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As usual – talk about whatever you like as long as it's related to movies, TV or Screen Rant itself – just remember to play nice.
Open Discussion – August 7, 2013
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As usual – talk about whatever you like as long as it's related to movies, TV or Screen Rant itself – just remember to play nice.
Happy Hump Day, Scranters! How has everyone's week gone so far?!
Busy, very busy. How's yours LC?
@Tony — Its always busy during the day shift at my work. It's much more of a relief because I was quite bored working 3rd for the last 2 yrs.
Personally, I prefer a slower pace at work, but we're so busy the pace is a bit hectic.
What do you do LC?
Billing for an online firm.
This week has been good so far.
@Darth — Ill be honest, I don't have any complaints about this week either.
Its going good.
Going to be getting a couple of new toys today.
Then back to school shopping..YAY!
Still got another 4 years before I start the school shopping. By that time, all kids will be required to have tablets instead of notebooks, I am sure of it!
Yep, Auggie gone tablet, but we ordered one from Dell yesterday.
Today, we have to go get him fitted for his uniforms.
And then, I am taking him to the PA State Police Firing Range. NRA Has an event today telling kids about guns.
That's the stuff Im looking forward to doing with my son. On the wife's side of the family, they are all hunters and award winning shooters. Google "Gebben Miles". Hes my cousin. Amazing shooter.
Auggie is not at that age where he wants to go to the range with me and watch me shoot. I cannot say no to him, but I want him to get a basic understanding of what a gun is.
I have a couple of Training Glocks, I will teach him on as he gets older.
I've seen better days.
What's wrong?
@ King
Long story.
Women Trouble.
Here is a Joke for you.
An Irish Guy walks out of a bar.
Lol. I always like to in Batman's voice. They're the most mysterious creatures on the planet, Women. Or Women, can't live with them & they can't pee standing up.
@ Wally West
I'm sorry to hear that you've seen better days. You never know though, better days might be just around the corner.
Thanks Stark.
My week is going well. Thank you. I hope everybody else is enjoying a productive week so far.
I am not productive this week, since I work for the PA State Police Air Unit, this is my ground week.
So, I am bored out of my mind.
PA State Police Air Unit? That's cool. You have one of those careers that seems so exciting like adrenaline pumping exciting. Plus you get to help people. That's tight.
US Coast Guard was more exciting.
This, is a bit boring.
@Jeff W
Not sure if I ever said this to you, but thanks for your service.
Will we ever get an explanation of the reviews for True Blood and Dexter have stopped but ScreenRant is still doing Magic City (which has been cancelled)?
True Blood: Warlow still has something going on, why didn't he tell Sookie about her great grandpa?
Dexter: Mini-Dex is bad news.
I am only assuming that maybe Screenrant doesn't have an writer that likes the show enough to watch them?
So weird though because there were all these posts about Dexter's last season, speculation over the storyline, a review for the first episode etc etc.
I should go back and see who wrote those and hunt that person down.
Seriously! They all have twitter accounts. Just start bugging them on there!
@ Bignerd
Id like to see Screenrant review True Blood aswell. I don't think Warlow plans to tell Sookie anytime soon after what he did to him. Plus there's still Season 7 to get more into that hopfully. Season 6 imo has been much better than season 5 despite only 10 episodes. I felt bad for Eric & can't imagine what he'll do to anyone who crosses him now after seeing the previews of next Sunday's episode. Loved how he talked back to Bill,lol.
The evolution of Eric Northman is probably one of the best parts. The de-evolution of Tara is the worst.
It's funny because it's seems now like Eric is actually more noble/heroic than Bill and so emotional compared to his first season.
Tara was so awesome in the first season, now… well… I hate to say it but I wouldn't mind if she met the "true death".
Oh… and Snookie went from girl next door to emo sleep around fairy.
I think Eric & Bill switched personalities on they were from Season 1 to now Eric was more the badboy up to season 4,still is but Bill has the role reversal of what Eric was.
As for Tara. I like her more as a vampire than I did when she was human. I been waiting for to kill her abusive mother since her mother said Tara was dead to her in season 5. Loved how her & Pam hated each other but care about each other in their own ways.
I agree about Sookie nothing really changes about her till what she learned this season & what decision she might make that leads us to skeptism. Alcide was more of badboy type for a short while.
Sarah Newlin sure has taken herself up a few notches since season 2.
I was thinking the same thing. True Blood is actually enjoyable this season and how can anyone not cover the last season of Dexter. It's funny that you used mini-Dex because I thought the same thing on Sunday. The kid is a mirror of the guy and now that Dex is showing the guy the ropes I have a bad feeling it will backfire. Also with True Blood, this Warlow is interesting now that he gave Sookie an ultimatum and it appears like she is about to cave in. Also throw in the events of what happened with Eric and it's soo far been an okay season. A lot better than I expected LOL.
I also remember they did reviews for The Killing at one point and Season 3 of that show was a huge improvement from Season 1 & 2 combined. I see much hope in Robocop now.
Morning Ranters.
How is everyone?
Doing pretty good, Jeff. How are you?
I'm good, how about yourself ?
Great, how you Jeff?
Well, thanks! I had a five-hour lunch with buddies I hadn't seen in years. Lots of food and laughter.
Makes me wish we could all have a Scranters lunch together. If so, what would you order? I'm buyin'!
Me: Unlimited steamed shrimp (with Old Bay seasoning), oysters, scallops, and a baked potato with sour cream on the side.
Thanks for the lunch! I agree that it would be cool to have a Scranter annual lunch or something of the sort. The only cheat meal that I want sssssooooooooo badly would be baby back ribs from Famous Daves. I am a pretty good cook and I still can't make ribs as good as they do.
Any one think there will be a big announcmrnt at d23, I assume there will be the first footage from malificent and something about tomorrow land
Big announcement? STAR WARS 7 (the cast).
I think there will be big news about Guardians of the Galaxy. Maybe who's voicing Rocket Racoon, or Groot.
I'm looking for some Marvel news, but for sure some big Star Wars news.
