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Response to The Cost of Conflation: Preserving the Dualism of Jus ad Bellum and the Jus in Bello in the Contemporary Law of War.
Thanks to the editors of Yale Journal of International Law and the hosts of Opinio Juris for the opportunity to comment on Rob Sloane's terrific article, The Cost of Conflation: Preserving the Dualism of Jus ad Bellum and the Jus in Bello in the Contemporary Law of War. The piece is, in my view, essential reading for law of war scholars. I find myself in broad agreement with much of Sloane's analysis so in my necessarily brief comments I offer a series of questions aimed at clarifying or strengthening his already compelling argument.
1. What is the nature of the dualistic axiom (DA)?. As Sloane points out, DA requires that in bello constraints apply equally to all parties to a conflict. In other words, DA in contemporary international law is a proposition of the jus in bello (or international humanitarian law or IHL)—it is not a structural principle straddling the ad bellum and in bello regimes. The idea is to ensure that no distinctions are made in the rules applicable to each party to a conflict—the irrelevance of the ad bellum justification available to each party is but one instantiation of this more general principle. Nevertheless, this formal equality of belligerents or the formal mutuality of obligations forecloses a certain variety of justification or excuse for acts prohibited by IHL. "Conflation" of, or conceptual overlap between, ad bellum and in bello constraints does not, as such, necessarily pose any deep challenge to IHL. Indeed, the scope and content of some IHL rules are modified, some directly and some indirectly, in their application by reference to ad bellum considerations. For example, POW status arguably does not accord combatant immunity for the crime of aggression (according to the ICRC Commentary on the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Prisoners of War). And whether any situation qualifies as an instance of military occupation within the meaning of Common Article 2 of the Geneva Conventions arguably requires some determination of which party is properly understood as the sovereign over the territory in question. Indirect examples include the fact that IHL imposes less onerous constraints on states when engaged in armed conflict against entities not protected by ad bellum rules. And IHL accords a the privileged postion to members of the armed forces of a state—recognizing a limited right to participate in the hostilities. The relevant IHL rules apply equally to all sides, but the actual application of the rule to some concrete case will, at times, requrie reference to ad bellum considerations. The worry that motivates DA is not a worry about the conceptual integrity of ad bellum and in bello regimes. Rather, the worry is that any assymetry in the obligations assigned the parties to a conflict must be avoided.
2. Is there good evidence that DA is eroding? Sloane, to his credit, points to many concrete examples of "conflation"—which, in his framework, includes examples of conceptual confusion between ad bellum and in bello constraints. But very few of these examples involve actors claiming that the constraints of IHL vary according to the ad bellum justifications (or lack thereof) available to the belligerents. In my view, the troubling examples include only (one reading of) the ICJ opinion on Nuclear Weapons and some of the US rhetoric in the war on terror. I'll offer no justification of ICJ's infamously obtuse holding in the Nuclear Weapons case. I will say, though, that the opinion likely provides little reason for serious worry about any erosion of DA particularly since the Court offered no sustained analysis of its seeming conflation of the in bello and ad bellum—and this aspect of the opinion is widely condemned as incoherent at best. The US rheotoric in the war on terror is potentially more troubling, but on closer inspection the US position does not purport to modify IHL constraints by reference to its casus belli. Rather, the US forwarded a construction of IHL that badly misconstrued the material field of application, personal field of application, and substantive content of that law. These claims at times turned on the character of the groups against which the US fights and the nature of the threat posed by such groups, but these points need not turn on—nor are they adequately rebutted by resisting any—erosion of DA. To be sure, claims grounded in some notion of "supreme emergency" may facillitate erosion of DA, but they need not.
3. Why is conflation, even in the limited sense suggested above, problematic? In explaining why dualism is important Sloane emphasizes the institutional rationale—the claim that dualism is necessary because international law has no reliable, effective ad bellum institutional mechanisms that might facillitate a viable aggressor-defender model. Without dualism, war will be prevalent and it will be conducted in an essentially unregulated way because all parties to the conflict will have formally plausible ad bellum justifications warranting relaxed in bello regulation. This rationale is terrifically important, however, over-reliance on it should be avoided. As a practical matter, the institutions in question might be improved—or alternatively, we might think the available institutions work sufficiently well in a non-trivial number of cases. And, as Soane acknowledges in the conclusion, the law of war might need to be reformed in any case to deal with what Sloane suggests are the truly difficult questions. If this is so, the very problem cases Sloane considers as important challenges to DA arguably counsel in favor of reforming the ad bellum machinery rather than tinkering with DA itself—particuarly if we are persuaded that the elimination of war ought be the regulatory priority and we are suspect of any formal equality of belligerents in many contemporary conflicts. In my view, the equality of belligerents (or DA) is also justified because general reciprocity is, as a sociological matter, necessary to ensure compliance with IHL—irrespective of whether any sort of ad bellum regime even exists and irrespective of whether we even have any intuitions about what a just or unjust war might look like.
4. How should we resolve the difficult unanswered questions flagged in the conclusion? Sloane seems to acknowledge, in the end, that some exceptions to DA might be appropriate—but the question is how, given the balance of his analysis, should be even think about the propreity of any such exceptions. This is important, in my view, because the rubber really hits the road on the advisability or acceptability of eroding DA precisely at the points Sloane seem to soften his stance. I sympathize with his position in the paper—that he has no definite answers on the scope or content of any possible exceptions to DA—but I wonder how we might even begin a transnatinal deliberative process regarding any such exceptions.
5. How should we incoporate international human rights law (IHRL) into the analysis of DA—and it's possible exceptions? applies in time of armed conflict (even if only in the compromised way contemplated in formal derogation schemes) and in this limited sense is part of the full range of in bello constraints. The complication is that ad bellum considerations are ultimately relevant to many questions arising under IHRL. For instance, whether any killing in time of armed conflict is "arbitrary" within the meaning of IHRL surely would require inquiry into whether the attacking party acted in contravention of the ad bellum Same with any determination as to the arbitrariness of any detention in time of armed conflict. (e.g., when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, surely every killing and detention at the hands of the Iraqi forces in Kuwait were arbitrary within the meaning of IHRL. If this is all right, then the scope and content (in the strong sense) varies depending on ad bellum considerations. Perhaps the development of an increasingly robust international law designed to protect human dignity (which includes IHL and IHRL) will inevitably erode DA.
6. Are the ad bellum and in bello proportionality inquiries completely distinct? Sloane is certainly right to say that these inquiries are importantly different, but I wonder whether at times the casus belli exerts important, and perhaps even decisive, influence on the in bello proportionality inquiry. The idea is that ad bellum proportionality should not accord parties unlimited discretion in selecting strategic, operational, and tactical objectives (only to balance the military advantage secured in a discrete operation, determined by reference to these objectives, against the collateral costs imposed on civilians). Instead, in bello proportionality, should understand the ad bellum proportionality constraints, determined by reference to the ad bellum justification advanced by each party, as establishing an outer limit for the legitimate military objectives that concrete operations might further. In this sense, it seems, there is at least one level of generality at which these inquires should overlap.


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Warrior's Way, The (US - BD RA)
Gabe watches well-dressed actors enact slo-mo violence against green screens...
