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Helping others through pro bono advocacy is not only a professional obligation, but it is also a potent tool for professional growth. Ignore— just for a moment—the hopefully obvious benefits to your community, the legal profession, and the Court that pro bono service represents. Consider only the potential for skill development. When a case goes to trial, clients justifiably expect an experienced team. But, for many litigators, trials are scarce. How does a junior attorney become an indispensible member of the trial team without the opportunity to meaningfully participate in trials?
Acquire Advocacy Skills
For newer members of the bar, a pro bono case with the Volunteer Lawyers Project for the Southern District of Florida (VLP) can be a powerfully positive step toward proficiency in essential advocacy skills. Based on both personal experience and anecdotal evidence, I regard it as one of the quickest and most reliable routes to trial experience for a civil litigator in a private firm.
Through the CM/ECF distribution list, the VLP offers a steady stream of trial ready cases to members of the Southern District. Almost exactly one year after I was admitted to the Florida Bar, I responded to one of these emails and agreed to take on my first pro bono trial. Roughly six months later, thanks to copious support from the VLP, my firm, and my mentor, I had a two-day prisoner's civil rights jury trial under my belt.
Unlike many civil cases encountered in private practice, the cases screened by the VLP settle relatively infrequently. What's more, the pro bono attorney can undertake a limited engagement. In my case, a shareholder at the firm and I entered the case after discovery had closed; we appeared only for the limited purpose of trying the case.
In this instance, I had the lion's share of responsibility for the trial and no input on the (already completed) discovery. Such an assignment contrasts with the typical associate's discovery intensive work. The trial experience gave me a better appreciation for the role of discovery in litigation. In moments of hubris, I imagined that the factual challenges in our case-in-chief would have been remedied by the discovery that I would have served.
Trial Preparation
As trial approached, I confronted the unfamiliar feeling of preparing for an argument that I did not think that we had a very good chance of winning. I believed that my client had been wronged, but the claims were not well articulated and the time to amend the client's pro se pleadings was long past. Meditating on our chances for success at trial prompted me to consider the attorney's role as an officer of the court. Even if a (winning) plaintiff 's verdict might not have been probable, my mentor and I still had a tremendous opportunity to positively impact the trial. First, our presentation of the case could aid the Court in the efficient administration of justice. Second, we could enable our client's meaningful access to the courts. Third, by treating the jurors, the forum, the judge, the litigants, and opposing counsel with respect and courtesy, we could maintain the Southern District's standards of professionalism. Fourth, we had a chance to make a positive impression on a judge and court staff who we would likely encounter again.
" A pro bono case can be a powerfully positive step toward proficiency in essential advocacy skills."
Reflecting on the case following a defense verdict (read: a loss for our client), I believe that we did achieve some measure of the hoped for impact. Most important, our client had his day in court and his family witnessed two attorneys zealously advocating on his behalf.
Increased Confidence
I came away from my first jury trial with increased confidence in my improving skills and a greater sense of autonomy. I did not have the opportunity to interview jurors following the verdict, but I received invaluable feedback from another source. A couple of days after the trial concluded, the judge who presided over the case generously met with me to offer his impressions and critiques.
Of course, I cannot know what motivated this judge to take the time to offer his guidance. But, I suspect that the fact that I was a new member of the bar who had just completed a pro bono trial factored into the judge's willingness to share his unique insight with me. Not surprisingly, there were many areas for improvement for our discussion.
Some mistakes from this trial will not be repeated again. Next time, nothing will be left to chance with regard to witness logistics: I will re-confirm that the state corrections officers have cleared prisoner transport details with their federal counterparts. I recognize other mistakes—especially those of the courtroom technology variety—as a part of the trial lawyer's learning curve. Little else moves an inexperienced attorney along that learning curve like trying a case. Volunteering by taking a VLP case is a boon to the bar, and to your development.
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Finding an internship becomes much easier once you know what you're looking for. It's important then to spend some time thinking about what you want out the experience before you start looking. Once you do, where to look will fall into place as you realize which resources to contact, which professional groups and organizations to target, and who to see among your existing academic, professional, and student networks. The right internship will not only be a valuable experience that will allow you to expand your skills and boost your resume, but it should also be an experience you enjoy and that will help you down the line. Check out our page on finding an internship for more information on how to start your search and where to look once you do.
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BARCELONA, SPAIN — Voters in the economically powerful region of Catalonia on Sunday punished the leader who made a referendum over breaking away from Spain a central plank of his campaign, seeing his party's majority reduced by a dozen seats.
Regional president Artur Mas called the early election as part of a power struggle with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy about the size of Catalonia's contribution to national coffers. But what began as a quarrel over money turned into a test of Spain's territorial integrity.
Mas had asked the electorate to give him an absolute majority to lend weight to his Convergence and Union party's centre-right policies, including the call for a referendum. Instead, voters have left him 18 votes short and needing to form a coalition to guarantee staying in power.
