness of adolescence. Do you see a similarity between these ideological messaging trends?A. [Potok]
I think it is absolutely true that people on the radical right do try to appeal to adolescents as adolescents and that they do try to play on the themes that any kid who is 16-18 is essentially interested in. So, I think that the most successful recruiting really does play on kids' rebelliousness: the idea that every kid has when that his or her parents are fools who are completely wrong about certain things, or at best are squares who are unable to understand real free speech or real liberty. I also think it's true that conspiracy theories are particularly appealing to people who are young or relatively uneducated or at least unwilling to think for very long about anything at all. At the end of day, conspiracy theories translate a very complicated world ‐ one that is colored by many shades of gray ‐ into a very black and white thing: "All would be going well with the world if not for the Bilderbergers or the Council on Foreign Relations, if not for black people, if not for the Jews..." or whatever it may be.Q. [Leshem]
How do we prepare adolescents to recognize and combat this type of messaging? Are there certain tools? In the non-online world it can be much easier to identify the books, magazines and ideas of hate groups by their context and appearance as well as by their content. The online world has made this type of distinction much more difficult. How is a teenager, or one naïve in regards to the matter at hand, distinguish between hate speech, bias, or something more benign?A. [Potok]
I think that ultimately the answer is to teach them critical thinking. In a way, that is a very easy answer; obviously if everyone in this country were a sophisticated critical thinker these problems, these groups would essentially go away. However, we are living in a world in which we no longer have a shared base of commonly accepted knowledge. There was a time when virtually everyone in America watched the same network news and read the same news magazines and newspapers every week. That is absolutely not the case anymore. We have seen the traditional media essentially collapse over the last few years. We have seen cable TV, along with radio, go into niche markets essentially: you have your Fox News for conservatives and your MSNBC for liberals and so on. Then, of course, you have a billion blogs out there with opinions that may or may not be based on facts but very often are not.
So, it is a very tough question to answer. I think the very best thing people can do is try to educate their children to learn to think. That sometimes implies things which may be a little surprising to parents. I have always felt that it is far to better to take one's son or daughter on a tour of hate sites on the internet than it is to forbid them from ever visiting those sites. While this may be a poor analogy, I would compare it at least in some ways to one's attitude towards a teenaged son reading Playboy magazine. As a parent you can spend all your time rooting around under your kids bed or in the closet to see if he's keeping these magazines in his closet. Alternatively, one can essentially model respectful behavior towards women, in particular your wife, the kid's mother in order to say something about respect, in order to teach the kid that women are not objects and so on.
In a similar way, I think that it is very helpful at a certain age, to take your son or daughter on a tour of a Holocaust denial site because those sites provide a very good catalyst for an interesting conversation with your child about the fact that the Holocaust really did occur and about the fact that there are people out there that really want to deny it and about the reasons that they are trying to deny it. I think the answer is complicated, labor intensive, but it is something that we all, particularly as parents, really need to do.Q. [Leshem]
Another benefit to having that conversation with your child is that it can provide an answer to the most common question I get from young people on the site, namely "now that I know about the deniers and their motivations, what can I do to confront them?" What can youngsters do?A. [Potok]
I don't know what a 15 year old kid can do to end Holocaust denial in this world, but I do know what a 15 year old can do to end bullying in his or her school: That essentially is to stand up for the victims of bullying. At the end of the day, bullying is precisely the kind of activity that later becomes, or looks very similar, to the actions of hate groups and Holocaust deniers. It is a kind of trying to push around and impose your power on other people. I think that kinds, particularly young kids, do need to look around and evaluate their environment, where they live, where future generations are growing up and where they can do the most good. Of course, at the same time, I don't think it is a bad thing for some of the older kids, from time to time to try to argue with these people; after all, not all of these people on the right argue that the Holocaust didn't occur. But there are other kinds of arguments which are perhaps a bit more subtle in which kids can engage. I do think that having these kinds of interactions, even it is via a chat room or email (ie. not face to face) can help improve critical thinking skills, so I think there is something important to be said on behalf of making arguments in chat rooms and so on.Q. [Leshem]
Finally, for our listeners, are their any sections of your website that you would like to highlight?A. [Potok]
The website has been recently redesigned and is very easy to search and find things, so I would urge people to take a look at the front page of the site at www.splcenter.org. For those people who are particularly interested, as I am, in the radical right, the extreme right in this country, they might want to go directly to intelligencereport.org. There they will find 14 years worth of archives of serious investigative work looking at these groups in the U.S. I think there is a great deal of interesting material there. We also have on the website a section called "Intelligence Files" that is a large series of profiles of some of the major hate group leaders and groups out there in this country, which I think will be very interesting to people.Q. [Leshem]
Thank you so much for your time and insights into these complex questions.A. [Potok]
My pleasure. Thanks for having me.


