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Christmas Snowflake Molds
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Ornaments and baking are essential parts of the Christmas season. Use Christmas Snowflake Molds as a baking dish or add a string and make it an ornament! This homemade christmas craft is perfect gift.
- Colour de Verre Snowflake
- mold
- Small, soft primer brush
- Balance or digital scale
- Small plastic bag and hammer
- Goggles or safety glasses
- Hotline Primo Primer
- Water Clear fine frit
- Your favorite colors of fine frit
- 5 grams of dichroic glass scraps
- Always start by giving your mold four to five thin, even coats of Hotline Primo Primer. It is the only primer we recommend, because it doesn't obscure the mold's fine details and the glass won't stick and ruin the mold.
- Use a soft brush to apply the primer and a hair dryer to completely dry each coat before applying the next. Even though they may look funny, put on the safety glasses.
- Put the dichroic glass scraps into the heavy, plastic bag. Fold over the bag's opening.
- Use the hammer to crush the glass scraps into pieces the size of dry, split peas. Sprinkle half the crushed dichroic glass into the mold. And then sprinkle a few grams of your favorite frit color or colors into the mold's design recesses.
- Tap the mold to settle the frit evenly. Measure out 25 grams of Water Clear fine frit.
- Distribute this frit evenly into the mold. Finally, sprinkle the remaining crushed dichroic frit into the mold.
- Fire to a "sugar fire" – about 1300 degrees F (705 degrees C). Use the casting schedule.
- Wait until the mold is completely cool and remove it from the kiln. The castings should fall out. If they are stubborn, turn mold facedown and tap it against a hard surface cushioned with several layers of newsprint.
- Turn the casting into an ornament, create a 3" loop of monofilament and use either "super glue" or hot glue to attach the loop to the mold's back. A casting can be made very special by attaching a inexpensive jewelry pendant finding to the mold's back.
- Use a silk or satin ribbon to hang the casting. Thoroughly clean the mold with a stiff brush between every firing to remove all the old primer. Avoid breathing any dust by wearing a proper dust mask. Note: These schedules are for Uroboros COE 96 glass. Exact temperatures will depend on your particular kiln. You may substitute your favorite brand and color frit.
- Fire COE 90 glass about 10 to 20 degrees F hotter.
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Early Buzz: Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo' Proves "The Possibilities of 3D To Be Something More Than A Novelty"
Posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 by Peter Sciretta
Paramount Pictures has begun test screening Martin Scorsese's Hugo, with screenings in New York City and Chicago. Like many of you, I've been anxiously awaiting this film. Not just because its a new Scorsese film, but I'm really interested to see what a master filmmaker can do with the 3D camera. Advance buzz coming out of the first test screenings is quite positive. Read the first spoiler-free reactions, after the jump.

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The worthy goal of the Green 2015 plan is to have at least a swatch of parkland - grass, trees, and a few park benches, perhaps - within a 10-minute walk anywhere in the city.
How can this be achieved amid tough economic times? Not with new tax dollars, it's good to hear city officials say.


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Floyd Abrams Has A Really Modest Byline In WSJ
Mr. Abrams is the author of "Friend of the Court: In the Front Lines with the First Amendment" (Yale, 2013) and a senior partner in the firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.
Certainly both are great accomplishments, but I think he may have a few other credentials that qualify him to opine on free speech.
More on Senator Johnson's New Obamacare Law Suit
Earlier today I blogged about Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson's lawsuit, challenging the Presidents decision to provide subsidies for Hill Staffers who buy insurance from the exchanges. Senator Johnson has an op-ed in WSJ explaining his suit. Here are the key paragraphs:
On Monday, Jan. 6, I am filing suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to make Congress live by the letter of the health-care law it imposed on the rest of America. By arranging for me and other members of Congress and their staffs to receive benefits intentionally ruled out by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the administration has exceeded its legal authority. … It is clear that this special treatment, via a ruling by the president's Office of Personnel Management, was deliberately excluded in the law. During the drafting, debate and passage of ObamaCare, the issue of how the law should affect members of Congress and their staffs was repeatedly addressed. Even a cursory reading of the legislative history clearly shows the intent of Congress was to ensure that members and staff would no longer be eligible for their current coverage under the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan. … This was the confidence-building covenant supporters of the law made to reassure skeptics that ObamaCare would live up to its billing. They wanted to appear eager to avail themselves of the law's benefits and be more than willing to subject themselves to the exact same rules, regulations and requirements as their constituents. … Neat trick, huh? Except that in issuing the ruling, OPM exceeded its statutory jurisdiction and legal authority. In directing OPM to do so, President Obama once again chose political expediency instead of faithfully executing the law—even one of his own making. If the president wants to change the law, he needs to come to Congress to have them change it with legislation, not by presidential fiat or decree.
The "legal" basis for the suit is, well, curious:
The legal basis for our lawsuit (which I will file with a staff member, Brooke Ericson, as the other plaintiff) includes the fact that the OPM ruling forces me, as a member of Congress, to engage in activity that I believe violates the law. It also potentially alienates members of Congress from their constituents, since those constituents are witnessing members of Congress blatantly giving themselves and their staff special treatment.
I bet Judge Posner is chomping at the bit for this one. Maybe Cuccinelli will represent Johnson too! Update: Via Jon Adler, I see that Johnson will be represented by fellow native Wisconsinite Paul Clement.
Cuccinelli to Represent Rand Paul In Class-Action Suit Against Obama Administration Surveillance
Say what? At this point, I'm pretty jaded to things like this, but I did a double-take when I saw this headline.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli leaves office Saturday, but he will continue to take on what he considers overreaching by the federal government.
Cuccinelli will be the lead lawyer in a suit filed by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., against the Obama administration over the data-collection policies of the National Security Agency, according to The Associated Press.
I previously blogged about Paul's class-action lawsuit against the NRA. I could not have predicted that former-AG Cooch would represent him.
The article doesn't say what law firm will be involved, but what?!
H/T Andrew Grossman
On the Compromises of Obamacare
Richard Kirsch, the campaign manager and chief executive of Healthcare for American Now (HCAN) has a wide-ranging interview in the Post, discussing the origin of the Affordable Care Act. Now that the ACA is settled, in his words, HCAN is closing shop.
These comments about the compromises of the passage of the ACA are helpful to remember.
The reality was that they were relying on 60 Democrats and not relying on Republicans. It became pretty clear by the summer of 2009 that Baucus was being led down the primrose path by Chuck Grassley. Grassley was making all sorts of public statements that he wasn't really going to reach a deal on this. Yet Baucus kept trying and trying.
