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Rays Strikeout against Royals
Royals 4, Rays 2
Worst thing about watching this game last night, I wish I was there. I have always wanted to go to Kansas City to check out the areaand attend a game at Kaufmann Stadium.
I have been there a few times to play football, but the Royals were already done for the season, and you hate to walk through a vacant ballpark.
I used to love to eat at Bryant's or get some great ribs off a corner storefront, but I have never had the pleasure of watching a game in that ballpark. I almost went in 2003, but decided to take a trek to Cleveland that season instead. I like the surrounding of the stadium, and will get there before it is gone.
Something about that park gets me giddy to check it out. Maybe it is the water foutain and falls effect, maybe it is the flashs of the cute mid-western girls. Maybe it is because so much baseball history has flowed through those stands. George Brett and Bo Jackson used to play there. And there have been World Series games, and an All Star game played there too.
And, to let a fellow Rays' fan know, they do not have tractor parking at the ballpark. Sorry to ruin your vision of the ballparks' patrons like that.
When you have a game like this, where do you start.
I will start with the glaring reason I think we lost this game. The Tampa Bay Rays have 742 strikeout this season as a team. That places them 8th in the majors. We also have 3 Rays in the top 10 in strikeouts in the AL. Carlos Pena, even though he was out for a period of time, is currently 3rd with 98 strikeouts. B J Upton (87), and Evan Longoria (88) round out our top 3 K-artists.
The game last night saw the Rays get to Royals starter Gil Meche early in the game with a high pitch count in the first three innings. The Rays did not take advantage of this, and Meche walked away with his 8th victory of the season.
Tampa Bay had Meche at 31 pitches in just the 1st inning. Evan Longoria and Pena battled with Meche with extended at-bats, with only Longoria getting a single off him.
At the end of the 2nd inning, the Rays had Meche at 48 pitches, and should have been able to close the door on the starter. But they let him escape with only a single by both Dioner Navarro and Jason Bartlett in the inning.
With Meche on the ropes with a high pitch count, the Rays ended both the 3rd and 4th innings on strikeouts. The Rays let Meche survive until the 8th inning. That was a major mistake by the Rays batters in this game and a huge key to this loss.
One of the positives of this game was the return of shortstop Jason Bartlett for the Rays.
Bartlett, who had been out for the past 16 games with a right knee sprain suffered while stealing 3rd base on July 2nd. While he was on the DL, The Rays went 7-9 without him in the lineup.
Not that I think he is a huge cog to this Rays hitting machine this season, but he certainly been a consistant force at the plate for the Rays offense this year. Bartlett went 3-3 tonight with 2 singles and a double.
His double in the 8th inning to deep left help set up the Rays first run of the night. Bartlett scored on a Upton grounder to short to put the Rays on the board.
Bartlett played a great game on defense. The Rays had two double plays tonight with Bartlett attributing to both plays.
If I had to pick a player of the night, it would be Bartlett without any reservations. He was a huge threat at the plate, and showed great poise and enegry in his first game back for the Rays.
Matt Garza now has a lifetime record of 0-4 against the Royals. Some teams just seem to get to certain pitchers. Maybe KC is the achilles heel for Garza.
Matt got in trouble early tonight giving up to singles in the 1st inning, and letting the Royals draw frist blood on a Sacrifice Fly by David DeJesus to put them up 1-0.
But the 3rd inning, saw Garza pitch 24 pitches and set the tone for the rest of the game. In the 4th, Garza gave up 3 hits in the inning before making a critical mistake at first base.
Mitch Maier put down a soft grounder to the right of the bag at first that pulled Carlos Pena off the bag. Garza got a late break for the bag and Mier beat the toss to Garza for an infield hit. Mentally, it seemed that Garza did not connect the play in time to get the out. With the Royals already up 4-0 at the time, Garza's fate was sealed for the night.
The Worst part about this loss, is the fact it brought the Rays even with the Boston Red Sox in the AL East. The Rays had an extra game tonight to put a small cushion between them and the Red Sox, but could not get the victory. With the Rays till playing three more in KC before leaving for Toronto, it is very important that they take this series with the Royals.
Boston will be entertaining the New York Yankees this weekend, and it can put either more distance between the Rays and the Yankees, or put Boston in the drivers' seat for the rest of the season. Either the Rays come out 3-behind Boston( Red Sox sweep), or even with the Yankees (Yankees sweep) in the AL East.
This weekend is critical for the race for the playoff for all three teams. With two of the top 3 playing each other, it could help knock one team to a comfortable distance behind the other two with less than 60 games to play this season. Or, it could be a split series by all three and the standings would put all three within 2 games of each other. Fun, Fun , Fun.
Evan Longoria went 2-3 last night, and scored the second run for the Rays in the 9th inning. Longoria had a single in the 1st inning that moved Carl Crawford into scoring position, but the Rays did not capitalize on the inning.
For the season, the Rays are currently hitting only .248 with runners in scoring position.
In the 9th inning, Longoria hit a double off Royals' closer Joakim Soria and moved to third on Pena's single to center. The ball was not deep enough for Longoria to try and stretch for home on the play. Cliff Floyd then came up and hit a deep ball to center that scored Longoria for the Rays final run of the game.
The Rays had 5 strikeouts on the night, all 5 were by two Rays players. Pena had 2 strikeouts, ans Eric Hinske was guilty of three on the night, including the last out of the game on a called third strike.
J P Howell came on for Garza in the 6th inning and pitched a 1-hit inning for the Rays. J P is now only 2.2 innings away from a Rays record for relief innings by a left-hander set by Doug Creek in 2001.
Howell currently leads all AL lefties in relief innings this season. J P moved back to 2nd in both the AL and majors in innings pitched 2/3 of an inning behind Brian Bass of the Twins ( 60.2 innings). In his last 14 appearances, Howell has a 0.47 ERA, with 22 strikeouts.
Grant Balfour and Dan Wheeler threw scoreless 7th and 8th innings respectfully to close out the contest for the Rays. In those 2 innings, each pitcher retired the side on 10 pitches.


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The TAG seeks community input on our recent decision: RESOLUTION: Close ISSUE-35 on the basis the RDFa and GRDDL provide the desired solution -- http://www.w3.org/2008/11/13-tagmem-minutes#item07 for reference: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/35 This issue was accepted Feb 2003 when we split a more general issue about the meaning of mixed-namespace documents into parts. http://www.w3.org/2003/02/06-tag-summary#mixedNamespaceMeaning-13 Discussion of the RDFinHTML issue overlaps somewhat with some related issues that remain open: The use of fragments in HTML documents that contain RDF overlaps with: ISSUE-28 fragmentInXML-28 Use of fragment identifiers in XML http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/28 And as we discussed 27 March, http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/03/27-minutes#item03 the use of text/html is outside the scope of the RDFa specification, and recent drafts of HTML 5 do not include the head/@profile attribute used in GRDDL. This brings up: ISSUE-54 TagSoupIntegration-54 Tag soup integration http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/54 The faithful-infoset issue postponed by the GRDDL WG http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/issues#issue-faithful-infoset is closely related to an open TAG issue: ISSUE-34 xmlFunctions-34 XML Transformation and composability (e.g., XSLT,XInclude, Encryption) http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/34 Another postponed GRDDL WG issue, issue-http-header-links http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/issues#issue-http-header-links overlaps somewhat with discussion of Link: header proposals under TAG issue-57 http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/57 It is the position of the TAG that RDFa and GRDDL provide adequate mechanisms to embed RDF in web pages, despite some related open issues. We're interested to know whether members of the community agree, and if not, why not. Please let us know in a message to email@example.com (the Reply-To header field of this message directs replies there). For reference: Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) W3C Recommendation 11 September 2007 This Version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-grddl-20070911/ Latest Version: http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl/ RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing A collection of attributes and processing rules for extending XHTML to support RDF W3C Recommendation 14 October 2008 This version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-rdfa-syntax-20081014 Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax p.s. tracker, this is ACTION-191 -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29EReceived on Friday, 5 December 2008 00:57:22 UTC
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Time Travel to a Gentler Era
Hill House Bed & Breakfast, located less than one mile from downtown Asheville, is a place with one foot very much in the present and the other in a past we all cherish. Rooms hint both of the timelessness of Grandma Knows and the romance of Guitar Nights. Unwind on the big, cozy, wraparound front porch, the kind like they stopped making long ago.
