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NAACP Washington Bureau
September 20, 2005
"The Kelo Decision: Investigating Takings of Homes and other Private Property"
September 20, 2005
Thank you, Chairman Specter, Ranking Member Leahy and ladies and gentlemen of the panel for inviting me here today to talk about property rights in a post-Kelo world.
My name is Hilary Shelton and I am the Director of the Washington Bureau for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, our Nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization. We currently have more than 2,200 units in every state in our country.
Given our Nation's sorry history of racism, bigotry, and a basic disregard on the part of many elected officials to the concerns and rights of racial and ethnic minority Americans, it should come as no surprise that the NAACP was very disappointed by the Kelo decision. In fact, we were one of several groups to file an Amicus Brief with the Supreme Court in support of the New London, Connecticut homeowners.
Racial and ethnic minorities are not just affected more often by the exercise of eminent domain power, but they are almost always affected differently and more profoundly. The expansion of eminent domain to allow the government or its designee to take property simply by asserting that it can put the property to a higher use will systemically sanction transfers from those with less resources to those with more.
The history of eminent domain is rife with abuse specifically targeting minority neighborhoods. Indeed, the displacement of African Americans and urban renewal projects are so intertwined that "urban renewal" was often referred to as "Black Removal." The vast disparities of African Americans or other racial or ethnic minorities that have been removed from their homes due to eminent domain actions are well documented.
A 2004 study estimated that 1,600 African American neighborhoods were destroyed by municipal projects in Los Angeles . In San Jose, California, 95% of the properties targeted for economic redevelopment are Hispanic or Asian-owned, despite the fact that only 30% of businesses in that area are owned by racial or ethnic minorities . In Mt. Holly Township, New Jersey, officials have targeted for economic redevelopment a neighborhood in which the percentage of African American residents, 44%, is twice that of the entire township and nearly triple that of Burlington County. Lastly, according to a 1989 study 90% of the 10,000 families displaced by highway projects in Baltimore were African Americans . For the committee's information, I am attaching to this testimony a document that outlines some of the higher-profile current eminent domain cases involving African Americans.
The motives behind the disparities are varied. Many of the studies I mentioned in the previous paragraph contend that the goal of many of these displacements is to segregate and maintain the isolation of poor, minority and otherwise outcast populations. Furthermore, condemnations in low-income or predominantly minority neighborhoods are often easier to accomplish because these groups are less likely, or often unable, to contest the action either politically or in the courts.
Lastly, municipalities often look for areas with low property values when deciding where to pursue redevelopment projects because it costs the condemning authority less and thus the state or local government gains more, financially, when they replace areas with low property values with those with higher values. Thus, even if you dismiss all other motivations, allowing municipalities to pursue eminent domain for private development as was upheld by the US Supreme Court in Kelo will clearly have a disparate impact on African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.
As I said at the beginning of my testimony, not only are African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities more likely to be subject to eminent domain, but the negative impact of these takings on these men, women and families is much greater.
First, the term "just compensation", when used in eminent domain cases, is almost always a misnomer. The fact that a particular property is identified and designated for "economic development" almost certainly means that the market is currently undervaluing that property or that the property has some "trapped" value that the market is not yet recognizing.
Moreover, when an area is taken for "economic development," low-income families are driven out of their neighborhoods and find that they cannot afford to live in the "revitalized" communities; the remaining "affordable" housing in the area is almost certain to become less so. When the goal is to increase the area's tax base, it only makes sense that the previous low-income residents will not be able to remain in the area. This is borne out not only by common sense, but also by statistics: one study for the mid-1980's showed that 86% of those relocated by an exercise of the eminent domain power were paying more rent at their new residences, with the median rent almost doubling .
Furthermore, to the extent that such exercise of the takings power is more likely to occur in areas with significant racial and ethnic minority populations, and even assuming a proper motive on the part of the government, the effect will likely be to upset organized minority communities. This dispersion both eliminates, or at the very least drastically undermines, established community support mechanisms and has a deleterious effect on those groups' ability to exercise that little political power they may have established. In fact, the very threat of such takings will also hinder the development of stronger ethnic and racial minority communities. The incentive to invest in one's community, financially and otherwise, directly correlates with confidence in one's ability to realize the fruits of such efforts. By broadening the permissible uses of eminent domain in a way that is not limited by specific criteria, many minority neighborhoods will be at increased risk of having property taken. Individuals in those areas will thus have even less incentive to engage in community-building for fear that such efforts will be wasted.
In conclusion, allow me to reiterate the concerns of the NAACP that the Kelo decision will prove to be especially harmful to African Americans and other racial and ethnic minority Americans. By allowing pure economic development motives to constitute public use for eminent domain purposes, state and local governments will now infringe on the property rights of those with less economic and political power with more regularity. And, as I have testified today, these groups, low-income Americans, and a disparate number of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minority Americans, are the least able to bear this burden.
Thank you again, Chairman Specter, Ranking Member Leahy and members of the committee, for allowing me to testify before you today about the NAACP position on eminent domain and the post-Kelo landscape. The NAACP stands ready to work with the Congress and state and local municipalities to develop legislation to end eminent domain abuse.


