text: News & Events / News print News View All Faculty Alumni Students General RSS Feeds YEAR 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 « Back 04.10.13 Professor Rebecca Kysar's Articles on Tax Legislative Process Published in Top Law Journals Tax matters have dominated the political landscape in recent months, from the Affordable Care Act to the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Helping to navigate the waters is Associate Professor Rebecca Kysar, whose teaching and scholarship in the areas of federal income tax, international tax, and legislation are earning significant attention. Her newest work in some of the country's top law journals examines tax treaties, as well as the tax legislative process. Professor Kysar's interest in tax matters stems from her tax courses in law school and her later employment in the tax department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. "A course on the politics of tax policy ignited my interest in tax law and ultimately my desire to research and teach in the area," she said. "Practicing at Cravath during the M&A boom of the mid-2000s made the law come alive and gave me the experience I needed to make the goal of academia attainable." In "The Shell Bill Game: Congressional Avoidance and the Origination Clause," to be published in the Washington University Law Review (2014), Professor Kysar addresses a new challenge against the Affordable Care Act under the Origination Clause of the Constitution, which requires that revenue-raising bills begin in the House of Representatives. Recently, the Senate has interpreted its amendment power under the Clause broadly, striking the language of a bill passed by the House (the shell bill) and replacing it entirely with its own unrelated revenue proposals, as was done in the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Kysar ultimately concludes that this "shell bill game" is constitutional. After grounding her conclusion in constitutional text and history, she argues that a contrary interpretation of the Clause would require the judiciary to assume a quasi-legislative function—for instance, to assess whether the Senate's amendment was germane to the shell bill. Instead, she argues, the Clause should be interpreted in accordance with a proposed "congressional avoidance" doctrine, whereby the Court avoids searching review of the legislative process. Her article in the Yale Journal of International Law (2013), "On the Constitutionality of Tax Treaties," explores the international dimensions of the Origination Clause—specifically, its apparent conflict with the Treaty Clause. Currently, tax treaties are consented to by the Senate alone. Professor Kysar emphasizes the need for tax treaties to be implemented or approved through legislation passed by both houses of Congress, as is done in the case of trade treaties, for instance. "It's unconstitutional that the House isn't involved in tax treaties given its special role over tax matters under the Origination Clause," she said. A third piece, Reconciling Congress to Tax Reform, will appear as part of a forthcoming symposium at Notre Dame. Professor Kysar argues against recent proposals to pursue tax reform through the reconciliation process, a "fast track" procedural framework that was utilized to enact the Bush tax cuts and health care reform, due to its tight time frame and its ability to circumvent the Senate filibuster. "Although reconciliation is a powerful tool, its potential to produce polarizing, unstable policies without much deliberation makes it a poor vehicle for complex legislation that needs to be lasting, such as fundamental tax reform," she said. Professor Kysar instead proposes a set of framework procedures that have the potential to assist Congress in achieving fundamental tax reform over the next two years. Professor Kysar has also published articles on the tax legislative and budgetary processes in the Cornell Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among other respected journals. She has presented her scholarship at over two dozen forums, including the Columbia Tax Policy Colloquium, the Northwestern University School of Law Colloquium on Advanced Topics in Taxation, the NYU Tax Policy Colloquium, and the UCLA Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium. In 2012, Professor Kysar also served as the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. As mentioned above, prior to joining Brooklyn Law School in 2008, Professor Kysar practiced at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where she was responsible for the tax aspects of complex domestic and international transactions. She also served as a law clerk to Judge Richard Cardamone of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In law school, she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Coker Teaching Fellow. Professor Kysar is an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Committee Member and is affiliated with the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law. Listen to an interview with Professor Kyser. Email this article Share Read the latest issue of Brooklyn Law Notes


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DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL SMALL MOLECULES TARGETING MITOCHONDRIAL AND OXIDATIVE STRESS SIGNALING PATHWAYS FOR PANCREATIC CANCER THERAPY by Yumna Hosam Shabaik A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES) May 2013 Copyright 2013 Yumna Hosam Shabaik
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Daniel James Brown's account of how blue-collar oarsmen with roots in lumber mills, dairy farms, shipyards and mining camps prevailed over teams from elite Eastern colleges and went on to the Olympics is set against the grim realities of the Great Depression and the rise of Nazi Germany.books Updated: Jun 04, 2013, 13:23 IST
"The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" (Viking), by Daniel James Brown
Before March Madness and the Super Bowl ever existed, the big-time sports that mattered to most Americans included boxing, horse racing and, yes, collegiate rowing. Tens of thousands of spectators would line the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for the national championships, which drew coverage that matched the Kentucky Derby, the Rose Bowl or the World Series.
The greatest eight-oar crew may well have been the scrappy underdogs from the University of Washington who won the 1936 championship and went on to take the gold medal in the 1936 Olympics in a thrilling competition in Adolph Hitler's Berlin.
Daniel James Brown's account of how blue-collar oarsmen with roots in lumber mills, dairy farms, shipyards and mining camps prevailed over teams from elite Eastern colleges and went on to the Olympics is set against the grim realities of the Great Depression and the rise of Nazi Germany. This riveting and inspiring saga evokes that of Seabiscuit, another upstart that came out of the West.
The central figure in the book is Joe Rantz, who endured a Dickensian childhood before being abandoned by his impoverished family and left to fend for himself. Rowing provided an antidote to life's hardships and imbued Rantz with a sense of purpose and the opportunity for a college education.
