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Duke Slater was a pioneer for African-Americans in pro football, but he wasn't alone. A handful of black athletes competed in pro football before World War II, and today, we take a look back at some of their groundbreaking achievements.
African-Americans in Pro Football – Pre-NFL, 1897-1919
The National Football League was founded in 1920, but before that, several professional football teams were formed. Without the benefit of an organized league, these teams nevertheless found competition with other nearby squads, and many played very respectable schedules.
I mentioned in my profile on Frank Holbrook that he played in a semi-pro game in 1897. Those were often the types of games that made up post-collegiate football back then…games where residents of one town scrimmaged against another. Such games took place from coast to coast, many with little or no records of rosters or outcomes, and it's impossible to say how many African-Americans – like Holbrook – participated in these contests.
Thanks to the work of the Pro Football Researchers Association, documentation on African-American professional football players, by which we mean true paid professionals, is much more clear. The first African-American professional football player on record was Charles W. Follis. Follis played right halfback for the Shelby Athletic Club from 1902-1906. Records indicate that Follis was a paid professional at least by the 1904 football season, although he might have been paid as early as 1902. Either way, Follis stands out as the first paid African-American football player on record. One of his teammates on the Shelby Athletic Club roster was Branch Rickey, who would go on to own the Brooklyn Dodgers and break baseball's color ban by signing Jackie Robinson.
As a black sports trailblazer, Follis suffered a number of injuries playing football, including one in a 1906 game that ended his football career. He limited his athletic pursuits to baseball after that, playing catcher for the all-black Cuban Giants. After a Giants game in 1910, however, Follis caught pnemonia and died at age 31.
The second black pro football player was Charles "Doc" Baker, so nicknamed because he served as a doctor's assistant in Akron, Ohio. Baker competed at halfback for the Akron Indians of the Ohio League from 1906-1908 and again in 1911. Little is known about Baker's life outside of football, and he is presumed to have died in the early 1920s.
The best-known quote about Baker's play came after a 1911 Akron game against the Canton Bulldogs. "Halfback Baker, from appearances a second Jack Johnson, was Akron's best man," the Canton Repository reported. "He was in every play both on offense and defense and seemed impervious to injury. On several occasions he was thrown hard, with several others on top of him. But he always came up smiling. His plunges through and outside of tackle were the best ground-gainers for the Akron team."
The third African-American pro football player was probably the most accomplished as well in the pre-NFL era. Henry McDonald played a remarkable seven seasons with the Rochester Jeffersons from 1911-1917. McDonald, a halfback, later said that in seven years playing pro football, he only recalled one negative racial incident.
It took place in McDonald's final year in 1917, when his team traveled to play the great Jim Thorpe and his Canton Bulldogs. During one play, Canton's Earle "Greasy" Neale threw McDonald out of bounds and then started to taunt his opponent. Neale reportedly said, "Black is black and white is white where I come from, and the two don't mix." McDonald and Neale were about to get into it when Thorpe scolded Neale, "We're here to play football." The two sides separated, and McDonald had no more trouble with Neale or anyone else the rest of the game. "Thorpe's word was the law on that field," McDonald recalled.
The fourth and final black pro football player to participate exclusively in the pre-NFL era was Gideon "Charlie" Smith. The former Michigan State tackle played in just one professional game – on November 28, 1915, for the Canton Bulldogs against the Massillon Tigers. Smith was a late fourth-quarter substitute in his only pro football game, but he made his presence count, recovering a fumble that preserved a 6-0 Canton victory. Smith's one professional game was the only thing that kept Duke Slater – the first black lineman in NFL history – from being the first black lineman in the history of pro football.
African-Americans in Pro Football – NFL, 1920-1933
Thirteen African-Americans played in the National Football League during the league's formative years. Here is a quick look at each of these 13 trailblazers.
Fritz Pollard (Seven seasons: 1919-1923 and 1925-1926)
Fritz Pollard, the halfback from Brown University, was the first African-American to play in the Rose Bowl game in 1916. After college, he played for several NFL teams, including the Akron Pros, Hammond Pros, Milwaukee Badgers, and Providence Steam Roller. Pollard actually played one year with the Akron Pros in 1919 before the NFL was formed; he then went on to play six seasons in the NFL for various teams. Along with Bobby Marshall, Pollard was one of two African-American players that played in the NFL's inaugural season in 1920.
Pollard is responsible for a large number of firsts among African-Americans in NFL history. He was the first black player (along with Marshall) in 1920; his Akron Pros won the first NFL championship in 1920, making Pollard the first African-American to claim an NFL title; he was named a first team all-pro by the Rock Island Argus in 1920, making Pollard the first black all-pro; and he served as the head coach of the Hammond Pros in 1923 and 1924, making Pollard the first black coach in NFL history. Put it all together, and it's easy to see why Pollard became the first (and thus far, only) African-American from the pre-World War II era inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Bobby Marshall (Four seasons: 1919-1921 and 1925)
Bobby Marshall was a star end for the University of Minnesota from 1904-1906. Marshall fit in well at Minnesota in large part because he was so fair-skinned, as an African-American, that he could pass through white society with little objection. After graduation, the versatile Marshall played baseball and hockey and the occasional semi-pro football game.
By the time pro football really caught on in the late-1910s, Marshall was already well past the prime playing age of most football players in those days. Nevertheless, Marshall found a home on the Rock Island Independents; like Pollard, Marshall played one season of pro football in 1919 before the creation of the NFL. He then went on to play two seasons in the NFL in 1920 and 1921, joining Pollard as the league's first black player and first black all-pro by earning all-pro honors for his play in 1920. Marshall spent a number of years in semi-pro ball before concluding his NFL career with the Duluth Kelleys in 1925. Bobby Marshall continued to play semi-pro football and baseball into the 1930s, in what was quite possibly the longest professional sports career of any pre-World War II African-American athlete.
Paul Robeson (Two seasons: 1921-1922)
Paul Robeson was an All-American halfback at Rutgers University in 1918. After his college career, he spent two seasons in the NFL as a teammate to Fritz Pollard – in 1921 with the Akron Pros and in 1922 with the Milwaukee Badgers. Robeson then retired from professional football to pursue other interests.
It's those other interests that earned Robeson global fame. He became a renowned singer and theatre and film actor, playing Othello in London to massive acclaim. Robeson then used his fame to become a social activist, championing the rights of African-Americans and drawing ire from the U.S. government for his criticism of American political policies.
His career as an artist and activist has led many observers to overstate his role as an NFL pioneer. Make no mistake…I have a lot of respect for Paul Robeson and everything he accomplished in his life. However, he had a short-lived pro football career that drew little attention at the time. It was only after he became famous for life after football that observers have gone back and singled him out for attention among these 13 football pioneers. Because of his post-football success, his accolades in professional football have been, in my opinion, vastly overstated.
Inky Williams (Six seasons: 1921-1926)
In contrast to Robeson, very, very few fans know Jay Mayo "Inky" Williams. Yet I believe that Williams was one of the most talented African-American players to play in the NFL before World War II.
Ink Williams played end at Brown University, Fritz Pollard's alma mater. He then went on to have a six-year career in the NFL, which ranks second among African-Americans in this era (behind Duke Slater and tied with Fritz Pollard). He had short-lived tenures with the Canton Bulldogs, Dayton Triangles, and Cleveland Bulldogs, but he played six years with his primary team, the Hammond Pros. Williams started 34 games in the NFL, two fewer than Pollard but more than twice as many as any other pre-World War II African-American (excluding Slater).
In 1923, as a left end for the Hammond Pros, he was named a first-team all-pro by the Green Bay Press-Gazette. That was no small feat; only three other black players (Pollard, Marshall, and Slater) earned all-pro honors during this era. The Green Bay Press-Gazette, considered by many the top NFL all-pro team in the land from 1922-1931, was particularly hard on African-Americans. Pollard and Marshall, you'll recall, earned all-pro honors in 1920 from the Rock Island Argus, a paper which was much more lenient toward naming black players as all-pros. The Press-Gazette, on the other hand, only named two black players as all-pros: Williams in 1923 and Duke Slater (on five occasions).
