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Sunday, April 5, 2009
Hayes Star Brand Bean Soup Mix - Sausage, Beans & Rice
But, for my AFM fans, I came up with this bean recipe as another way of using those Hayes Star Brand Bean Soup Mix packages that show up fairly regularly in the boxes. My first try with the bean soup mix was to create a soup and that actually did turn out really tasty, but this recipe is my next experiment of what in the world to do with this soup mix! I didn't want to make a soup this time, but rather something that would be thicker, served with rice and kind of mixed together - think like Hoppin' John style. If you want it a bit more soupy, just use extra chicken stock.
I used andouille, which is a very spicy smoked Cajun sausage. Andouille has quite a lot of heat to it, so if you don't want that much kick, you should substitute regular smoked sausage. Personally if I were to use regular smoked sausage, I would bump up the heat just a tad bit with my favorite standby Slap Ya Mama Cajun seasoning and a tablespoon or so of sliced jalapenos, chopped up. I say sliced, because while fresh are great, sliced refrigerated jalapenos are the kind that I always have on hand. I really like the Mezzetta brand Deli-Sliced Tamed Jalapeno Peppers because they have lots of flavor and a little kick, but aren't overpowering.
I was very pleased with the flavor of this dish, and Hubs loved it too, so it was a winner. Hope you enjoy it too!
Hayes Star Brand Bean Soup Mix
Sausage, Beans & Rice
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1 package Hayes Star Brand Bean Soup Mix
3 slices of bacon, chopped
2 links of smoked andouille sausage, quartered lengthwise and chopped into small pieces
1/2 of a medium onion, chopped
1 stalk of celery, chopped
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 teaspoon of dried basil
10 turns of the pepper grinder
2 bay leaves
1 quart of chicken stock
2 pinches of kosher salt
Place the beans in a medium stockpot, cover with water and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes, remove from heat, cover and let soak for 1-1/2 hours. Alternatively, you can cover the beans with water plus about another 2 inches and leave to soak overnight. Drain well and set aside.
Heat the stockpot over medium heat and add chopped bacon. Cook until softened. Add the chopped smoked sausage and cook until browned. Add the chopped onion and celery and continue cooking until softened. Add the garlic and cook for another minute or so. Stir in the basil, pepper and bay leaves. Return the beans to the pot. Stir well, add the chicken stock and mix in, bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to simmer and simmer covered for 45 minutes to an hour. Check the beans to see if they have softened, add salt, adjust seasonings as needed.
Serve over hot rice.
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Hey Mary, I made this bean soup mix with neck bones and spicy rice rather than as a soup too. It's just too hot here to make that much soup. Angel Food is a God send.ReplyDelete
Ooo, bet that was good with the chicken too! I'll have to give that a try with my next experiment!ReplyDelete
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CD Projekt's classic gaming revival service has opened its doors to the public, as Good Old Games moves into the open beta phase. Now everybody can head over to the website at http://www.gog.com and spend their money on DRM-free versions of popular older titles, instead of just those select few privileged enough to attain a closed beta slot.
They've got a pretty nice selection of titles, generally falling between the $US5.99 and 9.99 price range, though they seriously need to get hopping on adding in some adventure games to the mix. The Fallout series is nice and all, but I crave pointing and clicking. Bring me Dark Seed and BloodNet and we'll talk.


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Today's tour will be a doozy and, for some of you, take you places you've never been in New York. We're going to start in Roosevelt Island at the home of Brian Craine, who makes IPAs that'll knock your socks off. Next, we're going to take the tram (!) to Manhattan, then catch a bus to the Upper East Side. There, we're going to visit The Brahery–that is, Marc Gorfinkle and Andrew Blazaitis, who have a top-notch brown IPA and several golden strong ales. In addition, I'm going to break out the just-released batch of Sam Adams' head-spinning Utopias. Lastly, were going to stroll around the corner to visit Kyle Leingang, who will have treats like a rye-infused Belgian tripel and maple-pecan barley wine.
WHAT: Manhattan and Roosevelt Island Homebrew Tour
WHEN: Saturday, December 8, 1 p.m.
WHERE: Manhattan and Roosevelt Island
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The German Customer Center for construction equipment, received an order from rental giant Boels to supply 400 plate compactors and rammers in sizes between 80 and 500 kg. The machines will be painted in the customer's colors and carry the company's logo and product name. Boels Rental will distribute the machines among their many European outlets from where they will rent them to their end-customers. Delivery is scheduled for Q2 2016.
The forward and reversible plate compactors supplied to Boels Rental will include a number of new LG 504 models equipped with compaction indicators. The compaction indicator consists of a system of lights which clearly shows when sufficient compaction has been achieved. It also reduces the risk of overcompaction, which can lead to unsatisfactory end results and unnecessary wear on the machine.
The order also includes a number of LT 6005's, Atlas Copco's award winning rammer. Equipped with a purpose-built Honda GXR120 engine, this machine provides all the power needed to handle the toughest soils. Noise and emission levels are low and the rammer is easy to handle, even in confined spaces, thanks to its slim design and easy steering.
" We are very pleased that Boels Rental, one of the leading European equipment rental companies, has chosen Atlas Copco as a partner for light compaction equipment. Our heritage of developing light compaction equipment goes back to 1947 when we launched the first vibratory plate. For nearly 70 years we have been able to provide our customers with very robust and reliable vibratory plates and rammers. Now Boels Rental and its customers will be able to benefit from this heritage paired with our latest innovations, together with Atlas Copco's support in terms of an outstanding international service organization. "


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Charter schools in Pennsylvania are a growth industry funded by taxpayers. More than 105,000 students attend 157 charter schools at physical locations and 16 "cyber" charter schools that operate over the Internet.
Taxpayers fund the charters through a formula that makes no sense and wastes millions of dollars. The home public school district of each charter and cyber school student pays a tuition based on the district's cost-per-student, with few deductions.
As noted repeatedly by former Auditor General Jack Wagner, many charter schools and, especially, cyber schools, are paid far more than their actual costs of education. And, since the tuition is rooted in the home district's costs rather than the charter school's actual costs, the range of tuition is enormous, from less than $6,500 per student from the Altoona Area district, to more than $17,750 per student from the Lower Merion district - even if students from those disparate districts are enrolled in the same cyber school.
The best way to fund charters would be for the state to determine the actual costs of education incurred by each and accordingly set tuition. Although a package of bills proposed by the House Republican Caucus does not do that, the program would be far superior to the existing formula.
