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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Whirly-pop Quilt
21 comments:
- Sharon said...
- May 26, 2010 at 7:11 AM
- Blue Is Bleu said...
I definitely love the whirly pop quilt without the other border! And the back of Ben's quilt is lovely... love the stripe sheet!
- May 26, 2010 at 7:46 AM
- Brooke said...
I love your decorating style! Show us more!
- May 26, 2010 at 7:48 AM
- Michele said...
Love the whirly pop quilt! Your son's quilt is awesome on the back. I like the stuffie in his bed too.
- May 26, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- K said...
Your choice of fabric and color is so uplifting! Thank you for motivating me to make time to sew, amidst being Mom to 5 kids, again...
- May 26, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- Emily {Creative Chicks} said...
Oh yes, I like it without the pez border much better. And I'm lovin' that stripe on the back of your sons quilt. Such a great look!
- May 26, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- Sleepy Cat Hollow said...
Your Whirly is very pretty...just love that pattern. Definitely a good choice on lopping the border off. :)
Really like Been's quilt!
- May 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- traceyjay said...
isn't he so sweet! :)
And the whirlypops is really cute too. :)
- May 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM
- ktquilts said...
Great boys quilts!! Love them!!!
- May 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM
- live a colorful life said...
The back of the quilt is perfect! I really like the whirly quilt pattern.
- May 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM
- Caroline ~ TrilliumDesign said...
They are both awesome. I just love the bright fun colors and the stripes too!
- May 26, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- Jeni said...
It's beautiful! Such a fun pattern!
- May 26, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- Tammy Gilley said...
What a FUN quilt!
- May 26, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Princess and the Pea said...
It looks much better without the border - I love it! And the back of the other quilt is lovely too, I like pieced backs, I can never be bothered but I think I might start!
- May 26, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Jeni said...
I LOVE it! How is it that you have so much wee play...I have 2 charm packs and I am guarding them with my life because I can't find it anywhere.
- May 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- Cheryl Arkison said...
Love that bottom photo. Just adorable. The universe makes sleeping babes so damn cute because otherwise we wouldn't be able to quell the desire to kill them in their sleep after a trying day. Okay, that's a bit strong, but I bet all moms know what I mean.
- May 26, 2010 at 3:02 PM
- Rose said...
Wow, I really like a lot of your stuff...love that wall hanging and love the back of your son's quilt.
- May 26, 2010 at 5:52 PM
- Anna said...
so so great, love it now with the borders how you have it.
- May 26, 2010 at 7:27 PM
- Rinachiyya said...
You are so talented and your children are lucky to have you as their Mom.
Love the bed sheet quilt and the wallhaning looks much better this way.
- May 27, 2010 at 7:30 AM
- CitricSugar said...
I love the back - it's gorgeous! It looks so streamlined and boyish, especially with the sleeping gentleman under it. That sheet was a find!
- May 27, 2010 at 4:13 PM
- Lú Costa said...
Seus trabalhos são maravilhosos! Eu amei tudo que vi aqui em seu blog! Que Deus continue te abençoando! Obrigada por compartilhar conosco tantas coisas lindas! Você tem uma fã brasileira, estou te seguindo!
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Muse, of course, can rock the rim, but what's most striking about the Wolverines squad -- luxuriating in their brand-new state-of-the-art fieldhouse -- is that even the little guys can dunk. Irons' practices are a sea of motion. If you've been to rehab and are no longer permitted to drop acid, the optical ingestion of a Vashon practice is undoubtedly the Naismith-prescribed method to achieve that high naturally.
Irons, by his own admission, is "one of the most scrutinized" coaches in Missouri. Recruiting allegations are constantly swirling around him. The latest shitstorm involves Malik White, a six-foot-seven Vashon forward who was shot and killed outside his home in Jennings on August 22.
It's not rocket science to conclude that Jennings isn't exactly within the boundaries of the St. Louis Public Schools. Vashon appeared to have been caught with its pants down, and the Suburban North Athletic Conference, where White presumably should have been playing, promptly asked the Missouri State High School Activities Association to investigate.
Even before the final draft of the complaint was complete, Teflon Floyd was advancing his own spin, insinuating that other schools were jealous of his success and saying it wasn't his job to keep track of where his players live.
At face value, that sounds ridiculous -- until you consider the often fluid residential existence of the black youngster.
"The urban African-American moves a lot," explains McCluer North's Reed, whose squad plays in the Suburban North Conference. "It would drive you nuts if you had to keep track. One day he could be living at his aunt's, the next at Grandma's house."
MSHSAA spokeswoman Becky Oakes reports that the Malik White investigation is "in limbo" and will remain so unless the Suburban North Conference decides to press the matter further. Martin, who's of the opinion that Irons beats most of his raps because the MSHSAA is too lazy to investigate, isn't holding his breath.
"If Floyd was in Illinois, he wouldn't exist," says Martin. "They care about basketball there."
"How many states do you know where one team wins state every year? None. Nobody's that good a coach. John Wooden did it at UCLA. Know why? He got the best players. That's what Floyd has: an all-star team. Busing is what's made Vashon what it is."
Some coaches who feel slighted by Irons' tactics are moonlighting as de facto investigators. Beaumont's Hamilton was instrumental in getting six-foot-two forward William Franklin ruled ineligible to play for Vashon in light of the fact that he lived in Beaumont's area.
"Deseg raped some teams, but it didn't rape [Irons'] team," says Hamilton. "One day I will beat him -- and when I do, there's gonna be an all-night party."
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"Vashon's really built a dynasty," gushes Stipanovich. "Floyd Irons has done a great job mentoring those kids."
Another topic that irks the way-we-were curmudgeon set is the proliferation of power among AAU and summer select teams, which are often one and the same.
"AAU is the biggest it's been in ten years," asserts Neals. "From what I see now, people kind of bypass the high-school coach. I just think it's offensive."
Steiner essentially concurs.
"As good as AAU is relative to providing exposure, I think it also has a negative side," says DeSmet's Steiner. "It's one of the biggest headaches for college coaches to have to go through somebody to get to a player. It's like they're brokering players.... The way the recruiting process is set up, it lends itself toward recruiting through AAU. If the NCAA had made July a dead period, it would have brought the process back to the coaches."
"Dead period" is NCAA parlance for the time when college coaches are strictly forbidden to make in-person contact with players. On the other hand, "open periods" are essentially a free-for-all of scholastic seduction, and July is the only remaining open period that falls outside the school year -- and right during the heart of the AAU national-tourney season.
The NCAA threw high-school coaches a critical bone in 2002, when it took the step of requiring all AAU tournaments outside of the July open period to be sanctioned by state high-school athletic associations in order for Division One scouts to attend (lower-level coaches can watch all they want).
Although Gray acknowledges that some AAU coaches around the country have overstepped their bounds -- taking alleged cash kickbacks in exchange for access, employing contrarian teaching methods that can muck up a baller's school-year skill set or freezing their players' high-school coaches out of the recruiting process -- he defends his Eagles' program with considerable vehemence.
