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ThL W7: another 5.7-inch Phablet, looks like the ZOPO ZP950
ThL jumps into the bandwagon of bigger phablets, presenting their latest upcoming ThL W7. Its a 5.7 inches dual-core phablet, with a big resemblance on what we had saw with the ZOPO ZP950 Phablet. While we are very much waiting for the quad-core phone from ThL, it was now known the upcoming there will be just the same ThL W7 phablet, but on a quad-core internals.
There is not much of information about the specifics on this TL W7, but it was anticipated to pack a 1GB of RAM, 8MP of snapper, and 2300mAh battery rating capacity.
Expected price tag is at $250, still this number is not yet confirmed. It is still unclear if the ThL W7 was really intentionally made to look like the ZP950 or might be just a coincidence. Release date is also unknown, not too long but soon enough.

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ROYAL OAKS — A 45-year-old Royal Oaks woman died Sunday afternoon when a freight train struck the Honda Civic she was riding in on a dirt road off San Juan Road, the California Highway Patrol said.
Five people were in the Civic, including three children ages 2, 7 and 12, who suffered minor injuries, Sgt. Carl Churchfield said.
The driver suffered moderate injuries and was flown to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Churchfield said.
A daughter of the woman who died, who stood beside the railroad tracks Sunday evening with a group of onlookers crying and being held by a neighbor, identified her mother as Maria Lopez Vasquez.
Alejandra Lopez said her mother had six children and worked in the strawberry fields. She was born in San Martin, Mexico, Lopez said.
She said her mother, sister and sister's children were heading to the market when the westbound Union Pacific freight train struck the car about 4 p.m.
All lived in a small mobile home park between the railroad tracks and a wooded hillside, at the end of a dirt road between freshly plowed fields. Vasquez had lived there about seven years, her daughter said.
A stop sign and railroad caution sign flank the tracks, which make a sharp curve about 1,000 feet east.
Witnesses told the CHP that the Civic traveled up onto the tracks, which are covered by a cement platform, when the driver hesitated and then put the car in reverse, Churchfield said.
But it was too
late, and the train clipped the front of the car, which was dragged under the train for more than 100 feet, he said.
He said the conductor and engineer said they were blowing the horn and had pulled the emergency brake.
"She thought she could make it; it's just tragic," he said. "Witnesses said she seemed to be in panic mode."
Two hours later, the badly damaged car was about 150 feet down the tracks and the front of the train had come to a halt about 1,000 feet from the crossing.
Lopez said she didn't hear the train horn, only the sound of a terrible crash.
Lopez and another woman who live there said train operators do not always blow the horn when they pass by.
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I think Minnesota is the most prestigious of the 3. It's a perennial Top 20. However, I'm not sure that it's placement is really any more national, perhaps if you're yop 10% or something. But I've been deferredthere so pick Wisconsin or BC -- sounds like you have a personal prference for one of those schools anyway.
According to most published reports, BC places in BIGLAW better. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1207904889529However, I would suggest the following:If you want to practice at a big firm on a coast, attend BC.If you want to work in the MidWest, attend UMinn. (other than Wisc).If you want to work in Wisconsin, attend Madison.


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Traditional publishing won't die, but it will have to transform in order to survive. It's a business and true leaders understand that transformations like this happen in every business and industry. Innovative leaders look at this time as a great opportunity. It's a time to try new business models, be creative, and get excited!
Authors need to realize they are a business and it's an exciting time for them as much as anyone else in the industry. So many opportunities are opening up to us that didn't exist before. We now have direct access to our readers regardless of where we live or where they live. The Internet and social media are a new tool that Christian writers can use as a writing ministry.
After reading this series, I thought it was very informative and brought out some perspectives I haven't before considered, so I've posted links at the bottom of this post.
With the ever-present changing world of publishing, I've got to try and survive--to do my part. It isn't my publisher's job to build my platform. If those days ever existed, they're over. It 's my responsibility to build my platform. And if you're an author, it's also YOUR job.
People notice when you go the extra mile or take a few additional steps to do more than you HAVE to do. They not only, notice, but they remember and appreciate it. They may even promote it to others.
Below are the promised links to Kris Tuella's blog articles.
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Hertz Global Holdings (NYSE: HTZ) is the world's largest worldwide airport general car rental brand, based on revenues.[1] The company rents cars and building equipment through its approximately 8,100 locations in approximately 145 countries. It is the only car rental company in all major European markets as well as the United States.[1] It is also the market share leader in airport car rental business by revenues.
The company's Hertz car rental brand commands the biggest piece of the U.S. airport car rental market, with an estimated 28% share. Through its HERC subsidiary, the company rents equipment ranging from earthmoving vehicles, material handling equipment, aerial and electrical devices, air compressors, pumps, generators, and more to primarily builders of non-residential property.
With the vast majority of its business derived from airport business across the globe, the company is highly dependent on the airline travel industry. Disruptions or shifts in travel, including terrorism, recessions or drops in disposable income leading to decreased vacationing and business travel can dramatically affect the financial results of the company.
Furthermore, because the company purchases the majority of its cars under special repurchase or guaranteed depreciation programs (whereby they can sell vehicles back to the manufacturers at a certain price) with Ford Motor Company (F) and General Motors (GM), they are subject to risks related to these manufacturers' financial troubles.
