text: The Political Scene January 28, 2013 Issue Let's Talk The move to reform the filibuster. By Ezra Klein Table of Contents If the traditional filibuster was restored, would Republicans use it so flagrantly? Illustration by Andy Friedman. A key promise of President Barack Obama's first term was to pass the DREAM Act, which would grant the foreign-born children of undocumented immigrants a path to permanent-resident status if they had attended college or served in the U.S. military. On December 8, 2010, the House of Representatives passed the bill. The next day, it came up in the Senate, where, among the hundred members of the chamber, it garnered fifty-nine "aye" votes—a clear majority. But the bill didn't pass. It was filibustered before it could reach the President's desk. No President in American history has seen his initiatives filibustered with anything even approaching the frequency with which the tactic has been used against Obama. If not for the filibuster, the Affordable Care Act would include a public option, the stimulus would have been hundreds of billions of dollars larger, and a plan to cap and trade carbon emissions would likely have passed the Senate. But it wasn't until this past December that the practice truly reached its apotheosis. At the beginning of the month, the White House offered a proposal to avert the current debt-ceiling crisis—and the next one, and the one after that—by transferring the onus of raising the ceiling from Congress to the executive branch. The proposal was based on one that Mitch McConnell, the Minority Leader in the Senate, offered a year and a half ago. Under its terms, the White House could raise the ceiling unless Congress voted by a two-thirds majority to stop it. But Republicans proved hostile to McConnell's idea, precisely because it would deprive them of most of their leverage, and he quickly abandoned it. The White House's efforts to resuscitate the plan, and to credit it to the Republican leader, did not please him. He decided to call on the Senate to put the issue to a vote, figuring that his colleagues, including a number of Democrats, would join him in opposing any surrender of congressional control, and, if the plan couldn't get through a Democratic-controlled Senate, it would embarrass the Administration. But Harry Reid, of Nevada, the Majority Leader, surprised him by agreeing to call the vote, and quickly started whipping his members, many of whom were furious that the Republicans were again exploiting the debt ceiling for political gain. Reid appeared confident that he could muster the fifty-one votes needed for victory. McConnell balked. "Matters of this level of controversy always require sixty votes, and so I would ask my friend, the Majority Leader, if he would modify his consent agreement to set the threshold for this vote at sixty," he said. Technically, McConnell's point was incorrect. The Senate has traditionally operated through majority rule, and there is no provision that a proposal must meet a higher threshold just because a senator deems it controversial. But McConnell was relying on Senate Rule XXII, which says that, if the Senate wants to bring a debate to a close, "that question shall be decided in the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn—except on a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules, in which case the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting." Rule XXII refers to the procedure better known as the filibuster, and McConnell was threatening to use it against himself. "Now the Republican leader objects to his own idea, so I guess we have a filibuster of his own bill," Reid said. "Is there objection to the original request?" Senator Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, the presiding officer, asked, a note of incredulity in her voice. "Yeah, I object," McConnell said. "Objection is heard," McCaskill said, adding, "I've got whiplash." The self-filibuster represented a landmark in the Senate's long history of procedural absurdity, but in fact Rule XXII is used so often today that McConnell could argue that, in effect, matters of controversy "always" require a three-fifths majority. In fact, he could have reasonably argued that just about all matters, controversial or not, require a three-fifths majority. That situation, however, may be about to change: there are several Democratic proposals to reform the filibuster. Shortly after the 2010 midterm elections, a group of frustrated Democratic Senate freshmen—led by Jeff Merkley, of Oregon, and Tom Udall, of New Mexico—mounted an unexpectedly serious campaign against the filibuster. "The filibuster was designed to make sure that every member gets to participate and that the minority has a significant role," Merkley told me at the time. "It wasn't designed to obstruct the deliberative process." But the frustrations of the new members hadn't yet persuaded the chamber's more senior powerbrokers. Chris Dodd, of Connecticut, who retired in January of 2011, said in his farewell speech to his colleagues, "In my years here, I have learned that the appreciation of the Senate's role in our national debate is an acquired taste. Therefore, to my fellow-senators who have never served a day in the minority, I urge you to pause in your enthusiasm to change Senate rules." Reid and McConnell, meanwhile, quickly formed a united front against the reformers, striking a deal that included inconsequential rule changes and a promise from the Majority Leader. "As part of this compromise, we've agreed that I won't force a majority vote to fundamentally change the Senate," Reid said, "and he won't in the future." In May of this year, however, Reid took the Senate floor to announce that the deal was off. He even apologized to the reformers whose efforts he had undercut. Speaking of Udall and Merkley, he said, "These two young, fine senators said it was time to change the rules of the Senate, and we didn't. And they were right. The rest of us were wrong—or most of us, anyway." For Merkley, Reid's apology was vindication. The lanky, liberal Oregonian first came to Washington in 1976, as an intern for Senator Mark Hatfield, a Republican. He returned thirty-three years later, as a senator himself, but the chamber wasn't as he remembered it. For one thing, it had become polarized. "I'd heard how bad it was," he says. "But, as a new senator, you have to preside over the Senate a great deal. I'm presiding and listening to Mitch McConnell and a number of the other Republicans attacking the Administration in the most partisan possible fashion. I remember thinking, This is unbelievable." To Merkley, though, the problem wasn't simply the polarization. It was the way the polarization had weaponized the filibuster and turned it on the institution. Merkley couldn't understand why so few in the Capitol seemed concerned by, or even aware of, what had happened. In 2010, he began meeting with colleagues of both parties, and it turned out that many of the Democrats, at least, largely agreed with him: the Senate was deeply dysfunctional, and abuse of the filibuster was a key reason. The filibuster has a kind of built-in defense mechanism: the two-thirds threshold set by Rule XXII for any changes made to the filibuster itself. But it's not a binding constraint; if the Vice-President, acting as presiding officer of the Senate, has the agreement of fifty-one senators, he can override it and permit changes to the Senate rules to be made by a simple majority—either on the first day of a new Congress (a move that reformers call "the constitutional option," in reference to the Constitution's assurance that "each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings") or on any day thereafter. The reformers will "have to ignore the precedents of the Senate, ignore the rules of the Senate, ignore the parliamentarian, and rule by fiat," Richard Arenberg, a former Senate staffer, says. "But if Reid's got fifty-one votes and Joe Biden is on board, there's no doubt they can do it." And Biden may well be on board. "I've never seen, as my uncle once said, the Constitution stood on its head as they've done," the Vice-President remarked of the Senate Republicans, in 2010. "This is the first time every single solitary decision has required sixty senators." On January 3rd, the first day of the new Congress, Reid refused to adjourn the Senate, letting it fall into recess instead. This meant that the first day hadn't ended and wouldn't end until Reid called it to a close. Reid was signalling that he intended to change the filibuster, and to do so in a way that couldn't be filibustered. Merkley and his allies had won the first round. There are three things that are important to know about the filibuster: the Founders never intended it; it has been modified repeatedly since its inception; and it no longer has anything to do with debate. The Founders did consider requiring more than a simple majority in congressional votes, but they quickly rejected the idea. They were meeting, after all, to replace the Articles of Confederation, which had required unanimity among the states for most decisions and, consequently, made the fledgling union ungovernable. Alexander Hamilton wrote: The necessity of unanimity in public bodies, or of something approaching towards it, has been founded upon a supposition that it would contribute to security. But its real operation is to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junto, to the regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority. The early Senate reflected these sentiments. Thomas Jefferson, in "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice: For the Use of the Senate of the United States" (1801), decreed that "no one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or tediously." Later in the manual, he added: The voice of the majority decides. For the lex majoris partis is the law of all councils, elections, &c. where not otherwise expressly provided. Those last two words are important. The Constitution expressly specifies the occasions on which majority rule is to be considered insufficient: removing the President, expelling members, overriding a Presidential veto of a bill or a resolution, ratifying treaties, and amending the Constitution. (Later amendments required a supermajority for allowing insurrectionist legislators to serve in government again, and deciding whether the President remains unfit to execute his office after a period of disability.) Otherwise, majority rule is deemed adequate. Sarah Binder, the co-author of "Politics or Principle?: Filibustering in the United States Senate," says that the filibuster is actually a historical accident. In 1806, the Senate rewrote its rules to make them clearer. Along the way, it dropped a provision called "the previous question motion," which allowed a senator to hold a majority vote to end debate on a question, and, in so doing, dropped the only way to stop a group of senators from talking. But, according to Richard Arenberg and Robert Dove, a former Senate parliamentarian, the co-authors of "Defending the Filibuster: The Soul of the Senate," it didn't need one until 1841, at the start of the 27th Congress. At the time, the doings of Congress were recorded in the Congressional Globe, which was printed by several local firms, each supporting a political party. The majority Whigs wanted to award the printing contracts to firms that favored them, and the Democrats filibustered the appointments. Henry Clay, a Whig, called William King, a Democrat, "false, untrue and cowardly," and challenged him to a duel. The two legislators were arrested before they could kill each other. The Whigs eventually won, and their supporters received the contracts. Back then, the filibuster wasn't called by that name; the term, derived from the Dutch word for "pirate," didn't come into vogue until the eighteen-fifties. And, though the lack of a way to shut a filibuster down was not remedied for seventy-five years, minorities used the filibuster more to annoy the majority than to block its agenda. In "Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate," Gregory Wawro and Eric Schickler write that "the majority tolerated rules allowing considerable leeway for obstruction so long as filibusters were not pushed to the extreme of killing priority bills favored by a clear floor majority." In February of 1917, during the First World War, a minority of senators did push to the extreme. At issue was President Woodrow Wilson's proposal to arm merchant ships, in response to Germany's sinking of American ships and its declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare. The House quickly endorsed Wilson's measure, but a small band of Senate isolationists, led by Robert La Follette, of Wisconsin, launched a twenty-three-day filibuster of the bill, which, given the Senate's calendar that year, meant that the session ended before the bill could be passed, infuriating Wilson. During a special session of Congress, on March 8th, the Senate agreed to Rule XXII, which empowered a two-thirds majority of senators to end debate through the procedure known as "cloture." Both the use of the filibuster and the efforts to weaken it were just beginning. Southern senators came to see the filibuster as their most important weapon in upholding Jim Crow. In the nineteen-thirties and forties, the filibuster was most aggressively and publicly used to foil anti-lynching legislation, anti-poll-tax measures, and the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Breaking the filibuster thus became a top priority of the civil-rights movement and its Senate allies. But, although a few more reforms were enacted, they did not succeed in substantially undermining Rule XXII. More significant reform came after the 1974 midterm elections, which, in the wake of Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon, saw a huge Democratic majority swept into the Senate. Working alongside Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller, the reformers forced the threshold for cloture down to three-fifths. Yet, as the filibuster was repeatedly weakened, it became more common and more disruptive. The minority soon discovered that even if sixty votes can be mustered to defeat a filibuster it takes a lot of time to get them. You need two days simply to vote on the motion to end the filibuster. If the vote is successful, the minority is still guaranteed thirty hours of further debate. Moreover, you don't have to go through the cloture process just once. A single bill can be filibustered some half a dozen times. You can filibuster the motion to proceed to a bill. Then you can filibuster the effort to amend the bill. Then you can filibuster the vote on the bill. Then, there's the motion to go to conference with the House on the bill—that's also open to a filibuster. The motion to disagree with that conference is a filibuster. The motion to appoint conferees is a filibuster. The vote on the post-conference bill is a filibuster. Every step of the process can have its own