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still haven't sold the car, and I'm closing in on four years now, 3 of them turbo'd. granted I have another car or two now also. No point in selling it, it's not worth what it once was, and I don't owe anything on it, and it still puts a smile on my face.
If you put a decent set of tires on the car, it'll hook. obviously not in the winter or in the rain, but during the spring/summer, depending on where I go WOT in the rpm range, I can get the car to hook by the end of second, and that's at 470whp.
Like I've said..the breaking point on these cars is in excess of 500whp. after that, along come the trans issues, then motor issues if it's just got a HG spacer. As I've said in the past, there's no point to having THAT much power for a FWD street car. long WOT pulls in 4th/5th will destroy your trans, and the heat created by those "longer pulls" isn't so great either.
you don't want tranny problems? go buy a quaife gear box and spend >4k at least.


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UNICEF uses the following five strategic approaches to improve health and nutrition for women and children in South Sudan:
Key achievements:
UNICEF faces numerous challenges in implementing health and nutrition interventions in South Sudan;Insufficient drugs, and other essential supplies and equipment, coupled with very weak logistical capacities, limit the availability of supplies in some areas.
Low government capacity and lack of trained health workers, especially in rural health centres, is another impediment. Lastly, the limited number of healthcare facilities and personnel, which are not equitably spread across the country, makes it difficult for children and women to access preventative and life-saving services. For example, less than 15 qualified midwives are available for all of South Sudan, and most births are handled by un-trained village midwives or traditional birth attendants.
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here it is
its pretty cool, the engine is muffled so turn up the sound a bit.
This is a discussion on What do you guys think about this car? (commercial vid inside) within the Comparison: WRX vs World forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; here it is its pretty cool, the engine is muffled so turn up the sound a bit....
here it is
its pretty cool, the engine is muffled so turn up the sound a bit.
Kory "I love Rexes and STis"
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That is a great "Car"
Bleeding true blue.
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I didn't get scared the first time I saw it.
dude its 2:45 and all of my roommates are gone and there are no lights on and i did turn the sound up a little bit... damnit.
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That was great! I was at work, and turned the sound up! It made people come and look. Oh well, jsut surfing the net at work!!
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I didn't get scared the first time I saw it.
Awesome! I'm sending it to my friends now....
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haha that was rediculous! i showed both my parents and my mom didnt seem too happy about it hahaha. I also showed all my friends so i had to give them all my username and p word
WTF!!! i was scared sh1tless and now can't stop laughing cause about 3 other guys are gonna be shatting their pants right now.
I don't get it...
Am I not getting the entire vid?
that scared the shat out of me, he popped out right when I turned the sound up
Got it now...scared the sh*t out of me!


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posted at 7:34 am on July 20, 2009 by Slublog
Most transparent, administration EVER EVER.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today's bleak landscape.
The administration's annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama's budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through Congress.
The release of the update – usually scheduled for mid-July – has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.
The administration is pressing for votes before then on its $1 trillion health care initiative, which lawmakers are arguing over how to finance.
In other words, 'don't worry about the budget, just pass my craptastic bills.' Normally, such behavior from an administration that promised historic levels of transparency would be something of an outrage, but it's becoming par for the course these days. If the fabled Blue Dog Democrats actually exist, this would be a perfect time for them to start making noise. The White House is hiding information they need to do their jobs in a responsible fashion and they should refuse to vote on any bill that has a significant fiscal impact until the budget update is released.
Still, this does raise an interesting question. If, as Obama claims, the healthcare bill will actually save money, why hide the budget figures until after it's passed instead of presenting the plan as a strategy toward greater solvency?


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The Capitals' injured list continues to grow as the team approaches the Olympic break.
Already missing Mikhail Grabovski (left ankle), Brooks Laich (groin) and Mike Green (concussion) in Sunday's game against the Detroit Red Wings, both Eric Fehr and Aaron Volpatti sat out practice on Monday, leaving the Capitals with 10 healthy forwards in the workout.
Fehr suffered an undisclosed lower-body injury when he blocked a shot in the first period of Sunday's game. He was hobbled considerably on the play and in visible pain on the bench, and though he finished the contest he played an uncharacteristically low 12 minutes.
Coach Adam Oates sounded sure that Fehr would be able to face the Islanders on Tuesday.
"I expect Fehrsie to play tomorrow, for sure. Just a little banged up from last night," Oates said. "That shot blocking's tough, isn't it? That's why I never blocked any. I think he'll be fine."
The rest of the Capitals' walking wounded, though, are questionable.
Laich, who sat out Sunday's game after experiencing tightness in his groin earlier in the week, said he hopes to play against the Islanders but a lot depends on how he feels in Tuesday's morning skate. Laich took part in the full 25-minute practice Monday and was encouraged by how he handled the session.
"Good, actually better than I thought," Laich said. "So I told Oatesy at the end of the practice I'm hoping to play tomorrow. Ultimately it's going to be their call we'll see how I feel in the morning skate if I can really push it to 100 percent. If I can, then I'll be in the lineup tomorrow night."
Grabovski has missed five consecutive games with the left ankle injury he suffered in New Jersey on Jan. 24. He skated briefly ahead of practice but still hasn't worked out with the team and at this point it is unlikely he returns to the lineup before the Olympic break.
Green took part in the first 10 minutes of practice but left the ice early and went in to the dressing room. He sat out the past two games after suffering a concussion when he was hit by Boone Jenner in Columbus on Jan. 30. Given the uncertainty in recovery from concussions, the Capitals are playing it safe with Green.
"Not quite ready for him mentally to get in there," Oates said as to why Green missed Sunday's game. "You don't want him to play careful and try and avoid [contact]. He practiced today, felt good again, he left a little early just because he didn't want to set it back and we'll see how he is tomorrow."
Volpatti took a few hard hits in the second period against Detroit and was shown in pain holding his left arm on the bench. The team is listing him as day-to-day with an undisclosed upper body injury.
Depending how many of those injured players can suit up against the Islanders, Washington may need to recall an extra forward from AHL Hershey Tuesday. But to do so they would need a corresponding roster move to free up additional space under the salary cap.


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I love sailing. Wait, let me rephrase that. I am obsessed with sailing. There is something magical about the combination of art and science that takes place when you're out on the water, making your way with nothing but mother nature for propulsion.
As a result of this obsession, I've stumbled upon a book called Captain James Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World (available free from Project Gutenberg), which is a daily account of the happenings aboard the H.M.S. Endeavour during the years 1768 -1771. While it may bore the pants off of the average reader, I find it completely fascinating to see into the mind of a seasoned sailor, and leader. Cook details everything from the mundane ship inventory to the tactics employed to survive a major storm.
In this excerpt, Cook records the days events in a single paragraph, but this single entry leaves one with so much to think about.
Friday, 16th. The most part fine, Clear weather. Punished Henry Stevens, Seaman, and Thomas Dunster, Marine, with 12 lashes each, for refusing to take their allowance of Fresh Beef. Employed taking on board Wine and Water. Wind Easterly.
Punished for refusing to eat their rations of food? At first I was repulsed at how heavy-handed Cook seemed to be. But then, considering the enormity of what they were attempting—a trip around the world in a sailing ship—I understood why he needed to discipline his men in such a way. A leader with his experience knows intimately the importance of a strong, healthy crew, without which he would not be able to achieve the mission. A crew member refusing to eat puts the entire crew at risk because that one crew member may lose strength or focus from lack of proper nutrients and protein, thus putting all other crew members—including the Captain himself—at risk of injury or death.
Hidden within each of Cook's entries is a little nugget of wisdom to be gleaned for anyone in a leadership role. Every ship has a log, and every captain honors the tradition of updating the log. One may wonder why? For what purpose? Who will read these logs, if anyone? These hand written logs serve many purposes.
The process of writing our thoughts is a magical process. It converts ideas, images and emotions that exist in our minds to a physical artifact. While recording our thoughts, it's as if the memory becomes strengthened in the transcoding process that takes place from thought to letter form, through the medium of the hand and ink.
Once committed to paper (or to blog), our thoughts live on beyond our personal experiences and can be read by others in the future. Total strangers can learn from our successes and failures quite far into the future. What may seem mundane at the time might be just the thing someone else needs to think through a problem, or avoid it in the first place.
You may not be the captain of a ship setting out to sail around the world in a primitive vessel, but I'd bet you're the caption of something—be it your own business, or as the leader of a team of any size. Even if the writing never sees the light of day, it will help you become a better thinker, a better speaker, and you'll get to know yourself in a way you've never imagined. But keep in mind, there is someone out there that might need that little nugget of wisdom you might not even realize is sitting there in front of your face. Write it down, then share it.
