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By Jonetta Rose Barras
Sunday, March 23, 2008
I've known preachers like the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., former pastor to Sen. Barack Obama. Like many of them, he no doubt sees his congregation as full of victims, and thinks that his words will inspire them to rise out of their victimhood. I understand that.
Once upon a time, I saw myself as a victim, too, destined to march in place. In the 1970s and '80s, as a clenched-fist-pumping black nationalist with my head wrapped in an elaborate gele, I reflected that self-concept in my speech. My words were as fiery as the Rev. Wright's. And more than a few times, I, too, damned America, loudly, for its treatment of blacks.
But I turned away from such rhetoric. Is it time that Wright and other ministers do, too?
African Americans differ on this question. "Some of these ministers are like some hip-hop artists," says E. Ethelbert Miller, an Afro-American studies expert. "Their language is not healing." Counters former civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot: "I am so proud of Rev. Wright, who speaks with unreserved passion, who accepts no quarter and gives no quarter. I'm glad the church is standing with him."
The recent furor over the incendiary rhetoric of the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago pulled back a curtain on black America, sending many in the white commentariat into shock and outrage. But African Americans have been hearing words like Wright's in churches across the country for decades. And for many of us, the uproar over his comments only underlined the quiet culture war going on within our own community.
For a decade, tensions have been rising over questions ranging from what it means to be black, to whether there needs to be a new, post-civil rights meaning of racism, to what features of black America should be transmitted to the mainstream, to whether there even is such a thing as "black America" anymore. Many of these skirmishes have been relegated to our kitchens and living rooms. But they are increasingly being brought to the public square -- often because a white person, a Don Imus or a Michael Richards, commits some infraction or demonstrates cluelessness about African American culture and its unspoken boundaries.
Now the debate is over Wright -- instigated, as many blacks see it, by the media after the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused news organizations of insufficiently scrutinizing Obama. Reporters went trolling for stories and found Trinity Church and its controversial pastor -- and what may have been a Sunday dinner conversation in black households exploded onto the public stage.
At the center of the storm is Wright's practice of what is called "prophetic speech," according to the Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler, pastor of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington. This is "provocative speech that attempts to awaken and cause people to respond."
Such speech has been the lingua franca of much of the black leadership since the days of the civil rights movement, aimed at galvanizing blacks and equipping them with an armor for the battle against segregation. Combined with instruction in the history of blacks in Africa and the diaspora, it has helped to transform the psychological landscape of many who had been crushed over time by racism and had come to feel inferior to whites.
It's also, at least in part, the tradition of Wright's denomination. In several incarnations, the United Church of Christ (UCC) has been a leader in the fight for racial equality since the 19th century. According to Hagler, "congregationals," as the church's members were then called, were involved in the case on behalf of 43 African captives who revolted against their captors aboard the Spanish ship La Amistad in 1839. In the 1970s, the UCC established a commission on racial justice; Wright was on its board of directors.
Wright's impassioned speech can be seen as a continuation of a uniquely black religious experience. "The fundamental question is how do I use a religion that has been used to oppress me to now fight against that oppression," says Maurice Jackson, a history professor at Georgetown University. "There has always been this debate about how far black ministers should go."
Some think they should go as far as they need to. "Without prophetic speech," argues Graylan, "we would not have had Martin Luther King Jr. People remember the 'I Have a Dream' speech, but they do not remember his radical critiques of capitalism and the American system. They easily forget his speech on April 4, 1967." That was the one in which King declared: "I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."
Concedes Miller: "Some people need to hear" Wright's words. "It's looking in the mirror to get a better self-concept."
In my years as a black nationalist, I often spelled America in my poems with a "k" -- sometimes three. I believed that organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan couldn't possibly have operated and prospered without permission, tacit or otherwise, and support from the U.S. government. It seemed logical to conclude that racism and injustice were fundamental, inherent elements of the United States -- of its government, its policies and its institutions.