"We weren't marketing our kids in the summer, so they weren't getting exposure," says Gray. "In high school, you may have one or two great ballplayers. In summer ball, you need nine or ten to be competitive. That's why July is such an important month for college coaches. It's like one-stop shopping."
Even the 60-year-old Neals, an iconic intimidator of a coach for whom a menacing glare after a spat of tomfoolery by his troops more than passes for disciplinary action, grudgingly acknowledges that his star player, Terry Evans, had to go to an AAU camp in Indianapolis to get attention.
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The following schools have been to bowls in three consecutive seasons:
Arizona State, Arkansas State, Cincinnati, Louisiana,
Rutgers, Texas, UCLA, Utah State, Vanderbilt
The following schools went to bowls after the 2012 and 2013 seasons, but not 2011:
Arizona, Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Florida, Duke, East Carolina, Fresno State,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Navy, Oregon State, Rice, Southern Cal, Syracuse, Texas Tech
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with the number of years missing a bowl appearance in parentheses. (Note: If a school's last bowl appearance
was N years ago, then that school has played N–1 seasons without a bowl appearance.)
The following schools went to a bowl at the end of the 2011 season, but not since then:
Arkansas, California, Florida International, Illinois, Louisiana Tech, Penn State,
Southern Mississippi, Temple, Utah, Virginia, Wake Forest, Western Michigan, Wyoming
The following schools went to a bowl at the end of the 2010 season, but not since then:
Army, Connecticut, Hawai'i, Kentucky, Miami-Ohio,
South Florida, Tennessee, Texas - El Paso, Troy.
The following schools went bowling sometime during 2001-2009, but not since then:
Idaho (2009), Florida Atlantic, Kansas, Memphis (2008),
Colorado, Indiana, New Mexico(2007), Akron (2005), UAB (2004).
That leaves 7 FBS schools who have yet to go bowling in the 21st century:
Eastern Michigan (1987 California Bowl)
New Mexico State (1960 Sun Bowl)
Massachusetts, South Alabama, Texas - San Antonio, and Texas State all joined the FBS in 2012,
and Georgia State joined in 2013.
The Media Guide for UMass gives its last bowl appearance as the 1972 Boardwalk Bowl.
The last post-season appearance for Texas State (Southwest Texas State st the time) was
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Parks Canada's archaeological work in Gwaii Haanas National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Haida Heritage Site is revealing new insights regarding the early occupation of the area by the predecessors of the present-day Haida.
The rich archaeological record in Haida Gwaii stretches back at least 13,000 years, supporting the theory that the area was one of the first stops for populations migrating south from Alaska. Maritime sites include over 600 identified coastal archaeological sites, such as shell middens, that are of great cultural and spiritual significance to the Haida, as well as other post-contact site types such as historic shipwrecks.
In partnership with the Haida Nation, Parks Canada's Underwater Archaeology Service, and university researchers, Parks Canada archaeologists Daryl Fedje and Nicole Smith are unravelling the past in Gwaii Haanas NMCA Reserve and Haida Heritage Site.
Much of the early history of Haida Gwaii lies deep below the waters of Hecate Strait as a result of rapid sea level changes that happened between 15,000 and 11,000 years ago. Fedje, Smith, and their collaborators have used sea-level reconstruction to search for archaeological sites ranging from submerged coastal sites to upland caves. Archaeological evidence found in cave sites in southern Haida Gwaii show that people were hunting bears in this area as early as 13,000 years ago, but little else is known about these early inhabitants of Haida Gwaii.
The earliest detailed archaeological evidence is found at sites in the intertidal zone. At Kilgii Gwaay, sea levels flooded an ancient campsite about 10,600 years ago and the site remained underwater until recent times. Because the site was continually covered in sea water, there was unusually good preservation of bone, wooden tools, and basket fragments. The remains of marine animals, including albatross, seals, sea lions, ling cod, rockfish, and halibut, show that by 10,700 years ago people in Haida Gwaii were already maritime experts adept in deepwater fishing. Until just a few decades ago, conventional wisdom held that people in the Americas did not fully develop a pattern of maritime resource use until about 5,000 years ago. These discoveries show that the legendary fishing culture of Haida Gwaii has much older roots than previously believed and supports theories that the earliest settlers in the Americas travelled down the Pacific coast.
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Obviously we aren't going to see Apple lower the price of the iPad anytime soon, they are a little too stubborn and to be honest, they probably don't have to. But take the Amazon Kindle Fire for instance.
Low Budget Tablets Could Threaten the iPad
Sure, it doesn't have all of the great capabilities of a full tablet, but it has a lot of stuff that will leave 90% of customers happy. After all, you are going to have a plethora of magazines, books, at your disposal, along with apps like Netflix and Hulu Plus for streaming, not bad at all for just $199.
Now you can even get a Samsung Galaxy Tablet for $199, which has just about everything anyone could possibly expect from a tablet, and the newest HP touchpad isn't far behind in pricing either. Although Apple is poised to ship out a whopping 12 million iPads this quarter, it does have to make you wonder if this sort of pricing is worrying the execs at Apple.
Even though the majority of these budget tablets can't compete with the iPad in a head-to head competition, when you consider the deep discounts that they offer, it is enough to make anyone a little bit worried.


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Apr 25, 2012 Comments Off on Obama To Publicly Launch Campaign Next Week Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON — President Obama will publicly kick off his bid for a second term next week, his campaign announced Wednesday evening.
The president, along with First Lady Michelle Obama, will travel to Columbus, Ohio, and Richmond, Va., on May 5, events that represent a long-awaited shift from official to purely political travel.
At the events, campaign officials say the president "will speak about how far we've come, and lay out the very real stakes in this election: whether we choose to keep moving our country forward, or go back to the failed policies that crashed our economy and left the middle class struggling to catch up."
In an election in which as many as a dozen states will be considered potential battlegrounds, both Ohio and Virginia are expected to be among the most fiercely contested.
Obama's political activity to date has otherwise been limited to closed fundraising events, many in Washington, New York and Southern California. Vice President Joe Biden has until now had a more public campaign presence, delivering a series of "framing speeches" on issues such as the auto industry rescue, retirement security, manufacturing and tax reform.
Biden is to deliver another campaign speech Thursday in New York on national security.
The announcement comes on the same day the Republican National Committee formally declared Mitt Romney the party's presumptive nominee and began to fully integrate their respective campaign operations.
Republicans have been increasingly critical of the president for, in their view, campaigning on the taxpayer dime with events the White House has termed official business.
On Wednesday afternoon, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus filed a complaint with the Government Accountability Office seeking an investigation for what the party calls a "blatant campaigning and misuse of taxpayer dollars," following a three-state, two-day swing by the president to pressure Republicans to extend lower student loan interest rates.
They alleged that since taking office, the president has held "dozens of events that benefited OFA on the taxpayer dime," and linked the issue with a spending controversy at the General Services Administration.