Duke Slater (Ten seasons: 1922-1931)
Well, well…look who it is. I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about Slater here…I've done so elsewhere on many occasions. Suffice it to say that Duke Slater, a tackle who was the first black lineman in NFL history, was the most decorated African-American pro football player prior to World War II – and it wasn't remotely close.
Duke Slater earned seven all-pro selections in his NFL career – the other twelve black players in this era earned seven combined. Five of those all-pro selections were from the Green Bay Press-Gazette, who, as mentioned, honored only one other black player during this period: Inky Williams in 1923. Slater played more seasons than any other black player in this era; he played in more than twice as many games as any other black player in this era; and he started as many games as the next four closest African-American players in this era combined. And all of those comparisons include Fritz Pollard, who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Duke Slater, of course, isn't…but we've covered that too, I guess.
John Shelburne (One season: 1922)
John Shelburne (often misspelled Shelbourne) played six games for the Hammond Pros in 1922. He had been a standout high school track and football star in Boston in 1914 and enrolled at Dartmouth University. He left school to serve with other black troops in World War I, but he returned to Dartmouth after the war and graduated in 1919. Shelburne played one season of pro football in 1922 before taking a head coaching job at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
Shelburne also coached high school football in Indianapolis before returning home to Boston in the 1930s. He served as a social worker there for three decades, working to mentor young people.
James Turner (One season: 1923)
Turner joins Shelburne as one of the four one-season wonders of these 13 pioneers. James Turner, a back from Northwestern, played three games with the Milwaukee Badgers in 1923. I'm going to be perfectly honest…of these 13 men, Turner is the one I know the least about. I can't tell you anything else about Turner outside of his three games with Milwaukee.
Sol Butler (Three seasons: 1923-1924 and 1926)
Now Solomon Butler I can tell you a bit about! Sol Butler first shook up the sports world in track and field. Butler, a graduate of the University of Dubuque, broke the American record for the running long jump in 1919. He made the 1920 U.S. Olympic Track team and was considered a favorite in the running long jump event. However, Butler pulled a tendon in his right leg on his first jump of the qualifying round and had to drop out of the competition.
Butler turned to the NFL, and I mention in my book, Duke Slater, how he made his NFL debut. He stunned observers by walking onto the field for the Rock Island Independents before a game in 1923 and leading them to a major upset of the Chicago Bears. Like so many of these African-American pioneers, Butler eventually found a home with the Hammond Pros, playing three seasons with them before retiring from football. His life ended in tragedy in 1954 when, while serving as a bartender in a Chicago establishment, Butler was shot and killed by an angry customer.
Dick Hudson (Three seasons: 1923 and 1925-1926)
I mentioned Dick Hudson in my book about Duke Slater as well. Hudson, a speedy halfback, actually tried out for the Rock Island Independents in 1923 but was cut from the squad. Hudson then went up to Minnesota, where he played three games that year for the Minneapolis Marines, including one game against Slater's Rock Island team.
Dick Hudson finished his NFL career with the Hammond Pros, playing five games across two seasons from 1925-1926. His NFL career was one of the more unusual among the members of this group – he played three seasons in the NFL but only eight games.
Harold Bradley (One season: 1928)
A lot of African-American players saw their careers end in 1926. Pollard, Williams, Butler, and Hudson all played their final season in the NFL in 1926. Only Duke Slater survived in the league and prevented a color ban from taking place in 1927. For the 1928 season, Slater helped convince his team, the Chicago Cardinals, to take a chance on another black lineman: Harold Bradley.
Harold Bradley was a guard who briefly attended the University of Iowa; however, he never earned a varsity letter with the football team. Bradley's brief stint at Iowa drew the attention of Duke Slater, the NFL's first black lineman, and Slater encouraged the Cardinals to make Bradley the NFL's second black lineman! Slater and Bradley started alongside each other for the opening game of the 1928 season – Slater at tackle and Bradley at guard. Bradley then came off of the bench in Chicago's second game of the year before being released from the team.
Harold Bradley never played another NFL game. Of these 13 African-American pioneers, Bradley's two-game career was the shortest. Bradley went on to have a son, Harold Bradley Jr., who would follow in his footsteps – first at the University of Iowa, and then in the NFL as one of the first wave of players to reintegrate the league after World War II.
David Myers (Two seasons: 1930-1931)
Outside of those two weeks in 1928 when Harold Bradley was on the Cardinals' roster, Duke Slater was the only African-American in the NFL from 1927-1929. In 1930, the Staten Island Stapletons signed Dave Myers to join Slater as the NFL's second African-American player.
Myers had been a star quarterback for New York University. Yes, friends, NYU used to have a football team, and Myers starred in 1929 victories over teams like Penn State and Rutgers. Since Slater proved there was no hard color ban in pro football, Staten Island signed Myers to a contract for the 1930 season.
In the NFL, Myers alternated between the backfield and the line, playing the guard position. After one season with Staten Island, Myers played for the NFL's Brooklyn Dodgers in 1931. One 1931 game against the Cardinals featured the NFL's only two African-Americans – Duke Slater at right tackle for the Cards and David Myers at left guard for the Dodgers. After the 1931 season, both Slater and Myers called it quits and exited the league together.
Joe Lillard (Two seasons: 1932-1933)
Joe Lillard attended Mason City High School in northern Iowa and starred in football, basketball, and track. He planned to play football at the University of Minnesota and Coach Clarence Spears, but when Spears left for the University of Oregon, Lillard followed him out there. He played two games for Oregon as a sophomore in 1931 before being ruled ineligible for college football for playing semi-pro baseball in the offseason. Lillard then turned to professional football and joined the Chicago Cardinals in 1932.
Slater and Myers left the NFL after the 1931 season, but Lillard replaced Slater on the Cardinals to become the only African-American player in the NFL in 1932. Lillard also played for the Cardinals in 1933, but unlike Slater, he had a fiery temper and could be baited into altercations by opposing players. Joe Lillard was ejected from two NFL games in 1933, and after the season, he was released from the team.
Lillard and his temper were held up by segregationists as a prime example for why blacks and whites should not mix on the football field. Lillard was one of the last two black players to play in the NFL prior to the color ban of 1934-1945. A versatile athlete, Joe Lillard went on to become a pitcher in the Negro Leagues and a guard for the basketball exhibition team that later became known as the Harlem Globetrotters.
Ray Kemp (One season: 1933)
Ray Kemp, along with Lillard, was the last African-American to play in the NFL prior to the 1934-1945 color ban. Kemp, a former standout tackle at Duquesne, was recruited to the NFL's new Pittsburgh Pirates football team, which was later renamed the Pittsburgh Steelers. Ray Kemp played five games in 1933 for the Pirates, including one game against the Cardinals and Lillard. However, Kemp was released from the team after five games by player-coach Jap Douds, a fellow tackle who kept several of his friends on the roster.
Kemp went on to have a long coaching career at multiple historically black colleges. He was recognized by the Steelers during the franchise's 50th anniversary celebration in 1983, and when he died in 2002, he was honored as the last remaining member of the Steelers' inaugural team.
African-Americans in Pro Football – The Color Ban, 1934-1945
With African-Americans banned from the NFL, several African-American all-star teams began to appear. These semi-pro teams scrimmaged against other local clubs in an effort to show that blacks and whites could play football together peaceably. The two most prominent of these all-star teams were both nicknamed the Brown Bombers after boxing great Joe Louis. The New York Brown Bombers, organized by Fritz Pollard, competed for eight seasons from 1936-1942 and again in 1946.
The Chicago Brown Bombers got their start in 1937 under the coaching of Duke Slater. He left the Bombers' head coaching job after one season, but the Chicago Brown Bombers stuck around for four seasons from 1937-1940. Slater went on to coach other African-American all-star teams, notably the Chicago Comets and Chicago Panthers, in 1939 and 1940, respectively.
The most notable game in this era for a black all-star team was a 1938 exhibition between the Chicago Negro All-Stars and the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. The Negro All-Stars, coached by Ray Kemp and Duke Slater, were pummeled, 51-0, but the attention that the exhibition received and the lack of animosity between the two clubs on the field brought hope for the NFL's eventual reintegration.