In those days, I believed that I was in a serious battle for my future. My fiery words were part of an effort to persuade myself that I had the power to break out of the narrow confines created by segregation. And I sought to seduce others to join in the fight. We could not permit the discrimination we faced daily to beat us down.
I never met the Rev. Wright during this explosive period of my life. But I met and listened to others whose speeches were equally blistering and damning of the United States, its government and its economic system. I even flirted with the ideology of a black separatist group.
Obama doesn't share my heritage. But as a child of mixed-race parentage and culture, surely he, too, struggled for his place in a society that has not always been welcoming to mulattos. His white family loved him, but more than an ocean separated him from his black father and relatives. I know what it's like to long for a father, having never known my own. Perhaps Obama found a surrogate black family in Trinity Church.
"Obama had to go to a church" like Trinity, says Miller. "That was part of his homecoming, part of his self-discovery."
That other African Americans and I were able to overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles is undeniably due, in part, to Wright-like prophetic speech. Like Negro spirituals, it helped us organize, motivate and empower ourselves.
But just as spirituals eventually lost their relevance and potency as an organizing tool against discrimination -- even as they retained their historical importance in the African American cultural narrative -- so, I believe, has Wright-speak lost its place. It's harmful and ultimately can't provide healing. And it's outdated in the 21st century.
I came to this realization gradually. As I expanded my associations and experiences -- organizing in places such as San Francisco, Providence, R.I., Patterson, N.J. and Northeast Washington, meeting caring Hispanics, Asians and whites -- I came to know that we are all more alike than different. I saw that our dreams sat inside each other. All of us wanted a better America, not so much for ourselves as for our children, and their children. Achieving this meant that we had to get beyond our past segregated lives and work together, inspiring the best in ourselves -- not the bitterness and the biases.
This is Obama's message. "I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together," he said last week in a somber, historic address about race, racism and our country's future, presenting grievances on both sides: the pain and anger of blacks and the resentments of working- and middle-class whites.
Earlier, he had denounced Wright's words and dismissed the minister from his ceremonial campaign role. But in his speech he also made clear that he could no more distance himself from his former black pastor than he could from his white grandmother, both of whom are imperfect people.
I understand this sentiment. I have not removed myself from people in my community who continue to rely on Wright-speak. We simply engage in debates. But their numbers are diminishing. More and more African Americans are coming to understand what we have in common with other Americans. Whites, Hispanics and Asians seem to be going through similar metamorphoses. What else can account for the surprising support Obama has received among non-blacks?
And today, there is an entire generation of young people who know nothing of segregation, who see one another as individuals, not as symbols of a dark past. They do not look into white faces and see, as I once did, a burning cross, a white sheet and a vicious dog on a police officer's leash. This is the coalition pushing for a new America.
Some blacks will remain ever distrustful of mainstream America. They cite the noose-hanging incident last year in Jena, La., and the killing of a black man in New York City on the eve of his wedding as evidence that nothing has changed. They praise the Rev. Wright and, like Lawrence Guyot, say that he should continue using the same incendiary language "as long as it is true."
Others, like Miller, believe that the mirror-gazing days of Wright-speak are over. "You have to turn away; if you look too long, it's narcissistic," he says. "Sometimes you have to be radical and smash the mirror. And then you go outside and take your rightful place in the world."
Perhaps Obama's campaign -- with its call for unity and for transcending the negative characteristics of race -- is part of breaking with a painful past. Many of us, blacks as well as whites, hope so.
Jonetta Rose Barras is the political analyst for National Public Radio affiliate WAMU-88.5.
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Church Chair Buyers Guide
Gone are the days of hard benches and wooden pews for many places of worship. Today, church chairs are cushioned and comfortable with fabric upholstery in a wide array of stylish colors. They're versatile and can be arranged and rearranged for many different functions.
