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When the 112th Congress convenes on Wednesday one of the first orders of business in the Senate will be to set the rules of debate for the new term. This seemingly routine bit of parliamentary housekeeping will be a lightning rod for partisan contention, dividing Democrats and Republicans over filibuster reform.
The story so far: At the close of the last session, every returning Senate Democrat signed a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) calling for filibuster reform. Under Senate procedures, a two-thirds vote is ordinarily required to change the rules. But a procedural loophole makes it possible on the first day of a new term to adopt new rules by a majority vote, a procedure that the Republican minority rejects.
The filibuster rule is by definition a partisan issue, but one defined less by party label than by shifting electoral fortunes and consequent majority or minority status.
Since the filibuster is a legislative tool used by the minority party (Democrat or Republican) to avoid being steamrollered by the majority, members of the minority (in this case, Senate Republicans) have a vested interest in opposing reforms that would make it more difficult to mount filibusters.
Senate Democrats, by the same logic, have a vested interest in enacting reforms that would make it harder to filibuster their legislative agenda.
Settling the debate
Who's right is more than a matter of whose ox is being gored. There are constitutional arguments on both sides of the issue. Democratic proponents of reform are demanding an end to the almost automatic way that filibusters have been used in recent years. They say that current Senate procedures subvert majority rule and promote legislative gridlock.
Republicans contend that the Senate's role in the constitutional order is to check unrestrained majority rule and that filibuster rules, adopted under powers given to Congress by the Constitution, fulfill that function.
The filibuster debate has unfolded over decades. At one time, filibusters were reserved primarily for matters of obvious national importance and cloture motions (to end debate) were generally filed only after an extended period of debate had actually taken place. During the civil rights era in the 1960s, for instance, filibusters attracted national attention because of the importance of the issues involved and because they were fairly unusual events, involving marathon speeches on the Senate floor. Today, by contrast, cloture votes have become a routine part of the Senate's floor procedures, even though marathon floor speeches are still quite rare.
Ground zero in the filibuster debate is Senate Rule 22, the cloture rule, which requires a 60-vote supermajority, to end debate. The rule is routinely invoked, often as soon as a measure is brought to the floor for consideration and before debate takes place. As a result, 60 votes are needed to block a threatened filibuster and move legislation through the Senate.
Filibuster reform
Proponents of reform argue that the Constitution clearly specifies those rare instances where a supermajority is required (the two-thirds vote required to ratify a treaty or propose a constitutional amendment, for example) and that creating, in effect, a 60-vote threshold for ordinary legislation imposes a supermajority where the framers contemplated a simple majority.
Opponents of reform counter that Article I gives each house of Congress the authority to establish its own rules, including the one governing cloture. They further maintain that the framers of the Constitution created a Senate that would serve as a check on popular majorities. whose will is reflected in the House.
The reforms being proposed by the Democrats on Wednesday would not end filibusters, but among other changes, they would require senators to speak continuously on the floor to keep a filibuster going, instead of simply threatening to do so to trigger the cloture rule.
As we await the outcome of Wednesday's parliamentary showdown, here are 10 things to know about Senate filibusters:
1. In 1841 a threatened filibuster foiled Senator Henry Clay's attempt to end debate by a majority vote on a bill to charter the Second Bank of the United States. If Clay refused to back down, said the threatening Senator, he "may make his arrangements at his boarding house for the winter."
2. When senators started to filibuster in the mid 1800s, senate leaders grappled with lax limits on debate and several times sought to amend Senate rules. But most such efforts to bar the filibuster were themselves filibustered.
3. In 1917 a group of 12 anti-war Senators successfully filibustered a bill to allow President Woodrow Wilson to arm merchant vessels to combat German submarine warfare. In response, the Democratic senate, at Wilson's urging, adopted a rule allowing for the "cloture" of debate to end a filibuster.
4. Huey Long, the populist Depression-era Senator from Louisiana, perfected the art of the filibuster in the 1930s to block bills he thought favored the rich over the poor. Long once held the Senate floor for 15 hours, reciting Shakespeare and reading favorite recipes.
5. In 1946, a filibuster by Southern senators that lasted for weeks blocked creation of a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee.
6. Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse set an individual record for filibustering in 1953, when he spoke for 22 hours and 26 minutes to protest legislation concerning offshore oil.
7. Morse's record fell four years later, in 1957, when Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered the Civil Rights of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
8. In the 1960s, no Senate term had more than seven votes on cloture. In recent years, it has climbed to more than 100.
9. In 2005, a group of Republican senators, responding to the Democrats' threat to filibuster some of President George W. Bush's judicial nominations, threatened to have Vice President Dick Cheney, as President of the Senate, rule that a filibuster on judicial nominees was inconsistent with constitutional "consent" of presidential appointments by a simple majority of senators. The constitutional showdown was averted when a bipartisan group of senators agreed to limit filibusters of judicial nominees to "extraordinary circumstances."
10. In December, at the close of the recent lame-duck session of Congress, Vermont Senator Bernard Sanders hearkened back to the tradition of marathon speechifying, speaking for nearly nine hours on the floor of the Senate to protest the tax-deal compromise backed by President Obama and congressional Republicans.


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Immediately after learning at Sunday's practice that he had a meeting with athletic director Jack Hayes the following morning, Hofstra guard Charles Jenkins started preparing for the worst.
The previous two times Jenkins met with Hayes, the athletic director notified him last spring that longtime coach Tom Pecora was leaving for Fordham and that newly hired coach Tim Welsh had resigned in the wake of a DUI. As a result, Jenkins feared he'd find out Monday that first-year coach Mo Cassara was on his way out too.
He asked teammates what they knew about the meeting, but they insisted they had heard nothing. He quizzed trainers and assistant coaches, but they told him they were clueless too. Finally, after a sleepless night, Jenkins knocked on Hayes' door, sat in the same chair he had the other two meetings and discovered ... Hofstra plans to retire his No. 22 jersey on Saturday.
"I woke up this morning thinking that maybe coach Mo was leaving or that I was going to get some bad news, so this was definitely something I'll never forget," a sheepish Jenkins said by phone. "Usually I have members of the staff that tell me everything when I ask. This time I was telling everyone, 'I've got to meet Mr. Hayes. I wonder what it's about. I wonder what he wants from me.' Well I come to find out that everyone knew but me."
Hofstra decided to retire Jenkins' jersey on Senior Day because it's a fitting honor for a kid who has been the face of the program the past four years. Jenkins, the school's all-time leading scorer, ranks fifth in the nation at 23.3 points per game this season and is the front-runner to win Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year honors.
It's difficult to evaluate exactly how uncommon it is for an active player to have his jersey hang from the rafters, but it's safe to say it's pretty unusual. No other Hofstra athlete in any sport has received the same honor, though Wake Forest's Tim Duncan and Duke's Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley and Grant Hill all had their jerseys retired before their last home games.
"I think it's very rare," Cassara said by phone. "We have 25 other athletes that have had their numbers retired here at Hofstra, but none of them have ever been retired while they were still here at their last games. He's been such an integral part of this university on so many levels that we thought that was the highest honor we could give him."
Saturday's ceremony will be the culmination of Jenkins' gradual rise from troubled kid to overlooked prospect to college star.
Distraught after his older brother, Kareem, was shot and killed in Brooklyn, Jenkins was expelled from school as a high school freshman. He eventually turned his life around at Springfield Gardens High in Queens, becoming an honor-roll student and earning a basketball scholarship to Hofstra.
Jenkins chose his No. 22 jersey because that was how old his brother was when he died. Before every Hofstra game, he'll tweet a message to his brother such as "Every game I'm relaxed and at peace because (you're) watching."
Real-life adversity like that made the coaching tumult of last spring a lot easier for Jenkins to handle by comparison. Despite having three coaches in less than two months as a result of the resignations of Pecora and Welsh, the Pride (18-10, 12-4) are in a tie for second place in the CAA and still harbor dreams of a surprise run in the conference tournament next month.
"It shows how mature we are," Jenkins said. "The hardest part of all the coaching changes was off the court. When we got on the court, we had opportunities to block out all the negative stuff and take out all our frustrations on the opposing team."