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Stocks Jump; Fiscal Cliff Talks 'Very Constructive'
When it comes to fiscal cliff chatter, it doesn't take much to move the market these days.
Stocks are jumping after policy leaders on both sides of the aisle offer somewhat optimistic remarks following a more than hourlong meeting with President Barack Obama regarding the fiscal cliff.
The Dow recently rose 32 points, or 0.2%, to 12561, after trading in negative territory for much of the morning. The S&P 500 is up 0.3% to 1357. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Comp is up 0.2% to 2841.
UPDATE: Shares of Apple have turned around after earlier hitting their lowest level since late February.
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) called the chat "very constructive." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said added revenue is on the table as long as it's coupled with cuts. From WSJ:
"We fully understand you cannot save the country until you have entitlement programs that fit the demographics of a changing America," said Mr. McConnell. "We are prepared to put revenues on the table provided we fix the real problem."
After the meeting, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D,. Nev.) said there were no "harsh words" exchanged during the gathering, a notably different tone than when the same leaders met in the summer of 2011 and clashed repeatedly during a debate about the nation's borrowing limit.
"This isn't something we're going to wait until the last day of December to get it done," Mr. Reid said. "We have a plan, we're going to move forward on it."
Overall, politicians said the gathering was constructive and emphasized how important it is to come together to reach some sort of compromise. Details were short, of course, but even hints of a potential accord have pushed the market into positive territory.
Here's more from our colleague Bradley Davis:
Capital Economics' John Higgins says there are "encouraging noises emanating from Washington." Of course, a deal isn't signed, sealed and delivered, but it looks more likely that a fall off the cliff will be averted, Higgins contends. Good news, right? But wait, there's this: While "any successful compromise could provide some relief, we would not expect any rally to last given the ongoing sluggishness of the domestic economy and a probable re-escalation of the crisis in the euro-zone soon," Higgins warns.
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Josephine D. Dotey, 87, of Stroudsburg, died Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Whitestone Health Care Center, Stroudsburg. She was the widow of Lorren A. Dotey, who died in 1981. Born in Stroudsburg, she was the daughter of the late Garfield and Beatrice Drake.
Josephine was a lifelong resident of the Stroudsburg area and was a member of Zion United Church of Christ of Stroudsburg. In her early years, she worked at the Stroudsburg Granite Co. and then as a secretary at Dr. Fagler's office for several years. Josephine then worked at the Pocono Hobby & Craft Shop and later at the Hatching House Shop of Stroudsburg. Her last employment was for the CareerLink of Monroe County, retiring in 1995.
Josephine is survived by a daughter, Bonnie White and her husband, Bill, of Stroudsburg; two grandchildren, William P. White and his wife, Christine, and Irene (Rene) Bongiovanni and her husband, Stephen; and two great-grandchildren, Austin and Alec.
Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the services Saturday, July 20, at Joseph J. Pula Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 23 N. Ninth St., Stroudsburg.
Funeral services will be held at the funeral home, with the Rev. William E. Ramsden officiating. Burial will be at Stroudsburg Cemetery Stroudsburg.
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The 2nd Half Jitters.. WBA
Knew this game was always going to be tough and tightly contested, regardless of WBA's form of late. I believe it was Spurs last for them? They gave whoever it was a hell of a time on the road, and took a miraculous comeback from Reading w/ 3 late goals to lose a shocker..
West Brom are like Stoke to me on the schedule, I genuinely detest seeing/playing them.
This said, I think for the most part, we've been absolutely the far better side, and unlucky w/ Agger missing 2 headers. I think the biggest difference can be seen by the lack of Sturridge, and it's amazing to see how important and big of a player he'd become for us. Several low crosses and balls in the box with nobody to get on the end of them..
Suarez is drifting all over the place, and hasn't really featured centrally in a few weeks now, so I'd think Shelvey would have to be the first to make way for Sterling, or maybe Coutinho to get natural width/creativity on each side..
