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Woodlawn, The Bronx — IMAGINE HILLARY Clinton holding up a T-shirt that read: "Legalize Mexicans." That's not going to happen, right?
Well, last month in Washington, at a rally hosted by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, the leading Democratic candidate for president actually did have her picture taken holding a shirt that read: "Legalize the Irish." That's the lobby's in-your-face slogan, which says a lot about the role that race (and ethnicity) plays in the debate about illegal immigration. Latino activists bend over backward trying to cloak undocumented Mexican migrants in the slogan "We are America," but their Irish counterparts don't feel similarly obliged.
There are an estimated 50,000 Irish illegal immigrants in the U.S.; 30,000 of them are thought to live in New York City. Today, this tiny corner in the northern reaches of the Bronx is perhaps the most heavily Irish-born neighborhood in New York, and advocates believe that as many as 40% of local immigrants are undocumented.
On Tuesday afternoon, I walked up Katonah Avenue, Woodlawn's main shopping street, trying to guess who was or wasn't here illegally. How about that blond woman walking with her child? Or perhaps the redhead in pink sweats? Surely the two rough-hewn construction workers enjoying a lunchtime beer at the Rambling House bar didn't have papers. Like the woman I met in California's Central Valley a few months ago who told me how odd it had been to see white people engaged in farm labor in Australia, it was a decidedly new sensation for me to suspect all the white people around me of being illegal.
"When I tell people I'm undocumented, it shocks them," said Mary Brennan, a nurse's aide who has lived in the U.S. for almost 17 years. "They think of JFK or Ronald Reagan, and they can't understand how an Irish person could be illegal."
Though Brennan shares the hardships of undocumented status with other illegal immigrants throughout the country — last year she was unable to attend her brother's funeral in Ireland for fear that she'd be denied reentry to the U.S. — she acknowledges that Irish illegals do have a slight advantage. It's all in the stereotypes — race-based, language-based, class-based.
Her friend, contractor Dermot Byrne, who also is here illegally, agrees. "From my experience, we're not singled out. If someone's driving down the street and they see five Mexican guys on one side and five Irish guys on the other, they're going to think that the Mexicans are illegal, even though it could be the other way around."
Despite his status, Byrne has placed a pro-immigration-reform sticker on his car, as well as Irish versions of an "I love Jalisco" decal that identify his and his wife's home counties in the old country.
Irish immigrant advocates are acutely aware that the American public doesn't identify the Irish as alien, let alone illegal, and they consciously leverage this positive prejudice to their advantage.
"The fact that they're white Europeans agitating for immigration reform is helpful," said Niall O'Dowd, chairman of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform and publisher of the Irish Voice newspaper. "Bottom line is that every ethnic group brings their own strength to the debate. We can't put a million people in the street, but we have positive political identification and a lot of access to Democrats and Republicans."
There are 40 million Americans of Irish descent, and O'Dowd believes that a good portion of them, particularly the politicians, are sympathetic to the plight of illegal Irish immigrants. His office is filled with snapshots of him shoulder to shoulder with the likes of John McCain, Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy. "The key is to have sympathetic politicians of the same ethnic background," he said.
Seeking to put a white Irish face on the issue of illegal immigration, O'Dowd and the Irish Lobby sent a delegation of 3,000 undocumented workers to Washington last month, not to protest but to lobby U.S. lawmakers. "We Irish are good at playing politics from the inside," he said. "When politicians see that even the Irish can be undocumented, then they realize that there's something wrong with the immigration system."
But whites' more favorable view of illegal immigrants who look like them may not translate to the growing number of Americans whose ancestors do not hail from Europe. The Pakistani-born cab driver who took me from the subway station to Katonah Avenue said he generally found Irish immigrants to be nice, as well as good tippers. "But they won't rent you an apartment around here if you're not Irish," he said. "They don't want to mix with other races."
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USA host Serbia in World League 'Match of the week'
The two teams will play at 19.00 local time at the UIC Pavillion in Chicago, in the second of two meetings between USA and Serbia this weekend. The United States (WR 4) and Serbia (WR 9) are on ten points after four matches each in pool B, which also features Bulgaria (WR 6) and defending champions Russia (WR 2), both on two points.
Saturday's match will be a replay of the 2008 World League final, when USA beat Serbia 3-1 to grab their first ever World League title. USA and Serbia (including Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro), however, have met eight times before in the World League, with Serbia winning on six occasions.
The North American team have begun their World League campaign with four wins, two away to Bulgaria and two hosting Russia. Their first matches against the two teams both went to five sets. Serbia, on the other hand, won their first two matches against Russia, before pulling off victories away to Bulgaria. Players to look out for this weekend include Erik Shoji of the United States, who has a receiving efficiency of 62.5%, which is the best of all players in group 1 (Pool A and B) this World League season. Serbia's Uros Kovacevic has a spike rate of 52.8%, making him the most efficient player of group 1 (Pool A and B) in this category.
Speaking ahead of the two-match encounter this weekend, US Head Coach John Speraw said: "That's always fun when you have a match between two teams at the top of the pool. (Serbia) are an exceptional volleyball team. They play the game very well. They control the ball very well. They have a really high-level service game. It will present us with another really unique challenge."
The first World League 'Match of the Week' saw Brazil, last year's World League silver medallists and current World Champions, take on Italy in a pool A match on May 24 in Jaragua Do Sul, Brazil. The Italians defeated Brazil 3-1 (17-25, 26-24, 23-25, 20-25).
Week two of the competition saw the 'Match of the week' programme zoom in on Serbia's victory against Russia 3-1 (21-25, 25-16, 25-18, 25-20). In week three, the programme highlighted the pool A match between Italy and Poland at the spectacular outdoor venue at the Foro Italico in Rome, which the hosts won 3-1 (25-21, 25-20, 15-25, 25-17) in front of 11,000 enthusiastic fans.
This week fans will be able to watch the United States take on Sertbia in a pool B match on June 14 at 19.00 local time at the UIC Pavillion in Chicago.
Week five will see Poland take on Brazil on June 22 at 19.30 at Luczniczka Hall in Bydgoszcz. Week six will feature Russia again, this time taking on USA in a pool B match on June 28 at 18.00 at the Yantarny Arena in Kaliningrad. In week 7, fans will be able to watch Bulgaria host Russia in a pool B match on July 6 at 20.00 at the Arena Armeec in Sofia.
