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About RoyalCot
At RoyalCot, we believe your child deserves the best. So we design children's furniture that's as beautiful as it is practical; as timeless as it is safe.
We combine the meticulous craftsmanship of traditional solid timber furniture- making with the precision of modern manufacturing techniques. The result is simply stunning furniture.
Our baby cribs are made of rubber wood and we use non-toxic paint. They are comfortable and safe for babies to sleep and play. The innocuous paint which is used and the teething rail installed are to keep your baby protected at all times. Furthermore, the adjustable 3-levels mattress system allows you to adjust the height of the crib according to your infant/baby/toddler's growth - it is supported by a solid wood mattress base or PVC Sheeting with 10mm Sponge base.
Royalcot Brand baby cot not just a bed, it is a gift including our caring and bless . We always do the best for the baby.
· Made in A Grade Rubber Wood
· Non-toxic paint
· Non-toxic teething rails
· Equipped with 4 castors. Two of them with brake.
· 4 Multi-position mattress support adjust
· Two Hand Safety Dropsides
· Solid Wooden Base
· Rounded and softer corners to avoid injuries
· Safety distance between the slats in compliance with BS EN Standards
· Easy to Assemble without other tools
· Baby Cot Size : H 1100mm x W 680mm x L 1240mm
· Mattress Size: 60x120cm
· Packaging Dimension: H 14cm x W 68cm x L 124cm
Why need a baby cot?
1. For baby safety, baby sleeps in the baby cot can avoid parents overwhelming the baby while sleeping turn round. 为了宝宝的安全,婴儿睡在婴儿床可以避开父母睡觉时转身而压倒婴儿。
2. Avoid baby sleeping in the middle of their parents, while also sufficiently oxygen space. Because the child is incapable of absorbing oxygen compete with adults.避免婴儿睡在父母的中间,同时亦有充分的吸氧空间。因为小孩是无能力与大人争吸氧气的。
3. Develop independent personality, reduce dependence on their parents.培养独立个性,减少对父母的依赖性。
4. Baby every day need to sleep a long time, about 18 hours or so. In other words, every baby is sleeping most of the time being, in order to let the baby have a better quality of sleep, for creating a comfortable sleep environment is particularly important, and cribs are can just do this.婴儿每天需要睡觉的时间比较长,大约在18小时左右。换句话说,婴儿每天大部分时间都处于睡眠之中,为了让宝宝具有更好的睡眠质量,为其营造一个舒适的睡眠环境是特别重要的,而婴儿床则刚好可以做到这一点。
5. Adults have a variety of restrictions during sleep, such as snoring, teething sound, turning, etc., which will directly affect the baby's sleep. The most important is the adult body bacteria, mites, etc. will be directly passed to the baby when sleeping together. It is not safety to the baby. 大人在睡觉时会有各种限制,如打呼噜、磨牙、翻身等等,这都会直接影响到宝宝的睡眠状况。最重要的是大人身上的细菌、螨虫等等会直接传给宝宝,严重危害宝宝健康。
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PRIDE FC Worldwide released an official statement earlier today concerning the firing of it's employees and the closing of it's offices in Tokyo.
Here are the details:
- The release was basically made to counter what are being referred to as "false reports" by the media. Those false reports included the employees not being compensated and that Zuffa had lied to PRIDE officials and it's fans following the purchase back in March. Both things are apparently untrue. PRIDE FC Worldwide President Jamie Pollack stated that Zuffa tried to save the brand but were unable to because of the uncooperative staff from DSE, the company that Zuffa purchased PRIDE from. Their actions have apparently prevented Zuffa from putting on any PRIDE events in the future. Employees are also going to be paid their retirement allowance.
- Zuffa's legal counsel advised them that Japanese law would prevent them from keeping employees on board without having the required office space.
- PRIDE FC Worldwide will continue to operate as a company and will promote itself in Japan and the United States. Future plans include the airing of past events, releasing previously unreleased content, and marketing DVD's and other products.
- The chances of a future PRIDE event being held in the future are slim to none. All fighters are apparently being encouraged to talk with the UFC concerning their fighting careers.
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Clean lines and simple, raised-panel door fronts with a walnut finish make the Sunrise Transitional Computer Armoire in Walnut an excellent choice for traditional and modern settings. Constructed of wood solids and veneers, this armoire is super-strong and the colonial cherry finish adds a touch of elegance. On the insides of the wrap-around doors, you'll find a convenient cork board and magic-write board for posting handy little messages. The bottom of the armoire features a pull-out printer tray, one storage drawer, and one file drawer. Above that are double pull-out trays. The top one is to give you a handy work surface, while the lower one is specially designed for your keyboard. The primary storage shelf provides ample room for your computer and an average monitor. Partitioned storage spaces in the top of the armoire will help you keep envelopes, paper, and other office materials neat and organized. From Computer Armoires.
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Text Descriptions of Phakic Intraocular Lens Pictures
Anatomy of the Eye
The first illustration shows an external side view of the eyeball with the parts labeled. The sclera, cornea, iris, pupil, and optic nerve are identified. The second illustration shows an internal side view with the eye cut in half from front to back. The sclera, cornea, anterior chamber, iris, pupil, posterior chamber, natural lens, retina, and optic nerve are identified.
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How Phakic Lenses Work
The illustration shows the side view of eye if it were cut in half from front to back and you were looking at the inside. It shows light rays from a stop sign being focused by the cornea and lens onto the retina of an eye that needs no vision correction. It depicts the clear retinal image of the stop sign being sent to the brain by the optic nerve. When light rays come into focus on the retina, we see the object clearly.
The next frame shows the image of the same stop sign being focused in front of the retina in a nearsighted (myopic) eye. The light rays from the stop sign that fall onto the retina are out of focus creating a blurred image. The illustration depicts the blurred retinal image being sent to the brain by the optic nerve. When light rays do not come into focus on the retina, we see the object as blurred.
The final frame shows the side view of the nearsighted eye cut in half with the phakic lens in the anterior chamber. This illustration depicts idealized results of the phakic lens bending light from the stop sign to redirect the focused image onto the retina. The illustration shows the clear retinal image of the stop sign being sent to the brain by the optic nerve. When light rays are redirected by the phakic lens onto the retina, the nearsighted eye sees distant objects more clearly.
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Placement of Lens
This illustration shows where phakic intraocular lenses are implanted - in the anterior or posterior chamber. The anatomical structures of the eye are identified in an external, front view (what you see when you look at your eye straight on) and a corresponding internal side view (what you would see if you looked at the eye from the side after it had been cut in half from front to back). An incision near the upper, outer edge of the cornea is depicted. The illustration shows an anterior chamber phakic lens entering the anterior chamber of the eye through the incision. Next, the illustration depicts a similar incision in another eye. It shows a posterior chamber phakic lens entering the anterior chamber through the incision and then entering the posterior chamber through the pupil.
