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Here are the batting orders once again:
And here are the rules. One rule addition/clarification: if two consecutive people on a team are AWOL, the person following those two can comment after waiting 2 hours.
Get to it!
Random rantings and ravings about the Los Angeles Dodgers, written by a small consortium of rabid Dodger fans. With occasional comments on baseball, entertainment, pop culture, and life in general.
And they're off!
Here are the batting orders once again:
And here are the rules. One rule addition/clarification: if two consecutive people on a team are AWOL, the person following those two can comment after waiting 2 hours.
Get to it!
About to go into a meeting. Hurry on up guys.
Hmmm...a phantom post before this one. Interesting game you've got going here Sons.
how very strange
Not only where there phantom posts, there were phantom comments!
Did you guys re-post this? I swear I saw a post by FB about a leadoff double that's disappeared!
internet down at work, posting from phone. fellow deltalinas, who am i supposed to post after? loading the main page will take forever
Well, let me follow FB by slapping a single into right and taking a wiiiide turn around first.
fannerman: you follow Greg.
You are after Dusty Baker. But I wouldn't believe me because I'm on Team Flo. Trust or not to Trust.....
Off to class for next 75 mins. sorry Tm Deltalina
Yeah I had to re-post because there were 2 phantom comments I couldn't read. Hopefully that's cleared up and hopefully neither was a comment by either lead-off hitter.
Team Deltalina takes early lead!
Flo is still awaiting leadoff hitter Josh S (at 11:08am Quad can step in), and Deltalina is through their first 2 hitters, now waiting on Scott.
I'm grinding my bat into sawdust right now. Can't wait to get our team started!
at 8:08pm I can be our leadoff hitter, right?
I love that the lower half of our lineup is already here and ready to go!
We need a new manager that wouldn't put all of us at the bottom
Call me Manny because I'm hitting cleanup!!!
Reminds me of Matt Kemp hitting 8th.
Team Flo is now underway!
Calling WDDIM. You're up!
Damn...one minute too soon. Waiting for the clock to tick again. Ok, Go!
Status Update:
Flo: 2. QuadSevens
Deltalina: 4. Wicks
Post updated accordingly...
Did I have to wait until after 11:08? Either way, we should be on 3. WDDIM now.
Oh I see now EK. Your post showed who has already commented for each team. Got it!
Yeah, my post indicated who last commented on each side.
There's still some weird phantom comment stuff going on. Hopefully it doesn't impact the game.
FYI I'm going to post the rules for Round I-B either later today or tomorrow.
I'm here!!
fanerman... in case you're able to read this on your phone, you're up!
Holy crap - we're getting killed!
At 12:08pm, if w.d.d.i.m. hasn't showed up, DunkHawk can keep Team Flo going with a comment.
Same goes with J Steve over at Team Deltalina at 12:25pm.
I just put some pine tar on my mouse and keyboard.
DunkHawk is dead!
Assassin's circle 4LIF!
Someone notify Dr. Geek at 12:09, because we need to get this thing in gear.
Was that Dr. Geek, or Dr Geek?
I see the APB was unnecessary.
Did we just get passed?
Crap. Did I shoot prematurely?
I swear this has never happened to me before.
Does Dr. Geek still get credit for the kill?
i am here!
Did Karina kill anyone yet?
Either way, free drinks for some, tiny San Francisco Giant flags for all!
Here is my official comment. Let's go Flo!
Dusty! You're up!!!
Ooooh, despite 2 AWOL's, Team Flo has almost caught up!
ah sorry so late. i had technical difficulties...
Loney DP
hehe nice, DB
Jason, you're up!
Here is the sweet bunt so appropriate out of the 9-hole.
djansson, you're up!
Paging Mr. Customer...
Answer sent! All you Neeebs.
Come on, guys! I have to go in 40 minutes! Where are you Neebs?
Go Neeebs Go!
Who drove me in? Did I score on the bunt?
Damn the beer stand at second base.
Sorry boys. I've gotta go. Looks like we're screwed.
Is Neeebs still in that meeting he went to around 10 this morning?
rb, i am thinking about a raid on Team Flo's cooler. if we can get DB to create a distraction, like stage a Lou Piniella-like meltdown on the field, I think we could do it without them knowing
come on team deltalina! Can't let a third rate insurance company pass us by.
done with meeting
That was quite a meeting Neeebs. Can we have a summary?