His party now has 50 seats in the 135-seat regional legislature.
The second-place party is pro-referendum Republican Left, which has been very critical of Mas's austerity drive.
"The vote is fragmented but the message is clear," said Ferran Requejo, political science professor at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University. "Two-thirds of the electorate voted for parties that are in favour of calling an independence referendum, but Mas has been hit hard for his austerity policies."
Mas appeared on television to thank his party for its support and to acknowledge that it could no longer rule alone as a minority government. He also said that those who think the referendum plan had been aborted needed to do the math.
"Those who want to abort the process should take into account that they have to know how to add and subtract because the sum of the political parties in favour of the right to choose form a great majority in parliament."
Two pro-unity parties — Rajoy's Popular Party and the Catalan Ciutadans — did make modest advances, boosting their seats by seven to 28.
"For those who want a Catalonia outside Spain, matters have got worse," Popular Party spokesperson Maria Dolores de Cospedal said.
Catalonia is responsible for around a fifth of Spain's economic output, and many residents feel the central government gives back too little in recognition of the region's contribution.
Catalans have said during growing public protests that their industrialized region is being hit harder than most by austerity measures aimed at avoiding a national bailout like those needed by Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus.
Madrid has traditionally said that simplifying the state's financial model by excluding overall costs such as defence only creates a distorted image of how taxation and spending are distributed.
A rising tide of Catalan separatist sentiment was spurred when Rajoy failed to agree to Mas's proposals to lighten Catalonia's tax load and 1.5 million people turned out in Barcelona on Sept. 11 for the largest nationalist rally in the region since the 1970s.
These growing economic concerns have combined with a long-standing nationalist streak in Catalonia, which has its own cultural traditions that were harshly repressed by the military dictatorship of Francisco Franco from the end of Spain's Civil War in 1939 until Franco's death in 1975.
One of the most potent symbols of the divisions between Catalonia and the country's capital city can be seen in the bitter rivalry between the Barcelona and Real Madrid soccer clubs.
In recent years grassroots groups have held unofficial referendums on independence in towns throughout the region, while some small villages have gone to the extreme of declaring themselves "free Catalan territories."
Catalans are viewed by most Spaniards as thrifty, hardworking people, and most — not least many Catalans — have been shocked by how their regional debt has swelled to 42 billion euros ($54.4 billion) of the staggering 140-billion-euro debt ascribed to all of Spain's regional governments.
The economic crisis has highlighted the high cost of running Spain's 17 semi-autonomous regions alongside a central government. The Catalan government has had to ask for a 5-billion-euro ($6.5 million) bailout from Spain like other indebted regions.
Mas's government counters that each year it contributes 16 billion euros ($21 billion) more than it gets back from Spain. It also complains that important infrastructure projects needed to revive Spain's sick economy are being left unfunded.
Even so, many people feel they are both Catalan and Spanish, and are wary of the idea of trying to divide the country.
"We are not separatists, we want to remain part of Spain," said retired industrial designer Francisco Palau, 69, who emerged from a polling station alongside his wife. "We defend the current plurality," he said, adding that setting up a new state and government "would be very expensive."
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Pepperberry - Tasmanian
The Tasmanian pepperberry is a rare find, native to Australia and wild harvested in limited quantities. It yields a range of flavors that astound the palate- from floral to a tingly pepper bite. The first time we tasted it, we were certain that we were being dazzled by a wonderful blend when in fact it was simply the one pepperberry.
The spectrum of flavors in these pepperberries emerge easily into aioli, sauces, honey, cocktails, and vinegarettes; along with a bit of a pink/purple hue. They can be used in place of black pepper in all the usual ways, but with a very light hand. We really love them infused into vodka, but you can also try them in soups and stews or sprinkled on your favorite cut of meat. Adventurous palates are encouraged to try it in Macerated Berries.
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The ancient Adena and Hopewell Native-American tribes of North America are more properly described not as tribes but as cultures. These designations refer to two different cultures, separated by hundreds of years, but both inhabiting the same region around present-day Ohio and sharing certain cultural traits. Often known as "the mound builders," both erected earthen structures for religious, ceremonial and burial purposes.
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The Adena culture thrived from about 1000 B.C. to about 100 B.C. in the present-day Central Ohio Valley. They also were found in nearby areas that today include portions of Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The people of this culture were primarily hunters and gatherers of food, but did engage in limited farming. Based on archaeological discoveries, we know they were excellent potters and very artistic sculptors who developed an intricate network of trading. The funeral ceremony of ordinary Adena people required cremation of the body. However, their celebrated deceased were buried underneath earthen mounds.