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The Kentucky Constitution, section 145, bars a person with a felony conviction from voting for the rest of the individual's life whether the full sentence has been completed or not. In reference to African Americans, Kentucky has the highest disenfranchisement rate in the nation. A request to have voting rights restored begins with the individual submitting an application to the Kentucky Governor requesting an executive pardon for reinstatement of voting rights. It is the Governor's decision as to whether the voting rights are restored or not. For more see J. Shugarts, "Felons' disenfranchisement mostly a matter of geography," Republican-American, 01/25/2009," Local News section, p. 1A; "African Americans and the Criminal Justice System" on pp. 20-21 in The State of African Americans in Kentucky, by the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights [available online .pdf]; and Felony Disenfranchisement in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, a report of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky [available online .pdf]. See also Determinants of College Students' Opinions Towards Felon Voting Rights: an exploratory study (dissertation) by B. C. Dawson Edwards.
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Benjamin, R. C. O.
Birth Year : 1855
Death Year : 1900
Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin was shot in the back and died in Lexington, KY, in 1900. He was killed at the Irishtown Precinct by Michael Moynahan, a Democrat precinct worker. The shooting occurred after Benjamin objected to African Americans being harassed while attempting to register to vote. When the case went to court, Moynahan claimed self-defense, and the case was dismissed. Benjamin had become a U.S. citizen in the 1870s; he was born in St. Kitts and had come to New York in 1869. He had lived in a number of locations in the U.S., and he came to be considered wealthy. For a brief period, Benjamin taught school in Kentucky and studied law. He was a journalist, author, lawyer (the first African American lawyer in Los Angeles), educator, civil rights activist, public speaker, and poet, and he had been a postal worker in New York City. In addition to being a journalist, Benjamin also edited and owned some of the newspapers where he was employed. Between 1855-1894, he authored at least six books and a number of other publications, including Benjamin's Pocket History of the American Negro, The Zion Methodist, Poetic Gems, Don't: a Book for Girls; and the public address The Negro Problem, and the Method of its Solution. In 1897, Benjamin returned to Kentucky with his wife, Lula M. Robinson, and their two children. Benjamin was editor of the Lexington Standard newspaper. The first bust that Isaac S. Hathaway sculpted was that of R. C. O. Benjamin. For more information see Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin, by G. C. Wright in the American National Biography Online (subscription database); and "R. C. O. Benjamin," Negro History Bulletin, vol. 5, issue 4 (January 1942), pp. 92-93.
See sketch of R. C. O. Benjamin in the New York Public LIbrary Digital Gallery online.
See photo image of R. C. O. Benjamin and family in Explore UK.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Authors, Education and Educators, Journalists, Newspapers, Magazines, Book Publishers, Music Publishers, Voting Rights, Lawyers, Poets, Postal Service
Geographic Region: St. Kitts, West Indies / Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Bond, Henry
Birth Year : 1865
Death Year : 1929
Henry Bond was born in Anderson County, KY. He was a teacher and lawyer, and it was believed that he had political influence over the African American Republican vote in Williamsburg, KY. Bond was the principal and lone teacher of the Williamsburg Colored Academy for a number of years. The school was a one-room cabin with grades 1-8. In 1929, Henry died ten days before his brother, James M. Bond; both were sons of Jane Arthur, a slave, and Reverend Preston Bond. Henry Bond is buried in the Briar Creek Cemetery in Williamsburg. For more see The Bonds, by R. M. Williams. *Additional informaiton from Carrie Stewart of Williamsburg, KY; Stewart's mother and her mother's siblings attended the one room school and they were students of Henry Bond.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Education and Educators, Voting Rights, Lawyers, Grade Schools & High Schools in Kentucky
Geographic Region: Anderson County, Kentucky / Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky
Colored Voters' Leagues
Start Year : 1891
The Colored Voters' Leagues were politically influential civil rights organizations first established in the 1890s. In Kentucky, there was an Independent Colored Voters' League of Kentucky in 1899, they presented a bouquet of flowers to Senator William J. Goebel when he spoke before the Turner Society in Louisville, KY; Goebel was the Democratic nominee for Kentucky Governor [source: "German voters," The Evening Bulletin, 10/28/1899, p.3]. However, the Kentucky Colored Voters' League was a much later development, it was established in 1935, according to the Guide to Civilian Organizations. Fayette County, Kentucky by the U.S. Work Projects Administration in Kentucky, January 1943, p.11. The organization was said to have 2,500 members, and was open to "any registered male colored voter." The purpose was "To promote civic and legal interest of the members." The president was Charles P. Riley; Frank Tatman, Secretary; and J. Rice Porter, Chairman. The office terms were indefinite. The organization's office was located at 233 E. Second Street in Lexington, KY, and is listed in Polk's Lexington (Fayette County, KY.) City Directory, v.1939, p.136, and in v.1942, p.95. At Western Kentucky University Library, Manuscripts and Folklife Archives are two letters written in 1933 by Sherman Parks from Madisonville, KY, to Joseph F. Garnett in Hopkinsville, KY. "Parks, as an officer in the Hopkins County and Kentucky Colored Independent Voters Leagues, requests assistance, including monetary aid to promote the recruitment of African-Americans to Kentucky's Democratic Party." - - source: bibliographic record for Sherman Parks Manuscripts. Around the country, the work of the various state organizations can be found in African American newspaper articles. One of the earliest Colored Voters' Leagues was formed in 1891 in Pittsburgh, PA, when a call was made to overthrow the politicians [source: "A Colored Voters' League," The New York Times, 12/27/1891, p.1]. By 1898, there were organizations in several states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia [source: "In organization is power," Colored American, 03/26/1898, p.1]. In 1903, a Colored Voters' League was established in Kansas, "to look well towards the rights and protection of the Negro" [source: "The Legislature employe[e]s," Plaindealer, 03/06/1903, p.1]. In 1905, there was a call at the New York Colored Republican Club for the formation of a political organization known as the National Colored Voters' League that was to have state associations [source: "Colored Voters' League: form political organization of national scope," The Deseret Evening News, 02/18/1905, p.8; and "Negroes of New York...," Freeman, 03/18/1905, p.4]. The 1912 endorsement by the Colored Voters' League in Cook County, IL, had helped Honorable Joseph S. LaBuy to be elected to the Municipal Court of Chicago [source: "Hon. Joseph S. LaBuy, Democratic candidate for Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago," Broad Ax, 11/01/1924, p.6]. In 1920, the United Colored Voters' League of Detroit held it's first annual dinner [source: "Cleveland social and personal," Cleveland Gazette, 02/07/1920, p.3]. In 1928, the Independent Colored Voters' League of Waco, TX, joined the Houston NAACP in filing a petition in federal court to restrain the Democratic Party from barring Negroes from voting in the primaries [source: "N.A.A.C.P. to fight newest Texas attempt at Negro disfranchisement," Plaindealer, 08/10/1928, p.1].