filibuster, with its own two days to vote to break that filibuster, and its own thirty hours of post-filibuster debate. There's no perfect measure of how frequently filibusters occur. The closest thing we have to a count is the number of cloture votes the majority mounts. From 1917 to 1970, the majority sought cloture fifty-eight times. Since the start of President Obama's first term, it has sought cloture more than two hundred and fifty times. Even that is probably an undercount, as it misses all the moments when the majority just gave up on an issue before a vote was mounted. The truth, filibuster scholars say, is that almost everything in today's Senate is effectively filibustered, since at least sixty members have to want to let anything move forward for it to do so. And, in the past thirty years, the only time a party has held or controlled sixty votes outright was in 2009, when the Democrats did for just six months. "We have added a new veto point in American politics," Gregory Koger, the author of "Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate," says. "It used to be the House, the Senate, and the President, and now it's the House, the President, the Senate majority, and the Senate minority. Now you need to get past four veto points to pass legislation. That's a huge change of constitutional priorities. But it's been done, almost unintentionally, through procedural strategies of party leaders." In 2005, the Republican Senate majority, frustrated with Democratic filibusters of George W. Bush's judicial nominees, threatened to use the nuclear option to change the rules and exempt all judicial nominees from filibusters. Mitch McConnell, then the Majority Whip, said, "This is not the first time a minority of senators has upset a Senate tradition or practice, and the current Senate majority intends to do what the majority in the Senate has often done—use its constitutional authority under Article I, Section 5, to reform Senate procedure by a simple majority vote." Harry Reid, then the Minority Leader, accused Republicans of "breaking the rules to change the rules." The crisis passed after the Gang of 14, a bipartisan group of senators, agreed to let most of Bush's nominees through if Republicans would back down from their threats to do away with the judicial filibuster. Today, the parties have switched sides. On the Senate floor last November, McConnell said that the effort to use fifty-one votes to reform the filibuster is a "mortal threat that has been quietly gathering against one of the most cherished safeguards of our government," and that it would "undermine the very purpose of the Senate." Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee, went further, saying, in December, that if Reid "persists in doing what he says he will do, which is to break the rules of the Senate to change the filibuster rules, he will go down in history as the senator who ended the Senate." But virtually no one in the Senate suggests getting rid of the filibuster completely. Rather, there are three camps of reformers: the talkers, the majoritarians, and the tweakers. The talkers are led by Jeff Merkley, and they're powered by a belief that the Senate used to be a more deliberative body, and by a kind of nostalgia for what the filibuster once was, and what most Americans think it still is. In popular culture, a filibuster is when a senator—or a group of senators acting in succession—talks and talks around the clock. (The late Strom Thurmond holds the record, speaking against the 1957 civil-rights bill for more than twenty-four hours straight.) Chris Dodd said to me, "I'll tell you the story that Senator George Mitchell used to love to tell. The cots were out one night and he was feeling terrible about being there until he looked over at his cot mate and it was John Warner, who was married to Elizabeth Taylor at the time. And so Mitchell said, 'You know, I don't feel so bad after all. He's missing a night with Elizabeth.' " Filibusters were endurance tests: the majority needed to keep its members in the chamber so that the Senate could conduct business and so that a vote could be taken as soon as the filibustering senator finally dropped from exhaustion, or otherwise stopped talking. In 1908, Thomas Gore, a Democrat from Oklahoma, was filibustering a currency bill, and he passed the baton to his ally William Stone, of Missouri. But Gore, who was blind, hadn't noticed that Stone had stepped out to the cloakroom. The majority swiftly took advantage of Gore's mistake and voted to approve the law. The transition from what Gregory Koger calls "attrition-based filibusters" to "cloture-based filibusters" took place in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, and it came about less because of any change in the rules than because of a gradual shift in the institution's unstated norms. Today, nobody talks. The filibuster is an exclusively procedural tool: the requirement for sixty votes is enforced by the repetition of mundane procedural demands, such as calling for the Senate to take roll, or refusing to set a time for the consideration of amendments. That's why, if you turn to C-SPAN during a filibuster, you won't see a heroic senator fighting to remain on his feet. You'll see a blue screen with the explanation that the Senate is checking to see who is present. Rather than debate, you'll hear classical music. If the sound of a filibuster in the middle of the last century was a senator hoarsely rattling off recipes, the sound of a filibuster today is a soothing string quartet. Under Merkley's proposed reforms, if the minority isn't literally on the floor talking it's no longer filibustering, and the Senate can have an immediate majority-rule vote. In addition, while the rules currently make a filibuster harder on the majority—which needs fifty-one members on the floor, whereas the minority needs just one—under Merkley's proposal only two members of the majority would need to be present: one to preside and one to reject motions to adjourn. "Some of the people who put in these filibusters simply object and go home for the weekend," Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, who supports Merkley's reforms, says. "We think we need to inconvenience them." Merkley believes that the power of the talking filibuster is that it engages the public, empowering voters to force an end to debate. "Take the DREAM Act," he says. If senators "had to filibuster night and day to keep children who came here at two years old, who've thrived in our society, from becoming citizens, alienating the Latino community all the while, they'd think twice about it." Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat from Iowa, who has been calling for filibuster reform since the nineteen-nineties, supports Merkley's package, but worries that it's not strong enough. He told me, "The minority could say, Well, we'll take that first bill you come out here with, and we're going to show you. If there's forty-five Republicans and they begin to speak around the clock, let's say they take two-hour intervals, which is not a heavy lift, each member only has to speak once every four days. They could plug the place up for two or three or four weeks. Nothing would happen." He added, "Once again, the minority would be in the driver's seat." Harkin leads the majoritarians, who would replace the sixty-vote requirement with a fifty-one-vote requirement, while still trying to protect the minority's right to force debate. He has unusual credibility on the issue: unlike most reformers, who tend to see the failures of the filibuster most clearly when they are in the frustrated majority, Harkin first proposed reform when he was in the minority. He told me, "I said if we don't stop this now, it will bring us to a point where the Senate will not be able to function. I said that in 1995. I didn't know how right I'd be." Under Harkin's proposal, passing a bill would initially require sixty votes, just as, in effect, it does now. But, after a few days of debate, the threshold would drop to fifty-seven votes. After a few more days, it would be fifty-four. Then, following a final period for debate, it would be fifty-one. In total, there would be sixteen days of debate before a simple majority vote would be sufficient to pass a bill. "The protection for the minority is they get to slow things down and offer germane amendments," Harkin says. "What other rights should the minority have? The right to win?" But Harkin's proposal has little support, even among his fellow-Democrats. He says, "I had one Democrat tell me, 'You mean to say that if somebody here wanted to approve offshore drilling off my state, I wouldn't have the right to stop it? I couldn't support something like that.' " He added, "That's the dirty little secret of the Senate: the power of a senator comes not from what we can do—it comes from what we can stop. That's the power, and no one wants to give it up. I believe we ought to be willing to give it up for the benefit of the institution and the country." The third camp, the tweakers, is a bipartisan group led by Senators Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, and John McCain, a Republican from Arizona. They have proposed quite minor changes, including reducing the number of times a single bill can be filibustered, protecting certain lower-level Presidential nominations from the filibuster, and giving the minority more power to offer amendments. This reform would need a two-thirds vote to pass, thus leaving Rule XXII intact, and it would remain in place for just two years. McCain and Levin have also expressed support for a "gentleman's agreement" to promote talking filibusters over procedural filibusters. "Hopefully, this will prevent us from going over a Senate cliff," McCain said. This plan may prove appealing to some nervous Democrats. Today, Republicans control the House, which means that no Democratic initiatives can pass without substantial Republican support, and the Republican advantage in redistricting and, particularly, in rural districts is likely to keep the House in the hands of the G.O.P. for a decade. But Thomas Mann, of the Brookings Institution, worries that Democrats will reform the filibuster in a way that will infuriate Republicans but do little to change the everyday workings of the Senate, leading to less coöperation and more gridlock than exists even now. "You won't have fixed the Senate, but you will have further poisoned the environment," he says. For the Democrats' short-term interests, insufficient reform could be worse than no reform at all, since angry Republicans would use every procedural trick at their disposal to block the President's agenda. 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LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- A trial starts Monday in Lynchburg in the case of a suburban Richmond man accused of killing his mother-in-law.
Scott Christman Miles is charged with first-degree murder in the December 2012 beating death of 86-year-old Lynda Slocum in her Lynchburg home. She had been beaten to death.
The 50-year-old defendant was charged with her slaying about six months later.
The News & Advance (http://bit.ly/1fXrIrs) reports that the prosecutor said Miles was financially stressed and was seeking help from Slocum. Miles claimed he was with a friend and visiting his mother in Hopewell the night of the slaying, but cell records place him Lynchburg, according to court filings.
The prosecutor expects to call as many as 50 witnesses.
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Diversity in Fantasy
By Erin Bow
If you hit the default setting button on your YA fantasy, you get Celtic.
Personally I blame Tolkien. He's the source of so many of our inherited and half-thought out ideas about what high fantasy should be. This is not a criticism of the master T – there are few writers I love more. He loved and knew Anglo-Saxon lore – Beowulf, Sir Gawaine. He loved the great Northern sagas, the Eddas, and if the One Ring doesn't have something to do with Nibelungenlied, I'll eat my fantasist's hat.
Still, would that all fantasy writers tapped such a deep well when creating their worlds. My pet peeve with much high fantasy is that the setting feels like a set dressing – as if the story were taking place on a stage, and the fictional world extends only a few inches farther than the reader can see.
There's nothing in the wings of many fantasy worlds, and that's too bad. I personally believe that all fantasy worlds need an ecology, an economy, and a mythology. If there are horses, there should be grazing lands. There should be horse breeders and stables and people making tack. When the horses are all picketed for the night and the wanderers build a fire, there should be songs they know and stories that they tell. There should be things in the dark all around them, and they should be afraid.
To get that kind of depth, you either have to be a genius, as Tolkien was, or you have to borrow a mythos, as Tolkien did. Indeed, 76 years after the publication of The Hobbit, fantasy itself has become a sort of second-hand mythos. Like many second-hand things it is a bit shabby – a mishmash of fairy courts and sword fights and horses and stew, ripe for parody. (Diana Wynne Jones skewered it as Fantasyland.) Even those of us that try to strip the Fantasyland layer away and get back to deeper, original mythos often find ourselves somewhere in reach of the Shire, probably near Grimm forests.
The Grimm forest is fine – the little girl, the ancient woods, that's a good start. But if you stop to look at her, you might notice something. That little girl is always white.
For instance: I have a book that's just out, a fantasy for readers young and not-so-young, called Sorrow's Knot. It started for me as most of my novels do, with a character – a girl named Otter – who lived in a wood full of whispering trees. I knew that in Otter's world, people used string to bind the dead, who were otherwise inclined to be troublesome and, say, devour your mind. I had the image of hands both bound and powerful with a red cat's cradle strung between them. I had a thought: if knots give power over life and death, what would happen if someone had too much of that power?
Not a bad start. I've tried to write books with less. But this one just wouldn't come together. I defaulted to white. For a couple of years the story and I wandered around Fantasyland, picking up rangers and monsters and horses and swords. Nothing gelled. I had only that girl, Otter, with the red cords between her hands, and the feel of the haunted, holy forest that surrounded her.
And then I found the forest.
I went to the Black Hills in South Dakota. The Black Hills today are trying to be all Deadwood and Rushmore — Americana High Tourist Kitsch — but they are not that. To the traditional people who live there, the Black Hills are holy, they are the center of the world. If you go there, you can feel it: that the land is powerful. The light is different. The shadows are different. It is wild and uneasy, and I loved it.
