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TUC research which aims to challenge and dispel popular but unfounded myths and stereotypes about people living in poverty is being published at a conference in London today (Monday).
Challenging Myths and Stereotypes will tackle several widely-held beliefs about people claiming benefits and living in poverty which the TUC believes are inaccurate and damaging, including:
- 'People on disability benefits are swinging the lead'
- 'Lots of unemployed people are scroungers'
- 'Benefit levels are a disincentive to work' and
- 'Child poverty is down to bad parents'.
A new TUC briefing produced to coincide with the conference - Are People on Disability Benefits Swinging the Lead? - challenges the misconception that the majority of people claiming disability benefit are cheats and fraudsters, or are out to get over-generous benefits that they are not entitled to.
The report finds that contrary to popular belief fraud is very rare amongst disability benefit claimants, accounting for 0.5 per cent of the 2010/2011 disability living allowance budget, and just 0.3 per cent of the incapacity benefits bill.
The briefing also raises concerns that these unfounded and damaging stereotypes could be partly responsible for the increase in hate crimes disabled people have experienced in recent years.
TUC Deputy General Secretary Frances O'Grady said: 'All too often we see people living in poverty ridiculed as cheats or scroungers.
'But poverty is not a laughing matter. Millions of children are growing up within extremely poor families and the UK has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world.'
Community Links is also launching a report called Speech Marks at the conference, which argues that negative language about people on benefits hampers the chances of those who can work getting a job. The London-based charity will run a seminar on 'Speech Marks': the negative impact of MP's stigmatising language on welfare policy.
Frances O'Grady said: 'Negative portrayals of people on low incomes as lazy, feckless, scrounging on the dole and somehow worth less than the rest of society are not just demonising but hinder jobseekers' efforts to get back into work, creating an environment of suspicion and disdain amongst employers and support staff, and destroying self-confidence.
'Contrary to stereotypes, the vast majority of people on low incomes are not cheating the benefits system. Most people on the breadline want decent work but are struggling - particularly in the current economic climate.'
Frances O'Grady and PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka will address the TUC's annual poverty conference at Congress House.
Delegates will attend morning workshops to discuss stereotypes, and in the afternoon will quiz a panel - which includes Owen Jones author of Chavs: the demonization of the working class, Natascha Engel MP, former Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee Social Fund Commissioner Sir Richard Tilt, NUT General Secretary Christine Blower, Citizens Advice Head of Welfare Policy Lizzie Irons, Bea Roberts from ATD Fourth World and Kevin Flynn from the Newcastle and Gateshead Centre Against Unemployment - on how to combat them.
- Are People on Disability Benefits Swinging the Lead? is available at www.tuc.org.uk/tucfiles/97/DisabilityBenefits.pdf
- Speech Marks is available at www.tuc.org.uk/tucfiles/101/Speechmarks.pdf
- Challenging Myths and Stereotypes will be held at the TUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS from 10.30am-5pm. The conference is organised by ATD Fourth World, the Child Poverty Action Group, Community Links, Oxfam, PCS, Save the Children, the TUC and the Unemployed Workers' Centres. To register for the conference please contact Jennifer Mann on [email protected] or on 020 7467 1222.
- For media accreditation to the conference please email Elly Gibson on [email protected]
- The TUC is a member of the End Child Poverty coalition. The Campaign to End Child Poverty includes children's and other charities, social justice groups, faith groups, unions, businesses and many others concerned about the unacceptably high levels of child poverty in the UK. For information visit www.endchildpoverty.org.uk
- All TUC press releases can be found at www.tuc.org.uk
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The fashionable party drug mephedrone has been linked to up to 98 recent deaths in Britain, government advisers have warned in calling for tougher action to combat the proliferation of legal highs.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said unscrupulous manufacturers made a mockery of the law by falsely advertising addictive substances as "plant food" or "bath salts".
Its chairman, Professor Les Iverson, said young users of "designer drugs" were playing "Russian roulette" with their lives - and the effects were already being seen in hospitals.
"We are not seeing just a nice party drug but something that can kill."
Iverson released figures showing that in the past two years mephedrone had been confirmed as a factor in 42 deaths and had not been ruled out as contributing to a further 56.
Users of designer drugs - created in labs to mimic the make-up of banned substances such as Ecstasy and amphetamines - suffered such extreme side-effects that they had to be sedated.
They had also been treated for paranoia, psychosis, high heart rates and raised blood pressure, he said.
"Users are playing Russian roulette. They are buying substances marked as research chemicals. The implication is that you should do the research on yourself to find out whether they're safe or not. This is a totally uncontrolled, unregulated market."
The first large quantities of legal highs, or psychoactive drugs - many made in China - appeared in Britain two years ago.
They can be easily bought online or from shops selling drug paraphernalia and herbal goods. Some undergraduates also sell them to fellow students.
The council said: "Many people importing these new substances appear to have had no previous involvement in the illicit drug trade and are just in it to make a quick buck."
Ministers have outlawed several such substances, but the council warned that producers were sidestepping the bans by tweaking the composition of drugs.
It backed creating a new system of broader bans in which all substances chemically similar to controlled drugs were automatically made illegal.
The council also called for suppliers to have to demonstrate that legal highs were not being produced for human consumption and for a fresh drive to alert the public to their dangers.
Roger Howard, chief executive of the Drug Policy Commission, backed the recommendations. "It's increasingly difficult for police to identify the different drugs they are finding," he said.
The Home Office said it was considering the proposals.
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I promise I'll stop announcing every time a new wholesale order comes in… soon! Right now it's just the most exciting thing and I love sharing it with you guys! (Plus, what if it's your local store? Wouldn't you want to know?)
I'm happy to annouce that Spool of Thread is the latest store to carry the Pendrell Blouse pattern. It's wonderful to be in a local store! Now Vancouver-based sewists have somewhere to pick up the pattern. Instant gratification! Besides, don't you want an excuse to drop by?
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I was baffled when I read a flurry of Facebook posts, Twitter messages and, subsequently, national media coverage of the decision of one West Yorkshire Council to refuse a burlesque festival the use of one of its buildings.
