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Istanbul, Turkey, June 5 (IBNS) Regional connectedness will lead to greater economic and political stability, Arab leaders said in the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia in Istanbul, Turkey.
The meeting, convening under the theme "Bridging Regions in Transition", marks the first time in its 42-year history that the Forum has gathered leaders for a special cross-regional meeting.
"Any problem in one country has something to do with another country," said RecepTayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey. When war, conflict, migration and terror take place in a neighbouring country, those events have an effect on one's own country, he added.
Turkey's active engagement in regional affairs as well as its growth model, combining democratic governance and economic stability in the face of pronounced global challenges, could offer lessons for other nations in the region.
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Takisha Brown had barely gotten her feet wet as elected chairwoman of the Fraternal Order of Police union representing 200 youth-corrections officers when she sensed trouble.
The first problem: A member at the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) claimed in writing that her predecessor had accepted $200 to file a workplace grievance — a breach of union bylaws, if not a matter for the police.
From what Ms. Brown could tell, the union's finances were in disarray. It had lost its tax-exempt status. She perceived a conflict with the union's attorney, who employed the wife of a union official Ms. Brown suspected of interfering with her ability to serve her members. A large percentage of those members expressed concerns that the attorney, Ardra O'Neal, was nonresponsive and her fees were too high.
To complicate matters, union officials remained loyal to the previous chairman, and Ms. Brown's housecleaning efforts, including calling for a forensic financial audit, were greeted with hostility.
The situation boiled over when Ms. Brown fired Ms. O'Neal, prompting the official whom she suspected of interference, DYRS employee Cedric Crawley, to orchestrate an executive board vote to unseat Ms. Brown and hold a special election to replace her.
But there was a problem with Mr. Crawley's coup. He held what appeared to be a DYRS managerial position and, according to Ms. Brown, shouldn't have been in the union in the first place. So when Mr. Crawley went to Wells Fargo Bank and had union funds deposited into an account he controlled, Ms. Brown filed a fraud complaint, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.
She took her broader concerns about "money and leadership" to the D.C. Office of Inspector General and filed a complaint against Mr. Crawley and his cohorts with the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB), which certifies union membership eligibility and adjudicates labor disputes.
Documents obtained by The Times suggest DYRS and labor-relations officials caused the confusion underlying Mr. Crawley's takeover attempt. Ms. Brown says DYRS officials are content to allow the situation to fester.
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DYRS corrections officers have a stressful job dealing with troubled and often violent youths. During a recent two-month period, 68 assaults took place inside New Beginnings Youth Development Center, DYRS' locked facility in Laurel, according to D.C. Council records. Many of those assaults were on officers, some of whom were hospitalized.
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The company's Weblog Preview includes integrated search and security features, while a new feature in the upcoming Workplace Designer 2.5 release is targeted at developers.
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George McPhee entered Sundays start of NHL free agency with 20.8 million in cap space. He spent just 950,000 on fourth-line winger Joey Crabb.
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2 Quick Tips We Can Learn from the Best (and Worst) of Marketing
Posted by Elspeth M. on Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
If you're the type of person who watches the Super Bowl every year for the commercials, you know exactly what we mean when we refer to the best, and worst, of marketing. While many marketers take a note of how to foster their sales based on the mistakes of others, there are a few quick tips you should never, ever ignore.
First, how does this tie into your email marketing? Simply, when you develop a list of targeted email subscribers, you also need to consider who they are, what's important to them and how they will react to your message. Depending on their cultural background, socioeconomic status or geographic location, various marketing campaigns can have a catastrophic affect on a company's reputation.
In email marketing, you need to make sure your email messages align by writing great headlines that speak to the reader. For best results, your copywriting will also need to speak directly to the subscriber. Let's review 2 quick tips we can learn from the best, and worst, of marketing:
Be very careful of foreign language connotations.
The most famous case may be the marketing of the Chevrolet Nova in Mexico. As sales rocketed in the U.S., Chevy rolled out a campaign to sell the vehicle in Mexico, as well. Guess what?
Nova or No va means, "no go," in Spanish. Therefore, not only did the fiasco go down as a legendary marketing mishap, but Chevy lost millions of dollars thanks to a simple foreign language oversight (i.e. they were trying to market a car that 'doesn't go.')
Spanish is not the only language you may have issues with depending on your geographic location. Be aware of pockets of ethnicity within your region. While email marketing won't allow you to see your audience face to face, consider what words you should use based on the demographic you are sending the email to.
For example, in San Francisco's prevalent Chinatown, you'll see the words happy and lucky used on signs since they are triggers within the Asian culture. In India, marketing centers around clean and hygienic themes. Americans like fast, quick and easy. These little word choices make a big difference in your reader's response.
Stay short, quippy and positive.