The FIVB Volleyball World League which began on May 23 will end with the Finals taking place on July 20.
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Lupus: Down and out and caring for the kids – an objective perspective.
Johnny's bout of the flu bug is finally coming to an end. He's still not 100%, but as he declared, the true benchmark of his wellness is that he can do voices while reading books to the girls. And his funny little voices are back…so life is slowly returning to normal.
But having watched him struggle so, I realized once again how hard it would be to take care of the girls if I were sick. I've never underestimated how difficult it must be for those moms and dads out there whose diseases are flaring…I know how lucky I've been to have kept those flares at bay since the girls have been around. But knowing how hard Johnny was trying to manage the "fun, upbeat Dad" routine, despite his illness, I realize that it would be my own expectations as a supermom that I would have to have deal with.
I was away for a couple of days while he was sick, and I encouraged him to find ways to conserve his energy…so that he would somehow find a way of get up the next morning and do it all over again. He figured out a few things for himself, of course, but I think he appreciated the suggestions. Things like letting the girls play by themselves as long as they were within ear shot (and safe, of course), watching as many movies as they could, or recruiting the neighbor girls to come and help seemed like the most obvious, practical options for a sick parent to employ. And yet – if I were in his shoes, I know how hard it would be to make those things happen without feeling guilty – without feeling like I was shirking my responsibility – without feeling as if I was letting my girls down.
But should the time come to pass, I'll just think of Johnny. I'll remember how simple it was to dole out that advice, and how sensible it seemed for him to do whatever he could to rest and take it easy. He did pretty well – and most importantly he made it through – but from an objective perspective, I know he could have done more (or is that less?) to give himself a break.
Most importantly, however, I know I could have done more. I'd toyed with the idea of scheduling Paola, our au pair, to work on the weekend while I was away, but when I asked him if he wanted her to work, he said no. He was sure he'd feel better by the time the weekend came. But as a caretaker, and as someone who's been there, I should have known. I should have ignored his positivity and hopefulness (that I so often have exuded), and lined up the babysitter so that the option was already in place. It wouldn't have been on him to decide that he was really too sick - the decision would have already been made for him. So that when he woke up feeling absolutely awful, he wasn't forced into putting on a happy face when he was feeling anything but. (And how many times have we lupites done that?)
So caretakers, take note: while you must tread carefully when it comes to inserting yourself into the life of your loved ones (which is another post...), I do believe that trying to anticipate their needs and having contingency plans in place are essential. You can't force your plans, of course, but having assistance ready and pre-arranged is going to be awfully hard for your sickly loved one to refuse.
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Is Picasa selling pictures uploaded to Google Plus?
This could be true, but there is a way to change your settings so no one is allowed to order your pictures.
I think it was Isha that posted the link to a G+ thread that talks about how your photos may get sold and who gets the money. Yeah, it isn't you making the cash on those uploaded pictures.
Checkout the Google Plus Post HERE. Pay attention if you don't want your hard work for favorite pics putting money in others pockets.
In case you already know about this and just want to check your settings, the instructions are posted HERE.
In the hangouts on Air we did not long ago, we had the question…"Do you watermark your pictures and why?" at the 13:49 mark. I do watermark all of my images, and you can hear my reason on the video at Basic Image and Video Tips For Bloggers - Part 2. You can click on the proper time stamp in the video description on YouTube.
Do you think just changing your settings is enough?
What if others download and re-upload your photos?
How do you protect your pictures???
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For those who have said Heisey just needs to get some consistant at bats ... he should play more ... I hope you are right. For some reason, to me he looks like one of those AAAA players. Too good for AAA ball, but not good enough to be an every day player at the major league level. Brandon Larson was the AAAA prototype.


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By Jami Jones, managing editor
Fred Weaver was just tooling along Interstate 15 in Montana back in June 2011. Before he knew it he was passing the Shelby scale, having missed the sign that would have alerted him a scale was ahead.
Needing fuel, he went ahead and stopped to fill up. While at the fuel island, a sheriff's deputy approached Weaver and asked him if he knew he had missed the scale. Weaver said he was aware and was going to return after fueling his truck.
Apparently content with Weaver's response, the sheriff's deputy went on down the road.
Upon Weaver's return to the scale, he was presented with a citation for not stopping at the scale and the violation was noted on his inspection report.
Weaver hired an attorney and battled the ticket through the Montana courts. In January 2012, the ticket was dismissed without prejudice – allowing the state 60 days to appeal the decision and refile charges. That never happened.
The citation was wiped from Weaver's motor vehicle record.
But the violation remained on Weaver's records maintained by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, used in both the Pre-Employment Screening Program and Compliance, Safety, Accountability enforcement program.
With the help of OOIDA, Weaver requested the violation be removed from his record through the DataQ process.
Requests through the DataQ system are routed back to the agency in which the inspection reports are generated for a decision.
Weaver's request to remove the violation was denied by FMCSA, which under the DataQ system simply defers the decision to the state agency – in this case the Montana Department of Transportation's Motor Carrier Services Division.
The denial, in part, states that Weaver was in violation by failing to report to the Shelby scale and that the citation was filed as "deferred prosecution."
OOIDA filed a dispute on that decision detailing the facts in the case and that Weaver's ticket was, in fact, dismissed.
A final response from the state of Montana states the citation and the violation are different. "The two actions are treated and handled totally separate from each other." The response called the violation a valid "safety" violation and it "can be listed whether a citation is issued or not."
In response to the court's dismissal of the citation, the state responded that by keeping the violation on Weaver's record, the state was "not in violation of the court order as it only addresses the citation."
In that final response, the state warned that further DataQ challenges to this violation would be "turned over to the FMCSA as a violation of the DQ processes." The response does not outline what penalties or punishments that would entail.
That response was issued on March 19.
OOIDA filed a petition for review on Weaver's behalf on May 10 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District.
The Association asserts that FMCSA is continuing to report that Weaver violated the law, when the citation was actually dismissed. The Association is seeking to prevent FMCSA from reporting that Weaver violated the law to the public and is seeking to remove that information from his records.
