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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2001 9:26 pm
Post subject: Sad after seeing Rockstar
Was it just me or was anyone else (former MM&TFB fans) sad after seeing Rockstar? I was heartbroken seeing Mark on stage in front of a mike again ... I came out of the cinema with tears in my eyes saying "I WANT MARK BACK"! LOL
I love seeing him in movies and I think acting definitely is for him but it just broke my heart! I guess the 15 year old in me came out and I wanted the old days back again!
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2001 7:46 pm
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I know I miss being 5 years old and listening and singing to Good Vibrations. He can act!
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2002 6:49 am
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Bloody hell (oops sorry) You were 5 when Good Vibrations came out?! I suddenly feel very old!
Yes I know what you mean. especially when he did the bit at the end to Good Vibrations. I went to bed last night gutted that my life had changed. Don't get me wrong, I love my husband and am happy, but I can't go to London and meet Mark & co, but then he's never here anyway.
Just one wish to go back in time to Smash Hits Poll Winners with Marky and NKOTB !!
[This message has been edited by PompeygirlUK (edited January 16, 2002).]
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2002 3:02 pm
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i was 5 when Good Vibrations came out too
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Can I cadge a lift in the time machine Pompey?
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Baby Junior
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2002 4:49 pm
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i remember it so well too like i was much older. I do have the mother of all memories. anyone remember nkotb cartoo? I do!! I remember back when good vibrations came out i was soo shocked to see a white boy rapping. it was so new to me you know. I told my mom to hurry up a white boy rapping. i remember it and i was 5!!!
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2002 5:40 pm
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Babyjunior, i wish i remembered as well as you do!
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that's ok
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2002 3:04 pm
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I feel very old. I was nineteen when it came out. I'm a dinosaur.
*Never Say Never*
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Well atleast you were old enough to appreciate Mark more than us youngbuds. I feel like an egg compared to you dinosaurs.LOL
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2002 10:47 am
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on dvd u saw when they made him play the good vibrations song on the set, every-1 was dancin' n he was all emabrassed it was soooooooooooooooooooo funny! i was on the floor, his expression was soo cute!
micha xoxoxo
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I might get to see Rock Star today!
I begged my mom to rent it for me. I'm dieing to see the Good Vibrations scene at the end!
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President Barack Obama blamed the fiscal cliff standoff in Congress for the contraction in the U.S. economy at the end of 2012 and weighed in on the safety of football in a pre-Super Bowl interview Sunday.
During the roughly eight-minute live session with CBS host Scott Pelley, Obama said new concerns about long-term brain damage in football players "means the game is probably going to evolve a little bit."
"For those of us who like to see a big hit and enjoy the rock 'em, sock 'em elements of the game, we're probably going to be occasionally frustrated," the president said. But he added, "We want to make sure that after people have played the game, that they're going to be OK."
Obama spoke less than two hours before the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens played for the NFL title in New Orleans in the most-watched event in U.S. sports. Sunday's game comes as football is under new scrutiny, with more than 1,500 former players accusing the NFL in a lawsuit of hiding the dangers of concussions from them.
Another lawsuit was filed in January by the family of former linebacker Junior Seau, who argued his suicide in May was the result of a brain disease caused by violent hits he endured playing the game. Seau's brain was donated to science, and a study by the National Institutes of Health found he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy -- a neurodegenerative brain disease that can follow multiple hits to the head.
Obama said professional players "are grown men," well-paid and informed about the risks. But for players in the "pipeline," from the Pop Warner leagues through college, "I want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to make the sport safer."
The interview came four days after government figures showed the U.S. economy shrank a tenth of a percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, the first dip in more than three years. The Commerce Department said a large cut in federal spending, primarily on defense, was one of the biggest drags on growth.
"It had to do with folks being worried about the possible impacts of the fiscal cliff and what goes on here in Washington," Obama said. "Washington cannot continually operate under a cloud of crisis. That freezes up consumers. It gets businesses worried. We can't afford these self-inflicted wounds."
Obama also defended his administration's decision to open positions in armed forces combat units to women and supported the Boy Scouts' move to end their national ban on homosexuals.
"The Scouts are a great institution that are promoting young people and exposing them to opportunities and leadership that will serve people for the rest of their lives, and I think nobody should be barred from that," he said. The White House said in 2012 that Obama -- who as president, serves as the honorary national president of the Boy Scouts of America -- disagreed with the organization's ban.
It's Obama's second CBS interview in a week. The president and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat down for a joint Q&A with "60 Minutes" on January 27.


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Many of the millions of Americans who play fantasy football will be watching Sunday's Super Bowl with an eye toward next season's drafts.
But as one fantasy expert warns, don't put too much stock into what you see in the game - good or bad.
Matthew Berry, an ESPN fantasy analyst nicknamed ``The Talented Mr. Roto,'' said there will be some interesting players on the field from a fantasy perspective, including 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Baltimore wide receiver Torrey Smith and San Francisco wide receiver Michael Crabtree.
But barring major injury, fantasy owners shouldn't get caught up in how they perform in New Orleans, Berry said.
``I think fantasy owners are smart enough and savvy enough to know that the postseason is something different and it's a very small sample size,'' Berry says.
Simply put, it takes more games than a Super Bowl to judge whether someone's fantasy worthy.
But if you thought you could be sneaky and nab Kaepernick or Crabtree with a late draft pick next season, think again. The duo's performance throughout the last half of the regular season and the postseason mean they'll go in higher rounds, Berry says.
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The Chapel Choir, Symphonette Strings and Wind Ensemble will conduct multi-day tours beginning Thursday, March 13, and continuing through Thursday, March 20.
The Chapel Choir will perform in multiple communities in Illinois between Friday, March 14, and Tuesday, March 18. The group will perform at First United Methodist Church-Chicago Temple in Chicago, Ill., on Friday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m.; at Christ Church of Oak Brook, Ill., on Sunday, March 16, at 3 p.m.; at Flossmoor Community Church in Flossmoor, Ill., on Monday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m.; and at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Arlington Heights, Ill., on Tuesday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. The choir will also perform at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill., on Monday, March 17; and at Providence St. Mel High School in Chicago, Ill., on Tuesday, March 18.
