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An article entitled " Teen struggles to live after huge mob attack by immigrants."
http://cofcc.org/2012/01/teen-strugg...by-immigrants/A huge mob of Latino immigrants, screaming in Spanish, attacked a group of three white teens in Orange County, CA. One of the victims had his head smashed in by multiple blows from bricks. He is comatose in critical condition. His father rushed into the attack and drug his son away and the Latino thugs beat him as well.
An article entitled "Mother, 28, jailed for leaving daughter, six, home alone for FIVE DAYS... with Monster Munch and a flat screen TV"
An article entitled "NBA player assaults female referee"
http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/...emale-referee/Oh well, at least the league gets an A+ for diversity!
An article entitled "Mich. Family: Grandmother Assaulted at Chuck E. Cheeses"
An article entitled "African immigrants bring racially motivated violence to Australia."
http://cofcc.org/2012/01/african-imm...-to-australia/African immigrants brutally beat white teen in racially motivated hate crime.
An article entitled "'Strict Muslim' raped four women at knifepoint to 'punish them for being on the streets at night'"
An article entitled " Another miscegenation nightmare."
http://cofcc.org/2012/01/another-mis...ion-nightmare/White females married to black males are 12.4 times more likely to be murdered by their husbands than white females married to white males.
Black NYPD officer tries to burn white wife alive.
"Presbyterian Children's Village" -- oh, boy, this is one for the books! Presbies LOOOOOVE diversity. No doubt at least some staff or parents told their kids re this teacher "now some people look different from us but we're all the same under the skin...."
Teacher charged with punching a student in the face
Nutty News Pennsylvania – A teacher at Presbyterian Children's Village has been charged with punching a student in the face, police said. The teacher claims the girl threw chalk at him. Richard B. Little, 41, of Yeadon is being charged with simple assault, aggravated assault and related charges in the incident. Police say Little grabbed the student and pulled her into the hallway. By the time a supervisor got into the hallway, he reported seeing Little punching the student in the face. She was bleeding as a result of the punches, police said.
An article entitled "She Dialed 911. The Cop Who Came to Help Raped Her."
An article entitled "Near fatal racially motivated attack on 62 year old man."
http://cofcc.org/2012/02/near-fatal-...-year-old-man/Two black thugs allegedly beat a 62 year old white man into a coma. The attack occurred in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The thugs have been charged with aggravated assault and robbery. The victims family is asking for hate crime charges.
An article entitled "Oh Look! Machetes!"
http://njpacofcc.wordpress.com/2012/...look-machetes/The fresh-faced, albeit rapidly darkening, but still eager to learn student body, and helpful staff of caring professionals of GAR Junior/Senior High School, located in beautiful Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, has just experienced its very first machete attack! A Dominican male student attacked a Black male student with a machete, on Thursday, February 9th, immediately after the days dismissal. The attack occurred on the schools grounds. The Black student attempted to stop the blade with his arm, in an act of self defense, and nearly had his arm lopped off for his troubles. No worries after 8 hours of surgery he alerted the world, via Facebook, that hes fine. His friends are promising to get them (the Dominicans) back.. Hey some-one alert Quentin Tarantino! His movie, Machete depicted illegal Mexican invaders attacking and hacking up Evil White Racists. Not Dominicans hacking up American Africans. He may want to re-shoot the picture. Or perhaps the Black and Brown students missed the memo that they are supposed to hate and kill Whites; not each other.
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An article entitled " Anti-racist gangbangers brutally attacked by Kurdish immigrants."
http://cofcc.org/2012/02/anti-racist...sh-immigrants/A vicious Marxist gang known as Antifa has staged violence attacks all over Europe. The group calls itself anti-racist and targets members of right-wing groups. Members of the gang routinely cross national borders to commit violent assaults. One of the ongoing projects of the gang in Germany is to vandalize Thor Steinar clothing stores. The group claims that the Arab-owned clothing line caters to Nazis by putting Viking/Norse imagery on some of their t-shirts.
However, a group of Antifa gangbangers got some poetic justice when a mob of Kurdish immigrants stormed their Berlin gang house and brutally beat members with baseball bats. The attack occurred just days ago. The Kurdish immigrants simply wanted to attack some white people, any white people.
Members of Antifa have a gang headquarters called Hausprojekt Scherer 8″ in an immigrant ghetto in Berlin. Across the street from the Antifa gang house is home base for a violent Kurdish drug gang called the Street Fighters.
An article entitled "Jamaican from notorious hate crime beating slapped on the wrist."
http://cofcc.org/2012/02/jamaican-fr...-on-the-wrist/The Jamaican bouncer from the notorious hate crime beating video on youtube was slapped on the wrist with the minimum sentence and will not face deportation.
Easton A. Byfield and a friend held a white man captive in the bathroom of club were Byfield worked as a bouncer. Byfield robbed and beat the man while his accomplice video taped the assault. At one point the victim is forced to kneel and recite oh great brown dude over and over. They uploaded the video to worldstarhiphop, an internet video sharing site that glorifies black thug culture. Numerous Videotaped racially motivated assaults against white people have been posted on the site.
The authorities refused to charge Byfield with a hate crime and worked out a special plea bargain so he could avoid a deportation hearing when he gets released.
Byfield practically giggles as he is sentenced.
An article entitled " Gruesome slaying of white couple by black men in Detroit."
http://cofcc.org/2012/02/gruesome-sl...en-in-detroit/Another Knoxville Horror style torture death of a white couple appears to have taken place in Detroit.
The badly burned bodies of a white couple have been recovered in an alley in Detroit. A witness alerted police to their presence and says two black men dumped the bodies there.
