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Is Healthy Skin Your Cup of Tea?
If you like sipping on iced tea in the summer, or waking up — English style — to a steaming cuppa, you're in luck. Tea has been linked to many health benefits, including lower rates of depression and heart disease. And there's even some research showing it's good for your skin. Herbal, caffeinated and decaf teas are all hydrating. (And getting plenty of fluids, from sources including water, tea and hydrating foods, will help prevent your skin from getting dry and flaky.) Here's how seven types of tea can help keep your skin looking good.
Green Tea
Drinking green tea may help protect your skin against sunburn (although diligently applying sunscreen and avoiding the sun at peak hours are the best ways to prevent it!). That's because green tea is rich in a class of flavonoids called catechins, which may help fend off UVB damage. A 2016 study in The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry suggested that drinking the equivalent of five cups of green tea per day can supply your skin with detectable amounts of catechins.
Black Tea
One of the biggest threats to your skin is UVB radiation from the sun. When you take in polyphenols (a class of natural compounds found in food) through your diet, you help boost your skin's defense against sun damage. Black tea contains catechins, a type of polyphenol that helps protect against sunburn.
Yerba Mate
Sometimes called "the green tea of South America," yerba mate is a caffeinated, toasty-flavored tea. Like green tea, yerba mate has been investigated for its antioxidant effects.
Chamomile Tea
A cup of brewed chamomile tea has 5 percent of your daily value of manganese, an important mineral for making collagen, the thing that keeps your skin elastic.
Rooibos, a caffeine-free herbal tea from South Africa, also known as "red bush" tea, is loaded with antioxidants. In general, antioxidants help prevent cells from damage by free radicals. In South African traditional medicine, rooibos has been used topically to treat skin conditions such as eczema and acne.
Hibiscus flowers make a beautiful deep-pink tea. In a 2016 study, researchers found that polyphenols in hibiscus flowers inhibited the growth of melanoma skin cancer cells in test tubes. The researchers believe these same polyphenols are present in hibiscus tea.
Kukicha (Twig Tea)
Looking for a natural face wash for oily skin? Try this macrobiotic home remedy, containing cooled, brewed kukicha tea.


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You Might Be A Domestic Terrorist If.....
Thursday, April 16, 2009 Posted by Shattered Paradigm
Why is there such an uproar?
Why are so many people so upset about this?
Because it labels tens of millions of Americans as "potential domestic terrorists".
You can read a copy of this sickening report for yourself here:
Below is a list of 14 characteristics of a "domestic terrorist" that were pulled right out of the report.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, you might be a domestic terrorist if.....
*you are a U.S. military veteran returning from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan
*you believe in "end times" prophecies
*you believe in state or local authority
*you are against abortion
*you are against illegal immigration
*you believe in the 2nd Amendment
*you criticize any of the free trade agreements the U.S. has made
*you are against same-sex marriage
*you believe that an economic collapse is happening
*you think that the U.S. may declare martial law someday
*you believe that the U.S. is creating detention camps
*you stockpile food, ammunition or weapons
*you believe that illegal immigrants are taking away American jobs
*you believe "New World Order" conspiracy theories
Quite a few of those apply to me, so it looks like I have made the list.
What about you?
Has your own government just labeled you a domestic terrorist?

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Toronto FC kicks off their quest to become the second straight MLS team to reach the CONCACAF Champions League finals tonight when the Reds welcome Mexican power Santos Laguna to BMO Field for the first leg of their semifinal tie (8 p.m., Fox Soccer Channel/Telefutura).
TFC reached the semifinals by springing a surprise on the favored Los Angeles Galaxy, and based on the last couple of results without the injured Torsten Frings, it's going to take a top-notch effort from TFC to get by Santos Laguna, which routed the Seattle Sounders in the second leg of their quarterfinal tie and boast an impressive strikeforce that includes in-form American striker Herculez Gomez.
Toronto's much-maligned defense could receive a bit of a boost with the return of Canadian centerback Adrian Cann, who is available off the bench to see what would be his first action since tearing his ACL last May, if called upon. Luis Silva and Joao Plata are other options that are on the bench for coach Aron Winter, while Danny Koevermans, Ryan Johnson and Nick Soolsma spearhead a front line that will look to give TFC an attacking boost and an edge heading into the return leg in Mexico.
If you will be watching tonight's match, please feel free to share any thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below. Enjoy the action.
Judging Amy
You're right. Officiating in Mexico is much better.
The ref and ARs on that play made the brave decision not to produce any cards on that play.
Judging Amy
ugh…if you're going to be a turncoat at least commit man.
(just playing btw)
I couldn't help but notice that as soon as the fight broke out, Morgan jumped up and started running around like he was perfectly fine…
they only showed about 2 seconds of the post-game brawling on espn deportes esportscenter
Headline from mediotiempo.com: Santos played against 12 and ended with 9
MLS referees do not belong in international competitions
I doubt that was a Mexican ref since it was Mexico vs USA.
Link please!
Most soccer fans like to feel like victims. When their teams are favored they ignore it but when the ref makes an error against them its a conspiracy. So my advice to everyone, is just enjoy soccer and don't let it help you show your stupidity.
You just insulted most American fans
Sepp Blatter
This isn't about MLS refs being bad. Salazaar has tons of experience. The reds were deserved.
Santos has a precedent for violence. There was the Copa Libertadores brawl in 2011, the Santos vs Monarcas shooting in 2011, and now this. This has to stop.
Even if you feel you have been wronged in the worst way, as a representative for your club, your fans, your city and potentially your country, you must not sink to the level that we saw from Santos tonight. There's no room for it in any sport. Violence is not an answer – it's only the shortcut you take when you're too dumb to think of a solution.
Judging Amy
True. That game was in the US. Its atrocious officiating in Mexico's favor regardless.
If I was a Santos/Mexican fan I wouldn't come on a US board whining about the refs after that classless display by Santos.
That's the biggest problem with Mexico's soccer culture. I understand getting heated on the pitch and lashing out, okay. But afterwards their fans, and even some Mexican coaches/players b**** and moan about it, blame everyone but themselves, and take no responsibility for their classless actions. Has Oswaldo Sanchez ever explained what the heck he was doing on that ridiculous play?
As intense as the rivalry can get Mexico's a very good team, they've got a very good soccer league, and great players, I just wish their fans and some of their players would respect the game and themselves a bit more.
mares isn't a starter Baloy, galindo, estrada, and ibanez are Santos starters at D, Quintero wasn't starting anyways he was luduenas sub
Ricky B. Free
Mexico is in north america. God US education failed.
Ricky B. Free
LOL Man if you are going to post some proof at least get the right one.
I know that TFC is going to get the COncacaf ref treatment when they play in Mexico. I just hope that they dont get raped like the Sounders.
Ricky B. Free
Are you an idiot or you just play one on the internet?