One of the proudest moments of Jenkins' senior season came Monday morning when he shared the news about his jersey being retired with his mother and father, both of whom were at practice to speak with the local media.
"Once I told her, my mom just burst into tears because she was so happy," Jenkins said. "It was a great feeling. I've seen my mom very upset with the passing of my brother. To have her cry but tears of joy, it's definitely something I'll never forget."
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Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz has made a "huge mistake" by limiting debate among the 2016 Democratic presidential hopefuls, according to one of the three remaining candidates.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) has consistently vocalized his criticism of how Shultz has handled the 2016 Democratic primary — particularly the lackluster and limited debates. With the NH1 News forum less than a month a way, an event the O'Malley camp is attempting to turn into a debate, the campaign is attempting to rope fellow Democratic candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders into the fight.
Matthew Sheaff, O'Malley's deputy state director in New Hampshire, told TheBlaze that while Wasserman Shultz has said she won't budge on her decision not to add any more debates, including in the Granite State, the campaign wants to hold Sanders accountable. Sanders, too, has called for more debates and asserted that if Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton were the one calling for more debates, the DNC would oblige.
Sheaff said that O'Malley's campaign has sent emails to the Sanders camp to ask for help in bringing about more debates — but to no avail.
"Sen. Sanders won't commit to changing the forum into a debate. He says there should be more debates, but we're continuing to push because we think it's the right thing to do," Sheaff told TheBlaze.
While the campaign tries to force Sanders' hand, it's the DNC chairwoman who is on the receiving end of most of the criticism, since, according to O'Malley's campaign, her unwavering stance against more debates isn't in response to what the party's voters wants — it's to protect Clinton.
"In my opinion, and in O'Malley's, too, I believe that she thought it was in the best interest of the Democratic Party to try to help Secretary Clinton and limit debate and limit the opportunities for national exposure for the other candidates," Sheaff said.
"The debate process is so important for voters here in New Hampshire, because they want the candidates side-by-side, and they feel that it's kind of a first-in-the-nation primary tradition," he continued.
"You see that the supporters of Secretary Clinton and Sanders and our supporters," Sheaff added, "they just respect the primary tradition and do what they've always done."
Viewership for the Democratic debates has been dismal, as only 8.5 million people tuned in to view the Saturday night CBS debate in November and 6.7 million people watched the Saturday ABC debate in December — held the weekend before Christmas.
In comparison, 18 million people watched the CNN GOP presidential debate held in December on a weeknight.
"I think it was a huge mistake," Sheaff said. "President Obama has done amazing things and made a lot of progress, and I think it's our responsibility as Democrats to promote his progress, defend his record and talk about how we're going to build off it. When we're ceding the television airwaves to the Republicans who just constantly slam him, it's a huge mistake."
Progressive group Roots Action seems to agree with Sheaff's contention that Wasserman Shultz has made a "huge mistake." According to a petition on its website, more than 26,000 people have signed their names to call for the removal of the DNC chair.


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Mike James, G, WAS - One of two players the Wizards received in the Dec. 10 trade has become a starter in the nation's capital. With a best-case scenario of a late-January return on the horizon for Gilbert Arenas, James now has the starting gig for Washington. James is the definition of a journeyman; a guy who started playing in Europe and has bounced around the NBA making Washington his eighth team. Over his last three games, James has averaged 36.3 minutes. He has totaled 16.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.3 three-pointers made and 1.7 steals. New coach Ed Tapscott said James will remain the starter for the next few games, so expect similar production.
Andres Nocioni F, CHI - With Drew Gooden nursing an ankle injury, Nocioni has seen more court time. Over his last three games for the Bulls, "Chapu" has seen 36.6 minutes per game. During those three games he's hit for 17.6 points, six rebounds, three assists and 2.6 three-pointers made. As long as his teammates are battling injuries, expect Andres to continue these numbers for Chicago.
Brandon Rush, G, IND - Rush has seen an increase in minutes due to the viral infection that Marquis Daniels has. Rush has averaged 44.3 minutes over his last four games (yes, one went into overtime) and responded with averages of 14.3 points, 7.25 rebounds and 2.5 three-pointers made. Look for him to log the majority of minutes at shooting guard until Daniels is fully healthy.
