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The aim of the King James Bible Trust was to celebrate the impact the King James (KJV) Bible had on history and on language, particularly in the United Kingdom, but also throughout the English speaking world.
General information
The King James Bible Trust was established to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James (KJV) Bible which was completed in 1611. There have been few more important single publications and its impact through history has been colossal.
Overview of what the Trust did
The Trust was hard at work developing projects which included:
- Commissioning new music and literature.
- Study days in some cities following James's route from Scotland to London, focusing on the translation story.
- Lectures at Oxford and Cambridge, where the translators worked.
- Developing educational school projects.
- Publishing new texts.
- Discussions about similar values in the texts of the world's major religions.
- Major exhibitions in London and around the country where the translations were made.
- Street culture projects.


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Join us as we celebrate Geography Awareness Week with National Geographic and friends. This year's theme is "Geography: Declare Your Interdependence."
Did you know that Winston Churchill once called Uganda the "Pearl of Africa?"
CFCA began working in this East African country, with an area slightly smaller than the state of Oregon, in 1993. Today Uganda's population is estimated at more than 30 million people.
Our Hope for a Family sponsorship program is based in the capital city of Kampala, with outreach to families in Masaka, Busunju and Ssekanyonyi.
About 15 percent of the under-18 population in Uganda, or 2.7 million children, are orphans, according to a UNICEF report.
Most of these children were orphaned because of AIDS, the report explains, but deaths caused by armed conflict and war have added to the problem.
CFCA staff members said taking in orphans places emotional and financial pressure on caregivers, who may be responsible for their own children as well.
As a result, staffers said, orphans can suffer abuse by the same family members who are supposed to care for them.
How can sponsorship help in such cases? Well, it can alleviate the financial strain on caregivers by helping them meet basic needs of education, health care, food and clothing.
While sponsorship is never to be a substitute for parents and family, many orphans often look to their sponsors for guidance.
One orphan, Rosemary, found encouragement to continue her studies in the letters she received from her sponsor, Eileen Lowrie.
Statements such as "Continue your good work in school," and "I give you so much credit for all you have accomplished" helped Rosemary stay focused on her education.
"These may look like small statements to some people, but to me, they were always the source of encouragement," Rosemary said.
Rosemary took that encouragement and graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in economics.
She is now a social worker at the CFCA-Kampala project, where she helps with letter writing, benefits distribution, recreational activities and filing.

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Vaucluse Renovation by Bruce Stafford Architects
by Daniel Haim
Bruce Stafford Architects have designed the renovation of an existing house which was originally an 80′s style multi-tenancy building in Sydney, Australia. Only the external walls were retained to comply with the approved council envelope. A completely new look for the house was designed, both inside and out. Dramatic views of the harbor and the site's natural amenities were maximized.


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Acapulco Shrimp Taco (Toloache Taqueria, NYC)
Julian Medina grew up in Mexico City but came up through the culinary ranks in New York City under Richard Sandoval at Maya. Now, with his own mini empire of six restaurants throughout Manhattan, Medina gets to showcase the flavors and food memories that inspire him. Among his signature dishes is this far-from-traditional version of the Acapulco-style shrimp tacos from his childhood. "I remember being on vacation with my parents, eating these on the beach with a fresh corn tortilla," he says. Medina's version is a chili-sauced shrimp, with hearts-of-palm pico de gallo, and a spicy tamarind hot sauce. "It's just so many different flavors and textures in one bite."
• 1 cup tamarind paste
• 1/4 cup plus 3 tbsp sherry (or white wine) vinegar
• 2 cups, plus 2 tbsp canola oil
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 tbsp honey
• 1 tbsp sambal oelek red chili paste (or any red chili paste)
• 1 lb canned hearts of palm, diced
• 2 tomatoes (1 diced, 1 quartered)
• 1 red onion, diced
• 1 cup cilantro (1/2 chopped)
• 2 tbsp lime juice
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 tbsp onion, chopped
• Kosher salt
• 1 serrano chili
• 5 garlic cloves (1 whole, 4 minced)
• 1 canned chipotle pepper
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 lbs medium shrimp, deveined and quartered
• 1 cup Chihuahua cheese, shredded
• 12 tortillas
Step one
For hot sauce, blend tamarind paste, 1/4 cup sherry vinegar, 2 cups canola oil, water, honey, sambal oelek. Salt to taste.
Step two
For pico de gallo, combine hearts of palm, diced tomato, diced red onion, 1/2 cup chopped cilantro, 2 tbsp lime juice, 2 tbsp vinegar, olive oil. Salt to taste.
Step three
For tomato-chipotle salsa, preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a roasting pan, place quartered tomato, chopped onion, serrano, garlic clove, and vegetable oil. Season with salt, cover with foil, roast 30 minutes. Transfer to a food processor, add 1/2 cup cilantro, chipotle, and 1 tbsp vinegar, pulse to combine. Salt as needed.
Step four
Heat 2 tbsp canola oil over medium-hot burner. Add shrimp, toss until pink. Add minced garlic, toss; add cheese, toss; add chipotle salsa. Simmer to heat.
Step five
On each tortilla, place several shrimp, topped with pico de gallo, and a drizzle of tamarind hot sauce.
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Detox Week 4: I Lost Weight
Five pounds, to be exact. Although weight loss was not the reason for my kale and quinoa season—I'll take it. In fact, I've decided to continue my detox for another month to make sure all of these good habits stick. With a few minor exceptions. Like, I'm allowing myself a piece of dark chocolate every day (c-c-c-crazy!), a couple cups of caffeinated coffee each week, and red wine when I really, really need it (but only on weekends). Just enough liberation to keep me sane but not so much that I spiral out of control. Let's get this party started, yo.


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The trouble with Saint Dorothy
Can you think of a word that describes a person who devoted much of her life to being with people many of us cross the street to avoid? Who for half a century did her best to make sure they didn't go hungry or freeze on winter nights? Who went to Mass every day until her legs couldn't take her that far, at which point Communion was brought to her? Who prayed every day for friend and enemy alike, and whose prayers, some are convinced, had miraculous results? Who went to Confession every week? Who was devoted to the rosary? Who wore hand-me-downs and lived in cold-waterflats? Whose main goal in life was to follow Christ and to see him in the people around her?
A saint.
Can you think of a word that describes a person who refused to pay taxes, didn't salute the flag, never voted, and went to prison every now and then for protests against war and social injustice? Who spoke in a plain and often rude way about our way of life? Who complained that the church wasn't paying enough attention to its own teachings and compared some of its bishops to sharks?
A troublemaker.
Dorothy Day, saint and troublemaker.
Mostly, saints lived in the distant past, that is before we were born, and have been presented to us with all blemishes removed.
If Dorothy Day is ever canonized, the record of who she was, what she was like, and what she did is too complete and accessible for her to be hidden in wedding-cake icing. She will be the patron saint not only of homeless people and those who try to care for them but also of people who lose their tempers.
Dorothy was not without rough edges.
To someone who told her she was too hotheaded, she replied, "I hold more temper in one minute than you will hold in your entire life." To a college student who asked a sarcastic question about her recipe for soup, she responded, "You cut the vegetables until your fingers bleed." To a journalist who told her it was the first time he had interviewed a saint, she replied, "Don't call me a saint-I don't want to be dismissed that easily."
When we met
I was 20 years old the first time I saw her. She was ancient, that is to say 62 years old-seven years older than I am today. This means for 35 years she has been scolding and encouraging me on a daily basis. The mere fact of her having died 17 years ago doesn't seem to get in the way.
I met her at the Catholic Worker Farm on Staten Island in the days when the island still had rural areas, its only link to the rest of New York City being the ferry. She was sitting with several other people at the battered table where the community had its meals. Before her was a pot of tea, a few cups, and a pile of letters. The Catholic Worker received a good deal of mail every day, much of it for Dorothy. She often read the letters aloud, telling a story or two about the people who had written them.
This was the Dorothy Day University in full swing, although I didn't know it at the time. A good part of Dorothy's life was spent reading and writing letters; even her monthly columns were usually nothing more than long letters. If she is ever canonized, she will be one of the patron saints of letter writers.
People sometimes think of her as the personification of the simple life, but in reality her days tended to be busy, complicated, and stressful. Often she was away traveling-visiting other Catholic Worker communities, speaking at colleges, seminaries, local parishes, getting around by bus or a used car on its last spark plugs.
It was an unforgettable experience hearing her before an audience. She had a direct, unpremeditated, story-centered way of speaking-no notes, no rhetorical polish, a manner that communicated a certain shyness but at the same time wisdom, conviction, faith, and courage. She wasn't the kind of speaker who makes those she is addressing feel stupid or without possibilities.
Her basic message was stunningly simple: We are called by God to love one another as he loves us. (These days many of us go to great lengths to avoid saying he in such a sentence, but Dorothy steadily resisted a gender-neutral vocabulary.)