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Glyphs indicating source control state for ASP.Net Web Site project are not displayed in Visual Studio 2010 Solution Explorer
Technote (troubleshooting)
This technote identifies an issue that can occur when using IBM Rational ClearCase or ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC) integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, where, for a Web Site project created from File -> New -> Web Site (ASP.Net Web Site), glyphs indicating the source control state are not displayed in Solution Explorer.
When using the ClearCase integration with Visual Studio 2010, glyphs indicating the source control state for ASP.Net Web Site projects are not displayed in Solution Explorer.
This issue is observed only with ASP.Net Web Site projects when using the Visual Studio 2010 integration.
This issue has been identified as a defect with the Web Site project system in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
Resolving the problem
The defect with Microsoft WebSite project has been fixed in Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is supported from ClearCase 22.214.171.124 and 18.104.22.168 onwards.
Workaround if Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is not installed:
The source control state of the files can be identified with the help of other tool windows.
- Use the Pending Checkins tool window to list the items that are checked-out in the current Solution.
- Use the ClearCase search tool window to list view-private items, checked-out items, or both.
- With the context menu options enabled you can right-click on an item in the Solution Explorer and it will provide an indication of the current source control state of the item.
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- Devayani and Yayati
- Devayani and Yayati are the romantic protagonists in an old and popular myth, which also con-siders them to be ancestors of KRISHNA. Devayani, daughter of the famous rishi Ushanas Kavya, was swimming in a pond with Sharmishtha, the daughter of the king of the asuras (antigods or demons) and a student of Ushanas Kavya. In those days such interchange took place between gods and asuras. When Lord Shiva happened by they rushed to get their clothes. Sharmishtha took Devayani's clothes by mistake. Devayani upbraided Sharmishtha severely, and the latter in anger threw her friend into a well and took her clothes.King Yayati, who was hunting, happened by and rescued Devayani. When he touched her hand, she announced that she would never touch another man's hand. Kavya gave his daughter to the king; following Devayani's wish he also handed over Sharmishtha as her slave, admonish-ing the king never to have carnal relations with the daughter of the asuras.Devayani soon bore the king glorious sons, one of them Yadu, an ancestor of Krishna him-self. Sharmishtha became jealous and managed to seduce the king to break his promise to Kavya.When Devayani heard this she went home to her father. The king followed, chastised, and sought her return. When he reached her home, her father, Kavya, cursed the king with immediate old age as an antidote to his uncontrolled lust. The king begged a way out of the curse and was allowed to transfer the curse to someone else. He convinced his youngest son to take the curse of old age, and the son became a ruler while for a thousand years Yayati enjoyed the pleasures of love with Devayani. Finally, tiring of the life of the senses, the king took back his old age from the son and renounced the world.Further reading: C. R. Devadhar, ed. and trans., Yayati-carita: A Drama in Seven Acts (Poona: Bhandarkar Ori-ental Research Institute, 1965); Cornelia Dimmitt and J. A. B. van Buitenen, Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978); E. Washburn Hopkins, Epic Mythology (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1986).
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Since she 3 years old, back then in Indonesia, Eyra has been an avid lover of play-doh or color clay. So, it is not surprising to see her choose 'color clay' as one of her extra curricular or after-class activities at 청량초등학교. Cheongryang Elementray School. These are what she made for the first five meetings.
I think I got the point of what the purpose of this color-clay class: the students are taught to pay attention more on the details even to the smallest stuffs. Well, I guess that might be of help for the student's concentration skills.
Then, on Xmas last year, the students were asked to create these lovely snowmen. What a cute little masterpiece it is.
Not to mention, the one put on a frame like the family of chickens as displayed here. This year, too, she's signed up for the second term of this color clay after class activity.
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I was on Minocycline for 1 year and two months for my acne, one pill once a day. I saw a doctor because I noticed the medication was becoming ineffective. I am now on Erythromicin, one pill twice a day. I still have a full bottle of Minocycline left from when I stopped using it. Should I throw the pills away? Or should I continue taking them until they are gone along with the Erythromicin? Can you take both at the same time?
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The Malayan tiger belongs to the family Felidae which contains 36 cat species. The genus Panthera includes the four "big cats" - tiger, lion, leopard and jaguar. Of the nine tiger sub-species only five highly endangered sub-species remain - Amur/Siberian (P.t. altaica), Bengal/Indian (P.t. tigris), Indochinese (P.t. corbetti), Sumatran (P.t. sumatrae), and Malayan (P.t. jacksoni). In 2003/4 genetic testing showed DNA differences between northern and southern Indochinese tigers. Thus the Malayan tiger became a separate sub-species in 2004.
Historically tigers ranged throughout Asia from the Caspian region into Central Asia, most of South and Southeast Asia, and East Asia and Siberia. Today their dramatically reduced range is limited to 13 countries in scattered areas of the Indian sub-continent, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, China and the Russian Far East. The Malayan tiger is endemic to southern and central Malay Peninsula. This includes only peninsular Malaysia and its border area with the southern tip of Thailand.
Tigers use a great variety of habitats as long as three essential elements exist—dense vegetation, water access, and sufficient prey base. Malayan tigers mostly inhabit lowland forests including tropical rain, deciduous and evergreen forests; and taiga coniferous and broadleaf woodlands. On the Malay Peninsula, at least 45% of forest cover remains and provides suitable tiger habitat. Streams and rivers cut through vast tropical and sub-tropical rainforests which extend from lowlands to over a mile high. The heat, humidity and rainfall promote high diversity of plant and animal life including many tiger prey species.
Size varies greatly with latitude and altitude. The largest tigers in the wild are high altitude Bengal/Indian and far northeastern Amur/Siberian tigers. The smallest tigers inhabit the southern tropical island of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula.
In coloration all possess the characteristic tiger striping with lighter tawny underbody and white markings highlighting the face and chest plus a distinctive spot behind the ears. Width and number of stripes vary between subspecies with more and narrower stripes in smaller southern tigers. Patterns also vary between individuals. Coloration varies with darker, more vibrant orange found in Indochinese and Malayan tigers.
Malayan subspecies: 7 - 8 feet (2 - 2.4 m)
Malayan subspecies: average male 200 - 260 pounds (91 - 118 kg) female 220 pounds (100 kg)
8 to 10 years in the wild; up to 18-20 years in zoos.
In the wild: Carnivorous.. The prey base in the Malay Peninsula includes sambar and barking deer, wild boar and bearded pigs, sun bear, tapir, elephant calves, and domestic livestock. They will eat carrion.
At the zoo: Commercially prepared carnivore diet, chicken, rabbit; beef knuckle bones; treats of trout, chicks and turkey.
Sexual maturity in females occurs between 3 to 4 years of age and in males from 4 to 5 years. Mature tigers possess their own territories which they claim for life. A male's territory overlaps those of prospective mates from one to seven females. A female's territory abuts those of other females, often related to her, for example mother and daughter. Mating occurs throughout the year especially in tropical regions;. Females enter estrus every three to nine weeks and remain receptive for three to six days. During the few days of breeding, the pair mates very frequently and very briefly.