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YEREVAN, March 6. /ARKA/. The US House Appropriations Committee has released the 2015 fiscal year foreign aid bill with appropriations for Armenia totaling $25.7million.
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for me.i 've many people who influenced in me .first of them is my friend . she a;ways push me to be better .she learned me how to smile.also my teacher of Qur'an. he helps me to be patient and love Qur'an more than i love it. also my mother has a big role of forming my personality. she is too kind
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it is a good question cuz almost everybody has an idealized person in mind that has
met sometime in his life!
4 me it was my french course professor in the university who was vary hardworking and
dagged though she has lots of problems in her life!
and the second one is a familiy friend who has achieved her goals by
her deciesive mind!i can say that she has changed the life of herself and her family!
i love her because she is a succesful person in every dimension of life!


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Take back the memorial
We had the privilege of attending the take back the memorial demonstration. I wanted to share my impressions and get a little truth out there.
After driving in from Chicago we arrived early and were the first ones on site. The police were friendly and clearly supportive of the protest.
The 9-11 families and organizers began arriving around 8:45 and we had the opportunity to say hi and meet and greet a little.
There were general worries about attendance as the media (i.e. the New York Times) had been attempting to stop the protest before it began by suggesting it had been called off. No worries though, the crowd began building and before we knew it a couple of hundred people had joined us amidst the barricades.
The demonstration began on schedule and the speakers were eloquent. My favorite bit was when the Grey lady was mentioned and this hardcore bunch of New Yorkers and New Jerseyites booed loudly. I misted up during the singing of God bless America and I'll bet I wasn't the only one.
The demonstration ended on time and the crowd spent about a half an hour chatting before dispersing.
My impressions-
The crowd though passionate, was always respectful and minded every police instruction that I witnessed.
The 9-11 families and everyone else we met today could not have been more gracious.
People from all over the country attended, which really seemed to mean a lot to the 9-11 families. We talked to people from California, Ohio and Oklahoma city.
Our signs read 'We travelled from Chicago to say-no IFC' and we were approached repeatedly by 9-11 families and general members of the audience and thanked over and over again for taking the time to travel and attend. We need to let these folks know that people around the country care about this issue. They don't know that lots of people around the country are paying attention and care deeply.
That's about it. I found it an amazing experience. It was powerful and moving, honest and poignant.
I hope everyone will take the time to join the movement and sign the petition.
Here's some photos-
My wife Michelle will have a lengthier post on this tomorrow.


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(NECN: Arlington, Mass.) - Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan says authorities will not, at this point, release the identities of two adults and two infants found dead in Arlington, Mass. Monday.
The bodies were found by an officer checking on their well-being.
Police and the Middlesex County district attorney's office are investigating.
Ryan says the community is not in danger.
Ryan says they are not looking for any suspects.
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With clearing skies and dewpoint temperatures in the mid 20s to lower 30s, all the signs are there for a very chilly night in the Bay Area. We'll likely see mid 20s in the colder spots Sunday morning (North Bay valleys, East Bay/Tri-Valley into Solano County and areas near San Jose southward. Freeze warnings will expire around 8am as the Sun slowly thaws us out through the day. Highs will be quite cool as well with mainly 40s to low 50s to wrap up the weekend. Be prepared for another frosty, freezing night heading into Monday morning before temps slowly climb a few degrees approaching midweek. Dry weather is expected to continue into next weekend when we may be hosting the NFC Championship game at Candlestick at noon next Sunday the 20th (provided the Seahawks beat the Falcons). Hope you enjoy your Sunday - Rob Mayeda
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With the fantastic news that PECT's Forest for Peterborough project has now planted a total of 84,759 trees in the last five years, what does this mean for our city and its inhabitants?
Peterborough is one of the least wooded areas in the UK with only 3.6% woodland cover, compared to a UK average of 12%. In an area where tree coverage is below the national average, the Forest for Peterborough project aims to create a network of wooded areas to improve our green spaces.
Trees provide a multitude of benefits. As well improving the appearance of an area, they also remove and store carbon from the atmosphere, slow heavy rain and so reduce the risk of flooding, and provide an ideal habitat for a rich mix of flora and fauna.