If God was one key word, hospitality was another. She repeated a saying from the early church, "Every home should have a Christ room in it so that hospitality may be practiced." Hospitality, she explained, is simply practicing God's mercy with those around us. Christ is in the stranger, in the person who has nowhere to go and no one to welcome him. "Those who cannot see the face of Christ in the poor are atheists indeed," she often said. Hardly a day passed when she didn't speak about the works of mercy.
The works of mercy-feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, giving shelter to the homeless, caring for the sick, visiting prisoners, burying the dead-had to be understood not only in a material but also a spiritual way: There is hunger not only for food but also for faith, not only for a place at the table but also for a real welcome, not only for assistance but also for listening, not only for kind words but also for truth. There is not only hospitality of the door but also hospitality of the face.
For all her traveling, most of Dorothy's life was spent in New York City. Before her conversion in 1924 when she was 28 years old, she bought a small beach house on Staten Island, which remained part of her life until she was too weak to make the trip anymore. It was a simple structure with a few plain rooms and a cast-iron stove. Walking on the beach or to the post office, rosary in hand, she prayed her way through an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, prayed her way through the Baltimore Catechism, prayed her way to her daughter Tamar's Baptism in a nearby Catholic parish, prayed her way through the collapse of a common-law marriage and to her own Baptism, and prayed her way through the incomprehension of her atheist friends who regarded all religion as snake oil. Years later it was mainly in the beach house that she found the peace and quiet to write her autobiography, The Long Loneliness (Harper San Francisco, 1981).
Life in the big city
The main part of her New York life was in Manhattan with the urban part of the Catholic Worker community. In the early '60s, St. Joseph's House of Hospitality was on Chrystie Street-a decrepit three-story building a block from the Bowery, in those days the city's grimmest avenue. As there wasn't enough room inside, the down-and-out were often lined up at the door waiting either for food or clothing-men mainly, people often grouped under the heading "bums." And bums had been a major part of Dorothy's life since leaving college in Illinois to come to New York. She rented a room on the Lower East Side and, at age 18, became a reporter for New York's socialist daily newspaper, The Call.
Dorothy's office at the Catholic Worker was hardly big enough for her desk. Here she and I would sometimes discuss-occasionally argue-what should be in the next issue of the paper. It wasn't the easiest place for conversation. The ground floor was where food was prepared and meals served, each meal in shifts as there were only a few bench-style tables. From morning till night, it tended to be noisy. Sitting at her desk one afternoon, talking about the next issue, we could hardly hear each other. Dorothy got up, opened her office door, and yelled, "Holy silence!" For a few minutes it was almost quiet.
On the second floor, site of the two clothing rooms, one for men, one for women, there was an area used for daily prayer as well as recitation of the rosary every afternoon. None of this was obligatory, but part of the community was always present, the community being a mixture of "staff" (as those of us who came as volunteers were called) and "family" (people who had once come in for clothing or a bowl of soup and gradually became part of the household).
It wasn't a comfortable life. At the time I joined, Dorothy had a sixth-floor walk-up apartment in a tenement on Spring Street. For $25 a month she got two small rooms, a bathtub next to the kitchen sink, and a bathroom the size of a broom closet.
This may sound uninviting, but Dorothy regarded the neighborhood as luxury enough. With an Italian bakery across the street, there was always the intoxicating perfume of Italian cooking in the air. When the San Gennaro Festival was celebrated annually just around the corner for a week, that part of Manhattan became a village in sight of Naples.
The day finally came when climbing those five flights of stairs became too much for her aging knees, so we moved her to a similar apartment only one flight up on Ridge Street-also $25 a month, but in a seedier neighborhood. The place was in appalling condition. Stuart Sandberg and I went down to clean and paint the two rooms, dragging box after box of old linoleum and other debris down to the street, including what seemed to us a hideous painting of the Holy Family-Mary, Joseph, and Jesus rendered in a few bright colors against a battleship gray background on a piece of plywood. We shook our heads, deposited it in the trash along the curb, and went back to work.
Later Dorothy arrived carrying the painting. "Look what I found! The Holy Family! It's a providential sign, a blessing." She put it on the mantle of the apartment's bricked-up fireplace. Dorothy had a gift for finding beauty where others tended to see rubbish.
The discipline of prayings
If she was one of the freest persons alive, she was also one of the most disciplined. This was most notable in her religious life. Whether traveling or home, it was a rare day when Dorothy didn't go to Mass, while on Saturday evenings she went to Confession. Sacramental life was the rockbed of her existence. She never obliged anyone to follow her example, but God knows she gave an example. When I think of her, the first image that comes to mind is Dorothy on her knees praying before the Blessed Sacrament either in the chapel, at the farm, or in one of several urban parish churches near the Catholic Worker. One day, looking into the Bible and Missal she had left behind when summoned for a phone call, I found long lists of people, living and dead, whom she prayed for daily.
Occasionally she spoke of her "prayings." "We feed the hungry, yes. We try to shelter the homeless and give them clothes, but there is strong faith at work; we pray. If an outsider who comes to visit us doesn't pay attention to our prayings and what that means, then he'll miss the whole point."
She was attentive to fast days and fast seasons. It was in that connection she told me a story about prayer. For many years, she said, she had been a heavy smoker. Her day began with lighting up a cigarette. Her big sacrifice every Lent was giving up smoking, but having to get by without a cigarette made her increasingly irritable as the days passed, until the rest of the Catholic Worker staff was praying she would light up a smoke.
One year, as Lent approached, the priest who ordinarily heard her Confession urged her not to give up cigarettes that year but instead to pray daily, "Dear God, help me stop smoking." She used that prayer for several years without it having any impact on her addiction. Then one morning she woke up, reached for a cigarette, and realized she didn't want it-and never smoked another.
People sometimes tell me how lucky I am to have been part of the same community that Dorothy Day belonged to. They picture a group of more or less saintly people having a wonderful time doing good works. In reality, Catholic Worker community life in Manhattan in the early '60s had much in common with purgatory.
The staff was made up of people with very different backgrounds, interests, temperaments, and convictions. We ranged from the gregarious to the permanently furious.
There was a recluse named Keith living in a back room on the third floor who maintained the newspaper's mailing list-a big job as The Catholic Worker had nearly 100,000 subscribers. He was rarely seen and never said a word; communication with him was by notes. Another member of staff was the angry daughter of a millionaire newspaper publisher; the last I heard, she had become a leader of a Marxist sect.
But not everyone was all thorns. There was lean, gentle, long-suffering Charlie Butterworth, a lawyer who had graduated from Harvard but whose pacifism had led him to the Catholic Worker.
Arthur J. Lacey, with his matchstick body, was chiefly responsible for the men's clothing room; he called himself "Haberdasher to the Bowery." There was the always-teasing Stanley Vishnewski, who said most of us belonged "not to the Catholic Worker movement but to the Catholic Shirker movement."
Agreement within the staff was as rare as visits by the President of the United States. The most bitter dispute I experienced had to do with how best to use the small amounts of eggs, butter, and other treats, which sometimes were given to us-use them for "the line" (people we often didn't know by name who lined up for meals) or the "family," as had been the custom. Though we worked side by side, saw each other daily, and prayed together, staff tension became too acute for staff meetings.
When Dorothy returned from a cross-country speaking trip, she told the two people running the kitchen that the butter and eggs should go to the family. This led to their resigning from kitchen work, and soon after they left the community trailing black smoke, convinced that Dorothy Day wasn't living up to the writings of Dorothy Day.
One of the miracles of Dorothy's life is that she remained part of a conflict-torn community for nearly half a century. Still more remarkable, she remained a person of hope and gratitude to the end. (She occasionally spoke of "the duty of hope.")
Radical without party line
Dorothy was and remains a controversial person.There was hardly anything she did that didn't attract criticism.
Even hospitality scandalizes some people. We were blamed for making people worse, not better, because we were doing nothing to "reform them." A social worker once asked Dorothy how long the down-and-out were permitted to stay.
"We let them stay forever," Dorothy answered. "They live with us, they die with us, and we give them a Christian burial. We pray for them after they are dead. Once they are taken in, they become members of the family. Or rather they always were members of the family. They are our brothers and sisters in Christ."
What got her in the most hot water was her sharp social criticism. She pointed out that patriotism was a more powerful force in most people's lives than the gospel. While she hated every kind of tyranny and never ceased to be thankful for America's having taken in so many people fleeing poverty and repression, she was fierce in her criticism of capitalism and consumerism. She said America had a tendency to treat people like Kleenex-use them and throw them away. "Our problems stem," she said, "from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."
She had no kind words for war or anything having to do with it-war was simply murder wrapped in flags. She was convinced Jesus had disarmed all his followers when he said to Peter, "Put away your sword, for whoever lives by the sword will perish by the sword." A way of life based on love, including love of enemies, left no room for killing. You couldn't practice the works of mercy with one hand and the works of vengeance with the other.