The meeting was in Chinese so I would have to summarize it in Mandarin.
MLASF you are up to bat!!!!!!!!
TD, if djannson doesn't come around by 1:16, you can go
Mr. LASF is allegedly unavailable until 4. So, hopefully MattyA is around at 1:54.
(I should talk. I'm facing mutiny as it is.)
Wow! It is on!
TD - you're up!
sorry guys, I totally forgot about this...
MattyA also said he had to leave. Looks like Team Flo might not be able to take advantage of the AWOL(s) on Deltalina...
Awright here you go..........
Sorry it took me awhile. Computers here at work go a virus and have been locked down all day.
Yeah, I had to leave, but I rescheduled the meeting so I'm still here... waiting...watching the clock...
Glad I caught it. I'm in!
Damn. I really screwed us. Sorry, guys.
And I have a 5-year, 60 million dollar contract with a no-trade clause. I am an albatross.
Woo! MattyA! 20 minutes to go and no sign of Deltalina's Matt.
@Josh S
No worries, I probably wouldn't have been able to post until 12ish anyway. The scheduling is the only reason why this works.
Gotta love MattyA taking one for the team, though.
MattyA definitely gets kudos for rescheduling a meeting.
"Woo! MattyA! 20 minutes to go and no sign of Deltalina's Matt"
Until now. Deltalina rolls on!
(Only I didn't say "fudge".)
Anxiously awaiting Steve Dittmore from the on deck circle
It really wasn't a big deal - I didn't really want to have it anyway, so this is a good excuse.
good man, Bryan! Stevie D where you at?
Although it looks like a losing effort now. JohnG - are you ready?
I hope the bottom of our lineup is lurking out there ready to pounce and close this game out.
Wow... I don't look at the site for a few minutes and Boom goes the dynamite... Now batting, No. 14...
done and done.
5 more game winners to catch up to ethier.
Oh well, I'm in anyway.
Great. Torre left Mota in for two innings, we lose and Broxton never got in the game.
well played, Deltalinians!
now to the bar for wings and beer!
Thanks for the consolation, Mr. C, but my "reverse-Lidge" didn't help matters any.
Deltalina rolls. Flo got through just half their lineup.
Round I-A to Deltalina! Rules for Round I-B coming...
@Josh S
I eventually forgave Joe Beimel, too, so I'll get over it.
I hope the next round is "Feats of Strength"
Trap set. The next two sub-rounds will go with the Flo.
Wow Josh, I feel lulled into a false sense of security...well done!
@Mr. C: "I hope the next round is "Feats of Strength""
Looking at our lineup, I'm kinda hoping a puzzle is involved at some point. We've got some heavy-hitters.
Way to go Deltalina!
FB: Are we meeting at the Assassins' Circle or somewhere else?
Wings and Beer!!
Hey, Aunt Flo. Way to make it a game. *sheepishly hides behind DB*
So...*washes the stink of failure off*...when will the rules for 1-B be posted?
Where the party at?
Did anyone lose today? Anyone get killed? Did Karina accidentally kill anyone? Were any answers sent?
Richie Rich says "kill Kill KILL!"
FB: Damn, I missed a good chance to make a Bart Simpson "Hey look at me, I'm creating a distraction!" comment on your cooler plot. Should I take the rest of the week off so I don't miss another teed up Simpsons reference?
Dr. Geek: "Assassin's circle 4LIF!" -Nice. It almost reads like comment graffiti.
Ok, I'm caught up now.
hey, am I late?
hey, am I late?
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WASHINGTON • In a dramatic appeal, wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords urged Congress on Wednesday to enact tougher curbs on guns, saying, "too many children are dying" without them.
"The time is now. You must act. Be bold, be courageous, Americans are counting on you," she told the Senate Judiciary Committee at Congress' first gun control hearing since 20 elementary school children were shot to death in Newtown, Conn., late last year.
Giffords spoke haltingly, a result of the wounds suffered when she was shot in the head in an attempted assassination two years ago that left six others dead.
But in conflicting testimony a little more than an hour later, a top official of the National Rifle Association rejected bans on certain assault weapons and high capacity magazines advocated by President Barack Obama and gun control advocates in Congress.
Under persistent questioning from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the panel's chairman, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre also conceded that in a reversal, his organization no longer supports universal background checks for gun purchasers. He said criminals wouldn't subject themselves to a background check and the current system is a failure because the administration doesn't prosecute potential violators aggressively.