"The brutal afternoon workouts left him exhausted and sore but feeling cleansed, as if someone had scrubbed out his soul with a wire brush," wrote Brown, who met and interviewed Rantz as he was dying of heart disease at the home of his daughter, a neighbor of the author.
Other characters who come to life in the book include Al Ulbrickson, the Huskies coach whose quiet demeanor didn't mask his determination to win Olympic gold, a feat that archrival University of California had accomplished twice. There is also the team's mentor, British-born George Yeoman Pocock, the renowned designer of racing shells who offers valuable lessons about rowing and life to Rantz and other team members.
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Two scientists have developed a chemical coating for fabric that causes it to clean and deodorize itself when exposed to sunlight. This means that unless the world is too polluted to occupy in the future, we'll never have to do laundry again. Now, let's all twirl around in our dream kitchens!
The wonderfabric's secret lies in the chemical titanium dioxide, which is already used in products that clean themselves, like odor free socks and stain resistant tiles. In trials utilizing a combination of the aforementioned stain fighting chemical, nitrogen, silver, and iodine, cotton fabric soaked in the solution was able to dissolve an orange stain using just the power of the sun and its own chemical pluck. The solution didn't wash out and didn't need to be replenished in order for the fabric it coated to retain its stain resistant characteristics.
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The Burger Lab: Foolproof Jucy Lucy
Burger recipes and cooking tips from J. Kenji López-Alt.
As far as singing the praises of the Jucy Lucy goes, I'm hardly qualified to add to the choir. I've never been to Minneapolis and I can't confirm whether or not Matt's Bar should be credited with its invention. Heck, I can't even tell you if I like the darn things. Fact is, and I'm going to admit this up front: I've never even had one.
Which, in a way, has helped me out on my mission this week to create a foolproof Jucy Lucy. When you have no prior experiences with something, you have no built in biases, and this naiveté can occasionally lead to great results. Would I have ever have considered sticking vodka in pie crust to foolproof it had I been raised making pie crusts on my grandma's knee? Probably not, and good thing I wasn't.
First off, if you've been living under a rock and/or outside of Minneapolis, a Jucy Lucy is essential an inside-out cheeseburger. To be honest, I believe that the appeal lies more in the ability to surprise unsuspecting eaters-by with a liquid hot cheese burn rather than with any real culinary appeal. But, seeing as I like pretty much anything with a liquid center, I was game to work this one out.
Now as far as I can see, there are two problems with the thing.
Problem the First: Blowout
Adam had this problem when he initially examined homemade Jucy Lucys a few years back. As the burger cooks it begins to contract, putting pressure on the melted, liquefied cheese in the center. If any faults occur in the structural integrity of the patty, the cheese bursts out in a miniature lava flow and burns on the griddle.
Pricking the surface of the burger with a toothpick seems to be the recommended solution for this problem, but when I tested it out, there didn't seems to be much benefit. Poorly constructed burgers exploded nonetheless. The real answer lay in construction. In order to get the patties thin and intact, I took a hint from my arepa-loving wife's Colombian cuisine and decided to flatten the ball of meat between two pieces of plastic using the bottom of a pan. With two perfectly even, intact patties, it was a simple matter to insert the American cheese, and tightly seal the edges. I cooked eight burgers this way, without a single explosion.
Problem the Second: Temperature
In order to get the cheese to melt into an oozy, gooey mess, the patty needs to be cooked well done. Thus far, I don't think anyone has come up with a really good solution to this problem. Most people just accept it for what it is, hoping that the gooey cheese will make up a bit for some of the lifeless meat. Others have tried adding a milk and breadcrumb panade to the burger meat to keep it tender even when fully cooked. Of course, the (pitiable) results are like meatloaf on a bun. Not exactly what I'm after.
The first step to improving the texture of well-done beef was to ditch the pre-ground stuff from the store in lieu of home-ground (in this case, I went for straight ground chuck, with a bit of hanger steak scraps added to it).
The difference in quality is pretty striking. Store-bought ground beef is usually ground too finely, and always compressed into a block on a Styrofoam tray. Rather than having the distinct grain and almost fluffy texture of fresh ground beef, it comes across as mealy—pulpy, almost. The tightly packed beef shrinks during cooking, squeezing out juices and fat. Fresh ground meat, on the other hand, has a much looser texture. As it cooks, fat melts, forming little nooks and crannies in its internal structure for juices to rest in, rather than being forced out of the patty. with fresh ground beef, even a well-done burger can be juicy.
Still curious, I tested one last theory. Perhaps the whole well-done-in-order-to-melt-cheese thing is a myth. I tried melting slices of American cheese in water baths set at different temperatures. You know what? Even at 120 degrees, American cheese is almost completely liquefied.
This means that even a completely rare Jucy Lucy can still have a molten cheese core, albeit one mixed with red meat juices. It's doable, but not too pretty:
With construction method and meat in place, the rest was simple. To be truly authentic, the cheese should be folded in half once before inserting between the patties, but I discovered that once the burger is cooked, as long as the molten center stays put, it really makes no difference how you fit it in there.
Now doesn't that just make your insides melt to pieces?
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Cincinnati found a way to stay unbeaten without a big offensive game from top scorer Sean Kilpatrick.
Cashmere Wright scored 14 points, including three 3-pointers during a key second-half run, and No. 11 Cincinnati beat Marshall 72-56 on Saturday.