@ Stark
Who do think would be best pick between Jennifer Lawarence & Chloe Mortez for Han Solo's daughter? Id pick Jennifer.
@ Wally West
I think Jennifer Lawrence would be my choice, but she's so busy with womanhood projects, I don't know how she could fit it in.
Don't ask me how "womanhood projects" got in there LOL.
It should have said " with so many projects".
I thought Womanhood Projects was her next big movie
Who's watching Elysium opening night ? I'm eager to check it out it looks awesome.
ME. Already bought tics for Thursday night.
I'm going with my brother next week cuz he's out of town. If I hadn't promised to wait to watch it with him I would be seeing it thurs night/friday sometime. So psyched!!
I am going to check it out opening night but I also have my fears based on early reviews. I hope it's all wrong but considering the same thing is being said I am reducing my hopes for this movie. So far reviews are saying this movie suffers from the same issues of Pacific Rim in which the visuals are the best they're seen this year but everything else falls short when it comes to storytelling and the overall plot
Before ScreenRant posts theirs:
1. Planes
2. Elysium
3. Percy Jackson
4. 2 Guns
5. The Wolverine
Percy is this weekend? I'm looking forward to that. I'm a fan of the first film. Corny but fun. More mature than Harry Potter.
Sea of Monsters actually opens today.
I forgot the "We're the Millers" opens this weekend too.
Comedy counter programming is strong, so maybe #4 would be We're the millers, Wolverine drops out of the top 5.
I should go after work and just tell the mother in law I am working OT haha.
I'm pulling for Elysium for the #1 spot, but I also think it will lose to Planes just like Pacific Rim lost to Despicable Me 2 and that other movie about washed up comedians in their mid-life crises.
What kind of content do you watch most on TV?
We have kids, so Netflix is number one, the new profiles they added was a great feature. And because of it, we rarely use BluRay (usually rented through RedBox).
Thought about cutting the cord, but I watch too many cable shows.
Blu ray i own about 200 of them
I don't remember the last time I bought a DVD/BluRay. For the last few years since we had kids, the only movies we bought were kid ones, Disney, animation etc. Then we lost almost 20 of them when we left them on a plane and that was the end of that.
Now they just watch Netflix and sometimes I'm so lazy, we just rent the latest movie off of OnDemand on cable. Cost about $6, but I guess I save $4.50 of my time going to RedBox.
@ Bignerd
That would tick me off losing that many movies. Heck id be ticked if I lost anything.
@ Trey
How many are old & new Blu-ray?
Majority of them are old, i usually only buy a couple of first week release blu rays each year
Netflix for the kids. Hulu will start up again soon I am sure since Fall is almost here. Amazon Prime over redbox because I am terrible at taking those things back. In regards to DVD's and Blu-Rays, well I own over 1000 titles combined.
B. Nerd
For me it's about 50/50 cable and DVD.
@Bignerd – We cut the cord a year and a half ago. It's been so nice. I watch a lot of Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, and Jerry Seinfeld on Crackle.
Most cable shows are a season behind on Netflix or Amazon. And some Comedy Central programming is on Hulu Plus…Drunk History is hilarious! I'm currently watching Walter White's 5th Season on Netflix.
son of a…I'm not a Super Scranter. My comment is awaiting moderation. I'm just a normie…just a normie!!!
My comment about DVD's and streaming content went under moderation. Really weirded me out LOL.
Mine about cutting the cord is still under moderation.
I have dish.
Thor 2 trailer #2 looked awesome, can't wait.
@ Wally W.
I agree, it did look very good. I can't wait!
Just watched my 90's X-Men animated series dvds. Enjoyed watching Days Of Future Past & The Lotus & The Steel episodes which feature Silver Samuri.
Ive been debating on buying them but while they are still on Netflix, I am still not wanting to do so.
That show is part of what drew me so deep into comic book land. It was on Saturday mornings on Fox. What led me to all the other comic book properties outside of the X-Men was me trying to find something to do to fill the time between issues and shows.
Then 'The Death of Superman' was released in '92, Batman the Animated Series followed the success of the Burton stuff, and Image comics showed up a couple of years later.
I've been a fanboy of all of it ever since.
@ Dr.Mindbender
Besides Superman,Batman, X-Men id say was my top favorite comic book series in comic land from Marvel. Like Batman:TAS on Fox, I always looked forward to Saturday mornings to watch X-Men, not to mention the 90's Spider-Man series that came later.
I could never put 'The Death Of Superman' down. Batman:TAS remains one of my top favorite animated shows of all time. Loved how they took some inspirations from Burton's films such as Penguin's appearance for example because he was one villain I never really liked till I saw Batman Returns & Batman:TAS.
I forget how old I was when I first saw Superman so he'd be my favorite outta all of them but been into heroes ever since seeing him. First CBM I seen in theaters occupied by my brother was Batman Returns.
I been debating about buying Wolverine & The X-Men, do you if that show is good?
Its not bad. Its worth the $10 to $15 it costs for the series. Not as gritty as the 90's X-Men series.
I have vol 1&2 need to pick up the others.
@ Vader
Got any favorite episodes? I gotta say I love Wolverine's attitude in that series the most. He also wasn't bad in X-Men Evolution, being bada$$ & caring like he is in the movies to lesser extent. Only he doesn't dwell on Jean Grey of-course. I got rid of my X-Men Evolution dvds because I doubt WB will release the 4th season.
I agree with you on wolverine's attitude. As for fav episode just to name a few….
Days of future past
Repo man
Out of the past
The phoenix saga
Come the apocalypse
I like the episode that Captain America appears in. Its always fun to see crossovers in the old animated series.
I agreed. His crossover in X-Men Evolution was good aswell.
@ Vader
Good choices as I like the same ones. I also like…
Night Of The Sentinels
Deadly Reunions
Slave Island
The Unstoppable Jugglenaut
The Final Descision
The Dark Phoenix Saga
Beyond Good & Evil
I am going to put this out there.
Dark Knight vs Agent 47. The ultimate detective vs the ultimate assassin?
In regards to the films… well Agent 47 loses hands down. No brainer.
