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Welcome to 8days a week.
Welcome to the "8days a week GmbH & Co. KG" website! We are a full-service oriented provider of event technology and equipment.
With 8days a week you get everything a successful event requires. Sound, light, video, conference and translation equipment includingall necessary accompanying services. Not to mention technical advice, planning, design and logistics.
8days is your all-in-one service partner for promoters, event locations, corporations and agencies. No matter whether you are planning an event for an audience of 10.000 and more or a conference for 100 participants – we do whatever it takes to make it a perfect experience.
8days puts quality first. Not just regarding equipment but the human experience as well. Our project managers keep track of things to ensure a thoroughly professional yet relaxed event execution. Right to the point.
Being close to the customer is a principle rather than just a slogan for 8days. Superior advice from the start and close cooperation is the basis for exciting events. That's what it all comes down to in the end. Long lasting customer relations are the result of performing an excellent job.
Lenny Kravitz European Summer Festival Tour, June - August 2015
WOMEN OF THE WORLD FESTIVAL 2015 & 2016 - Frankfurt Alte Oper & Palais
LENNY KRAVITZ STRUT TOUR October - December 2014
Russia / Finland / Estonia / Lithuania / Belarus / Poland / Germany / Italy / Austria / Czech Republic /
Switzerland / Netherlands / Belgium / France / United Kingdom / Luxembourg
PUR & FRIENDS auf Schalke 2014
250 Jahre Kaiserbesuch - Heusenstamm. Theater / Klassikkonzert / Salsa
Tom Jones - Rockhal Luxemburg
Anastacia - FFH Hitsommer
Lisa Stansfield - Frankfurt / Woman Of The World Festival
Baltic Soul Night - Frankfurt / Woman Of The World Festival
New Kids On The Block - Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt
PUR - Menorca Juni 2014
Harman / AKG Product Presentation - Berlin
M&G Investment - Meeting
WELLA - Product Presentation
BRIONI - Shop Opening Frankfurt
Corealcredit Bank AG
Deutsche Bank
HR3@Night 2014
Lufthansa - Bilanzpressekonferenz 2014
Audio Pro GmbH - Support ProLight & Sound fair Frankfurt
Sony Europe - Support ProLight & Sound fair Frankfurt
Yamaha Music Europe - Support ProLight & Sound fair Frankfurt
Elixir Strings - Support ProLight & Sound fair Frankfurt
Eastern Acoustic Works - European Product Launch "ANYA"
"Die Linke" - regional event
Patti Smith - An Evening Of Words And Music - Capitol Offenbach
Gala zur Veröffentlichung der "15. S. Pellegrino Kulinarischen Auslese"
Stage Entertainment Hamburg
Julius Bär Bank
New Years Eve - Paul Anka & Amr Diab - Live at Romexpo Bucharest, Romania
InterWhisky Frankfurt - internationale Fachmesse für Lifestyle & Whiskykultur.
WWE - WRESTLING - Olympiahalle München & Stadthalle Wien
Puppini Sisters - Woman Of The World Festival 2013
Fitness First - Zumba Tour
Pharmamesse Frankfurt
Lenny Kravitz - Corporate Event in Monte Carlo / October 5th 2013
American Express
Diakonie Weser 5 in Frankfurt
Allianz Global Investors
Jaguar - Worldpremiere Jaguar CX-17
Maserati - Maserati Quattroporte 2013 launch
Ferrari Days - Hockenheimring & Private Preview
Pret A Diner Frankfurt - The Tree House 2.0 (September - Oktober 2013)
Procter & Gamble
Harman International - Sales Meeting IFA Berlin
Harman Automotive - Conference Karlsruhe
SAUREN - Golden Awards 2013
Uni Credit
DWS - Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management
Polo Emotions Cup 2013 - Frankfurt
Bucherer - Uhren, Schmuck, Diamanten - Produktpräsentation
Lufthansa - Flugzeugtaufe
Hootchie Cootchie Night - Palais Frankfurt
"Die Päpstin" Musical / Juni - Oktober 2013
PUR Open Air Tour / Mai bis September 2013
BAP / Open Airs 2013
Soundgarden Festival 2013
Herzberg Festival 2013
Palais Frankfurt - general contractor for audio, lighting, video and conference systems
Bel Etage Frankfurt - general contractor for audio, lighting, video and conference systems
Kulturbahnhof Bad Homburg - general contractor for audio, lighting, video and conference systems
8days a week GmbH & Co.KG
Dornhofstr. 14
63262 Neu-Isenburg
phone: +49 (0)69 / 3487610-0
fax: +49 (0)69 / 3487610-99
Internet: www.8daw.de
facebook: www.facebook.com/8daw.de
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General Terms
8days a week - General Terms & Conditions of Rental
§ 1 Applicability - Scope, Exclusivity
1. These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter also referred to as AGB) are basis and part of all contracts finalized between 8days a week (hereinafter referred to as 8days respectively) and their contractual partners (hereinafter referred to as customer) dealing with equipment renting and/or involve connected non-cash benefits and services of 8days.
2. These general terms & conditions apply exclusively. Variant customer terms and conditions have no validity.
§ 2 Offer and contract
8days offers are subject to confirmation. A contract results when a customer receives an offer from 8days and places an order resulting from said offer, which must in turn be confirmed in written form by 8days. The written confirmation can be superseded by delivery of goods by 8days.
§ 3 Rental period
The rental period is defined as the period between the extradition of the rented equipment from repository and the return of the equipment to the 8days repository (period of disposition). This applies regardless of whether the customer, 8days or a third party executes transport.
§ 4 Payment
1. If not expressly otherwise stipulated, the rental cost specified in the 8days price list valid at the point of contract closure applies.
2. An appropriate fee shall be agreed upon if the amount of payment for additional services such as delivery, installation, and supervision by staff specialists is not regulated contractually.
§ 5 Transport
1. 8days is obligated to transport only if explicitly agreed upon with the customer. If 8days provides for transportation of rental equipment as a result of an explicit agreement between 8days and the customer, 8days can choose to execute transport itself or through a third party.
2. The customer assumes responsibility for loss or damage to rented equipment upon receipt of said equipment. When equipment is transported by 8days or by a third party, receipt is accomplished when said equipment has been delivered and unloaded at the customer's delivery address. In other cases, receipt is accomplished when the rented equipment has been received from the 8days repository by the customer, or a third party specified by the customer, and before the loading of said equipment.
§ 6 Personnel Activity
8days is only obligated to provide technical or other personnel within the scope of contracts when an explicit agreement is made. In such instances, 8days is entitled to make use of third party resources. In cases where the amount of recompense for human resource activity has not been previously agreed upon, the current 8days workforce price as found in the effective 8days compensation list is assumed. Should such a list be unavailable, then apparent 8days prices for comparable contracted personal services are regarded as contracted.
§ 7 Conditions of Payment
1. If no other specific written agreement has been made, payment is due from the customer without deductions or discounts at the time of the start of the agreed rental period. Payments for other services are also payable at commencement of contract. 8days is only obligated to handover the rental equipment to the customer if prior complete payment has been made.