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Baggins (Ace3) |
Sep 18, 2009 | Planning | |||
This is an Ace3 port of Baggins, but it's completely stripped of all the dropdown config. | |||||
Baggins_Professions (Ace3) |
Sep 18, 2009 | Planning | |||
This is a working port of Baggins_Professions to Ace3 meant to accompany the Ace3 port of Baggins. | |||||
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This is a port of Baggins_Usable to Ace3 intended to go along with the Ace3 port of Baggins. | |||||
AuraSnapshot |
Sep 21, 2009 | Release | |||
This addon saves a snapshot of the current return values of UnitAura to the SVs in order to allow debugging problems with some buff addons. To save a snapshot use the following chat command: /aurass | |||||
Faction Transfer Analyzer |
Sep 25, 2009 | Release | |||
What it does The Faction Transfer Analyzer assists with an automatic comparison of the changes that will occur should you choose to transfer your characters factions. Blizzard has provided a detailed explanation here however if you're worried about your reputations, or mounts, it may take you a long time to analyze what will occur when you transfer. That's where this addon comes into play. It will assist you by providing a summary of what will change based off your characters current status.... | |||||
FindGlobals |
Nov 06, 2009 | Mature | |||
This is a Lua script that checks your .lua files for excess and/or involuntary global variable access. It needs a Lua interpreter to run; I recommend Cogwheel's WoW Lua. THIS IS NOT AN ADDON PRO'S DIGEST Yes, it's basically a "Luac | grep ?ETGLOBAL", but with some controls. In PARTICULAR, it differentiates between set/get global access inside and outside of functions. It also lets you list globals that you are ok with in comment lines like "--GLOBALS: blah, bleh, bluh". So, it's a little more... | |||||
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matte Vol skin for cyCircled. | |||||
FuBar2Broker |
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Description Transparently creates LDB ("LibDataBroker") feeds from all of your FuBar plugins so that they can be shown on LDB displays of your choice instead of on FuBar. See this forum thread for general info on LDB. Usage FuBar2Broker is meant to be completely transparent. If FuBar2Broker is running, you should see LDB feeds for all of your loaded FuBar plugins listed in your LDB display(s). NOTE: Many FuBar plugins require an actual addon named "FuBar" to load as a dependency, and will... | |||||
FuBar_ReagentFu |
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What it does Keeps track of your reagents for buffing. Korean (koKR) 소모성 재료의 수량을 확인합니다. Russian (ruRU) Отслеживает количество реагентов для баффов. Simplified Chinese (zhCN) 持续追踪你职业所需的特殊材料 Traditional Chinese (zhTW) 持續追蹤你職業所需的特殊材料 Where to get it WoW Ace - Alpha Quality Curse - Stable release WoWInterface - Stable release How to get it to work Install FuBar, and it will anchor to the FuBar window. All options are configured via the FuBar menu. Bug Reports Please use the WoW Ace tracker to... | |||||
AfterDark |
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Dec 22, 2009 | Mature | |||
Tired of having to constantly retry the dungeon teleport during peak hours? Sick of seeing "Additional Instances cannot be launched, please try again later."? Then this addon is for you. Whenever you fail to start a new instance through the new LFD tool, this addon will retry the teleport five seconds after you get bounced out. This addon should work on all Locales, but the message that the addon prints has not yet been translated. Feel free to submit a translation to me in comments or as a... | |||||
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Jan 04, 2010 | Inactive | |||
Keeps track of durability and pops up a dialog to repair when you go to a vendor who can. German translation: Chinkuwaila TO INSTALL: Put the FuBar_DurabilityFu folder into \World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\ Features Shows durability of all items and overall inventory. Pops up a dialog to repair when you go to the vendor. Can hide the little armored man. Can autorepair your equipment and/or inventory. | |||||
QuickStrat |
Jan 05, 2010 | Beta | |||
An Addon to make give stock messages based on location or target. While preping for a boss encounter, target the boss and type "/qs p" to send a 3-4 line strategy for that particular encounter to the party. This addon is not aimed at progression content, rather encounters that are out geared and not familiar. Particularly inspired by the Random Dungeon Finder which will place parties in any of a dozen instances, any of which are easy for the team but may be unfamiliar. The Addon comes with... | |||||
Lore Master |
Jan 05, 2010 | Alpha | |||
What it does Lore Master is an addon that tracks the completed quests, shows the percent of completed quests in a zone, and help the user to obtain and complete the needed quests. Translators wanted I've been adding some localization into the mod as I develop. Right now there isn't many phrases that need to be changed, but as the projects grows this isn't going to be the case. If your interested in helping translate for me, please send me a PM asking to be made a translator. It should be open... | |||||
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Jan 08, 2010 | Inactive | |||
A board strategy game See ruleset.pdf included with the package or the documentation on how to play the game. | |||||
AggroPie |
Jan 11, 2010 | Planning | |||
AggroPie is a simple, and easy to use, add-on that shows a unit's relative threat in a pie chart. | |||||
Broker_Reputation |
Jan 15, 2010 | Release | |||
Very minimal LibDataBroker data feed to display data about the currently watched faction in the reputation pane. Tracked items include: Name of faction Current progress towards the next rank Current progress percentage Current standing Optional coloring of progress and standing Amount of rep gained/lost since login or watched faction change Right-click to enable or disable any of the above. Mousing over will show the full label, regardless of options chosen. Clicking the label will open the... | |||||
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Streamlines the biting process on Blood-Queen Lana'thel. This addon does the following: -Allows the person running the addon to make a priority list for Melee, Ranged, Healers and Tanks. -When a player gains Essence of the Blood Queen it will tell them who they need to bite next. -Properly handles the first bite of the fight, if a ranged gets the Esssence first, they will bite a melee, and vice versa. -Players will then be assigned to bite from their own role type. Ranged will bite Ranged and... |


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Q: What about the story of Maceo Pinkard of Bluefield, who gave us that familiar Harlem Globetrotters theme song?
A: Probably his most famous song is "Sweet Georgia Brown." He also wrote a lot of songs -- "Throw Me A Kiss," "Them There Eyes." He was also the first African-American to own a music publishing house in the United States. When Duke Ellington went to break into music, he went to New York and sought out Maceo Pinkard because Pinkard was the most successful black songwriter of the era. Showed him the ropes, took him to Tin Pan Alley. Then, when Ellington became famous he returned the favor by recording a lot of Pinkard's songs.