While in our last 3 home games, we've won 12-0, the issues the past sesasons have been the longer we don't score, especially into the 2nd half, we get nervous and often concede a silly goal from a mistake, or counter.
I am concerned if we go down 0-1, we start to press and get caught, like that disastrous Aston Villa match.
Hoping for a 2nd half goal fest (or a 1-0 will do). 3 points are 3 points, don't care who or how!
BTW, Robbie Fowler looks like he put just a "wee" bit of weight... Ahhh Robbie!!Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
I am not sure changing a manager will help.
Somehow, the players just do not have a mean streak in them. It is in the collective psyche of the players.
A team who comes back often from a goal down will believe it can be done. One who does not, start to doubt themselves when they go behind. It is a vicious cycle. The longer it goes on, the greater the doubt.
How many times did we come from behind to win a game? Maybe once this year, against WHU.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Feb 12, 2013 06:57 Flag
Soh it was obvious several months ago how things were gonna pan out. Rodgers simply should be sacked and FSG need to get in a manager who knows what to do in order to make us great again.. Rodgers is only gonna make LFC a mediocre team.
So he needs sacking by the end of the season I hope FSG are lining up candidates for our long term success!!
arnoldlayne arnoldlayne Feb 12, 2013 01:44 Flag
I am beginning to see Rodgers losing the plot. A rant for the Oldham loss, praise for 2 draws (both we should have won, 2-0 up in one!) and now praise for a 0-2 home defeat against a side with no clean sheet in 29 games (since Liverpool!). Rodgers says it was 'one of those days', I guess like Villa, Stoke, WBA, and a number of others. This mentality was evident under Rafa. It always seemed to be 'well we gave them a good game even though we lost'. And how can he say he wants top 4 but then accepts a result like tonight? And how does Shelvey, Henderson, Downing and Borini get to put on that RED shirt, a real insult I think!
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LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Feb 12, 2013 06:53 Flag
Most of the squad aren't fit to wear the shirt.. They'd only be good enough to clean the boots of our heroes in the 70's & 80's..
Thzts why we suck cos our players simply shouldn't be here.
Only Suarez is the ONLY good player we have. The rest should be sold and we need to start over.
I notice that every time the players and manager go on record and talk up our chances of top 4, or when we were expected to win easily, we will slip up. Very frustrating. It is almost up the team cannot live up to its own expectation or that the favourite tag is too heavy around the neck.
Sigh. Look forward to next season. This one is done.
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Feb 11, 2013 21:50 Flag
Rodgers has to go.. We're shockinglly bad !!
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I said we´d lose this a week ago. We were due on of those awful backward steps and here it was.
21 attempts at goal v 3 by WBA says it all. We couldn´t score to save our lives never mind get three points.
That´s fourth definitely gone and seventh looking likely only if we promptly halt this latest rot.
Enrique was generally terrible, Johnson not on song, Gerrard wayward, Suarez all over the place and ineffective etc etc. At times we looked like we were just not interested.
I reckon we could have had 40 shots and Foster would have saved ten of them. We just can´t score against him. Pepe? Well just about average bar one good fingertip save.
Pathetic performance and please....no excuses please Brendan. Just do something about it!!
Anyone But United Anyone But United Feb 11, 2013 21:42 Flag
You could just see that WBA goal coming couldn't you?
Story of our feckin lives. 20 shots to nil, missed penalty, straight up the other end - goal.
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Get rid of that idiotic manager. Total waste of space


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VAIL, Colorado - This year's annual meeting of the Vail Homeowners Association started with a look back before looking ahead.
The group is made up primarily of second-home owners. Some spend a lot of time here; others just a little, but most are in town over the Christmas holidays. The association's annual meeting has become a way to update members about what's gone on in town and what may happen in the near future.
This year, the meeting started with Vail Resorts senior vice president and chief operating officer of Vail Mountain Chris Jarnot showing the trailer for the "Spirit of Vail" movie that captures the history of the resort's founding and its first 50 years. That short bit of video informed much of the meeting, as did some remarks by Rod Slifer, who came to the fledgling ski area in May of 1962.
"What an enormous risk (the founders) took, to look at this mountain and say 'I want people to live here, to ski here,'" association president Gail Ellis said. "When I first started coming here, a trip to Minturn felt like you needed to pack a lunch. Now we go all the way to Eagle for a trip to Costco."
While the risk-taking of Vail's first residents came up often during Thursday's meeting, there were also the usual presentations about what's happening in town and on the mountain today.
