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We arrived in Goa -- the former Portuguese colony on the southwestern coast of India -- late at night on the train, in the rain.
We took a cab from the station to the city of Mapusa and, after hearing the prices from cabbies for taking us the rest of the way to Arambol, we decided to get a hotel for the night, and to try again the next day.
In the morning, we walked over to the bus stand to see if we could find a bus to Arambol. Unfortunately, there is only one bus daily and we missed it by an hour or so. So we priced out a rickshaw and got a good deal.
Many people were covered in colour, as this was the first day of the Hindu festival of Holi, the festival of colour. Our rickshaw driver had some yellow and orange on him, and many people were chasing each other around, trying to throw coloured powder on them.
Well, we arrived in Arambol midday. Our cabbie suggested a place for us to stay, which is usually a bad idea, because they are simply trying to make some extra money by taking you to a place that will give them commission. But when we checked out the guest house, it was great, and for a great price. It turned out to be a really nice place to stay as it was run by a very friendly family.
We were unsure as to how good the Hindu festival of Holi would be as the province is almost 75 per cent Christian.
We walked around Arambol and noticed a few people were covered in coloured powder, with the occasional person covered nearly head to toe.
We walked down to the beach and had a swim in the nice warm water. On our walk back, we came across a group of young Indian guys just covered in colour, dancing around to Goa psy (a type of music).
One came up to us and asked if we wanted colour, to which we both said an enthusiastic yes! After some splashes and dashes, we were both nearly fully painted from head to toe.
We danced around with them for a while, occasionally grabbing handfuls of coloured powder to throw at each other. As cars drove by, the guys would attempt to hit the people inside the car, and some did not look impressed. There were a few other tourists who also got the same treatment we did, and were both nicely coloured.
After a few hours of merriment, we went back to the guest house to clean up. Thankfully, the coloured powder they were using is the organic kind and washes off fairly quickly.
These Indians definitely know how to have a festival. Why don't we have a colour festival back home?
Much of Arambol revolves around tourism, every store and shop is somehow related to the trade. We found it to be a very nice place, the people were friendly and it had the nicest beach. For several days, we rented scooters and spent some time driving around Goa to check out the other beaches.
We spent much of our time on the beaches, our favourite being a nice beach just a short five-minute drive to the south. This beach had three small restaurant huts on it that offered food, drinks and beach chairs for a small fee.
For several days, I rented a boogey board and spent hours catching the medium-sized waves that would crash in on the shore.
These were some tough days at the office, that is for sure.
When you visit India, this is one place you simply have to Goa!


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It's my understanding that when an aspirateable consonant (i.e. p, t, or k) is placed before an aspirated consonant, both consonants must be aspirated. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
i.e. [face=SPIonic]i)xqu&j[/face]
Pronouncing two aspirated consonants back-to-back sounds strange. Does anyone know how [face=SPIonic]xq,[/face] [face=SPIonic]fq,[/face] etc. are supposed to be pronounced?

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Canine Cushing's Case Files: The ins and outs of detection and treatment—Case file: Holly (Sponsored by Dechra Veterinary Products)
Case file: HOLLY
Patient history and initial referral findings
Follow-up referral evaluation
The results of a serum chemistry profile revealed increased alkaline phosphatase, alanine aminotransferase, asparagine aminotransferase, gamma-glutamyl transferase, and creatine kinase activities; hyperbilirubinemia; and hypercholesterolemia. The complete blood count results identified leukocytosis with a mature neutrophilia and monocytosis. Urinalysis showed a urine specific gravity of 1.027, bilirubinuria (1+; reference range = negative) and trace proteinuria (< 100 mg/dl; reference range = negative). All of these findings were deemed consistent with hyperadrenocorticism.
Confirmatory test results
The results of an adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) stimulation test revealed a baseline cortisol concentration of 12.4 µg/dl (reference range = 2 to 6 µg/dl) and a one-hour post-ACTH cortisol concentration of 28.7 µg/dl (reference range =8 to 18 µg/dl). The abnormal ACTH stimulation test results in combination with Holly's history, clinical signs, and other abnormal laboratory test results confirmed hyperadrenocorticism.
The previous abdominal ultrasonographic examination and direct adrenal visualization at the time of exploratory laparotomy for cholecystectomy identified that both adrenal glands were normal size and shape, which is consistent with pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism. Medical therapy options were discussed with the family, who elected treatment with VETORYL® Capsules (trilostane).
Treatment and follow-up
Treatment with VETORYL Capsules was begun at a dose of 3.6 mg/kg given orally once daily in the morning with food. The family was advised to keep a daily journal to document Holly's frequency of panting, water consumption, urination frequency, appetite voracity, and activity level. They were also asked to document any episodes of vomiting or diarrhea and to call with any questions or concerns. Holly's family was also advised to consult with her primary care veterinarian regarding prophylactic dental care.


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Ah, a good old pair of Brogues; the work horse of mens' wardrobes across the globe, they're the one pair of shoes as comfortable in the boardroom as they are down the pub. The little pock-marked shoe has come a long way from its humble beginnings as cross-country footwear in Scotland and Ireland (the little holes were intended as drainage …
Does the perfect men's summer sandal exist?
Summer footwear for men is tough, flip flops are too Antipodean surfer, don't even think about action sandals or jesus trainers and slides (those slip on leather sandals) just have too many linen-trousered boyband connotations.
Kurt Geiger Lost Sounds deck shoe
My summer romance with deck shoes was coming to an end but then Kurt Geiger's 'Lost Sounds' shoes (£55) appeared on the scene and made me reconsider my winter strategy.
Fly 'Flag' boot on sale at Kurt Geiger
I have a soft sport for Fly shoes, and at the moment Kurt Geiger have got some Fly Flag boots reduced to £45. It's different without being try-hard, I like the utilitarian rubber heel and toe which is offset by the red stitching and golden suede. I also like the way they have a nostalgic feel without being to retro …


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I am trying to get any information you might have about this set. I was given this as a partial down payment on a car in 1974. At that time it was appraised at between $350 and $450 but I do not know if that value is correct. I would like to know how old it is, who made it and what the value is. Thank you for your help. Tom


