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'Game of Thrones' deals in betrayals both great and small in Sunday night's riveting episode.
[Spoilers for both the show and the books follow. You've been warned.]
Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones reminded me why I loved the third book in George R. R. Martin's series, A Song of Ice and Fire, so much. A Storm of Swords serves as the inspiration for both this season and next in HBO's excellent adaptation. It's the best book in the saga, and it's leading to some of the best television you're likely to encounter on a Sunday evening.
This last episode in particular had so many great moments. Some of these were moments from the book—Dany's sleek con-job over the slave-masters and her freeing of the Unsullied, or the betrayal of the Lord Commander north of the Wall—and others were only mentioned two books later, such as Theon's agonizing moment of freedom, and the sudden realization that the man who'd saved him was in fact his worst tormentor.
Last week I guessed that the mysterious "boy" who freed Theon could only be one man: Ramsay Snow, the bastard of Bolton. This week, while he remains unnamed, I think my theory is pretty obviously correct.
Moment of smugness aside, what a truly terrifying turn of events for Theon, and what awesome television for us.
Rescued not once, but twice, by this man who claims to be an Iron Islander, who claims to have watched Theon sail away long years ago on Ned Stark's ship—only to be betrayed, returned to his prison and to his torture.
It's awful, but it goes a long way toward establishing Ramsay as a villain far more cruel than even Joffrey Baratheon. More cruel and more dangerous, too, not only because he's a wildcard, but because he's a highly skilled killer. He's not just wicked and insane, he's truly dangerous, and truly without hope of redemption.
I'm glad the show didn't allow Theon to simply disappear for the next couple of seasons like he does in the books, only to resurface in his world of pain and misery and utter loss of self. Theon's transformation will be more powerful this way, even though I can't pretend to relish the thought of watching what comes next.
This was also an episode that lingered on Varys, the Spider, the master of spies—a man whose motives in all of this remain (in the show, at least) rather opaque. Varys gets two terrific scenes against two of the wittier characters currently residing in King's Landing: Tyrion Lannister and the Queen of Thorns.
To Tyrion he tells the story of how he became a eunuch. A wizard in Myr did it, in order to conjure some demon, some voice. From there, Varys went from bloodied street urchin to one of the most powerful—or rather influential—people in the world. Influential enough to find that wizard and have him delivered decades later to this very room.
It's a nice twist on the scene as Varys lifts the crate's lid to reveal his old enemy within, especially after Tyrion's snarky comments on "actual revenge." Varys is full of surprises.
Of course, he does seem a bit surprised by Olenna Redwyne, the Queen of Thorns, and the matriarch of House Tyrell. Affectation? Perhaps. Whatever the case, the Spider and the Lady Redwyne begin their plotting to marry off Sansa Stark to Loras Tyrell, Renly's former lover. The Tyrells obviously stand to gain a great deal from this marriage, but Varys's motives, again, remain behind the veil.
(I'd love a real one-on-one scene between Varys and Tywin, by the way. Since we're privy to new points of view in the show as opposed to the books, I really think this could be a gold mine.)
The episode itself was named for Lord Mormont, the Old Bear, whose end in the Night's Watch comes in a dramatic betrayal at the hands of his own brothers. It's both foreshadowing of things to come much later, and a reminder that the Watch is mostly comprised of thieves, rapists, and killers rather than honorable old men or the bastards of noble lords.
I thought the scene was well done, though the entire flight south to the Wall has been too slow-paced and so it came after too much dawdling about at Craster's keep. If I could remake one thing about the end of Season 2 and the beginning of Season 3, it would be the happenings north of the Wall. The fight at the Fist of the First Men wasn't even shown. The flight south felt more like a slow march. The Watch doesn't feel as beat up or hungry as they ought to, and nowhere close to mutiny.
It was surprising in the books when the men turned against Mormont, killed him and many others. Sam's escape was just another desperate moment in a long string of desperate events. In the show, it's all been rather less exciting, though this scene was beautifully handled.
Along the same lines, I really don't think the White Walkers have been handled well at all in the show. They're not mysterious or particularly frightening. You get the sense that there's some bad zombie things out in the woods, but you don't really get a feel for how…important they are. Maybe that's intentional. I'm not sure yet. I do wonder how upcoming events will play out.
On the other hand, I'm quite taken by the Brotherhood without Banners. We meet Beric Dondarrion again and are reminded that Ned Stark sent him to go bring Gregor Clegane to justice way back in Season 1, when we didn't suspect that this knight Stark was giving orders to would be important.
He is, though, as is Thoros of Myr, the Red Priest. I think the entire Brotherhood, but especially Thoros, have been brought to life in the show in ways the books never quite managed.
We have Sandor "The Hound" Clegane and Arya Stark in the confines of their hospitality now, and really I couldn't have imagined any of it better than this. The Hound is crude but sympathetic, a dog of war to be sure, but not so cruel or merciless as his brother or the king.
Dondarrion is Robin Hood with an eye-patch, and Thoros is Friar Tuck. But they're more than that.
Viewers may not have caught the significance of Thoros just yet, but he's a priest of the same god worshiped by the Red Lady, Melisandre. Unlike Melisandre, whose penchant for giving birth to shadow demon-assassins and burning men alive makes her rather hard to like, Thoros seems a jovial sort. He's certainly chosen to follow the One True God in a very different capacity than Melisandre.
The scenes between Jaime and Brienne also feel right. Good and strong and solid like they were in the book, with a weird and unexpected bond forming between the two. Not a grudging admiration, necessarily, but a true respect that travels both ways. And we, the audience, find ourselves surprised as well, by how much we've begun to like this man who threw Bran Stark from a tower.
The things we do for love….
Which brings us to Dany, who finally, finally gets her chance to shine. And shine she does, in a bloody, vengeful moment of death and destruction and betrayal. There's that word again, running its thread through each event in Sunday night's episode.
Tyrion seeks to find the truth of his betrayal on the battlefield. Ros betrays Littlefinger, spying on her employer for Varys. The Old Bear is betrayed by his own sworn brothers, stabbed quite literally in the back.
Smaller betrayals, too. Lady Margaery's clever manipulation of Joffrey. Tywin's brusque dismissal of Cersei the moment she makes herself vulnerable to him.
And Theon's betrayals—both of Ned Stark ("I chose wrong," he admits, tearfully, when recounting his sacking of Winterfell—and at the cruel hands of Ramsay Bolton.
Dany's betrayal feels better than any of these. She betrays the slave masters of Astapor, turning the Unsullied's spears against them and burning the chief slaver with her dragon.
So much good stuff in this episode, it's hard not to ramble on. I've rarely been so engaged with the show as I was tonight.
P.S. It just occurred to me that the reason "Reek" wasn't introduced in Season 2 was so that Ramsay could be introduced to us this way in Season 3. Given the story arc of both Ramsay and Theon, this actually works quite well since the show, unlike the books, isn't sending Theon's story into hibernation.


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PURE OIL CO. v. SUAREZ
- 1960-1969
Legal provision: 28 U.S.C. 1391
Argument of Eberhard P. Deutsch
Chief Justice Earl Warren: Number 692 Pure Oil Company Petitioner, versus Pascual Suarez.
Mr. Deutsch?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Mr. Chief Justice may it please the Court.
This was an action instituted by a seaman who was a resident of the northern district of Florida against the petitioner here, the respondent below, Pure Oil Company instituted under the Jones Act in the southern district of Florida in which the petitioner, Pure Oil Company does business.
It is however an Ohio Corporation with its principal office in the northern district of Illinois.
At this point I should like briefly to trace a phase of the legislative history of the Jones Act which strangely has never been discussed in any of the decisions in this or any other cases involving anything in the nature of the issue here presented.
It has been stated frequently that the purpose of the Jones Act was to expand the rights of seamen and I think that is true except in the point here at issue on which the legislative history demonstrates that it was expressly and clearly intended to restrict the venue of seaman's actions under the Jones Act.
That the statute in the course of its enactment was part of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 and the Jones Act itself was the creature of Senator Wesley Jones of the State of Washington who proposed it to give seamen the right of action for negligent, the sort of common law right of action in federal and state courts to be governed, as it came out originally, by the provisions of a Federal Employers Liability Act.
The house objected to that latter provision insofar as venue was concerned because the Federal Employers Liability Act provides for venue in any jurisdiction in which the respondent is doing business.
After three or in the course of three-senate house conferences the position of the house of representatives was to accepted for the senate conferees and the statute was enacted to provide that only the Court of the residence or of the principal office of the respondent should have jurisdiction as it is called and now that has been held to mean venue.