Vail Mayor Andy Daly gave a quick rundown of the town's accomplishments and its financial situation. Daly took particular pride in noting the town will be debt-free in a matter of days, retiring the bonds that paid for the Vail Village parking structure.
Jarnot explained Vail's "Epic Discovery" summer program. The work will start in the spring on the first phases of the project, mostly around Adventure Ridge on Vail Mountain. Jarnot talked about plans for zip lines, hiking and bike trails, and the "forest flyers" the company plans to build on the mountain.
Some residents asked if the company would separate hiking and biking trails. Jarnot replied that's in the plans.
Looking to the future, Jarnot said "I can't look that far ahead." Slifer said essentially the same thing.
That said, Alex Iskenderian, president of Vail Resorts Development Co., said the town and resort company need to keep looking ahead, especially regarding the proposed Ever Vail project between Lionshead and Cascade Village.
"We need to be forward thinking and innovative," Iskenderian said. "(Ever Vail) is a blueprint for taking Vail to the next level."
Jarnot said he and others in Vail can use the town and resort's history to guide that future. Ellis agreed.
"In the next 50 years what we'd like to promote is that we really can move forward if we take the spirit that started (Vail)," Ellis said. "They had to really, really work hard. If we pledge to do that, to really talk to each other, to identify problems before they become big, contentious issues, we can move forward faster."
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ATLANTA -- If the beginning was stunning and mystifying in its inefficiency, the end was no less striking in its magnificence.
The 49ers all afternoon had played from behind, trailing Atlanta from the opening minutes, the deficit growing as high 17 points. Their offense couldn't get anything, and, shockingly, their defense was giving up everything.
So when the 49ers finally fought back to take a lead midway through the fourth quarter Sunday, putting the Super Bowl on the horizon, a simple question hung in the air:
Can this defense, torched early and so often during this NFC Championship game, summon the grit and skill to send the Falcons into the offseason?
The answer was emphatic. San Francisco is going to its sixth Super Bowl because its defense, its steadiest unit the past two seasons, recovered from a dreadful first half to secure and deliver a 28-24 victory over the Falcons.
The 49ers defense made two plays in the red zone over the final 78 seconds to allow their fans to exhale and bury the pesky and talented Falcons before 70,863 roaring fans at the Georgia Dome.
"I was telling the defense throughout the game that this game is going to come through us, and that we're going to have to win this," safety Dashon Goldson said. "We started slow, but it was going to have to come through us."
After Frank Gore's 9-yard touchdown put the 49ers up with 8:23 remaining, Atlanta took possession 80 yards away from the end zone. The Falcons gained 64 yards, 22 of which came on a challenged pass catch, to reach the San Francisco 16 with 2:23 left.
They gained 1 yard on a run and 5 on a pass, with linebacker Patrick Willis making both tackles. But the Falcons went no further than the 10, as Ahmad Brooks batted down a Matt Ryan pass on third down and NaVorro Bowman broke up a fourth-down pass to lock things up.
"It was just good team defense," Goldson said. "We started seeing formations and communicating amongst each other. When we do that, when we're on the same page, it's hard to beat us."
This was sweet redemption for the members of the defense after a forgettable first half, when they too often watched helplessly as Ryan fired perfect passes over and past them. Rarely was he under pressure, and his receivers, particularly wideout Julio Jones, treated San Francisco's defense like padded scarecrows.
It was ugly and it looked grim for the 49ers defense. The rock of this team was, on the scoreboard and by the eye test, on the brink of despair.
And then it recovered spectacularly to shut out the Falcons after halftime.
"Over the last two years, our short history of being together, we never blink," safety Donte Whitner said. "When things go bad out there -- we give up a touchdown or blow a coverage or miss a tackle -- we never blink because we know we can fix it. We know who we are. We know the capabilities of these guys in this locker room."
The unit responded to the urgings and scheming of defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, who made a few subtle coverage changes and found ways to put more pressure on Ryan.
Ryan's first half: 18 of 24, for 271 yards and three touchdowns. His second half: 12 of 18, for 125 yards, no touchdowns and two turnovers, a fumble and an interception.
"This is the defense you want to have, because no matter what kind of adversity there is, no matter what happens, we're going to step up to the task," Bowman said.
The 49ers had turned an unsightly first half into a display of gloriously imperfect, winning football.