These people lived primarily in present-day southern Ohio along the Ohio River from about 100 A.D. to about 500 A.D., but also established communities in the valleys of the Miami, Muskingum and Scioto rivers. The Hopewell tribes are believed to have been effective farmers, growing a number of crops such as squash, sunflower, goosefoot, and maygrass They also were excellent hunters and fishermen. In many ways, their culture was a more advanced reflection of their Adena forebears. The practice of building mounds is but one example.The mounds built by the Hopewell were larger than those of the Adena and more ornate, incorporating shells, pigments, and exquisite sculptures and pottery.
There are three basic differences between these two peoples. The first and the most obvious are the periods in which they lived. The second involves the more advance mound technology exhibited by the Hopewell. The third is that the Hopewell were established farmers who hunted only seasonally, while their Adena ancestors were primarily hunter-gatherers.
There are a few less significant differences: The Hopewell were more adept at using the natural resources around them to create more significant mounds. The Hopewell were also far more artistic in building their mounds. They also mined and used mica to create highly artistic carvings, such as the 'Mica Hand'–precisely carved from a piece of mica nearly a foot long–which points at a far more advanced technology.
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Meanwhile, new additions to the cast include Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, John C Reilly and Ford, who recently shot a cameo appearance as a "legendary newscaster". Asked whether he enjoyed working with Anchorman 2's formidable cast of comedy actors, Ford told Entertainment Tonight: "It was bizarre. They weren't all in the scene I did. It was just what's his name and the applesauce girl."
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Walking and Cycling in the Canterbury district
There are numerous walks around the Canterbury area taking you through beautiful countryside and coastlines and you can also follow part of the route of the Canterbury Pilgrims. There are accessible walks for wheelchairs and pushchairs, long or short, flat or hilly and suitable for all levels of fitness. For more walking routes around the district take a look at the Active Canterbury website.
North of the city is the award winning Crab and Winkle Way. This mostly traffic free, seven mile cycling and walking route is based on an old railway line running between Canterbury and Whitstable. It's safe for children and provides a perfect place to picnic along the way in the heart of one of England's oldest forests.
On the eastern side of Herne Bay, you will discover Reculver Towers, the site of a Roman Fort built to guard the Wantsum Channel that once divided Thanet from the rest of Kent. The contrast of the nearby rugged countryside and open seascape makes for a bracing walk along the sea defence wall that's certain to blow the cobwebs away.
Bring your bike or hire one and explore our beautiful district. Enjoy the breathtaking views and feel the wind in your hair as you travel around the eco friendly way. Stop for lunch in a country pub; you've earnt it! For more cycle routes around the district take a look at the Active Canterbury website.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
When my Father served in the Royal Artillery during WW2 in Egypt he asked a local who did odd jobs for them, what are you doing tonight?
It was Saturday and the usual was a trip into Port Said, a few (or a lot of) beers and back.
The Egyptian said 'Effendi, I'm going to have a boy'.
Imagine the culture shock as this directness hit a straight laced 1940's Englishman in the kisser?
So, not abashed for too long my Dad asked why not a woman? The place, after all was teeming with brothels.
With that the man leered, circled left finger and thumb and prodded the resultant hole with his right forefinger, 'nice and tight' was the answer.
So there it is. Quite open. Quite legal or maybe blind eye legal. Male brothels full of Egyptian minors just ripe for the Saturday night fun and games.
He hardly talked of the War.
Snippets of the opening barrage at El-Alemain, Benghazi Harbour and the Stuka attacks, Mersa Matruh, a very slight forearm wound from a bomb fragment, shaving in water drained from the truck radiator, the constant repetition of bully beef, the flies and sand which got everywhere and that was it.
But he remembered that Saturday night.
Probably to him it could well have been the worst thing of the War.
The pleasure units that Allah provided for the believers are substandard. The Best of Compactors, bid'ah-bid'ah bing and it's all good.
As long as that Egyptian didn't marry one of the boy's female relatives, it's all halal.
Child rape, girl or boy, is rampant in Islam. Bestiality is also broadly indulged in. We don't need them here except the Christians.
This reminds me Oriana Fallacci on Arafat slobbering. She described it during the interviews, her nonstop shudders when recounted his frantic sucking, more a compulsion than a tendency, wetting his partners faces.
These people seem to suffer from sadomasochistic fixation; they can not overcome. That constant mix of pleasure and pain turned out to be an accurate prognosis for the region….It would be wonderful to have a mega therapy for this early fixation, maybe an unsolved attachment to their own body holes a source of milk and blood, life and death.
I feel almost the same way about Mohammed Morsi, only instead of kissing him I'd express my affection with a hard punch to his big jihadist schnozz.
The only mistake the Egyptian Army made was not putting a bullet in Morsi's head on Day One. I still think they may come to regret that.
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I think we may be talking past each other. For the record I'm well aware of the reputation of Gonzales' serve. The only reason why I've been reluctant to give him an honorary mention is that, unlike with Tilden, Vines and Kramer, I've met a few people here and elsewhere who have seen Gonzales play. If possible I'm hoping to give at least Gonzales, Newcombe and Tanner reasonable rankings.