The santos vs Monarcas shooting? Really? The teams had nothing to do with the shooting.
It was a shooting between the police and some cartel.
This is not over! Upon further review (actually watching the game, most of it on fast-forward), I am going to rescind the decision to rescind the decision to support Santos. At this stage, I don't really care who wins.
It's good to hear an opinion from over there. I can see where it felt like the decisions were one-sided in favor of Toronto, but I don't think the tackling was nearly as bad or one-sided as you're saying. You're just lucky Toronto can't finish! Should have been 3-1.
The brawl, I think, was pretty much a one-man thing. Quintero's a young guy, he's a little guy who got pushed around, he was outplayed much of the game by Morgan, he got angry at the ref. Overall, he just got frustrated and lost his cool in a completely immature way.
Everything outside of Quintero was handbags, as they call it in England, though a little more vigorous than usual. I don't think anybody did anything outrageous other than Quintero.
This is very typical of a team from Mexico, everyone knows it nothing new. Lots of cheap shots and dirty play! It can come from mls teams as well but not nearly to the same degree!!
Judging Amy
haha ikr.
yeah unfortunately i think tfc is going to get stomped in mexico. santos doesn't need the refs or unsporting behavior to beat them. hope i'm wrong.
Probably more to do with the run-up to the game. They only had two weeks to sell tickets to this game, compared to months for the previous series.
Ossington Mental Youth
18k guy, we seat 21k. Did not bad for a rainy weds in march
Ossington Mental Youth
Dude, he wasnt a localist ref, we're from Canada, hes from the US. Welcome to our world, concacaaf has been pooing on us for years. BTW yer goal was way off side. You can thank the ref for that.
Ricky B. Stupid
If it was called the "Santos vs Monarcas" shooting, and Santos and Monarcas are teams, why does it have nothing to do with the teams?
I think the point is, Santos has consistently provided an environment for violence, whether it is done by Santos, by their fans, by other fans, or by people just trying to take advantage of Santos.
Ricky B. Free
Go ahead you can call me stupid so you can feel good about making idiotic or stupid remarks.
Santos didnt provide a violent environment, they are not the police, cartel or government. If you cant understand this then you are stupid in real life and not just in soccer blogs.
Ski Fast!
TFC doesn't have a chance now that they're heading to Mexico tied 1-1 😦


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text: Tomblin's drug bill approved By Eric Eyre February 29, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's wide-ranging substance abuse bill will go to the House of Delegates without a hotly debated provision designed to crack down on methamphetamine labs in West Virginia.On Wednesday, state senators voted 34-0 to approve Tomblin's anti-drug bill (SB 437). The legislation did not include a requirement that pseudoephedrine, a cold and allergy medication that's also a key meth-making ingredient, become prescription-only.State Sen. Dan Foster, D-Kanawha, called Tomblin's substance abuse bill a "missed opportunity.""This is a good bill ... but it could have been so much better," Foster said during a floor speech Wednesday.In recent weeks, Foster repeatedly championed the pseudoephedrine prescription requirement as the bill came up during Senate committee meetings.Foster's Senate colleagues from Kanawha County supported the proposal, but health-care and retail industry lobbyists worked aggressively behind the scenes to persuade a majority of senators to reject Foster's legislative amendments to make pseudoephedrine prescription-only.The number of meth labs in West Virginia has steadily increased since 2008. Meth lab seizures are on a record pace this year, according to the West Virginia State Police. Authorities have found meth labs in 37 of West Virginia's 55 counties since 2010."This is spreading across the state, this scourge," said Foster, a doctor at CAMC.In recent years, meth-lab production has plunged in two states -- Mississippi and Oregon -- that have pseudoephedrine prescription laws, Foster said. The Consumer Healthcare Products Association and other industry groups have said that a pseudoephedrine prescription mandate would burden consumers and drive up health care costs.That hasn't happened in Oregon and Mississippi, Foster told his Senate colleagues Wednesday."The public outcry that had been anticipated did not occur," Foster said.Tomblin's bill includes a requirement that West Virginia pharmacies use a pseudoephedrine tracking system called NPLEx. The system is designed to stop sales of the decongestant to people who plan to use the medication illegally. The pharmaceutical industry will pay for the database.Tomblin's bill would limit pseudoephedrine purchases to 7.5 grams per month -- down from the current 9-gram limit. "The governor's legislation strikes the right balance by protecting access to law-abiding West Virginians while stopping criminals from illegally purchasing pseudoephedrine," said Sam Minardi, lobbyist for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. Foster said the "real-time" electronic tracking system wouldn't decrease meth production."It has not worked to eliminate meth labs in states such as Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Indiana," Foster said.Foster praised Tomblin's bill for including new regulations for methadone clinics where people seek treatment for heroin addiction.Foster said he also supported a section of Tomblin's legislation that requires West Virginia pain clinics to be licensed -- a provision designed to clamp down on prescription painkiller abuse.However, Foster noted that Tomblin's bill didn't include any funding to combat substance abuse in West Virginia."This is an important piece of legislation, and there is much to like ... but unfortunately there are huge missed opportunities," Foster said. Tomblin's substance abuse legislation also requires stepped up tracking for prescription pain medications.Also Wednesday, the state Senate approved a bill (SB 342) intended to relieve state prison and regional jail overcrowding by helping inmates break drug and alcohol addictions, and to be able to reenter society more quickly and successfully.The Senate bill was a refinement of the recommendations of a House-Senate interim committee on overcrowdingThe Senate bill emphasizes substance abuse treatment for new inmates on the front-end, and provides for better transition out of prisons on the back-end.The bill also provides $640,000 a year in state funding for an inmate substance abuse recovery program.The legislation next goes to the House. The legislative session ends March 10.Reach Eric Eyre at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-4869. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Senator claims cutting transgender surgeries could save on Medicaid 2 Artist, daughter reusing materials to construct Tyler Mountain home 3 Free mobile dental clinic to visit 6 WV counties 4 WVU eliminates Texas Tech in Big 12 baseball tournament 5 Woman killed when truck runs over her in Charleston Woman crashes into Charleston Police cruiser on East End Previous Story High hopes in Ravenswood Next Story


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Aug. 24, 2005 6:06 PM
I came across this op/ed from the Boston Globe and I have to confess it made me ill:
Most of us fear joblessness but if you make the best of it, it can be a time for rejuvenation, self-improvement, and even a little fun. I don't think I'm alone. I've heard it confided in whispers that unemployment despite the obvious downside can carry unforeseen joys...Even if you're lucky enough to get interviews, even if you're spending a good portion of your week on rewriting and printing your resume, you have lots more time at home than ever before. I read books on developing a positive outlook and generally succeeding in life. I actually cleaned my stove as soon as something spilled on it. Cleaned the rest of my apartment, too.
Read the rest if you can handle it.