Unless you take away the Dark Knight's secret power (his writers) you can put him up against just about anyone and he's going to win…
… because he's Batman.
Even if you take away his secret "writers" power… he still wins.
"… because he's Batman."
That is all you ever have to say.
I am going with Batman. I mean physically they are probably neck to neck but Batman and his resources are just too overwhelming. A great match but I am giving to the Dark Knight.
I'm writing my own "growing" novel called "Batman: By Night" and it's about a 32 year old ex-soldier named Bruce Wayne who comes home from WWII to discover that his parents have been tragically murdered in his absence.
Would anyone like to read the first chapter? I would greatly appreciate it if someone did, criticism is always nice. I can e-mail you it.
Can I? Hover over my name for my email.
Doesn't really help, I just get sent to a website called Useless Films lol
yahoo, g-mail, hot mail, what?
Alright, I sent it
That is a great premise. It would be a privilege to read it. Thanks.
Great! All I need is your e-mail so I can send you the document
What's your email address? I will email you mine directly.
I'll check it out. I can help with feedback and constructive criticism. We did that in my creative writing classes in college.
Sent it a while ago
I thought writing a comic book hero, one who stands up not only against common criminals but the government aswell. I just figured no company would published it though,lol.
I think it will. Especially these days. Citizens are so mistrustful of the government and local authorities and their abuse of powers. With that recent whole spying on American citizens things and such. People know what's going and know it's wrong and just accepts it. I feel the abuse of power from those we trust is the worst. It tackles a very real problem,that could make for compelling and dramatic storytelling.
If written well of course.
Thanks d-man.
So myself and many fellow Scranters have been adamant about Karl Urban for the new Batman.
He's actually no longer my first choice. If the inspiration is coming from the Dark Knight Returns, and the mature established Batman is the route they go, I really like idea of Jeffrey Dean Morgan getting the part.
To take a line from Watchmen -" The guy is built like a line-backer"
He can do bad-ass. He can do suave. He has a dark demeanor. He has a history with Zack Snyder. He fits the Dark Knight Returns Batman look.
I think he is a strong possibility.
I want/dream casted him as Guy Gardner. Good choice though!
He reminds me, appearance wise, of Javier Bardem.
I've always thought that too.. Actually thought they were the same guy till I got more familiar with their work.
See… I was trying to keep "Who should be Batman?" out of OD… but there will always be someone who brings it up anyways.
Because he's Batman.
Morgan is okay as an older Batman but his physique needs work. For Bats, even in his 40s-50s, he would still be ripped (IMO).
I'm still sticking to #Batmanganiello.
All I see is Flash Thompson.
Yeah… but I think Patrick would be irritated if I pushed for #Batlazenby.
Dr. M.
Jeffery Dean Morgan is a fine choice, but I'm going to have to stick with my original choice, Karl Urban.
Watching Dredd, I just keep thinking, "that guy would make a great Batman". Then watching RED, I thought, That guy would make a great Bruce Wayne".
I don't think we can go wrong with either choice though, both could pull it off.
Here's an off the wall choice I read recently, Adrian Brody. He's actually my choice for Snake in the Escape from New York re-make.
Adrian Brody The Pianist guy? I love his stuff but he would be a terrible batman imo. I can't imagine him bulking up very much like Karl Urban could.
Go watch Predators
ooh I forgot he's in that! I'll have to check it out.
I have comic book inquiry(my favorite kind):
Anyone familiar with the Marvel villain Taskmaster?
Who possesses super human photographic reflexes and memory, which enables him to watch another person's physical movements and duplicate them without practice, no matter how complex. This ability is only limited by the fact that he does not possess superhuman strength or other superhuman attributes.
Now his abilities come naturally, as in, born with them. Is he a mutant?
He sounds like a rip-off of DC's Amazo
Here's some small screen trivia.
Which TV show characters had an ability similar to Taskmaster's?
I can think of two.
I remember a girl in Heroes. Copycat?
That's one… Monica Dawson from Heroes.
The other I can think of is from a more recent but also cancelled show.
You got me. Who is the other?
And would you consider Taskmaster a mutant?
Kat from Alphas.
She had both procedural memory and photographic reflexes but at the cost of her long term memory (and new memories would replace current ones).
Heroes I heard of…Alphas, I am not familiar with. My interest is intrigued.
You see. I have seen Taskmaster through the many years of the pages between different Marvel titles. I never really paid attention to him. Until recently, on Marvel Vs Capcom(which he is a strong character on).
Then on Ultimate Spider Man, he was on there beating up everybody. So I read up on him and it never denied nor confirmed in fact he was a mutant. Just that he was born with this uncanny gift.
I just started a rumor that clint eastwood is going to play batman
@ B. Nerd
Or maybe how Clint plays his characters:
I just imagined Dirty Harry vs. Joker… hahaha
If anyone can help me out here??? There was an old sci fi show not sure if it was just a pilot show or if it made a full run back in mid 80s to early 90s time frame. I don't remember much about the show being that I was just a kid but it was about a young man set in a futuristic setting, whether on earth or a colonized planet I do not know, but they were invaded by a race of aliens for reasons I do not know, maybe they were at war with them. These aliens had large face helmets and were all black in armor. They bled green almost like the predator, in the show the young man joins a resistance after they "TAKE/Capture" or kill his sister…
That's all I remember and ever movie and sci fi buff I know always thinks of x-files when I mention the brother sister aspect but it was definitely not. I've searched youtube and the internet for lists of scifi shows from those time periods whether American programs or british and came up empty with nothing… If anyone remembers can I get a name????
I checked out the aliens from that show V someone mentioned here on screenrant and although the aliens wear black helmets they still appear human underneath. These aliens were full on body armored and looked similar to Black Manta from DC comics at least from how it looks in my head. Its a little hard to remember its been so long but these guys were definitely not human looking…
Also someone mentioned twilight zone, and Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, but neither of them checked out when I went on youtube…
I tried setting up a profile on IMDB so I can post a need to know comment to get some help with this as was suggested but the website wouldn't list my post… Can anyone take a stab at it???
writes should be *writers*
Sheesh, edit button, edit button!!