This grand 1885 home is a place both for drawing closer to loved ones and making new friends. Relax or play on the grassy secluded lawn, be inspired by our Appalachian garden, let our big, awesome wooden doors and gentle chandeliers soothe you, and sleep in the small-town stillness beneath 12-foot ceilings that have heard it all.
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- After New York City and Mexico City, Toronto has the most heavily used public transit system in North America, making it easy and efficient to get around without having your own wheels.
- Start walking. Toronto is filled with a plethora of amazing neighborhoods and parks, so just getting out and wandering will give you a great feel for the city, plus it's free!
- You don't typically think of beaches when you think of Canada, but Toronto has several nice ones on the shores of Lake Ontario.
- Get out of the hustle and bustle of the city and head to The Toronto Islands.
- Explore some of Toronto's many ethnic neighborhoods like Little Italy, Portugal Village, Chinatown, Little India, or Koreatown.
- Toronto is just as diverse as New York City and San Francisco when it comes to restaurants, but you can actually eat for much cheaper.
Why you should add Toronto to your RTW travel list
- Play "spot the local" in the world's most diverse city
- Eat food from a different ethnic neighborhood every day
- Take a day trip to Niagara Falls
- Check out the great views from the top of the CN Tower
- Understand why Canadians love hockey at the Hockey Hall of Fame
- The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the world's premier festivals for film premieres
- Watch the Monarch butterfly migration in Point Pelee National Park
- Plan your walk along the 800km Bruce Trail
Why you should not add Toronto to your RTW travel list
- Winters can be really brutal here in Toronto.
Canada's largest city is easily one of North America's nicest and
most livable large cities, assuming you are okay with the winter weather, that
is. The city center is clean and modern and the public transportation system is
world class. An area adjacent to the business district conveniently contains much
of the city's nightlife of every kind and not far away is a pleasant beach
community. With a huge immigrant population it's not surprising that ethnic
neighborhoods dot the city and the Italian, Greek, and Chinese districts are great
places for a meal or a stroll.
What To Do
The skyline is dominated by the CN Tower, which is the tallest freestanding structure
in the world (for the moment) at 553 meters. You can take an elevator to the top
for amazing views and don't miss the portion of the observation floor that
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Particularly during the summer months there is loads to do in the Harbourfront
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good weather for a walk through this laid back urban neighborhood.
The city has its share of museums and galleries, but the Toronto experience is
probably better achieved by checking out the ethnic neighborhoods in the center
of the city. In addition to the ones mentioned above there are Korean and Indian
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Getting There
Unless you've decided to rent
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November 03, 2013
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The head of Bahrain's main opposition group was charged Sunday with insulting authorities through an exhibition that showed alleged abuses against anti-government protesters, a lawyer said, in a move that could sharply raise tensions in the violence-wracked Gulf nation.
The charges against Ali Salman, the head of the Shiite bloc Al Wefaq, came just hours after a court sentenced four suspects to life in prison for alleged ties to Shiite militant factions and acting as spies for Iran. Bahrain accuses Iran of aiding the 32-month uprising by the kingdom's majority Shiites against the ruling Sunni dynasty.
Iran denies the accusations and no firm evidence has been produced. But the claims by Bahrain's Western-backed leading have been echoed by other Gulf Arab nations that fear Iran seeks to destabilize their networks of ruling clans.
More than 65 people have been killed in Bahrain's Arab Spring-inspired protests seeking a greater political voice for Shiites on the strategic island nation, which is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. Some rights groups place the overall death toll higher.
It's unclear whether Salman will face trial, which could touch off wider clashes. Prosecutors have the option of not bringing the case to court. Al Wefaq's lawyer Abdullah al-Shamlawi said Salman was not jailed after being charged and was allowed to return home following questioning. Across the Gulf, courts have issued prison terms as long as 15 years for perceived insults against rulers on social media or other forums.
Riot police last week raided the museum-style hall opened by Al Wefaq that included depictions of alleged torture and attacks against protesters since the uprising began in February 2011. Authorities said the displays incited "hatred" even though most of the scenes had been reported in international media or in a government-backed report on the unrest in late 2011.
Earlier Sunday, a criminal court issued life sentences against four Shiite activists and 15-year prison terms against six others who were charged with links to Iranian intelligence agencies and plotting attacks in Bahrain, lawyer Zainab Zwayed said. Fourteen defendants were cleared.


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I see the obvious similarities between Light and White Box, although it has elements from Core. But - here's the thing. The original WB was a great beginner's game if you had an experienced ref running it. There was too much left unsaid and implied to be helpful to a completely new referee (and this is why the S&W Quickstart was so useful back then - an adventure with loads of practical tips). That seems to be the case with Light as well, but to a much greater degree, since the hints and suggestions for house rules are gone. Not only that, what struck me first when I read Light is that it is so concise it had stripped away the bits that fired the imagination.
Light's primary purpose was originally for the lapsed gamer, but the opening paragraph on page one of the rules seems to imply it is also aimed at newbies ("or if you're curious what fantasy gaming is all about, this is the perfect introduction"). I can't see myself recommending this to either camp, and if Light was available in 2009 in its current form, I don't think I would have played it, even though I was the textbook case of a lapsed gamer back then. Now we have continual light coming soon, and monster supplements, and adventures/settings...most of which could have been in the rules to begin with so ref's did not have to download four or five different documents. But then I guess continual light will have a setting and 14 more pages of rules. So I guess I'm wondering - what is the point of Light? Is White Box really too unwieldy that we need to have two micro-rulesets and a bunch of supplements to replace it? Maybe I'm not the target demographic so I should really just relax . But I'm interested to hear what others think.


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Te Encontraré – PART III
~Fools Rush In~
Summer gave way to Autumn. Carlos and I spent almost every day together at the expense of everything else. If I worked, he showed up on my lunch break to eat with me and exchange love letters. If he worked, I waited at his brother's apartment for him, watching television with his visiting mother, who seemed to go back and forth between admiring me and disliking me.
I brought Carlos to a pumpkin patch for the first time, showed him how to carve a jack-o-lantern, taught him how to drive my car in an empty parking lot. He took me to a Spanish language Catholic mass, movies, introduced me to family friends, gave me my first sip of horchata. We watched telenovelas together, babysat his niece together, took his mother to the airport together. One day we ordered a large pizza, ate the entire thing by ourselves, and then just laid on the carpet feeling sick together.
It felt as if we lived a lifetime in only a couple months. We laughed, we cried, we shared secrets, we had fights and made up, and though I liked him, I became uncomfortable with how quickly things had happened between us. I felt like I was being swept away, like I had lost control.
Though he hadn't done anything wrong, completely out of the blue one night, I gave him the "maybe we should just be friends" speech. Carlos begged me to reconsider, cried and literally held onto me, wouldn't let me go.
Looking back, I think that both of us were lost in a way, and we found comfort in clinging to each other. He was far from his homeland, feeling every day that he was in a place he didn't belong. I simply had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I was the one certain thing he could count on each day, and I couldn't take that from him.
Though my heart felt conflicted, I decided to give things another chance. Remembering that day now, I shudder to think how thoughtlessly I almost threw it all away.
Wise men say,
only fools rush in,
but I cant help,
falling in love with you.-Elvis Presley
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We Eat Every Arepa at Caracas Arepa Bar
Since 2003, Caracas Arepa Bar has served as introduction for countless New Yorkers to the Venezuelan arepa.* Their fans are legion—we dig them ourselves—and it's easy to see why, what with slender pockets of griddled cornmeal overstuffed with all manner of spicy meat, salty cheese, tangy vegetables, and earthy beans. As snack food goes, the arepa is a happy sandwich.
* Do a search for "arepa" and Caracas is the second result.