"Back in '99 you said, 'no loopholes, nowhere,' " said Leahy, referring to testimony delivered more than a decade ago. "Now you do not support background checks for all."
Other Democrats on the panel disagreed with LaPierre.
"That's the point. The criminals will not go to purchase the guns because there'll be a background check. It will stop them from original purchase. You missed that point completely. It is basic," said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois.
Retired Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, Giffords husband as well as a former astronaut and also a witness, said a limit on the size of ammunition magazines could have made a dramatic difference when a man opened fire in Arizona two years ago.
He "showed up with two 33-round magazines, one of which was in his 9 millimeter. He unloaded the contents of that magazine in 15 seconds. Very quickly. It all happened very, very fast. The first bullet went into Gabby's head. Bullet number 13 went into a nine-year old girl named Christina Taylor Green....
"If he had a 10-round magazine well, let me back up. When he tried to reload one 33-round magazine with another 33-round magazine, he dropped it. And a woman named Patricia Maisch grabbed it, and it gave bystanders a time to tackle him.
"I contend if that same thing happened when he was trying to reload one 10-round magazine with another 10-round magazine, meaning he did not have access to a high-capacity magazine, and the same thing happened, Christina Taylor Green would be alive today."
Giffords was not on the list of witnesses released in advance of the hearings, and in an unusual show of respect, members of the committee greeted her warmly outside the hearing room as she and her husband made their way inside. The former Democratic congresswoman was grievously wounded in an assassination attempt in Tucson, Ariz., a little more than two years ago, and has become a public advocate for gun control.
Kelly described the effect on his wife of the events of two years ago.
"Gabby's gift for speech is a distant memory. She struggles to walk, and she is partially blind. Her right arm is completely paralyzed," he told a rapt committee room.
In the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn., massacre, Obama has issued a call for gun control legislation.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat and member of the committee, has introduced a bill to ban numerous assault-style weapons as well as high-capacity ammunition magazines.
The prospects for Senate passage are not strong, in part because of opposition from the NRA and in part from a reluctance among rural-state Democrats Leahy among them to support limitations sought by some advocates of restrictions on firearms.
Republicans pledged to listen carefully, and no more.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Tuesday that reviewing the issue was timely.
"But I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment," he said citing the constitutional provision that guarantees the right to bear arms, "and I don't intend to change."
Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the panel's senior Republican, said that while the shootings in Arizona and Connecticut were terrible tragedies, they "should not be used to put forward every gun control measure that has been floating around for years." He also said any serious discussion of the issue 'must include a complete re-examination of mental health as it related to mass shootings."
In an opening statement of his own, Leahy said it is "a simple matter of common sense" that there should be a strengthening of background checks and that doing so would not threaten gun owners' rights. The checks are currently required for gun purchases from licensed dealers but not at gun shows or other private transaction.
At the same time, he said the Constitution's second amendment "is secure and will remain secure and protection....No one can or will take those rights or our guns away," he said.
He added, "let us forego sloganeering, demagoguery and partisan recriminations. This is too important for that."
Giffords' appearance not only her words, but her obvious difficulty in speaking served to underscore the emotion surrounding the issue of gun curbs.
The gunman in Tucson, Jared Loughner, used a 9 mm Glock pistol with an extended ammunition magazine in the attack that wounded the former congresswoman and killed six. The handgun would not have been illegal under a federal assault weapons ban that lapsed more than seven years ago, but the magazine that held more than 30 bullets would have been prohibited.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., indicated that whatever the committee produced wouldn't necessarily be the final product, saying the package would be debated by the full Senate and senators would be allowed to propose "whatever amendments they want that deal with this issue."
Despite the horrific Newtown slayings, it remains unclear whether those advocating limits on gun availability will be able to overcome resistance by the NRA and lawmakers from states where gun ownership abounds. Question marks include not just many Republicans but also Democratic senators facing re-election in red-leaning states in 2014. They include Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas.


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NEW YORK — Baseball's business season figures to be a little different this autumn and winter.
For sure, there will be the daily rumors of trades and free-agent signings.
Then mix in the seemingly limitless legal battle between the commissioner's office and Alex Rodriguez, a possible stiffening in penalties for new drug offenders and preparations for a massive increase in instant replay next season.
And perhaps by the time the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks open next season at Sydney on March 22, Bud Selig will even have started making preparations for his departure in January 2015, even though some owners doubt the commissioner will follow through on his retirement pronouncement.