I repeat that that restrictive provision in the statute, the legislative history regarding that, has never been mentioned by any court so far as I know in this or in any of the other cases and there have been several, three at least, involving the precise point at issue here.
It was discussed.
It was put in the briefs.
It was put in application for rehearing in the Court below in this case.
It was argued.
It was presented and the matter was not mentioned.
Now until 1948 with the revision, general revision of the judicial code, the word residence was taken to mean with regard to corporate entities the state of incorporation.
In the overall revision of the judicial code in that year which expounded the term it was given in effect meaning to apply to any jurisdiction to any district in which the respondent did business.
Justice William J. Brennan: Well that you referred, it applied to [Inaudible] that would put it on the same basis as FELA's, is that right?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: That's correct.
Justice William J. Brennan: As you mentioned?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: That's correct.
That's why I mentioned –
Justice William J. Brennan: The 1948 statute is more a general application, is that right?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: The 1948 statute is the general judicial code 1391 (c) which does provide without question and unequivocally that the term residence for venue purposes shall be taken to include any district in which the respondent corporation is licensed to do or is doing business.
Justice William J. Brennan: But your proposition is going to be not so as the Jones Act?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Right.
That is my proposition.
Justice William J. Brennan: Yes.
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Now, this Court has had a case to consider that question with regard to a somewhat similar and somewhat different provision of the judicial code itself dealing with patent litigation which also provides a specific venue within which patent litigation may be instituted.
As it stood prior to 1948, it provided for immediate purposes in any district of which the defendant is an inhabitant.
Justice William J. Brennan: Is that code you're --
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Pardon?
Justice William J. Brennan: What code you're --
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: 1400 (b)
Justice William J. Brennan: No, I mean the Fourco decision.
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Fourco, Fourco Glass.
Now in the overall revision of the judicial code they were inhabitant in the patent section which changed to residence that is the same statute which provided in 1391 (c) that the term residence for venue purposes should be taken as meaning let us say in an over simplification any district in which the corporation does business.
So that by the same statute the word inhabitant in the patent section was changed to residence and the term residence and another part of that same statute was said to mean such and such for venue purposes.
Now this Court nevertheless held in that Fourco case that the general statute did not change the special venue provision with regard to patent cases.
The ratio decidendi of the court below, the Fifth Circuit in this case, is expressed in its postulate and I quote, that there is a shocking inconsistency in a rule of law which permits a corporation to maintain the regular establishment – a regular established place of business in the district, but allows the corporation to insist on a trial of the factual issues in the district in which it is incorporated or in which its principal office is located.
The Fourth Circuit has reached the same conclusion as the Fifth in a recent case decided just two or three months ago.
In United Fruit case they reversed the District Court and they held much to the same of fact that there would be that that principle for which I stand here at the time at this moment would be obviously unfair.
Now, we submit that that is a matter for Congress to determine and not for this Court in light of the other factors involved.
But I do say that (a) the legislative history of that provision of the Jones Act has never been mentioned, that it has a specific restrictive effect, that in calling this shockingly unfair these courts forget that for 30 years that was an unchallenged rule laid down by the Congress as a result of this legislative history, it couldn't have been so shockingly unfair and that in the Fourco case this Court held that no changes in the policy were to be presumed, then they quoted Professor Morris stating that the – as I read him and this Court apparently read it the same way that the venue provisions were not intended special venue provisions as I read it were not intended to be changed by the overall general provision of the judicial code.
In the Third Circuit, the court has specifically followed the position which we have presented that is that the Fourco case compels a holding that the general venue provision of the 1948 code does not supersede the special venue provision of the Jones Act.
And we simply submit, and may it please the Court that this is a matter for the Congress to determine with regards to the questions of say forum shopping or others because in modern times briefly this does not apply simply to two or three court jurisdictions in which matters of this sort can come up.
The Pure Oil Company, the petitioner in this case so far as I know certainly for practical purposes could be sued in any state of the union and if the plaintiff in the Jones Act case saw fit under this broad construction he could go and cue them in Nebraska if he thought he could do better there than in Florida, New York or elsewhere.
This is not – and that is true I would say if all of – let's say of all of the oil companies of the tanker companies and so on.
And as Mr. Justice Fortas wrote in the Brumley and United Steel Workers case, the proper forum to which in our submission to submit a matter of this sort is the Congress and not this Court.
Chief Justice Earl Warren: Mr. Roth?
Argument of Arthur Roth
Mr. Arthur Roth: Mr. Chief Justice and members of the Court.
This is basically a situation where the defendant does not want to be sued in the most convenient form and is now coming into this Court to take a seamen away from his residence which is in Florida place where he was born, place where he was employed, the place where he basically did his work as this – he worked on this vessel for four years.
The vessel traveled – he would get on the vessel at either Tampa or Port Everglade which is slightly north of Miami.
Whenever he would come back from vacations or leave of things of that type, and the vessel would fly between Houston and supply pure oil gasoline in Tampa or in Miami or Jacksonville and sometimes up to Savannah and then circuit back and this is –
Justice William J. Brennan: I gather the fact is Mr. Roth that this at all happened before 1948 he could not have sued it in Florida, could he?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Well he could have in state courts but –
Justice William J. Brennan: No I mean he'd decide --
Mr. Arthur Roth: For a civil and jury trial in the federal courts I don't think --
Justice William J. Brennan: He would have to go either where Pure Oil was incorporated or where it has principal offices.
Mr. Arthur Roth: That's right, that's what he would have gone before 1940 --
Justice William J. Brennan: Well suppose the issue really is not based on how hard it may be if upon him to do it but whether indeed the 1948 statute did allow him to bring an action further doesn't it?
Is that the relation?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes, the question is whether or not the Congress had intended to make a – to facilitate the bringing of suits by plaintiffs against large corporations.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Where would the suit have to be tried?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Sir?
Justice Hugo L. Black: If the other side wins?
Mr. Arthur Roth: In Chicago.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Chicago?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes sir.
Justice Potter Stewart: He could bring it.
No question that he could bring it to the state court of Florida, isn't it?
Mr. Arthur Roth: There's no question about that but the problem in the state court is basically one of the discovery where we don't have the privilege of taking a subpoena and sending it out to a marshal in Texas or a marshal in Savannah where the man was treated for his injuries and having a subpoena issued and this is really the basic issue and the second basic issue is that the state judges have – do not have the same understanding concept of the Jones Act that seamen problems says to the federal judges --
Justice Hugo L. Black: Does the forum non conveniens statute have any relevance in your mind to this issue?
Mr. Arthur Roth: We were asked that below and I would put it this way Mr. Justice Black that the forum non conveniens statute would be, I think basically, available to a defendant rather than to a plaintiff because if we were to file a suit to say in Chicago and then come in and say to the judge in Chicago we want to go down to Tampa or Miami which is the real forum where this case should be trialed we would somewhat be I mean how can we ask the judge when he says you came here to stop well this was your election.
And so --
Justice Hugo L. Black: I assume he did sue in Miami in the federal courts that the defendant could have – if they could prove it and have it removed in Chicago under – be more convenient forum.
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes because this was the very purpose of 1404 where they point that at the FELA was the real reason that 1404 and that is Federal Employees Liability Act which is incorporated in the Jones Act that 1404 revise's purpose clause that it was the FELA that made 1404 the forum non conveniens statute a necessity because the railroad workers were bringing their cases in the most profitable forum and the railroads couldn't change the forum and the 1948 revision amended the venue of -- and in fact amended the venue, the general venue provisions and permitted the transfer to a more convenient forum where the witness would be –
Justice Hugo L. Black: When was the forum non conveniens statute passed?
Mr. Arthur Roth: 1948.
Justice Hugo L. Black: 1948?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes it is –
Justice Hugo L. Black: When did this take place, this statute?
Mr. Arthur Roth: 1391 and 1948 they are both –
Justice Hugo L. Black: Both in 1948?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes sir.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Were they a part of the same procedure?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes of the same revision of the judicial code.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Same revision?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes sir.
They were both passed on June 25th, 1948 I believe was the effective date of the statute.
The purpose of the statute or the revision as I understood the attorney general's report to the Congress at that time was that it was to reconcile the old laws.
Now in the Jones Act it merely says residence and we can understand that in 1920 in the give and take when the ship owners didn't want more liberal provision for seamen when they didn't want seamen to have a better access to the courts that there had to be some give and take and I can understand this three conferences between the Senate and the House.