Q: If you had to sum up the hall of fame's mission, aside from showcasing the best talent, are you also aiming to broaden people's associations about West Virginia?
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There's a rich history of that especially when you get to Southern West Virginia, where people from other nationalities and ethnic groups came to work in the mines. Or up in the Northern Panhandle, where again people from different ethnic backgrounds came to work in the steel mills.
Q: You've also highlighted Bill Withers' state connections. What is the significance of him as a singer-songwriter?
A: There's certainly a lot of people who weren't aware that Bill Withers was from here. The easiest way to do that is just to kind of point to how his music has almost had a resurgence. If you listen to "Use Me" and some of the other stuff he's done, it's still being sampled, it's still being redone.
We have a traveling museum that goes to schools and we see mainly fourth-graders. And of everyone who's represented in the trailer, just about every kid knows "Lean on Me." And that's quite something.
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The Annual General Meeting of members of the Soil Association took place on Wednesday 9 October at Central Hall, Storey's Gate, London SW1H 9NH.
Our President Monty Don made a passionate call to arms at the AGM, saying soil degradation is the biggest potential disaster facing us all. Listen below.
Our Chief Executive Helen Browning reviews the work of the Soil Association over the past year. Listen below.
4.30pm Registration and tea 4.45pm AGM
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Agenda item 5 Particulars of candidates and voting information is available on the ballot paper enclosed with Living Earth or at www.soilassociation.org/councilvote
Agenda item 6 A summary statement of financial activities and the treasurer's report for the year to 31 March 2013 are detailed in Living Earth. Full copies of the report and consolidated financial statements for the Soil Association Limited will be available for inspection at the AGM or may be obtained on request from the General Secretary.
Agenda item 7 It is recommended that Baker Tilly be re-appointed as the Soil Association auditors for 2013/14.
Agenda items 6 and 7 If you are not attending the AGM in person you may vote on the resolutions in agenda items 6 and 7 by proxy. Please use the form enclosed with Living Earth for this.
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Magic Wands: Lockout Day 136 (vs. Hawks)
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1) While many current NBA players and former Magic stars are congregating in Orlando for a charity basketball game, the NBA's labor issues loom large, writes Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel. This could be the last hint of professional basketball in Orlando for a while.
2) Monday there will be a vote of sorts on the collective bargaining agreement with some proposed revisions. What those revisions are or whether the union reps will go for it is a completely different question.
3) NBA player rep Etan Thomas wrote an op-ed piece for ESPN.com highlighting his stance on several issues in the labor lockout. Matt Moore of Pro Basketball Talk provides some perspective and response.
4) It may not be the best deal for the players, but with games going by the wayside and the season on the verge of cancellation, the players better cut their losses and take a deal now before it gets much much worse.
5) President Barack Obama said the NBA impasse is killing him.
6) Magic rookie Justin Harper had a career game last night for Strasbourg in France. Harper poured in 20 points on 7-for-14 shooting to help his team return to .500.
7) Dwight Howard's big weekend extravaganza kicked off last night with some bowling. The Orlando Sentinel has photos and video.
8) Sean Flanery of Sheridan Hoops awards the Tweet of the Day to Nazr Mohammed, who explains that he may not be affected much from this collective bargaining agreement, but he wants to keep fighting for the younger players.
9) How about a double dose of Magic memories? On Veterans' Day 1995, Penny Hardaway stepped up in Shaq's absence to take down the Heat. And on Nov. 13, 2006, Jameer Nelson began building his clutch reputation in Boston.


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German Immigrants in the Crossroads of America
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Okay, I'll be honest, I haven't really tested this (I'm unwilling to make a sun team. Hate Ninetales too much), but I think this could be pretty good for sun. Victini @ Leftovers/Expert Belt Adamant / Naughty Nature 252 HP / 252 Attack / 4 Speed V-Create Glaciate Final Gambit Filler Basically, this set aims to remove weather inducers and V-Create resists (you know, the ones that try to tank one and kill you before you can get off the next one?). Glaciate is the crux of this set. Force out an enemy with the threat of a V-Create and Glaciate on the switch. This forces any faster resists to slow down, allowing Victini to hit again next turn. From there, you can choose to nail the switch-in again with Glaciate, if it hits hard enough to 2HKO, or you can use Final Gambit to remove said Pokemon from the match, and leaving holes for other members of your team to push through. The last move can be whatever you choose. U-Turn, Bolt Strike, Brick Break, and Substitute are all decent options. EVs are basic. Max Attack and an Adamant nature for V-Create and other offensive options, max HP for Final Gambit. Leftovers heals Victini, keeps HP up for Final Gambit, blahblahblah. Running a Naughty nature and Expert Belt allows you to 2HKO offensive Dragonite through Multiscale with Glaciate, as well as do the same with all variants of Garchomp (including YacheChomp) and Salamence (watch out for scarfers, though). This set can lure in and kill off both Tyranitar and Politoed, two enormous problems for Sun teams, and which Ninetales cannot deal with effectively. It also removes potential problems such as Heatran and Latias. So. Yeah.
You do realize that that Glaciate is a special attack and thus is being weakened by the adamant nature?
Glaciate isn't to cause damage per se, it is used to produce the slowdown effect. But -spdef may work better
Like Vemane said, its mostly a utility thing. Glaciate, for the most part, is too weak to seriously use as a special attack. 'course, Glaciate does have its uses, as I mentioned earlier, which is why Naughty (+Attack, -Defense) is an option as well.