Cincinnati improved to 10-0 for the second time in three seasons and the 10th time in school history.
The Bearcats shot 61.5 percent after halftime after struggling early.
They put the game away without leaning on Kilpatrick, who tied a season low with 13 points, seven below his average. The junior finished 5 of 15 from the floor, including a 1-for-7 effort before halftime.
"Ugliest first half of my life," Kilpatrick said. "But I was able to get in the second half and make shots for my team, rebound the ball and (play) defense. That's something we preach about every day. Defense wins games on the road."
Justin Jackson added 10 points for the Bearcats. D.D. Scarver and Elijah Pittman scored 20 points apiece for Marshall (6-5).
Cincinnati broke open a tight game with a 13-4 run midway through the second half.
Marshall's Tamron Manning was called for an intentional foul to keep Shaquille Thomas from scoring on a fast break. Thomas made both free throws, Cincinnati got the ball back and Wright made three 3-pointers over the next 1:37 to give the Bearcats a 52-39 lead with 11:44 remaining.
Wright, who set a career high with six 3s in Cincinnati's 92-60 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore on Dec. 8, had four against Marshall.
"He's a rhythm guy," Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin said. "Once he got his first shot to go down that can change a lot of things for him. I'd like to see him start the game the way he started the second half. He's a great shooter for a point guard."
Scarver made a foul shot and hit a 3-pointer after missing the second free throw to give Marshall a brief spark, but Kilpatrick put the Bearcats ahead by double digits for good with a 3-pointer with 7:55 left.
Kilpatrick scored nine points over the final eight minutes to avoid his first game in single digits.
"I might be the main scorer," he said. "But we have tons of talent on this team and that's something that will help us down the stretch."
Cronin had plenty to say about Saturday's announcement that the seven Big East schools that don't play FBS football are leaving the conference.
"I don't blame them," he said. "My take is it's a shame that football, one sport, has dictated all this. The money that one sport is swinging around is swaying universities to make decisions. Don't tell me that people care about student-athletes.
"It's all ridiculous. Let's call it what it is. I've thought about this long and hard and I've waited to say this. If it's all about money and money grabbing, the players need to get paid."
Last year, Marshall overcame a nine-point deficit in the second half and beat the Bearcats 73-69 in overtime in Cincinnati. DeAndre Kane made some key 3-pointers down the stretch in that game, but Marshall's leading scorer wasn't available on Saturday. He's out indefinitely with a right hand injury.
Marshall committed 20 turnovers, made just 14-of-27 free throws and was outmuscled in the paint where it was outscored 40-16. The Thundering Herd shot 39.5 percent (17 of 43) from the floor.
"Their pressure didn't allow us to get into any flow," Marshall coach Tom Herrion said.
An early screaming from Cronin was all Cincinnati needed to turn around a slow start.
During a timeout, Cronin cussed and finger pointed in the huddle at his starting lineup, especially Kilpatrick, after Marshall hit three open 3-pointers, including two by Scarver.
"We were so much in a scramble for the most part that Scarver was just getting opens 3s," Kilpatrick said. "That's something he's great at. We didn't find him in certain situations, but when we did, we tried to rush him off the 3-point line."
Cincinnati responded with three baskets in a minute and never lost the lead again.
The Bearcats return home for their next three games, including a matchup Wednesday with cross-town rival Xavier. Last year's loss at Xavier is remembered for a brawl that resulted in four players from each team getting suspensions.
"The past is the past," Kilpatrick said. "It will be a great game."
Added Wright: "This game is what we make it. We not looking at this game like it's a rivalry. We're looking at it like it's a game in the way of our national championship where we're trying to go."


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Twelve million Americans seek medical relief from the perpetual whooshing, ringing or roaring noise of tinnitus, but there is currently no cure. Treatments such as electrical shocks, pills and sound therapy have had only limited success. But as researchers learn more about the causes of tinnitus—and its devastating emotional toll—they are discovering better options.
Researchers at Neuromonics in Bethlehem, Pa., have developed a new iPod-like device called Neuromonics Oasis, which tackles each tinnitus sufferer's unique combination of emotional and auditory symptoms. The portable music player delivers New Age and baroque tunes, which serve a double purpose: the music provides psychological relief from the agony of hearing phantom noise, and it addresses the complex neurological roots of tinnitus.
When ear damage or normal aging mutes certain sound frequencies, some experts believe the brain becomes hyperactive as it strains to hear those missing data. "The brain wants a signal," explains neuroscientist Richard Salvi of the University at Buffalo, "so it starts turning up the volume." The Neuromonics system boosts the intensity of musical frequencies at which a user has poor hearing, fulfilling the brain's need for input. The device also attempts to train users to tune out their tinnitus—like tuning out the humming fridge—by slowly lowering the music's volume over several months of treatment. As the music transitions from continuously covering up the "brain static" to intermittently obscuring and revealing it with sonic peaks and troughs, the brain gradually habituates by ignoring the tinnitus as well as the repetitive music accompanying it.
The Neuromonics device has been successful in more than 2,000 tinnitus patients so far, but it is not without critics. Neurologist Jack Wazen, who is conducting clinical trials with the device at the Silverstein Institute in Sarasota, Fla., noted that only half his tinnitus patients can afford its $3,500 to $6,000 price tag. And as with other treatments, Neuromonics is not for everyone. Marc Fagelson, an audiologist at East Tennessee State University, says, "It doesn't work for musicians, because they don't like the way it sounds. But for most people who weren't weaned on the Sex Pistols, it is a well-designed package."