Solitary motherhood faces the female. Gestation lasts 95 to 112 days (average 103). She finds a secluded den and gives birth usually to two or three cubs. The tiny altricial (totally helpless) cubs weight about two pounds (0.9 kg). Around 7-10 days the cubs' eyes open and the first teeth emerge. Cubs first leave the den within 2 months. They continue to nurse as a source of food up to 3-4 months; they may continue to nurse for comfort for longer periods of time... At five to six months, the cubs begin to accompany the mother on hunts. They do not hunt alone until 18 - 30 months when they are ready to leave and seek their own territory.
Tigers, like most wild felines, live predominantly solitary lives. Social interaction between tigers occurs in the form of scratch marks, and urine and feces scent deposits clearly announce territorial boundaries. Multiple scent glands located between toes, by the tail and anus, and around the head offer additional information. The toe scent markings allow cubs to track their mothers. A variety of vocalizations provides further communication. Snarls, hisses and roars send warnings, growls indicate territory or mating calls, chuffs and moans mean greetings or contentment, and squeals and wails come from cubs to their mothers.
Tigers interact more than once believed. In addition to the short breeding season, a male may join a former mate with his cubs for feeding and rest periods. However, infanticide of other males' cubs is the leading cause of young tiger mortality. Cubs remain with their mothers between 1.5 to 2.5 years. Two females with cubs seen sharing meals together are probably mother and adult daughter with overlapping territories. Avoidance, however, appears to be the rule rather than the exception.
Tigers possess excellent hunting characteristics. Longer hindlimbs power long distance leaps and charges. Heavily muscled forelimbs and shoulders, and paws equipped with long retractable claws enable tigers to grasp prey. The tiger's weight combines with a charge's momentum to take down large animals. Powerful jaws and long canines deliver killing bites. Throat holds on bigger animals cause suffocation, while bites to the nape of smaller ones snap vertebrae. Tigers have keen eyesight and acute hearing useful in hunting during dawn, dusk or night.
Tiger hunting strategy depends on stealth and dense cover. Superb striped camouflage combined with great patience and silent stalking .Tigers attain speeds up to 35 miles an hour but are capable of short charges. The final rush only results in success one out of 10 to 20 attempts. The tiger eats after dragging the carcass to a secluded area. Tigers can consume up to 90 pounds (41 kg) of meat, though an average meal is less. Afterwards, they cover the carcass to conceal it from scavengers, and return for later feedingsTypically, they make kills once or twice a week.
At Woodland Park Zoo, Malayan tigers inhabit the Banyan Wilds exhibit in the Tropical Asia zone. This zone also includes sloth bears, Asian small-clawed otters, orangutans, siamang, lion-tailed macaques, Indian python, Malayan tapirs, Visayan warty pigs and many bird species.
All tigers are listed as endangered on Appendix I of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), IUCN Red List and the U.S. Endangered Species List. The decline in numbers continues precipitously. In 1900 an estimated 100,000 tigers existed. In 1998 the estimates fell between 5,000 to 7,600. By 2011 only an estimated 3,200 tigers remained in the wild.
Many more tigers live in captivity. China has the largest captive population around 6,000 tigers and the U.S. has about 5,000. The tigers owned by private individuals are predominantly hybrid and often inbred animals. In the U.S. many states ban exotic and endangered species, such as tigers, as pets; other states operate with federal or state controls; but eight states have virtually no regulations. Approximately 95% of captive tigers in the U.S. are privately held and often not in good circumstances.In contrast, accredited zoos and aquariums operate under Association of Zoos and Aquariums guidelines for animal husbandry and breeding. The Species Survival Plan (SSP) does not support breeding of "generic," mostly Bengal/Indian hybrids. The SSP recommends breeding of three subspecies populations: Amur/Siberian, Sumatran and Malayan. WPZ successfully bred Sumatran tigers in the past and plans in the long-term to join other zoos in breeding of Malayan tigers.
Tigers in the wild face multiple threats. Expansion of human activities, such as agriculture, logging, and road building, both reduce and fragment tiger habitat. Habitat loss reduces the tiger prey base resulting in increased human-tiger conflict. Persecution due to livestock loss, hunting for trophy items, and poaching for tiger parts seriously add to the problem. Body parts of over 1,000 tigers entered the tiger parts trade in the past ten years.
Malayan tigers in the wild face the same dire threats; however, recognition as a separate subspecies focused national attention on this endemic icon. The Malaysian government gave "totally protected status" to tigers in the 1970's; and conservation efforts increased significantly after 2004. The Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (MYCAT) promotes anti-poaching and smuggling, and less use of traditional "tiger medicine." Protected areas and national parks exist; however, a large majority of tigers live outside of them. The 2008 Tiger Action Plan protects and expands three large core areas and combats habitat fragmentation with connecting ecological corridors.
The Global Tiger Recovery Program coordinates international action which includes all 13 tiger range countries to save tigers before it is too late. WPZ combines its efforts with Panthera, Perhilitan (Malaysia's Department of Wildlife and National Parks), and two small but effective NGOs (MYCAT and RIMBA) in the Greater Taman Negara Region of peninsular Malaysia, one of the priority tiger landscapes.
The effort to save endangered species requires cooperation and support at the international, national, regional and individual levels. You can help in this cause. Join and become active in Woodland Park Zoo and other conservation organizations of your choice. Please do not buy products made from wild animal parts. Contact Woodland Park Zoo at firstname.lastname@example.com to find out about ways you can support conservation programs at the zoo. Discover more about endangered tigers by calling The Tiger Information Center at 1-800-5TIGERS or at their Web site http://www.5tigers.org. Learn other ways you can help conserve wildlife and the habitats they require for survival by visiting our How You Can Help page.
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WEST COVINA - In operation since The Heights opened to great fanfare in 2008, Staples has now become the second store at the West Covina Shopping Center to close.
The office supply chain store, located in the center just south of Big League Dreams Sports Park at 2330 S. Azusa Ave., closed earlier this month.
The closure follows restaurant Ruby Tuesday, which opened in 2009 and closed shortly thereafter, leaving behind a still-vacant building.
The news of the most recent closure has left residents and city officials concerned that the space will end up languishing in blight.
"It's a loss of jobs, it's a loss of revenue and it's another big box vacancy that needs to be filled by the city," resident Herb Redholtz said.
Councilman Fredrick Sykes said that a second closure creates hardships for community members who will now need to drive further away, and shop in other cities, for their needs.
"It's not a good sign when you see a large facility closed," Sykes said. "It's a sign of the times and, unfortunately for Staples, obviously there wasn't enough business, so they pulled back."
It is unclear how many jobs were lost or how the store's closure will affect the amount of sales tax revenue the city takes in, City Manager Chris Chung said.
Chung said that the owner of that parcel of land where Staples sits is actively seeking a new tenant.