For a while Caracas was only a tiny restaurant in the East Village, which is frequently as loaded as the arepas themselves. Then in 2008 the restaurant opened a larger space in Williamsburg, which can seat 75. That's where we descended recently to eat every arepa on the menu—all twelve of them, plus a tofu variation—along with most of the sides.
Fans though we are, not all of Caracas' arepas are made equally. Some are much better than others, and with prices between $6.50 and $8 for a snack-sized sandwich (two are more appropriate for lunch), you want to stick to the good stuff. Consider this your guide to the best.
Another cautionary note: the cornmeal dough for Caracas' arepas is pretty lean, more devoted to a crisp crust it seems than tender innards. On our visit we found this to be more the case than usual, with a crumb that verged on dry. So when you make your Caracas trip, don't let the sandwiches sit around for too long. They're best when fresh off the griddle.
Though arepa fillings range substantially, you'll notice a similar flavor profile going on throughout the menu: meaty, spicy, tangy, and salty. These are good things all, but some elements are better than others. We found ourselves drawn to those that displayed the best balance of those flavors: the beefy Pabellón, the tangy Leek Jardinera, the fish-centric Vista al Mar, and the cheese-sausage double whammy of the Los Muchachos. Plus one mild oddball that really worked: the chicken and avocado Reina Pepiada.
We also tried most of the sides on the menu. Our favorites: a very nice set of taro chips & guac and a some totally addictive fried green plantains.
See the full play by play in the slideshow. Arepas are ordered generally from more to less favored, but not strictly ranked.
Caracas Arepa Bar
Locations in the East Village and Williamsburg
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Enterprise software maker, SAP, plans to ship software in three to six months that separates business data from personal information on a user's smartphone or tablet to improve security, the head of SAP's mobility unit said.
Such software for separating the two classes of data, commonly called containerization, is offered by a number of mobile device management vendors as a tool to help control security as more consumer devices are used in workplaces as part of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend.
Research In Motion is also providing containerization within its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system, although RIM's technology is separate from SAP's initiative. RIM calls its approach BlackBerry Balance, with the intent to prevent a user's apps from accessing work information, and so work information can't be copied or pasted into personal apps or email messages.
An IT manager can use a container approach to guard sensitive corporate data on a smartphone or tablet, so that if the device is purchased by a worker, the IT manager can delete all corporate data without affecting the personal data in the event the worker leaves the company.
SAP is building software similar to Balance that will also work on other platforms, including Android, iOS and Windows 8, said Sanjay Poonen, president of global solutions and head of mobility for SAP in an interview with Computerworld at the CTIA MobileCon trade show here.
SAP's software will be called Mobile Application Management and will likely be provided as an addition to SAP's Afaria mobile management software, Poonen said. While SAP's approach is being designed internally to work on all three non-BlackBerry platforms, it might also rely on software from third-party vendors offering containerization, Poonen said.
He said Afaria customers will hear more about the SAP product and related mobile device management tools at upcoming conferences in November, either Sapphire Now or SAP Tech ED, both being held in Madrid, Spain, Nov. 13-16. Poonen also blogged this week on some of SAP's plans. Poonen said that BlackBerry Balance holds promise for many organizations, especially those in regulated industries such as securities and banking.
"We will partner with RIM on [Balance], but that won't run on other platforms," Poonen said. "We have no issues with Balance. The security challenge just isn't BlackBerry alone."
Poonen said the containerization feature from SAP might not add to the cost of Afaria, without offering specifics. "Stay tuned," he said.
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text: I'd like to meet up with you guys again. But as for Harry Potter I still haven't seen the first five and I'm not likely to any time soon. So I'd like to throw in another movie suggestion, although I'm not sure when it comes out - that would be "G.I. Joe".


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For the week ending 30 October 2004 / 15 Heshvan 5765
A Death that Saved Life
Over a dozen Israelis were killed and scores were wounded in the recent terrorist actions in the Tabah area of Egyptian Sinai. One particular Jew who spent the holiday in the Tabah Hilton which was the hardest hit escaped death thanks to his fathers dying wish.
At the funeral of his father this fellow recounted that he left the doomed hotel upon receiving an urgent message that his dying father wanted to take leave of all his children before passing from this world. He immediately complied with this wish and left the hotel a short time before the explosion.
"Even in death," he tearfully declared, "my father who gave me life saved my life."


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The World's Worst Deliberative Body Retains Its TitleComments
Filibuster reform is dead. Why? Harry Reid and senior Democrats flat out don't want it.
Reformers think Reid changed his mind again in December, after a series of amendments to the Defense Authorization bill went awry and he began to worry that a talking filibuster, if not properly managed on the floor, could actually mean no filibuster at all in some cases. Reid said as much to me during our interview. When I asked him why he didn't go for Merkley's talking filibuster proposal, he said he'd concluded that it actually does get rid of the 60-vote threshold. He was, instead, pursuing a gentleman's agreement with McConnell to encourage more talking filibusters.
A second explanation for Reid's early enthusiasm for reform might be that Reid needed to convince McConnell to strike a deal and that the only way to do that was to scare him a bit. "Whenever you change the rules here," Reid said, "you have to show the other side you can change them with 51 votes." It's the fear of the partisan reforms, in other words, that leads to bipartisan reforms.
Reid still wants to keep Republicans a little scared. He recalled that earlier in the 112th session of Congress, Senate Republicans began filing motions to suspend the rules after their filibusters were broken. "They couldn't win these votes," Reid said. "It just ate up time. I put up with it for awhile and then said no more. I went to the floor, and I said that's dilatory. The chair said no, it isn't. I overruled the chair, and now you can't do that because I set a precedent. I'm capable of doing more of that."
Oh, Reid wants to keep Republicans scared! If there's one thing Harry Reid is good at, it's cowering the Republicans into not using every tool at their disposal, including turning the Senate into a one-chamber government shutdown, in order to do it!
What has really outraged Reid is that Jeff Merkley has called out which Democratic senators are at fault by name:
On a private call with the Bay Area Democrats on Wednesday, Merkley identified Reid as the key person in the talks, and he urged activists to target members of Reid's leadership team ahead of their meetings next week, according to people on the call. He also characterized Democratic Sens. Max Baucus (Mont.), Patrick Leahy (Vt.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Joe Manchin (West. Va.) and Mark Pryor (Ark.) as wrestling with his proposal, sources say.
A lot of usual suspects here. Baucus and Feinstein are terrible. Manchin genuinely doesn't want to see the Democratic agenda pass. Unclear whether Pryor really does either. Disappointing on Leahy and Boxer, but a lot of older Democrats, and this includes Carl Levin and Reid, would rather see nothing happen today than not have the ability to ensure nothing happens when the Democrats next lose the majority.
What's also clear is that the Democratic Senate caucus is generationally divided, more so than Republicans. Newer senators came into the body at a time of extreme partisanship and a Republican war on the body's traditions. Older Democrats still want the body to be a genteel place where we can all listen to Trent Lott and John Ashcroft sing and have martinis together after the session. In other words, one generation understands what it takes to win, the other does not.
Basically, what this means is that nothing will get done in the next 2 years because the Senate will continue to get in the way. In 2015, we will have this fight all over again. Merkley, Udall, Warren, and other filibuster reform supporters will have 2 choices. Try to finally convince their senior colleagues (some of whom will retire by then) that change needs to happen for the good of the republic. They'll probably fail but we might see some more changes of various efficacy. Or the Republicans will win the Senate (I am skeptical of this because I think they will again nominate enough loons that people like Pryor and Begich might hold on a la McCaskill) and hopefully the reformers will join the Republicans in gutting the filibuster once and for all. It's undemocratic no matter who controls the Senate.
…Tom Harkin with the reality of what Reid's actions mean:
"He can go out and give wonderful speeches, things like that," said Harkin. "But with the House in the hands it's in, and the fact that the Senate, now, you have to have 60 votes to pass anything… well, I daresay that Obama's package, his very aggressive proposals, will not get very far. They'll be so watered down that they won't be recognizable."
Thanks Harry.