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"Our Constitution is color blind," wrote Mr. Justice Harlan before the turn of the century, "and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." But the practices of the country do not always conform to the principles of the Constitution. And this Message is intended to examine how far we have come in achieving first-class citizenship for all citizens regardless of color, how far we have yet to go, and what further tasks remain to be carried out by the Executive and Legislative Branches of the Federal Government, as well as by state and local governments and private citizens and organizations.
One hundred years ago the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by a President who believed in the equal worth and opportunity of every human being. That Proclamation was only a first step--a step which its author unhappily did not live to follow up, a step which some of its critics dismissed as an action which "frees the slave but ignores the Negro." Through these long one hundred years, while slavery has vanished, progress for the Negro has been too often blocked and delayed. Equality before the law has not always meant equal treatment and opportunity. And the harmful, wasteful and wrongful results of racial discrimination and segregation still appear in virtually every aspect of national life, in virtually every part of the Nation.
The Negro baby born in America today-regardless of the section or state in which he is born--has about one-half as much chance of completing high school as a white baby born in the same place on the same day-one-third as much chance of completing college--one-third as much chance of becoming a professional man--twice as much chance of becoming unemployed--about one-seventh as much chance of earning $10,000 per year--a life expectancy which is seven years less--and the prospects of earning only half as much.
No American who believes in the basic truth that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights", can fully excuse, explain or defend the picture these statistics portray. Race discrimination hampers our economic growth by preventing the maximum development and utilization of our manpower. It hampers our world leadership by contradicting at home the message we preach abroad. It mars the atmosphere of a united and classless society in which this Nation rose to greatness. It increases the costs of public welfare, crime, delinquency and disorder. Above all, it is wrong.
Therefore, let it be clear, in our own hearts and minds, that it is not merely because of the Cold War, and not merely because of the economic waste of discrimination, that we are committed to achieving true equality of opportunity. The basic reason is because it is right.
The cruel disease of discrimination knows no sectional or state boundaries. The continuing attack on this problem must be equally broad. It must be both private and public--it must be conducted at national, state and local levels--and it must include both legislative and executive action.
In the last two years, more progress has been made in securing the civil rights of all Americans than in any comparable period in our history. Progress has been made-through executive action, litigation, persuasion and private initiative--in achieving and protecting equality of opportunity in education, voting, transportation, employment, housing, government, and the enjoyment of public accommodations.
But pride in our progress must not give way to relaxation of our effort. Nor does progress in the Executive Branch enable the Legislative Branch to escape its own obligations. On the contrary, it is in the light of this nationwide progress, and in the belief that Congress will wish once again to meet its responsibilities in this matter, that I stress in the following agenda of existing and prospective action important legislative as well as administrative measures.
The right to vote in a free American election is the most powerful and precious right in the world--and it must not be denied on the grounds of race or color. It is a potent key to achieving other rights of citizenship. For American history--both recent and past--clearly reveals that the power of the ballot has enabled those who achieve it to win other achievements as well, to gain a full voice in the affairs of their state and nation, and to see their interests represented in the governmental bodies which affect their future. In a free society, those with the power to govern are necessarily responsive to those with the right to vote.
In enacting the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts, Congress provided the Department of Justice with basic tools for protecting the right to vote--and this Administration has not hesitated to use those tools. Legal action is brought only after voluntary efforts fail-and, in scores of instances, local officials, at the request of the Department of Justice, have voluntarily made voting records available or abandoned discriminatory registration, discriminatory voting practices or segregated balloting. Where voluntary local compliance has not been forthcoming, the Department of Justice has approximately quadrupled the previous level of its legal effort--investigating coercion, inspecting records, initiating lawsuits, enjoining intimidation, and taking whatever follow-up action is necessary to forbid further interference or discrimination. As a result, thousands of Negro citizens are registering and voting for the first time--many of them in counties where no Negro had ever voted before. The Department of Justice will continue to take whatever action is required to secure the right to vote for all Americans.
Experience has shown, however, that these highly useful Acts of the 85th and 86th Congresses suffer from two major defects. One is the usual long and difficult delay which occurs between the filing of a lawsuit and its ultimate conclusion. In one recent case, for example, nineteen months elapsed between the filing of the suit and the judgment of the court. In another, an action brought in July 1961 has not yet come to trial. The legal maxim "Justice delayed is Justice denied" is dramatically applicable in these cases.
Too often those who attempt to assert their Constitutional rights are intimidated. Prospective registrants are fired. Registration workers are arrested. In some instances, churches in which registration meetings are held have been burned. In one case where Negro tenant farmers chose to exercise their right to vote, it was necessary for the Justice Department to seek injunctions to halt their eviction and for the Department of Agriculture to help feed them from surplus stocks. Under these circumstances, continued delay in the granting of the franchise--particularly in counties where there is mass racial disfranchisement-permits the intent of the Congress to be openly flouted.
Federal executive action in such cases-no matter how speedy and how drastic--can never fully correct such abuses of power. It is necessary instead to free the forces of our democratic system within these areas by promptly insuring the franchise to all citizens, making it possible for their elected officials to be truly responsive to all their constituents.
The second and somewhat overlapping gap in these statutes is their failure to deal specifically with the most common forms of abuse of discretion on the part of local election officials who do not treat all applicants uniformly.
Objections were raised last year to the proposed literacy test bill, which attempted to speed up the enforcement of the right to vote by removing one important area of discretion from registration officials who used that discretion to exclude Negroes. Preventing that bill from coming to a vote did not make any less real the prevalence in many counties of the use of literacy and other voter qualification tests to discriminate against prospective Negro voters, contrary to the requirements of the 14th and 15th Amendments, and adding to the delays and difficulties encountered in securing the franchise for those denied it.
An indication of the magnitude of the overall problem, as well as the need for speedy action, is a recent five-state survey disclosing over 200 counties in which fewer than 15% of the Negroes of voting age are registered to vote. This cannot continue. I am, therefore, recommending legislation to deal with this problem of judicial delay and administrative abuse in four ways:
First, to provide for interim relief while voting suits are proceeding through the courts in areas of demonstrated need, temporary Federal voting referees should be appointed to determine the qualifications of applicants for registration and voting during the pendency of a lawsuit in any county in which fewer than 15% of the eligible number of persons of any race claimed to be discriminated against are registered to vote. Existing Federal law provides for the appointment of voting referees to receive and act upon applications for voting registration upon a court finding that a pattern or practice of discrimination exists. But to prevent a successful case from becoming an empty victory, insofar as the particular election is concerned, the proposed legislation would provide that, within these prescribed limits, temporary voting referees would be appointed to serve from the inception to the conclusion of the Federal voting suit, applying, however, only State law and State regulations. As officers of the court, their decisions would be subject to court scrutiny and review.
Second, voting suits brought under the Federal Civil Rights statutes should be accorded expedited treatment in the Federal courts, just as in many state courts election suits are given preference on the dockets on the sensible premise that, unless the right to vote can be exercised at a specific election, it is, to the extent of that election, lost forever.
Third, the law should specifically prohibit the application of different tests, standards, practices, or procedures for different applicants seeking to register and vote in federal election. Under present law, the courts can ultimately deal with the various forms of racial discrimination practiced by local registrars. But the task of litigation, and the time consumed in preparation and proof, should be lightened in every possible fashion. No one can rightfully contend that any voting registrar should be permitted to deny the vote to any qualified citizen, anywhere in this country, through discriminatory administration of qualifying tests, or upon the basis of minor errors in filling out a complicated form which seeks only information. Yet the Civil Rights Commission, and the cases brought by the Department of Justice, have compiled one discouraging example after another of obstacles placed in the path of Negroes seeking to register to vote at the same time that other applicants experience no difficulty whatsoever. Qualified Negroes, including those with college degrees, have been denied registration for their inability to give a "reasonable" interpretation of the Constitution. They have been required to complete their applications with unreasonable precision--or to secure registered voters to vouch for their identity--or to defer to white persons who want to register ahead of them--or they are otherwise subjected to exasperating delays. Yet uniformity of treatment is required by the dictates of both the Constitution and fair play--and this proposed statute, therefore, seeks to spell out that principle to ease the difficulties and delays of litigation. Limiting the proposal to voting qualifications in elections for Federal offices alone will clearly eliminate any Constitutional conflict.
Fourth, completion of the sixth grade should, with respect to Federal elections, constitute a presumption that the applicant is literate. Literacy tests pose especially difficult problems in determining voter qualification. The essentially subjective judgment involved in each individual case, and the difficulty of challenging that judgment, have made literacy tests one of the cruelest and most abused of all voter qualification tests. The incidence of such abuse can be eliminated, or at least drastically curtailed, by the proposed legislation providing that proof of completion of the sixth grade constitutes a presumption that the applicant is literate.
Finally, the 87th Congress--after 20 years of effort--passed and referred to the states for ratification a Constitutional Amendment to prohibit the levying of poll taxes as a condition to voting. Already thirteen states have ratified the proposed Amendment and in three more one body of the Legislature has acted. I urge every state legislature to take prompt action on this matter and to outlaw the poll tax--which has too long been an outmoded and arbitrary bar to voting participation by minority groups and others--as the 24th Amendment to the Constitution. This measure received bipartisan sponsorship and endorsement in the Congress--and I shall continue to work with governors and legislative leaders of both parties in securing adoption of the anti-poll tax amendment.
Nearly nine years have elapsed since the Supreme Court ruled that State laws requiring or permitting segregated schools violate the Constitution. That decision represented both good law and good judgment--it was both legally and morally right. Since that time it has become increasingly dear that neither violence nor legalistic evasions will be tolerated as a means of thwarting court-ordered desegregation, that closed schools are not an answer, and that responsible communities are able to handle the desegregation process in a calm and sensible manner. This is as it should be--for, as I stated to the Nation at the time of the Mississippi violence last September:
"... Our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty, and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny. The law which we obey includes the final rulings of the courts, as well as the enactment's of our legislative bodies. Even among law-abiding men, few laws are universally loved--but they are uniformly respected and not resisted.
"Americans are free to disagree with the law but not to disobey it. For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob, however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men, by force or threat of force, could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors."
The shameful violence which accompanied but did not prevent the end of segregation at the University of Mississippi was an exception. State supported universities in Georgia and South Carolina met this test in recent years with calm and maturity, as did the state supported universities of Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky in earlier years. In addition, progress toward the desegregation of education at all levels has made other notable and peaceful strides, including the following forward moves in the last two years alone:
--Desegregation plans have been put into effect peacefully in the public schools of Atlanta, Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis and elsewhere, with over 60 school districts desegregated last year--frequently with the help of Federal persuasion and consultation, and in every case without incident or disorder.
--Teacher training institutes financed under the National Defense Education Act are no longer held in colleges which refuse to accept students without regard to race, and this has resulted in a number of institutions opening their doors to Negro applicants voluntarily.
--The same is now true of Institutes conducted by the National Science Foundation;
--Beginning in September of this year, under the Aid to Impacted Area School Program, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare will initiate a program of providing on-base facilities so that children living on military installations will no longer be required to attend segregated schools at Federal expense. These children should not be victimized by segregation merely because their fathers chose to serve in the armed forces and were assigned to an area where schools are operated on a segregated basis.
--In addition, the Department of Justice and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare have succeeded in obtaining voluntary desegregation in many other districts receiving "impacted area" school assistance; and, representing the Federal interest, have filed lawsuits to end segregation in a number of other districts.
--The Department of Justice has also intervened to seek the opening of public schools in the case of Prince Edward County, Virginia, the only county in the Nation where there are no public schools, and where a bitter effort to thwart court decrees requiring desegregation has caused nearly 1500 out of 1800 school age Negro children to go without any education for more than 3 years.
In these and other areas within its jurisdiction, the Executive Branch will continue its efforts to fulfill the Constitutional objective of an equal, non-segregated, educational opportunity for all children.
Despite these efforts, however, progress toward primary and secondary school desegregation has still been too slow, often painfully so. Those children who are being denied their constitutional rights are suffering a loss which can never be regained, and which will leave scars which can never be fully healed. I have in the past expressed my belief that the full authority of the Federal government should be placed behind the achievement of school desegregation, in accordance with the command of the Constitution. One obvious area of Federal action is to help facilitate the transition to desegregation in those areas which are conforming or wish to conform their practices to the law.
Many of these communities lack the resources necessary to eliminate segregation in their public schools while at the same time assuring that educational standards will be maintained and improved. The problem has been compounded by the fact that the climate of mistrust in many communities has left many school officials with no qualified source to turn to for information and advice.There is a need for technical assistance by the Office of Education to assist local communities in preparing and carrying out desegregation plans, including the supplying of information on means which have been employed to desegregate other schools successfully. There is also need for financial assistance to enable those communities which desire and need such assistance to employ specialized personnel to cope with problems occasioned by desegregation and to train school personnel to facilitate the transition to desegregation. While some facilities for providing this kind of assistance are presently available in the Office of Education, they are not adequate to the task.
I recommend, therefore, a program of Federal technical and financial assistance to aid school districts in the process of desegregation in compliance with the Constitution.
Finally, it is obvious that the unconstitutional and outmoded concept of "separate but equal" does not belong in the Federal statute books. This is particularly true with respect to higher education, where peaceful desegregation has been underway in practically every state for some time. I repeat, therefore, this Administration's recommendation of last year that this phrase be eliminated from the Morrill Land Grant College Act.
The Commission on Civil Rights, established by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, has been in operation for more than five years and is scheduled to expire on November 30, 1963. During this time it has fulfilled its statutory mandate by investigating deprivations of the right to vote and denials of equal protection of the laws in education, employment, housing and the administration of justice. The Commission's reports and recommendations have provided the basis for remedial action both by Congress and the Executive Branch.
There are, of course, many areas of denials of rights yet to be fully investigated. But the Commission is now in a position to provide even more useful service to the Nation. As more communities evidence a willingness to face frankly their problems of racial discrimination, there is an increasing need for expert guidance and assistance in devising workable programs for civil rights progress. Agencies of State and local government, industry, labor and community organizations, when faced with problems of segregation and racial tensions, all can benefit from information about how these problems have been solved in the past. The opportunity to seek an experienced and sympathetic forum on a voluntary basis can often open channels of communication between contending parties and help bring about the conditions necessary for orderly progress. And the use of public hearings--to contribute to. public knowledge of the requirements of the Constitution and national policy--can create in these communities the atmosphere of understanding which is indispensable to peaceful and permanent solutions to racial problems.
The Federal Civil Rights Commission has the experience and capability to make a significant contribution toward achieving these objectives. It has advised the Executive branch not only about desirable policy changes but about the administrative techniques needed to make these changes effective. If, however, the Commission is to perform these additional services effectively, changes in its authorizing statute are necessary and it should be placed on a more stable and more permanent basis. A proposal that the Commission be made a permanent body would be a pessimistic prediction that our problems will never be solved. On the other hand, to let the experience and knowledge gathered by the Commission go to .waste, by allowing it to expire, or by extending its life only for another two years with no change in responsibility, would ignore the very real contribution this agency can make toward meeting our racial problems. I recommend, therefore, that the Congress authorize the Civil Rights Commission to serve as a national civil rights clearing house providing information, advice, and technical assistance to any requesting agency, private or public; that in order to fulfill these new responsibilities, the Commission be authorized to concentrate its activities upon those problems within the scope of its statute which most need attention; and that the life of the Commission be extended for a term of at least four more years.
Racial discrimination in employment is especially injurious both to its victims and to the national economy. It results in a great waste of human resources and creates serious community problems. It is, moreover, inconsistent with the democratic principle that no man should be denied employment commensurate with his abilities because of his race or creed or ancestry.
The President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, reconstituted by Executive Order in early 1961, has, under the leadership of the Vice President, taken significant steps to eliminate racial discrimination by those who do business with the Government. Hundreds of companies-covering 17 million jobs--have agreed to stringent non-discriminatory provisions now standard in all Government contracts. One hundred four industrial concerns--including most of the Nation's major employers--have in addition signed agreements calling for an affirmative attack on discrimination in employment; and 117 labor unions, representing about 85% of the membership of the AFL-CIO, have signed similar agreements with the Committee. Comprehensive compliance machinery has been instituted to enforce these agreements. The Committee has received over 1,300 complaints in two years--more than in the entire 7 1/2 years of the Committee's prior existence--and has achieved corrective action on 72% of the cases handled--a heartening and unprecedented record. Significant results have been achieved in placing Negroes with contractors who previously employed whites only--and in the elevation of Negroes to a far higher proportion of professional, technical and supervisory jobs. Let me repeat my assurances that these provisions in Government contracts and the voluntary non-discrimination agreements will be carefully monitored and strictly enforced.
In addition, the Federal Government, as an employer, has continued to pursue a policy of non-discrimination in its employment and promotion programs. Negro high school and college graduates are now being intensively sought out and recruited. A policy of not distinguishing on grounds of race is not limited to the appointment of distinguished Negroes--although they have in fact been appointed to a record number of high policy-making judicial and administrative posts. There has also been a significant increase in the number of Negroes employed in the middle and upper grades of the career Federal service. In jobs paying $4,500 to $10,000 annually, for example, there was an increase of 20% in the number of Negroes during the year ending June 30, 1962--over three times the rate of increase for all employees in those grades during the year. Career civil servants will continue to be employed and promoted on the basis of merit, and not color, in every agency of the Federal Government, including all regional and local offices.
This Government has also adopted a new Executive policy with respect to the organization of its employees. As part of this policy, only those Federal employee labor organizations that do not discriminate on grounds of race or color will be recognized.
Outside of Government employment, the National Labor Relations Board is now considering cases involving charges of racial discrimination against a number of union locals. I have directed the Department of Justice to participate in these cases and to urge the National Labor Relations Board to take appropriate action against racial discrimination in unions. It is my hope that administrative action and litigation will make unnecessary the enactment of legislation with respect to Union discrimination.
No act is more contrary to the spirit of our democracy and Constitution--or more rightfully resented by a Negro citizen who seeks only equal treatment--than the barring of that citizen from restaurants, hotels, theaters, recreational areas and other public accommodations and facilities.
Wherever possible, this Administration has dealt sternly with such acts. In 1961, the Justice Department and the Interstate Commerce Commission successfully took action to bring an end to discrimination in rail and bus facilities. In 1962, the fifteen airports still maintaining segregated facilities were persuaded to change their practices, thirteen voluntarily and two others after the Department of Justice brought legal action. As a result of these steps, systematic segregation in interstate transportation has virtually ceased to exist. No doubt isolated instances of discrimination in transportation terminals, restaurants, rest rooms and other facilities will continue to crop up, but any such discrimination will be dealt with promptly.
In addition, restaurants and public facilities in buildings leased by the Federal Government have been opened up to all Federal employees in areas where previously they had been segregated. The General Services Administration no longer contracts for the lease of space in office buildings unless such facilities are available to all Federal employees without regard to race. This move has taken place without fanfare and practically without incident; and full equality of facilities will continue to be made available to all Federal employees in every state.
National parks, forests and other recreation areas--and the District of Columbia Stadium--are open to all without regard to race. Meetings sponsored by the Federal Government or addressed by Federal appointees are held in hotels and halls which do not practice discrimination or segregation. The Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to reverse the convictions of Negroes arrested for seeking to use public accommodations; and took action both through the Courts and the use of Federal marshals to protect those who were testing the desegregation of transportation facilities.
In these and other ways, the Federal Government will continue to encourage and support action by state and local communities, and by private entrepreneurs, to assure all members of the public equal access to all public accommodations. A country with a "color blind" Constitution, and with no castes or classes among its citizens, cannot afford to do less.
The basic standard of non-discrimination-which I earlier stated has now been applied by the Executive Branch to every area of its activity--affects other programs not listed above:
--Although President Truman ordered the armed services of this country desegregated in 1948, it was necessary in 1962 to bar segregation formally and specifically in the Army and Air Force Reserves and in the training of all civil defense workers.
--A new Executive Order on housing, as unanimously recommended by the Civil Rights Commission in 1959, prohibits discrimination in the sale, lease or use of housing owned or constructed in the future by the Federal Government or guaranteed under the FHA, VA and Farmers Home Administration program. With regard to existing property owned or financed through the Federal Government, the departments and agencies are directed to take every appropriate action to promote the termination of discriminatory practices that may exist. A President's Committee on Equal Housing Opportunity was created by the Order to implement its provisions.--A Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces has been established to investigate and make recommendations regarding the treatment of minority groups, with special emphasis on off-base problems.
--The U.S. Coast Guard Academy now has Negro students for the first time in its 87 years of existence.
--The Department of Justice has increased its prosecution of police brutality cases, many of them in Northern states--and is assisting state and local police departments in meeting this problem.
--State employee merit systems operating programs financed with Federal funds are now prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race or color.
--The Justice Department is challenging the constitutionality of the "separate but equal" provisions which permit hospitals constructed with Federal funds to discriminate racially in the location of patients and the acceptance of doctors.
In short, the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, under this Administration and in all of its activities, now stands squarely behind the principle of equal opportunity, without segregation or discrimination, in the employment of Federal funds, facilities and personnel. All officials at every level are charged with the responsibility of implementing this principle--and a formal interdepartmental action group, under White House chairmanship, oversees this effort and follows through on each directive. For the first time, the full force of Federal executive authority is being exerted in the battle against race discrimination.
The various steps which have been undertaken or which are proposed in this Message do not constitute a final answer to the problems of race discrimination in this country. They do constitute a list of priorities--steps which can be taken by the Executive Branch and measures which can be enacted by the 88th Congress. Other measures directed toward these same goals will be favorably commented on and supported, as they have in the past--and they will be signed, if enacted into law.
In addition, it is my hope that this message will lend encouragement to those state and local governments--and to private organizations, corporations and individuals--who share my concern over the gap between our precepts and our practices. This is an effort in which every individual who asks what he can do for his country should be able and willing to take part. It is important, for example, for private citizens and local governments to support the State Department's effort to end the discriminatory treatment suffered by too many foreign diplomats, students and visitors to this country. But it is not enough to treat those from other lands with equality and dignity--the same treatment must be afforded to every American citizen.
The program outlined in this message should not provide the occasion for sectional bitterness. No state or section of this Nation can pretend a self-righteous role, for every area has its own civil rights problems.
Nor should the basic elements of this program be imperiled by partisanship. The proposals put forth are consistent with the platforms of both parties and with the positions of their leaders. Inevitably there will be disagreement about means and strategy. But I would hope that on issues of constitutional rights and freedom, as in matters affecting our national security, there is a fundamental unity among us that will survive partisan debate over particular issues.
The centennial of the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation is an occasion for celebration, for a sober assessment of our failures, and for rededication to the goals of freedom. Surely there could be no more meaningful observance of the centennial than the enactment of effective civil rights legislation and the continuation of effective executive action.