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Student teams working on 'Spin Your Thesis!'
Four teams of university students will develop and perform experiments in hypergravity during ESA's second 'Spin Your Thesis!' campaign.
The students will use the Large Diameter Centrifuge facility at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Experts from ESA's Education Office, ESA's Technical Directorate and the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA) finally selected four teams:
BuBCoa Three students from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, will investigate the effects of gravity on how bubbles float, bounce and merge with surfaces.
HyperMEA Two students from the University of Florence in Italy will study how hypergravity stresses plants.
HyperDrop Two students, from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and Politecnico di Milano in Italy, will investigate the effect of hypergravity on the behaviour of a liquid drop on a flat solid surface.
PolVol Two students from the Université de Montréal in Canada and the Université de Rouen in France will study the effect of hypergravity on cells in growing pollen tubes.
The second 'Spin your Thesis!' campaign will take place in June and September, with two teams using the centrifuge each week.
The students have the possibility to be supported by an ELGRA mentor, benefiting from expertise in gravity research.


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Van Roekel: Fiscal Package A Source of Hope and Concern for America's Students
WASHINGTON - January 01, 2013 -
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel reacts to vote in U.S. House of Representatives to deal with the Fiscal Cliff of 2012.
"While tonight's House vote represents a major step toward addressing the needs of working Americans and our national economy, we still fear where this path may lead us in two months. In February, Congress will once again battle over across-the-board sequester budget cuts at the same time it will once again debate the nation's debt ceiling.
"We are pleased that the Republican leadership in the House abandoned their efforts to simply draw lines in the sand to protect benefits for the wealthiest few. We applaud those members of Congress, from both parties, who stood up for what's right for our nation's students and all middle class families by putting people ahead of politics.
"The package, while not ideal, begins to address the demands of average Americans for a plan that provides real tax relief for middle class families and protects those struggling to find work. Its historic first steps in balancing the scales of revenue generation between the rich and middle class is critical to ensuring tax fairness and putting our economy on a path toward growth and balance. And as the cost of living continues to rise, far too many workers, including educators, still find themselves unemployed and we cannot ask those in the greatest need to bear the greatest burdens in this economy.
"Because working Americans are carrying a heavy burden in our current economy, we are disappointed that the proposal 'kicks the can' on sequestration and leaves the threat of devastating cuts to essential federal funding hanging over the nation's children and families. By delaying action for two months, Congress has pushed our national economy toward yet another cliff and continues to hold the fate of middle class Americans hostage to politics. Critical services in education, health and other key areas have already seen a cut of more than $1.5 billion, a slash that our communities could not afford in the first place. .
"Additional deep, arbitrary cuts to discretionary programs will be devastating to the programs and services that ordinary Americans depend on and inflict tremendous, irreversible harm on our nation's 50 million students, particularly those with the greatest needs. Across-the-board cuts will mean fewer educators in our schools, students crammed into already overcrowded classrooms, shorter school weeks, 4-year-olds cheated out of early childhood education, and dreams dashed for aspiring college students.
"While we applaud the progress that has been made, we strongly encourage Congress to finish the job and protect Americans from across the board cuts facing the nation in February."
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When "12 O'Clock Boys" director Lotfy Nathan brought his film to this month's South by Southwest film festival, one of his main goals was to find distribution for the documentary.
Nathan didn't have to wait long, as deadline.com reported this week that Oscilloscope Laboratories had purchased the North American rights to Nathan's documentary on the West Baltimore dirt-bike riders.
Oscilloscope, which was co-founded by deceased Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch, is considered a boutique film company. Recent films from Oscilloscope include "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and the Banksy-directed "Exit Through the Gift Shop."
There is no word yet on when the film will be released, but Deadline reports the documentary will head to other film festivals first (Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival and North Carolina's Full Frame, both in April, are next) before it will be released to theaters. There are plans for theatrical, DVD/Blu-Ray and digital releases.
"12 O'Clock Boys" is Nathan's first film. The London-born filmmaker graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009. He currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. In February, Sun reporter Chris Kaltenbach spoke with Nathan about the film and his motivation to create it. He also discussed withholding personal judgment of the controverisal group, saying he'd rather viewers decide for themselves.
"My feeling," Nathan told the Sun last month over the phone, "is that any judgment can come from the audience. What I hope to provide is this kind-of insider perspective."
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Hanare (ハナレ, Hanare) is a kunoichi from the Jōmae Village.
As a young child, Hanare was said to be very lonely since she had never known her family or seen her own village. She was trained from an early age in the art of espionage. One day, she was found crying in a place near her village by the young Kakashi, who spotted her and carried her on his back. He then explained to her that she can look up to the clouds above and find her way. They both were then seen by a ninja from Hanare's village and Kakashi put her down on her feet, said goodbye and left. She was then excited that someone like Kakashi was able to help her in her life.
At one point, she met Kakashi Hatake and developed romantic feelings for him. Hanare, a spy from Jōmae Village from the Land of Keys, was summoned to infiltrate the Land of Fire and to investigate Konoha affairs. She was captured by Anbu and placed in the Honesty Room to be tortured. There was nothing she would reveal so the Third Hokage asked to use a more humane approach. Inoichi Yamanaka read into her brain and found no memories of her village except one; a memory of meeting a young Kakashi when she was just a lost child looking for her village. Kakashi taught Hanare to look up at the clouds for guidance whenever she felt sad and lonely, this memory she cherished.