"The tactic that FMCSA is employing is a familiar one of 'don't confuse us with the facts. We don't even want to talk about the facts,'" OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer said. "They are going to talk about this – and if we wind up having to take it to the pope to get them to pay attention, then we'll take it to the pope."
This is the second legal challenge filed by OOIDA contesting FMCSA's refusal to discontinue reporting violations that have been overturned or dismissed in court.
The previous lawsuit was filed in July 2012 on behalf of four members who encountered similar situations. That case is still pending.
"In our country we're presumed innocent until proven guilty. These guys went to court and had the allegations dismissed. How can FMCSA continue to report that they violated the law?" Spencer questioned. "We live in a system of law, justice and courts. The agency obviously is under the delusion that they are above that system.
"Fred Weaver deserves better – and so does every other hard working trucker out there." LL


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Global Update - September 2013
Will 2014 be the Next Golden Year?
Looming IC Industry Changes Mean New Materials Needs
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Next year could be a golden year for the industry. GDP in 2014 is expected to rise and semiconductor revenue is improving, with 2014 projected revenue growth averaging about 8%. Semiconductor companies have adjusted their capital expenditure, with fab equipment spending for 2014 expected to reach historic highs.
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- The students will be able to identify the expeditions of French explorers Ribault and Laudonnière.
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Suggested Activities:
- Define the vocabulary words as a class. Using chart paper, write the sentences that contain the vocabulary words from the passage. Underline the vocabulary word in the sentence. Leave some space between each of the sentences so you and the students can write your class-generated definitions using context clues.
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- Before long the supplies began to dwindle, so Ribault sailed back to France to gather more.
- to decrease, become less, to lessen, get smaller
Have the students complete a story clock detailing the events as they happened in the passage. Provide students with a map of the southeastern states of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Have the students label the following locations: St. Augustine area, River of May (St. Johnís River), Ribault's monument, Port Royal (in South Carolina), Charlesfort, Fort Caroline (at the mouth of the River of May). Create a timeline integrating the explorations of Ribault, Laudonnière, and Menendez. Have the students research "piracy" and some of the pirates that existed during this time. Complete and review FCAT questions.
(Note: Actual FCAT practice passages are wrtten at the students' independent reading level. These Florida History selections are written at the students' instructional reading level. Therefore, students should not be asked to complete the questions until after receiving class instruction on the vocabulary and content of the passage. Students should also read the Florida History selection independently before answering the FCAT questions and be permited to return to the selection for rereading as they answer.)
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Cowboys tight end Jason Witten began his season with a lacerated spleen, and finished with a record.
But mostly, he's glad he still has a chance at the postseason.
Witten caught his 103rd pass of the year in yesterday's overtime loss to the Saints, breaking the single-season tight end record set by Tony Gonzalez (102) in 2004.
"It's hard to enjoy that," Witten said, via Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com. "Ten years playing obviously the goal is to get in position to try to compete for a championship, but it's probably a little more sweet this year than any of the records just because of the way the season started for me and to feel like the bar gets raised higher and higher every year. To kind of answer that bell, it's special. And nobody lost confidence in me and I didn't lose confidence in myself. I'm sure it's something I'll look back on and say, 'Boy, I'm glad I took that approach and it paid off for me.'
"It means a lot because there's been so many great tight ends over the years that I've got respect for."
Witten has one more chance to add to that record, next week against Washington, when they have a division title and a playoff berth on the line.


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Disney has long had a complicated relationship with Satan, paganism and heavy metal. The latest evidence: the studio's new film "Maleficent."
In 1940, Disney conjured the animated masterpiece "Fantasia," in which Mickey Mouse flirted with the dark arts as the Sorcerer's Apprentice; a dinosaur segment was set to Stravinsky's pagan death dance "The Rite of Spring;" and the Slavic black god Chernobog, today beloved by European black-metal performers, made a dramatic appearance on Bald Mountain. In 1959, in the original "Sleeping Beauty," the fairy Maleficent invoked "all the powers of hell" before transforming herself into a dragon. In 1996, Disney's Hollywood Records released an album by metal 666er Glenn Danzig (though the label then abruptly fired him).
And now, risking the wrath of monochrome Christians everywhere, Disney has brought forth the box-office smash "Maleficent," a film that turns its mythic predecessor "Sleeping Beauty" on its golden head.
Once a force of pure evil, the demonic Maleficent (played by Angelina Jolie) has morphed into a sympathetic Earth goddess akin to Demeter, cursing yet protecting her Persephone-like surrogate daughter, the sleeping beauty Aurora.
In endowing the horned Maleficent with motherly love, veteran Disney writer Linda Woolverton takes a stance similar to that of Scandinavian/European black-metal bands such as Immortal, Dimmu Borgir and Behemoth: They embrace darkness in order to align themselves against those who claim to represent the "Light" — the legions who invoked Christ while destroying primeval cultures and slaughtering the metal folk's tribal forebears. Maleficent's brutish screen opponents, crowned with medieval helmets, lack only crosses on their chests to identify them directly as Crusaders.
Predictably, some Christians are taking umbrage. A review of "Maleficent" in Christianity Today faulted the film for rejecting the notion of original sin in favor of the idea that "evil must have a psychological, sociological or biological cause."
When conservatives talk about the war on Christmas and Christianity, in one sense they're right: Jesus has lost some reputational ground. But the bad PR isn't because media Jews want to slaughter the Lamb; it's because Christianity has grown guilty by association with tea party extremists, Koran-burning ministers and child-molesting priests.
The rebranding of Maleficent is perhaps another sign that Americans have grown uncomfortable with their traditional role as idealistic world-savers; after Vietnam, Chile, El Salvador, Iraq and Afghanistan, only the willfully ignorant can ignore the gore on our swords. It's easier to identify with a Maleficent than a messiah.
Our culture reflects this self-disgust in thousands of ways. The bumbling but well-meaning 1960s comedic icons of "Gilligan's Island" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" have been universally replaced (even on the Disney Channel) by self-interested schemers prototyped in the 1980s on "Married … With Children" and "Seinfeld." The crime-fighting Batman of comic books became first an ironic '60s TV spoof and then, in film, an ever darker and more psychotic figure who creates as many problems as he solves.