After I found the forest, the rest of the story seemed to come into focus. It was as if I'd found Otter's whole world — and I had.
Now, Sorrow's Knot, like many fantasies, is ahistorical – there was never a world like this, and never a people like this. If you start with the dead rising and give women (and only women) the power to tie them up with yarn, you don't end up with an authentically moving portrait of, say, the Lakota Sioux. For the more magical aspects, I took inspiration from the Celtic (yup!) and the Japanese and I flat-out made stuff up.
But still. A forest drawn from the Black Hills? A hero named Otter? I suddenly and belatedly knew: this is not Fantasyland, and these people are not white.
And that's how I ended up writing about what various reviewers have called "an indigenous culture untouched by colonialism" or "a fantastic North America," or a world "evoking Native American lore and legend."
Here we need to talk a little bit about appropriation. After all, Native American cultures have been ruthlessly and systematically suppressed – and people are quite rightly protective of what's survived. They need to be, because we Settler types pick up attractive pieces of Native cultures – sweat lodges and dream catchers and stories — like baubles abandoned on the beach. This doesn't involve actual murder, but it's still pernicious, and it's something I wanted to be careful about.
On the other hand, the miracle of fiction is that writing about people who are in various profound ways Not You is possible. It is possible to imagine your way into another culture.
It's possible, but you can't just glue some feathers and blood sacrifice onto ye olde sword and sorcery story and call it Aztec. Real cultural diversity is far more than a matter of just changing the trappings of the tale and the color of people's skin.
It takes research, and research of a certain kind. You have to research until you can get to the inside of something. For Sorrow's Knot, I researched foodways and architecture of the Mandan people, and the broader ethnobotany of the North American plains. I learned to drum and talked to sacred storytellers. I learned how to forage for food, and how to carry a live coal in your pocket. I read tale after tale after tale for my story that revolves around storytelling.
Slowly, through this research, I began to imagine Otter's life – her home, her food, her ceremonies, her friends. She and her people got inside my head in a certain way and her story unfolded from within that imagined culture.
Or, so I hope. I spent a lot of time chanting "please don't be racist, please don't be racist." And even if it's not, it has the fingerprints of its city-dwelling, science-minded, white-chick author all over it. But it is a very different tale than the one I had imagined back in fantasyland. It had a right good kick in the defaults. It is no longer set to "white." And that itself is something.
Other people have thoughtfully articulated the reasons why "default to white" is bad – there are several. From a writer's perspective, what I rarely hear discussed is the loss. The world is full of great traditions. That we limit ourselves – unconsciously, mostly – to those that are already so well-trodden is sad. Our literature could be so much richer. There are so many other rivers from which we could draw.
It's kind of a hike to those rivers. But right now I'm thinking it's worth it.
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I have mixed feelings about Ashland Ranch. On the one hand, they have fantastic teachers and involved parents. On the other, they have an principal whose leadership and financial skills are sorely lacking.
My daughter attended Ashland Ranch during her kindergarten year. We loved her teacher and the year was great. However during her first grade year the response to issues from her teacher and the principal was very poor. I have since moved my daughter to another school and she has attended it since. We love our back to basics school and she has excelled in the environment. The structure, great response from teachers and the administration, the cirriculum and parent involvement outshines Ashland Ranch. In my view Ashland Ranch has poor administration and could do with a overhaul.
I have two children who attend Ashland Ranch and we love this school. Every Teacher we have had from Kdg. - 4th has been wonderful! Although both of my children have had all A's, I feel they have been challenged and are consitently learning. I sometimes feel the homework is a bit too much especaially for the younger grades. All of my experiences with the Teachers have been great. The one time I needed the Principals assitance she was wonderful, helpful, caring & professional. I hope our future years here at Ashland Ranch are just as Great!
Parent involvement is great at Ashland Ranch. We have been happy with the programs offered and just amazed at the wonderful dedicated teachers. We feel the teachers make the school, even with the negative administration. Teacher quality is high and outweighs lack of principal leadership.
I enjoy Ashland Ranch Elementary school. My children have had good experiences there. I really like the teachers and the activities they do with the children. After school on the campus is a bit scary though. Only Kindergarten and first grade teachers escort their students out and the rest of the children run wild to their destinations. It is very unsafe with all the running and little ones get knocked over. Other than that I like the school overall.
Principle over reacts and doesn't communicate well with parents.
Poor communication with parents.
This is my son's first year here at Ashland Ranch...He is in the 1st grade and I have nothing but good things to say about his teacher and his progress so far....The staff are always so informative and helpful...he is also enrolled in the VIK program and loves it....Keep up the good work!
This is my child's first year (second grader) at Ashland Ranch and so far I am very disappointed! He on the other hand loves his teacher, which means a lot to me. However, my first parent contact/invitation with this school ie curriculum night was not good. I left so confused and very uninformed! It was unorganized and very unprofessional! Parents, teachers and the principal all standing around looking at these posters of circles and rectangles filled with words! Very confusing! Never experienced such a uncanny curriculum night quite like this before!
There are many professional teachers at Ashland Ranch however, the administration is a disaster! I've had a few opportunities to meet with the principal and each time I've left with many unanswered questions,confused and disappointed! Very concerned parent.
My son is in first grade, so far this experience with this school is not the greatest, or far from it. My concern has been so far with the school being so crowded. Security at the school is horrible, and pick up or drop off is worst. No computer courses either.
I have attended several schools in GPS, and I cannot believe how fabulous this school is. What a wonderful school, the front office, the teachers, the principle, I don't know how it is possible to have every contact I have made from the nurse to the principle, be positive, but it has been my experience. Wow!
I don't like the principal of this school. She is rather harsh with the children and is wishy-washy in her disciplne. The front office is something to be desired! The teachers are good with the children, strict but loving and the ones my children had always kept their classrooms controlled. The curriculum moves too slowly for those students who are advanced and need daily challenges. Way too much review in the early grades (1st-3rd) with too much emphasis on the mundane. This is definitely not the school for the child that needs to be challenged!