Update: Both victims were bound with speaker wire. Both victims had gunshot wounds. The male victim still had his wallet, but police are waiting until they locate his next of kin to release his identity. The male victim is from Westland, and the female victim is suspected of being local. Initiation evidence suggests it was a thrill killing.
Detroit is less than 8% white. However, the bodies were found in one of the most racially mixed areas with large numbers of very poor white people.
An article entitled "13 year old set on fire in brutal hate crime."
http://cofcc.org/2012/03/13-year-old...l-hate-crimes/Two black teens poured gasoline of a white thirteen year old and set him on fire in Kansas City, MO. The victim was attacked as he walked home from school. He was targeted at random by two perpetrators he did not even know. Police are investigating the attack as a racially motivated hate crime.
An article entitled "Major hate crime mob attack at Marist College!"
http://cofcc.org/2012/03/major-hate-...arist-college/Two white couples were leaving a party at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. The two couples encountered a wolfpack of black thugs. The two ladies were able to flee, but the two males were brutally beaten until they were both unconscious.
The attack occurred February 26th and does not appear to have been covered by any newspaper. A CofCC.org reader found out about the attack from a police blotter.
Recently major media bosses have confessed to censoring black crime, especially black on white crime, in their publications.
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A Floridian charged with hacking a Connecticut homeless man to death with an ax and eating some of his brain and an eyeball has pleaded not guilty to murder. Tyree Smith waived his right Monday to a probable cause hearing in Bridgeport Superior Court. The 35-year-old Smith is charged with murdering Angel Gonzalez in Bridgeport on Dec. 15. He was arrested in his hometown of Lynn Haven, Fla., in January. - (Newsroom) "'At the cemetery he said he ate the eyeball, which tasted like an oyster, and the brain matter,' according to the warrant."
An article entitled "3 Louisiana whites slaughtered in South African style invasion."
http://cofcc.org/2012/03/3-louisiana...tyle-invasion/A savage gang of black males stormed the rural home of a white couple in Gonzalez, Louisiana. The couple and a family friend were brutally beaten then had their throats slit execution style. The slaughter has similarities to the genocidal epidemic of farm and rural property invasions in South Africa. One of the monsters was a former employee of one of the white victims.
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It's all champagne, glitter, sparkle and photographs. It's famous clients and magazine covers. It's people wanting to meet the proprietor. It's drinks and models and A-list parties. It's your dream to run a glamorous business, to open a restaurant and bar where the elite and powerful mingle. Or maybe you'd like to run a fashion label that the stars proudly wear on the red carpet. Perhaps you dream of coining the next hot cosmetics craze and seeing your products worn on faces all around the world.
The good news is that it is possible to live the glamorous life. The not-so-great news? It's not all glamour all the time. Like any worthwhile endeavor, it's sweat, it's hard work, it's trying, it's drama-but if you take heed from the successful entrepreneurs we talked to, it's one hell of a ride.
Sanford Bryant, for instance, has designed his own line of high-fashion menswear that graces the frames of celebrities, including a well-known late-night talk show host. Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff-Gray host Washington, DC's VIP decision-makers in their elegant restaurant. Toni Ko spends her days selecting the hottest cosmetics colors to share with the public. Read on as we unravel the mystery of these glamorous businesses-and see if you want to get in on the magic.
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Sanford Bryant spent a lot of time learning the not-so-glamorous side of the fashion business before he decided to go into business for himself with the Sanford Bryant Co. A veteran of a large Italian design house, Bryant traveled the fashion world under someone else's wing, but, he says, "The objective was always to get to a point where I could do it in the first person and have it be about my own aesthetic as opposed to adopting somebody else's."
He struck out in the fall of 1999 to design his own collection of tailored and casual menswear. "It was a great time in some respects and a horrible time in others," says Bryant, 42. After all, a big part of his business was tailored high-fashion suits, yet he emerged at a time when casual dress was becoming the norm for many workplaces.
His experience in the fashion world helped him, though; not only with industry knowledge, but also with connections. Bryant was even able to secure startup funding from a company he'd consulted with in the past. "One of the benefits at the startup point in 1999 was continuing to consult for other people to create a positive cash flow while still at the stage of developing the concept," he says. "One of the difficult things about design, selling and distribution is how long it takes. From the first idea to the time you've delivered it in a store-it's kind of a contradiction to the word 'fashion,' because you've had to execute that idea so far in advance."
The long cycle between trend creation and distribution varies from 18 to 24 months, says Jennie S. Bev, editor in chief of StyleCareer.com, an online resource for fashion and image careers. "You will need plenty of cash at hand to keep the product line running before getting paid by retailers," she says. "Make sure to have plenty of reserve funding, especially if you release seasonal lines."
And let it be known-all that time is not spent at fashion shows rubbing elbows with Heidi Klum or Tyra Banks. To get a new fashion label off the ground, notes Bryant, it's literally about pounding the pavement. He recalls his early days when he'd cart a rolling rack with his designs all over Manhattan to attract clientele. "You've got to do things that everybody else does to get into people's faces," he says.
Since he launched his line, Sanford Bryant Custom, Bryant has succeeded in getting his fashions on celebs like talk show host Craig Kilborn and WNBC New York news anchor Maurice DuBois, to name a few. In late 2003, he shifted his focus to affordable, custom-made luxury clothing for average consumers. Though the company is based in New York City, where Bryant has a showroom, he mostly sells his custom suits (from $895 to $1,295) through one-on-one consultations with clients in Los Angeles, New York City and other cities soon to come. The strategy is working, as annual sales now surpass $1 million.
Still, Bryant waxes poetic about the dichotomy of running a so-called "glamorous business." "From one side, I'm doing design and development, and [people] think 'Oh, you get to travel the world, and you're in Italy,'" he says. "And [I think], I go to a factory in the middle of nowhere. You're in a room with five guys, and everybody's smoking, and it's 9:30 at night-and then you have to get up and drive 200 miles to the next factory. It's beautiful countryside in between-but you're not just in Paris seeing the shows."