For now, though, the focus is on the marketplace. General managers gather Monday in Orlando, Fla., for three days of meetings that usually spark discussions leading to trades weeks or months later. Tampa Bay pitcher David Price, who can become a free agent in a year, seems likely to be dealt at some point over the offseason. Will Detroit entertain offers for 21-game winner Max Scherzer, another member of next year's free-agent class?
And some agents will be on hand to talk up their clients.
"There is not any time to breathe. You have move very quickly," Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said.
Robinson Cano, Jacoby Ellsbury, Shin-Soo Choo and Brian McCann are among the players seeking to cash in from a free-agent class lacking any ace starting pitchers. In an $8 billion-a-year industry seemingly awash with cash, long-term, high-salary deals could proliferate, anyway.
Following restraints on the bonuses for amateur drafts picks, which began in 2012, teams have more money to spend on veterans.
"The game is thriving and clubs are reveling in their financial health," agent Seth Levinson said. "More clubs should be meaningful participants in the market, which will lead to greater competition, and players should prove to be the beneficiaries of the increased competition and revenues. That competition should create a fast-paced signing period. However, each market is unique and there is a lot more art than science in understanding the ebb and flow of free agency."
And the drop in offense could cause a hike in salaries. The big league batting average of .253 was its lowest since 1972, according to STATS, and the home run average of 0.96 per team per game is down from a peak of 1.17 in 2000, two years before the agreement to start testing for performance-enhancing drugs.
"There's been a significant decline in power and production, so middle-of-the-lineup players and leadoff players, guys who can produce runs and guys who can drive in runs, are much rarer than they were in 2005," agent Scott Boras said. "Players who hit 20 home runs and drive in 80 have the value of players who in 2005 hit above 30 home runs and drove in 105."
After the GMs finish, owners take over for their quarterly meeting. Selig said during the World Series he expects a vote either in November or January to approve the expansion of video review to virtually all calls other the balls and strikes.
Agreements with the players' and umpires' unions also are necessary for expanded replay, which was tested during the past week in the Arizona Fall League.
"Three or four years ago I was telling them that I wasn't the least bit interested," Selig said after a meeting with baseball's bankers. "I said, 'Well, my father told me many years ago that life is nothing but a series of adjustments, and this is an adjustment that I just made.'"
Officials won't be leaving Florida for long. They'll return for the winter meetings, to be held in nearby Lake Buena Vista from Dec. 9-12, not too far from the Magic Kingdom. Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and perhaps Bobby Cox could gain election to the Hall of Fame from a committee on the first day of the session.
A week earlier, the players' union gathers in La Jolla, Calif., for a session of more import than usual. Union head Michael Weiner is battling a brain tumor, and formermajor league All-Star Tony Clark is expected to replace him. Players also could form a consensus to increase the penalty for an initial steroids violation, which has been 50 games since the 2006 season.
Selig held a news conference on March 2 asking for harsher discipline, and Weiner said players would discuss it for 2014. And that was before 14 players were suspended as a result of the Biogenesis of America drug probe, which ensnared Rodriguez, Ryan Braun, Nelson Cruz and Jhonny Peralta.
"I think it speaks volumes for the generation of athletes today who don't want to be forced to make the same mistakes of the past generation who felt compelled in order to compete to use these dangerous drugs," said Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. "So I think absolutely that's a huge sign that the culture has turned in a huge direction from where it was in the late '90s and early 2000s."
Unless the case settles, the appeal of Rodriguez's 211-game suspension will be decided by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz sometime during the offseason. Given precedents in cases involving Ferguson Jenkins, Pascual Perez, LaMarr Hoyt, Steve Howe and others, some reduction seems likely.
Whatever money the Yankees save on Rodriguez, who makes $25 million next year, probably will be spent on bringing in other players.
Cano, who left Boras to sign with Jay-Z's new sports agency, has asked for a record deal worth more than $300 million over 10 seasons. He's not likely to get that many dollars or years from the Yankees, reluctant to take on a contract that will become another Albatross during the declining years of the second baseman, who turned 31 last month.
Under the new rules that began a year ago, offseason deadlines were moved up. Free agents could start negotiating on the sixth day after the World Series rather than the 16th. They have until Monday to accept $14.1 million qualifying offers from their former clubs. Teams must decide by Dec. 2 whether to offer 2014 contracts to players on their 40-man rosters, nearly three weeks earlier than the old schedule.
