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Sarah and Greg visit the 5 towns called Bear across the country, and rely on the kindness of strangers for a home each night. Read more
Sarah and Greg visit the 5 towns called Bear across the country, and rely on the kindness of strangers for a home each night.
About this project
We've reached our goal!!! A huge thanks to every single person who has demonstrated their support and been an incredibly kind stranger -- and friend. There's still time to donate, and there are still music expenses, festival submissions, and marketing initiatives that can use your help. Share this with your friends, our strangers, and help us spread acts of kindness.
We understand that time and money can be limited. We appreciate you taking the time to watch the trailer and read a little about this project.
Armed with nothing but their curiosity and a camera, Sarah and Greg set out to visit each town in the country called Bear by relying on the kindness of strangers for a home each night.
"American Bear: An Adventure In The Kindness Of Strangers" is an inspiring exploration of our country through trust, fear, and hospitality, across America and between Americans. In the summer of 2010 Sarah and Greg traveled the country relying on the kindness of strangers for a home each night. Every day they were in a new town, meeting new people, and hoping that someone would be generous enough to open their home to two young strangers.
American Bear is about a young couple spending 60 days together, 24/7, making the passion project of their lives: enriched by the hundreds of strangers (and new friends) they met and the variety of American landscape. It all began a year earlier, during another road trip, when Greg spoke out in his sleep, saying "We have to go to Bear, Colorado!" Sarah and Greg were thrilled by this dream-destiny –- and disappointed when their search proved Bear, CO doesn't exist. Fortunately, there are five other Bears in the country, that make a perfect horseshoe between Washington, Idaho, Arizona, Arkansas, and Delaware -- their fate-driven blueprint through 30 states around the country.
Led by Sarah and Greg through a vast American landscape of geography and character, the film centers on their struggle to find a home each night through the kindness of the individual. But the film expands to paint a portrait of Americans as a community and the questions we all have about the people who aren't us and the places that aren't our homes. It tells the stories of a few of the most irregular, profound and affected individuals they encounter. From the daughter of the last warrior woman of the Cheyenne mountain tribe whose grandson is still facing bigotry in South Dakota; to the twice married ghost hunters trying to synthesize their experiences in small-town New York; to young friends in Mississippi trying to understand the "country" stereotype, maybe even reclaim it – each character is facing some obstacle that allows us to see a unique side of the multifaceted American lifestyle. It is through these individuals that we are able to see the fabric of the American mentality and the daily choices we make.
In a time when violence is ever present and apathy seems to override even the bloodiest of headlines, maybe we need to try a different tactic: openness and vulnerability as a means to hope. Our goal is to leave the audience feeling optimistic; feeling that there are small things you can do to fight against injustice, to support our human community. We strive to make a documentary that will create a very specific kind of hope. A hope that doesn't have to work against the odds, but rather one that suggests that in the end the odds are in our favor. A hope that people all around the world can be good and kind, and generous.
What does it take to lend a hand? What obstacles stand in our way? Can we be good people? What can we do to help each other flourish?
We wish to foster the power of the individual as the greatest resource for generating change in the world, starting with a simple act of kindness.
This film can't be made without you! Your support will help us finish the film and allow us to pay our editors, sound designers, graphic designer, and more. It will help get a story of hope out there – maybe even allow us to start a movement around acts of kindness.
In addition to producing a DVD of the film, we are hoping to play the festival circuit, have a limited theatrical release, and broadcast the documentary to as many people as possible, all around the world. Our message of kindness translates into any language. But the documentary market is tougher than ever, so we can 't do it without your help!
If you are able to contribute financially, we have amazing incentives to the right, many of which are gifts from the amazing people that hosted us. If you can spread the word about our Kickstarter campaign to your friends, on Facebook, or to strangers on the street doing good deeds – we would be eternally grateful! Your time and energy are just as helpful as a financial contribution. We only have 60 days to make and hopefully surpass our goal!
Here's a breakdown of how we plan to use the funds:
• Paying our head editor, Danny Ledonne, to help us complete the film. Editing takes time, especially when you have almost 100 hours of footage from a two month documentary journey.
• Licensing music and scoring the film. We are excited about our collaboration with Michigan based band Breathe Owl Breathe (www.breatheowlbreathe.com).
• Map animation and graphics of our route and the five Bears.
• Sound design and mix
• Color correction, motion graphics.
• Hard drives and media management
• Outreach and marketing – we like our kindness-to-strangers ideology and we know you will too!
• Insurance and legal costs – gotta keep it safe.
This is just one piece of our fundraising endeavor, we are hoping to raise much more in the upcoming months. The more money we can gather through this campaign, the more money we can put into the film to make an amazing product and a moving documentary. So please send this with anyone you know who has a dollar to a spare or a minute to share and don't stop just because we're nearing our goal – we'd love to double, or even triple, our goal!
Kickstarter is a way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors. It's powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands. In other words, if we don't raise our goal of $9,000 we lose everything. Once we have reached (and hopefully surpassed!) our goal, we will contact you to get your address and then we will start working on getting those incentives to you.
Just click the green "Back This Project" button in the upper right-hand corner. You will be asked to input your pledge amount and select a reward. From there, you will go through the Amazon checkout process. You must finish the Amazon checkout process for your pledge to be recorded.