2. Payment is to be made in advance. In absence of written agreement otherwise, the customer is obligated to pay 8days forthwith and without delay upon receipt of invoice. We are entitled to cede any claims to a factoring company for refinancing purposes.
3. If in spite of admonition, reminders and time limits, the customer does not effect payment within the allotted period of time, 8days is authorized to charge interest on arrears at the rate of 8 percentage points above and beyond the base rate. In this case, 8days is entitled to refuse to hand out rented objects and equipment until behind due payment has been made. Should the customer fail to settle payments within the allotted time in spite of admonition after delivery of the rented goods has been accomplished, 8days is authorized to fetch back rented objects.
4. The customer is entitled to exercise a lien or right of retention or an equivalent summation only with an undisputed or legally binding counter claim. This shall not apply in the case where the customer invokes a right of retention which is based upon the present contractual relationship.
§ 8 Inspection upon return of rental goods, deficiencies
1. The customer is obligated to inspect rented goods upon receipt and must advise 8days immediately as to established incompleteness or deficiencies. Should the customer refrain from examining the equipment and the reporting of said incompleteness or defects to 8days, the transfer will be assumed free of defects and approved, unless the defect or deficiency was not visible at the time of examination. Should such a deficiency appear at a later time, 8days must be immediately made aware of the ascertainment of the deficiency. Otherwise, the condition of the rental equipment provided will be considered as approved and without defect in spite of the visible defect. The notification of such defects must be made in written form.
2. If the rental equipment is defective at the time of transfer or a defect appears later and customer notification of the defect is made in a timely manner, the customer can demand repairs. This is not applicable if the customer him/herself caused the defect and/ or is obligated to upkeep - including repairs. 8days has the right to choose to fulfill repair requests by providing equivalent rental equipment or by repairs. If repairs are linked to disproportionate expenditures and if the deficiency reported has only a marginal effect on the usability of the rented equipment as a whole, 8days shall have the right to define a commensurate price reduction which is based upon the total rental price in place of the correction of the reported deficiency and to subtract this amount from the quoted price or respectively to remit the amount to the customer. Alternatively, 8days has the right to charge the customer with transport, travel and labor costs resulting from the repair.
3. The customer has a right to reduction or cancellation in accordance with the policy and procedures set forth in the German Civil Code or "Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch" (hereinafter referred to as BGB) only if 8days' repairs were unsuccessful or 8days rejected the repair due to disproportionate cost absorption in accordance with the contents of item 2 immediately preceeding this item. If the customer does not inform 8days of the defect or notification is not immediate, the customer cannot reduce or cancel payment or claim damages for the defect; this is also the case if premises for such a claim are justified by the policy and procedures defined in the BGB. Damages are also excluded if the customer immediately informs 8days of the defect but repairs during the available time frame (contemporary event scheduling) were not possible, or if the repairs were justifiably declined by 8days due to disproportionate expenditures. Customer negligence which is concurrently causative to the defect will exclude the customer's right for cancellation, withdrawal from the contract or damage claims, in accordance with policy and procedures defined in the BGB.
4. If multiple equipment items are rented and only one equipment item is defect, the customer can only cancel the contract if the rental equipment was rented in a group and the defect significantly impairs the contractually stipulated functionality of the rental equipment.
5. The customer is responsible for obtaining necessary permits for the planned implementation of the equipment rented which are regulated by public law, at his own expense. If assembly and installation is to be performed by 8days, the customer must present all such permits to 8days upon demand. 8days is not liable for the permissibility of the customer's planned implementation of the equipment rented.
§ 9 Liability for Damages by 8days
1. The customer is entitled to contractual and legal damage claims only if these have been caused through deliberate or grossly negligent breach of duty by 8days, its legal representatives or executive staff. 8days will be liable for damages resulting from grossly negligent breach of a significant contractual obligation by 8days, its legal representatives or executive staff. 8days is liable solely for predictable damages as well, if they are caused by deliberate or grossly negligent actions on the part of one of their installation or performance assistants. No-fault damages are excluded in accordance to § 536 paragraph 1 BGB.
2. The customer and his/her contractual partners (artists, athletes, audience etc.) must agree to limitation of liability in favor of 8days concerning claims which these persons could if applicable raise against 8days on the basis of tortious liability. If 8days is held responsible by third parties for damages due to non-implementation of previously mentioned obligations on the part of the customer, then the customer is responsible for ensuring that 8days is maintained exempt from such damage claims.
3. Compensation demands by the customer which are drawn from the contract at hand or from tortious liability which are associated with this contract are limited in amount and in each case to three times the total amount which the customer is obligated per this contract to pay to 8days.
§ 10 Customer obligations and liabilities
1. 8days rental objects and equipment are technically elaborate. In order to prevent damage to the equipment, the rented technical devices are only to be operated by skilled, technically trained customer staff.
2. The rental equipment must only be installed, operated and dismantled by competent staff in accordance with technical provisions. If equipment is rented from 8days without support staff, the customer is responsible for ensuring continuous compliance with all applicable security guidelines, in particular accident prevention regulations (UVV) and guidelines of the Association of German Electrical Engineers (VDE).
3. The customer must treat rental equipment with painstaking care and caution. In addition, the customer must immediately provide for the remedy all self-inflicted malfunctions by competent persons at his own cost. The customer is obligated to report malfunctions and defects to 8days immediately and without exception.
4. The customer must ensure uninterrupted power supply during rental equipment use. The customer will be held responsible for damages resulting from power outages, interruptions or fluctuation
5. The customer is liable for all damage to or the loss of rental equipment during the period beginning with receipt and ending with return of the equipment to the 8days repository. In cases of damage, reimbursement in amount of the obligatory repair costs shall be rendered by the customer, when such repair is possible and economically expedient. In other cases - including the loss of rental equipment - reimbursement in the amount of the contemporary list price shall be rendered by the customer.
6. The customer is categorically responsible for the surveillance of rental equipment and for the provision of properly secure positioning when in use. The customer is only exempt from this responsibility during periods of time when and while contractually committed 8days staff is present and in immediate proximity of rental equipment. The customer is principally responsible for the commissioning of professional security personnel to ensure qualified surveillance in Open Air environments, easily accessed accommodations, especially during public events in marquees and similar localities.
§ 11 Insurance
1. The customer is obligated to provide insurance in the general areas of risk for rental equipment (loss, theft, damage, liability).
2. The customer shall reimburse 8days for insurance costs in cases where 8days and the customer agree on the provision of insurance by 8days. If 8days does not assume responsibility for the provision of insurance, the customer must show 8days proof of insurance upon demand.
§ 12 Rights and obligations in connection with third party claims
The customer must avoid impairment of rental equipment by third parties. The customer must ensure that 8days property is not made the subject of garnishment or levy of execution, seizure or other third party legal claims. The customer is obligated to immediately inform 8days of such third party measures and will transfer all necessary documents. The customer will bear the cost for the defence against such infringement, unless the infringements are directed at 8days.
§ 13 Termination of rental agreements
1. A rental agreement can be terminated by both parties for significant reasons only. This also applies to agreements in areas of auxiliary services.