For example, one bill would eliminate a costly "pension double dip" in the formula. Public schools' teacher pension costs are included in their cost-per-student calculation. That is included in charter tuition, even though the charter schools do not bear that pension cost. Deducting the pension double dip from the tuition formula alone would save $165 million for local districts over five years.
Districts also would be able to reduce their tuition payments by deducting 50 percent of the costs of extracurricular activities, 100 percent of the costs of services offered at physical locations but not by cyber schools, and 50 percent of the cost of any program offered by a cyber school that also is offered by the school district.
Another bill would form a commission to study how to deal with another cost driver, funding for special education students in charter programs.
While reducing districts' costs, the bills also would help to stabilize charter schools. Districts often pay charters late, so the state would pay the charters directly to ensure their cash flow. And charter terms would be increased from three to five years to improve the schools' ability to secure lines of credit and other financing.
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March 4, 2014
At this after party on Sunday these two Oscar winners alternated between making out and two really intense arguments. Apparently he wanted to leave and she couldn't because of what was happening but when he said who he was going to meet she left with him, or more accurately five steps behind him as he yelled in the phone for the driver to come get them.
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Chemotherapy and diabetic patients
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I have a friend just diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She is a childhood diabetic. How does chemotherapy effect diabetic patients?
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
In general, chemotherapy does not affect diabetic patients in a special way. However, some special considerations do apply. Common chemotherapy drugs like Taxol and carboplatin are most commonly mixed in intravenous fluid containing dextrose (a sugar). If a patient is a particularly brittle diabetic with difficult glucose control, the drugs may be mixed in saline without dextrose instead. She may need to check her blood glucose levels more frequently on the days of her treatments and discuss possible adjustments to her insulin regimen with her physician. Also, if she becomes nauseated or has trouble keeping food down, she should check her blood glucose levels more frequently and her insulin may need to be adjusted accordingly. All patients (with or without diabetes) are monitored closely for their reaction to chemotherapy.
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Some quick hits from the Raiders first practice:
— Richard Seymour, who played end for the Raiders last year and slid inside during pass rush situations, was used exclusiively at right tackle during the first practice.
Coach Tom Cable said not to read too much into it and that Seymour could still be moved to different places on the line.
Seymour was joined inside by Tommy Kelly, with Matt Shaughnessy and Lamarr Houston at ends.
— Houston was immediately placed with the starters at left end and stayed on the field with the second group.
— First of eight walk-through style practices in the books. Coach Tom Cable says he's pleased with recall of young players from offseason, but isn't inclined to get to the hitting earlier because practices will stress different things.
— First impression was that Hue Jackson was a little more subdued than in offseason workouts. Cable, who stood back in the offseason and took notes, was involved in giving the offensive line their assignments before some plays.
— There was a brief period of seven-on-seven drills where quarterbacks actually threw the ball (plays during team sessions for the first eight practices are not run to completion).
The biggest play was a post by Johnnie Lee Higgins against a blown coverage, with Charlie Frye completing the pass. Darrius Heyward-Bey made a nice move to get open on a deep out route against Nnamdi Asomugha, but didn't come back hard to enough to make the catch. He was short-hopped on another pass.
— Defensive tackle Ryan Boschetti and wide receiver Damola Adenjii were waived.
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October 23, 2003
Los Angeles — UCLA Anderson School of Management announced that its 2003 Doctoral Program graduates have joined the professorial academic ranks, accepting tenure-track positions at institutions in the United States and abroad.
"Our Doctoral Program is an integral part of the research milieu at UCLA Anderson," said Professor Rakesh Sarin, senior associate dean and faculty chair at UCLA Anderson School. "Our Ph.D. students have extraordinary access to the faculty, who mentor them and prepare them to become outstanding scholars."
The Doctoral Program in Management at UCLA Anderson is a research-oriented program leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree. The primary goal of the program is to prepare students for research and teaching careers at leading academic institutions and for careers in research firms and private industry requiring sophisticated research and analytical capabilities. The major fields of specialization in the Doctoral Program at UCLA Anderson are as follows:
- Accounting
- Decisions, Operations and Technology Management
- Finance
- Global Economics and Management
- Human Resources and Organizational Behavior
- Information Systems
- International Business and Comparative Management
- Marketing
- Policy
The 2003 UCLA Anderson Ph.D. graduates and their first academic appointments are as follows:
Justin Sai Pang Chan
Field of Specialization: Finance
Singapore Management University
Dissertation Title: Essays on Liquidity , Stock Returns and Behavioral Finance
Martin Dierker
Field of Specialization: Finance
University of Houston, Bauer College of Business
Dissertation Title: The Link Between Information Efficiency and Economic Efficiency: Studies of Corporate Disclosure Policy and Private Information Acquisition
David R. Firth
Field of Specialization: Information Systems
University of Montana, School of Business Administration
Dissertation Title: The Supply of Information into, The Search for Information Within, and The Use of Information from IT-Based Organizational Memory Systems
Shingo Goto
Field of Specialization: Finance
University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Jina Kang
Field of Specialization: Policy
California State University, Fullerton, Department of Management
Dissertation Title: The Knowledge Advantage: Tracing and Testing the Impact of Knowledge Characteristics and Relationship Ties on Project Performance
Tatsuo Ushijima
Field of Specialization: International Business/Policy
Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, Graduate School of International Management
Dissertation Title: Evolution of Multinationality and the Value of the Firm
Julian Villanueva
Field of Specialization: Marketing
IESE Business School, Spain
Dissertation Title: Acquisition Channels and Price Discrimination in a Customer Equity Framework
Ashley Wenqing Wang
Field of Specialization: Finance
University of California, Irvine, Graduate School of Management
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs and doctoral programs.
UCLA Anderson's faculty includes outstanding educators and researchers who share their scholarship and expertise in such fundamental areas as finance, marketing, accounting, business economics, decision sciences, operations and technology management, human resources and organizational behavior, information systems, strategy and policy.
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Topic: Holiday Special
Anyone know if George is going to put the holiday special out on DVD? Regardless if it was crappy. I liked it a tad, but of course the Boba Fett cartoon a cool. Also there was the Droids cartoon series. I have the first one(like everyone else). Does any one know if the rest of the series is going to be out or how to get the rest of the series by ordering them?


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|MLBPA Press Release
Nussbaum, 32, joins the MLBPA after spending the past three years as an associate general counsel for the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA). Prior to joining the NHLPA, Nussbaum spent two and a half years as an associate in the litigation and corporate criminal investigations department in the Chicago office of international law firm Jones Day and one year as a law clerk to federal district court Judge Edward F. Harrington in Boston.