The White House dismissed the complaint.
"When there is political travel, we follow all rules and regulations that all other administrations have followed," spokesman Eric Schultz said.


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According to a recent KPMG survey which polled more than 900 global companies, 80 percent of organizations are in the process of migrating or plan to move applications to the cloud. One out of every 10 organizations said that they are currently running core information systems through the services, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Many organizations are making the switch to cut costs and increase productivity. Businesses are beginning to realize that the cloud is no longer a competitive advantage, and that it has turned into an operational necessity, said Steve Hill, the vice chairman of strategic investments at KPMG, according to the Journal.
The cloud gives businesses the ability to store a nearly unlimited amount of data in off-site locations, which helps them reduce overall IT maintenance and support costs. Additionally, the cloud allows users to only pay for the space that they use.
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Go for 30 mile ride for #tdotuesday and get home to find no food in the house. Head to the shops on an empty stomach and this happens #SteakNMash
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briscyclerist : 👌 celebration dinner?
cathbeeks : Deserted by the wife eh Dan?!! @wazabeeks
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Good to get out tonight for #tdotuesday with @redonchrome. Also got in #hcadventchallenge day 3 up Dundry Lane.
kat_moochy : No walking this time right?
bbtpingu : @danalford 21 days left. Mate any chance you can tag the rest #HILLWANKER in case I miss any ?
danalford : @kat_moochy geared down and manned up so no walking this time. No probs @bbtpingu I'm not hear for some days so luckily for you, you might get two in one day!
kat_moochy : We did wraxall hill at the weekend, that was not fun on hacksaws gearing, my legs still hurt!
danalford : @kat_moochy yeah Wraxhall certainly isn't the best on a big gear! Managed to flip it over now? Spin to win in winter as I gets you warmer!
kat_moochy : Getting it changed back shortly! My knees hated it
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Cheers to @ilsoigneur & @swedeee for the ride. Always fun trying to keep up with all them gears. #tdotuesday #thebagman #thirtyspeedhero
ilsoigneur : Very kind Tim. I haven't moved off the sofa yet. #stillinkit
swedeee : #thirtyspeedhero is a great hashtag. cheers boys! @ilsoigneur
eddorsed : Looks like #hacksaws practice!
ilsoigneur : No way @eddorsey1
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TrackDropoutsTuesday™ here in Bristol (new bottles imminent). #DASRADKLUB #DRK13 #BRISTOL #BICYCLE #APPAREL #ACCESSORIES #ADVENTURES #FOREVERPEDALLING #TDOTUESDAY #STTB
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borek1993 : Dan it looks like your laughing at neil for being in pain #cruel
briscyclerist : @borek1993 @danalford @prince_rock how many of u made it out?
danalford : @briscyclerist was the four of us tonight fella
briscyclerist : Sounds good. Was it a good one?
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adam_ef : Always want to get out on these, but no chance of ever getting out by 6:30 on a school night.
borek1993 : Kat steadier sunday rides will probably get back into full swing soon :-)
kat_moochy : Better do! If I hadn't have done 30miles+ already I'd have done it! Looking at the speeds on strava I'd have kept up on a good day! Let me know about Sundays! @borek1993
danalford : @kat_moochy yeah definitely have a go on the Sunday group rides first. This was a tough ride in places so get some practice in on the hills.
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The Lion King 3 is a follow-up prequel to the 1998 film The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride. This depicts the story of Mohatu, the first king of Pride Rock, and the war that shaped the foundations of the kingdom.
The"Grand War" is the first turning point in Pridelander history. It is fought between the first Pridelanders and the powerful Seljuk kingdom that originally settled in the Pride Lands.
The story is now set 300 years earlier. Pride Rock was still a kingdom back then, but it was ruled by a different family. Rafiki states that the powerful Seljuks from the East invaded and took the Pride Lands by force. They are led by a powerful war hero named Shen. He soon seized control over the savanna and established the first Pridelander monarchy under Seljuk rule. However, Shen refused to become king himself, and decided that the only way to keep or restore order is through the army. Mohatu and his pride was one of the families threatened by the Seljuks, and to prevent any harm to his pride, Mohatu swore to serve Shen and the kingdom. Mohatu was just a cub.
One day, Mohatu was wandering through the savanna when he stumbled in the middle of an antelope stampede. As he ran for safety, he collided with another cub and the two fell into a nearby pond. The cub becomes irritated and takes her anger out on Mohatu for interfering with her "hunt." But she soon recognizes Mohatu as a servant of the Seljuks. She introduces herself as Nira (Nala's ancestor) and the two become close friends. Both of them make their way back to Pride Rock, not knowing that Shen and his son Pharsalus are watching from a nearby hill.
Pharsalus soon becomes suspicious of Mohatu, but Shen assures him that even if Mohatu should be suspected a traitor, "he will break one way or another." Shen was planning to use love, not force, as a means on controlling Mohatu.
- Matthew Broderick as Simba/Mohatu: The main protagonist in the original film and this story. Mohatu is a close firend and mate of Nira, and the first king of Pride Rock. He is based on Julius Caesar.
- Moira Kelly as Nala/Nira: The deutaragonist in the original film and this story. Nira is a close friend and mate of Mohatu, and the first queen of Pride Rock.
- John Shrapnel as Shen: The main antagonist and the leader of the Seljuks. Shen is the warlord of the Pride Lands.
- Simon Dutton as Pharsalus: The secondary antagonist, a leader of the Seljuks, and Shen's son.
- Karl Johnson as Labienus: A secondary antagonist and a leader of the Seljuks.


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Conspiracy Theories on Death Start to Spin
Across the Muslim world, the killing of Osama bin Laden has unleashed a swirl of conspiracy theories, with many Pakistanis, Afghans and Arabs refusing to believe U.S. assurances that al Qaeda's founder is actually dead.
The U.S., which deployed a Navy Seal team to kill bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad on Sunday, hasn't yet released any photographs of the Saudi fugitive's corpse. The body itself, U.S. officials say, has been buried at sea after bin Laden's identity was confirmed through a DNA test.
Afghanistan's Taliban movement, which hosted bin Laden and al Qaeda until the U.S. invasion of 2001, Tuesday night challenged President Barack Obama's account. "The Americans have not shown any credible evidence of Sheikh Osama's death, and his death has not been confirmed or denied by the sources close to Osama bin Laden," the Taliban said in their first official reaction to the killing.
In Abbottabad, many locals argue that the raid early Monday local time was a fake designed to embarrass Pakistan and bolster Mr. Obama's re-election chances.
"They're just making it up. Nobody has seen the body," scoffed Owais Khan, a local lawyer. He argued bin Laden would never have chosen Abbottabad, a wealthy, army-dominated town just 40 miles from Pakistan's capital, as a hideout.
Haji Liaquat, who runs a print shop about two miles from bin Laden's Abbottabad compound, agreed. "It's not the reality that Osama was present over there," he insisted. "This is just a drama to show how Pakistan is protecting Osama."