But 1948 when this Court and the other courts have implemented and said that this is remedial legislation that should be liberally construed so as to afford a remedy to the seamen that at that time when the judicial code was enacted this was a remedial legislation to liberalize the access of the courts to plaintiffs.
Now –
Justice Hugo L. Black: Have there been any cases that plaintiffs have filed in the jurisdiction 408 from the place where it happened and then plaintiff asked to have it moved to a place where it's more convenient?
Mr. Arthur Roth: I couldn't find a single case on point.
Now in the liberalization of the courts making it more accessible, readily available I believe is the term that the Congress or the revises of the judicial code used, that at that time I believe that I don't read that the Congress at that time meant to exclude seamen where as they might give the remedy to a – I'll put it this way.
They certainly meant to give the remedy to the victim of an automobile accident if a Pure Oil truck as we say in our brief were to have an accident with an automobile in Miami there's no question Pure Oil could be sued in Miami under the statute.
Now I don't think that the Congress and the Fifth Circuit below and the Fourth Circuit both agreed on this point that Congress intended that the seamen should have 1924 less rights than those victims.
Now as I understand that gist of the – thrust of the petitioner's argument is that since the Congress didn't mention the Jones Act as intended to be revised and consequently there should be no revision of the Jones Act venue intended by Congress or given by Congress.
Well Congress didn't mention any type of lawsuit in the revision of 1391, Section 1391.
So to what does the revision apply?
Certainly the statute was changed.
Congress certainly changed the common law when it said, "From now on the venue shall be wherever that corporation was doing business," which every district is doing business in.
Certainly Congress didn't say that well we don't want to restrict it to the Jones Act we got to state the Jones Act well which that – which actions did Congress made, or was the whole revision just meaningless?
I don't think the revision was meaningless.
Justice William J. Brennan: But suppose it might have had some special reference to diversity cases?
Mr. Arthur Roth: No sir, I look through the revision and I couldn't find in the notes or the revises and there is no reference to anything specific.
Justice William J. Brennan: Well it would be very significant though wouldn't it if diversity cases, suits against the corporations that they might be sued with any – might spread the work around instead of concentrating in some district?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes, this is what I'm going to come to Mr. Justice Brennan.
The fact is that in their petition the petitioner states that of some 3200 Jones Act cases which ought to be filed or were filed in 1965 over 1,000 of them or 1/3 of them were filed in the Fifth Circuit.
Now the corporations don't do business in the Fifth Circuit.
They do their business -- I mean they have their principal offices and their incorporating offices in Delaware and New York and Chicago.
They don't – a very few of the corporations, the big ship owners have their principal place of business in the Fifth circuit.
Now certainly is it their intention to deprive the seamen of their forum.
Now if we were to file a case in a forum as the petitioner suggests let's say in Nebraska certainly the 1404 (a) statute is available to transfer because the very purposes I stated before was the FELA -- to get at the FELA cases.
It revises notes indicate as to get at the FELA cases.
Justice William J. Brennan: Now get at them in what way?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Sir they wouldn't be filed in inconvenient forms.
And have them transfer -- so that it can be transferred to the more convenient forms where the witnesses are located.
Justice William J. Brennan: I don't follow that.
FELA actions always as I understand it could be brought wherever the corporation did business.
Mr. Arthur Roth: That's right.
Justice William J. Brennan: It was Jones Act cases that were limited to principal office or state of incorporation, is that right?
Mr. Arthur Roth: That's right.
Justice William J. Brennan: But now you say what revise would say about the FELA is?
Mr. Arthur Roth: When section 1404 was enacted in 1948 at the same time of the revision, the intent of the Congress was to get at this provision of the FELA where they could bring it in any district they wanted so that these railroads could transfer to the more convenient forum.
So that the argument that is made by the petitioner here that we could bring our case in Los Angeles or Nebraska doesn't bear weight because the Jones Act and FELA being in effect one, indicated, I mean the Congress indicated at that time that they were going to get at the FELA cases from – so that the plaintiffs the injured railway worker wouldn't be able to bring it at any forum he want, that he'd have to come into the more convenient forum at the it is at the petition of the railroad.
When they enacted the statute in 1404 at the very --
Justice William J. Brennan: Let me see if I follow this Mr. Roth.
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes.
Justice William J. Brennan: You say FELA actions before 1948 to be brought at any district or the corporation business?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes sir.
Justice William J. Brennan: Where the railroad business, anyone.
And at the 1948 the revision contemplated, what, that these cases should be funneled into a more convenient forum?
I don't understand it.
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes.
Now what section 1404 (a) the transfer, the venue transfer section was enacted the revises specifically stated that the purpose of the revision to allow a transfer from the forum as soon as it began to a more convenient forum –
Justice William J. Brennan: In other words a railroad could come in the District Court the suit was brought to say no, this is not the phase that should be tried, transfer it somewhere else.
Mr. Arthur Roth: No, they would have to come and make a showing under the section to say so we have all the witnesses here the man was injured in this district, he was treated in this district, most of our witnesses live in this district that means when the railroad made a proper showing --
Justice William J. Brennan: Now if you say had to make a showing, you say the reason for 1404 is that the number in the 1948 Act was in the railroad to have it transferred out of the District Court where it was brought to some other more convenient forum if there was one?
Mr. Arthur Roth: That's right and the same thing of course --
Justice William J. Brennan: Now what bearing does that have an issue before us?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Well it was to answer the argument of the petitioner that we could bring a case against Pure Oil Company in any district of the country practically because they are doing business in any district of the country and –
Justice William J. Brennan: Your point is if you prevail here what will happen is that the Pure Oil Company could do at any railroad can do as the FELA suit namely transfer it to a more convenient forum, doesn't it?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Yes, this is -- now I would say this that if they can do that with the Jones Act case, this is a change of venue in a Jones Act case.
This is in effect modifying the venue provisions on the Jones Act that is and it modifies the venue provisions of every statute, every venue statute because there was no transfer of forum for convenience at common law and by the enactment and application of the transfer statute this is in effect a modification of the common law venue.
We state at the –
Justice William J. Brennan: I wonder if I understand this Mr. Roth that are you suggesting here that we should agree that Congress by the 1948 provision permitted Jones Act cases to be brought wherever the corporate defendant did business because the corporate defendant's interest could be protected by the transfer provisions under 1404, is that the same?
Mr. Arthur Roth: Exactly.
I think that was the intention of 1404.
Justice John M. Harlan: What bearing do you think the Fourco case has?
Mr. Arthur Roth: I think the Fourco case as all of the tax writers have stated and as the two decisions below that is the Fourth Circuit in the Fanning case that came out just a couple of months ago and below, that the Fourco case applies solely to the patent statute because of the very peculiar issues involved in patent violations and patent trials.
So I think Professor Moore pointed it out, I believe Barron & Holtzoff pointed out that that's what it implies to and the Michigan Law Review article which is cited by both the courts below the Fourth and the Fifth Circuits point out that even in that and at the Fourco case is severely criticized because it doesn't take into account the remedial purpose of the 1948 revision of the judicial code.
Although I believe that this Court in the Fourco case pointed out that the venue of provisions must be met only by residence coupled with the violation of the patent.
I believe that the reasons given by Judge Sobeloff below are most compelling.
The opinion is quoted extensively in our brief and one more point I would like to make I believe and we urge that the residence, now if the 1948 revision of the code had any purpose, it would be as the court below stated of course to define what is residence?
Now residence has a common law definition.
It means as to corporations.
It means as to corporation the state where the corporation is – where the corporation exists where it has been incorporated, but the Congress we state came along for venue of purposes Congress has now defined the term residence in all venue statutes.
The courts below have both stated the same thing that there is now a definition of residence for the purpose of venue that all common law definitions must give way to the congressional definition, statutory definition and we urge that this Court adapt that and a firm on that basis that there is now a definition of residence for venue purposes that the common law cannot supersede the statute, and if Congress once intended, if they had once intended, something else that that intention has been overridden by the statute.
I would further say that the argument that we must petition Congress for every little wrong, I don't think that that was the intention of the judicial code.
The judicial code revision was to take away from Congress all of these petty little matters and to leave it to the courts to apply speedy and accessible remedies to plaintiffs.
Thank you.
Chief Justice Earl Warren: Mr. Deutsch?
Rebuttal of Eberhard P. Deutsch
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: If the Court remains in session a few minutes longer I would be particularly brief.
I daren't remain in my seat and hear that the Fifth Circuit is not important in the shipping business.