You have to look at Baucus and Obama together on this. Jim Messina, who was one of the top people working for Obama and his deputy chief of staff, had been Baucus's chief of staff. They kept making concessions when it was clear the Republicans weren't going to support it. Even when it was crystal clear — and they gave up on getting Republican support – -they didn't go back and present a better bill. They might have said, "Well, we're going to write the bill that we want and then we'll make compromises to get 60 Democrats." Instead, they kept all the things they added to appeal to Republicans that hadn't worked. So they were unnecessarily negotiating with themselves. Then, at the end in December, when they had to get it through the Senate, they had to negotiate with the Joe Liebermans and the Ben Nelsons and had to make concessions. Had they not made all these concessions earlier, they would've started it with a stronger bill … . The conservative Democrats could only ask for so much. The final bill would have been stronger.
By making these preemptive concessions to appease Republicans, Baucus and Obama put themselves in a much weaker position from a policy point of view and eventually from a political popularity point of view, as well. That's the thing I want to emphasize: It's not just a political game. At HCAN we kept asking: how is it going to affect real people's lives? We were looking for legislation that people would find the most affordable and giving them the best opportunity to gain access to good health care. That's what our mission was.
Also, he makes a point I made before. Obamacare is HIllarycare 2.0.
HP: So much of your story might be called the prehistory of health reform, which did so much to shape what became the Affordable Care Act. People like to use terms such as ObamaCare. Yet if we had had President Hillary Clinton instead, I wonder how different the final product would actually have been.
RK: There's no reason to think it would be fundamentally different. A lot of work was done before the 2008 election really got into gear to get the major Democratic candidates aligned in support of the same health policy solutions. As a result, the three leading Democratic candidates — John Edwards as well as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — were all supporting almost the same proposal, which was in effect the Massachusetts law, with a public option added to it.
I think President Hillary Clinton would've come in with a similar proposal and faced a similar political climate, with a very hostile opposition. After all, we saw the tremendous opposition to her husband from the right. Many of the same people who hate Obama have lots of reasons to hate the Clintons, too. So I don't think we would have seen a very different contour to the political fight. She may not have made some of the concessions that Obama made preemptively, which made it harder to win good policy, but it's hard to know. It wouldn't have been that different.
And on the demise of the public option:
HP: That $900 billion figure also encouraged another original sin of ACA: back-loading of so many key provisions. One floated proposal would have allowed states to start Medicaid and the new exchanges whenever they wanted. So the blue states could have started when they were ready. Especially as we're in the middle of a devastating recession, front-loading would have added some economic stimulus, too. Had a couple of states started early, we might also have received greater forewarning about some of the implementation and software issues …
Then there was the public option. From a progressive perspective, what happened was doubly sad. The public option didn't make it into the final bill. And it wasn't bargained away to get anything in return. It seems like it was just left on the table. Part of the political challenge for Democrats was that people on the left were very excited about the public option. Other things such as the affordability issues didn't quite have the same handles to grab onto. So it wasn't as if the one could say, "Well, we'll give up the public option if you provide subsidies to 500 percent of poverty or whatever." I don't know whether there was a way that might have been handled differently. As things played out, there was no way the left could've got anything back for giving up the public option that wouldn't have demoralized people.
Kirsch: Part of the problem — this was a huge problem for us that I talk about in my book — was that to do a big public campaign around issues of affordability would have been very tricky. Affordability was people's biggest fear about the legislation. The right was attacking ACA as not being affordable. For us to make a big public campaign about ACA's affordable would have been risky, particularly after the tea party gains of August 2009. We did organize grass-roots lobbying to seek improvements to affordability and won some small improvements in the final bill. But these were much more subdued than a big public campaign.
In addition to which, the reality is that a lot of the excitement about the public option was that this was something bold and different. Progressive base activists could get a hold of that and get excited about it. There's nothing about affordability that's that sexy and clear. If you say, "We want to be sure instead of 200 percent of poverty paying no more than 2.5 percent, we want to get that down to 1.5 percent," that's a huge thing in people's lives, but it's really hard to get people excited about it.
On Obama being "conciliatory."
HP: At one point in your book, you asked someone in the White House, "What's the inside/outside game?" This person basically responded, "There is no outside game." Watching from a distance in 2009 and early 2010, I always got the feeling that the White House didn't quite know how to strike the right balance here. They faced practical challenges of negotiating inside deals to get this done. By the way, I think the president's progressive base understood that. People had watched the Clinton effort fail. They knew that some deals needed to be cut. President Obama had a tremendous amount of good will from liberals and the left coming on his historic election. For all this, there was tremendous uneasiness in Washington about what would happen to ACA if all of these somewhat uncontrollable outside groups who were operating alongside a delicate set of negotiations.
How would it work if grass-roots activists — including many who had been quite active in the Obama campaign — pursued a populist campaign against the insurance companies at the very moment politicians were in the room with the insurers negotiating the myriad practicalities of health reform. One end result was a de factodemobilization of outside voices out of a fear these might have complicated the inside game.
RK: This was a huge misunderstanding by the Obama folks about power and political dynamics, just a fundamental miscalculation and blindness that was really destructive. The president's personality is to be conciliatory. Until the summer of 2011 and the grand bargain collapsed, he always wanted to be conciliatory. He also had people like Rahm Emanuel and Jim Messina in the White House who wanted to totally control everything and did not want any on the left pushing them. But power works differently. They would have been in a much stronger position if they could say, "We're being pushed really, really, really hard from the left, and so this is the best we can do." And then cut final deals when they had to.
Look at the difference in approach between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Reagan did not compromise publicly. He staunchly stood up for his conservative ideals publicly. But finally he made a lot of deals. He made a lot of concessions. People now point out that a lot of what Reagan agreed to was further left than where Republicans are now on taxes and other things. But when Reagan made those deals, his base ultimately forgave him. They saw he was out there as a champion and said, "Well, this must be the best he can do." But because Obama was constantly undercutting his own rhetoric, he lost credibility with his base.
NY Times: "Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a libertarian-minded Republican"
I won't comment on the fact that Rand Paul is in favor of working on a plea bargain with Edward Snowden, while Chuck Schumer would not. What's more fascinating is how the Times had to refer to Paul as a "libertarian-minded Republican." Talk about cognitive dissonance. I've commented before how I've seen a surge in the libertarian wing of the Republican party. Maybe Orin right that the party out of power becomes more libertarian. But for the foreseeable future, the GOP will hew libertarian.
Detroit Police Chief: More Concealed Carry Permits Deter Crime
The Police Chief of Detroit–a city ravaged by budget cuts, and often unable to provide the most basic municipal services–has emphatically put his weight behind citizens owning guns as a means to deter crime.
Detroit— If more citizens were armed, criminals would think twice about attacking them, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Thursday.
Urban police chiefs are typically in favor of gun control or reluctant to discuss the issue, but Craig on Thursday was candid about how he's changed his mind.
"When we look at the good community members who have concealed weapons permits, the likelihood they'll shoot is based on a lack of confidence in this Police Department," Craig said at a press conference at police headquarters, adding that he thinks more Detroit citizens feel safer, thanks in part to a 7 percent drop in violent crime in 2013.
And he didn't always think that way.
Craig said he started believing that legal gun owners can deter crime when he became police chief in Portland, Maine, in 2009.