After a lifetime of training in swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat, the world's most dangerous fighter (ever), Yang (Jang Dong-Gun), is unable to complete his final mission, when he can't kill a rival clan's final member – an adorable baby girl. Now pursued by his former master, Yang flees his homeland, and starts a new life in the American West, where he hunkers down in a small circus town in an effort to live a peaceful life with the child he has adopted, and his newfound best friend/apprentice/vague love interest Lynne (Kate Bosworth). Soon enough Yang learns of Lynne's dark past when a brutal Colonel (Danny Huston), and his gang of marauders visit the town, and corrupt it with their violence. Forced to choose between defending his friends, and maintaining his anonymity, Yang risks alerting his master to his location by taking up his sword once more.
Warrior's Way is an odd mash-up of a film, mixing elements of martial arts, fantasy, and western films. There's a dash of High Noon, a healthy dollop of Yojimbo (and with it plenty of Fistful of Dollars), dashes of Lone Wolf and Cub, heaping spoonfuls of Seven Samurai, a smidgen of HBO's Carnivale, a pinch of Django, and a wash of fairy tale logic for good measure. As happens more often than not this mash-up is cooler in concept than execution. Despite a definite understanding of the genre imagery he's aping, writer/director Sngmoo Lee never manages to do anything more than ape without recontextualizing anything. I also suspect he doesn't quite understand what makes the films he finds inspirational so special. Other East meets West post-modern cut-ups like Kill Bill and Kim Jee-Woon's The Good, the Bay and the Weird work so much better because they take on archetypal characters with novelty, and storylines that intrigue beyond their post-modern contexts. Warrior's Way is just a prettier version of a story you already know, a remix instead of a cover song. This renders the film more comparable to Takashi Miike's flawed, but generally more successful Sukiyaki Western Django, and Ryûhei Kitamura's overlong, but exciting take on live-action Anime Azumi. I can't quite put my finger on the thing that makes those equally superficial films better, or even more lengthily tolerable, but I will say that Warrior's Way is definitively better than the utterly boring Casshern, and that I actually enjoyed myself quite a bit, despite the largely negative reviews and lame trailer (not to mention the remainder of this review).
Warrior's Way is certainly stylish, even beautiful, but never in a truly moving manner. The extreme artificiality of the environments feels out of place given the grit, and decorative art design of the western settings. It's usually beautiful in the same shallow, almost callous way videogames are beautiful, which is kind of funny, since it would probably make a better videogame than it does movie (I know I'd play it). Sometimes the idea behind the pretty image transcends the pretty image itself, in the same way steam-punk culture can be entirely inane, but still evoke a visceral and emotional response. Cool, colourful and ornamental occasionally works on their own terms. The Christmas celebration sequence, which features the memorable sight of a lo-fi fireworks Christmas tree, is a good example of Lee getting the whole post-modern thing right – he finds new beauty in something that recalls and exploits popular culture memories of old beauty. At the very least I can definitely verify the Lee has some solid action direction chops. The more special effects heavy sequences are a bit weightless, and to accuse him of overusing slow motion would be akin to accuse the sun of being a bit warm, but his geography makes sense, it's easy to tell what the main character is up too, and the energy can be infectious. I also appreciate the mix of hyper-realistic modern gore, and hyper-stylized traditional samurai flick arterial spray. The shifting tones of violence (sometimes we're meant to cheer, other times we're meant to shudder) aren't very successful, and don't feature the gut-punch of Miike's similar tonal change-ups, but there is dramatic clout behind the bloodier bits.
The surprisingly A-list Hollywood cast appears to be having a good time with the material, though no one gives a particularly compelling performance. It doesn't help matters when they're constantly out-acted by a baby. A particularly charming baby, but a baby nonetheless. Jang's only real job is to standby and look stoic, and from that standpoint he succeeds admirably, but Bosworth, Huston and Geoffrey Rush have a little more meat on their characters to chew. Huston gets a pass as the half-faced, teeth obsessed heavy villain, but doesn't appear to be dipping too far into his repertoire to pull off the role. Rush, who plays the town drunk (who, of course, has a dark secret), also doesn't delve to deep into his talent well, but has such a commanding presence, even on autopilot, he's hard to ignore, and his ham-fisted narration fits the film like a glove. Bosworth is the wildcard, as I've never been particularly impressed with her chops, but given the slightly schizophrenic nature of her character, her successes are hard earned. Her accent and sub- Robin Weigert Calamity Jane-with-a-pretty-face performance starts off mighty awkward, but eventually settles into a relatively charming groove (I'm also willing to buy her southern accent).
Bursting with colourful visual effects, and lit with every hue and contrast under the rainbow, Warrior's Way works quite well in HD. Colours and contrast levels are probably the strongest elements, but there's also plenty of detail, both near and far to appreciate. Costumes, sets, and all other practical props are usually intricately decorated, featuring both tactile textures, and complex, yet subtle colour schemes. This crystalline transfer allows viewers to count the pours on the actor's faces along with the plaid squares on their pants. Some of the most complex shots, such as that of a flower garden around the 19-minute mark, become slightly overwhelmed, and show signs of compression, and minor edge enhancement. For the most part the occasionally fuzzy edges are easily blamed on the production's extensive use of green screens, and there is relative consistently to the overall detail levels. Lee's use of digital grading over every shot of the film (seriously, you could probably convince me that Warrior's Way was shot entirely in black and white, and post-converted into colour) leads to some incredibly vibrant sunsets, desert landscapes, and a general warm glow to the western town. These warm scenes feature delicate transitions between similar hues, along with the sharp edges needed to create the contrast and texture. I'm more impressed, however, with the slightly more rare dark and cool sequences, which feature some pretty impeccable dark blue on black components. I haven't been able to discern this much detail in such a dark image in some time.
This disc's DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is plenty loud, and features plenty of aggressive stereo and surround effects to tickle your ear buds. This mix celebrates both extremes, from soft and subtle, to loud and brash. This contrast pretty much defines the aural experience, especially during the feature defining action scenes. These vary from thunderous, sharp and punchy, to lithe and swift, and in all forms the stereo and surround channels play a key role. Even the busiest, loudest sections, such as the gallop of dozens of horses over crashing score, don't suffer noticeably compression loss, or distortion, and the important elements are rarely lost in the noise. Much of the soundtrack often mimics Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western work in the same way Kill Bill and The Good, the Bad and the Weird did, though on occasion it recalls Tarantino's similar musical reuse a bit too much (the Spanish guitars that open the final, mano e mano showdown, for example). This works from the same stylistically shallow reasons the visuals work, and elicit a grand swelling reaction at times, especially the grand use of Spanish horn. The occasional use of Verdi produces warm, semi-ethereal effects as well.
The brief extras begin with a montage of behind the scenes footage (2:30, HD), including interviews with actors Rush, Jang, Bosworth, Huston, Tony Cox, stuntman John Osborn
The footage very quickly covers the actors' interests in the material, stunt rehearsal and wirework, adding up to not much but an EPK in the end. This is followed by 13 deleted/extended scenes (12:10, SD), which are presented unfinished, and mostly cover minor plot points that are already made pretty clear. Rush's character's back-story, which is cleverly shot like a silent film, is the one piece I'd have put back in (I'm entirely unsure as to why it's presented twice, however). I also might've switched the deleted coda for the actual final shots. The additional circus folk chaos during the battle scene is unnecessary, but did make me notice how little character they're given during the film.