If funding fails, all pledges are cancelled and that's that. Your card is not charged, it's like nothing ever happened. We, on the other hand will have to find another way to fund our film.
Yes, and we hope to! Every additional dollar that we raise will go into making American Bear an even better film.
Of course! Why not get them a dinosaur bone or a signed DVD? Just let us know the name you would like to donate under. We will contact you once funding is complete to gather information so that we can get your incentives to the address you choose.
Yes. Kickstarter only takes funds through credit cards, but we have an alternative system in place to accept checks. The same incentives will apply. Please email us at email@example.com if you would like to send a check and we'll give you the information.
Yes. We chose Kickstarter because it's international, and we know there are kind strangers all over the world. Just click on the Amazon Payment Button and you will see that you can pay with a credit card from any country! But you must finish the Amazon checkout process for your pledge to be recorded. If you have any problems just contact us at americanbearfilm.com or email@example.com.
Yes! Once you donate to our campaign, you may want to change your incentive reward to a different one, or increase your pledge amount. To do so, go to Kickstarter and sign in. If you go to our campaign page, the green "Back This Project" button has been replaced with a blue "Manage Your Donation" button. Click it and you can enter a new amount, or choose a new incentive.
Still to be determined. Movies can take quite a while to make, and when the DVD can be released depends a lot on the festival circuit and distribution. Rest assured you will be the FIRST group to receive the DVD when it is available and we will keep you updated regularly on the release. The most likely window is between Summer 2012 and Spring 2013.
If you are interested in making a donation of $5,000 or more to become a producer of the film, there is a possibility for a tax deduction through our 501(c)(3) partner. The same incentives will still apply. Please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com to inquire further.
Credits available for $5,000 or more are:
• $5,000 – Associate Producer credit – 3 available
• $10,000 – Executive Producer credit – 2 available
If you are interested in speaking to someone about becoming an investor in the film rather than donating, that is also an option. Credits are the same as with tax deductible donations.
Want to see the trailer without all the shots of us pitching the film? Or the travelogue of our entire journey? Or read other people's experiences with kindness? Visit our website at americanbearfilm.com.
Please feel free to email us with any questions!
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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American Bear Cub! --- Spread the word about the documentary and our fundraising efforts. We love the idea of strangers helping fund a project about kindness from strangers. Take screenshots of your facebook efforts, (b)cc us on emails, tag us in posts or tweets and let us know at email@example.com. You will be credited as an American Bear Cub in the credits of the film!
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Your name in the Digital Donors section of our credits and an American Bear Logo sticker! (applies to all donations except those that list different credit incentives) If you want two credits or a snazzier title share this link with friends and become an American Bear Cub!
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American Bear Logo sticker (the bear driving an imaginary car) and a heartfelt and neatly scrawled American Bear Thank You card with illustration by Katrina Kopeloff (http://katrinakopeloff.com/americanbear_card.html).
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Sticker, Thank You card, and a copy of Sarah and Greg's unofficial Road Trip Mix dedicated to a stage of our journey (choose from: It Begins, The First Bear, Miles of Desert, Greg Cuts His Beard and After the Crash).
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Sticker, Thank You card, Road Trip Mix and a signed DVD copy of the film once it's completed.
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Sticker, Thank You card, a DVD copy of the film, PLUS an album of your choice purchased from band Breathe Owl Breathe (www.breatheowlbreathe.com) whose music will be used in the documentary.
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Sticker, Thank You card, DVD copy of the film, PLUS one of the few remaining teddy bears which we left with our hosts on our journey.
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Sticker, Thank You card, DVD copy of the film PLUS Sarah will hand draw you a personalized map of the American Bear route complete with notes on adventures, and Greg will print you two glossy prints from our photo archives (as large as 8''-12'' as small as 3''-4.5''). (10 available)
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Sticker, Thank You card, DVD copy of the film, PLUS a hand printed card from Chris and Michelle at Minka (http://www.minkahome.com/collections/stationery) who hosted us on our test shoot, a glossy photo print of your choice, and we'll send you postcards from every state on our next road trip... wherever that may lead!
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Sticker, Thank You card, DVD copy of the film, PLUS a pie baked and mailed from Yumis bakery in Iowa -- the place where Sarah had her favorite pie in the WHOLE country from the owners who helped us find a home for the night. (5 available)
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All the stickers you want, Thank You card, DVD copy of the film, PLUS a Pay It Forward Party hosted in your name. (ie the Betsy Jensen Helps Pay It Forward Party) and host Wade from Idaho will carve you a whistle from a branch similar to the one he carved for us to bid us farewell. (4 available)
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All the stickers you want, Thank You card, DVD copy of the film, PLUS a real dinosaur bone from the backyard of host Guy in South Dakota. AND If you are in driving distance, a screening of the film in your home with Directors Sarah and Greg. (4 available)
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All the stickers you want, Thank You card, DVD copy of the film, PLUS a Producer Credit on the film. Also comes with a free reiki session from host Joe in New York who took care of us on the first night of our journey. AND we'll host YOU in our Syracuse apartment, complete with dinner, stories, and just about whatever you want before your drive to visit Joe (www.dreamweaverenergyworks.com).