"Coming from California (Craig was on the Los Angeles police force for 28 years), where it takes an act of Congress to get a concealed weapon permit, I got to Maine, where they give out lots of CCWs (carrying concealed weapon permits), and I had a stack of CCW permits I was denying; that was my orientation.
"I changed my orientation real quick. Maine is one of the safest places in America. Clearly, suspects knew that good Americans were armed."
Craig's statements Thursday echoed those he made Dec. 19 on "The Paul W. Smith Show" on WJR (760 AM), when he said: "There's a number of CPL (concealed pistol license) holders running around the city of Detroit. I think it acts as a deterrent. Good Americans with CPLs translates into crime reduction. I learned that real quick in the state of Maine."
And–this is rich–the guy from Brady said his position is "emotional."
Robyn Thomas, director of the the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in San Francisco, disagreed.
"I think at its core, his position is an emotional one, based on the idea that people feel safer when they have guns. But studies have shown more guns don't deter crime," Thomas said. "There's no research that shows guns make anyone safer, and it does show that, the more guns in any situation, the higher the likelihood of them harming either the owner, or people who have access to them."
For crying out loud, the overwhelming majority of Brady's appeal is emotional.
Another Obamacare Lawsuit Over Hill Staffers Receiving Subsidies
This is the law that keeps on giving. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson tomorrow will file suit challenging the legality of Obamacare. Which part you ask? Remember that entire kerfuffle over Hill staffers receiving subsidies on the state-exchanges? That.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson plans to file a lawsuit on Monday challenging a federal rule that allows members of Congress and their staffs to continue to receive health benefits similar to other federal employees.
The lawsuit stems from a provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires members of Congress and their staffs to buy health insurance on the marketplaces set up through the law.
A rule released last summer by the Office of Personnel Management stated that the federal government could continue to contribute to the cost of health benefits for members of Congress and their staffs — just as it does for other federal employees — even though they would be buying health insurance on a marketplace.
They also would be able to pay their share of the cost with pretax dollars, the same as other federal employees as well as employees who get health benefits through an employer.
I have no idea about the merits of the suit, but this could give courts an opportunity to address at least one instance of the Administration playing fast and loose with the implementation of the law. Johnson sees this as a commentary on the broader separation of powers issue.
In a telephone interview Friday, Johnson said he was filing the lawsuit because he believed President Barack Obama was continuing the historical trend of presidents' chipping away at the power of Congress.
"It has disturbed the balance of power," Johnson said. "I think it is not beneficial for our republic to have that balance of power continue to be eroded."
He also said that members of Congress made a "covenant" with the American people and promised to subject themselves to the law.
The administration, he said, helped them back out of that deal.
What's somewhat perverse, is that if Johnson wins, his own staffers would be out of luck. So what are they fighting for? "Principle."
Johnson, a longstanding opponent of the Affordable Care Act, is being represented by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a conservative public interest law firm. He plans to file the lawsuit in federal court in Green Bay on Monday.
"The purpose of the lawsuit is to ensure the law is enforced as written," said Richard Esenberg, president and general counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty.
The provision does not affect many people, he acknowledged.
"This is absolutely a matter of principle," he said.
Constitutional Places: Parking Garage from Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority Demolished
In the late 1950s, the Wilmington Parking Authority operated the Midtown Parking Center, which included the Eagle Coffee Shoppe. Several african-americans staged as it-in at the counter at the Coffee Shoppe, and refused to leave. Later, a black city councilman, William Burton, parked at the garage, and went to the coffee shop, where he was refused service.
In Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority (1961), the Court, per Justice Clark, found that the coffee shop and parking garage were closely related to the state, and were state actors for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment. Further, the Court found a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Now, the Parking Garage is scheduled for demolition.
The Mid-Town Parking Garage and several vacant stores in a city block considered crucial to downtown Wilmington's revitalization are being demolished – and an important piece of Delaware's civil rights history is going down with them.
One of the stores on Ninth Street between Orange and Shipley streets was once the Eagle Coffee Shoppe, where City Councilman William H. "Dutch" Burton was refused service in 1958 because he was black.
The coffee shop and the garage it was attached to were owned by the Wilmington Parking Authority at the time. Burton sued the authority and won in Chancery Court, but the decision was overturned by the Delaware Supreme Court, in part because of a state law that gave private businesses the right to not serve anyone who would be "offensive" to other customers.
The coffee shop eventually closed and the parking authority sold the stores and the garage to a private company. For 35 years, the building that houses the coffee shop was the site of the Ninth Street Book Shop before it moved a few blocks to Market Street last year.
H/T David S. Cohen
Here are some pictures of the parking center taken during the 1960s.
Teddy Roosevelt On Judicially Enforced Rights to Contract
The Bully Pulpit, which I have blogged about before, is every effective in chronicling Roosevelt's evolution from the laissez faire principles he had as a youth, to a progressive, based on his experiences in the seedy underworld of the late-19th Century New York. One of the more poignant vignettes concerns his views towards a bill that would have prohibited the manufacture of cigars inside crowded tenement houses.
When the Cigar-Makers' Union introduced a bill to prohibit the manufacture of cigars in tenement houses, Roosevelt presumed from the outset he would vote against it. He had always believed that tenement owners had an absolute right to do as they wished with their own property. As he examined more closely the conditions leading to the bill, however, he began to question his inherited resistance to social legislation.
After inspecting the horrid conditions of these tenement houses, led by labor leader Samuel Gompers, Roosevelt had a change of heart.
After two additional forays into this dark underworld, Roosevelt was "convinced beyond a shadow of doubt" that the manufacture of cigars in tenement houses "was an evil thing from every standpoint, social, industrial and hygienic." Though the proposed bill was "a dangerous departure from the laissez-faire doctrine in which he thoroughly believed," he championed its passage and joined a group of supporters urging Governor Grover Cleveland to sign it.
Of course, this law led to litigation, and resulted in the case of In Re Jacobs, 98 N.Y. 98 (NY 1985), which struck down the law.
Once the bill became law in March 1883, the cigar makers straightaway brought suit, arguing their right to hold property, guaranteed by the state constitution, was violated by the new regulations. The case, In re Jacobs, eventually made its way to the New York Court of Appeals, where the justices declared that the law indeed deprived the cigar makers of their "fundamental rights of liberty . . . without due process of law." Furthermore, the court argued, the legislation did not constitute a legitimate use of the state's police power to regulate behavior detrimental to the public welfare, for tobacco was in no way "injurious to the public health." On the contrary, it was "a disinfectant and a prophylactic."
Here is the main holding of Jacobs.
