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George Tunis

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. — In direct response to the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn., a Maryland armor manufacturer has developed a handheld white board for classrooms that can stop a bullet from a handgun fired at point-blank range.

"It's something I don't think any American can tolerate anymore, and we're in a position to do something about it," said George Tunis, CEO and chairman of Pocomoke City-based Hardwire. "I was like — all right, let's take everything we got, see what we can throw at this problem, figure out an innovative solution."

source of story http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/22/bulletproof-white-boards-classrooms/1853999/

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'We are made for this moment'

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'So long as we seize it together'

In his second inaugural address, President Obama called on the nation to live up to its founding ideals. FULL STORY

 

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Thomas Warren, wtop.com

WASHINGTON - It was a celebratory atmosphere at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Sunday as his son helped lay a wreath to honor the legendary civil rights leader's 83rd birthday.

Martin Luther King III helped lay a wreath at the base of the 32-foot tall statue that dawns the likeness of his father, in a pensive glance across the Tidal Basin, arms folded in his suit, a rolled up sheet of paper in his left hand.

"What we are here saying today not just happy birthday and celebrating. Yes, we're celebrating the best of what we are, but what me must become," King said.

After the short speech, his daughter was heard saying, to her iconic grandfather, "Happy Birthday, Papa

source of story and to read more http://www.wtop.com/41/2707453/Wreath-laying-ceremony-celebrates-Kings-legacy

more civil rights activts

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Rev. Jesse Jackson, actor Dick Gregory and actor Chris Tucker attend a Martin Luther King Day ceremony under the statue of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. at the MLK Memorial on Jan. 20, 2013 in Washington, D.C. / Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images

http://www.freep.com/article/20130120/NEWS07/130120039/National-Mall-wreaths-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-

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WASHINGTON — Monday's inaugural may be President Barack Obama's big day, but Martin Luther King Jr. will loom large over the festivities.

A quirk in the calendar pushed Obama's public swearing-in onto the national holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader, and inaugural planners have taken pains to acknowledge that fact. Going into his second term, Obama seems to have put King at the front of his mind, too.

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Obama considers it fitting that Inauguration Day is on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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A 7-year-old boy brought a 22-caliber pistol, a loaded magazine and a flare gun to school in his backpack.

A 7-year-old boy brought a 22-caliber pistol, a loaded magazine and a flare gun to school in his backpack.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • New York police say a Queens mom put guns in her son's school backpack
  • She says she forgot to take them out before school
  • The discovery of the guns caused a lockdown
  • Now the mom is facing charges and two of her sons are in protective custody

New York (CNN) -- Things a 7-year-old boy expects Mom to put in his backpack: A peanut butter sandwich. Pencils. Maybe even a nice note with a little heart scrawled on it.

Things he doesn't: a flare gun, a .22-caliber pistol, a loaded magazine and, for good measure, 14 more bullets in a plastic bag.

But that's exactly what a second-grader had inside his Batman backpack Thursday morning when he arrived at Wave Preparatory Elementary School in Far Rockaway in Queens, Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said Friday.

The mom, Deborah Farley, 53, told police she had been, according to Browne, "out walking the streets of Queens late Wednesday night" with the guns in her son's backpack and she forgot to take them out.

SOURCE OF STORY http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/18/us/new-york-backpack-guns/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE THURSDAY, JAN 17th

OPEN TO PUBLIC and LIVE STREAM

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NBC SPORTS NETWORK FIGHT NIGHT

CAMPILLO vs. KOVALEV      and      AYALA vs. STEVENS

FIGHT NIGHT: SATURDAY, JANUARY 19TH

FIGHT VENUE: MOHEGAN SUN, UNCASVILLE, CT
 

PRESS CONFERENCE DETAILS 

  

WHO:           Gabriel Campillo

                     Sergey Kovalev

                     Elvin Ayala

                     Curtis Stevens

 

WHEN:        Thursday, January 17 - 2:30PM ET

 

WHERE:      Mohegan Sun Casino - In front of Box Office

 

DETAILS:   

Press Conference will be streamed live http://www.ustream.tv/MainEvents

 

FOR MEDIA ONLY: 

Media can email questions for main event or co-feature participants until 1pm ET, Thursday 1/17 to ehaley@mainevents.com 

 

Media can text questions during press conference to Ellen Haley 973-903-6715 or Michael Parente 401-263-4990. Be sure to include your name and affiliation in text also.

 

All questions will be asked and answered during live stream of press conference. 

ABOUT JANUARY 19 FIGHTS

Tickets are priced at $125 and $40 can be purchased through Ticketmaster 1-800-745-3000Ticketmaster Link to January 19 NBCSN Fight Night at Mohegan Sun. For ADA accessible sales, call Mohegan Sun Box Office 1-800-862-8499.

 

Eight bouts are planned for the January 19 card to be held at Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard Uncasville, CT. Doors open at 6:00PM. First fight is at 6:30PM.

 

Sergey Kovalev, 19-0-1, 17 KOs, takes on Gabriel Campillo, 21-4-1, 8 KOs, in an international 10-round light heavyweight main event. In the co-feature, Elvin Ayala, 26-5-1, 12 KO's, battles Curtis Stevens, 22-3, 16 KO's, in a 10-round middleweight contest.

 

The card is promoted by Main Events and Jimmy Burchfield's Classic Entertainment Sports in association with Peltz Boxing, and Sampson Boxing.

 

2012-2013 NBC FIGHT NIGHT SCHEDULE

(All times ET and subject to change)

 

Saturday, January 19, 9PM - 11PM, NBC Sports Network, Mohegan Sun Casino, CT

Saturday, Feb 23, 10:30PM - 12:30AM, NBC Sports Network, The Paramount, NY

Saturday, March 9, 10PM- 12AM, NBC Sports Network, Location TBA

 

To find the location of the NBC Sports Network on your local cable, satellite or IPTV provider, click here: http://www.nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30092015/ns/sports/

 

Tweet the link to NBC Sports Network Fight Night channel finder: bit.ly/175UuU

Twitter: #FightNight Twitter: @main_events @NBCSN

MEDIA CONTACTS:
Ellen Haley, Main Events, ehaley@mainevents.com
Alex Rozis, NBC, alex.rozis@nbcuni.com
Michael Parente, Classic Entertainment and Sports, michaelparente@gmail.com
  
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 Have a Dream Speech
Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

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EUGENE PATTERSON, 89, VOICE ON CIVIL RIGHTS, DIES

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Eugene Patterson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist whose impassioned words helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement as it unfolded across the South, has died at 89. Patterson, who helped fellow whites to understand the problems of racial discrimination, died Saturday evening in Florida after complications from prostate cancer, according to B.J. Phillips, a family spokeswoman.

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Vice President Joe Biden said President Barack Obama is exploring executive orders to help stop mass shootings.

Vice President Joe Biden said President Barack Obama is exploring executive orders to help stop mass shootings.

CNN) -- President Barack Obama is exploring executive orders to help prevent mass shootings in America, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.

"The president is going to act. Executive orders, executive action, can be taken," Biden told reporters before meetings with groups representing survivors of mass shootings. "We haven't decided what this is yet, but we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and all the rest of the Cabinet members."

Legislative action also is needed, Biden said.

"I'm convinced we can affect the well-being of millions of Americans, and take thousands of people out of harm's way, if we act responsibly," he said.

SOURCE OF STORY http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/09/politics/gun-control-battle/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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