My friend, Zach Walker (credit where it is do and all that), called The Warrior's Way 'one of the better screensaver movies [he'd] seen', and that really struck me. This is a 'screensaver movie' born of Tsui Hark's breathtaking supernatural kung-fu epics, and green screen-heavy hits like 300, even more than it is a post-modern exploration of tropes and styles born of Star Wars and Pulp Fiction. Viewers that are ready to deal with gorgeous images that barely even pierce the first layer of skin should do fine here, and even get a couple of choice action sequences for their trouble. The Blu-ray looks and sounds quite pretty as well, but features very little in the way of extras, save the deleted/extended scenes, some of which probably should've been left in the film.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I vaguely remember this. I think I saw it at the cinema...
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That sounds about right, Chris.
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Just the mention of Casshern made me feel like I need more excitement in my life.
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i REALLY liked this movie. it's quirky and odd but gory/bloody, has great action bits and is stunning visually.
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To sum it up, this film is about Cowboys vs. Circus vs. (Korean) Ninja.
It's quite entertaining. The story is simple, the action is acceptable (if not a little exciting) & the pacing is right. It's done its purpose well.
It's quite entertaining. The story is simple, the action is acceptable (if not a little exciting) & the pacing is right. It's done its purpose well.
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I'll check it out. I enjoyed the trailer for this... Somewhat. Nothing will top 13 Assassins this year within the chambara genre.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 28th June 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Deleted Scenes, Behind the Scenes Montage, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Sngmoo Lee
Cast: Jang Dong Gun, Geoffrey Rush, Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston
Genre: Action
Length: 100 minutes
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Since she began publishing her tight lyrics of Chicago's great South Side in the 1940s, Gwendolyn Brooks has been one of the most influential American poets of the twentieth century. Her poems distill the very best aspects of Modernist style with the sounds and shapes of various African-American forms and idioms. Brooks is a consummate portraitist who found worlds in the community she wrote out of, and her innovations as a sonneteer remain an inspiration to more than one generation of poets who have come after her. Her career as a whole also offers an example of an artist who was willing to respond and evolve in the face of the dramatic historical, political, and aesthetic changes and challenges she lived through.
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I wrote here about how the Obama administration undid much of the good work performed by the Clinton and Bush administrations to create a solid partnership between the U.S. and India. Obama tilted away from India and towards Pakistan, which he hoped would become a reliable ally in the struggle against the Taliban.
As a symbolic part of this re-ordering, Hillary Clinton skipped India in her initial tour of Asia. In light of the administration's overall stance on South Asia, it was impossible for India to miss the significance of Clinton's gesture.
This week, however, Ms. Clinton made a stop in India. Her mission was to persuade the government to sign on to international sanctions against Iran. India relies on Iran for 12 percent of its oil, and so far has been unwilling to go along with the sanctions.
I hope that India cooperates in the international effort against Iran. But its reluctance to throw in with the U.S. is understandable at several levels. India has problems with its neighbors – Pakistan, China, and, presumably, Afghanistan once the Obama causes the U.S. to bail out. It is natural, therefore, that India would want decent relations with Iran, given India's need for oil and since Iran is likely to acquire nuclear weapons whether India joins the boycott or not.
Having tilted towards India's arch-adversary Pakistan in order to advance our interests in Afghanistan, the U.S. shouldn't be surprised if India tilts away from us in order to advance what it takes to be its regional security and economic interests.


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Walking through the open door of the beat book shop -- yes, all lowercase, and, yes, always open -- two things are immediately brought to your attention.
First, from floor to ceiling stand walls of books; some leather-bound, others wrapped in bright paper, all used and awaiting new readers.
The second, as inseparable from the shop as its used books and records, is owner Tom Peters, who bears a striking resemblance to actor/comedian Billy Connolly. There's a pleasant originality that wafts through the air, mixing with the aroma of well-kept, old books and the sound of good music.
For Peters, the decision to open a used book shop 23 years ago was obvious. Freshly graduated from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and having worked since he was11, Peters felt strongly that he didn't want to ask anyone for a job anymore.
"It wasn't that I didn't want to look for a job, or think about a job or have a job," Peters said. "I thought that if I go into a place I really like and say, 'Can I have a job working here?' and they say 'no,' then every time I go in that place I'll think about how they turned me down for a job."
Having worked at the now-closed Stage House II on Pearl Street for two years, Peters had amassed nearly 2,000 books in addition to his already large collection.
"When I was in L.A., I was buying two, three books a day and reading one book a day. So my collection was growing faster than I could read the books. So I thought, 'What if I open a book store?"
Peters' father loaned him one month's rent to open the initial store on 17th and Pearl streets. The establishment opened March 1, 1990, just next door to where the beat book shop currently resides. Each month during that first year, Peters said he constantly was afraid of losing the shop and made just enough to continue doing business for another month.
'A treasure on the Front Range'
Now he's peddling books at 1717 Pearl St. and across the world.
"We have been selling books online since there was an online, but we have been selling on multiple websites officially since 2003," Peters said.
Beat book shop started selling books through AbeBooks, an online retailer, in 2004. Peters said that he originally picked the Canadian firm because it was an independent company. AbeBooks was bought by Amazon in 2008.
"The way Tom has cultivated his collection and personally invested his energy, time and devotion has made the beat book shop a treasure on the Front Range," said Brian Buckley, one of the owners of Boulder's Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. "Its persistence in the face of adversity attests.
"Keep in mind, the beat book shop is Tom and Tom is the beat book shop -- they are inseparable."
Peters attributes the successes of the beat book shop to his ethos of simplicity, something he learned as a child reading Henry Thoreau.
"Our rent is higher and our business is lower," Peters said.
But that hasn't caused Peters much concern. He said that as both the owner and sole employee of the beat book shop, costs are rather uncomplicated and as long as he can keep a roof over his head and food in his belly, the store will stay open.
Picking up on energy
When perusing a bookshop, you'll often see employees straightening books. Peters said that the reason he aligns the spines has less to do with aesthetics and more to do with people picking out the books.
"If you were looking at a book and were like, 'Jeez, I wish I had $10," and you were holding it for a long time and carrying it around and put it back, my boss would say, 'Watch this,' and we would go back to work.
"The next person that came in would walk over and pick up the same book and put it back," Peters said. "And I saw it happen every week."
According to Peters, people subconsciously pick up on the energy left on handled books and naturally gravitate toward them.
"It all sounds completely like new-age (expletive), but it was all based on science -- just science that's hard to prove," Peters said.
Every Monday night, Peters hosts "So, You're a Poet," a weekly open poetry reading at The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, located next door at 1709 Pearl St.
"The last time I heard Tom read his poetry, I was reminded of its language prowess and tension. Words clung to each other desperately and suddenly on the next line they danced," Buckley said.


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Poet and artist Annie Wright leads a morning of watercolor painting, reading her favorite poems about water and color to inspire us.
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All together now! Liz and Hal lead a workshop showing us how to write in haiku and other poetic forms. They'll also read their favorite children's poem from over the years.
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CNN Puffs Up Tiny Liberal Protest 'Hounding' Romney's Visit to RNC Headquarters
A liberal protest that CNN.com said contained "about 10 people"
still merited inclusion in CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's report on
Wednesday's The Situation Room. Of course, Acosta made no mention of the
smallness or brevity of the protest -- the chant of "No Swiss Mitt"
lasted under five minutes.
Acosta did tout that Democrats were "hounding" Romney to keep him "back on his heels." As an example of their strategy, he mentioned the protesters with a clip of them chanting "No Swiss Mitt."
"But Democrats have their own playbook to keep Romney back on his heels," Acosta reported, "hounding his visit to the Republican National Committee in Washington with chants of 'No Swiss Mitt,' in step with a new Obama re-election video."
[Video below the break. Audio here.]