No stranger to prison, she was first locked up as a young woman protesting with suffragettes in front of the White House during World War I and was last jailed in her 70s for picketing with farm workers. She took pride in the young men of the Catholic Worker who went to prison rather than be drafted-"a good way to visit the prisoner," she pointed out. Yet she also welcomed back others who had left Catholic Worker communities to fight in the Second World War. They might disagree about the best way to fight Nazism, but, as she often said, "there is no party line in the Catholic Worker movement."
Dorothy was sometimes criticized for being too devout a Catholic. How could she be so radical about social matters and so conservative about her church? While she occasionally deplored statements or actions by members of the hierarchy, she was by no means an opponent of the bishops or someone campaigning for structural changes in the church. What was needed, she said, wasn't new doctrine but our living the existing doctrine. True, some pastors seemed barely Christian, but one had to aim for their conversion, an event that would not be hastened by berating them but rather by helping them see what their vocation requires. The way to do that was to set an example.
Pleased as she was when home Masses were allowed and the liturgy translated into English, she didn't take kindly to smudging the border between the sacred and mundane. When a radical priest used a coffee cup for a chalice at a Mass celebrated in the soup kitchen on First Street, she afterward took the cup, kissed it, and buried it in the backyard. It was no longer suited for coffee-it had held the Blood of Christ. I learned more about the Eucharist that day than I had from any book or sermon.
I'm sometimes told, "Dorothy Day gives a fine example for people who don't have a family to take care of and a mortgage to pay, but what about the rest of us?"
The rest of us includes my wife and me. I don't have enough fingers on one hand to count our children, and the first of the month is mortgage-payment day. But every time I open the door to guests, it's partly thanks to Dorothy Day. Every time I think about things in the bright light of the gospel rather than in the gray light of money or the dim light of politics, her example has had its influence. Every time I try to overcome meanness or selfishness rising up in myself, it is partly thanks to the example of Dorothy Day. Every time I defeat the impulse to buy something I can get along without, Dorothy Day's example of voluntary poverty has had renewed impact. Every time I try to see Christ's presence in the face of a stranger, there again I owe a debt to Dorothy Day.
No one else has made me think so much about the words we will hear at the Last Judgement: "What you did to the least person, you did to me."
What I know of Christ, the church, sacramental life, the Bible, and truth-telling, I know in large measure thanks to her, while whatever I have done that was cowardly, opportunistic, or cruel, is despite her. She has even shaped my reading life-the novels of Dostoyevsky, for starters.
It isn't that Dorothy is the point of reference. Christ is. But I can't think of anyone I've known whose Christ-centered life helped to make me a more Christ-centered person.
It's a century since Dorothy Day was born and 17 years since she died, but she continues to touch our lives, not only as a person we remember with gratitude, but also as a saint-if by the word saint we mean a person who helps us see, by both precept and example, what it means to follow Christ.
"If I have accomplished anything in my life,"she said late in her life, "it is because I wasn't embarrassed to talk about God."
This article originally appeared in the November 1997 issue of U.S. Catholic.
Jim Forest is the author of Love is the Measure, a biography of Dorothy Day, and coedited A Penny a Copy: Readings from the Catholic Worker. His most recent book is Praying With Icons (Orbis).


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Stephanie Wilson said yes. She intends to go to the prom with the towheaded boy on the billboard.
Stephanie Wilson said yes. She intends to go to the prom with the towheaded boy on the billboard. The boy is Kyler King, now a 16-year-old junior at Lake High School. He and Stephanie -- 17 and a senior -- have been friends for several years and have dated for 7 ½ months. They had planned to attend the prom with a group of friends, but Kyler hadn't officially "asked" Stephanie to the prom. In fact, he even said he might not "ask" her. Of course Kyler always intended to ask Stephanie -- it just was a matter of how. Simply posing the question doesn't work for the male members of the King family. In 1986, when Tim King determined he wanted to ask for Stacy Lynn Hamilton's hand in marriage, he rigged a drawing at halftime of a Liberty University football game to get the job done. Stacy won the drawing and received a scroll with Tim's marriage proposal. With family tradition at stake, Kyler started kicking around ideas with his father. Tim suggested using the billboard. It features a photo of King's family and advertises his business, N.E. Family Care Center. Then they settled on a straightforward message: "Steph Wilson, prom?" Using foamboard and paint, Kyler created a comic strip balloon for the message. He mounted the sign with help from his parents and school friends Kelcie Smith and Emily Chapman. After baseball practice last Saturday, Kyler took Stephanie for a drive, telling her that he had to deliver some papers at his father's office. He faked a telephone call with his father and contrived a reason to drive by the billboard. Stephanie knew she could look for Kyler on the billboard, but she didn't expect to see the message. She looked once. Looked twice. "Tears started streaming," she said. The surprise, said Stephanie, was the best way to be asked to the prom, which is May 3. "It's one of those things you won't forget for the rest of your life, 'cause you don't think anyone would ever do that for you," she said. Canton Repository


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This Week at the Court: In Plain English
December is here, and by this time of year, we are starting to see the Court multitask, so to speak "" issuing opinions in cases heard over the past two months, hearing arguments in cases granted several months ago, and granting cert. in new cases. Earlier this week, the Court decided a controversial case unanimously, and it heard arguments in several others. Let"™s discuss "" in Plain English.
A key concept for Court watchers to understand is the difference between finding facts and applying law. Federal district courts are fact finders; they decide what happened and who did what in a legal dispute. Like other appellate courts, the Supreme Court relies on the facts that have already been established "" a factual "record" "" and decides how the law properly applies to those facts. In some cases, when the law is unclear or is still developing, the Court must articulate new legal standards. Then it is up to the lower courts to apply those standards in future cases.
Take Los Angeles County v. Humphries, decided unanimously earlier this week. In this case, the Court considered a couple who had been improperly placed on a government list of child abusers, a situation that the lower court called "every parent"™s nightmare." Among the implications? Being listed could prevent the innocent parents from engaging in their teaching jobs and volunteer activities, both of which required background checks. But when they sought to have their names removed, the county refused, saying that there was no proper mechanism for doing so, because the list was maintained by the state, not the county.
Reading the facts, many people might think, "Wow, that"™s really wrong. Those facts are terrible. The parents should be able to sue."
But the Court disagreed, holding unanimously that under a case called Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Services, the parents could not sue unless the county had a policy or custom of depriving people of their constitutional rights.
This case is a perfect example of the fundamental Supreme Court role I just described. The Court does not decide cases based on the nature of the facts, but rather on how the law governs the factual situation at hand. In other words, the Court considers legal principles in making its decisions, even if applying those principles to the facts means that people who have suffered in situations even more difficult than in the Humphries case cannot get relief.
Why would that be? Well, it is because the U.S. justice system is predicated upon the concept that the law should be applied consistently and predictably. The benefit of consistent application of the law is that all people and entities, no matter who they are, are treated the same way in the same circumstances, and they are on notice as to what the law requires.
The result? A functional legal rule in most situations means that a factual situation will be resolved in a way that resonates with those who have been wronged. But occasionally, it means that the party who wins will be the one who has been harmed by inconsistent application of legal principles, not by the factual situation. Here, the county won because it didn"™t have a policy of depriving people like the Humphries of their constitutional rights. Craig and Wendy Humphries lost because, while no one doubted that they had been wronged, they could not show that the county wronged them through application of a legally prohibited policy.
On to the biggest story of the week: Tuesday"™s oral argument in Schwarzenegger v. Plata, a case dealing with unconstitutionally poor prison conditions in California. In this case, prisoners joined together to protest (among other things) severe overcrowding and poor medical care in the state"™s prisons. According to prior Supreme Court holdings, prison conditions that are not humane are unconstitutional . The prisoners filed suit in federal court, seeking an order that would require the state to fix the problems, and the lower court agreed, ordering California to do so within two years.
But California took its case to the Supreme Court, arguing that relieving overcrowding would require it to release tens of thousands of convicted criminals, creating a public safety issue. It asserted that it needed more time, not federal court intervention, to resolve the problems endemic to prisons everywhere (as evidenced by the fact that eighteen other states supported California).
Like in Humphries, the Court will not decide the facts of this case (here, whether or not prison conditions are bad) "" a point Justice Kagan that made explicitly to Carter Phillips, who appears frequently at the Court and who argued on behalf of the state in Plata. The lower court has already decided that conditions are appalling. Rather, just as in Humphries, the Court"™s job is to decide what to do about a system that does not work as it should. Should the Justices uphold the lower federal court"™s order to reduce the prison population and rectify the unconstitutional conditions within two years? Or should they defer to California in running its own prison system? Many commentators concluded that the Justices seemed split on how appropriately to handle the situation, even as they agreed that prisons in California are overcrowded and unhealthy. In a case of this magnitude, we may not see an opinion for several months.