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The Chapel Choir is Hope College's premier choral ensemble. Comprised of auditioned choristers, the choir has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada, and has traveled abroad on eight occasions, most recently to South Africa in May 2009. Over the years the choir has also received numerous invitations to sing at choral conferences and prestigious churches around the country. The choir is featured along with other music ensembles in Christmas Vespers, a tradition that stretches back to 1941, and is shown on PBS stations and broadcast on radio stations around the country. The choir is directed this year by Mark Webb, visiting professor of music.
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When food writer Don Genova decided to lose a bit of weight, he did it with the help of a food journal.
Day after day, he recorded everything he ate and drank on a free iPhone app called Lose It, which tracked calories, exercise and weight loss on a high-tech graph.
"I did it seriously for three months and I did lose 10 pounds on it, and that was leading up to the holidays, so I was really proud of that," says Genova, who lives in Vancouver Island's Cowichan Valley and teaches in Vancouver and Victoria.
"Why did I go off it? Well, it gets tedious."
Almost everyone who's kept a food journal agrees it works — at least for a while.
"A food diary or journal is basically a detailed log of all the food and drink you consume," explains Sue Mah, a Toronto-based dietitian with Nutrition Solutions.
"It's a great weight loss tool because it really makes you stop and re-think whether you need that second helping of potato salad or a chocolate cookie for dessert," she adds. "Even if you don't need to lose weight, a food diary is a fabulous way to keep track of the reasons why you're eating and help you get in tune with your true hunger cues."
Food journals are essential for people struggling with serious health issues related to nutrition. They are important tools for athletes training for competition. And for the average person who just wants to be healthier and perhaps a bit slimmer, they encourage accountability and raise awareness about calories and portion sizes.
But they also have their challenges.
For starters, the success of keeping a food journal lies in being absolutely honest.
"I find that people are afraid to be honest," says Hayley McGowan, a personal trainer at West Vancouver's Method Personal Training, who asks clients to keep a food journal before they start meal planning.
"They tend to lie about the little snacks. You know — you're making dinner and you go into a cupboard and grab a handful of pita chips. But those few hundred extra calories a day, it's like keeping a budget. It adds up."
More significantly, food journals often don't deal with the underlying issues of why we overeat or why we eat the wrong things.
"Dietitians are trained to look at what their clients ate, when they ate and how much they ate," says Colleen Cannon, psychologist with Craving Change, a Calgary-based program that finds solutions for people struggling with weight and fitness.
But what that approach doesn't do is look at the emotions or thoughts that led straight to the potato chips or chocolate cookies.
What Cannon suggests instead is a simpler form of food journal that doesn't count calories or carbs, but records thoughts and emotions along with the foods eaten.
"It helps because we know the people who eat more in response to internal cues rather than external cues are going to have greater struggles with their weight," Cannon says. "It will likely make that weight loss more challenging and it will make maintaining that weight loss more challenging."
Internal cues can be emotions such as loneliness, stress, boredom, anger or sadness, while external cues could be peer pressure, a mouth-watering ad for a cheeseburger or the birthday cake in the office.
"These are all really powerful cues, but as people have a greater awareness of what they do and why they do it, they have greater control over it," Cannon says.
Having that awareness can also help control what Cannon calls "binary thinking" — that very rigid, all-or-nothing thought process that can lead to dietary disaster.
"The diet industry is full of that kind of thinking, that there's good food and there's junk food," Cannon says. "That type of thinking puts you at high risk of overeating when you do eat a food you hadn't planned on eating."
Rigid thinking also explains why so may people give up on their food journals, either out of boredom, lack of time or sheer frustration.
"What we know is that people don't like doing their homework," Cannon says. "And they don't need another failure experience."
For many people, instead of recording every calorie consumed in a food journal, a better approach might be to plan ahead.
"I'd rather you put the time into planning what you're going to eat," McGowan says. "If you plan what you're going to be eating, you're going to be more successful rather than looking back at the end of the day at what you ate."
In addition to healthy meals, a plan can also include emergency measures for business travel, workouts, long days at the office and afternoons spent running errands. It can — and should — also take account of what time of day you need most of your calories.
Of course, to come up with that plan, you need a starting point. And keeping a food journal is that starting point, at least for a short while.
"Journalling makes things more real," Cannon says. "It has you stop for that moment and think, what is going on for me right now? We are so used to tuning out and rushing around, and to stop right now and raise your awareness is a very powerful technique."
Genova acknowledges the value of a food journal in making him aware of everything he eats. "When you start realizing what's in a piece of whatever, it makes you reduce the portion size."
And, he says, "the food journals really do keep you from snacking. You don't want to write it down, even for yourself."
How to keep a food journal
Recording what you eat in a food journal encourages accountability and awareness, and that makes it a great tool for losing weight and eating healthily. Here are different styles of food journals you can try:
Grab a notebook and a calorie guide (you can buy a book or use a website like The Calorie Counter). Write down everything you eat and drink. Record the exact portion size (you may need a digital scale) and calculate the calories consumed. If you're really motivated, you can also record carbs, fat and fibre.
"Be totally honest with yourself and be as specific as possible with ingredients and amounts," says Toronto-based dietitian Sue Mah. "If you're dining out, you can ask the server for the exact ingredients and do your best to eyeball the amounts of each ingredient.
"It's a good idea to compare your weekend versus weekday eating habits, too," she adds. "Once you've committed to making some changes to your diet, use your food diary to track your efforts and successes."
And be sure to record any exercise you get — it'll make you feel better about that apple fritter you picked up at Tim Horton's this morning.
Download an app like Lose It for the iPhone or sign up for a website like Fit Day (www.fitday.com). You'll still need to record what you ate, including portion sizes, as well as your exercise, but the software will do all the math for you.
If you join a weight loss group such as Weight Watchers or the annual Self magazine challenge, you'll have to record what you ate and, in some cases, report the ghastly truth at weekly meetings.