"The earlier the better," agent Jeff Borris said. "I think it works out much better for both the clubs and the players. I always hated leaving the winter meetings with players still in limbo regarding their tender date."
By late December, the deals will slow during the holiday break. Then comes a flurry in early January, when players and teams ramp up for salary arbitration. That's also when Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas learn whether they make it to the Hall of Fame on their first try.
And not long after that, teams will pack up for spring training in Florida and Arizona. There will be new managers with the Chicago Cubs (Rick Renteria), Cincinnati (Bryan Price), Detroit (Brad Ausmus), Seattle (Lloyd McClendon) and Washington (Matt Williams).
Don Mattingly seems set to return for a fourth season with the high-spending Los Angeles Dodgers.
In the cool of autumn, everyone is optimistic. Even the Houston Astros, trying to avoid becoming the first team to lose 100 games in four straight seasons since the 1962-65 Mets. Even the Chicago Cubs, attempting to win their first World Series since 1908.
"I know it might sound naive, but I still believe that any team that goes in and plays between the lines has a chance to win a ballgame every single day," Renteria said. "If I was to come in here and assume that we were going to lose, what kind of expectations am I laying for the players who are here?"


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Great House is from the author of The History of Love; incorporating the same disconnected threads of narrative and combining to forge connections between seemingly different lives.
Spanning the 20th century, Great House's protagonists come together with a desk, which incorporates many drawers and hidden secrets. It is at once foreboding, dark and ominous to some, but of incredible significance to others. In 1972, a woman receives a Chilean poet's entire set of furniture after only one night of meeting. His desk becomes further ladened with significance after he is captured by Pinochet's secret police and disappears entirely. Another discovers his wife's lifelong secret in the desk, and one searches for the furniture after it was taken by the Nazis in 1944.
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Dickens and immigration
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto. It concerned a 19th-century debate that is pertinent to today's argument about immigration.
Charles Dickens'
A Christmas Carol
is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto. It concerned a 19th-century debate that is pertinent to today's argument about immigration.
Last week, a disagreement between two conservative think tanks erupted when the Heritage Foundation excoriated the immigration reform proposed by a bipartisan group of eight senators. Heritage's analysis argues that making 11 million illegal immigrants eligible, more than a decade from now, for welfare-state entitlements would have net costs of $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years.
Fifty-year projections are not worth the paper they should never have been printed on - think of what 1963 did not know about 2013. Why, then, the 50-year time horizon? Because 50 years of any significant expenditure is an attention-getting number. And because for more than a decade legalized immigrants would be a net fiscal plus, paying taxes but not receiving benefits.
The Cato Institute says Heritage insufficiently acknowledges immigration's contributions to economic growth (new businesses, replenishing the workforce, etc.). This dynamism, Cato argues, will propel immigrants' upward mobility, reducing the number eligible for means-tested entitlements.
Conservatives correctly criticize those who reject "dynamic scoring" of tax cuts. Such a calculation of the revenue effects of cuts includes assumptions about the effect on economic growth from changed behavior in response to the cuts - especially increased investment and consumption. Opponents of dynamic scoring usually are opponents of tax cuts. Similarly, opponents of increased immigration downplay what Cato stresses - immigration's energizing effects.
Which brings us to Dickens' revolt against Thomas Malthus' precapitalist pessimism about the possibility of growth and abundance. A Christmas Carol expresses Dickens' modernist rejection of Malthus' theory that population always grows faster than the food supply, so the poor must always be numerous and miserable.
When told that many of the poor "would rather die" than go to the workhouse, Scrooge replies: "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." But when Scrooge recognizes that Tiny Tim might be part of this surplus, he repents, giving Tim's father a raise and a Christmas turkey. This was Dickens' representation of the triumph of economics over fatalism about social stasis.
Sentimental? Certainly. But also expressive of the 19th century's revolution of expectations. As Sylvia Nasar says in Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, the second half of the 19th century saw "one of the most radical discoveries of all time," the recognition that mankind's "circumstances were not predetermined, immutable, or utterly impervious to human intervention." This called for "cheer and activity rather than pessimism and resignation."
Unfortunately, today's immigration debate occurs during an uncharacteristic American mood of pessimism. Next month, the anemic recovery from the Great Recession will be four years old, and many Americans seem resigned to slow growth, sluggish job creation, and stalled social mobility. Hence their forebodings about immigration.