Your House of Worship is your spiritual home and you want to foster a real sense of community and fellowship among your members. Not only a place to worship and learn together, but also to share your lives with each other. Celebrating special events or simply gathering for a meal gives people the opportunity to connect and get to know each other on a more personal level. In addition, your church, temple or synagogue has essential work to do; a mission and a message to deliver.
Here are some questions to assist you in choosing the right chair for your needs.
How quickly do you need your new church chairs?
Quick Ship Church Chairs are usually shipped out the next business day after you place your order. ChurchChairs4Less.com maintains a large inventory of our best-selling church chairs in the most popular colors; including burgundy, beige, grey, black, green, navy and purple. With thousands of quick ship church chairs in stock and ready to ship, you simply choose the chair style and fabric, without sacrificing quality. No order is too large or too small!
How important is comfort to your congregation?
We know the comfort and well-being of your congregation is a priority for you. That's why church chairs come in two seat widths, 18.5" and 21". Obviously, the wider seats (21") are a little roomier. If space is not an issue and your sanctuary is large enough to accommodate everyone with seats to spare, wider seats are a great way to go. If you have limited square footage, a growing congregation and every seat counts, 18.5" wide seats might be a better fit. With cushion thicknesses up to 4.5 inches, your new chairs will be comfortable through the entire service, no matter how long it runs.
What is your worship center's style?
Available with metal and wood frames, the frame you choose for your church chairs depends on your worship center's decor, your budget and how soon you need them. Both wood and metal frame chairs are available with or without arms. And both are stackable for times you just need them out of the way.
Church chair frames are available in many wood finishes; including oak, red oak, cherry, natural, walnut, mahogany, maple and teak and a large variety of upholstery fabrics. Most wood frame chairs are assembled and fully finished with a high quality finishing process. Wood frame chairs usually ship in 4-6 weeks.
Metal frame options are gold, black and silver vein. This type of finish is created by spraying positively charged powder over the frame. The frame is baked in an oven, causing the resin and pigment to melt together to form a continuous coat over the entire frame. This oven baked electrostatically applied powder coat finish is corrosion resistant, durable and hard to chip. Metal frame chairs usually ship in 1-2 business days and require minimal assembly.
Do you want your welcome materials to be front and center?
Having bibles, hymn books and guest cards available in book pockets and book racks makes your members and visitors feel welcome and included. Under seat and back book racks are optional features on wood frame chairs. The book pocket comes standard with most metal frame church chair models and the book rack is optional. Stacking chairs, that have book racks under the seat, is not recommended as the book racks can be damaged.
Looking for a chair that makes a statement?
Upholstery - If you want a more unique look or to use a special fabric, you can custom order your chairs. Our Custom Upholstery Department provides expert, quality workmanship and specializes in bringing your vision to life. With more than 100 different fabric options to choose from, we may very well have just the pattern, texture and color you're looking for. We're always happy to send a fabric swatch so you can make sure your new chairs will match your décor. If you've already found something you love, our professional upholsters will estimate the yards of fabric needed to cover all of your chairs.
Embroidery - With 300 thread colors in stock, our Embroidery Production Department turns your church chairs into beautiful works of art. Using 6 embroidery machines with 16 thread color capacity, our professional embroiderers can stitch a picture or logo alone, an image with text or text alone onto the front or back of your chairs. You can choose from among 24 fonts, 45 thread colors and 2,000 pre-made images, or provide your own design. For customer supplied logos and art, permission from the graphics' owner is required. Artwork must be submitted in vector format (Ai, EPS, CDR or PDF) for conversion into digital code that is read by the embroidery machines. For more detailed information, read our Digitizing Services Guide.
Custom orders usually ship 5-7 business days after you place your order.
Do you like to keep your rows nice and straight?