Meanwhile, several African-American standouts took their places on various semi-pro teams. This list, as compiled by the Pro Football Researchers Association, contains two players (Lillard and Kemp) who played in the NFL before the color ban and two players (Kenny Washington and Woody Strode) who played in the NFL after the color ban. The 25 known African-American players who were limited to semi-pro football on acccount of the color ban are:
Chuck Anderson (Five seasons)
Ezzrett Anderson (Four seasons)
George Burgwin (One season)
Ted Floyd (One season)
Carl Hancock (Four seasons)
Clem Hooks (Four seasons)
Bill "Dolly" King (One season)
Clarence Lee (Three seasons)
William "Bull" Lewis (Five seasons)
Clarence Mackey (Four seasons)
Everett "Sam" Marcell (Two seasons)
Billy Mills (Four seasons)
Tommy Mills (One season)
Earl Minneweather (Two seasons)
John Moody (One season)
Ernie "Gene" Provost (Three seasons)
Mel Reid (Six seasons)
Bernie Remson (Seven seasons)
Jackie Robinson (Two seasons)
Don Simmons (One season)
Ozzie Simmons (Two seasons)
Bobby Vandever (Six seasons)
Hugh Walker (Two seasons)
Tex Washington (Two seasons)
Ed Williams (Three seasons)
African-Americans in Pro Football – NFL Reintegration, 1946-1962
After World War II, things changed drastically for African-Americans in pro football. A new football league, the All-America Football Conference, was created in 1946 and would challenge the NFL's supremacy in American pro football. The AAFC had no problem accepting African-Americans like Bill Willis and Marion Motley, and these two players were the first black athletes signed by the new league.
In response, the NFL lifted its own color ban in 1946, as the Los Angeles Rams signed west coast standouts Kenny Washington and Woody Strode. Washington and Strode reintegrated the NFL after a 12-year ban on African-American participation, and other league clubs quickly followed suit. The last holdout, the Washington Redskins, dragged their feet before finally integrating their franchise in 1962. From that point forward, the conversation concerning African-Americans in pro football shifted toward opportunities at various positions (particularly quarterback), in the coaching ranks, and as front office executives.
The pioneers in this post all paved the way for African-Americans in pro football. They were subjected to discrimination, prejudice, and even outright bans on their play. But by their effort, professional football is a greater game today than it has ever been, and their contributions to the sport will never be forgotten.
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By COLLEEN LEDDY
I walked back into the living room late Monday night and yelped when I noticed incriminating evidence: Maddie's well-loved (i.e. old, hand-me-down, permanently stained) baby doll and the hot pink Boohbah lying together on the couch.
"Ayy! I better put them back quick!" I thought. "If David sees them he's gonna know I've been Skyping with Caroline and Rosie instead of proofreading stories."
Actually, we were on FaceTime on the ipad, not Skyping. Either way, I love using the ipad when videochatting with Caroline. It allows us the freedom to take tours around the house so she remembers who we are as she connects us with where we live...a kind of visual "Hey! You know us! Remember your wacky lady? And here's Mama and Aunt Maddie and Uncle Ben."
Caroline has three sets of grandparents, one set of great-grandparents and another great-grandmother and great-grandfather—it's never too early to get the "who's who" straight.
She gets excited when the baby doll makes an appearance in our FaceTime sessions; she smiles broadly and enthusiastically waves at it. And the Boohbah equally captures her attention—especially when it's activated to do its little song and dance, rising up and swirling its head to the music, making bizarre high-pitched noises.
It's probably the weirdest thing in our house, with its bald head, lashless painted-on huge eyes, a bump of a nose, no mouth, five dots each for eyebrows, star shaped hands emerging from tiny pink arms, and rotund body, but Caroline appreciates it—fitting since her own mother bought it while Black Friday shopping with friends in high school.
It's kind of space age looking—as much as a pile of pink polyester fluffy fabric can look space age-y. More than its looks, it's the high-pitched squeal it emits after doing its dance—five or six seconds later. That latent noise coupled with its overall bizarre appearance just seems other-worldly. Google it if you haven't already seen them on the PBS kid show.
I added the Wendell Glaser rooster painting to the FaceTime rounds Monday night, but forgot about the goose Chris Wood painted years ago. And, I just realized I've never panned the collection of Christmas ornaments sitting atop a bookshelf—the big fat hen, Bantam rooster, parrot, ostrich—another parrot Ben brought back from Brazil and an elegant wood sculpture of a heron.
We feature the soft sculpture wild woman (her lady) on every tour. Since she was tiny, Caroline has loved its white and black polka dot arms, black and white striped legs, and the hodgepodge splashes of color on its triangular trunk.
She delights in seeing the charcoal portrait of Ben, Rosie and Maddie drawn by a Chinese immigrant in Central Park during spring break, 1995. I still hear my mother telling him to adjust his depiction of Maddy because he made her look too old.
"She's only seven! You make her look 17!"
Somehow, we all missed how he made Ben look slightly evil and how they all look slightly Chinese. It doesn't matter to Caroline—she reaches out to touch her Mama; she sees the resemblance.
She likes to look at each of Ben, Rosie and Maddie's high school senior portraits, and always gets excited when she sees Rosie's.
I included the Nok Hockey board hanging on the wall near the senior portraits in the tour and instantly regretted it.
"We'll have to make that disappear," I told Rosie. "She'll want to play with it and she's bound to hurt herself on the sticks."
Maddie's new penguin pillow is an attraction, but I'm not sure I should show Caroline the Matryoshka dolls Bob and Jackie brought back from Poland for Rosie and Maddie. She's usually transfixed to see each doll inside another, but I'm afraid she's going to want to put them and their questionable paint in her mouth.
Caroline and Rosie are coming for a visit in a few weeks so a whole new round of babyproofing is in order. That's OK. I'm sure I'll enjoy it way more than proofreading.

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Canucks may (or may not) juggle lines
Vancouver Canucks Derek Roy comes off the bench to join Mason Raymond on the ice during practice at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC, April, 29, 2013.
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VANCOUVER - What you see is usually what you get from Vancouver Canuck head coach Alain Vigneault, unless it's playoffs.
Ask about line combos during the regular season and Regular Season AV is happy to oblige. Now ask the same question during the post-season and you get Playoff AV. He hopes we all understand. The Canucks and San Jose Sharks play Game 1 Wednesday at Rogers Arena.
"As you know," Vigneault began following practice Monday, "when we get into the playoffs, I don't get into exactly what our lines are."
Fortunately practice was open to reporters so there was visible evidence. The Sedin twins were with Alex Burrows, Ryan Kesler was between Chris Higgins and Zack Kassian while Derek Roy was centring for Mason Raymond and Jannik Hansen. Max Lapierre was back on the fourth line with Andrew Ebbett and Dale Weise.
There was no other confirmation.
"I'm not going to get into the specifics of what we're going to do, just like I don't do it health-wise," continued Playoff AV. "I think, at the end of the day, I'm pretty good with you guys. I can give you the Torts in New York (Ranger coach John Tortorella) and not say much. But I do give you a little bit more. I think, considering the fact it is so tight and there is so little separating the teams, you should be able to understand that.
"At this time of year, sharing information about who is playing with who and what we're going to do, is probably not the right things to do."
A glance at the San Jose lineup seems to indicate a need for Vigneault to play his three natural centres – Henrik Sedin, Kesler and Roy – on separate lines to counter the Shark threesome of Joe Thornton, Logan Couture and Joe Pavelski. Roy figures this is the way it will unfold.
"Yeah, I think so," Roy responded. "San Jose has three good centremen, or four, and a balanced attack. So we're just trying to spread it out and try to make it work that way. It's going to be up to the coaches, obviously, who is going to play against who and what matchups they want but it doesn't matter who I play against. I've played against Pavelski and Couture and those guys and I know how good they are and their play-making abilities."
Kesler, meanwhile, was less forthcoming on the Wednesday lineup. He wouldn't even concede he'll start at centre.
"I don't know where I'm going to play," Kesler said coyly. "We'll probably have a bunch of different looks. I don't know what we're going to go with for Game 1. We'll see. That's the way practice shook out today but who knows? Tomorrow might be something different.