2. As seen by 8days an important reason is particularly present if a) the customer's economic situation has degraded significantly, e.g. if customer seizures or other foreclosures occur or insolvency proceedings involving customer assets or composition proceedings are proposed. b) the customer's usage of the rental equipment is not in accordance with contractual agreements. c) the customer fails to fulfill committed rental payment for two consecutive periods as stipulated or for a total amount representing two rental payments. In addition, 8days sees such important reason for termination as present when the customer has failed to fulfill a single rental payment and refuses to fulfill continuing payment requirements in spite of admonitions and time limit specifications.
A particularly significant reason for termination by the customer is present when 8days does not fulfill significant contractual agreements regarding time limits and/or the technical configuration of rental equipment which are within their area of accountability, and the customer has in vain reprimanded and set time limits for contractual fulfillment.
§ 14 Return of rental equipment
1. If contractual agreement specifies that the customer is to receive rental equipment at the 8days repository, then the customer is responsible for returning the rental equipment to the repository in the same complete, orderly and clean condition at the end of the period of disposition.
2. The return of equipment is completed only after unloading and registration of all rental equipment in the 8days repository. After registration the customer will receive a receipt. 8days reserves the right to detailed examination of the rental equipment after registration. An acceptance without complaint must not be understood as an approval for the completeness or condition of the returned rental equipment.
3. The customer must inform 8days immediately in writing if he anticipates that the stipulated rental period will be exceeded. Continued usage does not automatically result in an extension of the rental agreement. For every day which exceeds the stipulated rental period, the customer must pay usage compensation equal to the cost per day in accordance with the contractual agreement. This payment is determined by dividing the original contractual total price by the number of days in the original rental period. In addition, 8days reserves the right to demand compensation for costs incurred by the belated rental equipment return by the customer. This added claim for indemnity presumes that 8days explicitly requested the return of the rented equipment by the customer upon expiration of the deadline for the return of goods and made him/her aware of the damages which will be incurred.
§ 15 Subleasing, transfer
The customer is not authorized to transfer the rental equipment out of his own personal area of accountability, in particular for the purpose of subleasing.
§ 16 Written form
In cases where written form is agreed upon or provided in these General Terms & Conditions (AGB), it will be achieved by facsimile transmission and by the implementation of an electronic document with a qualified electronic signature which meets the requirements of signature statutes.
§ 17 Final provisions
1. Alterations and additions to this contract require written form, specifically the waiving of this prerequisite of form.
2. Place of execution for all commitments resulting from the contract at hand, as well as place of jurisdiction for all disputes resulting from or in connection with said contract, is the 8days place of business.
3. German law is obligatory for these general terms and conditions and all business relations between 8days and the customer.
4. If a term of this contract, including the General Terms & Conditions (AGB) at hand, should be ineffective or included ineffectively in the contract, the efficiency of other provisions of the contract and AGB will remain unaffected. The ineffective term or provision shall in this case be replaced by an alternative substitute regulation that will closest meet the parties' desires in a judicially permissible manner.
Niederdorfelden June 2013
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8days a week GmbH & Co. KG
Dornhofstr. 14
63263 Neu-Isenburg
Managing Director: Frank Müller & Florian Fischer
phone: +49 (0)69 / 3487610-0
fax: +49 (0)69 / 3487610-99
Court of Registration: Amtsgericht Hanau
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Sol 103 Update on Curiosity from USGS Scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Restricted18 November 2012
Overall, my first shift as SOWG Chair since the transition to remote operations went well. The better tool for sharing video on the web was not working again today, so we had to resort to the backup tool, which again was slower and frustrating at times. But we couldn't plan much science anyway because today was a "restricted" sol. On of the disadvantages of working on "Earth time" (reasonable hours Pacific time) is that, almost half the time, we receive data from MSL too late in the day to react to it tactically. So we have to plan a day in advance, and assume that the previously planned activities went well. We planned a 35-meter drive yesterday, but won't know how it went until late this afternoon. Therefore, we could plan only activities that didn't depend on accurate knowledge of the rover position and orientation. The most important activity we planned for Sol 103 is a checkout of MSL's drill, which won't take too long, so we had room for opportunistic science activities. These included a DAN active measurement of the hydrogen below the surface at our new location, and a 180-degree Navcam panorama to complete the coverage of the area surrounding the rover. We'll use the latter to plan observations over the Thanksgiving holiday, assuming all goes well.

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MapFt. Fisher shewing [sic] Union attack, Jany 15th 1865 From survey made after surrender by U.S. Engineers. Map shows area surrounding forts Fisher, Buchanan and Anderson near Smithville, N.C. Fort Fisher, located on the peninsula formed by the Atlantic Ocean and the Cape Fear River, was the primary target of the Union assault. Details include locations of Confederate batteries, abatis, spikes, palisades, and ditches, and arrows showing the direction of the advance of the various Union forces.
- Contributor: Sneden, Robert Knox
- Date: 1865-01-15


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Feinstein winning fight with CIA, Obama over torture report
Lawmaker's investigation into torture has become one of the most important struggles in Senate history
Washington -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's senior senator and a longtime hawk on national defense, is leading an epic constitutional struggle against unlikely foes: the CIA and fellow Democrat President Obama. So far, she's winning.
The former mayor of San Francisco now chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, where since 2009 she has led an investigation into charges that the United States tortured terrorism suspects during the George W. Bush administration in violation of U.S. laws and international treaties, including the Geneva Convention, and lied about it to Congress.
Feinstein opened the investigation after the committee became concerned about CIA destruction of videotapes documenting what it called "enhanced interrogations." These included sleep deprivation, confinement in stress positions and simulated drownings known as waterboarding. Feinstein said at the outset that she expected the review to last little more than six months.
Ferocious resistance by the CIA has turned the investigation into a 5 1/2-year saga that has become one of the most important constitutional struggles in Senate history and is likely to be one of the 81-year-old Feinstein's most enduring legacies.
Fight to make it public
Through years of dramatic twists and turns that continue to this day, many of which Feinstein described in an extraordinary Senate speech in March, the Intelligence Committee reviewed 6.2 million pages of documents from the Defense Department and the CIA, virtually everything the agencies had on the subject.
The panel produced a report that runs 6,700 pages. Now Feinstein is taking on a new challenge - battling with the CIA and the Obama administration to ensure that the review, or at least its full 510-page executive summary, sees the light of day.
The Open Society Policy Center, a civil liberties group, said the committee's report is likely to be a watershed - the first independent review of interrogation procedures after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that is based on the entire classified record.
Feinstein described the findings as "chilling," and said U.S. torture was "far more systematic and widespread than we thought."
Elisa Massimino, president of Human Rights First, a civil liberties group, said that in her 25-year career, "this is the most significant oversight report on intelligence operations that I've ever seen."
"Sen. Feinstein on this issue has been a living definition of tenacity," said Chris Anders, a senior counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union.
'Nothing heroic'
John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor, who during his time in the Bush administration was author of the memos that provided legal justification for the interrogation techniques, has a different take. In an e-mail to The Chronicle, Yoo said, "There is nothing heroic" about the senator's fight with the CIA.
Yoo noted that it is Congress' constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch, and said, "I don't believe that Sen. Feinstein has anything but good faith in her motives."