Apparently this woman has never been to Chicago's South Side. I would venture to guess that the unemployed and underemployed would not agree with her fanciful and fun-filled characterization.
Just to give some examples:
Today while I was having lunch at one of the nearby fast food chains I saw a woman going through the parking lot trying to sell people her shoes. She was walking up to people sitting in parked cars or people coming in and out of the restaurant. I saw her take off the dirty low-heeled lavender dress shoes and hold them up for several people to look at. No one took her up on her offer.
Then there is the gas station by my house. I can go there at any time of the day and men ranging from 14 and 15 all the way up to 50 will be standing there offering to pump your gas for you.
Then there is the park across from my street. When I walk through there at night or early in the morning almost every bench has someone sleeping on it. Most of them have a few bags rolled up next to them, but some have nothing but a coat covering them up.
At my local video rental store there are always one or two people standing out front asking for change as you go in and leave. Sometimes I wonder if they "work" in shifts since it seems like a different person every time I go.
I doubt very much that these fine folks would consider unemployment "a time for rejuvenation." Of course, I also doubt very much that they figure in the country's unemployment statistics. They are the forgotten ones those who gave up looking for jobs long ago in a city that couldn't find a place for them and didn't want to.
Bradford PlumerAug. 24, 2005 5:42 PM
David Bosco has a long essay on John Bolton in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that's well worth a read. As we all know, Bolton sneaked through Congress and got himself installed as UN Ambassador by the president. In all likelihood, he'll do pretty minimal damage to the institution; the ambassador position just doesn't have enough power for him to wreak serious havoc. But the debate over Boltonismnamely, his cramped view that international institutions are useless for keeping order in the world, and may even hurt the United Stateswill no doubt continue to rage on for years to come. Bosco, I think, gets at the sensible case against Boltonism:
Treaties and formal organizations, such as the Biological Weapons Convention and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, are helpful precisely because they can create political and moral costs to departing from their mandates--as the United States knows all too well from the diplomatic damage it incurred in waging war against Iraq without U.N. approval.
Bolton is no doubt correct that such strictures are meaningless to outlaw nations. But regimes like North Korea, for all their danger, are anomalous. Most governments respond in some way, however imperfectly and inconsistently, to the pressure of international law and institutions. By disparaging formal treaties and exalting the PSI, Bolton may have damaged tools that are effective with most countries in an effort to craft policy for the exceptional few. Hard cases, as lawyers say, make bad law.
Can't argue with that. It's silly to pretend that international institutions such as the UN or treaties alone will somehow rein in regimes that want to go against prevailing global norms. Kim Jong Il will develop nukes no matter what the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty says. The United States went to war in Kosovo and Iraq without UN approval, and no treaty or institution could have possibly stopped it. Hard power matters. But that doesn't mean the international community is meaningless. The NPT might not stop North Korea, but it might keep countries such as, say, Brazil from going nuclear. Meanwhile, in the case of Iraq, the costs to the United States for deviating from international norms proved very real, perhaps high enough to make the country think twice before overstepping the wishes of the UN again. The same goes for many other countries that, by and large, wish to reap the benefits that come with playing by the rules: namely, they tend to play by the rules.
A similar case can be made for the International Criminal Court: yes, some very naïve Europeans believe that the ICC's indictments of the genocidaires in Khartoum will somehow have any effect on the slaughter in Darfur. It won't, they're wrong, and sometimes a piece of paper is just a piece of paper. But the ICC still remains a decent tool for adjudicating certain conflicts and pooling international resources together for prosecuting war criminals, rather than have the world continue to set up ad hoc tribunals as it did in Rwanda. (And no, contrary to Bolton's fears, the ICC would not be used against the United States.)
Meanwhile, Boltonalong with, one presumes, the president that backed himignores the capability of international institutions, again, like the UN, to foster cooperation and ties between countries that almost always benefit from cooperation and closer ties, but sometimes fail to cooperate for whatever reason. Many multilateral treaties aren't laws in the sense that, say, laws against murder are laws here in the United States. They're laws in the way that "everyone will drive on the right side of the road" are lawsextremely useful for coordinating behavior.
In a sense, Bolton knows all this. He oversaw, after all, the signing of 90 treaties during his tenure at the State Departmenta strange bit of behavior for someone who supposedly doesn't believe in international institutions or treaties. The real problem seems to be, as Bosco points out, Bolton's nationalist paranoia that somehow the UN and other international institutions are all "out to get" the United States, that soon the black helicopters will all swoop in and take over the American hinterlands. Donald Rumsfeld's 2005 National Defense Strategy evinced a very similar paranoia when it argued, "Our strength as a nation state will continue to be challenged by those who employ a strategy of the weak using international fora
." This may be true in small instances, of course, but it's not the sort of possibility you want to base a foreign policy on. The sooner the United States moves away from the paranoid foreign policy championed by Bolton, Rumsfeld, and Bush, the better.
Aug. 24, 2005 2:04 PM
In Iran, as previously happened in Iraq, inspectors were sent in to see if the respective governments were meeting all demands of the U.S. international community. With Iraq it was the mysterious and elusive "weapons of mass destruction." With Iran, it has simply been a nuclear weapons program. In both instances, the Bush administration was willing to go through the theatricals of sending in weapons inspectors to validate their claims.
And now we can say that in both instances the inspectors exonerated the countries of any weapons misconduct. Today we have word that the IAEA has concluded that traces of enriched uranium found in Iran were in fact due to contamination from their supplier and not the result of a sinister weapons program.
Yet in both instances, the Bush administration refused to accept the inspectors' reports. We all know what happened with Iraq. And now Washington seems prepared to reject the IAEA's findings as "inconclusive" and that "unresolved concerns" remain. So it seems a forgone conclusion that Bush, as with Iraq, was going to stick to his own story regardless of the findings.
Why? Why the public charade? Why go through all the drama of sending in inspectors if you have already made up your mind?
It sort of makes you wonder what the administration would count as evidence that no program exists.
Diane E. DeesAug. 24, 2005 11:54 AM
I left the Democratic Party for a long list of reasons, but the main one was the fact that I felt dismissed as a woman. And nothing has changed. Even in the 21st Century, all the Democratic Party had to offer for a presidential ticket was two white males. To add insult to injury, John Kerry--not at all surprisingly--turned out to be the worst candidate in modern times.
Most Americans are not white males, a fact the Democratic Party seems to have missed. And the gains made by the feminist movement (far from the gains that needed to be made) are being chipped away day by day, another glaring fact ignored by the party. So misguided are the Democrats about women's issues that at their last convention, they had a number of Democratic female senators make a kind of chorus girl run onto the stage so convention attendees could applaud them and feel good about themselves. The worst part was that the female senators agreed to put on this display of light-headed cuteness.