The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Marc Grossman, had to confront skeptical questions about the veracity of bin Laden's death during his news conference Tuesday in Islamabad. "I can't answer every conspiracy theory. You can have as many conspiracy theories as you wish," he said in reply, noting that the Pakistani government also confirmed bin Laden's killing. "He's dead. It's good."
More on Osama bin Laden
The Raid
- Raid Produced Massive Intelligence Haul
- White House Says Target Wasn't Armed
- Fugitive's House in a 'Very Peaceful Area'
- Spy Planes Play an Indispensable Role
- Release of Photo Proving Death Is Debated
The Aftermath
- U.S. and Pakistan Try to Ease Tensions
- U.S. Is on Alert for Hastened Terror Plots
- Taliban's Muted Response Draws Attention
- India Wants U.S. to Press Pakistan
- Britain Arrests Five Under Terror Laws
- China Swings to Defense of Pakistan
Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East, of course, are fertile grounds for conspiracy theories, especially ones that feature the U.S. or Israel as villains. It is still common to hear in Cairo, Kandahar or Karachi that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were carried out by the Bush administration to attain world domination; an alternative version blames the Israeli Mossad.
The reluctance of many in the region to believe Mr. Obama's account of bin Laden's death must be seen in this context of pervasive anti-American sentiment, explained Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Center in Doha, Qatar. "It's not so much about bin Laden as it is about the U.S.," he said. "The U.S. has provided its narrative to the world—and the natural reaction of many people is to cast doubt on whatever the U.S. says."
In Afghanistan, many compared bin Laden's death with the 2007 killing of the Taliban's chief military commander, Mullah Dadullah Akhund, by a coalition Special Operations Forces team. To dispel any doubts, the militant's bullet-ridden corpse was quickly put on display for journalists.
"When the Americans killed Mullah Dadullah they publicly showed the footage in the media and to everybody," said a Taliban commander in Afghanistan's Khost province, reached on the phone Tuesday. "If they have really killed Osama, why they don't show us the proof?"
The U.S. also has released the photo of the cadaver of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the chief of Al Qaeda in Iraq, after killing him in an air strike in that country in 2006.
The White House said Tuesday that the photos of Osama bin Laden's body are gruesome. At issue is the value of offering visual proof of his death to the world versus concerns that the photos may be inflammatory to some. Later, in the day, Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta told NBC News in an interview the U.S. would eventually release a photo.
Perhaps nowhere in the Muslim world are the conspiracy theories about bin Laden's death becoming more fanciful than in Egypt, a country where credulous rumors spread like wildfire. Mohammed Ali, a 38-year-old bank manager and fluent English speaker, said he believed that bin Laden really died five years ago, and that the U.S. had been hiding the news "to continue taking money from Gulf countries and to keep everyone afraid."
"There are a lot of doubts," echoed Magdy Suleiman as he was fixing falafel sandwiches for a lunch-hour crowd in Cairo's middle-class Agouza neighborhood Tuesday. "Why did they catch him now?"
In cafes in downtown Riyadh, bin Laden's birthplace, men Tuesday repeated another long-standing belief among some Arabs: that the terrorist mastermind never existed. "To be honest, I've never been convinced that there was such a person as Osama bin Laden," said Osama al-Obeid, a Saudi banker.
Even if the U.S. were to release photographs and other proof of bin Laden's death, this latest batch of conspiracy theories wouldn't necessarily disappear. "A lot of people live in their own world based on imagination rather than facts," said Hasan-Askari Rizvi, a Pakistani political analyst. "They don't want to accept the reality."
— Margaret Coker
and Summer Said in Riyadh,
Habib Khan Totakhil in Kabul
and Paul Beckett in New Delhi contributed to this article.
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The Boogens - what a flick. Very fun, straight forward creature feature. The best thing is that there are movies you rent that are nothing like the ads. The Boogens delivers. I remember when this was first released (you'd better believe I have the full page ad from the L.A. Times!) and my school mate was trying to describe the monsters to me (she had seen this with her family the previous Friday opening). I didn't see the flick until 1983 and, although I never found it scary, it's one of the few (from the era which was mostly slasher flicks) that actually seemed like a 1950's monster movie crossed with a slasher flick and was just fun.
I bought the paperback book in 1982 and I must admit, that story is so much better. How cool would the film had been if it had the budget to do a production design of the mine shafts, ect as they are so nicely described in the book!
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i gave birth to our first baby, a perfect little girl, in april, almost ten months ago. i really regret that i haven't kept a baby book for her. we received one for our shower from my mom but didn't feel very comfortable with it (more my guy than me, but me also to an extent) as there were entire pages we wouldn't have used (i.e. baptism).
i've off-and-on kept a journal and there are two forums i was active in during the first 6 months or so, so i could kinda of reconstrue stuff if/when she asks me about her babyhood. i think i feel guilty mostly because i know how much it bothered me that i didn't have one as a kid, and here i am, making the same situation for my daughter. ;( granted, we have tons of video and photos, which is way more than i ever had. that reassures me. but i can't believe how much i've already forgotten - like when she first rolled over, etc.
should i maybe try to find a more neutral baby book and fill it in now, before i truly forget everything? or should i just let it go?
thanks for reading. as always, it's surprising how much better i feel just typing it out. ;)
If you can reconstruct some of it from your forum post. photos, memories etc then that's what I'd do.
How is the book you were given bound? Can you remove pages. If you really, really don't like it then I'd either get a book with removable pages (this is the one we use) or just get a plain journal and write in the things which are important to you. You could use the book you were given as a guide if you wanted to.
Mother of two spectacular girls, born mid-2010 and late 2012
I'm there with you! DD is nine months old. I have a box of stuff I've saved--footprints from hospital, doctor's records, cards, etc. And I have jotted down notes here and there. But I feel guilty that I haven't started to assemble it into any sort of detailed narrative. I have the baby book my mom made for me and it is insanely thorough--letters to me, photos, long entries about what I did and when, cards, etc. It's a high bar. I keep saying I'll put everything together when I have the time, but it's hard when I'm still so frigging tired all the time.
Fiction writer by training, writer/editor of anything anyone will hire me for by trade. Me + D=my girls E (4/2011) and little N, 1/2014.
katelove, the book we were given is a hardbound almost-board-book like thing, with cut-outs on the pages for pictures and so on. it's super cute and i feel bad not using it since it was from my mom but we've talked a lot about it and.. we just don't feel comfortable using it. and i don't think i can really re-purpose it, not even some pages here or there. :( maybe i'll just get a blank book (god knows i'm constantly buying pretty blank journals!) and fill that in. i did keep a pregnancy journal, so there's that at least.
blanca78, yes the guilt! i see other people writing monthly letters to their kids and though i really thought i'd remember so much more, i'm already forgetting so much stuff! thank goodness i wrote down the birth story a few months ago, because now i can barely remember so many of the details i swore up and down i'd never forget. ha!
I think a blank journal sounds lovely.