"Things are not always going to be perfect," said Willis, who made a game-high 11 tackles. "People have their expectations, and we have expectations of ourselves. We want to go out there and, on every series, not give up anything. Or on every series, take it away. But you have to understand that without the ups, you don't have any downs. Without the good, you don't have any bad. What makes it that much more amazing is when you go through adversity and you're able to go out on top.
"It was tough. It was a fight. It was one of those games people will talk about."
People will talk about this game because it was highly entertaining, highly competitive, and the weaknesses of both teams were impossible to hide. The Niners couldn't cover the Atlanta receivers, none of them, and their pass rush was barely a rumor. And the Falcons, true to their history, could not finish.
People will talk about this game because both quarterbacks shined, because it decided the NFC representative for the Super Bowl and because, yes, San Francisco's defense, after a sorry first half, with its back to the end zone in the final minutes, went from suspect to respect.
"We knew it was going to come down to us getting a stop on defense," Whitner said. "And we went out there and got a stop."
Had to, if they were to continue pursuing the franchise's sixth Lombardi Trophy.
The defense that has been as good as any in the league the past two seasons gave up 477 yards, 396 through the air. It allowed 27 first downs and an average of 7.2 yards per play.
It did not, however, allow the Falcons to finish with an end zone celebration.
And being better at the end is one sign of a team with the heart of a champion.
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- 49ers' Kaepernick says his game plays well in any venue
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- 49ers near full strength for NFC Championship against Seattle Seahawks
- Seahawks receiver Percy Harvin to miss 49ers' game
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SANTA CLARA -- Ahmad Brooks is someone you'd want walking with you through a dark alley. He's 6-foot-3, 260 pounds and nearly as fast as he is intimidating. On top of that, his track record off the field proves he has a mean streak.
Many men would bask in such a rugged glow. In the age of the fake tough guy, Brooks is the $2 steak that Jim Harbaugh talks about. Yet, he shies away from the persona. He evades the thug stigma like he does most blockers.
"I'm not walking in alleys," he said this week. "We're better than that. We ain't going to stoop down to that level, even if we have before. We're not walking in alleys. We're going straight through the front door. That's being grown."
Brooks had some growing to do, as trouble seemed to follow him. He was dismissed from the University of Virginia his senior season for undisclosed reasons. In 2008, while with the Cincinnati Bengals, he was accused of punching a woman in the face. Six months ago, Brooks reportedly attacked teammate Lamar Divens with a beer bottle.
Today he is an unsung hero on a Super Bowl contender, having made the Pro Bowl for the second consecutive season. He is a half a sack from the 49ers' single-postseason record. He is a player his teammates and coaches speak about with respect and regard.
He has manned up, taken his lumps, and become better for them.
"Ahmad's a very good person," defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said. "You're always happy for a good guy to experience success. He was a guy when I got here I thought had a lot of ability and potential but for some reason never fulfilled it in Cincinnati and hadn't fulfilled it here. But I saw it in him. ... He had to dive into it full-bore with his focus and his effort, and he did that."
Brooks, 29, doesn't shift blame for his off-field problems. Instead, he points out how he has matured.
"The things that I've done, that's just history," he said. "Anybody can go back and read what I've done. But at the end of day, we've all had our mistakes. The key is how you overcome them."
Brooks is still an NFL linebacker, and a good one. So the relentlessness, the aggression, the desire to crush another human, is still there. But that stuff is on the field. Off the field, knowing another mistake could cost all he has built, he has opted to be a grown man.
His voice carries a note of irritation when he talks about the public's perception of him. He said he doesn't follow media reports about himself and can't tolerate too much social media, where records are never expunged.
But he has found vindication.
He has gone from a third-round pick in the 2006 supplemental draft to a second-team All-Pro selection, from possibly squandering his potential to releasing it full-bore off the edge of the 49ers' defensive line.
He said having Patrick Willis, NaVorro Bowman and Aldon Smith count on him as a crucial element of their elite linebacker corps is especially fulfilling.
But most fulfilling, he said, is the admiration with which his princess looks at him. That's enough to make a man be better.
"She's about to be six. I've got to be a parent to her," he said. "I'm waaaaay more mature. I'm about to be 30 years old. I had to mature."
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas Republicans are speaking out against "offensive" statements by a GOP state representative who is running for re-election and a former GOP legislator running for a state House seat.
