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The U.S. Supreme Court will not act on gay marriage, the Wall Street Journal and numerous sources on Twittering are reporting.
After much anticipation, court deferred 10 cases related to same-sex marriage on Friday.
The Atlantic shared this update on its website, The Wire:
"The Supreme Court, after taking most of the day to prepare new orders, took no action Friday on the ten same-sex marriage cases now on the docket," reports the SCOTUS blog's Lyle Denniston
But the issue is not dead. The court could next issue orders at 9:30 a.m. Monday.
The future of same-sex unions in California could be decided Friday, if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to take up Prop. 8, the ban on gay marriage that voters approved in California four years ago.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Prop. 8 in February, ruling the law unconstitutional. Prop. 8 supporters then appealed to the country's highest court.
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If the justices opt not to hear the Proposition 8 case, then a federal appeals court ruling that found the 2008 state ballot measure banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional would stand, clearing the way for marriages to begin. If the justices take up the case, a ruling would not come until next year and gay marriage would remain on hold until then, or longer depending on how the court rules.
Prop. 8 passed with 52 percent of the vote in 2008. Since then, nine states have approved same-sex marriage.
This chronology of the history of gay marriage on the LA Times explains the complex road that has led to today.
Supporters of gay marriage hailed February's favorable appellate court ruling. In its decision, the court stated that banning same-sex marriage "serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California and to officially reclassify their relationship and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples."
Prop. 8 is one of several same-sex marriage cases that the US Supreme Court could choose to hear. Most of the others challenge the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
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ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) student Ed McKeever won gold in the K1 200m kayak sprint at Eton Dorney on 11 August.
Ed dominated his heats, semi-finals and ultimately the final to help Team GB to its best Olympic performance in more than 100 years.
Andrew Leck, head of ACCA UK said: 'I would like to congratulate Ed on his victory on behalf of everyone at ACCA. The Olympics has captured the imagination of the country, and Ed is certainly a role model that can inspire young people with the determination and commitment to be able to combine his studies with training and competing on the world stage.
'The flexibility of ACCA's qualification has allowed Ed to continue his studies while training and competing. He is a credit to ACCA and I am sure he will be a highly successful accountant.'
Ed has completed the fundamental papers and has four exams left to complete the qualification. For the past three years Ed has been blogging about combining studying and competing, visit the 'ACCA Blog' page, which can be accessed via the 'Related Links' section, left of this article, for more information.
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Congratulations to Amanda Hurlbut, a 12th grade student, who since 2009, has led Kids with Sole, in coordination with YAI to send 3000 pairs of sneakers to children in Liberia.
Youth Action International is a non-governmental organization that uses grassroots techniques to develop and implement programs that help alleviate the suffering of children affected by war or living in difficult circumstances, empower them to reach their full potential, and break cycles of violence and poverty.
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Congratulations to Amanda Hurlbut, a 12th grade student, who since 2009, has led Kids with Sole, in coordination with YAI to send 3000 pairs of sneakers to children in Liberia.
It is a year since I began my internship at Youth Action International and what I thought would be an easy task is very difficult. I do not know where to start in talking about my experiences over the last one year. To save myself from overworking my young brain trying to think about my experiences, I will use this medium to extend my gratitude to Kimmie and the Youth Action International family for affording me the opportunity to grow and develop in a more responsible leader.
I've been thinking about what to write since I came back from Liberia. I am from Spain and English is my fourth language – I also speak Spanish, Italian, and Catalan. So as you can imagine, it took me forever to put all my thoughts in order in English.
My name is Esther Rodriguez-Brown. My husband, Michael, and I are the founders of The Embracing Project, a non profit organization we created to educate inner city youth about the similarities between genocide and gang activity. One purpose of this journey is to expose inner city youth to the experiences of children soldiers in different parts of the world and then to create a pen-pal relationship between both groups.
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This is a question that has come up many times on my journey to Africa.
I suppose to clarify, and so as not to sound like a cynic, I should explain a little bit about myself. I've been a photographer for two and a half years now. When I first picked up a camera the only thought that went through my head was "Awesome, now I have a big chunk of metal, plastic and glass that will allow me to take clearer photos and I'll soon be rich and famous as a result of having this camera!"