"All our lines are pretty dependable so I personally feel confident with every single one of our lines going out there against any one of their lines," he added. "I'm not saying that they don't have some really good skill. I'm just saying I have faith in every one of the forwards on our team."
The wild card in the combos deployed Monday is Zack Kassian. The hulking winger hasn't been able to establish any consistency and finished the season with just two goals in his last 32 games. Nonethelss, he thinks he's ready for a prime-time role alongside Kesler.
"First of all, I have no idea if I'll be on that line," he said. "Nothing is written in stone. You know that. But, yeah, if I do get that opportunity, I'm very excited for it. If I'm playing with those two guys, if it happens, I'll be ready."
Hansen says he'll be ready, too, and ready to be on a different line by the second period.
"That wouldn't surprise me," he said, shrugging. "There is no unfamiliarity. I've played with all four centres and I've played with all four left wingers and even some of the right wingers. There has been so much rotation here the last couple of years, that it's no issue."


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Rwanda Arrests Opposition Leader's American Lawyer
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We condemn the arrest of Peter Erlinder by Rwandan authorities and demand his immediate release. Professor Erlinder, a faculty member at William Mitchell College of Law in the United States and president of ADAD, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Defense Lawyers Association, was arrested by the government of Paul Kagame, Rwanda's president.
He is charged with violation of Rwanda's so-called ""Law Relating to the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Ideology," apparently because, in the course of his representation of clients before the ICTR, he has challenged the accepted story of the Rwandan Genocide. He has also been a critic of Kagame and filed suit against him in the United States, alleging he triggered the genocide by ordering the assassinations of Juvenal Habyarimana, president of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, president of Burundi, whose plane was shot out of the sky in 1994.
It is evident that Erlinder's arrest was politically motivated and seeks to punish him for fulfilling his responsibilities as a lawyer, to be a vigorous and conscientious advocate for his clients. The appropriate venues to test the truth of Erlinder's claims are the courts in which he is litigating and the preemptive strike against that by the Rwandan government can only lend credence to those claims. The Rwandan government and President Kagame should not fear fair and public trials. Erlinder's advocacy is in the finest tradition of the legal profession and every individual and government committed to the rule of law, especially including the government of Rwanda and President Kagame, should applaud his dedication to his clients' causes.
We call on the United States government, the United Nations, non-governmental organizations and individuals around the world to prevail upon Rwanda to release Erlinder immediately.
"Professor Erlinder has been acting in the best tradition of the legal profession and has been a vigorous advocate in his representation of Umuhoza. There can be no justice for anyone if the state can silence lawyers for defendants whom it dislikes and a government that seeks to prevent lawyers from being vigorous advocates for their clients cannot be trusted. The entire National Lawyers Guild is honored by his membership and his courageous advocacy. We are particularly proud to note he is one of many outstanding and fearless freedom fighters who have led our organization," said David Gespass, the Guild's president.
"The real issue here seems to be whether the U.S. and the world will stand by and allow my father to be detained and prosecuted for doing his job, as an attorney and advocate for his clients. After a career of defense of others, he needs our help now demanding his immediate release and dismissal of all charges." said Sarah Erlinder, his daughter.
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Why do people buy houses in places prone to flooding?
Floods have brought chaos to homes in many parts of the UK. But do house prices dramatically fall in flood areas and if not, why not?
There's a poignant image of the picturesque town of Tewkesbury flooded this week, its famous abbey surrounded by the brown waters of the Severn.
The image is near identical to one from 2007. A casual viewer might well be tempted to ask: "Who would live in a place like this?"
After all, plenty of property purchasers can be put off by a survey that comes back with damp or a bit of subsidence.
The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, was asked this week why house building is still going on in flood plains. But surely the question is why people are still buying houses in flood plains. Or continuing to live in places that have suffered catastrophic floods.
One might assume that there would be massive falls in property prices after a highly publicised episode of damaging flooding.
But the figures don't seem to back that up.
If you take a place like Tewkesbury, you can see that the floods of 2007 did not significantly affect prices.
In June 2007, the average property value in the historic market town was £241,821. It dropped slightly to £238,200 in July, the month floods hit - when the average property price in England was £258,855. But the average price stayed consistently about the £240,000 mark for the rest of the year, according to figures collated by property website Zoopla.
Prices in Tewkesbury have dropped since, but not at a vastly disproportionate rate to the rest of England. Tewkesbury's average property is now £215,322, with the average value in England £236,134.
It's a similar picture in parts of Cumbria that were heavily affected by floods in 2009, and also less severely in 2005.
In October 2009, the average property value in Cockermouth, was £217,243, dropping to £213,234 in November - when floods hit. Today the average property price is £208,749, according to Zoopla.
Of course there is only so much that can be extrapolated from figures collated by property companies. There are locations within locations, and varying property sizes.
But there are estate agents in flood-hit places like Tewkesbury, Hull, Carlisle and York who suggest that although prices tend to fall, generally by about 10%, just after a flood, they remain largely unaffected in the long run.
People see severe flooding as a one-off event, according to Jonathan Harris, director at property finance broker Anderson Harris. Even if houses have been flooded before, prospective buyers may spot ways in which they can flood-proof them.
And of course, most of the people who live in places like Tewkesbury and Cockermouth have lived there a long time, and like living there.
"My partner bought a place in the newly developed Walton Cardiff in 2010. It's on a flood plain, but it's slightly raised. There is water nearby now, but the property's fine," says 28-year-old Sophia Spencer, a lettings manager at Andrews estate agent in Tewkesbury.
"People outside the area seem a lot more wary about buying in Tewkesbury than people who live here. But it's a lovely market town with lots of black and white houses and tea rooms. I've lived here all my life so the floods don't put me off," she says.
Living somewhere picturesque for a slight discount can warrant some people taking a calculated gamble.
"Tewkesbury has beautiful old buildings, with unbelievable views. Some people think that outweighs the odd flood," says Anthony Rhodes, of Rhodes Real Estate in Tewkesbury.
Stuart Chester, who lives in Purley on Thames, just outside Reading, says he was fully aware that the property he bought 20 years ago was prone to flooding when he purchased it.
"Having a river at the bottom of the garden was a big attraction, as I like to do a bit of fishing. [And] it felt like a nice community," he says.
The 68-year-old says the setting of the property, overlooking the Chilterns, and its proximity to Reading, also influenced his decision, and he thought the "inconvenience" of a flood every couple of years was worth it.
Since then his garage, garden and cellar have been flooded about 10 times, but as the house was built above the level of the great floods of 1947, it has escaped unscathed.
"For a home in such a delightful setting, it's a small price to pay," he says.
Of course for many people living in a flood risk area, it comes at a far greater cost. The 48,000 homes affected by the 2007 floods cost, on average, between £20,000 and £30,000 to repair, while the cost to the economy was £3.2bn, according to an Environment Agency report.
About 30% of householders had to move out while repairs were carried out, with one in 10 displaced for more than a year, creating a huge disruption to home life.
Some of the UK's most devastating floods
Then there is the worry over insurance, with the Association of British Insurers warning 200,000 homes in high-risk flood areas could be left without cover after June 2013, which could in turn affect mortgage offers.
For some existing homeowners, there is concern they could become trapped in properties that are practically unsellable.
Spending more on flood defences is one option. But for some people, the obvious solution is to build new properties away from areas prone to flooding.
A 2011 report by a government advisory group, the Committee on Climate Change, found that tens of thousands of properties were still built on flood plains around the UK - around 12,000 to 16,000 every year in England alone. A BBC investigation found a similar pattern in Wales.
"Rightly or wrongly, many communities feel that a lot of these new developments have contributed to the flooding," says Helen Shepherd from the National Flood Forum.
"Some say properties are being built on land that used to take in the water slowly. They also feel these developments are often plugged into an ageing draining infrastructure, which communities feel is beyond their capacity."
Kiran Curtis, principal at KCA architects, says the basic issue is that development is generally encouraged within urban areas, rather than within green belts, with a preference for previously developed land.
"If you look at places like Sheffield, or other parts of Yorkshire, local authorities want to try and regenerate old industrial and mill towns, which are often near rivers. There is a conflict, in that for good reason they want to bring urban centres back to life, but there's a historic problem that they do flood and can lead to development within flood plains," he says.