The port of New Orleans is in effect the greatest port in the United States, the largest steamship company in the world has its domicile as do a number of great many others and I don't want to be chastised by my chamber of commerce when I return home for not having met that particular challenge.
I do want to say Mr. Justice Black so that there will be no misunderstanding.
We did not move to dismiss this case.
We merely moved to transfer not to take any the statute permits a dismissal.
We did not even moved for dismiss, we merely suggested transfer.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Transfer it to where?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: To the principal place of business of the corporation.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Where is that?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: The northern district of Illinois.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Illinois?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: It's Palatine, Illinois I'm not sure.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Did you move to dismiss it on the ground that the witnesses are there and it would be more convenient to trial on the grounds of the statute?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Strictly under the statute.
This would merely transfer under 1404 this is under the Jones Act.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Under the statute?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Under the statute.
Justice Hugo L. Black: You didn't ask to move it on the ground of forum non conveniens?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Not at all that question didn't arise.
Justice Hugo L. Black: I asked that question because it was rather my impression that the Congress took a new look at all of these thing on forum non conveniens and most of these other troublesome questions were ended by it, I'd hoped?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: As long as the Congress sits, not as this Court said, as long Congress sits there will be questions which will bother this Court and us, I'm sure at least that it has been my experience --
Justice Hugo L. Black: But I would – it bothered me in the respect that I had an idea that gave a new deal and all that legislation 1948 and they did not intend to have a forum non conveniens statute affect this ploy by keeping old interpretations that no longer fitted the term.
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: That forum non conveniens statute.
The 1404 statute is itself restricted to permit transfers to jurisdictions in which the action might have been brought for instance.
Justice Hugo L. Black: That's right.
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: That wouldn't help him in this case.
Justice Tom C. Clark: So it wouldn't be available to him, wouldn't it?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: That's right.
Justice Hugo L. Black: So he couldn't move it.
He couldn't bring it up and lose?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: As plaintiff he could seek to move to any jurisdiction he saw fit, that is within the scope of that statute.
I don't know but if you all remember I do – I presented right here before you the series of three or four cases under the forum non conveniens statute one of them was one in which the plaintiff has sought transfer under the statute and had been successful.
Justice Hugo L. Black: But he couldn't move it back to Miami under your argument.
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: That's correct.
Now --
Justice Tom C. Clark: But he couldn't transfer it of the 1404.
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: I'm sorry.
Justice Tom C. Clark: I say he wouldn't be able to transfer it under 1404.
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: He could not transfer them to 1404.
Justice Tom C. Clark: But you wouldn't – that's right.
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: I want to mention very briefly as long as Barron & Holtzoff have been brought up as not, if I understand it, as making the distinction that only the patent cases should be involved.
This is a photocopy of the page from Barron & Holtzoff I read it in a slight amount of difference.
The Supreme Court after some vacillation has now rejected any such reading for the patent infringement cases at least and has held at the special granting statute is not modified about the general provisions of 1391 (c).
This result appears desirable for all such special venue statutes.
We fairly confine that to the patent statutes at all, and --
Justice Byron R. White: What did Mr. Moore say about that?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Substantially not quite the same thing.
He says that it's apparently the rule.
Justice Byron R. White: Well don't waste your time, it's all right.
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: I'm sorry I don't -- I did have it here on separate page.
What he says was this rule will undoubtedly be applied to all special venue statute.
I'm not --
Justice Byron R. White: Do you remember what his attitude was before Fourco?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: Well you will find it quoted in Fourco.
Justice Byron R. White: And it was to the contrary, wasn't it?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: It says that we did not intend the Congress did not intend the change at these special venue provisions by this general provision in 1391 (c) and this Court quoted into that effect as the consultant who certainly should be in authority on this point.
Now I think you start reading all the different editions, lose leafs of Moore, you can get almost any idea you want depending on what the phase of the matter he is attacking and I don't pretend to quote him as completely authorized and all among because I at least want to be consistent.
But he does do that and I want to mention this one further fact very briefly and that is we have many of the special venue statutes.
They're under the antitrust law.
They're not in the judicial code.
The Interstate Commerce Commission Act suits against the United States involving certain matters and so on and so on.
In each one of those cases now Fourco has been followed to the effect that the general statute 1391 (c) does not affect the special venue statute and each of those cases and all the lower court cases some certain point.
Justice Hugo L. Black: Is it your argument that they must all be together?
That there's just one general blanket holding that was intended to say that without regard to what purpose the statute was passed and I have interpreted it all, you look at this and you say whether you decide that Fourco under this special statute therefore you're going to decide it all maybe that's true, but is that your argument?
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: I think that is the effect of it sir.
I'm -- I don't like to indulge in dicta.
I'd like to stick to my own case if I may.
But --
Justice Hugo L. Black: Well I thought you were going outside of your case, was the reason I asked --
Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch: I'm trying to avoid it frankly sir.
But insofar as it is necessary and I will be completely frank, I think that each of those special venue statute should be treated as on its own bottom without reference to the general statute which applies principally in diversity action.
Thank you Your Honor.
Chief Justice Earl Warren: Thank you.

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|calendar>>May 28. 2014 Juche 103
Rodong Sinmun Calls for Removing Traitor Park Geun Hye, Root Cause of National Disaster
| Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- The Park Geun Hye group of south Korea is the cancer-like entity which should be removed at an early date as it is escalating distrust and confrontation between the north and the south, not trust, and increasing the danger of a nuclear war with each passing day, says Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in an article.
It goes on:
The Park group is the anti-reunification group of heinous traitors who pushed the inter-Korean relations to a catastrophe with its vicious confrontational policy and heinous warmongers who are driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the touch-and-go situation with incessant provocations and war hysteria against the north.
It is a real intention of the Park group to attain its ambition for invading the north even if it reduces the whole country to ashes and plunges the Koreans into the sea of blood.
A stray dog may make the water of a river muddy. The inter-Korean relations and the situation on the Korean peninsula have been put into the worst phase owing to the traitor Park, obsessed with confrontation and war.
As long as the Park group keen on the confrontation with the DPRK, indifferent to the destiny of the country and the nation, stays in power, the Koreans can never live in peace even for a moment.
The prevailing situation shows that in order to improve the inter-Korean relations, achieve the peace and reunification and carve out the bright future of the nation, all Koreans should turn out as one to resolutely remove traitor Park, the root cause of national disaster.
The Park group harmful to the inter-Korean relations and the Koreans will be sternly judged by history and the nation.
Copyright (C) KOREA NEWS SERVICE(KNS) All Rights Reserved.


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According to a recent government study, it has been revealed that elderly living in assisted living facilities generally suffer from three diseases, high blood pressure, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease.
The study unveiled that as many as 82% residents have one of them. But the study findings have raised a question that what factor has been causing the overlap of the three diseases. The study researchers were of the view that it was quite shocking to know that more than 50% resident required medical help.
Continuous requirement of medical assistance puts strain on elderly health and there are chances that they can suffer from not only cognitive, but also functional impairment.
While carrying out the study, it was found that 42% elderly were living with dementia. However, 9% were having dementia as well as high blood pressure and atherosclerosis, a form of heart disease.
Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy at Duke was of the view that there are chances that treatment of dementia is not possible without the treatment of the vascular problems.
But it shall also be understood that it gets very difficult to treat multiple conditions. "We don't universally do a great job of how we treat conditions that overlap, for example Alzheimer's and high blood pressure", said Dr. Cynthia Boyd from Johns Hopkins.
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Web-Based Multiple MySQL Manager – AeroSQL
22 Feb
AeroSQL is an open source web application, for managing MySQL databases.
It can control databases from different servers in a single, desktop-like interface where records can be easily browsed or edited within a grid.
The application displays every query executed & can run a batch of sql queries to save you time.
It is possible to select the columns to be displayed while editing a table which will help reaching the data in an organized way.
AeroSQL is built with PHP & uses ExtJS to provide the desktop-like functionality.