This was not the case as I am neither rich, nor famous (side from my own delusions of grandeur.) Anyways all of that is beside the point. If someone had told me the day that I picked up that camera that it would eventually lead me to post war West Africa, I would have laughed in their faces. Not because traveling to West Africa is a crazy idea, but simply because I did not see myself ever getting past the stage of "hobbyist" photography.
And yet, here I sit, in Sierra Leone, thousands of miles from home (6168 miles approximately) volunteering as the photographer for Youth Action International.
Now in regards to Africa, particularly Sierra Leone and Liberia, I don't think that anything could have really prepared me for what I would experience here. This is including Kimmie's 'worst case scenario' description of Liberia.
I wish I had been more diligent about documenting my experiences and reactions in Liberia, but I seemed to always put off the act of writing. I always told myself I was too tired or busy, but the truth is that I had a very difficult time reflecting on the barrage of experiences at the time. Throughout my time in Africa, I realized that I did not once shed a tear. It was only once I was on the plane from Accra to New York, on my way back to my privileged and comfortable life, that I was able to absorb the memories and the pictures that I was taking with me. As I looked through the pictures I had taken on my camera, I cried for a half an hour straight. I cried thinking about the hopeful faces on the small children at Temas Orphanage that I was leaving. I cried for young people of Grand Bassa County who do not have the opportunity to go to school. I cried because I realized that my life would be changed forever and I cried because I felt an overwhelming sense of helplessness.
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I clarified the intent behind my words numerous times, admitted there was a flaw in my communications by the act of this clarification, even fell back on someone else's very generous (proper) interpretation of my intent which I attempted to recover focus for the thread by, and so on.
I don't know what you want from me, but from where I stand you seem to be obsessed with being right. I sometimes forget that, although I'm the sort of person who can easily reevaluate his priorities and strategies as old ones prove ineffective or flawed, not everyone gives a used fig and would prefer to argue about cupcakes instead of a more massive and delicious dessert. Your familiarity with the foundations of logic notwithstanding, I prefer to deal in facts, not theory. I'm a creative writer and intuitive gamer before I'm a well-read logician - but because of my tendencies, I do recognize logical inconsistencies when I have the opportunity to see them, and I work around them in my own way when I have perceived them.
The logical inconsistency I'm now trying to work around is the reasoning behind your attempt to hammer home a tangential (but valid) point. As I am focused on the primary objective of "discussing the comic", I really don't care to spend the time making every factual puzzle piece fit in its proper theoretical hole just to satisfy a theorem that is ancillary to making the jigsaw puzzle look like a picture. Such an attempt is ultimately lost on many of the discussion's participants regardless.
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Housellama wrote:Tachyon wrote:Because Ansom was GK's Chief Warlord; he provides a part of an insane leadership bonus to GK's units when he's in the hex alongside Wanda and the 'pliers. It was a decapitation plan, similar to when Parson first tried to kill Ansom in Book 1. Ultimately, Jillian cooperated in her own way, granted it was not acceptable to Charlie, but as far as we can see, they haven't broken their "alliance" over it. Vanna, as far as we know, is still in Jillian's employ, and on Charlie's paycheck.
*facepalm* No. Charlie wanted Ansom dead because he was a distraction to Jillian. Jillian loved Ansom. Charlie invested a lot of money in Jillian, and had a lot riding on her in his current plan. Ansom was a major distraction to Jillian. His existence was preventing Charlie from being able to manipulate her. She was acting out of love, which is completely irrational. Therefore, Charlie was acting to remove the object of her love. He was banking on being able to get him before Jillian found out. If he did that, then Jillian would only have one person left to love. She'd have a new target to hate, but that's a different story. Charlie can use hate. Hate is predictable. Love isn't.
So all of those story plots where the hero is moved to action because his one true love is captured don't contain the villain banking on hostile retaliation as a result of love? Sounds like you need to rewatch The Princess Bride. Love and the most basic actions it inspires are predictable, but it's the hidden motives which the "hero" gains and acts on because of the circumstances of that love which are not.
The fact remains that Charlie's the one who told her about Ansom still being "alive" in the first place.