What the heck is going on at Rotten Tomatoes? Is it me or do I just not understand "Rotten Tomatoes"
I am reading a review for Elysium by Jonathan R. Lack from "We Got This Covered" He wrote "The film is by no means bad…" and gave it 3 out of five stars which I read (perhaps incorrectly) as it is "good but not great" So why is it given a "rotten' rating in his review on their website?…Meanwhile the "Total Film" review by Jane Crowther ALSO gave it 3 out of 5 stars and that is somehow listed as a "fresh" rating on the "rotten tomatoes" website! This makes no sense!
I'm going to take a guess and say when the reviewer submits their review, they also decide whether to label it as a fresh or rotten review. I'm really not sure how it works but I would guess that it's up to the reviewer. So for certain critics maybe a 3/5 score isn't favorable.
I thought about that but the reviewer who had a 'rotten' rating went out of his way to say it is not a bad movie at all. Someone who reads the review could get that impression because he spends too much of it complaining about the things he does not like and really says very little about what is good about it. But I did not get the sense that he was saying to not go see it. I don't know…
The first thing people look at is the aggregate number, so I think they should at least be somewhat uniform especially if two that just so happen to be using a similar rating scale "out of five stars" have the same score otherwise what is the point?
That's why I don't put much into the "scores" of RT. I read the reviews (both online and local paper) and then see the movie myself.
I now see your point! I try to get through the reviews but there are just too many so I would rely on the aggregate score…that was up until today. I think like you I will just focus on the written reviews and ignore the aggregate score.
After seeing Wolverine I think that in DOFP future-Wolverine will die and past-Wolverine will live.
Wow, these reviews/early screeners for Elysium have really been disappointing. One person said they were a huge fan of District 9 and of Blomkamp but that Elysium was downgrade from D9.
"People expecting another District 9 or who expect a little more substance from their science fiction films will most likely be disappointed by Elysium, but those who like their videogame-style, sci-fi shoot-em-ups, Pacific Rim type will have no problem here. This movie, like Pacific Rim, has put in a lot of detail into the visual effects and has therefore allowed the overall story of the movie to have many plotholes with little to no character development."
These reviews that compare one movie to something completely different are starting to annoy me. Why not just review the movie as a stand alone film? So if Blomkamp made a comedy, does he have to make THAT like District 9? I think movie critics are beginning to show WAY too much bias commenting on what unrelated films were like instead of what is there. Maybe I should pick a hand full of critics whose opinions I respect and ignore the others.
I think they are comparing the fact that both PR and Elysium have great CGI effects but they don't have the storytelling/charcter development that was expected of them. Either way I don't care because I am seeing it tonight thru advancing screening but I just hope I don't come out the same way as I did with PR with a feeling like it's good but it's something that I could have waited for on DVD
You know it's time some director out there brings Thundarr the barbarian to the silver screen. I'll always love and want my super hero flicks, but its time for something different.
Princess Ariel on the big screen?!!!!!
Also, long ago, I asked Santa for a sun sword. Denied.
Bring on the film!
Uh oh! Planes is getting slammed by critics, and the word on Elysium is it's very political; Elysium still looks good to me, so I plan on checking that out.


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Now, some of the "everything" is up on the block for a series of Internet-only auctions, the first of four running through 7 p.m. Saturday through Laguna Niguel-based SCP Auctions (scpauctions.com).
Hamilton has returned items to families who made memorabilia donations, decided to give other relics to the Lott Trophy Impact Foundation and selected his most personal items to keep for himself.
"What's left for auction are things that I either bought or were given to me by teams," he said, referring to Lots No. 1 to 293 in the SCP Auctions spring premier catalog.
A day after the second robbery, it was painful for Hamilton to walk through the invitation-only soiree staged by SCP Auctions and First Foundation. A well-heeled, high-roller crowd of collectors circled his prized possessions, swirling their wine and peering through glass cases and back in time.
Lakers great Magic Johnson and Hall of Famer and former Rams running back Eric Dickerson were there, praising the collection that Hamilton generously shared.
How many other places could you have seen – up close – a Cy Young-signed baseball (minimum bid $3,000)? Or a Willie Mays-autographed and game-ready Louisville Slugger bat ($750)? Or a 1956 Stan Musial game-worn St. Louis Cardinals jersey ($10,000)?
What about a 1965 Sandy Koufax-autographed and game-worn home Dodgers jersey from his World Series and Cy Young-winning season ($25,000)? Or Marcel Dionne's skates and the autographed wrist cast he wore on March 20, 1986, when he became the second-leading scorer in NHL history ($500)? Or a pair of 1981-82 season Kareem Abdul-Jabbar game-worn, autographed sneakers?
All of these items have been inside display cases and mounted on the walls of this 8,000-square-foot labyrinth, where it's easy to get lost – literally and in reverie.
Now these pieces are up for auction – sports history destined to go separately into hiding; the hammer hitting to signal the highest bidder.
At least Hamilton made sure he let everyone see some going-going-gone home run history here before it was going once, going twice ….
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Pew Research Center reports, data and interactive features on gay marriage and homosexuality, including public opinion, changing legal status and religious groups' views.
Trends in Attitudes Toward Religion and Social Issues: 1987-2007
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Democrats Address Gay Community
On Thursday night six Democratic presidential candidates came together for a debate on issues important to the gay community. Candidates took on issues from gay marriage to "don't ask don't tell" and addressed a party whose rank-and-file hold ambivalent positions on some issues of concern to gays.
Same-Sex Marriage: Redefining Legal Unions Around the World
In many countries around the globe, gay and lesbian couples are seeking the right to marry or enter into other legally recognized forms of domestic partnerships. The legal definition of marriage is in flux, particularly in the developed world.
Civil Unions Spread, But Gays Want to Wed
New Hampshire today became the fourth state in the nation (joining Vermont, Connecticut and New Jersey) to enact a same-sex civil union law, but gay activists continue to press for so-called marriage equality.
