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What if Shaun Hill was the "Leader" that Corey Williams and Chris Houston were calling out? This "Broken Index Finger" came out of Nowhere. I know the Offensive production decreased in the 2nd half of last weeks game. But it did not look like Hill was playing with a Broken Index Finger!
What if Hill is the one who has lost the team, A couple of Defensive players had to be the ones to call him on it, because, our Offense, as a whole is Unified. But If Shaun is the one that can't Lead the Team.... Then he has to go.
Schwartz notices this, and places Hill on IR with a phantom broken Index finger.
Stanton is pretty much Hamburger to this team right now, (cheap Meat)
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The Department of Modern Languages offers major programs in French and Spanish, with courses in German, Dakota, and Arabic. Study Abroad and the experience of living in another culture are an integral part of majoring in languages at North Dakota State University. Through the Tri-College University consortium, NDSU students may also study Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian, and classics for full credit.
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Music Review: 'Bravo Broadway!'
Date: January 30, 2013
by: June LeBell | Contributing Columnist
Many American orchestras are in trouble, and they seem to be dropping like flies from coast to coast. But, there are some that are actually thriving, and the Sarasota Orchestra is, fortunately, among those that are flourishing, even booming.
What is it doing that's so right? Well, among other things, versatility seems to be the name of the game these days and the musicians in the Sarasota Orchestra realize that and are doing something about it.
From last week's flash mob of musicians at the Sarasota Airport to their brilliant "Bravo Broadway" program at the Van Wezel, Sarasota Orchestra musicians and management are keeping up with the times and, best of all, they're not dumbing down the music or their talents.
Broadway is America's "classical" music, and the Sarasota Orchestra seems able to go from the intricacies of Prokofiev, Mozart and Holst to the difficulties (don't think popular equals easy!) of Rodgers, Porter, Bernstein and Webber without splitting a string.
Audiences are lapping up the music. The recent "Bravo Broadway" program was not only sold out, it was so popular it was sold-out twice, and audiences came away with a sense that this orchestra just can't stop the beat.
Susan Egan, a Broadway and cabaret star whose roles included Sally Bowles in "Cabaret" and the title role in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie"; Lisa Vroman who appeared for many years as Christine in "Phantom" and Fantine and Cosette in "Les Miserables"; and Doug LaBrecque, a terrific "bari-tenor" who made just one of his marks in the Hal Prince revival of "Showboat," were the three soloists, and they brought their excellent musical talents and infectious enthusiasm to a beautifully crafted program that Andrew Lane conducted.
It's not easy to take well-known Broadway shows and perform excerpts, one after another, without eventually seeming like an Ed Sullivan show gone awry. But, aside from the overly amplified soloists (no problem hearing this show!), the length and depth of this festive program were just right.
The orchestra strutted its stuff in the solo spotlight with overtures from "Funny Girl," "West Side Story" and "Chicago," but, then, pivoted professionally into the role of solid accompanist for such memorable performances with the singers as a gorgeous medley from "Showboat," an almost operatic "Vanilla Ice Cream" from "She Loves Me," sung by Vroman, and, as an encore, a hilarious rendition by everyone of "The Age of Aquarius," complete with hippy costumes and demeanor that the singers shared. Lane showed his own versatility and humor by joining in the fun.
The soloists sang, danced and changed costumes as easily as they changed singing styles, going from the operatic sounds of early music theater (Lerner and Loewe, Cole Porter, Bernstein and Sondheim, Harnick and Bok) to the rock-like rhythms and percussive, throbbing sounds of ABBA and Kander and Ebb, and the recitative, repetitive pseudo-operatic style of Webber.
Versatility and talent are among the hallmarks of great performers, and the Sarasota Orchestra seems able to do just about anything asked of it with grace, fervor and all that jazz!
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Isaia Tuifua is freaking monster for this huge hit. Can't imagine how much coin Roger Goodell would fine him for this masterful lay-out, but I digress.
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It takes something special for a rugby highlight to show up here at BroBible. What Tendai Mtawarira did over the weekend certainly qualifies. The Zimbabwean
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In case you didn't know, rugby is a dangerous and violent sport where injuries are quite likely.