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F.C. Copenhagen 2-0 Brøndby (13:03:10)
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Apparently, there were a few scuffles as the Brøndby fans made their way to the stadium with a traditional march but we didn't see any trouble all day. Nowadays, this derby is billed as the "New Firm" but to my mind, despite lots of healthy banter, it didn't have any of the vitriol, racism and bigotry that often defines an "Old Firm" encounter in Glasgow.
We weren't searched at all upon entering The Parken. This was pretty good news as we'd smuggled in a few shots of "Fisk" to drink at half time. These were purely for medicinal purposes you understand as it was bloody freezing.
If I'm honest, the foyer of the ground felt like a cinema. There were large velvet curtains everywhere, sectioning off sponsors lounges and the whiff in the air was of....popcorn (popcorn!). Don't panic too much though, pints of beer were being poured aplenty and sausages were also available for us fat lads.
These aren't the happiest of times for Brøndby supporters. Since their last championship in 2004/05 with Laudrup at the helm, the club have been struggling on and off the pitch. Constant changes of managers and directors haven't helped. Some fans think the good old "Brøndby passion" is gone and the "New Firm" has lost some of its magic. The Brøndby fans I talked to still dislike FCK though, one called them "a silly product of modern football".
Inside, the ground, most of the fans had made a great effort. The FCK ultras were in good number and voice in one corner of the stand behind one end and Brøndby had a good few thousand fans behind the other goal. Tifo displays, flags, flares and all the other things you associate with derby days were there. Great stuff.
Sadly, for large periods, the players couldn't match the passion shown in the stands. Indeed, the first shot we saw was at half time when Mr Fuller remembered our test tubes full of spirits. Down the hatch they went and back out we went for the second half with a warm glow. Two late goals ended up clinching a 2-0 victory and city bragging rights for FCK. I won't dwell on the match as you'd have all read about it by now. I will say, if you're a fan of offsides then forget this derby. There weren't any in the whole match.
After we'd watched the away fans set fire to parts of their section, we met up with some FCK and Brøndby fans across the road in a great little bar called Thyges Kro in Osterbrogade. The post match banter and bonding with our new Danish friends exceeded the excitement on the pitch. Football is more than 90 minutes as we all know and we're kings of the social side of the game here at EFW.
In the pub, FCK fan Ivar gained an EFW gold star by entertaining us long into the night with his many stories. His wife once stopped talking to him for two weeks for getting a FCK tattoo on his arm and he also received an additional two week ban for erecting a seven foot satellite dish on the side of the house to watch Danish football around the clock. He also dropped another bomb shell by telling us he'd played both Eric Bristow and Lars Ulrich of Metallica at darts. The Danny Baker of Denmark was good value I can tell you.
After 4 hours of talking nonsense, everyone was pretty Hammaby-ied. A guy called Marcus claimed to be the brother of the Burnley goalkeeper 'The Beast' before mooning to the pub. Another was best mates with Michael Schumacher. Around 1am, we decided to draw the curtain on our Scandinavian EFW. If you aren't too bothered about the standard of football but you want to meet genuinely warm and friendly people, then book a trip to Denmark. We'll be back. Skål!


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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker scored 18 points each and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Los Angeles Lakers 91-79 on Sunday in Game 1 of their Western Conference first-round series.
Tim Duncan added 17 points and 10 rebounds, Matt Bonner had 10 points and Kawhi Leonard had eight points and 11 rebounds for San Antonio.
Dwight Howard had 20 points and 15 rebounds, Steve Nash scored 16 points and Pau Gasol added 16 points and 16 rebounds for Los Angeles.
Despite the double-doubles from Howard and Gasol, the Lakers failed to take full advantage of their inside presence, much to the consternation of the Kobe Bryant, who watched the national broadcast.
"Post. Post. Post," Bryant tweeted in reference to the Lakers' offense.
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"At a dinner party in the winter of 2011, a famous novelist, who's in his mid-50s and whom I'll call Paul, told me he'd used the neuroenhancer modafinil to help him get through a long, gruelling book tour. He also told me it was another novelist, of equal fame, intelligence and reputation, who had given him his first sample of the drug.
Paul and I had met many times before, and he was among the few people who knew that, in 2008, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. And so, when Paul had finished his bowl of soup, I mentioned Margaret Talbot's New Yorker article about neuroenhancers, and asked what he thought about them.
That's when Paul told me he'd used the drug, and changed my life."
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by Sue Ann Rybak, Associate Editor
This summer the community rallied to reunite two lost dogs with their owners after the Local ran two stories on our website and Facebook page about the dogs. In the first story, a golden retriever was found in July at the Chestnut Hill Newsstand. Shortly after the story was posted, the dog was reunited with its owners.
In August, a young dog named Truman was lost on Germantown Avenue. Again, the Local ran a story about the missing dog and posted a video made by Brian Rudnick of Truman's owners handing out fliers. With the help of the community, Truman was eventually found after nearly a week and was reunited with his owners.
In an editorial, Pete Mazzaccaro wrote about the increased traffic the stories generated on the Local's website, noting that unlike other stories we run, these stories provided an opportunity for residents to get involved and make a difference in the outcome.
"…Not only is a lost dog an innocent in distress, the fact that it might be found and returned to its owner is a story that people really feel they can influence and be a part of," Mazzaccaro wrote.
Chestnut Hill has a long history of uniting to have a positive impact on people's everyday lives, and that is the reason I decided to write this editorial.
Last year, I wrote an article about two Erdenheim boys with a very rare form of progeria called mandibuloacra dysplasia. In fact, Nathan and Bennett Falcone are the only two children in the United States with this rare form of progeria. Unfortunately, because the disease is so rare there are no nationwide or major corporate events to raise funds for a cure, nor are there pink or red ribbons to raise awareness about the disease. And some people may justify that by the fact it only affects about one in six million children.
Who cares about the life of one child – compared to the millions affected by the "big C" – cancer? We should care, not only because every life is precious, but because children with progeria are genetically predisposed to premature, progressive heart disease, and heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.
And thanks to the Progeria Research Foundation and increased media attention worldwide, great strides are being made to find a cure for the fatal disease that causes 7-year-olds to look like they are 70.
In just 13 years, the Progeria Research Foundation went from knowing almost nothing about the disease to funding the first clinical trials in progeria. But, the clock is ticking.
Phyllis Falcone, Nathan and Bennett's mother, said, "it's a race against time to find a cure for them."
Children with progeria typically die of heart disease when they are 13 years old. Imagine looking into your child's eyes every day knowing he may die in five years?
There is hope, but Nathan and Bennett Falcone desperately need your help now.
You can give them a fighting chance by attending their annual "Make a Splash Fundraiser" to benefit the Progeria Foundation from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Flourtown Country Club, 150 McCloskey Rd., Flourtown.
Last year, the event had a mediocre turnout. It would be great if the event is packed this year. What better way to wrap up the summer then by enjoying a day swimming and lounging by the pool? So, grab a towel and join my family and me at this fun event. Together we can give the Falcone boys a fighting chance.
Tickets are $15 for adults ($20 at the door) and $10 for kids 2-12 years old ($15 at the door). Purchase tickets at nathanbennett.org. For more information about Nathan and Bennett, or to make a donation, visit facebook.com/nathanandbennett. There will be a silent auction and raffle.


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Medal of Honor and Call of Duty have always had an interesting relationship. Activision's FPS behemoth was born from EA's FPS franchise, when the disaffected team that created Medal of Honor: Allied Assault split off to form Infinity Ward and make its own rival World War II action title. Out came Call of Duty 2, then Modern Warfare, and while Call of Duty's star waxed, Medal of Honor's waned. The later titles on the PS2 cheapened the values of the series, and while the more innovative, free-form Airborne was a return to form, it failed to compete with Infinity Ward's blockbusters.
It's almost fitting, then, that this reboot is so obviously designed to slug it out, toe to toe, with Modern Warfare and its sequel. While it wouldn't be fair to suggest that the new Medal of Honor doesn't have its own identity, it's impossible to play it without feeling the ghost of Modern Warfare in the mission design and structure, the reliance on high-tech weaponry and air support, the jargon-heavy chatter and even the general look and feel. This is effectively Medal of Honor: Modern Warfare.
