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'Not Today' Film Exposes Plight of Dalits, Human Slaves
"Not Today," an award-winning movie that tackles human trafficking, is set to open in several major markets across America next month, with a mission to raise awareness about one of the most critical problems the world faces today.
"What we hope is that this will be a catalyst for conversation, if we can get the story out," said Matthew Cork, lead pastor at Friends Church in Yorba Linda, Calif., and executive producer of "Not Today," in an exclusive interview with The Christian Post.
"The people that we really believe that God has called us to work with is the Dalits – 300,000 million of them who have been in this type of slavery for over 3,000 years; and many people in America don't even know who we are."
The movie, which promises to be gripping, entertaining and ultimately redemptive, was made by Friends Media, a ministry of Friends Church, in partnership with the Dalit Freedom Network, an organization focused on improving the lives and providing education for Dalit children.
Today, there are more slaves than at any other time in human history. Roughly 27 million slaves around the world are being exploited for manual and sexual labor against their will. Women and children are the primary victims in this industry, which is estimated to make profits of over $32 billion.
One of the most exploited groups of people are the Dalits, also called "the untouchables" in India. There are close to 300,000 million of them living in India today, and they have faced over 3,000 years of oppression, degradation and discrimination.
"This group falls outside the predominant Indian social hierarchy, which subjects them to enumerated hardships, extreme discrimination and enslavement," according to a CP report based on interviews and personal accounts in India.
"'Broken,' 'outcast' and 'crushed' are all words that have been used to describe the Dalits. The name connotes a dehumanized state of being, allowing upper caste members to justify despicable actions which include forced prostitution, enslavement and perhaps the most harmful, indifference," the three-part CP report explains.
"Not Today" and organizations such as The A21 Campaign, Not for Sale Campaign, and Abolition International are seeking to capture the world's attention and motivate hearts and minds to start caring and getting involved in projects that can directly tackle the exploitation of Dalits and human slaves across the globe.
The story around the film centers on a 20-year-old American youth, Caden Wells, played by Cody Longo, who is greatly disconnected with the suffering of the world before he randomly decides to travel to Hyderabad, India, with a group of robustious friends for a vacation.
Soon upon arriving there, however, he is confronted with the grim realities the Dalits face every day. Although unwittingly at first, Caden decides to help a father who has been forced to sell his young daughter to another man, and in the process unearths the disturbing and heart-breaking world of child slavery in India's underbelly.
Caden struggles extensively with his faith throughout the story, but is encouraged by the prayers of his girlfriend and family back home in America. He realizes that he must find the mental strength and courage to do the right thing if he is to stand any chance of helping the desperate father rescue his little girl.
In his interview with CP, Pastor Cork, who has been on staff at Friends Church for 21 years and the lead pastor there for nine, revealed that the first time he really got to see how tragically Dalits live was in 2007, when he visited India to see how money donated from his church was being used there.
"At that time I went to India. And my first encounter with the Dalits and what we were doing there, building educational schools for these children so they actually have a chance to become someone in society, was at this place called Pipe Village, a concrete manufacturing sewer company," he described.
Cork explained that there was an entire community living in the discarded concrete sewer pipes, because they had no other home.
The remarkable thing, however, was that when the pastor and his team got out of the bus they were traveling in, the children ran up to him and greeted him using perfect English – while the parents could only nod their heads because they could not speak the language.
"The man who was with us walked up to me and said 'Matthew, these are your children. The bus you bought, and the school you built – we take these kids to your school. And they are getting an education and they are learning English. The next generation of these families will not live in pipes again. This is the difference you are making,'" Cork recalled.
"I was humbled and blown away because of the people and the church back home, making such a big difference."
Later at a meeting with Operation Mercy and Operation Mobilization, which work toward building educational facilities for Dalits, Cork said he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to pledge work on over 200 schools in India over the next 10 years – which would cost over $20 million.
It was a lot of money, which the pastor had little idea how to raise at the time, even with the backing of his church. But it was a project he says he knew he had to undertake.
The idea for making a movie highlighting the plight of Dalits came from a meeting with his long-time friend, Brent Martz, the creative ministries pastor at Friends Church, shortly after other Christian-based movies, like 2008's "Fireproof," were released to positive reception.
Martz already had storyboards lined up about how to turn the cause in India into a feature movie, and bringing the campaign to the big screen was an idea they both agreed could open up new doors. Martz ended up being one of the producers of the film.


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If Calvin Johnson keeps talking, the Lions eventually will be making a $20,000 contribution to the Human Fund.
With four NFL teams already fined that amount this season for violating the league's injury-reporting rules, the Lions could be in line for a similar sanction, for failing to list Johnson on the injury report due to the consequences of a hard hit he absorbed earlier this year from Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway.
Johnson previously said he suffered a concussion on the play; the team denied it. Now, via Paula Pasche of the Oakland Press, Johnson said he believes the concussion also may have caused nerve damage.
"Actually I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little," Johnson said. "Not to blame that, but I think that the concussion could have had something to do with some of that damage I had going on."
Johnson has missed plenty of practice time in recent weeks with a knee injury, but he hasn't been disclosed this season as having a concussion or nerve damage.
Last week, Ravens coach John Harbaugh complained that players who are able to practice and play with injuries may not want their conditions to be publicized. For players like Johnson and Bills defensive end Mario Williams, the injuries are being disclosed not by the team, but by players who may be trying to explain diminished performance.
That's why teams tell players not to talk about injuries — and it's why the Lions could eventually find themselves getting fined for what Johnson has said.

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A tale of two Product Girls on Valentine's Day, via our mani choices. One single and the other approaching five years of marriage. Both polish lovers. Can't get enough of cheeky product names, especially when they help tell a story. With that, here's a very special edition of Mani Monday!
Butter LONDON's Come to Bed Red is a cherry red that reminds me of cinnamon red hots. It's a little spicy, and definitely a sexy shade. But what I love about it is that the name reminds me of one of my favorite songs ever, John Mayer's Come Back to Bed. In my 365/24/7 fantasy, John Mayer is singing this to me. But fantasties? Are just that. I'll be spending my Valentine's Day with my adorable husband and Boston Terrier. He happens to be very aware and understanding of above obsession.
xoxo, Laurie
I'm coming off a long weekend in Florida with my girls and as soon as I touch down in Chicago I am heading to a hair appointment. I can't think of any better way to spend the day! Girl time, hair appointment, wine – now that's what I call love. As a single lady on this romantic holiday, I've chosen to wear Essie's Sugar Daddy – a sheer, understated pink that doesn't scream "I'M IN LOVE!" And let's be honest, what girl doesn't secretly wish she had a sugar daddy every now and then? Sugar Daddy is a nice change-up from the bold reds and bright pinks I'm known to wear, I feel very grown-up and polished.