Even Howard Dean, who bragged that he talked about the problems of African Americans when he addressed all-white audiences, probably didn't talk about the problems of women when he addressed all-male audiences. I am guessing this because he talked little about them when he addressed mixed-gender audiences.
Like her or not, Senator Clinton gets the same kind of bashing from Democrats that she gets from Republicans, and it isn't about her politics. When the subject of her possible presidential candidacy came up on the MSNBC program "Hardball," host Chris Matthews, a Democrat, immediately said: "Well, that would motivate all the men in the country to vote against her." All the men? Those are some mighty strong feelings of insecurity.
Clinton is most often criticized as a candidate because she is "ambitious" and "polarizing," two words that can be applied to any number of men whom members of the Democratic Party go ga-ga over. And all across the allegedly liberal message boards, we read that America just "isn't ready" for a female president.
The Democratic Party has shown its hand many times. It stood by while Republicans ripped Geraldine Ferraro apart because of her husband, then blamed her--rather than their own weak campaign--for the 1984 loss. And more recently, the Democratic Party stood in silence while the Republican smear machine soul-murdered Anita Hill. In fact, Democrats enthusiastically rewarded the Vice President in charge of Lying About Professor Hill--Senator and Father (he is an Episcopal priest) John Danforth --with both the Waco investigation leadership and an ambassadorship to the United Nations. Not one person rose to oppose his ethics in either confirmation.
The issue of whether American women should have control over their own bodies, one of dozens of vital issues that affect women, is at the forefront again because of the current carving away of Roe v. Wade, and the mad ravings of pharmacists gone wild, who are busy making unscientific, unethical, and just plain misogynistic decisions about who takes which drugs. But not to worry. Because we can always frame this hysteria over whether right-wing religious men in bad suits and pharmacy coats take over the bodies of women by calling the frightened women a "single issue group" and assuring the Democratic Party that our casue is not a "core principle."
I am no longer a Democrat--but as I see it--if there really are any more YDD's, their criteria have changed a bit over the years: Now they check first to make sure the yellow dog isn't a bitch.
Aug. 24, 2005 11:42 AM
Good for Arlen Specter.
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman warned Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. yesterday to expect tough questions about the court's "judicial activism" and lack of respect for Congress.
The comments mark the second time this month that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has signaled plans to use Roberts's confirmation hearing as a forum for sharply criticizing what Specter describes as the high court's tendency to denigrate Congress's thoroughness and wisdom in passing various laws. Specter's questions could present Roberts with the difficult choice of disagreeing with the committee chairman or rebuking justices he hopes will soon be his colleagues. The committee's hearing begins Sept. 6.
...Specter particularly criticized Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's writings in a 2000 decision, United States v. Morrison, involving the Violence Against Women Act. He told Roberts he will ask whether he agrees that Rehnquist's reasoning is an example "of manufactured rationales used by the Supreme Court to exercise the role of super legislature." Specter's letter did not address the courts' rulings so much as justices' comments that he says show a disrespect for Congress and its diligence in making laws. He praised a dissenting opinion in a 2001 disabilities case that said courts should not "sit as a superlegislature to judge the wisdom or desirability of legislative policy determinations."
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman warned Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. yesterday to expect tough questions about the court's "judicial activism" and lack of respect for Congress.
The comments mark the second time this month that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has signaled plans to use Roberts's confirmation hearing as a forum for sharply criticizing what Specter describes as the high court's tendency to denigrate Congress's thoroughness and wisdom in passing various laws. Specter's questions could present Roberts with the difficult choice of disagreeing with the committee chairman or rebuking justices he hopes will soon be his colleagues. The committee's hearing begins Sept. 6.
...Specter particularly criticized Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's writings in a 2000 decision, United States v. Morrison, involving the Violence Against Women Act. He told Roberts he will ask whether he agrees that Rehnquist's reasoning is an example "of manufactured rationales used by the Supreme Court to exercise the role of super legislature." Specter's letter did not address the courts' rulings so much as justices' comments that he says show a disrespect for Congress and its diligence in making laws. He praised a dissenting opinion in a 2001 disabilities case that said courts should not "sit as a superlegislature to judge the wisdom or desirability of legislative policy determinations."
On a side note, Kevin Drum writes an excellent post today on how a theory as ridiculous as originalism can gain such broad acceptance. He asks at the end of the post,
Regardless of originalism's substantive merits, you can't fight something with nothing, which makes Lithwick's question a good one: why is it that liberals seem to have given up on formulating a simple and compelling alternative?
Liberals have formulated a simple and compelling alternative--viewing the Constitution as a living document that evolves over time in accordance with precedent--but we've failed to package and market it as well as conservatives. The difficulty in mass producing legal theory is compounded by a press corps that seems unwilling to abandon its comfortable cliches. They'll spill plenty of ink on whether Roe v. Wade is binding and whether it's a valid decision--which is essentially a critique of liberal judicial theory by proxy, unfair though that may be--but you don't even get a passing reference to originalism or conservative judicial ideology in the article above, for example. In fact, all we know from the article is that Rehnquist wrote the majority opinion in one of the cases mentioned in the letter. People don't like talking about the justices as conservative and liberal, so refer to them as originalists!
One problem is, in public discourse right now, there's no Roe to serve as a ligthening rod for criticism of originalism. Sure, liberals are partially to blame, I guess, for not working their base into a lather about a Supreme Court opinion, but it wouldn't hurt to have a few articles (that aren't written by the brilliant Dahlia Lithwick) that associate bad originalist opinions with originalism every once in a while.
I may write more on this later, because I've briefly made just one of many valid points on this topic. It's an important conversation, and I hope others will take Kevin's bait.
A final note, the American Constitution Society has done amazing work recently, both in terms of bringing together lawyers to formulate a clear liberal judicial philosophy, and in terms of spreading the word about it. I hope anyone who agrees with Kevin's criticism will check out their website or their blog.
**Disclaimer: I'm an active member of the ACS chapter at Michigan.**
Bradford PlumerAug. 23, 2005 11:02 PM
I suppose we'll just have to see what happens with the new Iraqi constitution over the next few days, as the legislature bickers over crossing t's and dotting i's, and getting the darn thing translated from English to Arabic. At this point, though, most commentary will be very tentative, since in the past most political negotiations in Baghdad have followed the same patterneveryone maximalizing their demands, everything looking hopelessly gridlocked, and then at the last moment they all pull back for a big compromise and group photo op. Maybe that will happen again; maybe not. Right now, it seems that "federalism" still seems to be the big constitutional sticking point. Nathan Brown explains what this oft-bandied word actually means:
The disputed questions would probably even strike a veteran Israeli-Palestinian negotiator as complicated and difficult. How will Iraq be divided into regions and provinces? What will the authority of the various units be? Is the union a voluntary matter or one that is incontestable? What will be the role of regional security forces? Will the units have authority to reach agreements with foreign states and other actors, and, if so, in what areas? How will revenue be divided? What will be the relationship between federal and regional law? How will disputes be settled? Will other areas of the country be able to form units that are as autonomous as the Kurdish region?