Weight Watchers has simplified the math for you by calculating "points" based on the calories, sugar, fat, fibre and nutrients in any given food. That means a small apple is, say, one point rather than 55 calories, 2.5 grams of fibre and 0.2 grams of fat.
As an added bonus, the peer pressure is a terrific motivator.
If you turn to potato chips when you're stressed or cookies when you feel lonely, you are an emotional eater and need to learn what your triggers are.
"Many people eat out of boredom, depression or loneliness, so it's good to keep on top of those habits and change them," Mah says.
For this type of journal, don't get all caught up in calorie counts; instead, record what you ate, what you were thinking and how you felt before and after you ate it. That will allow you to become more aware of how your feelings affect your eating.
This is ideal for those people who want to identify the behaviours that are getting in the way of better health — such as absent-minded snacking or eating junk food during business travel — then find ways to change them.
Record what you ate, including portion sizes, when you ate it, how you felt at the time, and any exercise you got — but only for three days, or at most a week. That's long enough to identify any bad habits or patterns.
"You want to keep it simple and not add any stress," says Hayley McGowan, West Vancouver-based personal trainer at Method Personal Training.
"It's quite a lot of writing," she adds. "It sounds like a good idea, but it takes time. And it's time you could be spending doing something else."


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The question isn't if there will soon be a major security breach involving patient records, it's when.
A new survey of 65 health care organizations, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and commissioned by ID Experts, a provider of data security software, finds that not only are breaches continuing to happen on a regular basis, they are costing these organizations on average $2 million each over a two-year period.
That may sound like a big number, but it's actually relatively small given the number of breaches reported. That suggests that it's only a matter of time before a major breach results in millions of dollars in lost income and revenue for health care organizations.
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BMTPHY(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual BMTPHY(4) NAME bmtphy -- Driver for Broadcom BCM5201 and BCM5202 ``Mini-Theta'' Ethernet PHYs and their derivatives SYNOPSIS bmtphy* at mii? phy ? DESCRIPTION The bmtphy driver supports the Broadcom BCM5201 and BCM5202 10/100 Ether- net PHYs and their derivatives such as BCM5214, BCM5221, BCM5222, and BCM4401. It also supports the internal PHY on the 3Com 3c905C 10/100 Ethernet interface, and the internal PHY on some 3Com 3c905B 10/100 Eth- ernet interfaces. SEE ALSO ex(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), mii(4), ifconfig(8) NetBSD 8.0 January 17, 2005 NetBSD 8.0
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Why do we build data center clusters the way we build them? We started this project in 2008 wondering if there was a better hardware platform with a co-designed software stack that would make it easier/more preformat to write the sort of applications that run in data centers. We wanted to try and address the many issues, which we largely saw as being a function of the hard separation between the network and the processing elements of a clusters, applications had to treat the network as a black box and then work around the issues.
We took ideas from distributed systems, networking and High Performance Computing (HPC) to create the CamCube platform, and the software stack that we now call CamCubeOS. We have demonstrated the potential performance gains for many applications, including a MapReduce-like framework (CamDoop). The CamCube platform used a 3D Torus topology (frequently used in the HPC community), for several reasons, including the fact that the physical topology matched closely the virtual topology of the CAN structured overlay, which then allowed us to borrow ideas used with structured overlays, to make designing distributed services easier.
We had to make a number of compromises in CamCube, as we needed to build an experimental system and did not want to design custom hardware or ASICs. However, in the last couple of years we have seem many exciting advancements in Industry in the CamCube direction, in particular the development and deployment of in-rack fabrics that closely integrate the network and CPUs using direct connect networks, effectively embedded the switch across all the servers. The AMD SeaMicro platform that is targeted at commodity data centers and uses a 3D Torus topology, and platforms like the Boston Viridis which uses Calxeda's EnergyCore processors that support several topologies.
As we being to see these systems deployed there is still the important question of how visible to the applications running on these racks will be the underlying network/fabric topology? At the moment there is a trend to try and hide the topology, and make it look and feel like a traditional ToR Ethernet switch based network. One of the many lessons from Project CamCube is that there is value in not treating the network as a black box.
Paolo Costa, Ant Rowstron, Austin Donnelly, Greg O'Shea, H. Abu-Libdeh, Thomas Zahn, Simon Schubert.
Conference papers:
Paolo Costa, Austin Donnelly, Ant Rowstron, Greg O'Shea. "CamCubeOS: A key-based Network Stack for 3D Torus Cluster Topologies". Proceedings HPDC, June, 2013 [ pdf ]
Paolo Costa, Austin Donnelly, Ant Rowstron, Greg O'Shea. "CamDoop: Exploiting In-network Aggregation for Big Data Applications". Proceedings NSDI, April, 2012 [ pdf ]
H. Abu-Libdeh, P. Costa, A. Rowstron, G. O'Shea and A. Donnelly. "Symbiotic routing in future data centers". Proceedings ACM Sigcomm, Aug 2010. [ pdf ]
Workshop paper describing early ideas:
P. Costa, T. Zhan, A. Rowstron, G. O'Shea and S. Schubert. "Why should we integrate services, servers, and networking in a Data Center?" Proceedings of WREN, August 2009. [ pdf ]
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SANTA FE, New Mexico (CNN) -- North Korea believes it's owed bilateral talks with the United States after the communist government released two detained American journalists this month -- a notion that senior Obama administration officials quickly rejected on Wednesday.
Gov. Bill Richardson meets with North Korean diplomats Wednesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"They feel, the North Koreans, that by giving us the two American journalists, that they've made an important gesture," New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson told CNN Wednesday after meeting with two North Korean diplomats. "And now they're saying the ball's in our court."
But senior Obama administration officials said six-party talks are still the proper venue for such a dialogue, and stressed that Richardson was not negotiating on the president's behalf. Richardson himself said he would only relay the information to the White House.