And speaking of Newcombe, care to estimate where he ranks on the list?
IIRC Laver himself has spoken highly of Fraser's serve, but not quite in such superlatives. Do you know anyone other than Hoad who held it in such high regard? I think Fraser may deserve an honorary mention himself.
Here's the '60 Wimbledon final between Fraser and Laver, which the taller lefty (Fraser) won:
I'm not sure if you're trying to rank players all time or you're leaning toward players of recent years. Gonzalez has been mentioned by many greats as the all time best server and I'm not sure if in his time and even past his prime he wasn't considered the greatest server in the world. Vic Braden thought Gonzalez's service form was virtually perfect.
Newcombe is clearly one of the all time top servers. I was at a match in 1973 where he played Jimmy Connors, who in retrospect was already probably the best returner in the world. Now bearing in mind it was on a grass surface where it's harder to return, Connors didn't break Newcombe's serve once in three sets. If you combine that with his great kick second serve he clearly had one of the best service games in tennis history. Where he ranks I'm not sure but my gut is that he is in the top ten, maybe top five.
I have to think up names of all time server through tennis history to really know.
Fraser has been named by many to be a really great server but frankly I'm not sure how he ranks. He clearly was considered at worst one of the great servers.
I've also seen Tanner play and just from the impression of pure power and speed on a serve Tanner is up there with anyone I've seen. I am not sure exactly how he would rank all time because frankly my memory of his serving in person is no longer fresh in my mind. If memory serves (no pun intended) Tanner even set the speed record for official serving when he was on the Senior Tour in the early 1990's with I think 135 miles per hour, which was higher than the ATP speed record at the time by one mile per hour. He was timed at 153 miles per hour years earlier but I do have doubts about that since the equipment for timing the speed was more primitive in those days. He was fun to watch just for the serving alone and I remember at the US Open one year against Borg, Tanner knocked down the net with the power of his serve! Now perhaps the net was defective but I've never seen that before and I've never seen it since. My feeling with Tanner is that he doesn't really make the top ten because I don't think he had the variety of some players like a Newcombe or a Kramer or a Gonzalez.
When we look at serves obviously we don't just look at the speed of a flat serve but the variety of serves and the placement. One of the reasons Pete Sampras had such a great serve was not only the great speed but the variety of serves from the same toss. His second serve obviously had great penetration. I saw a tennis article comparing Pete Sampras' serve and Greg Rusedski's serve. I believe the article had Pete's serve and Greg's serve come off the racket at about the same same speed (Rusedski's may have been faster) but the revolutions per serve by Sampras was much faster so went the ball bounced Sampras' serve retained more speed and reached the receiver much quicker and therefore Pete's serve was more effective. I wonder if Sampras' serve in this way isn't similar to Newcombe's serve, ie I mean it was loaded with heavy spin and could knock the racket out of your hand.
Many old timers used to raved about a lefty server named John Doeg, who won the US Championship from what they say mainly on his almost unbreakable serve. I think Don Budge said the players called it John Doeg's egg ball because the ball resembled an egg when it came off his racket. Here's what Budge said about it in his ball "Don Budge-A Tennis Memoir"--
The players referred to it as "John's egg-ball." Besides, when Doeg's serve in the ad court bounced, it would fly crazily off to the side, and no man could chase it down. If you did manage to get the ball back, just reaching the return carried you so far out of the court that there was no chance you could make it back in time to get Doeg's return. However, since John had little more proclivity for return serve than losing serve, all his matches were forever running to 18-16. You never broke Doeg's serve. You outlasted it.
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Jeff Cobb, co-author of 2011´s provocative Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming K-12 Education, has released a new book focused on empowering adult lifelong learners. In 10 Ways to Be a Better Learner, Cobb provides practical tips and guidance to help readers make sense, learn, and grow in our information-overloaded, hyper-connected world.
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Trade in the impoverished country, under the iron rule of the Kim family for more than 60 years, stood at an all-time high since records were first kept in 1990. North Korea does not release economic data. The Bank of Korea across the border is the only official government entity that provides estimates about the economic performance of the North.
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When the makers of the da Vinci surgical robot asked University of Illinois doctors to appear in a national advertising campaign, their Chicago hospital saw an opportunity to promote its expertise with the device.
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Instead of gaining national publicity for being leaders in robotic surgery, the doctors and the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System are under scrutiny for endorsing a commercial product, a possible violation of U. of I. policy.
The Tribune also found that some doctors pictured in the ad did not initially disclose their financial ties to the company that makes the robot, Intuitive Surgical Inc., as required by the university's policies on conflicts of interest.