In addition to this, trees greatly benefit the people living around them by having a positive impact on health and well-being.
The Forest for Peterborough project was launched in 2010, and it aims to plant over 180,000 trees by 2030, which is one tree for every person living in Peterborough.
We've got a long way to go, and we need your support to achieve our aims, but just think how wonderful the end result will be: 180,000 trees later.
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A delegated decision report has been released by the council calling on Cllr George Brown, cabinet member for Economy, to approve the sale of former Swanmore Middle School in Ryde.
The sale is part of the council's disposal of capital receipts programme and is a result of the closure of all middle schools after the change from a three tier to two tier education system.
Cllr Brown is being recommended to approve option (a)
To sell the property to the party making the highest bid for the freehold interest, and who is in the strongest financial position to proceed, conditional on the Department for Education approval to dispose.
Details of the offers already made are being kept secret. The council say if "this was made publicly available it may prejudice the council's position if any of the bidders chose to renegotiate their offer, as they would have knowledge of the other offers received".
Details of potential sale
Update 18:54 Many thanks to Hermit who, in the comments, pointed to this Gully Howard marketing document of Swanmore, which claims "Site with a resolution to grant planning permission for 24 residential units" on the site.
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|In 1995 a few researchers banded together to form a group whose chief purpose was to bring everyone into one central place to share data and exchange research in the hopes of making sense of the Rainwater family during the early years of America.With now more than 70 members, The Rainwater Family Association and Research Group is steadily growing and more and more is being unearthed about our early ancestors in this country. One chief goal of this association is to dispel much of the past 100 years worth of poor research and pure conjecture which is passed around today as some type of proof.Feel free to check out our main web site. There are places to get started on your research and a membership form so that you can receive the quarterly newsletter (back issues still available). We look forward to having you as an important member of our team.Robert O. Albert Jr.Association President Publisher/Editor of the "Rainwater Researcher"
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Also, public bathrooms learn to text and soccer fans make a toilet-paper Niagara Falls.
Welcome back to Toilet Tuesday:
As urban apartments become more and more cramped, some visionaries (like this guy) believe that bathrooms and kitchens will go the way of the dinosaurs. You won't need to cook anymore because you're always eating out, the thinking goes. As for taking a tinkle, that can be outsourced to the commode at the gym or the neighborhood coffee shop.
In such a bleak, bathroomless future, this folding sink could become a hot home accessory. Made by Giulio Gianturco, an Italian designer stationed north of Venice, the "Hidden" sink replicates the compact-yet-stately appearance of a nautical washbasin. When folded, it looks like a wooden block you might use for a laptop stand or slightly painful yoga pedestal. Gianturco explains its various features at Designboom:
consisting of functional components, a corian® washbasin is equipped with integrated stainless steel taps, a mirror with a magnifying lens, lowered shelves, object holder drawer, light and plug. when closed 'hidden' becomes a seamless case that can be transported from place to place. the structure and the drawer are thermo-treated in a wood hemlock finish, and it is equipped with electrical devices that are supported by a stainless steel mechanism to enable it to be easily opened and closed.
There's no indication of what's supplying the water. Presumably you can fill an interior tank with something like a drinking fountain, and not have to run the building manager's garden hose through your window to screw into a valve. Here's the sink opened:
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Public-bathroom users in southern Norfolk, U.K., never again have to worry about running out of wiping material. That's because the government is paying big money to install high-tech loos that sense when the toilet paper is nearly depleted, and then bug municipal workers with SOS texts for a resupply.
The texting toilets were inspired by a nearby shopping mall whose popularity with shoppers was ascribed to its clean toilets. Council leader John Fuller wanted to recreate this pristine-potty magnetism throughout Norfolk's commercial districts. "Toilets are an essential part of the shopping centre," he told EDP24, "and we feel that keeping our market towns up to scratch with modern facilities that are convenient and comfortable to use and are always available when people need them is an important investment."
Anybody about to make a joke about a tweeting toilet should know it's already been done; when flushed, the "hacklab.TOilet" blasts Twitter with messages like "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" and "blue?! WHAT were you eating?".