Where she went astray, Yoo said, was in failing to maintain the bipartisanship that gave credibility to the Iran-contra and Watergate investigations, and in not gaining access to the officials who oversaw U.S. questioning of terrorism suspects. Those are flaws that "bring the objectivity of the investigation into doubt and give it a partisan coloring that will undermine its conclusions," he said.
As to the report's expected findings that "torture was used and it didn't work, she is flat wrong," Yoo said.
CIA sabotage
After years of staying mum about the investigation, Feinstein went public in March with accusations that CIA officials had tried to intimidate her committee staff by threatening to have them charged criminally for allegedly hacking the agency's computers. Feinstein provided a 45-minute account on the Senate floor of CIA efforts to sabotage her committee's work.
These included an extensive, unsorted document dump, the hiring of outside contractors to conduct multiple reviews of each document, insistence that the oversight be conducted at CIA headquarters, and removal of an internal review conducted under former CIA Director Leon Panetta, a former Monterey congressman, that Feinstein said confirmed her committee's findings.
Just this month, the CIA's own inspector general confirmed Feinstein's charges that the agency had spied on the Senate committee's computers and staff e-mail, despite denials by CIA Director John Brennan.
Power to agency
Obama has repeatedly said he wants to make the report public. But he has turned over to the CIA, the agency under investigation, the keys to making that happen.
"We tortured some folks," Obama said at an Aug. 1 press conference. But he cautioned against becoming "too sanctimonious" in hindsight about officials who feared after 9/11 that another attack was imminent.
The CIA has the right to review the report to ensure its revelations do not undermine national security. But committee Democrats said the version the CIA returned to the panel Aug. 1 was so bowdlerized as to make it gibberish.
Feinstein sent Obama a letter a week ago requesting removal of CIA deletions that she said "eliminate or obscure key facts that support the report's findings and conclusions." She has delayed public release until the dispute is resolved.
The latest salvo came Thursday, when White House press secretary Josh Earnest defended the CIA's redactions, saying the agency had left most of the executive summary intact.
Republicans help
The Senate's top two Republican hawks, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, sprang to Feinstein's defense in an Aug. 1 press conference. McCain accused the CIA of "violating the fundamental barriers of constitutional authority" and acting like a "rogue agency."
McCain, a former GOP presidential nominee who can no longer raise his hands above his head because of torture he endured during five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, likened the CIA's efforts to a plot out of a B-grade spy movie.
As a constitutional matter, McCain said, the CIA's interference is "worse than criminal," and the White House dismissals of Feinstein's efforts to keep the executive summary intact are "alarming."
McCain and Graham, neither of whom sits on the Intelligence Committee, disassociated themselves from Republicans on the panel who reportedly have written a minority report asserting that torture yielded valuable information.
"I reject those (claims) on their face," said McCain. As a practical matter and from experience, he said, "when someone is enduring physical pain, they will tell you anything they think you want to hear."
No torture
Yoo said the U.S. did not use torture at all. He said he and other Bush administration officials had "carefully vetted the question of what interrogation methods did and did not violate U.S. law prohibiting torture."
Yoo also disputed that the interrogation techniques did not work or help in the hunt for 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
"Sen. Feinstein would have to prove an impossible counter-factual historical question: that even if the U.S. did not acquire the great wealth of information from the interrogations (just look at the 9/11 Commission Report to see it), it would still have been able to capture or kill al Qaeda's leadership, including Osama bin Laden, and cripple its ability to project power from Afghanistan," Yoo wrote in his e-mail.
"Maybe some of the information would have come to U.S. authorities," he added, "but not in a timely way that would have allowed our soldiers and intelligence agencies to act upon it as immediately and successfully."
Partisan fighting
The probe had nearly complete bipartisan approval when it began in 2009, but congressional Republicans eventually withdrew during a separate Justice Department investigation of alleged CIA wrongdoing, arguing that the committee could not compel testimony without jeopardizing that investigation.
The Justice Department dropped the case without charges, but committee Republicans continued their boycott.
Feinstein has a hard-won reputation as a staunch defender of the nation's spy agencies, taking a beating in polls of her own California constituents over her defense of the administration's collection of Internet and phone records. In this case, however, her reputation has bolstered her credibility on both sides of the aisle.
"She certainly is one of, if not the, most respected members of the Senate on national security issues," said Scott Roehm, senior counsel for the Constitution Project, a bipartisan nonprofit that weighs in on constitutional issues. "Making this report public and seeing that fight through is a vital step in making sure the United States doesn't walk that awful road again."
Carolyn Lochhead is The San Francisco Chronicle's Washington correspondent. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @carolynlochhead


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This is really cute. x3
Great work Lisa.
This is really cute. x3
Great work Lisa.
It was super smexy, but curse you Liiiiisssssaaa, #4
Oh my gooodddddddd the most memorable scene, I absolutely love that ;______; Aaaaaaaa and the last picture, are those meant to be adorable superadvertureshipping offspring? If so I THOROUGHLY APPROVE
and aunt amaya holy shit hahahahahahahahah
The last pic was suppose to be cross dressing, but it can be offspring if you want it to be.
Molly and Justin can have kids artificially, cause the last pic is too cute not to.
I like it but I thought Jasmine would look more Asian as a human as I always thought that's what she was.
Jasmine isn't really an Asian name... not that all Asian people have Asian names...
But if you couple the dark fur and hair style with the name it -could- suggest east-indian descent...
Also the only thing making her not seem Asian in the pic is the green eyes. Her skin is fair and slightly xanthic, and her hair is obviously already an unnatural color.
Btw, is it Jazz-min or Yah-smeen? The latter would further point toward east Indian descent.
For me what didn't make her look Asian was the skin colour and the eye shape neither of those things look Asian to me.
human abbey ... ^_^
Raise your hand if you thought of Ninja Turtles when you got to panel 8.
I thought of the White Wolf Army of Ivoire...
(raise hand)
Love number 10
Very cute. Funny on number 7. She can really shoot her, right.
10= happieness
"That was a great story, Aunt Amaya!"
"I'm glad you liked it."
"No. But it wasn't a dream. It was a place. And you - and you - and you - and you were there."
Hehe, Auntie Amaya, Auntie Em.
so she finaly talks!
yaaay Yu-Gi-Oh reference! ^_^
OMG Amaya's talkin!OvO


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#1 Cornyn has 29 co-sponsors to his Military Voting Protection Act, all of them Republic
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Senate Bill Aimed at Making Absentee Ballots from Overseas Count
WASHINGTON Although roughly 6 million U.S. citizens are eligible to vote oversees using absentee ballots many of whom are serving in the military only a fraction of their ballots are being counted.
The bipartisan Election Assistance Commission found that of the nearly 1 million absentee ballots sent out for the 2006 election, only 300,000 actually were counted. Some estimate the low return of absentee ballots meant 400,000 service members' votes overseas weren't counted.
The problem seems to be the mail. It takes 18 days for the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail to Iraq and 18 days for it to be returned.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has introduced legislation that would allow absentee ballots to be sent via Federal Express to those serving in the military, although there reportedly is resistance from the postal union.
"It should be a national scandal that, here, our men and women in uniform who are protecting our freedom who are exposing themselves to harm are being denied the most basic civil right, and that is the right to vote," Cornyn said.