I hate having to re-link this again, but note the last few lines: http://www.erfworld.com/summer-update-2 ... aurelB.jpg
If it were only in Charlie's best interest to have Ansom croaked, he could have given Jillian tactical advice to position herself out of view of the act, without informing her of his intent directly. Charlie is more than capable of handing out dossiers on wild geese to chase after, and he hasn't done so here, in panel 7: http://www.erfworld.com/book-2-archive/ ... -08-19.jpg
Charlie intentionally allowed the person it would upset most to be in a position to observe the croaking of Ansom (intentionally, because he could have done otherwise and did not), on the assumption that she would still carry out the battle plan. Charlie's powers of anticipation here are remarkably low, if this scenario is the case - but the fact remains he had no contingency plans for dealing with her dissent despite her proximity to a cause for dissent. He didn't know whether he could count on Jillian to allow the croaking to take place, but he left her in a position to hinder it knowingly. Recall that Charlie's ultimate plan in dealing with Jillian is to croak Stanley, and probably Wanda too. With Jillian's air support gone, Jetstone has nothing to combat Wanda but the troops they have in the garrison for reserves (primarily archers and casters); Charlie needed Jillian to stay and, knowing that she's emotionally unstable, he would have had every expectation that having Ansom croaked would've not been conducive to that.
Therefore, all Ansom's existence was preventing, as far as Charlie knew at the time, was the success of a cooperative effort to protect Jetstone on the ground (we seem to keep forgetting Ansom was still the Chief Warlord for GK and granted a very high leadership bonus even before being decrypted - we also don't know if he retained his Royalty unit bonuses, as we don't know what decryption allows for in retention of stats, but I'd personally bet that he did), and Charlie apparently didn't know (or, equally possible, he didn't highly value the fact) that there was more to Ansom than just being an enemy Chief Warlord at the time he ordered the croaking done.
No, he was aiming to take out GK's leadership at first (and as many ground forces as Haggar could defeat), then take on Wanda's air forces; destroying Jillian's motivation for helping him would've been contradictory to this plan. Moreover, if Charlie knew she was there for Ansom, it would've been equally unrealistic for him to know she was there for Wanda and still expect the two to fight each other (he does know that she was there for Wanda, after the fact - the second page I linked makes that more than evident).
It is worth noting that Charlie's strategies turned out to be contradictory, and that he did not make every effort to reconcile this flaw before acting. He's more dangerous than Ansom was at the end of Book 1, in a way.


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Kevin Reynolds Fan Thread
I think he deserves one. Go Kev!!
Kevin Reynolds Fan Thread
I think he deserves one. Go Kev!!
Yes, go Kevin!
Yes, I do too. He has come a long way but is finally getting some recognition. I hope he keeps on improving. The 4CC win was a huge step and shows that he could be a contender for the podium in the future.
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I am a fan too, esp., based on all the hard work he has done to try and improve his skating, it is finally starting to show his artistry has improved and his technical side has become more consistent and I am thrilled for him and myself as a fan when he can put it all to-gether in a good performance. Go Kevin, be the best skater you can be, and you can count on me to applaude your efforts!
Today on CBC @ 4 p.m. EST, the men's and pairs free from 4CC in Japan is scheduled to be on. Just passing that along here since I saw the thread for Kevin.
Watching it right now!
Me too!
He certainly has come a long way, as his 4CC skate proved. Two years ago I would never have imagined that he could skate well enough to justify a legitimate fan thread. The musicality was always there, but not the ability to express it. That has improved so much.
If he can develop some speed and power (as the CBC commentators said) he will be a legitimate world podium threat. That won't happen this year, but it just might happen in the next year or two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g309rrOyQds 4CC wonderful free skate w/ Brit commentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeTP1QwiYQw 2nd copy, maybe Japanese commentary?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpQVqozLwN4 4CC interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16IgQ0RYLI4 Medal Ceremony Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TPuBsprpFQ Medal Ceremony Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV7KaN0kn_I Exhibition
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From Kevin's Facebook on February 13th:
"Back home! Thank you all for your incredible support. The last few days in Osaka passed by like a dream... There have been times in my career where even I doubted myself, but throughout all the ups and downs, I remember all the people that believed in me. You gave me the strength to believe in myself, and now I have achieved something far greater than I could have ever expected. I will never forget this week. Now, back to training, and on to the World Championships in Canada! I can't wait!! ヾ(*'▽'*)"
Cute pic: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater
I like the way he moves his arms. He's very musical, and for a tall skinny guy, he's not all knees and elbows.
Addicted to FSU
Well please pass along my thanks to Plushy for such a nice birthday wish to Kevin. I'm sure if Kevin sees it, it would certainly brighten his day.
Crazy about sports!
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Dude, you are so in love with Apple. That's hilarious.