To see what a virtual waterfall of flying TP looks like, review this footage from a recent Belgian soccer game. In a coordinated prank that the announcer was in on, an entire side of the Maurice Dufrasne Stadium in Liege launched thousands of unspooling rolls onto the field. Cleaning up the mess took seven minutes. All in all the stadium staff got off lucky, considering that other missiles launched by soccer fans have included batteries and firecrackers:


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SHARK LIVER OIL Overview Information
Shark liver oil is used to make medicine. It is taken from the livers of three species of shark: the deep sea shark (Centrophorus squamosus), the dogfish (Sqaulus acanthias), and the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus). The liver makes up about 25% of the total shark body weight of these sharks.
Shark liver oil is used along with usual cancer drugs to treat leukemia and other cancers; to prevent radiation illness from cancer X-ray therapy; to prevent the common cold, flu, and swine flu; and to boost the body's immune system. It is also used for increasing white cell counts during treatment with anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapy). White cells are important in fighting off infection, but many are killed by chemotherapy.
People apply shark liver oil directly to the skin for skin conditions including skin cancer.
How does it work?
Shark liver oil contains chemicals that might have activity against cancer or cancer treatment related side effects.
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Insufficient Evidence for:
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SHARK LIVER OIL Side Effects & Safety
There isn't enough information available to know if shark liver oil is safe. It can cause pneumonia in people who accidentally breathe it into the lungs.
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Publicly, Siebel Systems and its chief executive were delivering gloom to investors. First quarter 2003 earnings were falling short due...
Publicly, Siebel Systems and its chief executive were delivering gloom to investors. First quarter 2003 earnings were falling short due to a slowdown in the software company's licensing deals, which it blamed on war, disease and famine.
"It's like the Apocalypse out there," Tom Siebel, then chief executive of the world's largest maker of customer-service software, said April 28, 2003.
Two days later, the company's chief financial officer sounded rather chipper. Licensing deals, including one for $5 million, were in the "growing" pipeline, CFO Kenneth Goldman told a few investors and analysts, first in a private meeting with Alliance Capital Management and then at a Morgan Stanley-sponsored dinner. The company didn't tell other investors.
It used to happen all the time on Wall Street that executives gave important company news to a favored few. The anointed ones got a head start in buying or selling, while everyone else guessed at the moving share prices and tried to catch up.
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The unfairness prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban selective disclosure in 2000 with a new rule called Regulation Fair Disclosure.
"We can't have a level playing field, a system of honest disclosure in which all investors find out roughly the same information at the same time" without the rule, said John Coffee Jr., a securities-law professor at Columbia University.
Executives aren't supposed to be handing out important company news to brokerages and favored investors without telling the whole world, either beforehand or within 24 hours.
Even with the rule, the private meetings continue, as the Siebel case shows. But did Siebel, based in San Mateo, Calif., violate Regulation Fair Disclosure?
The SEC says yes, Siebel says no. A judge in Manhattan last week heard both sides argue in the first court challenge to what's known as Regulation FD.
At the least, the case can help define the line not to be crossed in private meetings. At the most, it could decide whether the rule is constitutional.
Siebel and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked the judge to throw out the regulation as a violation of free speech and an unauthorized power grab by the SEC. Twenty-two of the nation's best-known securities-law professors, led by Coffee, entered the fray with a brief saying the regulation's clearly constitutional and sorely needed.
Perhaps the harder question is the more immediate one for U.S. District Judge George Daniels: Did Siebel executives violate Regulation FD?
"If you dismiss it on the facts, you avoid all the constitutional questions," Kathleen Sullivan, former law-school dean at Stanford University, argued for Siebel. She now heads Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedge's appellate practice in California.
"Nothing in the allegation suggests what the CFO said in private was different from what the CEO said" in public, at least not in any significant way, argued Sullivan.
Regulation FD does, in fact, allow inconsistent statements.
It doesn't allow executives to give investors, analysts or traders nonpublic information if there's "a substantial likelihood" that a "reasonable shareholder would consider it important in making an investment decision," according to the SEC.