- Find your niche. Fashion encompasses a huge market-women's casual, men's formal, plus size and so on-so narrow it down.
- Study the competition. Learn about their niches, why they stand out and how they market. Can you effectively compete?
- Find out which retailers accept new designers. Secure your manufacturing or CMT (cut, make and trim) needs now.
- Have ample startup cash. You'll need cash flow for at least two and a half years, since the fashion cycle is from 18 to 24 months between design and retail.
- Think creative but wearable. "If they are too bold or cumbersome to wear," says Bev, "nobody will want them even if they are fairly priced."
- Get your name out there. Start with a good label that speaks to your niche. Participate in fashion trade shows. Get fashion media attention for your line. Persistence is the only way to attract buyers.
- Put on your business hat. "Being a successful fashion entrepreneur requires 90 percent business skills and only 10 percent artistic skills," says Bev. "Many new designers fail because they have impressive artistic skills but very limited business skills."
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She was killed in a fiery car crash on Sunday while her church youth group was coming back from a retreat.
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Her friends wanted to have a prayer for her, but were just thinking of a small Bible discussion in a backyard.
In just a few days, it grew to hundreds of Courteney's classmates, friends and loved ones leading a prayer to celebrate her life.
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"When I found out, it was so hard. I cried all day," said Nina Rogers, a close friend of Courteney's. "She was one of my close friends since 5th grade, and just not seeing her next to me at lunch everyday, it's just hard."
Courteney wore her faith on her sleeve, and those who know her believe that's the legacy she'd want to leave.
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) ) ) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ) HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, e t al., ) ) Defenda nts. ) __________________________________________) STATE OF FLORIDA, by and through BILL McCOLLUM, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, et al., Case No.: 3:10-CV-91-RV/EMT BRIEF OF GOVERNORS TIM PAWLENTY AND DONALD L. CARCIERI AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTI FFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT Hans F. Bader (D.C. Bar # 466545) Counsel of Record Sam Kazman Competitive Enterprise Institute 1899 L Street, NW, 12 th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Telephone: (202) 331-2278 Facsimile: (202) 331-0640 Counsel for Amici Curiae Governors Tim Pawlenty and Donald L. Carcieri TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTEREST OF AMICI ...................................................................................1 II. ARGUMENT ....................................................................................................2 The Affordable Care Act is Unconstitutionally Vague and Indefinite ..............2 A. The ACA's Ambiguity Renders It Illegitimate Under Spending-Clause Jurisprudence, Which Requires That Federal Conditions Be Clear and Definite Enough to Be Contractually Valid and Enforceable .......................... 2 B. The ACA's Complexity Accentuates Its Vagueness .......................................... 4 C. The ACA's Vagueness Is Aggravated by the Vast Discretion and Virtual Blank Check It Gives to the Federal Officials Who Implement It ...............6 D. The Law's Expansive Reach Makes Its Nebulousness More Grave ............. 10 E. By Leaving the Federal Government With Unbridled Power to Expand States' Medicaid Obligations, the ACA Violates Principles Forbidding Illusory and Indeterminate Contracts.................................................................. 13 i TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Cases Arlington Cent. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Murphy, 548 U.S. 291 (2006) .............................. 3, 4, 6 Association Ben. Services, Inc. v. Caremark RX, Inc., 493 F.3d 841 (7th Cir. 2007) ..................... 3 Barnes v. Gorman, 536 U.S. 181 (2002) .................................................................................. 3, 4 Botts v. State, 604 S.E.2d 512 (Ga. 2004) .................................................................................. 10 Cheek v. U.S., 498 U.S. 192 (1991) ............................................................................................. 6 Livermore v. Heckler, 743 F.2d 1396, 1403 (9th Cir. 1984) .......................................................... 4 Matter of T & B General Contracting, 833 F.2d 1455 (11th Cir. 1987) ........................................ 3 Nebraska v. E.P.A., 331 F.3d 995 (D.C. Cir. 2003) ...................................................................... 4 New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992) .......................................................................... 2 Pennhurst State School & Hosp. v. Halderman, 451 U.S. 1 (1981) ........................................ 3, 14 Purgess v. Sharrock, 33 F.3d 134 (2d Cir. 1994) ....................................................................... 13 Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997) .......................................................................................... 12 South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U.S. 203 (1987) ......................................................................... 1, 3, 6 Virginia v. Riley, 106 F.3d 559 (4th Cir. 1997) ........................................................................... 12 Young & Vann Supply Co. v. Gulf F. & A. Ry. Co., 5 F.2d 421 (5th Cir.1925)............................ 13 Constitutional Provisions Minn. Const., Art. IV, § 23.......................................................................................................... 1 Minn. Const., Art. XIII, § 1 ......................................................................................................... 1 Rhode Island Const., Art. IX, § 15............................................................................................... 1 Rhode Island Const., Art. XII ...................................................................................................... 1 Spending Clause................................................................................................................ 1, 3, 15 Tenth Amendment....................................................................................................................... 