Inoichi asked Kakashi to spend a day with her and to use his Sharingan to get further into her psyche. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura stalked the pair thinking that they are involved. Falling down from the tree, making fools of themselves, also making Kakashi kiss Hanare by accident when they both fell. Naruto grabs the flowers from Sakura and offers them to Hanare as to accept their "relationship".
In the meantime, Konoha finds out that Riichi, one of their jōnin, was captured by the Jōmae Village. It was proposed that Riichi is to be exchanged for Hanare. This exchange, however, took a turn when Kakashi refused to give her up. In actuality, Hanare's technique had allowed her to gather information regarding Konoha from Inoichi during the interrogation, and Kakashi had realised this during the kiss, when his Sharingan had met with her eye.
The exchange proceeded regardless, but a trap had been set in order to keep Hanare from returning to Jōmae Village with the information, leading her to use the commotion to escape. Kakashi caught up to her on a cliff ready to fight her. Hanare said she had erased the memories that she gained from Konoha, as she had been accepted and found the home she always wanted there. She continued saying how she should die in his hands, but Kakashi responded saying he cannot kill a ninja that has lost her pride and told her to leave.
He told Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura that she felt cornered so she jumped off the cliff, and that she was an admirable ninja. She is last seen walking away to an unknown destination. Kakashi remembered her when seeing an entertainer that looked very much like Hanare, though she had blue eyes instead of brown, and lacked a beauty mark under her right eye.
Hanare was a fair skinned, slender young woman with brown eyes and straight, dull green hair. When in disguise as a street performer she wore a red, sleeveless top with fur surrounding the top of her chest and below her shoulders. She also wears a green and blue skirt over a striped blue, orange and yellow skirt, a pink sash around her waist and black sandals. Her hair fell down to her waist with one bang that covered her left eye and she wore an orange hat with red horizontal stripes. Her make-up consisted of red lipstick and red eyeshadow and she had a beauty spot below her right eye, she also wore earrings made up of three purple pearls and a purple band around her neck. She wrapped yellow bandages around her hands and arms that reached just below her elbows. Naruto and Sakura both admired her beauty, expressing their admiration when they first saw her.
While being escorted by Kakashi around the village, Hanare let two bangs frame both sides of her face and wore a pale, yellow kimono top that fell short above her waist and a red top underneath, light purple skirt and black shinobi boots.
It was later revealed that she was wearing her proper shinobi attire underneath which consisted of a brown flak jacket with a red mesh top underneath, black pants with bandages around her right thigh and calfs, brown shin guards, black fingerless gloves that stretched to the top of her biceps and black shinobi boots. She wore the Jōmae village forehead protector and tied her hair in a loose ponytail with a red ribbon, while still letting two bangs frame her face.
Hanare's abilities allow her to look into her own brain and thus into anyone's mind that infiltrates into her brain by using her right eye. She can also erase all of the intel she had gathered up until this point. To use this technique, she weaves signs by moving her eye in specific patterns. Hanare's special technique can help her in collecting and gathering information in various areas.
Due to her training, she has built up an immensely strong will, unyielding to seemingly any form of torture, even by the likes of Ibiki Morino, a master manipulator of the human psyche.
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Past Arc: The Locus of Konoha
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This Whole Destiny Thing
So it's my turn to do a recap/review, and I figured I'd write something about whatever episode was scheduled for last night. Ha! I already reviewed it. So forget that.
Therefore, I'm going to blather a bit about this whole destiny thing, which is increasingly shown to be the underlying point of season 5.
We've been told since season 2 or 3 that it had to be Sam, it just always had to be Sam. Then, once the angels got involved, it wasn't just Sam, it was Sam and Dean. They're apparently descended from Cain and Abel...hmmm, that must mean, since the bloodline is suited for hosting angels, that Cain and Abel were designed to be vessels. Maybe not, maybe it's just a robust line. :) Anyway, the angels keep saying stuff like they knew that Sam and Dean would host Michael and Lucifer for millennia. Um...I don't think so.
For one thing, if that was true, why didn't Lucifer just tell Azazel to find Sam? He had him test babies, lots of babies. Azazel said he'd been working on his plan for generations (that might be a timeline glitch, if I'm remembering the date in the convent right). If it was always Sam, why bother marking and empowering all those kids, and orchestrating the "big fight"? Why be surprised that it was Jake, but accepting of it?
Then, once Azazel was dead, Ruby had to go through that whole manipulation thing to make sure Sam killed Lilith and broke the final seal, which, by the way, wouldn't have happened if Dean hadn't broken the first seal, which he wasn't supposed to do, it was supposed to be John, but he wouldn't break.
Now, they didn't ever say that Dean being the seal-breaker is connected to being a vessel for Michael, so maybe it's not significant that it was Dean instead of John. And it could be said that only the angels (including Lucifer) had any idea of the goals behind the manipulation, so that Alistair really didn't know what his job was intended to for.
But that brings me to the increasing revelations about the angels. We've seen them manipulate, and how good they are at it. At first, we even thought it was a good thing, when Zachariah convinced Dean to keep hunting. But the angels are working so damned hard to convince Dean, almost as hard as they've been working to orchestrate events (like using cherubs to force Mary and John to fall in love).
