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Woodside German Shepherds
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Windy City Kennels
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i found a few breeders. i am NOT going to buy from any of them! i just want to know if ya'll think they are reputable or not.
Woodside German Shepherds
Sallie's Poms
Foster's Beagles
Majic Manor Danes
Windy City Kennels
Owned by two little pastries!
I really like the Pom one shes seems really responsible. The Beagle one I dont know I think they should have homes made up for their pups before breeding...and I havnt looked properly at the rest.
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That first GSD breeder has three litters coming. The poor dogs' rear ends almost drag on the ground, I really hate this body type.
I think Sallie's poms is well, a byb turned breeding operation, but she seems to have a good heart and has done her homework for breeding.
The beagle breeders tell us on their home page that they started in 2004 by breeding their very first pet beagle. The females I saw were in poor form. They are overly thrilled to have "sold" all of the puppies they had in two weeks. I'd expect a breeder to know me for more than two weeks before they allow me to have a pup.
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Woodside GSDs is a very nice lady. We get some dogs that she has bred in at work -- they all have sloping backs, but they don't have hip dysplasia. They certify the hips and elbows before breeding.
I've been BOO'd!
The only good reputable breeders I see are Woodside GSDs (which I'd be very inclined to buy my pups from ), Majic Danes, and *possibly* Windy City. I don't know much about how working kennels work, however, so I can't say much about Windy City. I didn't look into their website too much, but I didn't see any certification of OFA/CERF which makes me kind of iffy.
I wouldn't dream of stepping foot into the facilities of Sallie's Poms and those Beagle breeders. Well, now that I look more closely, I'd have to agree with the previous poster. Sallie's Poms probably has her heart in the right place but she went way off in her breeding program. Either that or she's a very tricky and intelligent BYB
Woodside - Sorry if anyone is offended, but I would NEVER consider a puppy from them. ;P There is no way I'd buy from a GSD breeder who promotes the crippling sloped backs/hock-walking, and doesn't even seem to consider the fact that they are WORKING dogs! Not Poodles!
Sallies - peh. no way. There's no mention of proving the breeding dogs' worth (conformation, etc) OR health testing. Plus, she has way too many dogs being actively bred to be legit.
Fosters - NO way. As said before, this person has way too many Beagles, apparently no showing experience (although they manage to fill the homepage with show photos of Beagles back in their dogs pedigree!), no apparent health testing, no apparent sporting work with their Beagles, and most of them look overweight and many are very mismarked. I know very little about Beagles, but they don't look like specimens that need to be bred! They also got their FIRST Beagles just 2 years ago, and have already started up their very own puppy mill.
Majic Manor - Seems to be a good breeder. They have many champions and their dogs look very nice! However, websites don't say everything, and it's preferable that you would visit their kennel. They don't have any OFA/etc info, which you should inquire about. 2-year health guarentee is satisfactory.
Windy City - Seems to be an "ok" breeder. I would choose this kennel for a GSD over the first kennel any day ! They obviously work their dogs actively in Obedience/Schutzhund. Some mention of health testing, but not much, which should be asked about in person. They accept credit cards and Paypal, though, which is the only red flag. I think the website is just intended to show photos and publicize their Obedience school, rather than sell dogs... it seems like they really expect to get to know their potential new owners. They obviously have a kennel setting which isn't ideal.
Definitely keep in mind, that for a good breeder, the website is just for fun. A good breeder does not need a website to advertise litters! You can also tell very little from a website... anyone who hires a good web designer and stretches the truth can make themselves look awesome, when they're actually a miller or a byb!
i agree i would never buy from the beagle or pom place. i wouldn't buy a GSD simply because i hate the way AKC has ruined these dogs rears. they are sickly looking.
Owned by two little pastries!
Woodside GSD: I wouldn't buy from her. From the interview it seems like she has no real new goals, just to maintain. Plus she only mentions "breed type" and not conformation or working titles, she says to find a type you like and stick with it. Technically they are all supposed to have the same type. I really don't like how she makes winners and loosers a clear cut thing. I can be starting out and have bad luck but then get on the right track and produce excelenct quality, which may or may not make me a total winner, depending on who is judging and the dogs I'm up against.
3 litters on the ground!?!?!
Sallie's Poms- NO WAY EVER. She seems like a BYBer to me. Just as bad. No refrences to showing or anything. NO titles on her dogs at all.I know from that she's being retired from breeding and not showing.Polly Pockets is about to retire and is looking for a good and loving "forever" home.
She also says she had the "best job" like she made a living from breeding these guys.
Foster Beagles-And how do they have time for all those litters! It seems like they are also using the dogs as a sourse of income but I like how they are working dogsI have 3 females and one male because Im a breeder I need more females.
Majic Manor Danes- they have 3 unfinished dogs available for stud! Other than that they seem fine
Windy City-
From the first page they sound like they have good intentions but upon further reading they seem like more of a company out to make business than a dedicated kennel. Personally I'd like to have a good relationship with my breeder.
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.101 n.12 Pretoria Dec. 2011
Preventing disease and saving lives: the malaria season is upon us
D Moonasar; C Asomugha; L Baker; L Blumberg; K I Barnes; R Maharaj; F Benson
The burden of malaria
In South Africa, malaria is endemic in three provinces - Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal (Fig. 1) - and transmission occurs predominantly between September and May.1 Over the past decade, the National Department of Health (DoH) has focused intense efforts on preventing the local transmission of malaria, and on ensuring the prompt and effective management of cases, especially in the endemic provinces. The DoH has recorded significant success in reducing the burden of malaria through the implementation of its key interventions: Vector Control, Case Management, Surveillance, Health Promotion, and Epidemic Preparedness and Response. Notified malaria cases in the aforementioned provinces have decreased by 88% over the past decade, from 64 622 cases in 2000 to 7 626 in 2010. In the same period, malariarelated deaths have been reduced by 81%, from 458 to 87 deaths.2
Malaria has been a notifiable disease in South Africa since 1956 (Government notice No. 2 081 of 1956). One of the key challenges that the DoH has historically faced is the irregularity of routine notifications, particularly from the private sector and public health facilities in non-endemic areas. In recent years, reporting appears to be gaining in efficiency, with an increase in malaria notifications from the non-endemic areas, especially Gauteng (Fig. 2). In this province, trends for malaria cases and related deaths show an increase over the past 2 years, with a peak in January. This seasonality is related to travellers returning from malaria-endemic areas, particularly Mozambique (Fig. 3).3
Malaria prevention and control strategies are being implemented robustly in the endemic provinces; however, similar strategies in the non-endemic provinces are lagging behind. This paper provides advice on the key measures for malaria prevention and management. Successful malaria treatment is dependent on a high index of suspicion for malaria in patients with acute febrile illness, and urgent treatment with effective medication.
Prevention of malaria
Travellers to malaria areas in southern Africa will be particularly vulnerable as the malaria risk season peaks in the coming months; therefore emphasis should be placed on prevention. Measures to avoid mosquito bites are the mainstay of malaria prevention and should be emphasised at all times. Whether or not appropriate chemoprophylaxis is warranted, should be determined by weighing up the risk of contracting malaria against the risk of adverse effects. Malaria risk is determined by travel location and accommodation, as well as season and length of stay. For example, the risk in built-up cities during the dry winter months is significantly less than that at a river-side campsite in summer. Malaria-transmitting mosquitoes feed at night; therefore people should ideally remain indoors from dusk until dawn, in rooms that have screens on the windows and doors.