Hebden Royd Town Council ruled that it was 'inappropriate' to host the Hebden Bridge Burlesque Festival event at the town's picture house next year.
The town council sub-committee refused the application, stating: "The Picture House Committee does not feel that it is appropriate for Hebden Royd Town Council to be associated with the Hebden Bridge Burlesque Festival.
"Burlesque arouses strong feelings, and many people feel it is demeaning to women, and raises issues of gender equality."
I really object to the term 'arousing strong feeling' – do they think it's purely a sexual art form intended for people to get their rocks off? If so, they are completely missing the point.
The few times I've been to a burlesque show it's been a female-dominated audience who are celebrating the beauty, confidence, creativity and showmanship of these women.
In terms of 'demeaning' do they mean the performers themselves who choose this career path or the women, like me, who freely choose to purchase a ticket and attend the event?
Have we somehow all been duped into being demeaned? What about actresses who choose to perform sex scenes on screen, are they being demeaned too?
It all sounds a bit too Mary Whitehouse for my liking….
In response to the news burlesque star Heidi Bang Tidy, a co-organiser of the festival, insisted that burlesque is a legal and legitimate art form.
She told the Hebden Bridge Times: "We object to being told that the people of Hebden Bridge are not capable of deciding for themselves whether they wish to purchase a ticket for a burlesque show, that our show is not 'appropriate' use of a public building."
Understandably the council's decision has baffled the wider vintage and burlesque community who have taken to social networking sites to share their views.
Manchester's own Laura Norrey tweeted: As a burlesque fan and amateur performer, the argument surrounding @hebdenburlyfest infuriates me… #SoDemeaning
So if you, like me, appreciate the talent, beauty and creativity of these fabulous women who choose to perform, make your voice count.
You can sign the petition here, and for more information visit the Facebook group and search the hashtag #sodemeaning on Twitter.
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The couple with the most electrifying chemistry on screen so far this year is Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg in "2 Guns." As the title of the the graphic novel by Steven Grant and Mateus Santolouco suggests, it is a double-barreled shoot-em-up. It is very violent, and it seems that the two stars think they are making a more light-hearted, escapist bang bang frolic than the movie can deliver. The other characters in the often-sour story seem to be in a different movie. But as long as the two stars are trading quips in syncopation with the rounds of firepower, it is very entertaining.
Washington plays Bobby, a DEA agent who has been undercover for a couple of years infiltrating a Mexico-based drug ring. Wahlberg is Stig, working undercover for the Navy for the same reason. We're told they are the best at what they do, but somehow when they are trading banter about the best doughnuts in three counties and the drug dealer henchman who has been separated from his head they never figure out that they are both working for law enforcement. Me, I think I might suspect that Bobby was not the usual bad guy when he stops in the middle of a robbery to pick up and soothe a crying baby. But Stig is too busy being cool to notice. Other than that, and repeatedly trusting the wrong people, and not making much progress in getting anyone arrested or confiscating any drugs or weapons, they are both crackerjack detectives.
Bobby has some issues. He is a loner. He does not "have people." He has a sometime girlfriend, a Justice Department attorney named Deb (Paula Patton). "Did you ever love me?" she asks him when they are in bed together. "I meant to love you," he says. Stig is more easy-going, but he may be too far in the other direction when it comes to trust, not able to see when his "people" are less loyal to him than he is to them. That may be part of the explanation for their mutual blind spot in not figuring out that they were both doing the same thing. Neither they nor we have much time to think about that as very quickly it turns out that they have been set up and betrayed, and they will need to find a way to work together in the midst of being hunted down by three separate groups who want to kill them.
After that, it's just banter, chase, banter, shoot-out, banter, a couple of torture scenes, banter, betrayal, more quippy banter, and then ludicrous even in the context of this movie side-story about the perils of illegal immigration, then pay-off (literally). It is an uneasy mix, but the stars own the fizzy dialogue with such brio, electricity and pure charisma that they provide the real explosive power.
Parents should know that this film includes constant comic book-style violence, some graphic and disturbing images, torture, guns, explosions, chases, fights, many characters injured and killed, non-explicit sexual situation, female nudity, some strong language, and pervasive corruption.
Family discussion: The issue of loyalty occurs several different times in this movie. How do Bobby and Stig show their views about loyalty? How does Deb? How do their views change over the course of the story?
If you like this, try: "Lethal Weapon," "Shoot 'em Up," and "The Other Guys"


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Hipps kicks off campaign Thursday
Waynesville Democrat Jane Hipps of Waynesville will be holding a campaign kickoff event at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at the Junaluska Elementary School.
Hipps has filed for the Democratic nomination for the 50th Senate District. Incumbent Republican Jim Davis currently holds the seat.
Hipps will face a primary challenge from Ron Robinson, a Sylva Democrat.
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An angry Vital Healthcare Property Trust investor has criticised performance and investment in Australia at New Zealand's expense and said unit holders were not being well-served by the board.
Tom Mullen, a trustee of three entities holding units in the listed landlord, told Vital's annual meeting in Auckland yesterday how he was surprised that although the board had a majority of independent directors, the business was pouring money into Australia but was selling assets here.
"We started it off here in New Zealand but all the expansion is going into Australia and we've not spent anything in New Zealand. In fact, we've sold here," he said.
Mullen noted how Vital director and NorthWest Value Partners founder Paul Dalla Lana from North America was not at the meeting, even though NorthWest owned Vital's management and a big stake in the trust. Dalla Lana sent an apology for non-attendance.
Graeme Horsley, Vital's chairman, pointed out that Bernard Crotty, a NorthWest trustee, was at the meeting from North America.
Mullen said NorthWest was benefiting from having such a big interest in Vital yet unit holders were losing out because lower returns were being paid to investors.
"We as New Zealand shareholders who started all this off have not gained a lot out of if financially or otherwise. The only thing is we have got is a larger unit trust," Mullen said of Vital's purchase of many Australian properties. "Long-term shareholders have not seen the benefits. The people making money are NorthWest."