I hope this isn't Gimmicky but in practice it's been amazing: Mismagius@ Life Orb EVs: 252 HP/200 Spd/56 SpA Nature: Timid - Confuse Ray - Thunder Wave/ HP Fighting - Shadow Ball - Thunderbolt/Calm Mind The idea of this set is simple: Confuse, Paralyze, hit hard. If you want coverage, skip Thunder Wave for HP Fighting. Calm Mind over Thunderbolt is best since you can CM while opponents hit themselves and then proceed to wreak havoc! However, the issue is then you may be walled by a normal type, hence T-bolt or HP Fighting
@Mismagius It looks like a cool set, but how would you compare it to something that is already in OU? For example, Jirachi has a couple (exactly 2) sets which revolves around the same principle, the SuperRachi set and the SubCM set which can carry thunder and water pulse under rain. Mismagius has lesser bulk than rachi and an arguably worse typing, and jirachi can set up 101hp subs, in exchange for 5 SpA and 5 Spd.
Heatran (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Flash Fire EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk) - Fire Blast / Magma Storm - Substitute - Earth Power - Toxic Heatran is good on sand teams as a substitute attacker with Toxic. He can cripple bulky waters and set up substitutes on opposing heatran that don't have earth power. He also runs a timid nature so opposing Heatran don't have a chance unless they are specially defensive variants. (Most offensive heatran use a modest nature.) Magma Storm can be used over Fire Blast to trap Ninetales and Politoed. Defensive politoed is crippled by Toxic while Ninetales gets 2HKOed by Earth Power. Aside from T-tar/Hippowdon, Thundurus-T is the best partner for this heatran as he can take care of bulky waters that trouble heatran with Thunderbolt while grass knot smashes Gastrodon for an OHKO.
Well, Mismagius is faster than Jirachi and unlike Jirachi isn't playing game of chances: it has 100% on both. Also, the Ghost typing is often seen as bad but with two immunities(Mismagius actually has three which is REALLY good) and only two weaknesses, it isn't as bad as thought. Mismagius hits harder than Jirachi with LO and has a diverse movepool. That isn't to say Jirachi isn't better: simply Mismagius fills a different role(free switch in on Ground or Fighting types)
Jolteon @ Expert Belt / Zap Plate Trait: Volt Absorb EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 Def Timid Nature IVs: 2 Atk / 30 Def - Volt Switch / Baton Pass - Thunder - Signal Beam - Hidden Power [Ice] A monster under rain, Politoed is a temmate really obligatory for Jolteon because Thunder with 30% of accuracy and 30% to para. Jolteon outrun all metagame; no scarf mons / no mons that takes advantage of the weather such Stoutland or Venusaur, also rain helps for this too, to override this mons on Rain since Swift Swimers are banned paired with Drizzle in the same team. This set is an special hard hitter since is very faster, STRONG Thunder with a good coverage, Signal Beam helps luring Celebi mainly and finally Volt Switch keeps momentum. Problems for this set? Bulky grounds like SpD Hippowdon or Gastrodon, Mamoswine, Tyranitar on Sand Storm, Ninetales on Drought, Chansey, Kyurem-B and Ferrothorn mostly.
Gliscor @ Toxic Orb Trait: Poison Heal EVs: 252 HP / 56 Spd / 200 Atk Adamant Nature - Fling - Acrobatics - Earthquake / Substitute - Protect Gliscor isn't that hard to bring in due to respectable bulk and toxic orb preventing status, so you have plenty of time to scout out the enemy team. After some scouting and noting the opponent's tendencies when faced with Gliscor, you can fling your toxic orb at your opponent's answer for Gliscor (provided it can be poisoned). This allows you to fully benefit from acrobatics AND poison heal. You can then bring Gliscor in later to smash faces after their Gliscor check has been worn down or if going for the mono type attacker with sub/protect you can wear down the tank yourself. Be careful though, as without earthquake Gliscor can be checked by a lot more things, including steel types who don't take damage from flying and poison.
Something I have found incredibly underrated in OU play is: Medicham @ Choice Scarf/Choice Band Trait: Pure Power EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Speed, 6 HP Nature: Adamant/Jolly -Hi Jump Kick/Drain Punch -Psycho Cut -Ice Punch -Thunderpunch/Bullet Punch This thing hits like a truck. I use it all the time in lower tiers and in OU and I feel that it accomplishes things that current OU's cannot do. Haxorus is the only OU that comes close to the attack stat Medicham reaches after the pure power boost, while still having speed. This factor excludes Conkeldurr from the equation. Medicham receives no love even though it has, in my opinion, the best ability in the game. Medicham's power and speed after the boost from the choice scarf makes it a threat to any OU Sweeper. Try it out!
Cresselia@Leftovers Bold/Levitate 248 HP/196 Def/60 Sp.Att -Ice Beam -Lunar Dance/Thunder Wave -Psyshock/Psychic -Moonlight I crafted this set a few weeks ago when I was having a discussion about Landorus-I. Lando is really dominant at every phase in the game and can rip apart Stall and Offense alike around mid- to late-game. Cresselia is probably the best counter to it because of her resistance/immunity to Ground and Fighting as well as her ability to take lol% damage from Hidden Power Ice. I then thought, "Hey, why not put her on a Offense team?" This is the result. This Cresselia is meant to be used on an Sun Offense team as a defensive pivot. Why a defensive pivot? It can pretty much switch into most attacks for a minimal amount of damage (An Outrage from a Haxorus does about 30% iirc). Furthermore, Moonlight under the sun heals for 2/3 of your total health, which allows it to sufficiently tank hits. The EVs guarantee an OHKO on Landorus-T (again IIRC. If you plug this into your calc and see that this is wrong, please point it out). The HP and Def EVs give it sufficient bulk to tank many Fighting and Dragon attacks. The two attacking moves gives me strong offensive choices over two of the most prominent offensive types in the metagame: Fighting and Dragon. Ice Beam murders most Dragons after 1-2 switch-ins with Stealth Rock as well as dumping on both Landos. Psychic and Psyshock are just purely QOL choices. Psychic hits stuff harder and allows you to potentially OHKO Conkeldurr (not that it matters but oh well). Psyshock gives you a slight edge over a sufficiently weakened Blissey while still allowing you to 2HKO most Fighting types in OU. Lunar Dance and Thunder Wave are really just based on your preference. Thunder Wave gives Cresselia a more active support role in battle by paralyzing your opponent's pokemon, giving yours a better advantage and higher chance of sweeping. Healing Wish forces her to just play as a pure pivot that can heal up a really weakened sweeper on your team (great for slightly reckless players).