Intuitive selected the doctors to observe and monitor use of the device at other hospitals, work for which they were paid. The doctors disclosed that information only after the ad was published and the Tribune requested annual disclosure forms. One surgeon received about $16,000 in the most recent one-year reporting period.
For patients, the doctors' participation in the ad and the lack of transparency raise questions about whether their physicians can offer objective advice when discussing robotic surgery as compared with other options.
"Now that your doctor is a spokesperson for a particular company or a particular product, how do you know that you're going to get advice and recommendations that are really what is best for you?" said Columbia University professor Susan Chimonas, who studies the relationship between physicians and the medical industry.
The full-page ad, which ran in The New York Times Magazine on Jan. 19, shows a dozen U. of I. employees, dressed in white lab coats, with the caption: "We believe in da Vinci Surgery because our patients benefit."
The names of the hospital and the doctors appear in smaller type above the employees.
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Debating 'Citizens United'
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What is it about the Citizens United case that seems to drive so many of its learned critics close to the edge? What is it that now drives my friend Burt Neuborne, a most sophisticated legal observer, to wind up sounding somewhat more like Lady Chatterley's gamekeeper than the esteemed scholar he is?
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The Citizens United campaign finance decision makes it possible for the nation's most powerful economic interests to manipulate not just individual electoral contests but political discourse itself.
It certainly shouldn't be the impact of the ruling on the 2010 midterm elections. As the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan research organization, concluded, "Party and non-party spending to help competitive Democrats and Republicans was about equal across the board. As a result, neither set of expenditures could be said to have tipped the electoral balance."
Nor should Burt be so agitated at the notion that for-profit corporations have First Amendment rights. That was not only well established in the law for many years before Citizens United—again, Justice Kennedy cited twenty-five prior cases in his opinion in which corporations had received full First Amendment rights—but has been essential to the protection of such rights for all.
Burt would limit such rights only to "press" entities. A free press is essential to a free society. But as Justice William Brennan, no slouch in defending First Amendment rights, repeated in an opinion he wrote twenty-five years ago, "The inherent worth of...speech in terms of its capacity for informing the public does not depend upon the identity of its source, whether corporation, association, union, or individual." Justice John Paul Stevens, the author years later of the dissent in Citizens United, joined that opinion, which also rejected out of hand the notion that "speakers other than the press deserve lesser First Amendment protection." Brennan and Stevens (then) were right; Burt isn't.
In the end, though, the issue isn't what speech Burt or I would allow. Or even what speech the Supreme Court should protect. It's what power Congress should have over speech. The McCain-Feingold law and other legislation held unconstitutional in Citizens United contained sweeping bans on speech. They made criminal, as Justice Kennedy pointed out, a Sierra Club ad within sixty days of an election condemning a member of Congress who favored logging in national parks. They barred unions from publishing pamphlets endorsing candidates for president. A ruling that protects such speech should be celebrated, not mocked.
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Not even Floyd Abrams, one of the best lawyers I know, can defend Citizens United. Floyd notes, correctly, that the case does not prevent Congress from requiring disclosure of corporate election expenditures. He fails to note, though, that Congress attempted to do just that but was blocked on a 59-39 Republican Senate filibuster vote. Thirty-nine senators representing a minority of the population are enough to prevent disclosure of corporate election spending. What are the odds that a wholly owned Congress dependent on massive corporate financial support will find sixty votes in the Senate for disclosure?
Floyd argues that First Amendment concern by liberals about corporate election speech isn't new. He cites Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act and liberal justices' (unsuccessful) efforts to protect speech by the CIO and the UAW. He assumes that the First Amendment rights of unions and corporations are joined at the hip. But unions are free associations of individuals who join together to advance their economic and political interests. A union's money comes from its members' dues. If support for a union is required by law, a dissenter is entitled to a refund for any speech with which he or she disagrees. But corporations derive their funds from market transactions having nothing to do with politics. When you put gas in your car or buy a beer, do you think you are making a political contribution? If individuals associated with corporations want to form voluntary associations analogous to unions, that's fine—as long as they use their own money.
The twenty-five prior cases cited by Floyd allegedly recognizing corporate speech rights deal solely with commercial speech designed to flog a corporation's products or to the right of the press to carry on its constitutionally protected activities. Just because we let corporations sell soap and own newspapers doesn't mean we have to turn our democracy over to them.
Finally, Floyd plays the lawyer's trump—the ad horrendum argument—warning that corporate-financed books are next on the censorship radar. He ignores the First Amendment's press clause, which protects corporate publishers. More fundamental, though, he ignores the fact that a book needs a voluntary reader. The law struck down in Citizens United had nothing to do with books. It targeted only those forms of speech—TV and radio ads—that blast their way into your consciousness with no help from the hearer.