We've had three episodes show us, via time travel, that upcoming events are inevitable. But there are discrepancies. In "The End," Zachariah wanted to show Dean why he had to say yes. But in the future he took him to, the angels lost. If there's inevitability, how can that be changed? Then, in "The Song Remains the Same," Anna goes back to try to kill Mary so Sam is never born. The summary of that episode says the angels send her back, but they WANT Sam to be Lucifer's vessel. If Lucifer doesn't take Sam and fight Michael-in-Dean, the angels can't have their paradise.
So if Anna was let out for a purpose, why wasn't she indoctrinated into the destiny propaganda? If it's all planned and unchangeable, why do the angels have to work so hard to make Dean say yes? So it seems pretty clear that "Free Will is a Myth" is just a ploy by the angels. Kudos to them, though, for pushing it with such sincerity.
There are a couple of ways I can see this playing out:
1. Team Free Will Prevails
Big final battle, Sam and Dean never say yes, and together with all the parties they've introduced this season (like the AntiChrist and Gabriel), they defeat Lucifer AND the angels in their own way.
2. Team Destiny is Right
But only to a point. Sam and Dean say yes, and get vesselized, but with their own agenda and to their own ends, and they defeat Lucifer and Michael from within.
3. All the Teams Break Up and Reform in New and Exciting Ways
AKA, the Big Twisty Plot concept, where the writers in the room are far smarter together than any of us are individually, and they come up with some big awesome alternate scenario.
This post is brought to you by my frustration and annoyance every time someone says "Because it had to be you, Sam. It always had to be you."
So where do YOU stand on the whole destiny thing?
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Harrah's Gulf Coast offers 35 table games, including roulette, blackjack, Pai Gow, mini baccarat and more, offering serious casino gambling enthusiasts high-intensity action staffed by the friendliest dealers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Play your favorite games right here!
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Let me explain:
As far as location is concerned it couldn't be in a better place: right in the heart of Chelsea on Sloane Square and a stone's throw from everything! And when the sun is shining you couldn't be happier as you saunter out into the ebb and flow of human traffic that makes this area ,up and around King's Rd and Sloane Street, such a desirable place to be walking around.
But 3 mns into our check- in things started to get decidedly iffy:
"Can I have the credit card you reserved with please..."
My sister hands over her Amex.
"Oh! we don't take American Express" she replied with an air of determination ." Don't you have another card?"
" I made the reservation with this card!!" replied my sister frostily.
"You can reserve with Amex but just not pay with it"explained the uncomfortable young lady . "Don't you have another card?".... it was getting positively freezing in reception.
"NO!" replied my sister determined to hold her ground and the receptionist had no other choice but to accept it. So we bandaged the wrong foot we started on and moved on....with forced smiles on our weary faces: the receptionist proceeded to explain to us that wifi connection was £6.00 a day...(ridiculous in this day and age and an unnecessary expense) but !... that the second laptop was free....small victory but half arsed at best.
Onto breakfast:it is £16 but if you book in advance it is £12....so what do you do? You bloody book in advance...and hope that you have made a good deal with the God's of breakfast buffets....
So on to the room: it was on the top floor and overlooked the square:fabulous! A nice sized room,comfy bed and enough snacks and tempting tidbits to keep us munching into the wee hours of the morning. The closet space was small and not much in the shelf area but it was good enough for our brief stay.The only real disappointment was the shower and lack thereof of any water pressure...the trickle that came out of the shower head would barely make a dent in my thick hair let alone rinse a well lathered head.Thankfully my hair wasn't the issue but our bodies sure were ... We may as well have been strapped to the windscreen of a car and had better luck with the spurts of water from the windscreen wipers !
|*we bought the Evian...mini bars are treacherous!*
|*reception as seen from restaurant*
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Kristen Stewart has landed the lead in director Scott Cooper's (Crazy Heart) adaptation of the William Styron novel Lie Down in Darkness. The story takes place in 1950s Virginia and centers on Peyton Loftis, a young girl whose "intense physical beauty makes her the object of her frigid mother's jealous hatred and the target of her father's incestuous, alcoholic lust." The role was covteted by both Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence, but as the latter is tied down to filming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and the X-Men: First Class sequel for the forseeable future, Vulture reports that Stewart won the role. Hit the jump for more.
Cooper made a hell of a feature directorial debut with Crazy Heart, and he recently wrapped his follow-up, Out of the Furnace with Christian Bale and Casey Affleck. Vulture's report has no word on how soon production might begin, but a dark Southern drama seems a fine fit for Cooper, and I'm interested to see how Stewart handles the lead role.
The Crazy Heart helmer has also been attached to a number of other projects, including The Pale Blue Eye, The Emperor's Children, and The Man in the Rockefeller Suit. It's unknown which, if any, of those projects is still in development with Cooper, but now that Stewart is set as the lead I assume that Lie Down in Darkness would be his next film.
As for Stewart, the actress is next slated to shoot the gritty actioner Cali. She also has the possible sequel to Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman on the horizon, but a timetable for that pic is a little unclear at the moment given recent, uh, personal developments.


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On Russian Call-in Show, Putin Maintains Hard Line Against West
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin took to the airwaves to defend Russia's position on Ukraine. In a nationally televised call-in program, he blasted the West and said that he doesn't fear Western sanctions. This yearly event is closely watched by analysts who see it as the clearest expression of what Putin wants his own public to think about the key issues of the day.
NPR's Corey Flintoff joins us now from Moscow to talk about what Putin had to say. And, Corey, this call-in show went on for nearly four hours with Putin answering all sorts of questions, even one from former U.S. intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden. Ukraine, though, was the dominant theme, right?
COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: Yes, it was, Audie. He dealt with it early on in a question about whether Russian forces were involved in any way in eastern Ukraine. And he dismissed that idea as nonsense. He said categorically that all the pro-Russian militants in the area are local people. And that, by the way, is something that's disputed by NPR's own reporting. Ari Shapiro, who we just heard from, has interviewed people in a couple of the cities who said that at least some of those militants had non-local Russian accents and that they didn't seem to know their way around. Putin also said that the government in Kiev has committed what he called a grave crime by sending troops to deal with protesters in the east.
CORNISH: So what did Putin have to say about the threat of further economic sanctions from the West?
FLINTOFF: In answer to one question, he said that the current sanctions are aimed at attacking people who are close to him personally. He said, of the people on the sanctions list, that they were his friends. He even said that the wife of one of the Russian oligarchs on the sanctions list was unable to pay for a surgery because her bank card had been blocked. But the main thing he had to say about the sanctions was that the West really has very little latitude to impose sanctions on Russia that won't do economic harm in Europe and the United States. He especially pointed to Europe's dependence on Russian gas supplies. To quote him directly, he said, "they badly want to bite us but their opportunities are limited."
CORNISH: So it sounds like Putin struck a pretty strong anti-Western, anti-American tone in this session.
FLINTOFF: Yes. He sounded almost peevish at times about what he perceives as America's arrogance in pursuing its interests and denying Russia the same rights. He said, trust has been lost between the United States and Russia because of U.S. hypocrisy. To quote him again, "The United States can act in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but Russia is not allowed to defend its interests." At the same time, though, Putin said that he's interested in growing relations with the United States and restoring confidence.
FLINTOFF: Snowden's question was actually pre-taped on video and it was introduced by one of the program presenters who hinted that the question might be something outrageous. Snowden asked whether Russia intercepted, stored or analyzed in any way the communications of millions of individuals. And Putin responded that this was sort of a conversation between professionals, because Snowden is an ex-intelligence agent and Putin himself had ties to intelligence. And that, of course, got a laugh from the studio audience because Putin is actually a former lieutenant colonel in the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency.
But Putin went on to say that Russia monitors communications but only with a judge's order and not on a massive scale. And he said he hope Russia would never allow surveillance like that.
CORNISH: That was NPR's Corey Flintoff in Moscow. Corey, thank you.
FLINTOFF: You're welcome, Audie.
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The 2009 NFL Playoffs got off with a bang this past weekend. After some hard fought and intense games, the Eagles, Cardinals, Chargers and Ravens are all through to the next round of the playoffs. Respectively, they will face the Panthers, Giants, Titans and Steelers.
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Perfect Father's Day Gift: Blue Gin
My dad's a gin and tonic guy. I can't remember ever seeing him sip Scotch or bourbon, but I remember stealing a taste of the juniper-laced dregs clinging to the ice cubes in his glass on the same family vacation when I learned to ride a bike. (Ok, it was the second time I learned to ride a bike, after a brief period of forgetting, but that's a story for another day.) For many, many years, Dad stuck to Tanqueray gin and Canada Dry tonic—but recently he's been open to a bit more exploration, giving Fever Tree tonic and a few other gins a chance. He's been really into Organic Nation gin lately, but for Father's Day this year, I'd like to introduce him to Blue Gin, a spirit I discovered on a recent trip to Austria.*
My plan for the Austrian journey was to taste a ton of wine—peppery Gruner Veltliner, sparkling-fresh Riesling, floral, fragrant Gelber Muskateller—and to see where the wines imported by Terry Theise are grown. (More on all that later, I promise.) But I didn't know there'd be harder stuff involved. And I had no idea how much I'd like it.
You don't see a ton of gin coming to the US from Austria, but Hans Reisetbauer is a distiller worth paying attention to. His focus is schnapps—incredibly flavorful fruit spirits with no sugar added. There's a raspberry eau de vie that takes 35 kilos of wild raspberries to make one liter, and a crazy-delicious Pear Williams made from 3 different harvests of pears in order to capture the flavors of fresh, crisp fruit, ripe and juicy fruit, and lush, super-ripe fruit. Perhaps the best of the bunch is an intense ginger eau de vie that manages to burst with fresh, spicy Thai ginger flavor. It knocks any ginger liqueur you've tried out of the water, though it would be a shame to dilute it in cocktails. But my dad would have to work up to those, since he's not a big schnapps guy. The gin, though, he'd like immediately.
Reisetbauer makes Blue Gin with whole botanicals—27 in all, including Austrian hops, cardamom, almonds, white and black pepper, clove, cinnamon, chamomile, orange peel, and fresh juniper from Macedonia. Though many gins are either very floral or aggressively piney, Blue Gin is marked by smooth, rich texture and multifaceted flavor, with the juniper gentle and well-integrated, and a bright citrusy spice from the orange peel and hops. There aren't many gins that are delicious to drink straight—and even at room temperature—but Blue Gin is. If you must add tonic, taste as you go...it doesn't need much.
Do you drink what your dad drinks? Are you getting him a special bottle for Father's Day?
*Disclosure: I recently toured Austria with Blue Gin importer Michael Skurnik Wines. Turns out it's not all Gruner Veltliner over there!


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Old rites for New Year
One of the world's oldest shared traditions, New Year's celebrations take many forms, but most cultures have one thing in common — letting one's hair down after a long, hard year.