With love, Emily
What are you guys up to this Valentine's Day? And what are you doing with your nails? Sexy red or demure pink?


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I've heard that Italy is a lovely country, but instead of just visiting one day, I've found a good reason to up and move there. Instead of shaving meat off a rotating spit into a pita, they've created ChocoKebabs—fresh crepes with shavings of striped chocolate from what has to be the most appetizing barber pole I've ever laid eyes on.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a savory shaved meat concoction as much as the next guy too lazy to cook dinner. But given the choice between a hunk of lamb that's been slowly spinning all day, and this chocolate creation, I'm starting with dessert—and probably also finishing with dessert too. Because it's not just shaved chocolate, the crepe also gets topped with whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and everything else a growing boy needs. There are "creators" that like to boast about their fried this and that, but you're gonna have to do a lot better than covering a stick of butter in deep fried batter to keep me on here. [ChocoKebab via Random Good Stuff]


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Me and my 'Little Buddy'
Grandfather Milo Warren Harper, 88, smiles with his youngest grandchild, Brayden Kole Hallenberger, 7 months, who dressed up as his grandfather for Halloween.
Brayden�s father Michael Hallenberger calls his son �Little Milo.� Grandmother Mildred Harper thinks the two make a great ventriloquist team.
Brayden�s mother Gena Hallenberger hopes he will follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and become a great person.
Homeless shelter needs supplies
The Friends of the Homeless Shelter needs donations to boost its yearly supply of needed items.
Cleaning supplies needed include bleach, Pine Sol, laundry and dish detergent, bathroom and shower cleaning supplies. Equipment needs include a freezer and a refrigerator.
Personal items include: bath soap and body wash, deodorant, hand and body lotion, alcohol, peroxide, Vaseline, cold medicines, Visine, body and foot powder, facial tissues, mouth wash, baking soda, sanitary napkins and all size batteries.
Other needs are a large supply of Styrofoam plates, cups and bowls; toilet tissue, paper towels, napkins, plastic forks and spoons; brooms (domestic and industrial), 13- and eight-gallon trash can liners, mop heads (24- and 32-ounce sizes), mop handles and buckets; air fresheners; carpet fresheners; bath towels and wash cloths, dish towels; baby pampers (all sizes); gloves, socks, underwear; school supplies and book bags.
Monetary donations also are very important to help with operating expenses.
Drop off donations at the shelter, 112-114 N. Independence St. For information, call Jasper Newborn, director, at 252-522-2788.
Farmer�s Market has lots to offer
Saturday is going to be a big day at the Lenoir County Farmer�s Market. Chef Vivian Howard from Chef and the Farmer Progressive Eatery will be preparing and sampling Thanksgiving side dishes and turkey cooked with a �special rub.� The sides will be turnips gratin and an updated version of traditional candied yams. The pasture raised turkeys will be provided by Daniel and Chelsea of Nature�s Touch Farm. They will have the turkeys for sale Saturday, in addition to their chickens and eggs.
Eugene Smith will be on hand with collards and shelled pecans, which cost $8 a pound. Shop early for these. They sell out fast.
Beginning at 10 a.m., Armenia Christian Church members will be selling home cooked barbecue chicken or pork plates with slaw, potato salad and cake. The benefits will go toward a fund to help the family of Ross King, who died last week from a debilitating illness. Plates are $7 each.
After sampling Howard�s fare, and shopping for fall produce for next week�s special meals, go to the Community Council for the Arts for the 10th annual Holiday Shopping Extravaganza. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a $6 lunch � sandwich, soup, chips, dessert and beverage � available between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
The Farmer�s Market will be open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Produce will be available all three days, and baked goods will be available on Tuesday and Wednesday. To pre-order cakes or pies, call Della�s Delights at 252-525-9134; or for Sweet Creations, call Rhonda at 252-558-8481or Emily at 252-560-2651.


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In 2004, the Iowa West Foundation funded a community-wide public art master planning process that included a 19-member steering committee comprised of citizens, government representatives and Foundation leaders. The master planning process resulted in the designation of more than 50 sites for potential placement of public art in the City of Council Bluffs and became the IWPA initiative -- Iowa West Public Art. This process and the resulting Public Art Master Plan was based on elements of successful public art programs throughout the world.
In spring 2007, Council Bluffs rededicated historic Bayliss Park. The event was highlighted with the unveiling of the park's new fountain and new performance pavilion, both of which were created by renowned artist Brower Hatcher and funded by the Iowa West Foundation. Hatcher's work in Bayliss Park represents the first of seven installations in this innovative community-wide public art program.
Today, because of this unique initiative, Council Bluffs is home to an outstanding public art collection created by artists who have made their mark worldwide. Full copies of the Public Art Master Plan are available from the Iowa West Foundation or at the Council Bluffs Public Library.
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Next month, the European Union is updating its privacy laws to require greater transparency for how people's information is used online. WhatsApp is updating our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy where the law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is taking effect.
We are not asking for new rights to collect personal information with this update. Our goal is simply to explain how we use and protect the limited information we have about you. There are a few things we want to highlight:
- WhatsApp in Europe: WhatsApp has established an entity within the European Union to provide your services there and to meet the new high standards of transparency for how we protect the privacy of our users.
- Data sharing: We are not currently sharing account information to improve your product and ads experience on Facebook. As we have said in the past, we want to work closer with other Facebook companies in the future and we will keep you updated as we develop our plans.
- Staying safe on WhatsApp: When we receive reports of a bad actor sending unwanted messages - like SPAM or abusive content - on either WhatsApp or Facebook, we share information and can take action including blocking them across both services. You can learn more about how to stay safe on WhatsApp by reviewing these safety tips.
WhatsApp cares deeply about your privacy and security. Every message and call is secured by end-to-end encryption so that no one, not even WhatsApp, can read or listen to your conversations. In the coming weeks, you will be able to download and see the limited data that we collect. This feature will be rolling out to all users around the world on the newest version of the app. To learn more, click here.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Observing Representation
|Review Matrix Multiplication | Taxicabs | Student Work | Student Work Reflection #1 | Matrix Approach | Interpreting Matrices | Student Work Reflection #2 | Classroom Practice | Observe a Classroom | Your Journal
After the students had worked with a tree diagram approach to the taxicab problem, they went on to explore different situations and different initial distributions in class. It became clear to everyone that tree diagrams became unwieldy and "messy," in the words of one student. The teacher presented a set of questions that opened up the idea of using transition matrices rather than tree diagrams to solve the problem. He also encouraged students to articulate their understanding of the matrix representation and its use.