Generally it is for the legislature to determine what laws and regulations are needed to protect the public health and secure the public comfort and safety, and while its measures are calculated, intended, convenient and appropriate to accomplish these ends, the exercise of its discretion is not subject to review by the courts. But they must have some relation to these ends. Under the mere guise of police regulations, personal rights and private property cannot be arbitrarily invaded, and the determination of the legislature is not final or conclusive. If it passes an act ostensibly for the public health, and thereby destroys or takes away the property of a citizen, or interferes with his personal liberty, then it is for the courts to scrutinize the act and see whether it really relates to and is convenient and appropriate to promote the public health. It matters not that the legislature may in the title to the act, or in its body, declare that it is intended for the improvement of the public health. Such a declaration does not conclude the courts, and they must yet determine the fact declared and enforce the supreme law. In re Jacobs, 98 N.Y. 98, 110 (1885)
"It was this case," Roosevelt later said, "which first waked me to . . . the fact that the courts were not necessarily the best judges of what should be done to better social and industrial conditions." While the justices were well intentioned, they interpreted law solely from the vantage point of the propertied classes. "They knew nothing whatever of tenement house conditions," he charged, "they knew nothing whatever of the needs, or of the life and labor, of three-fourths of their fellow-citizens in great cities." In the years that followed, the court's defense of free enterprise in this case would be repeatedly cited to block governmental regulation of industry. "It was," Roosevelt observed, "one of the most serious setbacks which the cause of industrial and social progress and reform ever received."
In "A Tale of Two Lochners: The Untold History of Substantive Due Process and the Idea of Fundamental Rights," Victoria Nourse tells the role that then-President Roosevelt played in bringing attention to Lochner v. New York, decided by the Supreme Court in 1905.
This quotation from TR in 1912 seems about right:
"My proposal is that . . . if the court has decided that the Legislature plus the Executive has exceeded the power granted by the people to them under the Constitution, that the people shall themselves have the right to say whether their representatives in the Legislature and the executive office were right, or whether their representatives on the court were right."133 Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
From Part III of her article:
Enter the second tale of Lochner, a tale in which rights are strong, but not because judges make them so. They are strong because they appear to thwart popular will and thus the politically powerful take them up as a call to arms. Theodore Roosevelt plays the lead in this story, one which is completely absent from traditional lawyerly accounts, yet is essential to creating the story of Lochner we know today.136Roosevelt harshly criticized cases such as Lochner, Adair, and Coppage, which were small in number but lived an exceedingly large, public life.…For example, before his progressive conversion, future president Wilson declared that the "'right of freedom of contract' was the 'most precious of all "the possessions of a free people,"' a political slogan signaling that he was against labor unions.142 In the 1912 presidential campaign, when Theodore Roosevelt heard that Wilson had invoked the term "liberty," he insisted that it was "the laissez-faire doctrine of English political economists three-quarters of a century ago."143 "Liberty" was a political fighting word, one used by the National Association of Manufacturers to fight "unionism,"144 a rhetorical and political invocation that lasted until the "Liberty League" was created to fight the New Deal.145
It would take the indomitable Theodore Roosevelt for Lochner to become a legal and public icon. During his presidency, Roosevelt (who was not a lawyer) made clear that he was no friend of the courts.162 Like most progressives, he insisted that the judiciary had been hostile to the regulation of trusts, protecting "property" rights rather than "human" rights (one of the great political slogans of the period).163 This all reached fever pitch, however, when Roosevelt began his political comeback during Taft's presidency.164Just back from his African safari in 1910, Roosevelt delivered a sensational speech to the Colorado legislature attacking the Supreme Court.165 Roosevelt specifically cited two decisions: one was Lochner, and the other was United States v. E.C. Knight, an antitrust case.166 Roosevelt charged that the courts had created a "neutral zone" in which neither the state (Lochner) nor nation (Knight) could *780 express majority will and "popular rights."167 The Court had become a refuge, Roosevelt explained, for the very rich men "who wish to act against the interest of the community as a whole."168Roosevelt's critique of Lochner was not that the courts had created a new right to contract, nor that the courts had diverged from original intent, but that the courts had ignored the "welfare of the general public."169 Echoing Justice Harlan, Roosevelt attacked Lochner using the police power rationale. He claimed that the Court did not know "the facts" of how the baking business was "carried on under unhygienic conditions."170 The Court had struck down the law, despite the approval of the New York legislature and the New York courts, on the theory of a "liberty to work under unhygienic conditions."171 It was a decision "nominally against State rights . . . but really against popular rights, against the democratic principle of government by the people under the forms of law."172Roosevelt later elaborated on his position:In the New York Bakeshop Case it is our duty to say that it is for the people of a State to decide whether they intend to be true to the school of political economy of the eighteenth-century individualistic philosophers or whether they intend to act on the principles set forth in such books (to mention two among many) as those of Professor Ross on "Social Control" and by Father Ryan on "A Living Wage."173
Roosevelt was unfazed. In the following month, before a crowd of 40,000, Roosevelt defended his right to criticize the Court and opined, "I have not a word to retract."180 Invoking Lincoln, he reminded the crowd that the great president was "assailed" for his criticism of Dred Scott.181 Critique of the Court was not "merely the right but the duty of citizens" who believed judicial decisions were wrong.182 Judicial decisions, Roosevelt urged, should "be submitted to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow men."183 The people, he argued, should be capable of reviewing judicial decisions on "certain constitutional questions" dealing with the public welfare.184 Shocked at such a proposal, the New York Times editorialized that, *782 should the Court try to follow "popular opinion," it would be like one who tries to follow a single rabbit on a particular trail after letting loose ten rabbits over a field of snow (implying that "public opinion" was in the eye of the beholder).185The debate continued186 and intensified as Roosevelt began his campaign for president in earnest; by 1912, he formalized his complaints into a proposal that state court judgments should be submitted to the people for review. Today, this is known–somewhat deceptively–as one form of "recall." What is forgotten is that every step of the way, Roosevelt invoked the "Bakeshop Case." In response, Lochner's proponents characterized Roosevelt's support for popular rights as support for majority tyranny.187 In a 1912 speech at Carnegie Hall in New York,188 Roosevelt responded to this criticism by alluding to Lochner as an example of judicial "tyranny."189 Expressing his "scant patience" for the view that he supported the tyranny of the majority, Roosevelt countered that a tyranny of the minority stood behind "the present law of master and servant, the sweat-shops, and the whole calendar of social and industrial injustice."190 If the majority really were tyrannous, Roosevelt claimed, "no written words" were strong enough to stay tyranny.191
All of this enraged President Taft, who insisted that the Constitution was *783 the "supreme issue" of the election.192 Taft even told campaign audiences that he was confident that the American people "will never give up the Constitution, and they are not going to be honey-fugled out of it by being told that they are fit to interpret nice questions of constitutional law just as well or better than Judges."193 Both candidates eventually lost to Woodrow Wilson, but Lochner remained part of Roosevelt's speeches.194


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Pokken Tournament has been confirmed for the Wii U
Aug 21st - Nintendo has confirmed that Pokken Tournament will be releasing on the Wii U worldwide in 2016.
Did ZombiU deserve more love? [VIDEO]
Aug 21st - ZombiU went multiplatform this week under the name of Zombi. Did it deserve more recognition as a Wii U exclusive?