Cornyn has 29 co-sponsors to his Military Voting Protection Act, all of them Republican.
"I think its really a lack of focus and attention by the federal government," Cornyn said. "And, I think, the Department of Defense bares a special responsibility and my legislation's designed to see them discharge it to make sure that those votes count. ...
"This is something that if most Americans knew existed, the current dismal state of actual opportunity to see your vote count for our men and women in uniform, they would be up in arms."
But Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he didn't realize there was a problem.
"I think we have a significant responsibility to encourage our men and women in uniform to vote and to enable them to vote. And so this is a high priority, and your question prompts me to go find out if things are on track ... as I have been told they are in terms of making sure that we have the ballots and things available for our for our troops,"
Gee, what a surprise that no Dems support this. After all, it's letting votes from people that, in large numbers, vote for the opposition party.
08-03-2008, 09:24 AM"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves." -William Pitt
BTW, the Army has a secure system, Army Knowledge Online, that requires CAC Card access for certain functions (password reset, for example), as does the Navy and Air Force (I believe that the Marines are on the Navy system). There's no reason why they can't set up an AKO site to send out ballots with a digital signature, except for the law, which usually requires a manual signature (it varies from state to state). A federal mandate that, in the case of overseas military personnel, a digital signature would be the legal equivalent of a manual one (which it already is on military documents, in fact, it's the preferred method for anything that requires multiple signatures, like an OER) would pave the way for AKO voting. Democrats claim that they are in favor of internet voting, this is a workable system that would require very little in the way of modification, and it's a lot more secure than the ID requirements in a lot of states. I can't wait for them to explain why they're against it.--Odysseus
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Let's not make the same mistake some of our closest neighbours have.
Having seen what's happened in a number of recent elections, it's only right that the federal government should do its best to protect Canadians from foreign countries trying to influence our upcoming federal election.
On Wednesday, a trio of federal ministers announced how their respective departments would work together to do exactly that.
And it's a sort of protection we have to have.
As the government pointed out during its briefing, one-fifth of all tweets during the last month of the United States presidential election were sent out by fake Twitter accounts — by bots. Fake Facebook accounts shared falsified information in swing states. Falsified information swam through the internet throughout the Brexit referendum.
In France, the last election saw foreign agents launch propaganda in attempts to discredit the eventual winner. False articles were also used to try and sway the recent German parliamentary elections.
We'd be foolish to think that the same things wouldn't be tried to destabilize the Canadian electoral process as well.
Some of the strategies the federal government is suggesting are clearly worth doing.
During the election, a group of five senior public service watchdogs will be able to alert Canadians to serious and deliberate attempts to subvert the electoral process, whether it be bot nets widely sharing false information or faked viral videos. That watchdog group will be given information about such attempts by federal intelligence agencies, and those agencies will be specifically tasked to watch for international election cyber-tampering attempts.
We'd be foolish to think that the same things wouldn't be tried to destabilize the Canadian electoral process as well.
The intelligence agencies will also take part in a task force outside the election period to be prepared for potential threats to the democratic process.
So far, so good.
But other suggestions seem more like wishful thinking than anything else.
Federal Democratic Institutions Minister Katrina Gould has high hopes for meetings with social media giants like Facebook and Twitter, saying that she would like to see those firms operate quickly and decisively to deal with and remove faked accounts or false news.
Problem is, except for a few public shows of removing accounts, the social media giants haven't shown any real interest in shrinking their corporate footprint by getting rid of huge blocks of false actors.
And if they didn't see fit to act during the American, French or German elections, why should we think that they'll take much notice of a Canadian election?
Perhaps that's the best place for Canadians to do their part, by being informed and alert and aware of just where they are getting their news and information from. One part of the new plan is also to educate Canadians about how to identify misinformation, before they fall prey to it.
On that front, we can at least hope.


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Planned Parenthood in — for now
AUSTIN — Planned Parenthood will remain part of the Women's Health Program for now, state officials said Wednesday, putting off the organization's ouster as critics questioned if there would be enough health care providers without it.
Gov. Rick Perry said Texas remains committed to barring Planned Parenthood from the program, due to a state law that excludes those affiliated with abortion providers.
Perry also said he has no question that the remaining health care providers will have the capacity to serve women in the program, saying 500 additional providers have been signed up this year for a total of 3,000.
But Perry and Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Kyle Janek cited court action and a desire to hold on to federal funding in putting off Thursday's anticipated start of a new Texas Women's Health Program. That program would be run only with state dollars and without Planned Parenthood.
The state has gone to federal court to try to retain federal funding — which has paid 90 percent of the nearly $40 million annual cost of the program — while excluding Planned Parenthood. The federal government has said such a ban is not allowed under the Medicaid program, which has paid for services.
Planned Parenthood, meanwhile, has gone to state and federal court to try to remain in the program. It recently won a temporary restraining order from a state court allowing it to stay in the program at least until a Nov. 8 hearing on the matter.
Planned Parenthood has been a main provider in the program, which provides contraceptives and health screenings to more than 100,000 women.
Mara Posada of the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas said the delay in launching the state program suggests "they are not ready to start this program, which by all accounts has been deemed a disaster," Posada said. "There are simply not enough providers with the capacity to see the same number of patients as Planned Parenthood."
Planned Parenthood in a statement said if it is banned, the action will jeopardize health care access for tens of thousands of women.
The Wednesday announcement is "an important victory for every woman who relies on the Women's Health Program for basic, preventive health care," said Melaney A. Linton, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.
Texas officials on Wednesday said that the state-funded program is ready, but it is unclear when they will abandon the federal program. They said federal officials have suggested they can't provide funding past Dec. 31.
Janek said the state will continue to operate the program with Medicaid funds until that federal funding is stopped or there is a final court decision that would require the state to include Planned Parenthood, thereby violating state law.
Perry — who talked about the status of the program with Janek at a news conference at a health-care provider in Georgetown — said he expected court action within a couple of weeks to clarify matters.
"We think the wisest decision for now is to continue with the federal funding," Janek said. "We will continue to pay Planned Parenthood until we get some certainty from the (court) cases.
"The state program is ready to go, but ... we will continue in the federal program until such time as the courts say, 'Either let in Planned Parenthood or other affiliate groups or stop the program entirely,' in which case we would stop the program entirely and revert to the Texas Women's Health Program," Janek said, referring to the solely state-funded program.
At a forum sponsored by the Texas Tribune on Wednesday, Janek cited the figure of 3,000 providers but said the state still is gauging their capacity, meaning how many patients they can take.
He said he is confident in the capacity.
The state has said if it is forced to include Planned Parenthood in its program, it will end that program entirely.
Planned Parenthood has expressed shock at that stand, saying it would hurt women. Perry on Wednesday sought to turn around the blame.
"Texas will not allow a program that includes abortion providers or their affiliates, like Planned Parenthood ...," the governor said. "And if they file a lawsuit challenging the Texas program and they were to prevail, they will kill this program. And they'd be responsible for denying these important health services to low-income women in Texas."


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Your morning roundup for Oct. 9, the day we learned they won't keep you in the clink very long after threatening to cook your friend's mom. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors.