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Football? Pssh. Who needs that when you can lose the pads and play rugby. Here's Lance Hohaia of the New Zealand Warriors jacking
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"Championed by both former President George W. Bush and current President Barack Obama, the proposal is the child of countless millions in international lobbying money from the media industry. It aims to enact constant monitoring of citizens' online activities -- even perfectly legitimate ones -- and grants border agents in the U.S. and many member states the power of warrantless search and seizures -- provisions that would grant them the power to destroy U.S. citizens' laptops, iPods, or CDs, if the agents suspected that they might contain infringed content. And the best part? The cost of the bill will be footed by the taxpayers themselves -- without even giving them a clue as to what's happening."
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on Feb 25, 2010 at 9:42 pm
I don't know about the details of this law, but something has to be done about all the illegal downloading of copyrighted materials. We need more aggressive law enforcement in this area, but it we need to respect constitutional rights of citizens also.
on Feb 27, 2010 at 9:43 pm
G.W. is that you? I know how you enjoy espousing the "love it or leave it" rhetoric to those who don't agree with you. I think we've about had enough of you.
on Feb 28, 2010 at 9:48 am
Old story I am sure Cheney would love to hang around the neck of the current administration.
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Total Information Awareness - DARPA, John Poindexter
Is this only news because you are finally paying attention to it?
BTW - The evidence this program was initiated after Bush took office but before Nine-Eleven is very strong.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - 2013 probably won't go down as the most historic weather year in southeast North Carolina, but as we look back there certainly were some memorable events. With 2013 winding down we would like to take a look back at our top five weather stories.
This year was full of outbreaks of gusty thunderstorms. One of the biggest complexes of severe thunderstorms occurred on June 13, about a week after tropical storm Andrea. Other notable severe weather days were: January 30, June 10, June 27, and September 3.
Do you remember the record breaking early snowfall we received on the morning of November 13. It wasn't much! In fact it was only a dusting. However up until this year Wilmington had never seen snow on the ground prior to November 14. Trace amounts of snow were also re cored at ILM on February 16 and 17.
We saw below normal temperatures for nine out of twelve months at ILM. Only January, October, and December were above normal. The summer of 2013 was noticeably cooler than the scorching heat we saw in both 2011 and 2012. The number of days with highs of 90 degrees or higher was sharply lower this year and we never saw a day with a high over 100.
A very wet June. Wilmington recorded over 11 inches of rain according to the National Weather Service, making it the second wettest June on record. The entire state of North Carolina recorded its second wettest June on record, effectively eliminating any lingering drought over eastern North Carolina to that point. Since June the pattern turned dry once again. Now all of southeast North Carolina is classified as abnormally dry by the U.S. drought monitor.
Tropical storm Andrea. Andrea formed in the central Gulf of Mexico on June 5 and made landfall along the northwestern coast of the Florida Peninsula on June 6. Andrea then moved across: Georgia, South Carolina, and central North Carolina as a minimal tropical storm.
Andrea's rainfall totals were another matter! Much of central North Carolina west of I-95 recorded between 5 to 7 inches of rain. ILM recorded 5.47 inches of rain. Most totals in southeast North Carolina were in the 2 to 3 inch range.
Andrea produced very little damage. However before the main storm's arrival a small tornado did touchdown in Varmentown in Brunswick county early on the morning of June 6.
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Guerts went missing while staying at a hotel near Lake Monona on Jan. 26. He was in Madison with co-workers for a trade show at the Alliant Energy Center.
A citizen spotted what he believed to be a body while using his personal side scan sonar on Tuesday, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Office.
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"... but brisk interstate competition is far better than none." Sorry, this is not the point. Please go back to the emphasis on cost-benefit analysis. Yes, it's tricky, but it should be both mandatory and transparent (i.e., published), and subject to independent review.
Here's another conundrum: discretionary incentives are indeed essentially slush funds for back-door campaign contributions (at best) or rank corruption (at worst). Unfortunately, it is also true that statutory incentives (those written into law and automatically available to any investor that is eligible) often waste money on investors who would have invested even without the incentives.
I'm rather surprised at the Economist's superficial analysis. It's simplistically "pro-business", and ultimately seems an apology for a wasteful and corrupt practices.
"Some may not like it, but brisk interstate competition is far better than none."
How can you make this point after stating that there is no hard evidence to support the claim that all these tax breaks actually do what they are supposed to do?