In the end, Citizens United licenses a small group of corporate managers to use a vast trove of other people's money to buy elections in secret, using forms of speech that cannot be easily avoided. Although 80 percent of Americans don't want to be bombarded with corporate electoral propaganda, Citizens United insists that unrestricted, massive corporate electioneering is really good for us. Even Floyd Abrams can't make that medicine go down.
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METAIRIE, La. A day after the Saints rushed for a season-high 177 yards, coach Sean Payton said they're about to get a bit more crowded in the backfield.
Last season's leading rusher Chris Ivory is set to return in two weeks after spending the opening two weeks on the physically unable to perform list while rehabilitating from sports hernia surgery and a foot injury.
'It's coming,' Payton said. 'It's, like anything else, when you get to that point you deal with it. I know he's in great shape right now. He's healthy. He has been training hard.'
Despite playing in only 12 games and starting only four, Ivory led the team with 137 carries and 716 yards. The next highest total was 269 yards by Pierre Thomas.
Ivory's return could mean fewer touches for those who began the season on the active roster.
Rookie Mark Ingram has become New Orleans' short-yardage back and hammer, carrying the ball a team-high 53 times for a team-best 184 yards. Thomas has 27 carries for 136 yards and Darren Sproles has only 15 runs, but 134 yards and a team-best 8.9 yard-per-carry average.
For the past few weeks, Ivory has been doing conditioning work while trying to stay ready for his return.
Payton said Ivory is 100 percent and could have played this past week.
He made the team as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2010 out of Tiffin College. He earned his way onto the roster with a stout preseason.
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For those who must work on vacation the units offer Wifi High Speed Internet Service.
The unit has a garage for two cars, nose to tail and common area parking. The townhomes share a common patio area which has a freshwater pool located on the beach which is heated in the winter months, and 3 gas grills. A great fishing pier is on the shore and if you don't fish it is a great spot to be over the water and enjoy the lull of the surf, breeze and views! All the units share the same great views, floorplan and interior decor and amenities. This unit is the second one from the east end of the building but still just steps from the pool.
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|Dec 31 2015
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|Jan 01 2015
|May 01 2016
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|Lodging tax: 12.5
|Deposits: $500 refundable deposit
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|Other Fees: $25 booking fee $125 cleaning
Reviews for this vacation townhouse rental in Key Colony Beach, Florida
Bob Szczypinski
Williamsburg, Va.
Beach Life at it's Best!
January 12, 2015
My wife rented this place so I had no idea of what to expect. When we checked in I couldn't believe that I was staying there! Pretty awesome place! Nice big 2-car deep garage underneath, & the upstairs accomodations were like being at home. Pool was 4 or 5 steps down from our living room. We had 3 adjacent apartments, #6, #7 & #8. Just a couple small complaints. The one we were in (#7) had a modem problem, kept going on & off, but we didn't tell anybody about it, just kept rebooting the thing. If I had to make one complaint it'd be that they should do regular walk-throughs to check things out as ours needed new fluorescent bulbs in the garage, but again we didn't make any complaints, just dealt with it. Also, I noticed that every single sliding door latch on the side/stationary doors was broken so that those doors really wouldn't lock., just the middle latch worked between the 2 doors that you always travel through. I'm surprised because in the case of a big storm or hurricane the side doors could possibly be ajar & let some rain/water in if it was blowing sideways in the right direction. Other than that it couldn't have been nicer! We would/probably will stay there again. Oh yeah, one more thing, the water to the toilet on the main floor sang without any particular pattern. At first I thought it was just when you ran the water in that bathroom, but sometimes it would just start making its noise without any water having been run. Other than these few small things everything was great.
Joe Pryby
January 1, 2015
If I Wanted To Be Nit Picky I Could Have Found Things But I Said The Hell With It...... With The Weather And The Town House I Could Have Stayied There For Almost The Whole Winter And Summer............. The Cost And What We Received Was Just Super Better Than Going To The Islands............. Would I Go Back ? In A Heart Beat........... Looking Fot A Super Place To Stay Try It You Will Not Be Disappointed....................... What Else Can I Say , It's Just Ausome....................


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LEEK Town have cancelled Sunday's friendly against Hereford United – less than 24 hours after publicising the fixture.
A host of Hereford United supporters took to Twitter last night urging Leek to cancel the fixture over the crisis at Edgar Street.
Leek join, among others, Gloucester City and Plymouth Argyle, Ledbury Town, Pegasus Juniors and Worcester Raiders in turning down matches against United's triallists.
However, Hereford travelled to Bolton and secured a 16-0 win over minnows Eagley FC last Saturday in a match switched at the 11th hour to a 'private facility'.
Hereford United's former players, management and staff are owed outstanding wages from last season, despite Tommy Agombar taking over the club at the end of May.
And Hereford United Supporters Trust, London Bulls and Scottish Bulls have voted in favour of a boycott at home matches at Edgar Street.