Recall that the main question was, "What is the probability of starting in Downtown and being three after three trips?" Here is a student's work as she began to represent the problem information in a matrix.
Here is what Louise wrote on the overhead projector, as well as the class's conversation about it:
Louise: I realized that the possibilities from the table could be written as a matrix. At first I wondered how to show the taxicab's starting place in the matrix. In the problem the cab starts by picking up a passenger downtown. Then I saw that those are the numbers in the middle row, the fraction of all the cabs that pick up from Downtown and take someone to the other destinations.
The class took a few moments to point out those same numbers in the first level of the tree diagram and in the original table before Louise continued her explanation.
Louise: First I wanted to figure out the probability of every type of two-fare trip, like NS or SD, to try the matrix method and to know about the positions just before picking up a third passenger.
This is my representation of the problem after two trips:
Mr. Karsky: Let's talk about this matrix for a minute. What is the meaning of the middle column in Matrix R, the product of T•T?
Jenny: It shows the probability of ending up downtown after two trips, given the original starting point of either N, D, or S, each represented by a row. The Downtown to Downtown probability is in the middle, 0.33, same as we got before with the tree diagram.
Mr. Karsky: Why is it appropriate to multiply matrices for this problem?
Susan: You need to find the probability of starting from a downtown location and ending up downtown after two fares. You can end up Downtown in several ways, going to Northside then Downtown, or Downtown then Downtown again, or to Southside then Downtown, like you can see in a tree diagram. You first multiply to find each of those probabilities, because only a fraction of each group at a place in trip 1 ends up in a given place at trip 2. Then you add all three probabilities. The matrix keeps things in order and makes sure the correct terms are multiplied times each other.
Eric: It's like in the tree diagram. A row tells the percentage of cabs that end up in each location if they start in a particular place, like Downtown. Once they go out again from the new location, there are three different probabilities for each of the next ending locations. See, in the diagram you can tell that 50% of cabs starting downtown end up in Southside. But then a cab that's in Southside takes the next rider downtown 3/10 of the time, so that makes 15% go Downtown to Downtown with two fares. But there are two other ways of ending up downtown, through Northside or through Downtown, so you also need to multiply those other cases; for instance 0.1 •0.20 and 0.40 • 0.40.
Mr. Karsky: What about the bottom row of the matrix? What does it tell us?
Anita: I don't think we need it, because it's about starting in Southside and ending up at each of the places.
Jenny: We don't need it now, but it gives probabilities for each of the paths that could go on and end up downtown when we do a third trip.
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Where does the time go? March is always a crazy month for our family with spring break, birthdays and ski season. Here it's come and gone and I haven't even had a chance to tell you about the latest SWAPeroos I'm sewing for.
First up is the Pretty {little} Pouch swap (P{l}PS)which I have joined before. My pouches are all done and off in the mail to my partner. Hopefully they will arrive soon. Since my partner likes scrappy designs and pastel-ish colors I decided on this pink-inspired color palette. I just love this Domestic Bliss line from Liz Scott which is saying something because sewing is about as close to Domestic Bliss as i'll ever get. Other aspects of domesticity not withstanding.
Needs some tweeking to get it just right for my friend, but it turned out pretty well for a first pass. The patterns are self-drafted and I do plan to make them available soon so stay tuned. I know I always say that and don't always deliver, so keep me honest peeps! Swap project A completed. Now onto the next one…
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I recently corresponded with another Gillespie researcher who has interest in Gillespie's who lived in Portneuf, Quebec in the 1800s. I love how these connections help us to re-evaluate what we have and notice things we might have forgotten. In this case it was the 1881 Canadian census where our forefather James Gillespie, age 73, was living next door to his son James Jr's family. In James Sr's household was a 27-year-old female named Mary Diffon. She was born in Ireland and was Presbyterian. We have never figured out who she was.
Meanwhile, my cousins who never seem to forget anything (!), reminded me that a picture was found among our Gillespie family history mementos. Here it is:
Nobody we know has any idea who Mrs. Diffen was, but it's clear she was from Ireland, and very possibly Armagh. And it is certainly no accident that the Diffin name (yes, I am using yet another spelling of this surname) appears in a Gillespie household in Quebec in 1881, and a picture labeled as Diffin was found among Gillespie family history items.
I have found at least one record on familysearch that connects Henry Diffin and Mary Jane Gillespie in Armagh (click here). But at the same time, there are also records that connect Diffin and Jamieson (click here and here), and even Diffin and Smith (click here), which are both possible connections to our family. There is also a message board post that outlines a Diffin family in Armagh and the possibility that some from that family might have emigrated to Canada.
If you have any ideas or leads about how the Diffin family might connect to our Gillespie family, please feel free to contact me.


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Firestone Complete Auto Care has filed a $1.3 million permit application with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for a new retail store at 9461 Poplar Ave. in Germantown.
Firestone, a subsidiary of Nashville-based Bridgestone Americas Inc., will bring a 7,983-square-foot automobile repair shop to the one-acre parcel on the south side of Poplar (referred to as U.S. 72 in the permit) just west of where it meets Old Poplar Pike.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal of the vacant parcel is $694,000. SMBC Leasing and Finance Inc., in care of Bridgestone Americas, owns the parcel, having purchased it for $900,000 in December from Paragon National Bank.
Hart Construction LLC (dba Hart Contractors LLC) of Searcy, Ark., is listed on the permit as the contractor; no architect is listed.
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For the 1,879 student at Victory University, the last day of the spring semester, May 2, will also be the end of the 73-year-old institution that began as Mid-South Bible College.
University officials announced abruptly last week that the university will close at the end of the spring semester because of financial problems.
Victory was known as Crichton College before being bought and rebranded in 2009 by Significant Education LLC of Solana Beach, Calif., which made Victory a private, for-profit institution of higher learning.
With the name change, Victory went from a Bible college to becoming a Christian liberal arts college.
– Bill Dries
The Blackstone Specialist Program presented by The Blackstone Charitable Foundation and Launch Tennessee has started accepting applications.
The program is looking for talent from across the country to come to Tennessee to be "specialists" in the state's network of nine regional startup accelerators. The specialists will either work directly with an accelerator's executive director on business planning, early-stage financing, marketing, event planning and other strategic focuses, or be paired with one or more startups in the program.
Specialists will get a $2,000 stipend from Launch Tennessee along with other benefits.