This week"™s grants were particularly newsworthy, as the Court agreed to hear two cases out of Arizona concerning campaign spending. The Court"™s decision last Term in Citizens United v. FEC made a big splash with its holding that, under the First Amendment, corporations could spend freely to support candidates for public office. The new cases, Arizona Free Enterprise Club"™s Freedom PAC v. Bennett and McComish v. Bennett, are challenges to an Arizona law that tries to even the political playing field by giving candidates with small war chests public funds to help them compete against candidates with access to large amounts of cash. First Amendment protections are again at issue as the Court considers whether such aid violates the free speech rights of others who raise their own funds.
The end of the year means that the holiday season is upon us, and that is just as true at the Supreme Court as it is everywhere else. And those around the Court make merry, just as the rest of us do. While the world outside the Court tends to view the Court as ideologically divided (and that may be true when it comes to the cases it hears), many do not realize that those who work inside the Court building are unusually collegial, with many employees (including the Justices themselves) working there for ten, twenty, or even thirty years. A big event at the Court? The annual Christmas Recess party (yes, although some have objected over the years, the "Christmas" moniker remains) at which Court employees and their families eat, drink, and sing along with the Chief Justice. The Court collects Toys for Tots, and several Marines come in their dress reds and accept the gifts on behalf of the Marine Corps.
But before the big event, the Court still has a lot of work to do. Up next week? Another Carter Phillips argument (two in two weeks is unusual, even for those advocates with many Supreme Court arguments under their belts), plus orders from the Justices"™ December 3 Conference. I"™ll explain it all in Plain English.
Recommended Citation: Lisa McElroy, This Week at the Court: In Plain English, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 3, 2010, 7:27 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2010/12/109842/


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You're reaching along, the boat's as steady as the proverbial church. You stretch up on your toes to peer ahead at the next channel marker just as a rude powerboat screeches by from astern. As your boat rolls to windward, the boom appears in your peripheral vision, and the next thing you know you're lying in the cockpit with a dreadful headache.
Or you're screaming along on a hard run when the wind shifts, the steerer can't keep up with it, and you jibe accidentally.
Or the wind dies leaving you rolling uncomfortably in the leftover sea and the boom waving like Leonard Bernstein's baton.
A moving boom is a wicked thing, second only to an overused liquor locker in the damage it can inflict on a crew. Last month I said a word about the solution to the problem; here I'd like to go into more detail about preventers. Unfortunately, preventers (like safety harnesses) are widely considered to be essential gear only for boats heading offshore. But as my list of examples (and, I bet, your own experience) demonstrates, the boom can fly around at any time on any boat, and with potentially terrible consequences. If you're cut, someone can patch or sew up the wound. But once you've been hit hard on the head, on-board first-aid treatment will be useless. On a Marion-Bermuda Race several years ago, a boat full of doctors, including a neurosurgeon, jibed accidentally, the boom smashed the skull of the helmsman, and none of his medical practitioner shipmates (including the neurosurgeon) was able to help except to hail a nearby Russian freighter to pick up their friend's body.
A preventer is an adjustable line that holds the boom out. Preventers should be rigged permanently on both sides of the boat using line whose diameter is at least as large as your mainsheet's, either Dacron or nylon (some sailors like nylon's stretch for absorbing shock loadings that might break the boom). There are two kinds of preventers: the combination preventer-vang and the offshore preventer. (Because the setup for each is simple and varies with the boat, I'm not including any illustrations.)
The most common and easiest to use is the combination preventer-vang. Tie or shackle two long lines to the boom one-third to one-half of the distance back from the gooseneck, preferably to a reinforced location like the boom vang or mainsheet fitting.
Lead each line to a side deck, one to port and the other to starboard, through a sturdy block on the rail near the chainplates at the base of the shrouds, and aft to the cockpit to a winch or cleat. The blocks should be slightly forward of the after chainplate on both sides so there's a forward pull on the boom when the mainsail is eased all the way. If the pull is only down, the boom will whip around as the boat rolls. Full-length battens accelerate the swing because their weight aloft adds to the sail's (and therefore the boom's) momentum.
When tensioned, the combination preventer holds the boom both out (for safety) and down (for better sail shape on a reach and run and to keep the mainsail from chafing on the leeward shrouds). Even if you have a permanently rigged centerline vang, the combination preventer is the best choice for normal cruising because it's very easy to set up and adjust on both sides.
The other preventer is the traditional offshore type. It provides no downward pull but is led all the way from the end of the boom to a block on the bow and then aft to the cockpit. It allows the boom to rise to keep it from dragging in a large ocean swell.
Because the line is much longer and the boom-end fitting is not easily accessible, this preventer takes more time and agility to set up than the combination type. It's often carried on boats making long trade-wind passages.
Port and starboard preventers should be rigged so that when the boat changes tacks, as one preventer is eased the other can be quickly and easily tensioned. A preventer isn't any good if it can't be adjusted without sending someone on deck, in harm's way of the boom. Keep the system simple with a single part (instead of a block and tackle) led to a winch, a rope clutch, or an easily operated cleat in the cockpit as near as possible to the mainsheet's cleat. When you ease the sheet, you tighten the preventer.
Another preventer
An alternative to the preventer is special gear that, instead of holding the boom out, slows its swing. One is the Boom Brake, a block that hangs under the boom and through which passes a line from the two rails. The block can be adjusted to increase or decrease friction on the line, slowing or speeding the boom's swing. I've never sailed with a Boom Brake, but people who have say it offers good protection against an accidental jibe.
Books on heavy weather sailing
Anybody who's serious about cruising should have a consult with a library of books on heavy weather and storm sailing. These volumes tend to fall into two categories, instructional manuals and collections of narratives.
In the former category are Lin and Larry Pardey's Storm Tactics Handbook and sections in general sailing manuals like my Annapolis Book of Seamanship.
Many advisories laid out there are drawn in part from books in the second category, with their many detailed, instructive stories of boats in storms. Look, for example, at Adlard Coles' and Peter Bruce's Heavy Weather Sailing, Tony Farrington's Rescue in the Pacific and my Fastnet, Force 10. Rob Mundle's forthcoming book on the recent Sydney-Hobart race disaster will surely add to this library.
Another valuable book that many readers may not know about, because it's privately published, is Victor Shane's Drag Device Data Book, now in its fourth edition, published last summer. A collection of 120 case histories of monohulls and multihulls in hard chances and other rough conditions, it covers a broad range of problems and solutions and offers a long list of practical lessons-learned about boat and crew preparation, storm strategy, and storm tactics for a wide variety of boats and equipment.
Shane is particularly interested in the use of drag devices. These are sea anchors and drogues. They either hold the boat's bow into the wind (the former) and slow her when running before a blow (the latter). Not only do most the accounts here involve one or the other, but there are three chapters describing and evaluating the types of drag devices available. Although Shane manufactures a line of sea anchors, he is not the sort of person (seen all too often in the safety business) who warns that you face certain death if you use a competitor's gear.
Drag Device Data Book is available for $36.95, plus shipping, from Para-Anchors International, P.O. Box 19, Summerland, CA 93067; www.dddb.com, (800) 350-7070
Boom Brake for a 40-footer costs about $300. It's available from Dutchman/MVB Inc., 160 Water St., South Norwalk, CT 06854; (203) 838-0375.
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A big group of us went to try out this new place, and that way, I was able try many dishes. We started off with the chef's specials of fish spring rolls and salmon money bags, and on the menu, the OG duck which was lovely with the mango salsa. For mains, the black bean mussels (loved the black bean sauce!), duck curry (had great flavour and chilli kick), salt and pepper squid and prawns (well-seasoned), pad thai (not too dry and great flavours), fried rice, were all delicious and it was great to share them all. Desserts were to die for! We tried three of them: the green tea fried ice cream-unusual, but satisfyingly delicious and morish; The trio of ice creams were delicious - green tea, baileys, and my favourite - black sesame seed; and the combination of dark chocolate mousse and white chocolate mousse with a drizzle of lemon sauce - Yum! Service was fantastic and friendly and other diners seemed to be enjoying themselves. We will all definitely be eating here again!
We were very pleasantly surprised at the quality of meals, fantastic service and lovely atmosphere. Faultless !!! Will definately be recommending to friends and look forward to dining there again.
We went with a group of 8 and absolutely loved it. For sarters the dining area was beautifully decorated with enough room so you didn't feel cramped. The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. And for the most important part... the food. It was absolutely DELICIOUS. As much as I loved all the dishes I tried, the Spring Rolls were the best I have tasted, the Pud Thai was perfect (I had to go back for thirds). Even thought we had already eaten A LOT, the desert prooved a little too tempting, and was certainly worth it. the citrus tart was beautifully delicate and complemented the meal well. All in all I certainly recomment the Oriental Garnish, and although I live over 2 hours away I will definately be making treck down as often as possible with as many people as possible.