Ganging clips attach chairs together with a hooking mechanism on either side of the seat cushion, maintaining a continuous straight row. If you want to keep your rows nice and neat, most church chairs with metal frames have built-in ganging clips. The clips are an available option for wooden frame chairs. When ganged together, chairs take up a bit more space, 1-2" between chairs. You will want to add this to your calculations when determining how many chairs will fit in your worship center.
Want to easily transition your meeting space?
Stackable church chairs save space and provide the flexibility you need for a multi-purpose room, banquet hall or conference center. Their lightweight design makes them easy to stack, store and set up. You can quickly and easily transition your sanctuary from Sabbath or Sunday services to Wednesday Night Suppers, Bible Studies or Bingo.
A Stack Chair Dolly makes moving stackable chairs even easier with wheels to roll them into a corner or closet for storage until they're needed again. Made from 16 gauge steel tubing, the stack chair dolly can easily hold 8-10 chairs. Most of our stacking church chairs come with a free dolly when you purchase 50 or more chairs.
At ChurchChairs4Less.com, in addition to an extensive inventory of church chairs and furniture, we carry pulpit chairs, podiums and lecterns and office furniture.
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Wedding Notes – Ceremonial Music
Music sets the tone and atmosphere of an event. The right music can pull your wedding plans together while the "wrong" music can offset any plans you may have made. Take the time to select the right music and the right venue. A formal evening wedding sets expectations for the music chosen, just as an informal beach wedding is best carried off with music that matches the surroundings. Seek out the advice of experts, audition musical groups and have a good sense of the mood you want to create for your wedding. Audition professionals who will have a real impact on your ceremony.
Before you fall in love with a "must have" playlist, be sure to check with the church or synagogue where your ceremony is to be held to learn of their requirements. If there are restrictions – you must follow them. If there are few, here are some guidelines that will be helpful as you plan this part of the ceremony.
*Music should begin about 30 minutes prior to the ceremony. This introductory music is usually instrumental and designed to set the mood for the ceremony to follow. If you have planned a solo, it is customary for it to be sung just after the mother of the bride is seated. That is a signal to the guests that the professional is soon to begin.
*The processional is usually an instrumental that has a good beat to walk to. Once the attendants have all reached the altar, the music "changes" and announces the bride's entrance and her walk down the aisle to the altar. The music chosen can be traditional or more contemporary depending on personal taste but try not to make a drastic change of mood or tone. It is usually an instrumental.
*One or two songs may be played or sung during the ceremony. More than that is considered too much. Again, they should reflect the tone of the ceremony.
*Recessional music is likely to be more upbeat as the wedding party exits. The bride and groom and the attendants should be smiling as they walk back down the aisle.
It is likely that you will want live music for the ceremony but pre-recorded music may be used in some places.
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Jive's corporate communications team recently sat down for a Q&A with Humana, a leading health and well-being company focused on making it easy for people to achieve their best health with clinical excellence through coordinated care. Humana uses Jive for not one, not two, but a whopping SEVEN business use cases, with internal and external communities galore, making Jive their swiss army knife for collaboration and communication technology. Here's a quick run down of their use cases:
Use case: Internal, Sales Enablement and Collaboration
Overview: Connecting sales reps and identify subject matter experts, enabling two-way communication between Sales and support business areas
Use case: Internal, Digital Center of Excellence
Overview: Central employee hub for document collaboration and leadership blogs.
Use case: External, Support
Overview: Providing expert answers about Medicare to anyone aging in to Medicare or to their caregivers.
Use case: External, Customer Service (2 communities)
Overview: Providing customer service for those enrolled in Humana's health benefits rewards program, HumanaVitality.
Clinical e-Collaborative
Use case: External, Private Partner Community
Overview: Providing a way to connect selected medical providers with one another and to provide important data to them related to their practice.
Use case: External, Private Support Community
Overview: Providing a support portal for employer health benefits administrators and members insured through those employers.
If ANY of these use cases align with yours, the Q&A is definitely worth the read. It also includes a great video interview with Sabrina Deitch at Humana where she goes into more detail about their FUSE community.