Mother of two spectacular girls, born mid-2010 and late 2012
I plan on starting our soon, and I just bought a bound set of watercolor paper (really thick nice papers). I'm planning on gluing in photos and writing stuff in there to go with it. It won't be a really traditional baby book, but then, we're not really traditional people ;-)
A couple things to help me with this. I bought a small notebook to keep out, and every few nights I try to jot down a couple thoughts with dates, so I have stuff to put into the book. We also set up an email account for DD, and I send quick emails to her. Since I'm on the computer so much anyway, it's a much easier way for me to drop her notes / letters for her to read when she's older, rather than handwriting them out.
Yeah, I plan to use a blank book approach too. One word of advice from my mom: "Make sure the binding is thick enough that it can handle all the stuff you paste in! And use good glue!" (Lots of stuff is falling out of my baby book.)
I plan on starting our soon, and I just bought a bound set of watercolor paper (really thick nice papers). I'm planning on gluing in photos and writing stuff in there to go with it. It won't be a really traditional baby book, but then, we're not really traditional people ;-)
A couple things to help me with this. I bought a small notebook to keep out, and every few nights I try to jot down a couple thoughts with dates, so I have stuff to put into the book. We also set up an email account for DD, and I send quick emails to her. Since I'm on the computer so much anyway, it's a much easier way for me to drop her notes / letters for her to read when she's older, rather than handwriting them out.
Fiction writer by training, writer/editor of anything anyone will hire me for by trade. Me + D=my girls E (4/2011) and little N, 1/2014.
ah! what a great idea.
i'm slighly ocd enough that i think oh i can't start that now, she's almost 10 months old! (i.e. i have to start new yearly planners on the first, or else i don't have one for the rest of the year. ha! one of my sister's is worse though, she writes everything in pencil, then goes over it in ink and then erases the pencil. well, in her daily running log at least. :D ) anyhow, maybe that's something we could do.. i have thought of getting her a gmail account so that her name's not taken when she's older but 1) her name is pretty unique, even for gmail, 2) i doubt (and hope) that google will not be the be-all-end-all it is now when she's a teenager.
blanca78 and katelove, i think that i'll also have a paper equivalent though - nothing super organized, but in my handwriting, and somewhat linear, and just for her to look through when she's older. we're not very traditional either but these moments with her as a baby are so so precious to us, i want her to get a glimpse of it -- though thank goodness, we do have the video and photos galore.
i think also a lot of it is for me, really - like a cathartic thing since i never had a baby book, but also as a place to just pour out some of my experiences of being a new mom. it's been the toughest year of my life, but also the best. anyhow, thanks ladies for all the suggestions. we hope to have more kids (lots!) and what i do with the first, i'd like to do with the rest, so it's a big step to have (somewhat) decided. :)
I love my First 1000 Days baby journal. It's really flexible and open ended, but has some loose structure to it. I'm trying really hard to keep up with that since I dropped the ball on monthly comparision pics.
Social working mommy to 10/10/11, three cats, and a dog.
I've been meaning to preserve our DS memories for a year now... I say do something-- anything-- now. I want to make a few photo collages and slideshows (maybe iMovie?) of special events and photos with friends and family. I also have a box of cards and stuff and a calender I scribbled a few notes on.
Thanks for this post because it reminded me to get my act together!
Mama to Boo-Boo and babysitter to Bean
@livacreature, i look nikki mcclure's books and calendars - so so beautiful! it's hard to get her stuff here in south america so i keep putting them on wish lists hoping my family will get the hint. maybe it's time i just order it myself ;) or i might be waiting forever.
@glimmersnaps - iMovie is pretty easy in my opinion, as long as you don't get too caught up in all the options available ;), that's a great idea.
time is of the essence right now, though it's hard to imagine squeezing in any more projects (we're about to start building our own house, yay/arrgh!), i gotta make the time. i'm forgetting so much already and .. well sooner than later, we wanna get started on baby #2 and then there really will be no time at all.
Here is a beautiful idea, and it does not require to have a gallery of "firsts" - it goes month by month which is easier to reconstruct than many typical baby book events. IMO looks very creative and lovely.
I didn't do a baby book and now wish I had. I did do a photobook via Mixbook.com that I totally love. I made it for the first year of DS' life. I like it so much, I plan to do another.
DS ( 9/2010) and TTC #2
We have a baby book that's okay and I've filled out some of it. I've actually had to go back through my fa.cebook status updates to get the dates of certain milestones. I'm an avid photographer and sorta videographer. I put together a video of conception to 4 months (basically her first year, of which most was inutero) and then I had the best of intentions to produce a new video quarterly. Her 1st birthday is less than a month away and I haven't produced a single video...GULP. I'm going to try to pull something together for her first year. But there is SO much video to go through.
For those of you who want to do photo/video, I'm using software on my computer but I also HIGHLY recommend Animoto. You just upload your photo/video, pick some music, and it puts it all together for you. So very simple and no special skills required.
I also purchased a gr.oupon for photobook and I've done monthly shots. I'm going to put month by month shots of her in it, and then somehow pull together little updates or memories in text. I got better at this later on, but it's going to be grasping for the first six months or so.
DW and I are moms to two teens (DD 17 and DS 15) adopted through CAS in 2007 and a toddler (DD 2) born at home in March 2011.
Hi gumshoefirl007,
just wondering what video editing software you use. I want to edit my videos (cut pieces from different videos and put them together) but I've never done something like that before, and don't know what software could do that. I know I could find something free on the Internet but afraid of viruses that often come with free software.
I have a PC and it comes with Windows Movie Maker installed. That's what I've been using for these video projects. You can also use animoto (google it) and you don't have to download anything. It allows you to use pics and film clips.
DW and I are moms to two teens (DD 17 and DS 15) adopted through CAS in 2007 and a toddler (DD 2) born at home in March 2011.
I was in a similar situation to the one you're in...DD was 8 months old, just had notes and a blank book (no prompts at all) and a near-miss on MIL getting us a super-girly one that I would have not wanted to use but would have felt obligated (luckily we talked her out of it by saying we already had one).
Anyway, I found this wonderful journal style book and I'm am slowly filling it in and not even worrying about how my handwriting looks. It's called "The First 1000 Days" by Nikki McClure and the artwork is simple but lovely.
Here is the link to buy it online.
Good luck!
New mom who left a life at sea for my DH, my "firstborn", 10-month old puppy Betsy - Lab/Border Collie mix - and my DD Amelia, born June 2 and growing like a weed .
I got a baby book and hated mine, too. Instead, I made my own several months after my baby was born and I LOVE it.
I bought a sturdy blank journal with unlined pages and write in it journal-style. It's sort of like a scrapbook. I don't write the usual baby stuff in it. I don't care about when what teeth came in and I'm sure my daughter won't care either. I only put the important things in it. I write funny things she said, entries about really great days we had together, photos of birthdays and special events, stories about our family and ancestors, ancestry information, family tree, favorite family recipes (so she can one day recreate favorite meals from her childhood), lyrics to songs and lullabies I sang to her, poetry I have written or found, scrap clippings, drawings I have made, entries about how much I love her and how I felt about her and what I wanted for her future and I also write down life lessons and advice for her to read when she's grown up. I feel like I have to put myself down as a mother in a book in case I'm not here someday so she can read it and look back and know how much I loved her. I almost feel like I can go on being there for her some day after I'm gone just by being in that book.
