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Mara_lyn86 Says:
I love Mary, Sybil, and Joan. For Mary I usually go for the international variations, but Mary is a nice, strong name. Joan reminds me of Joan Jett and Joan of arc and I love the classic sound. It is on my list actually for girls, at least as a middle name.
I don't like Dylan and arrow seems too out there to become really popular right now.
Merida will probably shoot up within the year or two. It is a lovely name and the movie is awesome.
Poppy528 Says:
Selina is Catwoman's real name, very pretty.
I gagged a little at the sibset named Soul, True, Glow, and yes, Brave. Yuck they sound like nail polishes.
Abby Says:
@Mara_lyn86 – I agree completely about Joan. And I've yet to see Brave!
@Poppy528 – Nice point about Selina. It feels like she should be more popular …
SugarPlumFairy Says:
Arrow and Brave/Bravery are two of my favourite word names!
Mary and Joan are timeless classics. I also like them as double firsts, like Mary-Charlotte or Joan-Chloe.
rachel27 Says:
I really like Arrow, actually- maybe even more then Archer. Mary and Joan feel a bit boring to me, still- I actually knew quite a few Marys growing up (perhaps because I was born in Boston) and so the name seems more overused than fresh.
midwesterner Says:
I believe Enoch entered the Top 1000 again this year – in part due to the popularity of the the show 'Boardwalk Empire'.
Saracita00 Says:
I have a big crush on Sherlock. However that name seems inextricably tied to the character, and yes it matters. It would be pitiful to be named for a character whose author became tired of writing him. If there were some other historical use of the name that could decrease the detective to a fun anecdotal connection, I would use it in a heartbeat. But Sherlock is Holmes at the forefront of everyone's association with that name, and with remakes of the story being at a high, I doubt that will change any time soon.
Dixon looks great with that X in it, but spelling aside it sounds like a name that is just asking for dirty slang schoolyard teasing. It's just…bad. Awful. Horrific. No kid needs to deal with that.
I think Arrow truly has a chance of becoming more popular. It has the now-hot O-sound at the end and seems a natural follow-up to names like Hunter, Gunnar, and Archer, while being infinitely cooler.
Joan just sounds unpleasant to me, likely because it rhymes with some rather negative words like moan and groan. It's just not a good image (and yes I realize that the people who are against "violent" names are going to croak at this comment after my previous paragraph. Sorry folks, to each their own. I think Arrow has a great sound and heroic image; and as inspiring as Joan of Arc may be she just can't overcome that dowdy sound to me).
Interesting lineup this week, thanks.
GoodHope Says:
It wouldn't bother me to use a name I first heard on television as long as I feel the name has the legs to stand on its own, independent of the character who bore it. For me, that usually means finding other associations for the name, so I'd be fine with Joan, Mary, and Selina (Catwoman, woo!), but Sherlock is too one-note for me.
Anneau is really appealing, but I think the similarity to a slang term for a certain body part will keep Dixon from making any big leaps in popularity. It also reminds me of the Mason-Dixon Line, and it would be comical to have playgrounds full of Masons and Dixons, at least to me.
I really don't like Arrow and Brave at all. They're both trying too hard.
poods Says:
I truly can't see Dixon catching on. At risk of being crude, it is literally pronounced "Dick's in". I agree with Saracita00. The teasing would be traumatic, not just in childhood, but probably even into adulthood. Could you imagine being a Dixon in a fraternity? ::shutters::
KAM Says:
I'm not a big fan of any of these- except for Sherlock, mostly because of my affinity for the character. It might work as a middle name. Dylan, I don't like. Silena, unfortunately, makes me think of a snotty mean girl, like Brittany or Tiffny does. I still think that Mary has been overused. But I love a combo from one of my favorite tv shows (Once Upon a Time): Mary Margaret. Joan is okay, but it seems too old for a little girl. Sherlock, again, I love. Dixon …. Interesting. Reminds me of the South, and since I'm not from there, probably wouldn't use it. Arrow- that's kinda cool, for a word name. Not big fan of them, but some can work. Still, I wouldn't use Arrow. Brave sounds more like a title than a name. And Anneau …. I don't really like it. Merida is beautiful though!
Taz Says:
I think Joan will rise to greater popularity after people hear June enough & want something similar.
I love Joan…so many great Joans out there & such a strong name!
Mary is pretty great too!
Annou bothers me for some reason. Ring? That just seems strange to me.
originofnames Says:
I rather like Archer, its fun, smart, strong, and modern at the same time. I'm don't think Arrow can keep up with it.
Abby Says:
@GoodHope – HA! I hadn't thought about playgrounds filled with kids called Mason and Dixon …
Maybe Dixon is unwearable … maybe in the middle spot.
@Saracita00 – I think that's a good point about Arrow's -o ending. Milo, Hugo, Arrow … Not exactly the same vibe, but the same sound, to be sure.
Flick Says:
There's a Bravery on another site I frequent and I've grown to really like it.
I think Mary is great and as classic as it is, it honestly stands out these days.
I'm always weary of word-names from other languages unless it has an established use as a name.
Kyri Laina Says:
I can say that I'm definitely influenced by TV shows, and books too. My two favorite girl names are from them:
Veronica- the main character from the TV show "Veronica Mars" (aka BEST SHOW EVER!) played by Kristen Bell
Stephanie- main character in the Stephanie Plum book series by Janet Evanovich. Played my Katherine Heigl in the movie.
redtulips Says:
I have to admit that I have a bit of a name crush on Sherlock. I absolutely love the books too. To bad that it is a little unusable
birdymadeline Says:
My two grandmothers' names are Mary and Joan. I'd love to hear them more!
calliewalker718 Says:
The name I'm most curious about from this fall of new tv shows is "Rayna" from Nashville. Connie Britton the actress that plays her is pretty buzzworthy and I'm wondering it there may be a spike in popularity.
Of course, the show may get cancelled in one season however…
southern.maple Says:
I know a Dixon in his twenties, and surprisingly he has not been traumatized by his name. He got a few "dick" comments in middle and high school but that was it.
pam Says:
Calliewalker, I love Connie Britton! I was a big Friday Night Lights fan. I didn't know about Nashville and now I will watch…whatever happens with the name Rayna. Thanks for the tip!
mrstrivette Says:
You NEED to make Arrow a unisex name in your database! My little Arrow Milena most definitely is NOT a boy! 🙂 So glad to see that Arrow made the blog though!! 🙂
bex.marie Says:
I was just thinking that Arrow would be awesome for a girl!
I love Sherlock too, but with such a popular character it would be hard to use. I will defintely use it as a middle name though. All the other names are okay, just not my style. 🙂
miloowen Says:
Most Sherlockians agree that the Holmes brothers were probably John Mycroft Holmes and William Sherlock Holmes, the new Masterpiece Mystery series notwithstanding. I can't stand the Robert Downey, Jr version — Mycroft never once in the canon referred to his brother as Shirley!