Were happy to add Matt to our staff. Im confident his experience in labor relations and enforcement of players rights will serve the MLBPA membership well, said Weiner.
A South Bend, Ind., native, and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (2000) and Notre Dame Law School (2004), Nussbaum and his wife, Lauren, have one daughter.


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Senior groups hear about fire safety
Fire safety was the topic at the meeting of the Carlton County TRIAD on Wednesday, December 5, at the Fond du Lac Tribal Center in Cloquet. The TRIAD group was hosted by the Fond du Lac Elder Concerns group.
Ken Klatt, Division Chief for the Cloquet Fire District, told the group that for every minute a fire burns, it doubles in size.
"During the holidays, when you have visitors, make sure that they know where the meeting spot is outside," said Klatt. "If a fire starts, get out of the house."
He added that an older house doesn't burn as fast.
"New houses are disposable, they are designed to kill firefighters," said Klatt. "If you have important keepsakes, buy a fireproof safe. When we come, we will ask you what we should focus on saving, such as guns in a safe."
The Cloquet Fire District provides a high level of ambulance service, as well as firefighters and equipment to fight fires.
"Our paramedics have to attend school for two years," said Klatt. "When you call 911, a first responder comes out. That could be someone that lives in your neighborhood that can get there in three to five minutes. The first responders provide the initial care. The paramedics give the same treatment that the person would receive in an emergency room except lab and x-rays."
The ambulance service in the remainder of the county provides basic service, such as in Moose Lake and Cromwell, and Emergency Medical Technicians provide the care. They are not as highly trained as paramedics.
Senior citizens have to be careful when walking on snow and ice.
"Broken hips are very common in older people," said Klatt. "After someone breaks a hip, the mortality rate increases tenfold. Those people die within five years. That's the statistics. We do not know why."
Klatt informed the group that hallways need to be kept clear in a home.
"If there is an emergency at a house, we will need to get an ambulance cot down the hallway," he said. "It is difficult if there are things in the hallway."
Klatt also spoke about keeping smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors up to date.
There are two types of smoke detectors, those with photo electric eyes and radiation detectors.
The photo electric eye detectors can see a smoke particle going by, and smoke particles trigger radiation-type detectors.
Smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors should be installed 10 feet from the sleeping area and the batteries checked regularly.
"Anything that burns gives off carbon monoxide," said Klatt. "There is a program where free smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are given out. When purchasing a new one look for 10-year smoke detectors."
Klatt warned people about the danger of having cans of gas or 20-pound propane cylinders.
"If a 20-pound propane cylinder explodes, it is very dangerous," he said.
Maintaining your house number by the road or on the homes is very important so that the fire department can find an address when responding to a call.
"A GPS is not always correct," said Klatt. "They are only as good as the mapping system. They are often not good in rural areas."
One of the TRIAD members told Klatt about the Yellow Dot program, where a yellow dot on the window of a door into the home or on a car window indicates that information for emergency responders is inside.
Klatt compared it to the Vial of Life, a program some time ago where information for emergency responders was contained in a vial in the freezer of the home.
"There was also the Tot Finder Program," he said. "There would be a picture of a firefighter that could be placed on the window of a child's bedroom to show the firefighters where children were sleeping. Child molesters used that signal, too. The program had to be discontinued."
Klatt said that he is available to provide demonstrations and to speak to any group.
Deputy Chief Terry Hill of the Cloquet Police Department distributed information about counterfeit $20 bills that had been passed in Cloquet recently.
He said that $300 had been passed at L & M Fleet Supply in Cloquet, and more were passed at the Little Store.
They looked like ordinary $20 bills," he said. "I would have taken them. The Duluth Police Department stopped the suspect and has him in custody but there still might be some of the bills in circulation. They all have the same serial number, IB79466761E."
People are asked to contact the local police department if one of the suspicious bills is found.
The TRIAD members and members of the Elder Concerns group were asked to be the eyes and ears for law enforcement.
"If you see something not right, call 911," said Carlton County Sheriff Kelly Lake. "We rely on you folks."
A pancake breakfast as a fundraiser for TRIAD's programs has been set for Friday, January 11, at the Barnum Senior Center from 8:30-10 a.m. The TRIAD will meet at 10 a.m. The breakfast is sponsored by Lighthouse Assisted Living.


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Who will survive? '14 top primaries
The campaigns of 2014 will be messy long before the candidates get to the general election, with a growing number of incumbents facing primary challenges they weren't expecting.
Republicans, who are keen on taking back the Senate, are especially concerned after two election cycles in which GOP primaries produced tea-party aligned candidates who lost winnable seats in the general election.
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Will 2014 be an anti-incumbent year the way 2010 was? Or will incumbents be able to use their resources and history with their constituents to hold on? In light of those questions, here are POLITICO's top 10 primaries to watch in 2014:
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1. Kentucky Senate (May 20)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is one of the country's most visible politicians, and he has one of the lowest home-state approval ratings of his GOP Senate colleagues.
With the trend of conservative activist-types challenging incumbent GOP-ers, then, it's no surprise that McConnell is facing a primary challenge. Businessman Matt Bevin announced he'd enter the GOP primary against McConnell earlier this year and has already been aided financially and on the television airwaves by conservative outside groups.
Nobody really expects the well-funded and well-connected McConnell, an institution in Kentucky, to lose to Bevin — but he'll have to expend a decent amount of his resources on the primary instead of saving them for a general-election fight with Democratic Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.
2. Georgia Senate (May 20)
The Georgia GOP primary is a race that national Democrats watch with glee. It's a free-for-all with eight declared candidates thus far, including U.S. Reps. Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey and Jack Kingston, businessman David Perdue and former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel.
It's also one of the places Democrats say is most likely to produce 2014's Todd Akin "legitimate rape" moment, given the propensity of certain candidates in the race to say less-than-politically-correct things (Gingrey, for example, endorsed traditional gender roles).
Whoever wins the primary will take on nonprofit CEO Michelle Nunn, daughter of longtime Georgia pol Sam Nunn, in the general election. The crazier this primary gets, the more hopeful national Democrats will be that Nunn can make a typically red seat competitive for them.
3. Hawaii Senate (Aug. 9)
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie picked his own lieutenant governor, Brian Schatz, to succeed the late Sen. Daniel Inouye last winter instead of Inouye's hand-picked successor, U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa. In the process, he set off what's bound to be one of the most competitive Democratic primaries in the country.
Schatz, now an incumbent, has all the benefits of being in office, including a fundraising advantage and a team of seasoned D.C. operatives. But Hanabusa has the support of Inouye's family and is tapping into his political network, which reaches across Hawaii.