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Politicians, Politics, Appointments & Elections, Fraternal Organizations
Geographic Region: Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky / United States
Convention of Colored Men of Kentucky
Start Year : 1866
The First Convention of Colored Men of Kentucky was held in Lexington, KY, March 22-26, 1866. The convention was held in Ladies Hall on Church Street. The organization was to be temporary, according to the recorded proceedings. George Perry was named chairman and Henry Scroggins was named secretary. The organization had been formed first and foremost to address the Kentucky Legislature on the issue of voting rights for African American men. Other concerns included morality, education, temperance, frugality, industry, and the overall well being of African Americans in Kentucky. Initially, the organization did not push for total equality, but rather was organized with the intent of taking one step at a time toward gaining civil rights and justice. They established the Kentucky State Benevolent Association with Henry King as chairman, Madison C. Johnson as vice president, Henry Scroggins as recording secretary, James H. Campbell as corresponding secretary, and George Perry as treasurer. There was also an executive committee that was given the power to call a convention whenever they thought it necessary; they were the managers of the association. Convention members who arrived late or left the meeting early were fined. There was an exceptionally high expectation that all who had committed to the convention would arrive on time and remain for the duration of the meeting. Delegates came from all over the state. There was also a list of honorary members, beginning with Rev. John G. Fee. A petition was raised to pay the Ladies' Educational Association for the use of their building, Ladies Hall. The petition passed and the Ladies received $25, which was $8 more than they had asked. The Benevolent Association bought stock in the Colored Citizen newspaper, which was recognized as the voice of African Americans in Kentucky. Recognition was also given to Charlotte Scott, former slave of Dr. Rucker in Virginia; Scott was leading the campaign for the erection of the National Colored Men's Monument in memory of President Lincoln. Twelve hundred copies of the Proceedings of the First Convention of Colored Men of Kentucky were printed and forwarded to prominent men such as President Andrew Johnson. For several years, William J. Simmons served as chair of the executive committee of the Convention of Colored Men of Kentucky, with one of his re-elections taking place in 1875. He chaired the committee that led in presenting grievances to the Kentucky Legislature. In 1886, his speech before the Legislature on the injustices put upon the Colored people of Kentucky was described as a masterpiece; the Kentucky Legislature order that 2000 copies be printed. It was the first time that an African American addressed the Kentucky Legislature about the plight of African Americans in Kentucky. For more about the establishment of the organization, see the Proceedings of the First Convention of Colored Men of Kentucky [available at Google Books]. For more on the text of William J. Simmons' speech, see pp. 48-50 in Men of Mark by W. J. Simmons and H. M. Turner [available at Google Books]; and Life Behind a Veil, by G. C. Wright.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Fraternal Organizations
Geographic Region: Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Doneghy, Edward "Ed"
Birth Year : 1871
Death Year : 1930
In November of 1930, Ed Doneghy was shot and killed at the Turkey Pen Precinct by Joe Hayden, a Democratic election challenger. The disagreement between Doneghy and Hayden was reported in the newspapers to have been a "trivial" matter about Negroes voting at the booth. Hayden claimed he shot Doneghy in self-defense. Hayden was arrested, he posted bond, and return to work at the election booth. Ed Doneghy was a carpenter, according to the 1920 U.S. Federal Census. He was the husband of Mollie Caldwell Doneghy (1871-1931) and the couple had several children. For more see "Kentucky Negro shot during quarrel at election booth-voting is spotty," Sheboygan Press, 11/04/1930, p.1; "50 years ago today '30," The Lewiston Journal, 11/04/1980, p.5; and The Hayden Family by C. Hayden, v.1-2, p.190.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Voting Rights
Geographic Region: Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky
Duncan, Clark and Julia
Born in 1849 in Logan County, KY, Clark Duncan was a hotel employee in Springfield, IL; he was a member of the community of African Americans who had migrated from Kentucky to Springfield. Clark Duncan was the son of George Duncan and Louisa Orendoff [later Stevens] (b.1835 in KY); it is not known if the family was free or enslaved. During the Civil War, Clark Duncan had served with the 15th Colored Infantry and he was 1st Sargent with Company B of the 6th Colored Cavalry. After the war for a few years, he alternated living in Springfield, IL, and Russellville, KY. He was married to Springfield native Julia Chavious, the daughter of Malan Chavious (d. 1879), who was from Kentucky and had been a barber in Springfield. Julia Chavious Duncan was Grand Treasurer of the Grand Court of Illinois. Clark Duncan was a Knight Templar, a Mason, and Senior Warden in Lodge No. 3. Like George Stevens and other African Americans in Springfield, Clark Duncan voted for Ulysses S. Grant during the 1868 presidential election. The Duncan family lived at 312 N. Thirteenth Street in Springfield, IL. Clark Duncan died April 7, 1929 in Springfield, IL, according to the Illinois, Deaths and Still Births, 1916-1947, at FamilySearch.com. For more see History of Sangamon County, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, by Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago) [available online at Google Book Search]; and contact the Springfield, Illinois, African American History Foundation.
Subjects: Barbers, Voting Rights, Migration North, Military & Veterans, Fraternal Organizations, Women's Groups and Organizations
Geographic Region: Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky / Springfield, Illinois
Election Day Riot (Frankfort, KY)
Start Year : 1871
On the evening of August 7, 1871, the election polls had just closed when a race riot developed between African American and white voters in Frankfort, KY, at the market-house precinct. It was the second year of voting for African American men in Kentucky, and tension was high. After a scuffle, whites and African Americans took cover on separate sides of Broadway and began shooting and throwing rocks and boulders at each other across the railroad tracks that ran down the center of the street. Police Captain William Gillmore and Officers Jerry Lee and Dick Leonard rushed to the scene; Gillmore was killed and Lee and Leonard were injured. Other police arrived, but they were driven back. A Mr. Bishop, who was also white, was killed, and several others on both sides were injured. State Troops were ordered into downtown Frankfort to bring the rioting under control. An African American, Henry Washington, who supposedly fired the first shot, was apprehended for the murder of Captain Gillmore. Frankfort Mayor E. H. Taylor, Jr. had appointed the state militia to guard the jailhouse. After the State Troops had gone, the militia dispersed when about 250 armed and masked white men stormed the jailhouse at mid-morning and removed Washington and another African American man, Harry Johnson, who was accused of the rape of a Mrs. Pfeifer. Both men were hanged. For more see "Kentucky Elections. Rioting reported in various places - Two whites killed in Frankfort - Negro prisoners lynched," New York Times, 08/09/1871, p. 1; and "A Democratic riot," printed in the New York Times, 08/15/1871, p.6, from the Louisville Commercial, August 10, 1871.
Subjects: Voting Rights, Lynchings, Corrections and Police, Rioting, Insurrections, Panics, Protests in Kentucky
Geographic Region: Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
Jackson, Luther Porter
Birth Year : 1892
Death Year : 1950
Born in Lexington, KY, Luther P. Jackson was full professor and head of the history department at Virginia State College [now Virginia State University] beginning in 1922. He founded the Virginia Negroes League to encourage African Americans to vote, and he spoke out in his writings for racial equality. He delivered a paper on Virginia and the Civil Rights Program during the annual meeting of the Virginia Social Science Association in 1949. He authored a number of books, including The Virginia Free Negro Farmer and Property Owner, 1830-1860 (1939). He was also on the editorial staff of the Journal of Negro History and Negro History Bulletin. For more see Who's Who in Colored America, 1950; Luther P. Jackson at the University of Virginia website; Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd. ed., edited by C. Palmer, vol. 3, p. 1142; and a more detailed biography, Luther Porter Jackson (1892-1950), at Encyclopedia Virginia [online].
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Authors, Historians, Voting Rights, Migration East
Geographic Region: Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky / Petersburg, Virginia
Jackson, Thompson
Birth Year : 1882
Jackson was born in Henderson, KY, the son of Lizzy Jackson. He organized the Good Citizenship League in Mansfield, Ohio in 1924, the Y-Indus Club in 1926, and the Boy Scout Troop. Jackson served as president of the Republican Club for Colored Voters, delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1924, and president of the Mansfield NAACP. For more see Who's Who in Colored America 1928-29 and 1950.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Civic Leaders, Voting Rights, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Geographic Region: Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky / Mansfield, Ohio
Jones, Alberta O.
Birth Year : 1930
Death Year : 1965
Alberta Odell Jones was born in Louisville, KY, the third child of Sarah (Sadie) Frances Crawford Jones and Odell Jones. She was also a first cousin of Raymond Ponder. During her brief life, Alberta Jones was at the forefront of change in Kentucky and Louisville. She was one of the first African American women to pass the Kentucky Bar (1959) and the first woman prosecutor in Kentucky (1964). [Sally J. Seals White was the first African American woman admitted to the Kentucky Bar.] Jones was prosecutor in the Louisville Domestic Relations Court; her law office was located at 2018 W. Broadway. [James A. Crumlin, Sr. was the assistant prosecutor.] Jones was Cassius Clay's [Muhammad Ali's] first attorney, taking him to California to be trained under Archie Moore. Jones was also a civil rights activist: in addition to participating in the March on Washington and the marches in Louisville, she rented voting machines and held classes to teach African Americans how to vote for the candidate of their choice. She established the Independent Voters Association and was an active member of the Louisville Urban League and the NAACP. Jones also established the James "Bulky" Welch Fund and held a fund-raiser, raffling off a car to pay Welch's medical bills and purchase the prosthetic arms to replace the ones young Welch had lost trying to retrieve his dog from under a train. Alberta Jones was a graduate of Louisville Central High School and attended the Louisville Municipal College for Negroes. When the college was merged with the University of Louisville (U of L) during desegregation, Jones continued her education at U of L and graduated third in her class. She was accepted into the University of Louisville Law School but transferred after the first year to Howard University School of Law, where she graduated fourth in her class. A picture of Alberta O. Jones hangs in the U of L Law School. She was a member of the American Bar Association, the Fall City Bar Association, and the Louisville Bar Association, serving as secretary of the latter. She was also a member of the Eta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta and the Sigma Chapter of Iota Phi Lambda. Alberta O. Jones was murdered in August 1965 -- the case has not been solved. This information was submitted by Alberta Jones's niece, Ms. Nicole M. Martin, and Jones's sister, Ms. Flora Lutisha Shanklin. For more see "Alberta Jones' funeral rites held; unsolved murders alarm West Enders," The Louisville Defender, 08/12/1965, front page and p. 6; and Legacy of Leadership: African American Pioneers in Kentucky Law (video-recording), by the University of Louisville School of Law.