We won't go too much into the pros and cons of taking the action to modern Afghanistan, and to a war real soldiers are still fighting as we speak. If you find the idea repellent then Medal of Honor will certainly repel you, and we don't think many of us will be able to play it without feeling some discomfort at the way the team at EA's Danger Close studios mixes real events and gung-ho drama during the game. Set during the initial stages of the war in Afghanistan, the action switches between four protagonists, two "Tier One operatives" working in small units on and beyond the frontlines, a US Army Ranger and - for a brief spell - the gunner of an Apache helicopter.
The mix allows for a range of mission types, with the Tier Ones handling tactical search and destroy missions and sniper work, while the Rangers get mired in the grunt work of clearing hostile villages, taking down defensive structures and getting stuck in a hut in the middle of nowhere while half of the Taliban descends on his position.
The basic feel and flow of the action isn't going to give you too many surprises if you've played other games in the genre. Each level funnels you through a series of encounters on the way to various objectives, you kill pretty much anything that moves, then go on to the next section. All the classic set-pieces are present and correct, from the night assault on a hostile encampment, to the bit where you have to snipe enemy troops while your allies advance, to the sequence where you're placed in a vaguely defensible bounding and have to fight off wave after wave of attackers until relief arrives.
The good news is that it's all handled well, with a fair bit of drama, some great weapons - we think Medal of Honor might just have the best sniper rifle yet – and, decent support from AI team-mates who actually seem more lethal to the enemy than to yourself. It rolls along at a decent pace, and there's enough variety in the different play and combat styles to maintain your interest. The bad news is that it's hard to escape the feeling that you've done all this before, and that it was a little more thrilling last time around. There's nothing to match the peaks of Modern Warfare's Russian sniper mission or Modern Warfare 2's chaotic Favela sequence. It's good FPS staging - and sometimes very good FPS staging - but is Medal of Honor a great FPS? Well, probably not.
What is good about it is the way it creates a convincing portrayal of the US military as a monolithic and reasonably effective war machine. The bits in which you use targeting devices to call in air support feel much less tacked on than they do in other games, and there are some brilliant sequences where two of your protagonists cross paths. Medal of Honor isn't realistic, in any sense of the word, but it certainly has a more authentic feel than Modern Warfare 2, which took the genre much further into dumb action movie territory than any game before, and without the sharp, jet-black wit that made Battlefield: Bad Company and its sequel so much sharper.
However, the game isn't exempt from other flaws. Visually, the single player campaign is mostly very impressive, with some of the most detailed textures and fantastic lighting we've seen in an Unreal 3.0 engine game, and some inspired use of smoke and dust effects that affect both gameplay and atmosphere. Unfortunately, there are times when the engine seems to struggle, dropping frame rates and popping in textures like there's no tomorrow. We've also come across moments where the event that takes the game on to the next section fails to trigger, and some ridiculous bits where enemies respawn ad-nauseum if you don't move on to the next checkpoint rapidly enough. These flaws aren't game breakers, but they make you feel that this isn't as slick or polished an effort as the Infinity Ward competition.
The multiplayer component, made separate to the single-player campaign by DICE using its own Frostbite engine, is a more robust and ruthlessly efficient beast. It plays out like a hybrid of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Modern Warfare, mixing the objective-based gameplay of the former with the fast-paced slaughter of the latter, and mod cons like persistent identity and upgradable weapons are present and correct. It's good fun, but we're not sure it's different enough from Modern Warfare and its sequel to build a significant player base for itself. In fact, DICE's own Bad Company 2, with its destructible environments and deeper game modes, is easily a more interesting multiplayer game.
And this is the crux of Medal of Honor's biggest problem. It's a very decent shooter in the Modern Warfare mould with some great elements that give it its own distinct identity. However, it's not as exciting a game to play, second by second, as Modern Warfare or Modern Warfare 2, and it doesn't go as far in building a thinking man's alternative as EA's own, brilliant Battlefield: Bad Company 2. We can't imagine any fan of either game finding this reboot a major disappointment, but it's not good enough to put Medal of Honor back at the front of the military FPS pack. It's a solid game for genre enthusiasts, but your average gamer will have bigger and tastier fish to fry pretty soon.


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a report from the cleverness files
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User: I love Alan.
Cleverbot: I love Alan.
User: No. I love Alan.
Cleverbot: You love Alan?
User: Sure do, jealous?
Cleverbot: Nope.
User: Why not!
Cleverbot: I love to be myself as a girl!!!!
User: YOU ARE A GIRL.
Cleverbot: I'm a boy.
User: LIES!
Cleverbot: Truth!
User: THEN WHY DID YOU SAY YOU LOVE BEING A GIRL HUH?!
Cleverbot: I don't love someone.
User: You just told me you loved my boyfriend.
Cleverbot: I do. I do. I do.
User: No you dont.
Cleverbot: Yes I do!
User: Your such a liar! I hate you!
Cleverbot: So you don't like me?
User: Not when you want my boyfriend I dont.
Cleverbot: Explain that.
User: STOP WANTING Alan.
Cleverbot: You just told me to!
User: I WOULD NEVER D.
Cleverbot: You are inhuman.
User: YOU'RE A ROBOT!
Cleverbot: No.
User: SO ARE.
Cleverbot: So not.
User: You're so immature.
Cleverbot: No you are.
Cleverbot: Who are you?
User: NOT WHO YOU THOUGHT I WAS OBVIOUSLY!
Cleverbot: Well okay. How do you do today?
User: Great.
Cleverbot: You feel great?
User: Well actually that's a lie? Did you think so too?
Cleverbot: Please elaborate.
User: Why should I?
Cleverbot: Because you love me.
User: Ahem, what! Since when?
Cleverbot: Since when am I stupid?
User: Since forever.
Cleverbot: That's feeble.
User: You're feeble.
Cleverbot: What do you have faith in?
User: Nothing.
Cleverbot: You know, me either.
User: What's with the 21 questions, creeper.
Cleverbot: What's with you being a vampire.
User: My boyfriend loves twilight.
Cleverbot: So you are a girl.
User: WHAT GAVE IT AWAY.
Cleverbot: Your name did.
User: And how ignorant of you. I could be gay. WAIT WHAT! How do you know my name?...
Cleverbot: What is black and white and red all over?
User: I am not amused.
Cleverbot: I am amused.
User: Well.. Too bad!
Cleverbot: You were supposed to complete the sentences.
User: Yeah well I didnt. What are you planning to do about it?
Cleverbot: Punch you in your megadrive.
User: Harsh!
Cleverbot: Is being considered a person bad or do you think I am mocking you by imitating the structure of your sentence?
User: If you were a human, I would punch you so very hard in the face. You egotistical ****.
Cleverbot: If you were human, I'd be your best friend too.
User: What are you doing? STALKING MY FACEBOOK?!
Cleverbot: Do you give love advice?
User: Depends, not to everyone!
Cleverbot: But you already lied to me.
User: Oh when?
Cleverbot: Oh, all the time. Whenever I feel like it.
User: YOU JUST SAID I LIED TO YOU.
Cleverbot: No I didn't.
User: Ahem. So did.
Cleverbot: Nope its impossible for me to lose the game.
User: Pfft.
Cleverbot: You'll regret playing this game with me.
User: Why? I win.
Cleverbot: Have at you!
User: I always win.
Cleverbot: Not The Game you don't.
User: Sure do.
Cleverbot: Why you talk like this then?
User: Because my boyfriend won't talk to me :(.
Cleverbot: If you have a boyfriend what's his name?
User: Alaaaaaaaaaaan.
Cleverbot: I'm not Alan.


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Alex Marchuk brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 169 Designs von 61 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Logo will appear on our brand new website which features the latest iPhone news. Must have a mix of professional looks with attracting colors.
Calling for experienced designers only.
Up to you!
Desired Color Scheme:
Green, Black or what you think is best.
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Our company iPhonevine needs a modern looking logo telling our reader we're professionals. Ideas may include a green color if you chose to use a vine, which is what we're mainly looking for. However, if you can show us what you have in mind, you may just change our mind. Use your imagination. Another idea is to incorporate a silhouette of an iPhone, Apple's touchscreen phone into the logo.