This is some kind of perverted or reverse Marxism. The productive capital is not only in private hand but also tax exempt while on the other hand the proletariat is enslaved by the state with ever higher taxes.
And we have the gall to criticize China for State Capitalism. We are all becoming communists while Russia is becoming capitalist.
"Some may not like it, but brisk interstate competition is far better than none."
Interstate competition is indeed one of the most important ingredients to American economic growth and innovation, and I am extraordinarily proud of my Texas homeland, but these subsidies are open violations of Equal Protection and fair economic competition. If tax rates are a problem for major corporations, they are a problem for ALL businesses. Furthermore, since the abandonment of federal tax apportionment, the states are no longer competing on equal footing. Texas, for example, has an obsession with maintaining neutral tax flows. For each dollar that DC siphons out of Texas, Texas demands a dollar flows back into the state from DC. Texas has forged federal and state bureaucracies to make it happen. States like California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Illinois are not as politically savvy. Some of them only receive $.70 for each $1 sent to DC. If they lower their state taxes to compete with places like Texas, they will only increase their exposure to revenue shortfall via apportionment imbalances.
Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce to avoid predatory commercial activity and resolve commercial disputes between states. Congress has used this power before. Their refusal to create a level economic playing field and to enforce Equal Protection is patently ludicrous.
The current state subsidy programs are not economic competition. They are social competition akin to keeping-up-with-the-Jones' and these subsidy programs will wreak the same havoc on our union that they wreak upon our suburbs.
What a squandering of money. 14 Million to secure jobs for 220? I know there are more people employed in the initial construction, but surely there are more productive short term tasks? If Georgia wanted to create a short burst of stimulus, perhaps it would be better spent on something that has a decent rate of return, like education or infrastructure.
So US subsidy is "savvy", but Chinese subsidy is "pervese"?
I don't care how well trained your workforce, without capital training is worthless. Go to Eastern Europe and Russia, you find hundreds of thousands of engineers, technicians, and other well trained people out of work; I once had an Eastern European housekeeper who had a Ph.d in Electromagnetic Physics. Moverover, what is the point of this regime of tax incentive that only benefit well connected firms? If you want growth and an open system, just cut taxes and regulation across the board.
"[the tax incentives] have become an accepted and largely beneficial aspect of competition." This is a typical op-ed comment dressed up as fact. Yet, the support for the 'fact' that this is largely beneficial is woefully short. Yes, transfer of jobs and factories from community to community generally benefits someone - almost certainly the factory owner - but whether the transfer and use of tax subsidies benefits communities and workers in them is hardly known or accepted as true.
During the current economic crisis state and local government employment has nosedived. According to the St. Louis Fed, one of 12 regional Reserve Banks, total local government employment has declined from 14,481,000 when the recession began in 2007 to 14,033,000 in March of this year. State government employment fell from 5,139,000 to 5,050,000 over the same period. That aggregates to a total loss of 537,000 state and local government jobs.
These figures starkly illustrate the opportunity cost of out-of-control use of subsidies to business at the state and local level. Critics of investment incentives argue that subsidies would generally be better spent on education and infrastructure, policies that not only benefit individual firms but the entire population as well. That makes sense if we consider more closely how Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) should be calculated rather than to the exclusion of vast swathes of people.
It is estimated that total business subsidies could be used to hire 1.4 million government workers at $50,000 per year in salary and benefits. Instead, state after state has seen sharp and disproportionate cuts to these very areas, which have also extended to economic development programmes run by the state university systems. Development programmes run at California and North Carolina, for example, are considered crown jewel developments but are being severely constrained by sweeping cuts.
This is myopia magnified. It weakens the very factors that make a state or locality attractive to investment in the first place, and the state or local economic development subsidies largely cancels each other out with little net effect on the overall location of investment in the country. Most of these subsidies could easily be argued to be a waste of money when considered from the view point of the country as a whole.
To change the way economic development is handled requires a tremendous effort and paradigm shift at local, state, and federal government level.
tax-payer funded capitalism was always going to be at odds with rigorous CBA in a representative democracy, all the more in the post-Citizens United world.
The 'leaders' do NOT represent the people. Period. They are fully owned and fully run by global Corporations. Global Corporate Takeover.
WE are being Hung out to DRY.