A statement posted on Leek Town Football Club's website this morning says: "We were approached to play the fixture and agreed, being unaware of the issues currently surrounding the club and its supporters.
"Having now had the opportunity to review the situation, it was decided that it would be in the best interests of all concerned that the match does not go ahead.
"We hope that sometime in the future we will be able to welcome Hereford United to Harrison Park for a pre-season friendly when the club are truly 'United' again and wish the club and their supporters well in resolving the current issues of this historic club."


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Triangular love
His first film Paadum Vanampadi (1985), based on the superhit Hindi film Disco Dancer, ran for a record 250 days. While his second film is still in the cans, director M. Jayakumar has just completed Jamai. A musical family entertainer, Jamai has six songs composed by Dheena. "In this triangular love story, the hero Navin is a drummer in a college band in which Vyjayanthi and Uday are singers. There are many twists in the lives of these youngsters. The story moves from their college to their professional lives where they bump into one another frequently. The songs are a crucial part of the screenplay, conveying the mood of each situation and taking the story forward in a dynamic way," says Jayakumar.
A thrilling sequel
Samrajyam (1990) was a mega hit gangster film in Malayalam for Mammooty who played Alexander, a don. The film's Tamil version also went on to do brisk business. A sequel to it is being made in Malayalam and Tamil, helmed by director Perarasu. Keeping with his tradition of naming films with places starting with T, Perarasu has selected Tihar as the title for this sequel. "In the second part, Alexander's son returns from abroad to carry on the nefarious activities of his father. This will be the king of all action films for I have ensured that the fight and action sequences are very exciting. We recently shot a thrilling fight sequence between the hero Mukundan, who plays the son, and Riyaz Khan," says Perarasu, who has shot Tihar in Dubai and Mumbai apart from other cities.
Love despite odds
The story is set in a remote village and takes place in a span of 10 years from 1990. To lend authenticity to the location, director Gopu Balaji did most of the shoot in a village that retains its old-world charm near Chidambaram. "Is falling in love a crime? Why does society discourage romantic liaisons? Paranjothy is a story about those who surmount opposition to discover true love," says Gopu. Sarathy plays the central character Paranjothy, who wants to lead a peaceful life with a woman he loves passionately. Sanusha plays his love interest. "People in the city may be liberal towards young couples in love. But, the attitude is by and large disapproving in villages. Hopefully, Paranjothy will help change this perception and make life better for future generations," feels Gopu.
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In the fee-for-service realm, such differences of opinion often involve debate over who will pay for a service already provided. In a capitated health plan, however, these disputes generally occur before a service is rendered. Because the appeals process, discussed below, is often not understood and is always lengthy, an HMO's denial of coverage may result in the service not being provided. In some cases, by the time that an appeal is decided in favor of an enrollee, the service, such as short-term rehabilitation, may no longer provide benefit (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1995a).
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SAO PAULO (AFP) - World football chief Sepp Blatter vowed to fight critics trying to "destroy" Fifa on Monday as he launched a staunch defence of his scandal-tainted organisation.
Speaking before delegates of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in Sao Paulo ahead of Fifa's 64th Congress, Mr Blatter called for unity against people he described as the "destroyers" of Fifa.
"Show unity and confirm this unity, it's the best way to reply to all the destructors in the world," Mr Blatter said.
"They want to destroy, not the game, but they want to destroy the institution, because our institution is too strong," he added.
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Martin Nievera apologizes for tweeting vs network execs
The actor said publicizing his feelings was a mistake
Singer/TV host Martin Nievera turned to social networking site Twitter last week to express his "sadness" over ABS-CBN's alleged lack of support for his Friday talk show, "Martin Late @ Night." Slated for 13 episodes, the show, which started airing on March 1, had reportedly not been extended.
On his account, @4eversinging4u, on April 30, Martin said: "You can't blame me if I'm not rating like the prime-time shows if you don't support me like you support them. No band, no live audience? How?"
He continued in another tweet: "I know I am no 'teleserye' or noontime show. But if I had [that much] support I would last longer. [I] can't stay in the fight alone. So sad."
Asked why he felt so dejected, Martin told the Inquirer via e-mail that he wasn't receiving feedback from the network bosses regarding his concerns about the show. "I blame no one… but I wasn't getting any reaction from the people upstairs."
Another reason that he ranted about "Martin Late @ Night's" looming end, he said, was he had high hopes for it: "I wanted it to be the station's 'good night' show… My ultimate goal was to guest fellow Kapamilyas. I wanted to give each of them their own special."
His pointing out the lack of a live band and audience on the set, he continued, was not a complaint. "It was just my way of saying that, even without all those perks, we were doing fine," insisted Martin, who hosted similar shows in the past, including "Martin Late @ Nite," "Martin After Dark" and "Penthouse Live!"
Martin said he now knew that making his feelings public was a mistake. A friend, acting as a middleman, told him that he had ruffled some feathers in the network's management.