Four-in-Ten Americans Have Close Friends or Relatives Who are Gay
A new survey also finds that those with homosexual or lesbian relatives or friends are more likely to accept gay marriage and oppose the firing of gay teachers.
The Culture War and the Coming Election
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Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and political allegiance are among the issues raised by such writers as Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Bharati Mukherjee, Jade Snow Wong, Amy Tan, Sky Lee, Le Ly Hayslip, Wendy Law-Yone, Fiona Cheong, and Nellie Wong. Beginning with the notion that feminist and Asian American identity are mutually exclusive, Bow analyzes how women serve as boundary markers between ethnic or national collectives in order to reveal the male-based nature of social cohesion.
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although the French founded Mobile near the Gulf of Mexico in 1702, the interior of Alabama remained Indian country until 1814, when Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Stick band of the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend, in what is now Tallapoosa County. Jackson immediately imposed a treaty on the Red Sticks and on his own Indian allies expropriating almost all of what five years later became the state of Alabama. The Indians were removed, as Jackson insisted, and the first white settlers poured in, farmers from Tennessee sweeping into the red clay hills in the north. You can see their early Greek Revival buildings in historic Huntsville, surrounded by the boomtown that has grown up around the Marshall Space Flight Center. But the coolness of the classical columns is misleading. Alabama's first settlers brought the folkways of the Scots-Irish, a willingness to live and let live, but also a grim determination to avenge any insult to honor and to fight to the death against any threat to family or country. The second surge of settlement into Alabama came a decade later, when entrepreneurial Southern planters arrived with their slaves to pick cotton in the fertile Black Belt (named for its soil) in central Alabama, east and west of Montgomery. The interplay between the Scots-Irish farmers and the plantation grandees has run through Alabama politics ever since. The Jacksonians and planters were determined to secede from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the first Confederate Congress convened, with Jefferson Davis taking the oath of office as president of the Confederacy, in the Alabama Capitol in February 1861.
After the Civil War, Alabama, like other Southern states, became solidly Democratic, with an angry populist accent. Birmingham, with its solid-iron Red Mountain, became the South's first steel producer in the 1880s. In the first half of the 20th century, Alabama politics was a struggle between plantation owners of the Black Belt and the local economic potentates called "the Big Mules" and populists who favored the New Deal. The latter included some influential and colorful figures—Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Sen. Lister Hill, 1952 vice presidential nominee John Sparkman, and Gov. "Kissin' Jim" Folsom.
Alabama went on to become, kicking and screaming, one of the birthplaces of the civil rights movement. Down the hill from the Capitol is the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, where in December 1955 the 26-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. led the boycott following Montgomery seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of the bus. A hundred miles north in Birmingham, two weeks after King penned his Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963, Birmingham Police Commissioner Bull Connor, then Alabama's Democratic national committeeman, ordered police dogs and fire hoses to be turned on peaceful demonstrators. Four months later, four girls were killed when a bomb exploded in Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church. (The bombers were convicted in 1977, 2001 and 2002.) In March 1965, dozens of marchers, catalyzed by the murder of a young civil rights advocate in Marion, were beaten by police at Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge en route to Montgomery. Another activist was shot and killed in Lowndes County that August. These events had reverberations far beyond Alabama. In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy endorsed what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and in July 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act.
While Alabamians like Parks and King were leading the nation toward civil rights, Alabama's most prominent politician of the time, George Wallace, was pulling the other way. During his first term as governor, Wallace made national news in June 1963 by standing in a schoolhouse door to defy a federal court desegregation order. In 1964, Wallace ran in the Democratic presidential primaries against Lyndon Johnson and got surprising support outside the South in Indiana and Wisconsin. In 1968, as a third-party candidate, he won 13.5% of the popular vote and carried five states and 46 electoral votes. He ran in the Democratic primaries again in 1972, and was shot and partially paralyzed while campaigning. He had many national convention delegates and remained a formidable figure nationally until Jimmy Carter beat him in the 1976 Florida primary. In Alabama state politics, he was the central figure for three decades, winning the governorship in 1962, running his wife to succeed him in 1966 (she died midterm), regaining the governorship in 1970 and 1974, then running and winning one last time in 1982. He spent his final sad years apologizing for his acts, meeting with the student he tried to block in the schoolhouse door, and proclaiming, "The South has changed, and for the better." He died in September 1998.
During Wallace's last term as governor, in 1983, the state government started publishing a black heritage guide, and today civil rights tourism is a major business. Montgomery boasts artist Maya Lin's circular Civil Rights Memorial, Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum, the Dexter Parsonage, and the end point of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the Selma-to-Montgomery Interpretive Center in Lowndes County, and the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site are all on the Alabama Civil Rights Museum Trail. It has helped to inspire other tourism trails, including the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, the Scenic River Trail, and the Bass Trail.
Economically, Alabama in recent years has been gaining ground lost during the Wallace years. While Atlanta was peacefully desegregating and beginning decades of vibrant white-collar growth, Birmingham was violently resisting the civil rights movement, only to see its once substantial blue-collar base in the steel industry shrink and its most talented residents of all races flee to calmer climes. Automobiles have played a major part in Alabama's growth, and not just at the Talladega NASCAR racetrack or the Porsche Sport Driving School in Leeds. Mercedes chose a site near Tuscaloosa for its first American plant in 1997, while Honda has a big plant in Talladega County and Hyundai has one in Montgomery. These operations spawned dozens of auto supplier and subcontractor firms. ThyssenKrupp built a big steel mill north of Mobile (but put it on sale in fall 2012) and Carpenter Technologies built another in Morgan County in the north. Airbus, which planned a big assembly plant near Mobile if it won the contract for the Air Force's new refueling tanker, lost out on the contract but decided to build a plant there for its A320 airliners. Unions have tried to organize these plants without success. About 10% of Alabama's workers belong to unions, but most are public employees, like the teachers of the politically potent Alabama Education Association.