"Our policy toward North Korea remains today as it has been -- calling for the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," one of the administration officials said Wednesday. "We believe the six-party talks are the best forum for that. The bottom line is, the ball is in North Korea's court."
The officials said North Korea can choose one of two paths: either continued provocation by testing missiles or a more peaceful road on which they live up to previous commitments.
The visit by the North Korean diplomats comes on the heels of former President Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea to gain the release of the two journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling. During the visit, Clinton met with reclusive leader Kim Jong Il, whose government is under U.N. sanctions for its efforts to develop a nuclear weapons program.
"They do feel they are owed a gesture on the U.S. part," Richardson said, adding, "I don't believe that should be the case because this was a humanitarian gesture that needed to happen."
The North Korean diplomats felt Clinton's trip helped "thaw relations" and gave North Korea "international prestige," Richardson said.
The White House has said that Clinton was not carrying any message -- written or oral -- from Obama, describing Clinton's trip as a "solely private mission to secure the release of two Americans."
Richardson said the North Koreans are interested only in direct talks with U.S. officials, such as special envoy Stephen Bosworth, and have no plans to return to the six-party talks with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States.
"They don't like the six-party talks, they felt that it's produced sanctions on them," Richardson said. "They want a new format -- and the format they want is direct talks with the United States."
Administration officials had said they hoped the release of the journalists would give North Korea a face-saving opportunity to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear program.
Kim Myong Gil and Taek Jong Ho, senior diplomats with the North Korean mission to the United Nations, left New York on Tuesday for two days of meetings with Richardson.
Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has traveled to North Korea several times, most recently in April 2007 to secure the return of the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War.
He said the North Korean officials approached him with the idea of meeting.
"I detected for the first time ... a lessening of tension, some positive vibrations," Richardson said, comparing Wednesday's meeting with the many others he's engaged in with the North Koreans.
On Thursday, the two diplomats will talk with Richardson about renewable energy initiatives, Richardson aide Gilbert Gallegos said. New Mexico is a leader in the United States in exploring renewable energy technologies.
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Just got my car! but how do you turn off the radio?
Just got my car! but how do you turn off the radio?
I think I remember someone posting that it really never is off unless you shut the car off and exit. I believe that person said that he just needed to turn to volume down to zero...does that make sense?
Thats funny. All this time and I never felt the need to do that. Press the left roller to mute it. Is that good enough?
push center button of the left thumb wheel to Play/Pause on music from the USB, probably works for radio too, which I don't normally listen to. Does the same thing on the Media screen, play/pause button.
It turns off when you exit the car and walk away.
The left steering wheel scroll button will mute/pause it.
This works just like my Sonos all-house system that I have at home. It was weird at first - "what, no off or stop button???". But after a while you get used to it. You realize you don't need an off button. Pause/mute does the trick equally well. Stop/off is just a custom of the past audio systems we can shed now with our new electronic toys of the future.
You can also hit Pause on the touchscreen, if applicable.
Yes, the radio system is never "off", but the amount of electricity used when no sound is being output is miniscule. Also, depending on what type of radio you were listening to, it may be more "off" than others. For example, you can't really turn the FM radio off, but if you're listening to TuneIn or Slacker, I'm pretty sure Pause will make the radio stop streaming (downloading), so the radio will be doing pretty much nothing.
I've also found if you pause the radio while using slacker ( not sure about tune in) you can take a phone call and when your call ends and you resume the radio, it picks up from where it left off, like pausing a TiVo. Is the car using the built in hard drive for this or is it just the nature of internet radio?
If a radio is muted in the forest, is it on?
+1 @DouglasR
@Robert22 for Slacker, it downloads the song faster than it plays, if it can, and from what I can tell, it doesn't start trying to download the next song until the current song ends. So yes, that's why the song can start instantly after pausing or even exiting and reentering the car (if it didn't go to sleep). You can also finish listening to a song even if you drive underground and lose the signal because the current song gets buffered into memory.
With TuneIn though, the music is playing a stream with behavior similar to the experience of FM radio; when you're not listening to a station, it's still broadcasting; you can't pause and resume. Your car needs a constant signal to continue playing the TuneIn station.
This is too funny. I got my car a week ago and don't yet have plates (work has been busy ). So the car has been sitting in the garage. I just went into it for the second time to play around and could not figure out how to turn off the radio. I came inside and said to my wife that I need to figure out how to turn off the radio. She said I should post in this forum. I said that it would be too embarrassing to ask. And here it is. So thank you for asking the silly question, there are a lot of us out there who are even sillier
The microprocessor is busy doing other stuff when you pause the radio and since the amplifier is not being driven, the radio is essentially off. This is the 21st. Century, there is no off button.
Once you exit the car, if you lock the car (press once on the top of the key), the car will shut off, doors will lock, radio will turn off. If you walk away (and have walkaway lock engaged) the same thing will happen after a minute or so.
Oops, nevermind. You were asking about while you are driving. I turn the media to my iphone (synched) and then not hit play on my playlist.
Off? That's so old world. In the new Digital Dispensation, everything is always 'On', and waiting ...
The entire off experience takes getting used to. I had to learn to get out of the car with the heater running and the radio playing, and close the door. Specificaly, I had to learn to trust the car. And stop reaching for keys when I got in. My wife has only driven about 4 times. Tonight she gets behind the wheel, I get in the passengers seat and she holds her hand out. I stare at it, she looks at me expectantly. Takes a few seconds before the reality of life in the future sinks in.
I still like 'off'. I own a handful of cars and never, ever turn the radio on in any of them. My experience is listening to the engine / exhaust. In the MS, it will be listening to the wind...
I wonder if removing the radio and all speakers will increase mileage significantly? Hmmm...
Removing the sound system entirely won't make a detectable difference to the range unless it weighs 150lb or more ;-)
In other words, it doesn't use enough power to make a dent in the 20kW or so needed just to move the S down the road at a reasonable speed.
Because the radio is operated through the touch screen computer, I think its electronics are basically "free" to operate. So when the touch screen is operational, so is the radio.