What we're watching: Baseball? Not a chance. Too soon. Way too soon. Ladies bike polo? That's not till next weekend. Waterworld? Hell yeah it was on at 6:10 a.m. but the epic tale of a world on the edge (of relying on Kevin Costner to save it) ended by 8:30 a.m. So, I'm just going to watch this "Jerry Rice and Nitus' Dog Football" video-game commercial over and over again until a Labradoodle snaps a leg (wish wish hope hope) or the greatest wide receiver in NFL history has lost every last shred of dignity. Then, I'll head out to watch the Eagles play the Bills until I'm ashamed of myself for still thinking they can turn this thing around. (H/T Michael C.)
Rangers score early, win late: "[T]he efforts of five relievers, starting with Michael Gonzalez for the biggest out of the game and ending with Neftali Feliz for the final out, preserved a 3-2 victory over Detroit in a game that was halted for 1 hour, 50 minutes. ... All three Rangers runs, including a fourth-inning solo homer by Nelson Cruz, came against Cy Young shoo-in Justin Verlander. The right-hander was limited to four innings by the rain, but he and the Tigers trailed 3-0 when the game was stopped for the first time." [Star-Telegram]
It was a locked-out-NBA-player extravaganza in Florida last night: "A capacity crowd of roughly 4,000 packed FIU's U.S. Century Bank Arena to watch Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Chris Bosh and several other NBA All-Stars play in the South Florida All-Star Classic charity game. 'We want to show our fans it's all for them,' Wade said." [Miami Herald]. (Here's silent video of the first quarter, and the second quarter, and the third quarter, and the fourth quarter, if you're so inclined.)
So, Nervy Greinke was all like Carpenter's fake: "Milwaukee's Zack Greinke has added some fuel to an already-heated rivalry with St. Louis, saying a day before Game 1 of the NL championship series that the Brewers don't really like Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter because of his 'phony attitude.' It was a surprising comment from Greinke, whose bouts with social anxiety disorder make him one of the more subdued players in a Brewers clubhouse filled with big personalities." [AP]
Ryan Howard's laid up for a while with a ruptured Achilles: "The Phillies said an MRI exam Saturday revealed a ruptured Achilles tendon that will require surgery once swelling reduces near the injury. The team said there is no guarantee he'll be ready for spring training. Howard could miss anywhere from six to nine months. It could be more; it could be less. The possibility of Howard's starting his five-year, $125 million contract extension on the disabled list is very real. Even if he does return sooner rather than later, a catastrophic injury is no way to commence a lucrative contract." [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Your Fly Guy Interlude, dedicated to all you playas and all you ladies out there:
Virginia Tech beat Miami after a zany fourth quarter: "Logan Thomas ran 19 yards for a touchdown with 56 seconds to play Saturday, capping a wild fourth quarter as No. 21 Virginia Tech beat Miami, 38-35. The Hokies (5-1, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) rescued their chances of contending in the Coastal Division with the rally, and may have killed the hopes of Miami (2-3, 0-2)." [AP] (Video H/T Justin S., who noted the kid "was fine" afterward.)
Florida State lost, too: "'This ain't the same defense,' said Wake Forest senior defensive end Kyle Wilber, whose team isn't playing anything like the 2010 Demon Deacons team that finished 3-9, won just one ACC contest and were throttled 31-0 by Florida State. These Deacs (4-1, 3-0 ACC) forced five turnovers – four interceptions – posted two sacks and recorded a safety in a 35-30 victory over the No. 23-ranked Seminoles." [News & Observer]
Finishing the trifecta was Florida, who got stomped by LSU: "Jarrett Lee and Jordan Jefferson both had their moments under center as No. 1 LSU overwhelmed No. 17 Florida, playing without its top two quarteracks, 41-11 at Tiger Stadium. It was LSU's most lopsided win over Florida since 1971. 'It was all about the Tigers today,' head coach Les Miles said." [The Advocate]
Today's Soccer Viewing Recommendations: Santos FC vs. Palmeiras (Fox Soccer Channel, 3 p.m. eastern)
Merch: Managing editor Tom Scocca and contributing editor Drew Magary have both written books. You can buy Scocca's Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future here, and Magary's The Postmortal here. Now do it.


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The Heritage High boys basketball program made its postseason debut Friday night, and the Patriots didn't act like a team just happy to be in "The Dance."
The Patriots put together an inspired effort against Murrieta Valley by executing long-distance shots with their guard tandem of Andrew Oliver and Mat Bradshaw.
However, the Nighthawks avoided the upset scare by capping the game with 10 unanswered points, pulling out a 68-58 victory in the opening round of the Division II-AA playoffs. Murrieta Valley (20-7) has now managed at least a postseason victory in each of the last seven seasons, quite the contrast to Heritage's fledging program.
Despite the differing resumes, the Patriots (11-14) opened eyes when they tied the game at 58-58 with less than six minutes remaining. The fifth-place Sunbelt League team overcame an early nine-point deficit.
"The guys fought very hard and I could not be more proud of how hard they kept fighting," Heritage coach Bryan Voshell said.
Oliver scored a game-high 28 points, keeping the Nighthawks off guard with his shooting and his ability to create scoring opportunities with his dribbling. Bradshaw complemented Oliver by sinking five 3-point buckets en route to a 16-point performance.
Turnovers and missed shots kept Heritage off the scoreboard in the last five minutes, but the team with 11 graduating seniors had a positive outlook on its setback afterwards.
"This whole team loves playing with each other," Oliver said. "We are just a great big family, on and off the court. Although the scoreboard said we lost, as a team, we won today."
Murrieta Valley put together a balanced, team effort as Kevin Padlo (15 points), Mitchell Lenhart (15), Tyler Bilton (13), Thomas Alexandre (12) and Talon Watkins (10) all scored in double-figures.
Watkins, the team's only starting senior, had a team-high six points in the fourth quarter when the Nighthawks sealed the win.
It was an encouraging finish for Watkins, who spent most of the season building up his stamina after missing time due to hernia surgery.
Though the Patriots shot well, they never quite figured out how to slow down the Nighthawks' offense. Down the stretch, Murrieta Valley was able to pass the ball around, drain time off the clock and eventually push the ball into the key for a high-percentage shot.
"In situations like that, we just wait for a nice open shot inside, a layup, and we only accept layups," Bilton said.
The junior-laden Nighthawks visit San Bernardino Cajon (19-9) in the second round Tuesday.
Although Murrieta Valley has garnered an esteemed reputation over the years, its performance this year has exceeded the expectations of coach Steve Tarabilda.
"If we could get into the teens in Ws and that would be a great year for us," said Tarabilda of his preseason hopes. "All of a sudden, we hit 20 (wins) tonight. It's huge. These kids have worked their butts off."
A then-injured Bilton remembered being worried about his team's prospects while watching his teammates compete from the bench during summer league.
"There were doubts going through my mind and they were negative and I was concerned," Bilton said. "I was little apprehensive about how the year was going because we were so young and we could see it was supposed to be a rebuilding year. Because of that, a lot of people underestimated us. We just busted our rear ends in practice and proved them wrong."