2 Treatises Restatement (Second) Contracts ............................................................................................ 3, 14 Williston on Contracts (4th ed. Updated 2010) .......................................................................... 14 Other Authorities Abelson, Health Rules Are Waived More Often, New York Times, Nov. 10, 2010, at B2 ............. 7 Abelson, Waivers Aim at Talk of Dropping Health Coverage, New York Times, Oct. 7, 2010, at B1 ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Chen, How Obamacare Burdens Already Strained State Budgets, Heritage Foundation, Nov. 10, 2010 (Backgrounder #2489) .................................................................................................. 12 Congressional Research Service, Deadlines for the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Oct. 1, 2010, at 1 ........................................... 8 Congressional Research Service, Summary of Potential Employer Penalties Under PPACA (P.L. 111-148), Apr. 5, 2010 .......................................................................................................... 11 ii Department of Health and Human Services, Approved Applications for Waiver of the Annual Limits Requirements of the PHS Act Section 2711 As of Nov. 1, 2010 ...................................... 7 Freire, Dems Admit CEO's Were Right to Report Losses from Obamacare, Washington Examiner, April 27, 2010 ........................................................................................................ 8 Georgetown Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families, Medicaid and State Budgets: Looking at the Facts (2008) .................................................................................... 12 Hacker, Health Reform 2.0, American Prospect, Sept. 1, 2010, at A25....................................... 14 Haislmaier & Blase, Obamacare: Impact on States, Heritage Foundation, July 1, 2010 (Backgrounder #2433)..................................................................................................... 10, 11 Joint Economic Committee Republicans, America's New Health Care System Revealed: Updated Chart Shows Obamacare's Bewildering Complexity, Committee News, Aug. 2, 2010 .............. 4 Joint Economic Committee, Republican Staff, Your New Health Care System, ............................ 4 Malkin, Creators Syndicate, Repeal Is the Ultimate Obamacare Waiver, Washington Examiner, Nov. 18, 2010, at 43 ............................................................................................................ 7, 8 Sen. Tom Coburn, HHS Administrative Failure: HHS Failed to Meet a Third of Mandated Deadlines Under New Federal Health Care Law, Oct. 4, 2010 ................................................ 9 Senator Tom Harkin, Health Legislation A Solid Foundation to Build Upon, Wilmington NewsJournal, Dec. 30, 2009 ........................................................................................................... 13 Siegel, Obamacare Will Clog America's Medical System, USA Today, Oct. 19, 2010, at 9A ....... 8 Surber, Obamacare Leads to 47% Premium Hike, Charleston Daily Mail, Oct. 16, 2010 ............. 8 iii I. INTEREST OF AMICI As the Governors of Minnesota and Rhode Island, respectively, amici Tim Pawlenty and Donald L. Carcieri have a direct interest in this case. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 ("ACA") fundamentally transforms Medicaid and will effectively co-opt control over the States' budgetary processes and legislative agendas, crowding out spending on other state priorities, including duties that are mandated by state constitutions. 1 Give n their role in shaping and overseeing state budgets, the Governors have a vital stake in ensuring that basic limits on the federal government's spending power are maintained. 2 One of those limits is that any conditions imposed by federal law must be clear, so that States may exercise their choice to accept or reject federal funds "knowingly, cognizant of the consequences of their participation." 3 On November 12, this Court granted the Governors leave to file their amicus brief (Docket # 108). See, e.g., Minn. Const., Art. XIII, § 1 ( state has "duty" to "establish a general and uniform system of public schools" that is "thorough and efficient"); Rhode Island Const., Art. XII ( state has "duty" to "promote public schools and public libraries" to foster "diffusion of knowledge," a nd to not "divert" education funds). 2 See, e.g., R hode Island Const., Art. IX, § 15 (Gover nor "shall prepare and present" the state budget "to the general assembly"); Minn. Const., Art. IV, § 23 (line-item veto). 3 South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U.S. 203, 207 (1987). 1 1 II. ARGUMENT The Affordable Care Act is Unconstitutionally Vague and Indefinite A. The ACA's Ambiguity Renders It Illegitimate Under Spending-Clause Jurisprudence, Which Requires That Federal Conditions Be Clear and Definite Enough to Be Contractually Valid and Enforceable As plaintiffs rightly note, the ACA "violates the principle that conditions on federal funds must be unambiguous, so as to `enable the states to exercise their choice knowingly, cognizant of the consequences of their participation.'" 4 This is both because the ACA includes "vast potential liabilities that cannot even be projected as of now," and because "the ACA's sweeping changes could not reasonably have been foreseen by the states when they started their Medicaid programs." 5 As a result, the States could not have voluntarily and knowingly assumed the burdens and liabilities now imposed on them by the ACA. Even looking at the ACA purely from the vantage point of the present, rather than when States began participating in Medicaid, the ACA is so ambiguous and indefinite that it is facially unconstitutional, as we explain below. This vagueness undermines political accountability and thus aggravates the ACA's unduly coercive aspects, in violation of the Tenth Amendment. 6 Memorandum In Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment at 36. Id.. at 42, 45. 6 See New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144, 168 (1992) (Spending Clause legislation's legitimacy is rooted in the fact that "where Congress encourages state regulation rather than compelling it, state governments remain responsive to the local electorate's preferences; state officials remain accountable to the people."; " Accou ntability is thus 5 4 2 The Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized legislation enacted pursuant to the spending power as "much in the nature of a contract: in return for federal funds, the States agree to comply with federally imposed conditions." 