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UPDATED 5:55 PM CST Feb 10, 2014Video TranscriptThe Court Avenue District downtown is about to get another facelift! Five different developers have submitted major proposals for a vacant one block area just east of the Courthouse. KCCI's Cynthia Fodor is live there now with more.. We are on Court Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets...where this parking lot will soon be transformed into a grocery store, a movie theatre or more apartments! Roger Ferris loves living south of court on 4th. But his view is about to change. "38;24 I THINK EVERYONE WHO MOVED IN THIS BUILDING WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE STREET" Ferris is now looking over 5 proposals for this parking lot. Downtown residents hoped for a food market...and one plan calls for Knapp Properties and Hy-Vee to build a 35 thousand square foot grocery store larger than this Drug Town on University...with walls that open to the Farmer's Market. " 32;20 PEOPLE SEE IT AS A EUROPEAN FEEL WITH AN OPEN AIR FEEL..WE SEE THE CONNECTION WITH PEDESTRIANS IN THE PRODUCE DEPARTMENT AND THE BAKERY. " "37;00 RESIDENTS WANT FOOD SOURCE, WHETHER THAT'S A BIG BOX STORE LIKE HYVEE OR SOMETHING MORE TAILORED TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD" A 2nd plan by Sherman and Associates offers a smaller indoor market in a 5 story apartment complex. Hubbell Realty also proposed apartments with retail shops. "22;33 WE CALL IT COURT AVE STATION..WE DESIGNED TWO APARTMENT BUILDINGS AROUND A COURTYARD WHICH STILL PAYS RESPECT TO THE DEPOT BUILDING." The courtyard would have a large wall for movies or light shows. "22;50 A LITTLE BIT OF TAKE OFF OF POWER AND LIGHT DISTRICT IN KANAS CITY." The 4th plan provides entertainment only. Mendelbaum Properties propose a 12 screen movie theatre, a jazz club and bowling alley. Finally the Opus Group would build apartments rich with amenties and retail space. Whatever the city decides on... "45;34 I THINK IT'S ANOTHER HOMERUN PROJECT FOR DOWNTOWN ..." The assistant city manager tells me this is on the fast track...and he hopes city council will vote on one of these projects two weeks from tonight so they can start moving forward. Kevin.
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I keep seeing my running percentage of plays increasing more and more as I play this game. I am enjoying running in this game and feel that it really helps keep your opponent off balance. If you run say half of your plays, how and why would your opponent FAG D you? He's got to set himself to stop the run not the pass. Also, if you run you are not getting sacked and more likely not to have the 3rd and long or 4th and long situations. You have to have some very effective 3rd and 4 or so passes that will get you 1st downs, but those are high percentage plays that if you miss them on 3rd down you will get another chance on 4th down. After totally screwing with you opponents mind running Rt, Lt and middle, coming out in a running formation on 1st down and passing is way too much fun. Watching your opponent follow a motioning FB or TE for a PA play is way fun to then chunk pass him down field.
You always have your auldibles in case they commit to stopping your run. I use the Steeler PB. It's not complex, only have I Pro - Stretch run as my only auldible run pick, this gives me the outside run that can be cut off tackle and the stock auldible of Iso for the middle run. Often I will come out in Ace Pair Flex - HB belly that is so adaptable to run middle, rt or left. such a head game run that Mr Smith explained in detail in other posts. The counter out of a passing formation SB Y Trips can be very effective especially since that formation is a good passing formation a run is not normally expected. the stock auldible for SB Y Trips is a middle run and there you go with a wide run and a middle run. Have a pass auldible pick or two from the SB Y Trips and you have a scheme. I Pro, Ace Pair Flex, SB Y Triips make a good base scheme with great passes and runs. Mix a few other mini schemes from the playbook and your opponent is off balance.
I love to run until my opponent shows me he is a good run stopper. You guys find yourself running more or passing more as the game year goes????


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Conceptus, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTS), developer of the Essure® procedure, the first proven non-incisional permanent birth control method available, today announced that the Company will release 2010 first quarter financial results on April 20, 2010 after the close of market. Management will host an investment community conference call beginning at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on April 20 th to discuss the results and to answer questions.
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I wanted it to be the wind;
To be free, flowing; the smell of a rainstorm, nipping at my heels
And we would run from it,
hand in hand, smiling,
To be a kite, uncatchable, but you
Had my strings all along;
I wanted it to be the wind;
And it would brush up against my sides
Filling my shirt,
A hot-air balloon of smiles,
Make-believe, candy, movies on the couch
hot chocolate and too much whipped cream, rain-covered windowpanes; The condensation, drawn on by
pink fingers in the soft light
I wanted it to be the wind,
The cool air on our flushed faces
Warm scarves and shared gloves;
Tangled, knotty hair and
Smoky dragon breath in the morning light
Pale faces, pale sky
I wanted it to be the wind
But all I got was rain.
Today, I sat on the bus next to a stranger in the back of the bus. His clothes were baggy, his face lax and unexpressive. His eyes were harsh, and he smelled strongly of pot. I wondered how long it had been since he used. His legs, crossed protectively (As were his arms) took up most of the room. I shrugged myself as far away as possible.
Next to me was a girl who reminded me of my sister, a bit overweight with many freckles and a bus-shaking laugh. Her nose was pierced, her swears many and loud. A question, asked; "Did you even go to school today?" and I smirked to myself. Who would skip school? It seems, growing in the back of the bus like a mold nobody wants to see, was a strange crowd I had never been with before. It was scary, and exciting all at once. So different, I see, they are compared to me. Opposites.