The state GOP chairman, the Arkansas Republican House Caucus and U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin issued statements Saturday criticizing books written by Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro and former legislator Charlie Fuqua, who is running for a Batesville-area seat.
Hubbard self-published a book in 2009, in which he wrote slaves were better off in America than they were in Central Africa.
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by Dorsey Perkins » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:40 pm
Anyone interested in running in the S5 shifter class this year at NTK? Are there other sanctioned events for the class nearby your planning on running in? (Restricted Stock 6 speed CR125 340lbs) There were not many at the Shoot out, so we're thinking about moving to unrestricted but would rather stay in this class for this year.
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by Mark French » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:43 pm
We are not planning on running ours to much if any. I know that Devin moved up but I don't think they are racing that much this year with Vic's work schedule. Alex T. has converted their shifter to a Rotax Jr. so they are out as well. I do think the Payne's plan on keeping theirs but I'm not sure how much they plan on racing.
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Like Mark said, we'll be focusing on RMAX Jr until Sept 20th. If SKUSA keeps the S5 class in the Supernationals, we'll be converting back to S5 for the end of the year.
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Marietta is known for its history and architecture and during the holidays some homes and businesses are welcoming visitors to enjoy both.
Each year, residents and owners of some of the spectacular homes and unique lofts located around town open their doors to curiosity seekers and those looking for a different type of holiday event.
This weekend, the Betsey Mills Club and ReStore Marietta will host two separate events, one Saturday and one Sunday.
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Wendy Myers, owner of the buildings at 440 Fifth St., shows off the newly-renovated home of her in-laws John and Phyllis Myers. The Victorian-era complex, which sits on the corner of Fifth and Wooster streets, is divided into nine 3-bedroom townhomes and is part of the Holiday Tour of Homes to be held Sunday in Marietta.
Jennifer Offenberger, past president of ReStore Marietta, said that the Marietta Loft Tour, now in its fourth year, serves a couple different purposes.
"It's really a good way to show the multiple uses for our downtown buildings," she said. "They are effective for business and also as a place to live."
Of the 11 stops on the tour, six are new participants, including the Hackett Hotel above the Adelphia Music Hall, a new residence and offices above Peoples News, a residence above Jenna's Hair Salon, the Colony Theatre, the office of Natalie Ferrell, massage therapist on Second Street and the home of Pierce Training Systems on the third floor of the Glass Press building at 205 Putnam St.
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What: 2012 Marietta Loft Tour.
When: 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Where: 170 Front St., 220 Front St., 250 Front St., 205 Putnam St., 2221/2 Putnam St., 203 Second St., 219 Second St. Suite 206, 219 Second St. Suite 210, 127 Ohio St., 113 Maple St. Trolley rides will be available throughout the evening shuttling between locations.
Cost: $10 per person; to reserve tickets in advance (cash or check only) or to get more information, contact ReStore Marietta at (740) 885-8194.
What: Holiday Tour of Homes.
When: 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Where: Bruno residence, 301 Fifth St.; Robinson/Phillips residence, 606 Washington St.; Hollister residence, 613 Sixth St.; Myers residence, 440 Fifth St.; Christ United Methodist Church, 301 Wooster St. Refreshments will be offered at the Betsey Mills Club, 300 Fourth St.
Cost: $10 in advance or $12 at any door. Contact the Betsey Mills Club at 373-4981.
"The whole intention of the loft tour is to get people excited about using these loft spaces," said Ryan Smith, a ReStore board member who is organizing the tour this year. "We have residences, a boutique hotel, a gym ... just a wide variety."
Of course there are also repeat participants that are typically favorites of visitors.
"Just as an example, Chuck (Swaney) at FOUND Antiques always has something new that he has done with his loft and the food is amazing," Offenberger said. Swaney's loft is located at 113 Maple St.
The Marietta Loft Tour will be Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. The trolley will serve as a shuttle for participants who care to use it. Tickets can be purchased through ReStore.
Those looking for some decorating ideas or just interested in what is hidden behind the doors of some of Marietta's most beautiful homes are encouraged to visit the Betsey Mills Club's Holiday Tour of Homes on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.
Last year the tour attracted hundreds of visitors from all over the area. This will also be the fourth year for the Betsey Mills Club's event. The tour was previously hosted by the now-defunct American Association of University Women (AAUW).