For 2009, Hertz posted total revenues of $7.1 billion, a substantial decrease from its 2008 revenues of $8.5 billion.[2] Despite this decrease in revenues, Hertz was able to decrease its net loss from $1.2 billion in 2008 to just $111 million in 2009. Most of this was a result of Hertz incurring a one time impairment charge of $1.16 billion in 2008.[2]
Hertz breaks its operations into two reportable segments: i) Car Rental, and ii) Equipment Rental.
The car rental segment is the segment that rents out cars that Hertz either owns or leases. In 2009, roughly 67% of its total worldwide car rental revenues came from airport locations.[3] In 2009, this segment earned $6.0 billion in total revenues.[4]
In Europe the 85% of tourist travel in low cost airlines and rent the cheapest offer. Low cost rental companies are growing very fast thanks to the promotions 30% of discounts in average. They can make money with such prices adjusting structure costs, outsourcing everything and small sales network being just in best airports.
Hertz operates its equipment rental segment under its HERC subsidiary. HERC is one of the largest equipment rental companies in the United States, and it rents a broad range of earthmoving equipment, materials handling equipment, aerial and electric equipment, among others.[3] In 2009, this segment posted total sales of $1.1 billion.[4]
Over 70% of the company's car rental business comes from airline travelers who rent vehicles upon reaching their airport destination. This benefits Hertz, as its brand has the largest market share and substantial brand recognition at airports. During periods of heavy traveling and vacationing, the company benefits from the tailwinds of increased traffic at its airport locations. Conversely, disruptions to travel, including terrorist attacks, natural disasters, or recessions (during which consumers and businesses cut spending on non-essential travel and vacation) adversely affect the company's bread-and-butter car rental business.
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An increase in fuel prices has two adverse effects on the company. First, it directly discourage use of rental cars, since customers must fill the tank during the period they rent the vehicle. Second, it leads to drops in airline travel, which, as mentioned above, is a driving force of the company's business. Because the rental industry is so price competitive and because drivers will avoid frequent travel and driving given high oil prices, passing costs on to customers is difficult to impossible.
Hertz's equipment rental subsidiary, HERC, is dependent upon non-residential/commercial construction activity. Its product mix includes machinery and equipment that is largely used during construction activities. Drops in non-residential construction will hamper results at HERC as fewer construction projects means less demand for equipment rentals from Hertz. To a lesser degree, the recent declines in the U.S. housing market and in new home construction might put strain on HERC's business, though not as many residential projects use HERC's equipment.
The auto and equipment rental industries are highly competitive. The company's main car rental competitors are Avis Budget Group (CAR), Vanguard Brands, and Enterprise Rent-a-Car (the latter two are privately held). Generally, the company competes primarily with Avis and Dollar Thrifty for airline-related rental business, while Enterprise, which sports a larger car fleet and higher revenues, focuses more on off-airport business, including "loaners" and other travel.
In the equipment rental business, the competition is intense, highly fragmented, and frequently price competitive. HERC believes it is one of the preeminent rental operations in each of the market it competes in. Large competitors with comparable positions include:
In September, 2010 Hertz (NYSE: HTZ) closed a deal to buy smaller car rental company and former competitor Dollar-Thrifty (NYSE: DTG). It managed to keep Dollar away from Avis (NYSE: CAR) which had topped Hertz's earlier bid. Hertz new offer is for $43.60 cash plus 0.6366 a share for each share of Dollar Thrifty. The new offer adds $10.80 a share of cash to the deal price. This is deemed by the Dollar board to be better than the Avis $40.75 cash and 0.6543 per share incentive.[5]


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Visit the Greenwich Historical Society
Bush-Holley Historic Site
47 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT 06807
Bush-Holley House
January—February: Open Saturday and Sunday
March—December: Open Wednesday—Sunday
Hours: 12—4 pm. Docent-led tours at 1, 2 and 3 pm or by appointment.
For information on group reservations on non-public days, please call 203-869-6899, Ext. 32.
Storehouse Gallery
Open all year: Wednesday—Sunday.
Hours: 12—4 pm or by appointment.
Library and Archives
Open Wednesday, 10 am—4 pm
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Open Monday to Friday, 9 am—5 pm
Museum Admission
Admission to the Bush-Holley House (by guided tour) and museum gallery:
- Adults: $10
- Seniors and Students: $8
- Always free to members and children under 18
Free admission to the public: first Wednesday of each month
Groups of 10 or more must make advance reservations.
Group reservation rate is $7 per person.
Southbound: Exit 4 off I-95; make immediate Right U-turn onto Sound Shore Drive; follow to end; turn Right onto Strickland Road, parking lot on Left under I-95 overpass.
Northbound: Exit 4 off I-95; make Left over I-95; make immediate Right onto Sound Shore Drive; follow to end; turn Right onto Strickland Road, parking lot on left under I-95 overpass.
Buses: Exit 5 off I-95; Left onto Route 1/East Putnam Avenue. Follow for approximately one mile; Left onto River Road for about 1 mile to intersection and bear Left onto Strickland Road; Parking lot on Right immediately past Bush-Holley Historic Site.
By Train: Greenwich Historical Society is within easy walking distance from the Metro-North Cos Cob train station (less than a mile). From the New York bound side, head east on Strickland Road. From the New Haven bound side, walk under the tracks at the far end of the platform and turn right on to Strickland Road. Greenwich Historical Society is on the left just past the I-95 overpass.


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Just in time for President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Monday, Jan. 21, the University of Rochester will open an exhibit on the history of presidential speechwriting.
Comprised of more than 50 selections from public and private collections, including presidential libraries and the University's collections, A Presidential Voice includes a signed copy of John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address where he said, "Ask not what your country can do for youask what you can do for your country." Also on display is a copy of Abraham Lincoln's first address.