Alabama is now one of the top states for auto production, and the new manufacturing jobs tend to pay better than the textile jobs which, aside from Birmingham steel, dominated its industrial sector in the past. Still, manufacturing makes for volatile employment. Alabama's unemployment rate was only 3.6% in October 2007 but zoomed during the recession to 10.5% in fall 2009, then fell to 7.2% in March 2012 as demand for Alabama models rebounded. The state has other economic assets. The Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center near Huntsville have been big job generators, and a new Raytheon missile integration facility opened in 2012. The economy in northern Alabama suffered a setback when tornadoes hit the area in April 2011, killing 253 people and destroying more than 5,000 homes. But, in contrast to the Wallace years, there has been net migration into Alabama for more than a decade; blacks have remained 26% of the population, while the percentage of Hispanics more than doubled to 3.9% in 2010.
In the 30 years since George Wallace's name last appeared on an Alabama ballot, the state has become solidly Republican in national politics. But for many years, most talented state politicians were Democrats, and Democratic interest groups—the AEA, the major black political associations, the trial lawyers—backed attractive statewide candidates against, in many cases, inexperienced Republicans. Democrats remained competitive in governor races from 1990 through 2002. Although Republicans for a time were rent by divisions between affluent suburbanites and white evangelical Protestants, they made breakthroughs in state Supreme Court races and down-ballot statewide offices in the 2000s. And in 2002, Republican Bob Riley narrowly defeated incumbent Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman, even as the latter carried the central cities, the Black Belt, and many poor, white rural counties in the north.
In 2010, the spotlight was on two very different candidates for governor: Artur Davis, the black U.S. House member running as a moderate, and former Chief Justice Roy Moore, a Republican whose placing of a huge model of the Ten Commandments in the Supreme Court building in 2001 triggered a controversy that resulted in his removal from the bench. But in the GOP primary in June, Moore finished fourth, with only 19% of the vote. The more consequential result was the 166-vote margin by which state Rep. Robert Bentley beat Tim James, the son of former Republican Gov. Fob James, in the first round of primary voting. The results moved Bentley ahead to a runoff, and in that contest, he prevailed 56%-44% over Bradley Byrne, a former state senator and college system chancellor who had Riley's backing. In the Democratic primary, Davis was beaten 62%-38% by Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, a white candidate who was supported by prominent black organizations. Some 493,000 votes were cast in the Republican primary, more than the 318,000 cast in the Democratic primary—a vivid contrast with 1986, the year that Wallace retired, when 830,000 Alabamians voted in the Democratic primary and only 25,000 participated in the GOP primary.
In the general election, Bentley beat Sparks 58% to 42%. Voters rejected by a similar margin a ballot proposition, supported by Sparks, to divert $100 million of Gulf natural gas royalties to highway construction. They evidently preferred Bentley's no-new-taxes pledge and his proposal for business tax deductions for firms hiring unemployed workers. There were Republican victories up and down the line. Democratic Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr., who served as governor when the Mercedes plant deal was made, was defeated for reelection 51%-48%. And GOP Sen. Richard Shelby was reelected with 65%. In 2008, Democrats secured three of the state's seven seats in the U.S. House.
Democrats' longstanding majorities in the state legislature disappeared in 2010. Some incumbents lost because they violated a policy of holding part-time jobs in state two-year colleges. But there was damage to the party brand even in the old Tennessee Valley Authority country in north Alabama. Republicans ended up with a 22-12-1 margin in the state Senate and 66-39 in the state House—the first Republican majorities since 1874. In 2011, Bentley and the legislature cut spending as revenues came in lower than expected; Bentley backed an amendment to use $146 million each of the next three years from the $2.5 billion trust fund to meet expenses and stoutly opposed any tax increase.
Although the 2010 census showed only 4% of Alabama residents are Hispanic, concentrated in several counties with low-wage textile mills, the legislature was determined to restrict or discourage illegal immigration, and in June 2011, passed a bill, signed by Bentley, that required all adults to carry government identification and all employers to use E-Verify to determine the citizenship status of employees. It required public schools to determine the status of students and their parents, criminalized rental of houses to illegal immigrants, and barred businesses from deducting wages paid to them. It went into effect in September, with some embarrassing results: A Mercedes company executive was arrested and jailed because he could show only a German identification card. Bentley defensively declared, "We are not anti-foreign companies. We are very pro-foreign companies." In October, a federal appeals court barred enforcement of some provisions, and there was evidence that Latinos were leaving Alabama.
Presidential Politics Alabama has been solidly Republican in presidential politics for three decades. John McCain won it 60%-39% in 2008 and Mitt Romney won it four years later by a nearly identical 61%-38%. Nearly 100% of the state's African-Americans voted for Barack Obama and well over 80% of whites for the Republicans, in both elections. These margins were in line with the Republicans' margin in the popular vote in Alabama for U.S. House seats, 67%-31% in 2010 and (with no Democratic candidate in the 1st District) 64%-36% in 2012.
Alabama moved its traditional June primary to Super Tuesday, February 5, for the 2008 cycle, in hopes of getting national attention. But it was predictably overshadowed by larger states voting that day. For the first time, more votes were cast for Republican candidates (552,000) than for Democrats (537,000). In 2008, Mike Huckabee, with big margins in Jacksonian northern counties, edged McCain 41%-37%, with 18% for Romney. Among Democrats in 2008, Obama won 56%-42%. In 2012, Alabama voted in the second week of March, on the same day as Mississippi and a week after Republican Newt Gingrich won big in Georgia and Romney narrowly carried Ohio over Rick Santorum in GOP primaries. No candidate spent much time or money in Alabama, and Santorum won with 35%, to 29% each for Gingrich and Romney.
Congressional Redistricting In 2010, Republicans won back the state legislature for the first time in 136 years, granting them exclusive power to redistrict. After the 2000 census, Democrats drew a fairly partisan map with an eye towards holding onto the Huntsville area 5th District and gaining the 3rd District in the east-central part of the state. Democrats did unexpectedly pick up the heavily GOP 2nd District for a term in 2008, but were never able to defeat Republican Mike Rogers in the 3rd and held the 5th only until 2009.