Included on the tour will be the historic Wilcox-Mills house, current home of Marietta College president Joseph Bruno and wife Diane. The Federal style home was built in 1822 and is located at 301 Fifth St. The homes of sisters Joyce Robinson and Judy Phillips, 606 Washington St., and Jeff and Nancy Hollister, at 613 Sixth St., will also be featured, as well as the newly-renovated Victorian-style townhome of John and Phyllis Myers at 440 Fifth St.
"This will be the first time on the tour," Wendy Myers said of the property, owned by her company the Mitcham Group, and occupied by her mother-and-father-in-law.
"The complex was built during the last big oil and gas boom. Each apartment was meant as a 5-bedroom home but now they are divided up into nine 3-bedroom townhouses," she said.
The only non-residence on the tour will be Christ United Methodist Church at 301 Wooster St. Refreshments will be served at the Betsey Mills Club at 400 Fourth St.
Money from the ReStore event will go back into the community, according to Offenberger. The Betsey will use money from the home tour for its programs and activities.


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Optus moves into wearables space with Cash by Optus
Optus has launched its new mobile payment facility, Cash by Optus, whereby customers with compatible smartphones can make contactless purchases under $100.
Optus has launched its new mobile payment facility, Cash by Optus, whereby customers with compatible smartphones can make contactless purchases under $100.
Selfie sticks undoubtedly get you a great selfie angle. But which stick is for you?
You'll be shocked, but inside it's mostly battery.
The $229 Bluetooth speaker goes on sale in November with better sound and a Lightning charger.
Portable keyboards for mobile devices tend to come in either rigid and foldable or rubbery and rollup forms. LG Electronics is launching one that's a bit of both.
Imation's Link Power Drive serves double duty as an external, on-the-go storage device and portable battery charger for an iPhone. It comes in useful when you want to carry extra music and video files with you, which you can then play directly off the drive; at the flick of a switch, you can then use the drive to charge the iPhone's battery.
Mophie's Juice Pack Plus case for the iPhone 6 makes the phone bigger and heavier, but it provides the thing we all crave most: extra battery life. Using the Mophie case, you can run the iPhone 6 for over twice as long as you're used to before having to plug it back in and recharge.
Sony is one of a few companies with an ecosystem rich in entertainment gear. Now the company has partnered with Telstra to release the wearable SmartBand SWR10.
Simple music, that's what Sony's SRS-X5 is about. The speaker uses Bluetooth technology for the wireless playback of music, while NFC technology enables pairing with the tap of a smartphone or tablet.
Renditions of 'smart' watches from Samsung and Sony are best qualified as gimmicks because they don't satisfy a clear need. Commendation deserves to be dished out for the sheer variety of features these things have. But for all their bells and whistles, I have never looked at my wrist and thought to myself "I wish i was wearing a computer".
Just when you thought the portable Bluetooth speaker market was brimming with a range of fantastic products, Braven weighs in with an entrant so well equipped, it could shake things up.
The NX-P100 is Yamaha's contribution to the Bluetooth speaker market. Packed into a tiny enclosure is a variety of audio and connectivity features, but is it good enough to warrant a $199 price?
UE's Mini Boom produces voluminous sound from a good looking, highly functional and portable body. Two speakers can be paired to form a modular stereo image, and the inclusion of NFC takes the fuss out of Bluetooth pairing.
Sennheiser has partnered with DJs including Bob Sinclair to develop its new range of DJ headphones. The new headphones have been designed with one-ear monitoring in mind and feature elliptical cups for improved comfort.
Tough phones are rarely good phones, and popping an ordinary case on an iPhone doesn't always cut it for most tradies and extreme sports enthusiasts. Born from this dilemma is a new product called InDepth cases.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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In response to the president's initiative to create a learning-centered campus, Academic Affairs has collaborated with the Physical Plant to renovate a variety of classrooms around the concept of learner-centered design.
In such a classroom, the faculty aims to create an environment where students are active participants in learning, develop themselves independently and collaborate in ways that support the learning efforts of others. There is a body of empirical research to support both the efficacy of such environments as well as the specific criteria that foster the creation of such an environment.
In Academic Affairs, we studied the literature on classroom environments. We rely on that research, as well as extensive surveys of students and faculty, to guide our renovation decisions. Some of the key elements that we achieve through the renovations are:
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This product is part of Icons' exclusive UEFA Champions League signed memorabilia range, officially licensed by UEFA.
This Real Madrid photo was personally signed by Ronaldo in an exclusive signing session organised and carried out by Icons in Sao Paulo on September 27th, 2012.