I love the names from Downton Abbey and have come to love names such as Mary, Joan, and Barbara, just because you never hear them anymore. Love Edith and Sybil too. Although this year I had a student who was Mary Josephine and went by Mary or Mary Jo.
Whenever I hear Dixon, I think of Picard and his detective, Dixon Hill. I think I would crack up if I had a classroom with a Mason and a Dixon.
Honestly, I prefer the old virtue names rather than these new names after Disney cartoons and the like. Brave? Really? What if your kid is a coward?
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Funinthesun Says:
We named our son Sherlock – we loved the name and thought of how brilliant it would be when he's grown up – no-one will forget him. So far the reaction has been really positive. We paired it with very traditional middle names and it works really well. I love the fact that our little boy has really grown into his name. He totally owns it 🙂
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Brainerd Legion upcoming events
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New Year's Day party will be Jan. 1 at the Legion. Club opens at 10 a.m. There will be Tom and Jerry's, food, raffles and music.
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Book Review: Bainbridge's Directors as Auctioneers–A Concise Guide toRevlon-Land
Stephen M. Bainbridge, Directors as Auctioneers—A Concise Guide to Revlon-Land (2011).
"Motive" is a legal concept no longer reserved for criminal lawyers. Motive matters in M&A litigation, too, according to UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge in his e-book, Directors as Auctioneers—A Concise Guide to Revlon-Land.[1] This notion is not unique to Bainbridge, as Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr. of the Delaware Court of Chancery recently reaffirmed:
As Revlon itself made clear, the potential sale of a corporation has enormous implications for corporate managers and advisors, and a range of human motivations, including but by no means limited to greed, can inspire fiduciaries and their advisors to be less than faithful to their contextual duty to pursue the best value for the company's stockholders.[2]
Yet, despite this apparent agreement about Revlon's core principles, Bainbridge contends that the Court of Chancery has been misapplying them. Bainbridge specifically criticizes the line of Court of Chancery decisions that turn on the form of merger consideration rather than on the directors' motivations and potential conflicts of interest.
Bainbridge begins the book with a guided tour through "Revlon-Land," including Revlon's history and policy foundations in the "veritable flood of academic writing" from the 1980s about the proper role of a target board in the context of an unsolicited takeover bid. Bainbridge identifies and analyzes the emergence of two leading policy proposals.
First, Bainbridge focuses on Professors Ronald Gilson and Lucian Bebchuk, who argued that a target board should be permitted to use takeover defenses only to achieve a higher-priced offer, and that defenses deployed by the target board to fend off the bidder and remain independent should be illegal. This is contrary to Delaware law.[3] Bainbridge dismisses this approach as unworkable because it would place the target board's legal advisors in a quandary, paralyzed by the risk of trying to predict which takeover defenses would generate a topping bid and which would not. Consequently, rational companies desirous of the security that takeover defenses provide would erect them prophylactically on the proverbial clear day before receiving an unsolicited takeover bid, thereby choking the market for corporate control.
Second, Bainbridge discusses Judge Frank Easterbrook and Professor Daniel Fischel, who advocated a simpler policy: total passivity. According to Easterbrook and Fischel, all takeover defenses (and anti-takeover legislation) should be illegal because an unimpeded market for corporate control would better align the interests of stockholders and management: If the only effective defense against an unwanted takeover is a consistently high stock price, then management's inevitable entrenchment motivations actually benefit stockholders. And, taking aim at Gilson and Bebchuk, Easterbrook and Fischel argue that the most pernicious takeover defenses are those that tend to encourage topping bids. As Bainbridge notes, if a defensive action increases the probability of a topping bid, then it correspondingly reduces the first bidder's expected value, thereby diminishing the economic incentive for potential bidders to monitor potential targets.
The Delaware Supreme Court soundly rejected the Easterbrook and Fischel proposal in its Unocal decision.[4] This result is unsurprising. Delaware corporate law is board-centric by statute,[5] and the notion of passivity is antithetical to underlying tenets of Delaware law.
Bainbridge thus concludes instead that Delaware courts focus on the board's motives. "In its takeover jurisprudence, Delaware has balanced the competing claims of authority and accountability by varying the standard of review according to the likelihood that the actions of the board or managers will be tainted by conflicted interests in a particular transactional setting and the likelihood that non-legal forces can effectively constrain those conflicted interests in that setting."
"By the mid-1990s, the Delaware Supreme Court had worked out a credible set of answers . . . . The seemingly settled rules made doctrinal sense and were sound from a policy perspective." The Supreme Court set forth three simple Revlon triggers: "(1) when a corporation initiates an active bidding process seeking to sell itself or to effect a business reorganization involving a clear break-up of the company; (2) where, in response to a bidder's offer, a target abandons its long-term strategy and seeks an alternative transaction involving the break-up of the company; or (3) when approval of a transaction results in a sale or change of control. In the latter situation, there is no sale or change in control when [c]ontrol of both [companies] remain[s] in a large, fluid, changeable and changing market."[6]
But, "[s]imple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind."[7] Bainbridge contends that "a number of Chancery decisions have drifted away from the doctrinal parameters laid down by the Supreme Court." To return to the Supreme Court's policy foundations, Bainbridge argues that the Court of "Chancery should adopt a conflict of interest-based approach to invoking Revlon, which focuses on where control of the resulting corporate entity rests when the transaction is complete."
Bainbridge's chief criticism is the Court of Chancery's application of Revlon to cash mergers between widely held, publicly traded companies. Revlon does not apply to the stock-for-stock merger-of-equals paradigm because control of the post-transaction entity will remain in the hands of dispersed shareholders in the "large, fluid, changeable and changing market."[8] By contrast, Revlon does apply if the acquisition currency is at least approximately 50% cash.[9]
But why? Bainbridge astutely observes that this result is counterintuitive for two reasons. First, the form of consideration is irrelevant[10] so long as the acquiror's stock is liquid, allowing stockholders to convert from cash to stock (and vice versa) at their whim. And second, a rational, diversified stockholder is equally likely to own stock of an acquiror as of a target, and would therefore be indifferent to the division of merger gains between acquirors and targets in cash deals. Thus, according to Bainbridge, equitable division of a merger premium is a less compelling reason to apply Revlon than some Court of Chancery decisions may suggest.[11]
Although Bainbridge's criticisms are presented adroitly and are thought provoking, I believe the Court of Chancery has gotten Revlon right because of a concept that Vice Chancellor Laster has dubbed the "Last-Period Problem." The Last-Period Problem concept recognizes that in the ordinary course of business, the faithful service of directors to stockholders is secured by legal and non-legal forces. The legal forces are obvious, and commonly enforced by the threat of litigation for breach of fiduciary duty. Less obvious, but perhaps equally important, are the non-legal forces that govern the directors' conduct, including social or relational norms, moral obligations, and market forces. In a merger, though, the relationship between the target directors and stockholders is in its last period, and the non-legal constraints fall away. In the absence of these non-legal constraints, directors are more likely to deviate from the shareholder-maximization norm, even in innocent ways.[12] Revlon scrutiny addresses this Last Period Problem, and Bainbridge himself recognizes as much, in the parlance of "operational" and "structural" decisions, with structural decisions posing the Last Period Problem:
[S]tructural decisions—such as corporate takeovers—present a final period problem entailing an especially severe conflict of interest. . . . Target boards are no longer subject to shareholder discipline because the acquirer will buy out the target's shareholders. Target directors and managers are no longer subject to market discipline because the target by definition will no longer operate in the market as an independent agency. Accordingly, in the structural context there is sufficiently good reason to be skeptical of incumbent's claims to be acting in the shareholders' best interests to justify a more intrusive standard of review than the business judgment rule.