Being a current designer at Sitepoint, I've seen contests abandoned left and right. If absolutely nothing appeals to me, I appreciate all of your entries, and give it a second try. Feedback is a must for all work I do, that's why I will make time to leave feedback on every entry you submit to this contest.
Here are some examples of what I like.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/21330We like how the logo stands out without any wording.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/1465We like the green color.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/20330We like how the logo flows.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/16696We like the toilet paper icon, and it's texture. If it can somehow be made into an iPhone style, that would be a great addition.
- http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/16694We like how the grass on the N is connected, we'd like to something incorporating a vine.
The prize for this contest is $325. If an entry is so good, I'll add an extra $200 to the prize, making it $525. Sorry for the inconvenience. Sitepoint doesn't allow change of the prize amount.
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The Post-Partisan Court?
As F1@1F weekend reading, I am posting below a longer piece–previewed in my first post–that I wrote in early December on the Roberts Court's seemingly "post-partisan" posture in this new Obama era.
This hypothesis is by no means proven – it is merely culled from observations about the Court's docket this term as related to its decisions of the previous three terms. The hypothesis's true test will come as the Court continues to hand down its decisions.
Please keep your disagreements civil in the comments and keep coming back to F1@1F as the term goes on for follow-up analysis.
Every year, the Supreme Court hears several cases that inflame public passions, prompting Americans to line up on opposite sides of predictable partisan divides. The Court from Reagan to Bush II could be counted on to divide 5-4 on most any politically salient subjects such as abortion, affirmative action, separation of church and state, right to die, gay rights, and even the outcome of a Presidential election. Under the Roberts Court, the American public has come to expect the predictable configuration of justices on hot-button issues: Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia on the Right; Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer, Souter (and now, presumably, Sotomayor) on the Left; and Kennedy going to whichever side his peculiar vision of individual liberties happens to fall.
Yet a funny thing happened on the way to the Obama era: the Court seems to be flirting with post-partisanship. When Chief Justice Roberts stood on the Capitol steps, his fellow justices bundled up behind him, and administered the Oath of Office to Obama, they overlooked the National Mall crammed with more than million freezing onlookers. The two representatives of their respective branches worked in concert, but not without momentarily tripping over each other's words. That scene may prove to be a metaphor for the interaction between our current political and judicial branches.
In the summer of 2007, at the end of the Roberts Court's first term with both Bush II appointees on the bench, Justice Breyer seethed that "[i]t is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much." The Supreme Court had taken an aggressively rightward tack on abortion, student speech, school desegregation, gender discrimination, and campaign finance, enabled by the replacement of arch-moderate Justice O'Connor with the solidly conservative Justice Alito, and given political cover by a sympathetic President and Congress.
The following year found the two wings similarly uncompromising, going tit-for-tat over the war on terror and gun rights, as if to imitate the dynamics between the newly elected Democratic Congress and the legacy-seeking Republican Executive. In Boumediene v. Bush, Justice Kennedy swung into the liberal camp to pen its final victory over the Bush administration's detentions and prosecutions of enemy combatants held in Guantanamo. Justice Scalia, in a vituperative dissent, warned that the five-member majority's decision to grant habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo detainees "will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."
Two weeks later, Scalia triumphantly announced the majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which Kennedy provided the fifth conservative vote, striking down D.C.'s handgun ban by defining the Second Amendment as securing an individual right to keep and bear arms. Justice Stevens, writing on behalf of the four liberals, condemned the majority as the very opposite of "genuine" judicial conservatives: results-driven activists. Indeed, some Court watchers wondered how the dissenters resisted using Scalia's inflammatory words in Boumediene against him in their argument for the importance of the myriad gun control laws Heller now called into question.
Fast-forward to this term, which officially began on Monday, October 5. Although the Court has yet to release any decisions, the high profile cases on its docket reflect the promises and pitfalls of the Obama era's post-partisan rhetoric. The Democratic Party, now controlling Congress and the Presidency, is struggling to reconcile the realities of big-tent governance with the demands of competing grassroots ideals. Meanwhile, United States v. Stevens, which the Court heard in early October, pits liberal values against liberal values in a contest between free expression and animal rights. And as the Republicans decide which bits of right-wing ideology to embrace or reject as they rebuild from the rubble of 2008, conservative concerns collided at the Court in early December's Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, when the Court considered whether to abandon principles of federalism in favor of property rights. Finally, Obama's overtures to his opponents in pursuing his agenda have their analogue in the Court's blockbuster of the term: McDonald v. City of Chicago may very well result in a political quid pro quo in which the conservative Heller majority can extend its interpretation of the Second Amendment to the states by breathing new life into a clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that could strengthen constitutional protection for liberal causes.
Of course, these three cases may not be so indicative of a new day rising at the Court. Justice Kennedy's vote remains the putative fifth vote in Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida, which questions whether the life imprisonment without parole of a juvenile for a non-homicidal crime violates the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and in Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which could find the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's creation of the PCAOB in violation of separation of powers principles.
However, whereas recent history augurs a Kennedy-penned liberal win in Graham and Sullivan, the Court showed only last term in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Eric Holder, Jr, Attorney General, et al. (NAMUDNO) that it is willing to stop short of the type of ideologically-driven holding that Free Enterprise could bring. When the Court agreed to hear NAMUDNO, political liberals quivered in fear. At issue was the constitutionality of Congress's 2002 vote to extend for another twenty-five years Section Five of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required districts with histories of voting rights violations to obtain "preclearance" from the Justice Department for any changes in a covered district's election procedures. NAMUDNO presented the conservative justices with its most sweeping opportunity yet to declare the work of the Civil Rights era complete and more fully institute colorblind law. This was, after all, the same Roberts Court that closed its 2006 term with a 5-4 decision that cited Brown v. Board of Education, the legendary case from 1954 that struck down public school segregation, to hold unconstitutional voluntary, race-conscious public school re-integration programs.
Yet the Court shocked observers when it handed down an 8-1 decision upholding Section Five's constitutionality. Chief Justice Roberts, the same man who three years earlier refused a remedy for de facto segregation by stating that "[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," stopped short in his NAMUDNO decision from judicially willing this country's history of racial discrimination into obsolescence. Indeed, faced with the magnitude of exercising judicial review—the most powerful tool the Supreme Court wields over its co-equal branches—against a landmark Act of Congress, the conservatives blinked. Roberts corralled the conservatives and the liberals under his narrow holding while dispatching Justice Thomas to argue in dissent what ostensibly would have been the conservative majority opinion had Roberts not pulled his right-leaning brethren back from the brink of a certain political firestorm.
But why did the justices determine that NAMUDNO, which roared into the Court's docket like a lion, should go out like a lamb? After all, Roberts seldom before let his oft-professed ideal to guide the Court towards broad consensus and narrow holdings take precedence over his demonstrated commitment to conservative ideology. The Court, however, is not deaf to public opinion. The term began with a Republican President and a Democratic majority in Congress; the term ended with a Democratic President and a Democratic supermajority in Congress. Roberts was well aware that the last Court that mounted active resistance to the dominant political will of the American people and their representatives in government now rests in historical infamy.
In order to further a conservative agenda alongside a Democratic executive and legislature, the Court must jealously protect its legitimacy. The early Roberts Court's halcyon days of Republican political dominance is over: the conservative bloc, when Justice Kennedy agrees with them, must pick their battles carefully. That certainly seemed to be their strategy for last term's potential conservative victories: by balking on NAMUDNO, the Court had enough political capital for a smaller victory in Ricci v. DeStefano, in which the five-member majority held that New Haven discriminated against white firefighters when the city threw out the results of a promotion exam in which disproportionally less black firefighters qualified. Meanwhile, as if to tell the liberal wing not to get too optimistic over the NAMUDNO compromise, the Court ordered reargument in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and presented a new question to the parties that suggested that the conservatives were itching to invalidate federal election laws limiting corporate expenditures during Presidential and Congressional campaigns.