See photo image of Alberta O. Jones and Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] in Jet, 08/26/1965, p.5.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Civic Leaders, Voting Rights, Lawyers, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Women's Groups and Organizations, Urban Leagues
Geographic Region: Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Jones, Henry Wise, Sr.
Birth Year : 1873
Death Year : 1954
Rev. Henry Wise Jones, born in Knoxville, TN, was co-founder of Simmons Bible College in Louisville . He also served as pastor of the Green Street Baptist Church in Louisville and the Pleasant Green Baptist Church in Lexington. Rev. Jones was an advocate for African Americans' voting and education rights. He was a marble polisher who became an ordained minister on September 4,1892. Rev. Jones had attended Knoxville College and State University [Simmons College] in Louisville. He was the father of Rev. William A. Jones, Sr. and the grandfather of Rev. William A. Jones, Jr. and Louis Clayton Jones. In 2007, Rev. Henry Wise Jones was inducted into the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Hall of Fame. For more see Rev. Henry Wise Jones in the 2007 Hall of Fame at the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights' website; and "Rev. Henry Wise Jones" on pp.238-239 in Golden Jubilee of the General Association of Colored Baptists in Kentucky.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Fathers, Voting Rights, Kentucky African American Churches, Ministers, Pastors, Preachers, Religion & Church Work, Grandparents
Geographic Region: Knoxville, Tennessee / Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Moorish Science Temple of America in Kentucky [Mary Clift Bey]
Start Year : 1938
The Moorish Science Temple of America began as a religious movement in 1913 known as the Canaanite Temple, founded in New Jersey by Timothy Drew (1886-1929). The name was changed to the Moorish Holy Temple of Science in the early 1920s. Read more at the organization's website. Drew became known as Prophet Noble Drew Ali, he moved the main branch of the organization to Chicago, IL in 1925 and the Moorish Science Temple of America, Inc. was officially registered as a corporation in 1926. There were also branches in Philadelphia, Washington D. C., and Detroit. A focus of the religion was that American Blacks were of Moor ancestry and should return to Islam. There were teachings of racial pride, the rejection of negative labels, and a mission to uplift the race using education and non-confrontational methods. Moorish-American Voice is the organization's publication. Members of the organization added "Ali," "El," and "Bey" to their surnames as an indication of their Moor identity. The Nation of Islam grew out of the Moorish Science Temple of America. There was a Moorish Science Temple of America in Lexington, KY, according to the overview of the Moorish Science Temple of America Collection, 1926-1967, a New York Public Library website. There was an FBI report of a branch in Paducah, KY [source: Part 2 FBI File: 62-25889: Section 3. Feb-Mar 1943. FBI File on the Moorish Science Temple of America. Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Archives Unbound.]. Moorish Science Temple of America #45 was located at 628 S. Ninth Street in Louisville, KY. All branches in all locations were watched by the local police, and were considered a radical group that was monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which sometimes referred to the organization as a "cult" in FBI correspondence. The Moorish Science Temple of America #45 was organized in August of 1938 by Mary Clift Bey who came to Kentucky from Chicago, IL [source: File No.100-2273 dated 12/8/42 - citation: Part 1 FBI File: 62-25889: Section 2. Dec 1942-Feb 1943. FBI File on the Moorish Science Temple of America. Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Archives Unbound.]. Mary Clift Bey was one of the first female missionaries from the Chicago temple; she was named the grand governess of the Louisville temple in 1941. Bey is listed as a teacher by the name of "Cilft Bey" on p.189 of Caron's Louisville (Kentucky) City Directory, 1939; she lived at 628 S. Ninth Street. In 1940, her name is listed as "Clift Bey" who lived at 630 S. Ninth Street, listed on p.191 of Caron's Louisville (Kentucky) City Directory, 1940. She is also listed in the 1940 U.S. Federal Census as "Cliff M. Bey" with no occupation or income, and living with Jesse Bey (born in KY) and Birdie Lee Bey (born in KY), all at 630 1/2 S. Ninth Street. According to the census record, Mary Clift Bey was born in Tennessee around 1876, she was a widow, and had completed the 4th grade of school. A physical description of Mary Clift Bey is included in the FBI files; the description was based on an eye witness and a photograph the FBI obtained from the library of the Courier Journal newspaper. Bey was said to be about 45-50 years old; 5'3" tall; 175 pounds; brown complexion; straight black hair worn in a bob; maroon eyes, wears glasses; wide mouth; and a teacher by occupation [source: Part 1 FBI File: 62-25889: Section 2. Dec 1942-Feb 1943. FBI File on the Moorish Science Temple of America. Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Archives Unbound.]. Within the 1942 FBI report, Mary Clift Bey was said to live at 437 S. 9th Street with seven other people with the last name Bey (p.7). The Moorish Science Temple of America in Louisville, KY, was said to have about 50 members. In 1939 there were about 41 members when Mary Clift Bey led the members to register to vote and all were registered with the Democratic Party (p.9). According to the FBI files, there was an article about their voter registrations in the Courier Journal (p.10), and there was much discussion and dispute about the members' legal names (p.11). The headquarters of the Louisville Temple was at 628 S. Ninth Street (p.10). Mary Clift Bey, said to have been born in Macon County, Tennessee (p.12), was also investigated for her work in Chicago, and possible activity in Detroit and Pittsburgh (p.19). In January of 1943, the U.S. Assistant Attorney General distributed a memorandum stating that "there was not sufficient evidence at that time to establish prosecution [of the Moorish Temple of America] under the Sedation Statuses" [source: Part 1 FBI File: 62-25889: Section 2. Dec 1942-Feb 1943. FBI File on the Moorish Science Temple of America. Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Archives Unbound.]. Though, the surveillance was continued. In March of 1943, Special Agent in Charge, Hebert K. Moss, of the Louisville branch of the FBI, forwarded a series of reports to the Director of the FBI concerning C. Kirkman Bey and et. al. and the Moorish Science Temple of America in Louisville, KY [source: Part 2 FBI File: 62-25889: Section 5. Feb-Apr 1943. FBI File on the Moorish Science Temple of America. Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Archives Unbound.]. The reports were dated December 1, 1942 through March 6, 1943. There are presently no Moorish Science Temple of America organizations in Kentucky. For more see Who was Noble Drew Ali? by Isa Abd Allah Muhammad al-Mahdi; see "Moorish Science Temple" in the Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions edited by S. D. Glazier; and Islam in the African-American Experience by R. B. Turner.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Ministers, Pastors, Preachers, Religion & Church Work, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Geographic Region: Macon County, Tennessee / Chicago, Illinois / Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky / Louisivlle, Jefferson County, Kentucky / Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky / New Jersey
The Morris Family
Shelton Morris (1806-1889), his five siblings, and their mother, Fanny, were freed by their owner (and father of the children), Col. Richard Morris of Ohio. Shelton moved to Louisville, KY, where he purchased land and opened a barbering business and bathhouse. His younger brothers, John and Alexander, were also barbers; they joined Shelton in Louisville. Shelton married Evelina Spradling, sister of Washington Spradling, Sr., who was also a barber. In 1840 Shelton was accused of voting in the presidential election; African Americans were not allowed to vote in Kentucky until 1870 (with the passing of the 15th Amendment). Voting rights for free African Americans had been revoked in 1799 in Kentucky's second Constitution. After the voting incident and the death of his wife, Shelton moved to Cincinnati, where his sister Elizabeth lived. For more see The Saga of the Morris Family, by R. M. Graham.