The Last-Period Problem also illuminates a key distinction between cash mergers and stock-for-stock deals. Bainbridge is indisputably correct that, regardless of the acquisition currency, the target directors will not be subject to shareholder or market discipline in a final-stage transaction. But what about the acquiror's directors?
In a cash-out merger, the target stockholders and acquirer's board are mere counterparties, and all of the principles of the Last-Period Problem apply. But, following a stock-for-stock merger, the acquiror's board becomes answerable to the target stockholders; the merger is the "First Period" of their relationship. The acquiror's board will therefore have a prospective interest in protecting the target stockholders and ensuring that the target stockholders are treated fairly. Target directors are less likely to shirk their duties because the acquiror's directors will not allow it. Call it the "First-Period Solution" to the Last-Period Problem; this non-legal force is present in stock-for-stock deals and absent in cash mergers, and the First-Period Solution might obviate the need for Revlon scrutiny in stock-for-stock mergers.[13]
Of course, the degree to which the proposed First Period Solution protects target stockholders is unknown. In price negotiations, for example, the interests of the target stockholders are directly adverse to the interests of the acquiror stockholders. And, while non-legal forces discussed here would tend to protect the interests of the target stockholders, those non-legal considerations might lose out to the legal ones, with their concomitant consequences,[14] that require the acquiror's board to bargain for the lowest achievable acquisition price.[15] But, it remains true in a stock-for-stock deal that there are social, moral, and relational pressures on the acquiror's board to protect target stockholders, who are stockholders-in-waiting of the acquiror. Quantifying those pressures poses an open empirical question that is difficult, if not impossible to answer. Perhaps the answer resides among the "Legislative Facts" that comprise the "Inescapably Empirical Foundation" of Delaware corporate law.[16]
I'd be interested to hear Bainbridge's response to this concept. If his blog[17] and his prolific academic writing[18] are any indication, he will no doubt have a well-reasoned, thorough, and principled response that may convince me that he's right. Bainbridge writes in a distinct and singular voice, authoritative and firm in its convictions. The book is well researched and its positions skillfully argued. It reads like a cross between a traditional law review article and what could be a companion book for an M&A course text, conveying a fulsome understanding of where the law is and how it got there. All consumers of Delaware corporate law would do well to read it.
Mike Sirkin is an associate at Seitz Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP.
[1] Professor Bainbridge was kind enough to provide me with an electronic review copy of his book. All quoted material not attributed to other sources is taken from his text.
[2] In re El Paso Corporation S'holder Litig., Consol. C.A. No. 6949-CS, Slip Op. at 11 (Del. Ch. Feb. 29, 2012).
[3] For a thorough discussion of the legality of using takeover defenses to preserve independence, see Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. v. Airgas, Inc., 16 A.3d 48, 100 (Del, Ch. 2011).
[4] Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co., 493 A.2d 946, 955 n.10 (Del. 1985).
[5] See 8 Del. C. § 141.
[6] Arnold v. Soc'y for Sav. Bancorp, Inc., 650 A.2d 1270, 1289-90 (Del. 1994) (citations,
footnotes, and internal quotation marks omitted)
[7] Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You'll Go! (1991).
[8] Arnold, 650 A.2d at 1289-90.
[9] See, e.g., In re Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., 2011 WL 2028076 (Del. Ch. May 24, 2011); Steinhardt v. Howard-Anderson, C.A. No. 5878-VCL (Del. Ch. Jan. 24, 2011) (TRANSCRIPT).
[10] Putting aside tax implications and transactions costs for present purposes.
[11] See, e.g., Steinhardt v. Howard-Anderson, C.A. No. 5878-VCL (Del. Ch. Jan. 24, 2011) (TRANSCRIPT).
[12] Reis v. Hazelett Strip-Casting Corp., 28 A.3d 442, 458-59 (Del. Ch. 2011). This statement also strikes me as a sort of "legislative fact" that informs "The Inescapably Empirical Foundation of the Common Law of Corporations." See generally Leo E. Strine, Jr., The Inescapably Empirical Foundation of the Common Law of Corporations, 27 Del. J. Corp. L. 499 (2002).
[14] These consequences can be immediate: in a stock-for-stock merger, the stockholders of the acquiror often must vote on whether or not to approve the deal. See, e.g., New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual § 312.03(c), available at http://www.nyse.com (requiring shareholder approval for a company to issue twenty percent or more of the voting power of a company's stock).
[15] To test this effect empirically would require a study of merger premiums as a function of acquisition currency, but would have to control for many other variables, including competing bids, under- or overvaluation of the acquiror's stock, and tax effects.
[16] See generally Leo E. Strine, Jr., The Inescapably Empirical Foundation of the Common Law of Corporations, 27 Del. J. Corp. L. 499 (2002).
[17] See www.professorbainbridge.com for regular, insightful commentary on, inter alia, corporate law, the legal academy, legal education, fantasy football, cars, and wine.


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City Hall becomes a wedding hall for same-sex couples Sunday
Seattle City Hall transformed into a frenetic wedding hall Sunday morning, as dozens arrived for some of the first same-sex weddings in the state.
Volunteers had set up five wedding spots in the lobby of the building on Fourth Avenue and James Street.
Local judges officiated the short ceremonies. City officials, including Mayor Mike McGinn and City Council President Sally Clark, hosted the event and congratulated the newlyweds.
Liam and Richard Sauer-Wooden were among the to get married after the doors opened at 10 a.m. Richard broke down crying during the ceremony.
The Seattle couple, who met 19 years ago, became even more emotional after exiting the building to hundreds of cheering supporters bearing roses and throwing rice.
Responding to urging that he kiss his new husband, Richard did — and then yelled out: "Thank you for recognizing us!"