I'm not a constitutional lawyer, so I can't make heads or tails of exactly how these issues were specifically resolved in the draft constitution (the text of which isn't even a "proper draft," as Washington Post's Ellen Knickmeyer tells us, but someone's scribbled notes), but apparently the Sunnis on the committee, "who had been shut out of the negotiations for much of the past week," don't like the end result. Spencer Ackerman gets at some of the dynamics involved here: If the Sunnis get locked out of the final draft, they may try to shoot the constitution down in referendum this fall, although Juan Cole and others have noted that they probably don't have the numbers to do it. (Maybe they can link up with Muqtada al-Sadr and other assorted rejectionists and disgruntleds.) What seems clear is that any constitution that truly angers the Sunnis will lead to a lot of bloodshed down the road: in addition to the diehard rejectionists and Sunni Islamists, even moderate Sunnis may now start aiding and abetting the insurgency.
Perhaps the Shiites aren't worried about all this, because they think that either the United States will stick around to defend them, or that their own militias will protect them against a Sunni onslaught. Ezra Klein says the Sunnis would be stupid to take on the Shiites in Iraq; they'd get trounced. Well, maybe. Then again, maybe not. The insurgency's pretty large and pretty sophisticated, it has plenty of officers experienced in war, and with enough money pouring in from Saudi charities, Sunni warlords could probably purchase a few tanks and other goodies on the open market. Or maybe they can hire out the services of those privatized military firms that are so hot these days. Either way, I wouldn't count the Sunnis out. Plus, whether they can survive an all-out butcher-fest or not seem pretty irrelevant; what matters is whether they're crazy enough to tryand in this case, the answer seems like "yes, they are".
So it's all fucked up. Withdrawal advocates have noted before that if the United States threatened to pull-out, say, right this very second, it might terrify the Shiite leadership into softening some of its constitutional demands, so as not to anger too many Sunnis. Up until now, I haven't been convinced that this was necessaryAyatollah Sistani's men, at least, have always seemed liked they wanted to bargain. Now, it might be time for brinksmanship. As callous as it seems, at this point the U.S. owes the Shiites absolutely nothing. They owe the people of Iraq a stable state, if one can be produced, and if the Shiite leadership is intent on leading Iraq "into the abyss," as Ackerman puts it, then it's time to stop coddling and protecting them.
Meanwhile, on the question of women's rights, yes, the current constitutionat least what we can decipher of it from the early notepad doodlingsfails miserably. (Except, happily, in Kurdistan, where women's rights will be secure.) Echidne unleashes outrage and fury over this state of affairs far more eloquently than I ever could. Honestly, though, I don't know why people are getting so surprised now. Iraqi women were condemned to second-class status the day Sistani's fundamentalist party took power in January. Not to downplay how bad this all is, but I can't envision any scenario in which the Bush administration actually forced the Shiites to accept a non-Islamist constitution. Hopefully 20 years from now, mainstream Shiite jurisprudence will have evolved to the point where women get treated as equals. Or, since the constitution sets aside 25 percent of its seats for women, perhaps future elections will bring in a majority coalition of urban and secular Iraqis, including women, who have 20th century ideas about gender. Until then, we have what we expected: a fundamentalist American government sanctioned a fundamentalist Iraqi constitution. What a surprise.
So what else can be done, besides threatening to withdraw and hope the Shiites try to appease the Sunnis out of fear? Some observers have pointed out that Iraq might be best served if the parliament dissolved itself and held new electionsJuan Cole finds an az-Zaman report noting that Allawi's more urbane list, along with some Kurds, might try to band with the Sunnis to pursue this option. That seems like an awful idea. It would prolong the occupation even further, and whether or not one thinks that a "stay the course" approach could just barely dodge the "manpower meltdown" bullet that's approaching 36 months from now, it seems wholly unlikely that the US could stay through yet another round of parliamentary elections. Also, it might not change anything. The Shiite and Kurdish militias have an increasingly iron grip on their respective regions, while violence in the Sunni provinces has only worsened since January. My guess: hold another election, and thugs from SCIRI, the Mehdi Army, and the peshmerga would, um, "persuade" people to vote their way, insurgents would intimidate Sunnis from voting, and you'd get essentially the same cast of characters back in power. Perhaps not, but that's my guess. All in all, a real mess.
Aug. 23, 2005 10:59 PM
The estimable Juan Cole puts the failure of the Iraqi assembly to complete the constitutional process today in clear terms:
The rule of law is no longer operating in Iraq, and no pretence of constitutional procedure is being striven for. In essence, the prime minister and president have made a sort of coup, simply disregarding the interim constitution. Given the acquiescence of parliament and the absence of a supreme court (which should have been appointed by now but was not, also unconstitutionally), there is no check or balance that could question the writ of the executive.
Diane E. DeesAug. 23, 2005 7:34 PM
This morning, during Donald Rumsfeld's news conference, a reporter asked him to comment on the Pentagon's reopening of the investigation into Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan. He knew nothing about it--he didn't even know the investigation had been reopened.
Because Afghanistan is so 2001. While women and girls struggle once more to stay out of the way of the resurgent Taliban, American troops have mobilized to keep the Taliban from wreaking havoc during the upcoming elections. Though there are reports that the Taliban has agreed not to interfere with the September 18 elections, there are also conflicting reports indicating that they might.
In the meantime, Taliban militants have bombed the house of a cleric who is known to be friendly toward the U.S., and jsut two days ago, four U.S. soldiers were killed and three wounded by a bomb blast in Zabul province.
Members of the Taliban are now emptying Islamic boarding schools and recruiting teenage boys in preparation for the disruption of the elections which perhaps are not going to be disrupted. It's very confusing, and one way to avoid getting confused over the issue is to not talk about it at all. That option is brought to us generously by the American news media, who appear to see the people at Camp Casey as the real enemy.
Over 230 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan this year, and about 700 have been seriously injured. There have also been many deaths and injuries of other coalition troops. There is no accurate count of how many Afghan civilians have died this year. The soldiers who die or are injured in Afghanistan are conveniently forgotten by the White House, the Pentagon, the news media, and the American people. Dying in Afghanistan is just not sexy anymore. Neither is dying in Iraq, unless you are George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, or one of the able-bodied who prefers to stay home and "fight the culture wars."
Aug. 23, 2005 6:41 PM
Publius writes a brilliant post that takes an impressionistic look at Roberts's past writings and paints a pretty ugly picture of his approach to race issues.