For much of the globe this involves sipping bubbly with friends until the sun comes up, seeing out the old year with bonfires and flares and off-key renditions of Auld Lang Syne.But others have rather more curious habits, often steeped in superstition.
In Finland, say tour guides, people pour molten lead into cold water to divine the year ahead from the shape the metal sets in. If the blob represents a ship it is said to foretell travel, if it's a ball, good luck.
In Denmark, people stand on chairs and jump off in unison as the clock strikes midnight, literally leaping into the new year.
(The Danes also throw plates at their friends' homes during the night — the more shards you find outside your door in the morning the more popular you are said to be.)
The Dutch build massive bonfires with their Christmas trees and eat sugary donuts — one of many cultures to consume round New Year's foods traditionally believed to represent good fortune.
Spaniards, in turn, gobble a dozen grapes before the stroke of midnight, each fruit representing a month that will either be sweet or sour.
In the Philippines, revellers wear polka dots for good luck, while in some countries of South America people don brightly coloured underwear to attract fortune — red for love and yellow for financial success.
Despite regional and cultural differences, for most the New Year's festivities are a chance to let off steam before the annual cycle starts all over again.
"This is a holiday that is about relaxation and letting go," explained George Washington University sociologist Amitai Etzioni.
"The whole year people are chained by social requirements, morals, laws… "And then there comes some occasion in which society says for today, 24 hours, for this evening, all bets are off, all norms are suspended, and it's OK.
"The next day we have to get back in line."
Historians say people have been marking the year change for thousands of years.
The ancient Romans, who gave us the solar calendar, celebrated in a way similar to ours.
— Playing, eating, drinking —
"It was a day of public celebration. People spent the day playing, eating and drinking," according to French historian John Scheid of the College de France.
"During the period of the empire, the first four centuries AD, this originally Roman custom became a general festival in the whole Roman world, and so it remained until today."
January 1 became the day widely marked as New Year's Day only in 46 BC, when the emperor Julius Caesar introduced a new calendar. March 1 had been the first day of the year until then.
Medieval Europe, though, continued celebrating New Year's Day on dates with religious significance, including Christmas.
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII replaced the Julian calendar with the Gregorian one, correcting mathematical inconsistencies.
Most Catholic countries immediately adopted the calendar and its January 1 start, but Protestant nations did so only gradually.
Britain and its then-colonies, including the United States, were among the last to introduce the new calendar, from 1752.
While most of the world has now adopted January 1 as the official start of the year, some still hold their festivities on other dates.
Orthodox churches celebrate on January 14 (January 1 on the Julian calendar), while the Chinese New Year can fall on any date between January 21 and February 20, depending on the position of the moon.
This year, it will be February 10.


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Georgie M. Howard 1933-2013
Funeral service for Georgie M. Howard of Emmetsburg was held Monday, Aug. 26, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Emmetsburg. The Rev. Nicho-las Thackery officiated.
Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, Emmetsburg. The Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Emmetsburg was in charge of arrangements.
Georgie Mae Howard, daughter of George and Annie (Grant) Douglas, was born Oct. 13, 1933 in Emmetsburg. She received her education in Emmetsburg, graduating from Emmetsburg High School in 1952.
On Sept. 12, 1955 Georgie was united in marriage to Dale W. Howard at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Emmetsburg. To this union three daughters were born.
Throughout her life, Georgie was employed at several businesses in Emmetsburg, some of which included, Ted's Super Value, Red Owl, Dutch's Diner, Chick Tock and Joyce's Foodland. She enjoyed gardening each summer and sharing her produce with friends and family. Georgie stayed in contact with several of her classmates and they regularly got together for coffee. She also looked forward to having lunch on Thursdays with a group of friends.
Georgie passed away Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 at her home in Emmetsburg, at the age of 79. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Dale; her twin sister, JoAnn Ruddy; and a brother, Terry Douglas.
She is survived by her children, Cindy (Roger) Daum of Emmetsburg, Beth Gifford of Ft. Dodge, and Colleen (Denis) Howard-Wahls of St. Petersburg, FL; her grandchildren, Aaron (Ruth) Daum, Jamie Daum, Annie Daum and Brittany Wahls; a brother, Richard (Patricia) Douglas of Dallas, TX; a sister, Dorla Schuett of Ida Grove; brother-in-law, Jerry Ruddy of Ft. Dodge.
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I must have that reindeer and the candy cane stripper pole.
I thought we could use a thread to post cool new toys, since we're a bunch of big kids.
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I must have that reindeer and the candy cane stripper pole.
If you like toys, this is your place
Sorry, old picture the place moved across the street
They fucking had an odessey and a coleco vision for sale the last time I was there. Also, all the old school gi joes <3 the old Cobra Tank what was it called? Hiss?
Anyway, all the toys of our youth in one store. I bought a master system off them for 40 bucks with 6 games last year, it still works.
BrandX I know you know about this place.
They had this huge ass G.I. Joe display case last time I was in there. It had to be 7 x 5 feet at least, and it was a huge water battle with the air craft carrier and like 5 boats. I drooled. Plus their Transformers collection has at least tripled since they moved.
edit: And like you said Biff, a huge retro gaming section. There are a few display cases dedicated to retro hardware, plus a few walls dedicated to all sorts of retro games. Though much like everything else in the store, I have a feeling everything is way overpriced.
I'm sure Mechdeus also has been there also since he's from the area.
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