Millennial America's current role models are bloodsucking vampires and flesh-gnawing zombies — often sympathetically portrayed because, hey, we prefer to think of ourselves as messy eaters rather than exploiters.
So we deserve "Maleficent" — our vengeful, fallen yet heroic anti-Christian, as beautiful and complex a villain as we might hope to be.
The makers of "Maleficent" have said they couldn't have made the film without Jolie, and truly, few actresses can match her combination of humanitarian credentials and triumph over personal loss; she's an easy demon to root for. When her character's two wings are amputated, the meanings multiply in a woman who in real life has been forced to make bodily sacrifices. And after Maleficent notices her bloodied chest after a battle, Jolie looks at us with one of the most delicate, subtle, mortal expressions cinema has ever seen.
If we can't unconditionally love our darkened, compromised selves, she makes us at least like her.
Greg Burk is a Los Angeles writer.


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Six roads remained closed Tuesday, Sept. 18, after more than six inches of rain fell in the Eastern part of Lancaster County on Monday.
Lancaster County Fire Marshal Stephen Blackwelder said the following roads are closed to through traffic:
– Carnes Wilson Road (Lancaster County maintained)
– Deer Track Circle (Lancaster County maintained)
– Gills Creek Drive (Lancaster County maintained)
– Hough Road (Lancaster County maintained)
– Logging Road (Lancaster County maintained)
– Doster Road (S.C. Department of Transportation maintained)
Blackwelder said in a press release the closing are due to damage to the roadways and shoulders as a result of heavy flooding. There is no definite time frame for the reopening of these roads at this time.
"At this time, SCDOT and Lancaster County Public Works are evaluating the damage, developing plans and beginning repairs where possible," Blackwelder said. "These efforts are being hampered due to continuing rainfall in the area today. As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, no additional flooding has been reported.
"We're keeping a close eye on everything because heavy rain is forecast later today (Tuesday)," Blackwelder said. "There have been no additional problems, but who has a crystal ball?"
Contact Gregory A. Summers at (803) 283-1156
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Prominent Rocks - 3-D
Many prominent rocks near the Sagan Memorial Station are featured in this image, taken in stereo by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on Sol 3. 3-D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail. Wedge is at lower left; Shark, Half-Dome, and Pumpkin are at center. Flat Top, about four inches high, is at lower right. The horizon in the distance is one to two kilometers away.
Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of low-cost spacecraft with highly focused science goals. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, developed and manages the Mars Pathfinder mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is an operating division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) was developed by the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory under contract to JPL. Peter Smith is the Principal Investigator.


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Target is definitely carrying the MTT. It's In-Stock at Target.com right now and it has an active DPCI - 087-06-0846 Star Wars Droid Carrier Vehicle $129.99The last batch of Target intel* said this would be a holiday endcap item and not every store would be getting them. If you want to know if your store will be carrying it, jump on that Target link above and click the "find in store" button. "Out of Stock" means it's coming to your store eventually; "not sold at this store" means it's not going to be sold there (duh ).* this was as of Celebration VI - plans can and do change I suppose...
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In the Beginning…
I used to be a hairy little bugger (though to look at me now, you might not believe it). My first home was an apartment in Manhattan's Upper West Side, a neighborhood that overlooked the George Washington Bridge. My mother used to give me sunbaths on the fire escape.
Shortly after my fifth birthday, I found myself in kindergarten. I was happy to be in school. I had two younger brothers at home who were constantly soiling their diapers and crying for a change. I wonder if my parents sent me to school so they wouldn't have three kids at home crying for a change.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I was held back. I don't know if I flunked kindergarten or if there was a rule against passing students who were constantly crying for a change.
My initial disappointment quickly changed to gratitude. I was in love with my teacher. I would do anything to please her. I built the tallest alphabet-block skyscraper, wrote an essay on "The Meaning of Life," and learned how to add, subtract, and do trigonometry. I even occasionally kept my diapers dry.
Life after Kindergarten (or Things Picked Up Once I was Potty Trained)
My father must have been very successful. He and my mother spent most of their weekends looking for a home in a community with "good schools." They finally settled on Scarsdale, and we moved to a home that seemed to be in the "country."
As I unpacked my belongings, I worried about how I would survive another year of kindergarten in such a bastion of academic excellence. On the first day of school, I was flabbergasted to discover that I had graduated from kindergarten, skipped first grade, and was now in second grade.
Since I was no longer wearing diapers or sucking my thumb, there wasn't much to tease me about. But because I was the shortest kid in class, the teacher put me first in every line. It bugged the heck out of the kid who had that honor the previous year, so I came back from my first day of school with a black eye.
The battle wound gave the kids at my neighborhood bus stop an idea. They used me as a punching bag whenever they caught me. Lucky for me, I was pretty fast. I'd arrive early at the bus stop, hide behind a bush or tree, then scamper onto the bus after everyone else was on. I'd sit near the driver for safety, but I still got the occasional noogie.
I quickly made friends and began to enjoy school. I seem to recall that there were five boys and about twelve girls in my homeroom-a far cry from overcrowded classrooms I see today when I visit schools.
I did well in school, receiving mostly As and a few B+s. I was always chosen to be on teams because there were so few boys. If you ask me about my elementary school days, I'd say I was happy, popular, and a good student. But I don't think that's what my parents would say. You see, I wasn't particularly enthusiastic about attending Sunday school or practicing my clarinet. My parents, who should have been happy that I wasn't a juvenile delinquent, were always on my case.
When I began fifth grade, I noticed that I was still the shortest kid and that the girls were, suddenly, twice as tall as I was. That's the year I learned to be respectful of the so-called weaker sex.
We had a recreational baseball league on Saturdays. I was the shortstop and usually batted first because I almost always got on base. Being short, I had a pretty small strike zone. If a pitcher did find the zone, I'd usually get some wood on the ball-enough for a single or double. I made up my mind in the seventh grade that I would go the whole season without striking out. I almost achieved that goal until I faced a pitcher who knew how to throw a curve ball.
My father must have become even more successful because we moved to a bigger house in a nicer neighborhood. I started the eighth grade not knowing anyone in my new school. I was still the shortest kid, but I had no trouble getting picked for basketball or touch football games-I lived across the street from an athletic field and always supplied the game ball.