I went there with some friends and had an absolute fantastic meal. The Vegie Spring rolls were so good we ordered more to take home to our parteners! My favourite was the Green Chicken curry, which had just the right kick and flavours were sensational. The place looked great and had a lovely elegant feeling to it. The service was wonderful and friendly. I took a take away menu with me and I'll will be coming back to take others with me:-)
We thoroughly enjoyed our meal. For entree we had spring rolls & beef satays. The satays were a little big, and hard to eat without a knife, the sauce was divine. Spring rolls were delish, and have lovely dipping sauce. The mains were the garlic pepper beef & would have to be one of the best dishes i have ever eaten. We also had the ginger & shallots, which was very smooth on the pallette. Am definitely going there again. 5*****
we had takeaway had the spring rolls they were fantastic chicken satays delicious best special rice ever and the pork spareribs to die for. we will be buying our chinese from there always no need to go anywhere else
Excellence is the only word needed to describe our experience at Oriental Garnish.That's why we continue to enjoy the experience and keep going back!
We ordered takeaway and wished we had dined in-beautiful interior. The food was absolutely beautiful and excellent value for money.
Simply put, I was impressed. Walking in without expectations, I was astounded by how good the food was. We tried a number of dishes between the group of us, including the spring rolls, green thai curry, pud thai, nasi Goreng and lemon chicken. I'm happy to say that I ate myself to tears, my distended stomach certainly made the drive home uncomfortable! I cant recommend this place enough, the quality of the food experienced provided along with quick and efficient staff has left me longing to go back. I just wish I lived closer.....
Lovely food very friendly warm and inviting
First time for takeaway at this restaurant. I was pleasantly surprised. Didn't get treated as an inconvenience, very good start Food (Green Curry) was great, maybe a few too many onions though. The spring rolls are excellent. I'll go back for a full meal soon with all the family.
We ordered take-away, and were pleased at the slightly lower price that usual with Asian Restaurants. The food was ready on time, and the restaurant is quite nice and well decorated. The food, however, was very disapointing. The Red Curry with Beef was marked as a 'one chilli' hotness, but was a lot hotter than that. I was looking forward to juicy chunks of beef, but we got thinly slithered and grisly pieces that you would usually get in a stirfry. The chicken satays has a really nice sauce, but the meat was very dry. The steamed dim sims were quite good, but not good enough to save the meal! We are really disapointed, because we were looking forward to having a good Asian takeaway in our area, but unfortunately, won't be going back.
After a sub average and expensive (for what you got) experience three years ago, with one restaurant meal and three take aways meals (I am a local, with little choice then)my sister booked us in for mothersday 2013. A table of 25, who had booked ahead, were left waiting to order for an hour, had meals and drinkis mixed up, were served by a girl (bless her) that seemed no more than 14 in looks and confidence. The food was average (bland!!!), the service way below average, $50 mistake on drinks, kids not served their meals, hard as hell brandy baskets. Lesson learnt, stick with your first (year long) impression. I want folk to succeed, but for crying out loud, a smile goes a long awy (lady who ownes the joint!)
I can say the ontray and meal I had was the blandess tasteless meal I can ever remember ..I'm a better cook than I thought 3/10
Went there with the family and had to search for a staff member in order to get seated. We then waited half an hour before a staff member decided to take our drink orders. Food wasn't spectacular and the service wasn't very friendly.
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Pantone and Academy of Art University Announce Scholarship and Partnership for Social Change
"Color in Action" project teams up students to create positive change by combining design and color through the lens of object and space
CARLSTADT, N.J. and SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2012 – Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, and Academy of Art University, one of the top graphic design schools in the country, today announced a partnership and scholarship in support of "Color in Action," a unique project designed to explore the positive influence of color on social change.
Eight student teams were formed to explore pressing social issues including education, tolerance and the environment. Pantone donated its worldwide color standard PANTONE® PLUS SERIES and PANTONE FASHION + HOME guides to be used for the project and will award the winning team a $10,000 scholarship. The scholarship will help students pay for tuition and will be awarded on May 14.
"Graphic designers are often called upon for logos and package designs, but have so much more to offer," commented Academy of Art instructor and design professional Tom Sieu. "Today, we're teaching students that it's not enough to create just beautiful things. We want them to also think about how to create the conditions and experiences that shape them."
"Design has the power to effect change on a larger scale. The class has already done some interesting work through the recent GOOD Ideas for Cities Project and Design Ignites Change," said Giovanni Marra, director of corporate marketing at Pantone. "This inspired our partnership and desire to explore how young designers would pair color with community and culture, and how the communicative power of color can be used as a vehicle to create social change."
The topics chosen by the students reflect their personal passions and interests. Students have set out to answer questions such as:
"Why do kids hurt other kids?" asked student Elizabeth West, a member of the Color in Action discrimination team. "This question led to our own experiences growing up and to the alarming rates of bullying-related violence and suicides taking place today. We want to use color as a tool to teach tolerance, encourage individuality and strengthen community among children."
The student teams are led by instructors Tom Sieu and John Barretto, both working design professionals. Sieu, who initiated this project and leads the undergraduates, has been teaching at the Academy of Art University for eight years and is also the founder of R3lab.org, a collaborative effort to promote sustainable design. Barretto leads the graduate students involved in the project. Classroom lectures are augmented by talks and feedback from Pantone representatives including Marra.
To view Color in Action, visit the Color in Action Tumblr or the class Facebook page.
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Academy of Art University, the largest private university of art and design in the United States, is educating students for the art and design jobs of the 21st Century. Established in 1929, the Academy is an output-based higher education model that provides open admissions to all students, but imposes a rigorous curriculum that requires the students to produce a portfolio of work that demonstrates a mastery of their field in order to graduate. Students are taught by a faculty of professionals from the existing marketplace, which provides them with an understanding of what it takes to succeed in today's business environment. The Academy's hands-on curriculum produces graduates that possess great artistic and design skills – and equally as important, the ability to put those talents to work immediately after graduation. As a result, Academy graduates are ready to compete for and win the jobs of the 21st Century in the fields of Acting, Advertising, Animation & Visual Effects, Architecture, Art Education, Fashion, Fine Art, Game Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture & Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures & Television, Multimedia Communications, Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media, Photography and Web Design & New Media. Academy of Art University is accredited by WASC, NASAD, Council for Interior Design Accreditation (Formerly FIDER), (BFA-IAD), and NAAB (M-ARCH). Visit www.academyart.edu for more information.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A consortium including South Korean steelmaker POSCO (005490.KS) is seeking to acquire a roughly $1 billion stake in a Canadian iron ore mine operator controlled by ArcelorMittal ISPA.AS, South Korean financial publication Money Today reported on Wednesday.
The bidding group seeks to acquire about a 10 percent stake in ArcelorMittal Mines Canada, with POSCO looking to invest $200-300 million and the rest coming from its partners, Money Today said citing unidentified sources in the merger and acquisition industry.
Morgan Stanley (MS.N) is advising POSCO, it said.
A POSCO spokeswoman said the company was studying the possibility of buying a stake in the operator, but nothing had been decided yet.
POSCO is seeking to secure iron ore and coking coal resources, which are key steel-making ingredients, as the world's fourth-biggest steelmaker aims to double raw material self-sufficiency to 50 percent by 2014 from 2010 levels.
ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, is exploring the sale of a minority stake in its Canadian iron ore business, sources familiar with the situation had said in October.
ArcelorMittal has retained RBC Capital Markets and Goldman Sachs to assist in the process, which has been ongoing for a few months, said one of the sources, adding that a deal is likely to be announced before the end of the year.
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This might sound strange, but at a few occasions I've felt the need to be able to flag my own comments.
I give you the following example:
Do you mention anything I didn't mention in my answer? Perhaps V2C? I have no idea what that means, and meta search doesn't show up anything. – Steven Jeuris Oct 1 '11 at 14:42
You're feeling very negative today, it seems. – Donal Fellows Oct 1 '11 at 19:36
Clearly I was in a bad mood when I wrote that, and I should have expressed myself better. I'm human, that can happen. I now feel it would be better for both those comments to be deleted.
My current options
- Delete my own comment and flag the other: deleting my own context would remove the context for the moderator. I imagine it makes moderating the flag more difficult.
- Delete my own comment and apologize in a new one (no flags): the comment thread gets broken.
- Leave it as is: I don't see how leaving those comments around is helpful at all.
- Add a new comment: This would lengthen an unnecessary comment thread.
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- Flag my own comment.
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Vin Diesel Covers Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me'by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
If you loved Vin Diesel's rendition of Rihanna's 'Stay,' then it's absolutely crucial that you watch his cover of Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me'.
The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' star belted out the hit during a visit to CapitalFM, much to the delight of everyone working there, who had trouble containing themselves throughout the video.