It's interesting to note what people respond to the most on social media. Pictures will get 53% more likes than other posts on Facebook. Using this data, we can also infer that email marketing audiences will respond to different aspects of your campaigns.
Among the worst marketing slogans, Camel cigarettes tongue-in-cheek approach fared poorly (i.e. More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.) Then again, so did KFC when they suggested we should, "Unthink what we thought about KFC." Why?
Well, for one, these were both an attempt to avert savvy consumers from the truth: cigarette research certainly isn't favorable and, according to urban legend, KFC wasn't using real chicken. Whatever your opinions, keep your marketing short, quippy and positive.
The slogans that did the best were related to happy thoughts. Even today, Just Do It (Nike) and Gotta Hava Wawa probably stick in your head. Keep your email marketing ideas above board and focus them on bringing something inspiring or interesting to the lives of the folks you're marketing to.
If you need to consider the best tactics for your business, don't hesitate to take a look at some of the best, and worst, marketing you've seen other companies use. Take notes on what you think worked for them and what didn't. Then, focus on providing the right message in a positive way to your targeted audience. Use out 2 quick tips to make sure you're getting it right every time.
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BLAIRSVILLE, GA -- (Marketwired) -- 08/12/13 -- United Community Banks, Inc. (NASDAQ: UCBI) ("United"), the holding company of United Community Bank, today announced it completed its offering of $34,584,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.00% Senior Notes due August 13, 2018 (the "Notes"). Interest on the Notes is payable semi-annually on February 13 and August 13 with the first such payment on February 13, 2014. United may elect to redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, on any interest payment date on or after August 13, 2015 at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount plus any accrued and unpaid interest.
United intends to use the net cash proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include the repurchase or replacement of certain of United's debt instruments.
The interest rate was determined through an online modified Dutch auction process administered by Zions Direct, Inc. whereby Macquarie Capital acted as Program Arranger and Joint Book-Running Manager and Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as Joint Book-Running Manager for the offering.
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Headquartered in Blairsville, United Community Banks, Inc. is the third-largest bank holding company in Georgia. United has assets of $7.2 billion and operates 103 banking offices throughout north Georgia, the Atlanta region, coastal Georgia, western North Carolina and western South Carolina. United specializes in providing personalized community banking services to individuals and small to mid-size businesses and also offers the convenience of 24-hour access through a network of ATMs, telephone and on-line banking. United's common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol UCBI. Additional information may be found at United's website at www.ucbi.com.
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Software Downloads for "Retirement Widget"
- Retirement Savings Planner 2003
- License: Shareware
The easiest, fastest way to plan your Retirement Savings strategy. Are you saving enough for retirement? Retirement Planner will tell you the answer. The intuitive one screen design will help you develop a savings strategy to reach your retirement income goals. As seen in Barron's, PC Computing, and PC World, this popular Retirement Planner was rated 5 stars by ZDNet (their highest rating) and highly rated by AAII. Continually updated since 1995..
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Torrid Technologies, Inc.
- Date: 26-03-2003
- Size: 2546 KB
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Program Description: RETIREMENT INVESTMENT REQUIRED This program is a version of a program that will show you how much you need to invest monthly to reach retirement goals. It will run under Win 95, 98, Me, NT4, XP, & 2000. Have you called the Social Security Hotline (1-800-772-1213) to verify your estimated monthly SS benefit so that you can evaluate the monthly shortfall you may experience? This program calculates the amount of money required to provide a given monthly income at retirement with or without withdrawing capital, which, when added to your Social Security monthly benefit, will show your condition.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Bent Tree Software
- Date: 05-05-2001
- Size: 1212 KB
- J and L Retirement Planner
- License: Shareware
The top rated J and L Retirement Planner is a retirement planning software program that allows you to create simple or complex retirement scenarios based on financial events through out your life. It makes your retirement planning easy. You create the scenario based on your current financial status and future financial events. The J and L Retirement Planner executes your scenario and displays the effects on your net worth through out a selected time span. The output is displayed in a text format that shows the yearly effects on up to 50 accounts, including investment, tax free, retirement, asset and equity accounts.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: J and L Software
- Date: 19-9-2009
- Size: 1054 KB
- Retirement Investment Required+
- License: Shareware
Program Description: RETIREMENT INVESTMENT REQUIREDThis program is a program that will show you how much you need to invest monthly to reach retirement goals. Have you called the Social Security Hotline (1-800-772-1213) to verify your estimated monthly SS benefit so that you can evaluate the monthly shortfall you may experience? This program calculates the amount of money required to provide a given monthly income at retirement with or without withdrawing capital, which, when added to your Social Security monthly benefit, will show your condition.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Bent Tree Software
- Date: 19-07-2009
- Size: 1208 KB
- Animated Weather Widget
- License: Freeware
Have you ever thought that some of the weather widgets and applications that come with a new Android smartphone are a little bit dull or not very user friendly? If you are looking for the best Android weather widget currently available then look no further than Animated Weather for Android smartphones. This utility will allow you to view the current and future weather conditions in style. Weather conditions are displayed in beautiful, full color 3D animation complete with colorful and customizable background sceneries.