Among the other couples to be married in the lobby were Danielle Yung, 32, and Robin Wyss, 34, of Seattle. They have been together for eight years, having met through an Internet dating site.
Yung, who works for the U. S. Department of Labor in compensations for those injured in the development of nuclear weapons, is five months pregnant. Wyss is an organizer for the Service Employees International Union.
"Now our child will always know us as a married couple," said Yung.
As piano music drifted in the background, Yung told of growing up in Lincoln, Neb., "coming out when I was 14 and the sadness that I could never get married. It was completely inconceivable to me. But fast forward and here we are."
About 140 couples are expected at City Hall for ceremonies scheduled throughout the day.
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Welcome to your library!
The West Fork Municipal Library provides the people of West Fork and surrounding Washington County with books, movies, computer access, activities and events, and other services.
Whether you're new in the area and simply haven't found us yet, or you've been here for years and you've forgotten about us, come on by and see what you've been missing! This is your library.
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"Non si vive di solo pane." — "One does not live by bread alone."
Welcome to Domani Bistro Lounge where food and beverage of character and delectable taste is our passion. Our meticulously crafted menu features both new-twists on familiar tastes and radically original concoctions, there is sure to be a culinary experience for every one of our guests. So please, by all means browse the site and know that we're looking forward to having you as our guest!


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Main Street Ribbon Cutting
Published June 23rd, 2011
Millions of dollars...5,000 tons of asphalt and 21 months...that's what it took to reconstruct main street in Gainesville.
Today, city and county leaders gathered with Department of Transportation representatives and project contributors to dedicate the rejuvenated street. The $6 million dollar project was designed to make downtown a more pedestrian-friendly area...by narrowing the road, adding bike lanes, on-street parking and bus bays.
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It's true that there's little correlation between football and bowling. Outside being a fun activity to enjoy with friends, most don't usually draw a parallel between the two sports. That is unless you're a member of Journey North in Brainerd or Heritage Assembly of God in Baxter.
"For the past three years we've been getting our youth members together every Super Bowl Sunday to do what we call 'Super Bowling'," said Heritage Assembly of God's youth pastor, Jarvis Glanzer. "It's something fun to do with the kids and the (football) game is on in the background so we don't miss out on any of that action either."
Entering its fourth year — second with Journey North joining — the event brings roughly 120 sixth through 12th-graders to Jack's House between 5 and 8:30 p.m. For just $14, participants enjoy unlimited bowling, shoes, pizza and pop.
"The kids get really excited about it," Glanzer said, "and I do too. It's really fun, I think last year I was able to bowl something like 13 games (in the time frame) and showing the Super Bowl while we play makes it all the better."
Not limited to members of the congregations, Glanzer said all are welcome to come and take part in the festivities. Check out the Heritage Assembly of God Facebook page or call Journey North (824-5617) or Heritage Assembly of God (829-3209) for more information.
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(CNSNews.com) – Advocacy groups opposed to Alabama's tough new immigration law are urging Korean automaker Hyundai, which has a large plant in the state, to oppose the measure.
Dae Joong Yoon of the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights president and CEO Wade Henderson, and Eliseo Medina of the Service Employees International Union attended a recent Hyundai shareholders' meeting in Seoul to present their case for why the company should oppose the law, HB 56.
According to Henderson, Hyundai accounts for two percent of Alabama's GDP.
In a conference call with reporters from the South Korean capital, Yoon called the legislation a "hatred law."
"Alabama's HB 56 is very clear," he said, "It is a hatred law taking away the fundamental rights of immigrants and forcing our children to cry and live in fear and promoting racial profiling. In a country when children are crying it means our future is crying."
"I can say without fear of contradiction that HB 56 is the most vile anti-immigration law in the country," said Henderson.
Medina criticized the law not only as a human rights violation, but said that it created a bad business climate.
"Alabama has failed in its commitment to Hyundai in providing them with a good business environment," he said. Medina argued that because of the law, Hyundai was now involved in a human rights disaster.
The three all denied that the protests over HB 56 had anything to do with Alabama being a right-to-work state.
"To my knowledge there's no union that has indicated that they have any interest in this issue because of that," said Medina.
Robert Burns, senior manager of public relations and sales for Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, told CNSNews.com that Hyundai had not seen any drop-off in production since the law was enacted last summer.
"Our manufacturing facility in Alabama, which employs over 2,500 team members, is working very hard, in fact ten-hour days, two shifts, to produce 1,300 vehicles a day to meet the growing consumer demand for the Hyundai products we produce," he said.
Burns said demand for the vehicles has been growing over the past two years. "At this point there is no change in our production schedule."
Designed to prevent illegal immigrants of any nationality from settling in the state, Alabama's HB 56 is considered the toughest immigration law in the U.S.
The Justice Department challenged the law last August but in September U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn upheld key provisions of the law allowing them to be implemented.
Among parts of the law upheld by Blackburn is a provision that allows police to reasonably attempt to determine the immigration status of any individual they stop, if they suspect that the individual is in the U.S. illegally.
The law also requires school districts to ascertain and report the number of students who are illegal immigrants. Employers are required to use E-verify – an Internet-based program that checks work authorization – to determine the immigration status of new hires.


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text: The Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire wiki last edited by DeF on 12/23/14 12:09PM View full history Overview Like Pokemon Pinball on the Game Boy Color before it, Pokemon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire focuses on completing the player's Pokedex by catching each of the various Pokemon on pinball tables themed around Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Pokemon can be caught in a variety of different special modes, usually by hitting them a lot with the ball after activating the special mode and getting them to appear. Catch 'em ModeFlipping the ball through the right loop of the table three times will activate the "Catch" slot. Flipping the ball into this slot will make a silhouette of a Pokemon appear in the middle of the table, and a countdown timer in the corner of the screen. Hitting the bumpers at the top of the table will slowly reveal the identity of the Pokemon, and when the image is fully visible the Pokemon will appear on the table. At this point the player must hit the Pokemon with the ball three times before the timer runs out in order to catch it, adding it to their Pokedex and scoring points towards their highscore. Egg ModeFlipping the ball into the "Hatch" slot will first cause an Aerodactyl to deliver an egg to the table. Afterwards, the player can either hit Cyndaquil several times (on the Ruby table) or send the ball through the right loop three times (on the Sapphire table) in order to hatch the egg. Once a baby Pokemon has hatched, it will wander around the table for thirty seconds. The player must hit the Pokemon twice within this time to catch it, else miss out on the opportunity. Evo ModeAfter catching a Pokemon, the player will be given the option to evolve if the caught Pokemon has an evolution. Sending the ball through the right loop three times will change the Mart into a designated evolution slot, and hitting the ball into this slot will activate Evo mode, in which the player must hit the ball into three EVO icons on the table, and subsequently into a hole in the centre to evolve the Pokemon within the two minute timer. MartThe "Mart" slot will allow the player to buy various limited-time abilities, such as a "Saver" for 30, 60 or 90 seconds which involves a Latios or Latias catching the ball if it drops off the table and putting it back into play again without penalty. The Mart can also be used to upgrade the ball type from Pokeball to Great Ball to increase score bonuses. Travel Mode In Pokemon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire, the Pokemon which appear for capture on each table depend on the location which has been set. There are seven different locations in the game in total, which are set randomly at the start of play. Players can activate "Travel" to change the area or location. On the Ruby table, this is done by hitting the Chikorita switch on the right side of the table, then the Linoone on the left, and repeating this process twice. On the Sapphire table the player only needs to hit the Seedot on the left side three times. After Travel is activated, players have one minute to send the ball through the loop around the table, then into a hole in the table's centre. Traveling six times in one play sessions allows players to travel to the Ruins and capture special Pokemon Regirock, Registeel, Regice, Beldum or Jirachi. Bonus Areas Five bonus areas exist in the game, two exclusive to each table and one which can be unlocked from both later on in play. Unlocking a bonus area requires the player to light up all three Pokeball silhouettes in the middle of the table through catching new Pokemon (lights up one silhouette) or evolving previous Pokemon (lights up two silhouettes).