The only insect repellents that are recommended are those containing diethyl 2 toluamide (DEET).4 Products containing 30% DEET 1 should be used for adults and children older than 2 months, as they give longer protection. They should, however, only be applied to exposed skin, particularly in young children. There is no benefit from using products containing more than 50% DEET.5
If the risk of contracting malaria warrants more protection than mosquito avoidance, chemoprophylaxis should be advised. There are 3 effective options available in South Africa; all require a doctor's prescription; therefore travellers should prepare for their travel timeously:
Mefloquine (weekly): start at least 1 week before entering a malaria area, take weekly while there and for 4 weeks after leaving the malaria area
Doxycycline (daily): start 1 - 2 days before entering a malaria area, take daily while there and for 4 weeks after exiting the malaria area
Atovaquone-proguanil (daily): start 1 - 2 days before entering the malaria area, take daily while there and for 7 days after leaving the area.1
All 3 medicines are effective if taken correctly and if compliance is assured.1 The chemoprophylaxis selection depends on the duration of visit, affordability, age, whether the person is pregnant or breastfeeding, has any medical conditions (e.g. epilepsy or depression), or is taking any other medication. Certain activities, such as flying or scuba diving, also need to be taken into account when choosing prophylaxis. The majority of adverse effects are mild; any severe adverse effects should be reported to the healthcare worker immediately, and the chemoprophylaxis changed if needed.
There is no scientific evidence that natural or homoeopathic products are effective against malaria; therefore their use should be avoided in the prevention of this potentially life-threatening illness.6
Diagnosis and management of malaria
Successful malaria treatment is dependent on a high index of suspicion for malaria in patients with acute febrile illness, as well as urgent treatment with effective medicines. Plasmodium falciparum accounts for the majority of malaria cases in Southern Africa, and causes almost all severe and fatal instances of the disease. South Africans, including residents of seasonal malaria transmission areas, are non-immune and are consequently at increased risk for developing severe malaria.
The diagnosis and management of malaria is urgent; delayed diagnosis and inappropriate treatment are associated with significantly increased morbidity and mortality.7 Classically, malaria presents with fever, rigors, headache and myalgia (Fig. 4), but the clinical features are nonspecific and may be confused with many other diseases, especially influenza. A definitive diagnosis should be made promptly by detection of the parasite with microscopic examination of a blood smear, or with the use of a rapid malaria antigen test. An initial negative test does not exclude the diagnosis of malaria, and repeat testing is mandatory in patients with continued symptoms and no alternative definitive diagnosis. All patients with malaria require careful clinical and parasitological follow-up.
For uncomplicated malaria, artemether-lumefantrine (Coartem) is recommended for first-line therapy. Alternatively, quinine plus either doxycycline or clindamycin can be used, if artemether-lumefantrine is unavailable or contra-indicated. High-level resistance precludes the use of chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) for P. falciparum malaria; halofantrine is not recommended.8
The major complications of malaria include: cerebral malaria, hypoglycaemia, anaemia, renal failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and metabolic acidosis (Fig. 4). These carry high mortality rates, especially in children, pregnant women and those with HIV/AIDS. These complications indicate the need for urgent hospital admission, and require specific management.
For patients with severe malaria, intravenous artesunate is the preferred treatment; extensive studies in adults and children in Africa and Asia have shown that artesunate drastically reduces in-hospital mortality.9,10 Artesunate is not yet registered in South Africa, but is available in sentinel hospitals for the treatment of infected adults and children through the Parenteral Artesunate Access Programme. Where artesunate is not available, parenteral quinine is recommended, with an initial loading dose, and should be combined with doxycycline or clindamycin.
Despite being a preventable and readily treatable disease, malaria continues to cause thousands of cases in South Africa each year, with a high risk of life-threatening disease, if diagnosis is delayed or ineffective treatment is given.
1. Department of Health. Guidelines for the Prevention of Malaria in South Africa 2009. Pretoria: Department of Health, 2009. [ Links ]
2. Department of Health. Malaria Notifications 2011. Pretoria: South African Department of Health, 2011. [ Links ]
3. Weber IB, Baker L, Mnyaluza J, et al. The burden of imported malaria in Gauteng Province. S Afr Med J 2010;100(5):300-303. [ Links ]
4. American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Environmental Health. Follow safety precautions when using DEET on children. AAP News 2003; 22:200399. [ Links ]
5. Chiodini P, Hill D, Lalloo D, et al. Guidelines for Malaria Prevention in Travellers from the United Kingdom. London: Health Protection Agency, 2007. http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1203496943523 (accessed 11 October 2011). [ Links ]
6. Bradley DJ, Bannister B. Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the United Kingdom for 2003. Communicable Diseases and Public Health 2003;6(3):180-199. [ Links ]
7. Mehta U, Durrheim DN, Blumberg L, et al. Malaria deaths as sentinel events to monitor healthcare delivery and antimalarial drug safety. Trop Med Int Health. 2007;12(5):617-628. [ Links ]
8. Department of Health. Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria in South Africa 2010. Pretoria: Department of Health, 2010. [ Links ]
9. Visser Kift E, Kredo T, Barnes KI. Parenteral artesunate access programme aims at reducing malaria fatality rates in South Africa. S Afr Med J 2011;101(4):240-241. [ Links ]
10. Jones KL, Donegan S, Lalloo DG. Artesunate versus quinine for treating severe malaria. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007(4); CD005967. [ Links ]
11. World Health Organization. International Travel and Health, Chapter 7. Geneva: WHO, 2011. http://www.who.int/entity/ith/chapters/ith2011chap7.pdf (accessed 11 October 2011). [ Links ]
Dr Moonasar is Director of Malaria at the National Department of Health (DoH) and a member of the National Malaria Advisory Group (MAG) and Global Malaria Elimination Group (MEG).
Dr Asomugha is Medical Advisor and Acting Director for Public Healthat the Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development. He is also Technical Head of the Gauteng Outbreak Response Team and a member of the Malaria Elimination Task Team.
Mrs Baker is a medicine information pharmacist, manages the Amayeza Information Centre, and is a member of both SCAT (Subcommittee on Chemoprophylaxis and Treatment of Malaria for MAG) and the EXCO of SASTM (South African Society of Travel Medicine).
Professor Blumberg is a medical microbiologist, a travel health and infectious disease specialist, and head of the Travel Health Unit at the NICD (NHLS). She is also a member of MAG.
Professor Barnes is a clinical pharmacologist in the Department of Medicine at UCT, and a member of MAG.
Professor Maharaj is Director of the Malaria Research Unit of the MRC, and a member of MAG and MEG.
Dr Benson is the DoH Cluster Manager for Communicable Diseases and Chairperson of the Multi-sectoral National Outbreak Response Team.
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The House on Friday failed to pass an $867 billion farm bill after conservatives withheld their support as part of a simmering internal fight over immigration. The vote was 198-213, with 30 Republicans joining 183 Democrats in voting against the bill. Here's what you need to know:
Food Stamps Are Also Part of the Farm Bill: "The program was added in the 1970s as a way to persuade urban lawmakers to vote for an expensive safety net for farmers," NPR explains. "And for decades, it worked." This time, though, Democrats opposed the farm bill because it included changes to the food stamps program, including new work requirements for beneficiaries. The bill would have required adults to spend 20 hours a week either working or participating in job training in order to receive benefits. People who failed to meet the requirements could be locked out of the program for up to three years.
Conservatives Also Saw This as a Chance to Cut Spending: Conservatives objected to the amount of spending on food stamps and some groups on the right argued that the work requirements didn't go far enough. Conservatives also criticized other provisions in the sweeping bill, noting that much of the farm bill has nothing to do with farms. Last year, 40 million people used food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The federal government spent about $70 billion on food stamps and other food assistance programs.