While the burly action star is known for his insanely deep bellow, he certainly kicked things up an octave (or several) while covering the emotional track, switching from hitting notes in his lowest register to singing all the way up in his head voice, workin' that falsetto like nobody's business.
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Bandai Announces DX Soul of Chogokin Mazinger Z
On June 13th, Bandai Japan simulcasted a press conference on Ustream the new DX Chogokin Mazinger Z. It's 30 cm tall with full internal diecast skeleton with removable armor. Light up eyes and chest, with sound effects. Comes with a hangar that lights up and stores the armor parts. Hangar lights up and includes cranes.
36,750 Yen, due December 2012!
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Will be a wonderful Xmas 2012!!!
Holy crap, it is huge! So many things coming out right around the same time but damn....I want.
I love this Maz, but at the same time I was tweeting that I think the lights and sound are overkill. Stuff like that is just a way to raise prices. Do you honestly ever really use any kind of light up features on something like this. Beleive me I think its beautiful, but just dont care for lights and sounds...
Good lord, that's about the same price the Max Gokin Big O went for! It seems they're trying to replicate the kind of inner mechanics in Bandai's perfect grade line of Gundam model kits, but I'm not sure that really fits with Mazinger, since it's always been a super robot show. It's still very impressive, but I don't have that kind of money kicking around, especially to spend on a Mazinger, the robot that gets a new high quality toy for it at least every two years.
Mazinger Z practically invented the cutaway drawing for giant robots. The half armored diagram is in the show's closing credits (for all 92 episodes) as well as being sprinkled throughout the series.
VF5SS-san always knows the good point! ^^
The cutaway drawing for MazingerZ was a Kazuki Miyatake's early famous work!
That dramatically impelled the Japan's toy market, for giant robots.
(Already, there were toys of "Astro Boy" and "Tetsujin 28-go" around 1963-64 which featured inside-mechanics, so toy manufacturers already saw cartoons as one of good marketing tools).
BTW, Miyatake has been actively working for many fields, such as super-robot designs both anime and games, art setting like Sacktrager in Turn-A Gundam, designing "wan-daba"(ah! I don't know how to say in English).... whatever.
Man that is awesome, but GREAT SCOTT JIM! 36,750 Yen! Not my chair, not my problem! The only figure I may ever spend that kind of money on is the pending 1/6 Hot Toys Hulk.
私はまだ別のマジンガー玩具のリリースに関する重要かつユーモラスなコメントを書こうとしていた今私は私の帽子を食べる必要がありますが、私は日本語で行うべき!!! 非常にクール!
...just not sure I can afford it. A little cheaper than the Big O that came out from Max Factory. Could not afford that one either. Still, this thing is pretty much the dream toy. I completely agree with everything Go Nagai says here::http://tamashii.jp/special/mazingerZ/special_contents.html#history
OMG, just when i thought they couldn't do anything more to enhance a Mazinger Z figure they go ahead and do this. I've always wanted a hanger stand, and this thing looks HUGE.
It seems to use the exact same sculpt and articulation of the Super robot chogokin figure, to be honest im not as fond of the SRC head sculpt as i am of the SOC GX-01R. For some reason the GX-01R feels for cartoon accurate with the head sculpt. Then again who am i to complain, its a Mazinger Z with loads of die cast lights and inner details !!.
PS: Josh and Adam, this seems like a perfect time to whip out that Mazinger Z special for blind box :D
Guess I know what I'm getting this xmas
If it was Great Mazinga I'd get it. I'll have to wait and see if they make a Great version. It's a pretty amazing toy.
36000 yen. That price is insanity even Sparta can't handle.
this is a work of art, pretty tired of getting all this new chogokins with tons of plastic


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Customers lined up outside Rheb's Candy early Monday, even before owner Wynn Harger opened the doors of the Southwest Baltimore shop his family has run for three generations. People, mostly men, crammed into the tiny, cottage-like store for much of the morning for one purpose — securing the handmade chocolates for Valentine's Day.
"It's what my wife wants," said Dennis Eder, who traveled from Dundalk to Rheb's on Wilkens Avenue to purchase a two-pound box of assorted chocolates for his wife, Isabel. He has bought her Rheb's candy every year for about 45 years. "It's a family tradition."
For Rheb's, which runs a candy factory in a rowhouse basement across an alley from the store, the holiday has become one of the biggest of the year — only Christmas and Easter beat it. But that could soon change: Valentine's-related sales are growing faster than Easter sales, Harger said.
Retailers who deal in candy, from the specialty shops such as Rheb's to the big-box retailers where candy displays have sprouted in recent weeks, are benefiting from the growing Valentine's candy trend and from increased spending on the holiday in general.
This year, more than half of consumers who will give Valentine's gifts plan to give candy, spending $1.6 billion in total, the National Retail Federation says. The portion planning to give candy, 51 percent, is up about 3.5 percent since 2011, the retail federation said.
"If you look historically at Valentine's Day, it's been about small tokens of affection," said Katie McBreen, a spokeswoman for the retail trade group. "Candy is a good go-to for Valentine's Day. Who doesn't like chocolate?"
The average shopper is expected to spend $130.97 this Valentine's on gifts, candy and cards, the group says. Total Valentine's gift spending is expected to increase to $18.6 billion, from $17.6 billion in 2012, the retail federation said.
That's not surprising to Harger — grandson of founders Louis and Esther Rheb — who grew up around candy-making and returned to the family business in the mid-1970s.
"It tastes good, and it makes you feel good," he said. "It's a happy gift, and it's fairly inexpensive."
Candy sellers say their product is enough of a treat to stand on its own as a gift, but affordable enough that it can be combined with other Valentine's favorites such as flowers, jewelry or a dinner out.
Valentine's Day ranks as the fourth-largest candy-selling holiday, behind Halloween, Easter and Christmas/Hanukkah, according to the National Confectioners Association. Chocolate will account for nearly three-quarters of the total spending, the association said.
"Because confectionery is often part of traditions or celebrations, the seasons are important for candy," said Susan Smith, a confectioners association spokeswoman.
She said the timing of this year's holiday, on a weekday rather than a weekend, will help the industry because, "we tend to celebrate with gifts during the week, whereas on the weekend we go out to dinner or for a romantic getaway or date."
Though the holiday is closely linked to chocolate, it's a good time of year for candy in general, said B.G. Purcell, CEO of Mouth Party LLC, a Parkville-based maker, retailer and wholesaler of caramels.
"The beauty of candy in general is it's something people can treat themselves and others to that's an escape, not just a fabulous taste but a reward," Purcell said. "Candy is indulgent, but if it's good homemade candy, it's worth the extra calories to enjoy it."
Purcell started her business in 2006 using the recipe her stepmother had used for years. Now her caramels, in flavors such as chocolate, cinnamon, cappuccino and one called OMG! that's dipped in milk chocolate and dusted with sea salt, are sold by 120 retailers, mostly in Maryland, including Graul's, Eddie's and other gourmet grocers, coffee shops and even a consignment shop.
Purcell said grocery store customers this year increased their Valentine's caramel orders, which typically sell in either half-pound or 1-pound bags. This year, Mouth Party also created a special five-piece Valentine's box of raspberry-dipped dark chocolate caramels.
"We're trying to capitalize on the candy craze" for Valentine's, Purcell said. "And we started realizing people who don't like chocolate love caramel."
One of her online customers, Sarah Bancroft-Howard, who lives just north of St. Paul in Minnesota, has been ordering caramels online from Mouth Party for several years. This year, she ordered raspberry chocolate caramels for her husband and three small bags of OMG! caramels, one for each of her kids.
"I've always done candy for Valentine's," Bancroft-Howard said. "It's sort of synonymous with the holiday. I don't like to go totally overboard with a big gift, but I consider this to be a special piece of candy, something that doesn't come from a grocery store."
At Rheb's, (pronounced Rebs) workers in the basement kitchens began preparing for the rush last week, making milk or dark chocolate buttercreams flavored with vanilla, almond, coconut, walnut, mint and raspberry. By Monday, as customers were jamming the retail shop across the alley, which the Rheb family converted from their garage in the 1950s, the workers were focused on truffles.
The operation uses much of the original equipment used by Louis Rheb, who started making candy in 1917 in the same basement space used today. Industrial-sized mixers stirred melted chocolate in large vats in one area, while in another room, nine women stood around a marble-topped table, dipping their fingers in flour before kneading chocolate paste into rolls they cut into sections and formed into small balls.
Just outside the store, Peter Stellmann, a Butler resident, waited for an assortment of chocolates he had picked out for his girlfriend. He had made a special trip from his downtown Baltimore office for her favorite candy, including sea salt Turtles.
"Ladies love chocolate," he said. "This is the only place I come."


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April 30th, 1999, fell on a Friday. Day 120 of 1999. Decade: 1990s.
21 years, 1 months and 7 days have passed since April 30th, 1999.