Whimsicott @ Life Orb Trait: Prankster EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Naive Nature - U-turn - Tailwind - Hidden Power [Fire] - Giga Drain Life Orb Whimsicott. If this hasn't been deleted yet: the main focus of this set is to set up Tailwind for something Banded/Specs to destroy lives. I made a team featuring 2 Tailwind users (including this), Banded Adamant Black Kyurem, Conkeldurr to destroy certain Steels (I'll make an RMT so i'll stop here) that basically.... if Kyurem comes in, bye. Tailwind is obvious, but the Life Orb is so it's attacks do damage and it can die faster, except Giga Drain is useful to do damage and not die (or die, depending on the situation) and HP Fire is for 1 thing: Scizor (and I guess certain targets should Conkeldurr die), you have no idea how many Scizors lead as I lead with Whimsicott and they die to a LO HP Fire. So many are confused by this set, hit themselves in confusion, then lose. U-Turn serves an important purpose as well, if Heatran is about to switch in, get outta dodge. And of course to generally annoy and momentum and all that stuff.
As someone who used Medicham a good bit in OU in BW1 (I made the on-site Substitute set), I can say with absolute certainty that Kyurem-B outclasses it now. Nearly identical Attack stats (Kyu-B comes at 2 points higher, basically) and all of Kyurem's other stats are better. It can take a hit, it's faster, and it can go mixed. Medicham has an advantage of being able to beat Steels no problem, but otherwise Kyurem-B completely outclasses it. Medicham was a really cool gimmick when he was the only thing in OU with that kind of power, but now Kyu-B takes that spotlight. 2c.
What name have you been using on the ladder? I was testing out my new team and I encountered that Victini set. It was quite surprising at first, caught my Dnite offguard, it was definitely an annoyance to me. Good set overall, it might not seem that great on paper but ingame Glaciate is really irritating to Victini's checks.
So I decided to try this out, and it actually seems to work. Magnezone @ Leftovers Trait: Magnet Pull EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Timid Nature - Thunderbolt / Thunder - Hidden Power [Fire] / Hidden Power [Ground] - Substitute - Psych Up I wanted something to combat common steels. One issue with Magnezone, however, is that it falls flat on its face against SubCM Jirachi, which sets up on a traditional Magnezone set and destroys it, even if they're variants that don't use a move that can hit Magnezone even neutrally. SubCM Jirachi was one of the biggest targets I needed to nail with this set, and other trappers just can't deal with Jirachi as a whole well enough, so I came up with this. What this set does is hide Magnezone under a Sub, and then copy their stat boosts with Psych Up. This lets Magnezone beat CM variants of Jirachi, so now it can beat down almost every Jirachi variant. HP Fire is perferred, but HP Ground is obviously an option to kill Heatran or hit Jirachi harder in Rain if your team needs that. Of course, you can always run Thunder if you're using this on a rain team, this set benefits greatly from Paralysis since Magnezone is so damned slow. Since Charge Beam or Flash Cannon aren't exactly the best moves in the world, the set doesn't lose much from running Psych Up since the moveslot there is so damned expendable. Not being able to severely damage Mamoswine or Tyranitar while under a sub with Flash Cannon or being able to boost against non-boosting threats with Charge Beam is about all it loses, which isn't a huge deal when it comes to the fact that it makes Magnezone better at doing his job at the cost of being easier to revenge kill.
I haven't been playing that much recently (playing too much Borderlands 2 and TF2). Its just something I theorymonned, I haven't even tried it myself.
Here's one that might sound gimmicky but with experience I can say it really works well. (sorry for no pics as I am on my phone) *Slaking@ Choice Scarf- Adament EV's: 4 HP/ 252 ATK/ 252 SPE * Return * Earthquake * Ice Punch * Punishment And Cofagrigus@ Leftovers- Bold EV's: 248 HP/ 252 DEF/ 8 SPE * Willo-Wisp * Shadowball * Pain Split * Knock Off Ok, so here's how it works. You send out Cofagrigus on a physical attacker who then subjects itself to obtaining the ability Mummy. Then you send out your Slaking who then gets hit, also abtaining the ability Mummy. But wait, now Slaking can freely attack without the pain of Traunt. When this happenes Slaking can destroy most teams because of the suprise factor and its brute strenght. Return is the best STAB it gets, EQ because whats better then spamming it while scarfed (mind you, out running alot of pokes being at 100 base speed), Ice Punch for dragons and flying types, and Punishment for setup attackers. Also, grigus can make it easier for him to sweep, nullifing abilities, knocking off items, and burning foes. So yah, thats it.
The only issue I see with this is special attacks, they wall the idea. The day Slaking gets Skill Swap...
You need Pursuit on the Slaking so the Mummy-fied enemy can't switch out of Slaking and ruin your fun. This basically means you can't run Scarf though. Posted from Smogon.com App for Android
An odd set I tried out on a recent team: Blissey (F) @ Expert Belt Trait: Natural Cure EVs: 176 HP / 100 SAtk / 232 SDef Calm Nature - Wish - Protect - Fire Blast - Ice Beam This was a really specific set for a weatherless team to better combat Sun - with the given EVs and Expert Belt, this set will always OHKO Venusaur in the Sun after Stealth Rock or one round of Life Orb. Ice Beam rips right through Landorus and does a sizable chunk to most Dragons. Wish and Protect are standard Blissey fare for team support. It does miss Leftovers and Toxic, so I wouldn't advise it if you're just looking for a special wall, but if you absolutely need something like this it's worth trying.