"The property is owned by a Chinese investor and I'm sure he's looking to secure a new tenant, but we're hoping that the vacancy does not have any major impact on the shopping center," Chung said.
The 33-acre restaurant and shopping center, built on the former BKK landfill, was expected to be a great success for West Covina. The center included Target and Home Depot as the anchor stores, and other retail shops like Starbucks and Staples.
Officials in 2008 estimated that the city would see more than $4 million a year in income from property and sales tax from other portions of the landfill, which includes the shopping center.
Still, with Staples no longer part of the list of retail stores for local shoppers, Sykes said it is unclear how the city will proceed.
"We have a restaurant there that's been empty for years," Sykes said of the former Ruby Tuesday. "What is that? That's blight. It's a beautiful empty business space that we now have to work to get occupied and get back on track."
The councilman also said he was concerned that the Fresh & Easy neighborhood market located within the shopping center was also in danger of closing.
The British company Tesco, which owns the El Segundo-based chain, announced late last year that it would contemplate selling its stores.
"We've lost those businesses and believe me it's frightening," Sykes said. "I know every penny is important."
In the meantime, city officials said they will push for residents to shop local, as well as advertise the vacant sites.
"One of my main focuses is economic development and trying to bring back businesses," Chung said. "Since we do have vacancies, it is my goal to re-tenant these sites to bring back jobs and generate more revenues for our city."


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On Monday, Aug. 25 at approximately 3:31 p.m., deputies from the Sherburne County Sheriff's Office responded to a residential fire at 16098 57th Street SE in Santiago Township.
According to Sheriff Joel Brott, deputies arrived on scene to find the home on fire with flames exiting the roof. Linda Bentley, 61, and her husband Terry Bentley, 62, had escaped the residence, but Linda Bentley suffered severe burns across her body. She and Terry were treated on scene by Centra Care Ambulance. Linda Bentley was eventually transported by air to HCMC where she remains in the ICU burn unit. Terry was treated and released at the scene.
Becker, Big Lake and Clear Lake fire departments fought the fire. The home was a total loss.
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LOS ANGELES – Don Mattingly believes the San Francisco Giants are employing a double standard, and he's setting out to fix it.
The Dodgers manager was ejected during his team's 3-1 loss Friday at Dodger Stadium, their sixth in eight tries against San Francisco this season.
But of more immediate intrigue was a sixth-inning dust-up, when Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner took issue with the way Dodgers lightning rod right fielder Yasiel Puig celebrated a solo home run.
Mattingly said Bumgarner was wrong to confront Puig when he and his teammates have celebrated homers similarly in the past.
"The game today is different," Mattingly said. "You can't be mad at one guy when your guys do the same type stuff. It's gotta be one or the other."
Puig flipped his bat on Friday's homer, as he is wont to do, but what appeared to irk Bumgarner was the leisurely pace at which the 23-year-old Cuban rounded the bases.
When Puig rounded third, Bumgarner shouted at him, and Puig shouted back, quickly bringing Mattingly out of the dugout.
Puig said through a translator he was surprised to see Bumgarner confront him, but he thought what he did was "part of the game."
With a straight face, Bumgarner said he was "just congratulating" Puig for the home run.
"That was a really good swing," Bumgarner said. "I don't know why everybody got so mad."
Regardless, Mattingly was ejected during Hanley Ramirez's ensuing at-bat. He said it was strictly about disputed strike calls with home-plate umpire Will Little.
In the second inning, Giants first baseman Brandon Belt broke his left thumb when he was hit by a Maholm pitch, but tempers didn't flare then.
The game remained scoreless until the fifth, when San Francisco's Brandon Hicks walked and Brandon Crawford followed with a home run.
The Giants got another run in the sixth inning when Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner threw away a grounder that could've been the final out of the frame.
Left-hander Paul Maholm (1-3) started for the Dodgers (19-18) and gave up only three hits in 5 2/3 innings, but allowed four walks and three runs.
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Teaneck Public Library
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George Washington's March
Source: The Teaneck Shopper, Wednesday, October 21, 1970, page 9 - Supplement
THE TEANECK area was not as peaceful as it looked ten years before the outbreak of the Revolution. Even colonists loyal to the crown were disenchanted as a result of the Stamp Act of 1764.
THE SONS OF Liberty were being organized. Trees or poles were designated where patriots could pledge their fortunes and their honor for the cause of liberty. The first Liberty Tree was in Boston. In 1766, a Liberty Pole was set up in Englewood near the circle at Tenafly Road and Palisade Avenue. The tavern near it became Washington's headquarters later on.
CITIZENS AND freeholders (who were required to own 100 acres of land or to be worth 50 pounds) met in Hackensack on June 25, 1774 following the closing of the Boston port to remark on the calamitous condition of the people of Boston. They asserted that while it would be their greatest happiness to live under the government of the House of Hanover, they conceived it their privilege to be taxed only by their own consent and that they would join other colonies in a congress to repeal recent acts of Parliament. The resolution was signed by 328 Bergen County residents. On July 2, New Jersey adopted its own constitution. The name of King George III was dropped from the proceedings.
AFTER THE Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, Bergen County became more and more involved in the struggle for independence. The farmers in the Teaneck area were prey for the armies of both the Patriots and the Loyalists who stole cows as well as horses, sheep and produce from the hard working farmers.
As far as Teaneck was concerned, the most notable event of the war was the fall of Fort Lee on November 20, 1776, following disasters on Long Island, Brooklyn and White Plains. Fort Washington had fallen on November 16.
In a letter to General Charles Lee, George Washington wrote from Hackensack on November 21: "Yesterday morning the enemy landed a 1arge body of troops and advanced very rapidly to the fort called by your name. I immediately went over as the Fort was not tenable on this side (and we in a narrow neck of land the passes out of which the enemy was attempting to seize) and directed the troops to move to the West side of the Hackensack River as considerable quantity of stores and some artillery have fallen into their hands." Joseph A. Fitzpatrick, Teaneck attorney who has made a careful study of this area during the Revolution, provided us with a map showing the retreat from Fort Lee, including the section of Teaneck through which they passed. This route will be included in the bus tour arranged for the 75th Anniversary Celebration on October 23, 24 and 25.
Mr. Fitzpatrick describes the route as follows: Beginning at the Liberty Pole to the Southwest of the present World War II Monument in Englewood, Washington's troops, according to Judge Arthur J. O'Dea the past president of the Bergen County Historical Society, marched Southwest along the present day Lafayette Avenue, then turned right and proceeded along Forest Avenue in a Westerly direction to Teaneck Road, then called Schraalenburgh Road; Nor along Schraalenburgh Road to New Bridge Road. There the army turned left, and proceeded ina Westerly direction along New Bridge Road, crossing the Hackensack River at the New Bridge to safety.