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HIGH RIDGE, Mo. (KMOV.com) – A Jefferson County man has been charged with multiple felonies after police say he broke into a couple's home, assaulted them, kidnapped a woman and then ran from police Monday morning.
Derrick Stewart, 34, was charged with two counts of robbery, five counts of armed criminal action, two counts of kidnapping and one count of assault on a law enforcement officer. He is being held without bond in Jefferson County.
Authorities say the incident started when Stewart stormed into a home on Wild Valley Road, just off Antire Road, and assaulted a man and woman inside. During the assault, Stewart reportedly pistol whipped the man and tied him up. Police say Stewart then held the woman at gunpoint and made her drive to a jewelry store on Gravois Road that the victims own.
While the suspect and the kidnapped victim were en route to the store, the male victim called 911 to report what had happened.
Officers responded to the couple's store because they believed Stewart and the female victim were headed to that location.
Authorities said officers spotted the vehicle as it neared the store. According to reports, Stewart was making the woman drive the car at gunpoint. Officials say he told her to keep driving when he saw police posted at the store. Officers pursued the vehicle, and called in a police helicopter to aid in the chase.
As the pursuit neared the intersection of Williams Creek and Hillsboro Valley Park roads in Jefferson County, officers deployed a spike strip that disabled the vehicle.
When the vehicle came to a stop, Stewart reportedly exited the vehicle and fired shots at police. Police returned fire. Neither the suspect nor police officers were struck.
Police continued to pursue the suspect on foot. As the officers neared the suspect, they shot him with a Taser, then tackled him. Stewart was arrested at the scene.
Both victims were taken to an area hospital, but have since been released.


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Northwestern University Law Review : Colloquy : 2007 : TillmanSenate Termination of Presidential Recess Appointments[Editor's Note: The following piece is the first in a four-part dialogue between Tillman and Kalt. Kalt's first response can be found here, Tillman's reply can be found here, and Kalt's final rejoinder can be found here.] To a fair-minded person assessing the broad ramparts of American constitutional scholarship, it is striking how little attention legal scholars and public intellectuals pay to the text of the United States Constitution. The document is a mystery to many of them. Mostly they concern themselves with prior judicial decisions. If a clause is not litigated, it is, as Judge Posner put it, off their "radar screen."[1] Even where a particular constitutional provision is the subject of litigation, the judicial opinions almost invariably lead to scholarship assessing the propriety of the decision, as opposed to still-open aspects of the clause's meaning. Thus the history of our legal scholarship leads to an ever narrowing legal imagination, with the rhetoric of debate escalating over constantly declining intellectual stakes. But as citizens and lawyers interested in policy reform, including the institutional reform of our governing bodies, we should not limit ourselves to these narrow disputes. The whole of the Constitution is within our grasp, if we would but seize it. And, even today, the Constitution remains chock-full of unused (and therefore judicially untested and unapproved) powers whose potential might be used, or, at least, explored.[2] One such power is the power of a Senate majority[3] to terminate a presidential recess appointment. The Recess Appointments Clause, Article II, Section 2, Clause 3, states:
The termination of the Senate's (post-recess) session should terminate the appointment—along with any other recess appointments made by the President over the course of the recess. The Senate could not pick and choose which individual appointees would "survive" termination—it would have to choose between terminating all the recess appointments or none of them. And where the Senate objects to intrasession appointments as a matter of constitutional principle, then the Senate should not be permitted, as a normative matter, to pick and choose which appointments survive termination and which do not. On the other hand, where only one appointment was made during the recess, the Senate would have no need to pick and choose. There are a few potential problems with the proposed stratagem. First, it is new. Thus, although it seems consistent with the Constitution's text, it does not (yet) have judicial approval. But then again, Marbury v. Madison[10] occupies more than forty pages in the official reporter, and Marbury only has a lone citation to a prior (foreign) judicial decision, and for an obscure point, not central to its celebrated holding relating to judicial review.[11] My point is only that sometimes, when the text is reasonably clear, simple textual interpretation, even absent supporting precedent, is a legitimate method of constitutional interpretation. Second, it could be argued that the word "Session" in the Recess Appointments Clause refers not to whatever the Senate chooses to designate as a Session, but rather to a year-long period in which the Senate sits, regardless of adjournments, recesses, or other breaks. If this were true, then the Senate could not decide that a "Session" was over solely by taking a vote. However, although the term session is associated in the popular mind with annual terms, it is simply not hardwired into the Constitution.[12] Nowhere does the Constitution prescribe or even assume fixed annual sessions, although the Constitution commands that the Congress should meet at least once annually.[13] Thus, the Senate is free to depart from the expectation of distinct annual sessions. Historically, some years have had multiple sessions[14] and arguably a session can last multiple years[15]—at least up to two years for reasons of comity with the House's election cycle. In other words, there is no such thing as a "full year's session" unless the Senate stays in session a full year. Third, it is not clear that the Senate, acting alone, can terminate its session and then instantly reconvene, at least absent concurrence from the House. As a textual matter it appears that the decision is one for the Senate alone to make.[16] There are some good reasons to believe that where, as here, the adjournment is for less than three days, each house controls its sessional agenda[17] and its journal[18] independent of the other house. Moreover, one recent commentator on legislative procedure has taken the position that the Constitution embodies cameral autonomy as a structural norm.[19] There are also historical[20] and textual arguments for believing the President simply plays no role (or next to no role[21]) in decision-making involving the Senate's decision to recess and to reconvene. For example, the Orders, Resolutions, and Votes ("ORV") Clause provides:
One might believe that this policy reform weakens the hand of the President vis-à-vis the Senate. It would certainly temper and moderate their choices, and whether or not that is a good thing will depend largely on who is elected to the Senate and who is elected to the presidency. But the more important effect of this policy will be to make the Senate responsible to the electorate. The Senate would no longer be able to shift responsibility for appointments onto the President merely by going into recess. Similarly, the Senate could not escape responsibility to the public by saying the President's appointment is final until the Senate's next fixed or scheduled session ends. The Senate would no longer be able to play a role by mere inaction—as they have too often done in the advice and consent process. Rather, to turn out the President's nominee, the Senate will have to affirmatively vote[26] to terminate their session upon reassembling at the end of the recess.[27] If they refuse to exercise this power, they could be held accountable by the voters. Thus, the Senate has the constitutional power to terminate presidential recess appointments by a majority vote, although perhaps the consent of the House of Representatives is also needed, at least in some cases. The suggested procedural innovation might have a beneficial policy result: increasing the Senate's responsibility to the electorate. I admit that this latter prediction on my part is just a prediction, and that such policy considerations certainly do not control the original public meaning of the Constitution's text. But perhaps this sort of argument offers some comfort to those afraid of institutional change. In other words, the winner here is not the Senate or the President, but it may be us. ———— * Mr. Tillman is an associate of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, and is a member of the Delaware bar. The views expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the firm or its clients. I thank Professor Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, Richard Albert, Stephen E. Sachs, the Federal Judicial Center's History Office, and the U.S. Senate Historical Office. 1. Richard A. Posner, Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts 205 (2001) ("[A] constitutional problem, however serious, that does not leave its traces in the pages of the United States Reports is unlikely to appear on the academic radar screen."). 2. See, e.g., U.S. Const. art. V (permitting the States to call a national convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution, a power never utilized to this day) (link). 3. In this brief article I do not address the interplay between the proposed procedural reform and the Senate filibuster rule which requires a supermajority to terminate debate. See Senate Rule XXII (2007), available at http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule22.php (link). 4. See William Ty Mayton, Recess Appointments and an Independent Judiciary, 20 Const. Comment. 515, 542, 552-53 (2004) (generally arguing that the power of the President to make a temporary judicial recess appointment should give way to the right of litigants to be free from appointments subject to domination by the political branches) (link). 5. See Michael B. Rappaport, The Original Meaning of the Recess Appointments Clause, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 1487, 1538-40 (2005) (doubting the constitutionality of the practice) (link). 6. See Letter from Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry (May 3, 1799), in 23 The Papers of Alexander Hamilton 94 (Harold C. Syrett ed., 1976) (noting that "[v]acancy is a relative term, and presupposes that the Office has been once filled") (emphasis omitted). 7. See Gaillard Hunt, The History of the Department of State, 5 Am. J. of Int'l L. 414, 424-25 (1911) (reprinting President George Washington's commission of Supreme Court Justice Thomas Johnson, which stated that the recess appointment lasted "during his good behaviour, and until the end of the next session of the Senate of the United States, and no longer"); fax from Federal Judicial Center to Seth Barrett Tillman (Jan. 3, 2007) (reproducing President George W. Bush's commission of Judge William H. Pryor Jr., which stated that the recess appointment lasted "until the end of the next session of the Senate of the United States and no longer; subject to the provisions of law") (on-file with Colloquy) (link). 8. This strategy will only work for an intersession recess appointment. An intrasession recess appointment, i.e., an appointment made during an adjournment within a given session, lasts the remainder of that session and additionally for the life of the next session. Thus, if the President has made an intrasession recess appointment, then the Senate will have to convene and terminate two "sessions" back-to-back in order to terminate the President's intrasession appointment. 9. See Edward A. Hartnett, Recess Appointments of Article III Judges: Three Constitutional Questions, 26 Cardozo L. Rev. 377, 416-18 (2005) (link) (describing President Roosevelt's contested appointment); see also Michael A. Carrier, Note, When is the Senate in Recess for Purposes of the Recess Appointments Clause?, 92 Mich. L. Rev. 2204, 2228, 2247 (1994) (arguing that presidential authority extends to intersession recesses, not to "fictional" or "constructive" recesses between back-to-back meetings of the Senate). 10. Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803) (link). 11. Id. at 168-69 (quoting Rex v. Barker, 3 Burr. 1265, 1266 (1762), although erroneously giving the case name as "Baker"). 