Subjects: Barbers, Businesses, Voting Rights
Geographic Region: Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky / Cincinnati, Ohio
Pilot Knob, Simpson County, Kentucky
Start Year : 1870
End Year : 1900
This entry is a brief look at the Pilot Knob Voting District #3 in Simpson County, KY. The purpose of the entry is to show some of the challenges in documenting African American populations and voting districts in small farming communities after the American Civil War and during the Reconstruction Period. Pilot Knob District #3 was located in the northwestern region of Simpson County, along the boarder with Logan County, KY. Within the Pilot Knob community, there is a knob or monadnock and it is the highest elevation (928 feet) in Simpson County. The county was formed in 1819 from portions of Logan and Warren County. There were slaves and a few free colored persons in Simpson County dating back to the earliest settlements. Just prior to the Civil War, there were approximately 2,309 slaves [blacks and mulattoes] and 96 free persons of African descent in Simpson County according to the 1860 U.S. Federal Census and Slave Schedule. After the Civil War there were 2,051 blacks and mulattoes in Simpson County, and of that number, at least 180 lived in Pilot Knob District #3 as they are listed on the available sheets of the 1870 U.S. Census. This was only a portion of the voting district population. There was a total of 470 colored persons documented as living in the Pilot Knob Voting District #3 according to the 9th Census - v.1, The Statistics of the Population of the United States, 1870, p.153, "State of Kentucky, Table III - Population of Civil Divisions Less Than Counties." The majority of the 470 colored persons referred to in the Statistics of the Population, lived in Subdistrict #150 in Simpson County. The subdistrict included more than 1,000 colored persons, and all of the district inhabitants were assigned to one of the six magisterial voting precincts in Simpson County. In 1870, for the Pilot Knob Voting District, there were 290 colored persons in Subdistrict #150, plus the 180 colored persons in Pilot Knob District #3, all added together to equal the 470 colored persons counted in the Statistics of the Population. That being the case, the overall total of 470 colored persons in voting district #3 was the second largest African American population in Simpson County, with only the city of Franklin District #1 having a larger colored population of 567. The African American populations in the other districts were Lake Spring District #2 - 430; Gum District #4 - 141; Round Pond District #5 - 95; Middleton District #6 - 462. The colored population was fairly evenly split over districts 1, 2, 3, and 6. It should also be noted that these districts contained most of the colored men in the county, and the significance of that being that in 1870 African American men were eligible to vote for the first time with the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on February 3, 1870. [Women would get the vote in 1920.] Over the next ten years, the black and mulatto population in the Pilot Knob Voting District #3 increased to about 480 according to the 1880 U.S. Census [there are a number of entries crossed out, lined-through, or partially lined-through on the census records]. All are listed as living in Pilot Knob District #3 only, census pages 1-28. The population numbers indicate that the structure of Pilot Knob Voting District #3 lead to an increase in the number of colored persons while the white population included in the area seemed to have decreased. This contrast would be in spite of the fact that there are 2 missing pages (no.s 3-4) from the 18 total census pages for the 1870 U.S. Census of Pilot Knob District #3. The total population in Pilot Knob Voting District #3 was on a downward slide as the 19th Century was coming to a close: population of 1,581 in 1870; 1,341 in 1880; and 1,198 in 1890 [*see sources listed below]. Though, what was taking place in the Pilot Knob Voting District #3 was not indicative of what was taking place in the county as a whole. Between 1870-1890, the Simpson County population continued to increase, and the African American population in Simpson County continued to increase. By the time the 1900 census was taken, the magisterial districts and voting precincts of Simpson County had changed completely and there was no longer a Pilot Knob District #3. The North Franklin region, exclusive of part of Franklin City, became District #3. The other districts were 1. East District, 2. South Franklin, exclusive of part of Franklin City, and 4. West District [source: ** see below]. Within the census records are the individual names of African Americans who lived in what was for a short time one of the largest voting districts in Simpson County, KY. The voting members (males) in the African American households were listed with the occupation of farmer or working on a farm, while the women are listed as keeping house, domestic servant, or no occupation was given. Simpson County had an agrarian economy and produced wheat, corn, oats, and tobacco, and livestock that included horses, mules, cattle, and hogs [source: History of Kentucky by L. Collins]. There were very few African American landowners between 1870 and 1890. Of the African American names listed in the 1870 and 1880 census records for Pilot Knob District #3 and the No.3 Voting Precinct of Subdistrict #150, many of the names have not be found in later census records. The area may have been a temporary stop for families passing through to northern and western locations. It is also highly probable that some died and their death certificates or other mentions of their deaths are no longer available. Some may have changed their names due to marriage and other circumstances, or their names were spelled drastically different in each census record. There is also the possibility that there are individuals who never existed and their names were made up by the census takers (known as "padding the totes"). Below is a random selection of the names of African Americans listed in the 1870 and 1880 Census of the Pilot Knob District and the No.3 Voting Precinct of Subdistrict #150, Simpson County, KY.
"State of Kentucky, Population of Civil Divisions Less Than Counties, Table III" on p.153 in Ninth Census - v.1, The Statistics of the Population of the United States, 1870
"Population of Civil Divisions Less Than counties, Table III - Kentucky" on p.193 in Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census, 1880
"Minor Civil Divisions, Table 5" on p.166 in Report on Population of the United States at the 11th Census: 1890, Part I
** Source:
"Population of States and Territories by Minor Civil Divisions: 1880 and 1900, Table 5" on p.184 in Census Reports, v.1, 12th Census of the United States taken in Year 1900, Population, Part I
AFRICAN AMERICANS LIVING IN PILOT KNOB DISTRICT #3 and the NO.3 VOTING PRECINCT of SUBDISTRICT #150, SIMPSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, 1870-1880 (random selections)
|Armstrong, John / 1824
|Pilot Knob
|Arnett, Dovy / 1878
|Pilot Knob
|Baird (or Beard), Wade / 1815
|Subdistrict #150
|works on farm
|Middleton, KY
|Blackburn, Clark / 1845
|Pilot Knob, KY
|works on farm
|Bland, Toby / 1859
|Subdistrict #150
|works on farm
|Bowling Green, KY
|1924 Warren Co., KY
|Boaz, Sophia / 1850
|Pilot Knob, KY
|domestic servant
|Bogan, Morning / 1825
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Bradley, Maria / 1830
|Pilot Knob, KY
|domestic servant
|Carter, Columbus / 1870
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Crowdus, Henry / 1858
|Pilot Knob, KY
|domestic servant
|Indianapolis, IN
|none given
|Cushenberry, Hayes / 1874
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Bowling Green, KY
|1944 Warren Co., KY
|Davidson, David / 1825
|Subdistrict #150
|works on farm
|Dawson, Nelson / 1854
|Pilot Knob, KY
|works on farm
|Lake Springs, KY
|works on railroad
|Waren Co., KY
|Disdale, Gabrella / 1867
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Louisville, KY
|none given
|Downey, Sallie / 1857
|Pilot Knob, KY
|domestic servant
|Ewing, Gilbert / 1856
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Fresh, Emeline (Emily) R. / 1841
|Pilot Knob, KY
|keeping house
|Auburn, KY
|Fuqua, Nelson / 1843
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Bowling Green, KY
|1916 Warren Co., KY
|Graham, Henderson / 1855
|Subdistrict #150
|Mound City, KS
|Pension Attorney
|1937 Mound City, KS
|Granger, Peter / 1861
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Bowling Green, KY
|horse trainer
|Hampton, Tisha / 1840
|Pilot Knob, KY
|keeping house
|Holland, William G. / 1842
|Subdistrict #150
|works on farm
|Van Buren, AR
|Horn, Rebecca / 1840
|Subdistrict #150
|none given
|Huskey, Amanda / 1843
|Subdistrict #150
|none given
|Simpson County, KY
|Isbell, Henderson / 1848
|Pilot Knob, KY
|works on farm
|Simpson County, KY
|horse trainer
|Kelley, Marthy / 1852
|Subdistrict #150
|none given
|Low, Victoria / 1848
|Subdistrict #150
|none given
|Pilot Knob, KY
|keeping house
|Mallony, Richard / 1814
|Subdistrict #150
|works on farm
|Martin, Prince, Sr. / 1821
|Pilot Knob, KY
|South Franklin, KY
|none given
|McCutchen, Peter / 1851
|Pilot Knob, KY
|works on farm
|McElwain, Sarah / 1830
|Pilot Knob, KY
|keeping house
|Hickory Flat, KY
|Petree, Eliza / 1850
|Pilot Knob, KY
|keeping house
|Ray, Peter / 1820
|Subdistrict #150
|works on farm
|1880 Warren Co., KY
|Sloss, Emma / 1856
|Pilot Knob, KY
|keeping house
|Gallatin, TN
|1909 Gallatin, TN
|Smith, Sawyer / 1824
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Franklin, KY
|Smithson, Harrison / 1846
|Subdistrict #150
|works on farm
|Pilot Knob & Franklin, KY
listed twice in census
|Tarrence, Nathan / 1857
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Oak Grove, KY
|Taylor, Joshua / 1840
|Subdistrict #150
|works on farm
|Simpson County, KY
|(Civil War Veteran)
|Tisdale, Fletcher / 1860
|Subdistrict #150
|Venable, Andrew J. / 1862
|Pilot Knob, KY
|Whitesides, Susan / 1840
|Pilot Knob, KY
|keeping house
|Woodward, Adam / 1859
|Subdistrict #150
|Wright, Josephine / 1845
|Pilot Knob, KY
|domestic servant
Subjects: Freedom, Voting Rights
Geographic Region: Pilot Knob, Simpson County, Kentucky
Ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (Kentucky)
Start Year : 1865
End Year : 1976
Kentucky House Member Mae Street Kidd sponsored the resolution that moved the state of Kentucky to ratify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in 1976. The ratification of the 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." The U.S. Senate passed the amendment on April 8, 1864; the House of Representatives defeated the amendment on June 15, 1864, then passed the amendment on January 31, 1865; President Lincoln signed and presented the amendment to the states on February 1, 1865; and Secretary of State William Seward issued a statement on December 18, 1865 to verify the ratification of the 13th Amendment. There were three states that rejected the 13th Amendment and did not ratify it until the 20th Century: Delaware (February 12, 1901); Kentucky (March 18, 1976); and Mississippi voted to ratify the 13th Amendment on March 16, 1995, but it was not officially ratified until February 7, 2013. The 14th Amendment was ratified July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to all who were born or naturalized in the United States. States that ratified the 14th Amendment in the 20th Century were Delaware (1901), Maryland (1959), California (1959), Kentucky (1976), and Ohio (September 17, 2003) [Ohio had rescinded its ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868]. The 15th Amendment, ratified February 3, 1870, gave African American men the right to vote. States that did not ratify the 15th Amendment until the 20th Century were Delaware (1901), Oregon (1959), California (1962), Maryland (1973), Kentucky (1976), and Tennessee (1997). For more see 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, all on the Library of Congress website; see also A. Greenblatt, "Failure to ratify: during amendment battles, some states opt to watch," an NPR website.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Freedom, Voting Rights, Slavery in Kentucky, Sources
Geographic Region: Kentucky
Ross, William H.