Check out the full interview and video with Sabrina Deitch and Jeff Ross here:
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The K-Rain 4 in. Pop-up Spray with Adjustable Nozzle features a 15 ft. maximum spray radius and a 25 - 360° adjustable arc. It has a 1/2 in. inlet that's ideal for watering small lawn areas and shrubs. A built-in fine-mesh filter prevents debris from clogging the nozzle.
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The Crime Commissioner for Dorset's launched an e-petition calling for sex offenders to be banned from keeping photos of their victims.
It follows a case in the county where police had to give a convicted abuser his laptop back which contained images of his victims that were not deemed as indecent.
Martyn Underhill says victims need better protection and wants a change in the law.
"I have come across a case which highlights how victims of sexual abuse are being let down. This case involves a man convicted for sexual abuse. When he was arrested, his laptop was seized by the Police.
Now the man is convicted, the case is over, the man is asking for his laptop back. The laptop contains images of his victims which were not deemed indecent. The law states that the police have to return the equipment in its original condition. This is a Dorset case.
Question? Should an abuser, be allowed to retain images of his victims?"
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Nothing can prepare your attacker for the shock of a lifetime that he'll get when you use your Stun Master Stun Gun on him! The Stun Master has been one of the leading stun gun brands in the industry since 1994 and its reputation is flawless.
How does a stun gun work? Well like most electronic devices that are used for this purpose, a stun gun has a high voltage and low amperage. This means that it will be rather power in shocking and immobilizing your attacker, but will not leave any permanent damage to the body. There is not need to be concerned about this tool hurting you, as it contains a safety switch so it doesn't activate accidentally. Additionally, if you and the attacker has body contact at the moment you used your stun gun on him, the electric current will not flow through you and harm you.
The Stun Master Stun Gun is 6" tall and very mobile, you can carry it around and keep it hidden discretely. It also comes with a wrist strap. Zapping your attacker for around 4 seconds is usually enough for you to really immobilize him, making him fall to the ground and leaving him confused while you get to safety or call the police. Stun guns disrupt the signals that come from the brain to the muscles which means the fallen attacker will be disoriented and unable to perform organized movement.
The Stun Master Stun Gun Features:
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The Stun Master Stun Gun has 100,000 volts of power, but there are many others that have much more. If you don't want to take a risk and want to go for something more stronger then fear not, as YourGreatestProtection.com has a large collection of stun guns available for sale. Perhaps you'd be interested in a 1 million volts stun gun like the Blackout Small Fry or even a powerful 4,5 million volts Cell-phone Stun Gun - The Pretender.
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Great video from the WPB DDA. This video highlights strengths of our city, and it emphasizes its urban character and public spaces. We believe the competitive strength of West Palm Beach in the region is its walkable street grid. This is what brings together people and allows the kind of serendipity and creation only urbanism allows. It's what attracts people here in the first place and we should play to this strength, which is really at the core of what only city government can do.
That said, there is some mixed messaging going on. The push for a Flagler Financial District and the claim that WPB will become the "Wall Street of the South" within 5 years is a stretch. However, good news abounds and we need look no further than our backyard to see the entrepreneurs choosing to locate here in increasing numbers, in smaller, flexible workspaces such as that at Startup Palm Beach, Muses and Visionaries, or VentureWorx. Doing adaptive reuse projects like Forte Interactive's new space on Datura Street, or expanding The First Bank of the Palm Beaches presence on Quadrille Boulevard.
At Walkable WPB, we stand for the the type of economic development known as "economic gardening", rather than the "economic hunting" of poaching big companies and having taxpayers take the risk. Rather than incentivizing one company to relocate 50 jobs, let's have 50 small businesses each grow 1 job. Same result, vastly lower risk to the municipality, and more supportive of the local economy.
The DDA is making great strides at fostering this entrepreneurial environment. Fully embracing an economic gardening approach, and getting the City and CRA to work in unison with the DDA efforts will go a long way toward taking West Palm Beach to the next level.