Check out this Flappy Bird level in Super Mario Maker [VIDEO]
Aug 20th - A YouTuber has created a pretty faithful rendition of Flappy Bird in Super Mario Maker.
eShop Downloads: Mind-bending puzzler The Bridge is out now
Aug 20th - Looking for something new to play this week? Don't forget Splatoon's free demo this week on the eShop!
Nintendo 2DS getting a price drop, where's the Wii U price drop?
Aug 20th - Nintendo has announced a price drop for the Nintendo 2DS, but perhaps the Wii U should be getting that same consideration.
New map called Flounder Heights coming to Splatoon tonight
Aug 20th - New Splatoon level coming tonight, featuring a unique homage to Japanese architecture!
Pokken Tournament trademark filed in Europe
Aug 20th - Nintendo has filed a trademark for Pokken Tournament in Europe. Will it come to Wii U or be an NX launch title?
Check out all 7 of the Super Mario Maker start-up screens [VIDEO]
Aug 19th - Here's a look at seven days worth of start up sequences for Super Mario Maker!
Splatoon and Nintendo 3DS dominate Japanese sales charts this week
Aug 19th - No new software released this week in Japan, but Nintendo has dominated the charts with both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games.
Indie horror game Chasing Dead is coming to Wii U [VIDEO]
Aug 19th - Chasing Dead is a new sci-fi horror game in development and coming to Wii U.
Freedom Planet devs delay Wii U launch again after failed patch
Aug 19th - Freedom Planet has been delayed while the developer works to fix unexpected bugs found during certification.
Live gameplay footage of The Bridge, launching tomorrow on Wii U [VIDEO]
Aug 19th - The Bridge is launching on Wii U tomorrow, check out this unique brand of gravity meets M.C. Escher design.
The next Splatfest pits Autobots against Decepticons
Aug 18th - Splatfest is coming back with a vengeance next week, pitting Autobots against Decepticons in this Transformers-themed event!
You'll start with the ability to upload 10 levels in Super Mario Maker
Aug 18th - Players will start with 10 slots for uploading levels in Super Mario Maker and will unlock more as the community likes them.
Nintendo hosting another Nindie night before PAX Prime
Aug 18th - Nintendo is kicking off PAX Prime early with their Nindies@Night event at the EMP Museum in Seattle.
Do you have faith that Nintendo will deliver the next console you want? [POLL]
Aug 18th - With the Nintendo NX likely coming sooner rather than later, do you still trust Nintendo to provide a quality experience at launch?
Wii U firmware update 5.5.0 out now, removes TVii after shut down
Aug 18th - A new firmware update for Wii U has completely removed the TVii icon from the Wii U menu after Nintendo announced it is pulling the plug on the service.


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New Year's Day
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By Rachel Ross
Briefly stranded in Kailua, our writer realizes what makes the town so special.
It's the second flat tire of the day, enough to try anyone's patience. Same wheel, new leak. In the car are three tired kids—hungry, whiny and dusted head to toe in the baby-powder-fine sand of Lanikai. It is New Year's Day, and there's a crowd, half-tourist and half-Kailuan, eating burgers on the green benches at Kalapawai.
The lug nuts on the car must have been secured by Andre the Giant, because even standing on the wrench won't budge them. The gas stations are all closed. On the bright side, there are pita chips and homemade hummus from the market, and fresh coffee even at 3 p.m. A lanky, mustachioed man comes out, lies down on the asphalt and looks up under the car, wondering aloud if he might help. He confirms what we've been thinking—that wheel is not coming off.
"The leak seems slow," he says, "stay here."
Without much choice, we settle onto the benches and watch him pedal off down Kalaheo Avenue on his old cruiser. It has a basket.
My kindergartener befriends a dog, as she tends to do, and talks its owners into a coma. My sons wrestle on the sidewalk, because that's what they do, regardless of location. I sit far enough away to deny any connection, should the need arise, but the tourists are too happy to be appalled, and the local folks just step over my riff-raff.
Stranded in Kailua, you spot a beautiful television castaway reading a book undisturbed in the corner. The owner of a pimped-up, gold-and-white, fixed-gear bike lets you ride it in circles around the parking lot, and then leaves it unlocked and leaning against a pole while he heads into the market.
Stranded in Kailua, you see a steady stream of kayaks on wheels being dragged down Kailua Road by people in skirted swimsuits. You hypothesize about their hometowns and quietly give them odds of making it around Flat Island.
The bike lane is nearly as busy as the road, with packs of beach-bound teenagers, athletes in Spandex dodging the teenagers, and pedaling parents towing their toddlers and half the contents of their garages.
Behind us, at the beach park, kite surfers whiz around the bay in the lee of the Marine Corps base's turtle-shaped point. A small group of women are doing push-ups in bikinis, part of a boot camp class that caters to military wives.
Down the road, near Aikahi, kayakers loiter on the canal behind the President Barack Obama's rental home, pretending to look at tilapia when everyone knows they're really hoping for a glimpse of him.
Last night, in Maunawili, a young family declared 10 p.m. the new midnight, invited half of their high school class and all of their offspring over, and ran around in the streets throwing poppers at one another. Olomana glowed in the haze of illegal fireworks, looking a little like Bora Bora.
In Kailua, the owner of the most popular stop in town rides his bike home and back in the middle of a busy holiday afternoon to get his air compressor, and fixes our tire.
Rachel Ross is a local freelancer who will neither confirm nor deny that she was floating on a kayak behind the Obama rental last winter.


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Contrary to what we were led to believe earlier in the week, OG Chester Pitts will not play at Chicago on Sunday.
The veteran's knee is still "still not there," according to what Pete Carroll said Friday. Pitts has been back and forth in practice this week, as his knee has been bothersome one day, and fine the next. Make no mistake, microfracture surgeries are serious (just ask Walter Jones) and this is a situation the coaching staff is handling carefully.
In place of Pitts, Ben Hamilton will get the start, with Mike Gibson backing him up. With Rusell Okung getting more time to prepare for his matchup against the Bears' Julius Peppers, your Week 6 Seahawks offensive line will look like this:
LT: Okung
LG: Hamilton
C: Spencer
RG: Andrews
RT: Locklear
Finally, a healthy, solid offensive line, complete with a re-energized power back in Marshawn Lynch to create holes for. But the Bears run defense is no joke this year, and Soldier Field is a tough place to win. In the Hawks' last visit to the stadium in the 2007 playoffs, they lost by an overtime field goal from Robbie Gould. A victory there would've sent to the team to another NFC Championship game, and in many ways, the window for the Holmgren era closed after that game.
But both the Bears and Seahawks look very different than they did three years ago, and tomorrow's game has the makings of a defensive showdown written all over it.


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GW Men's Water Polo Drops Two at Princeton Invite
Colonials Fall to Nationally Ranked Foes UCLA, MIT
Game5 - UCLA 22, GW 4 | Game6 - MIT 13, GW 6
PRINCETON, N.J. - The George Washington men's water polo team dropped a pair of matches on the first day of the Princeton Invitational on Saturday afternoon at the Tigers' DeNunzio Pool.