Co-curated by Curt Smith, senior lecturer in English and former presidential speechwriter, and Lori Birrell, manuscript librarian in the University's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, the exhibit is a "bi-partisan rendering of presidential speechwriting," said Smith, who contributed many items from his personal collection for the display. "We want people to be able to relive the presidency through speeches that were written, then given."
Between 1989 and 1993, Smith wrote more speeches than anyone else for President George H.W. Bush, including the "Just War" speech, the Medal of Freedom for Margaret Thatcher address, and the 50th anniversary speech on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The exhibit features letters, speeches, photographs, and correspondence of presidents including John Quincy Adams, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton. The material references Warren G. Harding's hiring of the first White House speechwriter in 1921. Later memorabilia show how the birth of radio changed the delivery of speeches.
According to Smith, the exhibit is intended to "shed a light on the writing process, methodologies used, and the importance of delivery."
The exhibit runs from Monday, Jan. 14 through Friday, March 8, and can be viewed in the Rare Books and Special Collections Department on the second floor of Rush Rhees Library, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For additional information, call 585-275-4477.


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Portugal's center-right coalition government has been saved from collapse after ministers found a way to ensure stability. The government looked set to implode after two top-level resignations.
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho announced on Thursday that he was "convinced" that the government could survive, despite the political crisis stemming from the resignation of two of his most senior ministers.
"A formula has been found to maintain the stability of the government," the premier said after a meeting with the Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva.
Foreign Minister Paulo Portas said he was stepping down on Tuesday, a day after the resignation of Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar.
The resignation of Portas - who is also the leader of the junior coalition member the Popular Party (CDS-PP) - had posed a particular threat for the governement, led by Passos Coelho's liberal-conservative Social Democratic Party (PSD). Unions and the opposition left subsequently called for new elections to be held.
Passos Coelho said the deal had been reached after he met Portas three times over a 24-hour period. The premier said the deal would involve a "way to guarantee the political support of the CDS-PP."
Party political disgruntlement
In his resignation letter, Portas had said he was unhappy that the prime minister had named Treasury Secretary Maria Luis Albuquerque as the new finance minister. However, Passos Coelho did not accept the resignation.
Portas agreed to meet the prime minister and the two were able to find "a viable solution for the government of Portugal."
While no further details were forthcoming, Portuguese media speculated that the prime minister might reshuffle the cabinet, giving Portas the post of deputy prime minister in charge of the economy.
The resignation of Gaspar - a technocrat who has no party affiliations - has caused less political concern. Gaspar resigned on the grounds that there was not enough popular support for austerity measures of which he was the architect.
The political uncertainty caused by the resignations caused Portugal's 10-year borrowing rate to surge to more than 8 percent on Wednesday. The rate fell back to 7.216 percent on Thursday.
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi on Thursday afternoon ruled out the possibility of the ECB buying Portuguese government bonds in an effort to defuse the crisis. Draghi said the country did not meet the criteria to qualify, given that it did not regularly issue long term bonds.
rc/jm (AP, AFP, Reuters)


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Unemployment rates fall in two-thirds of US cities
August 28, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates fell in two-thirds of large U.S. metro areas in July, a sign of widespread improvement in the job market.
The Labor Department says unemployment rates fell in 239 of the nation's 372 largest cities in July. That's the most since April. Rates rose in 103 and were unchanged in 30.
The U.S. unemployment rate fell last month to a 4 ½-year low of 7.4 percent. That's down from 7.6 percent in June. Employers added 162,000 jobs. That's enough to lower the unemployment rate but below the average monthly gain of 192,000 this year.
Fewer cities are reporting unusually high unemployment rates. Forty-one cities reported a rate above 10 percent last month, down from 67 a year earlier.


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Mike Cote's Business Editor's Notebook: Closing the book on Annie'sBy MIKE COTE
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 23. 2013 1:24AM
The customers at Annie's Book Stop are a curious sort. Like salon patrons who only want their favorite stylist to touch their hair, longtimers have been known to see which clerk's car is in the parking lot - and keep driving if they don't recognize it.
Some might be looking for Barbara Brandt, an avid reader who started working at the store 19 years ago. She has a knack for steering her regulars toward authors they might like based on who they've been reading.
"Are you Annie"? a woman asks on a recent day as she enters the store on 264 Mammoth Road.
"There is no Annie," Brandt says. "I'm just one of the girls."
There is no Annie here, and soon there will be no Annie's Book Stop in Manchester and only one in Nashua.
The world of iPads, Nooks and Kindles has been tough on businesses like Annie's, a used paperback bookstore that will shut down in Manchester at the end of March after more than 30 years of selling titles for half of their original cover price.
While the store's customers can sift through used books at thrift shops and the Book Cellar on Second Street - the sole remaining used bookstore in the city - they will have a tough time finding people like Brandt and owner Nancy Mitchell, a longtime employee who bought the store in 2003.
About two dozen independent Annie's shops continue to operate, primarily in New England. The other New Hampshire stores are in Concord, Nashua, South Nashua, Laconia, Petersborough and Rochester.
The Annie's chain was founded in the early '70s by Anne Tryon Adams, in Westborough, Mass., and once had more than 130 stores in 22 states, according to Publisher's Weekly. The stores were licensed as franchises, but after the parent company went bankrupt in 1987, they became connected through a nonprofit association.