Judge Roberts has some splainin' to do. As more of these old documents come out, it's getting harder to come up with a satisfactory explanation for his uniform hostility to any and all efforts to protect civil rights, and to help minorities more generally. At best, I'm thinking that the early Roberts was a product of boarding-school privilege who was unaware and isolated from the reality of racial discrimination. At worst, he was someone who didn't like minorities. This is a serious criticism, and I would be hesitant to raise it if the troubling theme didn't arise again and again and on every single position involving issues implicating race. Because this is not a charge to toss out lightly, it's important to lay out the basis for my criticism. After I do so, I'd welcome people to respond and tell me why I might be wrong.
It's very important that you go read this post.
Aug. 23, 2005 1:57 PM
Via ACSBlog, the North Carolina House and Senate have passed a bill that will require courts to give battered spouses information on how to apply for a concealed weapon when they seek a restraining order.
The president of the gun-rights group that pushed for the measure said it's more about helping victims of domestic violence help themselves.
"We're not interested in them shooting their abusers," said Paul Valone, president of Grass Roots North Carolina. "We're interested in delivering a message: When police can't protect these people, they are capable of protecting themselves."
The measure becomes law Oct. 1 unless Gov. Mike Easley decides to veto it. His office declined Wednesday to comment on his plans.
The bill, which passed overwhelmingly in both houses of the legislature, would also add protective orders to the evidence a sheriff can consider when determining whether to issue an emergency permit to carry a concealed weapon. Normally, an applicant must wait 90 days for such a permit.
The president of the gun-rights group that pushed for the measure said it's more about helping victims of domestic violence help themselves.
"We're not interested in them shooting their abusers," said Paul Valone, president of Grass Roots North Carolina. "We're interested in delivering a message: When police can't protect these people, they are capable of protecting themselves."
The measure becomes law Oct. 1 unless Gov. Mike Easley decides to veto it. His office declined Wednesday to comment on his plans.
The bill, which passed overwhelmingly in both houses of the legislature, would also add protective orders to the evidence a sheriff can consider when determining whether to issue an emergency permit to carry a concealed weapon. Normally, an applicant must wait 90 days for such a permit.
Talk about sending mixed messages. If a battered woman who's been subjected to unspeakable emotional and physical abuse, and even threatened with death, sneaks up on her abusive husband and kills him in his sleep, she commits first degree murder under the law of most states because the act was not spontaneous and she was not faced with imminent bodily harm that would require self-defense. A vague, ever-present threat of death is not enough, as in the case of Shelley Hendrickson which was the subject of an article in Mother Jones this month.
One day in the fall of 1994, he threatened her with a hunting knife. Afterward she hid the knife; Rodney became furious. "He had me up against the wall, choking me, telling me that I better have his knife when he got home from work or he was going to kill me," she says. Shelley pleaded with him to let her leave with the kids, but her words only made him more angry. "None of you are leaving," he said. "I'd rather see you all dead than leave."
Their 11-year-old daughter, Ashley, overheard this argument. After Rodney left the house to go to work, Ashley said something Shelley found very disturbing. "She told me that he would come in and go to the bathroom when she was in the bathtub and watch her," Shelley says.
The following week, on October 29, Shelley drove to Kmart and bought a 12-gauge shotgun.
One day in the fall of 1994, he threatened her with a hunting knife. Afterward she hid the knife; Rodney became furious. "He had me up against the wall, choking me, telling me that I better have his knife when he got home from work or he was going to kill me," she says. Shelley pleaded with him to let her leave with the kids, but her words only made him more angry. "None of you are leaving," he said. "I'd rather see you all dead than leave."
Their 11-year-old daughter, Ashley, overheard this argument. After Rodney left the house to go to work, Ashley said something Shelley found very disturbing. "She told me that he would come in and go to the bathroom when she was in the bathtub and watch her," Shelley says.
The following week, on October 29, Shelley drove to Kmart and bought a 12-gauge shotgun.
I am not sure how the situation would have been improved by easy access to a concealed weapon, to be honest.
It's sort of like comparing apples and oranges, but I think there's something to the argument that it's a little unfair that battered woman have no mitigating defense if they murder under conditions of extreme psychological stress, but men who kill in the "heat of passion" are guilty of voluntary manslaughter instead of first degree murder. (Women are as well, but the argument is that men primarily use this defense.) Findlaw gives this example:
For example, Dan comes home to find his wife in bed with Victor. In the heat of the moment, Dan picks up a golf club from next to the bed and strikes Victor in the head, killing him instantly.
Another inequity in the law--women tend to kill their spouses with weapons more often which, if a judge applies the sentencing guidelines, can lead to a higher sentence.
Perhaps reforming these aspects of the criminal code would have been a better use of the legislature's resources than encouraging people in volatile situations to buy firearms.
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Jerry's View: Saving my skin; I'd rather be lucky than good
One afternoon, a few weeks after I took over the paper in 1952, I got a call at the office. "Good morning, White Center News," I proudly answered. The man on the line said " This is Dick Scrawge and I want to place an ad in your paper," he said.
"Okay Mr. Scrawge, I'd be delighted to help you," I replied. He proceeded to explain that it would be better if I came over to his place to discuss. I said I would be happy to come over and where exactly would that be was my next question. "What do you mean, we're where we've always been, you idiot!, right here next to Harney's store!"
"Oh, I said, I am quite sorry, I thought you said your name was Scrawge!, but you meant you are calling from Dick's Garage," I answered.
He wondered how the Kent News-Journal had let me go!
So began my illustrious career as a newspaper publisher. I have managed to bungle my way through more than 60 years of miscues and mistakes, like the issue of the paper where I ran a letter to the editor about about a car dealer and an unhappy customer. It seems the customer was sold a car that broke down a few minutes after he took possession of same and the dealer was on the way to the bank with a check.
When the customer walked back to the dealer to complain, the dealer replied that "all sales are final." This did not sit well with the customer so he painted a big sign on the car and towed it through White Center with another car. The sign said "LEMON" and indicated the dealership name. He also sent me a letter to the editor complaining about how he was treated.
I ran the letter. A week later the dealer was hopping mad, showing up at my office. It appeared he had a small pistol tucked into his belt as he made his way across the street. He barged through the door, pounded a tight fist on the counter and demanded to see me. I had seen him coming and ducked into the back shop alerting my editor that I was "out" for the day. My editor was quick to adapt saying" Sorry sir, but Jerry is not in the office today, can you come back and shoot him later?," The dealer stormed out as quickly as he had arrived, never to return. I lost a customer that day but saved my skin.
Some months later I was working late. I had recently sent my union employees down to work with Al Sneed at the Burien-Highline Times. It was tough making a living then too so I hired some non-union part time workers to help me get through the month. My secretary spotted two "suits" coming across the street to talk with me about how my paper was being produced. They insisted that I use "union" labor from a letter I received a few weeks prior. I locked the press room door as they rapped several times, shouting " we know you are in there Robinson. We know you are using non-union labor," they added.
I did not answer.