As compared to many other elementary schools that I and my children have been affiliated with, Ashland Ranch Elementary is definitely one of the best. The staff are truly committed and professional. The campus is first rate.
Ashland Ranch Elementary is an excellent school. Yes, the front office can be a bit curt at times, however their main priority is to make sure that classes are not disrupted unnecessarily and that the campus remains as safe as possible, and that is an enormous task for anyone with a school this size. You will not find a better kindergarten teacher than Mrs. Motroni anywhere - she is top of the line. Wow! All of our teachers at this school have been extraordinary, with maybe the exception of one. This is a terrific environment in which to have your children.
My child has been in the all day kindergarten class this year and has enjoyed it hugely. She loves her teachers and has really improved her spelling and handwriting over the year. The school is very well designed with lots of wide bright corridors and pleasant rooms plus large outside facilities. This is a great school and I would recommend it to any parent looking for a caring environment for their children.
While Ashland Ranch may have some good teachers, it severly lacks in regards to the Principal. We were in Ashland Ranch district for a couple years until Spectrum Elementary was complete. Spectrum is by far a better school with better leadership.
Our children have attended Ashland Ranch since it opened. We have been very impressed with the teachers in grades K-3 (no experience above, yet), especialy 1st grade. We have one child that needs special education and we've been pleased with the school psych and speech teacher. The principal has listened to our concerns and has been eager to help work out issues that have come up. However, we do feel that there are issues involving her leadership and communication skills.
School has excellent resources and some great teachers. However I believe it is poorly managed and Principal has extremely poor people and organizational skills. Interactions with front office have been poor at best. Kindergarten registration process is laughable. There is a very involved PTSO and the facility is great and I see teachers doing a great job.
Unhappy with the one size fits all approach to teaching. I would like to see smaller class sizes, more hands on teaching and structure in the classrooms. Not happy with Principal's attitude and lack of parental input for school.
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94 Camry - No Spark
94 Camry - No Spark
I pulled a spark plug wire and attempted to check for spark by cranking the engine and looking for the spark to jump from an inserted screwdriver and the engine hoist hook. I could see no spark.
I replaced the distributor cap and rotor but that did not help.
I pulled all four plugs (non-platinum) and found some oil-gas fouling on the upper threads but the electrodes were not too bad. I plan to replace the plugs anyhow but don't think that will solve my lack of spark problem.
A mechanic told me that the coil is located under the distributor cap and sometimes fails. But he advised me that it could be spendy and might not necessarily be the problem.
I'm looking for ways to isolate my problem and maybe save a 20 mile tow into town.
The car was running fine last night when we parked it.
The reason that I suspected the distributor cap is that in the past, heavy dew caused condensation in the cap which burned a short along the side.
You can check the resistance of the primary and secondary coil using an ohm meter. Open the "sticky" at the top of the Camry forum labeled "94....Camry Service and Repair Manuals". Open the 94 Camry file. Open the ignition system file. It's a pdf file so you'll need Adobe. The ignition system file tells you all about it and how to test it.
On my 93, the ignition coil is *part* of the distributor. It costs about 40 bucks and is not a very hard job to pull off. I had some problems with my Camry a while back. That fixed 'em.
Thanks RIP,
I had downloaded the manual, but was not sure where to look.
I have been studying the instructions to see if have the necessary experience to attempt the repair. Some of it doesn't look that difficult.
What is the Diagnosis Check Wire? It looks like a jumper and maybe something that I could make myself? Any comments? It is a recommended piece of equipment found on page IG-25 of the manual.
You already have a Diagnosis Check Wire. It's in your desk drawer and it's called a paper clip. It works just fine. Just make sure when you insert and remove it from the test plug the key is off. If that doesn't give you a warm fuzzy you could always make one from a 4 inch piece of 18 or 20 gauge wire. Just strip the insulation off each end, twist the braids together and you're ready. Probably looks a little daunting when you read through the procedure. When you're done you'll wonder why you hesitated. Just take your time, follow the directions and any cautions and you'll do fine.
Thanks RIP,
Ha! I guess I do have plenty of the 'test wires'.
My son came over and helped me to through the testing procedures for the spark. We made a trip to Sears and bought a Craftsman Mutimeter 81437.
I bought new plugs and hooked them into the high-tension wires and then tested them to ground. No Spark.
I tested the high tension (ignition wires) and found two of the four to have resistance over the max. I plan to replace all four but wasn't sure what brand is best (or which to avoid)? Do I need OEM's from the Dealer?
Checked power to ignition coil and it was OK.
Checked resistance of ignition coil and found Primary was OK, but secondary was too low. Plan to replace coil and wondered if I should stick with Dealer OEM or go for after market at a local parts store?
Checked resistance of pickup coil and it was OK.
Wondered about replacing the coil? Repair manual seems to indicate that it is best to remove the entire distributor first. Is that best or should I attempt to change it in place? Wondered about the seal packing? It might be a real nightmare to do that in place?
We did not check either the distributer air gap or igniter signal.
Appreciate the helpful suggestions.
When it comes to electronic components I usually go with OEM parts. They cost a little more but, in the long run it's worth it. You might get a slightly better price on the internet somewhere. Aftermarket plug wires seem to work just fine. Make sure you get a name brand set. I've never changed a coil or distributor. Can't help there. Look the procedure and the car over closely and see what's best. Maybe somebody else can help you there. Try making a new thread and ask what the best route would be. Cheers.
Mike Gerber
I changed out a coil on my nieces 91 Camry 3Sfe engine about 7 years ago. I took the distributor out, which I think is the easiest way, but that is your call. If you are going to try it with the distributor still in the car, be sure you have some type of locking screwdriver (both slotted and phillips) so you don't drop the screws while you are removing things or replacing them. I used an aftermarket Borg Warner coil I got at Pep Boys for $40. I'm sure they have gone up a bit since then. It is still working fine 7 years later. I would price the OEM and the aftermarket coils with a couple of phone calls and then make my decision.