According to CNN.com, the protesters were from the liberal group Americans United for Change. They stood outside of the Republican National Committee headquarters chanting "No Swiss Mitt" while Romney was inside visiting, to protest his outsourcing jobs and using a Swiss bank account.
As if the tiny protest wasn't weak enough, according to CNN.com the group "arrived after Romney was already inside, so he would only have seen them if he was looking out a back window of the Republican headquarters."
Did CNN give proportionate attention to a January pro-life march in D.C. attended by not 10, but tens of thousands of people? Not quite. That event merited two brief mentions, in contrast with CNN hyping a D.C. Earth Day rally attended by hundreds.
A partial transcript of the segment, which aired on May 2 on The Situation Room at 4:17 p.m. EDT, is as follows:
JIM ACOSTA: I was out with Mitt Romney earlier today in Chantilly,
Virginia, in Northern Virginia. It was amazing to watch, because it was
as if the news surrounding the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin
Laden had not even happened. Now that the President has played his trump
card, and that is the bin Laden death, Mitt Romney wants to play his,
that is the economy. While Newt Gingrich – he's just folding his cards.
ACOSTA: But Democrats have their own playbook to keep Romney back on his heels. Hounding his visit to the Republican National Committee in Washington with chants of "No Swiss Mitt," in step with a new Obama re-election video.
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NEWT GINGRICH, former Speaker of the House: I don't know of any American president who's had a Swiss bank account. I'll be glad for you to explain that sort of thing.
ACOSTA: The star of the video? Who else?
NORAH O'DONNELL, CBS News White House correspondent: Are you calling Mitt Romney a liar?
GINGRICH: Yes.
-- Matt Hadro is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center


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Some Democrats see President Obama's first term as a string of promises broken by the realities of political office. On the other side, Republicans have labeled Mr. Obama the most radical, liberal president in American history, going so far as to brand him a socialist.
Are you more of a lefty than President Obama? Do his positions contradict your values? Or is the match just right? Take our quiz to find out.
Fossil fuels should be banned or nearly eliminated from America. Everyone should use public transportation or ride bikes.
Energy conservation and technology is key. Auto companies should work to improve solar-powered vehicles. We should work hard to educate the public on ways to reduce their carbon footprint. There is already too much drilling in fragile ecosystems.
America needs more fuel-efficient cars, and we should invest in renewable energy. Wind and solar energy need to become economically feasible alternatives. We should also invest in domestic oil production and nuclear power.
Investing in renewable energy is a good idea, but first we need to focus on domestic oil production. We should increase offshore drilling and finish the Keystone Pipeline as soon as possible.
We should do everything we can to get our hands on all the untapped oil we have, no matter where it is. Renewable energy and environmental protection are things we can worry about later.
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text: Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) addresses the 1966 SCLC Annual Convention, stating that the sit-ins, freedom rides and Montgomery bus boycott created a movement that brought about the most important change of the last 20 years. He says that while the caste system in politics is over, the life of the average Negro hasn't changed much. Society is becoming divided rich and poor, black and white, and a massive commitment of national resources must be made to upgrade Negro life in America.


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Police responded to a 911 call at around 8:20 p.m. Saturday in Massapequa Park, nearly 40 miles east of Manhattan. Theresa Kelly told Newsday she was backing out of her driveway when the suspect, wearing dark clothing and a hockey mask, jumped on the hood of her car.
"He got a good laugh out of scaring me," said the 71-year-old Kelly. "I thought he wanted to get into my car, so I called 911."
When officers arrived, they found 21-year-old Anthony Digeronimo with knives strapped to his body and in his hands, said Detective Lt. Kevin Smith of the Nassau County police.
The officers followed as Digeronimo ran into the house nearby where he lived with his parents, Smith said.
Once inside the house, the suspect barricaded himself inside a bedroom, Smith said. The officers radioed for backup, but before additional officers arrived, Digeronimo emerged and charged the officers with a knife, Smith said.
The officers drew their weapons and shot the knife-wielding man, killing him, he said.
Several minutes later, additional officers arrived including Bureau of Special Operations officers in plainclothes and Metropolitan Transportation Authority officers who normally patrol the Long Island Rail Road.
For reasons that are unclear, an MTA officer fired one shot at Geoffrey Breitkopf, one of the special operations officers, Smith said.
Breitkopf, a 12-year veteran, was pronounced dead Saturday night at Nassau University Medical Center.
It was the second line-of-duty death of a Nassau County officer this year.
Highway patrolman Michael Califano was killed Feb. 5 when a truck slammed into his police cruiser in Old Westbury, N.Y.
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With Patch 4.3 released for one week, has the patch been living up to player expecations?
As most of you now know and have been playing, World of Warcraft's Patch 4.3, Hour of Twilight, went live last week. This patch brought many new features for every type of player, from the casual to the hardcore. However, are these features large enough to keep the dwindling subscription numbers from plummeting even more?
The first real content scare a lot of people are concerned with is the relatively easy nature of the new raid content. 4.3 introduced the new "Looking for Raid" feature that was supposed to allow every person who wanted to participate in raids the opportunity to do so. The community looked at this feature as the new standard of "casual" and was expecting to be greeted by a harder than average normal mode.
However, this seems to not be the case, as record numbers of guilds are clearing all of the normal mode raid content in a single week, and begs the question: "How difficult are the heroics going to be?" The general fear here is that, if heroic is tuned properly to be a challenge for the hardcore, those looking at a gauntlet of new bosses on week two are going to be in for a headache of attempts for the next few months. On the other side of the fence, if they aren't as difficult as we've come to expect from heroics, are we looking at a Heroic Madness of Deathwing kills in the next few weeks? Would that even be a proper end to the once Destroyer himself?
Many people fear a sense of disconnect with this final raid instance and wonder if its scale will be as "epic" as Illidan or the Lich King. I, for one, am trying to avoid most internet related spoilers and look forward to witnessing the end of Deathwing myself, but am just not as invested as I once was.
Looking into a lighter side of the Patch, Transmogrification has become a hit with a majority of the players. It's very hard to run into a single character that doesn't have at least one of his gear pieces Transmog'd into his favorite piece. However, this feature makes it incredibly misleading the first time you decide to jump into battlegrounds.
While not going into if it is a good, or a bad thing, it's incredibly unnerving to jump into combat with an enemy, without knowing what you're getting yourself into by looking at his/her character. No longer can you decide the amount of resilience someone might have based entirely on the look of their character. I was repeatedly caught off guard when I saw characters running around in Brutal Gladiator gear and thought I was in for an easy kill, only to end up on the floor, wondering what had just happened. It will be something to definitely keep an eye on as the arena season picks up this week.
The part of 4.3 that has probably seen the most exposure is the three new dungeons added to the game. Jumping into new fights and amazing ilevel gear sets is a great break from the mold of running the Zandalari and 4.0 dungeons that came with the games launch. It's a new environment that works really well to keep the story happening in Azeroth moving forward, and making that weekly Valor Point grind a lot easier to swallow.
And finally, as of this week, the first chance to jump into the Darkmoon Faire has finally arrived on the live server. I haven't spent a massive amount of time here; however, I can say it has become a nice little mini game hub to pass the time while you wait for your friends to log on to raid or PvP. There are simply so many different ways to spend your time, for both profit and pleasure, that the Darkmoon Fair just might be the most successful part of the entire patch.