Requirements: PHP & ExtJS
Website: http://www.burlaca.com/aerosql/
Demo: http://www.burlaca.com/aerosql-demo/
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Raymond's 2013 Game-By-Game StatisticsRaymond's 2012 Game-By-Game StatisticsRaymond's 2011 Game-By-Game Statistics
2013 (Junior):Second Team National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/Continental Tire All-Central Region ... First Team All-Southland Conference ... Southland Conference All-Tournament Team Selection ... appeared in 22 games, starting all put two contests as a junior ... totaled 1,370 minutes ... scored 10 goals, including an SLC-leading eight game-winners, and recorded two assists for 22 total points ... took 81 shots, 40 of which were on goal ... made her lone penalty kick attempt ... scored goals against Texas State (8/25), at UTEP (9/8), Northwestern State (9/22), two at Lamar (9/27), Houston Baptist (10/4), McNeese State (10/11), Nicholls State (10/20), at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi (11/3) and against Sam Houston State (11/8) in the Southland Conference Tournament ... tied SFA's all-time goal record with her 38th career score against Nicholls State (10/20) in the 62nd minute of play, later becoming the outright record holder with her 39th goal at TAMUCC (11/3) in the ninth minute of play ... moved into second place all-time outright in career points with goal at SHSU (11/8) to enter her final season four points away from the all-time mark.
2012 (Sophomore):Played in 20 games, making 17 starts ... selected to All-Southland Conference First Team for a second straight season ... led the Ladyjacks with 13 goals and added three assists for a team-best 29 points ... team-best 80 shots, 40 of which were on goal ... scored three game-winning goals ... named to the Southland Conference All-Tournament Team ... played 1122 total minutes.
2011 (Freshman): Played in all 19 games with 15 starting appearances ... Was named just the third Ladyjack in school history to earn Freshman of the Year honors ... set the SFA single-season record for both goals (17) and points (41) ... chosen to the NSCAA Third-Team .... Selected to First-Team All-Southland Conference and Academic All-Southland Conference First-Team ... Named to the Southland Conference All-Tournament Team ... Named the Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 25 and Oct. 14 ... led the team with 82 shots, 51 of which were on goal ... led the Ladyjacks with six game-winning goals ... scored three goals against UTSA (9/30/11).
High School: A three-year starter and three-time letter-winner at MacArthur ... was two-time all-district first-team and the team's Forward of the Year 2008-09 ... ran varsity track her freshman year where she competed in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay ... was a regional qualifier in the 4x100 relay ... played club ball for FC Dallas '93 ECNL.
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Bicep Tenodesis Surgical Repair: What To Expect
By Sports Medicine Oregon
The Procedure
You are having a bicep tenodesis. Bicep tenodesis is surgical repair of an injured or degenerative tendon through the use of screws and suture. The repair will be done with a combination of arthroscopic portals (small incisions) to look inside the shoulder and a small open incision to repair and reattach the healthy part of the tendon.
There are some cases in which the tendon can not be repaired and is released. If this is necessary it will leave an asymmetry in your bicep muscle but will relieve the pain once it heals.
Your surgery will take approximately one to two hours. You will wake up in the recovery room where your progress will be observed for one to two hours. Your family or friends may visit you here.
Preparing for Surgery
You should not have anything to eat or drink eight hours prior to your surgery. All medications should be discussed before your surgery takes place. Most medications can be taken the day of surgery, following the procedure.
If you are diabetic, or have any other concerns about medications, please discuss this with the surgeon as special arrangements may be necessary. The anesthesiologist will try to speak with you the night before to discuss anesthesia.
Should this call be missed, you will speak to the anesthesiologist at the bedside before your procedure begins. Please wear loose clothing.
Please have the correct date, time and location of your surgery confirmed before the date. You will need someone to drive you home and accompany you for the next 24 hours.
After Bicep Surgery
You will have a sling in place that will secure and limit the activity of your arm. You may wear this over a t-shirt for more comfort. You also may remove the sling and move your elbow, wrist and fingers but no lifting of objects or your arm.
You will also have a cold pack that is attached to a cooling unit which you may use according to your tolerance. Please be aware of the skin beneath the cooling pad and protect it with a small cloth or towel to avoid burning or other skin irritation.
No bathing, soaking or swimming until the incisions are completely healed (14 days).
You will have a scheduled post-operative visit in a week to 10 days following your procedure. At that time, the surgeon will meet with you and discuss your surgery findings, pertinent information, future prognosis and rehabilitation plan. We will also give you recommendations regarding activity and limitations.
Usually, we will check your progress once every month.
You are encouraged to call our office with any questions that you may have after the procedure.
You should call immediately should you develop a temperature greater than 101° F, numbness or tingling in the operative arm, excessive drainage or excessive bleeding from the incisions, nausea or vomiting, uncontrolled pain or any other symptoms that you have concerns about.


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Good Lord. Has it been 3 years since i put anything up on my index page?
My mind races. I begin looking for fallen shards of time, hoping to recover some fragments to put them back together so i can build something that i no longer have or forgot to build- a home, a career, investments.
But no. It has been three years and there are oh so many things that i put off, forgot to do, didn't think it was important or was just too happy celebrating my first year of living without the spectre of my sleep apnea carving the life out of me.
I'll make changes here. I'm beginning to feel the urge to write more and to paint. It's going to take a while to do all the things i want to get done but it begins with this- a humble entry. What you can't see in the backgroud are the stories i've been working on with the hopes of having them published on Amazons Kindle Marketplace. My goal is to get them done by this summer and so far, i'm doing well. I just need to do gooder [sic] if not weller [sic].
I'll write more later.
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Geek Speak
Geek Speak is where the world of Geekdom comes alive.
Yearly Archive for 2008
'The Incredible Hulk' officially has me intrigued
I loved "Iron Man" and I'm sure I'll dig "The Dark Knight" when it swoops into theaters in July. But for now, color me green with interest in "The Incredible Hulk," what looks to be the answer to the sequel I never thought I wanted. Marvel has scoured the Internets for tons of "Incredible" buzz […] [Read More]
Chris Quinn: Transformer Transformer revolution
Only at Chimaeracon. A dancing Shockwave. [Read More]
'Batman Gotham Knight' looks all sorts of cool
Batman Gotham Knight – Official Trailer "Batman Gotham Knight" drops July 8. And judging by what's at the official Web site, it should be on par with "The Animatrix" in terms of animated coolness. "Gotham Knight" offers six self-contained chapters that show us Batman on his way to "The Dark Knight." Oh, and did I […] [Read More]
Talk like Yoda, you will
Inspiring, he is. Vexed, I am. Talk Like Yoda Day, I missed. (Seems May 22, it was.) Make up for it, I will. Enjoy the Yoda-Speak Generator, you can. Forever fun. (Kudos to Topless Robot for taking me to this fun stuff, I give.) — René A. Guzman [Read More]
Chris Quinn: Ultimate Showdown
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Comic reviews: Catching up with 'newuniversal: shockfront,' 'Batman' and other goodies
Apologies for the tardy yet scintillating comic reviews. Let's stick with all the good stuff. Onward. The good • "Casanova" No. 14 I tend to dodge explaining this book because, honestly, it's a tall order to encapsulate such structured chaos. But if you haven't given "Casanova" a read and still wonder why I love it […] [Read More]
The next stamp in my passport to hell
Loaded Bible: the Trade Paperback I have been so burned out on comic books, Image is the only company that has anything that looks even remotely interesting. Being Catholic (and being the guy who introduced you slugs to the Battle Pope), I had to include the link to the trailer for "Loaded Bible." Unfortunately, a […] [Read More]
'X-Men: Legacy' poster is stupid awesome
OK, I don't give a flip about "X-Men: Legacy" but I do dig the drawing talents of David Finch. The poster above joins Finch's "Legacy" covers in one big piece of wow. Click it for the bigness. The poster drops June 18 for $15.99. — René A. Guzman [Read More]
Bakugan Battle Brawlers event hits Saturday at local Wal-Mart Supercenter
Those with young boys in the family might already know this. But for those who don't, Bakugan Battle Brawlers is hot. For the uninitiated, Bakugan is a lot like marbles meets Yu-Gi-Oh! Just roll the special toy spheres over special metal cards so they can magnetically pop open to reveal special warriors inside. Battle wackiness […] [Read More]
Tons of 'Indiana Jones' images
(ComicBookMovie.com) Let the floodgates for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" images open wide. Click here for the above and more pics. — René A. Guzman [Read More]
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2007/10/21 Hellgate Beta's In-Game Ads Raise Eyebrows
Oh no a computer game with more In-Game Ads! article from slashdot.org:
Your Rights Online: Hellgate Beta's In-Game Ads Raise Eyebrows
Posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @02:29PM
from the use-the-coke-luke dept.
ari wins writes "IGN.com has up a post discussing the new EA/Flagship game Hellgate: London, and the in-game advertisements it includes to facilitate targeted marketing. Though ads in games aren't exactly new, some Beta testers are objecting to their apparently off-putting presence. Users have also noted that accepting the game's EULA means you submit to the collection of 'technical and related information that identifies your computer, including without limitation your Internet Protocol address, operating system, application software and peripheral hardware'."