Sun Support Slowbro Slowbro (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Regenerator EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef Bold Nature - Slack Off - Thunder Wave - Flamethrower - Ice Beam Slowbro is one of my favorite pokemon to use on Sun Teams, and it is consistently something of an MVP. Great Defense and Psychic/Water typing allows it handle multiple pokemon that threaten sun, such as Terrakion, Infernape and Landorus, while Regenerator helps with those double-switches that are so vital for maintaining momentum in sun. Thunder Wave allows Slowbro to outspeed and heal and stall for a win, and later on helps Venusaur to set up. Flamethrower is not to be laughed at under Sun, and gets the upper hand against pokemon angling to set up or gain a free U-turn, such as Scizor or Ferrothorn. Ice Beam gives it offensive presence against dragons and Landorus, thought it could be switched out for Psychic for neutral, consistent STAB-damage. It struggles against things like banded Outrages and Stone Edges - but what non-steel doesn't?


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Welcome to our fantasic fully equipped 2 bedroom/2 bath townhome that sleeps 6. There is an updateded kitchen and a new laundry room as well as updates to both bathrooms. This home has everything that you will need from linens and towels to satellite TV's in all rooms. The vaulted ceilings add to the spacious feel of this charming home. The walk-in closet has room for all of your belongings. There is a screened porth for a lazy breakfast or a quiet evening enjoying the weather. The heated community pool and spa are great for spending a day of relaxation; for the more energetic, there is tennis.
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Craig Richey, a keyboard studies lecturer in the Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, recently finished the score to "The World According To Dick Cheney," which was just screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Richey appeared at the festival on a BMI Composers Roundtable panel that explored the creative relationship between composer and director. A Sundance Institute Fellow (a graduate of the 2006 Composers Lab), Richey first appeared on this panel at Sundance 2006 and at Sundance 2011, where he collaborated with other composers lab alums in a live scoring event organized by composer Rolfe Kent.
Helmed by RJ Cutler, the director of "The War Room" and 2009's "The September Issue" (which Richey also scored), "The World According To Dick Cheney" will be the premiere episode of a new Showtime biography series featuring portraits of notable Americans.
There have been few U.S. political figures in recent memory more divisive than Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of the United States under George W. Bush. The politician's life, career and relationships are profiled in the documentary accompanied by a series of sit-down interviews with Cheney, as well as his closest friends, all to reveal, as the film says, "How did Dick Cheney become the single most powerful nonpresidential figure in American history?"
Richey was excited to return to Sundance. He remembers his 2009 visit after scoring "The September Issue" about Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
"I felt the Wintour documentary was aimed at a specific audience, but after watching 'Cheney' for five minutes, I saw this film was aimed at an entirely different audience," he said. "This is a big film, one of those great filmmaker's subjects that reveals a pivotal period of history. Watching Dick Cheney as vice president gave the film a gravity and a sense of historical longevity I hadn't dealt with before. I can imagine this film being watched for years to come."
Richey's creative process began when he peeked at early footage. "I originally gave the filmmakers a bunch of music from my personal library," he recalled. "As it turns out, of the final 57 pieces of score in the film, 12 of them came from that library. It's nice when it works out that way. It means less work for me and music that is more apt to work in the context of a documentary."
Richey believes documentaries are often driven by their scores. "They need so much music that a variety of musical styles are required," he explained. "I go to work using broad strokes until I decide what interpretation is appropriate. For instance, what size of musical group is possible under the budget? What can we afford? That is a question asked by any film. Eventually, Showtime came up with more funding to support a small orchestra."
Richey doesn't feel a film score needs to crack the mystery of its subject right away. "I asked myself, 'What piece of music feels like a theme for Dick Cheney?' It felt quite surreal to compose for Dick Cheney," he laughed. "But that was the starting point. Once that piece of music was in place, the score went off in different directions peppered with little musical fragments that turned out later to be focal points for all kinds of musical cues."
Subject matter dictates musical decisions, Richey feels. "There was something so mature and serious about this film that I felt it deserved a string orchestra. It elevated the whole film to its proper level, even though there was the occasional departure into steel guitars," he said.
"When I looked at footage dealing with 9/11 that featured President George Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, it was my responsibility to bring a sense of urgency and gravity to all this," he added. "It was up to me to create energy and movement with an emotional quality through the use of strings."
Richey feels his previous Sundance experiences helped to prepare him for his current assignment. As a Sundance Institute Fellow and graduate of the 2006 Composers Lab, he remembers a fast-paced, 10-day adventure that shuffled musical advisors.
"Basically, I found out I could function under that kind of pressure," he recalled. "The response of my Sundance mentors gave me a sense of confidence. It was a critical pat on the head. I learned at the Sundance Lab to trust my instincts and not re-do what someone else did."
As a lecturer in keyboard studies, his responsibilities include working one-on-one with piano performance majors and with the accompaniment class, where pianists are paired with singers and instrumentalists.
What is next for Craig Richey? Ask his agent. "My next film assignment is titled 'Uncanny,' but after that, who knows?" he said. "All I really know is that 'The World According to Dick Cheney' is already generating plenty of critical buzz."


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When the Stars Align – Taking a look at the fall collections through the gaze of iconic fashion figures such as Twiggy, Tina Tuner and Madonna, photographer Robert Trachtenberg works with fashion editor Anna Bromilow on this fashion spread for Tatler's August issue. From the city streets to a record store, the designs of Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Versace and others take center stage in the tongue-and-cheek spread.