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By Martin Nañawa, ChildFund Philippines
In September, rebels attacked the coastal communities of Zamboanga City in the Philippines, taking civilians hostage and using them as human shields. After several weeks of fighting, the government has quelled the attack and security is returning to the area.
ChildFund works in six communities in and around Zamboanga City. Although children enrolled in ChildFund programs were not directly affected by the fighting, ChildFund's local partner organization, the Holy Rosary Family Center, under the leadership of Sister Nini, set up Child-Centered Spaces to ensure children have a safe place to gather, play and express any fears. ChildFund's Emergency Action Fund allows us to provide these spaces to children affected by strife or natural disasters. Sister Nini agreed to share her experiences at the height of the fighting.
Sister Nini is used to getting up at dawn. Like other Dominican sisters in her order, she takes her morning prayers silently before dawn and lately by herself. It's been more than a week since fighting erupted in the Philippines' Zamboanga City, and there's much work to be done.
Within an hour of waking, Sister Nini has already picked up seven volunteer mothers and youth. Though it's a tight squeeze, everyone fits in the cabin of her order's pickup truck. Laughter fills whatever space is left, as her company tries to keep their spirits up and their legs from falling asleep. Thankfully, their destination, Boalan, an elementary school that has doubled as an evacuation center, is not far. Though they are far enough from where the fighting continues in Zamboanga, Sister Nini is always wary of the possibility of danger on the road.
Arriving at the school grounds, Sister Nini and her volunteers unload the contents off the flatbed. There's rice, canned sardines, instant noodle packs and biscuit tins donated by former students of Nini's from her days at Ateneo de Zamboanga and St. Joseph School. She and her volunteers also unload bundles of lush malunggay (moringa) leaves, mustard greens, bright orange carrots, lettuce stalks and lengths of string beans, all harvested from the sisters' organic vegetable plot at the convent. The women carry the vegetables to a makeshift kitchen on the school grounds.
Dawn's first light brings warmth to 56 families who've spent the evening with little more than woven mats or flattened cardboard boxes between them and the cold pavement of classroom floors. Dawn also brings the aroma of a hot breakfast, wafting through the wooden shutters and rousing weary evacuees from their sleep. The Department of Social Welfare and Development has been providing and coordinating aid to this evacuation center and others as fighting displaces families. Sister Nini's crew complements the DSWD's support, taking care of breakfast at this site. Today, breakfast is steamed rice porridge — arroz caldo, fortified with fresh vegetables.
Sister Nini does not always stay through breakfast at this site. She makes the rounds of three more evacuation centers, setting up Child-Centered Spaces at these four sites. These spaces host activities addressing displaced children's psychosocial needs, playing, and creative and productive expression of their emotions. Nini alternates her schedule for her own security.
By the time Sister Nini returns to the first evacuation site, many parent volunteers are ready to return home to their families. The youth volunteers stay to assist local teachers who conduct stress-debriefing activities for children living at the school. The volunteers play with the children or tell them stories. "These young people know the importance of helping others," Sister Nini says. "They themselves are sponsored children with ChildFund and know just how big a difference a stranger's kindness can make."
Sister Nini also checks on the elderly at the evacuation centers, monitoring their blood pressure and asking if anyone needs to go to the hospital. There's been no need so far, but she offers the service anyway. She also arranges safe drop-offs for volunteers who live along her route from the evacuation center. "My vehicle is a public vehicle," Nini jokes, before expressing gratitude for the family and friends who donate what they can to keep the truck's tank full.
Returning to the convent at the end of the day, Sister Nini thanks God for all the support behind her work with children and the safety they're afforded. She admits, "In truth, I'm always afraid, but I know God is greater than my fear."
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Kevin Parker doesn't have any catchy monikers like his pink-loving opponent, Mindy Meyer, in a race for state Senate in Brooklyn.
"She says she's 'senator and she knows it,' but I actually am senator," said Parker, an incumbent Democrat. "I really do have responsibilities."
Meyer is now well known by her self-appointed name, Diva of the District. Although Parker has been in office for the past decade, he has yet to trend on social media. That doesn't worry Parker, though.
"I have a proven track record," says the state senator in a phone interview.
Parker has been exceedingly diplomatic when it comes to his young opponent's recent media attention and her unusual campaign strategies, saying only: "I take all challenges seriously, because I take the democratic process seriously. I'm looking forward to debating her on the issues."
He cautioned her, however, that "deep red doesn't win in a deep blue district using deep pink," referring to Meyer's now famous glittery pink website, and the 21st district's overwhelming Democratic population.
Meyer has been outspoken against what she sees as Parker's unproductive 10-year tenure. In response, Parker says: "She needs to look at more than just the color on my website to see what I've actually done." Meyer has repeatedly stated that the "boring" websites of other senators have "literally" put her to sleep.
Parker has seen his fair share of controversy, with three alleged physical attacks and three verbal in the past seven years. In one instance, Parker was ordered to attend an anger management course.
The senator doesn't think this damages his effectiveness in office.
"Unfortunately, it is what it is, but it hasn't stopped me from doing my work," says Parker, easing his way around the specifics of the various 'controversies.' "I'm a champion of the community, and any champion has enemies."
Parker plans to spend the upcoming months speaking at various forums, including labor unions, churches and the like.
"I expect to win," he says. Citing a long list of governmental and community experience, Parker adds, "I've expected to win every election I've ever been in."
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What (on Earth) is ecopoetry?