I find it humorous how economist claim China's subsidies are perverse, as labelled in an article earlier this week. But American ones are not.
Tax policy. Sweet land of subsidy. Grosser, there a worm in my Apple. Apple with one of the biggest bond offerings in history is a tax fiddle. To finance this they take credits out instead of mobilizing profit which would be taxable. Patriotic Apple.
Where can you find evidence that lower taxes attracts businesses? You certainly wouldn't ask an NGO wedded to government-funded programs
Why not ask the people who make these decisions? My impression, gathered from people who do make such decisions, is that they are primarily financial. Basic infrastructure (transportation, utilities) are a deal breaker.
The biggest problems arise when politicians deviate from an overall economic plan toward one that tries to choose the businesses that will benefit from the plan. Politicians are not equipped to make these determinations, and are tempted to try to benefit from their decisions.
"[businesses are given] assistance with land acquisition (land is often just given away)"
Oh how different things are across the Atlantic...
"Squandering of money?"
Didn't you see "Voestalpine will invest $62m in the facility" and could generate hundreds more jobs for its suppliers and vendors?" Seems like this deal could be a terrific economic magnet for the area.
Walking around money. Tax the poor working stiffs to fill the slush funds, so their paychecks can go to subsizing big box stores that pay the locals minimum wage, and export all the cash out to the 'shareholders'.
Profits are up, employment still stinks, and we know who butters the local politician's toast.
In Florida, the state, city of Jupiter and palm Beach county have issued bonds to attract several
genetic research institutions such as Scripps and
Max Planck from Germany to set up shops here. the
totals bonds came to $310 millions dollars. the
average job cost about $470,000. It will be awhile
before we can see any tangible benefits.
Martin county, whose county seat is port Saint lucie, have had spent some money to attract several research institutions there too. just stay tune.
The conclusion is wrong. These incentives are perverse and biased. As already mentioned, states can change tax rates and create laws that would benefit any business in a certain sector or of a certain size in particular ways (say 2 years of employment credits). Negotiating these things with individual companies is corrupt and perverse.
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A day after Public Enemy's Flavor Flav made headlines for one of his fast food restaurants being hit with an eviction notice, a new twist in the situation has emerged.
According to reports, the landlords should be heavily at fault for exposing employees to life-threatning conditions.
The people behind Flavor Flav's Michigan chicken joint claim their landlords DON'T DESERVE RENT ... because the guys who own the building exposed them to POISON GAS!!! We broke the story ... Flavor Flav's Chicken & Ribs was hit with eviction papers last month because the landlords claim the restaurant hasn't paid a penny in rent since the place opened back in December. But Flav's people claim they have a damn good reason to stiff the landlords -- the place had a faulty heater that was leaking carbon monoxide into the restaurant ... endangering everyone inside the building. (TMZ)
If things go the way of Team Flav, a pricey $25,000 ruling could be at stake.
Flav's partners filed a lawsuit against the landlord ... claiming they had a duty to fix the problem, but failed to do so ... causing FFC&R to temporarily close its doors. The chicken joint has since re-opened ... and we're guessing the problem has been remedied because no one has since died (... to the best of our knowledge). A lawyer for Flav's biz partners tells TMZ, the rent on the property IS currently being paid ... but into a court escrow account, where it will stay until all these messy legal matters are settled. Team Flav is suing for more than $25k in lost business and other damages. (TMZ)
After a nasty fallout with former business partners, Flav decided to launch his very own fried chicken and soul food takeout restaurant in Nevada last year.
The one-time member of the rap group Public Enemy is holding opening ceremony Thursday evening at Flavor Flav's House of Flavor, a few blocks southeast of downtown Las Vegas. It's the night before the 53rd birthday for the celebrity whose public persona is as big as the clock he wears on his chest. His real name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr., and he's tried the chicken restaurant recipe before. A short-lived franchise dubbed Flav's Fried Chicken opened and closed last year in Clinton, Iowa. An announcement says the Las Vegas store isn't associated with the one in Iowa. (Washington Post)
He previously spoke on his love for the culinary arts and the new restaurant's theme.