Current college students and recent graduates can apply for the program at launchtn.org/specialist-program, and applications are due May 9.
Specialists could snag places in upcoming startup programs around the state, including those in Memphis.
– Andy Meek
Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, who went on to star on the University of Memphis basketball team and in the NBA, will be inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame July 2.
Hardaway is the first athlete from Tennessee to be selected for the honor. Hardaway ended his career at Treadwell High School with a total of 3,039 points, averaging 32.2 points per game during his junior year. He scored 1,289 points in one season, a record that still stands.
After college, Hardaway played 15 years in the NBA and won a gold medal in the 1996 summer Olympics.
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Arkansas' public schools would receive the largest funding increase and the state's reserve fund would get $19 million under a $5 billion budget plan that lawmakers advanced Friday.
The Joint Budget Committee endorsed the state's budget bill, formally known as the proposed Revenue Stabilization Act, as they neared the end of this year's legislative session. The House and Senate are expected to vote on identical versions of the measure this week before wrapping up the session.
The legislation largely mirrors the budget proposal Gov. Mike Beebe presented in January, calling for a $108 million increase in state spending over the next fiscal year. Public schools are set to receive the largest increase, with $65 million addition funding proposed.
Beebe said the Legislature's reauthorization of the state's compromise Medicaid expansion plan made budget talks with legislative leaders much easier. Beebe, who signed the reauthorization measure into law Friday, said ending the "private option" would have led to severe cuts in the budget.
Beebe said he had prepared an alternative budget in case the Legislature didn't approve the expansion plan.
"It was going to be very painful," the governor told reporters. "Once the private option was approved, you could proceed along the lines of the original budget, which is what they did."
One of the changes lawmakers made from Beebe's original proposal was to increase the amount set aside in the state's "rainy day fund." Beebe proposed $10 million for the fund, but the legislation would allocate $19 million to it.
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The Mississippi House and Senate will attempt to work out their differences on a proposal to expand state subsidies to health clinics.
The efforts, proposed by Gov. Phil Bryant, are meant as a partial alternative to expanding the Medicaid insurance program for poorer people.
The House passed an amended version of Senate Bill 2117 Thursday. House Public Health and Human Services Committee Chairman Sam Mims, R-McComb, said the two chambers will confer to work out differences.
Under the health care overhaul President Barack Obama signed into law in 2010, states may provide Medicaid to people making as much as 138 percent of the federal poverty level, about $15,000 a year for one person. In Mississippi now, the income cutoff is about $5,500 for one person, and many able-bodied adults are not eligible for Medicaid coverage regardless of how little they earn.
Mississippi is among about two dozen states that have rejected the expansion. Bryant and Republican leaders of the Mississippi House and Senate say they don't trust promises of federal funding and Mississippi can't afford possible future costs. Part of Bryant's alternative is to give money to health clinics.
"These clinics successfully help patients manage and control chronic illnesses, and they are adept at achieving cost savings through quality monitoring," Bryant's budget proposal stated.
The U.S. trade deficit widened slightly in January as a rise in imports of oil and other foreign goods offset a solid increase in exports.
The trade deficit increased to $39.1 billion, up 0.3 percent from December's revised $39 billion deficit, the Commerce Department reported Friday.
Exports climbed 0.6 percent to $192.8 billion, led by increased sales of U.S.-made machinery, aircraft and medical equipment. Imports also rose 0.6 percent to $231.6 billion, reflecting a 9 percent jump in imports of petroleum. Imports of food and machinery also rose.
The trade deficit is the difference between imports and exports. A higher trade deficit acts as a drag on economic growth because it means U.S. companies are making less overseas then their foreign competitors are earning in U.S. sales.
Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said the January trade report suggests the deficit will remain on a gradual downward trend this year, reflecting a shrinking U.S. energy deficit.
In 2013, the trade deficit dropped 11.2 percent to $474.9 billion, providing a small boost to overall growth. Economists believe that trade will contribute to growth again this year but only by a modest amount. They are forecasting that U.S. exports will keep rising, but that this will be offset somewhat by gains in imports as a stronger U.S. and higher consumer spending attracts more foreign goods.
In the October-December quarter, the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.4 percent and a full percentage point of that growth came from a shrinking trade deficit. For the whole year, the falling trade deficit contributed a smaller 0.1 percentage point to growth.
One bright spot for trade: America's increased energy production is expected to continue. A domestic energy boom has boosted exports and reduced America's dependence on foreign oil.
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NASA's SWIFT and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris
Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope showed these changes likely occurred after Scheila was struck by a much smaller asteroid.
This visible-light image of asteroid (596) Scheila was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on Dec. 27, 2010, when the asteroid was approximately 217 million miles away. The asteroid is surrounded by a C-shaped cloud, or coma, of dust particles. The asteroid body, which is approximately 70 miles across, appears star-like because it is overexposed so that the faint dust can be imaged.
Hubble Observes Aftermath of Suspected Asteroid Collision
Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope showed these changes likely occurred after Scheila was struck by a much smaller asteroid.
"Collisions between asteroids create rock fragments, from fine dust to huge boulders, that impact planets and their moons," said Dennis Bodewits, an astronomer at the University of Maryland in College Park and lead author of the Swift study. "Yet this is the first time we've been able to catch one just weeks after the smash-up, long before the evidence fades away."
Asteroids are rocky fragments thought to be debris from the formation and evolution of the solar system approximately 4.6 billion years ago. Millions of them orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt. Scheila is approximately 70 miles across and orbits the Sun every five years.
"The Hubble data are most simply explained by the impact, at 11,000 mph, of a previously unknown asteroid about 100 feet in diameter," said Hubble team leader David Jewitt at the University of California in Los Angeles. Hubble did not see any discrete collision fragments, unlike its 2009 observations of P/2010 A2, the first identified asteroid collision.
The studies will appear in the May 20 edition of The Astrophysical Journal Letters and are available online.
Astronomers have known for decades that comets contain icy material that erupts when warmed by the Sun. They regarded asteroids as inactive rocks whose densities, surfaces, shapes, and sizes were determined by mutual impacts. However, this simple picture has grown more complex over the past few years.
During certain parts of their orbits, some objects, once categorized as asteroids, clearly develop comet-like features that can last for many months. Others display much shorter outbursts. Icy materials may be occasionally exposed, either by internal geological processes or by an external one, such as an impact.
On Dec. 11, 2010, images from the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, a project of NASA's Near Earth Object Observations Program, revealed Scheila to be twice as bright as expected and immersed in a faint comet-like glow. Looking through the survey's archived images, astronomers inferred the outburst began between Nov. 11 and Dec. 3.