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Neil Allen's seat was empty at Wednesday night's Stroudsburg Borough Council meeting, three days after he was arrested in a drug sting in downtown Stroudsburg.
Neil Allen's seat was empty at Wednesday night's Stroudsburg Borough council meeting, three days after he was arrested in a drug sting in downtown Stroudsburg.
While his absence wasn't officially addressed, one area resident demanded that action be taken in the wake of the heroin charge Allen is expected to answer to in district court.
"It's getting awful," said East Stroudsburg resident Monica Oney about public official misconduct in the state.
Stroudsburg Council President Kim Diddio and borough attorney Ralph A. Matergia responded to Oney's outcry against Allen during the public comments portion of the meeting.
Diddio would only say that the council hadn't made any decision, and wasn't sure what would happen to the council vice president. "We've not heard from Mr. Allen," she said.
"I don't think anybody here has seen any of the information that would constitute process. He certainly has not been convicted. He's entitled to his day in court," Matergia said.
The borough's attorney called it too early to speculate on what choices Allen or the council would make in the matter. Matergia said that under Pennsylvania constitution, Allen's alleged crime may not fall under what's required for removal of an elected official. "Council has no basis to take any action," he said.
"I've lived here my whole life," said Oney, 63. "Why can people get away with this?"
Oney said she's known Allen since he was a child. "I never thought that he could take drugs," she said. "I think he should go to jail and get help."