The seat is seen as safe for Democrats, so whoever comes out of the August primary will almost certainly be the next senator from Hawaii. But given the nature of this race — between the now-incumbent senator and the protegee of a pol who was a Hawaii institution — it's definitely one to keep an eye on this spring and summer.
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4. Wyoming Senate (Aug. 19)
Sen. Mike Enzi never imagined he'd have a major primary on his hands this year. Then Liz Cheney decided she wanted his seat.
Cheney is far from a perfect candidate: she's already had to both combat claims of carpetbagging (she's lived with her family in Virginia and only recently returned to Wyoming) and deal with a very public family dispute with her sister, Mary Cheney, over same-sex marriage.
Polling in the race thus far has shown Enzi far ahead of the former vice president's daughter, but Cheney's name and connections could help make this a more competitive race.
( PHOTOS: Governors' offices up for grabs in 2014)
5. Pennsylvania Governor (May 20)
Pennsylvania GOP Gov. Tom Corbett is vulnerable, and Democrats know it. No fewer than eight of them are vying for a chance to face off against Corbett in the 2014 general election, a number that could grow between now and the state's May primary.
There are candidates from all parts of the state's political and business world, including U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, State Treasurer Rob McCord, businessman Tom Wolf and former state environmental protection director Katie McGinty.
With Wolf's pledge to drop $10 million on the primary, this race has the potential to be both costly and bruising for whoever becomes the eventual nominee. How nasty the primary gets could affect the outcome of the general election, too, since Corbett is hoping he'll get to face a tired and broke Democratic nominee.


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That's probably some automated optimization. Since we only have a few shades of grey left (250-255, plus 0 for the border), the image can be (and is) stored with pixel depth 4 (allows 16 colors) instead of 8 (allows 256 colors).
Interesting. But surprising, since the border is 0 and the background is/was 255, so at 4 bits, dynamic range is lost. Doesn't matter for this image, but since I'm used to treating an image as a collection of scientific data, it seems odd to throw information away like that.
Edit (to avoid double posting): there are 9 pixel values in the image (Matlab loads it as 0,1,...,8). Border is 0, foreground is 3, background is 8, values between 3 and 8 are antialiasing at the edges, 1 and 2 are in the corners of the border.
Remember, 4 bits is 16 values, 24, more than enough for that.
Added: Ah, I think maybe I misunderstood your misunderstanding. The 16 values can be any in the range 0-255; they don't have to be evenly spaced.


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Parkway is the answer
Chief Longo is not to blame for the traffic back-up on North Avenue, Calhoun Street, and Locust Avenue [News, August 28, "Road rage: Neighbors blame Longo"] (http://www.readthehook.com/93918/news-road-rage-neighbors-blame-longo). The blame lies squarely on the city councilors and county supervisors who have delayed for over 25 years to build the Meadowcreek Parkway.
Had this roadway into downtown been built already, the increase in traffic on the above named streets would be drastically reduced.
Do you think downtown-bound commuters would choose to drive along the 25 mph curves of Rio Road? Or would they opt to cruise into downtown on a four-lane divided road? I for one would be driving down Meadowcreek Parkway.
Alas, the motto seems to be "don't ever build it and eventually people will become so fed up with the traffic problems they will move away and the traffic jams will alleviate themselves." I for one wish the county would build their part of the road, and at the point where the county ends and the city begins, they could borrow a sign from the Corner and just say "Coming."
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Above: "Saint Francis" by Master of Sir John Fastolf, about 1430-1440. (Used by permission / J. Paul Getty Museum)
It's a familiar cycle: Pope Francis says something that seems to soften the Roman Catholic Church's attitude toward hot-button issues; liberals (Catholic and otherwise) rejoice; conservative Catholics rush to remind gleeful Francisphiles that the pope really didn't depart from orthodoxy.
But that sort of spin has become progressively more difficult.
This summer, Francis unforgettably said: "When I meet a gay person, I have to distinguish between their being gay and being part of a lobby. If they accept the Lord and have goodwill, who am I to judge them?" A writer for the National Catholic Register first offered a "nothing new here" gloss, speculating that the pope was referring to "people with same-sex attraction who strive to live chastely (even if they sometimes fail)."
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But the Register acknowledged that the pope might also have been extending a hand to "individuals who are not living chastely but who are not actively lobbying a homosexual agenda." The Register added, "It would be nice if he'd said a little more to clarify the point further."
Well, the pope's interview with a Jesuit publication that hit the Internet on Thursday does provide some clarification, but not the kind conservative Catholics were hoping for. Francis made it clear that he thought the church was hurting itself with an excessive emphasis on moral issues such as same-sex marriage, abortion and contraception.
"We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods," the Jesuit pope said. "This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time."
Equally Blessed, a coalition of pro-gay Catholic groups, said that Francis' words were "like rain on a parched land for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics and their supporters." That seems obvious. The group was on less solid ground in hoping that the pope's words presaged "the day when the Catholic hierarchy can simply acknowledge the holiness of our lives and our relationships, as the majority of Catholics in the United States already do."
But it doesn't take a lot of deconstruction of what Francis said to conclude that the church's teachings about homosexuality rank fairly low for him in what theologians call the "hierarchy of truths."
Perhaps the biggest disappointment for conservative Catholics in the interview came in the pope's comments about Benedict XVI's "reform of the reform" -- the pope emeritus' attempts to rehabilitate forms of worship that atrophied after the Second Vatican Council.
"The work of liturgical reform has been a service to the people as a re-reading of the Gospel from a concrete historical situation," Francis said. "Yes, there are hermeneutics of continuity and discontinuity, but one thing is clear: The dynamic of reading the Gospel, actualizing its message for today — which was typical of Vatican II — is absolutely irreversible."
He offered the faintest of praise for Benedict's revival of the traditional Latin Mass, but also warned about the "risk of the ideologization" of the old rite. That comes very close to accusing traditionalist Catholics of being cultists.
Yes, Catholic teaching about marriage and sexuality still stands. Yes, traditionalists will continue to celebrate the Mass with Renaissance splendor. But after this interview, it will be hard for conservative Catholics to claim credibly that nothing important has changed.
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Nutritional Supplements During Cancer Therapy
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Are there any herbals or other nutritional supplements that should be avoided during chemo/radiation? Do any help?