In the end 4.3 has done a good job delivering everything it has promised to us, with only one quick round of hot-fixes. The majority of the content has been stable and the dreaded downtime of Patch Day seems to be becoming less and less. I just hope the raiding content holds up in the coming months while we wait for more news of the Mists of Pandaria.
Mike "Krelumian" Schaffnit, Staff Writer.


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For security reasons, by default SMILA is configured to allow access to the HTTP and JMX servers only from the host SMILA is running on, i.e. using "localhost" adresses.
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Anti-noise and air-traffic safety advocates joined elected officials at a Tuesday hearing by the City Council Transportation Committee on improving air safety following the Aug. 8 helicopter crash with a private airplane over the Hudson River in which nine people were killed.
The crash involving a sightseeing helicopter from the W. 30th St. heliport in Hudson River Park provoked repeated demands Tuesday for banning such tourist flights, and inspired more demands for closer Federal Aviation Administration control over chopper and private planes flying beneath 1,100 feet.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer proposed separate altitudes 1,100 feet for small planes and 500 feet for helicopters which prompted boos and jeers from audience members long concerned about helicopter noise.
Stringer, however, also proposed a moratorium on sightseeing flights.
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried submitted a statement that said, in part, We do not need sightseeing helicopter rides.
[W]hatever sightseers spend on a helicopter ride they would eagerly spend on some other activity.
Under the settlement of a 2008 lawsuit by Friends of Hudson River Park, sightseeing flights from the 30th St. heliport will cease as of April 1, 2010, and the number of tourist flights from W. 30th St. was reduced to 25,000 flights in the year that ended May 31 and to 12,500 for the coming year. Matthew Washington, Friends deputy director, told the committee the lawsuit was filed to eliminate the noise that disturbs park users.
While our suit was not based on specific air-traffic concerns, we hope these efforts will aid in a reduction of potential dangers, he said.
Ken Paskar, a Lower East Side resident and a general aviation pilot for 30 years, told the committee that the F.A.A. has rules for flights at all altitudes, but at 1,100 feet and below, the agency does not require private pilots or helicopter pilots to file flight plans or be in radio contact with flight controllers. The see and avoid rule governs low-altitude air traffic.
Paskar, a volunteer representative with the F.A.A. Safety Team but testifying as a private citizen, said rules for the Hudson River corridor could be improved. He noted that in the Washington, D.C., area the F.A.A. requires general aviation pilots to take a course on see and avoid rules. Paskar said a similar course should be required of pilots flying the Hudson River corridor.
Congressmember Jerrold Nadler submitted a statement calling on the F.A.A. to use its authority to control airspace below 1,100 feet. Nadler repeated his demand that small aircraft must install a Traffic Collision Avoidance System and a Mode C transponder, which make low-altitude aircraft aware of each other.
Joy Held, president of the Helicopter Noise Coalition, said sightseeing copters are utterly unnecessary, dangerous, noisy, a serious security risk and they cause pollution.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's highest court is to examine the legitimacy of the upper house of parliament, a case likely to increase the legal uncertainty of the country's political transition and leave it without a legislature.
The Supreme Constitutional Court has already forced the lower house to dissolve under a June ruling that said an electoral law used to elect both chambers - and which resulted in an Islamist dominated parliament - was unfair.
The new case once again pits independent lawyers against the Islamists that have come to power since the downfall of Hosni Mubarak and who see the court as stuffed with the former president's appointees.
On Sunday, at its first session since going on strike over President Mohamed Mursi's decision to expand his powers, the court set January 15 as the date for the first hearing. It will also examine the legitimacy of the Islamist-dominated assembly that wrote the constitution that Mursi fast-tracked to approval at a referendum this month.
If the court rules against the upper house - which seems likely as it was elected under the same law that the court found lacking in the lower house case in June - Egypt will have a legislative vacuum until new parliamentary elections, expected to start in about two months.
The upper house assumed legislative powers just last week under the new constitution.
The June ruling said the transitional electoral law - drafted by the generals then ruling post-Mubarak Egypt in consultation with political parties - gave too much power to parties, at the expense of independent candidates.
The court had to postpone the hearings from early December due to a protest outside its building by Islamists.
"The (court) renews its condemnation of those who participated in it, as well as those who remained silent," the court said in a statement.
Mursi had shielded both the assembly which drafted the constitution and the upper house of parliament from legal challenges in a decree he issued in November which touched off protests by critics who accused him of a power grab.
Mursi revoked the decree ahead of the referendum in which the constitution was approved by 64 percent of those who voted.
The new constitution cut the number of judges who sit in the Supreme Constitutional Court to 11 from 18. One of Mursi's most vocal critics was among the judges to leave the court.
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'Glee' Recap: The Glee Club Discovers The Meaning Behind 'The Role You Were Born to Play'
In this semi-'Grease' themed episode, some graduated 'Glee' cast members return to help with the school musical, Finn (Cory Monteith) struggles to find his place in his new life and the students fight for the roles of their dreams.
With his failed plans of marrying Rachel (Lea Michele) and joining the army now all but lost to him, Finn finds himself working at the Hummel family tire shop. In the midst of his self-pity, he is visited by Artie (Kevin McHale) who wants Finn to co-direct the school musical 'Grease' to get him out of his funk.
Meanwhile, Blaine (Darren Criss) is debating participating in the musical because now that Kurt (Chris Colfer) and he are broken up he doesn't think he can take part in anything romantically themed. To express that he still loves Kurt, Blaine sings 'Hopelessly Devoted to You' from 'Grease.'
Blaine ends up auditioning for the play, but decides that he couldn't possibly be in it without breaking down. Finn leaves the room in anger because he thinks he's not qualified to be a co-director and Artie calls in his secret weapons: McKinley High alumni Mercedes (Amber Riley) and Mike (Harry Shum Jr).
Emma (Jayma Mays) and Will (Matthew Morrison) are still discussing how he plans to leave for Washington, with Coach Beiste (Dot Jones) as their relationship moderator. Will tells Emma he always wants them to be together because he loves her as an equal partner and she reluctantly agrees to travel with him.
Finn and Artie have trouble trying to find an appropriate Danny Zuko, so Finn heads out to the football field to locate a new recruit. There he finds Ryder Lynn (Blake Jenner) who is busy dancing in the end zone like a fool rather than actually playing football.
Inside the lady's room, Marley (Melissa Benoist) and Unique (Wade Adams) are discussing their preferred roles in the musical, with Marley holding out for Sandy and Unique wanting the female role of Rizzo. Sue (Jane Lynch), who just happens to overhear this, steps out and promises that she will not allow him to take on a gender-bending role in the play.
Marley and Unique audition with Pink's 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss)' and request the parts they would like to be chosen for, Sandy and Rizzo respectively.
Ryder is busy studying so he can stay on the football team when Finn arrives and invites him to audition in the auditorium later. He sees a lot of himself in the boy and they start bonding over their shared experiences. Together they sing 'Jukebox Hero' by Foreigner, which Finn counts as Ryder's audition.
Later in the day while Ryder is talking to Marley, Kitty (Becca Tobin) arrives to try and steal the spotlight away from her nemesis, informing Marley that she plans to audition for Sandy. She and Jake (Jacob Artist) sing Neon Trees' 'Everybody Talks' for their audition.
During callback discussion, Finn fights for Unique as Rizzo until Sue steps in and calls them to Principal Figgins' (Iqbal Theba) office to talk about their controversial casting. Sue seems concerned that this will open Unique up to bullying and Finn says he plans to cast Unique for the role regardless of what anyone else says.