"In my poor attempt to make sure that everyone watches the show's last episodes and impress my bosses, I instead hurt their feelings," Martin lamented. "I honor every friendship I make, especially in this unfriendly business. So, if I hurt feelings… during my 'open-heart surgery,' I apologize."
Was he worried that his outburst might jeopardize his prospects for more ABS-CBN projects in the future? "Of course," he said. "In show biz, everything matters… I just hope this won't affect anything, especially our precious friendship."
Martin said he was very happy to have hosted the show despite the limited time given it. He said he looked forward to getting the script every taping day.
"This feels more natural than anything else that I do on television," he said. "I will forever be grateful to ABS-CBN for giving me this show."
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Robot is good for both patient and doctor
In 2010, the group published a paper in the Journal of Radiology Nursing that cited six recent studies that documented "what appears to be an epidemic of orthopedic injuries" related to a career spent wearing heavy lead-lined protective gear.
In one study from 2004, for example, nearly half of 424 respondents to a survey by the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions reported spine problems, nearly double the rate observed in the overall adult population. A quarter of those surveyed "reported problems related to their hips, knees or ankles." The authors wrote that in some cases, these orthopedic problems had ended careers.
The effects of receiving regular doses of X-ray radiation over 20 to 30 years are less clear. The 2010 paper said while there are plenty of studies showing that increased exposure can lead to higher rates of cataracts, cancers and possibly other diseases, "no firm conclusions could be reached regarding increased rates of radiation-associated diseases."
But researchers are starting to look more closely at cancer in this population of medical specialists. A 2013 paper in the American Journal of Cardiology found that of 26 cases of brain cancer in longtime cardiologists and radiologists, 22 of them occurred on the left side of the head.
That paper, written by Dr. Ariel Roguin, head of interventional cardiology at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, notes that the left side is "known to be more exposed to radiation and least protected by traditional shielding."
More research needed
Chambers, with the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, said while the paper's results are interesting, they are also anecdotal.
"It's not as scientific reporting as we would like, but the findings are disconcerting," Chambers said.
He said work is underway to do a much larger retrospective study of many more doctors to see if there is deeper and broader evidence of high cancer rates among cardiologists regularly exposed to radiation in the course of their daily duties.
"It's really kind of amazing that we have such excellent databases for patient outcomes but not nearly as much data for physicians," Chambers said.
And it's not as if the industry has been ignoring the radiation-exposure problem. Advances have been made, Chambers said, in shielding and other radiation-limiting procedures. The ability to take the doctor away from the bedside, he said, brings obvious benefits.
"If you're not wearing lead. If you're sitting down somewhere where there is no dose, those are obvious benefits," he said.
Chambers also noted that doctors are only one part of larger angioplasty teams. Other team members, he noted, are also exposed.
"It's important to see that there are still other staff walking around the room wearing lead," he said.
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Need a warm place to chill on a winter's day?
Owners of the Chesapeake Lofts are opening their doors to visitors Saturday.
Residents can tour more than two dozen lofts, scope out home decorating ideas, and enjoy appetizers and entertainment during "Chillin' at the Chessie," an event benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of Erie County.
The tour provides an opportunity to showcase an array of unique condominiums under one roof, said Lou Hibbard, a real estate agent and resident of the lofts.
"Every time we've opened this place to the public, the response has been positive because it's just so beautiful," said Hibbard, who was hired several years ago to sell the condominiums with her husband, Don.
Hibbard, a former French teacher, said they were happy to open their doors to benefit an organization that helps children.
Local artist King Baer, whose loft is on the tour, showcases nautical items and framed pieces of his artwork from his days on the presidential yacht, "Sequoia." He also has a collection of Hinde and Dauch memorabilia reminiscent of the early days of the factory that now houses the condominiums.
Bill Ehrnsberger, board president of the Boys & Girls Club of Erie County, said he was amazed at how spacious the lofts are inside.
"We had a hard time narrowing down the units for our tour -- they are all incredible," Ehrnsberger said in a prepared statement.
The lofts were selected based on their variety of decorating styles and the distinct views each offers.
The $15 admission to "Chillin' at the Chessie" includes the tour as well as appetizers, desserts and a coffee bar. There will also be a cash bar, a pianist playing the third-floor grand piano, and the Boys & Girls Club choir singing on the first and second floors.
WHAT: Chillin' at the Chessie
WHERE: Chesapeake Lofts, 401 Shoreline Drive, Sandusky
WHEN: 4-7:30 p.m. Saturday
COST: $15 which includes the tour, appetizers, desserts and a coffee bar. The event benefits the Boys & Girls Club of Erie County.
Tickets are available at the Boys & Girls Club's downtown unit at 431 Columbus Ave. or by calling the club at (419) 624-9250 or (419) 357-5331.