Remember, the touch screen computer system is probably very similar in power consumption to a couple of iPads. If you look at an iPad and realize how tiny its battery system is, you can understand that its power consumption is negligible compared to the needs of the car. So for your convenience, it's on all the time, and so is the radio subsystem.
I have owned my S for a year and still have trouble turning off the radio (OK, I am old school): when I hit the wheel with my left thumb, about a third of the time, it just switches to another station instead of muting----I know, I know, its doesn't need to be turned off, but a third of the time it is now on another station and I need to go through the mechanics of getting it back on the right station. Can't Tesla just make a "click" that turns off the radio instead of expecting my fat thumbs to make the intricate push at exactly a 90 degree angle?
@rshinar - my car is 17 months old. Though I don't have any problem using the thumb wheel, it is very obvious that the more recent loaners I've driven have a much more pronounced 'click' when pushing the thumbwheel, whereas mine is more spongy. It doesn't bother me enough to ask Service to swap them out.
What I have noticed is that having it set on the FM radio and muted with the thumb wheel still occasionally has very slight hissing or popping sounds coming from the speakers, like the amplifier is still running and amplifying bits of signal noise in the wiring or something. To actually get it quiet, I switch to Slacker and pause it, then it actually does go completely silent.
I always use Slacker, so I just pause it (from the screen).
Just turn the volume to 11 and that will mute it
Bluetooth is not working - reports that it "needs service". I thought maybe if I could power-cysle the sound system, Bluetooth might correct itself.
Try rebooting - that may fix it. If not, call customer service - they may have some ideas.
Spongy scroll wheel- I think they are all like that.
A little ,more definite feel would bee nice but it's a nit pick issue. They buy the turn signals from Mercedes, I don't know where the scroll wheel comes from.
I believe the cruise control is also MB, and is typical German over engineered , not very intuitive, but a quality feel.
If enough people complain, Tesla could add an off button to the touch screen. But it would come down to having it press the pause button for you. The real difference between pause and off it that pause leaves the heads spinning against your cassette tape and off doesn't. It's even worse if you went for the eight track tape option.
How do you turn a music player app on your computer / tablet / phone of choice? It is the same thing. Note:
a) "Radio" is just an "app". You can close it (hide it) if you wish, after telling it to stop playing (and not do it in the background. Same with Tesla.
b) Your computer / tablet / phone still stays on. Just like Tesla does. And it should.
c) The amplifier and the speakers are not used solely for "radio". They are used for other things, by other apps. Say phone app.
d) If you like it "off" to save energy that is not a problem. Pausing it saves the same amount of energy.and this is not going to increase your range significantly.
e) if you just want silence you have two options - turn down the volume (any streaming will continue, you will not "hold your spot") or pausing it (it will resume from that spot on for some sources).
f) I rarely turned the radio off in my previous cars dating back decades. They were always wired correctly and would not be "on" without the key being in ignition... or fob in the car and/or door open in case of Tesla. Tesla automatically reduces volume when the door is open as well, FYI.
Typo... that should have started with:
How do you turn a music player app on your computer / tablet / phone of choice *OFF*?
Double-click the left scroll wheel on the steering wheel.
I got used to not shutting off my radio back when I had an iPod Nano... To actually turn one off was a hidden feature where you had to hold down a button for 5 seconds, but if you just pause it, it would power itself off after a couple seconds, and use next to no battery power.
Think of it this way, when your "radio" in the Model S is paused, it uses about as much power as the music app on an iPhone when it is paused (since you can not actually shut off the music player in the phone). Meaning, all the amps are off, the app itself is using no CPU, or memory, and is just sitting there in the background. The car's GPS (that you also can't disable) takes more power in the background than the paused radio does.
There should be a "Lurk" option. That would make more sense to people.
My suggestion would be that you click on the volume control and that 'pauses and mutes' which would effectively be the same as off.
I mostly use USB sticks. I find my car "likes to listen on its own," as the tracks are often several ahead of where they were when I left, even if they were paused when I left the car earlier.
Back in v6.1 of the firmware they had finally gotten the radio right. Pause meant Pause where no matter what the source or condition it would stay paused until you un-paused it. When 6.2 came out all that changed. Now pause is pause only until you plug the car in, then pause turns into play - really sucks when you've got an audiobook paused and you come out to find it several chapters farther into the story from where you left it. Switching to a different source to keep your book from running on doesn't work either. The v6.2 improvement here is that when you switch sources like USB1 to USB2 it always resets back to the beginning of the track. Again, 6.1 had that figured out - when you switched sources with that version it would retain your location in the track. I'm back to having to keep a paper book marks. Really wish they would fix that.
Pause and muting only works until I get in my car again. Then radio jumps in LOUD. I wish I could just TURN OFF. Agree with rshinar.
After 3 years still haven't found the OFF button. :-)
Best way is to just run the left scroll wheel down to turn down the volume all or most of the way.


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When I was in high school, one of the first things I ever heard from George Carlin was a clip called "Join the Book Club," a rapid-fire list of fake books (like this post's title) that left me flat on the floor, heaving for breath. I'm including it here because it still reminds me of one of the first times I really laughed HARD, and that I don't read enough.
I read more often in New York, where I had a book club. There was a pretty even mix of men and women, we actually talked about the book for most of the time, and we ate well. It was really fun. I haven't found one in Ann Arbor yet, and even if I do, it won't be the same. Because they won't be my friends. My friends friends, whom I talk with and Skype with and miss a lot of the time.
I also have this other group of friends, the friends I met in Bloggerworld, whom I see only a couple times a year at conferences, who are funny and smart and rock the mic in a karaoke bar. I spend a lot of time missing them, too.
That's why I have this new Copia reading app for my [eponymous tablet reader that has a fruit on the back]. I get a new book club, and it's with my Internet friends whom I want to interact with more often.