The Environment Agency says one in six homes in England is now at risk of flooding.
But Shepherd warns that the nature of flooding is changing, and increasingly anyone could be at risk.
"About 80% of flooding this summer was surface water flooding, so it is not just people that live on flood plains that are affected," she says.
Sue Tapsell, head of the Flood Hazard Research Centre, agrees.
"What we are seeing now is more flooding from pluvial events from intense summer storms. It means flooding, which tended to be the result of coastal tides or river floods - so we knew the most at risk places - is more unpredictable. It could happen everywhere."


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Chaz Johnson received a one-game suspension Friday for his hit on Alaska's Mark Isherwood on Wednesday. Johnson, who received a game misconduct for violating the newly instituted rule 48.3, will miss tonight's game against the Las Vegas Wranglers.
"I thought it was kind of a tough call," Reign coach Karl Taylor said. "The league's going to do what they have to do and we respect the decision. We want to protect our players. We don't want anybody taking advantage of a person in a weak position. I thought it was a tough call based on the play. I'd rather have the league fault on the side of safety and protecting the players. It's tough to argue the call in the end.
"I'm not sure how they come to the final conclusion – what's a suspension and what's not. It's a new rule. They just try to determine is it a shot to the head? Is it a shoulder? The force, is the player injured?"
The ECHL declined to comment on the suspension, citing a longstanding policy.
With Isherwood standing in the slot, Johnson charged laterally from the left circle and made contact with the defenseman a moment after Isherwood released a shot. The hit, which appeared to be shoulder-first, spun Isherwood around and
immediately drew a game misconduct. The one-game suspension was at the ECHL's discretion, however, Johnson will be suspended automatically if he's hit with the penalty again.
It's the sixth suspension in the league under rule 48, which was first adopted late last season in the NHL in response to a spate of concussions caused by blind-side hits to the head. The rule was subsequently instituted this season by both the ECHL and the AHL.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Buster Posey is the San Francisco Giants' new franchise man.
The Giants rewarded the NL MVP and batting champion with a $167 million, nine-year contract Friday, a deal that includes a club option for 2022 that could raise the value to $186 million over a decade.
Posey had been due to make $8 million this year. He instead gets a $7 million signing bonus, with $5 million payable Oct. 15 and the remainder Jan. 15, and his 2013 salary is reduced to $3 million.
Posey's agreement includes a full no-trade clause. It is the longest for a catcher and the largest in Giants history, surpassing Matt Cain's $127.5 million, six-year deal.
In addition, the deal is a record guarantee for a player with fewer than three years of major league service time - more than doubling the $80 million, seven-year contract Rockies slugger Carlos Gonzalez received before the 2011 season. It also is a record guarantee for a player with fewer than four years of service time, topping the $151.45 million over 11 years Colorado's Todd Helton was assured in March 2001.
The Giants captured their second championship in three years behind the play of the All-Star, who won the NL batting title and MVP award after missing most of 2011 following season-ending left leg and ankle injury.
Posey batted .336 with 24 homers and 103 RBI while playing 148 games.
He made 111 starts at catcher and 29 at first base. During the Giants' 2010 and '12 championship runs, Posey has hit a combined .244 with four home runs and 14 RBIs <0x2014> two of those homers and five RBIs coming in last year's NL division series against the Reds in which San Francisco became the first team in big league history to rally from a 2-0 deficit to win a five-game series with three straight road victories.
On May 25, 2011, Posey tore three ligaments in his left ankle and broke a bone in his lower leg in a devastating collision at the plate with Scott Cousins, then with the Marlins.
Posey received his nice payday two days after turning 26.
He could wind up playing his entire career in the Bay Area <0x2014> and the Giants certainly hope that will be the case. The club posted a photo on its Twitter account Friday of Posey, CEO Larry Baer, general manager Brian Sabean, vice president and assistant general manager Bobby Evans and manager Bruce Bochy <0x2014> with the hashtag "SFG4Life."
The 2010 NL Rookie of the Year is represented by the same agency that negotiated Cain's deal last year, and both sides were eager to do something again this year to lock Posey up for the long-term.
"We're extremely pleased to reach an agreement that keeps Buster in a Giants uniform for a long time," agent Jeff Berry of CAA Baseball said. "Buster and the Giants have brought each other mutual success, and this contract reflects Buster's extraordinary accomplishments in just three years in the Major Leagues."
The contract includes the following bonuses: $100,000 for NL MVP, $100,000 for World Series MVP, $75,000 for NL championship series MVP, $50,000 for a Gold Glove, $50,000 for All-Star Game election, $25,000 for All-Star selection and $50,000 for a Silver Slugger.
In 2010, Posey wasn't even called up from Triple-A Fresno until late May but still batted .305 with 18 home runs and 67 RBIs in 108 games to help the Giants capture their first NL West crown since 2003.
San Francisco gave him $6.2 million when he signed in August 2008 as the fifth overall pick out of Florida State, the richest deal for an amateur joining the Giants.


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Founded in October 2014 by several Australians based across the globe, The Ink Mill aims to be the leading community network for sharing your views and insights on brands you are passionate about.


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MONTREAL - A battle for control of home renovation company Rona was formally launched Wednesday after the company's second-largest institutional shareholder said it was seeking to sweep out the existing board and install new directors.
Invesco Canada, which owns about one-tenth of Rona Inc. (TSX:RON) shares, issued the call for change after the chain reported dismal financial results last week and its long-time chief executive resigned.
The unexpected departure of Robert Dutton came two months after he and the other Rona directors fended off a takeover by American rival Lowe's.
Invesco announced in a brief release Wednesday morning that it plans "to requisition a meeting of shareholders of Rona Inc. for the purpose of removing Rona's current directors and electing new directors in their place."
The fund manager declined to comment on what prompted its bold move to replace Rona's board or indicate what level of support it has mustered from fellow shareholders.
Rona said late Wednesday that it has not yet received a request for a shareholder meeting from Invesco or any other shareholder. However, it did say Invesco had contacted Rona in the past few days requesting a meeting with its chairman, which it agreed to hold later in the week.
Rona says it heard from Invesco earlier Wednesday saying it no longer wanted to hold the meeting.
Invesco, which operates Trimark, Invesco and PowerShares brands, controls 12.3 million shares of Rona on behalf of investors.
IA Michael Investment Counsel, manager of ABC Funds, which owns about three million shares representing 2.5 per cent of Rona, said it is backing Invesco's move.
"We support change, we think it's due," company president Irwin Michael said in an interview from London, Ont., expressing his disappointment that Rona's management and board didn't pursue discussions with Lowe's.
Michael said he hasn't been contacted by Invesco and isn't sure what kind of support will be offered by other shareholders, including independent owners, which form a large block.
"We don't know what the independents will say or do. It's the silent majority that will decide on this," he said.
"Maybe the Invesco group comes forward with a very interesting board of directors. We'd like to see what they have in mind, but clearly it's a really positive catalyst for the stock at this point. It's not a done deal, but nonetheless it's a positive obviously for shareholders who have been on a wild ride on this."
Institutional investors are unhappy with years of weak results at Rona and the board's unwillingness to entertain a $14.50 per share cash takeover bid that represents about a 45 per cent premium from when the company's stock has traded for much of the past year.
Rona said in its proxy circular last year that $100 invested in the company at the end of 2006 was worth little more than $42 five years later.
"It has been a slow grind for the last five years of destructive shareholder and share price and so something's got to be done. We start with a resignation from Mr. Dutton, this seems like a logical next step and we'll take it from there," added Dana Merber, a colleague of Michael.
Shares were up 3.6 per cent Wednesday afternoon, rising 40 cents at $11.38 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
But other Rona shareholders were laying low, unwilling to comment on Invesco's efforts.
The Caisse de depot, Rona's largest shareholder, said it won't tip its hand at this point and Dimensional Fund Advisors said it "doesn't comment on individual companies or sectors." British Columbia Investment Management Corp. declined comment.
Franklin Templeton said it has nothing to add from the comments Richard Fortin, portfolio manager at Bissett Investment Management, made in September in support of dramatic change at Rona.