When the British arrived at Fort Lee, the kettles of the Patriots' garrison were still boiling. Tom Paine, author of the Crisis Papers, which include the famous lines "These are the times that try men's souls," wrote from Hackensack: "Our first object was to secure the bridge over the Hackensack, which laid up the river between the enemy and river between the enemy and us. General Washington arrived in about three-quarters of an hour, marched at the head of his troops toward the bridge, where I expected we should have a brush. However they did not choose to dispute it with us and the greatest part of our troops went over the bridge, the rest over the ferry except some, which passed at a mill on a small creek between the bridge and the ferry and made their way through some marshy ground up to the town of Hackensack and there passed the river. We brought as much baggage as the wagons could contain. The rest we lost.
"According to an eye witness, it was about dusk of a cold, rainy night, "but I had a fair view of them from the light of the windows. They marched two abreast, looked ragged, some without shoe to their feet and most of them wrapped in blankets. Washington then and for some previous, had his headquarters at the residence of Mr. Peter Zabriskie, later called The Mansion House (torn down in 1946), the supplies for the general's table being supplied by Mr. Archibald Campbell, the tavern keeper.
The next evening after the Americans had passed through the British encamped on the opposite side of the river (Teaneck side). We could see their fires about 100 yards apart, gleaming brilliantly through the gloom of the night, extending some distance below the town and more than a mile up toward New Bridge."The British closed in behind Washington in Hackensack, confident that the miserable American army was disintegrated of its own accord. After retreating 90 miles in 19 days, Washington's army was in Trenton at Christmas and the memorable Crossing of the Delaware, and victory at Trenton.
Residents of the Teaneck area adjusted themselves to the severe winter and occupation by British troops, who continued to draw "voluntary supplies" from their farms.
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The Daily Worker
Guest: John Gates
January 18th, 1958
Guest: John Gates
January 18th, 1958
|WALLACE: Good evening, tonight we shall try to examine the mind and the emotions of a man who for twenty-seven years was a leader in the Communist Party of the United States. He's John Gates, who was editor of the Communist Daily Worker. He left the party, renounced Communism a week ago. If you're curious to know why John Gates became a Communist, why he quit after devoting twenty-seven years to it, whether he thinks he was a traitor and what he hopes the future holds for him as an American, we'll go after those stories in just a moment. My name is Mike Wallace, the cigarette is Parliament, another fine product of the Philip Morris Company.
|WALLACE: We'll meet John Gates in just a moment.
|WALLACE: And now to our story. For twenty-seven years, John Gates played a significant, bitterly controversial role in the United States, until he left the party a week ago, he was a top-ranking leader in the Communist Party of the United States. Another ex-Communist has said of him, "Gates was the only national leader to be loved, honored and respected by the Communist rank and file." We know a good deal of what's been said about John Gates; let's find out what he has to say about himself. Mr. Gates, first of all let me put this to you. You spent practically your entire adult life in the Communist Party of the United States, you joined when you were seventeen at the depths of the depression, worked your way up until you became one of its top leaders, because of this you had to pay a heavy price, which included going to jail. Then suddenly a week ago you quit the party. As briefly as you can, why did you quit?
|GATES: I resigned from the party because it no longer believes in the freedom that it professes to have as its goal.
|WALLACE: It no longer believes? You mean that the Communist Party during your twenty-seven years believed in freedom?
|GATES: Yes, it did. That was its goal; that was my goal in the party...
|WALLACE: Well now was it...
|GATES: ...and at the last convention of the party a year ago it adopted a new program which was interpreted widely as constituting a Declaration of Independence from Moscow; because the party no longer lives up to that Declaration of Independence, and I don't think that there's any hope that it will, that I quit.
|WALLACE: You're suggesting that all through the twenty-seven years up until about last February or whenever the convention was held, the Communist Party of the United States was a free and freedom-loving institution?
|GATES: It was not free but it was freedom-loving.
|WALLACE: It was freedom-loving for who? After all, the crushing of freedom, authoritarianism that has been going on in the United States Communist Party and in Communism generally, Mr. Gates, as we all know and I think probably ninety-nine percent of us will admit for a good many years, for instance, Earl Browder was kicked out back in Nineteen forty-five for disagreeing with the party line. How under those circumstances can you say that it -- that it has been a free party all along?
|GATES: Well, the kicking out of Earl Browder was one of the biggest mistakes that the party ever made. As a matter of fact, it helped to dig its own grave when it did that. But you see, many of us thought in the years that we belonged to the Communist Party that it was necessary to sacrifice freedom within the party in order to achieve freedom later on.
|WALLACE: Mr. Gates, is there any doubt in your mind that the American Communist Party over the period of the twenty-seven years when you were in the party followed every twist and turn of the Soviet Communist Party line?
|GATES: Oh, that -- that was so up until two years ago.
|WALLACE: Well then, how in the world can you suggest that there is freedom involved if they follow the Communist line as set up by a foreign power?
|GATES: Well, you see you have to understand how and why it followed that line. It's not a matter that -- someone gave orders over there and we followed it over here. It's much more subtle than that. We followed that line because we thought it was right. It's more or less like a relationship between two people. One is an aggressive, brilliant personality and the other worships that person, and that person becomes sort of an idol for him and he tends to imitate and ape everything that he does ....
|WALLACE: But you're suggesting...
|GATES: Well, that kind of relationship is a bad relationship for both people.
|WALLACE: Certainly not a free relationship.
|GATES: Certainly not.
|WALLACE: No. Well now, answer again this question, why did it take you, John Gates twenty-seven years to get fed up with a group that destroyed freedom and dignity, the Communist Party of the United States? Why twenty-seven years?
|GATES: Because in those twenty-seven years, I and the Communist Party did a great deal to uphold the freedom and dignity. But, when I joined in nineteen thirty-one, as you said before that was in the midst of the depression, the biggest one this country ever had; nobody had any answers for what to do. The country was in a panic. The only people that seemed to me to have any kind of a solution were the Communists, and not only did they have a solution but they did things, and I joined because of that and I began to do things too. I went to Youngstown, Ohio when I was nineteen, I left college, I left home, I didn't know where I was going to live, I didn't know how I was going to live. I hadn't a penny in my pocket, but I went there to organize the unemployed. I went there to try to organize the steelworkers into an industrial union, a few years later I volunteered to fight in Spain against Fascism. A couple of years after that I volunteered in World War II, a week after Pearl Harbor. Well, these were good things that the party did.
|WALLACE: No, these were good things that in your mind you did, but you didn't necessarily have to be a Communist in order to do any or all of those things. There were other people who worked in behalf of labor; there were other people who volunteered to join the American Armed Forces, and yet they didn't have to be Communists to do it, and the fact of the matter is, isn't it, Mr. Gates, this is what I'm trying to understand, that in -- you were after a certain end, an understandable end, but the means that you employed to achieve that end were bent upon destroying the very American heritage of freedom which is the most important thing that we possess in this country.
|GATES: Well again that's -- that a contradictory question because we did things to uphold American traditions of freedom and we also did things to destroy them. For example, we pioneered and you said everybody did these things that we did, but that wasn't true.
|WALLACE: Not everybody....