Birth Year : 1869
Born in Madisonville, KY, William H. Ross taught school in Muhlenberg County, KY, before he quit teaching in 1887 to go into the grocery store business with his father in Madisonville. The business was known as John [R.] Ross & Son. Ross was also politically active: he stood at the voting polls to make sure every African American in Madisonville voted Republican, which resulted in his being physically attacked by Democrats. He was Assistant Elector of the Second Congressional District in the 1896 presidential campaign. William H. Ross was the husband of Cordie Ross who was a school teacher in Madisonville. For more see Biographical Sketches of Prominent Negro Men and Women of Kentucky, by W. D. Johnson.
Subjects: Businesses, Education and Educators, Voting Rights, Politicians, Politics, Appointments & Elections, Grade Schools & High Schools in Kentucky
Geographic Region: Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky / Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
Schooler, James W.
Birth Year : 1865
Death Year : 1918
Schooler, from Nicholasville, KY, was admitted to practice in the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1888, becoming one of the first African American lawyers in Kentucky. He was present the day R. C. O. Benjamin was killed in 1900; Schooler had led Benjamin away from polling Precinct 32 in Lexington, KY, after Benjamin challenged precinct worker Michael Moynahan's right to call into question Harvey Jackson's right to register to vote. Moynahan had suspected Jackson, an African American, of being a vote floater, and Benjamin had intervened on Jackson's behalf. Moynahan struck Benjamin in the face. Schooler led Benjamin away from the polling precinct. Benjamin and Schooler were both lawyers and civil rights leaders, they were at the precinct to support African American voter registration. According to one newspaper account, though Benjamin had been led away from the polling precinct by Schooler, Benjamin later returned and was killed by Moynahan. Schooler was the son of Johns and Myra Lemuel Schooler, and the husband of Nora Schooler, b.1878 in KY, according to the 1910 U.S. Federal Census. James Schooler's exact birthday was not know at the time of his death, his age was estimated at 53 on his death certificate. Schooler died in Lexington, KY, and is buried in African Cemetery No.2. For more see "A Negro lawyer in Kentucky," New York Times, 06/06/1888, p. 6; and "R. C. O. Benjamin; shot dead as the result of a petty election quarrel," Hopkinsville Kentuckian, 10/05/1900, p.5.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Lawyers
Geographic Region: Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky / Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Smith, Lucy W.
Birth Year : 1861
Death Year : 1889
Lucy Wilmot Smith was born in Lexington, KY, the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Smith. She began teaching in 1877 in Lexington and became a journalist in 1884 with The American Baptist. She provided sketches of women journalists for the New York newspaper, Journalism. She served as an editor and wrote special columns for Our Women and Children and was also on the staff of the Baptist Journal. She spoke out on women's rights and voting. Smith was a graduate and a teacher at State University [later Simmons University] and was the private secretary of school President William J. Simmons. She was a historian for the Negro Baptist. For more see The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians, by A. A. Dunnigan; and "Lucy Wilmot Smith," in Noted Negro Women: their triumphs and activities, by M. A. Majors; see p.9 in Negro Baptist History, 1750-1930 by L. G. Jordan [bio & picture]; and see Lucy Wilmot Smith in "The Death Roll," Lexington Leader, 12/03/1889, p.2.
Subjects: Education and Educators, Historians, Journalists, Newspapers, Magazines, Book Publishers, Music Publishers, Voting Rights, Women's Groups and Organizations
Geographic Region: Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Stevens, George
Birth Year : 1815
Stevens was born in Georgetown, KY, the son of Washington Stevens. A slave, he had many owners until he joined the Army during the Civil War. He was present at a number of battles and was on the tugboat "Thompson" when Vicksburg was taken in 1863. At the end of the war, Stevens settled in Springfield, IL, where he lived at the corner of Fifteenth and Jefferson Streets, and worked in a lumberyard. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified, and George Stevens voted for Ulysses S. Grant during the presidential election. For more see History of Sangamon County, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, by Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago); and contact the Springfield, Illinois, African American History Foundation.
Subjects: Freedom, Voting Rights, Migration North, Military & Veterans, Logging, Lumbering, Lumber Business, Lumber Employees
Geographic Region: Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky / Vicksburg, Mississippi / Springfield, Illinois
United States v. Reese, et al, 92 U.S. 214
Start Year : 1875
This case was the first big test of voting rights under the 15th Amendment of 1870 that gave African American men the right to vote. In Kentucky, an African American man named William Garver had been denied voting rights in a municipal election, and the voting official was indicted. The indictment was based on the Enforcement Act of 1870, but the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Enforcement Act unconstitutional: Congress did not have the power to seek punishment for the denial of voting rights on any grounds and could only legislate against discrimination based on race. The decision allowed southern states to deny voting rights to African Americans due to poll taxes, literacy and other tests. The indictment of election officials and others was considered an error of the Circuit Courts of the United States (Kentucky). For more see United States v. Reese, 92 U.S. 214 (1875) [full text online at Justia.com].
Subjects: Voting Rights, Court Cases
Geographic Region: Kentucky
Voting Rights in Kentucky, 1792-1799 - Free Negro, Mulatto, Indian Males
Start Year : 1792
End Year : 1799
Kentucky became a state in 1792 and the first state constitution had no restrictions on the voting rights of all free men, including African Americans. "Article III. § 1. In elections by the citizens, all free male citizens of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State two years, or the county in which they offer to vote one year next before the election, shall enjoy the rights of an elector;..." [source: p.5 in "First Constitution of Kentucky. (1792)" a .pdf at procon.org (available online)]. However, when the 1799 constitution was written, the voting rights were rescinded. "Section 8. In all elections for representatives, every free male citizen, (negroes, mulattoes, and Indians excepted,) who at the time being, hath attained to the age of twenty-one years, and resided in the state two years, or the county or town in which he offers to vote one year next preceding the election, shall enjoy the right of an elector;..." [source: p.29 in "The Old Constitution of Kentucky" found in The Revised Statutes of Kentucky by C. A. Wickliffe, S. Turner, and S. S. Nicholas, 1852 (available online at Internet Archive)]. According to the Second Census of Kentucky, there were free Negroes and Mulattoes and 40,303 slaves in 1800. Voting rights were regained for African American males with the ratification of the 15th Amendment, February 3, 1870. Voting rights for African American women and all other women were gained with the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920.
Subjects: Voting Rights, Slavery in Kentucky, Sources
Geographic Region: Kentucky
Warley, William [Buchanan v. Warley]
Birth Year : 1884
Death Year : 1946
Warley fought for African Americans' right to vote and wrote about African Americans' contributions to history. He was editor of the Louisville News, which he founded in 1913, using the paper to speak out against segregated street cars and school inequality. Warley was also president of the NAACP Louisville, KY, Chapter in 1917 when he and Charles H. Buchanan challenged the legitimacy of the Louisville ordinance that mandated segregated housing. Warley won the U.S. Supreme Court decision giving African Americans the right to acquire, own, and live on property without race discrimination. In 1937, he was co-editor of the The Herald Tribune; the newspaper existed for a brief period, it was published in Louisville with co-editors Charles E. Tucker and Huron Clark [source: The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians by A. A. Dunnigan, p.528]. For more see the Kentucky Encyclopedia 2000; and R. Wigginton, "But he did what he could: William Warley leads Louisville's fight for justice, 1902-1946," Filson History Quarterly, vol. 76, issue 4 (2002), pp. 427-458.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Journalists, Newspapers, Magazines, Book Publishers, Music Publishers, Voting Rights, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Court Cases, Housing, Fair Housing, Open Housing, Housing Agencies
Geographic Region: Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Wheeler, John W.