Mama to a bright 7 y/o girl and an exuberant 3 y/o boy Loving unschooling, 2x and natural living in Hawaii.
I'm soooo not anything close to a scrapbooker so I haven't even opened the baby book I was given. What I did instead was start a blog that's completely private so it's more of a journal. I can easily add photos right from my computer. It's so easy and convenient I do a little something on it several times a week. I know it's not something tangible but for me, it's the best option because otherwise there would be nothing...
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ESPN 850 WRUF's Lola Glanton recaps all the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament national title action from North Texas.
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How does the size of a store make the plastic bags a different threat to the environment? They're either bad for all or they're not. Political thinking at its best!
Why don't they spend their time going after businesses who have illegals working at them? But they're going after a company where there hasn't even been any complaints? " Robert Sanders, director of the Boston office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, tells the Boston Herald that some applicants or employees at Marylou's may not know that they are victims of age or sex discrimination." Obviously he needs to create problems to justify keeping his job! Just more of political "sounded like a good idea" agencys gone wrong.
The Democrats in this state have created a fail-safe vote base. The Democratic party has created a multitude of handout programs that include housing, food, healthcare. In return the democrats get the recipient's vote. They secure this vote by threatening their people that their handouts will be taken away if they vote Republican. Unfortunately what they don't realize is that it is in the best interest of the Democrats to keep them poor and dependent. If our Democratic government spent more time keeping and getting more business in our state there would be more jobs and a better life for our people. However a better life means independence and freedom. The Democrats have enslaved many by giving them just enough to survive. IF you think this is bunk, find one voter living off the government handouts who doesn't vote Democrat.
But don't you think that campaign ad with the lady that says "my daddy was a janitor and her daddy was a janitor" is so touching? Oh wait - Her father's obituary says he was a self-employed business man. So is this ad just another of her family lore stories to make herself look more like the "common working folk"? BTW - I'm female but she doesn't get my vote.
Legislators feel this type of action is needed to get healthcare costs under control -- I have a different solution --- Stop paying the healthcare bills for ILLEGALS That will save over 37 million a year! Stop giving Masshealth to those who can obviously afford to be on vacation -- remember the list of out-of-state payments under Masshealth? You didn't drive to Hawaii to get a prescription!! Stop these doctors from doing elective surgeries on masshealth recipients. We need to start electing Politicians with common sense. All politicians should be required to take a logic and common sense tests as well as basic math skills before being allowed to run for office. They want to legalize marijuana and make chocolate milk illegal!! Lord help us ALL!!
You have to love it!! This group of legislators is banning Chocolate and wants to legalize Marijuana!! "Hey Officer - you can't take my brownie -- it's made with legal pot!!"
Why are Gov Patrick and other democrats so adamant against sending ILLEGAL immigrants out of Massachusetts? They use up our tax resources and some jobs ILLEGALLY. Those are jobs and monies that should be going to the poor citizens of Massachusetts. Remember 37 million in 1 year has been paid out for ILLEGALS healthcare costs in Massachusetts. How many more millions in housing, food, and other benefits derived from taxpayers' money both federal and state levels are being spent on ILLEGALS? Isn't Gov Patrick supposed to be working FOR the citizens of Massachusetts and not against them? Claiming racial issues, please! I don't care if you're white, brown, yellow or purple - the definition for ILLEGAL is still the same! Gov, is it because the poorer the citizens of Mass remain the more beholden they will be to the Democratic politicians who throw them scraps to live on and keep their loyalty and votes? A dog gives loyalty to its master because he gives him food and housing. Now substitute a "poor citizen" for dog, "vote" for loyalty and "Democratic Politician" for master. Sad how easily it fits and truths come to the surface.
IF he's innocent he should be set free but Grandma says "She said she heard the report about the shooting over the scanner, and immediately called her grandson, who was home taking care of his daughter, Iesha, at the time." Why did she call him if as Aunt says he didn't even know victim? Phone logs would verify her story. This should be the questions asked. Somebody doesn't just change their story after 2 years for no reason. Only reasons I can think of are Conscience or Fear. Justice system better find out whch it truly is.
Pepe got it right - let these people actually spend time in the classrooms with these disruptive kids. The reality is these arrests probably kept these incidents from becoming violent episodes. Laws have made disciplining students all but impossible and students know it. At some point I hope all the zealots who believe in community responsibility and not personal responsibility realize poverty is the necessary tool of the Democratic party to thrive. Keep them poor and uneducated, give them handouts so they believe we want them to succeed and they will keep giving us their votes. We will remain in power. I don't care what color your skin is, if you are living off the government without even trying to better yourself and fighting for yourself and your family to live a better life than you are no better than a Democratic slave -- cause I'd be willing to bet you don't vote for those nasty Republicans who want to take away all your freebies. I applaud Springfield - get rid of the parasites who don't want to be educated and let the teachers go back to teaching those who do want to better themselves.
The first step is getting the kids to attend school. The absentee rate is about 7 weeks out of 40. All the "plans", "ideas" and "educational rhetoric" are not going to solve any problems if the kids aren't there! So how do you get them to attend? That's the responsibility of the parents. So the bigger question is why don't the parents care? Are they content to allow their children to continue to live in poverty? What if their benefits were affected if their kids don't attend school? Would they make sure they go then?
Hey Patrick - stop paying for illegals health care and there's at least 37 mil to pay towards the debt, Add the amount spent for illegals housing, food, etc... and it would be considerably more.
Lisa would you please share the name of your insurance company? As mine have risen with over double digit percentages each year for the last 3 years I'd like to find one that's going down!
On the other side of the coin are the parents who don't get involved in their children's lives at all!!
Which is worse I am not sure.
Any Obama supporters out there care to explain what they think he meant by this "off-mic" comment?
Don't forget folks that obamacare is being modeled after Mass's own disatrous plan -- remember the one that promised insurance rates would go down? Mine have gone up 40% in 3 years! and the 37 million spent on illegal immigrants healthcare in 1 year!! Let's multiply that by how many times if this were to be nationwide!! I for one want it out of Massachusetts -- and yes I know this was Romney's idea but it was remodeled by the H & S at the time and clearly this program is putting Mass in more of a financial bind with all those people on Masshealth.
Again a new "law" to make people think the politicians care without actually doing something that would really help this state without possibly offending some of their voters! Wish they'd spend more time fixing the real problems in this state - like too much spending and not enough income.