- Platform: Android
- Publisher: MobilityFlow
- Date: 12-11-2010
- Size: 3810 KB
- WP-PostViews Plus widget
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This is a widget based on WP-PostViews Plus plugin by Richer Yang (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp_postviews_plus). Adds a WP-PostViews Plus widget to display most viewed posts and/or pages By User Or Bot on your sidebar.
The WP-PostViews Plus plugin is a great way to Display How Many Times A Post Had Been Viewed By User Or Bot. Unfortunately, integrating the WP-PostViews Plus plugin into your blog's sidebar can be a problem, espectially for none technical bloggers.
The WP-PostViews Plus Widget makes integrating the WP-PostViews Plus plugin into your blog sidebar a lot easier.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: ConvertZone Software co.,ltd.
- Date: 14-06-2011
- Size: 61 KB
- Weather Widget 2007
- License: Freeware
Desktop weather widget displays current weather conditions and allows users to view forecasts for over 140,000 US cities. This cool little widget can be dragged across your desktop and placed over any window or can be a part of your desktop background. The On Screen Display functionality gives you detailed weather conditions by just hovering your mouse over the widget. To eliminate intrusiveness on your other programs, you can adjust the transparency and size of the widget..
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: DuoWeather.com
- Date: 04-04-2011
- Size: 1691 KB
- DonateOMeter - Free Hosted PayPal Donation Widget
- License: Freeware
DonateOMeter is a new flash/php based donations widget that allows you to raise funds for your various causes, show donation totals which are updated in realtime, uses PayPal and also has manual donation methods for you to update donations received through alternative sources.Comes complete with customizable style packs, backgrounds and image upload options allowing you to full customize the look and feel of your donation widget to match your site.Display latest donors, display code people can copy to place the meter on their site and help you in your fund raising efforts.
- Platform: Scripts, PHP
- Publisher: DonateOMeter
- Date: 16-11-2011
- Twitter Widget
- License: Shareware
This is an AS3 based Twitter Widget you can embed in your website to display the latest tweets from your twitter profile. A developer with no knowlage of flash can setup it very easily. You will need to pass at least one parameter as your 'user id' as swf parameter while setting up the corresponding SWF in the dynamic/static webpage. Twitter Widget will display the latest tweets from twitter profile of specified user. The tweets will be automatically refreshed after every 5 minutes (by default). The time interval for refreshing the tweets can be changed by passing 'refreshTime' SWF parameter.
- Platform: Misc Scripts
- Publisher: msnegi.com
- Date: 21-07-2011
- DonateOMeter - PayPal Donation Widget
- License: Shareware
Us this flash/php based donation widget to help raise money for your cause, donations are tracked in real time using paypal and the widget is autimatically updated with the latest donation totals, donors and other info, fully customizable style packs and images allow complete control over the look and feel of the widget to match your site..
- Platform: Scripts, PHP
- Publisher: DonateOMeter
- Date: 12-11-2011
- Standard Widget Graphics
- License: Freeware
Standard Widget Graphics brings you a powerful toolset that is desigend especially for providing both new widget controls and an animation framework that share a common programming model with the existing controls in SWT. Standard Widget Graphics (SWG) is a cross-platform client technology comprising rich vector-graphic controls and an animation framework that are integrated with existing standard user interface (UI) controls under a single common programming model; the existing controls are provided by the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) from Eclipse.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: IBM
- Date: 17-05-2012
- Size: 5939 KB
- Forex All-In-One Widget
- License: Freeware
DailyForex, the one-stop-shop for all your Forex needs just got even better with the release of our new All-In-One Forex Widget. The new widget is full of features with twelve different state of the art screens including Forex news, videos, analysis, reviews, pip calculator, currency converter, and many other Forex tools. In addition, the widget can serve you and your Forex business loyally as it is fully customizable and easy to embed onto your site, enabling you to offer many additional Forex services to your readers.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Daily Forex Ltd.
- Date: 22-06-2012
- Size: 119 KB
- Widget Media Player
- License: Freeware
This widget is a simple media player that allows you to play your favorite music. Windows Media Player in a Widget! Uses COM (WMPlayer.OCX), best if you have a stocked and reasonably well organised media library but not essential as will add dropped files to library. Have tested on W2KproSP4/WMP9 & WXPhomeSP2/WMP10. Open the info panel to access your media library, enter a search term and click on button to search either songs, artists or albums. Accepts dropped files/URLs (WMA/MP3/CDA/ASX), so either CD audio tracks, radio stations, or folders containing valid media items and adds valid items to your media library.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: David Emmerson
- Date: 07-07-2012
- Size: 184 KB
- Guitar Tuner Widget
- License: Freeware
This widget will add virtual guitar for you to play on your computer's desktop Guitar Tuner Widget is a widget that will add a guitar to your desktop. With Guitar Tuner Widget all you have to do is pluck the strings to play guitar tuning notes in standard or drop-D tuning..