|GATES: ...true in nineteen thirty-one.
|WALLACE: ...I said a good many...
|GATES: All right, that's true...
|WALLACE: ...other people did
|GATES: ...In nineteen thirty-one there was a kind of vacuum in the country which we filled, we stepped into this vacuum.
|WALLACE: You partially filled...
|GATES: That's true, I would say that.
|WALLACE: ...and you were certainly in the -- you were certainly in the minority even then.
|GATES: But on this question of freedom, for example; well, the Communist Party in nineteen thirty-one was one of the first organizations in this country to dramatize the whole issue of civil rights for Negro people, equal citizenship, and that certainly was upholding traditions of American freedom and American democracy. Now in doing that we did a lot of other things which tended to destroy all the good things that we did...
|WALLACE: And that's...
|GATES: ...and finally discredited us amongst the American people.
|WALLACE: That's the point and why? What I'm trying to find out if I can is why you, and why so many thousands of others failed to understand that in doing those things you were destroying the bulwark of America, which is its freedom. Why did it take you as long as it did? That is what I'm trying to understand.
|GATES: It took me a long time, it took me twenty-seven years because in those twenty-seven years we did a great deal to uphold American democracy and to advance...
|WALLACE: It begins to sound ...
|GATES: ...our country.
|WALLACE: It begins to sound a little bit like a broken record playing and playing. Tell me this, in a sense your story is similar to that of the Novelist, Howard Fast who quit the party last year. Is Fast a man whom you respect?
|GATES: I admire him as a writer and I admire him as a person even though I disagree with some of the things that he's said and done...
|WALLACE: Well in his new...
|GATES: ...but I think he's an honest man.
|WALLACE: You think he's an honest man?
|GATES: Yes.
|WALLACE: In his new book, The Naked God, Howard Fast writes this about what it takes to be a leader in the Communist Party. He says this; quote, "He must be driven by a lust for power for there are few other rewards for party leadership. Power," he says, "is the drug, the spur, and the goal." And he goes on to say, "power-hungry, dictatorial, inhuman and anti-human," he calls Communist leaders, "in no matter what country." Could it be that you simply stayed in the party because you craved a sense of power, of importance?
|GATES: No, I don't think so and that's one of the things I disagree with Mr. Fast on. I don't think it's a question of power. I think that what kept people in the Communist Party was something much more important and fundamental than that. When I sacrificed my life, including going to two wars and going to jail, that wasn't a question of power. I could probably have made a lot more money -- working somewhere outside the Communist Party than I made in -- than I made inside the Communist Party...
|WALLACE: How much as Editor of the Daily Worker did you make in take-home pay, if I may ask?
|GATES: My average take-home pay was sixty-five dollars a week.
|WALLACE: For the past five years, let's say?
|GATES: That's right.
|WALLACE: Sixty-five dollars a week?
|GATES: That's right.
|WALLACE: A competent newspaperman, editor?
|GATES: Well, people may have their own opinions as to how competent I was.
|WALLACE: And yet you were willing - you were willing for what you conceived to be an ideal to work for that kind of money? You say you didn't want power. Is it possible that you were just caught up in the apparatus, that you were on a treadmill and you didn't know how to get out?
|GATES: No, I -- I got out when I wanted to get out and when I thought it was necessary to get out. Nobody forced me to and I wasn't compelled to.
|WALLACE: You see, what I'm trying to find out is - little bit of the History, American History of the past 25 years, why some men got in, why they stayed in as long, how they could have been as wrong as you now confess yourself to have been, but why it took you as long as you did to get out. The distinguished American Psychiatrist Robert Lindner wrote this about American Communists; he said, "With the tenacity of faith recalling the passion of Hebrew Prophets and Christian Martyrs they believe - even in the face of brutal realities, the belief of these many remains unshaken." So, what he does, in a sense, is like Communism to a religion. Was it for you a religion? Is it for people who still remain within the party - that kind of a faith?
|GATES: It is in a sense a kind of faith like that and especially in a sense that it is an unshaken faith. That's one of the things that helped the Communist Party go down the drain - and that is that it -- although it -- it contributed a great deal in the past 25 years to change America - it was unable to change itself and lost touch with American reality. It kept believing in things that it was no longer possible to believe in.
|WALLACE: I know, and we keep coming back - the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, Norman Thomas Socialists, also have contributed to the progress of America for the past 25 years - but none of these people found it necessary, none of these groups found it necessary to abridge our freedoms, and you preached the abridgement of freedoms.
|GATES: Oh, not at all. We never preached the abridgement of American freedoms.
|WALLACE: Well, that's why you're out - that's why you're out of the party right now. Let me ask you this. There are skeptics here in New York particularly, skeptics who say John Gates has left the Communist Party now because he had a bitter factional fight with the foster group, the William Z. Foster group, and he left really for - for very personal factional reasons rather then because he is really sick to death and fed up with Communism. How do you react to that?
|GATES: It's true that it was a bitter fight, but behind that bitter fight, there were not personal reasons primarily. There were political reasons, and it had to do with the relationship between the American Communists and Communists abroad, especially Communists of the Soviet Union. This worshipful - worshipful admiration that I spoke of before that the Communists had of the Soviet Union for the last 25 years finally resulted in alienating the American Communists from the American People.
|WALLACE: I think you're making it sound a little too simple, sir. You wrote in your series for the New York Post, which will appear next week, that when you were in the Communist Party, you worked for a Soviet System in the United States. That's a quote from you. You admit that for years you doggedly followed the Soviet Russian line. Now, think for an instant, if you and the rest of you had had your way, would not the United States now be a dictatorship or a Satellite Country? Wouldn't we all be living in fear without freedom, without dignity?
|GATES: Yes, if we had had our way in 1931, that would have been the case.
|WALLACE: Or for 25 years after that.
|GATES: But, but the point I'm trying to make is that something happened in this party in the last two years, and a convention took place a year ago, which constituted a break from that kind of policy.
|WALLACE: You pointed that out before.
|GATES: But something has happened since that convention which has resulted in - in the betrayal of that new program.
|WALLACE: Let me ask you this, please if there - maybe it's an over simple question but, I would like a straight answer to this. What is bad about Communism?
|GATES: What is bad about Communism as it had been practiced so far - is that it does not have Democracy. What is good about it...?
|WALLACE: I'm not asking.
|GATES: Well, I want to tell you what's good about it because then you can't understand what's bad about it and why I still believe in Socialism. What's good about it is the fact that production is for use and is planned. And is not held by private owners who operate the economy on behalf of a few.
|WALLACE: We understand that and these are the aspirations of the Socialists led by Norman Thomas, a good American, a respected American who found that he could achieve his aims he believed through the ballot rather than the bullet. So, in a sense, that is the difference between Communism and Socialism, that is what is bad about Communism and yet you seem reluctant. You - you - you appear to me - as a man...
|GATES: I'm not reluctant at all, that's why I quite the Communist Party, and I've been very vigorous in presenting my viewson this for the last two years - publicly.