That's a line Siebel executives didn't cross, argued Sullivan.
For all his gloom, Tom Siebel said in an open conference call he expected several licensing deals for the new quarter. "I suspect we'll see some greater than 5" million, he said.
Daniels said there's a vast difference between saying "I expect to hit the lottery" and "I did hit the lottery."
And yet, when it was the SEC's turn to argue, the judge did a turnaround.
"I'm not sure how you can 'suspect' you have $5 million deals in the pipeline unless you know there are $5 million deals in the pipeline," he said.
Nor was Daniels satisfied with SEC lawyer Treasure Johnson's other claims that executives said one thing publicly and another privately.
A "growing" pipeline is not quantifiable and therefore not a "fact" to be considered, Daniels said. To say openly that business is bad and quietly that it's pretty good is no violation, the judge told the SEC lawyer.
The fact that it took 30 minutes for the SEC lawyer and the judge to try to separate fact from generalization showed how hard it is to apply Regulation FD, and how little difference there was between Siebel's public and private statements, Sullivan argued when it was her turn again.
"You can dismiss this case right now," she told Daniels.
This is the second time the SEC accused Siebel of violating the rule. The first time the company settled for $250,000 in 2002 and an agreement that a second violation would bring a stiffer punishment.
SEC Commissioner Harvey Goldschmid, who helped write Regulation FD when he was general counsel to the SEC, declined to discuss specifics of the Siebel case.
Speaking generally, he said "close judgment calls" on whether a statement is relevant to investment decisions would not violate Regulation FD.
"It must be reckless, meaning an extreme departure from ordinary care before you can be liable," Goldschmid said.


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Star Wars Episode VII is currently in production. Many have wondered what format the film will be shot in. Today, we have a clue.
The folks at Bad Robot, J.J. Abram's production company, think that IMAX is the best format ever.
No. Seriously. They do.
The following is a Tweet that included the above image:
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It's currently known if the entire film will utilize IMAX, but we know that at least scenes on (presumably) Tattooine will be.


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Officer of month selected
The Aloha Exchange Club of East Hawaii recognized Officer Frank Mohica on Sept. 26 as the East Hawaii "Officer of the Month" for September.
Mohica, a Community Policing officer assigned to the South Hilo District, was honored for bringing about a peaceful resolution after a barricaded gunman fired shots in a residential subdivision in Puna.
On Aug. 21, a convicted felon abused his female companion, left the house enraged, got into a motor vehicle accident and fled the scene, police said.
Officers searching for him later discovered he had returned to the house and taken a firearm registered to the woman.
Hours later, police received several reports of gunshots being fired in another populated residential subdivision. When they arrived, they learned that the shooter was the same man from the earlier incident. The neighbors were evacuated and a standoff ensued with the suspect, who was intoxicated, belligerent and uncooperative.
Officer Mohica, who volunteers on the Hostage Negotiation Team, was off duty when he was alerted and responded to the scene.
Police discovered that the suspect's father was also present on the property. Mohica quickly established an avenue of communication with the father and began to develop a rapport with him. Over time, he persuaded both the suspect and the father to surrender to police without incident.
When detectives obtained a search warrant for the premises, they recovered a rifle, a semi-automatic handgun, ammunition and spent casings. The suspect was charged with nine offenses.
As "Officer of the Month," Mohica is eligible for "Officer of the Year."
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I used to feel sorry for "voters" who lost their jobs, had their retirement portfolios melt away, lost their houses due to foreclosure, etc. It was quite a burden.
But now that "voters" have instructed the fat cats in Washington to make things even worse, I no longer feel sorry for them. My burden of empathy has now been lifted.
Each time I see an economic report showing millions of "voters" out of work, or kicked to the curb in foreclosures, I will drink a toast.
I have made quite a lot of money this year. I like to imagine that it has been directly transferred out of some fool "voter's" retirement account and into my account. That makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
When I descend from my paid-for luxury condo with a spectacular view of Miami Beach and stroll along the streets soon to be populated with even more homeless "voters", I will be whistling a happy tune as I go by. When they reach up to me from the gutter, and ask "buddy, can you spare a dime?" for another bottle of cheap wine, I will spit in their hands.