Despite the losses, the Colonials are still off to its best start since 2006, when they were 5-1 after the first six games.
GW (4-2) fell to No. 2 UCLA, 22-4, in their first game of the day. The Colonials led the Bruins, 3-2, at the 4:27 mark of the first period, and the score was tied, 4-4, at the end of the quarter.
But UCLA, which advanced to the NCAA championship game a year ago, proved too much for GW, scoring 18 straight goals over the final three periods. The Bruins led, 9-4, at halftime, but scored eight goals in the third period to take control.
"I thought we played an absolutely fantastic first half," said head coach Scott Reed. "We never backed down and played very tough. Unfortunately, their size and experience really wore us down in the second half."
Junior Nate Little scored twice for GW, while sophomore Adam Wrobel and freshman Bogdan Petkovic accounted for the Colonials' other goals.
Senior goalkeeper Cameron Illes recorded 12 saves in the first half, while freshman Connor Dillon stopped four shots in the second.
Goals were also hard to come by for GW in the second game of the day, as the Colonials fell to MIT, the seventh-ranked in Division III, 13-6. The score was tied, 3-3, after one quarter, but the Colonials got into foul trouble in the second period. The Engineers took advantage, as they led at halftime, 6-4, then outscored GW in the second half, 7-2, to win the game.
Graduate student Milos Purkovic scored twice, while Illes made 10 saves in the cage for GW.
The Colonials return to action on Sunday, when they take on No. 18 Brown at 2:15 p.m. and Fordham at 4:45 p.m. on the final day of the Princeton Invite.
No. 2 UCLA 22, GW 4
GW Goals: Little 2, Petkovic 1, Wrobel 1
GW Goals: Purkovic 2, Mojica 1, Castillo 1, Little 1, Deasey 1


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Eleven Attorneys General Write Letter That Obamacare Fixes Are Illegal
Talk about deja vu. The Attorney General of West Virginia wrote a letter on behalf of 11 states (Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia) arguing that the President's "fixes" to Obamacare are illegal. The Hill has the story:
Eleven GOP attorneys general say the Obama administration is breaking the law by repeatedly making changes to ObamaCare without going through Congress.
The attorneys general specifically criticize President Obama's executive action that allowed insurance companies to keep offering health plans that had been canceled for not meeting ObamaCare's more rigorous standards.
"We support allowing citizens to keep their health insurance coverage, but the only way to fix this problem-ridden law is to enact changes lawfully: through Congressional action," the attorneys general wrote in a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "The illegal actions by this administration must stop."They say the healthcare fix was "flatly illegal under federal constitutional and statutory law."…
The officials point to the 1985 Heckler v. Chaney case, in which the Supreme Court concluded that some enforcement actions of laws might be subject to judicial review first.
Of course, the constitutional challenge to Obamacare began with a letter on behalf of thirteen states in December of 2009. That number would ballon up to 26 states by March 2010.
Here is the core of the legal argument:
The President's "administrative fix" is unlawful for several reasons. First, it is a violation of the President's responsibility to "take care" to execute the laws faithfully. Second, it unlawfully creates either a new statutory obligation in violation of the separation of powers or a new rule in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
But unlike the letter from years ago, they stop short of threatening legal action.
The undersigned Attorneys General support allowing citizens to keep their health insurance coverage. However, the only way to fix this problem-ridden law is to enact changes lawfully: through congressional action. The illegal actions by this Administration must stop.
Really, what could they do? There is no standing here.
Rick Ross Raps about the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban
I just noticed these lyrics in the Rick Ross song Mafia Music:
Love my handgun but my choppa still da shit,
Banned in 1994 but I'm too legit to quit
"Choppa" is slang for fully-automatic weapon (in street-terms a machine gun). Though, fully-automatic weapons were banned long before the 1994 assault weapons ban.
"One step at a time." This is what gun registration looks like.
Law-abiding citizens of Connecticut were forced to wait on line to register their "high capacity magazines" (more than 10 rounds) and "assault weapons" (semi-automatic rifles with scary-looking cosmetic features). If they did not, they would be felons.
Some will find this image exhilarating. Some will find it depressing. But don't mistake the significance of this photograph.
Don't forget what conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote in 1996. He conceded that the assault weapons ban would not result in a decrease in violence, but it served as an important symbolic step in desensitizing Americans towards the path of banning all guns.
"Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility of the kind enjoyed in sister democracies like Canada and Britain. Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily. It certainly cannot be done radically. It will probably take one, maybe two generations. It might be 50 years before the United States gets to where Britain is today.
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic — purely symbolic — move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. Its purpose is to spark debate, highlight the issue, make the case that the arms race between criminals and citizens is as dangerous as it is pointless.
De-escalation begins with a change in mentality. And that change in mentality starts with the symbolic yielding of certain types of weapons. The real steps, like the banning of handguns, will never occur unless this one is taken first, and even then not for decades….
Nelson "Pete" Shields III, a founder of Handgun Control, Inc.—the progenitor of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence—openly advocated for the elimination of all handguns: "'We're going to have to take this one step at a time. . . . Our ultimate goal—total control of all guns—is going to take time.' The 'final problem,' he insisted, 'is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition' for ordinary civilians 'totally illegal.'" John Hechinger, a sponsor of the D.C. handgun ban and a board member of Handgun Control, Inc., put it simply: "We have to do away with the guns."
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Pat Strickland of Jefferson, who has won four state titles as a coach and one as a player, was named 2013-14 Class 5A coach of the year by a vote of his peers.
It was the second such honor of Strickland's six-year Jefferson coaching career.
Strickland, who took over the Democrats' program at the start of the 2008-09 season, coached Jefferson to its second consecutive state title. Playing with only six players after half the team was suspended for the state final, the Democrats defeated Churchill 69-64 in the 5A championship game.Jefferson went 26-1 this season, the team's only loss coming to Rainier Beach of Seattle in the Les Schwab Invitational.
Strickland, 43, has won four state titles at Jefferson since replacing Marshall Haskins as coach in 2008. Jefferson also won state titles in 2009, 2010 and 2013 with Strickland as coach. Strickland also won a state title as a player at Wilson in 1989.
Strickland, a case worker for the state's Child Protective Services division, has a career coaching record of 124-34.
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The Condor Kukri Machete up for review (available here) is an excellent option for a large, affordable, fixed blade knife that's perfect for heavy-duty chopping, hacking vines and shrubbery, cutting wood, batoning and clearing trails. It makes short work of tall brush, easily lops off limbs for firewood, and sharpens up quickly to a razor edge.
I reviewed the Condor Heavy Duty Kukri a while back and came away very satisfied with everything that model had to offer. Like the HD Kukri, this model is also made in El Salvador with premium build materials, including high-carbon steel, thick genuine leather, and a gorgeous hardwood handle. This stout blade can take plenty of abuse without bending, breaking or chipping.