Those are not Apple's qualities. They are Steve Jobs'. And not to be too blunt, Tim Cook, the man with his personality surgically removed who believes cash is his savior, is in charge. How can you say any of this with assuredness?
Tim Cook may be CEO but the "public face" for Apple's products is Phil Schiller. And remember SJ infused his key principles into Apple's culture and DNA. I don't think the senior exec team has forgotten that.
There should be more posts like this on sites of a similar nature. Everyone (myself included) gets so wrapped up in rumour-mill, that we forget that the above article is Apple's way of doing things.
Everyone is always disappointed at something after a keynote, and blog posts like this brings our feet back down to earth.
Great post!
makes sure if you can use one of their mobile device, you can use them all -- whether you're 3 years old or 103."
That sums it up right there. They lock the os down so much anyone can use it. Nit everyone wants simple. Yet apple can't understand that.
The only tentpole left for iOS is widgets, if iOS 6 doesn't have em I'm gonna pull my hair out.
You better pray that bald is trendy this summer.
Get a bag so you can donate it to a cancer charity...I'm 99.999999% sure there won't ever be widgets on iOS, at least not unless there's a full hard reboot of it, which won't happen for a couple of years yet...maybe with the next iPad, but more probably with the one after.
This article in particular bugs me because you have some guy who doesn't even work at Apple trying to tell us with authority what they will and won't do. How about commenting on rumors and news instead of acting like you can read minds? I expect far better from imore.
Articles and editorials like these are exactly why I read iMore every day. There are plenty of other sites out there if you want unsubstantiated rumours and gossip.
Really liking your more editorial approach over the last weeks, Gives the site a strong voice and makes a change from all the recycled stories across the blogs (admittedly my own fault for checking too many of them, several times a day)
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I think it's probably the exact phrasing of "they will" instead of "they probably will". I suppose some folks have a difficult time picking up these undertones =)
Rene beat me to it. Past = indicative of future.
Why shouldn't iMore point that out instead of JUST over inflating our expectations before the conference just so we can all sulk after it?
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^^ Ha ha, what are their lifetime, head-to-head stats?
Seriously, Johnny has some solid programs this season with good music and choreo. He's lost none of his smoothness and artistry. And it's not a bad start to the season for him, despite the obvious flaws on some of his jumps. I also read that he had to break in new skates prior to the start of the season. Skating under CoP has never been as kind to Johnny as it should be, I think largely because he has been such an intuitive, improvisational skater. CoP forces Johnny to think more, rather than to simply feel and flow with the music. Unfortunately, I also don't think it helped Johnny when reportedly Galina tinkered with his jump technique after he began training with her. Blast that 3-loop which has never been a favorite jump for Johnny. Still it's early in the season and his hard work shows. Lots of skaters are using his former music and rockin' Johnny-flavored costumes too.
Even tho' I feel the younger guys have the advantage, anything can happen in figure skating. Who knows, maybe experience will end up being the trump card for Weir and Lysacek, and Abbott too. No matter who ends up going to Worlds for U.S. men, they really need to bring back three spots. There is just too much depth in U.S. men's field for anything less. But the guys have got to pace themselves throughout this season, for as important as U.S. Nationals is, perhaps the most important of all national championships, the chosen/ prevailing two have got to harness the necessary stamina and focus to "kill it" at Worlds.
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I think Johnny's programs have wonderful potential although I am not a fan of his short program music (I think the first part is too slow). Unfortunately Johnny's biggest enemy has always been his nerves. He said last night in Finland that he left out a lot from his program (choreo and transitions) because he got nervous after messing up his first 3A. Johnny told reporters his skate at CoR would be much different because now that the first competition nerves are over, he won't make the same mistakes.
Man, Ricky's PCS were totally underscored. I don't see how he could be 4 points lower in components than Hanyu, who is great at jumps and spins, but not as masterful at the second mark.
His technical was very exciting though indeed! He would've had the highest base technical at Worlds last year by over 5 points !! In addition, his total technical score was higher than anyone's at Worlds. If he can skate two clean programs at nationals, I think he will make it to Worlds.