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When the 13th of the month falls on a Friday, do you join the 21 million Americans who suffer paraskevidekatriaphobia?
This year, February 13 falls on a Friday. Most travelers will hop on planes and check into hotels without hesitating. But those who suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia, a fear of Friday the 13th, will proceed with caution or may even opt to stay home.
"Some 21 million Americans suffer from the condition," says Donald Dossey, a behavioral scientist specializing in the treatment of phobias and credited with coining the term paraskevidekatriaphobia. "I have treated patients who won't even get out of bed on Friday the 13th."
Should you avoid traveling on this date? In 1993, the British Medical Journal conducted a study of automobile travel on Friday the 13th. They found that fewer people chose to drive on the "unlucky" day, but the number of hospital admissions due to car accidents rose. They concluded that "Friday the 13th is unlucky for some. The risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by as much as 52 percent. Staying at home is recommended."
Travelers don't seem to be following this advice, according to the U.S. travel industry. Continental Airlines spokeswoman Julie King says that Friday the 13th is likely to be as busy as any other Friday—but she goes on to say that none of Continental's planes have a Row 13. Similarly, Delta Air Lines spokesman Anthony L. Black says that Friday the 13th is like all other hectic Fridays. But Delta ticket agent Cassandra Dozier says that at least twice a month passengers request to not be seated in Row 13, which the carrier does number on its planes.
Fairmont Hotels spokesman Mike Taylor says that the company doesn't experience a noticeable drop in occupancy on Friday the 13th. But he adds that six of the chain's eight American high-rise hotels don't have a 13th floor. However, at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver, B.C., Room 1313 is frequently requested by guests who believe that the number is actually good luck.
Photo Illustration by William Duke
This article was first published in January 2004. Some facts may have aged gracelessly. Please call ahead to verify information.