Economic facts matter. But the material ascent of humanity since the 19th century demonstrates that economic facts are not constants, like the law of gravity. Rather, they can respond to induced dynamism, as from immigration.
America is, however, more than an economy; it also is a civic culture. Today's entitlement state may or may not be a powerful magnet for immigration; it certainly changes the context of immigration. Furthermore, European immigrants crossing the Atlantic experienced a "psychological guillotine" severing them from their homeland and encouraging Americanization. Crossing the Rio Grande is not a comparable prod toward assimilation. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) rightly warns of immigrants exerting downward pressure on wages at the bottom of America's social pyramid. And Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs and a supporter of liberalized policy, notes: "A huge amount of American social policy is directed to reducing the number of people in our country who have low levels of skills and education, and it would be bizarre to use our immigration policy to increase that number significantly."
Complex and consequential, immigration policy should not be made hurriedly. But neither should it be made out of a fatalistic despair about economic dynamism that better immigration policies might foster.


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After a little play, the UI is much prettier! Even he UI1-alike is nice, clean and usable (the text fits in the boxes!!)So, where is best to start looking to contribute to this?David.
Working now. here is what i neededfresh install of kubuntu 10.04 in a VM (32 bit)Fresh SVN (no updates needed)Fresh download of QT Creator (32 bit) with QT 4.7.4So, I'm running it in a VM. Not ideal, but hey ho.The core is currently generating screens for it. I thought this would no longer be necessary? Or is that my mistake?It'd be cool if the whole orbiter generation thing wasn't needed any more, just be told the layout and render it on the device.David.
Which part are you looking to work on? There is lots of c++ work to do and lots of design work to do to finish the screens. Any particular part you were interested in contributing to?-golgoj4
I do web based dev in my day job, java on the server and lots of javascript type stuff on the clients (including a fair amount of GUI design)My C++ is pretty ropey, I think I'd just cause problems, but I'm willing to help out there if its wanted (probably as QA/ tester)I'm probably best off looking into the QML/ design aspects I think.I can probably do some system tech documentation as well if you'd like (I can read C++ well enough for that)David.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A coalition of clergy members is challenging North Carolina's constitutional ban on gay marriage with an unusual approach in a federal lawsuit: They say it violates their religious freedom.
The clergy members said in the lawsuit filed Monday that they'd like to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies in their congregations, but they can't because of the "unjust law."
Their attorney, Jake Sussman, says it's the only case to make First Amendment religious freedom claims among the more than 60 marriage equality cases pending in the nation's state and federal courts.
"North Carolina's marriage laws are a direct affront to freedom of religion," said the Rev. J. Bennett Guess, executive minister with the Cleveland-based United Church of Christ, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. "We feel that it is important that any person that comes into community life of a United Church of Christ congregation be afforded equal pastoral care and equal opportunity to religious services that clergy provide."
But in North Carolina, clergy are often faced with a troubling decision — "whether to provide those services or break the law," Guess said. "That's something no clergy member should be faced with."
Along with the United Church of Christ, which has more than 1 million parishioners, a dozen clergy members and same-sex couples who want to marry were listed as plaintiffs. The defendants included North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and several county district attorneys as well as five registers of deeds.
Noelle Talley, a spokeswoman with the attorney general's office, said officials there hadn't seen the lawsuit yet.
Wake County Register of Deeds Laura Riddick said she was shocked to be named as a defendant. Her office handles marriage licenses.
"It's ridiculous for any registry to be sued over same-gender marriage, which is a matter of state law, not county policy. Only the legislature or the courts can change the law. Our job as county administrators is to apply the law as it is, just as we will apply the law if it changes. Suing us misleads the public, wastes county taxpayer dollars and creates unnecessary conflict," she said.
This isn't the first legal challenge to North Carolina's law ban on same-sex marriage, which was approved by voters in 2012.
The American Civil Liberties Union earlier this month launched a new legal assault on the state's ban on recognizing same-sex marriage, urging a federal judge to quickly negate it to help children and gay couples suffering from urgent health problems. The civil rights group said it was seeking to speed up a decision in a lawsuit filed in 2012 by citing the urgent health needs of a child who suffers from cerebral palsy who was adopted by one of the lesbian couples involved in the case.
The ACLU also filed a new lawsuit on behalf of three other lesbian couples struggling with health conditions made more difficult because they lack legal recognition of their marriages performed in other states, said ACLU staff attorney Elizabeth Gill.