Mitchell says the rise of digital books has reduced the number of young people who frequent the store, and higher gas prices, as well as the increasing price of books themselves, make older customers reluctant to come as much. Business had been declining in recent years, but over the past two, it became clear to her the store was no longer viable.
"We're not computer savvy. That kind of hurt us," Mitchell says. "It's very heartbreaking to come into work and have only six people come in for the whole day. Some Sundays we had no one come in."
The owner of the Nashua store plans to close the 112 Daniel Webster Highway store in South Nashua by early March and consolidate stock with the 493 Amherst St. location.
"We're hoping to get a larger location, but the landlord has been unresponsive," says Paul Goldsmith, who has been working for Annie's in Nashua for nearly 20 years. "It's still seems there's a market for used books. It just has to be done on a thinner margin now."
Since deciding to close, Mitchell has whittled her stock, but there are still between 15,000 and 20,000 books in the 1,200-square-foot store, which is sandwiched between a pawn shop and a Chinese restaurant. It's a place with narrow aisles and tall shelves brimming with New York Times fiction best sellers, science fiction and fantasy adventures (vampire books are still hot), children's picture books and the classics that draw high schoolers trying to find books on their school reading lists.
It's where Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" lives just a couple of shelves up from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Return of the King" and across the aisle from Margaret Wise Brown's "Goodnight Moon." Best-selling authors like Stephen King, John Grisham, Suzanne Brockmann and New Hampshire author Jodi Picoult are displayed prominently in turnstile racks while at the end of the spectrum books by also-rans fill an old shopping cart where titles can be had for 75 cents each or three for $2.
Reducing store hours at the Manchester store and closing a couple of days a week to save money only served to alienate customers. Yet, still they came. People like Gary Cowette, who has been frequenting the store for seven years and has resisted the lure of the Kindle, the electronic device sold by Amazon, the online retailer that first made its mark by selling physical books - delivering a one-two punch to brick-and-mortar shops.
"Why would anyone want to pay $9.99 for a book online?" Cowette says, while looking for a book by Lisa Jackson. "You can buy some for 99 cents, but you can't find the authors you want."
At Annie's he finds even the dud books worth his trip. "You can find every author here. Sometimes it's a miss, but that's the fun part."
You can just bring it back and choose another, at usually half the list price. And if you're bringing in books to trade, you need not bring any cash.
Bette Nelson, a retired Manchester elementary school teacher, worked at the store on Sundays for 15 years until November and had a regular clientèle.
"I remember every book I've read. I remember the main characters. I remember the plot. And this goes back years and years," Nelson says. "So if someone wants to go to a different author, I can recommend another author who writes the same way."
While Mitchell is closing, she's going to have a hard time keeping her hands out of a bookstore and plans to help out at another Annie's. It's the air she breathes.
"I told the girl in Concord that whether she wanted me or not I'm coming up and working for her for a couple of days," Mitchell says. "I got to keep the atmosphere."
Mike Cote is business editor at the Union Leader. Contact him at 668-4321, ext. 324 or email@example.com.


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Eastbound and Down (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus feels like a bullet proof tiger while watching Kenny Powers on DVD
Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) had it all. He was a baseball legend with an arm like a fucking cannon, he had the money coming in, and he was adored. Then came the drink, the drugs, the women and the racist comments on national TV, and Kenny Powers' bubble burst.
Returning to his hometown the Kenny Powers big time attitude is met mostly with indifference, but he retains his belief that he will return to the major leagues. However after taking a job at the local school teaching gym and re-discovering the love of his life, April (Katy Mixon), Kenny Powers may very well have a reason to stick around, even if he doesn't want to admit it.
It seems like an age ago when I first watched
Eastbound & Down(I guess six episodes comes and goes in a snap) but after waiting for a Blu-ray release in the US (which didn't come) I've bitten the bullet and picked up the DVD set to re-experience the Kenny Powers charm (or lack thereof) all over again.
After seeing Danny McBride as the reliable third wheel in
Pineapple Express(a movie I couldn't get enough of at the time) he steps up to the plate in his own show, playing the sort of role he's becoming more known for, that of a brash, ignorant, over confident, rude, inconsiderate, arrogant bastard (I'd like to say with a heart at the end of that, but it's not really the case). Now that doesn't sound like comedy gold to many I'm sure, but somehow McBride makes what should be the most unlikable character on TV a blast to be around.
Kenny Powers is the worst kind of person. His self importance immediately making him see the rest of his small hometown as below him even though it's plain to see any currency he may have had thinking that has long gone but herein lies the genius of the show. His arrogance get him in every kind of hilarious/awkward situation, from attempting to do a personal appearance for Will Ferrell's silver haired car salesman, Ashley Schaeffer, through to trying to impress the love of his life at her new fiancés (and Kenny's boss) barbeque (amongst over venues) and not forgetting the show of love through dance at a school disco with Kenny loaded on ecstasy. Powers is never going to get it right but episode upon episode these situations are just a joy to watch unravel.
McBride's co-stars all bring their own elements to the show as well, Katy Mixon's April for example is a fine counter to Powers and there's a genuine chemistry there. Also Kenny's brother, Dustin (played by the always great John Hawkes) has a few great scenes with the lead and Kenny's new best friend/assistant Stevie (Steve Little) is a friendship that blossoms in all the wrong ways but still features high on the list of things this show does well.