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Some would say a classic car is between 20 and 45 years old, built in limited numbers and often equipped with power brakes, power clutch, custom coachwork and lubricating systems and luxury accessories. Typically the classic car was manufactured post World War II until about 1972. It really depends on who you ask because opinions vary on what makes a classic car classic or an antique car antique. Not all states have the same idea as to what a classic car is and when it comes to licensing it really depends on the state your registering with. Here is our definition of the Classic Car Era.
1964 Ford Thunderbird
The estimated amount of American built classic cars that is accepted as a classic car by the Classic Car Club of America is around 1,366,843. Over half of these are Cadillacs and Packards. The remainder of these vehicles are made up of 37 other American classic car manufacturers. Some of the classic cars accepted by the Classic Car Club of America are listed below:
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- All Bentley from 1919
- Buick 1931-1942 90 Series and 80 Limited
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- Hudson 1929-Series L
- Jaguar 1946-1948 - 2-1/2 litre, 3-1/2 litre (Mark IV)
- Rolls-Royce All from 1919
We at AntiqueCar.com define a classic car as vehicles built between 1946 and 1972, also known as the Classic Car Era. The classic car era started with Detroit making a major shift from "bigger is better" to "smaller is more efficient". Automakers started looking for materials lighter than steel to increase the horsepower to weight ratio - which gave birth to the muscle car. A classic car with more power resulted in higher speeds, calling for better roads and more roadside conveniences. Gas was relatively cheap, octane was high, and the classic muscle cars and hot rods ruled the road. You will find hundreds of classic cars for sale in our classified ads and dozens of classic car dealers in the business directory.
1964 Chevrolet Belair
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Author Affiliations: Department of Ophthalmology (Drs Seider, Keenan, and Han) and Francis I. Proctor Foundation (Dr Keenan), University of California, San Francisco.
Topical medications are the mainstay of glaucoma therapy and are responsible for most of the dollars spent on glaucoma management.1 However, a randomized clinical trial suggested that a single administration of 360° of selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) may be as effective as a prostaglandin analog for the reduction of intraocular pressure.2 Given the recent introduction of generic latanoprost, we were interested in comparing the costs of topical medications vs SLT.
We assumed a societal perspective for this analysis. We estimated the costs of topical glaucoma medications from the median value of the average wholesale prices listed in the online Red Book database.3 We assumed that bilateral treatment would require 2.5 mL for medications dosed once daily and 5 mL for medications dosed 2 or 3 times daily. As a sensitivity analysis, we also estimated the lower limit of medication costs using the lowest price listed in the Red Book.
We estimated the costs of SLT from the national average Medicare fee schedule for Current Procedural Terminology code 65855, assuming the nonfacility reimbursement.4 Based on a previous trial in which 50% of eyes developed transient uveitis and 27% of eyes developed elevated intraocular pressure, we assumed that 50% of SLTs required one 5-mL bottle of prednisolone acetate, 1%, and that 27% of SLTs required one 5-mL bottle of timolol maleate, 0.5%.2 We assumed that any additional clinic visits for adverse events following SLT would be covered by the Medicare reimbursement given the transient nature of these adverse events.
We calculated the time threshold at which bilateral SLT would become less costly than bilateral use of each topical medication by dividing the total costs of SLT by the monthly costs of each medication.
The Table shows the monthly costs of bilateral treatment with several topical glaucoma therapies. As a simple sensitivity analysis, we also report the costs for each medication assuming the least expensive Red Book price (Table). In comparison, we estimated the total cost of bilateral SLT to be $675.76, which includes the costs of the procedure ($328.55/eye), prednisolone acetate ($4.74/eye), and timolol ($4.59/eye).3,4 We found that SLT would become less costly than generic latanoprost after 13.1 months. Assuming that repeated SLT is as effective as the initial SLT treatment, SLT could be repeated as frequently as every 13.1 months and cost the same as treatment with generic latanoprost. Similar analyses are shown in the Table for each medication.
Selective laser trabeculoplasty has been shown to be effective both as a monotherapy and as additive treatment for lowering intraocular pressure in glaucoma, and it is likely effective when repeated.5 Our study shows that SLT becomes less costly than most brand-name medications within 1 year and less costly than generic latanoprost and generic timolol after 13 and 40 months, respectively. Although no study to date has specifically evaluated the duration of efficacy of SLT monotherapy, a single SLT treatment has been shown to be effective for 3 to 5 years when used in addition to topical medications.5,6 Thus, glaucoma treatment is probably less expensive with SLT compared with most brand-name medications. Selective laser trabeculoplasty may even be less expensive than a generic medication such as latanoprost, although the value of SLT is less clear when compared with generic timolol. Not surprisingly, this analysis is sensitive to the cost of the medications: for a patient using the least expensive formulation of generic latanoprost, 56 months are required for SLT to become less expensive than latanoprost.
Our cost analysis has several limitations. We did not model many aspects that would affect the costs of glaucoma therapy, including complications after SLT, need for subsequent surgery, or transportation costs for patients. We acknowledge that the clinical decision to initiate treatment for glaucoma with either SLT or a topical glaucoma medication depends on many factors aside from cost, including angle architecture, patient's ability to effectively administer eyedrops, patient's choice, and adverse effects profile.
This cost analysis provides information for clinicians deciding between SLT and topical treatment. Assuming equal efficacy between SLT and latanoprost, SLT may ultimately be less expensive.
Correspondence: Dr Han, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, 10 Koret Way, Room K301, San Francisco, CA 94143-0730 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Author Contributions: Dr Han had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Financial Disclosure: None reported.
Funding/Support: This work was supported in part by Core Grant for Vision Research EY002162 from the National Eye Institute, by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, and by That Man May See, Inc.
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Tonight (Janury 16th), Jacki-O dropped "Bang, Bang," which is coincidentally the name of a controversial track by Capone-N-Noreaga that featured Foxy Brown dissing Lil Kim.
The song is a reply to Lil Kim's new alias "Kimmy Blanco" on her new track "Clap, Clap" featuring I.R.S.
CNN's version of "Bang, Bang" led to an infamous shootout in February of 2001 in front of Hot 97, which resulted in Lil Kim spending a year in a federal prison for lying to a grand jury about her knowledge of the incident.
Jacki-O's gripe with Lil Kim stems from the Brooklyn rapper's recent adoption of the name "Cocaine Cowgirl," a nod taken from the image of infamous Columbian drug kingpin Griselda "The Black Widow" Blanco, who was the subject of the cult-classic documentary, "Cocaine Cowboys."
Jacki-O received an official blessing from Michael Corleone Blanco, the real-life son of Griselda Blanco.
Although she doesn't call Lil Kim out by name, on Jacki-O's version of "Bang, Bang" she raps:
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DETROIT -- Sam Martin thought the Cincinnati Bengals would bring the house.
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The Detroit Lions rookie pulled a punt 28 yards with 26 seconds left, giving Cincinnati the ball at its own 49-yard line in a tie game. Two short passes later, Bengals placekicker Mike Nugent hit a 54-yarder to beat Detroit 27-24 as time expired.