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The Art of Vengeance
Collected Stories
Born in Llandaff, Wales, of well-to-do Norwegian parents, educated in England, and a pilot with the Royal Air Force for part of the Second World War, Roald Dahl (1916–1990) is the author of numerous books for children1 and a relatively small but distinct body of prose fiction for adults: Over to You (1946), Someone Like You (1953), Kiss Kiss (1960), Selected Stories (1970), Switch Bitch (1974), and Eight Short Stories (1987). The Collected Stories, with an excellent introduction by Dahl's biographer Jeremy Treglown, is a gathering of forty-eight stories of considerable diversity, ambition, and quality, with settings ranging from Kenya to rural England, London, and New York City and narrative styles ranging from the realistic to the fabulist and surreal.
Though a number of Dahl's most engaging stories, particularly in his early career, are cast in a realist mode, his reputation is that of a writer of macabre, blackly jocose tales that read, at their strongest, like artful variants of Grimm's fairy tales; Dahl is of that select society of Saki (the pen name of H.H. Munro), Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark, and Iris Murdoch, satiric moralists who wield the English language like a surgical instrument to flay, dissect, and expose human folly. As a female character says in the ironically titled "My Lady Love, My Dove": "I'm a nasty person. And so are you—in a secret sort of way. That's why we get along together." Given Dahl's predilection for severely punishing his fictional characters, you might expect this nasty lady to be punished, but Roald Dahl is not a writer to satisfy expectations.
Though in his fiction for adults as in his books for children Dahl exhibits the flair of a natural storyteller, for whom no bizarre leap of the imagination is unlikely, he seems to have begun writing, at the urging of C.S. Forester, as a consequence of his wartime experiences in the RAF, which included crash-landing in the African desert and participating in highly dangerous air battles during the German invasion of Greece. Such early stories as "An African Story," "Only This," "Someone Like You," and "Death of an Old Old Man" draw memorably on these experiences and suggest that if Dahl had not concentrated on the short-story form and more or less abandoned realism for the showy detonations of plot made popular in his youth by Saki and O. Henry, he might have developed into a very different sort of writer altogether.
The first story in this volume, "An African Story," is a tale of primitive revenge recounted in the most laconic of voices, as chilling as any of Paul Bowles's parable-like tales of North Africa: an adventurous young RAF pilot develops engine trouble while flying solo above the Kenyan Highlands, makes a forced landing, and finds himself on a desert plain where he is given aid by an elderly farmer who tells him an unnerving story, or confession, "so strange that the pilot wrote it down on paper as soon as he got back to Nairobi…not in the old man's words, but in his own words," to be discovered by others in his squadron after his death. The anonymous narrator of "An African Story," speaking of his dead colleague, might be speaking as aptly of the young Roald Dahl himself:
He had never written a story before, and so naturally there were mistakes. He did not know any of the tricks with words which writers use, which they have to use just as painters have to use tricks with paint, but when he had finished writing…he left behind him a rare and powerful tale.
"Death of an Old Old Man" is a mesmerizing account of the final, excruciatingly protracted minutes of a fighter pilot whose plane has been struck by a German Focke-Wulf, forcing him to parachute out, and down, to his death in a muddy pond: "I won't struggle, he thought. There is no point in struggling, for when there is a black cloud in the sky it is bound to rain." In "Someone Like You," a spare, minimalist story in a heavily ironic Hemingway vein, two former RAF bomber pilots are getting companionably drunk together not long after the end of the war, reminiscing about "jinking" on their bombing missions:
"It would just be a gentle pressure with the ball of my foot upon the rudder-bar; a pressure so slight that I would hardly know that I was doing it, and it would throw the bombs on to a different house and onto different people. It is all up to me, the whole thing is up to me, and each time that I go out I have to decide which ones shall be killed…."
"I jinked once," I said, "ground-strafing. I thought I'd kill the ones on the other side of the road instead."
"Everybody jinks," he said. "Shall we have another drink?"
In "The Soldier," a story of 1948, a former soldier's growing psychotic paranoia is signaled by a pathological growing numbness in his body: by degrees he is losing his capacity to feel sensation, even pain. Suffering from a kind of delayed shell shock—with which his wife is inexplicably unsympathetic—he becomes susceptible to hallucinations and sudden outbursts of rage:
He moved his hand over to the left—and the moment the fingers touched the knob, something small but violent exploded inside his head and with it a surge of fury and outrage and fear. He opened the door, shut it quickly behind him and shouted: "Edna, are you there?"
Like numerous other calculating females in Dahl's stories, canny Edna saves her life by dissociating herself from her troubled husband, who seems headed for a mental asylum at the story's end, like the similarly over-sensitive male protagonist of "The Sound Machine," an amateur scientist named Klausner who has invented an ingenious machine that will be his undoing:
There is a whole world of sound about us all the time that we cannot hear: It is possible that up there in those high-pitched inaudible regions there is a new exciting music being made…so powerful that it would drive us mad if only our ears were tuned to hear the sound of it…. This machine…is designed to pick up sound vibrations that are too high-pitched for reception by the human ear, and to convert them to a scale of audible tones, I tune it in, almost like a radio.
Since Klausner is "a frail, nervous, twitchy little man, a moth of a man, dreamy and distracted," we are not surprised when the sound machine picks up the "frightful, throatless shrieks" of roses being cut in the garden next door, and the terrible shriek of a tree into which an ax has been driven: "enormous and frightful and…it had made him feel sick with horror." Klausner too is led away: the inevitable fate for a person who hasn't inured himself to the horrors of even ordinary life, like "normal" people.