Karen Wagner MS, RD, LDN, Clinical dietitian specialist for the Abramson Cancer Center, responds:
The area of herbal medicine use during cancer treatment is exciting, but still very understudied. Sometimes herbs and chemotherapy interact in unexpected ways. For instance we now recommend that people taking Bortezomib for multiple myeloma not take green tea supplements, based on interactions between the compounds in green tea and the chemotherapy. Please speak with your doctor, dietitian or pharmacist about any possible interactions with the therapies that you are receiving and herbal supplements. Whether or not there are herbals that will make your treatments work better will need to be looked at on a case-by-case basis.
At the moment, many practitioners are being conservative in their recommendations of unstudied herbs. Please see ods.od.nih.gov for more information on specific herbs. On the other hand, dietary source of herbs, such as parsley, thyme, oregano and many others are great sources of vitamins, minerals and plant compounds which are very healthy. Cooking with more herbs and adding them to your meals is a great idea for most people.
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Cologne – Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-116) lifted off on 9 December 2006 at 20:47 local time (10 December at 02:47 CET), continuing NASA's series of shuttle flights to upgrade the International Space Station (ISS). One of the on-board crew is American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who will relieve permanent crewmember and flight engineer Thomas Reiter after his extended stay on the station as a member of the Expedition 14 crew
Professor Sigmar Wittig, Chairman of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), congratulated NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on the successful launch of Discovery: "The successful launch of Discovery is yet another step in the scientific exploitation and upgrading of the ISS. Mission STS-116 represents a successful conclusion to the European Astrolab mission," said Wittig. "Over the last six months, the Columbus Control Center, in particular, has had a real chance to prove its expertise and capabilities."
German-Canadian scientific collaboration onboard ISS
The STS-116 mission marks the beginning of the PMDIS/TRAC experiment (Perceptual Motor Deficits in Space/Test of Reaction and Adaptation Capabilities). This experiment is part of a collaboration between Germany and Canada and continues the scientific use of the ISS by German researchers.
The experiment is a joint project between York University in Toronto (represented by Prof. B. Fowler) and the German Sports University in Cologne (Prof. O. Bock), with the participation of NASA (Dr J. Bloomberg).
The project was brought to fruition by the Canadian Space Agency and DLR in its capacity as Germany's space agency. DLR supported the development of the experimental equipment by Kayser-Threde in Munich, and research carried out at the Sports University. Canada, as an ISS partner, is providing the necessary resources onboard the ISS. The experiment is designed to answer questions about the human coordination of movement, particularly in relation to the process of adjustment in zero gravity and after returning to Earth from space. Specifically, the experiment will study the changes in the astronauts' manual dexterity during the course of a mission.
Other tests will measure alertness, spatial awareness and other cognitive functions. The STS-116 mission, the Discovery's 33rd mission and the 20th Space Shuttle assembly mission to the ISS, is scheduled to last twelve days. After one crewmember has been relieved, a new structural element (the P5 truss) will be installed and the temporary electrical and cooling systems reconfigured. The mission will involve three EVAs (spacewalks). After undocking from the ISS, the Discovery crew will also launch three small satellites into Earth orbit.


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Columbus Public Library Association Minutes, January 1881 to April 1883
- Coverage Dates: 1881-1883
Columbus Public Library Association Minutes, 1881-1883 provides online access to early handwritten minutes of the Columbus Public Library Association, documenting the origin and initial development of the Columbus Public Library, later to become today's Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System. The online content presents 144 pages of minutes, providing historic page images with full transcriptions, and offering full-text searching as well as browsing by date.
Reflecting the city's "New South" urban industrial prosperity, the Columbus Public Library Association Minutes offer insight into the complex role of the library as a social and cultural institution. They highlight the formation of gender, class, and racial identities and their effect on the development and operations of the Columbus Public Library. In a larger sense, they also speak to the role of the library as an institution in Georgia and the South.
Columbus Public Library Association Minutes, 1881-1883 is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia and the Columbus Public Library of the Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
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Pantone Unveils 2012 Color Inspiration and Direction for the Home Furnishings and Interior Design Industries
PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2012 Defines Nine Directional Color Palettes that Twist, Turn and Trend
CHICAGO, International Home & Housewares Show 2011, PANTONE ColorWatch Display (Lakeside Lobby Level 3) – March 7, 2011 – Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today announced PANTONE® VIEW home + interiors 2012, a trend forecast containing the nine most directional color palettes for home furnishings and interior design in 2012.
"PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2012 is the road map to color for 2012, which is filled with interesting new directions," said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. "Some paths lead to exhilarating tones that encourage the prospective buyer to forge ahead into adventures with novel color combinations, while others invite them to stop for a moment, take a deep breath, relax and consider the more classic hues in a different kind of mix. The continuing challenge and goal will be in keeping the consumer visually engaged by blending the playful with the practical. To reach that destination, color is the compass."
PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2012 is a forecasting book that provides color and trend direction, enabling designers to select the right shades and combinations for home furnishings or interior spaces. PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2012 contains visual inspiration, suggested color harmonies, individual tear-out palette cards for each of the nine forecasted palettes, swatches of the 73 forecasted colors, and images from the forecast for use in presentations and storyboards. Additionally, PANTONE VIEW home + interiors 2012 includes the PANTONE FASHION + HOME digital color library which enables direct download of all the PANTONE FASHION + HOME palette colors into design software.
The nine palettes for 2012 are: Nonchalance, Subtleties, Resilience, Indigo Effects, Transcending Time, Back to the Fuchsia, Reflections, Nouveau Neon and The Comics.
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Pantone LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, has been the world's color authority for almost 50 years, providing design professionals with products and services for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity. Always a source for color inspiration, Pantone also offers designer-inspired products and services for consumers. More information is available at www.pantone.com.
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August 14, 2012
Colonial Williamsburg Acquires Important Southern 18th-century Portrait
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation recently acquired an important portrait painted by Swiss-born Jeremiah Theus, a prolific artist who dominated professional portraiture in Charleston, S.C., from 1740 to 1774. Although he had little competition, much of his success was due to his talent for addressing wealthy South Carolinians' ideals regarding self-imagery.
The painting of Elizabeth Allen Deas is the third Theus portrait to be added to the Colonial Williamsburg collection. It is believed to be painted at the time of her marriage to John Deas in 1759. Purchased at auction, the painting was owned by family descendants of Deas.
"No collection of Southern American portraits can be considered complete without one or more examples of Theus's work," said Barbara Luck, Colonial Williamsburg's curator of paintings and sculpture. "None of our three portraits duplicates another. The three illustrate various aspects of the artist's style that could not be captured in any single painting."