They knew I had sent my union staff to Burien but were unwavering in their attempt to convince me that I should have kept them in White Center, a big union town at the time. Eventually they left, thinking I was likely not going to come out. Two months later I re-hired some fine union printers and saved my skin once again.
The very next year I needed to buy a delivery truck for my burgeoning business. My shop foreman told me his son had a truck he would be willing to sell me. I said okay, have him bring it over. The kid showed up but I was busy on the phone. He disappeared for a few minutes and returned to wait. I could not get off the phone in time so the kid disappeared again. A third time was the charm. I went outside, looked at the truck and paid him $200 cash. I returned to work for the rest of the day.
To my dismay, at 6 p.m., I discovered not a single tire on the truck had any air. Apparently the kid was going back and forth to Minotto's shell station, on the corner, to fill the tires and return the truck to the spot in front of the building. I was duped by a 19 year old kid. It cost me another $100 to add tires to that truck and Lou Minotto was very happy to sell them to me. I held no grudge. The truck worked fine and I thought I was getting a good deal to begin with.
Staying in business this long is about being lucky and having a good plan to avoid making mistakes. I had one of the two. I made lots of mistakes but I was also lucky.
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| Chen Jipeng |
SINGAPORE (Xinhua) – The many free trade agreements and talks in the Asia Pacific will be in the spotlight in the coming year as breakthroughs or at least major progress are expected for some of them.
Scholars have said that the regional integration is also a process of economies integrating into a world of supply chains.
Supply chains are bigger and deeper than what most people think they are. The services and investment flows attached are significant, said Doborah Elms, executive director of Singapore- based think tank Asian Trade Centre in a recent interview with Xinhua.
"In a world of supply chains, countries that are successful in eliminating barriers to trade for supply chain purposes will do much better than countries that don't," she said.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is aiming to achieve an Asean Community by the end of 2015. The 10-nation bloc has introduced a scorecard as a compliance tool to gauge the progress in building the Asean Economic Community, a key pillar of the bloc's community building.
Leaders have said that some 85 per cent of the goals have been achieved. Nevertheless, they also acknowledge that the remaining 15 per cent will be the most challenging ones to achieve.
Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, said that the work has been mostly done on tariff reduction and that the targets remaining to be achieved are mainly those in areas such as non-tariff barriers, services trade, investment liberalisation and free flow of skilled labour.
Asean officials have recently said that 2015 will be a milestone in a continuing process rather than an end. The bloc is already in the process of developing a blueprint for the next stage of community building.
In developing the blueprint, the bloc is expected to take into consideration the changes in the global economic landscape, while carrying on with the unfinished part of the commitments in the current blueprint beyond 2015.
Kaewkamol sees the deepening of the regional production and supply chain as the most significant change in the coming decade. She expects Asean to take this into consideration in developing its new blueprint.
China and Asean have launched talks to upgrade an existing free trade agreement, with emphasis on services trade and investment liberalisation. China has proposed concepts and arrangements, too, including the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Another agreement to watch is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which involves Asean and six partner economies. The target is to complete the free trade talks within 2015. Some said this will not be easy, as the participants are still discussing the approach and the modality of the talks and that market access may be a challenging issue with some economies. But the political will is there, as the participants have recently reiterated the aim to complete the talks within 2015.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will continue to make headlines, too. Scholars are divided on the prospect for the controversially ambitious free trade deal.
Termsak Chalermpalanupap, a researcher at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, sees the process stuck. It is believed that the TPP talks are stuck on market access issues like rice, beef, sugar and dairy and the differences in intellectual property right protection.
The TPP negotiators would have to conclude the talks by March, given the fact that the agreement has to be submitted for a vote in the United States before the Congress' summer break. After that, it will be the presidential election cycle and lawmakers would be in no mood to vote on a trade bill.
Deborah Elms, however, insists that the negotiators are "very close" to concluding the talks.
"I don't think that finishing the TPP is difficult in the sense that there is too much to do between now and March or it couldn't be concluded by March because it takes too long to do the legal scrubbing," she said.
She said that the negotiators are stuck partly because they cannot come down from the high standards they have set in the beginning for a 21st-century high quality free trade agreement. They may announce a conclusion if they want to.
"This is a gut check time," Elms said.
Most of the economies in the Asia Pacific, the world's most dynamic region, are negotiating bilateral free trade deals, too. They can expect to benefit from the comparative advantage as well as reduced costs. Singapore, for instance, has quite a number of such agreements with other economies.
China recently announced the conclusion of substantial talks over free trade agreements with South Korea and Australia, respectively. Observers said these may be incentives for other economies to accelerate their free trade talks.
There are differences in the levels of integration represented by the various regional free trade agreements including the TPP, the RCEP, as well as the reinvigorated Free Trade Agreement of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP).


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Definition of perturb
transitive verb
1 : to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet
2 : to throw into confusion : disorder
3 : to cause to experience a perturbation
perturbableplay \pər-ˈtər-bə-bəl\ adjective
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It perturbed him that his son was thinking about leaving school.
the caller's strange remark perturbed me enough to keep me awake that night
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With its per- prefix, perturb meant originally "thoroughly upset", though today the word has lost most of its intense edge. Perturb and perturbation are often used by scientists, usually when speaking of a change in their data indicating that something has affected some normal process. When someone is referred to as imperturbable, it means he or she manages to remain calm through the most trying experiences.
Origin and Etymology of perturb
Middle English, from Middle French perturber, from Latin perturbare to throw into confusion, from per- + turbare to disturb — more at turbid
First Known Use: 14th century
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With Reilly out and my links shut down I can finally get back to work. The mystery of the 'tech-disrupting bullets can wait. I'm monitoring the Sanctum's perimeter, but I sincerely doubt anyone is coming for me at this point. I feel a little silly having gotten so worried about it in the first place. For letting a hunch and a lot of spooky talk get in the way of logic.
Plenty of people know what I'm doing, and plenty don't like it. They don't like that I've found a loophole in this miserable existence. They don't have a way out, and don't want anyone else to have one either. But up to this point it's been disgruntled muttering on the 'nets, all talk an no action. I'd gotten death threats—but I'd made it clear that in killing me they'd just be aiding me in getting what I wanted. Release from my mortal (s)hell.
Everything is in place for a test run on phase III, and I'm too excited to wait. I set the defenses on auto and get up from the console.
I sit down on the edge of my bed and lift up my shirt to reveal the two jacks at the base of my spine. I plug myself into the Sanctum's systems through one, lay down on my side and insert the second plug. There's no scientific reason to believe that when my consciousness leaves my body it will result in sudden death, but it's still better safe than sorry. The second plug is connected to an override box that will force my 'machines to keep my body functioning.
I close my eyes and initiate the start-up sequence.
Three, two, one.