With all the elements in place, from great comedy writing, a solid supporting cast of characters, great directors (Jody Hill, David Gordon Green and Adam McKay) and some fine cameos from Will Ferrell and Craig Robinson, the shows biggest asset is still its lead. Danny Mcbride is slowly becoming a legend in my household and his appearance in anything becomes must see pretty bloody quickly (hell, this is coming from a guy who thinks
Land of the Lostis brilliant despite its many flaws!) His dialogue delivery is top notch and his general manner in this show puts a smile on my face without much effort. In fact, from the moment I realised the voice over in the first episode wasn't Kenny Powers' narration but actually Kenny listening to his own motivational tapes for inspiration, I knew I was in for the whole run.
Kenny Powers is a newcomer but he's already become a classic sit-com character for me and one I just want more episodes from (even though the sixth episode has a pretty solid wrapping up of events).
TV shows from HBO consistently look good and there's no deviation here. Yes, you know immediately it'd look better in HD, due to the natural lighting and bright colours but the DVD does a pretty good job.
Skin tones range from natural to a tad pink in exterior scenes but colours here pop the transfer to life and with a fine mix of well dressed interior sets and plenty of outdoor adventures, the styles are all presented pretty well.
Eastbound and Down doesn't really push the envelope when it comes to TV on DVD but I'd put it in the upper half of good transfers, with some good detail levels, great lighting and other than the odd touch of softness to the image, there's nothing really to complain about.
As with most TV comedies, most of the track sits in the front speakers, presenting dialogue clearly (other than in episode three where I detected a slight crackle to a couple of the scenes). Where Eastbound and Down steps it up a notch though is the use of background noise in and around the school. Kids laughing, shouting and just running around fills the track out and adds a bit of depth making for a slightly above average mix for a comedy.
The other layer added to this is the use of classic rock tracks. They compliment the show perfectly and fill the audio track out, using a nice level of bass and taking a little more advantage of the rears speakers.
Disc One
The only extra on disc one offers up a commentary on the first episode by David Gordon Green, writer Ben T Best, Jody Hill and Danny Mcbride. The track is quite technical in what is being discussed but with each member of the group popping comedy digs in at any given opportunity, all in all making for a fun short commentary adding a little extra background to the show.
Disc Two
'Making Eastbound and Down' (12:14) provides a fine overview to the show and the players involved and as far as I recall is much the same as the EPK on the official website when the show originally aired.
'Kenny Powers Greatest Hits' (02:40) is the cut of the video featured in the show and is brilliant as are the two Schaeffer Motors Commercials (both 01:25 or so) with Will Ferrell making car ads even funnier than they are already.
'Deleted Scenes (Sweet Shit We Didn't Use)' (09:14) serves up some extended moments and the pretty damn funny 'Outtakes (All the Times Someone Fucked Up)' (13:05) is well worth the time, just for the Will Ferrell stuff about "feeling it in his plums".
'Stevie's Dark Secret' (07:38) is a standalone deleted scene that provides a super messed up revelation from Kenny's assistant about the oldest women he's slept with.
Lastly there are commentaries from the same participants on episodes four and six, both equally as fun as the first.
Eastbound and Down is a show I looked forward to watching every week during its TV run and being able to watch it all here again was a riot. It's one of the best comedies out there with a cast of characters that I just love being around and seemingly holds up even better on repeat viewings, with plenty of lines I can see myself repeating in years to come.
The disc itself has a solid audio and video presentation with a good set of extras offering up even more Kenny Powers goodness. Roll on a second season.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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Excellent review. I was however disappointed by the PQ in this release. Unless of coarse HMV have sold me pirated copy, lol
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 15th March 2010
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Serbian, Swedish
Extras: Commentary,
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jody Hill, David Gordon Green, Adam McKay
Cast: Danny McBride, John Hawkes, Jennifer Irwinm Will Ferrell
Genre: Comedy
Length: 168 minutes
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Turning Point is a highly appropriate title for this album. After recording his share of commercial fluff for GRP, Kevin Eubanks switched to Blue Note with this heartfelt CD and strived for excellence instead of going out of his way to avoid it. Creativity, personal improvising, and spontaneity are main ingredients of the album, which unites the talented electric and acoustic guitarist with bass explorer Dave Holland and drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith, among others. Like so much intellectual jazz, Point requires several listenings in order to be fully appreciated.


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The federal agency with the key responsibility to investigate consumer complaints of sudden acceleration problems in Toyotas was too lenient in dealing with the carmaker and lacked the expertise to analyze the car's electronic controls, according to congressional investigators.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, known as NHTSA, "lacked the expertise" and conducted only "cursory and ineffective investigations" into the "highly dangerous problem" of sudden, unintended acceleration of Toyota vehicles, according to a preliminary investigation by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce released today. The committee is holding a hearing on sudden acceleration in Toyotas on Tuesday.
NHTSA officials told committee staff that the agency has "no electrical engineers or software engineers on staff" and in one e-mail the government's principal investigator told Toyota the company could "disregard" some of their "agenda item" requests because "I'm not very knowledgeable on this system."
Following a review of thousand of internal Toyota documents and e-mails, Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D.-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D.-Mich., chairman of the Investigative Subcommittee, outlined the critical questions they will pose to Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood in the hearing, which begins at 11 a.m. tomorrow.
And in a separate letter to James Lentz, head of Toyota's U.S. operations, also scheduled to testify tomorrow, the congressmen accused Toyota executives of "making misleading public statements" about the effectiveness of the recall remedies of fixing sticky pedals and floor mats.
Instead, Toyota's general counsel told the committee that a sticky pedal "typically…does not translate into a sudden, high speed acceleration event."
And in studying internal documents turned over to the committee, investigators found Toyota personnel identified floor mats as the cause of only 16 percent of the sudden unintended acceleration incident reports.