If they wanted to do something effective why not create some law that immediately mobilizes National Guard to help with tree removal or check on affected neighborhoods for elderly and disabled. When another country has a disaster of any type we send airplanes full of supplies and help so why can't we load those enormous C-5s with the needed utility trucks and crews and save 3 days travel time? I don't see how imposing a penalty is going to physically help them restore power any faster! And isn't that the real issue here - getting power restored more quickly?
How can a multiple choice test be discriminatory? An answer is either right or wrong! There is no subjectiveness on a multiple choice. Are they saying tests like this are an invalid way of judging knowledge? HMMM! If it works its a good argument for throwing out the MCAS!!
Where the heck has common sense gone in this world!! These officers did what they had to do for the safety of others (which is their job) and the court says you didn't do it quite right so the guy gets away with an unlawful act to possibly kill someone another time! Whatever judge suppressed the evidence should be removed from the bench for stupidity and lack of common sense.
How much would we save if we didn't pay for Illegals healthcare costs or their housing, food, etc.? What about changing the way the homeless students are sent to school - save those millions and send them to school where they are living. Start monitoring Masshealth more carefully - lapband surgeries and braces are just two of the benefits of Masshealth not found in most insurance policies that we pay thousands a year for. When are politicians going to realize that it is mathematically impossible to keep doling out all these freebies - it takes many "taxpaying families" to support the goodies given to 1 family for the year. I'm not heartless but it's gotten way out of hand.


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COVINGTON -- After eliminating credit card fees for utility customers, the Covington City Council voted last week to take it one step further.
"We eliminated fees for utility bills, but we want to extend this to our other departments," said Mayor Kim Carter during the council's Sept. 8 meeting.
According to City Manager Steve Horton, the city will absorb credit card transaction fees for payments in all departments -- such as those needing permits or copies of accident reports -- except those associated with traffic tickets and court-related bonds, fines or fees.
On Aug. 16, the City Council voted to absorb the 2.95 percent fee applied to each credit and debit card payment of utility bills. Horton said at that time the decision was made due to regular complaints from customers about the transaction fee.
Bobby Johnson, information systems manager for the city, said the city has budgeted $50,000 to cover the convenience fees on utility payments and for the other departments.
Johnson said that from July 30, 2009, through July 30, 2010, the city collected 6,375 credit and debit card payments for utilities for a total of $1,292,188.18. The 2.95 percent convenience fee per transaction added $38,207.03, for a total of $1,330,395.21.
The cost to Covington for absorbing the fees for utility customers during this time would be $18,806.25, Johnson said.
"We expect the 'number' of credit/debit card payments to possibly double to 13,500, based on the responses we have received from our customers," Johnson said in an e-mailed response to questions.
The city uses a company called Collector Solutions Inc. of Pensacola, Fla., to process credit/debit card payments.
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The Westin Portland Harborview Hotel, at 157 High St. and adjoining the plaza, is scheduled for a "soft opening" on Dec. 12, General Manager Bruce Wennerstrom said Friday.
The Westin, formerly the 86-year-old Eastland Park Hotel, has been closed while it undergoes a $50 million renovation and expansion. When it opens, the hotel will include 289 guest rooms, more than any hotel in the state.
The historic "Eastland" signs already top the building, but will be lit by energy-efficient LED bulbs and include a Westin logo. The 12th-story landmark lounge, Top of the East, will again provide panoramic views in a space that is roughly double its original size.
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by R. Timothy Bryan, Brent R. McIlwain
Nov 1, 2007
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Arbitration clauses have become increasingly common in
commercial contracts. Stated reasons for including such clauses in these
contracts include increased certainty, decreased cost compared to typical
litigation, more expedited resolution, and in some instances the desire for
industry-specific experts to adjudge a particular dispute. Whether those
attributes are perceived or a reality, the fact is many of those same
characteristics are used to describe the bankruptcy process and the ability of a
bankruptcy judge to dispose of almost any issue quickly and efficiently.
Interestingly, a review of the recent cases regarding the enforcement of
arbitration clauses in bankruptcy revealed a few consistent themes. First, each
court pays great respect to the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). 9 U.S.C. Section
1 et. seq. Second, most Bankruptcy Courts determine that arbitration clauses
should not be enforced, only to be overturned in many instances by appellate
courts. Third, despite the similarities of the standards applied in the various
circuits, the results are quite different.
article reviews the general standards for determining whether arbitration should
be enforced, discusses recent opinions that have applied those standards in
disparate manner, and highlights a recent case in which even rejecting a
contract could not prevent enforcement of an arbitration
Virtually every
written opinion regarding the enforceability of arbitration clauses in
bankruptcy begins with a discussion of the FAA, which "establishes a 'federal
policy favoring arbitration agreements,' and mandates the enforcement of
contractual arbitration provisions."
MBNA America Bank, N.A. v.
, 436
F.3d 104, 107 (2nd Cir. 2006) (internal citations omitted). That policy can be
overridden if a party can establish "congressional intent to create an exception
to the FAA's mandate."
Mintze v.
American General Finance, Inc
., 434 F.3d 222, 229 (3rd Cir.
standard for whether congressional intent exists is found in a Supreme Court
Shearson/American Express,
Inc. v. McMahon,
482 U.S. 220, 225-227 (1987). The
case provides
that the congressional intent to create an exception to the FAA will be found
either in (i) the text of a statute, (ii) legislative history, or (iii) "an
inherent conflict between arbitration and the statute's underlying purposes."
at 227. In other
words, the Supreme Court has held that if another federal statute either
explicitly or implicitly demonstrates that Congress intended to create an
exception to the FAA, arbitration agreements need not be
The next
query in a bankruptcy matter typically is whether the matter to be decided in
arbitration or through bankruptcy is "core" or "non-core." While a complete
discussion of the nuances between core and non-core matters is beyond the scope
of this article, for these purposes it is sufficient to describe core matters as
those that are unique to bankruptcy, while non-core matters are those that can
arise outside of the bankruptcy framework.
uniformly courts have held that a Bankruptcy Court must compel arbitration under
circumstances in which a matter is non-core and the parties are subject to a
valid arbitration agreement. See
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. v. Electric
Machinery Ent., Inc.,
479 F.3d 791 (11th Cir. 2007). That is
because a court has some difficulty in finding that matters that arise outside
of the bankruptcy context can meet the strictures of the test laid down in
converse is not true, of course, in that courts have not uniformly held that
core matters are exempted from valid arbitration agreements. Instead, the
analysis typically proceeds as follows. If a matter is determined to be
non-core, the matter will be subject to a valid arbitration agreement. If a
matter is determined to be core, a court proceeds to apply the
test to determine whether the matter
should proceed in bankruptcy or be sent to arbitration. See
The Whiting-Turner
, 479
F.3d at 796;
Arellano v. Montoya
2007 Bankr. LEXIS 2055, *9 (Bankr. NM June 14, 2007).
this may sound simple enough, the application of these standards has led to
distinctly different results.
One of the more surprising recent cases ordering
enforcement of an arbitration agreement is
MBNA America Bank, N.A. v. Hill
out of the 2d
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The
case revolved
around whether a debtor's claim for a violation of the automatic stay should be
subject to a valid arbitration agreement.