Here's a small idea that is a start in the right direction:
The West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority (DDA) recently released a video that shows Downtown West Palm Beach as one of the best places in Florida to invest in or open a business. The DDA interviewed local economic development experts, City leaders and key stakeholders to talk about the area's potential.
Despite the economic challenges that began in 2008, both the Downtown and City of West Palm Beach experienced steady growth over the past 5 years. The momentum is generally attributed to capital improvements such as the construction of the new Waterfront Park and City Commons.
"We are projecting $1.3 billion of new construction over the next five years based only upon the projects that we know about," said Mayor Jeri Muoio, City of West Palm Beach. "It doesn't even account for projects in conceptual stages," she added. "That just shows how confident people are about the economic vitality of…
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Drug for smokers to quit could be a drag on resources
Beijing's municipal Legislative Affairs Office has released draft tobacco control legislation requiring medical institutions to provide 'guidance and help' for smokers.
The draft, released for public consultation last week, echoes a controversial plan first outlined by Health Minister Chen Zhu in April that would see consultations with doctors on quitting smoking covered by basic medical insurance and the drugs involved in such treatment included in the essential drugs catalogue.
While many doctors and tobacco control advocates support the plan, saying that giving smokers professional help to quit will improve public health and cut the social cost of tobacco use, others question whether it is appropriate to extend limited basic medical insurance to cover such drugs.
The mainland is the world's largest producer and consumer of tobacco, accounting for 40 per cent of cigarette sales. A Ministry of Health report in 2010 said there were more than 356 million smokers on the mainland and over a million smoking-related deaths every year.
Wang Hongzhi , a pharmaceutical industry specialist at management consultancy Allpku, said using drugs to treat smoking addiction was ineffective, as clinical trials showed the most effective drug was only 10 percentage points more effective than a placebo. Authorities in other countries had also linked such drugs to suicidal tendencies and cardiovascular diseases, he said.
And even though such drugs are covered by basic medical insurance in some countries, such as Australia, that did not necessarily mean Beijing should follow suit as the level of social security on the mainland was much lower, he said. The full course of treatment costs more than 4,000 yuan (HK$4,899), while the premium for basic medical insurance in rural areas is about 300 yuan a year, Wang said, adding that the reimbursement level for essential drugs in rural areas was only 50 per cent.
He said that including drugs used in treating smoking addiction in the essential drugs catalogue should not be a priority, given that the mainland only extended insurance coverage to serious diseases such as kidney failure and lung cancer in March.
'The point is you can't quit smoking solely because of the drugs or willpower,' Wang said. 'There are many other things that need to be addressed first, otherwise it is just not an efficient use of money.'
But Dr Xiao Dan , director of the smoking cessation clinic at Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital, said that extending insurance coverage should be a top priority as it was cheaper to treat tobacco addiction than to treat the cardiovascular diseases that would otherwise develop.
Xiao said that some of her patients, after hearing that the first phase of drug treatment would cost them more than 2,100 yuan, would only accept one or two packets of drugs, or none at all, saying they would rely on willpower instead.
'Smoking addiction is a chronic ailment and drug treatment is a way of treating it,' she said. 'The priority of basic medical insurance should be to focus on the burden on people's health, and smoking is responsible for an enormous [burden].'
Xiao also said that helping smokers quit would be good news for the 740 million non-smokers on the mainland who had to put up with second-hand smoke.
Some tobacco control experts who support the idea, such as Professor Zhi Xiuyi , director of the Lung Cancer Treatment Centre at Capital Medical University, propose a gradual approach. He said pilot programmes should first be conducted in designated cities that already have hospital-based smoking-cessation clinics, had introduced bans on smoking in public places and had higher levels of social security.