Congressional Hearings on Toyota Tomorrow
Instead, Waxman and Stupak allege, the company "consistently dismissed the possibility that electronic failures" could be responsible for thousands of consumer complaints of unintended acceleration.
Toyota failed to conduct a "systematic investigation of unintended acceleration" and instead relied on a "flawed engineering report", hastily commissioned just two months ago.
Earlier this month, after Lentz told ABC News he was confident that "there are no electronic problems" with Toyota vehicles and that the problem had been completely fixed with the recalls, Waxman said that in private, Toyota executives had told his staff they still don't know what caused all of the runaway cars.
"I want to know what caused the problem, and I don't just want a statement because their statements seem to be at variance from what they've said publicly and what they've said privately," said Waxman.


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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Fox News have parted ways.
The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee's contract as a paid network contributor has ended and will not be renewed, Fox News' executive vice president of programming said Friday.
"We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Governor Palin. We wish her the best in her future endeavors," Bill Shine said in a statement to TheBlaze.
A source close to Palin told Real Clear Politics, which was first to report the news, that it was Palin who "decided not to renew the arrangement."
"It's my understanding that Gov. Palin was offered a contract by Fox, and she decided not to renew the arrangement," the source told Real Clear Politics. "She remains focused on broadening her message of common-sense conservatism across the country and will be expanding her voice in the national discussion."
A Fox spokeswoman did not address those remarks in an email to TheBlaze.
Signs of friction between Palin and the network emerged over the summer when Palin took to Facebook and wrote that "Fox canceled all my scheduled interviews" during one night of the Republican National Convention.
At the time, Shine said the RNC's condensed schedule made it necessary to bump Palin.
"Our plans changed based on the fact that the RNC condensed the schedule of speeches from four nights to three. We look forward to having Governor Palin back as soon as we can," he said.
According to the New York Times, Palin was in negotiations with Fox News for a new contract last week. Her original contract started in January 2010 and ended this month; her last appearance on the network was in mid-December.
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Redistricting delays: Super Bowl day, and Manchester punts
February 02. 2013 10:53PM
Outgoing Manchester School Supt. Thomas Brennan apparently ran out of gasoline, and enthusiasm, last week. Charged by Mayor Ted Gatsas and the school board last September with coming up with long-needed redistricting plans, Dr. Brennan labored and brought forth - not even a mouse.
That is most disappointing and the school board, which seemed eager to entrust the decision to Brennan, now finds the problem back in its lap. It needs to make some decisions. Will its members, up for election in the fall, be prepared to do so?
Brennan's conclusion was that the issues are too complicated to come up with a solid plan in short order. Wonderful. That was also the case last September. Now it is four months later and nothing, apparently, has been done.
The middle schools are out of balance, with McLaughlin particularly under-used. Meanwhile, Beech Street elementary is bursting at the seams, although the trailer classrooms have been temporarily shelved. Other schools are also out of balance. But no one, other than the mayor, seems to want to seize the issue and make some choices.
Yes, it may mean little Johnny doesn't go to the same school that his older sister attended. It may mean that a middle-schooler has to spend more time on a bus than did her sister. It may mean, as board member Sarah Ambrogi suggested last week, that people have to stop looking at the Merrimack River as some sort of insurmountable divide.
Since there is no money to build new schools (and since the need for elementary school space may ease as demographics change), the school district and taxpayers need to be practical. And they need to do it now.


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The Wisconsin women's basketball team (21-12, 7-9 Big Ten) tied a program record 21 wins and 15 home victories in beating Kentucky 67-61 Thursday to move into the quarterfinals of the 2007 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT). The Badgers will play host to Virginia at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Kohl Center. The Cavaliers defeated South Florida 73-71 Thursday in Charlottesville, Va.
The win over the Wildcats gave Wisconsin its 21st victory of the year tying the overall program record for the most victories in a season for the fourth time. The last time UW had 21 wins was when it finished 21-12 in 1999-2000, and won the WNIT. UW's 15 home victories also the most since a 15-3 record in 1998-99.
Against Kentucky, junior Janese Banks led the team with her fifth career double-double performance which included 16 points and 13 rebounds. Classmate Jolene Anderson tallied a game-high 22 points and Danielle Ward chipped in 10 points while pulling down nine rebounds.
Samantha Mahoney led Kentucky (20-14, 6-8 SEC) with 13 points while Carly Ormerod added 10 scores.


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Internet surfing while eating a ham sandwich leads to epiphany
At this stage of my life, sitting in front of the computer perusing the Internet before bedtime is about all the excitement I care to handle. I do this a few times a week, hoping to find inspiration for my next column. Lately, the exercise seems to take more effort. Inspiration isn't as easy to come by as it once was.
To make a marginally exciting night complete, I scan the headlines while eating a ham sandwich. Some people might say: "How nice. He has comfort food before going to sleep."
The idea of eating "comfort food" makes me feel as if I'm getting soft. Even if I am, I don't want to expire with half a pot pie and an uneaten cookie sitting on my desk beside a cup of hot chocolate. Although I'm not sure of the exact definition of "comfort food," I hope ham sandwiches don't qualify. Ham sandwiches are, shall we say, manlier.
Eating one reminds me of my youth, when I played football. When my team won, I would go home and prepare a ham and tomato sandwich as a treat for performing well on the gridiron. That would be followed with an orange soda, but not just any orange soda. It had to be an "Orange Crush."