One of Dahl's most gripping stories is the very brief "The Wish," in which a highly sensitive, imaginative, and lonely child fantasizes lurid dangers in the design of a carpet in his home—"The red parts…are red-hot lumps of coal…the black parts are snakes, poisonous snakes"—which he has no choice but to walk on, with nightmare results as an initially playful notion blossoms into what appears to be a full-blown psychosis, or worse. Subtly rendered, poignantly convincing, "The Wish" is reminiscent of Conrad Aiken's classic tale of encroaching childhood madness, "Silent Snow, Secret Snow." A kindred tale of growing adult paranoia originating in childhood trauma is "Galloping Foxley," in which a London commuter in his early sixties begins to imagine that a fellow passenger on his train is an old prefect from his boarding school—"A 'boazer' we called it"—now in his sixties; as a boy, this Foxley had been a brutal sadist allowed by school tradition to beat any of the "fags" in his residence:
Anyone who has been properly beaten will tell you that the real pain does not come until about eight or ten seconds after the stroke [with a cane]. The stroke itself is merely a loud crack and a sort of blunt thud against your backside, numbing you completely (I'm told a bullet wound does the same). But later on…it feels as if someone is laying a red hot poker right across your naked buttocks and it is absolutely impossible for you to prevent yourself from reaching back and clutching it with your fingers.
Rare among Dahl's stories, "Galloping Foxley" ends upon an unexpectedly muted, unmelodramatic note.2
In the aptly titled "Poison," one of Dahl's most brilliantly realized stories, an Englishman living in Bengal, India, is held thrall in his bed by what he believes to be a krait (a highly poisonous snake common to the region) coiled and sleeping on his stomach, beneath a sheet. The terrified man, unable to move for fear of waking the snake, is aided by a fellow Englishman, the narrator of the story, and by a local Indian doctor who behaves heroically only to be viciously insulted when the ordeal is over by the racist Englishman he'd helped: "You dirty little Hindu sewer rat!" This story, for most of its length an excruciating tale of suspense, exudes the air of a fable even as it must have made for painful reading at the time of its first publication, in the popular American magazine Collier's.
After these admirable early stories, in which Roald Dahl would seem to have invested much of his own intimate experience, he moves decisively away from prose fiction of an intensely inward, sympathetic kind: intimacy is rejected for distance, sympathy for an Olympian detachment, as if the writer were determined not to succumb to the dangers of oversensitivity like his victim-characters, but to identify with their punitive and sadistic tormenters, like the prefect bully Foxley who goes unpunished for his cruelty. In Someone Like You, and in successive collections of stories, Dahl casts a very cold eye upon the objects of his satire, who are divided about equally—to paraphrase that most savage of English satirists, Jonathan Swift—between "fools and knaves." Jeremy Treglown speaks of Dahl's admiration for Ian Fleming and of Dahl's increasing focus upon situation to the exclusion of character:
Critics have often commented on how pared-down Dahl's narrative style at its best can be, and it's interesting how much else he does without. Setting, climate, architecture, food, dress, voice—all are sketched briefly, and with the most familiar, even clichéd strokes, as if to clear the way for what really matters.
As Dahl's books for children are often fueled by fantasies of tricks, pranks, and revenge in various guises, so what "really matters" in his mature work is punishment: "Vengeance Is Mine, Inc.," a slapdash anecdotal tale ostensibly set in New York City, might well be the title for Dahl's collected stories. Like his younger contemporaries Muriel Spark and Patricia Highsmith, Dahl has a zest for blackly comic sadistic situations in which characters, often hapless, are punished out of all proportion to their wrongdoings. In one of the more subtly crafted stories, the ironically titled "The Way Up to Heaven," first published in The New Yorker in 1954, an exasperatingly slow, doddering, self-absorbed old coot, seemingly so rich as to live in a "large six-storey house in New York City, on East Sixty-second Street, [with] four servants" and his own private elevator, is allowed by his long-suffering wife, to remain trapped in the elevator as she leaves for six weeks in Europe to visit her daughter:
Among Roald Dahl's most popular children's books are James and the Giant Peach (1961), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), The BFG ("Big Friendly Giant") (1982), and Matilda (1988); of particular interest to adult readers of Roald Dahl are Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (1977), which contains the autobiographical essay "Lucky Break: How I Became a Writer." In his memoirist pieces for young readers, Dahl speaks with an engaging directness and honesty which suggests that his most comfortable mode of writing was in fact for young readers whose natural curiosity, lack of cynicism, and inexperience he could assume. Dahl's success as a writer of children's books far surpassed his success as a writer of prose fiction for adults and, according to Jeremy Treglown, "part of [Dahl] always resented that he had become best known as the author of what are known in American publishing as 'juveniles.'"↩
In Boy: Tales of Childhood and in "Lucky Break: How I Became a Writer" Dahl writes in detail of having been the object of sadistic beatings at the Repton School. He writes of having been caned by a boazer, a school athlete whose very strokes in the flesh of a boy's buttocks were perversely admired. The sado-homoerotic undercurrent of Dahl's public school boyhood gives to these memories an aura of romantic nostalgia:
A ritual took place in the dormitory after each beating. The victim was required to stand in the middle of the room and lower his pyjama trousers so that the damage could be inspected. Half a dozen experts would crowd around you and express their opinions in highly professional language.
"What a super job."
"He's got every single one in the same place!"
…Once, I was still standing in the middle of the dormitory with my pyjama trousers around my knees when [the boazer] came through the door…. "Pull those pyjamas up and get into bed immediately!" he ordered, but I noticed that as he turned away to go out of the door, he craned his head ever so slightly to one side to catch a glimpse of my bare bottom and his own handiwork. I was certain I detected a little glimmer of pride around the edge of his mouth before he closed the door behind him.
There is no male-female love scene in Roald Dahl's fiction for adults so exquisitely honed and so tender as this.↩


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The Eclipse Global Monetary Fund, managed by Jim Klingler, gained a weighty 10.4% in the first four months of 2003, besting a much more staid 4.4% median-macro return. Renewed trending in the U.S. dollar helped again in April, as Eclipse added 1.1% for the month. Despite its name, the strategy trades financials, interest rates, metals and energy. Big swings in equity and bond markets produced favorable trading conditions for Eclipse, as did trending in gold prices. In April, the strategy...
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