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Popular clothing items included pleather pants, high-waisted miniskirts and halter tops. Metallic clothing became more common. Cargo pants and other military-inspired clothing also started to become more popular. Preppy looks became widespread amongst young men, as brands such as Old Navy and Abercrombie & Fitch became more and more favoured. The rave scene also inspired the comeback of more colours.
"American Beauty" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1999.
Throughout much of 1999, the media focused on Y2K and the dawn of a new millennium. There was also a lot of concern about the "Millennium Bug".
Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar is listed as FHM's sexiest woman of the year in 1999.
Movies released in 1999 included Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense, Toy Story 2, Tarzan, The Matrix, The Mummy, Notting Hill, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Office Space, Fight Club, The Blair Witch Project, The Green Mile and American Pie.
Amazon CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos is named as the Time Person of the Year in 1999.
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"Smooth" by Santana would go on to win a Grammy for 1999's Record of the Year.
In March of 1999, the Nokia 3210 was released. Over the course of 1999 and 2000, the Nokia 3210 went on to become one of the most popular cell phones in history.
NATO carries out a bombing campaign in Yugoslavia after peace talks fail.
There is widespread media coverage after a series of nail bombs explode in London. An English neo-Nazi called David Copeland is eventually arrested for the crimes and given six concurrent life sentences.
Lou Bega's cover of Mambo No. 5 is released in April of 1999 and stays in the top 10 charts for over 10 weeks.
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Understanding the Earth's Deep Past: Lessons for Our Climate Future (2011)Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
A better understanding of how Earth will respond to future climate change could be gained by looking tens of millions of years back into Earth's past, this National Research Council report finds. Without a reduction in emissions, by the end of this century atmospheric carbon dioxide is projected to increase to levels that Earth has not experienced for more than 30 million years. Critical insights to understanding how Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and ecosystems would function in this high carbon dioxide environment are contained in the records of warm periods and major climate transitions from Earth's geological past. This report assesses current knowledge on climate in Earth's deep past and provides a research agenda for an improved understanding of earth system processes during the transition to a warmer world.
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- Increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have the potential to drive Earth towards a warmer climate state, characterized by much higher global temperatures and little or no ice at Earth's poles.
- Insight into how Earth's climate and ecosystems will respond to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels lie in Earth's geological record. Data gathered from rocks could allow scientists to reconstruct warm periods and major climate transitions in Earth's ancient past. Although these past climate events are not exact analogues of the climate of the future, information about past warm climates -- and particularly abrupt global warming events -- would provide information on how Earth's processes, such as the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean, ice sheets, sea level, ocean acidification, and ecosystems, might operate under warm conditions.
- Data from Earth's deep past could also yield information on the "tipping points" for climate change -- the threshold of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere at which abrupt climate change will occur.
- This report sets out a high-priority research agenda that identifies six research initiatives to better understand the insights offered by Earth's deep-time record into the response of earth systems to potential future climate change. Research directions include gaining a better understanding of the sensitivity of climate to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide, how much sea-level will rise as the ice sheets melt, and the resilience of ecosystems to climate change.
- Implementing the research agenda will require the development of infrastructure and tools. For example, efforts are needed to refine existing indicators of past climates, and to develop new sources of data. Interdisciplinary collaborations of scientists and climate modelers will be needed to produce better reconstructions of climate conditions in Earth's ancient past.


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Four Red Sox ejected during game vs. Rays
Manager ejected in first; bench coach (fourth); pitcher, third-base coach (sixth)
BOSTON -- Tempers flared Friday night in Boston's 3-2, extra-innings win over the Rays at Fenway Park, as benches cleared and four ejections were issued, all by the top of the sixth inning.
The first one came in the bottom of the first inning, when Red Sox manager John Farrell was ejected after David Price hit Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in the back with a first-pitch fastball.
Warnings were promptly issued to both sides by home-plate umpire Dan Bellino, causing Farrell to jog out of the dugout and argue the call. Farrell was ejected by Bellino just seconds after coming out.
"You know, David is a heck of a pitcher. He comes in with two hit batters and eight walks on the year. He comes in with the lowest walk rate in the American League. When he throws a ball and hits David Ortiz in the back, there's intent to that," Farrell said. "They can dispute that all they want. There's intent to that pitch. As emphatic as Dan Bellino's warning was, it sure seemed like Dan Bellino felt like there was intent as well."
The two teams finished a three-game series just last weekend, which included a scuffle on Sunday after Yunel Escobar took third on defensive indifference in the seventh inning when the Rays had an 8-3 lead. Escobar exchanged words with the Red Sox's dugout after the play and began walking toward it, before Jonny Gomes ran in from left field and shoved the shortstop, prompting both benches to clear.
Because of that incident, Price said he wasn't surprised by the quick warning, thinking it would have been done before the game. However, he was surprised at the Red Sox's reaction to their star slugger getting hit.
"I have to establish my fastball in. I have six lefties in that lineup," Price said. "It's my favorite side of the plate to go to. I had to establish it in."
Price and Ortiz have a bit of a history. When the Rays and Red Sox faced off in last year's AL Division Series, the left-hander took exception to Ortiz's slow home run trot in Game 2.
However, Price and Ortiz appeared to bury the hatchet after the incident. Until Friday night.
"I had a lot of respect of the guy, man, but it's over," said Ortiz. "I have no more respect for him. Last year we kick his [butt] in the playoffs, he went off, talking [trash] about everybody.
"It is a war. It's on. Next time he hits me he better bring the gloves. I have no respect for him no more."
Things moved along for the next few innings without any incidents, but then in the bottom of the fourth, Price hit Red Sox first baseman Mike Carp near his right forearm.
After that, Red Sox bench coach and acting manager Torey Lovullo became incensed, causing both benches and bullpens to empty. Ortiz was especially irate, yelling at Price and trying to get near him.
"He didn't say anything to me," Ortiz said. "He knew he screwed up. He did that on his own. No manager and no player was comfortable with the situation. He can get someone else hurt."
Despite the warnings issued, crew chief Jeff Kellogg and Bellino chose not to eject Price, believing the pitch wasn't thrown intentionally.
"Sure, you think about a lot of things, but part of losing control is them losing control. We stay under control. We aren't going to make a decision if we feel we are in the right because we're worried about somebody losing control," Kellogg said. "At some point, you want to keep the peace out there and you want to keep control of the game. We weren't going to throw him out of the game to please Boston because things were getting out of control on their end."
Once Lovullo was ejected, Red Sox third-base coach Brian Butterfield became the acting manager. First-base coach Arnie Beyeler moved to the third-base coach's box and assistant hitting coach Victor Rodriguez took over as first-base coach. However, that group didn't last long, either.
Red Sox righty Brandon Workman threw a pitch behind Evan Longoria in the top of the sixth, and he was immediately ejected. Because of the prior warnings, that made Butterfield an automatic ejection as acting manager.
The Red Sox right-hander, who was making his second start of the season, said the errant pitch happened because of the rainy weather.
"The ball was slick and it slipped out of my hand," Workman said. "I've never been ejected before, so I didn't know if I would be. I tried to argue my case, but I think I was ejected even before the ball hit the backstop."
These two teams will face each other 12 more times this season.
"We've been down this road with these guys for a while. We're both at the bottom of our division. Neither one of us likes being at the bottom of our division. We're not used to that over the last several years," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "There's really a lot of pent up emotion over the last several years, not just a couple days ago and more. It's that way when you play each other that many times in a season."


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Kenneth Cole realized the hard way that not everything goes on Twitter.
The retailer gave everyone a lesson on what not to do with hashtags when it tried to capitalize on the popular uprising in Egypt.
"Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://bit.ly/KCairo -KC," Kenneth Cole tweeted from New York City early Wednesday morning.
Quickly the tweet made the rounds on Twitter has people virtually gasped in shock: How could the clothing designer make light of a situation that has turned bloody in just the last 48 hours?
It took Kenneth Cole about two hours to realize maybe the tweet was not made in the best taste.
"Re Egypt tweet: we weren't intending to make light of a serious situation. We understand the sensitivity of this historic moment -KC," Kenneth Cole tweeted on the account personally to his more than 8,900 followers.
Despite the Mea culpa, Kenneth Cole hasn't deleted the controversial tweet, which has ironically done what it was sent out to do. Garnered plenty of free publicity.
Kenneth Cole Learns When Not to Tweet #Cairo
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I'm wondering how tightly spamassassin is tied into email formatting, and if I can use it for other things. Iike feeding it quotes from Shakespeare and sun tzu and having it determine who said what, or whatever. That's a bad example... my purpose is to take blobs of text and classify them as spam, ignoring all aspects of email headers (because my blob of text is not an email).