|WALLACE: There are - there are five to eight thousand Communists left in the party in the United States, we're told. Who are these people in the rank and file and what I mean by that is, where do they live mostly in the United States, what economic professional groups do they come from?
|GATES: About half of the present membership of the Communist Party is in New York City. Most of the others are in Chicago, California.
|WALLACE: What professional groups?
|GATES: I would say half of them are workers, and half of them are housewives.
|WALLACE: People of moderate or low income?
|GATES: Moderate, I would say.
|WALLACE: And I understand that there are very few young people - you're 44 and you're one of the youngest members I understand in the present -
|GATES: There are almost - there are almost no young people in the party today, and very few even of my age level. The age level is in the late 50's and nobody is coming into the party so that the party is getting older, it's dying.
|WALLACE: Well, those die-hards who remain devoted party members, even now, those who still look to the Soviet Union as Utopia. Suppose the United States and Russia went to war, is it not reasonable to assume that those die-hards would remain loyal to Russia?
|GATES: I'd like to answer that first by saying that it wouldn't make any difference what they would do if war broke out between the United States and Russia.
|WALLACE: That we understand, but that's not the question.
|GATES: I don't think you understand that. It would be too late.
|WALLACE: I understand that.
|GATES: Because once war broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union, within a few minutes - you and I and most other Americans, and for that matter humanity might not be alive.
|WALLACE: But where would their loyalty be?
|GATES: Nobody would be in a position to debate or talk about such things.
|WALLACE: Where would their loyalty be?
|GATES: I don't know where their loyalty would be, I know where by loyalty would be.
|WALLACE: Where would your loyalty?
|GATES: My loyalty - in any war of aggression against the United States of America would always be with the United States.
|WALLACE: What if the United States were to go to the aid of a small country, one of our allies which had been attacked. Let's say that we decided to go to the defense of Hungary. Where would your loyalty be?
|GATES: If we went to the defense of a country which was the victim of aggression, my loyalty would be with the United States.
|WALLACE: Do you feel that Hungary was the victim of aggression - by Mr. Khrushchev and his troops?
|GATES: My newspaper, the Daily Worker, when I was the editor of it, condemned the armed intervention of the Soviet Union in Hungary, although at the same time we opposed the use that John Foster Dulles was trying to make of that in order to destroy Socialism in Hungary.
|WALLACE: I ask you now, was Hungary the victim of aggression? Just a yes or no.
|GATES: Yes, it was.
|WALLACE: John Gates, in just a moment I'm going to ask you - how you feel about yourself today - after giving your adult life to a swindle that still would seem to justify deceit and murder in place of dignity and the freedom, do you consider that you were a traitor, a dupe or possibly a kind of tragic fool? We'll get the answer to that question in just 60 seconds.
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|WALLACE: John Gates, how do you feel about yourself today after giving your entire adult life to Communism? Do you consider that you were a traitor to the United States, a dupe or possibly do you consider yourself a kind of a tragic -- tragically foolish?
|GATES: I don't consider myself any one of those things. I am not ashamed of my 27 years in the Communist Party. I'm not ashamed of what I did in 1931 to help bring unemployment and Social Insurance to this Country, or my fight in Spain against Fascism or my fight in World War II. I'm proud of those things. I am deeply ashamed of many of the mistakes that I made and that the party made - but, we made those mistakes thinking that we were doing those things in the interest of America.
|WALLACE: As you know in the past we've interviewed Earl Browder who was thrown out of the party, excommunicated back in 1945 -- for preaching against the Soviet line. When we talked with Mr. Browder, we got the picture of a man who seemed to be trying to convince himself that he too had been right all along and that he had made some mistakes but that all in all he had been a good American. Isn't that really what you're trying to do yourself? Are you not proving yourself unwilling in a sense? And I certainly don't mean to preach, but unwilling to really confess your errors?
|GATES: Not at all, on the contrary, I think that the mistakes that I have made and that the party have made have been so big that it has resulted in the death of the Communist Party and that's why I quit it. And that's why I'm trying to do something new and different.
|WALLACE: Did you ever go to Russia?
|GATES: No, I've never been in the Soviet Union.
|WALLACE: Were you never invited?
|GATES: No.
|WALLACE: You had no particular yen to go there?
|GATES: Yes, I would have liked to have gone but, somehow or other the opportunity never presented itself.
|WALLACE: How do you think American Communists have been regarded by Russia, particularly how do you think they are regarded by the Soviet Communist Party now?
|GATES: I don't think the Soviet Communists understand -- American Communists or for that matter Americans in general.
|WALLACE: Do you think they value their Communist comrades here?
|GATES: I think they don't value the right things about them, and for that reason they threw their weight behind those people in the party who have really resulted in the destruction of the party.
|WALLACE: There are seven, eight thousand Communists left in the party here. How do we get them out?
|GATES: I can only think of one thing that's more futile than belonging to the Communist Party, and that is to devote one's life to getting people out of the Communist Party. I'm not going to do that and for that matter I don't have to nor - nor does anybody else have to, because the Communist Party is doing such a good job of destroying itself and it doesn't need any help from anybody else. The best thing to do is let it alone and it'll die. However, I'd like to add another point on that, and that is that it's peculiar that as McCarthyism declined in this country - and freedom expanded, that is at this moment that people began to leave the Communist Party more than during the height of the repression against it. So, I would say the best way to handle Communism is to expand freedom.
|WALLACE: To expand freedom.
|GATES: In our country and in the world.
|WALLACE: They seem to be sensible, if somewhat paradoxical words coming from a man who spent 27 years in the Communist Party but, maybe you would understand better than all of us how valuable freedom is. What kind of a place now for a final question - what kind of a place do you think there is for you, John Gates, in American life?
|GATES: I think there is a place from the reactions to my quitting the party, I know there is a place. I want to talk to people, find out what they want to do before I decide what I want to do. I want to devote my life to -- freeing from prison -- two of my former colleagues -- Gill Green and Henry Winston -- who are still there for the false charge of advocating the overthrow of the Government by force and violence. I want to fight John Foster Dulles, I want to fight against the Cold Ward. I didn't quit the party in order to switch on those things.
|WALLACE: John Gates, I thank you for coming and spending this half hour. When John Gates quit the Communist Party, an editorial in the New York Herald Tribune said this; they said, "There is plenty of room and plenty of need for men of courage in the genuine battle for peace." They went on to say, "We welcome John Gates to the battle and belated though it may be, to the company of free men." It probably should be added that though John Gates may now be in the company of free men, perhaps he will not be free himself until he realizes fully the role he played for twenty-seven long years in the fight against freedom. In a moment I'll bring you a rundown on next week's guest, one of America's top labor leaders who's heading for one of the toughest battles of his career.
|WALLACE: Next week we go after the story of conflict between big business and big labor in fifty-eight. Our guest will be the President of the United Auto Workers, Walter Reuther, whose controversial new profit-sharing plan for union working men is being called "foreign, radical, socialist and fascistic" by spokesmen for big business. If you're curious to know how Walter Reuther answers that charge and why he counter-charges that as things are going now, we're heading for over five million unemployed this year, we'll go after that story next week from Detroit. Till then for Parliament, Mike Wallace. Good night.