Coach Beiste goes to have a frank discussion with Emma, telling her she should be honest with Will about not wanting to go to D.C. before the lies damage their relationship. She recommends that Emma tell Will her reservations before it's too late.
In order to pick a Danny and Sandy, Mercedes leads the potential candidates in a dance/sing off. Marley, Jake, Kitty and Ryder join her to perform another 'Grease' song: 'Born to Hand Jive.' Kitty spends the majority of the time being jealous of the attention given to Marley from both Jake and Ryder, which could ultimately cost her the role.
Later, in the library, Finn officially offers Unique the part of Rizzo and promises to help take care of anyone who stands in their way. Unique cries, finally happy to have found his true place. Finn smiles, mirroring Unique's sentiments.
The cast list goes up with Ryder cast as Danny and Marley cast as Sandy. Kitty, upon seeing her minor role, leaves in a huff, but not before insulting Marley as per usual.
When Will arrives at home, Emma is obsessively cooking. He finally gets her to stop and she admits that she doesn't want to go to Washington. The reason? She's worried she will resent him for taking her away from the job and the students she loves. They discuss what they both want in a partner, and agree to visit each other as often as possible. Will promises when he returns they will finally get married.
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Texas prison system spokesman Jason Clark says wallboard fell from the ceiling of a housing area. It happened midday Saturday at the Diboll Correctional Center about 100 miles northeast of Houston.
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PHOENIX, Arizona and CAMBRIDGE, UK – October 26, 2011 – Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), and ARM today announced the launch of the Embedded Software Store - an online information and e-Commerce-based website dedicated to the embedded design community. The Embedded Software Store accelerates software innovation for embedded applications by enabling users to easily locate available software supporting the ARM architecture. At launch, the site will provide software downloads from a wide range of partners that are active in the ARM Connected Community® and Avnet's partner ecosystem. The number of partners is expected to grow as the site seeks to consolidate a large number of high-value software options within a single domain.
Users can choose from a broad array of reputable embedded software vendors, including ARM, CMX Systems, Inc., DSP Concepts, Micrium, Motomic, YaSSL, and others. New software vendors are invited to join the initiative on an ongoing basis. The site also offers a quick download delivery system and preview of all license agreements in advance of purchase. Users are encouraged to participate in the Embedded Software Store's online community to create a strong ecosystem of software support for ARM technology.
"Software has become a differentiating factor as consumers continue to demand higher levels of performance and increased functionality in their smart devices," said Tudor Brown, President, ARM. "ARM and Avnet have leveraged our industry leadership and extensive partner ecosystems to develop a comprehensive one-stop-shop for accessing, evaluating and acquiring software. The Embedded Software Store provides easy access to a broad range of software, and this is important for designers as they seek to accelerate innovation."
"The partnering of our two innovative companies – ARM and Avnet – is what makes this solution possible," said Harley Feldberg, president of Avnet Electronics Marketing, global. "Today more than ever, customers are facing time-to-market issues and extreme cost pressures. Product cycles are shrinking and demands on engineering developers are expanding. The Embedded Software Store is a marketplace that offers solid choices over a broad range of readily developed software, at competitive prices and proven quality. This is a solution the industry has been waiting for."
The Embedded Software Store will be showcased at ARM TechCon 2011 at the Santa Clara Convention center, Oct. 25 – 27. The site is fully operational and accessible at www.embeddedsoftwarestore.com
"Adeneo Embedded sees the ARM Embedded Software Store as a great opportunity to leverage its strategic collaboration with Avnet on a Worldwide basis providing a full complement of reference solutions, BSPs, Drivers, System Architecture Design reviews and dedicated support contracts fully sustained by our global engineering offices." Yannick Chammings, CEO, Adeneo Embedded.
"We believe the Embedded Software Store will enable engineers to efficiently locate and acquire the best of breed tools and technology from a single, trusted source. By supplying our CMX embedded software products on this online marketplace portal, we will significantly reduce the amount of time and resources our customers will spend in acquiring embedded tools and technologies." Chuck Behrmann, CEO, CMX Systems.
"We are very pleased to be a part of the Embedded Software Store. We are confident that this application store is going be a great way to promote our User Experience software. We look forward to success at selling our embedded user experience software to the Avnet/ARM customer base." Karl Zhao, CEO and founder , DigiLink Software, Inc.
"We welcome the Embedded Software Store and see this new marketplace as an integral part of the ARM, Avnet ecosystem. Being able to match up product developers and technology providers will simplify application development and reduce time to market. The Embedded Software Store will be the primary sales channel for our high performance DSP Library for the ARM Cortex-A8 and A9." Paul Beckmann, CEO/CTO, DSP Concepts.
"With today's challenges in the embedded software world, providing a web based store will fuel innovation and increase deployment of new technologies to tomorrow's products. What often holds companies back from advancing their products with new technology features by leveraging the full range of advanced technologies found in ARM IP-based microcontrollers, is the cost of training, acquiring the required design expertise outside of the company's core competencies, software development and maintainence. We strongly believe the ARM store will reduce these barriers and allow increased innovation and growth facilitating a quantum leap for electronic products development." Todd Burghgraef, principal member, Genesys Ideation.
"The Embedded Software Store will establish a global market for software on ARM controllers and provide a huge benefit to both suppliers and developers by bringing a diverse range of embedded software options straight to the engineers desktop" Dave Hughes, CEO, HCC Embedded.
"We are excited to be one of the initial companies invited to participate in the Embedded Software Store sponsored by ARM and Avnet. InterNiche has been providing a wide range of source code networking modules for ARM processors since 1997 and believes this new and comprehensive online marketplace will enable an easy access to embedded software solutions. InterNiche is pleased to offer a full range of networking protocol modules as source code libraries for companies who need complete control over the software in their solution. The Embedded Software Store provides an ideal channel for accessing, evaluating and purchasing these libraries." Larry Larder, president, InterNiche
"Micrium is proud to be part of the new Avnet/ARM Embedded Software Store. We believe that Micrium and the Embedded Software Store are perfectly positioned to provide high quality, robust, and thoroughly tested software for the embedded system developer through this innovative and customer centric marketplace." Jean Labrosse, CEO, Micrium Inc.
"We all know the Internet-of-Things era is upon us. There will be a wave of billions and billions of devices that will be connected. Embedded Software Store will be the easiest, fastest way for the developer community to get their hands on components to assemble entire solutions – we are excited that the microButterfly embedded browser will be a part of those solutions." Mike Gee, CEO, Motomic Software.
"The combined Avnet and ARM software distribution website is a break-through in terms of customer efficiency. Fast and efficient comparisons across multiple hardware, tool and operating system vendors will save designers large amounts of time and potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars." Kim Rowe, founder and president, RoweBots Research Inc.
"As an ARM partner for 9+ years, SoftRISC company has deployed embedded VoIP, multimedia, and mobile cellular software solutions on several ARM architectures to leading customers. ARM and Avnet's Embedded Software Store online platform is certainly a game changer in the way SoftRISC will approach customers and conduct business. It is a win-win for ARM, Avnet, Vendors and end-customers." Ashok Setty, founder and president, SoftRISC
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Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez: Why Justin's So Smart To Be A One-Woman Man
Justin Bieber could have any young women he wanted, or many, especially now that he's 18, but no — he loves the one he's with — Selena Gomez. Here's why he's made the right love decision!
Justin Bieber is one smart guy to have zero interest in playing the field or playing with groupies. He has repeatedly, publicly praised his girlfriend Selena Gomez, 19, and at HollywoodLife.com, we hear he only had eyes for her at his 18th birthday party.