I first heard about this social e-reader at Mom 2.0 in Key Biscayne, when my buddy Jim said Copia was looking to wrangle up some parent bloggers to give it a test-read. (This is one reason to attend conferences: You hear about cool gigs like this one.) Social reading sounded like an OK innovation, because co-enjoying things is fun. (This is why people live-tweet the Oscars.) But I wasn't totally sold at first, because reading is a solitary activity, and I like to process what I read and make the little pictures in my own head before someone tries to tell me what to think. (This is why all media criticism sucks.) Overall, though, I saw an opportunity to rejuvenate my reading habits, hang out with Jim, Shannon, and Tanis, and get paid for it.
So I said, "Yes. I would like to do that."
First, we'll be reading Michael Chabon's "Telegraph Avenue," which is so transcendently wonderful that I want to give up writing forever. And since we'll be reading it together, we'll be leaving comments in the margins for each other. This will be especially fun because Jim is allergic to fiction, Shannon is hyperbolically opinionated, and Tanis is completely illiterate. (She writes her blog phonetically! True story!)
So, here's the deal: If you'd like to join our book club, here's what you do:
- Sign up for a free account with Copia, either through the e-reader app or just in a browser.
- Join up with the Copia Parents Book Club (and/or our own little crew, "Tanis, Doug, Jim, and Shannon Do Books").
- Get your copy of "Telegraph Avenue."
- Tell me you agree that Chabon is always money, or that I'm full of shit.
And here's the best part: if you leave a comment on this post and let me know either 1) your favorite book of all-time, or 2) the next book you're about to read by Friday, Oct 5, at 11:59pm Eastern, 10 commenters chosen at random will receive ANY BOOK THEY WANT through Copia!
(Assuming, of course, that Copia has it. If you're looking for "Backpacking for Shut-Ins," for example, you might want to have a Plan B.)


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Enhanced Support for Debugging
There are features aplenty in Visual Studio 2010 that can boost developer productivity. One such feature is enhanced support for debugging in the IDE.
Tracing and debugging are two important concepts you can use for detecting potential bugs in your application's code at execution time. To debug your application's code, you set a breakpoint, then step into the code while the application is in execution.
But Visual Studio 2010's enhanced support for debugging applications goes a step further. You now have a new feature called Import/Export breakpoint that you can use to set breakpoints, debug your application, export the current set of breakpoints, and then import it again at a later point in time. In essence, this feature lets you have multiple set of breakpoints -- each suited for a particular scenerio.
To Import/Export breakpoints in Visual Studio 2010, select Debug->Windows->Breakpoint and then choose Import or Export as needed. When you are exporting breakpoints, they are saved in a file in the location you specify while exporting breakpoints.
Another interesting and handy feature is that Visual Studio 2010 lets you place the DataTips to the code window and drag-and-drop it to any location in the Code Window for easier inspection and monitoring. Similar to breakpoints, you can Import/Export DataTips tool.


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I have a Droid Incredible rooted with Cyanogen 7.
When I use my network wi fi (on cable modem) the download speed is about 400kb/s, using SpeedTest.net's Droid app. When I test with my Virgin MObile LG Optimus V I get 8.5 Mb/s.
I've turned off bluetooth (which I hear uses the same radio as wi fi).


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Located near Songzhuang, a quiet village on the outskirts of Beijing, a unique opportunity exists to create a new urban district dedicated entirely to the cultivation of new ideas. The National Creative Cluster (NCC) is envisioned as China's preeminent knowledge hub, making the district a center for the country's innovative home-grown talent and a destination for the world's most creative thinkers.
Sasaki's master plan for NCC - selected in May 2012 as the preferred scheme for implementation - focuses on principles that underscore and support the overarching philosophy of the district: to bring industries with shared values and complementary skills and technologies together to help spark new ideas.
Acting as an incubator, the success of the district is tied to its openness, where people can interact in both structured and spontaneous ways to exchange ideas and have constructive dialogue. To attract a talented workforce, NCC will also provide institutes for continuing education, museums and galleries for inspiration, entertainment venues to encourage social interaction, and bold landscapes to help recharge the mind, body, and spirit.
The district's diversity of industry, people, and spatial relationships are aimed to foster creativity and encourage an endless stream of new ideas. Sasaki's master plan integrates the urban form with the surrounding landscape by creating a series of green wedges, interspersed within the urban clusters and forming a series of community parks.
The landscape is both beautiful and functional - it encourages biodiversity, filters stormwater, and provides seasonal interest and color. The landscape also forms a strong connection between humans and nature, which fuels innovation and creativity. A new transit loop is also a key element of the plan, and establishes a connection between the hubs of NCC to the existing core of the Songzhaung Artists Village to enhance the movement of both people and ideas.


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Here's what one plugged-in source tells us about Steven Sinofsky's exit at Microsoft.
Sinofsky felt that he deserved to be Microsoft's next CEO, and wanted to be designated as Steve Ballmer's successor after Windows 8 shipped, according to this source's version of his ouster.
He threatened to quit if he didn't get the nod. Ballmer, who has previously indicated he plans to keep running Microsoft until he retires in 2017 or 2018, called his bluff.
Getting named CEO was not a vain or fanciful hope. Sinofsky, a hard-charging executive who built Microsoft Office into a powerhouse, went on to fix Microsoft's broken Windows franchise after the disastrous launch of Vista.
He knew Microsoft's two most important businesses inside and out.
And this was not lost on outsiders. Almost a decade ago, Business 2.0 declared that Sinofsky was a credible candidate for the job.
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Jim Krimbill was general manager of Genesys Athletic Club, Grand Blanc, MI, at the time of this writing. He is now general manager at Gainey Village Health Club and Spa in Scottsdale, AZ. For more information on the cleaning product mentioned in this column, go to www.genesysathleticclub.com.
Clean must become a mantra for everyone at a club because hygiene and cleanliness are priorities for current and prospective members. Nothing differentiates your facility more in the minds of members and potential members than your staff and your facility's cleanliness. The value of your club rises when you can show that you provide a clean facility where your members are safe to work out. And that means that retention rises, too.