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Antonino Mingoia
- Date: 10-05-2012
- Size: 1946 KB
- Color Picker Widget
- License: Freeware
Color Picker Widget is an advanced color picker script that can be easily integrated into any form field(s). Based on YUI's Color Picker, it extends it with the following user friendly features: - Ability to display the Color Picker either inline on the page, or as a floating widget, activated by clicking on a "control". - An arbitrary control can be defined and associated with the target form element, so clicking on it activates the Color Picker while optionally painting the control's background with the selected color in real time.
- Platform: Scripts, JavaScript
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- Date: 24-03-2013
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- Was Here Recent Readers Widget
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This plugin adds the option in your Widgets menu to add the 3rd-party Was Here widget to your blog's sidebar. The Was Here widget lets you see the people who have recently visited your blog; but more specifically, it is a Facebook application that tracks users that visit your blog and displays their current Facebook profile pictures. Install : 1. Upload was-here.php and was-here.css to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory 2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress 3. Go to the Widgets menu in WordPress and drag the Was Here widget to the sidebar.
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- Date: 16-06-2013
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- Feedjit Widget
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Live Traffic Feed on Your WordPress with Feedjit Widget. Installation Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin. Go to your widgets area, and add a Feedjit Widget (as many as you want).
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- Date: 03-03-2013
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- Enhanced Text Widget
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- Publisher: bostondv
- Date: 01-03-2013
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- Social Widget
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A beautiful widget that allow you to add a stylish Facebook like box, twitter follow button and a google +1 button to your sidebar. Adds a social widget for your social media account to your wordpress-sidebar. I know, there are many plugins to do this, but this one combine the most used social media like facebook, twitter and help your seo with the google +1 button, in a stylish way. Features - Fast loading - styled facebook likebox - easy to use - fully customizable Installation Copy the directory 'social-widget' to your WordPress '/wp-content/plugins' folder.
- Platform: Scripts, PHP
- Publisher: ismail.elkorchi
- Date: 09-04-2013
- Size: 31 KB
- DP Twitter Widget
- License: Freeware
This twitter widget based popular Wickett Twitter Widget plugin. it adds YQL support, so you still can display your twitter updates in you wordpress site if twitter.com blocked for you. Notes: when you enable YQL support, exclude replies and include Retweets was deprecated. Install : # Upload the entire folder dp-twitter-widget to /wp-content/plugins/ # Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress # Add the widget 'DP Twitter' to your sidebar from Appearance->Widgets and configure the widget options.
- Platform: Scripts, PHP
- Publisher: cloudstone
- Date: 22-03-2013
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Some leaked boxart for Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy shows that the game will contain paid download content, as well as support something called "Nintendo Network". The dummy art, which first popped up on NeoGAF, shows that the game, as promised, will have DLC released for it but it looks like it will cost you according to the fine print. The game launches on 3DS in Japan on February 16, which would make it the first game to have paid DLC on the system. Likely, Nintendo will announce something pertaining to "Nintendo Network" sometime between now and then, still, we'll send a mail. Thanks, Andriasang.
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Page 282 of BETTER OFF WITHOUT 'EM includes a brief explanation of the methodology I used in figuring college football consensus national champions dating from 1950. That page also includes a brief but important—to me, anyway—recollection of the 1973 Sugar Bowl between Notre Dame and Alabama.
Because it's relegated to smaller type and a back-of-book Notes position, I have a feeling very few people actually read the thing.
But as it's central to my overall argument about the bogus nature of college football polls, of sentimental value to me and relevant to this coming Monday's national championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama, I'm posting it here.
For a longer treatment of that epic 1973 game, by the way, check out this terrific New York Times piece that ran in December.
Note #9 from Chapter 4 (Football: Louisiana State, ESPN, BCS, and the gridiron Delusion of the SEC) of BETTER OFF WITHOUT 'EM:
Since the very first national college football championship was "split" between teams from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) and Queen's College (now Rutgers) of 1869, choosing a titleholder has been a maddening process producing a number of dubious results. According to page 72 of the NCAA record book cited below, during the last 142 years more than 30 different bodies have been involved in selecting national champions. Often they have disagreed.
I used 1950 as the starting point for my national title calculations for three reasons. First, 1950 is the year the NCAA record book begins its listing of "Consensus National Champions," so there is that governing body's stamp of approval, debatable though it may be.