The feeling is like no other—like I'm being flushed out of the physical realm through some intangible drain. I'm disoriented, panicked, every fiber of my very being screaming that something isn't right. Forcing myself to calm down, I'm slowly able to get my bearings...and I realize it's worked.
I'm no longer in my body. I'm in the Sanctum's computer systems. I'm data.
I'm elated.
My body hangs behind me like an anchor, and the overwhelming impulse is to cut it loose and drift. I'm so close to freedom. From here, I can swim outward on the streams of information, traveling wherever I want. Anywhere, any building, any body, to any point broadcasting a signal. Even beyond the Dome.
I kick around inside the Sanctum for a bit, navigating the systems with startling ease. With no physical brain to limit how fast I can access and distill information, transactions are instantaneous. Time is meaningless.
Time. Check the time.
It's been almost ten minutes. More than enough for a test run. Time to go back inside.
I pull myself down through the data cable, amazed at how much I still rely on visualizations of physical actions to function. I know this will pass.
Getting back in to my body is harder than getting out, as though the flesh doesn't want to receive consciousness again. I'm not surprised; it's contrary to the rules of entropy that govern all life.
Back inside, my body feels like lead, like dead weight. I wait a moment before fully returning, double checking my status to be sure I'm still alive, still one hundred percent. Satisfied that meatBright has survived the first test intact, I shut down the link to the Sanctum.
Move. Move, dammit.
There. I pull the plugs from my back, and sit up slowly. The world around me shifts of its own accord. I shudder, nauseous, and run my fingers over my scalp. I think of Reilly, waking up, returning to himself from another night of drugdreams and wonder if this is what it feels like for him. This feeling of leaving something infinitely better behind.
Understanding doens't equal sympathy.
I check the time again and reconnect to the Sanctum. All systems nominal, no breaches in my brief absence. Time to open up my link channels again, and wait for one of the bizarrely apologetic transmissions that always follow Reilly's absences.


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On the two or three occasions I have ventured into Berry Bros & Rudd, the posh wine merchants merely a thump of a croquet ball away from St James's Palace, I have always had the vague feeling while talking to the sales staff that I went to entirely the wrong school, which is not, frankly, a feeling that ever comes over me in Threshers. Wine, a three-part documentary series that began last night, reinforces that elitist image. Berry Bros even produces an annual price list that is still designed to fit into "a gentleman's waistcoat pocket".
Still, we won't hold that against them, and in fact the chairman, Simon Berry, seemed like a decent sort of cove. His forbears got the show on the road as long ago as the 18th century, but family businesses, he insisted, should not be for otherwise unemployable members of the family. That the company still thrives after 308 years suggests that this has been grasped by successive generations of what I suppose might be termed elder Berries.
Not all of them, however, have had to deal with the "first gusts of a chill economic wind," as the rather flowery script put it. Simon Berry has heard it said that wine is a recession-proof indulgence on the basis that people drink to forget when times are bad, just as they drink to celebrate when times are good. Nonetheless, with City bonuses somewhat watered down, it's hard to imagine how many of his customers will be forking out, even as an investment, £35,000 for a case of 2005 Chateau Petrus that won't be ready for drinking for another 20 years. Yet those people still exist, apparently.
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I doubt whether any of this would have engaged for more than five minutes those viewers not greatly interested in wine, but for those of us who are, it was engrossing stuff. I particularly enjoyed a sequence towards the end in which Berry's Bordeaux specialist uncorked a dusty bottle from the company's cellar and invited a table of favoured customers and suppliers to guess the vintage. One or two reckoned 1989. Monsieur Prats got closest, guessing 1928. But even he was 58 years out. It was an 1870 Cos d'Estournel, still in fabulous nick. Not since I was about seven years old watching Dr Who tumbling through time have I so wanted to climb into a television set and taste the experiences of the people on screen.
Speaking of taste, Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant in Padstow remains one of my favourite restaurants on earth, which duly whetted my appetite for Who Do You Think You Are?, in which Stein was the subject. Unlike many subjects of this excellent series, he remained resolutely dry-eyed despite being given more reason than most to blub.
Stein's father, Eric, who had bipolar disorder, committed suicide in the mid-1960s, and the programme looked into the possible reasons for his suicidal tendencies. It explored a family theory that the foundations were laid when as a child during the First World War, with feelings running particularly high after the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, Eric Stein was bullied for having a German name and antecedents. Another possible explanation was that for years he felt as if he'd been denied his vocation, having won a place at Oxford to read medicine, only to be told he couldn't go, and forced into the family chemicals business. To paraphrase Simon Berry, family businesses should not be the destiny of those who would rather find employment elsewhere, and yet they so often are.
All of which brings me to another family business, Trotters Independent Traders. Last week, in my review of the increasingly overwrought murder drama Whitechapel, I suggested that the third victim of the Jack the Ripper-style killer was played by Tessa Peake-Jones, late of Only Fools and Horses. In fact, the actress was Sophie Stanton, whose resemblance to Ms Peake-Jones is such that there was once a GMTV phone-in on that very subject, but as Ms Stanton herself emailed me to say, I should still have checked the cast list. What a plonker!
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It's time for those "re" words again – rethink, rework, revisit, revitalize, reduce (not physically). The 1st Mercury Retrograde for 2012 will be upon us on Monday, March 12 in fiery Aries. Take time to go over details while communications planet Mercury goes backwards in the sky. Project initiation/creation would be best delayed, if possible, until it goes Direct again in Water sign Pisces on 4/4 – if not, be meticulous, be careful, "review".
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Let us prepare early. Get travel plans and information updated and confirmed, back up files, make sure all those little electronic gadgets are working, etc. However, be positive. Rather than think of Mercury Retrograde as a disaster, use the 3 weeks of its backward trek as an opportunity to re evaluate and /or re process. When the planet goes forward again, new plans will have the power and energy needed to get off the ground.
But waiting, thinking things through, dealing with the details, may be easier said than done. Mars ruled Aries is a naturally impatient spark plug urging us to jump off that ledge or send verbal shocks to the universe just because – it'll be sooooo exciting. This is not such a good time for Aries rashness and risk. If you must walk on the wild side, look before you leap, take a breath before you speak (It can still be fun).
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Mercury will reach Aries again on 4/16/12 (6:42pm EDT / 3:42PM PDT).
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Even the English sentence isn't so great. There's not enough context. This was likely part of a conversation in which the context was obvious.
Is she better than someone else, or maybe she could sing better after her operation, or now that she is recovering from an illness. Or maybe she's just better than the last time she sang.
We have some better English example sentences with "sing better."
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[#58892] You will be able to sing better next time. (CK) *audio*
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I got a cat about a month ago. She was in a rough situation living with 11 other cats. I talked to the previous owner and they want us to take another of the cats. The cat we already have was really submissive and scared all the time. She is doing really great now. I am trying to figure out if it would be hard to reintroduce them with the current cat now being the "Queen" of the house.
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