I did pretty well academically in my first two years of high school, but nobody seemed to notice me-particularly girls. Then in my junior year, I made the varsity soccer and wrestling teams. I remember running around Scarsdale High School in my tights to lose weight for the weekly prematch weigh-ins. I was "discovered" by some sophomore and freshman girls, and high school started to be fun. In my senior year, I broke my ankle when I went out for the lacrosse team, so I wrote a sports column for the school newspaper. I don't think I showed any particular talent for writing in high school. The New York Times never offered me a million-dollar signing bonus to skip college and cover the Yankees.
College Daze
I never understood the concept of building a "permanent record" to impress college admission directors until my junior year. That's too bad because I could have gone to almost any college if I had done as well in my freshman and sophomore years as I did in my junior and senior years.
As it worked out, I wound up at St. John's College-"the great books" college-in Annapolis, Maryland. I actually learned to read Greek (I didn't understand it, though), and my mind was stretched discussing Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Aeschylus. What a year!
My second year wasn't as much fun. At St. John's, there are no electives. Everyone takes the same classes and reads the same "great books." In fact, I got so bored reading St. Thomas and St. Augustine (though I enjoyed reading the New and Old Testaments cover-to-cover) that I became a radical and traveled to Cuba during spring break.
That trip quickly got my mind out of the Middle Ages and into the front pages of the New York Times. I transferred from St. John's to New York University, so I could study political science and economics instead of classics.
I was living in the East Village during a very exciting time: the hippie era. I knew Abbie Hoffman, the famous Yippie, and a guy named Ed Sanders of the Fugs, a rock band that played dirty songs. Tie-dyed shirts and sandals was the dress code back then. With all the distractions, I made the transition from tiny classes to huge ones quite smoothly. My academic performance was stellar.
I quickly found myself in the middle of a group of friends, most of whom had transferred to NYU, who pretty much ran the extracurricular life at NYU. One of my friends edited the literary magazine. I became president of the glee club and editor of the political magazine.
I graduated with a major in philosophy, a minor in English, and almost enough credits for minors in political science, sociology, anthropology, nuclear physics, and psychology. I enjoyed learning new subjects and would have stayed on at NYU for another year or two if it hadn't been for the Vietnam War.
Because I had no inclination to shoot (or be shot by) people I had never met, I decided on a "career" as a graduate student in sociology-though I had no particular desire to be a sociologist (whatever that might be).
I was accepted by the University of Chicago. I spent two years improving my squash game and occasionally attending class. One summer, my strong interest in the civil rights movement led me to establish, publish, and edit an alternative community newspaper. (At the time, Hyde Park had a large black population.)
Toward the end of my second year at U of C, my father told me that as a result of business problems, he would no longer be able to pay for my education. I wasn't overly upset. When school ended, I rode a Honda 90 all the way from Chicago to New York. I started to grow up on that trip. I left my dependence and aimlessness behind me and decided I would take a job-no matter what-to support myself. Not only that, I decided I would be someone, though I had no idea who.
Working for a Living
I remember being tested for "aptitude." I learned I could be almost anything having to do with words or analytical thinking: a lawyer, a social scientist, a writer, a journalist, an advertising copywriter, an editor, a graffiti artist, a publisher. Never having thought about a career, I took pretty much the first job I was offered: a market research position for a beer company in Newark, New Jersey.
Though I didn't love the job, it launched me into the job market. Over the next five years, I switched positions and jobs several times, so I had lots of job titles: market researcher, advertising copywriter, advertising account executive (on Madison Avenue), marketing manager (at a candy company), and toilet scrubber.
I almost forgot to mention that I married Vicki during that period and that we had a baby, Douglas. I was crazy about Doug. I wanted him to have a home surrounded by grass and trees and ball fields, so I started looking for a job outside New York City. I remember the day a recruiter approached me about a job interview in Minnesota. I called Vicki and told her the good news. She said, "Minnesota? Where's that?"
In Minneapolis, my job was to develop new products for Pillsbury. We had a house surrounded by grass, trees, and lakes filled with icebergs. We were happy. Doug had a pacifier stuck in his mouth, a pet parakeet perched on his shoulder, and a baby sister named Dana, who seemed to annoy him from the start.
Jobs come and go. Mine went. I couldn't find a new job I liked, so I sort of freelanced on various short-term consulting projects. I formed my own advertising and marketing agency, which was distinguished by clients who couldn't afford to pay their bills. One client, a wild rice company, paid me in wild rice. Unfortunately, I had to rent a canoe to harvest it.
What I Wanted to Be If and When I Grew Up
What rescued me from poverty was something my wife did while caring for our two children; she and five other mothers wrote a cookbook called Feed Me! I'm Yours. A local childbirth education group funded its first publication, and we collated two thousand copies with the help of a local girls' basketball team. I lined up two interviews for Vicki with the food editors of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. When the articles were published, we sold out of all our copies.
After selling those copies, we decided to get the book published by a real publisher. We sent copies to scores of New York publishers and got scores of rejection notes, so we decided to publish the book ourselves, which is how I got to be a "real" publisher.
I arranged newspaper, radio, and TV interviews for Vicki in the top forty markets and made sure her book was in every bookstore in those cities. After booking Vicki on Donahue and completing an exhausting West Coast media trip, we hit some major milestones. Feed Me! I'm Yours reached number twenty-four on B. Dalton's bestseller list and passed one hundred thousand copies in print. Bantam made us an offer for paperback rights that equaled our copies-in-print number. That's how I figured out that I wanted to be a publisher when I grew up.
Over a thirteen-year period, we built Meadowbrook Press, book by book, to a position as one of the leading publishers of parenting books in North America. Unfortunately, I wanted the company to grow rapidly, and Vicki preferred it to grow slowly. There wasn't a right or wrong about it, but the differences at work ultimately led to a split.
The Write Way
Up until that time, I hadn't written any books. Vicki had been one of our star authors. I'd also published Lynn (For Better or For Worse) Johnston and Mary Ellen (Mary Ellen's Best of Helpful Hints) Pinkham. After the divorce, I didn't have enough money to afford to add any new authors, so I was forced to write or edit most of the books we published.