Yes, there will be a Depression, but not for me of course. I will be happy and cheerful all the way through.
Note: I hope that you were paying attention over the weekend when I was skeptical of media reports that the deal was done. That was a classic, premeditated, and coordinated propaganda blitz. On Friday, the market, like Warren Buffet, was confident that Congress would do something intelligent. I was in cash. After the bill went down today, I went short in the futures, set a stop and let it ride. Hopefully, I bankrupted yet another "voter."


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whenever i hear 'royal doulton', i think of hyacinth in keeping up appearances...heehee
whenever i hear 'royal doulton', i think of hyacinth in keeping up appearances...heehee
I have a feeling something is gonna happen to that engagement ring . . . .
Mrs. "Bouquet"? Ha!
I think tonight will be between Ben (obviously) and maybe Danny, based on Danny's earlier "I'm not going home."
I've always wondered why more women don't accidentally swallow those "dessert" rings! (THAT is a Big Boy fiance!)
Loved that show. Called herself "bouquet" when her last name was bucket. Ben is not doing so well.
it's almost too obvious...Originally Posted by tango7;3423153;
it is going way too smooth...
I'm guessing Ben goes tonight, since editting has convinced me Danny and Paula will be the final 2 and they're going for the redemptive good week edit with Andrea.
You've been Philiminated.
I was wondering if she was gonna say yes.
This show makes me hungry. Gee, I don't think I have a wellington in the frig. Have to make do with cashews.
that poor girl looked afraid to say no!
depending on the relationship, those kinds of proposals can be really awkward...kinda like that one looked.
andrea lost two beef wellingtons?
well, it was tranquil for about 40 minutes...that's gotta be some kind of record.
and yes, hyacinth is definitely the 'It's BOUQUET' lady. you gotta love britcoms...they find the joke that works and then they use it every.single.time. kinda like mrs. slocombe and her 'p^ssy' in 'are you being served'.
Bye, Ben, and take your delusions with you!!
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Seasonal variations in phytodesalination capacity of two perennial halophytes in their natural biotope
Rabhi, M; Karray-Bouraoui, N; Medini, R; Attia, H; Athar, H; Abdelly, C; Smaoui, A
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In Soliman sabkha (NE Tunisia), Tecticornia indica and Suaeda fruticosa tufts were divided into three size classes (small, medium, and big) in which the shoot sodium and potassium contents were determined in July 2007 and February 2008. Shoot dry weights per tuft and per hectare were estimated. Soil samples (20 upper centimeters) were taken from inside and outside the halophyte tufts and analyzed for electrical conductivity (EC1/10) and soluble sodium content. We found that these two parameters were significantly lower in the soil from inside the tufts than in the surrounding soil. This effect was more pronounced in winter (February 2008) when EC1/10 inside halophyte tufts was 63 to 72% lower than outside. In July 2007, the relevant reduction of EC1/10 inside the tufts was 55%. Soluble sodium content was reduced by 70.5% in winter and only 31 to 37% in summer. The ecosystem productivity was about 8.6 tonnes dry weight per hectare (t DW ha-1) with higher sodium than potassium contents (about 0.646 t Na+ ha-1 in summer and 0.752 tonnes Na+ ha-1 in winter). Regardless of the season, T. indica exhibited much higher phytodesalination capacity (77.7-94.4% of the whole shoot-removed sodium). For S. fruticosa, the decrease in soil salinity was due to roots that released sodium ions from the exchange sites and facilitated their leaching to the deeper horizons. From an ecological point of view, phytodesalination and sodium leaching enhancement are interesting processes since they provide glycophytes with a microhabitat suitable for their development, which maintains the biodiversity within the saline ecosystem.
Desalination; Productivity; Sodium accumulation; Soil properties; Suaeda fruticosa; Suaeda fruticosa; Tecticornia; Tecticornia indica
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- 1790045X (ISSN) Export Date: 27 March 2012 Source: Scopus Language of Original Document: English Correspondence Address: Rabhi, M.; Laboratoire des Plantes Extrêmophiles, Centre de Biotechnologie de Borj-Cédria, B. 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