Birth Year : 1847
Death Year : 1912
Wheeler was born free in Lexington, KY. He moved to St. Louis in 1873 where he was a politician and the publisher of the St. Louis Palladium newspaper. A republican and follower of Booker T. Washington, he echoed Washington's message for African Americans to become more self-reliant. He also used his newspaper to speak out against discrimination toward African Americans, actively seeking to mobilize black votes for the Republican Party. For more see Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights, ed. by C. D. Lowery, J. F. Marszalek and T. A. Upchurch.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Journalists, Newspapers, Magazines, Book Publishers, Music Publishers, Voting Rights, Politicians, Politics, Appointments & Elections
Geographic Region: Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky / St. Louis, Missouri
White, Albert S., Sr. and Sally J. Seals
Albert S. White, Sr. (1869-1911), was born in Kentucky, the son of Albert and Jane Buckner White. He was an attorney and dean of Louisville (KY) Central Law School, where he served from 1896-1911. He fought for African American voting rights; when White and others insisted on voting in the 1890s, they were beaten by Louisville police officers. White was a graduate of State University [Simmons, KY] and Howard University Law School. In 1902 he was appointed a U.S. Revenue Agent following the election of Kentucky's first Republican governor, William O. Bradley. White was unsuccessful in his quest to be named the Minister to Liberia. He was killed by Louis A. Evans in a dispute over the removal of personal belongings at the Lyric Theater, located at 13th and Walnut Streets in Louisville. His wife, Sally J. Seals White (b.1868 or 1871 in KY), was the first woman to graduate from Central Law School, where she was also an instructor. In 1904, she became the first African American woman to be admitted to the Kentucky Bar. White had a bachelor's degree from Fisk University. For more see Central Law School Alumni Information, a University of Louisville website; C. B. Lewis, "Louisville and its Afro-American citizens," Colored American Magazine, vol. 10 (no.3-4), pp. 259-265; Life Behind a Veil, by G.C. Wright; Emancipation: the making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944, by J. C. Smith; "Negro woman admitted to bar...," The Landmark, 09/23/1904, p. 3 (also in Marshall Expounder, 09/23/1904, p. 2); and "Albert S. White is shot to death," Lexington Leader, 07/22/1911, p.8. See also the entry for Central Law School.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Education and Educators, Voting Rights, Lawyers, Appointments by Kentucky Governors, Higher Education Before Desegregation, Kentucky, Theater: Companies, Education, Exhibitions, Performers, and Performances in Kentucky
Geographic Region: Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Women's Right to Vote in Kentucky
Start Year : 1838
End Year : 1902
In 1838, the Kentucky Legislature granted limited voting rights to unmarried women and widows who owned property, and was over 21 years old and lived in the school district. The women could vote on school board issues, on the selection of county school district trustees, and on school taxes. Few women were able to actually vote based on the criteria, and according to author J. D. Wright, Jr, the voting rights were revoked in 1902 because more African American women were going to the polls than white women. The trouble was said to have started in Lexington, KY, when an unpopular Colored man was to be named head of the Colored schools and there was an outpouring of African American women at the polls. Though the rights were revoked, the 1838 School Suffrage voting rights for women in Kentucky set a precedence that was followed by Kansas in 1861, Wyoming in 1869, England in 1870, New Zealand in 1877, and many other states in the U.S. For more see J. Reis, "Winning the right to vote," The Kentucky Post, 11/08/2004, Kentucky Life: History section, p. K4; Lexington, Heart of the Bluegrass, by J. D. Wright, Jr.; the article on black and white women voting in The Bourbon News, 02/11/1902, p. 4; and "School Suffrage in Kentucky - Boston Transcript," Friend's Intelligencer, 1902, v.59, p.221 [available at Google Book Search].
Subjects: Voting Rights, Politicians, Politics, Appointments & Elections, Women's Groups and Organizations
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When I'm hosting a cookout, I tend to prioritize savory dishes. Scratch that—I really tend to prioritize beer (and other drinks), but grilled main dishes and sides usually come next on the list. It's a bad habit I'm trying to break myself of, though, because a well-thought-out homemade dessert really is the best possible way to end any get-together, as even I have to admit when I try a good one at a friend's house. Sure, it may still be hot enough where you are that you won't want anything that's too heavy or complicated, or that requires a lengthy baking time. And you may hope, in a way, that the guests at your Labor Day barbecue will be so enamored of the delights coming off the grill that they couldn't spend a single bite to dessert. But there are plenty of sweet options that are so light and easy, you won't think much about adding them to your menu, and your friends and family won't think much about adding them to their bellies. A no-bake strawberry pie or a fruity-and-creamy fool made with fresh berries and lemon curd is a good bet. Got a little extra time on your hands? Try a home-churned mint chip ice cream or vanilla frozen custard, a flaky-crusted cherry or blueberry pie, or conveniently portable DIY Twix and Devil Dogs. Keep reading for 20 dessert recipes to make sure no sweet tooth goes unsatisfied this Labor Day.
Ice Cream
The Best Strawberry Ice Cream
The combination of fresh strawberries and ice cream sounds perfect, but reality is a bit more complicated. Commercial versions of strawberry ice cream are frequently icy and bland. To mitigate the first problem, we add corn syrup to our base; to address the second, we add hulled, quartered raw strawberries at the end of the churn, ensuring lots of fresh fruity flavor. Macerating the berries in liquor first (vodka works; Cointreau is better) helps draw out some of their excess water.
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The Best Mint Chip Ice Cream
We have a fondness for the blast of minty flavor that you'll find in store-bought mint chip ice cream, which comes courtesy of mint extract. Still, our goal here was to produce an ice cream with the nuanced, grassy flavor of fresh mint. For this more grown-up version, we steep mint leaves in the cream used for the base—while it won't have the same aggressive minty-ness of the commercial brands, the extra complexity more than makes up for it.
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Bold and Bracing Coffee Ice Cream
If you drink your coffee black, you'll appreciate a coffee ice cream that's equally assertive. This recipe leans heavily on the beans and lightens up on the cream for a blend that's dark, mildly bitter, and refreshing. If a latte's your coffee drink of choice, our Milky and Mild Coffee Ice Cream will satisfy—it's richer and creamier, with a more restrained coffee flavor.
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30-Minute Philadelphia-Style Ice Cream
The time required to cook and cool the base usually turns ice cream–making into an all-day affair. But because Philadelphia-style ice cream is made without eggs, it's a lot speedier—just mix together the ingredients, pour them into your ice cream maker, and freeze. Removing the eggs also allows for a cleaner dairy flavor, along with a lighter, fluffier texture.
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Dense, Chewy, and Rich New England-Style Ice Cream
New England–style ice cream is distinctive for its chewy consistency, the result of a very slow churn that's impossible to replicate using a consumer-grade ice cream maker. You can mimic the texture at home by keeping the butterfat content in check, using several egg yolks and corn syrup, and adding a stabilizer in the form of arrowroot. Mix-ins are an important part of the New England scoop-shop experience, so serve yours with candy, pretzel pieces, or whatever else strikes your fancy.
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Soft and Rich Vanilla Frozen Custard
In my birth state of Wisconsin, the frozen-dairy dessert of choice is rich and creamy frozen custard, and, as with New England–style ice cream, making the real deal requires specialized machinery. This recipe will produce a delicious vanilla frozen custard using just an egg- and cream-heavy base, corn syrup, and a regular old home ice cream machine.
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Pies and Cakes
The Best Blueberry Pie
There's nothing magical about making perfect blueberry pie (or most fruit pies, for that matter). It all comes down to a couple of simple ratios—use a quantity of sugar that's equal to 25% of the fruit's weight, and use tapioca starch in an amount equal to 5.5% of the fruit's weight. Combine it with our pretty-much-foolproof Old-Fashioned Flaky Pie Dough, and the result is a pie that bakes up beautifully thick and sliceable, yet juicy. As for the fruit itself, a mixture of wild and cultivated blueberries yields great complexity of flavor, but you can use cultivated only if you prefer.
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Fresh Cherry Pie
The above proportions work equally well with cherries, whether they're sweet or sour (we like a mix of the two) and fresh or frozen. Try using lightly toasted sugar for balance and a restrained sweetness, and be sure to save the pits if you're using fresh fruit—you can use them to make a pretty cherry pit whipped cream.
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Summer Strawberry Pie
This no-bake, chilled strawberry pie is both a refreshing dessert and the perfect way to save yourself sweat in the kitchen. Built on a simple graham cracker crust, it's loaded with fruit flavor from macerated strawberries combined with a strawberry purée. We thicken the purée with just a bit of gelatin, though not so much that it turns into Jell-O.