That would let doctors identify patients suffering from serious addiction and those who should be treated with drugs. 'Not all patients need to be treated with drugs, and we need to have trained, experienced doctors for that purpose,' Zhi said.
Jiang Yuan , deputy director of the tobacco control office at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said extending basic medical insurance to cover smoking cessation was only a small part of tobacco control and should only be implemented after other measures, such as bans on smoking in public areas, were in place, otherwise patients would just start smoking again.
'Studies show tobacco prices, a ban on smoking in working areas and health warnings ... are the three most effective measures to encourage people to quit,' she said. 'We need to improve the general environment for tobacco control first.'
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With the main performance of David Tracy Brown, this film directed by Jon Cunningham was premiered in cinema or TV in 2010. The film "Vampire" had an original production of USA. You can watch Vampire online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2010.
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Runtime: 100 minutes
David Tracy Brown, Jason Carter, Jack Donner, Richard Green, James Kiberd, Garett Maggart, Sean McGowan, Shenita Moore, Ray Proscia, Kira Reed Lorsch, Paul Schackman, Jean St. James and David Weisenberg.
100-minute film (full movie) directed by Jon Cunningham.
The original audio of Vampire has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
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Landesamt fur Vermessung und Geoinformation LVG Bayern
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Over the last years the market for spatial data has slowly begun to free itself from copyright-based restrictions. Due especially to regulations of the European Union and accompanied by the activities of OpenStreetMap, the market is moving in the direction of "spatial data for everyone". An unexpected obstruction has appeared on the path to this goal: Privacy Protection regulations. Aerial images with high ground resolution and the systematic collection of building fronts have made government data protection officials sound the alarm and have raised the question: do spatial data endanger a person's personality rights? This article comes to the conclusion, that government agencies have the mandate to make available and use spatial data. This specialized legal mandate has priority over general data protection laws. If commercial interests use spatial data responsibly, then the personality rights of individuals will also not be affected.


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May 2012 Professional Development Luncheon
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 11:30 PM - Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 1:00 AM (PDT)
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You were taught it's not okay to brag, right? Join the club. But in today's world, there are important and surprising reasons why high performing professionals need to regain this lost skill and start sharing their success stories more freely.
Join PRSA Lookout Chapter on May 16 at 11:30 a.m. at Niko's Grill for a fun, highly interactive workshop led by leadership & workplace coach Darcy Eikenberg, ACC, author of Bring Your Superpowers to Work: Your Guide to More Clarity, Confidence and Control and founder of career & success site RedCapeRevolution.
In addition to the fresh techniques you'll gain to tell the world about your own successes, you'll discover:
• Why we can no longer afford to consider "brag" a four-letter word;
• The three reasons we need to start bragging today, and;
• How to brag so others don't gag.
You'll have the rare opportunity to share your stories in a friendly, encouraging environment—a place where you can't make a mistake and experimentation is welcome. As an added bonus, you'll get an opportunity to connect with several different people at the event—and their stories may offer you ideas to solve the challenges in your own workplace. Finally, you'll uncover something great about someone else--and about yourself as well!
Get ready to master the art of bragging at PRSA Lookout on May 16.
More About Darcy Eikenberg
With a unique mix of perspectives, passions and practice as a leadership, executive & workplace coach, author and speaker, Darcy Eikenberg, ACC founded Red Cape Revolution as a way to help everyday professionals rediscover their superpowers, bring them to work, and make a bigger difference in their corner of the world. Working with clients such as The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, Deloitte Consulting and State Farm, she is recognized for her ability to help today's busy professionals find clarity, confidence, and control, in ways that work for their organizations and for themselves.
Before launching her own business, Darcy was a Principal at human resources consulting firm Hewitt Associates (now Aon Hewitt), where she served on the North American Communication Consulting Leadership team and led the Southeast communication and change management business before intrapraneuring an internal coaching program there. She is the past president of the Georgia Coach Association and earned her credentials through the International Coach Federation.