Three days after the outburst was announced, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) captured multiple images and a spectrum of the asteroid. Ultraviolet sunlight breaks up the gas molecules surrounding comets; water, for example, is transformed into hydroxyl and hydrogen. But none of the emissions most commonly identified in comets, such as hydroxyl or cyanogen, show up in the UVOT spectrum. The absence of gas around Scheila led the Swift team to reject scenarios where exposed ice accounted for the activity.
Images show the asteroid was flanked in the north by a bright dust plume and in the south by a fainter one. The dual plumes formed as small dust particles excavated by the impact were pushed away from the asteroid by sunlight. Hubble observed the asteroid's fading dust cloud on Dec. 27, 2010, and Jan. 4, 2011.
The two teams found the observations were best explained by a collision with a small asteroid impacting Scheila's surface at an angle of less than 30 degrees, leaving a crater 1,000 feet across. Laboratory experiments show a more direct strike probably wouldn't have produced two distinct dust plumes. The researchers estimated the crash ejected more than 660,000 tons of dust – equivalent to nearly twice the mass of the Empire State Building.
The Swift team also includes Michael F. A'Hearn, Jian-Yang Li, and Sebastien Besse at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Wayne Landsman at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Additional members of the Hubble team include Harold Weaver at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.; Max Mutchler at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore; Stephen Larson at the University of Arizona, Tucson; and Jessica Agarwal at the University of Potsdam in Germany.
"The dust cloud around Scheila could be 10,000 times as massive as the one ejected from comet 9P/Tempel 1 during NASA's University of Maryland-led Deep Impact mission," said co-author Michael Kelley, also at the University of Maryland. "Collisions allow us to peek inside comets and asteroids. Ejecta kicked up by Deep Impact contained lots of ice, and the absence of ice in Scheila's interior shows that it's entirely unlike comets."
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- The students will be able to explain why the railroads were built in Florida.
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- Have the students research and identify the types of goods that were being shipped by Florida's railroads during this time period.
- Have the students calculate how much money Hamilton Disston spent purchasing the 4 million acres of land from Orlando to Lake Okeechobee.
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Hello, my name is Cathleen XXXX. I am writing to let you know that my family was once an avid consumer of Pepsi products. I say once because we are currently boycotting products related to the Eagles sponsors in response to the Eagles signing Michael Vick. I understand that you have no direct influence over the NFL players, but I also understand that money talks, and that if you were to withdraw your considerable sponsorship in protest of the Eagles decision to sign Vick that the Eagles may think twice about this decision and not keep him on past his trial basis. My husband and I are avid pitbull lovers and have been involved with the breed for years, the Michael Vick situation sickened us immensely. However, his being allowed to continue to make millions and be put in a possible role model situation almost sickens us more. Thank you for providing a product to the public, one that we very much enjoy, but understand that my family at least will no longer be consuming your product.
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PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Eagles' sponsors are standing by their team. That doesn't mean anyone is ready to put extra money in Michael Vick's pockets.
The Eagles had prepared for a backlash after signing the convicted dogfighting ringleader last week. But while Vick is disgraced in the court of public opinion — the one that drives lucrative endorsement deals — his addition has not jeopardized the team's corporate support.
None of the more than four dozen Eagles sponsors had pulled out as of Wednesday, said Marlyse Fant, Eagles vice president of sales and service.
The Eagles heard from about 15 to 20 sponsors on Friday, a day after Vick signed, but most simply wished they had been given advance notice to pass on to their customers.
"Our clients have been in close contact with us to stay up to date on information coming from the team, and most have noticed a significant reduction in their own volume of customer inquiries since Friday," she said on Wednesday.
The Eagles took a proactive approach, sending a letter to their top customers last week asking them to have faith that the team was not acting recklessly.
"We appreciate the complexity this creates for some partners and premium clients and ask that you join us in our support and optimism for Michael as he commits himself to showing Philadelphia and the country he is a changed human being," team president Joe Banner said in the letter.
Reaction from Eagles sponsors has varied. Radio rights holder 94-WYSP said it has had "little to no reaction" from the station's sponsors. PepsiCo Inc. said in a statement that Vick's illegal activities were "cruel and degrading" but backed the team.
"As sponsors of the NFL, we have the utmost confidence that the senior leadership at the NFL will continue to appropriately address this issue," Pepsi said.
Sponsors understood the move from a football standpoint.
They do not hold the same view of Vick. The brutal nature of his crimes — which included electrocuting, drowning and hanging dogs that underperformed in fights — are not going to fade quickly from the public's memory.
"He's too toxic for most companies to even consider taking a chance on him," said David Carter, who specializes in sports business and marketing as executive director of the USC Sports Business Institute.
Once a $130 million player, Vick was a corporate America favorite as the star quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons. His image was used to market everything from sneakers to sports drinks, usually aimed at the coveted 18 to 34 male demographic.
The Falcons paid Vick $23 million in 2005 and Forbes estimated his total compensation that year at $37.5 million with endorsements.
Only 26 and at the pinnacle of his career, Vick's life and marketability imploded amid the graphic details of a dogfighting operation he helped bankroll and participated in.
One of his most lucrative deals had been with Nike, which signed him as a rookie in 2001 but terminated his contract after he pleaded guilty in federal court in August 2007, ultimately serving 18 months in prison.
Nike offered only a terse comment on Vick this week. "Michael Vick does not have a contractual relationship with Nike. We will have no further comments at this time," the company said through spokesman Derek Kent.
Given the cruelty inherent in dogfighting, and the general public's emotional attachment to pets, endorsements for Vick are almost unimaginable at this point.
"When it comes to athletes' behavior, the fans have very short memories or don't seem to care," Carter said. "This one might prove to be different. It might be forgive and remember instead of forgive and forget, and that's a very big distinction."
Vick isn't being completely ignored, simply because he's back in the NFL. He was on the cover of the Madden NFL 2004 video game and was not included this year only because it was completed before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell conditionally lifted Vick's suspension.
EA Sports made Vick available as part of a roster update on Wednesday.
"We're not judge and jury," EA Tiburon spokesman Rob Semsey said. "If he's approved by the NFL to come back and be signed by a team, he's just like any other player. We make sure our game is as authentic as possible. Adding Vick was a no-brainer."
Vick's replica Eagles jersey, which retails for $79.99, was the top seller on NFLShop.com as of Wednesday. Jersey maker Reebok did not return calls for comment.