The debtor
authorized a credit card company to withdraw funds from her bank account on a
monthly basis to pay credit card charges.
, 436 F.3d at 106.
The debtor later filed bankruptcy, and despite receiving notice of the filing,
the credit card company continued to withdraw funds from the debtor's bank
account. As a result, the debtor filed a complaint against the credit card
company alleging willful violation of the automatic stay. Interestingly, the
debtor styled her claim as a class action. The credit card company requested
dismissal of the adversary proceeding in the Bankruptcy Court, citing an
agreement to arbitrate contained in an amendment to the debtor's credit card
That court
found that the claim for willful violation of the automatic stay was a core
proceeding, and then held that the Bankruptcy Court was the most appropriate
forum for adjudication of the claim. The District Court affirmed the decision,
and the credit card company appealed.
The 2d
Circuit agreed with the lower court rulings holding that the claim was a core
matter; however, the court reversed the lower court's ruling that the Bankruptcy
Court was the most appropriate forum. In so doing, the appellate court, applying
determined that allowing a core matter such as violation of the automatic stay
to be determined in arbitration did not conflict with the purpose or objectives
of the Bankruptcy Code.
The court
relied on three factors in reaching the decision. First, the debtor had received
a discharge and was no longer in need of stay protection. Second, the fact that
the complaint was styled as a class action demonstrated to the court that the
claims were not tied to the debtor's bankruptcy. Finally, and most surprising,
the court held that an arbitrator was just as capable as a bankruptcy judge to
address issues related to the automatic stay.
Had the
case dealt with a
different core matter, such as claim adjudication, the result might not have
been surprising, as few could argue that an arbitrator could, in most instances,
adjudicate such an issue just as well as a Bankruptcy Court. Allowing an
arbitrator to decide a claim for willful violation of the automatic stay,
however, seems to go beyond a simple respect for arbitration
Had the
debtor not attempted to bring a class action, one would imagine that the court
would have ruled otherwise. However, other decisions by other courts certainly
do not support that conclusion. See
Mintze v. American General Financial Services, Inc.,
434 F3d 222 (3rd Cir. 2006) (holding that
arbitration must be order with respect to rescission claim when Congressional
intent to the contrary is not established);
The Whiting-Turner Contracting, Co. v. Electric
Machinery Ent., Inc.,
479 F.3d 791 (11th Cir. 2007)
(determination of the res of a constructive trust was not core, and even if
core, arbitrating the claim would not inherently conflict with the purposes of
the Bankruptcy Code);
Arellano v Montoya, 2007
. LEXIS 2055 (Bankr. NM June 14, 2007) (claims for breach of
contract, fraud, and other torts were found to be non-core, and despite
provision in unconfirmed plan that attempted to reject arbitration agreements,
the court ordered arbitration).
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals addressed the issue
of the enforceability of an arbitration agreement against a bankrupt debtor in
Phillips v.
Congelton L.L.C.,
403 F.3d 164 (4th Cir. 2005). Applying essentially the
same factors as the 2d Circuit, the 4th Circuit reached a different
, a dispute
arose over the sale of assets and certain advances made by a former owner,
Phillips, to the debtor pre-petition. The underlying sale documents required
that disputes to be submitted to arbitration in London, in accordance with the
"Commercial Arbitration Rules then in effect of the International Arbitration
at 166. A dispute
arose, and one of owners of the debtor and a party to the agreements, Congelton,
made a demand for arbitration in accordance with the agreements. Prior to the
commencement of arbitration,
filed an
involuntary bankruptcy petition against the debtor in the United
filed an
adversary proceeding seeking a determination of the amount of his claim against
the debtor and seeking a determination that he was no longer required to advance
funds to the debtor. Congelton requested that the Bankruptcy Court dismiss the
adversary proceeding and force Phillips to submit the claims to arbitration, in
accordance with the agreements of the parties. The court denied Congelton's
request, citing the fact that the adversary proceeding involved a core matter
that was critical to the debtor's ability to formulate a plan. The District
Court affirmed the Bankruptcy Court, and Congelton appealed to the 4th
The 4th
Circuit determined that the matters in dispute were core. Then, the court
proceeded to apply the
test to
determine whether the matter should be sent to arbitration. The court's
application of that test focused on whether there was an inherent conflict
between arbitration and bankruptcy with respect to the issues in dispute. The
court held that there was an inherent conflict because the adversary proceeding
dealt with claims against the estate, the resolution of which would determine
whether the debtor could reorganize.
In reaching
the decision, the 4th Circuit stated that "[a]rbitration is inconsistent with
centralized decision making because permitting an arbitrator to decide a core
issue would make debtor-creditor rights 'contingent upon an arbitrator's ruling'
rather than the ruling of the bankruptcy judge assigned to hear the debtor's
at 169.
The 4th
Circuit's approach would give comfort to most bankruptcy practitioners, because
most core issues have a direct impact on a debtor's reorganization and
interrelate to many other issues decided by the Bankruptcy Court. In addition,
the 4th Circuit, while paying deference to the FAA, seems to recognize that an
arbitrator may not be in the best position to decide issues that are unique to
If simply filing a bankruptcy petition is not sufficient
to extricate a party from such an agreement, are there any events in a
bankruptcy that might change the enforceability of the arbitration agreement?
One recent case demonstrates the strength of arbitration agreements, even in the
face of rejection of the underlying contract.
District Court in Delaware recently held that rejection of a contract containing
a valid arbitration agreement does not relieve the parties of the obligation to
submit to arbitration.
Selby's Market, Inc. v. PCT
In re Fleming Companies,
2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18739 (D. Del. March 16, 2007). In
that case, after rejecting an agreement with a third-party supplier, the debtor
filed for arbitration with the American Arbitration Association, in accordance
with the provisions of the underlying supply agreement. The debtor sought
payment from the supplier for an alleged breach of the supply agreement between
the two of them.
a plan was confirmed and a post-confirmation trustee (PCT) was appointed. The
PCT sought to compel arbitration, even though the underlying agreement had been
rejected by the debtor. The seller argued that because the underlying agreement
had been rejected, the PCT could no longer reap the benefits of the arbitration
clause contained within that agreement.
Bankruptcy Court disagreed, holding that the arbitration clause survived
rejection of the contract, because a rejection is not a termination of the
underlying contract. In a short opinion, the District Court affirmed the
bankruptcy court's ruling, reasoning that a rejection of a contract only rejects
provisions of a contract that are executory (remaining unperformed) and is not
meant to alter substantive rights of a party.
at *7. Accordingly,
the court held that the arbitration provision survived rejection of the
underlying contract.
It would be interesting to see if the same result would have been reached
had the party seeking arbitration been the creditor, rather than the debtor. The
Fleming case only highlights further how deferential courts have become to
arbitration agreements in commercial contracts.
Bryan is a director of TMA International and
past president
TMA's Chesapeake Chapter. He can be reached at (703)
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