The ACLU and the same-sex couples they represent argue a judge should act quickly to suspend North Carolina's marriage ban because they are suffering immediate and irreparable harm.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the federal government must recognize marriages of same-sex couples.
Seventeen states allow gay marriage, and federal judges have struck down bans in Michigan, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia.
"This lawsuit introduces a First Amendment claim that the marriage ban in North Carolina violates the right to the free exercise of religious beliefs by denominations, clergy and congregants who believe that same-sex marriages are theologically valid and want to perform marriage ceremonies," Sussman said.
But NC Values Coalition executive director Tami Fitzgerald, who helped lead a coalition of Christian and conservative groups supporting the state's 2012 constitutional amendment, said the lawsuit is an attempt to void the will of voters who backed traditional marriage. Six in 10 voters backed changing North Carolina's constitution.
"This is sadly, and predictably, the 'lawsuit of the week' filed by those who want to impose same-sex marriage on North Carolina," Fitzgerald said. "Moreover, it's both ironic and sad that an entire religious denomination and its clergy who purport holding to Christian teachings on marriage would look to the courts to justify their errant beliefs."
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The sloppy housekeeping represents an embarrassing lapse for Microsoft Corp. as the software maker tries to bring in more revenue from the storage service, which is called Azure.
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Microsoft's failure to renew the security certificate apparently caused the Azure service to go down shortly before 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT) Friday. The breakdown prevented Azure customers from accessing files kept in Microsoft's data centers.
The service still hadn't been fully restored more than four hours later, according to a post on Microsoft's website.
"We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers," Microsoft said.
Azure's failure illuminates the pitfalls of storing important information in remote data centers. Online storage, often called "cloud computing," is growing in appeal because it allows workers to pull up data, wherever they are, to an Internet-connected device.
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At Philadelphia Works Inc., a non-profit that connects employers to prospective employees, Meg Shope Koppel is seeing more Americans seeking help.
There "really is a pick-up in the number of people dedicated to finding a job," said Koppel, a senior vice president for the agency. "A lot of people who fell out of the labor market" are looking.
As a reviving economy coaxes Americans back into the job market, the supply of labor will expand about 1.2 percent this year, after increasing 0.8 percent in 2012 on a fourth quarter over fourth quarter basis, said Robert Mellman, a senior economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York. Editor's Note: Economist Warns: 50% Unemployment, 100% Inflation Possible
In the short run, the larger labor force will have an unfortunate side effect: It will slow the fall in unemployment. Mellman sees the jobless rate dropping to 7.5 percent by year- end from 7.9 percent now. It fell 0.7 percentage point in 2012.
In the longer run, a bigger supply of labor is good news because it swells the pool of Americans available and willing to work, enhancing the economy's potential to grow, according to Julie Hotchkiss, a policy adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
It also has a silver lining for investors. The gradual fall in unemployment will allow policy makers to keep monetary policy looser for longer without having to worry about igniting a wage- driven rise in inflation.
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"The Fed is going to be very accommodative over the next couple of years in order to nurse the economy back to higher levels of employment," said Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in New York.
He sees the central bank continuing to buy debt at an $85-billion-per month clip in 2013 and then extending its purchases through next year, albeit at a reduced pace. The Fed's first interest-rate increase won't come until the beginning of 2016, when unemployment finally dips below the central bank's threshold of 6.5 percent, he said. Policy makers have held their benchmark rate at a record low since December 2008.
Edward Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research Inc. in New York, describes it as a "Goldilocks" economy: not too hot to get the Fed worried about inflation and not too cold to have investors fretting about a relapse into recession. He sees the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rising to 1,665 by the end of the year from 1,519.79 at 4 p.m. on Feb. 15.
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"Goldilocks has the run of the house right now," Yardeni said. "The bears haven't come back."
Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues have vowed to continue buying Treasury debt and mortgage-backed securities until the outlook for the labor market improves "substantially." The central bank hasn't spelled out what that means because "we ourselves don't know precisely what would define a substantial improvement," Bernanke told reporters on Dec. 12.
Policy makers have been more definitive when it comes to setting out the criteria that might lead them to raise interest rates. The Fed currently has a zero-to-quarter-percentage-point target for the federal funds rate, which commercial banks charge each other for overnight loans.
The Federal Open Market Committee said in December and again in January that this "exceptionally low" rate is appropriate as long as inflation isn't forecast to rise to more than 2.5 percent and unemployment stays above 6.5 percent.