Spark plug wire brands? NKG or Borg would be great. There are others.
Mike - Did you get your new Camry yet?
Still have problems!!
I just finished installing a new coil, new ignition wires, new plugs, distributor cap and rotor.
I now have spark! But the engine will not fire...
Will the engine fire if I made a mistake and set #1 cyl at TDC on the exhaust stoke? I set #1 cyl at TDC and aligned the rotor to point in the general direction of that wire in the distributor. But I had to move the rotor some to get the distributor cutout alligned and am not positive that it still points correctly.
Any suggestions before I call for a pro to take over?
If it doesn't fire up, set the rotor 180 degrees opposite of where it is now and try again.
Thanks DFBonnett,
That is exactly what I was thinking, but being a newbie I wasn't sure that I might cause some damage. I was just waiting for encouragement, I guess.
I'll give it a shot..
The Camry is running again though not exactly like it did before. Maybe a little bit of roughness that I hope will smooth out.
Thanks everyone who offered some help.
Mike Gerber
Spark plug wire brands? NKG or Borg would be great. There are others.
Mike - Did you get your new Camry yet?
We didn't get it yet, but this past Saturday we ordered a 2007 XLE in Titanium. We wanted the car exactly to our specifications. The dealer estimated the delivery time at 4-6 weeks. I would be happy if it came in that timeframe.
Thanks DFBonnett,
That is exactly what I was thinking, but being a newbie I wasn't sure that I might cause some damage. I was just waiting for encouragement, I guess.
I'll give it a shot..
The Camry is running again though not exactly like it did before. Maybe a little bit of roughness that I hope will smooth out.
Thanks everyone who offered some help.
Have you timed it correctly per the FSM?
Download the FSM here..
Glad you got it running.
Brian R.
There is a link to these FSMs in the sticky post at the top of this forum.
Before I begin, I want to say that I am not upset with any advice given... We all do our best to help each other.
Although I was able to get my Camry running by turning the rotor 180 deg, my car only ran a few minutes before breaking the distributor shaft. A closer inspection of the slot would have revealed that it was not centered on the shaft and could not be reversed. There was enough play to allow a loose fit needed for adjusting the timing. But as soon as the distributor was tightened down, it created a strain on the shaft that caused it to fail.
This is a real good example of a newbie gaining experience the hard way. I ordered a replacement distributor and will install it according to the manual.
Thanks again.
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By ERIKA NIEDOWSKI
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling _ whose video game company underwent a spectacular collapse into bankruptcy last year _ is selling the blood-stained sock he wore during the 2004 World Series.
Chris Ivy, director of sports for Texas-based Heritage Auctions, says online bidding begins around Feb. 4. Live bidding will take place Feb. 23.
The sock previously had been on loan to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. It has been at Heritage's Dallas headquarters for several weeks and will be displayed at the auction house's Manhattan office before it is sold, according to Ivy.
He said the sock is expected to fetch at least $100,000, though he described that as a conservative estimate.
"I do expect the bidding to be very spirited," Ivy said.
Schilling's company, 38 Studios, was lured to Providence, R.I., from Massachusetts with a $75 million loan guarantee in 2010. In May, it laid off all its employees and it filed for bankruptcy in June. The state is now likely responsible for some $100 million related to the deal, including interest.
Schilling also had personally guaranteed loans to the company and listed the sock as bank collateral in a September filing with the Massachusetts secretary of state's office.
Messages left for his publicist were not immediately returned.
The bloody sock is one of two that sent Schilling into the annals of baseball lore in 2004.
The other was from Game 6 of the American League Championship Series, when Schilling pitched against the New York Yankees with an injured ankle. That sock is said to have been discarded in the trash at Yankees Stadium.
The one being sold is from the second game of the World Series, which the Red Sox won that year for the first time in 86 years.
Schilling has said he invested as much as $50 million in 38 Studios and has lost all his baseball earnings. He told WEEI-AM in Boston last year that possibly having to sell the sock was part of "having to pay for your mistakes."
"I'm obligated to try and make amends and, unfortunately, this is one of the byproducts of that," he told the station.
Brad Horn, a spokesman for the hall of fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., said the loaned sock was returned in December under the terms of the hall's agreement with Schilling. The hall had had it since 2004.
The Feb. 23 live bidding will be held at the Fletcher-Sinclair mansion in New York City, now home to the Ukrainian Institute of America. The auction will feature other "five- and six-figure items," including a jersey and cap worn by New York Yankees great Lou Gehrig, Ivy said.
Heritage last May auctioned off the so-called "Bill Buckner ball," which rolled through the legs of the Red Sox first baseman in the 1986 World Series. Ivy said that item, like Schilling's sock, was listed at the time as being expected to bring in "$100,000-plus," but it was sold to an anonymous bidder for $418,000.
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José Oliva Wins Special Florida Primary
Andrew Nagy
Posted: May 25, 2011
Score one for the cigar rights political movement as José Oliva, president of Oliva Cigar Co., won a special primary election on Tuesday for the chance to fill a vacant seat in the Florida House.
Oliva will now represent the GOP in a June 28 special general election against write-in candidate Antonio Moreno for the right to represent House District 110, which is located in Miami-Dade County, at the Florida House. Oliva is considered a heavy favorite in the election.
According to a Sunshine State News report, Oliva took 42 percent of the vote in the special Republican primary, beating out Frank Lago and Rafael Perez by a respectable margin.
Oliva, who has lived in the district since 1974, is running on a conservative platform, saying he will fight for "lower taxes, small and accountable government, conservative family values and to make Florida a business-friendly state."
Click here to read more about cigar star José Oliva.