Second, 1950 is the year that the first coaches poll was published; originally the UPI poll, the coaches poll has more recently been passed between ESPN and USA Today and become an important part of the clumsy apparatus used to decide national champions.
Third, many of the older national championships, particularly those from the 1800s, were granted retroactively according to formulas that gained prominence in the 1920s and '30s.
Even with the NCAA endorsement, figuring "consensus" champions is a challenge. For example, the NCAA's record book lists Tennessee as the 1951 consensus champion. What the record book fails to note, however, is that this title was granted before the number-one-ranked Volunteers' final game against number-three-ranked Maryland in the Sugar Bowl played on January 1, 1952. Maryland won that game 28-13 to finish its season 10-0. That the Vols finished their 10-1 season with a loss to #3 Maryland yet somehow managed to retain their "consensus" championship is merely evidence that rigging titles in favor of the SEC is a longstanding tradition.
Alabama has also benefited from obvious fraudulence.
In the 1973 season-ending Sugar Bowl, for just one example—I'll provide another shortly, simply because I can't resist pointing out all of this unadulterated rah-rah SEC bullshit—the undefeated and number-one-ranked Crimson Tide squared off against the undefeated and number-three-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish in a game that the entire country understood would decide the national championship. Well, almost the entire the country. Rather than wait for the outcome of the game, the UPI went ahead and crowned Alabama national champions, even before the two teams met. (As well as having a tie blemish its 10-0-1 record, #2 Oklahoma was on probation for having ineligible players on its roster and not allowed to participate in bowl games.)
Notre Dame ended up beating Alabama 24-23. The AP, Football Writers Association of America, National Football Foundation, and pretty much every fan in the country recognized the Irish as the 1973 champions. The UPI, however, did not change its decision, keeping Alabama as its champion. That "championship" is one those alleged thirteen football titles hilariously referenced by Alabama fans on T-shirts and websites such as Roll Bama Roll.
I believe that 1973 Sugar Bowl, by the way, was the high point of my Notre Dame graduate father's sporting career. The game was also either the first or one of the first live sporting events ever televised in Juneau, Alaska, and the memory of Dad's smile in our living room after the game remains to me almost as satisfying as it was to him.
Incidentally, of the thirteen Alabama titles claimed on those ubiquitous (in Tuscaloosa) T-shirts and that Roll Bama Roll website, only three are recognized as "consensus" titles (1979, 1992, 2009) by any non-biased organization or publication. Much of that Bama titles list is padded with "national championships" "earned" by teams like the 1941 Crimson Tide. Alabama went 9-2 that year yet somehow managed to win a title endorsement from some outfit called the Houlgate Poll.
Meanwhile, ten other bodies, including the AP, Sagarin, and the National Championship Foundation, named the 8-0 and number-one-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers as national champs. Alabama wasn't even the SEC champ in 1941. Mississippi State was. Anyone questioning my application of the C. Vann Woodward quote at the start of this chapter about southerners clinging to illusions, fantasies, and pretensions might do well to review the almost-comical psychosis of fans who proclaim themselves champions in light of such obvious contradictory evidence.
There are, of course, a number of ways to play with numbers and statistics, but I believe my tabulations are fair to the SEC. I wrote that counting national titles from 1950 statistically favors the South and the SEC and indeed it does.
Were one to count all consensus national titles from the inception of college football in 1869 to the beginning of the BCS era in 1998, the championship winning percentage of southern teams would be just 9.375 percent, as opposed to the 20.83 percent I cited in the chapter. While starting the historical count from the very beginning of college football history seems logical, it also struck me as an unfair way of calculating the success of southern football programs, given that Alabama didn't even field a team until 1892 and the SEC wasn't officially created until 1932.
Point being, that while I acknowledge there are ways to cook most of these numbers—Should one count that 1973 Alabama UPI "title" as legit? I did not, even though 1973 Bama quarterback Gary Rutledge recently told the New York Times that he still wears "my 1973 national championship ring"—I remained diligent and fair-minded while making my calculations.
In this effort I received invaluable help and guidance from researcher Patrick Clark.
Where were you when you first heard Joe "Put Y'all Back in Chains" Biden's latest gaffe?
I was taping an interview with Dennis Miller when the story broke.
The two-segment interview aired yesterday on the Dennis Miller Show. This is the second time I've appeared on the show and, as you can hear by clicking here – 082012_MILLER_THOMPSON — though we sometimes occupy opposite ends of the political spectrum, I think we do enjoy each other's company.
The link above is to an MP3 file. It takes a minute or so to load but be patient, it'll get there.
Dennis was a great supporter of To Hellholes and Back and I really appreciate him being one of the first radio hosts to have me on his show.
Check out more Dennis Miller here: http://www.dennismillerradio.com/
Since last week's publication of Better Off Without 'Em, reader correspondence has been running about 60-40 against me.