The aesthetics of the portrait combine understated simplicity with unrestrained exuberance. Her white gown is unadorned and her hair pulled back severely from her face. Bursts of vivid color abound: blue facings on her sleeve ruffles, a blue band across her chest, and a length of scarlet fabric casually drawn around her body while a floral wreath in her hands and a floral ornament atop her head add more color, dense detail and rich textural notes.
Colonial Williamsburg has more than aesthetic interest in the painting. In 1974, the foundation acquired a stunning double chest originally owned by John and Elizabeth Deas, perhaps one of the finest to come out of the South. The two objects — chest and painting — will be paired in the upcoming major exhibition, "Arts of the South," opening in 2013.
Acquisition of the portrait of Elizabeth Allen Deas was jointly funded by donors Mark and Loretta Roman of Williamsburg and by the Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections. The Romans are members of Colonial Williamsburg's President's Council, the Raleigh Tavern Society and the Goodwin Society.
The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg include the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum is home to the nation's premier collection of American folk art, with more than 5,000 folk art objects made during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum exhibits the best in British and American decorative arts from 1670–1830.
The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg are located at the intersection of Francis and South Henry Streets in Williamsburg, Va., and are entered through the Public Hospital of 1773. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. For museum program information, telephone (757) 220-7724.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is the not-for-profit educational and cultural organization that preserves and operates the restored 18th-century Revolutionary capital of Virginia as a town-sized living history museum, telling the inspirational stories of our nation's founding men and women. Williamsburg is located in Virginia's Tidewater region, 20 minutes from Newport News, within an hour's drive of Richmond and Norfolk, and 150 miles south of Washington, D.C., off Interstate 64. For more information about Colonial Williamsburg, call 1-800-HISTORY or visit Colonial Williamsburg's website at www.history.org.
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Obama's NLRB "recess" appointments invalid
I looked and didn't see a thread on this... you guys are dropping the ball!
So, it looks like every NLRB decision since January of 2012 will be invalidated. This is a VERY HEALTHY slap in the face to Obama's constant abuse of executive power.
Here is a great article on it
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Ugh. Washington Times.
Anyways. My thoughts are... this is a huge legal nightmare. We're talking about invalidating hundreds of regulations created by the NLRB board, and of course this would narrow the board down to 1 person, which would shut it down. Yikes.
Glad to see you actually posted about this. I resisted because I thought there'd be no interest. This is a pretty huge deal.
This is sure to end up at the Supreme Court, and while I don't think the Appeals Court was necessarily wrong on the merits of the case, SCOTUS does tend to be pragmatic so I'd have to think these appointments would be upheld under some incredibly esoteric interpretation that could never really be duplicated in the future.
I thought this was a pretty big deal when I first heard it. But then I started reading up on it in articles like this one, and I honestly had no idea how much the NLRB does.
A court just struck down Obamas labor board. Heres why it matters.
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on January 25, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Big news: A federal appeals court has just ruled that President Obama exceeded his constitutional authority when he made three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012 while the Senate was on break.
If the ruling stands and thats still a question mark it would mean two big things for the five-member labor board. First, the NLRB would have just one valid appointee left, which would prevent it from deciding any further labor cases. (At least three sitting members are needed for a quorum, though the board could still hold union elections and investigate unfair practices.)
Second, and just as significantly, hundreds of NLRB decisions that have been handed down since January 4, 2012 would suddenly become invalid. That includes rulings on everything from how workers can use social media to regulations on union dues-checkoffs.
Lets start with the first one: If the NLRB lost three of its members, labor experts warn that the agency would no longer be able to oversee union elections effectively. Workers illegally fired for union organizing wont be reinstated with back pay, explained former board chair William Gould. Employers will be able to get away with interfering with union elections. Perhaps most importantly, employers wont have to recognize unions despite a majority vote by workers. Without the board to enforce labor law, most companies will not voluntarily deal with unions.
In theory, the Senate could solve this problem by confirming new appointees. Yet in recent years, Republicans have vowed to block all of Obamas NLRB appointees, particularly after the board filed a controversial lawsuit against Boeing in 2011. In response, the White House tried to recess-appoint three members to the board on Jan. 4, 2012 while the Senate was on break. (Thats the move that the appeals court ruled unconstitutional.)
Since that time, the NLRB has handed down hundreds of decisions relating to various aspects of labor law. If the decision by the D.C. Circuit Court holds up, all rulings since Jan. 4 will vanish. Heres a sample of some decisions that could be invalidated:
Protections for workers who use social media. Recently, the NLRB issued a series of rulings saying that employees have a right to discuss workplace issues without fear of retribution, even if those discussions take place on Facebook or Twitter. The NLRB forbade companies from banning disrespectful comments on social media as long as employees were engaged in conversation with each other. (There were some exceptions: Firms could step in to prevent lone workers from going on online rants.)
New rules on union dues-checkoffs. In a unionized workplace, the employer typically automatically withholds money from employee paychecks for union dues. But for 50 years, there was a key exception: Employers didnt have to do this if the collective bargaining agreement had expired. The unions had to collect dues on their own. In a December decision, however, the NLRB reversed this precedent, arguing that the employer needs to handle dues-checkoffs even during this period.
Expanded powers for unions to get information from employers. Whenever unions are bargaining or filing grievances, they are allowed to ask their employers for relevant information say, about health or safety conditions. But for a long time, employers had some leeway to resist these requests. Not any more: In a November decision involving two trucking companies, the NLRB ruled that an employer must timely respond to a union request seeking relevant information even when the employer believes it has grounds for not providing the information.
Over the past year, many companies and conservatives have criticized Obamas NLRB for issuing a slew of sweeping pro-labor rulings. But Kate Bronfenbrenner, a labor expert at Cornell, says the past year hasnt been particularly unusual. Labor boards appointed by Democratic presidents tend to look more favorably on workers and unions, while those appointed by Republican presidents tend to side with employers.
Its always been a political agency, she says, and it always swings back and forth.
Bronfenbrenner adds that if the D.C. Circuit Courts ruling is upheld and the NLRB does have to shut down and if it sees a years worth of work invalidated that could make the agency even more dysfunctional in the years ahead. Thats because all of those cases from 2012 will have to be reheard, and new cases will keep piling up. If and when the Senate finally does confirm new appointees, the new board will have to confront a huge backlog.
Its still not clear, however, whether Fridays ruling will ultimately stand. The three-judge panel acknowledged that its ruling conflicted with other circuit court rulings on the subject of recess appointments, and the matter may ultimately end up before the Supreme Court.
In the meantime, the NLRB issued a statement saying that it disagrees with Fridays ruling and will continue operating normally until the legal issues are fully resolved. The parties who come to us seek and expect careful consideration and resolution of their cases, said NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce, and for that reason, we will continue to perform our statutory duties and issue decisions.