President Trump Supported the Bill: He had tweeted his support for the farm bill on Thursday, and the White House on Friday said it was disappointed in the result of the vote and "hopes the House can resolve any remaining issues in order to achieve strong work requirements and support our nation's agricultural community," according to NPR.
The Future of the Bill Is Unclear: The current farm bill expires September 30, so there's still some time for another vote. "Republican leaders are discussing ways to bring it up again," NPR reports. "A revote could hinge on whether GOP leaders agree to a vote on a controversial immigration bill that many Republican moderates oppose. Those members, many running for re-election in competitive districts, are pressing, instead, for a vote on a measure that gives a path to citizenship for children of undocumented workers." The Senate is working on a different version of the farm bill, since the House bill would stand no chance of garnering the bipartisan support needed to pass there.
Republican Leaders Still Have Difficulty Wrangling Their Members: Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had told reporters before the vote that the bill would pass, CNN reported. Republican leaders had promised to hold votes on immigration bills, including a hard-line version conservatives favor, in June. But that wasn't enough to placate conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus, who wanted an immediate immigration vote. "This is your periodic reminder that the House is ungovernable for Republicans without placating the Freedom Caucus, which gets its way because it's willing to do stuff like this," Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur tweeted. "Plan B is to work with Democrats, which is even more hazardous for leadership." House Speaker Paul Ryan has struggled to overcome those internal divisions just as John Boehner did — and it's sure to be a challenge for McCarthy or any other Republican who hopes to succeed Ryan.


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DURHAM — Standing backstage at the Verizon Wireless Arena watching Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart having just gone into the very piece, "Sleigh Ride," he was there to conduct, Oyster River Middle School jazz band instructor, Dave Ervin, let his mind wander to what it would be like if he had to conduct the piece at Symphony Hall in Boston.
After all, the show in Manchester was the only one scheduled for the season. And being named WERZ's Music Teacher of the Year for 2012, Ervin was to be guest conductor for part of that very performance.
He had researched myriad ways to interpret the popular holiday classic by Leroy Anderson so as to have some options when he stood in a spot he never imagined — conducting the Boston Pops.
Upon loud applause from the audience, Ervin did his own rendition of "Sleigh Ride" following Lockhardt's.
"It was really super fun for me. I didn't even know about it," he said of the contest held by local radio station 107.1 WERZ.
Ervin had only learned about his competing in the contest about two weeks before a winner was announced and said he was glad it wasn't a longer time frame that he had to deal with the anticipation.
He compared the feeling, the excitement, and the speed with which everything happened as being similar to a parent pulling their child out of school one day and announcing a trip to Disney World.
"It was wild," he said.
Two weeks and 600 votes from a supportive community later, he stood before revered musicians.
He found out he was nominated by at least two of his students, all of whom, he said, are very proud of him for emerging as the winner.
"It was just so much fun conducting the Boston Pops," he said.
He wasn't quite sure what to expect when he took the stage at the Verizon Wireless Arena in December. An assistant had been assigned to him to help the evening run smoothly.
But when Lockhart didn't skip a beat from one piece to the next, Ervin began a mental scramble to wonder what would be next.
In an email he wrote to Foster's Daily Democrat, he said, "I stood in the wing calmly awaiting for the moment of my life."
He said Lockhart's antics and relaxed method of handling the goof — conducting "Sleigh Ride" himself put him at ease.
"As Keith approached, he looked at me with a sudden panicked expression, but he never slowed for a single step, circling past me and around the percussion section just in time to crack the whip in perfect cue to the music." Ervin described. "He then bolted past me back to the podium. As he continued to conduct he gave me an eye-twinkling glance, as if to say, 'I've got it all figured out ...' I took another breath and relaxed again."
Within moments, he was standing before the group of musicians — and Lockhardt himself — about to conduct the same song in his own way.
"As the song began, I remembered some of the more adventurous versions I had listened to in my research, and decided to follow their lead," he said.
He said he was unsure at first whether the group would follow his lead, but with a confident smile from a flautist, his doubts disappeared.
"There's always this pull and take," he said between conductors and the musicians who make up the band.
"You never really know what kind of control you're going to have," he said. "Orchestras are infamous for not agreeing with the conductor."
Ervin said he was perfectly happy to just go stand in front of them.
But the musicians respected the man before them and his knowledge. In that moment, he knew he had made allies with the performers who would play to his direction.
"When I looked up to cue the percussion, whose eyes did I meet but Keith's, and he snapped his whip as a cloud of confetti rained down upon him. Twelve measures before the jazzy chorus of the song I made my move, speeding the song up with a molto stringendo, pushing the tempo measure by measure," he described via email.
Beyond the emotional and mental thrill of being conductor of the Boston Pops, Ervin said the auditory experience when surrounded by a live orchestra "is just remarkable."
"To be right in the middle of the music when it's happening is surprisingly thrilling," he said.
At ORMS, the 116 seventh- and eighth-grade students who make up his jazz band studio orchestra have a great time, he said, replicating music from a variety of periods in a very exact way.
Every morning at 7:20, before the first bell for class sounds, students meet with Ervin in the music room, the same place they meet for two hours each Sunday, and where many spend lunch breaks during the school day just practicing and playing music.
"It's a giant commitment," he said.
Watching him lead, especially his latest stint as Boston Pops conductor, also inspires the students.
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A bur oak tree growing in the parking lot of the River House on the Texas State University campus is at critical risk of failure and will be removed on Feb. 11.
Concerns about the tree arose in January 2011 when Texas State grounds staff discovered a fungus growing at its base. The university hired Bartlett Tree Experts to examine the tree and make recommendations for its long term management.
The fungus was identified as a type of polypore, which is associated with root decay. Additionally, Bartlett arborists determined the bur oak and, to a lesser extent, two nearby live oaks were being adversely affected by the gravel parking lot at the River House. The bur oak grows in the parking lot and the live oaks are immediately adjacent.
"The parking lot was originally built in the 1930s when the River House was constructed as an American Legion hall," said Nancy Nusbaum, associate vice president for planning at Texas State. "For more than half a century, their root systems have likely been enduring compacted soils, reduced water infiltration and overall substandard conditions for proper root growth."
Discussions between the university and the city of San Marcos began in February 2011 concerning the relocation of the parking lot. A new lot is currently being designed and work is expected to begin in May. It will be located behind the River House along C.M. Allen Parkway.
While relocating the parking lot will result in a healthier habitat for the live oak trees, a thorough structural examination of the bur oak conducted in March 2011 using sound wave and resistograph technology revealed significant decay and that the tree was at critical risk of failure. Additional core sampling of the lower trunk and selected buttress roots conducted in December 2011 confirmed the earlier findings about the tree.
It was determined that relocating the parking lot would not save the bur oak, and a report from Bartlett recommended its removal because it poses "a hazard to life and property."
The technical reports on the bur oak evaluation and assessment are available here. According to representatives of the Texas Forest Service who have participated in the examination of the bur oak and live oaks, the bur oak is not thelegendary "Kissing Oak" linked to Sam Houston when he made a campaign stop in San Marcos while running for governor in 1857.
That tree is believed to have been a live oak – and may be one of the two live oaks adjacent to the River House parking lot. There is also speculation that the "Kissing Oak" may actually refer to a grove of live oaks that grew at the site. That grove is now represented by the two remaining live oaks at the edge of the parking lot.