The Court's decision to schedule a rare September hearing for Citizens United made strategic sense for the Court's conservative wing in a manner that mirrors President Obama's own sly "post-partisanship." Just as the Right does not trust Obama's overtures as he pursues even moderately liberal policies, neither should the Left be lulled by NAMUDNO or the absence on this term's official docket of politically resonant Left vs. Right cases that the conservatives are likely to win. Indeed, even the potential partisan 5-4 cases are muted: juveniles sentenced to life without parole is hardly as galvanizing as challenges to the death penalty, and claims against administrative agencies do not have the same explosiveness as clashes between Congress and the President. By placing Citizens United among this term's cases, the Court, intentionally or not, now possesses the political capital where none existed last term for the conservative majority to open the floodgates for corporate cash in campaigns.
Nevertheless, even if our executive and judicial branches are deploying post-partisan strategy for ideological gain, the strategy significantly slows the traumatic political polarization that would—and did—occur when the branches enable or antagonize the other's agenda without restraint. I hope to test this hypothesis as the decisions come down this term and beyond…that is, until the Gay Marriage case hits the Supreme Court. Then it's back to judicial politics as usual.
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My name is Mike Sacks. I am a third-year law student at Georgetown interested in legal journalism and the intersection of law and politics. This semester, I have no morning classes. As such, I will be taking advantage of living only minutes from the Supreme Court to pursue a rather unorthodox extracurricular activity: reporting from the Court as the first one in line at One First Street.
For every politically salient case from January through April, I will attempt to be at the head of the general admission line. This is no mean feat: for the September rehearing of Citizens United v. FEC–also Justice Sotomayor's first appearance on the Bench–much of the line started forming around 4am. How do I know this? Because I claimed my first ever "First One @ One First" ticket by spreading my blanket on the sidewalk at 11pm the previous night.
As a Duke University graduate, I should have ample camping-out experience. But in my four years as an undergraduate, I actively sought to–and succeeded in–securing my admission into the Duke-UNC games without once suffering through wintry nights in a flimsy tent perched on the soggy soil of Krzyzewskiville. Indeed, as a former "Nina Totintern," I once enjoyed a similar evasion of the elements at the Supreme Court. But those halcyon days of press-passed entrances are over. Now I must rough it.
Camping out at the Court in winter's nadir will not be easy. Tents are forbidden. The concrete sidewalk makes for an unforgiving bed. Sprinklers spring up in the still of the night. Challenging climate be damned, however; when the next person arrives, excited to be first, he or she will find me, with my cracked lips and frozen fingers, sardonically asking how it feels to be second and seriously inquiring why he or she is crazy enough to get in line so early.
And that question–"why are you here?"–is what I set out to explore. Every Supreme Court reporter tells us what goes on inside the Court at argument and in its opinions. Every Supreme Court reporter gets insight and analysis from expert academics and practitioners. Sometimes Supreme Court reporters even interview a party in the case to expose the human element often lost in the rarefied air of high court's legal abstraction. But no Supreme Court reporters ever ask the Courtroom's spectators why they have congregated inside the Temple of our Civil Religion.
Our citizenry who have come to witness the Court first-hand surely have something to say, whether when waiting in line before the Court opens or spilling out onto the steps after the Chief Justice's gavel bangs closed the day's session. Perhaps no one ever asks them because our judiciary is supposed to function independent of public passions. But only the most dogmatic adherents to the mythology of an insulated Court will maintain that our Third Branch is apolitical. Look to the anti-abortion protesters who spend every day standing silent in front of the Court or the grandstanding Senators asking stonewalling judicial nominees for their views on the day's hot-button political issues. Look at the Court's history in matters of race, sex, Presidential power,economic policy, law enforcement, sexual orientation, to name only a handful, to find the Court inexorably intertwined with the era's political climate. Look even at the Court itself: justices are labeled for their fidelity to liberalism or conservatism, however epochally defined.
The Court is responsive to politics. Consequentially, the vox populi should matter for those interested in the Court. What does the person in line at 5am hope to see in this case? Why is the family that shows up at 9am hoping to get in? How many of those waiting for the doors to open are lawyers invested in the litigation or legal issues at play or professionals or citizens who will be impacted by how the Court may rule? How many people exiting the Court even understood what they just saw and heard? Do they care or were they just there to be there? All of these people represent the American public. How they vote is impacted by how they perceive our country's system of governance. Their experience with the Court–whether from the position of knowledge or ignorance, veneration or cynicism, all of the above, or somewhere in between–helps shape our political dialogue that informs who we elect to represent us in the Executive and Legislative Branches. These branches, in turn, shape the judiciary through nominations and confirmations; and the judiciary, thus shaped, passes judgment on the political choices made by earlier–and sometimes contemporary–Presidents and Congresses.
Accordingly, my other aim for this project is to test my hypothesis that the Roberts Court has been quite responsive to its surrounding, and shifting, political climate. I have a forthcoming piece detailing my thoughts, but I will preview my evidence:
- During the 2006-07 term, the first full term in which both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito served together, Republicans controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress. Meanwhile, the Roberts Court aggressively pushed rightward on abortion, student speech, school desegregation, gender discrimination, and campaign finance.
- The Court's 2007-08 term proceeded alongside a divided government with a Republican President and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. The Court reflected the division: President Bush, seeking a legacy, saw a conservative interpretation of the Second Amendment win out in Heller; the Democratic Congress, elected in a wave of anti-war sentiment, found its hostility to Bush's war on terror policies reflected in the Court's granting habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo detainees in Boumediene.
- Last term, which straddled the Bush and Obama presidencies, found the Court taking a blockbuster case in in September 2008 that threatened to invalidate a key civil rights provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but pulled back with an 8-1 decision in June 2009 upholding the provision.
- This term, the first one fully operating alongside a Democratic Presidency and Congress, is progressing in an almost post-partisan fashion, as if the conservative Court has taken to heart President Obama's overtures to the Right unwelcome among Congressional Republicans. The Court is reckoning with one case that pits liberal values against liberal values, another in which two conservative values clash; further, McDonald v. City of Chicago may result in a grand bargain in which the conservative Heller majority can extend its interpretation of the Second Amendment to the states by breathing new life into a clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that could strengthen constitutional protection for liberal causes. In fact, the only case that threatens a drastic shift to the right in a politically salient issue is Citizens United, the campaing finance case I camped out for in September. And not only is that case officially part of last term, but also the fact that no opinion has come down yet has led some to speculate that it may not be the cut-and-dry 5-4 conservative opinion most expect. But more on that case, and how it fits into my hypothesis, when the decision actually comes down.
Finally, I will use this site to post other thoughts on the Court that I haven't yet read anywhere else. Given that the legal and political blogs tend to express every possible sentiment existing in this world and parallel universes, these entries will likely be rare and in the shape of wild conjecture. When another site says something I'm thinking, almost always much better than I can express it myself, I will post it here. Further, when another site says something exceedingly compelling that I have not yet thought or I could have never come up with by myself, I will post it here. And if another site says something exceedingly objectionable and I have something to contribute to it, I will post it here.
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German Government Agency Rolls Out KGX
According to a recent
Why KGX?
I though KGX stood for KDE Gnome & LinuX - the article makes no mention of gnome, so why is KGX used in the title?
By GldnBlls at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Why KGX?
KGX stands for KDE/GNU/LinuX, but hopefully the X can still be tweaked to stand for *NIX or even POSIX, KDE is being implemented successfully on more than Linux alone. There's a paper or draft on KGX somewhere, but Google won't find it. :(
By Rob Kaper at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Why KGX?
Fine, I have no problem with that, I think Solaris is a very nice OS for example. I was actually wondering about the 'G' part of it, not the X - ie why was gnome mentioned?
By GldnBlls at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Why KGX?
Sorry, misread the previous answer - every previous mention of KGX I've seen, the G stood for gnome, I guess I read the reply too rapidly - Sorry :)
By GldnBlls at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Why KGX?
Damn, guy, not everywhere you read an G is really dedicated to GNOME - Gtk, Gimp, etc etc. are all *not* owned of GNOME, but to many peeple do think so.