12. See Rappaport, supra note 5, at 1565 (acknowledging that Congress could have multiple sessions in a calendar year); but see Carrier, supra note 9, at 2218, 2223 (arguing that the founders "anticipated" one session and one intersession recess each year). Carrier does not argue that the expectation was embodied in the text. 13. U.S. Const. art. I, § 4, cl. 2 (link). 14. See infra note 20. 15. Indeed, given the modern practice of carrying over sessional business between sessions within a given two-year Congress, arguably there is only one session (in the constitutional sense) every two years. See Senate Rule XVIII (2007), available at http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule18.php (link); Cong. Globe , 30th Cong., 1st Sess. 1085 (Aug. 14, 1848) (link) (passing the progenitor of current Senate Rule XVIII that was proposed by Senator Webster); Thomas Jefferson, A Manual of Parliamentary Practice § 51 (2d ed. 1818) (explaining that all matters "before Parliament were discontinued by the determination of the session"). 16. See U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 3 (link) (permitting recess appointments during the "Recess of the Senate," not the "recess of the Congress"); but see id. at art. I, § 5, cl. 4 (link) (referring to the "Session of Congress"). 17. See U.S. Const. art. I, § 5, cl. 4 (link) ("Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days . . . .") (emphasis added). 18. See U.S. Const. art. I, § 5, cl. 3 (link) ("Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings . . . .") (emphasis added). 19. See Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, If the Judicial Confirmation Process is Broken, Can a Statute Fix It?, 85 Neb. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007) (link). 20. For example, the First Congress over the course of its two years had three regular sessions, exclusive of any sessions called by the President and of any Senate executive sessions. All the relevant decisions, i.e., when to adjourn and when to reconvene, were made by concurrent resolutions, absent presidential participation, impliedly establishing that the number of sessions is within Congress' exclusive control. See, e.g., 1 Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States 130 (Washington, Gales & Seaton 1826) (Sept. 29, 1789) (link) (adjourning first session to a day certain opening second session); id. at 298 (Aug. 12, 1790) (link) (adjourning second session to day certain opening third session). Although this goes some way to establish that the President plays no role, it does not establish that the two houses must act in concert. Bicameral action may have been taken for reasons of comity or only because each recess was for more than three days. See supra note 17. 21. See U.S. Const. art. I, § 4, cl. 2 (link) (making first Monday in December the default date for the annual meeting of Congress unless changed by statute), amended by id. at amend. XX (link) (changing date to January 3). The fact that Congress must meet on January 3 every year does not mandate, at least as a textual matter, Congress taking a recess prior to that date or starting a new session on that date. 22. U.S. Const. art. I, § 7, cl. 3 (link) (emphasis added). 23. See, e.g., S. Rep. No. 54-1335, at 1-2, 8 (1897) (link) (taking the position that the subject matter of the ORV Clause is bicameral resolutions); see also Rappaport, supra note 5, at 1558-59 (taking the position that the ORV Clause's parenthetical is tied to Article I, Section 5, Clause 4, and thus both refer to bicameral adjournment resolutions); but see Seth Barrett Tillman, A Textualist Defense of Article I, Section 7, Clause 3: Why Hollingsworth v. Virginia Was Rightly Decided, and Why INS v. Chadha Was Wrongly Reasoned, 83 Tex. L. Rev. 1265, 1347-49 (2005) (link) (urging a contrary view, albeit one that, like the traditional view, supports the position taken in the text of this article). 24. See supra note 20; cf. Rappaport, supra note 5, at 1569 ("Congress can choose to have recesses during a session of whatever length it determines. Moreover, Congress can end a session at its discretion . . . ."). 25. Mayton, supra note 4, at 516; see also Evans v. Stephens, 387 F.3d 1220, 1224 & n.5 (11th Cir. 2004) (link). 26. As in baseball, where ties go to the runner, Senate ties (absent unlikely vice-presidential intervention) will leave the President's appointee in place. 27. Of course, an incumbent majority could automate this process by rule, so that after returning from each and every recess, the Senate automatically terminates its session and instantly reassembles. ———— Copyright 2007 Northwestern University Cite As: 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 82 (2007), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/2007/2/ Persistent URL: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/2007/2/ (Comments) |


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Radisson Blu Hotel Shanghai New World
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- Location:People Square,The Bund,Yuyuan Garden
- Address:No.88 Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China
- Tel:021-63599999 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese:上海新世界丽笙大酒店
- Lowest Price: $184
The Radisson Shanghai New World Hotel is an icon in Shanghai's skyline, known for its 208-meter tower topped by a revolving restaurant and bar. Located between People's Park and the Nanjing Road shopping mall, this hotel promises luxury amenities and prime setting in Shanghai.
This hotel offers superior rooms or family suite lounges, though all come equipped with free wireless access, mini-bars, 24 -hour room service, satellite television, two phone lines, and an office area with movable desk. The suites feature separate dining and living areas and all rooms have magnificent views of downtown Shanghai.
There are four restaurants including the one which revolves at the top of the building, a bar featuring live entertainment nightly, 24-hour Western food options, and lobby lounge. There is also an outdoor pool, squash courts, fitness room, sauna, whirlpool jacuzzi, and full-service spa for guests' relaxation.
- Payment Method: pay using our secure online payment service or pay at the hotel at some hotels.
- Triple/quad occupancy may require an extra bed at extra cost $59.