7 "The legitimacy of Congress' power to legislate under the spending power thus rests on whether the State voluntarily and knowingly accepts the terms of the contract." Pennhurst State School & Hosp. v. Halderman, 451 U.S. 1, 17 (1981). But even if States could choose to stop participating in the Medicaid program, the ACA is so vague that it does not and cannot allow the States "to exercise their choice knowingly, cognizant of the consequences of their participation." Dole, 483 U.S. at 207 (quoting Pennhurst). The ACA fails to speak "unambiguously," Pennhurst, 451 U.S. at 17, about how a State can opt out of Medicaid's expansion, and what State compliance may mean if it opts in. Because the States are not given a clear and informed choice between participation and non-participation, the Act lacks the hallmarks of contractual enforceability. See, e.g., Matter of T & B General Contracting, 833 F.2d 1455, 1459 (11th Cir. 1987) ("Without a meeting of the minds on all essential terms, no enforceable contract arises."). 8 The Act is indefinite in other key respects as well, so "we cannot fairly say that [a] State could make an informed choice." Pennhurst, diminished when, due to federal coercion, elected state officials cannot regulate in accordance with the views of the local electorate."). 7 Pennhurst, 451 U.S. 1, 17 (1981); see also Barnes v. Gorman, 536 U.S. 181, 186 (2002); Arlington Cent. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Murphy, 548 U.S. 291, 296 (2006). 8 See also Association Ben. Services, Inc. v. Caremark RX, Inc., 493 F.3d 841, 850 (7th Cir. 2007); Restatement (Second) Contracts, § 33; see Pennhurst, 451 U.S. at 17 (must show states' acceptance of "the terms of the contract'"). 3 451 U.S. at 25. "There can, of course, be no knowing acceptance if a State is unaware of the conditions or is unable to ascertain what is expected of it." 9 B. The ACA's Complexity Accentuates Its Vagueness The ACA is so mammoth, its provisions are so complex, and its passage was so irregular that the federal attorneys who have spent the past eight months defending it cannot even clearly identify its length. (See Tr. at 8, Docket # 77). Its sheer complexity is aptly, but only partially, captured by the chart provided by minority staff of the Joint Economic Committee, which is found on the next page. 10 (While that "chart displays a bewildering array of new government agencies, regulations and mandates," the reality is even more complicated, since "committee analysts could not fit the entire health care bill on one chart. `This portrays only about one-third of the complexity of the final bill. It's actually worse than this.'" 11 Id. at 17-18; see Arlington Cent. Sch. Dist., 548 U.S. at 296; Barnes, 536 U.S. at 186. See Joint Economic Committee, Republican Staff, Your New Health Care System, available at http://jec.senate.gov/republicans/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=5ee16e0f6ee6 -4643-980e-b4 d5f1 d7759a (visited Nov. 18, 2010); Nebraska v. E.P.A., 331 F.3d 995, 998 n.3 (D.C. Cir. 2003) (taking judicial notice of agency materials on web); Air Transport Ass'n v. U.S. Dep't of Transp., 613 F.3d 206, 208 (D.C. Cir. 2010) (citing JEC report); Livermore v. Heckler, 743 F.2d 1396, 1403 (9th Cir. 1984) (repor t by JEC staff). 11 See Joint Economic Committee Republicans, America's New Health Care System Revealed: Updated Chart Shows Obamacare's Bewildering Complexity, Committee News, Aug. 2, 2010 (quoting Rep. Brady), available at http://jec.senate.gov/r epu blicans/pu blic/index.cfm? p=CommitteeN ews&ContentR ecord_i d=bb302d88-3d0 d-4424-8e33-3 c5d2578c2b0 ( visited Nov. 18, 2010). 10 9 4 +&(5$


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Today is World AIDS Day.
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Fundraiser: Prizes II
More Prizes: Two $10 gift cards for big burrito and several small gifts from Kufunana!
Fundraiser: Prizes
Prizes for the raffle
We have a total of seven prizes:
- Two $50 gift cards for Salt of the Earth (our favourite restaurant in Pittsburgh)
- One $25 gift card for La Gourmandine
- Two copies of the English Translation of "A Roda" (Kufunana's show—which we co-directed). We will sign them too.
- Two capulanas
- A capulana bag
We will use the same system as last year: For every $5 above a $25 donation, you get a raffle ticket. So, if you donate the recommended $35, you get two tickets; if you donate $50, you get five!
Fundraiser Menu
This is the menu for the fundraiser on Saturday. It will not be a sit-down dinner, but we organised into courses:
(Some of the recipes may change while we shop, depending on availability of produce.)
Paulista Shrimp. pan-fried shrimp. garlic. jalapeños. (paulista is someone from São Paulo, in Brazil).
Pineapple. bacon powder. basil leaf.
Spinach. prunes. shitake. coconut milk.
Cheese. crakers
Assorted finger foods. we haven't fully decided.
Main Courses
Fish Curry. coconut. peanuts. couve. xima (Mozambican-style polenta). basmati rice.
Fruit Curry. fruits. yams. (vegetarian)
Chocolate mousse. wasabi. cayenne. flambéed raspberries. whipped cream. kiwi foam. pecans.
Orange cake.
Pineapple. ginger. orange.
Pastries. depending on baker availability.
Fundraiser: September 3
We are holding our 2nd Annual Fundraiser this Saturday, September 3.
If you are in Pittsburgh, please come to the party and bring your friends.
We will have cocktails, gourmet food, wine, prizes, good people.
Remember: even if you cannot make it to the party, you are more than welcome to donate online (click the Donate link to your right). This is not just a party, it's a good cause.
Fundraiser Postponed
Because we just had a baby (who arrived earlier than expected), we are postponing the fundraiser we had planned.
The tentative new date is September 3rd.
Back to Pittsburgh
We arrived to the US a week ago, and are back to work at the university, the fall semester is starting soon… But we hope to go back to Mozambique very soon, this trip was an unforgettable experience!
Our Mozambican projects will continue from Pittsburgh anyway. For now Rita is going to transcribe and translate the play developed with Kufunana, and Luis is going to continue to develop the computer tools of the health clinics of EsMaBaMa.
We will keep you posted.
Photos IV
Photos from the show A Rede (The Network), which we performed with Kufunana.
The policeman and the prostitute (both protected).
The handsome truckdriver.
The teacher (teachers in Mozambique wear a white robe as uniform).
A Rede
Our show was called A Rede (The Network), based on La Ronde (which in Portuguese translates to A Roda, get to A Rede).