Horsley said perhaps Mullen should buy units in NorthWest.
"I'd be interested to see whether other people are concerned about performance over the last five to 10 years," Horsley told the meeting. "If you went back and looked at the charts, Vital has out-performed any of the New Zealand REITs [real estate investment trusts] over the 10-year period, so I'm not sure you can start saying a criticism of performance."
The board is projecting unitholders will get 7.9c a unit distribution for the 2014 financial year, said Vital chief executive David Carr.
Vital owns the $80.5 million Greenlane Ascot Hospital & Clinics.
Units in Vital closed up 1c yesterday at $1.31.


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So last week, I told you about the Filofax Blogger Style-Off I am taking part in. Well I have been gathering some stuff together and I thought I would let you see what I've come up with.
You'll see my gorgeous filofax that I'll be colour blocking around, and later in the week I'll let you have a look at the outfits, when they will go up on the filofax facebook page. As soon as they are up, you'll be able to vote for me, and the winner will get 12 of these Apex Organisers to give away to their readers. Good eh??
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I picked up all the pieces from TK Maxx which I rediscovered at the recent Press Day.
Here are the details:
Peach Top – £14.99 – Romeo and Juliet, TK Maxx
Yellow Pleat skirt – £129.99 Giambattista Valli, TK Maxx
Blue Pleat dress – £19.99 – Plisse, TK Maxx
Red Wedges – £99.99 – Philosophy by Alberta Feretti, TK Maxx
Orange Shoes – £39.99 – Carvela, TK Maxx
I can't wait to get putting the outfits together!
In case you missed it, here's my video explaining the challenge.
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James R. Magness
CROOKSTON — James Ross Magness, of Crookston, Minn., died May 1, 2011, at his home.
He will be deeply missed by his children, Jamie Magness, Brainerd, Minn., Julia (Magness) Toso, Crookston, Minn., William Magness, Hibbing, Minn., Brooke McPherson, Pillager, Minn.; seven precious grandchildren, Brianna, Shelby, Kyleigh, Kohl, Chloe, Ethan and Nyah; brothers, Joseph, Brainerd, Minn., Carson, Aitkin, Minn.; sisters, Sara (Magness) Imgrund, Fort Ripley, Minn., Janiva Magness, Los Angeles; nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, and friends.
He is preceded in his death by his son, Artese P. Magness; infant grandson, Joseph; parents, Billy C. and Wilhelmina M. Magness; and many extended family members.
James was born in Mount Clemens, Mich., May 3, 1948. He was captain of the football team in White Bear Lake during high school. He moved to South Dakota where he drove fuel truck for Northern Farmers Elevator in South Dakota for several years before settling again in Minnesota. Later he attended Rainy River Comm. College and received his bachelor's in science. He worked as a nurse at Moose Lake Hospital. He came back to the Brainerd area again where he logged the rest of his time here. He then moved to Crookston. He was an avid fisherman, hunter and loved being outdoors. His heroes were old west cowboys and his father. Louis L'Amour books, history and public radio were things he enjoyed. Being a dad and grandpa was what he considered to be his greatest gifts in life. Jim will be greatly missed. Peace.
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Thanks for the heads-up on that, Evan. This is indeed a great new technology, Casio let the genie out of the bottle, and now this valiant effort from Panasonic.
I would be surprised if the 2 LED lamps and the green laser could not be replaced at all, but when I read that the DLP chip is sealed together with the 2 LED lamps and the tiny laser, I began to be concerned by that. Now, the light engine warranty is 10,000 hours from Panasonic, assuming the PJ should catastrophically fails after that and there is no light engine replacement available, then you had used the unit for 10K hours with no hope of extending that.
I watched the Panasonic demo of this machine on their Panasonic Projectors You Tube Channel, the demo is totally mute on how they came up with the 20,000 hours and whatever should happen after that. Also not clear to me is this: how can the expected life expectancy of an LED lamp be the same as that of a laser beam generator? In other words, will one age before the other, if yes, then the color composition of your image would have to be adjusted taking this into account.
Half brightness at 20,000 hours sounds great, however like I said I saw nothing stating this anywhere from Panasonic. Now, based on the review, the best looking images from this nominally rated 3500 ANSI lumen brightness PJ from Panasonic would be in the 700 to 1000 ANSI lumen range. Once this drops to say half at or around 20K hours, then we would be projecting an image with 350 to 500 lumen brightness, that is just not bright enough really for most apps, particularly if this is indeed intended mainly as a conference room projector where plenty of ambient light is anticipated.
This model and its sister models are touted as 24/7 capable projectors, well that would come to 8,760 hours per annum, so the 20,000 hour limit would be reached in less than 2.5 years if the unit is indeed being run continuously.
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Sources say the reason behind the Windows Phone PM parting with the company is that his outlays on Twitter were unauthorized, and not coherent with the NDA agreements everyone has signed.
We thought it a bit strange at the time that a Microsoft employee is disclosing freely stuff about the upcoming Nokia Windows Phone, despite the Apple-style secrecy that CEO Stephen Elop promised during the development phase. The Nokia CEO himself produced what had every indication of a controlled leak with the Nokia Sea Ray phone during the summer, so we assumed this was authorized as well.
Turns out that wasn't the case, and Mr Marini might have been the latest victim of scratching his social networking itch with company information. Not that the details revealed were anything major - he rated the phone 8 out of 10, citing a good camera, and said he'd like a slightly larger display.
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I adore Chanel but there is not one part of me that can find anything nice to say about these shoes.
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Knight'sEclectic December 24, 2011 at 10:14 am #
Eww ugly as sin, the toe socks look better lol x
@pocketguidesoph December 24, 2011 at 10:19 am #
I feel slightly nauseaous. Too many details on the shoe; buckle and heel and open toe and all in white! Chanel obviously had a more – is – more moment.