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July 1, 2015
LOS ANGELES, CA - Jamie McCourt has testified that she and her
husband spoke frequently about selling the Los Angeles Dodgers if
the team wasn't making money.
The team's former CEO said Monday at her divorce trial that she
saw the 2004 purchase of the Dodgers as less risky than the
McCourts' other business transactions.
The Dodgers were purchased for about $431 million in a highly
leveraged deal. Jamie McCourt did not say whether her discussions
with Frank McCourt involved selling all or part of their ownership
stake in the team.
The McCourts are embroiled in a dispute where Frank McCourt
argues a postnuptial agreement gives him the Dodgers, the stadium
and the surrounding property. Jamie McCourt believes she should be
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For months, Advanced Grow Labs LLC — one of Connecticut's four medical marijuana growing companies — slogged through the process of competing for a state license, securing local zoning approvals, and outfitting a building to state regulations that are as a tough as those at any pharmaceutical manufacturer.
Now, managing partner David Lipton knows his West Haven company is getting close: He planted his first marijuana seeds almost three weeks ago.
"I did my own tray, the D.L. tray," Lipton said last week. "My tray is looking pretty good; they're about 3 or 4 inches high now. Finally, we're not just buying stuff, we're dealing with something that grows."
Nearly two years after the state legalized it, the first medical marijuana is expected to go on sale next month. About 2,000 residents with qualifying chronic illnesses have registered with the state and with one of Connecticut's six dispensaries.
The four medical marijuana manufacturers are at varying stages of growing pot. It remains unclear which company will be the first to market, turning the raw plant into medicine that is smoked, used in a vaporizer, eaten or rubbed on.
Connecticut's six licensed dispensaries have fielded calls from potential clients for months, and at least one has passed the final state inspection and is consulting with clients to map out treatment plans with pharmacists on its staff.
In South Windsor, Prime Wellness of Connecticut last week met with as many as 50 people suffering with some of the 11 illnesses covered under the law.
"There are patients that are really, really in need, and so they have been waiting for two years," said Tom Nicholas, chief executive of the Prime Wellness dispensary. "We're almost at the end of the tunnel, but not quite."
The passage of the law in Connecticut did not come without controversy. Opponents raised concerns that once the medicinal marijuana left the dispensary, it could get into hands of those for whom it wasn't intended.
Pro-medical marijuana groups now say they are thrilled that pot will soon be available for the sick. But they also are worried that the state's stringent regulations — including on that requires every batch of processed marijuana be tested for purity — will drive up costs and make it unaffordable for some, at least at first.
As exciting as it is watching his tray of plants grow, Lipton said he doesn't have much time to relax.
AGL's manufacturing plant on Frontage Road is still under construction, with the plants growing only in a small, state-approved test area. He knows he won't be the first supplier to dispensaries but he wants to have his marijuana in all six. He's coming up against three competitors: Connecticut Pharmaceutical Solutions LLC in Portland, Curaleaf LLC in Simsbury and Theraplant LLC in Watertown.
"Until we are out there selling and bringing in revenues," Lipton said, "we're not out of the woods."
Prices To Be Determined
When the state legislature legalized medical marijuana in 2012, it ended a wide-ranging sale ban in Connecticut that dated back more than 80 years.
Regulations written by the state Department of Consumer Protection allow a broad array of products — including what can be smoked; tinctures, creams, and oils; and baked goods, such as brownies, bars and cookies. Marijuana-infused beverages and candy are not permitted under the regulations.
Before a patient can register with the state, a doctor must certify that he or she has a qualifying chronic condition with symptoms that could be eased by marijuana The doctor also certifies how much marijuana the patient is allowed a month, with a maximum of 2.5 ounces. Then a plan of treatment is worked out with the pharmacist in a consultation at the dispensary.
What isn't yet known is how much the medical marijuana will cost users, with growers saying it is still too early to predict their pricing to the retail dispensaries. The costs are all out-of-pocket to the patient because medical marijuana is not covered by insurance.
"It really depends on the market and the regulations," said Chris Walsh, editor of Marijuana Business Daily, based in Rhode Island. "Connecticut is probably going to be higher. It costs a lot more to get started there than in other states."
In Maine, the wholesale cost for a gram of medical marijuana ranges from $6.50 to $8.50 and rises to $12 to $13 when it is sold to patients, Walsh said.


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Plate, "Elizabeth Medeira/Her Very Own"
The inscription on the plate suggests that it was made for a young girl, Elizabeth Medeira.
- Decorator: RB
- Manufacturer: Paul Revere Pottery, 1908-1942
- Medium: Glazed earthenware
- Place Manufactured: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Dates: 1910
- Dimensions: Diameter: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm) (show scale)
- Markings: On bottom, painted in black: "198.9.10/R.B./S.E.G."
- Collections:Decorative Arts
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Accession Number: 2007.7.1
- Credit Line: Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle in memory of J. Fuller Feder, by exchange
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: RB. Plate, "Elizabeth Medeira/Her Very Own," 1910. Glazed earthenware, Diameter: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle in memory of J. Fuller Feder, by exchange, 2007.7.1. Creative Commons-BY
- Image:
- Catalogue Description: Circular thick-walled plate with wide flat lip and short foot-rim. Decorated with grainy matte glaze of natural/beige background and concentric yellow banding outlined in black and embellished with five pairs of seated rabbits separated by plants. On the inner yellow band in black, "ELIZABETH MADEIRA" and on the opposing side "HER VERY OWN"
- Record Completeness: Best (88%)


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Grace United Church - Brampton
Grace United Church
We Have a Vision
Reverend Ross Leckie, the Sacrament of Baptism
Worship Service 10:30 AM
Children's Programs are available for all ages
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What's Happening
Mission Statement
United In Christ: Reaching Out to the World
"Our Mission is to be a family of people united in Christ who reach out to our community of Brampton and the wider world. Our task is to create an environment where all will grow and develop in God's love. We will do this, with God's help, through inspired and stimulating worship and music, in caring for one another, through education to all ages, and by reaching out to our community and world."
To be a church committed to change and growth as individuals of all ages, as a community and as an influence in our city and world through:
that is diverse, dynamic and devout
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Learn more about X-mini II Portable Speaker for iPod / mp3 Players& Laptops - Orange:
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|X-mini II Capsule Speaker - The best just got better. The award-winning X-mini II Capsule Speaker introduces a larger 40mm driver to project richer and fuller sounds resulting in superior end-user experience from its innovative capsule design. Be it for individual or group entertainment, the X-mini II Capsule Speaker is the perfect audio enhancement for any music or video player of your choice. Playback time tripled to 11 hours for longer, superior on-the-go audio Not only does the new design deliver unsurpassed audio quality, it now performs even longer. Three times the capacity of its predecessor, the X-mini II Capsule Speaker comes with a built-in high capacity rechargeable battery capable of sustained output for 11 hours of nonstop audio pleasure. Modular 'Buddy-Jack' design: connect a row of X-Minis II for jaw dropping audio. This all new system enables you to connect one X-mini II Capsule Speaker to another, capable of forming an almost endless, daisy chain-of self-powered, bass-enhanced portable speaker system. With this feature, you can now combine your X-mini II Capsule Speaker together with your friends to hold a spontaneous party anywhere you go. Built-in retractable 3.5mm audio cable offers hassle-free portability.


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Here's a couple renders of my usual RPG character. He's an Elf Paladin/Wood Elf Warrior I've played in EverQuest and EQ Online Adventures, but I've used him in most RPGs and MMOs. First is a portrait for his EQPlayers page. The second was a test render I did while working on HSS settings for him which I decided to try painting in his hair.


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LEGISLATORS from ZANU-PF are revolting against the party's leadership by refusing to tow the party line on a number of issues shoved down their throats, including that of imminent elections, as internal fissures continue to widen in President Robert Mugabe political formation, The Financial Gazette can exclusively reveal.
While the current trend has its genesis in the 2008 synchronised elections when aspiring ZANU-PF Members of Parliament coined what they termed the "bhora mudondo" strategy that was meant to deny President Mugabe a sixth Presidential term, lawmaker activism among MPs from the revolutionary party has become widespread in the legislative assembly in recent weeks.
The defining moment was in March when some ZANU-PF MPs conspired to deny the party's candidate for the speakership their vote to tilt the scales in favour of Lovemore Moyo of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T).