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The Stark County Girls Softball Association 18U Championship Tournament is scheduled to be played Saturday at Earley's Hill Park.
Seven of the nine teams in the league will be participating in the postseason tournament and two Alliance area teams are among the favorites to walk away with the crown.
Alliance No 2, coached by Jennifer Baxter, finished the regular season with a stellar 12-1 record and earned the No. 2 seed after losing a coin flip to Plain Local whom sports an identical record. The team is comprised of girls from Alliance, Marlington, West Branch and East Canton high schools.
"Offensively and defensively, shortstop Jeni Stewart (West Branch) has been a leader for us," said Baxter. "Turning double plays and triple plays as well as hitting, she does it all. Sarah Weber (West Branch) has been our go-to pitcher and our catcher Megan Luthie (Marlington) has done a terrific job behind the plate."
Alliance No. 2 boasts a mixture of youth and veterans with a majority of the roster being comprised of sixteen-year-olds.
"We have five or six older, veteran players, but a majority of the team is young," noted Baxter. "The girls have blended together very well and have played very well together. Everyone on the team has contributed to our success."
Alliance No. 1, coached by Dale Pittman, finished the regular season with an 8-3 record which included two close losses to the Alliance No. 2 team. Alliance No. 1 is primarily a Marlington team, plus three Alliance Aviators and one girl from St. Thomas.
"Kaysee Kerr (Marlington) has been our offensive leader and Jaclyn Schmied (Marlington) has been our go-to pitcher during the season," said Pittman. "We have a young team as most of our girls will have another two years in the league."
Both Baxter and Pittman agree that while anything can happen, the tournament will likely be a three-team race between Alliance No. 1, Alliance No. 2, and Plain Township.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012, 01:36 AM
FrodosPet (5,169 posts)
City Council Warns Crack Ho Comments Intolerable, Calls For Diversity In Talk Radio
"City Council members were one step closer on Wednesday to becoming the first in the nation to adopt a resolution condemning certain types of speech on public airwaves."
"Councilmember Jan Perry introduced legislation this week that would call upon media companies to ensure on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs on radio and other broadcasts."
What is worse - sexist and bigoted fools running their mouth and offending people, or government officials playing speech cop?
I gotta go with defending the First Amendment on this one, even if it means letting stupid people be stupid.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012, 02:25 AM
JDPriestly (57,936 posts)
1. The First Amendment does not require radio stations to broadcast racist and sexist comments.
Private organizations are not bound by the First Amendment. The government is.
The FCC legally enforces prohibitions against the use of certain words in certain broadcasts. That has not yet been ruled to violate the First Amendment. I suppose the FCC could enlarge the list of words if it wanted to. Personally, I don't think the prohibitions should be viewed as complying with the First Amendment, but I think they are.
Personally, I think the best way to get offensive language off the air is to let the station know you turn off the radio if they broadcast a personality who repeatedly uses it.
I don't think the LA City Council's resolution will change the radio stations' programming standards. The FCC could. I don't think it should, but it could apparently.
Response to JDPriestly (Reply #1)
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 02:57 AM
crunch60 (1,412 posts)
2. Radio stations should advise their employees that certain language is not
acceptable. Hate, racist and overt sexist comments, not allowed. If that personality does not like the rules, let them work at another station. We certainly don't need another twenty years of the Limbaugh's and Beck's just to name a couple.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012, 06:50 AM
Sherman A1 (19,398 posts)
3. Agreed, but
radio stations operate on the Public Air Waves regulated and licensed by the FCC, therefore they are within the realm of being monitored & told what and what is not acceptable. Granted the LA City Council has no authority over those airwaves (any more than any other citizen... the right to file a complaint), yet they have in their own way made their collective voices heard and that is important.
I do believe the best form of action is to write the station(s) letters of complaint, with a copy to the FCC for their licensing file on the station. While I certainly support everyone's first amendment rights, I also realize that some speech is less helpful (and potentially hurtful) than others and that when that type of speech is broadcast over airwaves in the public domain, I have a right (and I believe an obligation) to object to that speech.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012, 06:57 AM
malaise (159,116 posts)
4. About fugging time
The First Amendment was there decades ago when the John Birch types could not promote hatred the way Rush Scumbaugh et al do daily today.
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Thu Mar 22, 2012, 07:13 AM
certainot (4,029 posts)
5. the shame factor is gone with this RW radio monopoly. these blowhards are 'acceptable' now because
they have a monopoly and no one is talking back to them. they hide behind call screeners and use paid callers. the GOP think tanks routinely send them talking points using framing strategies that incorporate race baiting and hate of all sorts.
these dicks are comfortable using the hate speech because it is officially sanctioned by the new GOP and it is acceptable because 1000 coordinated radio stations skirt it every day and there has been NO organized opposition from the left. acorn and immigration and obama/muslim are all part of the voter suppression/election theft and get-out-the talk radio base (dittohead/teabaggers) strategy.
we'll always have racist hatemongers and money in politics but it's only as big as it is now because the left ignore talk radio.
until recently the talk radio monopoly that has been kicking democracy's ass has been getting a total free speech free ride, invisible to those who are attacked by it until the damage is done. then the left reacts as if it was fox, or the result of some political shift instead of coordinated repetition to 50 mil a week, supplied by think tanks to create pro-corporate constituencies and pass whatever the 1% wants.
Response to FrodosPet (Original post)
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 07:20 AM
Tsiyu (18,186 posts)
6. It's about community standards and public ownership
The First Amendment doesn't protect school-sponsored prayer in a PUBLIC school.
The First Amendment doesn't protect porn on PUBLIC airwaves.
The AM and FM frequencies licensed by hate talk radio are not PRIVATE airwaves. They belong to the people of the United States. As part of licensing agreements, station owners must broadcast IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
Explain to me how 1510 AM Nashville - which has broadcast calls to kill progressives and shoot members of Congress - or 99.7 Talk from Nashville - which aired a show last night on which the host was frothing at the mouth about liberals being upset about a 17-year-old kid named Trayvon Martin being shot in cold blood with no punishment for his murderer - please explain to me how these programs are in any community's best interest?
These Nashville Hate Radio stations do not reflect the values, interests, concerns or reality of the Nashville community. Only the views of white, straight, hate-filled Caucasian male goons are reflected on the PUBLIC airways in Nashville. But people of different gender/color/faith/political party also live in Nashville. Where is THEIR access to broadcast?
The chilling effect on free speech is being felt by anyone not a white, straight, hate-filled caucasian male. It is a violation of the agreement to serve the community to shut everyone else out of public broadcast.
Anyone who doesn't get that now is lost. Or is an apologist.


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