At Genesys Athletic Club, we have committed ourselves to continually improving the cleanliness of our facility. We continually add new dimensions to our cleaning routine, reinforcing past cleaning practices and making total hygiene a priority for the club and for the members. For example, we installed hand sanitizers and equipment wipe dispensers a couple of years ago. Our nightly cleaning crew and daytime crew have learned to focus specific attention on each area of the club. In the aquatics area, we not only monitor chemical levels of the pools using computer controls, but we also personally test the chemical levels three times a day. In addition, we added two female maintenance staff members to focus during the day on the women's locker room, a change that has received rave reviews from members.
The challenge for us was how to move from clean to cleaner. We pledged to improve 1 percent each day. Part of that improvement involved investing in antimicrobial technology. We had a company treat our men's, women's, and family locker rooms (9,000 square feet in all) with a durable, protective antimicrobial treatment that does not migrate from the treated surface to humans or the environment. The system we chose has been used in hospitals and consumer products for more than 30 years. The EPA-registered product promised to eliminate problem odors, staining and deterioration caused by bacteria, mold and mildew. This technology physically controls micro-organisms on contact and remains permanently affixed to the surface. What makes the antimicrobial treatment unique is that it becomes a durable part of the treated surface and kills micro-organisms, fungus, mold, mildew, yeast and bacteria on contact.
The treatment of the locker rooms included the showers, steam room, sauna, cold plunge, whirlpool, restrooms, walls, ceiling, tile floor, carpet floor, sinks, lockers and other surfaces. Our cleaning crews just wipe the surfaces at night and during the day with a mild soap to remove the dead germs from the surfaces. This treatment has reduced the need for the power washer, degreasers, bleach and other harsh chemicals.
In our pro shop, we stock antimicrobial products that our members can apply to their shoes, sportswear, equipment bags, athletic gear, etc. By doing this, members can help us complete the circle of hygiene. The product provides 24/7 antimicrobial protection for up to 30 days on all hard surfaces. It is practical, easy-to-use and cost effective. We also stock a product for members that eliminates odors, bacteria, fungi and mold growth on linens, clothes and towels. It lasts up to 30 washes and is environmentally friendly and hypo-allergenic.
We promote use of the products to our members using the analogy of a student driver. We know you drive well (you wash), but watch out for the student drivers (other members who don't wash). So, take control and use the product for defensive purposes. The next step for the club will be to treat the mats and weight room equipment seats and handles.
These efforts are making "cleaner than clean" a reality at Genesys, something our members appreciate—we hope so much so that this will be just one more reason for them to renew their memberships.


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Radishes are a superfood
One of the earliest vegetables harvested from the home garden in spring is radishes. They come up fast, grow fast, and add a dash of color and pep to a meal.
Radishes are high in vitamin C, which boosts bone health and helps wounds heal faster. They also contain folate and blood-pressure-lowering potassium, and they may even protect against cancer, according to some sources.
Radishes add a kick to green salads and stir-fry dishes.
A unique way of serving radishes is to shred them like potatoes and fry them with chopped onion. Add an egg for a complete breakfast.
Whole baby radishes or larger ones cut in half can be drizzled with olive oil, rosemary, salt, and pepper and baked at 425 degrees for 40 minutes. This results in a mellow flavor.
For an open-faced sandwich, slice radishes into rounds and place on a buttered bun or English muffin with a sprinkle of sea salt.
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By Laura Sheahen
On a nondescript street in the capital of Romania, my colleague and I duck into a small, unmarked doorway and make our way up four narrow flights of stairs. In the stairwell, there are no posters or signs, none of the charity-related paraphernalia I usually notice when visiting organisations that fight human trafficking. We only see those when we reach the small attic office.
The organisation we're visiting, ADPARE, has had to move offices a few times. The place is hidden because traffickers—criminals who buy and sell human beings—got too close.
We're here to meet Adrian*, a 16-year-old boy who spent his childhood as a slave. Bought by a trafficker when he was a baby, Adrian grew up in Spain, forced to beg and steal.
He'd make hundreds of euros a day, and all of it went to his "false family," as he calls it. At times he tried to hide money. "But they knew, so they beat me."
In Spain, Adrian lived in a garage with the family. Everyone else had a bed, but he slept on the floor. "Because I tried to run away so much, they chained me at night," he says.
One day when he was 11, Adrian was on a trip with the family back to Romania. When the family was sleeping, Adrian managed to escape. He rode a train to the capital city, Bucharest. "On the train I was thinking, 'I'll be free.'"
He was soon reunited with his birth mother, who didn't know he had been trafficked and was overjoyed to have him back in her life. Police built a case, and some of his traffickers are in jail now.
Adrian's is a success story for ADPARE, a group that works with Caritas and other charities to help trafficking survivors begin again. After a lot of counselling with ADPARE and a lot of hard work at school, Adrian is adjusting well to his new life and is excelling in his classes.
Other cases are much tougher. A girl who was trafficked to Switzerland—a neighbour had promised her work in a hotel—is back in Romania now. Women who are sold into sex work often suffer even more lasting trauma than people sold into forced labour or beggary. The girl drank a caustic liquid, trying to commit suicide. Her esophagus is destroyed. "We're feeding her through a tube. Yesterday was my turn," says Gina*, president of ADPARE.
Like everything about trafficking, sex trafficking is hidden. Human traffickers make it their business to be hard to spot, and make it hard to identify who is their prey. "Many clients of prostitutes think the woman is there because she wants to be," says Gabriela Chiroiu of Caritas Bucharest. "But when you see her with bruises, burned with a cigarette, or crying, you should know something is wrong."
Traffickers wear many masks, sometimes pretending to be caring, involved friends or lovers. "They know when to strike, when people are most vulnerable," says Gina.
Gina recalls a 16-year-old girl who left her home because of family tensions and went to live on her own in a different city, working as a babysitter. "A man started grooming her," says Gina. "He'd call and asked her if she'd eaten. He bought her medicine when she was sick."
"Then one day he said, 'I have friends—a couple with a baby—in Norway. They need a nanny.'" Once the girl was out of the country, she was sold into prostitution.