Computergirl December 24, 2011 at 10:24 am #
The toe part Is really open plus the heel boxy. Add to that that White makes feet look bigger- they look like giant dolls shoes ( only not Barbie's, she has style)! Different design, but thumbs down for me. Happy Christmas xx
Nellyjuke December 24, 2011 at 10:55 am #
You'd need small slim feet to carry them off & nice toes. Perhaps designed with hospitals in mind?
ali thorpe December 24, 2011 at 11:30 am #
They don't strike me as very 'Chanel' because I tend to think of Chanel as classic, elegant and timeless and I wouldn't use any of these words to describe those shoes.
As for the socks, I can't see the point in them and I don't like the idea of all that fabric between my toes. Makes me feel icky.
Pretty In Pink December 24, 2011 at 12:50 pm #
i was about to defend them from the mini pic in my news feed, but no theyre rank


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Arkansas had the day off while waiting for Frisco to open a three game series Monday night.
Rancho swept by Stockton 10-6 (A's)
The Ports scored a run in each of their last five innings to secure a sweep of the Quakes and send the club back to Rancho Cucamonga with a 1-5 mark for their trip.
After dominating the Arizona League, 20-year-old Pedro Herrera has struggled in three appearances with the Quakes. The righty from Venezuela was charged with three runs, two earned, on four hits in just two thirds of an inning Sunday, one outing after he failed to collect an out at all. Herrera has given up four hits in three appearances totaling 1.2 innings of work and walked three, giving opponents a .583 on-base percentage in the Cal League.
Making his eighth start in center field over the last 11 games, Josh Leblanc had three hits including a two-run double in the inning. The left-handed hitter, whom the Angels selected in the sixth round of the 2004 draft, has gone for three hits in a game four times this season.
Kernels can't come back, fall 7-5 to Lansing (Toronto)
Despite a pair of home runs by right fielder Jordan Renz, Cedar Rapids couldn't keep their offense going and lost when the bullpen couldn't hold a 4-4 tie in the seventh inning.
Renz was 3-for-4 on the night, collecting multiple home runs for the second time this year. Although he has hit just .228 on the season, Renz is second in the league with 20 home runs and sports the best slugging percentage (.473) and most RBIs (69) on the roster. He had been in a 2-for-25 funk before launching a three-run blast in the first inning.
Appearing out of the bullpen for the second straight outing, Brok Butcher struggled after entering with a runner on base and two outs. He plunked the first batter he saw, the second Midwest League hitter he has drilled in 30 innings, then surrendered a three-run blast to left field which cost the Kernels the win. At three different levels this year, the righty has given up only three homers in 52.1 innings of work.
Orem tops Ogden 4-3 (Dodgers)
The Owlz plated three runs in the top of the fourth then relied on their pitching to hold out for the rest of the game to take a victory over their in-state rivals and take a one game lead in the second half of the season.
Trevor Bell rebounded from back-to-back poor outings to pick up his fourth win of the season, giving up three runs – two earned – over 5.2 innings of work. The teenager surrendered only four hits and a walk, the fifth time in 10 starts he has allowed one or fewer base runner per inning of work. After giving up only one home run in his first 27.2 innings of work, Bell has surrendered six in 24.2 frames, including a two-run shot Sunday. Ryan Mount drove in a pair of runs with a bases-loaded double that almost cleared the right-centerfield wall in the fourth inning. The leadoff man is tied with Chris Pettit for the team lead with 16 extra-base hits on the year and, after coming around later in the inning, now sports a team-best 31 runs scored. Although Mount has a .277 overall average, he has struggled with runners on, managing just a .222 mark with a teammate on the bases.
Outfielder Tyler Johnson had a pair of doubles in four at-bats, driving in the Owlz first run with two outs in the first. The big Oklahoman has collected eight extra-base hits in his last seven games, driving in nine runs in that span. Of concern, however, is that Johnson has also whiffed nine times in the same period of time, taking his season count to 43 in 121 at-bats.
AZL Angels down A's 7-1
Vladimir Veras continued his impressive rookie campaign and the bottom half of the Angels lineup backed him up at the plate as the Angels won their fifth straight to remain a half-game behind the league-leading Padres.
Veras once again gave up just one run over five innings of work, matching his season high with eight strikeouts against only one walk. The 20-year-old righty has given up more than one run in just one of his nine starts and leads the league with a 1.88 ERA. In three starts against Oakland's lowest minor league affiliate, Veras has given up three earned runs on 10 hits in 16 innings while striking out 19.
Third baseman Matt Sweeney collected two more hits, including his fifth double of the season. The left-handed hitter also drew his 13th walk, pushing his on-base percentage to .427 to go along with his team-leading .631 slugging percentage which ranks second on the circuit. With all his plate appearances coming against right-handed pitching today, he increased the gap in his production against righties. While lefties have allowed him just a .241 average with a pair of doubles in 29 at-bats, he has mashed right-handers for a .378 average and .757 slugging percentage.
Australian Brendan Wilson threw two more innings of scoreless relief to lower his ERA to 1.84. After a rough year with Orem in 2005 which featured an elbow injury and poor results after his return, the righty was held back in Arizona for another year, but is finally showing the command and approach the Angels were hoping for when they signed him as a 17-year-old in Victoria. Wilson has allowed just one extra-base hit in 14.1 innings of work and is holding opponents to a .226 average.


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Wednesday's Game
Georgia returns home for the first time in three weeks when it plays host to Florida Atlantic on Wednesday night. Not since the Bulldogs dispatched St. Louis back on Dec. 2 have they enjoyed the luxury of their own home court.
• Georgia arrives at this contest with a 5-4 overall record, with its first conference game still 17 days away. Most recently, the Bulldogs returned to competition after a 10-day layoff and posted their most impressive win to date, a 70-67 neutral-court decision over Illinois on Saturday in Duluth.
• Wednesday's game is the second all-time meeting between Georgia and Florida Atlantic. The only previous time these two teams met was on Nov. 25, 2003, with Georgia prevailing 99-84 in Athens. That game remains the last time three Bulldogs scored at least 20 points apiece in a single contest.