'Ecopoetry' is a relatively new term for describing contemporary poetry that has a strong ecological emphasis. Whilst precise definitions vary, ecopoetry is generally recognized by its focus on humanity's interrelationship with the natural world in such a way that implies responsibility, engagement and a striving for ecological integrity. These are values that are very much at the heart of Resurgence itself.
Of course, ecopoetry is part of the long and more general tradition of nature poetry, much of which has displayed a deep ecological sensitivity, and even an explicit concern for environmental issues, in the past.
Perhaps what distinguishes contemporary ecopoetry is the specific circumstances of wide scale ecological degradation out of which it has arisen, and its recognition of the interconnectedness of ecological health with social harmony and spiritual wellbeing: what Satish Kumar refers to as the trinity of "Soil, Soul and Society". Of course no one ecopoem will cover every aspect of this totality but each will in some way resonate with such a worldview.
Why an award for ecopoetry?
The 21st Century promises to be an age of environmental and ecological challenge and even crisis. Whilst such a backdrop provides fertile soil for writers of all kinds, of all the arts poetry has probably suffered the most in terms of decline in public engagement and understanding of its relevance to the issues facing the world. The Resurgence Poetry Prize aims to redress this by fostering the role poetry can play in providing insight, raising awareness and provoking concern for the ecological imperatives of our time.
Ecopoetry is gathering pace, and several anthologies and books have been published that use the word expressly or as a guiding principle.
"The poetic tradition was a spoken one, long before it became a written one," explains Sir Andrew. "The full impact of a poem can only be conveyed by its sound, and is most potent when a poem is spoken in the author's own voice. Unlike any other literary competition, a poem's suitability for being recited will form part of the judging process of this Prize."


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I'm in the process of cleaning up my engine and whilst dismantled will clean up and re-coat the Cylinder Head Cover. I'm considering powder coating for a long lasting finish but am wondering whether the ignition coils pick up an earth from their attachment points on the cover and powder coating would then insulate them from earth.
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Regardless of where we are today (and I'm glad we're here), that 8-8 thread came a hell of a lot closer to fruition than any of you would like to admit.
I think the meaning of my post (it's tough for some to actually read what I wrote) has gone over your head. I'm not really faulting the Ravens... But STFU Ravens. It's obvious the media is going to take everything you say, reshape it and take it out of original context to try to embarrass you, the organization and the fan base.
Let the media do their thing to try and distract the Ravens. It worked oh so well for them in 2001, eh?
All this Raven hate is so retarded on steroids.
Reminds me of Cleveland brown show when Cleveland had to keep apologize
Well, I just came from the watching the team. What you may think is happening is not. There were 50 cameras around Ray Lewis and his message was amazing. Just listening to his answers, and his wisdom was worth the $30. The team looks great, is really happy to be here, is loose and ready to play.
At what point does some of this shit actually become a distraction to the team. At what point does Steele and Byrne calling a team meeting (or a meeting with coaches) to fill them in on the potential PR nightmare that is occurring become a distraction of what should be going on?
What is wrong with me implying that the Ravens need to do less talking and spend more time avoiding the media and press, and hunker down and focus? I am certainly not hating on the Ravens... I've been here since 96'. I just don't want them getting sucked into this downward spiral. And yes, I try not to put much stock into what the media says about Bmore, but I do care about our teams nation image.
If anything, this nonsense will just make the team more focused. If there were ever a team in NFL history that was able to use distractions to its advantage, it's the Ravens.


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What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the populations of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of 'phasing out' of such peoples. If the world is to evolve more better humans, then obviously someone has to make way for them ... To think otherwise is mere sentimentality.
Richard Lynn, professor of psychology,
University of Ulster-Coleraine, Northern Ireland
By Barry Mehler
The nature vs. nurture debate has raged throughout the 20th century -- and indeed, it remains a contentious issue that will likely never be resolved. What is clear is that the academics who see inherent IQ differences between racial groups have lent support -- unwittingly or not -- to overt white supremacists. In some cases, this support has gone so far as to become an unapologetic academic embrace of professional racists.
Consider the case of professor Glayde Whitney. A psychology professor at Florida State University and the past president of the Behavior Genetics Association, Whitney boldly goes where few academics have gone before. As the author of an introduction to David Duke's new autobiography, Whitney describes the former Klansman's 717-page tome as 'a painstakingly documented, academically excellent work of socio-biological-political history that has the potential to ... change the very course of history.'
In much of academia, a pillar of the racist argument has become the accepted view. Polling a large sample of mainly academic experts anonymously for a 1988 book, Mark Snyderman and Stanley Rothman found that 53 percent believed IQ differences between blacks and whites have a genetic component. Only 17 percent thought the differences between the racial groups' scores on intelligence tests were strictly environmental in origin. Another 28 percent thought that there was insufficient data available to make a judgment.
In 1994, Science magazine, the world's most prestigious journal of science, devoted an entire issue to the nature vs. nurture debate. 'How much of our fate is in fact written in the DNA inside our cells?' the magazine asked. 'And how much freedom do we have to reach our full potential as human beings through our education and experience?'
For many, the 'hereditarian' position boils down to this:
There are racial differences, the argument goes, and they are not just skin deep. Americans of African descent score, on average, one standard deviation below whites on tests of 'intelligence' -- meaning they have an average IQ of 85. Only 16 percent of African-Americans, the new generation of race scientists argue, have IQs over 100, and fewer than 3 percent score above 115. Certainly, a few blacks are brilliant -- but science 'proves' that most of them are not. Everyone should be judged on their own merits, of course, but affirmative action flies in the face of inalterable reality. Blacks, on average, just don't have what it takes, the hereditarians maintain.
Most of the academics whose work has supported such a view either deny that they are racists or remain blind to their work's implications. But not all. British psychologist Christopher Brand candidly agreed with the idea that he was a 'scientific racist.' The day after Brand accepted that label while promoting a new book carrying the imprint of a major academic publisher, the publisher abruptly canceled a planned American edition.
Other cases have been somewhat murkier.
Before the award ceremony, critics accused Cattell of being aligned with fascist ideas, and in early 1998 the APA decided to appoint a five-person, blue-ribbon committee to investigate the entire affair. Before the committee completed its work, Cattell died. No final report was ever issued. Shortly before his death at the age of 92, Cattell issued a letter withdrawing his name from consideration for the award, saying he 'abhor[red]' racism and only supported 'voluntary eugenics.' Cattell's daughter, Heather, a California psychologist, told a reporter later that her father 'did write some pretty terrible stuff' before World War II, but that he had modified his views later in life.
Like Richard Lynn, Cattell hoped for the 'phasing out' of lesser cultures. He spoke of 'voluntary self-genocide' and recommended, in a 1972 book, that developed countries allow underdeveloped countries to 'go to the wall,' rather than helping these nations when they face famine, genocide or other natural and manmade disasters.