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Hotel Services | Luggage service, Car rentals, Laundry service, Room service, Express check-in/check-out, Medical clinic service, Currency Exchange, Wake Up Call, Parking Service, 24hr Reception, Permanent English-speaking staff, Business Centre, Copy Service, E-mail, Fax Service |
Room Amenities | Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Color Television, Coffee/tea maker, Telephone, Hair dryer, In-room safe, Electronic Lock, Mini Bar, Bath and Shower, Non-smoking rooms available, , Free for Internet |
Hotel Amenities: Elevator, Parking, Business Floor or Executive Floor, Air-Conditioned Facilities, Indoor Swimming Pool, Beauty Salon, Sauna, Business Center, Gift Shop, Gymnasium , Billiards, Meeting Room, Ballroom, Deposit Box at Front Desk, Fire Detector, Squash room, Wifi
Dining Facilities: Chinese Restaurant, Western Restaurant, Cafe, Bar, Lounge Bar
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Guest,Apr.23, 2013
This hotel is right in the middle of the shopping and eating action, the train station is right across the road. Everything is pretty close to get to. The bund view is down the road, approx a 3 block walk. The room and bed are very comfortable. View from room is great as the People square and french concession area looks beautiful from atop. The reception staff are well trained with good proficiency in english. Checking in is very efficient and fast and friendly. Assistance are offered without having to ask and there is a proactive attitude of the staff. Room service is excellent with the fruits always replenish everyday and chocholates strategically placed on the bed every day.Good quality chocs. Breakfast was plentiful with so many different choices it was hard to know what to have.
Guest,Apr.01, 2013
This Radisson is in a great location for downtown Shanghai. Nanjing rd with all it's shops and huge shopping centres is right in front of you. It is only a 15 minute walk to the bund to see the famous Shanghai skyline. There are many, many expensive designer shops. People's square is also very accessible from the hotel. There is a shopping centre attached to the hotel but it was generally all top designer, expensive brand shops. Had a deluxe room this time. Room was spacious, with a good view of Shanghai city skyline. Very clean and bed was extremely comfortable. Service great. Check-in was hassle-free, and the concierge is very helpful with luggage storing and hailing a cab for us during peak hour to get us to the airport. The swimming pool is very big and kept in pristine condition.
Guest,Apr.01, 2013
The location couldn't be better - across from People's Square and the metro, a nice walk over to Xintiandi, and right by the main shopping street. Taxis are plenty and cheap. Rooms nice, clean and comfortable. Rooms were quite spacious and the batchroom itself was huge as well. The mattress was just perfect, very comfortable (may be the best mattress we had so far). Breakfast was plentiful with so many different choices it was hard to know what to have. Here again the price was quite expensive although if you eat as much as we did you can get your money's worth and skip lunch! Will definitely go back there and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone because of its location. The price we paid for the room alone was definitely good value and you don't have to eat and drink there as there are plenty of other options nearby.
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Tulisa Contostavlos has been enjoying some quality time with friends since she reportedly split with N-Dubz bandmate Fazer.
The star has been spotted hitting the town, showing off her tan from her recent trip to the Maldives, but last night she appeared to have taken her tan top-up too far, leaving her a little red in the face – literally.
The gorgeous X Factor judge was more than happy to flash a winning smile for the cameras as she enjoyed a night out at the Sketch club in London, but it was her flushed cheeks that captured the attention of the paps.
On January 21, she Tweeted that her PA Gareth Varey was "hating cus I've maintained my tan from the maldives...he's pouring on the st.tropez as we speak LMFAO [sic]"
Who's laughing now Tulisa?
While the singer appears to be living it up as a single lady, Fazer has also been out and about, partying with Topshop heiress and Made in Chelsea star Chloe Green.
According to reports, Tulisa is a not a fan of Ms Green and Fazer's choice of party pal could jeopardise any chance he had of winning her back.
An insider told the Daily Record: "Chloe and Fazer are just pals but it's unfortunate timing for them to be together given the history between Chloe and Tulisa.
"Knowing those two, they'll be back together again in a few days. They often have their ups and downs. But if Fazer wants to win her back, he might want to stop socialising with Chloe."


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EUGENE, Ore. — They're all over downtown Eugene–the signs of development. There's First on Broadway, which is set to open in a few months. Or the Lane Community College building that finally filled "the pit." At 55 West Broadway, development first means destruction.
"There were about four more walls up than there are now," said Tiffany Norton, Party Cart Co-Owner.
Crews tore apart the interior of the building to bring two businesses together: Red Wagon Creamery and Party Downtown.
"We've finally outgrown our spaces in the parking lots," said Stuart Phillips, Red Wagon Creamery Co-Owner.
One end of the building, the side that faces Broadway, will host Red Wagon Creamery. The organic, locally sourced ice cream maker will finally get its own churning room.
"For two years, we go outside and sell ice cream during the day, then go in the middle of the night to make it for the next day. Now we'll be able to actually make it during the day and then sleep like normal people at night," Phillips said.
The other end, opening onto a parking lot at 8th and Olive, is where the party will be–Party Downtown, that is. It's the restaurant version of Party Cart, the popular food cart at 28th Avenue and Friendly Street.
"We're still going to do as close to 100 percent local, including cocktails, wine and beer," Norton said. "We're really looking forward to having more equipment and space for more than one person to cook at a time."
The new space, with its kitchen and seating area, will let party owners Mark Komicki and Norton experiment more.
"We're taking a little more freedom to be creative," Norton said.
Creative is what you might call this partnership in an industry that's typically fiercely competitive.
"Having two restaurants in one space, sharing a kitchen and sharing some of the other areas, it took some thinking," Phillips said. "But it's been fun to work with Mark and Tiffany and just have our friendship with them grow as our businesses have grown together."