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Racers Cope With Frozen Fall Conditions
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Despite freezing temperatures and snowstorms, the New England college sailing district was able to complete its first women's intersectional regatta in three weekends. Good thing too because the Victorian Coffee Urn, hosted by Harvard this past weekend, was the qualifying event for the Women's Atlantic Coast Championship (ACCs). The top seven teams from the Urn will move on to race in the ACC's at the New York Maritime Academy two weeks from now. The No. 1 Yale women's sailing team secured themselves one of those seven spots by finishing fifth overall this weekend.
Racing on the Charles River was close all weekend. After 12 races in both A and B division, the Bulldogs ended up just one point behind the fourth-place Brown Bears and three behind the third-place Connecticut College Camels. A mere point separated the second-place University of Rhode Island Rams from the victorious Dartmouth Big Green.
Conditions were challenging for the racers who, in addition to enduring temperatures in the 30s and hail storms late Saturday afternoon, had to navigate the radical wind shifts and changes in pressure that the Charles River threw their way. Zack Leonard, Yale's McNay Family Director of Sailing and varsity head coach, remarked that the regatta was a "great chance for [the team] to practice a type of sailing that we don't get to do so frequently." The experience made him and some of the team members realize that they could actually be more resourceful in their practices back at Yale if only they took better advantage of the days that offer unstable offshore winds.
Nonetheless, Leonard expressed that he was "very impressed" with the team's overall performance. He specifically commended the results of Yale's B division boat which was sailed by junior skipper Emily Billing and sophomore crew Amanda Salvesen. Billing and Salvesen took second place in their division after finishing outside of the top ten in only one of the 12 individual races. Sophomore skipper Marlena Fauer and sophomore crew Eugenia Custo Greig, in the words of coach Leonard, also "showed a strong understanding of the race course and the ability to execute" with top-five finishes in four out of the six races they sailed in A division.
The Bulldogs went to Cambridge and did what they needed to do to qualify for the ACCs. Now they have only two weeks left of practice for the fall, but the two biggest regattas of the season have yet to be raced. Next weekend juniors Claire Dennis and Emily Billing will travel to Chicago, Ill., for the ICSA Women's Singlehanded National Championship. The Bulldogs will be looking to defend their title at that event after Dennis won it last year. Then, the following weekend the team will travel to New York for the ACCs. That regatta will mark the end of the fall season for the perpetually No. 1 ranked Bulldogs.
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50 Do-It-Yourself Halloween Ideas
Boo, Blisstree Reader. Check out these 7 new Halloween posts we just published:
10 Creepy Halloween Cocktails: 5 Under 200 Calories, 5 Not So Much
Doggone It: 10 Weirdest Halloween Costumes for Pet Owners and Their Pets
Hungry and Haunted: 10 Seriously Spooky Halloween Cookie Recipes
The Horror, The Horror: 10 Worst Halloween Costumes for Couples
Halloween Horrors: 10 Natural Face Paints That Won't Kill You
Trick or Eat: 10 Scarily Disgusting Halloween Recipes and
Trick or Treat: 10 Halloween Candies With Scary Nutrition Facts
They're kinda spooky.
When my son and I go out trick-or-treating on Halloween, we especially enjoy looking at the decorations on the houses in our neighborhood. There are a lot of DIYers in the area, and I'm amazed at how creative they are. Taking inspiration from my neighbors, I give you:
50 Do-It-Yourself Halloween Ideas:
Halloween Costumes:
- Operation Game costume – All you need is some cardboard, some markers and a red rubber nose. A hospital gown is a plus.
- How about a can of worms? That doesn't look like a very happy kid, though.
- It must be hard to go trick or treating as a Jack in the Box.
- And then there's this fairy costume.
- A rainbow alien
- Alien abductions
- You could be a missing kid on a milk carton.
- How about a Ghostbuster?
- Here's a whole bunch of frugal costume ideas from Thrifty Fun.
- You can go trick or treating as a crayon.
- The bowling pin idea is pretty clever.
- I like these bobbleheads, too.
- This clever kid went as a letter to her grandma.
- A deviled egg…get it?
- Here are some fun and very creative ideas including a bat and a Rubik's Cube.
- If you have the body for it, you can be a beauty contest contestant.
- How about a Godzilla costume complete with airplane attack?
- Why not go as your favorite alcoholic beverage?
- Or your favorite video game?
- This keg costume is perfect for home or dorm.
- A vampire costume wouldn't be complete without bloody fangs.
Halloween Decoration Ideas
- Jack-O-Lantern.com helps you with everything you need to know to carve a pumpkin.
- How about this awesome pneumatic tombstone?
- A scary giant black spider.
- This swamp thing would be an amazing prop for a haunted hayride or haunted house.
- And a giant hand for your driveway or front lawn?
- Need step-by-step instructions for constructing a cemetery fence and tombstones?
- This is creepy: Check out this giant moth.
- I love this ambitious animatronic skeleton.
- Bouncing Bucky is also ambitious, and very cool.
- You don't need a big house to make an endless hallway.
- And if you're feeling really ambitious, you can make a robot monster.
- What Halloween party would be complete without a flying crank ghost?
- Talking skeletons are also fun.
- Here's a very cool haunted scarecrow.
- Gargoyles add a little something-something, don't you think?
- And of course you need a headless horseman.
- How about a witch complete with a flaming cauldron?
- Love these aliens in a jar.
- How about a bleeding portrait?
Food Ideas
- Check out Ziek's Halloween party.
- Freaky Witches' Fingers
- Eyeballs
- Meringue Bones
- Spicy bat wings
- Spider web dip
- Kitty litter cake – this one just skeeves me.
- Bloody Eyeball Martinis
- Cobweb cookies
- Brain Paté