"My secret (shhhh) fried chicken recipe. That's the star. But we have a red velvet waffle too, and everyone goes ohhhh when they hear that. Go on, you can say it," Flav said when asked about the menu. "My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school. [Did I get a degree?] I sure did. 1978. Albertson, N.Y. ... [The restaurant theme?] Things showcasing my career, a lot of pictures up of me and my celebrity friends. I'll wait until we expand to put all my clocks on the wall." (Los Angeles Times)


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This week, the Obama administration will face its second significant courtroom test of the president's pledges to end unwarranted secrecy about the workings of the federal government. At stake is a set of documents that could expose intentional lawbreaking by senior Bush officials. While concealing them would seem to contradict Obama's much-heralded promise of a new era of open government, revealing them could make it virtually impossible for the new administration to refuse to investigate potential criminal conduct by the Bush administration, something the new administration has sought to avoid.
The case, American Civil Liberties Union v. Department of Justice, has been going on for five years now, with the ACLU battling the Bush administration to turn over documents sought under the federal Freedom of Information Act that would reveal crucial information about the development of policies regarding treatment of detainees in the "war on terror" and could help determine whether Bush officials broke domestic and international law.
On Friday, the Obama Justice Department must file its response to the ACLU's request for three critical memos written by the Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC. Those lawyers developed the legal justification for the treatment of the thousands of men and boys that the United States has detained over the last seven years as suspected terrorists.
Although the Bush administration consistently refused to produce the memos, citing various legal privileges and exceptions to the Freedom of Information law, advocates are hopeful that the new administration might take a different approach. After all, on his first full day in office, President Obama issued a presidential memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies instructing them to do just that.
"The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption," says the Obama memorandum. "In the face of doubt, openness prevails. The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears." Moreover, the government should never withhold documents "based on an effort to protect the personal interests of Government officials at the expense of those they are supposed to serve."
Although Obama has only been in office three weeks, deadlines in several legal cases require his administration to quickly decide how and whether he's going to translate his lofty promises into tangible changes in secrecy policy.
On Jan. 26, TWI wrote about the first case where the Obama administration had to state whether it would continue to assert an extremely broad version of the "state secrets" privilege to prevent a federal judge from viewing evidence of the Bush CIA's extraordinary rendition program. On Monday, Obama DOJ lawyers supported that controversial Bush administration position in a California federal court.
This ACLU FOIA case presents the second major secrecy challenge to the new administration. This one tests directly Obama's pledge in his Presidential Memorandum "to usher in a new era of open Government." But as Jefferson Morely pointed out on TWI, that's easier said than done.
Thousands of pages of documents have been revealed since the ACLU filed its first FOIA request at issue in this case, in October 2003. But the ACLU argues in its brief to the court that "the public record is incomplete with respect to an issue of enormous public importance: the extent to which United States government officials, as late as May 2005 – and subsequent to the government denouncing the widespread torture at Abu Ghraib prison – secretly authorized abusive interrogation of prisoners held in secret detention abroad in possible violation of domestic and international law."
As Jameel Jaffer, the lead ACLU lawyer on the case, put it: "It's clear that many of the most crucial documents, including the most crucial OLC memos, are still being withheld."
Those memos would help determine whether the Bush administration secretly authorized abusive interrogations, even as it denounced such conduct publicly. The timing of the decisions could also help determine whether the Bush administration sought legal justification for abusive actions already taken, and that violated U.S. and international law. That would undermine the administration's argument, made repeatedly by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and others, that Bush officials who authorized abusive policies cannot be prosecuted because they all relied on the legal advice of administration lawyers.
"The key term there is 'relied,' " said Chris Anders, Senior Legislative Counsel for the ACLU in Washington. "If you're the one who asked for the opinion and directed what would be in it, it might be hard to make an argument that you relied on something you ordered to be done." What's more, "it looks like there was significant illegal conduct before the written OLC opinions," said Anders. Such conduct couldn't have occurred in reliance on memos that didn't yet exist.
For example, says Anders, Attorney General John Ashcroft testified to the House Judiciary Committee that he didn't know of any Department of Justice opinions prior to August 2002 concerning interrogation. Yet the department's Inspector General last May reported that terrorism suspect Abu Zubaydah was arrested in March 2002, and that FBI agents reported that they thought the CIA's tactics used to interrogate him were "borderline torture." If legal memos were only issued later to justify the conduct, that would significantly undermine the defense that the CIA and other officials were relying on the advice of their lawyers.