But amid it all, some have been sending along a few interesting items.
Like this link from the Center for a New American Security, which shows U.S. Marines marching through Beirut beneath a Confederate battle flag.
The photo is from 1958, but read the comments below and you'll find service members revealing that U.S. troops still sometimes fly the Confederate flag, such as "VisitorRon Dickenson" who says he flew one at a combat outpost in Mosul in 2005.
The practice of displaying the Confederate flag by American soldiers isn't new, and the link above provides me with a rare chance to promote my own book cataloging WWII sites in the Pacific.
Page 80 of that book includes a note about southern troops of the First Marines Division at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 hoisting the rebel flag above Shuri Castle, in honor of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., whose father had been a Confederate general.
The slave days flag still occupies a prominent position in front of the South Carolina capitol, of course, just as it does around plenty of other government buildings in the South.
To the chagrin of many, it ain't going away any time soon.
On the eve of the publication of Better Off Without 'Em, how about a couple of crazy cool of wolves and bears?
I shot both a couple weeks ago during a four-day kayak trip through Glacier Bay National Park with my longtime hiking/camping pal and pro photog and game tracker extraordinaire Pat Costello.
Pat is one of the best outdoor photographers in Alaska. If you want to see a whole gallery of shots he took from our trip—which was a great way to prep for the Better Off Without 'Em book promo and short tour later this summer—check out his Juneau Photos Facebook page.
Everyone has seen photos and video of bears hanging out in streams and rivers munching down on spawning salmon.
But until this trip I'd never known that wolves do the same thing.
Makes sense. Wolves are carnivores (omnivores according to some) and will eat pretty much whatever they can get their paws on.
Still, hanging out on a hillside in Southeast and getting a chance to watch wolves fishing—and interacting with bears invading their turf—was a rare and thrilling experience.
Here's a brown bear with a pair of cubs in the same stream.
In this one the mama bear gives full-on chase down the stream and eventually catches up with a very speedy fish.
Look closely at the water just a few feet ahead of the charging bruin and you can actually see the fish zipping through the water as it attempts to elude the pursuing bear.
Just watching a bear hauling ass after prey like this at close range was intimidating. Glad we weren't the ones being charged.
The 2012-13 college football season will once again play out according to the BCS/ESPN business model with assurances that the organization's largest investment—the Southeastern Conference—will once again be installed in the championship game.
This season's game will be played in Miami on January 7, 2013, between the SEC champion and another team, very possibly one from the SEC, as was the case in 2012.
Slavishly following the directive laid out in spring by ESPN ("LSU faces smooth road to title game"), the recently released USA Today coaches poll has SEC teams occupying the top two spots (LSU, Alabama) and includes five SEC teams in the top ten and seven (more than half the conference) in the top 25.
The all-important "strength of schedule" title thus gift-wrapped, the SEC's seventh-straight title shot is virtually guaranteed before a single ball has been snapped or groin muscle pulled.
Once again, it's the SEC vs. the field.
Here's how the game is fixed
For those who still haven't figured out what goes on behind the smoke and mirrors, the BCS/ESPN business plan works like this: preseason rankings, which function like pole positions in an auto race, typically include three or four or five SEC teams among the nation's top ten, more than from any other conference.
This year is the snoozy rerun that proves the rule.
From the outset, this bias for SEC teams builds into the system a near insurmountable advantage.
Start the season with two of the top four teams from the SEC, as was the case in 2010 with Alabama and Florida, and in 2011 with Alabama and LSU, and the conference is virtually guaranteed to be represented in the title game—and this is an important point—even if neither of those two schools end up winning the conference.
To be the best, so goes to the old sports adage, you've got to beat the best.
But since only SEC teams are consistently declared the best, only SEC teams get the chance to prove themselves against "the best."
It's a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Does the SEC get favorable rankings because they're so good? Or is the SEC so good because they get favorable rankings? I argue for the latter.
In 2010, for example, the Auburn Tigers began the season with a consensus ranking of #23, behind SEC rivals Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia.
The only way a team regarded so lightly early in the season can possibly climb into the national championship game—which Auburn did that year—is to beat a slew of highly ranked opponents, which Auburn also did that year.
Because polls are pre-arranged so that SEC teams will face the most highly ranked opponents over the course of a season—in the jargon of the BCS this is called "strength of schedule"—only teams from the SEC are time and again able to manage this feat.
Why the SEC always comes out on top
ESPN, of course, is the commercial entity that dominates the college football landscape and has a near incalculable economic interest in promoting the nationwide perception of the SEC's elite status.
Actually, you can calculate that interest.
In 2008, ESPN and the SEC signed a fifteen-year, $2.25 billion agreement allowing the Worldwide Leader in Sports to televise the conference's football games.
In addition, ESPN owns the rights to televise all BCS games, including the national championship game.