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MONTREAL -- Fermentation is one of mankind's most ancient forms of preservation. In our contemporary lives, however, we leave much of the work to professionals. We rely on markets and restaurants for everyday staples like wine, beer, cheese, bread, vinegar and yogourt. Specialty shops sell our preferred brands of kombucha, sauerkraut, kefir, miso, kimchee and cultured "country style" butter. We look to others for our live-culture fix, yet fermentation – the process by which foods are gently exposed to microflora like bacteria and yeasts, converting sugars into alcohol and acid – is surprisingly simple, intuitive and gratifying, as a growing number of people are discovering.
Home fermentation has become an interesting culinary do-it-yourself trend. Unlike the straight-shooting vinegar-based pickle, live-cultured foods exude mysterious complexity. Whether it's the cloudy brines, the primordial, earthy aromas or the pungent flavours, there's definitely something alchemal about tending to a cluster of ceramic vessels bubbling away with life – especially in the frigid winter months. (When I make sauerkraut, I like to pretend that I'm an extra in an Ingmar Bergman film.) Yet the process can intimidate home cooks, who worry about blooming moulds, exploding beer bottles and eternally stinky kitchens.
A great place to start is with Sandor Katz, North America's Johnny Appleseed of fermentation, and author of the cult book Wild Fermentation. A self-described "fermenting fetishist," Katz writes with evangelical verve about his obsession with edible cultures and his macrobiotic lifestyle. (One of his nicknames is "Sandorkraut"). In particular, Katz champions the health benefits of fermentation, claiming that live-cultured products soothe the stomach, aid digestion, impart vitamins and boost immune functions.
Here in Montreal, Japanese-born biochemist Masaki Endo has been making his own miso – the salty, buttery spread produced by fermenting mashed soy beans and steamed rice – for 30 years. Unlike lacto-fermented foods like sauerkraut or kimchee, all miso begins with koji yeast (also known as the fungus aspergillus oryzae), which is the key to many tasty staples of Japanese cuisine, including soy sauce, sake, amazake (a sweet, lightly fermented rice drink), and natto, a viscous, bitter compound of fermented soybeans. "I eat natto every day for my heart. It smells bad, it's sticky, it's gooey, but, oh, it's so good for you," Endo laughs.
Now retired, Endo teaches small miso- and natto-making workshops at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal. His next workshops will be held at the Centre on Jan. 23 and 25 (for registration, call 514-728-1996, or visit 8155 Rousselot St.). "Commercial Japanese miso is easy to find at supermarkets, but it tastes totally different," Endo says. "It contains preservatives, and you don't know how long it's been sitting on the shelf."
Endo prefers to eat his own creamy, sweet white miso known as shiro, which ferments for only two months, and is popular in his native Osaka. He also makes aka, the much saltier red variety, and ages it a full year. His misos, which are made with non-genetically modified soybeans, are chunkier and less uniform-looking than store varieties, and have a rich, complex flavour. "When people first learn about making miso, many fail," Endo laughs. "They see mould. But that's okay. Many people think that fermentation is complicated, but it's actually so simple."
Haley Butcher, under the name 100% Ferments, sells small batches of her live-cultured products – including kimchee, curtido, sour pickles, and brined garlic – through her website and Puces POP, which is held every fall through the music festival Pop Montreal. (She also makes organic sourdough bread, homemade yogourt and pickled eggs by special order). Like Endo, Butcher stumbled into fermentation through her love for science and microbiology. "I remember this lab I did in university where we studied lactic acid bacteria," Butcher recalls. "I had this breakthrough, like, 'I can make this at home!?'"
Soon, she picked up a copy of Katz's Wild Fermentation and began brining huge quantities of sauerkraut, giving jars away to friends. "I saw that fermentation was getting bigger and bigger in the States, in San Francisco and New York. People like me were starting businesses. So I thought, why not?" Butcher says.
Butcher's passion for both modern science as well as Old-World techniques ultimately resulted in 100% Ferments. She buys only Quebec produce, and adjusts ingredients accordingly throughout the seasons. (Her mouth-watering "winter kimchee" subs in carrots, parsnips, leeks and Savoy cabbage instead of her Napa cabbage standby).
Leyla Majeri, a Montreal-based artist and musician, brews her own alcohol using only seasonal organic, foraged or homegrown ingredients. She, too, cites Katz's volume as instrumental in her fermentation journey. Using leftover fruits from the grocery store where her partner, Eduoard Larocque, worked, Majeri first began making blueberry, date, beet, and plum-based wines. "It was our way of preserving what would have been waste," Majeri explains. "We fell in love with the process and magic of transformation, of keeping things alive, keeping them raw, uncooked."
Majeri's meads, which are made with organic raw honey that she harvests herself, are infused with foraged plants like juniper, anise, lavender, anjelica and sage. "Our wines and meads ferment at their own rhythm. I freestyle everything," Majeri laughs. "Now, I only drink alcohol that I make. I haven't bought a bottle of wine in years."
Her rich, tawny wines have more psychedelic and medicinal qualities than store-bought varieties. Sommeil D'Adam, a mead brewed with lake water she collected from the Laurentians, is infused with yarro, mugwort, and sweet gale. "I collected flowers that grew around the edge of the lake, and macerated them into the wine. It was mind-blowing," she says. "Fermentation makes you understand the simple things in life."
The magic doesn't have to end once the fermentation has halted. Refrigerated staples like sauerkraut or kimchee are like delicious building blocks for your winter-cooking repertoire. For a simple snack, Endo advised me to spread his white miso on sliced cucumbers, and I did – but not before mashing it with country-style butter for an addictive compound. And a simple soup, fortified with the nurturing flavours of dashi, kombu and wakame (both types of edible sea vegetables), sardines, tofu, scallions and cabbage, needs nothing else besides a dollop of red miso as the perfect finishing touch.
One of my most popular fermenting recipes is also the easiest. I regularly make big jars of crème fraîche by bringing one cup of heavy cooking cream to room temperature, stirring in a tablespoon of buttermilk, and letting it sit at room temperature for a day or two. It's delicious on everything – dolloped on soup, smoked fish, or a wedge of fruit pie. My resourceful friend Ithamar Silver uses the cloudy dregs of his lacto-fermented beets and pickles to fortify the broth of his borscht. Butcher likes to heat up her sauerkraut alongside sausages and potatoes for a big plate of choucroute garni, and chops wedges of fermented lemons into a sizzling Moroccan tagine of chicken and raisins. And on those extra cold January nights, nothing else will heat your insides faster than a glass of Majeri's elderberry wine.
Ithamar Silver shared the recipe for his incredibly delicious brined pickles, and has a few hot tips. He likes to add a slice of rye bread, which he says kick-starts the fermentation process. For extra-crunchy pickles, I like to add a few tannin-rich grape leaves. Silver also notes that "all units of measurement are completely relative. If you want to use more or less of anything, it's probably fine." The real trick, we agreed, is finding a balance of salinity, which you'll get the hang of the more you ferment. And, finally, for any skittish home cooks, Silver's bubbie offers this: "Don't worry about the mould. I've eaten this my whole life. You did it good."
Bubbie Bronia's Half-Sour Kosher Dill Pickles
(Recipe adapted from Ithamar Silver)
10-20 cucumbers (look for firm varieties, like the small Kirbies
1 cup coarse salt (pickling, kosher, or sea salt varieties are all acceptable)
10-15 peeled garlic cloves
Fresh dill or dill flowers
4-5 slices of rye bread
Optional additions: 2-4 tablespoons peppercorns, 3-4 sliced fresh hot peppers, fresh herbs
3-5 glass jars (sterilized in boiling water or a heated oven)
Wash cucumbers in cold water, and soak overnight in the fridge.
Bring a pot of water to boil, dissolving two heaping tablespoons of salt for every two cups of water.
Pack each sterilized jar with cucumbers, layered vertically.
Add other seasonings, like peeled garlic gloves, dill flowers, or peppercorns.
Let the boiling brine cool slightly, then pour over pickles, taking care to completely submerge cucumbers. Aim for an inch of air space from the surface of the brine to the lip of the jar.
Stuff a slice of rye into the airspace of the jar, and loosely screw on the lid.
Let stand away from sunlight and in a cool, dry spot for 2-3 days, or until the brine develops a cloudiness.
Once the brine has become cloudy, remove the bread, dill, and any mould that has started to grow on the surface.
Drop lids in boiling water to sterilize them, and seal the jars tightly.
Refrigerate the pickles at least 2-3 weeks, which slows down fermentation. They will keep in the fridge for at least a year.
Note: If the pickles taste too salty, drain one-third of the brine and replace with fresh water. The salt level in the pickles will naturally adjust through osmosis in just a few hours.


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Amid Calls for EPA to Reopen Fracking Investigations, States Confirm Contaminated GroundwaterRead time: 8 mins
Sharon Kelly | January 31, 2014
By Sharon Kelly • Friday, January 31, 2014 - 05:00
Republican Sen. James Inhofe said it. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper said it. Even former Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson said it.
For over a decade, oil and gas executives and the policy makers who support them have repeated a single bold claim: there has never been a single documented case where fracking contaminated groundwater.
But a blockbuster investigative report by the Associated Press offered up new evidence earlier this month that the shale industry's keystone environmental claim is simply not true.
Multiple states confirmed that drilling and fracking contaminated groundwater supplies, the investigation found. There have been thousands of complaints from people living near drilling over the past decade, the AP reported, and three out of the four states from which the AP obtained documents confirmed multiple instances where oil and gas companies contaminated groundwater.
Out of the four states the AP obtained documents from, only Texas reported no confirmed oil and gas-related groundwater contamination. But one high-profile incident in Texas has again come under scrutiny, as a report quietly released by the Obama administration on Christmas Eve has called the adequacy of the state's investigation into question.
On Monday, over 200 environmental groups called on President Obama to reopen the federal investigations into that case and others in Pennsylvania and in Wyoming, and to personally meet with people whose drinking water supplies have been polluted.
"The previously closed EPA investigation into these matters must be re-opened," said the letter, sent the day before Mr. Obama's State of the Union address. "These three are among a growing number of cases of water contamination linked to drilling and fracking, and a significant and rapidly growing body of scientific evidence showing the harms drilling and fracking pose to public health and the environment."


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Today the US Supreme Court struck down the misguided Defense of Marriage Act and upheld the right to marry in California.
It's a big day for millions of gay and lesbian people who have long deserved to marry and enjoy the same rights as straight couples. Since the only objections I've ever heard come from opponents' religious beliefs, the ban on gay marriage is obviously unconstitutional. Any two consenting adults should have the right to enter into the legal contract of marriage.
Despite the statements of opponents who say it will lead to bestiality, child rape and the fall of civilization, marriage equality just means two consenting adults can enter into this contract, whether they be opposite sex or same-sex couples.
My sister and her spouse were married in Massachusetts in 2006, and I couldn't have been happier for them. They deserved the same rights as my husband and I get. When my sister died of lung cancer, her spouse was able to make the decisions they had agreed upon. No one could come in and claim they had a superior right to make those decisions. That gave both of them the peace of mind they deserved in my sister's final days.
This morning's ruling told gays and lesbians across the country that they have every right to love whom they please and the state has no right to discriminate against them.
This afternoon, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the military would extend benefits, including health care and housing, to same-sex spouses as quickly as possible.
Rep. Michele Bachmann went on a rant about how God created marriage and, well, blah, blah, blah, or to quote Rep. Nancy Pelosi, "Who cares?"
Justice Antonin Scalia's angry scree of a reply was just the ranting, childish tantrum of a poor loser. Although many people have said he is brilliant, I don't believe anyone with such a closed mind can be brilliant.
Opponents will carry on for a little while, but the tide has turned in favor of equality, just as it did for African-Americans in the 1960s. Eventually, every state will accept marriage equality, and a little farther down the road, the bigots will age and die, leaving society to wonder what the big deal was anyway.