"We believe that a strategy which focuses solely on the execution of Rona's current business plan while excluding all other value creating alternatives (including a potential combination with Lowe's) isn't in the best interest of shareholders and is the wrong approach."
On Monday, it denied a newspaper report that it has received a new takeover offer from Lowe's or has held discussions with its U.S.-based rival.
Derek Dley of Canaccord Genuity said he's not surprised that large shareholders are restless but wondered why they've waited until now to act.
"We're a little bit unsure about why this wasn't something that shareholders that were looking for a sale, why they didn't do this earlier this summer when the bid from Lowe's was still on the table," he said from Vancouver.
Dley said it is unlikely that the Caisse would support Invesco's move. And independent store owners who control about 10 per cent of Rona shares would likely resist.
"It's going to be challenging because likely your two biggest shareholders are going to be in support of the current board."
Nonetheless, Dley expects any move to oust Rona's board would be a drawn-out process.
Any takeover by Lowe's would also likely face scrutiny from the Quebec government, which — when in opposition — aligned itself with vows from the Charest government to give Rona the power to block such a move.
Rona currently has nearly 30,000 employees and 830 locations under its banner, giving Rona a bigger reach in Canada than Home Depot or Lowe's, the No. 1 and No. 2 home improvement retailers in the United States. Home Depot has just 180 stores across Canada and Lowe's has about 31 Canadian locations, out of 1,745 across North America.


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Too Big A Kipah
A renowned secular Jew once decided to "observe the natives" by placing himself on the corner of a busy street in an Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem.
"Bist a yid (are you Jewish)?" asked an Orthodox youngster who wondered what a bareheaded person was doing in the area.
"Of course," answered the visitor in perfect Yiddish.
"Then where is your kipah head-covering?" asked the youngster.
"See the sky above?" was the sly response. "That is the covering of my head."
"That is too big a kipah," came the clever rejoinder, "for so small a head!"


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Quark® promotes an initiative-based culture driven by a focus on our customers and leadership to advance innovative ideas and solutions that meet customer and business needs. From this foundation stem our core values of leadership, empowerment, communication, execution and customer focus.
The people who make up Quark come from diverse countries, cultures, and backgrounds, providing a strength in rich perspectives that fuel innovation, teamwork, and excellence.
"When I was approached to join Quark, it was described as an established brand, with a start-up mentality, and this has proved to be the case. I have a supportive management structure, and work with creative and hard-working colleagues who are equally focused on succeeding. It's not without its challenges, and it's hard work, but I can honestly say I feel more part of the future of my sector than I have for at least the last decade."
— Lawrence Paterson, Enterprise Sales, EMEA
"Years have passed by and my enthusiasm to work at Quark has grown by the day. This has been possible all because of the leadership, opportunities and diverse technologies that I get to work on a daily basis. The cooperative attitude along with strong bonding between Quark members and zeal to succeed creates a pleasant work environment providing the perfect impetus to thrive for excellence and innovation."
— Dhrupad Verma, Tech Lead, R&D
"Being at Quark has helped me become a better designer. I've learned both the art and science of layout design – from typography and the placement of artifacts to the importance of color and even programming languages such as Cocoa."
— Arun Bharti, Software Architect, R&D
"Two of the best things about working at Quark are the significant market opportunity we have as an enterprise software company and being able to work among people I also call friends."
— Sarah Rector, Marketing
"Every morning I get to suit up and make a difference for Quark. I am afforded a rare opportunity to meet with a wide range of business and technology leaders, to exchange ideas and solve problems. It doesn't get any better than that."
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For Sale By Owner
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Are sales so good at your business that you're ready to sell your house and move to bigger digs? Or have you finally been able to pad that savings account enough to have a down payment for your first home? Your first reaction may be to let a local realtor handle the process, but that can cost a good chunk of change. You don't have to pay those stiff fees if you do it yourself. Sounds scary, but it may not be as time-consuming or confusing as you think.
Deerfield, Florida-based E-Z Legal Forms Inc.'s Buying/Selling Your Home software program takes the sting out of realtor fees and spells out the buying and selling process in easy-to-understand terms. The program's glossary of useful terms can make you sound like a real estate pro even if you've never heard of a "quitclaim deed" or a "balloon mortgage." Even better, the program lets you sail through the paperwork process by clicking fill-in-the-blank forms for everything from a "personal financial statement" to a "release and waiver of option rights." Available in software specialty stores and major office supply warehouses, the Windows-based CD-ROM and 3.5-inch floppy disks will set you back about $30--nothing compared to the thousands you'd pay a realtor.
The Happiest Cruise On Earth
It may be sponsored by Disney, but this vacation is no Mickey Mouse cruise. In fact, Disney Cruise Lines and its first ship, the 85,000-ton Disney Magic, could be the happiest place on the ocean. And, like everything Disney, this one's for kids of all ages.
On the three- and four-day cruise vacations or the seven-day cruise/resort combo, kids can romp and roll in a supervised play area; pre-teens can try out some high-tech fun and games; and teenagers get a chance to hang out and dance in a trendy coffee bar. Meanwhile, Mom and Dad can finally get some rest and relaxation. Whether it's a visit to the 8,500-square-foot Vista Spa for a massage or a trip to the sports deck to catch up on the latest scores, there's something for everyone. Nighttime can be for adults only or for family togetherness with dinners in themed restaurants, Broadway-style shows and, of course, a theater that shows Disney animated classics.
By the time you reach the white sand beaches and crystal blue waters of Castaway Cay, Disney's private 1000-acre Bahamian island paradise, you may have forgotten you even have kids. And that can make it worth the $1,350-per-person price tag for a seven-day cruise/resort package that includes airfare, entrance to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and all the scrumptious on-board food you can eat. Disney Magic sets sail on its maiden voyage in March 1998 and will sail twice a week after that. But unless you're a magician, don't even think about stepping aboard that first voyage--the cruise is already sold out.
Since the renewed passion for cigars has been burning bright, all kinds of cigar-themed items have arisen from the ashes--silk ties and scarves, T-shirts, cuff links and now, there's The Original Cigar Watch. It's always cigar time with this timepiece, manufactured by Big Ash Cigar Watch Co. in Miami Beach, Florida.
This watch sells for $115 to $149 and features cigar hands and a smoke squiggle for a second hand. The watch also boasts Swiss movement, a rotating bezel, a stainless steel case, a date function and waterproofing to 30 feet. But what real stogie aficionados will treasure is the case it arrives in--a Spanish cedar humidor box that stores two cigars. Now, if it would only arrive with a couple of Cubans, it would really be smokin'!
Play Money
Can't get enough of entrepreneurship? If the exhilaration of running your own business leaves you wanting more, you can always start another business in your spare time--on CD-ROM, that is. Capitalism Plus lets you experience all the thrills of entrepreneurship with a real-time business simulation game from Interactive Magic Inc. in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
If your own business isn't growing as fast as you'd like, you can live out your dreams with Capitalism Plus by building stores, selling stock and executing a corporate takeover. You can take aggressive risks you'd never dream of taking with your real business. But look out--just like in the real world, Capitalism Plus can throw you for a loop with random events such as fires and crop damage.
Striking it rich with a fictitious firm can boost your enthusiasm after a rotten day, and who knows? You may even learn something from Capitalism Plus that you can use in your own business.
Cocktail Nation
Want to try a Shady Lady? How about a Gin & Sin? Or maybe a Frisco Sour? During the Prohibition Era, the only way to get your hands on one of these potent potables was with a password that allowed you to enter the festive speakeasies that served up cocktails such as these. Today, all you need is Philip Collins' Classic Cocktails of the Prohibition Era (General Publishing Group). By following any of the book's 100 recipes and serving suggestions, you can bring back the fun, frolic and elegance of the Roaring '20s. When you present friends and colleagues with a Lounge Lizard, a Derby Daiquiri or a Whiskey Swizzle, you'll also be handing them a piece of history.
The soft-cover Classic Cocktails also serves up 100 sumptuous photographs that evoke the speakeasy mystique and feature memorabilia of the bygone era. Even if you haven't mastered the art of mixing drinks, this handsome homage to a notorious era will be a tasty addition to your coffee table.