I became an author of baby name books, and I also wrote humor books for adults. In the '90s, I came up with an idea for a children's poetry book-an anthology of many poets' best work. (I had noticed that when my own children picked up their well-worn copy of Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends, they would read the same five or ten poems over and over again.) To find the poems kids liked best, I decided to test some poems in elementary schools.
My first poetry anthology was called Kids Pick the Funniest Poems for two reasons: 1) all the poems in the book were picked by a panel of elementary-school kids and 2) the poems they liked best were the funny ones.
As long as I was testing poems on children, I decided to write a few to see what the response would be. In fact, kids didn't "pick" any of my poems, so I didn't put any into that first edition. (My writing improved, so I added some of my own poems in later editions.)
That book went on to be a big success, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. (In most bookstores, it's become the fourth best-selling children's poetry book-after three by Shel Silverstein.) I was bitten by the poetry bug.
I actually learned how to write children's poems while working on The New Adventures of Mother Goose (now titled Mary Had a Little Jam), a poetry anthology aimed at preschoolers, kindergartners, and first graders. I learned how to rewrite the classic nursery rhymes by creating a new story with the original rhythm and rhyme pattern. To get them just right, I'd rewrite them over and over. And to make sure they worked, I tested them in day-care and kindergarten classes. Since we couldn't ask the children to "rate" the poems, we had to watch their eyes and faces while we read. If they smiled or giggled, we figured they liked the poems. If they cried for a change, we figured they didn't like the poems.
While doing media interviews to promote The New Adventures of Mother Goose, a reporter from the Baltimore Sun said, "I gather that you think Mother Goose is sexist, mean-spirited, violent, and bigoted. What do you think of the Grimm brothers?"
I thought about it for a moment and answered, "Sexist, mean-spirited, violent, and bigoted."
What I find sexist is that most of the Grimm brothers' female protagonists (main female characters) are beautiful and kind but wimpy. They usually have to be rescued by Prince Charming, who saves them from their dysfunctional families and marries them. (Prince Charming sure married a lot of damsels in distress. In those days, maybe it wasn't against the law for one prince to have lots of wives.)
What I find mean-spirited and violent are stories like "Hansel and Gretel." Little children are abandoned in woods, and they meet a wicked witch who wants to bake them in an oven and eat them. Likewise, "Jack and the Beanstalk" is about a dull-witted kid who is almost eaten by a giant. "Snow White" is a story about an evil queen who is so jealous of her stepdaughter's beauty, she tries to have her killed; when she learns Snow White is still alive, she dresses up as a witch and tries to poison her. And they say that Hollywood movies are violent.
What I find bigoted are stories in which stepmothers and stepsisters are all mean and ugly, guys named Jack are all dull-witted but lucky, and princes are all handsome and great kissers.
As I answered the reporter's question, I realized kids needed new fairy tales that departed from the Grimm brothers' standard recipe. Shortly after the interview, I started writing a story called "The Fairy Godmother's Assistant," a newfangled fairy tale that portrayed Cinderella as a pathetic weeper. The hero of the story was the fairy godmother's assistant-a clever young woman who used common sense rather than magic to help Cinderella get to the ball.
That story led me to develop two series of short stories: Girls to the Rescue (stories about clever, courageous girls) and Newfangled Fairy Tales (fairy tales with a clever twist). Although it takes me a lot more time and effort to write stories than it does to write poems, my delight is all the greater when I manage to write something that kids enjoy.
My Life as a Performer
Since that time, I've edited eight poetry anthologies and filled four books with my very own poems: My Dog Ate My Homework, If Pigs Could Fly, Funny Little Poems for Funny Little People and Sweet Dreams. Because I spent a lot of time reading poems and testing responses in classrooms, schools started inviting me to perform at assemblies. I don't think I had any natural talent as a performer, but the pretested poems were so well received that teachers at one school would recommend me to teachers at another school. I was motivated to go out on the school "circuit."
I had performed my poetry assembly at seventy-five schools before a teacher asked, "What do you charge?" (I had no idea that schools had any money to pay for assemblies or that my assemblies were worth paying for.) I said the first price that came to mind, and to my amazement, she said, "Okay."
Over the last five years, I've performed at hundreds of schools. It is my goal to put on the most entertaining, the most educational, and the most motivating assembly a school has ever had. Quite often, that's what teachers tell me as I'm walking out the door. (Perhaps they say that because they know I won't leave until they either praise me to the skies or say those magic words: "Please go.")
Still Truckin'
These days, I have lots of challenges. I am still publisher at Meadowbrook Press with responsibility for finding new books to publish. I still write several books a year, and I still go out on the circuit to visit schools, writers' conferences, and bookstores. What's new is that I have created several popular websites (including gigglepoetry.com for kids, poetryteachers.com and fictionteachers.com for teachers, and meadowbrookpress.com for customers), and I enjoy updating them. I can't possibly visit all the schools who want me, so I try, via the Internet, to help kids discover the fun of reading and writing stories and poetry.
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Panasonic probably isn't one of the brands you associate with value electronics, but when it comes to headphones, the company has shown that it has several models that deliver excellent bang for the buck, including the Panasonic RP-HTX7 monitor headphones reviewed here.
These guys have been around for a few years (I'm sorry I didn't review them sooner) and can be had for anywhere from $30 to $50 online. They come in several different colors and are distinguished by what Panasonic calls "retro styling."
That styling may not appeal to some people, but I thought they looked pretty good and, more importantly, they fit comfortably, were relatively lightweight for over-the-ear headphones, and created a tight seal -- not only did they passively block out a lot of sound, but they didn't leak any sound, making them suitable for cubicle use at work.
True to their "monitor" roots, the RP-HTX7s have a single, fairly thick 3.9-foot cord and somewhat reinforced straight plug. The cord isn't as thick as the unwieldy one on the Audio-Technica ATH-M30, another excellent budget monitor headphone set. The Panasonic's cord is shorter and more suited to mobile use. However, it is worth noting that you will have trouble getting that beefier plug to fit in your headphone jack if you have a case on your phone.
In terms of features, there are no real extras, and this model doesn't have a built-in microphone for making cell phone calls. What you get is a sturdily built closed-back headphone set that looks more expensive than its price might indicate -- even if it isn't luxurious. For instance, the earcups are well-padded but aren't terribly plush or made of leather or anything fancy like that. Also, they don't come with a carrying case and they don't fold flat. And like most other closed-back over-the-ear headphones, they will get your ears pretty steamy if you wear them outside on a hot day.