But Dick's Sporting Goods, a Pennsylvania-based company, said Wednesday it is not currently selling Vick's jersey in any of its 300-plus stores.
"It is strictly a business decision, not at all a political statement of any kind. We are only in the business of meeting the needs of our customers," Dick's chief marketing officer Jeff Hennion said. "I personally have not heard any retailers with stores in the Philadelphia area talking up the demand for the jersey."
It's not inconceivable that Vick could one day return as a pitchman, but Carter said Vick first needs to rehabilitate his image. He must follow through on promises to get involved in animal rights' work and the public must believe he is genuine.
"It's going to be a nontraditional type company, one that doesn't mind the controversy," Carter said. "They would enjoy the notoriety and buzz created by signing him. You might see an upstart, maybe an apparel manufacturer with a real edge. But edgy and animal cruelty don't go together. It's going to have be one whose targeted consumers are more interested in his athletic appeal than his overall body of work."
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Thank you for contacting Pepsi. Your correspondence to Ms. Indra Nooyi was forwarded to my attention with a request to personally respond. After reading your thoughtful letter, we sincerely appreciate your taking the time to share your perspective with us.
Pepsi has had an upstanding business relationship with the Philadelphia Eagles organization since long before Michael Vick's recent signing. It is truly unfortunate that one individual's actions have eclipsed the positive contributions by so many NFL players who have used their celebrity for good and have done tremendous charitable work in their communities.
I want to assure you that your concern and candid comments regarding this matter have been shared with the appropriate individuals within the organization.
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On behalf of Tasty Baking Company I wanted to recognize your e-mail concerning the Michael Vick signing by the Philadelphia Eagles. Please understand that Tastykake found out about the signing at the same time as the general public and that Tasty Baking Company has no input into the Eagles management and their personnel decisions. Tastykake takes our consumers' concerns very seriously and our consumer response and marketing departments have been working together to assess this decision closely. For over 95 years Tastykake has been a staple in Philadelphia and the surrounding community. We appreciate your interest in our affiliations and recognize the impact they have. While no decision has been made with respect to changes in our partnership with the Eagles, I have forwarded your note to our management as well as our marketing team for their consideration. Once again we appreciate your opinion and look forward to continuing to provide you the best products and programs possible.
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HP acquired the webOS platform when it purchased Palm last year. The company first began pushing webOS to its printers last summer and has since introduced it to devices in its mobile lineup like the HP Pre3 and TouchPad. The company recently announced that it has designs on baking the platform into all of its PCs in 2012.
This slideshow features seven useful business and finance apps for HP's Palm phones. To download the apps, you will need to access the App Catalog from your webOS phone.
How Not to Look Like a Phish Seven ideas to keep in mind when crafting corporate e-mail.
Six Media Convergence Challenges Organizations Must Consider Newer content channels present businesses with the unique challenge of consistently providing the right content to the right people across all channels.
Creating a Data Loss Incident Plan Questions and recommendations for businesses to consider while building a data loss incident plan.
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The server migration has been completed! Hopefully the forum (and the really late meyaoi main website) can be accessed even faster =D
If you look at all the threads carefully, there will be some missing posts.
The reason for this is, the people in-charge of migration didn't put the latest database for the posts, instead it was database from yesterday.
Well, either way, there aren't a lot of posts which got deleted, so I don't want to make a big deal about it xD (the migration process is annoying~)
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LOS ANGELES, July 21 (UPI) -- Fargo has been renewed for a second season on FX.
The network announced the news at the 2014 Television Critics Association tour on Monday. Similar to anthology series American Horror Story and True Detective, the new season of Fargo will feature an all-new cast, location and crime.
Creator Noah Hawley, who wrote the entirety of season one, will return to pen season two. Some fans speculate the second season will focus on the 1970s Sioux Falls case Lou Solverson (Keith Carradine) alludes to on the program, but the theory is not compatible with an all-new cast.
"We could not be more proud of Fargo," FX CEO John Landgraf said in a statement. "Noah's audacious, bordering on hubristric riff on my favorite Coen brothers film earned 18 Emmy nominations -- the most for a single program in our history. Fargo was nothing short of breathtaking and we look forward to the next installment."
The Coen brothers executive produced the series, which is inspired by their 1996 film of the same name. The first season of the television adaptation starred Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks and Martin Freeman.
The second season of Fargo premieres on FX in 2015.


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The Hope golf teams will be seeking to maintain traditions of excellence.
The Flying Dutchmen will be seeking to continue a winning tradition as they seek to repeat as champions of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).
A year ago the Flying Dutchmen won the regular season MIAA title, captured the league's NCAA qualifying tournament and competed in the Division III national championships.
The Flying Dutchmen have established a championship tradition under coach Bob Ebels who begins his 22nd season at the helm of the program. He has guided the Flying Dutchmen to 10 conference championships and six appearances in the NCAA Division III championships.
Captain of the team is John Cannon of Traverse City (Traverse City West HS), the lone senior on the pre-season roster of eight players. The only other upperclassman is junior Jason Vanderklok of Scotts (Vicksburg HS). The rest of the team is comprised of sophomores.
A year ago as a first-year player, sophomore Collin Breit of Muskegon (West Michigan Christian) led the Flying Dutchmen at nationals. Cannon and sophomore Evan Telzerow of Grand Rapids (Forst Hills Northern HS) were members of Hope's national tournament team.
Link to Men's Golf Website
The 2012 Flying Dutch will be aiming to continue their march toward a conference championship after taking huge strides a year ago.
After finishing third in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) for three consecutive seasons, the 2011 Flying Dutch moved up to second place in both the regular season standings and at the league's NCAA automatic qualifier tournament. The Flying Dutch were first in the league standings heading into the season's final tournament. The Flying Dutch are under third-year coach Greg Stafford.
Captains of the team are seniors Maggie Mangan of Wheaton, Ill. (Wheaton-Warrenville South HS) and Charlotte Park of Grosse Pointe Farms (Grosse Pointe South HS).
The pre-season roster of eight returning players includes two seniors, a junior and five sophomores.
Park and Brittany Haight, a sophomore from Otsego (Otsego HS) received All-MIAA first teams honors in 2011. They ranked second and third in the seasonal player standings, Park averaging 80.7 strokes over six league rounds and Haight right behind at 81.4.
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Important Bird Areas
An Important Bird Area (IBA) is a site that has been selected for its outstanding habitat value and the imperative role it plays in hosting birds, whether for breeding, migrating, or over-wintering. Taken together, IBAs form a global network of critical habitat.