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A Supreme Court Justice, during the oral arguments in the cases of Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi, asks how the Court can be certain that government interrogators are not abusing detainees. Deputy Solicitor General Paul Clement answers that the court will have to "trust the executive to make the kind of quintessential military judgments that are involved in things like that." [First, 6/2004 ] The government's legal strategy is so inflexible in part because of Vice President Cheney, who through his lawyer David Addington refuses to allow the Justice Department to budge from its intransigent position. For months, Solicitor General Theodore Olson and his deputy, Clement, have pled for modest shifts in policy that would bolster their arguments in court. Hamdi has languished in a Navy brig for two and a half years without a hearing or a lawyer. British citizen Shafiq Rasul has been held under similar conditions at Guantanamo for even longer (see November 28, 2001 and January 11, 2002-April 30, 2002). Olson says that Cheney's position—the president has unlimited authority to order the indefinite detention of anyone suspected of terrorist activity without benefit of counsel or any judiciary intervention—would be easier to argue in court if he could "show them that you at least have some system of due process in place" to ensure against wrongful detention, according to a senior Justice Department official familiar with the issue. But Addington wins the argument, overriding Olson and the Justice Department by his arguments that any such retreat would restrict the freedom of future presidents and open the door to further lawsuits. The Supreme Court will find against Cheney in both the Hamdi (see June 28, 2004) and Rasul (see June 28, 2004) cases. Olson will resign as solicitor general 11 days later. [Washington Post, 6/25/2007]
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, David S. Addington, Jose Padilla, Paul Clement, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, Theodore ("Ted") Olson, Shafiq Rasul, Yaser Esam Hamdi, US Supreme Court
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives
David Hicks. [Source: Associated Press]In the case of Rasul v. Bush, involving Guantanamo detainees Shafiq Rasul, Mamdouh Habib, David Hicks, and Asif Iqbal, the Supreme Court holds in a 6-3 ruling that the US exercises "complete jurisdiction and control" over Guantanamo Bay, and thus, that the Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their detentions before a judge. Under the habeas corpus statute, Justice John Paul Stevens writes for the majority that "aliens held at the base, no less than American citizens, are entitled to invoke the federal courts' authority." [Supreme Court opinion on writ of certiorari. Shafiq Rasul, et al. v. George W. Bush, et al., 6/28/2004] It is unclear whether the court's ruling is intended to extend to detainees held in other parts of the world, but given the court's reasoning, it appears that decision applies to detainees both in Guantanamo and elsewhere. [New York Times, 6/29/2004] Conservative Dissent - The three dissenting justices are conservatives William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. Scalia says the decision is "an irresponsible overturning of settled law in a matter of extreme importance to our forces currently in the field." He acknowledges that the location of Guantanamo has in fact been intended to keep detainees outside of the reach of the judiciary. "Today, the court springs a trap on the executive, subjecting Guantanamo Bay to the oversight of federal courts even though it has never before been thought to be within their jurisdiction, and thus making it a foolish place to have housed alien wartime detainees," Scalia writes. Stevens writes that it does not matter what status the Guantanamo inmates have regarding the question of whether they should have access to a US court. "What is presently at stake is only whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to determine the legality of the executive's potentially indefinite detention of individuals who claim to be wholly innocent of wrongdoing." And this, he writes, they do. The case is subsequently sent back to a lower court to consider the prisoners' claims. [Guardian, 6/28/2004] Side-Stepping the Ruling - The media characterizes the decision as a rebuke for the Bush administration, which had argued that the courts have no right to interfere in the commander in chief's decisions involving wartime policies. However, the decision says nothing about what rights the detainees might have once they get inside a courtroom, and therefore actually places little real restraint on the government. White House officials will decide that the detainees have no rights in the courtroom whatsoever—although the Court has ruled that they can file lawsuits, those lawsuits must be dismissed out of hand because the detainees have no right to actually present a case. The Republican-led Congress will later pass a law stripping courts of jurisdiction over Guantanamo lawsuits. [Savage, 2007, pp. 192]
Entity Tags: William Rehnquist, Shafiq Rasul, Mamdouh Habib, Antonin Scalia, David Hicks, Asif Iqbal, John Paul Stevens, Clarence Thomas
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives, Civil Liberties
Four days after the Supreme Court decision (see June 28, 2004), lawyers representing nine Guantanamo prisoners file five lawsuits in the US District Court in Washington D.C., arguing that their detentions are unlawful and unconstitutional, and seeking their release. [Reuters, 7/2/2004]
Entity Tags: US Supreme Court
In response to the Supreme Court's ruling a week before (see June 28, 2004), Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz signs an Order Establishing a Combatant Status Review Tribunal thereby establishing "Combatant Status Review Tribunals" to review each Guantanamo detainee and decide whether the prisoner is an unlawful enemy combatant. [US Department of Defense, 7/7/2004 ] The tribunals will use the following definition of an unlawful combatant: "Any individual who was part of supporting Taliban or al-Qaeda forces or was associated with forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. This includes any person who has committed belligerent acts or directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces."
[New York Times, 8/24/2004]
Entity Tags: Paul Wolfowitz, Taliban
The mobile trailer where Combatant Status Review Tribunals are held. [Source: US Navy]At Guantanamo, the first of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (see July 7, 2004) convenes to determine whether the designations of 585 detainees at Guantanamo as unlawful enemy combatants are just. The hearings were ordered by the Supreme Court which ruled in June that detainees have the right to challenge their detention (see June 28, 2004). The hearings, open to only a small number of reporters, are conducted by three military officers. Each hearing will generally take about two hours. The defendants are not required to cooperate or even be present during the hearings. [New York Times, 8/24/2004] The burden of proof during the tribunal hearings lies with the detainees, although they are hardly in a position to make their case. They are not permitted attorneys to represent their case. Instead, each detainee is assigned a "personal representative," who is a military officer, not a lawyer or advocate. The detainees can be denied information about how, where, and from whom incriminating information about them originates. [New York Times, 8/24/2004] Although the detainees may call witnesses or present evidence, the Los Angeles Times reports that they are rarely permitted to put forward any evidence or offer the testimony of witnesses in their defense. According to the newspaper, their requests are frequently turned down as "irrelevant." Other evidence is often ruled inadmissible. [Los Angeles Times, 11/7/2004] Government prosecutors, however, are permitted to use a wider range of types of evidence than that which is permissible in a US criminal court. According to the order establishing the tribunals: "The Tribunal is not bound by the rules of evidence such as would apply in a court of law. Instead the Tribunal shall be free to consider any information it deems relevant and helpful to a resolution of the issue before it. At the discretion of the Tribunal, for example, it may consider hearsay evidence, taking into account the reliability of such evidence in the circumstances." [US Department of Defense, 7/7/2004 ]