Being a one-woman man just shows how mature Justin is and how focused he is on real and lasting values. It would be so easy for Justin with all his fame and money at a young age to have that all go to his head.
He could have become a snobby, self-obsessed brat who was happy to take advantage of his status to use girls as mere play things.
But no. Intelligently, Justin has not taken that route. Instead he reimains grateful for the blessings his talent and good fortune have brought him. He is devoted to family, charity work and to his equally mature girlfriend, Selena.
Justin and Selena have been a committed couple for more than a year now, traveling repeatedly for thousands of miles and across continents, just to be together for a few days. They have tagged along on each other's tours and spent tons of time with each other's families. Selena loves to play with Justin's very young little sister, Jazmyn, and brother, Jaxon.
Justin has supported Selena through her mother's heart-breaking miscarriage. Selena never doubted Justin when he was targeted by Mariah Yeater as a victim of her baby daddy accussations. The pair agrees they love to do just regular things together — like go to movies, shop and go out to eat at non-fancy spots without an entourage or fanfare.
Clearly, Justin realizes that it is so much more rewarding to have true love and commitment with a young woman who shares his interests, values, life and career goals and who he can really talk to and have fun with, than to fool around in meaningless non-relationships. And he is right!
While it's unlikely that this young and in love pair will take the next step to an engagement yet, and that's smart too — to wait — it's likely Justin's gift to Selena of a ring recently is a symbol of their commitment to their monogamous relationship.
So far, Justin is doing everything right to set himself up for happiness in longterm love. He said he can see himself being married by the age of 25, and if it ends up being to Selena — who is as smart as he is — then it could very well be a lifetime love!
Congrats to you, birthday boy Justin, on making the mature love decision to be a one-woman man!
— Bonnie Fuller
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Alan Ball looked pleased as punch Tuesday night at HBO's elaborate Hollywood premiere for the fourth season of the hit series "True Blood." As well he should. Attracting an average of 13 million viewers per episode last season, the glossy show has become the most popular program on the cable network's current lineup. Weeks before the event, Ball spoke to Hero Complex contributor Gina McIntyre about his creative approach to the series — though he was careful not to reveal too many details about what to expect from the upcoming episodes. As any fan knows, Ball guards his secrets with great care.
GM: What's your take on the current vampire craze?
AB: I think vampires are just a huge metaphor for sex. I think obviously a lot of people fantasize about being taken by a vampire. Maybe that's a way to fantasize about being taken in a way that is so not possible of happening that it makes it safer to have those fantasies, I don't know.
GM: Denis O'Hare's Russell Edgington really stole the show last year. Did you and he work closely developing that character?
AB: We did. Once we started breaking the stories for the season, we were saying who's going to play this guy. I can't remember who came up with it, but everybody was like, "oh we love him, he's such a great actor." I called him and said would you like to do this. He was in Romania doing some movie where he played a Roman, I think it was "The Eagle" movie with Channing Tatum. I said, "I'm just such a huge fan of yours, I just have to gush shamelessly." He said, "Right back at you." I talked to him about it. He basically said, that sounds good to me and then business affairs got into it. It was great. Denis is a great actor. He would send me these long emails of his back story that he was coming up with and I would say, "Well, this all works except for this thing because in four episodes this is going to happen so it has to be this kind of thing." He was just a delight from beginning to end.
GM: Are you happy with how Season 3 played out? Looking back, is there anything you would have changed or done differently?
AB: I don't really think that way. The show is so big and it requires so much focus that once it's done you just move on. I just have to work so hard that when I'm not working I just want to hang out with my dogs or go to the movies or read a book. I was very happy with Season 3. I thought it worked pretty well. Genre fans are very intense. If they like you, they adore you and if they don't like you, they want you to die. I try to stay out of it. For me it's all about the work — it's not about the results in terms of what people's perceptions are. I just feel so fortunate that we get to make the show and we get to go to work every day and have this blast doing this crazy thing that everybody really enjoys and go home.
GM: So, you don't feel any pressure to top what you've already done necessarily?
AB: I don't. Everything has its own life. A TV show is very hard to do. Some seasons are going to be better than others and some episodes are going to be better than others. You just do the best you can. I have a little mantra – it's just a TV show. It is not worth going crazy over. It is not worth making myself sick over. It's not worth destroying relationships over. I've seen all those things happen on other shows that I've worked on and I just don't think it's that important honestly.
GM: Has your approach to the series changed at all over the seasons?
AB: We still work exactly the same way. Any time you're working on something of this size with this many people working on something so collaborative it's going to at some point start to have its own life. What you have to do at that point is recognize that and get out of its way. It's an incredibly difficult show…. Sometimes we're shooting three episodes at a time. The show has just organically grown into this big thing that's probably more complicated than a lot of features though we don't necessarily have a feature budget or the luxury of a feature schedule. It's just this big beast. It is definitely harder to do now than it was in the first season just because the scope of the show has organically gotten bigger but it's still so much fun. I also think that's one of the things that's fun about the show is it's got this big cast of characters. It's like a Dickens novel. All of the actors are so good. Everybody has their favorites of course but I don't feel like any of these characters are not interesting. I think that's part of the challenge is to give them something to do and to give them a story over the course of the season that fits within all the other stories you're telling and remains true to the spirit of Charlaine's [Harris] books and still is everything we want the show to be.
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Bishnu P Subedi; Andra L Corder; Siai Zhang; Frank W Foss, Jr.; Brad S Pierce; "Steady-state kinetics and spectroscopic characterization of enzyme-tRNA interactions for the non-heme diiron tRNA-monooxygenase, MiaE" Biochemistry 2015 54(2):363-76. (DOI: 10.1021/bi5012207)
Jeremy S. Barnes; Frank W. Foss, Jr.; Kevin A Schug;"Thermally accelerated oxidative degradation of quercetin using continuous flow kinetic electrospray-ion trap-time of flight mass spectrometry" J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2013 24(10):1513-22. (DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0698-6)
Andra Carter, Bishnu Subedi, Amanda M. Dark, Frank W. Foss Jr.,* Brad S. Pierce* "Development of nucleoside substrate surrogates for the characterization of the O2-dependent tRNA modifying MiaE by peroxide-shunt catalysis." Biochemistry 2013 52(36) 6182–6196.
Samuel H. Yang, Sumit Bhawal, Rajendrasing Deshmukh, Aruna B. Wijeratne, Brian L. Edwards, Frank W. Foss, Jr., Richard B. Timmons, Kevin A. Schug "Affinity Mesh Screen Materials for Rapid Drug Discovery Using Transmission Mode Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry" Langmuir 2013 29(25) 8046–8053.
Shuai Chen, Frank W. Foss Jr.* "Aerobic Organocatalytic Oxidation of Aryl Aldehydes: Flavin Catalyst Turnover by Hantzsch's Ester" Organic Letters, 2012, 14, 5150-5153. (DOI: 10.1021/ol302479b)
Jonathon M Bobbitt; Li Li; Doug D Carlton; Sumit Bhawal; Mahwish Yasin; Frank W Foss Jr.; Stefanie Wernisch; Reinhard Pell; Wolfgang Lindner; Kevin A. Schug, Ph.D. "Diastereoselective Discrimination of Lysine-alanine-alanine Peptides by Zwitterionic Cinchona Alkaloid-based Chiral Selectors using Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry" Journal of Chromatography A, 2012; 1269, 308-315.