Often, the victims blame themselves. "There are too many traffickers to be angry with," Gina says. "They're angry with themselves for trusting someone. One man who'd been trafficked to a factory in London said to me, 'I was so stupid to believe everything.'"
Sometimes the person who sells you for money is a close relative. "One of the strangest things I hear," says Gina, "is a woman saying, 'The father of my children sold me.'"
Even when trafficked people escape, they're not always safe. Gina's on the phone with another man who was trafficked to England. He can't to go back to his original area of Romania because traffickers are still on the loose there, and might threaten him so he'll retract his police testimony.
ADPARE trains police, court workers, and other groups, teaching them how to talk to victims. "I like working with the police, because our trainings really change their attitudes," says Gina. "The general mentality is that all the victims are prostitutes. When they looked at the cases, they were amazed."
The traffickers themselves operate like shapeshifters, changing locations and contact information constantly. If they recruited someone using a mobile phone, they eventually "throw away the SIM card after a few weeks so they can't be tracked," says Gabriela.
Because selling people is so profitable, traffickers don't let go of their victims easily. Sixteen-year-old Adrian is acing his science classes, getting to know his stepsister, and building a close relationship with his mother. "If not for ADPARE, I wouldn't have so much support. I wouldn't have recovered so fast," he says.
Psychologically, he may be out of the woods. But there are some things he can't shake off. People involved in his trafficking came to Adrian's village last week, looking for him; he called Gina for advice.
"Trafficking has so many faces, you can't imagine," says Gabriela. "Behind everything is the trafficker, brutal, getting richer and richer."
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The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine whether offering a prayer before a town meeting violates the First Amendment's separation of church and state.
The issue in Town of Greece v. Galloway (12-696) is whether city officials violated the First Amendment's ban on government endorsement of a particular religion when it set up a system that allowed local volunteers to offer a prayer prior to the town's monthly meetings.
Although non-Christians delivered a few of the prayers, the vast majority of volunteers offered – and delivered – pre-meeting prayers that featured Christian religious references.
At least two regulars at town meetings objected to being forced repeatedly to listen to Christian prayers. They complained to town officials that they felt marginalized by the town's prayer policy.
One of the complaining residents in the New York town was Susan Galloway, who is Jewish. The other was Linda Stephens, an atheist.
After the town refused to change its prayer policy, the two filed suit in federal court. They said that by consistently presenting Christian prayers prior to its meetings, the town was intentionally discriminating against non-Christians. They also argued that the pre-meeting prayers were advancing a single faith over other religions or nonreligion.
A federal judge disagreed and dismissed the case. On appeal, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed. The Town of Greece, the appeals court ruled, had aligned itself with a single religion in violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
"Christian clergy delivered each and every one of the prayers for the first nine years of the town's prayer practice, and nearly all of the prayers thereafter," the appeals court said.
It added that "the rare handful of cases, over the course of a decade, in which individuals from other faiths delivered the invocation, cannot overcome the impression, created by the steady drumbeat of often specifically sectarian Christian prayers, that the town's prayer practice associated the town with the Christian religion."
This put audience members at town meetings who are nonreligious or non-Christian in an awkward position, the court said.
The town defended its prayer policy, saying it was neutral and nondiscriminatory. The town created a list of anyone who might be willing to present a prayer prior to the town meeting. An official went through the list until someone agreed to deliver a prayer.
"Members of many different religious traditions accepted the opportunity to offer a prayer, including Catholics, Protestants from several denominations, a Wiccan priestess, the chairman of a local Bahai congregation, and a lay Jewish man," Washington lawyer Thomas Hungar wrote in his brief on behalf of the town, urging the high court to take up the case.
"Under the town's policy, atheists and non-believers were equally welcome to volunteer to give an invocation," Mr. Hungar said. Anyone could deliver a prayer, and town officials refused to police the content of a prayer or attempt to gauge its religiosity.
Ayesha Khan, a lawyer with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said in her brief to the court that the town board "exploited its prayer opportunity to advance one faith to the exclusion of others."
Ms. Khan, who is representing the two complaining residents of Greece, said the town's prayer practice violates the constitutional command that government remain neutral in matters of faith.
"With the exception of a four-meeting hiatus around the time of the filing of this lawsuit in 2008, the Town has relied exclusively on Christian clergy, who have persistently delivered overtly Christian prayers," she wrote.
"Clergy request that attendees join in the prayers. Town Board members participate by bowing their heads, standing, responding 'Amen,' or making the sign of the cross," she said. "Members of the audience do the same."
In asking the high court to hear the case, Hungar said there was a split within the federal appeals courts concerning the correct test judges must apply to determine if a legislative prayer crosses the line.
He said the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., and the Second Circuit in New York had both embraced an approach that requires courts to determine if a pre-meeting prayer has an impermissible effect on a reasonable observer.
In contrast, he said, a 1983 Supreme Court decision requires judges to determine only whether a pre-meeting prayer was being used to proselytize, advance, or disparage a particular faith. Under that case, there is no requirement to examine the content of the prayer and its possible effect on a listener, he said.
This more permissive approach, Hungar said, had been embraced by appeals courts in the 11th Circuit in Atlanta and the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.
Hungar said the case is of importance nationwide. The Second Circuit decision, he said, would require public officials to engage in pre-meeting critiques of future invocations.
"The frightening prospect of state officers acting as official censors of prayers delivered voluntarily by private citizens (or even paid chaplains) has no basis in this Nation's tradition or this Court's jurisprudence," he wrote.
Khan disputed the existence of a significant split among the appeals courts. Differences in appellate court decisions, she said, were due to factual differences in each case.
She rejected the charge that the Second Circuit decision would lead to more litigation and confusion.
In a friend-of-the-court brief, 18 states encouraged the court to hear the case and overturn the Second Circuit decision. "It is important that the Court address the growing split over this issue before it becomes yet another irredeemably muddled sector of Establishment Clause doctrine," Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher wrote.
"The lack of clarity in this area is especially troubling to the extent it leaves courts to delve into questions best left to theologians, not courts of law," he said.


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