Salim Ahmed Hamdan. [Source: Public domain]US District Judge James Robertson rules that the Combatant Status Review Tribunal being held at the Guantanamo base in Cuba to determine the status of detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan is unlawful and cannot continue. At the time of the decision, Hamdan is before the Guantanamo military commission. [Washington Post, 11/9/2004; USA Today, 11/9/2004] The commission system, as set up by White House lawyers David Addington and Timothy Flanigan three years before (see Late October 2001), gives accused terrorists such as Hamdan virtually no rights; in author and reporter Charlie Savage's words, "the [Bush] administration had crafted rules that would make it easy for prosecutors to win cases." [Savage, 2007, pp. 195-196] Violation of Geneva Conventions - Robertson, in his 45-page opinion, says the government should have conducted special hearings to determine whether detainees qualified for prisoner-of-war protections under the Geneva Conventions at the time of capture. [USA Today, 11/9/2004] He says that the Bush administration violated the Geneva Conventions when it designated prisoners as enemy combatants, denied them POW protections, and sent them to Guantanamo. [Boston Globe, 11/9/2004] The Combatant Status Review Tribunals that are currently being held in response to a recent Supreme Court decision (see June 28, 2004) are inadequate, Robertson says, because their purpose is to determine whether detainees are enemy combatants, not POWs, as required by the Third Geneva Convention. [USA Today, 11/9/2004] Rejects Claims of Presidential Power - Robertson also rejects the administration's claim that the courts must defer to the president in a time of war. "The president is not a 'tribunal,'" the judge says. [USA Today, 11/9/2004] Robertson, a Clinton appointee, thus squarely opposes both the president's military order of November 13, 2001 (see November 13, 2001) establishing the possibility of trial by military tribunal, and his executive order of February 7, 2002 (see February 7, 2002) declaring that the Geneva Conventions do not to apply to Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners. "The government has asserted a position starkly different from the positions and behavior of the United States in previous conflicts," Robertson writes, "one that can only weaken the United States' own ability to demand application of the Geneva Conventions to Americans captured during armed conflicts abroad." [USA Today, 11/9/2004; Washington Post, 11/9/2004; Boston Globe, 11/9/2004] Orders Military Courts-Martial - Robertson orders that until the government conducts a hearing for Hamdan before a competent tribunal in accordance with the Third Geneva Conventions, he can only be tried in courts-martial, according to the same long-established military rules that apply to trials for US soldiers. [Washington Post, 11/9/2004; Boston Globe, 11/9/2004] Robertson's ruling is the first by a federal judge to assert that the commissions are illegal. [Washington Post, 11/9/2004] Hearings Immediately Recessed - When word of Robertson's ruling comes to Guantanamo, Colonel Peter Brownback, presiding over a pretrial hearing for Hamdan, immediately gavels the hearing closed, declaring an "indefinite recess" for the tribunal. [Savage, 2007, pp. 195-196] Ruling Applauded by Civil Libertarians, Rejected by Bush Lawyers - Anthony Romero, director of the American Civil Liberties Union; Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice; and Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, all applaud Robertson's ruling. [Boston Globe, 11/9/2004] The Bush administration rejects the court's ruling and announces its intention to submit a request to a higher court for an emergency stay and reversal of the decision. "We vigorously disagree.… The judge has put terrorism on the same legal footing as legitimate methods of waging war," Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo says. "The Constitution entrusts to the president the responsibility to safeguard the nation's security. The Department of Justice will continue to defend the president's ability and authority under the Constitution to fulfill that duty." [Washington Post, 11/9/2004; Boston Globe, 11/9/2004] He also says that the commission rules were "carefully crafted to protect America from terrorists while affording those charged with violations of the laws of war with fair process." [Boston Globe, 11/9/2004] Ruling May Affect Other Detainees - Though the ruling technically only applies to Hamdan, his civilian attorney, Neal Katyal, says it could affect other detainees. "The judge's order is designed only to deal with Mr. Hamdan's case," Katyal says. "But the spirit of it… extends more broadly to potentially everything that is going on here at Guantanamo." [USA Today, 11/9/2004]
Entity Tags: Mark Corallo, Neal Katyal, James Robertson, George W. Bush, Anthony D. Romero, Peter Brownback, Charlie Savage, US Supreme Court, American Civil Liberties Union, Salim Ahmed Hamdan
During a hearing before US District Judge Joyce Hens Green, the government's attorney maintains that Guantanamo detainees "have no constitutional rights enforceable in this court." This statement by Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Brian Boyle appears to be in flagrant contravention with the Supreme Court's June 28 ruling (see June 28, 2004). Judge Green lays out a number of hypothetical cases before Boyle. For example, she asks: "If a little old lady in Switzerland writes checks to what she thinks is a charitable organization for Afghanistan orphans, but it's really supporting… al-Qaeda, is she an enemy combatant?" Possibly, Boyle answers, but it would depend on her intentions. "It would be up to the military to decide as to what to believe." Boyle also holds that the military can detain a Muslim teacher simply because he has a student with a family with connections to the Taliban, or someone who failed to report suspicions that his cousin might be a member of al-Qaeda. [Washington Post, 12/2/2004]
Entity Tags: Brian Boyle, Joyce Hens Green
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District Judge Richard J. Leon dismisses a lawsuit by seven Guantanamo detainees challenging their detention: a French citizen, an Algerian, and five dual Bosnian-Algerian detainees. He rules that foreign nationals captured and detained outside the US have no recognizable constitutional rights [Reuters, 1/20/2005; BBC, 1/20/2005] and that last year's Supreme Court ruling (see June 28, 2004) does not entitle Guantanamo detainees with the right to sue in US courts. Foreign citizens, captured and detained outside the US, according to Judge Leon, have no rights under the Constitution or international law enforceable in US courts. [Los Angeles Times, 1/31/2005] "To the extent that these non-resident detainees have rights," Leon writes, "they are subject to both the military review process already in place and the laws Congress has passed defining the appropriate scope of military conduct towards the detainees." He adds that the "extent to which these rights and conditions should be modified or extended is a matter for the political branches to determine," not the judicial branch. "[T]he petitioners are asking this court to do something no federal court has done before: evaluate the legality of the executive's capture and detention of non-resident aliens, outside the United States, during a time of armed conflict." [Reuters, 1/20/2005]
Entity Tags: Richard J. Leon, US Supreme Court, US Congress
US District Judge Joyce Hens Green rules that Guantanamo detainees may legally challenge their detention in US courts as a violation of their constitutional due process rights. She says that last year's Supreme Court decision (see June 28, 2004) made it clear that detainees are entitled to constitutional rights. Her ruling flatly contradicts the decision of another judge who ruled on a similar case two weeks before (see January 20, 2005). [Los Angeles Times, 1/31/2005; Washington Post, 1/31/2005] She also rules that the Combatant Status Review Tribunals being held in Guantanamo are unconstitutional and "violate long-standing principles of due process…." According to Green, the tribunals deny detainees a fair trial to which they are constitutionally entitled. She found that the tribunals relied heavily on reported confessions of detainees despite widespread allegations and some evidence that detainees had been abused during interrogations. In reviewing classified material on the tribunals' decisions, she notes that there were many cases in which the prosecution failed to provide any evidence that the detainee was ever engaged in combat or terrorism. The tribunals, Green writes, "violate long-standing principles of due process by permitting the detention of individuals based solely on their membership in anti-American organizations rather than on actual activities supporting the use of violence or harm against the United States."