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Effortless Angel Food Cake
Most angel food cake recipes start with a fragile French meringue, which means they're incredibly fussy. Turns out, you don't need to make a meringue at all to create the airiest, most delicate angel food cake you've ever had: Simply beat eggs, sugar, and vanilla in a stand mixer, then fold in bleached cake flour. If you avoid gluten, be sure to try our Gluten-Free Angel Food Cake instead—it's almost lighter and fluffier than the original.
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More Fruity Desserts
Thai Coconut Sticky Rice With Mango (Khao Niao Mamuang)
This simple, not-too-heavy Southeast Asian dessert is made by mixing Thai glutinous rice (a.k.a. sticky rice) with sugar and coconut milk, topping it with a sweet and lightly salty coconut sauce, and serving it alongside sliced fresh mango. If possible, skip the red-and-green-skinned Tommy Atkins mangoes you may be used to seeing in the market, and choose sweeter, less fibrous Ataúlfos instead.
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Easy Stovetop Cherry Grunt (Stovetop Cobbler)
My kitchen feels like a sauna when I turn on the oven, so any dessert that can be made on the stovetop is a blessing. This stovetop cobbler is made by simmering the fruit rather than baking it, helping to keep your kitchen cool and simultaneously cutting down on your cooking time. Here, we combine juicy cherries (frozen sour cherries work well) with sugar, top the fruit with scoops of biscuit dough, and cover the pot to allow the dough to steam into fluffy dumplings.
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Best Quick and Easy Strawberry Shortcakes
These shortcakes do require turning on the oven, but they bake so quickly and the entire process is so simple that it's not much of a sacrifice. You'll need a grand total of five ingredients: strawberries, sugar, cream, flour, and vanilla extract. The super-quick fluffy biscuits are made with self-rising flour, cream, and a dash of sugar; top them with strawberries macerated in sugar and vanilla-scented whipped cream for a lovely and low-stress dessert.
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Grilled Banana Boats With Peanut Butter, Chocolate, and Marshmallows
To make the most of your grill and let your guests get a little hands-on and messy when it's time for dessert (especially if your guests include kids), classic campfire banana boats are the way to go. Split an unpeeled banana in half lengthwise; stuff it with milk chocolate, peanut butter chips, mini marshmallows, or whatever other delicious melty tidbits you like; then grill them directly over the fire until you've got a sticky-sweet, gooey treat.
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Tropical Pineapple, Mango, and Coconut Fools
This recipe replaces the thick custard in a traditional British fool with a mix of whipped cream and yogurt, creating an appropriately light summer dessert that's beautiful when layered in a glass so you can see every element. The fruit component is a blend of stewed pineapple compote and fresh mango, plus toasted coconut flakes for added tropical flavor and textural contrast.
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Lemon-Blueberry Fools
A blueberry compote is joined by a tangy lemon curd, adding lots of brightness to this fool. We use half of the lemon curd straight up and mix the rest with whipped cream and Greek yogurt. Top with fresh blueberries after layering all the other ingredients.
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Handheld Desserts
Sunny Lemon Bars
The best lemon bars combine a rich, stable custard and a light, buttery crust. We make our custard thick and smooth by using equal weights of egg yolks and whole eggs, to get a sliceable consistency without having to resort to cornstarch. The flavor is tart and refreshing, like a glass of lemonade, and a dusting of powdered sugar really helps the bright yellow color pop.
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Homemade Devil Dogs
Devil Dogs, for the uninitiated, are something like the commercial version of the whoopie pies beloved in the Northeast. Our DIY snack cakes are made with a soft chocolate cake similar to devil's food, piped onto trays and baked. Homemade Cool Whip or your favorite vanilla frosting would be the most traditional filling, but cherry pit whipped cream will make these feel a little bit fancier.
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Chocolate-Covered Caramel-Filled Shortbread Cookies (a.k.a. Homemade Twix)
We can't fault the Twix bar's genius combination of shortbread, caramel, and chocolate—at least in theory—but the commercial product is made with lackluster ingredients that leave a lot to be desired. At home, though, you're free to upgrade with crisp homemade shortbread, caramel made with butter rather than palm oil, and high-quality dark chocolate, repackaged in delectable cookie form.
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Waffled Almond Sandwich Cookies
Some of my best experiences at Serious Eats resulted from our waffle iron experiments. Daniel Shumski literally wrote the book on unconventional waffle iron uses, and this recipe is a great one, using a shallow-divot iron to make toasty almond cookies. Sandwich the cookies around whatever you'd like—chocolate ganache, lemon curd, jam, and dulce de leche are all fine choices.


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The jury deciding former presidential candidate John Edwards' fate ended its sixth day of deliberations Friday without a verdict. The 12-member jury will resume talks Tuesday, following a three-day Memorial Day weekend break.
Edwards, the Democrats' 2004 vice presidential nominee, has been on trial for five weeks. He is charged with six criminal counts, including conspiracy and accepting illegal campaign contributions. He was accused of using roughly $1 million from two wealthy donors to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, a former campaign videographer.
Edwards faces up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines, if convicted on all charges. But legal experts say it is very difficult to prove a violation of obscure campaign-finance laws.
Lora Haggard, who oversaw campaign-finance compliance for the Edwards' campaign, told jurors the Federal Election Commission never required the money to be reported as political donations, even after Edwards was indicted. Federal prosecutors counter that the funds were given to influence the presidential election and, as such, amount to illegal campaign contributions.
"When the experts can't agree, it should be no surprise that there appears to be disagreement among the jurors," said Hampton Dellinger, a North Carolina lawyer who is following the case closely.
The eight-man, four-woman jury began deliberations on May 18 and have made repeated requests to see more evidence, including financial records involving money given by wealthy Texas lawyer Fred Baron and notes from a lawyer to Rachel 'Bunny" Mellon, the 101-year-old banking hieress who provided the bulk of the money used in the coverup.
Abbe Lowell, Edwards' attorney, said in closing arguments that the case should define what is the difference between "a sin and a felony." He contended there was no question that Edwards was unfaithful to his wife, lied repeatedly about his affair and that he fathered a daughter out of wedlock with Hunter.
Prosecutors argued that Edwards "knowingly and willingly" accepted the money from Mellon and Fred Baron to cover up his extramarital affair so he could further his political aspirations. There was testimony that Edwards was angling to be Barack Obama's attorney general or get a high-profile speaking slot at the 2008 Democratic convention.
At the time, the limit for individual donations in the 2008 presidential campaign was $4,600.
(Contributing: Catalina Camia)
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
USA TODAY's Jackie Kucinich (@jfkucinich) and Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) also contribute to the OnPolitics blog.


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I apologise if this is the wrong section, but this *only* happens to me when using the Xeebo skin (both nightly and official repo version) using Eden (b2,b3,rc1,rc2) on Windows 7. Has anyone else run into this?
When replacing the poster thumbnails using Get Artwork, seemingly at random, the entire Movies database will get corrupted and a prominent white line will appear under the buttons. Due to the transparency of the Movie Information page, it's easy to see the list of movies disappear in the background.
Before replacement artwork:
Database corruption after replacement artwork:
If I hit "Close" at this point, the database is 100% corrupted and I have to delete my entire XBMC profile. But if I hit "Get Artwork" again, and then select the same image, this time it works, the list of Movies comes back, and I can safely back out of the Movie Info page.
Database restored:
I can't seem to replicate this using Confluence or any other XBMC skins. Has anyone else run into this? Is it an XBMC bug or a Xeebo bug?
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U.S. fast-food meat still mostly raised on antibiotics: consumer groups
By Lisa Baertlein
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Most large U.S. fast-food chains still serve meat from farm animals that have been routinely fed antibiotics, consumer groups said in a new report, which concluded that many companies have not yet laid out plans to curb the practice.
Subway, Starbucks, KFC and Domino's Pizza were among the industry leaders graded "F" for their antibiotic policies in the report from consumer and health groups, titled "Chain Reaction," released on Tuesday.
The groups, which did not release results to companies prior to publication, based their grades on public statements, survey responses and correspondence with individual chains. As a result, companies given failing grades were not immediately able to comment.
An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics important to human health are sold for use in meat and dairy production.
Concern is growing among public health experts that the overuse of such drugs, particularly those important to human medicine, are contributing to rising numbers of life-threatening human infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria dubbed "superbugs."
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 2 million people are infected with drug resistant bacteria each year and 23,000 die.
"From bacon cheeseburgers to chicken nuggets, most meat served by America's chain restaurants comes from animals raised in industrial-scale facilities, where they are routinely fed antibiotics to prevent disease that is easily spread in crowded, unsanitary, stressful conditions," said Kari Hamerschlag, a lead author of the report who is senior program manager at Friends of the Earth.
Subway was cited, in particular, for failing to publicly state a policy or plan to cut antibiotic use in the meats it buys, despite repeated requests by the report's authors for clarification. Continued...