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From direction 'Den Haag' (highway A4), take the Ring Road A 10 around Amsterdam, and go West towards Zaandam, follow turn-off for the S106 where you turn right at the traffic-lights. Go straight ahead, and after 2 traffic-lights, sort left crossing a bridge. Then turn left on the 'Overtoom'. Follow this road until the 4th side street at your left-hand, and turn left into the 'Tweede Constantijn Huygensstraat'. Turn right at the second side street at your right, which is the 'Tweede Helmersstraat'. You will find our Hotel at your left-hand side.
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Things that the 2012 Columbus Crew are probably good at:
- Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve.
- Making it through the intersection on a yellow light.
- Sticking a hand in between the elevator doors just as they are about to close.
- Dragging the garbage can to the end of the driveway while the truck is at the next door neighbor's curb.
- Determining which wire to cut in order to defuse a ticking time bomb.
I don't know these things for sure, but based on the fact that the Crew's last five game-winning goals have occurred in the 86th minute or later, it's probably a safe assumption. The latest Massive Miracle was an 87th minute Milovan Mirosevic tally that lifted the Crew to a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Union on Saturday night. A goal that happened a minute after the Crew finished squandering a two-goal lead. A goal set up by a slide tackle. A goal for which Mirosevic was clearly offside.
"Over the course of the season it will feel sometimes like nothing is going your way, but then other times you will get a lucky bounce," said Crew goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum. "I think that's pretty standard for any team."
This run of victories has been anything but standard.
The Crew blitzed the Union in the final moments before halftime when Jairo Arrieta collected a couple of long passes and hit paydirt in the 44th minute and in first half stoppage time.
"The first one was a great play by Seba on the cross," Arrieta said through interpreter Ricardo Iribarren. "I controlled the ball and was able to finish to the near post. The second was a clear from Andy and I used my body to defeat the defender. I was able to shoot it away from the goalie with my left foot. It was good that I was able to score those two goals to give us the advantage in the first half and helping the team to win."
They say that the 2-0 lead is the most dangerous lead in soccer. That is ridiculously false, except for in the rare occasions when it isn't. The Union cut the lead in half in the 65th minute on a Danny Cruz penalty kick. Crew goalie Andy Gruenbaum took down Antoine Hoppenot for the PK.
In the 86th minute, Jack McInerney equalized for the Union when a cross deflected off of Crew midfielder Chris Birchall and fell to him in space for a simple finish.
"It's really annoying," Gruenebaum said of losing the 2-0 lead. "It was a great run on the first one and I got him. The PK's a PK. The second one was pure luck..The ball deflects off of Birchall and goes right in between Chad and I. He's right there and all he has to do is finish it. It was a good finish, but we've come back before and we did it again."
In that moment, the Crew saw their playoff lives flash before their eyes. A draw wouldn't have eliminated them, but there is little margin for error, given Houston's schedule, their points deficit behind the other contenders, and their low standing on the goals scored tiebreaker.
"It was awkward because Chad and I were like, 'did that just happen?'"Gruenebaum said. "We were in that mindset. They couldn't have had a luckier deflection. I sat there for a second and then it was like, 'Whoa, we need to win this game!' So I jumped up and got the ball out of the net."
"I was really disappointed giving up that goal, but I knew we weren't out of it," said Crew defender Josh Williams. "Our last four wins had been late, but that goal was definitely a huge hit to our confidence. But everyone looked around, and we lifted each other up and kept fighting like we've been doing all year. Everyone was flying around and good things happened."
The Crew grabbed the lead in the very next minute. Milovan Mirosevic worked a give-and-go with Federico Higuain, but the Mirosevic's drive to the goal was interrupted by a last minute lunging tackle. Before Philadelphia could clear the ball, Josh Williams came sliding in at the 18 yard box to knock the ball to Mirosevic, who was a yard offside. Somehow, the flag stayed down, and Mirosevic buried the ball into the upper left corner as Philadelphia howled in protest.
"I tried to do a 1-2 with Pipa (Higuain), and then I don't know where I was," Mirosevic said. "I was out of the play and then I saw Josh's foot, and the next moment, it bounced to me and I just kicked it. I didn't have enough time to look at the line and then receive the ball. I just receive the ball and kick it."
The fifth straight win in the 86th minute or later is new one on many players, including Fedrico Higauin.
"It has never happened to me before, but that is the beauty of this game," Higuain said. "It's part of the game. We work hard and we fight until the end. The important thing is that we didn't give up. We did whatever we could to get the three points, which right now is keeping us in the playoff race."
As great as it is, picking up ten additional points in the closing minutes, it's also not the ideal way to go about it from a player's perspective.
"It's great for a neutral, but it's not great for the guys in this locker room," said Crew midfielder Chris Birchall. "In the last couple of minutes, and we're conceding, it makes it a bit nervy. But it takes character to score straight away, and we did that."
"It has been like this for the last five wins," said Mirosevic. "I don't know if it is luck. We are happy about it, but for sure we have to improve because we are winning the game at home for two goals, and then they score with five minutes left. Maybe if the game doesn't finish like that, we are out of the playoffs already."
Williams appreciates the resiliency, but doesn't like that the Crew have to rely on it so often.
"I think we believe we're going to score the whole game," Williams said, "but it seems Ike as soon as it gets to the 85th minute, we almost ramp it up a little bit. Everybody bombs forward and things have been going our way. Goals have been falling for us. I don't necessarily like it because that means we have been putting ourselves in bad situations, and when you get into the playoffs against better teams, you're not necessarily going to get those opportunities. As long as we're winning, I don't really care how we do it."
As I began to walk away, Williams amended that last thought.
"A wins a win," he said, "but I want to win better."
If MLS had an award for Almost Goal of the Week, Williams would have won it several times already. On Saturday, the role was reversed. A blown call allowed him to collect a slide tackle assist on an 87th minute game-winner.
"I wouldn't call it one of my better assists, but it was probably my most important assist," Williams said. "I was just trying to make something happen, so I just threw myself in the way. I read what he was going to do there and I just tried to make a play. Luckily -- and thank God I finally get to use the word 'luckily' for once-- it worked out for us. I was happy just to be a part of it.
"I actually saw the replay," Williams continued. "He looked like he was offside, but I'll take it. It's about time something went our way. Or my way. I think I still have some credit left, though."
Gruenebaum's assist on Arrieta's second goal was the first of his MLS career. He did not view himself as a Schelotto-like carver of opposing defenses.
"I was just trying to clear the ball because there was a forward running at me," he said. "I saw that Jairo was one on one and it just kinda got a lucky bounce. He did well to fend him off and finish. I'll take it. "
As we walked toward the parking lot, Danny O'Rourke walked with us.
"Does Danny have any assists?" the Hebrew Hammer wondered.
Yup. Nine.
"Nine?" ask the Hammer incredulously. "Danny does? Damn."
It seems as though the Hammer has given up on the thought of passing O'Rourke in career assists like how fellow goalkeeper William Hesmer passed O'Rourke in career goals in 2010.
In the lead up to the Philly game, Kevan George and the TheCrew.com's Cody Sharrett played a game of FIFA '13 on Wednesday, with Kevan controlling the Crew and Cody controlling the Union. The result was eerily prescient. The Crew won 3-2 on a 90th minute goal from Milovan Mirosevic. In real life, Milo's 3-2 winner occurred in the 87th minute. Spooky stuff.