My team wore orange jerseys, so we called ourselves the "Orange Crush." This was long before the 1970s Denver Broncos gave their defense the same name.
The point is: I like to recall the days when I could run the length of a football field without having a coronary. Eating a ham sandwich with an Orange Crush helps me do that quite nicely, especially when I'm sitting in a comfy chair in front of a computer, mindlessly surfing the Internet.
I better get back to the real point of this column before my editor accuses me of adding fluff to make the word count.
So last week, smack in the middle of a perfectly good ham sandwich, I experienced a bit of an epiphany. I was reading about "cultural movements." Not that culture actually goes anywhere, but it does change, and the literati call the changes "movements."
During the early 1800s, the Industrial Revolution started in England and quickly spread throughout Europe and North America. The cultural movement that resulted from that era was Modernism, which enjoyed recognition from 1870 to the turn of the century.
Modernism introduced dramatic change. Philosophy, literature, art, architecture and music felt the impact of an unforeseen tide of revolutionary thought. Its societal influence affected every aspect of day-to-day existence, particularly in the western world.
According to the research, Modernists were the first to question the status quo. They did not exactly reject religion and authority. They rejected thinking that did not fit the direction of a modern, more progressive society. They felt that religion and government should keep up with the times.
Maybe my penchant for practicality stands in the way of wisdom, but I perceive the Industrial Revolution and modern thinking differently.
Without a doubt, during the last two centuries, the world has progressed technologically much faster than ever before. However, I do not always associate "progress" with "improvement." When we were an agro-based society, we lived off the natural gifts of nature and worked to preserve the planet for all to enjoy in the future.
Invention completely changed that mindset. We abandoned agriculture for industry and the availability of convenience. As a society, our thinking changed from the goal of preservation to "life on this planet needs to get better, easier, faster."
From the invention of the internal combustion engine and the ability to produce electricity, we began burning fossil fuels faster than they could ever be replenished.
Our dependency on manufactured power is nothing new. The results of that dependency, however, are frightening. Some children can't do their arithmetic without a calculator. Many can only tell time by a digital watch.
When the power goes off and batteries can't be recharged, we'll be reduced to lives of squalor. A nation cannot run on generators.
Only a small percentage of our population knows how to live off the land. Most of us would have no idea how to live without electricity.
Our adversaries don't have that problem. They do it every day. We have become imprisoned by our inventions.
That little epiphany took the joy out of my ham sandwich. Such is life in a system we can't understand.


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Londonderry's popular Cafe Teresa suddenly closes, shocking employees and customersBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
April 20. 2018 1:25PM
LONDONDERRY — Although some people thought it was an April Fool's joke, a popular local restaurant has abruptly shut its doors for good, shocking its employees and customers.
Cafe Teresa, a Mexican and Italian restaurant at 103 Nashua Road, posted a sign on its door stating, "We would like to thank everyone for an amazing 25 years," with a notice that the restaurant was closed effective April 1.
Employees say that without any warning, they were notified via text on Easter night that they would not need to return to work.
Judy and Michael Riccio owned and operated Cafe Teresa. A phone call to Judy Riccio seeking comment about the closure was not returned on Thursday.
Town assessment records indicate that Michael Riccio owns the building at 103 Nashua Road, although employees say the property is being sold to Domino's Pizza.
"We had known that they were putting the building up for sale, but then they took it off the market in November because they were not getting the offers they had hoped. We thought it would be OK," said a former employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
According to her, the workers were sent a text message on the night of April 1 informing them that the restaurant was now closed.
"It is disappointing — that is probably the only word I could use to describe it. It left everyone in really tough financial situations," said the former worker.
The staff gathered on Monday at a different location, cried together and talked about their futures, she said.
"There was a lot of anger, a lot of sadness and a lot of tears," she explained. "Our regulars became family as well, and they were almost just as heartbroken as we were."
Jason Shell, the former kitchen manager at Cafe Teresa, said he and his coworkers were shocked about the closing.
"I was in negotiations to buy the building," said Shell, who had hoped to eventually take over the cafe. "The closing came as a total surprise."
Shell said he was offered a different job with a different business last fall, but turned it down because of an informal agreement he had with the owners of Cafe Teresa, and his intention of buying the property.
Shell said he understands that financial decisions are challenging, but said the situation could have been handled differently and the owners could have been more sensitive when telling employees about the closure.
"In the blink of an eye I lost my job," said Shell, who has since found employment elsewhere.
Customers took their concerns to Facebook this week, disappointed that the restaurant has closed and upset that about 20 employees are now searching for new jobs.
"I am so sad to hear this news. It has been my favorite restaurant forever," posted Tina Burke. "The food was great and service was always superior."
Others, including Donna Anderson, said they enjoyed their regular nights with the Cafe Teresa family.
"We send you all with hugs and the deepest gratitude for taking such good care of us through the years. You were so much more than a waitstaff to us," wrote Anderson.
"This is very sad news. I've been going there almost since they opened their doors," said Rich Bono.
The building at 103 Nashua Road was built in 1974 and is currently assessed at nearly $580,000, according to town assessment records. Cafe Teresa's website and Facebook page has already been taken down.


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X-IO plumps up ISE Station rack to tempt biz barons
Quadruples rackery for cloud, large data centres
X-IO, the sealed SSD/disk drive enclosure supplier, has quadrupled the rack number in its ISE Station product line with an XL model offering 1PB capacity and a million-plus IOPS.