[Washington Post, 1/31/2005] Green also rules that Taliban members are entitled to prisoners of war status because they were fighting in the name of the Afghan government when they were captured. [Washington Post, 1/31/2005]
Entity Tags: US Supreme Court, Joyce Hens Green
Exercising its new authority under the just-signed Military Commissions Act (MCA—see October 17, 2006), the Bush administration notifies the US District Court in Washington that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider 196 habeas corpus petitions filed by Guantanamo detainees. Many of these petitions cover multiple detainees. According to the MCA, "no court, justice, or judge" can consider those petitions or other actions related to treatment or imprisonment filed by anyone designated as an enemy combatant, now or in the future. The MCA is already being challenged as unconstitutional by several lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees. The MCA goes directly against two recent Supreme Court cases, Rasul v. Bush (see June 28, 2004) and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (see June 30, 2006), which provide detainees with habeas corpus and other fundamental legal rights. Many Congressional members and legal experts say that the anti-habeas provisions of the MCA are unconstitutional. For instance, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) notes that the Constitution says the right of any prisoner to challenge detention "shall not be suspended" except in cases of "rebellion or invasion." [Washington Post, 10/20/2006] Law professor Joseph Margulies, who is involved in the detainee cases, says the administration's persistence on the issue "demonstrates how difficult it is for the courts to enforce [the clause] in the face of a resolute executive branch that is bound and determined to resist it." Vincent Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents many of the detainees, expects the legal challenges to the law will eventually wind up before the Supreme Court. [Washington Post, 10/20/2006]
Entity Tags: Center for Constitutional Rights, Arlen Specter, Bush administration (43), Vincent Warren, Military Commissions Act, Joseph Margulies
Timeline Tags: Civil Liberties
Aziz Huq. [Source: American Prospect]Aziz Huq, an author and the director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, writes that the Protect America Act (PAA-see August 5, 2007) came about as a result of what he calls "the most recent example of the national security waltz, a three-step administration maneuver for taking defeat and turning it into victory." Step one is a court defeat for the administration, for example regarding detainees at Guantanamo (see June 28, 2004), or the overruling of military commissions in 2006 (see June 30, 2006). The second step, which comes weeks or months later, is an announcement that the ruling has created a security crisis and must be "remedied" through immediate legislation. The third and final step is the administration pushing legislation through Congress, such as the Detainee Treatment Act (see December 15, 2005) or the Military Commissions Act, that, Huq writes, "not only undoes the good court decision but also inflicts substantial damage to the infrastructure of accountability." Step One: FISC Refuses to Approve NSA's Surveillance Program - In January 2007, the administration announced that it was submitting the NSA's domestic surveillance program to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the secret court that issues FISA warrants for surveillance (see May 1, 2007). This was due to pending court cases threatening to rule the program in violation of FISA and the Fourth Amendment; the administration wanted to forestall, or at least sidestep, those upcoming rulings. In June, FISC refused to approve parts of the NSA program that involved monitoring overseas communications that passed through US telecom switches. Since a tremendous amount of overseas communications are routed through US networks, this ruling jeopardized the NSA's previous ability to wiretap such communications virtually at will without a warrant. The administration objected to the NSA having to secure such warrants. Step Two: The Drumbeat Begins - Months later, the drumbeat for new legislation to give the NSA untrammeled rights to monitor "overseas" communications, which not only traveled through US networks, but often began or ended with US citizens, began with appearances in the right-wing media by administration supporters, where they insisted that the FISC ruling was seriously hampering the NSA's ability to garner much-needed intelligence on terrorist plots against the US. The White House and Congressional Republicans drafted legislation giving the NSA what it wanted, and presented it during the last week of the Congressional session, minimizing the time needed for scrutiny of the legislation as well as reducing the time available for meaningful debate. Step Three: Passing a Law With Hidden Teeth - The legislation that would become the Protect America Act was carefully written by Bush officials, and would go much farther than giving the NSA the leeway it needed to wiretap US citizens. Instead, as Huq writes, "the Protect America Act is a dramatic, across-the-board expansion of government authority to collect information without judicial oversight." Democrats believed they had negotiated a deal with the administration's Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, to limit the law to addressing foreign surveillance wiretaps, but, Huq writes, "the White House torpedoed that deal and won a far broader law." The law removes any real accountability over domestic surveillance by either Congress or the judiciary. Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi says that the PAA provides "unlimited access to currently protected personal information that is already accessible through an oversight procedure." The law is part of the administration's continual attempts to "eviscerat[e]" the checks and balances that form the foundation of US democracy. Ramifications - The law includes the provision that warrantless surveillance can be "directed at a person reasonably believed to be located outside of the United States." Huq writes that this is a tremendously broad and vague standard that allows "freewheeling surveillance of Americans' international calls and e-mails." He adds: "The problem lies in the words 'directed at.' Under this language, the NSA could decide to 'direct' its surveillance at Peshawar, Pakistan—and seize all US calls going to and from there.… Simply put, the law is an open-ended invitation to collect Americans' international calls and e-mails." The law does not impose any restrictions on the reason for surveillance. National security concerns are no longer the standard for implementing surveillance of communications. And the phrase "reasonably believe" is uncertain. The provisions for oversight are, Huq writes, "risibly weak." Surveillance need only be explained by presentations by the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General to FISC, which has little room to invalidate any surveillance, and furthermore will not be informed of any specific cases of surveillance. As for Congress, the Attorney General only need inform that body of "incidents of noncompliance" as reported by the administration. Congress must rely on the administration to police itself; it cannot demand particulars or examine documentation for itself. The law expires in six months, but, Huq notes, that deadline comes up in the middle of the 2008 presidential campaign, with all the pressures that entails. And the law allows "the NSA to continue wielding its new surveillance powers for up to a year afterward." The law, Huq writes, "does not enhance security-related surveillance powers. Rather, it allows the government to spy when there is no security justification. And it abandons all but the pretense of oversight." [Nation, 8/7/2007]
Entity Tags: Mike McConnell, Detainee Treatment Act, Bush administration (43), Aziz Huq, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Military Commissions Act, National Security Agency, US Supreme Court, Philip Giraldi, Protect America Act
Jameel Jaffer. [Source: ACLU (.org)]The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) releases three heavily redacted documents detailing the Bush administration's use of brutal torture methods against detainees in US custody. The documents are turned over to the ACLU by the CIA after a judge orders their release (see May 27, 2008). "These documents supply further evidence, if any were needed, that the Justice Department authorized the CIA to torture prisoners in its custody," says ACLU official Jameel Jaffer. "The Justice Department twisted the law, and in some cases ignored it altogether, in order to permit interrogators to use barbaric methods that the US once prosecuted as war crimes." One document is an August 2002 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo authorizing the CIA to use particular interrogation methods, including waterboarding (see August 1, 2002). The memo states that interrogation methods that cause severe mental pain do not amount to torture under US law unless they cause "harm lasting months or even years after the acts were inflicted upon the prisoners." The other two documents, from 2003 and 2004, are memos from the CIA related to requests for legal advice from the Justice Department. The 2003 memo shows that the OLC authorized the agency to use what it called "enhanced interrogation techniques"; the memo shows that when those techniques were used, the CIA documented, among other things, "the nature and duration of each such technique employed" and "the identities of those present." The 2004 memo shows that CIA interrogators were told that the Justice Department had concluded that waterboarding and other "harsh interrogation methods" did not constitute torture. The memo also advised CIA interrogators that, in light of the Supreme Court's ruling that courts can decide whether foreign citizens could be held at Guantanamo (see June 28, 2004), they should be aware that their actions might possibly be subject to judicial review. Jaffer says: "While the documents released today do provide more information about the development and implementation of the Bush administration's torture policies, even a cursory glance at the documents shows that the administration continues to use 'national security' as a shield to protect government officials from embarrassment, criticism, and possible criminal prosecution. Far too much information is still being withheld." [American Civil Liberties Union, 7/24/2008]
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Jameel Jaffer, Bush administration (43), Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ), Central Intelligence Agency
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WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives has approved a $50.7 billion measure for Superstorm Sandy victims.
The 241-180 vote sends the measure to the Senate which is expected to take it up next Tuesday.
Northeastern lawmakers from both parties have been pressing for the aid for more than two months.
The Oct. 29 storm is blamed for 140 deaths and pounded the Atlantic coast with hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were the hardest hit.


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ECB surprises with rate cuts, new stimulus plan
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European economy needs help. Most people didn't expect it would arrive quite this quickly.
The European Central Bank cut interest rates Thursday and announced a program to pump money into the economy and stimulate lending by buying bundles of bank loans.
The majority of analysts didn't think the ECB would move this soon. The reason for the stepped-up action: the eurozone's top monetary authority is worried. The 18 countries that use the euro showed no economic growth in the second quarter after four quarters of meager expansion. Inflation is only 0.3 percent annually, well below the ECB's goal of just under 2 percent and another sign of economic weakness. And inflation expectations are slipping.
Here's a look at what the bank did and how much it might help.