A frequent guest of the media, Darcy has been quoted in the Harvard Business Review, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CareerBuilder.com, CNN.com, TheLadders.com, Glassdoor.com, and more. She blogs regularly at www.RedCapeRevolution, where you can sign up to download a free chapter of Bring Your Superpowers to Work and also receive her twice-monthly Community News with more tips and bonuses.
Bring Your Superpowers to Work is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. You'll also have the opportunity to purchase autographed copies at the event.
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/RedCapeRevolution
Twitter: @RedCapeRev
LinkedIn: http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/DarcyEikenberg
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Nikos Southside Grill
1400 Cowart Street
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 11:30 PM - Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 1:00 AM (PDT)
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PRSA Lookout is the leading Chattanooga-area communications professional organization with members across a variety of industries from southeast Tennessee and northwest Georgia.
Based in New York City, PRSA is the world's largest professional organization for public relations practitioners, with more than 33,000 professional and student members across 400 chapters.


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P.N. "Pat" Elrod lives in Texas with her dogs, books, and a full-sized TARDIS she built when she had too much time on her hands. Her start in professional writing began at TSR doing gaming modules.
A lifelong fan of Vampire stories, gangster films, and pulp magazines, she combined all three into the Vampire Files, featuring the undead detective Jack Fleming. She also wrote the Jonathan Barrett: Gentleman Vampire series, edited Time of the Vampires with Martin H. Greenberg, and has contributed to several other anthologies.
She's collaborated with actor Nigel Bennett (LaCroix of TV's "Forever Knight") on a new series of vampire novels beginning with Keeper of the King, and is hard at work on her next set of toothy titles.
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Mamadou Sidibe was the first person to change the traditional Malian instrument the doso ngoni, to the now popular kamele ngoni. He changed the number of strings from 6 to 7 and completely changed the melodies from sacred hunters songs to popular music of contemporary African life. He then went on to tour with Malian greats Coumba Sidibe, Oumou Sangare and Ramatu Piakite in Africa, Europe and the US.
Now Mamadou blends his Wassulu melodies with American blues in this new collaboration with his wife, Vanessa Sidibe. Vanessa is an accomplished Afro-Cuban and Salsa musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a multi-linguist, who sings in Spanish, French, English and Bambara (one of Mali's languages).
Mamadou & Vanessa's first CD, "Nacama (Destiny)," picked up several awards in 2006, including Best World Song in the Billboard Songwriting Contest and Best World Traditional Song at the Independent Music Awards.
The Sidibes merge two languages (Bambara and English), two cultures and two musical threads, telling soul stories of love, politics and spiritual life.
Nacama [Destiny] (2005)
Wassoulou (2008)
Learn Kamale Ngoni (2010)
Wulajan (2010)
Faso Mali (2011)
Author: Angel Romero
Angel Romero y Ruiz has been writing about world music and progressive music for many years. He founded the websites worldmusiccentral.org and musicasdelmundo.com. Angel produced several specials for Metropolis (TVE) and co-produced "Musica NA", a music show for Televisión Española (TVE) in Spain that featured an eclectic mix of world music, fusion, electronica, new age and contemporary classical music. Angel also produced and remastered world music and electronic music albums, compilations and boxed sets for Alula Records, Ellipsis Arts, Music of the World, Lektronic Soundscapes, and Mindchild Records. Angel is currently based in Durham, North Carolina.


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In the Leviton Architectural Edition powered by JBL program, the same professional features and technologies that set JBL apart from the rest in professional applications are now available for installation into advanced home theater systems including leading-edge driver materials for clarity and definition, advanced crossover networks for signal purity, and overbuilt magnetic structures for maximum output and long-term reliability. Even the acoustically transparent grilles concealing this speaker technology are inspired by JBL years of professional experience in behind-the-screen theater sound systems. Leviton Architectural Edition powered by JBL speaker systems are sure to bring the home theater experience to a whole new level.
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