The Important Bird Area designation is recognized internationally, and thousands of IBAs have been designated across Europe, Asia and North America. The National Audubon Society coordinates the IBA program in North America; today, there are more than 2,500 state-level IBAs in the U.S. and nearly 450 globally-significant IBAs in the U.S. Audubon Society of Portland oversees the 97 IBAs that have been identified in Oregon.
Map and site descriptions for Oregon IBAs | Portland-area IBA map
What is an Important Bird Area?
State-level IBAs are nominated through a public process and reviewed by a Technical Advisory Committee. The main goals of this non-regulatory program are to:
- Identify the most critical places for birds in our state
- Raise awareness about the importance of these areas
- Promote stewardship, protection, and enhancement of these sites through partnerships, education, monitoring and hands-on
restoration efforts.
For more information contact IBA Coordinator Joe Liebezeit at email@example.com


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who could be bothered with a Supercluster 7"? You?
I never heard a Supercluster song and don't know who's in the band except John Fernandez.
7 inch 45 rpm out now locally and on tour and will be available for order through the SC Distribution and ADA catalogs to independent record stores.
Paris Effect/Neat in the Street
Players on the single
Bill David
John Fernandes
Vanessa Briscoe Hay
Bob Hay
Jason NeSmith
Bryan Poole
Kay Stanton
Tour Dates
*3/10 Athens, GA - 40 Watt (March Madness featuring Casper & the Cookies, Supercluster, Flash to Bang Time, The Goons, and Tunabunny), 10 PM
*3/14 Carrolton, GA - The Alley Cat, w/ Casper & the Cookies
*3/15 Atlanta, GA - Highland Ballroom, w/Casper & the Cookies, $6, 9 PM
*3/16 New Orleans, LA - Hi Ho Lounge w/ Casper & the Cookies
*3/18 Austin, TX, SXSW party at The Ginger Man [w/The BellRays, Richard Barone (from The Bongos, w/special guests), The Fleshtones),
Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3,The Baseball Project (members of REM, Fresh Young Fellows, Dream Syndicate), Mike Watt, LITE (instrumental virtuosos from Japan), The Bluebonnets, Supercluster, Casper and the Cookies, Flash To Bang Time]
*3/21 Denton, TX - Andy's Bar w/ Casper & the Cookies
*3/22 Dallas, TX - LaGrange w/ Casper & the Cookies
* 3/23 Oklahoma City, OK - The Conservatory w/ Supercluster, $8, 8 PM


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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me three times? Good grief, no one should ever be fooled three times.
But that's exactly what will happen to the Senate Intelligence Committee -- and the American people -- unless President Barack Obama puts a leash on an unchecked CIA. He now must stop it from taking any more steps to try to hide its record of torture, secret prisons and the kidnapping program known as extraordinary rendition.
Under the leadership of Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-California, the committee conducted a five-year investigation into the CIA's use of torture between 2001 and 2006. Senators and their staff members reviewed more than 3 million pages of CIA documents, resulting in a report of more than 6,000 pages.
The committee voted Thursday to submit its report on torture to the executive branch for a declassification review and then public release.
One of the very few conclusions of the report that will be made public is that the CIA repeatedly misled Congress, the White House and the Justice Department on the facts of the torture program.
An entire section of the report is dedicated to CIA falsehoods, presumably including lies to the very committee charged with overseeing the CIA.
Fool the Senate once, shame on the CIA.
After nearly four years of investigating, the committee voted in December 2012 to adopt the report but delayed any vote on declassifying it until the CIA -- the agency that the committee had just concluded had lied to Congress and carried out all of the illegal conduct in the report -- had 60 days to review the report.
Well, 60 days turned into more than six months as the CIA reportedly found almost no factual errors in the report but nonetheless wrote a couple hundred pages reportedly asserting the efficacy of the program and attacking the report's methodology.
The agency, however, wasn't done. It then ran a whisper campaign among reporters to disparage the Senate report.
The CIA campaign to hide the truth didn't just stop with foot dragging or writing counter-reports. It reportedly went as far as spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee staff's use of computers dedicated for their exclusive use.
Feinstein has characterized the reported incidents as possibly violating the constitutional separation of powers principle, the Fourth Amendment, a criminal computer fraud statute and an executive order banning the CIA from spying domestically.
The CIA must be held responsible for any laws broken, but it is certainly reasonable to ask why the Senate Intelligence Committee or the White House ever let the agency get its controlling hands on the report in the first place.
Fool the Senate twice, shame on the Senate.
With the committee poised to vote to submit the torture report for a declassification review and then public release, it is worth asking: Will the Senate risk getting fooled by the CIA a third time?
CIA Director John Brennan has promised to play nice, saying that if sent the Senate torture report yet again, the CIA would "carry out the review expeditiously."
Yes, let's again entrust the report to the agency that broke the law on torture and was so brazen that until this month, its acting CIA general counsel was a lawyer named 1,600 times in the torture report.
Only a fool would be fooled three times.
Feinstein should insist -- and Obama should agree -- that the White House itself conduct the declassification review. Furthermore, only White House officials who had no role in any of the banned practices described in the report should be involved in the review, and the CIA should be consulted only as needed -- with only CIA officials untainted by torture looped in.
By law, the president has authority to declassify information, and he surely has the authority to decide the process for declassifying this landmark report.
The CIA should never have had a torture program, never should have lied about what it was doing and never should have been given broad authority to review the Senate oversight report.
Obama cannot now hand the agency a black-out pen to continue to hide the horrors it inflicted around the globe and the harm it caused to our American values. It's time for someone other than the CIA to decide what all Americans can know about its wrongs.
Fooled twice, yes. Let's not be fooled again.


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The city of Memphis and Springfield, Mo.-based Bass Pro Shops have filed two permits with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for $21.5 million and $7 million for renovations to The Pyramid arena.
The city is still working on The Pyramid's structure to make the space ready for the actual store to be put in The Pyramid as Bass Pro Shops' part of the project.
The Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World at The Pyramid is tentatively scheduled to open in late 2013 or early 2014.
Alterations like a set of skylights at the mid-point of The Pyramid's four sides to be done by the city have been abandoned and there have been some changes to the location of a hotel, which is one of the other attractions to go with the store.
The retail space will be approximately 220,000 square feet.
As the city has worked on the interior and seismic measures around The Pyramid, it also demolished last year the Lone Star Industries cement terminal at the foot of Poplar Avenue as part of the changes to the property.
The permits, which list Gracycor Construction Co. Inc. as the contractor, show The Pyramid's address as 1 A.W. Willis Ave. O.T. Marshall Architects is the architect of record for the project.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
– Daily News staff
For the moment, The Commercial Appeal's paywall is down.