ZEROING IN: The ECB nudged its benchmark interest rate about as close to zero as it can get, from a record low 0.15 percent to 0.05 percent. This rate determines what banks pay when they borrow from the ECB. Usually, this is the Big Kahuna: the rate that determines the cost of short-term credit all across the economy.
But the economy is so slack that there's not a lot of lending going on.
And rate cuts have less effect as rates get near zero. So this is mostly symbolic, and a statement of resolve to do what's necessary.
CREDIT TAP: The ECB went beyond the benchmark rate and turned to an unconventional step to push for more credit. Draghi said the ECB is ready to buy asset-backed securities, or ABS — bonds based on bank loans such as mortgage loans, car loans and credit to businesses.
Most people outside the financial industry first heard about asset-backed securities when one variety — complex bonds based on mortgages — confused investors and ravaged the banking system in 2007-2008. Yet it's precisely this kind of bond — the simpler, less risky ones — that the ECB wants to see more of.
By buying these assets, the ECB gives banks incentives to make the loans from which they're constructed. That's key in Europe, because most companies get the credit they need to operate from banks, not by issuing bonds as they do in the U.S.
Ultimately, it's a way of using financial markets to make more money available for companies and consumers.
The amount of ABS in Europe's markets shrank from 1.2 trillion euros ($1.6 trillion) in 2008 to 239 billion euros in 2013. The hope is that more bonds will be issued if banks know there's a ready buyer for ABS. That would be the ECB.
NOT THERE YET: The ECB stopped short of large-scale purchases of government bonds, or full-scale quantitative easing. The U.S. Federal Reserve has done that, and watched unemployment fall steadily — although how much credit the bond purchases should get is disputed.
Government bonds are more abundant and mean a chance for even more stimulus. But buying them is more complicated in an 18-country currency union.
Analyst Marco Valli at UniCredit says, "The ECB will (reluctantly) get involved into full-blown QE only in a worst-case scenario" where inflation expectations sag further.
THE RIGHT MEDICINE? It's hard to gauge what impact Thursday's measures will have on the economy over time. The ECB, for one thing, has not said how much it would spend on the program.
"Little is known about just how many assets the ECB will be able to buy and what impact this will have on the economy," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.
Thursday's steps could help if they drive down the euro's exchange rate. Rate cuts can weaken a currency — and the euro sagged to $1.2995 after Thursday's news, its first time below $1.30 since July 2013. That will help European exporters by making their goods cheaper overseas. It's also good news for the ECB, as a weaker euro can help raise the rate of inflation by making imports more expensive.
The market reaction is in part due to the surprise factor. Most analysts thought the ECB would wait a few months to see what effect an earlier raft of stimulus measures announced in June would have. Back then, the ECB cut rates and said it would offer more cheap loans to banks tied to their lending to businesses. The first of those loans are to be allocated on Sept. 18.
HELP NEEDED: Draghi was adamant that everything the ECB is doing won't help if governments won't get into the act as well.
Among the more important reforms is cutting rules limiting hiring and firing to make it easier for companies to take on workers. Others include cutting high taxes and reducing the paperwork and bureaucratic permissions needed to start a business.
As Draghi put it: "We can provide as much monetary stimulus as we want, as much availability of credit as we want, but if the person who has planned to use this credit for a new business has to wait eight months before he or she can open this new business, and then once she does it, she has to pay lots of taxes, then she will not apply for credit."


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The high point of Armond White's Greenberg-iad is also the one statement that approaches actual criticism: "I liked Harris Savides' image of Stiller barely swimming across a pool—possibly an homage to my joke that Baumbach was the rat at the bottom of Margot at the Wedding's pool." This man walks among us. (NY Press)
… and J. Hoberman shrugs the whole tirade off. Is this still fun? (VV)
In related news: "The abiding joy [of writing film criticism] comes of saying what you've experienced so truthfully and so well that strangers get your meaning whether they agree or not." It's an elusive joy, trust us. (Scanners)


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Latest $18 million recovery is from state's biggest law firm, Holland & Knight
Investors in the Arthur Nadel Ponzi scheme are a long way from getting all their money back, but they are faring much better than other local scam victims.
Their lot improved considerably Tuesday, when a pending $25 million settlement -- $18.2 million, excluding legal and other fees -- from the giant Holland & Knight law firm was announced.
When that deal is finalized, likely by year-end, the Nadel receivership hopes to dish out another $20 million to investors.
That would mean hundreds of victims would have recovered about 30 percent of the $162 million collectively lost in Nadel's swindle -- with more money potentially to follow.
By contrast, investors in the region's other recent Ponzi scams have yet to see a dime -- a fact more typical of returns from similar financial crimes.
A bankruptcy trustee in Beau Diamond's $37 million con continues to gather assets to benefit that scam's nearly 200 investors, while no funds have been recovered in John and Marian Morgan's $28 million fraud.
Sarasota attorney Morgan Bentley, who represents some Nadel victims, remains optimistic total will go even higher.
"With some luck, some good sales on the remaining assets, and maybe some more returns of other assets, the 40 percent mark is definitely in sight," he said.
But it is too early to speculate whether Nadel receiver Burton Wiand will come close to recovering the money the receiver in another scam did.
Investors in Brasota Mortgage Co., a Bradenton company that collapsed in 2004, lost $137 million in a pyramid scheme. A court-appointed receiver ultimately returned 65 cents on the dollar.
For Holland & Knight, settling the Nadel case might have been politically and financially expedient.
Entangled for three years in lawsuits over legal work it performed for Nadel, the firm agreed to pay to resolve those suits and to erect a barrier against future claims.
The 44-year-old firm -- Florida's largest -- admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement.
"This was an effort by the law firm to put the entire Art Nadel controversy behind us, ending claims by the investors and any future lawsuits," general counsel Michael Chapman said in an interview on Wednesday.
Wiand, the receiver, said in preparing the private placement memos for Nadel's Scoop Management hedge funds, Holland & Knight missed "red flags" that could have exposed the scam. "I believe that Holland & Knight's conduct, in part, permitted Nadel to accomplish his fraudulent scheme," Wiand said.
Chapman expressed no concern over potential damage to his firm's image, saying it has a "well-earned reputation" for service to clients and its communities.
Other firms targeted
Law firms with large malpractice insurance policies have been the target of investors in fraud schemes before. In July, Greenburg Traurig LLP, a global firm based in Miami, agreed to pay $61 million to settle a suit brought in Arizona by investors burned in a Ponzi scheme. They had accused the firm of creating a "facade of legitimacy."
Defending such lawsuits also can be time-consuming and expensive. Holland & Knight cited "the substantial costs and investment of firm resources" in its decision to settle.
Derek Byrd, a defense attorney and president of the Sarasota County Bar Association, said Holland & Knight will likely withstand any issues from being associated with Nadel.
"Generally speaking, if there are allegations that a law firm has been negligent or committed malpractice, it's going to tarnish their reputation," Byrd said. "In this instance, Holland & Knight has such a strong reputation that I doubt this will affect them nearly as much as it would any other firm I can think of."
Jeralie Walters of Ocala, who with her husband, David, lost $800,000 in Nadel's scheme, said she is happy the firm will pay investors. "I think they were at fault, and they certainly deserved going after," she said.
Investors with approved claims will share in the $18.2 million, with the rest will going to Tampa law firm Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns, which took the case on a contingency basis.
Bentley was not surprised Holland & Knight settled before a trial scheduled for October. But the deal fell short of his expectations: $35 million to $40 million.
"Nevertheless, this puts a lot of cash into the receivership right away and avoids a lot of time and money trying to get it," he said.