In contrast to most of those who are pushing the idea of important racial IQ differences, critics of this view are generally far more steeped in laboratory work involving genetics. According to Jonathan Beckwith, a professor of molecular genetics at Harvard University School of Medicine, 'If you ask people in the mainstream genetics community, you are not going to find much support for this work.'
'The myth of the all-powerful gene,' adds Harvard biologist and ethicist Ruth Hubbard, 'is based on flawed science that discounts the environmental context in which we and our genes exist.'
Ultimately, the arguments of race scientists lead to the edge of a slippery slope toward eugenics -- the 'improvement' of a race by controlled breeding. In the 1930s and 1940s, Hitler's scientists fully realized this concept, establishing human breeding farms for 'Aryans,' sterilization and euthanasia for the mentally and physically disabled, and death camps for those deemed genetically inferior. In the United States, officials often acting with court sanction sterilized the 'retarded.' While most Americans now see such actions as atrocities, the ideas that underlay them have a long history here.
Even the abolitionist movement was not free from racism. Often, Republicans of the period opposed the extension of slavery simply because they did not want blacks in the new territories. Emancipation, in fact, did not become a war aim until the end of 1862. Thus, it is little wonder that after the Civil War a second system of white supremacy -- codified in Jim Crow laws -- would emerge. White supremacy was the consensus nationwide.
After World War II and the experience of Nazi eugenics, ideological ascendancy passed to egalitarian thinkers. With the coming of the civil rights movement, from 1954 to 1968, America's second system of white supremacy collapsed -- and with it, widespread support for the race scientists and eugenicists who had provided its ideological underpinning. But even during the height of the egalitarian period, a core group of academic racists continued to argue for the importance of race-based IQ differences and even eugenic solutions -- and to train a new generation of race scientists to carry on the torch of scientific racialism.
In 1954, for instance, a key witness defending segregation in court was Henry E. Garrett, who was probably the most influential psychologist of his time, chairman of Columbia University's psychology department and a one-time president of the American Psychological Association. Had his view prevailed in the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, black Americans might still be attending 'separate but equal' schools.
In a 1968 article in the White Citizens Council's official publication, Garrett put it plainly enough: 'Despite glamorized accounts to the contrary, the history of Black Africa over the past 5,000 years is largely a blank.' He added, 'The crime record of the Negro in the United States is little short of scandalous.' Of the Supreme Court's Brown decision, Garrett said, 'Should school desegregation become complete either North or South, we can expect total demoralization and then disorganization in that order.'
By the 1980s, a full-blown culture war was under way. Liberals were accused of controlling the mind and media of the nation, with any dissent from the egalitarian position bringing immediate retribution. Liberals were inquisitors happy to suppress the truth, the scheming architects of 'the closing of the American mind.' The conservatives saw themselves as battling the 'political correctness' of truth-denying liberals.
Today, as underlined by the Snyderman/Rothman study, the views of those who look to race as a key component of intelligence are dominant within the IQ testing community -- even though the same study found that a 47 percent plurality of magazine and newspaper editors believe that any racial IQ differences are caused entirely by environmental factors. And this ascendancy of race science in academia seems to be leaking increasingly into relatively mainstream forums, with more overt racists using it to legitimize their ideology.
American Renaissance magazine is an example of an organization that presents itself as scientific but actually promotes some of the more virulent racial views. It is led by Jared Taylor, author of a controversial book on race, who last fall argued that for whites, multiculturalism is 'nothing more than unilateral disarmament in a dangerous world.' Speakers at the American Renaissance gathering last fall where Taylor spoke included Glayde Whitney, who described blacks as 'bigger in bone, smaller in brain,' biologically specialized 'primitives' wont to mating with whites.
If you scratch the surface of almost any of the prominent race scientists of recent decades, you will find the same well-endowed institution: the Pioneer Fund. Established in 1937 to 'improve the character of the American people' by promoting the study of eugenics and the procreation of descendants of the original white colonial stock, Pioneer has funded many of the leading Anglo-American race scientists of the last several decades. These grant recipients have included William Shockley, Hans J. Eysenck, Arthur Jensen, Roger Pearson, Richard Lynn, J. Philippe Rushton, R. Travis Osborne, Linda Gottfredson, Robert A. Gordon, Daniel R. Vining Jr., Michael Levin and Seymour Itzkoff.
The Pioneer Fund's original endowment came from Wickliffe Draper, scion of old-stock Protestant gentry. Living in what one historian described as a 'quasi-feudal manor house,' Draper grew up in Hopedale, Mass., a company town built by his family. After losing a four-month union battle with the left-wing International Workers of the World, Draper became a man obsessively seeking a way to restore the old order.
Abandoned by the political mainstream after World War II, Draper turned more and more to those academics who were still dedicated to race science and eugenics -- most prominently, in the early years, Henry Garrett. During the 1950s and '60s, Garrett helped distribute Pioneer grants and was one of the founders of the International Association for the Advancement of Eugenics and Ethnology (IAAEE) in 1959. The IAAEE brought together academic defenders of segregation in the United States and apartheid in South Africa. The Pioneer Fund also supported a variety of institutions working to legitimize race science, including the IAAEE and the journal, Mankind Quarterly.
Nobel Laureate William Shockley (1910-89), a physicist at Stanford best known for his 'voluntary sterilization plan,' received $188,710 between 1971 and 1978. Arthur Jensen, an educational psychologist focusing on race since 1966, got more than $1 million in Pioneer grants over three decades. In his famous 1969 attack on Head Start -- the early education program that aims to help poor children -- Jensen wrote in the prestigious Harvard Education Review that the problem with black children was that they had an average IQ of only 85. No amount of social engineering could improve that performance, he claimed, adding that 'eugenic foresight' was the only solution.
Roger Pearson, whose Institute for the Study of Man has been one of the top Pioneer Fund beneficiaries over the past 20 years ($870,000 from 1981 to 1996), provides the clearest indication of the extremists supported by the Fund.
Pearson came to the United States in the mid-'60s to join Willis Carto, founder of the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby. In 1965, he became editor of Western Destiny, a magazine established by Carto and dedicated to spreading far-right ideology. Using the pseudonym Stephan Langton, he then became editor of The New Patriot, a short-lived magazine published in 1966 and 1967 to conduct 'a responsible but penetrating inquiry into every aspect of the Jewish Question.' Its articles carried such titles as 'Zionists and the Plot Against South Africa,' 'Early Jews and the Rise of Jewish Money Power' and 'Swindlers of the Crematoria.'
Pioneer support for all the groups linked to Pearson between 1975 and 1996 amounted to more than $1 million -- nearly 10% of total Pioneer grants in that period.