Ordinarily, non-subscribers would be hit with a screen after viewing 10 articles during the span of a month that asks them to pay for digital access to view additional stories. Non-subscribers also only had very limited access to the newspaper's content on mobile devices like phones and tablets.
For the moment, neither of those limitations is present. Nonsubscribers are able to view more than the paywall's limit of 10 stories during a month, and the newspaper's stories also appear to be fully viewable on mobile devices without a digital subscription.
Commercial Appeal publisher George Cogswell told The Daily News it's a temporary situation.
"We have had a team of folks here upgrading and adding new systems that will greatly enhance our consumer log-in/access experience for all digital platforms i.e. smart phone, tablet and PC," he told The Daily News in an email. "While we are undergoing that process I decided to enable all consumers to experience what (our) content has to offer, for a brief period. I will be commenting further, in just a couple of weeks, as to how we will move forward."
– Andy Meek
Republican state Rep. Mark White of Memphis has been named chairman of the House Education Subcommittee by House Speaker Beth Harwell.
With the appointment, White also has a seat on the House Education full committee during a legislative session in which education reform initiatives are expected to be a major part of the work of the legislature.
White will also serve on the House Consumer and Human Resources Committee, which reviews legislation on consumer protection laws and labor law regulations as well as human resource issues.
White is serving his third term representing State House District 83.
– Bill Dries
Southaven Mayor Greg Davis says he will not run for re-election.
Davis has served as mayor of the Northwest Mississippi city for 16 years.
Davis says in a statement released Thursday that he reached the decision after talking with his partner and family.
The 46-year-old Davis, who admitted he was gay more than a year ago, cited a long list of accomplishments during his tenure in the release.
He did not mention his legal problems as a factor.
State Auditor Stacey Pickering has ordered Davis to repay more than $170,000 including penalties and interest that Pickering said was misspent from city funds.
Davis was indicted in December on state charges of making false statements related to a car purchase, city gas and a check from a city account.
– The Associated Press
The law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs LLP, has elected four new partners.
They are Byron Brown IV, Kacey Faughnan, Jordan Reifler and Kristen Mistretta Wilson.
Brown concentrates his practice in general and commercial civil litigation and white collar criminal defense.
Faughnan concentrates her practice in all areas of commercial litigation in federal and state court.
Reifler concentrates his practice in representing publicly owned and privately held commercial real estate developers in the acquisition, development, leasing and management of commercial properties. He also provides general litigation support and service to the firm's clients.
And Wilson concentrates her practice in commercial litigation.
The family and divorce law firm of Divorce Inc. has opened a new office in East Memphis.
One month after opening its third office in Clarksville, Tenn., the Jackson, Tenn.-based firm has relocated its Collierville office to the Forum I building at 6750 Poplar Ave.
Divorce Inc. is a boutique family law firm, focusing on but not limited to the areas of divorce, child custody, child support, and other family law matters.
The Memphis Regional Design Center board of directors has decided on a new organizational path in order to build additional program capacity to serve and respond to evolving community needs.
Jeff Sanford, of Jeff Sanford Consulting and former president of the Center City Commission, has been named as the new interim leader to oversee the structural and administrative changes needed to position the center to: improve responsiveness to distinctive community needs; stabilize organizational resources; cultivate long-lasting and sustainable partnerships; and increase positive economic and social impact through quality design projects and programs.
Sanford's interim leadership comes after founding director Chooch Pickard, who joined the organization in 2009, left the nonprofit this week.
Founded in 2007, the center's mission is to increase vitality and economic stability of the Memphis region by promoting excellence in urban design and planning.
Highlighted accomplishments for the region include Midtown Overlay/planning; South Memphis Renaissance Collaborative and Farmers Market; South Parkway Restoration Project; Overton Square Public Discussions and Charrette; Regional Greenways Forum; Urban Design 101 - 170 Graduates since 2008; Broad Street restoration; and numerous Geographic Information Systems mapping projects for regional planning.
– Sarah Baker
The deadline to file a claim under the national mortgage settlement is Friday, Jan. 18.
Approximately 37,000 Tennessee borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2011, may be eligible to receive a payment under the settlement.
Attorney General Bob Cooper said in a news release that there are still thousands of eligible Tennesseans who have not filed a claim.
Foreclosed Tennessee borrowers who have questions or need help should contact the settlement administrator at (866) 430-8358 or email@example.com.
Cooper also warned borrowers to be on the lookout for scams.
They should ignore any solicitations for upfront payments.
They also should not provide personal information to anyone who calls or emails claiming to provide settlement-related assistance.
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A Women's History Challenge
Today, March 1st, is the start of Women's History Month. As genealogists and family historians, we often look to historical events to give context to the lives of our ancestors. Because women were often at home taking care of the children while the men folk were out back in the garage inventing cars, or far away from home marching across battlefields, they often weren't in positions to accomplish noteworthy things... except for an exceptional few. But their lives were impacted by the events around them and they in turn impacted the lives of their husbands and children in the course of everyday life. This month we have a chance to honor women, not only the ones whose accomplishments have made headlines but the ordinary and extraordinary women in our own family histories as well.
March 8th is International Women's Day. Here in America it's not a holiday typically celebrated with flowers and candy, though elsewhere in the world it is. From the Wikipedia entry for International Women's Day:
International Women's Day (IWD) is marked on 8 March every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.
Started as a political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries (primarily Russia and the countries of former Soviet bloc). In some celebrations, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their sympathy and love to the women around them - somewhat similar to Western Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day mixed together. In others, however, the political and human rights theme as designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.
Personally, I think one of the best ways for anyone to honor the women in their lives (friend or relative) or their female ancestors, is in print. Here's an idea...
One Woman
Compose a poem, write a tribute, share a memory, post a photo, or create a digital scrapbook page for One Woman. Wouldn't it be a wonderful tribute to women's history if all bloggers everywhere took the time to write something about One Woman that impacted their life on International Women's Day, March 8th? (... and then submit it to the Carnival of Genealogy... even better!) We could fill the blogosphere with tributes to women who might otherwise have fallen into obscurity. Sisters, friends, aunts, neighbors, deceased or living... one blog post will get a woman's name in the search engines and make information about her accessible the world over, for years to come! You could give a woman fame, honor her. Think about it. I challenge you all to spread the word, let's start something new for International Women's Day. Let's all write a tribute about One Woman... let's start the One Woman event!
Let Jasia know what a great idea this is and then get thinking! You are all so creative and in many different ways. I would love to see your poems, photos and tributes!