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A half-inch is all it took to change the complexion -- perhaps even the outcome -- of this game.
"Got no excuse for it," Martin said. "Typically in that situation, I thought -- we all thought -- they were going to bring pressure. I'm trying to get it off to prevent a block, aim, keep it away from the returner at the same time. A half an inch inside can make that big of a difference. That's what happened there."
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Martin said he knew right away that the punt was a bad one, and was even more disheartened when he reached the sideline and realized Cincinnati hadn't brought extra pressure.
"It had nothing to do with the pressure. It was the simple fact I thought they were going to try blocking the punt, and I rushed myself," Martin said. "They did not bring any pressure. I didn't need to rush there, but at the time you don't think that."


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quote: However...let's not be so lazy as to just inject new losses into the system at the same time. Create contact-charging systems for the home that are automatic, if people well and truly are too stupid and lazy to spend 10 seconds plugging their car in when they get home from work.
quote: ...and I'd hazard to guess that putting field induction things into CA's highways would be much more expensive than your train. Especially when you consider the multiple lanes involved and the disruption of traffic (and therefore business) while you're doing that.
quote: Better solution would be to natively increase the range of EVs to the point where we don't have to worry about charging as you drive. If you could get 200 or 300 miles on a charge, and then just plug your car in when you get to your destination, probably no point in charge-as-you drive anyway.
quote: AND you're the poster child of the self-centered, overly-entitled jacka$$ that epitomizes everything that's wrong with America today.
quote: The future might include standardized battery packs that can easily be swapped out at "gas" stations. Or you might be driving an ICE car or hybrid that uses biofuels. Or...whatever.
quote: EVs will be here in the future. But there's no reason to think we won't improve upon their long-distance utility (in non-wasteful ways), or that only EVs will be around.


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WB decides it's time for skein to fly away
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HOLLYWOOD — This "Angel" has gone to heaven.
The WB has opted not to renew the Joss Whedon-produced drama "Angel" for a sixth season. Frog topper Jordan Levin informed Whedon of the decision to cancel the skein Thursday night.
Move on the surface is a head-scratcher. Twentieth Century Fox TV-produced skein is the net's second highest-rated hour among viewers 18-34 (behind lead-in "Smallville") and fourth among auds 12-34. Its numbers have been solid this year, even against brutal competish on Wednesday night and in a year in which the WB is experiencing double-digit Nielsen declines.
But Frog execs are also facing the reality of an aging sked, with skeins such as "Charmed," "7th Heaven" and "Gilmore Girls" potentially facing final seasons next year.
Levin also said the rapidly changing economics of network television played a big role in the decision to end "Angel." Skein doesn't repeat well, and Levin anticipates having to double run one or more dramas in primetime next season — as well as add more reality programs to the Frog's mix.
"We have a lot of veteran shows that are aging, and we're going to have to make room for new programs," Levin said. "I know this will make lots of fans unhappy. But we have to have more at-bats, and we need to create timeslots where we can repeat shows (the same week episodes premiere.)"
"This isn't about the WB bailing out on one of its top shows," Levin added. "The show had a loyal core following, but it didn't have a tremendous amount of new audience upside."
All parties involved said the cost of the show itself was not the central factor in the decision to cancel "Angel." The WB made waves three years ago when it decided to part ways with Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" after a squabble with 20th over its license fee.
Whedon said that while he understands the business part of the decision, he's nonetheless "heartbroken."
"I thought that if a show was really good and doing really well (in the ratings), it was renewed," scribe said. "I was apparently misinformed."
Whatever the intricacies of the Frog's business model, Whedon said the decision to axe "Angel" doesn't seem logical.
"I do understand the business of it," he said. "But to me, when they're scrambling to hold on to their audience, their revenue, their dignity, it doesn't seem the best decision. And it's certainly not the classiest."
"If there's no place for quality in the equation, I don't know why we're here," Whedon added.
Dana Walden, prexy of 20th, said she understands the WB's point of view, even if she's disappointed by the net's decision.
"I can see their perspective. Jordan has been very honest about the decision-making process," Walden said. "(But) when a show works on your air, you have to find ways to keep it there. Shame on all of us for not finding a way…. There are a lot of disappointed fans."
Levin said he and Whedon started talking about the show's future a few weeks ago, right around the time of the show's 100th episode party. Conversations about the changing state of the TV business left open the possibility that "Angel" — despite its creative and ratings strength — might not be a slam-dunk to return.
"He said he wanted to protect his cast and crew, and asked if I could let them know sooner rather than later," Levin said. "These are usually decisions you wait until the last minute to make. But after 'Dawson's Creek,' I saw how important closure was for a cast, and given Joss' request, I owed him (an early decision.) It was a very bittersweet parting and an end of an era for us," Levin added. "I have the ultimate respect for Joss as someone who created two landmark series and stood behind them the whole time."
Because ratings and reviews have been solid for "Angel" this season, Whedon said his cast and crew were "stunned" when he broke the news to them Friday. "Nobody saw this coming," he said.
On the positive side, with casting season just heating up, the show's thesps will now have time to line up projects for next season.
Whedon said he and "Angel" exec producer-showrunner Jeff Bell have already mapped out the series finale, which Bell is slated to helm. Whedon continues to explore the possibility of a feature based on his short-lived Fox skein "Firefly."
As for "Angel," Whedon said he was glad the show passed the 100 episode milestone, and grateful to Walden and 20th prexy Gary Newman for their support during a two-year frame that saw the natural end of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Firefly" and now the end of "Angel."
While there's already talk of some "Angel" telepics, Whedon said it's too soon for him to imagine such a possibility.
"All we have left on 'Angel' is to end the season with episodes as strong and meaningful as we can muster," Whedon said. "But then, we were going to do that anyway."
"Angel," which starred David Boreanaz as a vampire with a soul, was created by Whedon and David Greenwalt.


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Summary of marketing principles chapter 6
Market Segments
Subgroups within the total market that are relatively similar in regards to certain characteristics
Target Marketing
An approach to marketing based in identifying, understanding and developing an offering for those segments of the total market that the organisation can best serve
Differentiated Targeting Strategy
A marketing approach that involves developing a different marketing mix for each target market segment
Product Specialisation
A target strategy in which all marketing efforts are concentrated on offering a single product range to a number of market segments
Market Specialisation
A target marketing strategy in which all marketing efforts are focused on meeting a wide range of needs within a particular market segment
Product-Market Specialisation
A target marketing strategy in which marketing efforts are concentrated on offering a single product to a single market segment.
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Characteristics that Byers have in common and that might be closely related to their purchasing behaviour.
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Market segmentation based on variables related to geography, such as climate and region.
Demographic Segmentation
Market segmentation based on demographic variables, which are the vital and social charactertisitcs of populations, such as age, education and income.
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Market segmentation based on the psychographic variables of lifestyle, motives and personality attributes.
The way in which the market perceives an organisation, it's products and it's brands in relation to competing offerings
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