The current motion pending in the ACLU's case seeks the release of three key legal memos that they say will help reveal exactly who advised what and when.
According to the Justice Department's briefs filed in the case, the Bush administration withheld the memos based on several exceptions to disclosure contained in the Freedom of Information Act, including that the memos provided confidential legal advice to the executive branch and contain classified information regarding "intelligence sources or methods" and "foreign activities of the United States." (A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment further on the case.) The Bush administration interpreted the FOIA exceptions expansively, adding presumptions that disclosure would harm national security in a 2003 executive order.
But the ACLU claims that even with those presumptions (which Obama's January memorandum appears to void), the government hasn't shown that the documents meet the law's requirements. Instead of the detailed explanation for each document that courts require, the Justice Department filed identical boilerplate language explaining why the exceptions apply to each of the three memos, and asserting in a declaration from Steven G. Bradbury, the author of the memos, that their disclosure "would cause serious harm to the deliberative processes of the CIA and the Executive Brnach" and would "disrupt the attorney-client relationship between OLC and the CIA and other Executive Branch entities."
Yet for the exception to apply, the ACLU claims, the government has to demonstrate that "it seeks to protect lawful sources, methods and activities within its mandate," that the information in the memos haven't already been publicly disclosed, and that "the memos have not been adopted as agency policy or law."
According to a New York Times article published in October 2007 based on interviews with unnamed government officials, the confidential memos provided "explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures." Another specifically concluded that the CIA's tactics did not amount to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" as defined by a bill then pending in Congress that would have banned such treatment.
The ACLU therefore argues that these memos were not confidential legal advice, but legal conclusions that had been adopted as administration policy, and that they authorized — perhaps after the fact – plainly illegal conduct. Although the ACLU can't prove that because it hasn't seen the memos, it insists that at the very least, the judge in the case should review the memos himself and decide whether they truly fall within the exceptions to the freedom of information law.
For the three memos we care most about we have not even gotten to the stage of a judge looking at them," said Jaffer. "We're still just arguing over the legal requirement to produce them."
Under its new stated policies of openness, the Obama administration could decide to produce the documents, at least for the judge's review, and obviate the need for months or even years of additional legal wrangling.
Hoping to make that happen, Jaffer and his colleagues on January 28 sent a letter to David Baron, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, seeking release of the memos. They note that despite three separate lawsuits seeking their release, "most of the key OLC memos are still being withheld in their entirety."
Although President Obama in a January 21 Executive Order "Ensuring Lawful Interrogations" effectively rescinded any memos issued by OLC that would have authorized abusive or otherwise unlawful interrogation tactics, the memos are still critical to determining how the Bush administration came to authorize interrogation techniques that are widely believed to have been illegal — and to the possibility of any future prosecutions of officials involved.
Obama's nominee to head the OLC, Dawn Johnsen, has in the past criticized the OLC memos authorizing abusive interrogations and narrowly defining torture, and cautioned against letting the matter drop. As she wrote in a March 2008 blog post on Slate: "We must avoid any temptation simply to move on. We must instead be honest with ourselves and the world as we condemn our nation's past transgressions and reject Bush's corruption of our American ideals. Our constitutional democracy cannot survive with a government shrouded in secrecy, nor can our nation's honor be restored without full disclosure."
And in a recent UCLA Law Review article, Johnsen wrote that "Executive branch secrecy further hinders both judicial and congressional review." Although at times secrecy is warranted, "the Bush Administration has taken the level of executive branch secrecy to a new and unwarranted extreme," allowing the administration to engage in "years of largely unconstrained illegal practices."
The newly confirmed Attorney General, Eric Holder, has also said he would release OLC memos whenever possible. Responding to written questions before his confirmation hearings, he wrote: "Once the new Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel is confirmed, I plan to instruct that official to review the OLC's policies relating to publication of its opinions with the [objective] of making its opinions available to the maximum extent consistent with sound practice and competing concerns."
None of these statements, of course, equals a binding promise to release the particular memos the ACLU wants to see. And Holder, in particular, has been under great pressure from Republicans not to prosecute former Bush administration officials, to the point that they held up his confirmation vote trying to win his promise that he would not investigate. (He later said he never promised anything either way.) Releasing the memos now could intensify the pressure from Democrats and many of Obama's most ardent supporters who have been pressing for a criminal investigation for months now, and could ultimately further political divisions.