• It's worth mentioning that these two teams have one common opponent thus far in this young season: New Orleans. Georgia downed the Privateers 67-59 at home in the season opener, while FAU won 66-48 at New Orleans nine days ago.
• After Wednesday's game, the Georgia team will disperse for the Christmas holiday and is scheduled to return to Athens for a Dec. 27 practice. Its schedule resumes Dec. 30 at home against Pepperdine.
Thompkins honored by SEC
Trey Thompkins, whose outstanding play led Georgia to a rousing victory over Big Ten foe Illinois, was named Southeastern Conference Player of the Week, according to an announcement Monday by the league office in Birmingham.
Thompkins, a 6-10 sophomore from Lithonia, scored a team-high 21 points and added seven rebounds as the Bulldogs edged the Fighting Illini 70-67 at the Gwinnett Arena in Duluth. Most important, he sank four decisive free throws in the game's final 22 seconds to secure the victory. Thompkins did not start the Illinois game and played just 29 minutes. He had missed two practices during the week of final exams after having wisdom teeth extracted.
For the season, Thompkins leads the Bulldogs in scoring at 15.0 points per game, rebounding (7.2/game), blocks (16), field goal attempts (113) and field goals made (49). Continuing the theme from the Illinois game, he has made 11 of 12 foul shots in the final five minutes of games this season. Thompkins is also the leading career scorer among all current Bulldogs with 489 points.
Thompkins becomes the first Georgia player to win the SEC Player-of-the-Week award since Sundiata Gaines took home the honor during the week of Feb. 18, 2008.
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Florida Atlantic is one of nine Sun Belt Con¬ference schools, the second one this season, to have played Georgia. Western Kentucky is the most frequent SBC opponent of Georgia's; the two programs have met eight times, including four of the past five season. ... In the most recent SEC statistics, Georgia leads the league in free-throw percentage at 70.7 percent, a stark improvement from last season, when the '09 team ranked 11th among the 12 SEC teams at season's end. Georgia has never won the SEC's free throw-percentage title in the 50 years for which those numbers have been tallied. … A couple of other stats that merit a mention: last year's Georgia team averaged nearly 19 3-point shot attempts per game, compared to only 12.4 thus far for the current Bulldogs. The 2010 Georgia team, however, averages over 21 foul shots per contest, compared to just over 17 per game last season.


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Perspective is everything.
You know this. Having a bad day? Change your attitude. How, though, can we do this?
Today, I had to row twelve, five hundred meter repeats. Surprisingly, I wasn't dreading this. Why? Here is how it was written:
Complete 4 Rounds of:
Row 500 m @ 70% Rest 2 mins
Row 500 m @ 85% Rest 2 mins
Row 500 m @ 100% Rest 6 mins
If this workout had been written as row 12×500, row 6, 000 meters, or row for 70 minutes (because essentially, that's how long it took), my attitude approaching and during it would have been one of absolute dread; however, because it was presented in rounds with a percentage of certain effort being required each round, I mentally was able to get through it.
Have you ever tried doing this with a workout that you are dreading or that appears significantly daunting? If it is high volume reps at one time, how about dividing it in smaller clusters prior to beginning it? Or, if it is a particularly long workout, how about figuring out what percentage of your maximal output that you can exert in the beginning few rounds and adjust this as it progresses?
Most times all that you have to do is look at something in a different way to be able to get through it more easily…
Both in the gym, but more importantly, in life also.
How about dividing life's challenges into "rounds"? Or, maybe realizing that the 100% you gave to a task in the beginning may only enable you to perform at 70% later on down the road?
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UNTIL THE CONGRESSMAN from North Carolina spoke, the hearings were proceeding routinely. The Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives was convened on April 6 in a stately room in the Rayburn office building to consider the progress of the war in Iraq; much of the testimony was barely more animated than the paintings of deceased legislators adorning the walls. Richard Perle, a former Pentagon adviser and one of the war's principal architects, had taken the witness chair. He was serene and unflappable as he answered questions about the Pentagon budget, oil prices, and the training of Iraqi troops.
Then the chairman called on Rep. Walter B. Jones. Glaring at the witness, Jones quoted a statement from Perle's testimony suggesting that the administration had been misled in its assessment of Iraq by "double agents planted by the regime." The congressman's voice quavered as he demanded an apology to the country. "It is just amazing to me how we as a Congress were told we had to remove this man, but the reason we were given was not accurate."
"I went to a Marine's funeral that left a wife and three children, twins he never saw," Jones said, his voice cracking as his eyes began to water. "And I'll tell you—I apologize, Mr. Chairman, but I am just incensed at this statement." He continued, "When you make a decision as a member of Congress and you know that decision is going to lead to the death of American boys and girls, some of us take that pretty seriously, and it's very heavy on our hearts."
Jones wasn't the first erstwhile war supporter in Congress to have second thoughts; lawmakers like Senator Chuck Hagel and North Carolina Rep. Howard Coble preceded him in that reversal, and in November, most of the Senate's Republicans voted for a resolution calling on the administration to "explain to the American people its strategy for the successful completion of the mission." No less a figure than the Senate Armed Services Committee chair, Senator John Warner, a Virginia Republican and one of the Senate's old bulls, has warned that the point is approaching when support of the war may no longer be politically tenable.
Yet among all the defections, Jones' may be the most telling. The courtly 62-year-old Republican represents North Carolina's flag-waving 3rd District, home to the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune. He is known to his constituents as a staunchly conservative Christian, and known to the nation and the world for his insistence, back during the lead-up to war in 2003, that House cafeterias replace French fries on the menu with "freedom fries." He banished French toast, too. "A lot of us are very disappointed in the French attitude," Jones said then.
Against that backdrop, Jones' road to Damascus may seem especially long. But in truth, his conversion did not come about in spite of his conservative politics, his religious beliefs, his own military background, and his Marine constituency. It came about because of them.
FARMVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, is a bucolic village of barely three square miles and fewer than 5,000 residents—including Jones, who was born here in 1943. The town sits at the center of the state's tobacco belt, anchoring Pitt County's role as the state's largest producer of flue-cured tobacco. On a sunny October day, bright white balls of cotton glisten along the approach to the tiny downtown, a no-nonsense place whose blocks are lined with auto parts stores, body shops, and farm equipment vendors. Columned mansions, some in need of upkeep, sit beside neatly manicured Victorians, modest bungalows, and shacks. At the very heart of Farmville, outside the Town Hall, stretches a shaded expanse of green beset with benches, a fountain, a gazebo, and a plaque announcing the Walter B. Jones Town Common. The park is named after Jones' late father, a political icon who represented Farmville and environs in Congress from 1966 to 1992.
Jones Sr. was a feisty Carolina Democrat, and virtually everyone here knows his name. He was "kind of a liberal Democrat, but he disguised it in populist rhetoric," says Carmine Scavo, a political science professor at East Carolina University. A Baptist who believed in traditional family values long before the term became a GOP catchphrase, Jones sent his son to Virginia's Hargrave Military Academy, whose mission statement promises a "wholesome environment in which the Christian faith and principles pervade all aspects of the school program." The young Jones was a star athlete known for his ability to hit long-range jump shots, remembers Millie Lilley, whose husband later taught and coached at Hargrave. "He hoped to go to North Carolina State to play basketball."
Hargrave did vault Jones into N.C. State, though not into the basketball program; it also planted the seed for his life's first major conversion. One day on the Hargrave campus, Jones glanced through an open door and spied a fellow cadet on his knees, saying the rosary. "I was impressed by his devoutness," he says. Jones began thinking and reading about Catholicism. "I didn't so much get into the history of the church as I got into the ritual," he recalls. When he was 31, he formally converted. "I haven't missed a Sunday Mass in 30 years," he says proudly.
Switching religious allegiances was not a minor decision at a time when many in the Bible Belt viewed Catholicism "almost like it was some sect," says Lilley, who now runs Jones' congressional office in Greenville. But Jones' epiphany, she notes, was rooted in his personality more than religious dogma. "He likes the way Catholic services are organized. He likes knowing what to expect."
"He knows the Bible," adds Father Justin Kerber of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Greenville. "I think that comes from his Protestant background." Kerber is a soft-spoken, gray-haired priest from New Jersey who strongly supports President Bush. His church, a modern structure in sandy brown brick whose square cupola is filled with arty stained-glass windows, draws on a growing number of Catholics in eastern North Carolina, including Mexican immigrants and Yankee retirees. Every Saturday afternoon, when he is in town, Jones attends the 5 p.m. Mass, always sitting in the back pew.
Jones went from N.C. State to Atlantic Christian College, served in the National Guard, and settled into a job with a wine broker. "At the time I didn't know a burgundy from a Bordeaux," he says. His territory comprised all of North Carolina and parts of southern Virginia, a region not too distant from the Capitol, where his father was working. He rarely visited him there. "I never had the interest," he says. "I'm a small-town guy."
That would change, setting into motion the second major conversion of Jones' life. In 1982, the district Democratic Party chose Jones to fill out the term of a state assemblyman who'd died. Suddenly, the conservative Christian wine salesman found himself following in his father's political footsteps. With near-universal name recognition, he was reelected again and again. Then, in 1992, Walter B. Jones Sr. fell ill and retired from Congress. In the election that followed, young Jones ran for the seat his father had held—and lost in the primary to Eva Clayton, a liberal, labor-backed county commissioner. That defeat, and the suspicion that North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt had backed Clayton, soured him on the party of his father, his family, and most of his neighbors. What finally pushed him over the edge were his antiabortion beliefs.
"I talked to my father," he says. "I told him, 'I'm going to change my party affiliation.' And—I give my right hand to my Lord and Savior—he said, 'I understand that.'" A few months later, Walter B. Jones Sr. was dead. In the Republican landslide of 1994, his son rode Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America" to a seat in Congress.
At first, Jones was a loyal soldier in Gingrich's revolutionary army. He backed tax cuts, a redesigned welfare system, the Balanced Budget Amendment, and more money for the Pentagon. The handbook Politics in America described him as "one of the unreconstructed 'true believers' of the GOP Class of 1994."
But, like the celluloid Mr. Smith, soon after Mr. Jones went to Washington he found himself disillusioned. The machinations of lobbyists, the power of money, and the ego-driven politics of the nation's capital upset him. "Christ was a man of humility," he says. "Washington is a city of arrogance." Still, when George W. Bush declared a war on terror, and then took that war to Iraq, Jones was an early, firm, and vocal supporter. He believed what the Bush administration said about Iraq's connections to Al Qaeda and about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, and he became one of the war's strongest advocates.
The idea that catapulted Jones into the headlines back then came from Cubbies, a chain of restaurants in eastern North Carolina. In Greenville, Cubbies' black awning spreads out over the corner of Evans Street and East 5th, and signs proclaim: "Voted #1 Cheeseburger and Hot Dog in Pitt County." Inside, the place is packed with sports memorabilia and "Go Pirates" posters. Rough-hewn wood tables surround a comfortable bar. There are 13 Cubbies in North Carolina, including one in downtown Farmville and another in Beaufort, just outside the Cherry Point Naval Air Station. Neal Rowland, who owns the Cubbies franchise in Beaufort, first introduced "freedom fries" in February 2003, and soon customers were clamoring for them at every Cubbies. Jones "was inspired by it," says Rowland. "He came in, and we chitchatted and talked." Back in Washington, Jones prevailed on Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), the chairman of the House Administration Committee, to rewrite the menus on Capitol Hill. With hindsight, it's not one of his proudest moments. "I wish it had never happened," he says now.