Fun And Games
Finally have a night off but can't think of anything to do? If movies make you yawn, the theater leaves you comatose and nightclubs give you the heebie-jeebies, you do have another option. If you live in or near Seattle, Las Vegas or Ontario, California, head to the nearest GameWorks, which lets the kid in you go crazy with more than 250 high-tech games and videos.
Test your driving skills at white-knuckle speeds in the Indy 500 Formula video simulator or take the plunge on a virtual water scooter. Then race over to the classic video arcade for a go at PacMan or Missile Command. For the decidedly low-tech, there are also games like billiards, foosball and air hockey. And the Las Vegas location features the world's tallest free-standing rock-climbing structure. How's that for a night on the town?
Each GameWorks also boasts restaurants and bars--the Seattle location even has its own brewpub. The brainchild of a joint partnership between DreamWorks SKG, Sega Enterprises and Universal Studios, GameWorks could become the new "nightclub" of the '90s. If you don't live near an existing GameWorks, don't worry. New locations will be sprouting up soon in Dallas; Tempe, Arizona; and São Paulo, Brazil.
Digital Dining
Want to find a cigar-friendly steakhouse on Manhattan's upper east side? You could reach for your trusty Zagat New York City Restaurant Survey and start flipping furiously through the pages. Or you could just flip on your computer. The New York City ZagatDisc, available on CD-ROM for Windows 3.1 or higher, lets your computer do the searching for you.
The $19.95 ZagatDisc's handy search feature lets you key in the kind of food you're craving--Brazilian food at 2 a.m. in Greenwich Village or a romantic spot in the theater district--and voilà! The program lists every eatery that meets your requirements. You can search by cuisine, neighborhood, prices and ratings. You can even hunt by "special features" such as Brunch, Old New York and Winning Wine Lists.
Just like its more conventional paper version, the ZagatDisc is sold in bookstores and on newsstands and gives you all the essentials: addresses, phone numbers, credit card acceptance and hours of operation. For now, diners in the Big Apple are the only ones who can test the digital dining experience, but Zagat will be serving up disks for more than 40 metro areas starting in 1998. Now if only it would pick up your check.
Climb Every Mountain
As a small-business owner, you may have yet to reach the top of the heap in the business world, but no one's stopping you from hiking to the top of the "rooftop of Africa"--Mt. Kilimanjaro. New York City-based Horizon Holidays offers seven-day, six-night tours to the summit, which towers 19,340 feet above sea level. On one of the two routes to the top--the Marangu Route and the Machame Route--porters and expert guides will heft your heavy gear, leaving you free to fully experience the climb to the top.
No special equipment is needed for the Marangu Route (starting at $1,150, land only, meaning airfare isn't included), but the Machame Route (starting at $2280, land only) is more advanced. For either route, you don't need to be an experienced climber, but you can't be a couch potato, either. The biggest challenge to making it to the top has nothing to do with the mountain--it's tearing yourself away from the office for an entire week. Be sure to leave your cell phone and laptop at home.
The Sound Of Music
Who says that to have state-of-the-art home theater sound, you have to spend thousands on a mammoth component system with giant speakers--and then spend hours and hours trying to figure out how to wire the thing? Not us. Two new Mini Theater systems from Mahwah, New Jersey-based Aiwa America Inc. include everything you could possibly need for a home theater setup without the cost or the hassle.
With built-in Dolby Pro Logic Surround circuitry, a three-disc CD changer, Super T-Bass, dual auto-reverse cassette deck, Dolby B noise reduction, subwoofer output, digital AM/FM tuner, five speakers and more, all you have to do is add a TV and VCR. There's even a karaoke feature! (Warning: This feature may be hazardous to your neighbor's sanity.)
The NSX-MT70 and NSX-MT90 may pack a powerful 240 and 330 watts, respectively, but you don't have to be a power lifter to hoist them. They're so compact, they fit neatly on a bookshelf or tabletop. And you can forget about complicated wiring--these bad boys are ready to go right out of the box. At prices in the $600 to $700 range, they may even leave you enough cash to buy some CDs.
Contact Sources
AIWA America Inc., (800) BUY-AIWA, http://www.aiwa.com
Big Ash Cigar Watch Co., (888) 722-CIGR
Disney Cruise Lines, (800) DCL-CRUI, http://www.disneycruise.com
E-Z Legal Forms Inc., (800) 822-4566, http://www.e-zlegal.com
GameWorks, (818) 866-9613, http://www.gameworks.com
General Publishing Group, 2701 Ocean Park Blvd., #140, Santa Monica, CA 90405, (888) CALL-GPG
Horizon Holidays Inc., 61 Broadway, #2825, New York, NY 10006, (800) 248-5608
Interactive Magic, (919) 461-0722
Zagat Survey LLC, 4 Columbus Cir., New York, NY 10019, (800) 333-3421


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Girl 27
Though this documentary has a subject that is extremely compelling and brave, it was unfortunately poorly made. Somehow I don't believe that the fault was at the hands of the directors or producers, but simply the lack of cooperation and substantial footage. The fact that I still took away a lot of information and was able to truly sympathize with all the victims and their stories was enough to make me see the film as something well-worth everyone's time.
In April 2003, Vanity Fair printed their Hollywood Issue. Inside was a story titled, "It Happened One Night...at MGM," which gave a detailed account of a massive cover up by MGM that has to do with the rape of Patricia Douglas. In 1937, MGM decided to organize a large convention for all of its sales employees and producers who, I should add, were all men. These conventions were seen as a sort of holiday among the participants, where lodging, food, entertainment, and a lot of alcohol were provided to ensure that everyone had a good time and felt that they were essential to the company. The entertainment for one of these conventions would come in the form of over one hundred female dancers, most of whom were under-aged girls. Before the big party of the convention happened, a casting call was made by MGM in which these girls were told that they would be dancing in a movie and needed to be fitted for cowgirl costumes, then report to a barn on Hal Roach's ranch. On the casting call list, one of these girls had her name in bold and underlined: Girl 27, Pat Douglas, who was 17 at the time. The movie the girls were supposed to be dancing in turned out to be a stag party for all of the MGM employees, one of whom was presumably made to feel as though he had one of the many girls all to himself. That man was producer David Ross and the girl he was pushed toward was Patricia Douglas.Continue Reading


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A NEW YOU: You can get big returns from small acts of kindness
Think of a person who changed your life. What did he or she do to make such an impact?
For of all the beautiful things in the world, there is nothing greater than a selfless, kind action, an encouraging word, or good deed that is done in love for another.
I like the memorable story I heard long ago about a woman who adored flowers. Year after year, meticulously, she planted thousands of exquisite blooms on the property of her country home and welcomed guests to see her gardens, sharing her vision of beauty with others.
A television reporter was told about the vast floral display. So, he phoned the woman to ask if he could visit her garden and conduct an interview. The woman agreed. They set up a meeting time, and she gave him directions.
Several days later, the reporter drove to the woman's home. He followed the route and turned onto a small dirt road. In the bright morning sunlight, he saw a hand-lettered sign with an arrow that read, "God's Garden."
The reporter parked his car, stepped out and casually walked up a long, winding pathway. As he turned a corner, he nonchalantly gazed upward and gasped.
Multitudes upon multitudes of gorgeous flowers were assembled in patterns. Each different colored blossom was planted in large groups. Exquisite shades of baby pink, magenta, delicate lavender, yellow and vivid orange were planted all over the property.
Remarkably, there were more than 50,000 flowers spread over five acres.
At that moment, the woman emerged from her house. She stood there, smiling, and then extended her hand. "Welcome. It's a pleasure to meet you," she said. Wide-eyed, the reporter replied, with his hand shaking hers, "The pleasure is all mine."
Then, amazed, he asked, "How on earth did you do this?"
Softly, the woman answered, "One bulb at a time."
God's love is seen in your benevolent actions. Imagine what you can accomplish and achieve for the benefit of others; one day, one step, one dream, one deed, and one idea at a time.
God has given you special gifts and strengths. He has called you and chosen you. Thus, don't let anything keep you from being a great influence. Listen to the voice in your heart. Follow your passions forward. And find someone to be good to every single day.