In 2011-2012, ESPN and its partner ABC broadcast 33 of the 35 college bowl games. Which is to say that for all intents and purposes ESPN, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, the most successful spinner of dreams and fables in world history (not counting the Republican Party) owns college football as a commercial entity.
Think about it this way—if you'd invested $2.25 billion in a commercial enterprise, would you just sit back and "hope" the chips fell your way each year? Would you just place your bet with the sports book and pray that your side covered the spread?
Or would you—as a prudent businessperson—take every step you possibly could to ensure that your investment paid off?
You'd be an idiot not to do the latter—or believe that people who deal in billions of dollars don't know how to guarantee that their investments pay out.
So go ahead and cheer for your teams this year—I'll cheer for mine. So long as these bullshit rankings are based on multi-national corporate investment strategies, however, please don't try telling me anyone knows for certain which teams and conferences are the best in the nation.
Oh, and by the way, spare me the "SEC is the toughest conference top to bottom" bluster. For God's sake, it's tougher to go undefeated in the Colonial Athletic Association than it is to run the table in the SEC. That putative miracle has been pulled off for the last four straight seasons.
Early reviews for Better Off Without 'Em (available on August 14) have been positive.
Kirkus Reviews calls the book "often thoughtful, always irreverent" and "a raucous road trip through the South with a funny, informed, sardonic and opinionated Yankee."
Publishers Weekly calls the book "hilariously over-the-top" and "thought-provoking."
Publishers Weekly full review here.
The July/August issue of Washington Monthly magazine includes a lengthy essay review by Colin Woodard, U.S. social history authority and author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.
Woodard calls Better Off Without 'Em "viciously funny" before dissecting—and disagreeing with—the book's central call for a peaceful/friendly secession. It's an interesting, thoughtful review, an engaging counterpoint to the book.
The real news out of Jackson, Mississippi, last week wasn't that a predominantly white church responded to the objections of white parishioners by turning away a black couple scheduled to be married there on the day before their wedding ceremony.
We've seen this kind of southern ecumenical opprobrium before—most recently in Pike County, Kentucky, where the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church voted to ban interracial couples from joining the congregation in 2011.
And who can forget the 2009 case of the Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple?
The familiar display of good ol' rebel racism in the Mississippi capitol was nothing new.
The real lesson there comes from the invisibly potent forces of denial and enabling, the twin pathologies that ensure that offenses like this keep happening, and will keep happening, in the pious Confederacy.
Witness the supposed outrage from the "good" members of the First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs upon hearing the news that those poor black folk had been trundled off to exchange their sacred vows elsewhere.
"This is a small, small group of people who made a terrible decision," church member Casey Kitchens told The Clarion-Ledger newspaper, and reported by the AP. "I'm just ashamed right now that my church would do that. … How unfair. How unjust."
Caterwauled another: "I blame the first Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, I blame those members who knew and call themselves Christians and didn't stand up."
And of course Mississippi Baptist Convention executive director Reverend Jim Frutal raised himself to a full and upright position while reassuring the media that the episode was "not reflective of the spirit of the Lord and Mississippi Baptists."
Someone please wake me when this rerun is over.
Don't look at me, I didn't do nuthin'
During my two years of research for Better Off Without 'Em, I heard just this sort of denial of culpability restated over and over again.
Talk with southerners about social issues and, while acknowledging the heavy burden of problems such as racism and religious intolerance, to a man, woman, and gun-toting child they'll insist that they themselves do not embody those predictable characteristics and behaviors often used to portray the less attractive side of Dixie.
We aren't crazy religious—that's just a small percentage of southerners who you're thinking of.
We aren't racist—that's just a small percentage of southerners who have a problem.
We aren't single-issue abortion voters or the ones who have a problem with gays—that's just a small percentage of southerners who the media unfairly fixates on and uses to vilify the rest of us.
All of these statements may be true. The majority of southerners are not loud-mouthed, uneducated, redneck fuckwits flying Confederate flags from the backs of their KIA and Mercedes lynch wagons.
To what extent they were ever true many of these notions are comically outdated.
What the majority of southerners are, and have always been, however, is willing to allow the most strident, mouth-breathing "patriotic" firebrands among them to remain in control of their states' most powerful and influential positions, be they in the realms of politics, business, education, or religion.
Just as it was southern zealots who pushed the country into the Civil War, it was southern zealots who, while the rest of the South turned its back, were allowed to construct and maintain the legal foundations of Jim Crow; who were allowed to turn the Scopes Monkey Trial into a humiliating circus; who were allowed to circumvent Brown vs. Board of Education and school desegregation by calling out the National Guard and building segregation "academies"; who were allowed to resist Civil Rights with dogs and water cannons; who are still allowed to sidestep equitable school funding and proclaim without ridicule that a black president's birth certificate is fake and throw secessionist balls and insist that slavery had nothing whatsoever to do with the Civil War, and swear that all of this was and is somehow being done in the name of a liberty to which they feel deprived due to their miserable lives of oppression and persecution beneath the stars and stripes.