David Burnham, co-Director of the Transactional Record Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which provides data about the workings of the federal government, often based on information obtained through FOIA requests, is skeptical about the new president's promises for open government.
"When Bill Clinton and Janet Reno came in, they issued fine statements about how they were going to be open and were going to have transparency and all of that," said Burnham. "But Ms. Reno really stiffed us. We welcome the Obama statements and all, but we've seen this before with the Clinton administration. And they didn't deliver."
"As Ronald Reagan used to say," Burnham added, " 'trust but verify.' "
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Comment posted February 10, 2009 @ 9:47 am
Great news!
Comment posted February 10, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Trust in governemtn comes from transparency. Let the trials begin. No one is above the law.
Comment posted February 10, 2009 @ 10:33 am
The memos will not be released and President Obama's memorandum on the FOIA won't change the fact that they are covered by the attorney-client and deliberative process privileges. I know the ACLU's lawyers can read and the last part of President Obama's FOIA memo clearly states:
"This memorandum does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers,
employees, or agents, or any other person."
Comment posted February 10, 2009 @ 10:51 am
"As Ronald Reagan used to say," Burnham added, " 'trust but verify.'
But, as it turned out, Reagan was as big a crook as any other member of the conservative's Culture of Corruption. His administration was knee deep in Iran-Contra, Savings & Loan, etc., even to the point where Articles of Impeachment were being drawn up against him. Sadly, the issue was later dropped, and accountability (Reagan's alleged "verify") was ultimately denied.
And, obviously, GWB's entire time in office was a testament to "Trust, and we don't have to verify".
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Comment posted February 17, 2009 @ 9:28 am
A change in the culture. A new way in Washington. A transparency in YOUR government. A new era.
And now the time is come to back up the promises with action.
We'll see. I am afraid the more things change the more they stay the same.
Comment posted February 17, 2009 @ 5:28 pm
A change in the culture. A new way in Washington. A transparency in YOUR government. A new era.
And now the time is come to back up the promises with action.
We'll see. I am afraid the more things change the more they stay the same.
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We'll see. I am afraid the more things change the more they stay the same.
Comment posted September 12, 2010 @ 8:11 pm
The memos will not be released and President Obama's memorandum on the FOIA won't change the fact that they are covered by the attorney-client and deliberative process privileges. I know the ACLU's lawyers can read and the last part of President Obama's FOIA memo clearly states:
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Organized analytics: Who runs the practice?
Where you locate an analytics practice may be as critical a success factor as the teams skills, experts say. Should you embed it within the IT organization, establish it as an independent group or embed the function within each business unit? Here are the tradeoffs.
Option 1: Run analytics as an IT operation. IT has the data expertise. Making the analytics team part of IT helps foster a common sense of purpose, and that collaborative relationship may foster faster integration of analytics with other enterprise applications. But without a close working relationship with stakeholders, such groups risk producing great models that no one uses. Analytics groups may also disappear into the IT fabric, says John Elder, principal at consultancy Elder Research. "I wouldn't embed them in IT because other priorities might take over."
Option 2: Let each business unit operate its own analytics group. Keeping data analysts embedded in the individual businesses ensures alignment with business needs and facilitates collaboration. However, the relationship with IT, which manages the data, may be more distant. While analysts want to innovate, IT may be more concerned about system availability and performance demands. Some members of the IT group may view analytics as an annoyance, says Dean Abbot, president of consultancy Abbott Analytics Inc., "because it means more hours in their day dedicated to things they don't care about."
Option 3: Create a shared services group. This approach allows for standardization of a common set of models and methods, eliminating redundancy and increasing productivity. But being outside of the business team can reduce buy-in by the business, as Bryan Jones, director at the USPS Office of Inspector Generals countermeasures and performance evaluation unit discovered. "We couldnt get much traction because we were an outside entity," he says, so he moved analysts into the business groups. Today, however, the organizations send auditors and investigators to his services group to help develop new models. "Were an organizational support group again," he says.
Procter & Gamble has a shared services group that reports to the CIO, but embeds some 300 analysts in the individual businesses to act as "trusted advisor" to the company's presidents and general managers, says director of business intelligence Guy Peri. Using an agile development model, the group can tweak an existing model within 24 hours, deploy new ones within 30 days and scale a good one out to other business units within 90 days.