Just two months after the French fry incident came the event that would set off Jones' third conversion—the memorial ceremony for Marine Sergeant Michael Bitz. Bitz was a 31-year-old amphibian assault vehicle driver who was killed in Nasiriyah on March 23, 2003, while trying to evacuate wounded troops. The young Marine left behind a wife, Janina, a two-year-old son, and a pair of newborn twins. His funeral was held on the grounds of Camp Lejeune, on the banks of the New River. Jones watched the Marines fold the flag that had draped the coffin and hand it to Janina Bitz as her toddler wandered close by. "She read from the last letter that he sent her," he recalls. "I had tears running from my eyes." The little boy, Joshua, dropped a toy, and a young Marine in dress uniform stooped to pick it up, handing it to the child. "And the boy looked up at him, and the Marine looked down, and then it hit me: This little boy would never know his daddy." The tableau affected Jones in a way that he struggles to explain. "This was a spiritual happening for me," he says. "I think at that point I fully understood the loss that a family feels." Driving home to Farmville that day, grief swelled in him. "The whole way, 72 miles, I was thinking about what I just witnessed. I think God intended for me to be there."
Jones began writing letters to the families of each and every U.S. soldier, sailor, and Marine killed in Iraq, a practice that he continues today. He's written more than 2,000 in all. He works on them every Saturday, alone in his office in Greenville. He can bear to do only a few at a time. "I can do four or five letters, and then I have to stop and do something else," he says. "And then I come back and do another five." Outside his office on Capitol Hill stands a forest of placards titled "Faces of the Fallen," bearing photographs of Americans killed in Iraq; there are so many that Jones' staff has to rotate the placards. Those not displayed on easels in the hall lean against a breakfront by his desk.
Gradually, one letter at a time, Jones' doubts about the war began to take shape. The failure of U.S. forces to uncover weapons of mass destruction gnawed at him, and the billions of dollars being spent added to his concern. He worried about President Bush's inability to enunciate clear goals for the war. "In all the president's speeches," Jones says, "I've never heard the president say that there is an end point."
Jones turned to those closest to him for guidance, including his pastor. Father Kerber recalls times that he and Jones would pray about important decisions, sometimes getting down on their knees in Jones' congressional office. "He's told me of the anguish he felt about the deaths in Iraq," he says. "He would talk to me after Mass to say that his heart was so disturbed."
Then—"as God would have it," Jones says—his daughter, who works for the state agriculture department in Raleigh, gave him a gift that changed everything. For his long drives back and forth between Washington, D.C., and Farmville, a lonely trip down Interstate 95 that can take five or six hours, she presented him with an audiotape of James Bamford's A Pretext for War, a scathing indictment of the Bush administration's abuse of prewar intelligence that excoriates the neoconservatives who hyped the threat from Iraq. The revelations opened Jones' eyes. "I was so concerned that I bought the book so I could highlight it." Jones invited Bamford to lunch and then brought him back to Capitol Hill for an off-the-record dinner with two dozen members of Congress. Bamford, a former investigative producer for ABC News who has written widely on in-telligence issues, was impressed. "The vast majority of people in Congress, once they make a mistake, don't want to admit it, which is why I have a lot of admiration for Walter Jones," he says. "Until then, he had felt the emotion of the war and the casualties, but he hadn't focused on the lies and the distortion and the exaggeration involved in the period before the war."
That was last winter. Since then, Jones has met with numerous opponents of the administration's Iraq policy, including conservatives such as General Anthony Zinni, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, and General William E. Odom of the Hudson Institute, a former director of the National Security Agency. He has sat down in his office with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan.
Last June, along with Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), Jones introduced a resolution presaging the one his Senate Republican colleagues would pass a few months later, but with one key difference: Jones' version would have required the administration to develop a specific timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. He titled it Homeward Bound.
THE KETTLE DINER is as close as you'll get to the center of daily social life in Jacksonville, North Carolina. It sits astride Marine Boulevard, the city's main drag, which is lined with tattoo and piercing parlors, thrift stores, pawn shops, Saigon Sam's souvenir shop, and Crazy Cuts ("Specializing in military haircuts"). Inside the Kettle Diner on an overcast fall afternoon, Mac McGee, a 26-year veteran of the Marines and a leader of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, is sipping coffee. McGee is 68—his hair, still buzz cut, is gray now. He served three tours in Vietnam. On Iraq, he says, "We need some sort of exit strategy. We don't want another Vietnam, and let's face it, that's where we're headed." Do the boys at Camp Lejeune want out of the war? "They haven't said it," he says. "But I'm sure they're starting to feel that way. I think they're starting to get tired."
Randy Reichler, who shows up at the Kettle later that afternoon, works at Camp Lejeune; he says that when Jones first announced his shift, the anger on the base was palpable. A thin, angular man with blue eyes and gray hair that tumbles down into sideburns, Reichler runs Camp Lejeune's Retired Affairs Office, helping Marines plan their transition back to civilian life. Many people on the base "believe that Jones' statements did hurt us," he says, and some have accused him of wanting "to cut and run, give aid to the enemy." But still, he adds, "some of them say, 'You know what? We do need an exit strategy.'"
Around the district, reaction to Jones' shift was similarly mixed. "It was about half and half," Jones guesses—an estimate that dovetails with a statewide poll last summer by the Raleigh News and Observer, which found that only 42 percent of Tarheel voters felt the war had been worthwhile. Jones' staffers recall fielding outraged phone calls from veterans, military retirees, and conservative activists. "The phone would ring, and you could tell what was coming just by their tone of voice," says Lilley. There were murmurs about a primary challenge in 2006. But Jones made repeated trips to Jacksonville and explained his stance, holding no-holds-barred town meetings and confronting his critics.
The strategy worked. At the Barnes & Noble café in Greenville, Steve Moore, a beefy retired teacher, says that "what Jones did made my eyes pop open." But, adds Moore—a longtime Democrat who has been voting Republican the past few years—opinion in Farmville is no longer uniformly pro-war. "I'm totally surprised," he says, "at how much opposition to the war there is." A few tables over, Bohdan Leskiw, whose brother served in the Marines, says pushing the president on a timeline for withdrawal "doesn't sound like a bad idea. We can't really send out men to fight and die in that situation."
Brian Colligan, editorial page editor of the Greenville Daily Reflector, says he too has noticed a change. "Especially in the areas around the military bases, you tend to get the expected blind support of the troops and of the war, at least until recently," he says, sitting in his sun-filled office at the paper. "Now people are beginning to separate the two. And it's interesting that Jones has been on the leading edge of that change in sentiment."