Shuai Chen, Mohammad S. Hossain, Frank W. Foss Jr.* "Organocatalytic Dakin Oxidation by Nucleophilic Flavin Catalysts" Organic Letters 2012, 14, 2806-2809 (DOI: 10.1021/ol3010326).
Xiaojia Huang, Frank W. Foss Jr., Purnendu K. Dasgupta "Multilayer chitosan-based open tubular capillary anion exchange column with integrated monolithic capillary suppressor" Analytica Chimica Acta 2011, 707, 210-217 (doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2011.09.028).
Severin Schneebeli, Maria Kamenetska, Frank Foss, Hector Vazquez, Rachid Skouta, Mark Hybertsen, Latha Venkataraman, Ronald Breslow "The Electrical Properties of Biphenylenes" Organic Letters 2010, 12, 4114-4117 (doi: 10.1021/ol1017036).
Janet V. Cross*, Joshua M. Rady, Frank W. Foss Jr., Charles Lyons, Timothy L. Macdonald, and Dennis J. Templeton "Nutrient Isothiocyanates Covalently Modify and Inhibit the Inflammatory Cytokine Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF)" Biochemical Journal 2009, 423, 315-321 (doi:10.1042/BJ20091170).
Frank W. Foss Jr., Thomas P. Mathews, Yugesh Kharel, Perry C. Kennedy, Ashley H. Snyder, Michael D. Davis, Kevin R. Lynch, Timothy L. Macdonald "Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Sphingosine Kinase Substrates as Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor Prodrugs" Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 2009, 17, 6123-6136 (doi:10.1016/j.bmc.2009.04.015).
Ronald Breslow, Frank W. Foss Jr.,Charge Transport in Nanoscale Aromatic and Antiaromatic Systems" Special Issue: Conductivity of single molecules and supramolecular architecturesJ. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2008, in press.
Huanyu Zhau, Frank W. Foss Jr, Ronald Breslow "Artificial Enzymes: Benzoin Condensations by Imidazolium and Thiazolium Catalysts" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, in press.
Qin Sun, Ran Zhu, Frank W. Foss Jr., Timothy L. Macdonald "In Vitro Metabolism of a Model Cyclopropylamine to Reactive Intermediate: Insights into Trovafloxacin-Induced Hepatotoxicity" Chemical Research in Toxicology 2008, 21, 711-719; advance online publication, February 26th, 2008 (doi:10.1021/tx7003085).
Advertised by Chem. Res. Tox. as one of five non-CYP450 metabolism studies from 2008.
Guy Cinamon, Marcus A. Zachariah, Olivia M. Lam, Frank W. Foss Jr., Jason G. Cyster "Follicular Shuttling of Marginal Zone B Cells Facilitates Antigen Transport" Nature Immunology 2008, 9, 54-62. (Highlighted by Georg Kraal "Antigens Take the Shuttle" Nature Immunology 2008, 9, 11-12.)
Qin Sun, Ran Zhu, Frank W. Foss Jr., Timothy L. Macdonald "Synthesis and Chemical Oxidation of a Model Cyclopropylamine: Identification of a Reactive Intermediate and Implication of Responsible Enzymes for Hepatotoxicity of Trovafloxacin" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Let. 2007, 17, 6682-6686.
Jordan R. Quinn, Frank W. Foss Jr., Latha Venkataraman, Ronald Breslow "Oxidation Potentials Correlate with Conductivities of Aromatic Molecular Wires" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 12376-12377.
Jordan R. Quinn, Frank W. Foss Jr., Latha Venkataraman, Mark S. Hybertsen, Ronald Breslow "Single-Molecule Junction Conductance through Diaminoacenes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6714-6715.
Frank W. Foss Jr.,Ashley H. Snyder, Michael D. Davis, Michael Rouse, Mark D. Okusa, Kevin R. Lynch, Timothy L. Macdonald "Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of g-aminophosphonates as Potent, Subtype-Selective Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor Agonists and Antagonists" Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2007, 15, 663-677;
(Top 50 cited BMC papers 2004-2008; and Recommended by Hugh Rosen: Faculty of 1000 Biology, 2 Feb 2007 http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1064759/evaluation.
Janet V. Cross, Frank W. Foss Jr., Joshua M. Rady, Timothy L. Macdonald, Dennis J. Templeton "The Isothiocyanate Class of Dietary Chemopreventives Inhibits the Catalytic Activity of the MEKK1 Protein Kinase by Covalent Modification of the ATP Binding Domain" BMC Cancer 2007, 7:183.
Alaa S. Awad, Hong Ye, Liping Huang, Frank W. Foss Jr., Li Li, Timothy L. Macdonald, Kevin R. Lynch, Mark D. Okusa "Selective Sphingosine 1-Phosphate (S1P1) Receptor Activation Reduces Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Mouse Kidney" Am. J. Physiol.: Renal Physiol. 2006, 290, F1516 - F1524.
Frank W. Foss Jr., Jeremy J. Clemens, Michael D. Davis, Ashley H. Snyder, Kevin R. Lynch, Timothy L. Macdonald "Synthesis, Stability and Implications of Phosphothioate Agonists of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptors" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2005, 15, 4470-4474.
B.S., Chemistry, University of Richmond (1995-1999)
Ph.D., Organic/Medicinal Chemistry, University of Virginia (2000-2006),Bioactive GPCR Selective Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Agonists and Antagonists w/Timothy L. Macdonald
Postdoctoral Fellow: Columbia University
Artificial Enzymes/Single-Molecule Electronic Devices
Breslow Research Laboratory (2006 – 2008)
Frank W. Foss Jr. joined the University of Texas at Arlington in September of 2008. A native of Massachusetts, he completed a Bachelors of Science in chemistry at the University of Richmond. He earned his Doctorate in organic and medicinal chemistry under the supervision of Timothy L. Macdonald from the University of Virginia. His dissertation on the Synthesis of Biologically-Stable Phospholipids is entitled "Synthesis of Bioavailable Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor Ligands: Structure-Activity-Relationships, Enzymatic Regulation, and Immunosuppression." After his graduate work, he undertook a Post-Doctoral Research position with Ronald Breslow, at Columbia University in the City of New York, to study natural catalysis by designing artificial enzymes. In addition to this biomimetic research, Frank was involved in collaborative efforts in the area of molecular electronics through the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. Both fields challenge organic chemists to understand the fundamental properties of chemical structures in biology and material sciences in order to tailor new materials with desirable functions.
The Foss Laboratory at UT Arlington is currently involved in designing biomimetic redox catalysts that utilize sustainable oxidants, such as O2 or H2O2, to perform these important synthetic transformations. The laboratory also investigates a range of enzymes, through their interaction with small molecules, to understand their function and potential as tractable targets for new drug development. Finally, numerous collaborations exist that allow the laboratory to design and synthesize natural and non-natural biomolecules for a range of purposes, from medicinal to biomaterial.
Presidents Award for Excellence in Teaching by an Untenured Faculty Member, UT Arlington, 2014
Student Organization Advisor of the Year, UTA Student Organizations, Nominated by the undergraduate Chemistry and Biochemistry Society, 2014
Phi Kappa Phi Recognized Professor, UTA Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 2013
Outstanding Mentor, Honorable Mention, ACES 2011-2012, Sigma Xi, UT Arlington Chapter, 2012
Phi Kappa Phi Recognized Professor, UTA Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 2009
Top 50 cited Publications 2004-2008, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 2004-2008, 2009
Department of Chemistry Graduate Fellow, University of Virginia 2000-2003


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