When told of this coincidence on Saturday night, an astonished Mirosevic said, "Same thing next week, please!"
I caught up with Kevan this week to talk to about his role as a FIFA shaman. He's a fortune teller.
"I would like to think so," he said. "And before the (video) game, I told Cody that Milo would score the winner on a volley, but it ended up being a header. On Saturday, I didn't even think of it until later that night. I got a text from Aaron Schoenfeld saying, 'Did you realize that it ended 3-2 and Milo scored the winner?' I really hadn't thought about it. It was crazy."
So what is Kevan's next FIFA miracle? Can he score a goal with Danny O'Rourke?
"He almost did, but it wasn't to be," Kevan said with a laugh. "Maybe next game. Maybe next game."
Or the next game. Or the next game. Or the next game. Etc, etc, ad infinitum.
Massive Champion Brian Carroll made his first visit to Columbus since his trade to Philadelphia. He did not appear happy walking off the field, but then again, Brian Carroll has done so much winning in his career that losing is never easy.
On a more pleasant note, Carroll was able to re-connect with some fellow Massive Champions on Friday night, when he, Danny O'Rourke, and Chad Marshall convened at William Hesmer's house for night spent playing the board game Settlers of Catan.
I recalled Eddie Gaven and Adam Moffat playing the computer version of the game at the airport during our trip to Seattle for the 2010 U.S. Open Cup final, but O'Rourke assured me that Gaven is the equivalent of "the Serie C or NAIA of Settlers" competition.
"Eddie's terrible," O'Rourke said. "Will's always been known as the best."
Friday's game night involved the big dogs. This was the Serie A or SEC of Settlers, and a tightly contested round of games delighted the smack-talker in O'Rourke, especially at the expense of his chief competitive rival.
"We played three games and everybody but Will won, so that's awesome," O'Rourke said. "I love when Will is not successful at stuff. It makes me so happy."
This year's mascot soccer game pitted sports team mascots against a team made up of Crew sponsor mascots. The rosters were as follows:
Team Mascots: Crew Cat, Stinger (CBJ), Rosie Red and Mr. Red (Cincinnati Reds), Krash (Clippers), Sir C.C. and Moondog (Cleveland Cavaliers.)
Photo by Sam Fahmi
Sponsor Mascots: Biscuit and Gravy (Bob Evans), B.C. (Roosters), Honey Bee (Lifeline), Pepe the Penguin (Kroger), Sub Dude (Subway), Cozy Cat (Columbia Gas), and Kona (Kona Ice.)
Photo by Sam Fahmi
The end result was a 5-1 shellacking by the team mascots. The scoring summary:
TM: Crew Cat (unassisted)
TM: Stinger (unassisted)
TM: Sir C.C. (Stinger)
SM: Sub Dude (unassisted)
TM: Stinger (Moondog)
TM: Mr. Red (Moondog)
Photo by Sam Fahmi
Here are some notes and observations as I watched the game with my buddies Flick and Z-man. Flick dominates this because his voice was loud enough to cut through the crowd noise.
* Flick: "We brought Mr. Red and Rosie Red, but we didn't bring Mr. Redleg because he's too busy laughing at the Pirates."
Me: "Are Mr. Red and Rosie Red married?"
Flick: "No, but they have the same last name. They're brother and sister."
* Flick: "How is Stinger allowed to play? Isn't he locked out?"
* Flick: "Hey Moondog! Stop touching Mr. Red! You're going to put your stink on him! I don't want your Cavaliers stink on him!"
* Z-man: "I like the Cleveland Cavaliers dog there. He's got a small head, so he can see well, and he's got pretty normal footwear. All of those corporate guys are horrible. How can they even see anything?"
* Me, as Stinger celebrated a goal: "Why is stinger running around doing airplane wings when he already has wings of his own?"
* Flick, upon watching Mr. Red knock down Sub Dude by kicking the ball off his face: "And the Reds go high and inside! That was like Homer Bailey brushing back that fat catcher, McHenry."
* Flick: "The bee is from Lifeline, which is weird since bees give up their lives for their queen."
* Flick: "Pepe's just hanging out. It's too hot out for a penguin."
* Flick, upon Mr. Red putting the team mascots ahead 5-1: "If there's one thing the Reds can do, it's close out a game."
*Flick, in summary: "Corporate mascots can't compete. Pepe's stacking ice cream all day. Rooster's Guy, I don't know if he runs the store or spends all day scared that he's going to be the next meal. The Bob Evans guys are named Biscuits & Gravy—not exactly a name you'd associate with a pregame meal."
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After the game, I caught up with Sub Dude, the Subway mascot, for this exclusive interview. I swear I am not making this interview up.
SS: "You took a good whack out there. What was it like playing in the mascot game?"
SD: "That was a great time. I did not realize that the ball was that hard. If I kicked the ball, it hardly moved. I learned I had to kick it with my knee. Then the Reds guy took a point blank shot at my face and knocked me over. Then he gave me CPR, which is what I remembered when I woke up."
Photo by Sam Fahmi
SS: "The sponsor team appeared to be no match for the sports mascots."
SD: "We had a lot of slow people. We didn't have anybody athletic on our team. It was a stacked deck out there."
SS: "Yeah, because the mascots get to train with their teams all the time, whereas the sponsor mascots have other jobs. Like Flick said, Pepe is stacking ice cream all day…"
SD: "At least I had the proper training diet, with all of my Subway subs. We ARE the official training restaurant."
SS: "So what was it like for you down on the field?
SD: "I brought my soccer cleats and the field was perfect. It got hot inside the mascot costume really fast."
SS: "What's next for the sponsor team after this humiliating defeat?"
SD: "We're going to retire for the rest of the year unless the Reds want to bring us to one of the playoff games."
SS: "Wait, do you play mascot baseball too?"
SD: "No. It would be hard. You can't see anything out there."
SS: "It did seem that the sponsor mascot costumes were more of an impediment. You were the only one with normal footwear."
SD: "Pepe's feet are tied together. That's a problem."
SS: "While you had suitable footwear, I think the sandwich part of you probably made things difficult."
SD: "The mascot costume keeps bouncing up and down. Now that I know what it's like to run in it, I would have done a better job tying it down."
SS: "Walk me through the goal, which came after an egregious 40-yard handball goal by the rooster, which I disallowed."
SD: "It was a quick restart by the goal itself, and I was poaching."
Photo by Sam Fahmi
SS: "What do you say to fans of the sponsor team, who are undoubtedly embarrassed by the 5-1 score line?"
SD: "Next year, we'll be in shape for it. We'll be ready."
At Sunday's reserve game, I laughed when I saw one of the team's physicians, Dr. Johnson, walking around with a stethoscope around his neck. It reminded me of Leslie Nielsen's Dr. Rumack in "Airplane!", who wore a stethoscope while sitting in his seat during the flight.
"I look official, don't I?" said a grinning Dr. J. "I'm not like Pete (Dr. Edwards) who walks around like some random guy, saying something like, 'That's an ileotibial ligament strain. That'll be six weeks.' People might not listen since he's not wearing a stethoscope. Would you? But with this, people will listen. I look official."
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