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The actual decision: http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/D13E4C2A7B33B57A85257AFE00556B29/$file/12-1115-1417096.pdf
Yes, I have it bookmarked.
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.....and this is why I think SCOTUS will overturn, as they have typically before.
Court decision on recess appointments could make America harder to govern
Posted by Neil Irwin
on January 25, 2013 at 2:37 pm
This has been a terrible week for anyone who wants to see a crisp, well-run U.S. government. First, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) opted to make only minimal changes to the filibuster, which will allow a minority of senators to continue to block any legislation they may wish to. And a court ruling on Friday threw into doubt the ability of the president to get around bottlenecks in the Senate to get his nominees into office.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that President Obama's "recess appointments" of members to the National Labor Relations Board last year exceeded his constitutional authority. The constitution allows the president to appoint senior officials without Senate confirmation when the Senate is in recess. ("The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate," says Article II, "by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session".)
Presidents use this power sparingly, as it tends to inflame tensions with the Senate. But it is a key way for presidents to get their nominees into position when faced with an obstructionist Senate. It is even more important for the implied threat to the lawmakers: Confirm my nominees, the president can say, or I'll appoint them during your recess and freeze the Senate out of the process entirely.
Senate Republicans were blocking consideration of Obama's nominees to agencies whose work they generally dislike, namely the NLRB and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the Dodd-Frank Act. Nothing personal about the individual nominees themselves; the lawmakers just didn't want to staff the NLRB and CFPB at all. Eventually fed up, Obama appointed new NLRB board members and Richard Cordray as director of the CFPB during the Senate's holiday recess last winter.
The Senate, though, was holding "pro forma" sessions every few days, gaveling in and then out so that it could claim to not be in recess at all. The appeals court ruled Friday that the gaveling counted as being in session, meaning the recess appointments weren't valid.
The decision will surely be appealed, but if it is upheld, it would essentially make the constitutional provision for "recess appointments" invalid — the Senate could always use the pro forma sessions to prevent a president from making such appointments. If that happens, Obama and future presidents will have less leverage in trying to force the Senate to consider nominees.
The recess appointment may have only been used as a last resort, but it was part of the president's arsenal in getting the Senate to act. And it isn't a partisan issue. President George W. Bush used recess appointments a handful of times, including to install John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations over strenuous Democratic objections. Under the legal principle described in the court ruling, presidents of either party will not be able to use that method to push through their nominees.
If the court ruling stands, one of the key tools that presidents have long though sparingly used to run the country — this one spelled out in the Constitution itself! — could become useless.
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The Washington Post has been all over this shit, by the way.
Here's a piece outlining the issues at hand in the case. This is a must-read if this is honestly a new thing to you.
Court says Obama exceeded authority in making appointments
By Robert Barnes and Steven Mufson
Jan 26, 2013 03:47 AM EST
President Obama exceeded his constitutional authority by making appointments when the Senate was on a break last year, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The court's broad ruling would sharply limit the power that presidents throughout history have used to make recess appointments in the face of Senate opposition and inaction.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit flatly rejected the Obama administration's rationale for appointing three members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) while the Senate was on a holiday break.
Chief Judge David B. Sentelle sharply criticized the administration's interpretation of when recess appointments may be made, saying it would give the president "free rein to appoint his desired nominees at any time he pleases, whether that time be a weekend, lunch, or even when the Senate is in session and he is merely displeased with its inaction." He added, "This cannot be the law."
The issue seems certain to end up before the Supreme Court, which ultimately could clarify a president's authority to fill his administration and appoint federal judges when a minority of the Senate blocks consideration of his choices.
Although recess appointments have been made throughout the nation's history, they have been more commonly made by modern presidents who face partisan opposition that has made it hard for nominees to even receive a vote in the Senate.
Additionally, Friday's decision casts doubt on hundreds of decisions the NLRB has made in the past year, ranging from enforcement of collective-bargaining agreements to rulings on the rights of workers to use social media.
The ruling also raises questions about the recess appointment of former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to head the fledgling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and about the actions taken by the agency during his tenure, including major new rules governing the mortgage industry. Obama named Cordray at the same time as the NLRB nominees, and his appointment is the subject of a separate lawsuit in D.C. federal court.
The White House criticized the court ruling. "The decision is novel and unprecedented, and it contradicts 150 years of practice by Democratic and Republican administrations," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Friday. "We respectfully but strongly disagree with the ruling."
Presidents from both parties have made hundreds of recess appointments when the Senate has failed to act on nominations. Ronald Reagan holds the record with 243. Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, made 105, and it was during his term that Senate Democrats began holding pro-forma sessions, some lasting less than a minute, when the Senate went on break. They contended that that kept the Senate in session and did not allow Bush to make recess appointments.
Republicans took up the practice when Obama was elected. But Obama decided to challenge it in January 2012, when the Senate was on a 20-day holiday but holding pro-forma sessions every three business days to block presidential action.
Obama moved ahead with the nomination of Cordray, who many Republicans considered overly antagonistic toward business, and three NLRB members — Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn and Richard F. Griffin Jr.
At the time, the NLRB had only two members and was thus unable to take any official action. Some Republicans were worried that the board under Obama would be too pro-union.
Obama said he had the authority under the Constitution's recess appointments clause, which grants power for such appointments "during the Recess of the Senate," when senators are unavailable to provide their advice and consent.
Sentelle, joined by Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson and Thomas B. Griffith, said that the Constitution's reference to "the Recess" means that appointments are allowed only during the recess between sessions of the Senate, not when the Senate is simply on a break. It was not up to the president to decide what constitutes a recess, Sentelle said.
The ruling noted that another federal appeals court has read the Constitution differently, which adds to the likelihood the Supreme Court will have to settle the issue.
Sentelle and Henderson went where apparently no other court has gone. They said that the president has the authority to make appointments only to vacancies that arise during a recess, which would drastically limit a president's ability to make use of the recess appointment power.
A senior administration official who was granted anonymity to discuss White House legal strategy said it was unlikely that the White House would ask the full D.C. Circuit court to take up the case. The official said it might be better to wait for other courts around the country to rule on similar cases and then seek Supreme Court review.
Senate Republicans said the decision was a victory for the separation of powers.
"Today's ruling reaffirms that the Constitution is above political party or agenda, despite what the Obama administration seems to think," said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah).
Some Democrats said the ruling will encourage Senate Republicans to block Obama's nominees by refusing to allow them to come to a vote.