The settlement requires a federal judge to issue a "bar order" preventing anyone else from suing the firm over losses from the hedge funds that Nadel operated with partners Neil and Christopher Moody.
Investors who filed one such lawsuit in 2009 seeking class-action status have agreed to drop their case, Wiand said.
A second suit, filed by 10 investors in 2009 in Hillsborough County Circuit Court, has been dormant for two years. Patrick McNamara, the Tampa attorney now handling the case, said he did not know if his clients would agree to the settlement.
Sarasota resident John Cloud, one of those plaintiffs, said he would not object to closing his case. He will not recover any of the Holland & Knight money because Wiand has determined that he received "false profits" -- more money taken out of the funds than actually put in.
"Technically, I don't get to participate, but I don't want to rain on anyone else's parade," Cloud said.


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Virgin Chairman Sir Richard Branson is not known for the gift of understatement. So when he announces a new platform for online video game delivery, he does it in typical Branson style, saying that it will "do for PC games what iTunes has done for music." Also, it will replicate Second Life.
The new service is a partnership between Virgin Games and Game Domain International, and it will be known as A World of My Own (AWOMO). As a title, this has nothing on "GameFly," for instance, but it does indicate that the service will be more than a simple game launcher; it will be an entire virtual world as well. The apparent idea is that gamers can hang out, stroll around, and then step into the various games they want to play—but all of this will come later. In its first phase, AWOMO will simply offer games, and it promises to do so in record time. Game Domain International claims to have developed a streaming technology that enables gameplay to begin within minutes rather than requiring a lengthy, hours-long download.
They want to do to GameFly (a games-by-mail rental service) what iTunes and MovieLink are trying to do to Netflix: make the process even simpler by offering direct Internet access to the games in question. GameTap already offers such a service, though, so AWOMO will offer extras like tournaments with prizes ranging from a visit to Richard Branson's private island to a trip to the moon (seriously). They're also promising "mega cash prize gaming tournaments."
In its second phase, AWOMO will unveil a virtual reality island with "shops, clubs, restaurants, apartments to rent and beach houses for sale. Cinemas, music venues, sports and even a motor racing circuit are there for the asking." What this has to do with playing PC games is not clear, but the company wants to use the island to generate revenue from advertisers.
Roger Bennett, who used to head the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association, called the new service "the most unique technology that can bring the most potential value to the industry." Gamers will have a chance to check out the claim for themselves when the service launches in the third quarter of this year.


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Michael Young had his chances. So did the rest of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Zack Greinke's outstanding start was wasted Friday night because the Dodgers went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position and stranded 11 overall, losing their NL championship series opener to the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 in 13 innings.
"We had some opportunities out there," cleanup hitter Adrian Gonzalez said. "We didn't come through. I've said it all along: We've got to give our guys three or four runs and we're in control. ... Two runs is definitely not enough."
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly took some heat for removing Gonzalez for speedy pinch-runner Dee Gordon with the score tied in the eighth.
Gordon was erased on a grounder, and Gonzalez's spot in the batting order came up twice more in key situations. Young, who replaced Gonzalez at first base, failed to deliver both times.
Mattingly defended his decision to insert Gordon, saying it was time to take a shot with his legs.
"If we don't use him there and the next guy hits a ball in the gap and he doesn't score there, we're going to say, 'Why didn't you use Dee?'" Mattingly said.
The Dodgers put two on in the ninth, 10th and 11th and came up empty. It was nothing like the division series, when they averaged 6� runs and batted .333 — best ever in an NL postseason series — while beating Atlanta in four games.
Juan Uribe hit an early two-run single but that was it for Los Angeles, which went 13 for 41 (.317) with runners in scoring position against the Braves.
Carlos Beltran capped his latest scintillating postseason performance with an RBI single in the 13th that handed the Dodgers their fourth consecutive defeat in an NLCS opener.
Beltran hit a two-run double in the third inning, then threw out a runner at the plate from right field on Young's shallow fly in the 10th to keep it tied.
Well past midnight at Busch Stadium, Beltran singled into the right-field corner with one out against closer Kenley Jansen to finish a game that took 4 hours, 47 minutes.
"There were a lot of big outs that both teams got tonight," Mattingly said. "If the rest of the series is like this game, it should be a pretty good one."
It was the longest postseason game for the Dodgers since the 1916 World Series, when Babe Ruth pitched all 14 innings to lead the Boston Red Sox past Brooklyn 2-1.
This one also tied for the longest series opener in postseason history, according to STATS. Boston and Cleveland played 13 innings in their 1995 AL division series, with the Indians winning 5-4.
Game 2 is Saturday afternoon and it features a marquee pitching matchup between major league ERA leader Clayton Kershaw and Cardinals rookie Michael Wacha, who has flirted with no-hitters in his last two starts.
Beltran is hitting .345 with 16 home runs, 12 doubles and 34 RBIs in 40 career postseason games. The eight-time All-Star is hoping this year ends with his first trip to the World Series.
Pinch-hitter Daniel Descalso singled with one out in the 13th off rookie Chris Withrow, and Matt Carpenter walked. Jansen relieved and Beltran won it with his hit on a 3-1 count.
Winning pitcher Lance Lynn strengthened his case for a possible Game 4 start with two scoreless innings. Withrow took the loss.
Neither team had much time to exhale before the next game, scheduled to start 14� hours after Descalso crossed the plate.
Greinke struck out 10 in eight innings, allowing just four hits. Cardinals starter Joe Kelly left after the sixth with the score 2-all.
Mark Ellis tripled with one out in the Dodgers 10th. After Hanley Ramirez was intentionally walked, Young followed with a fly ball that Beltran caught in short right field.
Beltran made a strong, one-hop throw home and Ellis crashed into Gold Glove catcher Yadier Molina.
Molina held the ball, but it was hard to tell whether he actually tagged Ellis. On such plays, however, umpires almost always give the benefit to the catcher and call the runner out.
The Dodgers put runners at first and second with two outs in the 11th against John Axford. Pinch-hitter Nick Punto, who played for the Cardinals on their 2011 World Series championship team, struck to end the inning.
Young got another chance in 12th. With runners on first and second, he grounded into an inning-ending double play against Lynn.
Beltran's double in the third barely eluded center fielder Andre Ethier.
Slowed by a sore ankle, Ethier made his first start in this postseason. He appeared to mistime his jump just a bit as he banged into the padded wall.
Beltran's tying double in the third was the only damage against Greinke. He fanned Carpenter, Matt Adams and Pete Kozma twice each and struck out the side in the fifth.
The teams are postseason foes for the first time since a Dodgers sweep in their 2009 division series. It's their first NLCS matchup since 1985, when the Cardinals won in six games behind game-breaking homers from Ozzie Smith and Jack Clark off Tom Niedenfuer.
Kelly got all three outs on strikeouts in the first. The Dodgers left runners on second and third when Gonzalez and Yasiel Puig fanned.
Kershaw started the series clincher against Atlanta on three days' rest Monday and will be on regular rest in Game 2. The left-hander said the media made a big deal of short rest, but not he nor Mattingly.
Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire got a nice hand when he lined up along the third base line during introductions. So did two other former Cardinals, utility men Skip Schumaker and Punto. There was some booing for Greinke, who referred to Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter as a "phony" when Greinke was with the Brewers.
NOTES: Greinke's career best is 15 strikeouts for the Royals on Aug. 25, 2009, against Cleveland. ... It was the longest NLCS game since the New York Mets beat Atlanta 4-3 in 15 innings on Robin Ventura's "grand slam-single" in 1999.
NLCS: Cardinals defeat Dodgers in 13 innings
Michael Young had his chances. So did the rest of the Los Angeles Dodgers.


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