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Forward markets for overnight index swaps, whose rates show what traders expect the federal-funds effective rate will average over the life of the contract, signal a quarter percentage-point advance around February or March of 2015, according to data compiled by Bloomberg as of Feb. 15.
The unemployment rate has fallen from a 26-year high of 10 percent in October 2009 to last month's 7.9 percent, Labor Department data show.
Much of that drop was caused by a contraction in the work force rather than an increase in employment. The labor-force participation rate -- the proportion of Americans ages 16 and older who are working or seeking work -- declined to 63.6 percent last month from 65 percent in October 2009 and 66 percent at the start of the last recession in December 2007.
Structural and cyclical forces are at play. As workers get older, they're more prone to retire and drop out of the labor force. The number of Americans ages 65 and older increased to 41 million in 2011 from 35 million in 2000 and is projected to rise to 48 million in 2015, according to the Census Bureau.
Sidelined Workers
Even so, the weakness of the economy has been far more important in driving workers to the sidelines during the last five years, according to the Atlanta Fed's Hotchkiss.
Now, after more than 3 1/2 years of expansion, that may be changing, as Americans re-enter the job market to take advantage of growing opportunities. In the last three months, the labor- force participation rate has held steady at 63.6 percent on a seasonally-adjusted basis.
"We are seeing some people come off the bench," said Jeff Joerres, chairman and chief executive officer of ManpowerGroup, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based staffing company. "But there's still a lot of hesitation because we don't have a robust jobs market."
He voiced concern that many of those who've been out of work for a while will find it hard to land a job because they haven't kept up their skills.
Little Progress
"We don't think there will be a further decline in participation" this year, said Mary Daly, a group vice president at the San Francisco Fed. As a result, "we don't see a lot more progress in reducing the unemployment rate in 2013."
Joblessness will drop to 7.5 percent by December and 7 percent by December 2014, according to economists at the regional Fed bank. The cumulative 0.8 percentage-point decline they foresee this year and next follows a 1.5-point reduction in the past two years.
About 6.6 million Americans described themselves as wanting work in 2012, even though they had given up actively searching and weren't counted as part of the labor force. That was up from 6.4 million in 2011, Labor Department data show.
Daly reckons that about 1.8 million of these people could enter the job market as the economy continues to improve and work opportunities increase.
Research by Hotchkiss and her colleagues at the Atlanta Fed found that a greater proportion of Americans had left the labor force to pursue their education during the last five years than in the past. That's important because they're among those most likely to re-enter the market.
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Take 37-year-old Axabas P. James. After losing his job as a project manager at the Vanguard Group in 2010, he decided to go back to school to learn a new skill.
Armed with a master of philosophy in leadership dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia resident landed a position last month. He's now a business-services representative at JobWorks Inc., where he helps with job placement.
"Many people who were looking for jobs at the height of the recession became so discouraged that they dropped out of the search, because they felt as if there was no hope," James said. "I think I'm an example that by sticking with it, you can definitely find something." Editor's Note: Economist Warns: 50% Unemployment, 100% Inflation Possible
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Jerry B. Goldman, who was arrested at his Thousand Oaks home, was released from federal custody on a $25,000 bond posted by his wife, said Stephanie Yonekura-McCaffrey, executive assistant U.S. attorney.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Goldman on fraud charges Oct. 30. A call to his public defender, Yasmin Cader, was not immediately returned.
The indictment claims that between 1998 and last year, Goldman overcharged four victims including Hanks and Andy Summers, the former guitarist of The Police, more than $800,000 on insurance policies. He sent the premiums to the insurance companies and kept the overcharged amount, prosecutors claim.
When clients asked Goldman for copies of their insurance policies, he sent them altered copies that didn't disclose the true premium "in order to lull his clients into a false sense of security" and keep them from suing him or seeking criminal prosecution, the indictment charged.
Details weren't released, but the indictment says the term "insurance policies" in the document refers to coverage for everything from cars, property and fine art to flood, fire, earthquakes, worker's compensation and "personal employment practices liability."
Hanks and Summers were identified in the indictment as T.H. and A.S., but prosecutors confirmed their identities. The other alleged victims were identified only as M.W.H. and S.R.
Calls and emails seeking comment from representatives of Hanks and Summers were not immediately returned.
A trial date has been set for Dec. 18.