So in 2011, Republicans simply unraveled the Democrats' old map. They solidified Brooks by moving the old Yellow Dog stronghold of Colbert County into the 4th District and boosted their other freshman, Republican Martha Roby, by moving most of Montgomery's black precincts back into the African-American packed 7th District. Republicans have likely locked Democrats out of six of the state's seven seats for the foreseeable future.
Republican Robert Bentley came out of nowhere to be elected governor of Alabama in 2010, succeeding term-limited GOP Gov. Bob Riley. Bentley joked that not even his wife gave him a chance when he launched his campaign. Since taking office, however, he has been criticized for passivity and has had trouble earning the respect of fellow Republican lawmakers.
Bentley grew up in rural Columbiana, southeast of Birmingham, where his father worked at a saw mill. He put himself through college at the University of Alabama, majoring in chemistry and biology and earning a bachelor's degree in three years. Fulfilling a childhood dream to become a doctor, he went on to Alabama's medical school and received his M.D. in 1968. It was the height of the Vietnam era, and Bentley joined the Air Force. He was commissioned as a captain and served as a general medical officer at Pope Air Force Base at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. After completing his three-year residency, he moved to Tuscaloosa to start what became a successful dermatology practice.
Bentley entered politics in 2002 by winning a seat in the state House of Representatives with nearly 65% of the vote. He was an advocate of conservative causes, such as lowering taxes, and he was the main force behind revising the state's organ donor laws. But he was never known as a rhetorical firebrand, displaying a low-key and mild-mannered style. He was reelected without opposition in 2006, and in 2010, introduced a constitutional amendment to freeze property taxes for homeowners.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ — According to a recent report by the Boston Consulting Group, the number of companies based in the BRIC nations on the FT Global 500 list more than quadrupled, from 15 to 62, in just the last two years. Incumbent industry leaders ignore this trend at their peril.
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Water yield from the Cauvery river bed slumps to 30 MLD
With the yield from the drinking water pumping stations on the Cauvery dropping drastically, the new drinking water supply augmentation scheme with its source at the Coleroon has proved to be a saviour this summer.
The sharp fall in Cauvery's water yield has forced the Tiruchirapalli City Corporation to resort to providing alternate day supply to the residents served by the Woraiyur, Marakkadai and Virugupettai overhead water tanks in nearly a dozen wards in the city for the past 10 days.
The corporation has resorted to this measure without any public notification.
Although some newly added areas in the city were getting supply on only alternate days, the corporation has been forced to resort to the move in the heart of the city now.
The combined yield from the six drinking water pumping stations on the Cauvery riverbed has dipped to 30 to 35 million litres a day (MLD). In normal times, these pumping stations provided the bulk of the water supply to the city, accounting for 80 out of the 90 MLD supplied to the city. Even the couple of spells of rain in the past week has not helped matters.
The corporation has started pumping water from all the three collector wells of the drinking water supply augmentation scheme, which is yet to be fully commissioned.
"We have got dedicated power connections and are pumping about 40 MLD from the three collector wells and this has helped us maintain the supply," corporation commissioner V.P. Thandapani told The Hindu. With this, the city is now getting a supply of 70 to 75 MLD.
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Paal Golberg of Norway earned his first cross-country World Cup victory Saturday by winning a men's 15-kilometer classical race, while Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland secured her 28th by dominating the women's 10K.
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Purely out of my own curiosity, I was running through some math in my head this morning.
If someone has a 40% success rate at some activity, then attempts two more trials, the first of which is a failure and the second of which is a success, what is flawed in the following logic:
When the failure occurred, there were less total trials than there were when the success occurred, meaning the failure constituted a larger percentage of the total trials than did the success, and so the total average should decrease more than it should come back up?
I realize this is inherently false; the total average will always increase. If you are earning a 40% in a class and then score a 50% on a two-question quiz, your grade will always increase, no matter which order the questions were asked.
The most apt explanation I've been able to come up with is not to look at the 1/2 as a 50%, but instead to look at 0/1 and 1/1 separately, as 0% followed by 100%. Because the 0% is closer to the average (40%) than the 100% is, the 100% will have a greater effect on the average. In a set of data, an outlier will always effect the data more than a trial closer to the average, no matter which order the two trials were conducted.
But what makes that logic more valid than my earlier 'logic'?
My friend, you are simply over thinking fractions. sureshs has is correctly in that you are mixing probability with actuality. The probability of you getting something right may be 40%. That's your initial statement. You're now wondering what's going on because GIVEN two new results, your relative success rate has decreased. That is completely independent of your 40% probability. If you want to use the two new trials, then, as surehs said, you need to recalculate your probability. Otherwise, the two trials are meaningless with regards to your probability of success.
Let's use a fairly classic example of a coin toss (a Bernoulli trial where heads is the success with probability 50%). That 50% never changes no matter what. No matter how many times you toss that coin, it will always be just as likely to be heads as it is tails. Using this example, your paradox can be explained via the following two probabilities:
1. What is the probability of getting a heads on the 9th toss given you've gotten 8 tails previously? 1/2. All of the trials are independent, and so the probability of the heads has nothing to do with the probability of the prior 8 tails.
2. What is the probability of getting 8 tails and then getting a heads on the 9th toss? That is 9 * (1/2)^8 * (1/2) = 0.018, or about 2%. In this case, your tails have negatively affected what you're thinking to be your success rate when in reality, they have no effect whatsoever.
The first one is what's really going on, and the second is what's confusing you as being the same thing when it's completely different.
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The road from Cape Coast to Kumasi is more scenic and pleasant than that from Accra to Kumasi, so I recommend this route. I also recommend the tro-tro over the STC bus for this ride of just a few hours. The van is certainly faster than the bus too. At the Kumasi tro-tro station in Cape Coast, I don't recall the location exactly but the town is small enough to find it, choose the van up front and pay the driver extra for the front seats if you want them. This was about a four hour ride as I recall. The road is not good in places, due to the heavy rains, but we managed to get through without trouble, arriving at the central bus station in Kumasi.
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In Cape Coast the shared taxi's depart from a narrow street just behind Chapel Square. They go in a lot of different directions, of which (for tourists) Elmina is the most interesting one. A trip to Elmina only costs 2.500 cedis per person: $ 0,25 and takes about 15 minutes.