This followed the nullification of Moyo's first appointment as Speaker of Parliament by the Supreme Court on grounds that the secret ballot had not been followed.
Since the shock re-election of Moyo about seven months ago, ZANU-PF lawmakers have been emerging out of their shells to show open defiance against the top-to-bottom approach favoured by their leadership in running the party's affairs.
Party insiders told The Financial Gazette this week that the legislators feared their leadership was going against the wishes of the people on a number of issues, which could spell doom for the revolutionary party.
The majority of the party's legislators were said to be in favour of delayed national elections to give ZANU-PF enough time to recover the ground lost to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party in the 2008 harmonised elections.
This is unlike President Mugabe who is agitating for polls by March 2012 which have the effect of cutting short the MPs' tenure of office by about one year.
According to ZANU-PF insiders, the bulk of the MPs are also hesitant that the current political climate pointed to a Tsvangirai victory unless the party mounted a strong resistance against democratic reforms being backed by regional leaders.
To show their contempt for the party's leadership, the aggrieved lawmakers are supporting party programmes by day and criticising them at night. The courageous ones have opted for open warfare damn the consequences.
In recent weeks, a number of ZANU-PF legislators have spoken at variance with party positions, the latest being on Tuesday when Uzumba lawmaker, Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, said Shabanie-Mashava Mines legally belongs to businessman, Mutumwa Mawere.
The ownership of the seized mine is currently before the courts, with President Mugabe having transferred the running of the mine to the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development from the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs, ignoring calls to hand the entity back to Mawere.
Early this month, the party suspended Guruve North MP, Edward Chindori-Chininga from the constitution-making exercise after he clashed with Paul Mangwana, who co-chairs the Constitution Parliamentary Committee.
ZANU-PF recently fired former Marondera East legislator, Tracy Mutinhiri, for allegedly bringing the name of the party into disrepute after she was accused of hobnobbing with officials from the MDC-T.
Now ZANU-PF members of the bicameral Parliament have hatched a plan to support moves to nullify empowerment regulations crafted by Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, which the party is set to ride on during its election campaign.
There are concerns among legislators that the black economic empowerment law could be hijacked to benefit the elite within the party at the expense of ordinary people.
So serious is discontent among ZANU-PF legislators that the lawmakers are also planning to block the forthcoming National Budget should government take long to pay their outstanding allowances, which date back to 2009 as well as procure them new vehicles.
There was a similar bid last year to torpedo the National Budget when it came to Parliament for approval.
In terms of the Parliamentary Members Allowances and Privileges Act, the power to set allowances for lawmakers is vested in the President.
According to whistleblower website, WikiLeaks, there are ZANU-PF MPs who have gone to bed with the MDC-T.
ZANU-PF Chivi South lawmaker, Ivene Dzingirai, was quoted by the leaked diplomatic cables as having said he was part of a circle of moderate party legislators "who saw things as they were" and would not just support everything proposed by ZANU-PF in Parliament.
He also allegedly named his colleagues in the party he said were in this circle.
"He said that other ZANU-PF MPs who shared his moderate outlook included Kudakwashe Bhasikiti of Mwenezi East, Walter Mzembi of Masvingo South, and Makhosini Hlongwane of Mberengwa East. Dzingirayi told us that he believed power should be shared 50/50 in the government and that he actually had closer ties to the MDC side of Parliament than to the ZANU-PF side," reads part of the cable.
"While claiming the younger ZANU-PF MPs were better able to work with the MDC and were pushing for reform, Dzingirayi explained that his ties to the MDC were well-known and had made him a target of some hardline elements in his own party. He mentioned that he had been falsely named in a February 6 article in the State-controlled daily newspaper, The Herald, alleging that he had abused free agricultural inputs he received from the State."
Yesterday, ZANU-PF chief whip, Joram Gumbo, said some of the issues expressed by their MPs had not been raised in the party's caucus.
"On empowerment, individuals are free to say what they want, but it is something coming from the executive and there is nothing wrong with it because it will benefit everyone whether ZANU-PF or MDC," said Gumbo.
He added that the issue of allowances would be discussed in Parliament after receiving responses to submissions made to the principals.


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Bachelorette Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum melted our hearts when they walked down the aisle and became man and wife during a televised wedding ceremony which aired on December 17, 2012! These two are bonafide experts when it comes to falling in love on national television, and Ash has some wise words of wisdom for Bachelor Sean Lowe and his fiancée, Catherine Giudici, who she thinks are "great together."
"It's really important to have your real world, real life time," Ashley tells Hollywood Life. "Once you get away from everything, that's when you learn about the other person, and you have to be sure that you are on the same page. Once you are there, then you are starting to make big decisions."
Ashley firmly believes that Sean and Catherine should "absolutely get married on TV," while J.P. adds that he "had nothing but a positive, beautiful experience."
Um, obviously he did. Need we remind you that Chris Harrison descended from the love chamber where he lurks and presided over this couple's wedding? Even better than being married by Beysus herself, as far as we're concerned.
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There's definitely a trend of state-based projects making the circuit lately, and I have to say I love it. The latest is Kelly Pratt's Stately Sandwiches. She and a group of friends around the country will be noshing on sandwiches from all 50 states, then Pratt will create a poster for each deconstructed sammie. She's eleven states in, so stay tuned if yours hasn't shown up just yet! (via Laughing Squid)
LOVE this. i can always stand behind a beautifully organized image, especially when having to do with food!
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I haven't seen this before but I'm loving Texas!
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This is awesome! Not only are they beautiful pics, they capture a fabulous subject. I love a good sandwich.
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Thanks for the lovely post about my project! Happy to see all the other people with sandwich crushes out there!
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Yes! This is amazing, and I too love sandwiches!
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Dee Sellner will go to great lengths to keep her Plaza population happy. But she's a professional. So no matter how much Bob McDowell keeps pestering her for a gin and tonic, and no matter how nicely Art Balinger pleads for a vodka rocks with a lemon twist, Sellner refuses. She is a CEO, not a cocktail waitress.
"Serve yourselves, boys," she says, excusing herself from the room and leaving cackles in her wake. McDowell, Balinger, Kronenberg, and I are sitting in a small office at the Plaza, rehashing our private dinner from a few weeks ago, particularly the part about the gentleman who, perhaps unbeknownst even to himself, crashed the party. Mortality is an uncomfortable topic for anyone, but when broaching the subject with those who, given their age, might already see it in their periphery, it's even more so. Still, I have to ask: What happened to him?
"Some people wander when they don't mean to," Kronenberg says. "They don't have a lockdown here, so if you're a wanderer, you can't stay." There's a beat of silence, but instead of the morose reaction I feared, they steer the conversation toward the man's life before his condition forced him to leave Terwilliger for the nursing unit. His family. His friends here. His life in medicine. It's a nice circling-the-wagons moment. "There are men and women here who have done some wonderful things," Balinger says. "There was a time when I'd see all these people in wheelchairs … Now I've got a walker of my own. I can relate. I'm with old people who are just as old as 'Old Art.' It's comforting."
Another comfort is that, for the third time in as many visits, some attractive elderly woman (it's never the same one) has just popped her head in to offer to bring Balinger dinner in his apartment. He accepts coolly, but like Bogart in his prime, he does so with an ultimatum: "Just make sure it's there by 5:30. The debate's on at 6."
As for McDowell's evening, it sounds like it has as many possibilities as that of a teenager who just got his driver's license. "Let's see," he says, running through a mental checklist. "There's a chamber music performance this evening. I could go to the gym and work out, I suppose. Or maybe I'll just head down to the track."
Balinger rolls his eyes and lets out a withering mock sigh. He takes the handles of his walker and gives them a light shake. "That's what's so beautiful about being 73," he laughs. "You feel like you're indestructible."


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Canada's Boreal Forest is one of the most important forests left on the planet. But instead of being protected and managed responsibly, it's being clearcut and shipped off to Europe and the U.S. to make newspapers, books, and magazines. Quebec exported forest products worth $684 million to Europe and $10 billion to the USA in 2005. In the same year, Ontario exported $8 billion to the USA and $92 million to Europe.
SFK Pulp produces 369,071 tons of pulp each year. Much of this is shipped to Europe and the United States to manufacture many different kinds of paper. The bulk of the wood used by SFK to make their pulp is supplied by logging company Abitibi-Consolidated, with additional supply coming from logging company Bowater. These companies were recently exposed as destroying intact forest areas and caribou habitat in Ontario and Quebec in Greenpeace's Chain of Destruction report.