In Washington, the congressman's shift has been greeted with less enthusiasm. "Lately, we've been hearing a lot from the 'blame America first' crowd," says Rep. Robin Hayes (R.-N.C.), without naming Jones specifically. "It is wrong to cut and run on the Iraqi people." The pro-war writer Chris- topher Hitchens called Jones a "moral and political cretin." And when President Bush came to Fayetteville, North Carolina, to give a speech on Iraq last June, Jones was not invited.
The snub from the commander in chief didn't faze the congressman, who has begun disagreeing with Republican leaders on other hot-button topics. He remains one of the House's most visible Christian conservatives; among his legislative goals is a bill—prompted by his discovery of a children's book on two kings who get married to each other—that would create local councils to monitor books in libraries and schools. But on other issues he regularly departs from the party line; he has clashed with the GOP leadership on environmental legislation and voted against the No Child Left Behind Act as well as President Bush's prescription drug plan. The wave of scandals and investigations currently rocking Washington, he says, "might be an opportunity for a purge. The sun has got to shine."
Mostly, Jones has been busy recruiting other Republicans to support his push to hold the administration accountable on Iraq. He's won over at least a half-dozen. "All we're trying to do," he says, "is to start a debate about bringing an end to the war." He insists he isn't worried his independent streak might lose him favor with the White House, party leaders, constituents, or anyone else. Sitting in his Capitol Hill office, the Faces of the Fallen standing sentry in the hall, he has the air of a man utterly convinced of his decision. "I didn't come up here to seek power or to get a chairmanship," he says. "I want to do what I think my Lord wants me to do."


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We Three Kings: Phil Lesh, Warren Haynes and John Bell
Is it easier or more challenging to get to that place in live shows—those transcendent moments—now versus at the beginning of your career?
HAYNES: It's easier to do it when you are under less pressure and when there is not as big of an audience. It's been in the last 10 years that I have actually done that: I have gotten to a point where I have gotten better at losing myself. I have learned a lot about how to go about that from working with all the different people who are great at doing that. And I have often thought about that when you're on a major show, do you purposefully not go as far out
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LESH: It's always been pretty much the same. You can't push a button or flip a switch and draw that energy—draw that spirit down. You can't coerce or seduce the muse. The muse comes to you when the music is ready and what you can do too is open yourself up to that every night. Walk onto the stage and be open: "I'm here if you want me. If you want to talk to me I'm here." That's how it's been since the very beginning.
BELL: It's probably easier now because we have more control over our musical environment. The equipment is consistent, the PA is consistent and you don't have to cite the idea of just a crummy house PA or something like that. But then again, you're always grateful for those moments because you know there's a difference between everybody playing well and then, taking it one step further, where it's into a more meditative state. And it's one of those things where, if you're trying too hard, you're going to sabotage that experience. So it's a situation where you have to be in control of what you're doing, but you also have to loosen up and lose control and just go with it. You can tell when the moment's there because you can hear that everybody else is listening and responding—it's like being in a conversation where you can tell everybody's on the same page.
From your perspective as an artist, to what degree do you feel that the live experience of concerts has been overly commodified?
HAYNES: Let's start with all the endorsement and product-placement stuff that is part of it. The names of the venues no longer have their classic names—they have the name of whoever is paying them money for the next year. That's a real drag, but this is something I could go on and on about. The whole concept of paying $20-$25 to park closer to the venue for VIP parking: I understand it, and I am even guilty because this is my life and my world so if I go to a concert, I want to feel the VIP experience, too. But I think it's gotten to a point that the average rock-and-roll fan can't afford to go to a show.
BELL: Well, as always, there are different factions of the industry trying to cash in. But when it comes to the music itself, that's pretty untouchable if you stand your ground. And we've obviously not gone into a commercial type of application of our music. But you know, some bands do, and that's a personal choice. And there are so many kinds of genres and audience types out there. There's something for everybody. But yeah, there's a lot of commercialism out there—everything from glow sticks to advertising on the tickets.
LESH: That's something that is inevitable. It's a basic human thing. But I came here to move minds. I came here to transport people out of their daily awareness and into a more communal spirit. So as far as I'm concerned, however it has to happen.
While Jerry Garcia's passing was a tragic loss to the music community and the Grateful Dead suddenly wasn't touring, it allowed many bands who followed a similar model to gain much more traction. Was that ultimately a good thing?
HAYNES: Deadheads need other bands to listen to and, for the most part, it's a dichotomy because Deadheads—especially the hardcore ones—only like
the Dead and very little else. And in some cases, they might find one of the jambands that they wanted to follow, musically speaking, after Jerry's passing, but there were just as many people that decided to stay home at that point.
BELL: Personally, Jerry was a big influence on me as far as the way he communicated the songs. I was very surprised when I realized that, lyrically, he was working with somebody else because—to my ears and my experience in watching concerts—his interpretation and vocal stylings seemed to come from the heart and the soul. I was amazed that he hadn't written the lyrics himself. And the way he played guitar was like his guitar was speaking as well. It was embellishing the imagery that was coming through in the song. So when he passed, that was a drag. We're lucky to have the Grateful Dead as they were, and the remaining folks that are out there now, still plugging away.
HAYNES: It's hard to convince a hardcore Deadhead that there is other music that's alluring and equal but in a different way, and that is OK because I have always spoken about the fact that music is a personal thing—what you like is what you like. No one can change the fact that I like something or the fact that I don't like it, and it should be like that with every music lover.
BELL: There was undeniably a lot of folks that—the Grateful Dead had embraced jug-band music, improvisational stuff and different styles of music—were introduced not only to the Grateful Dead but to other forms of music and in a doorway where that musical exploration was very acceptable. It was a fun way to approach playing together and learning how to play together with your bandmates. And that's still happening. But there are a lot of different audience types, a lot of different music types, a lot of different ways to use the stage. For us, we groove more on the improvisational, rock-and-roll side.


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