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There are multiple forms of Tay-Sachs disease but the most common form is seen during infancy. Babies with Tay-Sachs disease appear healthy at birth. However, at three to six months of age, an affected baby will begin to lose developmental skills and experience progressive weakness, loss of motor skills, increased startle response and myoclonic jerks. A cherry red spot can appear in the eye. Gradually the child begins to lose visual attentiveness, has decreased voluntary movements and responsiveness, develop seizures and intellectual disability. The disease progresses rapidly until the child becomes completely unresponsive.
Symptoms in the juvenile form of Tay-Sachs typically appear between the ages of 2 and 5, but can occur anytime during childhood. Early symptoms include lack of coordination or clumsiness. Children may also have slurred speech, swallowing issues and muscle cramps. Over time, children will slowly decline and lose developmental and motor skills until the child becomes completely unresponsive.
Late-onset Tay-Sachs disease is caused by mutations in the same gene as classical infantile Tay-Sachs disease, but because an individual's body retains some enzyme activity, the disease is less severe, though still difficult. Symptoms typically appear in adolescence or early adulthood, but can also appear later in life. Adults with late-onset Tay Sachs may also present with mental health symptoms such as bipolar or psychotic episodes. Over time adults with late onset Tay Sachs slowly decline and can require more mobility assistance. Many may also experience speech and swallowing difficulties.
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MANILA, Philippines—More organizations composed of overseas Filipinos have committed to participate in the Sept. 19 "Zero Remittance Day" to protest of the alleged misuse of pork barrel funds by several lawmakers.
According to Nhel Morona, Migrante-United Arab Emirates spokesperson, they will join Filipinos worldwide in the campaign to stop sending remittances home on Sept. 19 to demand the abolition of the pork barrel system.
"We are dismayed by the corrupt practices happening in our country. The money that's supposed to go to public service projects is being pocketed by a few," Morona said.
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"We do not work overseas and endure separation from our loved ones just so government officials can plunder public funds or so Aquino can uphold the corrupt pork barrel system," said Eman Villanueva, secretary general of the United Filipinos in Hong Kong-Migrante (UNIFIL-MIGRANTE-HK).
"Our money is not meant to feed the greed of the corrupt and the plunderers. The billions of dollars of remittance that we send and the billions of pesos more generated from the long list of fees that the government charges to OFWs that help keep the economy afloat are not meant to keep a thriving corrupt system of governance," said Villanueva.
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He lamented that thousands of Filipino migrants are deprived of basic support and services to protect their well being and human rights.
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Last Thursday, a three-judge federal court in Washington, DC refused to clear Texas' new voter ID law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
The decision sets up an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court - though likely not before the 2012 election - during which the constitutionality of Section 5 of the VRA is certain to come under challenge.
The constitutional argument about the VRA has many facets, but the Texas case's treatment of data about voter ID is as good an example as any of why the Act - and in particular, Section 5 - is generating so much heat lately.
We've covered the data issues involved in voter ID many times on this blog - and both sides in the Texas case did the same. For its part, Texas produced an expert who submitted testimony suggesting that 1) a comparison with voting rates in Indiana and Georgia showed that Texas voters (especially minority voters) would not be prevented from voting because of ID and 2) minority voters possess ID at the same rates as all voters. The Justice Department countered with an expert who used matching data to determine that minority voters were more likely to lack the required ID to vote.
Interestingly, the court rejected all of this testimony. Citing methodological flaws (over-reliance on survey research here, under-reliance on relevant data sets there, etc.) the court summarized its own evidentiary findings thusly:
Contrary to Texas's contentions, nothing in existing social science literature speaks conclusively to the effect of photo ID requirements on voter turnout. Moreover, scant lessons, if any, can be drawn from Indiana and Georgia, largely because [Texas' law] is more restrictive than the photo ID laws adopted by either of those states. Finally, no party has submitted reliable evidence as to the number of Texas voters who lack photo ID, much less the rate of ID possession among different racial groups. (p. 44)
This is where it got interesting.
Unlike the court challenges in Indiana and Georgia - where the burden of proof was on the plaintiffs - the Texas case required the state to carry the burden of proof that that its ID law would not result in "retrogression" of minority voting rights in violation of the VRA. The court found that Texas had failed to meet that burden:
[R]ecord evidence suggests that SB 14, if implemented, would in fact have a retrogressive effect on Hispanic and African American voters. This conclusion flows from three basic facts: (1) a substantial subgroup of Texas voters, many of whom are African American or Hispanic, lack photo ID; (2) the burdens associated with obtaining ID will weigh most heavily on the poor; and (3) racial minorities in Texas are disproportionately likely to live in poverty. Accordingly, [voter ID] will likely "lead to a retrogression in the position of racial minorities with respect to their effective exercise of the electoral franchise." (p. 45, citation omitted)
Significantly, the court cited Texas' own expert testimony (that minority voters were no less likely to possess ID) as evidence that some minority voters lacked ID: "based on Texas's own evidence, we find that there is a subset of Texas voters who lack [] approved ID--again, both state and federal--and that, at minimum, racial minorities are proportionately represented within this subgroup." (p.46). From there, the court used testimony about the procedure (and costs) for obtaining ID and combined that with census data on poverty to conclude that an ID requirement would fall hard on minority voters and thus violate the VRA.
The Texas case is obviously important in its own right, but it is even more so when compared to other court challenges to voter ID. VRA Section 5's legal standard (retrogression) and the burden of proof (on the state) may well have been the reason that Texas lost on an evidentiary record that may have been successful under a straight constitutional challenge.
You can bet that this different standard will get lots of airtime on appeal. Texas and other states seeking to strike down Section 5 will argue that the VRA creates a double standard for covered states - while supporters of Section 5 will hail the VRA's ability to allow courts to block allegedly discriminatory election laws that they otherwise cannot (or will not) touch.
And, for the first time in a long time (if ever), they might both be using the same data to do it.
I'm going to call that progress.