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This information has been filed in civil division of Marion County District Court.
Matthew Garcia vs. Nancy D. Garcia; petitioner's motion to modify child custody and child support withdrawn March 27; agreed custody and support arrangement approved.
Amber Lynn Richmond vs. Jason R. Richmond; hearing continued from April 1 to May 6; temporary orders of protection from abuse remain in place.
Kate Schroeder vs. Christian L. Czarnowsky, temporary orders of protection from stalking extended from April 10 to May 20.
Discover Bank vs. Patrick S. Fowler, 1987 Nighthawk Road, Marion; defendant's claim of garnishment exemption denied April 9; plaintiff agreed to stay of execution of judgment as long as defendant adheres to an agreed payment plan.
Kathleen S. Schmidt; order terminating guardianship and conservatorship issued April 10; subject died Nov. 12.


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Roswell dad gets bond after AMBER Alert involving sons | Crime
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. -- A judge has granted bond to a Roswell father who police say took off with his two young sons, leading to a nationwide AMBER Alert.
With his naturally gray hair closely cut, 48-year-old Daniel Cleary sat in chains listening as prosecutors described what they say was a detailed plan to leave the state with his kids.
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Roswell Police Det. Jennifer Bennett was called to the stand and said Cleary failed to return 9-year-old Ben and 8-year-old Henry to their mother in December. The couple is divorced and has a strict shared custody order.
Det. Bennett said she learned from the phone company that Cleary had turned off his phone. She said she found his car ditched in a restaurant parking lot and discovered he'd bought a new one with cash. She also said bank records showed Cleary had liquidated his IRA and withdrawn cash from several accounts in the weeks leading up to his disappearance with the boys.
Authorities issued an AMBER Alert. It was a clerk at a hotel in Austin, Texas who recognized the trio and called authorities.
"The boys said they were not harmed in any way. They did say their father had advised them that their mother was going to be in the hospital for a few months because she was very ill," Bennett said.
The judge formally charged Cleary with two counts of interfering with custody and then granted him $40,000 bond.
The boy's mother, Theresa Nash sat quietly in the courtroom and declined comment, clearly stunned that he would be getting out of jail.
Rena Collier with the Fulton County DA's office said as much to the judge.
"She is fearful not only for herself, but also for her children. He is a flight risk not only alone but with the children," Collier said.
If and when he bonds out, Cleary must wear an ankle monitor and cannot talk, phone, email or text his sons.


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Mike Huckabee is doubling down on his support for Todd Akin, the man he helped win the Republican Senate nomination. Here, in part, is what Huckabee had to say on Akin's behalf:
The Party's leaders have for reasons that aren't rational, left [Akin] behind on the political battlefield, wounded and bleeding, a casualty of his self-inflicted, but not intentional wound. In a Party that supposedly stands for life, it was tragic to see the carefully orchestrated and systematic attack on a fellow Republican. Not for a moral failure or corruption or a criminal act, but for a misstatement which he contritely and utterly repudiated. I was shocked by GOP leaders and elected officials who rushed so quickly to end the political life of a candidate over a mistaken comment in an interview. This was a serious mistake, but it was blown out of proportion not by the left, but by Akin's own Republican Party. Is this what the party really thinks of principled pro-life advocates? Do we forgive and forget the verbal gaffes of Republicans who are "conveniently pro-life" for political advantage, but crucify one who truly believes that every life is sacred?
. . . If Todd Akin loses the Senate seat, I will not blame Todd Akin. He made his mistake, but was man enough to admit it and apologize. I'm waiting for the apology from whoever the genius was on the high pedestals of our party who thought it wise to not only shoot our wounded, but run over him with tanks and trucks and then feed his body to the liberal wolves. It wasn't just Todd Akin that was treated with contempt by the thinly veiled attack on Todd Akin. It was all the people who have faithfully knocked doors, made calls, and made sacrificial contributions to elect Republicans because we thought we were welcome in the party. Todd Akin owned his mistake. Who will step up and admit the effort being made to discredit Akin and apologize for the sleazy way it's been handled?
I've always believed and still do, that if you don't honor your friendships, you don't honor yourself. And I consider Todd a friend. So I will join Todd as often as I can, in his fight for our Party's pro-life policies, traditional marriage and our efforts to rein in the massive expansion of government under President Obama. Todd is being systematically scourged for one thing he said. Is that more important than what Claire McCaskill has DONE over her 6 years in the Senate? If you'd like to join the fight, and help defeat a Democrat Senator standing in the way of a conservative majority, I encourage you to join me. The party has decided it won't help. In fact, it has decided that it will try to cut off the supply lines to Akin to pressure him to exit and let the party bosses overturn the voters of Missouri and pick their own candidate. If this can happen to Todd Akin, who is next?
In a way, Huckabee's displeasure with Republican leaders is understandable. They are treating Akin's comment as if it were a crime, not just a very stupid comment from which Akin has retreated and for which he has apologized. And, of course, Akin remains vastly preferable to his opponent. Sen. McCaskill.
But Republican leaders aren't attacking Akin "for reasons that aren't rational," as Huckabee claims. Their push to persuade and/or induce Akin to leave the Senate race is grounded in the very rational desire to avoid defeat in a contest they were likely to win until Akin spouted junk science, and to prevent the damage from spilling over into other races including, potentially, the presidential race. In short, the outrage is grounded in the desire to defeat President Obama and his agenda.
But this isn't Mike Huckabee's priority. He remains what he always has been, an ardent social conservative first, with nothing else truly coming in second.
As we noted repeatedly during the 2008 campaign, Huckabee's credentials as a fiscal conservative were weak, as demonstated during his long tenure Arkansas's governor. And when it came to foreign policy, some of Huckabee's pronouncements were positively Carteresque.
Since 2008, Huckabee has learned the words to the fiscal and national security conservative tunes, as befits a conservative talk show host who may still harbor wider ambitions. But the only real music to Huckabee's ears is that of hard core social conservatism. That, and perhaps a related, badly flawed understanding of what constitutes appropriate forgiveness.
