<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b40eeb2e-4986-449a-ae0f-e6ed5c7ba64c/427D5AD2-25BE-4462-9B18-72DBEEEB4A2A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newser.com/story/71375/states-employers-un-discover-columbus-day.html" href="http://www.newser.com/story/71375/states-employers-un-discover-columbus-day.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newser.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newser.com/story/71375/states-employers-un-discover-columbus-day.html"><P> <SPAN class="source"> (Newser) </SPAN> – Columbus Day is rapidly sailing off the calendar all over the US. Some 22 states no longer give their workers the day off and many employers have begun "holiday swapping," requiring workers to come in on Columbus Day in return for an extra day off at Christmas or New Year's. Brown University renamed the holiday "Fall Weekend" after protests from Native American groups, and it's been labeled "Native American Day" or "Italian-American Day" elsewhere, notes the <EM>Wall Street Journal</EM>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newser.com/story/71375/states-employers-un-discover-columbus-day.html"><P> Columbus Day parades are becoming an endangered species as the holiday fades. Philadelphia canceled its parade this year and even Columbus, Ohio, canceled its annual parade 11 years ago amid controversy over its namesake's role in history. "Their reaction is as if it was the Ku Klux Klan," says one local trying to revive the tradition. In Colorado, where parades have been met with fierce protests for years, a hoaxster fooled several news agencies into believing this year's parade had been called off. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newser.com/story/71375/states-employers-un-discover-columbus-day.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newser.com/img/4E5ADD3E-6110-4A5C-89E2-C0EA6D9D90E5" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/427D5AD2-25BE-4462-9B18-72DBEEEB4A2A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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