Maybe the fanatics do represent a minority of southerners.
That's still an extremely powerful group that the rest of the South enables—or succumbs to—or aligns with—or votes for—or prays alongside—year after year, decade after decade, century after century.
Theirs are the voices that perpetuate the agenda because theirs are the voices that ring with the most sincerity, that are most bereft of apology, that in their bellicosity resonate as the most historically and authentically "southern."
As Jackson teaches us again this week, if there's one thing about the South that hasn't ever changed it's the hypnotic influence of the crusader and zealot.
The big news out of Livingston Parish, Louisiana—and how often you can say that?—is state Republican (of course) Representative Valarie Hodges renouncing her once-solid support of Governor Bobby Jindhal's pet education project, a school voucher program that would use taxpayer money to allow students to attend "private" religious schools in lieu of public schools.
Hodges (who looks like someone's sweet, peach-cobbler-baking mom, btw), had been super keen on the idea until a Muslim school applied to be part of the program.
That's when she went all Deuteronomy on school vouchers.
Her freakout after learning that the sacred freedom-of-religion guarantee in the Constitution extends to all religious groups, not just the televised KKKristian kind, led Hodges down the worn path of southern political hyperbole—what we all here in the North call "bald-faced lying."
Lied Hodges to local media: "There are a thousand Muslin schools that have sprung up recently. I do not support using public funds for teaching Islam anywhere here in Louisiana … We need to insure that [the voucher program] does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools.
"I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America's Founding Fathers' religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools."
Deadpanned the Livingston Parish News: "Hodges mistakenly assumed that 'religious' meant 'Christian.'
Hodges not walking alone down that beach
If you think this sort of "The Muslims are Coming!" Dollar Store dumbfuckery is limited to one crazy, majority-elected lady in some backwater bayou fuckhole who can't spell her own first name right, you might check out the Religion chapter in Better Off Without 'Em (which comes out August 14).
In that chapter, I recount sitting in a completely unexceptional Wednesday night Baptist service during which a preacher warned an aghast congregation that six new Muslim mosques were being built right here in Mobile, Alabama, for the express purpose of announcing Islam's victory in its war to conquer America.
The six mosques of Mobile were phantoms (lies), just as Hodges' "a thousand Muslim schools" in Louisiana are phantoms (lies).
The weird thing? Hodges is absolutely right!
But here's the really crazy part—I actually agree 100 percent with Representative Hodges and her paranoid southern brethren!
Like her, I don't think taxpayer money should be used to support or promote a batshit nuts religion like Islam.
That's a redistribution of wealth that makes Obamacare look downright Reaganesque.
Of course, I don't think taxpayer money should be used to promote the "private" functions of Born Again radicals, either, any more than it should be funneled to the Mormons (enough money already), Scientologists (not till we see some hard evidence of our alien overlords), Catholics (what, for more Sanduskian cover-ups?) or any other faith-based operation.
It's called freedom of religion, not free money for religion.
What Better Off Without 'Em really means
This is what a lot of people don't and probably won't understand about Better Off Without 'Em—that the phrase cuts both ways, that both sides of the debate actually agree on the fundamental principles, even if for completely different reasons.
That I'm just as sick of the tyranny of morons and assholes and borderline seditionists imperiling the future of "my" country as southerners like Valarie Hodges are sick of the tyranny of morons and assholes and borderline seditionists imperiling the future of "their" country.
In Better Off Without 'Em, I touch briefly on the 2001 case of Talmadge Branch, the African American politician who was refused service in the "whites only" section of a segregated bar in Florida.
Those who might consider this decade-old story ancient history—or at least an anomaly in the pasteurized "we don't tolerate racism anymore" South—should check out a story that ran last week on Jezebel documenting the case of a 21-year African American who was physically removed from a North Carolina bar, presumably for drinking while black.
The "isolated incidents" keep on coming.
This week it's some old photos of a Georgia sheriff posing in a KKK costume, presumably as part of a hilarious send-up of a famous scene from Blazing Saddles.
The shocking part of all this is that anyone remains shocked that this sort of shit remains so pervasive in Dixie.
After all, South Carolina is the state whose current lieutenant-governor, Glenn McConnell, giddily dressed up as a Confederate Army general and posed with two black "slaves." Massively depressing photo here.
Asked by ABC's Nightline about the Confederate flag he fought to help keep on the grounds of the South Carolina capitol (also covered in Better Off, along with a dissection of the South Carolina capitol's bigot-celebrating grounds), McConnell replied with Colbert-esque aplomb, "I don't see black and white. I don't see racism."
Neither, apparently, do plenty of his confederates.