Ronaldo is the greatest goalscorer in World Cup history and a true legend of the game. He is the only player to win the Golden Ball and Golden Boot at consecutive World Cup tournaments and won two World Cups, two Copa Americas and three FIFA World Player of the Year awards during his career.
The photo commemorating his incredible feats at the Bernabeu during his four year spell as a Galactico is signed in black ink.
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A little bit of everything can be found at this weekend's garage sale benefiting the Lake Area Sexual Assault Response Team. Everything from furniture, household goods, baby items to clothing and holiday items can be found.
The items are not priced. Attendees will be given a bag when they arrive and be asked for a donation when they check out their items.
"We feel this is a way for us to help out those in the community with needs," Dee Ballard said.
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What: Garage sale to benefit Lake Area Sexual Assault Response Team (SART)
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A Day in the Life of a Wall Street Intern
Shaun Khubchandani's 10-week internship at Citigroup in 2010 didn't leave him with much free time.
Mr. Khubchandani says his days were filled largely with rote tasks as he waited for higher-ups to assign him projects as they left for the day, at around 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. The evening projects typically kept Mr. Khubchandani and his full-time analyst counterparts at the office well past midnight, as well as on weekends, he says.
Mr. Khubchandani says he was paid a $70,000 annual salary prorated on a weekly basis, or about $1,300 per week, during his internship. After it ended, he decided to return to Citi full-time for more than a year before joining a private-equity firm in New York. Citigroup declined to comment.
Grueling hours are the norm for young people on Wall Street. But in recent years the tough schedules have prompted recent college graduates increasingly to forgo careers at investment banks for the cushier lifestyle offered by Silicon Valley tech firms, among other sectors.
Many of the nation's top business-school programs, both graduate and undergraduate, have reported a decline in the share of students interested in taking investment-banking jobs. Almost 41% of the undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school, a top feeder school for big banks, went into investment banking in 2007. By 2013, that number had shriveled to 25%, according to the school.
Faced with declining interest, banks are taking steps to reform their junior-staff programs, such as limiting weekend work.
Here, Mr. Khubchandani describes a typical day during his internship:
8 a.m.: Wake up.
8:45 a.m.: Board subway at Columbus Circle to Citigroup's offices in Tribeca.
9–9:30 a.m.: Arrive at the office.
9:30 a.m.–12 p.m.: Do light tasks, like reading S-1 filings or internal memos, or double-checking numbers in Excel spreadsheets.
12–12:30 p.m.: Grab lunch with fellow interns at a nearby Whole Foods—ideally a prosciutto-and-ham panini, with bread pudding for dessert.
1 p.m.–-5 p.m.: Work alongside analysts, assisting them however possible. Ask for feedback on financial models or help with difficult calculations.
5 p.m.–6 p.m.: Assigned to a project—such as updating a PowerPoint slideshow or hard copies of client-presentation materials with the latest market data—by a managing director on his or her way out the door, sometimes to be completed by the next morning.
8 p.m.: Order dinner delivery with other interns and the analysts, courtesy of the bank: Italian on Mondays, Thai on Tuesdays, salads on Wednesdays and tacos on Thursdays. (On Fridays, dine out.)
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One great rock band, Green Day, will fling the doors open for another seminal group next weekend at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The honorees?
None other than fellow music icons Guns N' Roses.
Rolling Stone reports that Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool will deliver the legendary band's induction speech at the April 14 ceremony in Cleveland.
They'll join previously announced presenters Chris Rock (for the Red Hot Chili Peppers), Chuck D (for The Beastie Boys), John Mellencamp (for Donovan) and ZZ Top (for Freddie King).
Longtime GNR keyboardist Dizzy Reed told Billboard recently that while all of the original Guns N' Roses members - including Axl Rose - were expected to attend, he wasn't sure if an official reunion or performance would happen.
"I don't know exactly what's going to go down," he admitted back in February. "It's one of those things I'm sure will all come together and be really cool. I'm just going to go in with a good attitude and a clear head and a grateful heart."
Last month, former drummer Matt Sorum expressed a bit more optimism. "We're all sitting at the same table, so it should be cool," he told the publication. "After we get a little bit of food in us, hopefully someone will get up and want to play, but I don't know. I'm not the guy to ask. I just hope it works out."


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I think I'll use richi's server for my mail while we get this sorted out. I really don't understand what's happening...
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