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Thursday 27th February 2014
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Tuesday 21st January 2014
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STOCKTON - Stagg High ventured into the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I football playoffs for the fifth consecutive year and finally leaves Week 1 with collective smiles.
STOCKTON - Stagg High ventured into the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I football playoffs for the fifth consecutive year and finally leaves Week 1 with collective smiles.
On a night when many other Stockton-area schools were ushered out of the postseason, Stagg used a precision passing game and opportunistic defense to whip visiting Modesto-Beyer 32-14.
For their efforts, they'll get a home game in the second round against Elk Grove-Pleasant Grove, which routed Modesto 48-12.
Stagg coach Don Norton felt both a sense of relief and the desire to continue deep into the playoffs.
"It does feel good to get out of the first week, but I'll tell you, winning can feel addictive," Norton said. "We want to keep going. This feels very good."
Stagg quarterback Wayne Brooks completed 19-of-27 passes for 304 yards and four touchdowns - including two to Lester Williams.
Williams caught an 11-yard touchdown to start the scoring and made a shoe-top catch of a 51-yard score as part of his seven receptions for 125 yards. Jamareus Spivey had a similar evening with seven grabs for 128 yards, including a 19-yard score.
"We had some people step up for us and have big games offensively," Norton said. "It was great to see Spivey catch the ball the way he did tonight."
Stagg was without two key players, Jamarius Harris and Daniel Ruffin, who were suspended indefinitely for violating unspecified rules.
Among the many who stepped up was Davon Gillum, whose tackle-breaking 85-yard touchdown run midway through the first quarter gave Stagg (10-1) a 14-0 lead. Gillum eluded three tacklers, cut across the field and out-raced four Beyer defenders for the score.
"I broke a couple tackles and got some big blocks from the linemen," Gillum said. "Once I got to the sideline, I knew I could out-run the defense."
Gillum rushed seven times for 120 yards and caught a 7-yard touchdown pass from Brooks.
Beyer (6-5) had little success passing until the closing minutes and relied on the hard running of Jay Green, who had 20 carries for 159 yards. Beyer's first touchdown was a bit of a fluke, as Paul Fagbamila recovered an offensive fumble by a receiver in the end zone.
Beyer had a number of other drives snuffed out in the red zone, including two on interceptions by Stagg's Andru Jones.
"We pride ourselves on stopping teams in the red zone," Jones said. "The first interception, the ball kind of fluttered and I used my height to make a play on it. The other was on fourth down to end a great goal-line stand by the defense."
Norton knows the challenge will be stiff in the second round. Pleasant Grove is a power running team, and the teams have history.
"What I remember most about them is coming in here and beating us by one point on a field goal," Norton said. "We're looking forward to the chance to play them again. It's great that it'll be here in our stadium."
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A 69-year-old Bunnell man apparently had a medical issue before the crash west of Belle Terre Parkway.
PALM COAST — A 69-year-old Bunnell man died Wednesday in a crash in front of a Wendy's restaurant on Palm Coast Parkway East when he careened into a truck waiting to pull out of the lot, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper said.
Elsworth R. Rosenberger apparently had a medical issue before the crash that happened about 12:30 p.m. just west of Belle Terre Parkway, said Trooper Dan Schlosser.
"He was driving the white Ford in the inside lane, and the red Ford truck was stopped in the business parking lot," Schlosser said. "The woman driving the truck said he was slumped over in the passenger side as he came toward her."
Rosenberger was transported to Florida Hospital Flagler. He was pronounced dead at 1:04 p.m.
Ronda Anne Garner, 52, of Palm Coast, was driving the truck, according to the trooper. She was not injured.
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The news media reported recently the federal government had passed out $30 million to various law enforcement agencies throughout Texas. U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson proudly announced she had seen to it the checks went out promptly and were distributed throughout Texas. This $30 million represents proceeds gleaned by seizing contraband while prosecuting the war on drugs. While I appreciate as a taxpaying citizen of Texas the fact that $30 million will be infused into Texas, I have serious misgivings about making our law enforcement personnel bounty hunters.
Part of the genius of our democratic society, which has served America well for generation after generation, is that we and our system have assured civilian control of not only our military but also our constabulary. Third-world countries are famous for having military juntas whereby the military has its own wherewithal and can take over control of the country. This has not happened in the United States, nor will it, so long as we maintain the careful control of our military and our quasi-military organizations such as police forces.
The principal way our elected government keeps control on the military and our policy is through controlling the purse strings. The current system of awarding police entities huge sums of money that have been confiscated as a result of drug busts or other police activity is that it short-circuits that system of control. Secondly, it sends the wrong message and wrong motivation to our policemen. If our local police force had the opportunity to respond quickly to a citizen call over an auto theft or respond to a drug bust on the interstate, which might net them thousands of dollars in grants later on, which do you think would take precedence? Allowing a police force to accumulate a slush fund of thousands if not millions of dollars to spend as they choose, free from the restraint of elected officials, can be a dangerous and counterproductive thing. The people we elect to local offices or to the Legislature should be the ones making the decision about which priorities in our spending system to honor. Elected officials should make the choice of buying more radios for more police cars or buying books for our public school system.
Past examples clearly demonstrate that allowing law enforcement a free hand in confiscated funds is not necessarily a good thing. The Department of Public Safety in the past has purchased more hand-held radios than there are hands to hold them employed by the DPS. Another poor example was the district attorney in Williamson County, Texas, who, several years ago, used his slush fund to purchase an antique automobile. When questioned about it, the district attorney allowed as how the use of this antique automobile was critical to his crime prevention program because he was able to use it to attract people to his speeches concerning how to keep young people from being engaged in the use of drugs.
Another cogent example of misuse or misplaced priorities was the district attorney at one time (not the current one) used several thousand dollars of seized funds in his discretionary fund to re-carpet and re-decorate his offices. Although the offices were handsomely appointed, it did little to lower the crime rate in Southeast Texas.While I appreciate policemen and police forces that serve and protect, I fervently believe money seized from crime-fighting operations belongs to the public, and it should be people elected by the public who set the priorities for the expenditures of these funds, not simply the whim or desire of a police official whom none of us gets to vote on.
Carl Parker has practiced law in Port Arthur since 1958. He is a 1958 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. Elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and the Senate in 1976, Parker continued to practice law while writing and sponsoring hundreds of bills that became laws relating to every aspect of life in Texas, including many regarding consumer safety.