2012-13 competition scores, including international, for the U.S. Sr. men to date: http://unseenskaters.wordpress.com/s...or-men-scores/
Nathan Chen currently holds the highest Junior men's score (222.00) from the JGP in Austria, followed by Novice champ Vincent Zhou (195.19) at the SoCal Inv. Series Final last month. Chen's highest summer competition score was 185.33 at L.A. Open in July (where Zhou placed 1st overall, 2nd to Chen in the FS). The next 2 are Shotaro Omori (181.03) at Golden West and Jordan Moeller (161.02) at Glacier Falls in August.
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"Randy [Starkman (1960-April 16, 2012)] lived by the same motto as the rest of us. The Olympics isnt every four years, its every single day. He just got it." --Canadian Olympic kayaker Adam van Koeverden
Coupe de Nice, 10/24 - 10/28: Aaron gets his 2d shot to improve even more.
Skate Canada, 10/26 - 10/28: Miner can also improve
And, when is Ice Challenge? It will be nice to see Armin again in a 2d Senior B, and make up for the fact he didn't get a GP assignment.
ETA - I got off my lazy butt and looked - Ice Challenge is 11/6 - 11/10
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Dornbush's lp is the first program I have seen this season that excited me and I am not even a particular fan of the music. Beautifully choreographed and skated.
Weir has his work cut out for him. His program appeared very empty compared to someone's like Richard's. Hopefully much was left out. As long as Johnny has been competing (and even considering the hiatus), I find it difficult to buy into the "nerves" excuse and the effect of the messed up triple axel. The practice session for his lp was videotaped and he basically "stroked" around most of the time instead of doing anything near a run through. I hope he improves greatly before his first competition.
Johnny never does a full run through at the practice sessions so what he did at Finlandia was not unusual. I do believe Galina has him doing full run throughs at practice, something Priscilla Hill did not push with him. It will be interesting to see how Ricky does this year, if he can keep up the technical or if he implodes as he did last year at Nats.
See it is skates like these that justify USFS giving Dornbush a break during his tougher times. He has scoring potential. He just beat Weir by nearly 40 points, even though he also made mistakes in both programs. Armin M's personal best is nearly 30 points lower.
Not impressed with Weir's programs. There's nothing there.
I wonder if a clean Dornbush can beat Abbot. I don't think he could beat Evan, but perhaps Jeremy...
It will be interesting to see if Dornbush could hold it together during the major competitions or if he becomes a head case when the pressure increases.
^ that's opposite of what I'm thinking. Ricky at his very best might as well beat Evan at his best but clean Jeremy? Don't think so.
But I do think he's learned a lot from it and it'll be somehow different with him.
I'm not remembering what you are about Dornbush at 2011 worlds. He performed very credibly, with a top ten finish. The highest finish of the three American men IIRC.
Now 2012 was a major disappointment. But that's not to say Richard can't bounce back and skate well this year. Let's see what happens.
BTW I didn't mean Clean Dornbush v clean abbot v clean Lysacek. I meant clean Dornbush v normal abbot v normal Lysacek. Lysacek tends to be the most consistent so that's why I say that I'm not sure that Dornbush could beat him - even clean.
It will all come down to who can withstand the pressure of competition. We haven't even seen Lysacek or Abbott's programs yet so it's too early to predict that Ricky (or anyone else) will be a guaranteed medal at Nationals or Worlds.
IIRC, Dornbush revealed this summer that he had a problem with a blade last season and didn't figure out the problem until after his last competition. I would give him the benefit of the doubt on this one and not call him a headcase without further evidence.


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Hello All,
I took the right channel speaker cable from my AMP and connected it to the right channel 1.2's Mid Drivers only and played a song, it was loud and clear.
I took the same speaker cable (from the right Channel) and connected it to the Left 1.2's Mid Drivers and it sound exactly the same.
I did the same test for the tweeters and I found that the tweeters in the right speaker play much lower.
Are all 4 tweeters dead?
Is there something on the crossover that would hinder the output of the tweeters only if it was blown or dying?
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There's about three things left on my "bucket" list that I haven't done yet. One is skydiving. I had the opportunity to do it when I was in my early 30's. I decided not to jump out of the plane because a weird feeling came over me that my parachute wouldn't open when it came time to pull the ripcord.
The other 2 remaining things on my list.
* Finally go to an actual live skating event hoping no one gets ill where I have to end up selling or giving away the tickets again.
* Go to Paris, climb the Eiffel Tower and end the day with a champagne glass filled with Dom Perignon.
I can't think of anything else at the moment because I've accomplished the other things on my list which included visiting every southeastern & southwestern state from Florida to California traveling by car.