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Terrell Harmon — Portage, MI, USA, — May 25, 2011 5:31pm ET
Congrats on your victory !
David Serna — Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, — May 25, 2011 11:14pm ET
Bravo! Felicitaciones, Don Jose. I remember well all the hours you spent with us and the special aged Olivas you brought for us to smoke at Larry Monte's Cigar Club in Albuquerque. I only wish my family lived in Miami so we could all vote for you. We are certain we will see much good come from your splendid entry into public service. Hope to see you soon. Perhaps at the Las Vegas Big Smoke?
peter washington — May 27, 2011 7:05pm ET
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Love his product. Hate his politics. It's a wash.
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LENEXA, Kan. , June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ICOP Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICOP), an industry-leading company engaged in advancing digital surveillance solutions, today announced that a metropolitan police department in Kansas has awarded ICOP...
LENEXA, Kan. , June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ICOP Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICOP), an industry-leading company engaged in advancing digital surveillance solutions, today announced that a metropolitan police department in Kansas has awarded ICOP a 12-month contract to begin equipping its patrol fleet with ICOP Model 20/20(R)-W digital in-car video systems.
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This important customer win for ICOP followed a competitive bidding process that began in the fall of 2007 and factored, among other considerations, comparative system features and functionality, customer service and support, and officer feedback collected in field trials conducted by the department. Thirty-four vendors originally were invited to participate in the original Request for Proposal. The ICOP Model 20/20-W was chosen due to "ease of installation, less drain on car batteries, and lowest proposed cost along with their qualifications, competence and capacity to provide the most beneficial solution for the police department."
According to Dave Owen , ICOP Chairman and CEO, "Thanks to ICOP's determination to deliver only high performance, superior quality digital surveillance products, backed by unparalleled customer service and attention, our Company is being rewarded with hard won major new customer wins. When viewed cumulatively, these new fleet-wide deployments represent pronounced exponential sales potential for ICOP, helping to fuel our year-end growth expectations. It is also important to note that we continue to see Requests for Proposals being issued by an increasing number of mid- to large-sized agencies -- a relatively new industry trend that has gained considerably since mid- to late-2007. Moreover, we are very pleased to find that many of these newly issued RFP's are being written to product specifications found only in the ICOP Model 20/20-W."
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ICOP Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICOP) operates on the core principle that 'without local security, there is no national security.' It endeavors to protect people, assets and profits for communities with innovative, mission-critical security, surveillance and communication solutions. The Company engineers, manufactures and markets mobile and stationary surveillance products for use in the public and private sectors, and facilitates the delivery of live video to first responders. (GSA Contractor)
The ICOP Model 20/20(R)-W, ICOP's flagship, award-winning product, is the leading digital in-car video recorder system for law enforcement. ICOP LIVE(TM) delivers live streaming video to and from first responder vehicles and headquarters, empowering first responders with enhanced real-time situational awareness and actionable intelligence, optimizing the outcome of a crisis. ICOP LIVE delivers live video wirelessly to first responders over any wireless network and to multiple internet enabled Windows(R) devices simultaneously. The ICOP Model 4000(TM), ICOP's newest advanced surveillance solution, is the next generation transit/rail DVR system. The ICOP Model 4000 uses less power than traditional DVR's, which means less heat and translates into a more reliable unit with less downtime. In addition, the ICOP Model 4000 boasts many advanced and innovative features and capabilities, such as wireless file uploading and wireless video streaming, among many others.
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Recruit more underrepresented minorities for medical school;
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Promote underrepresented medical students coming out of programs such as NIH's Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) and Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Programs and the HHMI Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP).
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Underrepresented minorities represented 7 percent of all faculty.
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Isolation, debt, time, lack of mentorship, generating clinical revenue;
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Being the female and/or minority voice on committees as well as role model and mentor;
Being the "face" to the community; and
Coping with additional expectations from family and "community."
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RWJF Minority Faculty Development Program;
"K" Series Awards from NIH and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); and
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1960s—to a position of unquestioned leadership across broad areas of science and technology. The expansion of our national commitment to R&D in this period was substantial, moving the R&D enterprise from about 1 percent to 3 percent of our annual gross domestic product. Overall, about one-half of this effort has been financed by the federal government, and industry has been by far the greatest performer (75 percent of the total), with universities and government laboratories sharing—in quite different niches—most of the remaining effort.
Despite the many successes of the existing arrangements, many troublesome signs require our thoughtful consideration. Some of the more important of these are the following:
Increasing evidence that the federal government is reevaluating all its major investments (e.g., in health, welfare, and defense), including its investment in R&D—particularly the nature and level of its support of its own laboratories and of university-based research programs.
Increasing evidence that the number of highly qualified investigators, and of challenging research issues, is growing faster than the public 's willingness and/or capacity to support such efforts. This has led to what some consider an unproductive competition for funds and suboptimal allocation procedures. More important, it is unclear whether the dynamic evolution of the system established in the post-World War II period can be sustained.
Increasing evidence that, despite a high level of federal support for R&D, the federal investment in the overall R&D system is no longer based on any coherent overall policy or strategy. In a rapidly changing environment, U.S. science policy has been unable to strengthen its moorings, leave its moorings, or —to date—select a new framework of reference.
Increasing evidence that the post-World War II consensus achieved between the scientific community, the government, and industry on what public policy in science would serve the short-term and long-run needs of society is becoming undone.
Increasing evidence that science, technology, and innovation will not, by themselves, solve the nation's most pressing problems.
Increasing evidence that circumstances have shifted in such an important way that a rather different, or modified, set of approaches to public policy in the area of science is required. In particular, the issue of sustaining continued growth in national economic productivity has begun to supplant some of the earlier goals expressed in U.S. science policy. In this respect, there is a growing sense among some policymakers that it would serve our national interest to focus less on the generation of new ideas and to develop instead a better national capacity for more