"Today's circuit court decision is not only a radical departure from precedent, it ignores the fact that President Obama had no choice but to act," said Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). Harkin said that "throughout his presidency, Republicans have employed unprecedented partisan delay tactics and filibusters" to block Obama's nominees.
The case was brought by Noel Canning, a company in Washington state that challenged an NLRB ruling by saying the three Obama board members were not properly appointed. The court's ruling on Noel's behalf leaves hundreds of decisions in which the three members have participated open to court challenge. Block and Griffin continue to serve. Flynn resigned last year.
NLRB Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce said the board, which now has only three members, will continue with business as usual.
"It should be noted that this order applies to only one specific case, Noel Canning, and that similar questions have been raised in more than a dozen cases pending in other courts of appeals," Pearce said in a statement on the board's Web site.
But labor unions were alarmed. "Chaos" is the way Pamela Allen, legal director of National Nurses United, described the effect of the court ruling. She said, "It's a field day for the employers. This decision will be appealed, but to a [Supreme] Court that hasn't always been friendly to labor over the years."
Allen said that hundreds of NLRB rulings might be contested by employers. One example, she said, was a recent ruling to force a rural California hospital to award back pay to union activists and to accept a vote by its nurses to let the union bargain on their behalf.
Charles I. Cohen, a former NLRB member and senior counsel in the labor and employment practice of the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, said the result of the court ruling was "a cloud" over the NLRB that would "present a quandary for employers about how to comply with the law."
The work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could also be in jeopardy because the law requires the agency to have a director in place before it can exercise its power to write regulations and enforce them.
In the past three weeks alone, the bureau has issued seven rules changing the way that homeowners interact with the mortgage industry by limiting upfront fees, providing free appraisals and curtailing harmful practices such as interest-only payments, among other things.
"There will be lots of lawsuits, lots of uncertainty about what the rules of the road are, and lots of taxpayer money wasted on things that potentially turn out to be invalid," said Andrew J. Pincus, an attorney who represents the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Cordray's recess appointment expires at the end of this year. Obama renominated him on Thursday, but GOP leaders have said they continue to oppose him.
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No way the Supreme Court overturns this and strips the Senate of their power. The entire reason they were not letting the Senate go into recess was to not let the President go around them. Recess appointments are NOT meant to be used to usurp the normal process. Why even have a ****ing Senate if the President can just do whatever the **** he wants?
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You have a problem with recess appointments? Take it up with the Constitution. It is a specifically enumerated power of the executive branch.
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Appellate courts disagree on this issue, actually. The general consensus, however, is that a ruling like this is an aberration.
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From the Washington Times article:
"At issue is the notion of what constitutes a "recess" appointment. Presidents have the absolute authority to make recess appointments without Senate approval. Those appointments are temporary. Recess appointments are never popular, but they are legal. This is not in dispute. The situation becomes murky when the Senate holds "pro-forma" sessions.
A pro-forma session in recent years has involved the Senate opening for as little as thirty seconds where one person shows up and bangs a gavel. In other words, even though little to no work is done at many of these sessions, it counts as an actual session. This is designed specifically to avoid being categorized as a recess, even if most members are gone for several weeks.
President Obama argued that these pro-forma sessions were a complete sham. On this issue, he is right. They violate the spirit of the law."
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Reds' Hamilton lives up to reputation
Speedy Blaze outfielder swipes two bases in All-Star Game
By Chris Gigley / Special to MLB.com | June 19, 2012 9:45 PM
"My teammates told me everyone was here to see me steal bases, so that's what I wanted to do," said Hamilton, who took home MVP honors for the California League. "That's the goal I have every game. To steal bags and get in position to score."
The Reds' top prospect not only gets into position, he almost single-handedly manufactures runs, as he did in the first inning of the Class A Advanced leagues' Midsummer Classic. The Bakersfield shortstop led off the game by beating out a bunt for an infield single, stole second and then swiped third. He jogged home on Lancaster outfielder George Springer's groundout to second base.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the Reds called him up in September just to steal bases for them," said Winston-Salem manager Tommy Thompson, who managed against him in Spring Training.
The All-Star Game, which the Cal League lost, 9-1, was just a continuation of Hamilton's first half as he swiped 80 bases in just 66 games. A big reason for that, said Hamilton, was his skipper.
"I have the green light whenever I'm on unless it's a situation [Blaze manager Ken Griffey] doesn't feel I should be going," said Hamilton. "I haven't had one so far. I told him before the season, 'You've got to trust me, Griff.' He said all right, and I haven't gone wrong yet."
What makes Hamilton's performance even more impressive is that every opposing team already knows he's a threat on the basepaths. He stole 103 bases in 135 games for the Class A Dayton Dragons last year and 48 in 69 games for Rookie-level Billings in 2010.
Hamilton's reputation also preceded him in Winston-Salem, where the Carolina League All-Stars knew he had more steals than all than all but one team on the circuit -- the Salem Red Sox with 99 steals in the first half.
"I think he stole a thousand bases last year, didn't he?" quipped Carolina League starter Matt Heidenreich of the Dash. "He's probably run past me three times already, he's so fast."
Heidenreich's plan of attack before he took the mound Tuesday night was pretty simple. Keep Hamilton off the bases so he can't steal bases in the first place. And when he got on?
"I just hoped [Nationals catcher Mike] Freitas would throw him out," said Heidenreich. "He's an All-Star for a reason. He's got a cannon for an arm."
Even though he couldn't catch Hamilton, Freitas said he enjoyed the challenge.
"As a baseball player in general, you always want to compete against the best," Potomac's backstop said. "It only makes you a better player."
Freitas and Heidenreich made a few pickoff attempts and mixed up their timing to keep Hamilton honest. But the speedster said it wasn't anything he wasn't already used to.
"I've seen teams hold the ball and pick off a lot more to get me out of my comfort zone," said Hamilton. "That's just not going to happen. The other day, a shortstop saw me getting a big lead and called a timeout because he was afraid I'd go. I'd never seen that before."
Did he steal the base on that occasion anyway?
"Oh yeah," answered Hamilton. "It only made me more determined to go."
As Hamilton keeps on proving this year, there's not much that can stop him. Not a timeout, not a throw-over to first, and not even a team of All-Stars.
Shoemaker wins the Derby: Hometown favorite Brady Shoemaker, an outfielder with Winston-Salem, won the Home Run Derby title with just seven swings of the bat. Shoemaker beat out Rancho Cucamonga third baseman CJ Retherford, who reached the finals by slugging a Derby-high seven homers in the first round. In the finals, however, Retherford managed just two.
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