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Foster Street was officially renamed �Unum Way� Friday morning by City Manager Michael V. O�Brien.
The city�s chief executive, saying he had the authority to make the name change under the emergency powers granted him by Worcester�s charter and the federal Patriot Act, took the action during Friday�s grand opening ceremonies of Unum Group�s local headquarters in a new seven story building at 1 Mercantile St.
After those attending gasped in surprise at the announcement, Mr. O�Brien confessed he didn�t really have the power to change the street�s name.
Mr. O�Brien�s pronouncement and his presentation of an �official� Unum Way street sign to company officials were one of several lighthearted moments that took place as Unum formally opened its doors to the public.
Friday�s event drew government, business, community and civic officials, as well as Unum employees.
Unum is the first tenant of the downtown CitySquare project.
J. Christopher Collins, Unum senior vice president and deputy general counsel, said the $70 million structure has exceeded expectations and that employees were now �experiencing the vibrancy of downtown.�
For decades, Unum�s home has been in a complex at 18 Chestnut St. The disability insurer made the move downtown six weeks ago.
Company officials said they began thinking about moving about eight years ago. They said cost and the impact to employees and the city made them make the decision to move into the developing CitySquare project.
Thomas R. Watjen, the president and chief executive officer of the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based company, said he believes Unum�s move will spur further downtown development.
Mr. Watjen, who thanked employees for doing their jobs flawlessly through the transition, said a company�s connections to a community are important.
Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray, who as mayor spearheaded the effort to demolish the old Worcester Galleria mall and to link Foster Street with Washington Square, said a lot of rhetoric pits government against private interests.
But, he said, collaborations between the two lead to successes like the construction of the Unum building.
�This (downtown) momentum will continue,� Mr. Murray said.
Mayor Joseph M. Petty, who was concerned for some time that Unum would abandon the city, said he was pleased to personally greet employees as they went to work for the first time last month in their new home.
�It was great to see all the employees with smiles on their faces,� he said.
Fred Eppinger, Hanover Insurance�s chief executive, said there was a lot of concern, including among shareholders, when his firm took over the CitySquare project from Berkeley Investments of Boston.
�But we felt this was a good idea,� he said.
The 214,000-square-foot Unum building was constructed by Hanover but has since been sold to a Florida real estate company. Unum holds a 17-year lease on the property.
Mr. Eppinger said CitySquare is still the largest urban development project outside of Boston.
Kevin P. McCarthy, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Unum Group, said it�s important that companies partner with the community.
Mr. McCarthy, who was raised in Webster Square and whose father was a bricklayer, said Unum has associated itself with many local entities, including South High Community School, the Nativity School, the United Way of Central Massachusetts and the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, among others.
Unum has about 625 employees in Worcester.


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That's what Walid Phares says this article in a Saudi-funded, Brotherhood-influenced Arabic newspaper says. From Walid's Facebook page:
In an article published by the Saudi funded (but Brotherhood influenced) daily al Sharq al Awsat, Imad el Dine Adeeb writes that Obama "is not successful as much as we want, but he is less dangerous than Mitt Romney."
"Interesting how radicals in the Arab world measure the difference between American Presidential candidates. They prefer Obama because he let them do what they wish, and fear Romney because they suppose that he won't let them get away with what they want. Simple."


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Immersing herself in the music of Brazil and India helped Melody Walker discover her native "Americali" voice.
Immersing herself in the music of Brazil and India helped Melody Walker discover her native "Americali" voice.
"We were trying to figure out what our genesis is," said Walker, a Northern California singer-songwriter. "We're Americana with a California twist. A little bit of world music with a new-age spirituality. We made up that word."
Americali, which Walker and Jacob Groopman perform on acoustic instruments while harmonizing vocally, derives largely from her college experiences in Humboldt County and month-long musical excursions to Brazil and India.
"I was able to see how different cultures approach music," Walker said from her Richmond residence. "It was very enlightening. The more I traveled, the more I got curious about my own roots music at home. Trying to find out where the music of my culture comes from."
Walker and Groopman play their California-accented traditional music Saturday at the Sutter Creek Theatre.
Walker even delved into vintage new-wave pop and Americali-fied "Dreaming," a kinetic song popularized by Deborah Harry and New York's Blondie in 1979. It's on "Gold Rush Goddess," Walker's 2012 debut album.
"That happened totally by accident," Walker, 27, said. "It was my dad's idea. ... I'd never heard the song. We just tried it out and really loved how it sounded."
Her dad, Brian Walker - a Bay Area singer, songwriter and guitar player - also provided her with "really eclectic" influences: bluegrass, bossa nova, blues, folk and Irish folk.
She discovered the indigenous sounds of Brazil and India on her own, traveling to those countries in 2006 and 2007.
"The way Brazilians feel is so above and beyond any kind of fanaticism we know in this country," Walker said. "They love it. They really, really get into it. Like jogging laps around the stage. It's beyond moshing or anything I've ever seen. Nobody's ashamed to sing along. They're vivacious.
"India has ragas. ... That exotic flair and a much more broad spectrum. Western music only has a few scales. India has hundreds. Different feelings and moods."
Born in Martinez (the name of a song on her album), Walker - an only child - was surrounded by music. Dad Brian, who works in a power plant, liked the Beatles. Mom Gigi, who manages a body shop for buses in Concord, favored the Rolling Stones: "I had the best of both worlds."
Her dad is a "community" musician who founded the Martinez Music Society and organized folk festivals. She included one of his songs ("Stars Align") on her album.
"I'd just sit and play piano and tell my parents I was composing little songs," she said of her early teen years. "I had a lot of emotion I needed to vent. A song is a healthy way to do that, and other people can relate to it."
Walker did that with Jewel, Lisa Loeb, Alanis Morissette, Ani DiFranco and Tori Amos.
After the Iraq war began in 2003, Walker decided to study political science at Humboldt State University.
"I was heavily into protesting and feeling very politicized," she said. "When (George W.) Bush got re-elected (2004), I quickly lost interest and the heart for it. Screw this. We need more fundamental change. Anything's gotta be from a spiritual place. The heart. Studying music."
That included doing solo shows around Arcata, samba drumming in Womama, a world-fusion-funk band, and a singing in AkaBella, a women's a cappella vocal ensemble.
She and Groopman, 30, met when their groups shared a show in Arcata. He's an Oberlin (Ohio) College graduate who grew up in the other Richmond. In Virginia.
Walker found a suitably earthy place to craft their Americali sound - in Caspar (Mendocino County). The studio once was a school and a general store.
"We definitely were going for more of that classic kind of sound," Walker said. "Just let the songs lead us. ... Most important was a serene, un-distracted environment. No cell-phone service. Just the album. That was it."
Walker and Groopman have larger ambitions: "Two people can make a lot of sound. It's also cheap and convenient. We just did a two-month U.S. tour in a Toyota Corolla. Someday, we'd like to have a really rocking band.
"Our tunes are a new take on the idea of a spiritual song. We're trying to make our own version."
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2013 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class Values
Select a 2013 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class trim level
2013 model year changes
For 2013 the SLK350 gets more standard features. Engine start/stop technology keeps the car relatively fuel efficient, while last year's Premium 1 package now comes standard on all SLK350s. That means satellite radio, heated seats and the upgraded harman/kardon stereo are all standard.
Competitive comparison
Sophisticated styling, high-end features, excellent performance, safety, and curb appeal
Special features for 2013
The Mercedes-Benz SLK takes Mercedes' concept of a small 2-seat roadster to a new level, offering high-level performance and a great selection of technological features. All this works together to give the car an excellent overall balance of comfort and performance, and for the end-user, it's arguably a more rounded daily driver than the Chevrolet Corvette, Porsche Boxster or BMW Z4 roadster. Priced around $55k, it has many of the same styling cues and a similar look to the much more expensive SLS AMG coupe.
Now standard with engine start/stop, the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class is an entry-level luxury compact hard-top roadster that can be powered by a 1.8-liter turbo-charged 4-cylinder engine (201 hp) or 3.5-liter V6 engine (302 hp). RWD paired with a 7-speed automatic transmission enables the standard SLK to achieve an EPA estimated 22 mpg city and 32 mpg highway. For AMG performance drivers the SLK55 AMG is equipped with a hand-built 5.5-liter V8 engine that produces 415 hp. Features include 18-inch wheels, interior wood trim, LED daytime running lamps, panorama sunroof, adaptive bi-xenon headlamps, heated seats, keyless start, leather seats, 8-way power sports seats, heated power side mirrors, surround sound system, 6-disc DVD/CD changer, 8-speaker audio system, navigation system, and HD radio. Safety is comprised of electronic stability program, adaptive brakes, attention assist, 8-way airbag protection, anti-lock braking (ABS), brake assist (BA), emergency tensioning devices, and advanced tire pressure monitoring (TPMS). The SLK is backed by a 4-year/50,000-mile warranty.


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Automap has been designed to make the job of assigning your hardware controls to various software parameters quick and easy. It enables knobs, faders and buttons to instantly control plug-in instruments and effects, as well as your sequencer's mixer and transport controls.
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Automap technology has evolved since it emerged in 2006, with the latest incarnation promising even tighter integration promising even tighter integration with Logic 9's mixer, giving you greater control over your Logic mix than ever before.
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