"They're our good friends, so it's fun to work with them," Norton said.
The friends share a vision of using their locally grown fare to keep business growing locally.
"It was personally important to me to put our flagship store downtown because we need to stake our claim and say, 'This part of Eugene is going to thrive, and we're going to help it,'" Phillips said.
Party Downtown will also have a full bar with local beer, wine and spirits. The co-restaurants hope to open in the late spring.


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Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is lipid messenger involved in the regulation of embryonic development, immune system functions, and many other physiological processes. However, the mechanisms of S1P transport across cellular membranes remain poorly understood, with several ATP-binding cassette family members and the spinster 2 (Spns2) member of the major facilitator superfamily known to mediate S1P transport in cell culture. Spns2 was also shown to control S1P activities in zebrafish in vivo and to play a critical role in zebrafish cardiovascular development. However, the in vivo roles of Spns2 in mammals and its involvement in the different S1P-dependent physiological processes have not been investigated. In this study, we characterized Spns2-null mouse line carrying the Spns2(tm1a(KOMP)Wtsi) allele (Spns2(tm1a)). The Spns2(tm1a/tm1a) animals were viable, indicating a divergence in Spns2 function from its zebrafish ortholog. However, the immunological phenotype of the Spns2(tm1a/tm1a) mice closely mimicked the phenotypes of partial S1P deficiency and impaired S1P-dependent lymphocyte trafficking, with a depletion of lymphocytes in circulation, an increase in mature single-positive T cells in the thymus, and a selective reduction in mature B cells in the spleen and bone marrow. Spns2 activity in the nonhematopoietic cells was critical for normal lymphocyte development and localization. Overall, Spns2(tm1a/tm1a) resulted in impaired humoral immune responses to immunization. This study thus demonstrated a physiological role for Spns2 in mammalian immune system functions but not in cardiovascular development. Other components of the S1P signaling network are investigated as drug targets for immunosuppressive therapy, but the selective action of Spns2 may present an advantage in this regard.
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Man Utd defender Rio Ferdinand refuses to dwell on Cristiano Ronaldo and Rome
How United will react to Ronaldo's £80 million departure to Real Madrid and the Champions League final defeat against Barcelona in Rome is not as yet known. A handful of warm-up games against hand-picked opponents on the club's Far East tour are no gauge to assessing United's prospects this season. Ferdinand is confident, however, that the future remains as bright as the recent past at Old Trafford. At 30, the England defender has experienced enough peaks and troughs to read the signs and he has no doubts about United's ability to move on from Ronaldo and Rome. "At first, I thought last season was a bad one," Ferdinand admits. "But as time goes on, and days and weeks go past, you judge it with a clear head and realise it was a successful season. "We won three trophies, and a major one in the league, and reached a second successive Champions League final. "But when you travel around in the summer, you are never too far from a news stand and I would normally buy sports magazines, but this time I didn't. "I was toing and froing about whether I could have done this or that, but it is time to put it to bed. I'm over it now, looking ahead to a new season." Ronaldo's exit leaves a huge hole. Sir Alex Ferguson admitted as much by describing the Portuguese as the world's best player by "absolutely miles" earlier this week. But while acknowledging Ronaldo's value to the team, Ferdinand insists that his departure can allow United to evolve into a new force. He said: "We will be a lot more compact as a team with Cristiano gone, more compact in midfield and harder to break down. "One thing I'm sure of is that Ronaldo going will bring the best out in our players. "We know he scored a lot of goals in the last two seasons for us, but we have players who are capable of doing that and I'm sure they can go out there, do that job and fill the gap. "The longevity and time we have had together as a team, learning each other's games and personalities is a big weapon, and one we have to use. We have the mentality of winners. "Other people are going to have to take responsibility because there are goals that have gone out of our team that need to be made up. "I don't think any of the lads are bitter or should be bitter towards Ronny. He came here as a young lad and gave six years of his career to this club. "So bearing in mind that careers average out at between 10-12 years, he's given half his career to one club, this club, and I think you have to respect that. "You can't put a shadow over someone's dream. Since he was a kid, he wanted to play for Real Madrid. "Playing for Manchester United is the holy grail for some people and it is those people who probably don't understand why he wants to go somewhere else that equals the holy grail." Michael Owen, a free-transfer arrival from Newcastle, will be expected to contribute towards replacing the goals scored by Ronaldo. Despite admitting to being "surprised" by Ferguson's move for the England forward, Ferdinand now insists he is "very confident we have signed the right type of player". But while United have cashed the biggest cheque in this summer's transfer market following the sale of Ronaldo, the big money has been spent across town at Manchester City. Even Ferdinand's defensive partner with England, Chelsea captain John Terry, has been on City's radar. Ferdinand said: "Everyone has to make their own decisions in life and JT is his own man. "But if I left United, I wouldn't go to a team that I didn't feel was capable of winning trophies. "I wouldn't join a club who I didn't think would to finish in the top two or three in the Premier League, vying for the Champions League. "In some ways, it's exciting for football that someone outside of the usual top four has money to spend and might be a threat to those teams. But if I'm honest, I'm not really that bothered about Manchester City. "I'm more interested in what we're doing. All my summer has been spent thinking about who we're going to sign, how we're going to start the season, how pre-season is going to go and so on."
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