In more recent decades, University of Western Ontario psychology professor J. Philippe Rushton has replaced Jensen as the top individual beneficiary of Pioneer largesse, receiving more than $1 million since 1981. Rushton argues that behavioral differences among blacks, whites and Asians are the result of evolutionary variations in their reproductive strategies. Blacks are at one extreme, he claims, because they produce large numbers of offspring but offer them little care; at the other extreme are Asians, who have fewer children but indulge them. Whites lie somewhere in between.
Despite Rushton's controversial theories -- including positing an inverse relationship between brain and penis size -- he has been embraced by the scientific mainstream. He has been made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a member of the American, British and Canadian psychological associations.
In recent years, Weyher has said that the Fund is spending down its capital and 'once it's gone, we'll just quit.' As a result of this policy, by the end of 1996 the Fund's assets had declined in real terms to less than 40 percent of their 1986 level.
With or without the Pioneer Fund, the debate over genetic racial differences is sure to occupy scholars and others for a long time to come. And this is not a mere ivory tower squabble of little concern to Americans outside academia. Race science has potentially frightening consequences, as is evident not only from the horrors of Nazi Germany, but also from the troubled racial history of the United States.
If white supremacist groups had their way, the United States would return to its dark days. In publication after publication, hate groups are using this 'science' to legitimize racial hatred.
In Calling Our Nation, the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations publishes a piece by a New York psychologist surveying the work of Jensen, Garrett and numerous others. National Vanguard, the publication of former physics professor William Pierce and his neo-Nazi National Alliance, runs a similar piece that concludes that 'it is the Negro's deficiency ... which kept him in a state of savagery in his African environment and is now undermining the civilization of a racially mixed America.' Ed Fields, a longtime, virulent racist, uses a review of Charles Murray's highly controversial book on IQ, The Bell Curve, to conclude that 'over 50% of all Blacks test in the dull to retarded range.'
But it may be David Duke who sums it up best. 'No subject is more controversial than the nature versus nurture debate, and no subject has more direct consequences on society,' he writes. 'If heredity is shown to [be] the primary influence on intelligence rather than environment, then racial equality will crumble as a viable concept...'
-Barry Mehler, associate professor of history at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., is a leading authority on the modern eugenics movement and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism.


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When the candidate from Oásis do Sul entered the room for her preliminary interview in one of 15 regional heats leading to the finals of the traditional Garota Verão (Summer Girl) Rio Grande do Sul 2013 last Sunday afternoon, one of the judges said: "Look, Miss Universe is in the room!". Indeed the resemblance of the teenage beauty with Miss Universe Olivia Culpo was striking: beautiful face, body, and not much of height (1.65 m-tall, at most).
Garota Verão is possibly the most disputed beauty contest in Brazil. Although a state event, over 400 cities and beaches crown their representatives every year. Thousands participate hoping to sign a R$ 50.000-minimum contract with a model agency, or simply to be called "Garota Verão". The 400 lucky local winners then advance to 15 regional heats. Only two girls per regional go on to the finals, which this year will happen on March 2, in the city of Capão da Canoa (GB will bring you full coverage of it). 30 finalists will compete for the title.
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This past weekend, the city of Arroio do Sal hosted the Northern Beaches Regional. Twenty-four beauties competed for two spots at the finals, including Olivia Culpo's "twin sister". After interviews under some very heavy rain (the judges could barely hear what they had to say), they were taken outside to take on the runway buit right in front of the beach. Personality counts, but in this competition, beauty is what really matters. Well, beauty and height. After all, the winner will sign a contract with an agency and work as a model for at least two years.
After 45 minutes of parading in swimsuits, collectively and individually, the two winners were announced: contestants #10, GV Jardim Atlântico, Sabrina Scherer, and contestant #2, GV Arroio do Sal, Marilinda Corrêa. Our "Olivia" stayed behind, with other 21 beauties, who might try their luck again next year.
While Sabrina and Marilinda celebrated, the same judge who had announced Miss Universe entering the interview room, said after the results were announced: "It's a pity our Olivia Culpo was not a bit taller. Maybe she can try out for Miss Universe in the future". It sounds like a good idea.
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EL PASO, TEXAS – Behind a penalty-kick goal from junior Tess Hall at 25:59 and stifling team defense, the UTEP soccer team downed Marshall, 1-0, in the Conference USA opener for both squads Friday evening.
The Miners (7-2-1, 1-0-0 C-USA) outshot the Thundering Herd (2-6-1, 0-1-0) 21-6, including 7-2 in shots on goal, while also enjoying a 7-4 advantage in corner kicks. Freshman Sarah Dilling registered a pair of saves, while also breaking up potentially dangerous situations by making good reads off her line, on the way to posting the shutout.
An energetic crowd of 620 was on hand to cheer on the home side, which remained undefeated (6-0-0) in the Sun City on the year. All six home triumphs have been of the shutout variety, with the Miners out-scoring the opposition by a combined count of 15-0. Overall the Orange and Blue are undefeated over their past five contests (4-0-1).
UTEP applied pressure from the onset, earning three corners within the first 10 minutes of the match. It couldn't convert on any of the chances, but the message had been sent that the Miners would be assertive in their attack.
Kenah Linger tested Betsy Haugh at 10:37 but the MU netminder came up with the save. Tori Martyn used some solid dribbling to create some space only to have her shot corralled 21:25. The Orange and Blue continued to attack as the period wore on, and they would earn a penalty kick as result at 25:59.
Hall calmly stood over the ball, with the crowd ready to erupt. She didn't disappoint, putting the chance away into the upper right-hand corner to afford UTEP a 1-0 advantage. It marked her team-high-tying fourth goal of the campaign, and with the way the Miners' defense was playing, it would prove to be more than enough.
UTEP controlled play the rest of the period, compiling five more shots but it had to settle for the 1-0 lead at the break.
Marshall opened up the second half with a bit more energy, recording a shot and a corner kick within the first four minutes of the stanza. UTEP's stop troops were up to the task, though.
The Miners regrouped nicely and limited the Herd to a lone corner over the ensuing 22 minutes. At the other end of the pitch they generated some fine looks, including a shot by Katie Dorman which forced Haugh to make a diving stop.
Haugh also came up with a nice save on a header from Martyn at 79:15, effectively keeping her squad within striking distance. The Herd vied to tie the tilt a few minutes later, but fundamental goalkeeping from Dilling resulted in a nice save on a shot by Megan Tabler at 85:53. She punched the shot high, and then UTEP's defense took care of business on the ensuing corner kick.
She was called upon again in the 88th minute, coming up with a nice stop on MU's leading scorer Angela Desumma.
The Miners launched a counter attack in an attempt to find an insurance tally only to have the shot by Brittany Kindzierski deflect off the post.
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