There are so many little ways to make a big impact in someone's life. By doing good for another person, you follow in the footsteps of God, whose powerful spirit is alive within you today. "The kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21).
Put a happy expression on your face. You have a lovely smile, and it's a tool that can lift the weight of the world off of someone shoulders and in the process, cheer you up, too. A long-distance friend once told me that when she was in elementary school, her mother wrote in her autograph book a verse she would always recall. It read, "The world is like a mirror, reflecting what you do, and if you face it smiling, it smiles right back at you."
Encourage laughter from people, for there is a direct correlation between humor and good health. Invite humor into conversations by asking others, "What funny thing happened to you today?" Every night at dinner, after we say grace, my family and I go around the table and we each share something good that transpired during the course of our day. That discussion brings a positive atmosphere into our home. For if we live, think, and act positively, we will attract positive results.
There is only one of you, and you're needed. Hence, build someone else up by giving them sincere compliments. Offer words of gratitude and applaud another's good efforts. Tell your spouse often that you appreciate him or her. Be generous with your affection and praise.
Convey loving messages to children. Give extra hugs and say, "God loves you," "You were born to make a difference," and "I believe in you."
Uphold another in prayer. Do kind deeds in secret. And compose 'thank you notes' to people who may need encouragement or have had a profound impact on your life.
Lend a listening ear. Often, a person who is sad or frustrated just needs someone who will listen. Mentor a child. Coach a sports team. Adopt a pet. Volunteer at shelters, soup kitchens or hospitals. Take someone who doesn't drive to run errands. Offer to grocery shop for a shut-in. Or, create care packages to send overseas for our brave servicemen and women as a 'thank you' for the selfless work that they do.
If you can, open up a window of opportunity for another. Give someone a chance.
I remember when I made an appointment to meet with the publisher of the New Haven Register to present my column idea. Afterward, he said, "We will try your column for 13 weeks and let the readers decide." That was 18 years ago. Since that time, I have received hundreds of thousands of extraordinary letters from grateful readers.
What are you doing with your exceptional talents? The world needs your light to shine brightly to make it a better place. You can make a profound difference. So, don't give up on your creative ideas that can help another. Humbly ask God to provide you with a way for His light to shine through you. And, one step at a time, as you bless others, get ready, for God will do something incredible for you.
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First Love Church ( Garfield )
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First Love Church is a place of kind Church belonging to the County of ( Garfield ).
The closest populated place is that of Enid that is1.04 miles far from First Love Church.
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The Zip Code of First Love Church is 73701.
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- State's Motto : Labor omnia vincit
- English translation : Labor conquers all things (Latin)
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Looking through the unit history for the Staunton Artillery yesterday (for something pertaining to a post over at BullRunnings), I came across a quote that sounded familiar. Then I realized that it was from a Gods & Generals conversation between "General Jackson" and "Captain Smith." Remember? It was one held at the artillery position (Ricketts'?), when Jackson finds the VMI cadet outstretched across the tongue of the Parrott rifle… it's about 52 minutes into the movie.
"Captain Smith" asks…
General, how is it you can… keep so serene… and… so utterly insensible… with the storm of shells and bullets raining about your head?
"Jackson" responds…
Captain Smith, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death, I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready, whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave.
Well, truth be known, that was not a conversation had between Jackson and Smith, nor was it a conversation made on the battlefield… or in a similar situation… and, it was slightly tweaked (well, at least that part stated by "Captain Smith").
It was actually something taken from one of Captain John D. Imboden's recollections and was from an exchange had between Imboden and Jackson three days after the battle, when Imboden visited Jackson at his headquarters near Centreville. Imboden wrote,
Although it was barely sunrise, he was out under the trees bathing the hand with spring water. It was much swollen and very painful, but he bore himself stoically. His wife had arrived the night before. Of course, the battle was the only topic discussed at breakfast. I remarked, in Mrs. Jackson's hearing, 'General, how is it that you can keep so cool, and appear so utterly insensible to danger in such a storm of shell and bullets as rained about you when your hand was hit?' He instantly became grave and reverential in his manner, and answered, in a low tone of earnestness: 'Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.' He added, after a pause, looking me full in the face: 'Captain, that is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.'
I felt that this last remark was intended as a rebuke for my profanity, when I had complained to him on the field of the apparent abandonment of my battery to capture, and I apologized. He heard me, and simply said, 'Nothing can justify profanity.
There you have it. Certainly, this is an interesting quote, but clearly there was no time to include it in yet another scene to extend the length of the film. So, it appears that, since someone found the quote so great, they inserted it into a situation that was filled with greater drama… and made a bigger splash of it by tweaking the original comments ever so slightly and out of context.
Don't ya just love Hollywood for the way it delivers history? Yes, I know, this is but one departure from "the facts" in this particular movie, but I wonder how many people actually believe that the conversation was had in the way it was depicted in the movie. I also wonder how many people would ever know or make the effort to know that it was not a conversation between Jackson and Smith, but with Imboden (a very interesting, though to most, probably a much less conspicuous character than Smith in contemporary reflection of the war).
I don't have a copy of the book… does it appear in the book as in the movie? I'd just like to nail down the point of departure from fact.


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I find it disturbing that AT&T is STILL testing the Playbook bridging app. I believe it is because they (AT&T) want a way to charge users an extra fee above and beyond what is being charged now for smartphones and data packages and tethering fees.
I located this article from xfm news. The article is from 5/10:
AT&T may be putting the kibosh on an application for BlackBerry smartphones that allows users to connect their new BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to AT&T's 3G wireless network for free.Greed, the american big business Standard Operating Procedure.
AT&T has confirmed that the app that allows BlackBerry users to pair their RIM smartphones with the new PlayBook tablet is not currently available on AT&T BlackBerry phones, a fact that limits the functionality of the device for AT&T BlackBerry customers.
AT&T said the app isn't supported yet on its network because it hasn't fully tested the app. But some people suspect that AT&T may be unhappy with how the app allows BlackBerry users to bypass its $20 tethering fee.
"We are working with RIM to offer the 'bridge' app to AT&T customers," AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said. "We've only just received the app and we're testing it now to make sure it will deliver a great experience to our customers."
The "bridge" app, as RIM calls it, allows PlayBook users to pair their tablets with their BlackBerry smartphones. In essence it lets them get their BlackBerry e-mails, calendars, tasks, and contacts. It also offers access to the BlackBerry Messenger service. When the devices are separated, all of that potentially sensitive content stays on the phone and isn't left on the tablet. RIM says this is an important security feature for corporate IT managers.
One of the perks of the bridge app is that it allows users to tether their BlackBerry smartphones to the PlayBook to get 3G wireless data access. The initial version of the PlayBook, which went on sale today, only offers Wi-Fi access.
Last week at the launch party of the new PlayBook in New York City, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said that the "bridging" app for the PlayBook was a big differentiator for the Playbook over either the iPad or other Android tablets that are sold through carriers, because the "bridge" app allows BlackBerry users to get 3G data access on their tablets without paying an additional fee.
AT&T charges $20 for tethering, which is in addition to the $25 2GB data plan for the smartphone data plan. Verizon also charges an additional $20 a month for 2GB of data to tether a tablet to its smartphones. This is in addition to the $30 a month data plan that's required for the smartphone....
I have found this article on several different sites that deal with wireless technology.


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Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Vijay Vaitheeswaran, energy reporter for The Economist, is fast becoming one of the faces of the climate change conversation and new energy technology. He recently appeared in Leonardo DiCaprio's new documentary, The 11th Hour, and, with colleague Iain Carson, Economist industry editor, has just co-authored ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future.
You may be surprised to learn that after years of engineering training at MIT and energy reporting, Vaitheeswaran doesn't want you to give up your car. He's not in the business of trying to make America fall out of love with the automobile, and believes that a world without cars would be "a dim, joyless place with much-diminished freedom, mobility, and prosperity." ZOOM is a comprehensive look at the auto and oil industries' destructive marriage, and the book insists that cars are the solution, not the problem.
Plenty stopped by The Economist's New York offices to talk to Vaitheeswaran about the "parable of the prius," a gasoline tax that won't deplete Americans' wallets, and what cars of the future might look like.