Indeed, Huckabee cares so little about the effort to defeat Barack Obama that he indulges in over-the-top rhetoric, the likely effect of which is to sour some social conservatives on the Romney-Ryan ticket. Recall this statement from the passage quoted above:
It wasn't just Todd Akin that was treated with contempt by the thinly veiled attack on Todd Akin. It was all the people who have faithfully knocked doors, made calls, and made sacrificial contributions to elect Republicans because we thought we were welcome in the party.
Social conservatives are, of course, welcome in the Republican Party; indeed, as much as any other faction, they are at the core of the Republican Party. But socially conservative candidates who behave too stupidly to remain electable aren't welcome as Party standard bearers in important, winnable elections. Akin need not be replaced by a non-socially conservative candidate, nor should he be. He should be a replaced by a candidate intelligent enough to articulate pro-life positions without all hell breaking loose. It isn't that difficult. Paul Ryan has done it, and he's now the Party's nominee for Vice President.
It's nice that Todd Akin "owned up to his mistake." Now he should own up to the consequences of that mistake – always the real test of character in these situations – and abandon his Senate race to the extent the evidence shows he's unlikely to win it.
And Huckabee, if he wants to remain an important and respected figure within the Party, should encourage Akin to take that path.
Instead, he insists that he isn't listening to "noise" about new deadlines and alternative candidates. Maybe it's time for conservatives concerned about defeating Obama and thwarting his leftist agenda to stop listening to Mike Huckabee.


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I tried a fun little project yesterday... thought I'd share.
I got on the bandwagon with the recycling of t-shirts.
("up-cycling" in todays world)
I found the instructions here.
("up-cycling" in todays world)
I found the instructions here.
The hardest part was the flower. (seriously)
So what you do is measure the circumference of your head and add an inch.
Cut out two strips from the old t-shirt that length. Just keep the t-shirt together and cut the two pieces out at the same time. Then cut out a circle out. You can do this using your math c=d x ∏ (pie) (3.14) or just cut out a 7" circle like I did. You need two of these also. And trace a brim from one of your other hats. Cut out two of knit and one of firm interfacing. Cut the interfacing a little smaller.
Sew the two long pieces together as if they were one piece and make them into a tube. Open the seam and topstitch open.
Now sew the two circle pieces together.
Pin and sew the tube to the circle.
For the brim, sandwich the interfacing in between the two brim pieces and topstitch them together remembering that this will not be a finished seam. Tuck brim into the center front of the hat. Mine ended up being about 1 1/2" in, between the layers of the tube. Just check to see if this brim length looks good on you. Pin and sew going all the way around the hat. Add your flower. I added elastic in the back. You can do that too if you like.
And your done.
This hat is also on my other blog. Go here to see what's going on there.
So I'd love to see yours if you make one.
So I'd love to see yours if you make one.


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Graduation Rates Above Average in the Dakotas
SIOUX FALLS - Public high school graduation rates in the Dakotas are higher than the national average.
A report from the National Center for Education Statistics released Tuesday shows that the average graduation rate for incoming freshmen in North Dakota is 88.4 percent. The South Dakota rate is 81.8 percent.
Across the country, more than 3.1 million public school students received a high school diploma in 2009-10 resulting in an average freshman graduation rate of 78.2 percent.
State rates ranged from 57.8 percent in Nevada and 59.9 percent in the District of Columbia to 91.1 in Wisconsin and 91.4 percent in Vermont.
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A solution for plasticsIdea by Yedhu Krishnan | added on Nov 10, 2011 01:06PM Collaboration
All the problems and health hazards caused by plastics should be taken to the minds of people ,especially to the youngster in a manner that they could get inspire to solve this burning issue and save our earth.they should be aware of its dangers so that they can invent a solution...
Here an long section of class should be conducted including vedio confereces,seminares,poster making competions,S.A competions ,drawing competions etc based on the
- problems caused by the plastics to ourenvironment
- health hazards created by plastic wastes
- atmospheric problems caused by plastic
- plastic and global warming
etc to make the people aware of the problems caused by plastics to the environment.....
we should motivate inorder to engage people to find a solution for plastic wastes...
especially youngsters so that many new scientists form in between poeple....
this program should be in such a way that every one get involve and start to think on it .....so we can create the future generation which would change thg WORLD
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News Release
NASD Charges Hornblower and Weeks with Violating Settlement by Issuing Research During NASD Ban
Washington, D.C.—NASD announced today that it has charged New York investment-banking firm Hornblower & Weeks with violating a recent NASD-imposed prohibition against issuing research reports. NASD also charged in its complaint that the research report issued by Hornblower contained exaggerated and misleading statements and failed to disclose material facts.
On May 7, 2002, Hornblower reached a settlement with NASD regarding charges related to a research report recommending the common stock of MyTurn.com. NASD found the report contained baseless projections, misleading and exaggerated statements and omitted to state important facts. As part of the settlement with NASD, Hornblower was suspended from issuing research reports for six months, www.nasdr.com/news/pr2002/release_02_019.html.
According to today's complaint, Hornblower violated the terms of the prior settlement by issuing a research report relating to American Diversified Group, Inc. in late May 2002. NASD charged that the research report was published on two websites, including the website of American Diversified, a provider of telecommunication services.
NASD also charged Hornblower failed to disclose material facts in the research report, including that American Diversified has experienced significant losses, the company has received an opinion from its auditors that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern, and the company has had to rely on loans from its executive officers or directors to pay certain operating expenses.
NASD further charged that the research report made exaggerated, unwarranted and misleading statements about American Diversified, including that the company "is positioned as a premier provider of communication products and enhanced value-added services…," and "is positioned to exploit the upside potential of the vast expansion of the Internet."
Investors can obtain more information and the disciplinary record of any NASD-registered broker or brokerage firm by calling (800) 289-9999 or by sending an e-mail through NASD's Web Site at www.nasdr.com.
NASD is the leading private-sector provider of financial regulatory services, dedicated to bringing integrity to the markets and confidence to investors through effective and efficient regulation and complementary compliance and technology-based services. NASD touches virtually every aspect of the securities business – from registering and educating all industry participants, to examining securities firms, enforcing both NASD rules and the federal securities laws, and administering the largest dispute resolution forum for investors and member firms.
For more information, please visit our Web site at www.nasd.com.