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One of these big customers is forest products giant Stora Enso. Stora Enso uses pulp from SFK to manufacture magazines sold throughout Europe. Greenpeace wants Stora Enso and other large corporate customers to help protect the Boreal Forest. These customers can make change by demanding "greener" products from logging and pulp companies and ending their financial support of destructive logging operations.


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Posted: May 31, 2013 at 10:25 a.m.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Gap Inc. are meeting with retailers, industry associations and the Bipartisan Policy Center to develop a plan to improve fire and safety regulation in Bangladesh factories.
The discussions are part of the previously announced Safer Factories Initiative organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonprofit policy and advocacy think tank, the center said Thursday in a statement. The talks are co-led by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe.
Wal-Mart and Gap are among U.S. retailers that have faced criticism for not joining at least 24 other garment-sellers in a legally binding agreement to improve safety at Bangladesh factories that has won support from labor-monitoring groups. The Safer Factories Initiative held its first discussion Wednesday in New York and said it will release a plan by early July.
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I am suppose to create an application that displays the first letter, last letter, and middle letter of a word or phrase. This is my code so far:
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'Displays the first letter, last letter, and middle letter of a word or phrase
Public Class frmStringTest
Private Sub btnDisplayData_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnDisplayData.Click
Dim word As String
Dim firstLetter As String
Dim secondLetter As String
Dim lastLetter As String
Dim numLetters As Integer
word = Me.txtPhrase.Text
word = word.ToLower
numLetters = word.Length
End Sub
End Class
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We are working on Strings this week, and I am not understanding Strings very well, and they are confusing to me. I ask my teacher for an one on one explanation, but my Programming teacher didn't make it any clearer.If you give me the for this problem, can you explain why you do this and that, please. Thank you.


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>> >> One point he brings up which I'm not sure about. He states that
>> it's impossible, these days, for a single individual to write an
>> entire operating system from scratch (though he doesn't hint that
>> it was impossible in 1991).
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>> Sorry. Here's exactly what he says (p. 10):
>> "There was a time when a single determined individual could write the
>> core of a simple operating system for a primitive computer. But given
>> the demands of computer applications and the capabilities of hardware
>> technology at present, that is no longer conceivable."
> What? The "core of a simple operating system for a primitive computer"
> can be written by any competent part-time computer hobbist programmer.
> (Probably better than a group of incompetent full-time computer
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The scenario didn't look good heading into Friday's showdown with new Mississippi 8 rival Duluth East. But a fired up St. Michael-Albertville football team earned its first win of the season with a 43-6 blowout of the Greyhounds.
STMA was coming off a shutout loss in week one. They also were the beneficiary of being the honorary visiting team to open the gates in Duluth East's brand new Ordean Stadium.
"The stadium was amazing," said STMA second-year head coach Jared Essler. "It's one of the best we've ever been to. It had a great surface. There were people tailgating, our guys were into the music before the game and it was a really cool environment."
With both Duluth Denfeld and Duluth East joining the Mississippi 8 this season, the matchup had a bit of an unknown. Both teams were facing each other for the first time and right from the get-go, the team that came out flying, were the visitors from STMA.
After the Greyhounds fumbled the opening kickoff, senior running back Ryan Lyzhoft took the opening play 26 yards for a rushing touchdown. Soon after, the Knights again would find the back of the end zone when senior quarterback Cole Krutzig and senior tight end Tyler Dallum connected for a 47-yard passing TD.
"To score 10 seconds into the game and come back with another score on our second series definitely gave us the spark and momentum we were looking for," Essler said.
After a bad snap, senior defensive lineman Austin Brouillette picked up one of his two sacks on Duluth East quarterback Alex Toscano late in the first quarter, giving the Knights a 16-0 advantage.
Special teams again would come up huge in the second quarter for STMA. After the safety, junior wide receiver Dallas Freeman on the ensuing punt would give the Knights a 23-0 lead, scoring on a 63-yard punt return.
It was only the beginning for Freeman, who sat out most of week one due to mononucleosis. In the fourth quarter he would score his second TD of the game, this time taking an 87-yard kickoff return to the house.
"The first one, all the defenders went to the middle of the field and I used my blockers to go down the side," Freeman said. "The kickoff, they kicked it to the side and I got a block from Andrew Winans and the middle was open and just took off. It was for sure my best game of my career."
Squeezed in between the two big special teams scores was Krutzig's second passing TD of the game, this time connecting with a 4-yard pass to senior wide receiver Tony Bork.
The defense again was stellar for STMA. After holding Cambridge-Isanti to just eight points a week ago, they held down a Greyhound offense that registered a 27-7 win at Grand Rapids the week before. The only hiccup came in the second quarter when Duluth East running back Brian Lansing broke free for a 48-yard TD run. It made the score 23-6, but STMA responded scoring 20 unanswered points earning its first victory of the season (1-1 overall).
"We were upset after the first game and went into this one more focused," Freeman said. "It was different playing Duluth East. We didn't know any of their guys, but we played with a lot of energy and enthusiasm and we went up there and got stuff done."
Senior linebacker Erik Johnson led the defense with nine tackles (four solo), Also, with four solo tackles were senior's Bennie Wilson and Broulliette. Junior Joe Kilian and sophomore Tyler Berg also had four. Freeman scored two TD's on special teams and also had one interception.
Krutzig led the offense, completing six of 10 passes for 69 yards and two TD's. He also had 65 yards rushing.
"Cole played really well," Essler said. "He was accurate when he threw the ball and he was able to rush the ball. He was a good dual threat and that's what we need him to be."
The Knights return home Friday with a 7 p.m. matchup with the Big Lake Hornets (0-2 overall).
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STMA all-conference running back and senior captain Ryan Lyzhoft was injured in Friday's 43-6 victory at Duluth East. The injury occurred to his leg during a rushing play early in the second quarter.
Tests for a broken leg came away negative. Tuesday he had an MRI to see if there was possible damage to his "unhappy triad," otherwise known as a tear of the ACL, MCL or meniscus muscle in the knee area.
Lyzhoft had rushed for 52 yards on four carries, highlighted by his 26-yard TD run prior to the injury. Junior Chris Kartes and sophomore Noah Evans filled in for the injured Lyzhoft at running back. Evans eventually scored the last TD of the game on a 13-yard run late in the third quarter.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa's "mural," considered a seminal work by famed artist Jackson Pollock, will be conserved as part of a new collaboration between the UI Museum of Art and the Getty.
The 1943 Mural will travel to the Getty Center in Los Angeles this summer, after it wraps up a showing at the Des Moines Art Center. At the Getty, the painting will undergo technical study and conservation treatment by research scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute and conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
UI President Sally Mason called it a "win-win situation for everyone," in a statement released today by Getty.
"With this conservation treatment by the Getty, Pollock's Mural will continue to be viewed for many years to come," Mason said in the statement.
"Mural" was evacuated from the museum building, along with the rest of the UI Museum of Art collection, in the days leading up to the June 2008 flood. For nearly three years after the flood, it was displayed at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. Its showing at the Des Moines Art Center started April 5 and runs through July 15.
Past suggestions that the university sell the painting, last valued at $140 million, during times of tight budgets have stirred controversy, and UI officials have opposed such a sale. The painting was a gift to the UI in 1951 from Peggy Guggenheim.
James Cuno, president and chief executive officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust, said the painting is "of phenomenal importance in the history of 20th century art, and this project meshes perfectly with the skills of the Getty Museum's paintings conservators and the ongoing research of the scientists involved in the Getty Conservation Institute's Modern Paints Project." The Getty Conservation Institute is currently leading a comprehensive research effort into modern paints and the challenges they present in terms of conservation.
The Getty Museum regularly undertakes the conservation of key works of art from institutions around the world as part of the Getty's overall philanthropic mission, officials there said. The Museum has developed an active collaboration program where it works in conjunction with guest conservators and the curators from institutions whose works are being conserved. These projects are undertaken at little or no cost to the institution in exchange for the opportunity to show the work in the Museum's galleries following conservation, officials said.
Prior to the conservation, GCI scientists and the Getty Museum's paintings conservators will collaborate on an investigation into the materials and techniques of the painting and together, will develop a treatment approach. Once the painting is conserved, Mural will be exhibited at the Getty Center for three months.
"The Museum hopes to continue to be able to share Mural with a wide audience, and help more individuals understand its important place in art history," UI Museum of Art Director Sean O'Harrow said in a statement.
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