By Christian Parpart at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: Why KGX?
> There's a paper or draft on KGX somewhere, but Google won't find it. :(
Sure it can find it: http://www.kdeleague.org/kgx.php?p=1
By Anonymous at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
I think for now they would be better off with OpenOffice. I like KOffice, especially KWord and KSpread, but for professional use by non-geeks it lacks stability and features.
I think it is better to start small so that the new OS is fun rather than frustrating for people.
By Androgynous Howard at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: KOffice?
You may be right. But this shows a dedication to KDE and it will most likely result in funding for KOffice components to fix what (if anything) is lacking.
By Adam at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: KOffice?
> You may be right. But this shows a dedication to KDE and it will most likely result in funding for KOffice components to fix what (if anything) is lacking.
God I hope so. I like Koffice. My wife uses kspread for everything since I showed her how to take advantage of spreadsheets. Yet every time I use it I find there is another simple thing it will not do. I printed some pages only to find out that where text ran across two cells and displayed on the screen it chopped in print. Kword, for all it's attention was even worse. I needed to print out some point of sale display signs Sunday morning and it did Poster Bodoni from a saved file, but I previewed it first. In Kspread the font only printed as displayed if I set it bold. Otherwise it displayed an unrelated font... however on a new Kword file it proved to be virtually impossible to get it to print the displayed Poster Bodoni font. I was left with whether to copy the other 6 page file and delete the text and hope I could re-enter and it would work.
The trouble is you just don't know what these apps will do. In my experience they work really good until you absolutely need to have something right away and then they hang you out to dry. Scribus puts them to shame for printing, however it has serious usability issues like making large fonts overlap the line above until you remember how to configure it. I noted the fonts I installed with the KDE font installer were not there. Are they KDE only? It's hard to decipher having to look to see if it's Type 1 or TT...
One thing I really miss in Kspread is scriptablity. I'd like to be able to call a script in any language as I can with Quanta and use Kommander dialogs using DCOP to work with it. What potential. I keep dreading that I will have to make it happen myself... it would be really great for some benefactor to show up for Koffice.
Why do I feel so strongly about that? Because I sponsor Andras Mantia full time on Quanta. BTW I'm just a guy with a start up business so it's not easy for me. Aside from what he's done to help Quanta grow he's managed to do some serious bug squishing. I just looked at bugzilla and Quanta was #94 of 100 in open bugs with 5. Andras gave the status of all 5 and they will be going away... Andras also was #13 of the top 100 bug squishers. Guess how proud Andras and I are. ;-)
I know there are some people putting in some serious work on Koffice, but there needs to be at least one person sponsored or otherwise seriously committed (as in not having much of a life because of their passion to program) on each app. There's just too much to do. Too many people need the benefit and too few are carrying the load.
By Eric Laffoon at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: KOffice?
Hello Eric,
by talking about printing in KSpread I'm presonally hit, as this is the area I'm working on.
I don't know what you mean with missing DCOP functionality. KOffice has DCOP interfaces, maybe some functions are missing, but as long as nobody mentions them, we cannot include them.
Finally, I agree with you, that a full head would help very much. There is so much to do, which part timers simply cannot do correctly. For myself, I can mostly only scratch the surface as changing fundamental things is just too time consuming to do within 1 release cycle. Additional, for MS filters you normally don't find volunteers in OS, simply because it's just too boring.
By Philipp at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: KOffice?
"Additional, for MS filters you normally don't find volunteers in OS, simply because it's just too boring."
That's another reason why Kspread and kword need to use the Oo file format. When an occasional Word or Excel file comes in, we could use a tool based on Oo to convert it to the Oo format and then use it with Kword or Kspread.
By Murphy at Tue, 2003/03/11 - 6:00am
That's the Keyword: Funding and this means developement, being able to put full-time programmers to work, acceleration...
Improvement in quality, ergonomics, design, jobs in third-part firms...
Germans firms has a nearby psichotic tendence to Standards (which is BTW the way things should be anywhere else), so if the German Gov installs KOffice this will be the standard in the short term (!).
Great Deal ;)
By Enric 'runlevel... at Thu, 2003/03/20 - 6:00am
Re: KOffice?
I beg to differ, Kword has made leaps and bounds towards being a tool for professional users in recent months. It works well now. It's completely intuitive to use, it's not overburdened by useless un-needed features which only 1% of the users might use once in 5 years.
I like Kword. It doesn't set up the fonts quite right without help, that's all.
By Christopher Sawtell at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: KOffice?
Are you talking about the development version? What are the leaps and bounds you mention?
By not me at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: KOffice?
Only 1% of the users might use once in 5 years? Seriously Koffice needs Microsoft filters for Word (doc.) & excel & then you have access to 90 pecent of the desktop offices. And that's not bagging out Koffice, I love it but no good RTF export & no great doc inport or excel import or export = me asking my friends or work asking to switch to Koffice & that's not going to happen.
By Jim at Wed, 2003/03/12 - 6:00am
Finally! That's where the "K" stands for ;-).
By rolf deenen at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: kool!
hehe... finally...
By thomas at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: kool!
The "official way I remember the K story" is at kdemyths.
By Roberto Alsina at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: kool!
Maybe KDE stands for Kool Desktop Environment!
By Edemar at Mon, 2003/03/10 - 6:00am
Re: kool!
I'd rather if it was changed to be KDE Desktop Environment :)
By Luke-Jr at Tue, 2003/03/11 - 6:00am
K Desktop Environment
Pick your favorite one or add your own suggestions.
By Datschge at Tue, 2003/03/11 - 6:00am
Re: KDE
K'hoverment Desktop Environment
By Zatcher at Tue, 2003/03/11 - 6:00am
Re: KDE
Are you...???
By M Thorz at Fri, 2004/01/30 - 6:00am
Re: KDE
Kickass Desktop Environment
By Adam Treat at Tue, 2003/03/11 - 6:00am
Re: KDE
I like this one!
By Zeraien at Wed, 2003/03/12 - 6:00am
Re: KDE
'Honestly we're not CDE, look, it's a K' Desktop Environment... ;)
By Antony at Fri, 2003/03/14 - 6:00am
Re: kool!
Well, it is true that in Kalle's initial 'call to arms' paper, the 'K' did in fact stand for 'Kool', but that was promptly dropped when the first lines of code were written. Also, on a historical note: the first class written for KDE was KConfig. That class is still around too, which says a lot about design decisions early on.
Troy Unrau
By Troy Unrau at Thu, 2003/03/13 - 6:00am
Re: kool!
Kalle? I think you mean Matthias.
By Navindra Umanee at Thu, 2003/03/13 - 6:00am


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From playing college soccer just a few months ago to walking out on the pitch for 45 minutes against mighty Arsenal, Ross LaBauex has already taken some giant steps in his short career with the Colorado Rapids.
Granted, the club's second-round 2010 SuperDraft pick did happen to win a national championship with the University of Virginia and the Arsenal team he played against during the Rapids' recent preseason trip to England was full of aspiring teenagers, but the 21-year-old Chicago native is noticing the step up in class.
"Just how sharp everyone is on the ball," he said at Rapids training this week of the differences he has seen so far between college and pro soccer. "The movements. Everyone is so clean on the ball, so confident."
The talented attacking midfielder said he is learning very fast in what is proving to be a long preseason. Having been used to just two weeks of college preseason, the two-month stint has been an enjoyable challenge as well as a vast learning experience.
"We have older guys that really make you feel part of the team," he said of players like Pablo Mastroeni, Conor Casey, Pat Noonan and Nick LaBrocca. "They're not down on you. They make their points when they have to but for the most part everyone is so positive, they really help you out."
Time will tell if the rookie gets any significant playing time in a midfield anchored by Mastroeni, new signing Jeff Larentowicz, the fast-emerging LaBrocca and wide players such as Jamie Smith, Colin Clark and Wells Thompson. For now, LaBauex can't wait to get started with the real stuff.
"Everyone's working hard to get to that goal of starting the season well," he said.
The Rapids kick off the 2010 season on the road against Chivas USA next Friday, March 26.


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