Ultimately, the right decision depends on the existing structure of the organization, says Gartner Inc. analyst Gareth Herschel. "If youre IT-centric, put them in IT. If you have business units all doing different things, embed the groups in the business. If the businesses share customers and suppliers and have product overlap, use a shared services group."
Robert L. Mitchell is a national correspondent for Computerworld. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/rmitch, or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Stone Sour aren't as famous as frontman Corey Taylor's primary band, Slipknot, but on the group's third record, Audio Secrecy, the hard-rock quintet demonstrate a power and propulsion that outstrips Slipknot's most recent disc, All Hope Is Gone. Melodic, tuneful, angry and mournful, Audio Secrecy gives the listener a little bit of everything, confidently bringing together its divergent sounds into a coherent whole.
Stone Sour vs. Slipknot
Taylor has had such commercial and critical success with Slipknot that it's easy to forget that he and guitarist Jim Root were initially in Stone Sour before they joined the nine-piece metal outfit. Consequently, Stone Sour are often labeled (usually dismissively) as Taylor's "pop" band because they're not as consistently musically aggressive as Slipknot. Such critical shorthand may make it easier for the listener to pigeonhole the two groups, but in truth both bands make room for both piercing melodies and pummeling guitars. With that said, though, Audio Secrecy does seem to allow Taylor more sonic flexibility than the competent but familiar All Hope Is Gone did. Then again, Taylor has insisted to journalists that all Stone Sour's members contribute musical ideas, and considering that this is the band's first effort since 2006's Come What(ever) May, it's entirely possible that the time apart has rejuvenated all five members.
Accessible Songs That Pack a Punch
Audio Secrecy practically explodes with intensity and passion, bouncing from head-bangers to prickly ballads. No matter what mode they operate in, Stone Sour wield a tight musicianship, aided by Foo Fighters producer Nick Raskulinecz, that always emphasizes a bruising commitment to instant accessibility. This is not to suggest that the band members are watering down their material for radio play. Instead, the songs manage to enjoy the best of both worlds, delivering knockout blows while at the same time retaining a sing-along quality that helps them stick in the skull.
Love and Hate
Before the album's release, Taylor hinted that Audio Secrecy would address his divorce and his new marriage, and the record's push-pull dynamic between love and anger is one of its strongest assets. The first single, "Say You'll Haunt Me," may on the surface seem like a song about a failed love affair, but in fact the gripping track deals with issues of devotion and commitment that are all the more compelling because they're dressed up with kicking drums and fiery guitars. By comparison, the power ballad "Dying" forgoes sappiness for a candid look into a relationship filled with love that nonetheless can't last. The fact that they appear back to back on Audio Secrecy only helps to highlight their thematic link: It's a fine line between hate and infatuation, and Taylor explores that narrow difference superbly.
A Death in the Family
At 14 tracks, Audio Secrecy overstays its welcome a bit, especially in the middle where a few too many marginal tunes reside. But the fearsome "The Bitter End" and the haunted "Threadbare" help Stone Sour regain their footing as they reach the album's conclusion. The last Slipknot record had its strengths, but there was an overriding sense of familiarity that diminished its achievements. Audio Secrecy finds Taylor reborn, both creatively and spiritually. It's impossible to forget that this record was made before the untimely death of Slipknot member Paul Gray, a passing that puts that iconic band's future in doubt. Taylor and his associates will have much to think about when considering their next move, but for now Audio Secrecy suggests that even before Gray's death, Taylor had much he had to get off his chest.
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Release date – September 7, 2010
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Bengals re-sign two players
Cincinnati, OH (Sports Network) - The Cincinnati Bengals re-signed punter Kevin Huber and long-snapper Clark Harris on Friday.
Both players were set to become unrestricted free agents.
Huber, a Cincinnati native, joined the Bengals as a 2009 fifth-round draft pick. Last season, he set team records for gross punting average (46.6 yards) and net punting average (42.0).
"Clark and Kevin are key specialists for us, and it's great to have them in the fold before free agency begins," said Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis. "They have played well and are still young guys. They are entering what should be the prime years of their careers."
Harris also has been a member of the Bengals since 2009.
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