The show was presented in Beira. While we were there, we presented one show only, but Kufunana is continuing to present the show.
The text and the stories that came out were really very good and we will be working on writing them down. There were 3 dance scenes, two of which were symbolic representations of the sexual act as a fight between those infected with HIV and those not infected (possibly aided by a condom).
The Kufunana actors both created almost all of the dialogue and were great performers. Without such great people, it would have been ridiculous to stage a show, in less than two weeks, with no fixed text yet. We had concrete concepts of what the show should look like (based on La Ronde, featuring danced representations of sex and contamination and some of the ideas for which characters should appear), but without their improvisational skills at fleshing out the scenes, it wouldn't have been possible.
The Network
After some discussion with our Mozambican friends from Kufunana, the idea of the wheel (La Ronde, from Schnitzler, which we were thinking of basing our play on), where character 1 sleeps with 2, 2 with 3, 3 with 4 &c was too limited. Here we will have a network. This seems to be better reflect Mozambican reality of multiple concurrent sexual partners.
So the working title for our creation is now The Network.
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Back in Beira
After two weeks working in EsMaBaMa's missions, we are back in Beira (and in internet-land). We will post images and videos over the next few days, but it was a very successful trip.
In Mangunde. Back to Internet
Last week, for over a week, there was no internet in Beira. There was no internet in this whole area of the country. Phones worked, sometimes. It seems charming, but banks suffered too. It took us 3 days to be able to exchange traveller's checks. We heard that last time this happened, people weren't even able to get their paychecks for weeks.
We don't know if it is solved by now. We are in Mangunde, another of Esmabama's missions, and we have a satellite link here. It is slow, deadly slow (so, no we won't be able to upload any pictures). But it works. So we were able to read all of our email (i.e., read our spam) and will start posting some updates when we have a bit of free time.
We did the show with Kufunana. It was a very rewarding experience for both us and, hopefully, them. We started with a few scattered ideas and, two weeks later, we were opening. This is due to the quality of the actors who have a lot of experience improvising. In the end, we had a great show. They had a great show. We presented it in Beira, but Kufunana was already planning to present it in more rural areas (which is where they do most of their work).
The show, called The Network, talks about intersecting sexual exchanges, for love (sometimes) and for money (mostly), having protected and unprotected sex. It was based on La Ronde, by Schnitzler, but adapted to Mozambican reality with the addition of a Greek chorus of drunk men. The show itself is mostly theatrical in form, but we have some dance scenes, with both traditional African rhythms and Western style pop music making an appearance.
We also managed to raise $500 for Kufunana with Kickstarter. Actually, since we were without internet, we didn't even know whether we had got to our goal or not! It was only after the fact that we were able to check up on it. Thank you!
Theatre Classes in Machanga
Last week, we taught theatre classes in Machanga, one of EsMaBaMa's missions. This week, we are leaving soon to repeat the same in 2 other missions over the next two weeks.
Neither of these have internet. In fact, they only have a few hours of electricity per day, six to nine PM (in Mozambique, everything starts earlier than in East Coast USA: classes start at seven, so it's not unreasonable to have lights-out at nine).
Being a short workshop, the classes, taught to members of pre-existing theatre groups had two interlocked goals: to teach them some voice, movement, focus exercises they can use in their own group and work with them with a poem (we randomly assigned each a poem, all from African poets, all from the Portuguese curriculum). We combine dramatic expression with text analysis to use this opportunity to have the students review grammatical and rhetorical concepts that are focused on in Portuguese language classes.
Newsletter I
This was also sent out by email to our newsletter subscribers.
During our first week, we stayed in Beira and became familiar with the activities of Kufunana. We started developing their website and interviewed Júlio João the head of the organization (see clips on website, with English subtitles). We are still translating and putting subtitles on the rest of the video so we can post the whole of this fascinating interview.
We are also developing with Kufunana a two week theatre workshop that we hope will culminate with a performance and a debate.
During the second week of our stay, we went to the schools and hospitals that EsMaBaMa has in the province of Sofala and discussed ways we could help.
Starting tomorrow we are going to spend a week per school (a total of four) teaching theatre and computer skills (some basic introduction and some programming) and observing the medical facilities so we can see how their computational tools can be improved. All the schools have theatre groups that work on HIV related issues. We are going to work with the teachers and students to teach theatre games that try to raise social issues that are pertinent locally (such as: child birth in the hospital, gender issues, HIV, education for girls, superstitions, reproductive health). But we are also going to work on bringing to the stage African poetry and use the theatre class as a fun Portuguese language class.
There are only three hours of electricity in the three first schools we are going to visit (and often no running water, of course no garbage collection). Due to the reduced number of hours we have energy and the reduced number of computers per school (generally four working devices) Luis is going to teach mainly to teachers, and as we have seen the need is essentially for computer introduction classes. In the last school there is electricity twenty four hours a day, some students have computer classes, and there are ten computers. Luis will then be able to teach intro to programming.
We have given Kufunana a computer (gift from Lidio Meireles) and have paid for them to get internet (now, we just need to wait for the Mozambican Telecoms to connect them—which shouldn't take more than a week).
Another one of our goals is to use part of the money we raised to buy and install more computers in one of EsMaBaMa's schools. Probably this will be a multi-head installation (i.e., several monitor+keyboard+mouse terminals linked to a single computer, but working as if they were separate computers), but we are still studying this. We were surprised to realize that electronics are very expensive here (often double the US price). Other things can be really cheap. Today we bought wrist-watch for one dollar (one of those retro digital ones that sell for forty bucks at Urban Outfitters). Again it's hard to believe but the GDP per capita is $464 per year.
Interview II
Interview with Júlio João: Superstitions from Luis Pedro Coelho on Vimeo.