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Apr 6, 2012
Study: No increased virulence in novel H3N2 viruses, related swine strains
US researchers say they found no evidence of increased virulence in a novel reassortant H3N2 influenza virus (H3N2v) from one of the 12 human cases identified in the United States last year or in several related H3N2 viruses from pigs. The 12 H3N2v infections detected last summer and fall involved swine-origin H3N2 strains that included the M (matrix) gene from the pandemic 2009 H1N1 (pH1N1) virus. The report in the Journal of Virology says that swine H3N2 viruses with triple-reassortant internal genes (H3N2-TRIG) have been widespread in the United States since 1998. Transmission of the pH1N1 virus from humans to pigs resulted in reassortant H3N2 viruses that included genetic elements from pH1N1, which the authors call rH3N2p. They say their genome analysis of H3N2 viruses collected from swine from 2009 to 2011 revealed six different rH3N2p genotypes in the US swine population, all of which include the M gene from pH1N1. The team compared the pathogenic, transmission, genetic, and antigenic properties of a human H3N2v isolate and two swine H3N2 isolates—an H3N2-TRIG and an rH3N2p. They found that in pigs, the H3N2v and rH3N2p viruses were no more virulent than the background H3N2-TRIG strain, with most infected pigs showing mild illness. The authors also found that some recent rH3N2p isolates seem to be forming a separate genetic cluster with the human H3N2v strain. The findings, they say, add to the evidence that influenza A viruses readily pass between humans and animals and that pigs play a role in generating reassortant viruses. "Continued monitoring of these H3N2 viruses is necessary to evaluate evolution and potential loss of population immunity in swine and humans," the report concludes.
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Dec 28, 2011, CIDRAP News story on novel H3N2 cases
Medical students not swayed by antivaccine YouTube clips
Medical students aren't swayed by YouTube antivaccine messages, though they do use social media sites as sources of medical information, a study in Vaccine found. The study of 41 first-year medical students was conducted in Sep 2010 by researchers from Ontario. The students took surveys before and after they watched one of two of the top-rated YouTube videos that are critical of the flu vaccine. One video had a more "evidence-based" academic style, and the other was a collage of mainstream media clips, highlighting anecdotal reports of vaccine injury and conspiracy. The pre-intervention survey found that the students were generally supportive of vaccination, though only 31.7% said they always got the annual flu vaccine. The students were frequent users of YouTube for all purposes, with 42% using it for health-related purposes and 12% using it for health-related information. They also reported frequently using Google and Wikipedia for health information, alongside medical databases. However, their trust in the sources varied, and was low for YouTube. Based on the pre- and post-surveys, researchers found that viewing the antivaccine videos did not sway the students' attitudes.
Apr 5 Vaccine abstract
Younger Shanghai kids more likely to be affected by flu, study finds
Among Shanghai children affected by pandemic 2009 H1N1 (pH1N1) and seasonal flu, the disease hits the youngest most often, according to a study of outpatients published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. Chinese researchers conducted prospective surveillance of flu among 2,356 children visiting outpatient clinics for influenza-like illness (ILI) from June 2009 through May 2011. Respiratory samples were collected from all patients. Of the ILI cases, 608 (26%) were virologically confirmed as flu, with 468 (77%) of those influenza A. Among influenza A cases, 236 (50%) were H3N2, 219 (47%) pH1N1, 4 (1%) seasonal H1N1, 3 (1%) H3N2/pH1N1 co-infection, and 6 (1%) untyped. Of 603 children with a single virus infection, 289 (48%) were less than 3 years old and 283 (47%) had close contact with someone, typically a family member, who had a fever or respiratory infection. The researchers found that, when outbreaks happened while school was in session, children living in institutions were disproportionately affected.
Apr 4 Ped Infect Dis J abstract
WHO confirms H5N1 case in Cambodia
A fatal human case of avian influenza (H5N1) in Cambodia was added yesterday to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) official count of H5N1 cases. The patient was a 6-year-old girl from Kampong Chhnang province. Her symptoms began Mar 22, she was hospitalized Mar 28 in Phnom Penh, and she died Mar 30. The girl had had contact with sick or dead poultry before symptom onset, says a WHO alert. Her case was reported by news outlets earlier this week. The case brings the total number of human H5N1 cases in Cambodia since 2005 to 20, with 18 deaths.
Apr 5 WHO alert
Apr 5 WHO global H5N1 case count
Salmonella outbreak expands to 100 cases
An outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly with suspected links to sushi has sickened 7 more people, raising the total to 100 so far, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today. The number of affected states remained the same at 19, plus the District of Columbia. At least 10 people have been hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported.
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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Claims Obama's Birth Certificate Is a Fake
Looks like infamous "birther" Orly Taitz — who's been repeatedly thrown out of court for her insistence that President Barack Obama is not a natural-born US citizen — has found herself a soulmate: Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Arpaio said Thursday that his crack team of volunteer investigators has "reason to believe" the president's long form birth certificate, released last year by the White House, is a forgery. They have also cast doubt on the authenticity of Obama's selective-service card, filled out in 1980 in his home state of Hawaii.
While Arpaio doesn't think Obama himself had anything to do with the alleged forgeries, the controversial sheriff thinks there needs to be a "criminal investigation into the matter."
And he'd know a little something about criminal investigations, being the subject of one himself by the US Department of Justice. The DoJ said in December there was "reasonable cause" to believe Arpaio has been violating Latinos' constitutional and civil rights in a "pattern of misconduct" involving discriminatory policing practices, such as unlawful stops, detentions and arrests of Hispanics.
The claims of the so-called "birthers" who question Obama's citizenship have been the source of much media coverage. The president himself has poked fun at them by including merchandise on his campaign website with his birth certificate printed on one side and the words "made in the USA" on the other.
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The schedule release came during an official press conference on Saturday at the International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS) at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, and features events at historic Bristol Dragway and zMAX Dragway in Charlotte, along with seven more confirmed stops at standout facilities.
"We're excited to give fans a schedule like this and one that will feature action-packed racing at some of the premier tracks in the nation," X-DRL's Jeff Mitchell said.
"The enthusiasm from the tracks we're working with has been incredible, and that's given us a great deal of excitement for our inaugural season. We're all about racing and putting on a great show, and these outstanding tracks will undoubtedly present us that opportunity in 2013."
An additional race could also be scheduled in the coming days for the potential of a 10-race season.
The first confirmed stop of the current nine-race schedule and the official start of the X-DRL's debut season in 2013 will take place on April 6-7 at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park in Tulsa, Okla. This will be the only race on the 2013 X-DRL schedule that takes place on Saturday and Sunday. The other eight events will take place on Friday and Saturday.
>From there, the X-DRL will head to Bristol Dragway for a second April race, bursting onto the Thunder Valley scene on April 26-27. The X-DRL will head south following its trip to Bristol, going to No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose, La, on May 17-18.
In June, the X-DRL will visit Gateway Motorsports Park in St. Louis, as the Midwest track will play host to the X-DRL on June 14-15. On July 26-27, the X-DRL will head back to the East coast for an appearance at the fan-friendly and highly-regarded Maryland International Raceway in Mechanicsville, Md.
Dallas Raceway in Crandall, Texas is the destination for the sixth race of the 2013 season, as the X-DRL will visit the Texas track on Aug. 16-17.
Always a popular destination in the doorslammer scene, Virginia Motorsports Park, just outside of Richmond, will showcase the X-DRL on Sept. 20-21.
The first of two October races will take place on Oct. 4-5 at Montgomery Motorsports Park in Montgomery, Ala.
The 2013 season will then finish in fine fashion, as the X-DRL wraps up its inaugural campaign in the heart of doorslammer country with an event at the state-of-the-art zMAX Dragway. That highly-anticipated finish to the year will take place Oct. 25-26 in Charlotte.
The X-DRL will offer competition and 1/8-mile racing in nine professional categories for the 2013
season. Those classes are:
April 6-7: Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park, Tulsa, Okla.
April 26-27: Bristol Dragway, Bristol, Tenn.
May 17-18: No Problem Raceway, Belle Rose, La.
June 14-15: Gateway Motorsports Park, St. Louis
July 26-27: Maryland International Raceway, Mechanicsville, Md.
Aug. 16-17: Dallas Raceway, Crandall, Texas
Sept. 20-21: TBA
Oct. 4-5: Montgomery Motorsports Park, Montgomery, Ala.
Oct. 25-26: zMAX Dragway, Charlotte, N.C.


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Gerald Slota and Neil LaBute met by e-mail, hoping to collaborate on a project. Through their correspondence, the pair hit upon the notion of a series of strange greeting cards, so beginning a journey where LaBute would attempt to strike the deepest and darkest chords of Slota's psyche with his words. LaBute would feed the photographer twisted or sad lines and Slota would take inspiration, scratching out eyes, photocopying faces, and so on. Nothing was taboo or off-limits.
Fulfilling the duo's original intentions for the project, the Because the Darkness Feeds My Soul greeting cards were created in conjunction with an article of the same name published in Aperture magazine Issue 196 (Fall 2009), where the work was originally published.
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