Second bit of our interview with Júlio João, of Kufunana, where he talks about superstitions around HIV/AIDS.
Interview I
Interview with Júlio João: Theatre of the Opressed from Luis Pedro Coelho on Vimeo.
First excerpt of interview with Júlio João. We have more video that we will be uploading as we edit (and translate it) and as bandwidth permits.
This was also posted at kufunana.org.
Theatre Class in Barada.
Photo II
Rehearsing with Kufununana. Help us and get a Beira Project souvenir at Kickstarter
This is Julio from Kufunana. We have a really interesting video interview with him that we will post once we have translated it (it's in Portuguese).
He talks about Kufunana, theatre of the opressed, HIV/AIDS in Mozambique, the impact of superstitions, and other things.
Photo III
It was impossible to find a tripod in Beira (we tried about fifteen different shops who sold all sorts of electronic brick-a-brack). This was a home-made attempt (ultimately unsuccessful as it was too flimsy).
Walking to the boat to bring us back to Beira.
- I have my kids in a private school because I can't afford the public ones. We asked whether the public schools weren't free. "They have no tuition, but to get a spot you need to pay people. At the start of the school year, you might have to spend 3000MTC at once. And then the teachers will try to get you to pay so that they don't fail the student. It's a lot of money. In the private, you pay tuition each month. It's easier to pay and it's less money in the end."
- Young girls (starting at the age of 14, catorzinhas) will get often someone that, out of politeness, is sometimes called a boyfriend. More bluntly, the men also go by ATM or minister (in the European sense of member of government). So that if a man is paying her or her siblings tuitions, he will be her minister for education, if he pays the electric bill, minister for energy,…
Computer for Kufunana
Our friend Lidio had donated a working laptop. Unfortunately, because Lidio had spent some time in Japan, upon boot it looked like this:
After installing Ubuntu, it looks much more intelligible (if you understand Portuguese):
Even fee, the cat, can use it now, to read our blog:
We already gave the laptop to Julio, from Kufunana (we are still working on that website too, so it will grow over the next couple of weeks).
Tiny Poverty Facts
- In the market (see previous video), not all merchants have plastic bags. If you are buying from one who does not have them and want one, cry out Plastic and the plastic bag seller will sell you one. Here is a person (a little boy, by the way) who makes his living selling individual plastic bags.
- We were looking at a grant application here. As one of the resources of the association that was applying, they listed access to electricity. It's not taken for granted.
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We're on Our Way
We're on our way!
We're at JFK and waiting to check in for our flight to Johanesburg.
We raised over $2200!
We are still working on the final accounting, but it is now clear that we raised over $2200!
Thank you to : Vasco Calais Pedro, Dr. K, Aken Su, Nichole Faina, and the many anonymous donours. Also, thank you to Chef Tony Pais at Café Zinho, Tana restaurant, Whole Foods, Prantl's Bakery, Big Burrito, Bueda, and Couchange for being our partners.
This would also not have been possible without the efforts of Cordelia, Sabah, and Grace, who were all wonderful.
Handing out prizes. More in my flickr stream
Menu for tonight
If the menu makes you really want to come to our party, feel free to just show up.
See you later!
Andalucian gazpacho. Cold tomato soup with garlic, onions, and peppers.
Seviche. Lime marinated tilapia with cilantro and bell peppers.
_Paulista_ shrimp. Pan-fried shrimp with garlic and jalapeños. (Paulista: from the city of São Paulo, Brazil).
Vietnamese-style Spring Rolls with shrimp, Korean-style barbecued beef, or vegetarian
Peanuts on the porch
Cheese and crackers a donation from _WholeFoods_
Main Course
Chicken curry with coconut milk, banana, and peanuts. Served with cinnamon seasoned Basmati.
Fruit curry (vegetarian option). No peanuts.
Chickpea cous-cous (vegetarian).
Spicy mango soup with anise, served cold with Turkish yogurt
Green tea *Moschi* ice-cream
Cookies a donation from Prantl's Bakery (on Walnut St).
Strawberry Alentejan gazpacho with biscuit
Chocolate brownies with raspberry
Caipirinha. Cachaça (Brazilian Rum-like spirit) with crushed limes.
Morangoska. Vodka with crushed strawberries.
Wine & beer
Prizes for Fundraiser
Prizes for Fundraiser! Details We will be raffling almost $200 worth of prizes!
- A meal for 4 at Cafe Zinho!
- A meal at Tana
- A meal at Mad Mex
- A gift card from Barnes & Nobles
- T-shirts from Bueda
- Drink coasters from Mozambique
You get a raffle ticket just for showing up with a donation of more than $25 plus another ticket for each $5 donated above that.
We heartily thank the businesses that have contributed to our project by donating food (WholeFoods) or gift certificates for restaurants.
Second of our partners: Kufunana. The photo shows Kufunana performing theatre of the oppressed on the street to raise awareness on HIV testing (photo credit: Kufunana)
One of our partners EsMaBaMa
This is one of the groups that we will be working with in Mozambique (and for whom we are fundraising).
Their website contains a description of their projects including some pictures.
Prizes for Fundraiser!
Thanks to several generous gifts from local businesses, if you come to our fundraiser (sign up page), you will be able to win several free meals at local restaurants! You will get a chance to win just by showing up.
We will have more details later today…
Reading up on what to take/expect
Advice from Chris Blattman I and II and here's Tyler Cowen.
The comments in the above posts tend to be pretty good too.
About Beira Project
The Beira Project will provide HIV-related non-profits in Mozambique with tools, physical and technical, to do their job better, to reach more people better.
Rita and Luis, two graduate students in Pittsburgh (in theatre and computational biology), will be working with two local Mozambican organisations in Beira (Mozambique's 2nd largest city) supporting them in their work.
One of our partners, Kufunana, uses theatre of the oppressed in markets and schools to raise awareness on the necessity of HIV screening (even though HIV rates exceed 15%, many people still act as if they were immune). Beira Project will help Kufunana become visible on the web by bringing them computer hardware, facilitating internet access, and teaching them how to reach out to their other international partners. On the artistic front, Rita and Luis are looking forward to exchange theatre experiences and approaches, and to be able to develop new material together.
EsMaBaMa, our other colaborator, runs schools and HIV/AIDS clinics of the province of Sofala (which includes the city of Beira and the rural regions around it). Besides their physical needs, they need an integrated software platform for managing their patients. Currently, the solutions they use, adapted from the western world, are not well suited to their conditions. An alternative solution must be robust to network quality (all possible network connections can be found in Mozambique, from no connection, to very high speed mobile internet, through semi-reliable SMS coverage), it must be open source (in the past, using a closed source solution has led to stagnation after the funds to pay for support/updates ran out as well as to lack of integration with other systems). The developing world is under-resourced in physical infrastructure, but, for there is no reason why its software should lag behind the state of the art. With EsMaBaMa Rita will also train teachers to use theatre games as classroom tools in the prevention of HIV.
Fundraiser Signup!
You can finally sign up for our fundraiser.
Sign up is not mandatory, but it helps us know how many to expect.
Save the date May 29. 6pm
May 29 6-pm we will hold a fundraising cocktail at our house to raise money to help our partners in Mozambique.
You can come enjoy some wine, cocktails, gourmet food, while helping our Mozambican partners in their fight against HIV.
What does this money go to?
Buying things for our partners on the ground. We will have a detailed list available online when we make a more formal announcement, but it will consist mostly of computer hardware, school supplies, &c
This money will not be used to pay for our flights, lodging, or other similar expenses.
We will more details later, once we have online donations and registration set up (hopefully, later this week), but for now, save the date: May 29, Saturday and start telling your friends.
beiraproject.org is Active
Changed the domain name.
Unfortunately, tumblr doesn't let me use more than one domain name, so I am going to have to redirect projectmaputo.org by myself.
Also, it seems tumblr doesn't allow multiple authors on your default blog. That's a bit annoying. It also doesn't let change what your default blog is. That's more annoying.
Project Maputo Became Beira Project
For the lack of clear idea, we started out thinking we'd head to Maputo, but we found our partners in Beira. So, Project Maputo becomes Beira Project.
Right now, the URL is still projectmaputo.org, but we will change it to beiraproject.org later (we just got the domain name).
Encounters (III) Vasco Calais Pedro
Another friend that was very supportive was Vasco, who is CEO of Bueda.
Vasco has let me know that we can count on him and Bueda. If we need to piggy-back on some nice cloud infrastructure, I now know that Bueda has the resources.
Linux vs Windows for Project Maputo
One of our projects in Mozambique will be to set up computer labs for several of the groups there. One of the questions is what operating system to use.
I haven't personally run Windows since Windows 98 was their newest operating system (I did have an dual-booting Linux/XP laptop before you could buy linux laptops, but I rarely used it, this was 6 years ago). I had an Apple laptop for a while, but now all my computers are Linux. Still, I am trying to keep an open mind.
I do know that in these environments it's not sufficient to just leave them a bunch of computers as they will quickly become unusable with viruses and spamware as kids install all sorts of things to get games to work (or to see pictures of unclad women). I know this from seeing it in other countries and from talking to our partners in Mozambique. Some intellectual tabloids (a term I just coined) have even pointed out how this is a problem for the wider internet.
The argument is thus for a Linux based solution where the typical user is allowed to run firefox (and only firefox) and more advanced users can run openoffice. By logging in remotely, a more advanced expert can do maintenance up to the point where the machines stop connecting to the internet.
I can't probably give you an answer now as to what we will use, but if I found a good Linux distribution for this environment, it would make things much easier.
(And, no, Apple is not under consideration; the machines are too expensive).
Encounters (II) Paul van der Boor
Paul van der Boor is one of the founders of Project Yele. He is also a student here at Carnegie Mellon and someone who knows him told me I should talk to him.
I didn't have any specific questions for Paul, but he we ended up chatting for an hour (over Skype as Paul is now in Lisbon not Pittsburgh). He gave me plenty of good advice based on his experience:
- Do it if you have the time and the contacts.
- Get a local partner.
- Find out what you're good at and do that.
- Get visibility.
Encounters (I) Maria da Conceição
Last week, as part of the PAPS Forum, Maria da Conceição visited Pittsburgh and CMU. We heard her talk during dinner and, since we were part of the organisation of the Forum, we had a bit more contact with her and got to know her.
Her work is not only inspiring as a human story, but it also showed how necessary it is to help some people and that it is possible to do so in small ways. An economist friend said that he was both touched by the humanity and professionally impressed by the fact that she had measurable success.
Most amazing is that Maria's humility is not an act. Once you meet her and hear her live, you see she's for real. Her work is at Dhaka Project.
Project Maputo
Project Maputo is the idea that two people (Rita & Luis) will spend two months in Mozambique (maybe Maputo, maybe not) and try to do something interesting.


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ALICE - Authorities in Alice have tracked down a man accused of making and passing fake money around town since mid-October.
By following information from surveillance video and witnesses, Robert Douglas Reed was arrested this week at his home in Alice. Police say they found the materials needed to make counterfeit cash alongside some marijuana in his home.
According to police, the bills were between one dollar and twenty dollar denominations. He's jailed on six felony counts of forgery.
The U.S. Secret Service and Jim Wells County Deputies worked with the Alice Police Department to make the bust.
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