X-IO is targeting large data centres and cloud service providers with this big data-eating 4-rack beast. The ISE Station XL comes in four racks compared to the original ISE Station's single rack with its 288TB capacity using ISE enclosures sporting disk drives but no flash drives.
The XL model provides, X-IO says, more than a million IOPS. Although X-IO has near enough quadrupled the capacity, performance has only doubled, as the original ISE Station, with shipping starting in December, delivers 600,000 IOPS using the mixed flash/disk Hyper ISE enclosures instead of the all-disk ISE ones.
The original ISE Station was no performance slouch. X-IO said "the all HDD ISE Station X enabled the industry's fastest Windows Server 2012 performance over SMB 3.0, reaching up to 16 GB/sec with 125,000+ IOPs."
The 4-racker ISE Station XL "consumes only 34.56 square feet (3.21 square meters) of floor space and 28 kilowatts of energy, while producing a heat load of only 95,536 BTUs and offering the lowest power and cooling requirements in the industry."
The single rack ISE Station consumes 7kW and produces 23,880 BTU/hour.
The XL job has built-in support for virtualisation engines from Citrix, VMware and Microsoft and, as usual, X-IO offers a five-year warranty and is available now. It says the XL is expandable from 1PB but doesn't say how. Presumably you add ISE Stations to it as expanding in 1PB 4-rack lumps would entail large upgrade steps.
X-IO CTO Steve Sicola said: "Since storage is the single most significant component of the cost of deployment in large-scale data centre environments and cloud services, we are tuning the ISE Station product line to focus on reducing that cost-of-deployment significantly—at minimum, by a third—while guaranteeing capacity and performance-at-scale."
X-IO announced go-faster Hyper ISE 7-series boxes in September last year, offering up to 300,000 maximum IOPS compared to the standard Hyper ISE's 200,000. Ten Hyper ISEs equals an ISE Station with 600,000 IOPS. Ten Hyper ISE 7s ought to equal a similar increment over a single Hyper ISE 7, meaning 3X 300,000 or 900,000 IOPS and 4 racks of them should provide 2.7 million IOPS assuming linear scaling of performance.
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How often do "light-based" attacks come up? Argon Array's Transcend Ray, I guess, and maybe Yellow Radio's theorized irradiation effect. Most "energy beams" in the anime seem to be "generic sci-fi energy" though.
Immunity to a specific kind of damage is generally a Metallic trait, but Metal colors seem to always be purely elemental. (Wolfram is just another name for Tungsten.) My original and still working theory is that Mirror Masker was "Black/Colorless".
Well anyway, despite having the perfect name and ability name for my avatar concept, Masker wasn't "Mister Mirror-Match" after all. Maybe it's really a White ability?
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This is pretty hard to pin down. Amber Penguin, the guy who shot Haru down once, was shown to be using some sort of laser rifle, but that could be just effects. Let's just assume its rare.
Mirror is probably colourless IMO. Silver is colourless too, but we call it by the name of the metal. So technically we can't say Silver Crow is a metal colour; he has a silver body.
What do you mean with the last sentence?
As for White, this is still unknown territory. If you're writing a fanfic with White and/or Colourless, I'll just state the obvious that that's a lot of thinking you've got to do.
And if (if, not when, given the slow pace of plot) White Cosmos shows up, your story could be blown into AU waters.
Happy writing anyway.
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In the light novel, when Kuroyukihime is first describing Cyan Pile to Haruyuki, she specifically mentions that he lacks "lateral jump equipment". As if this was significant, or somewhat unexpected.
But so far, the only avatar seen with jumping equipment has been Sky Raker.
Is there something lost in Baka-Tsuki's translation?
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|2013-02-12, 16:49
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Bush Utan, he of the "Elastic Arm (Long Strongarm)"...
I tried looking up what an "Utan" was, and the closest thing that made sense was the orangutan.
Considering that, and that his power appears to be "extending limbs", is this an ape-like avatar? Is there any information on him at all?
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I searched Bush Utan and 加速世界 to see what chinese translators had, and this turned up:
My response: Doesn't seem that special. Dark green colour predicts special attack affinities, so the long arms seem in line with that. As for incarnate abilities, my best guess is that he has Attack Power Expansion attacks. Nothing mentioned about his range with the arms.
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Taking full response to Speculation thread. ...But I'll mention this here:
I do not consider it a spoiler to know about Red Rider's Ulimate Gunsmith ability, or the particulars of Black Lotus' Green Mode; there must be public legends that Haruyuki and Takumu could hear about if they bothered.
But I would consider the past and present machinations of White Cosmos to be a spoiler, because Haruyuki is unlikely to learn about those until they come up later.
Basically, I want to learn anything that isn't a secret or that wouldn't require visions of future events. I want the "average Joe's" ground-level view of the setting and its characters.
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Any word on how Green Grandee's Double Payback ability works?
It's not a special move, but rather something on the level of Silver Crow's Aviation and Ash Roller's Vertical Climb. Some kind of supplementary ability, just as Yellow Radio has acrobatics and a great sense of balance, and Scarlet Rain has extended vision.
I imagine that it boosts the damage of Grandee's attacks based on the damage he's recieved.
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It's not a special move? I might want to bug you for source, but here's what I think first:
If DP is a passive move, the duel is a stalemate. You can't hit Grande without eating your own damage.
If DP is an active, normal move, then the battle hinges on whether you can hit him behind his shield or when it's not active.
If DP is a special move, then it's just like Lotus vs Radio: whether the OHKO can hit before a..er, double OHKO conversion ability can come into play will decide the fight.
So I'd call it an active move, but here's why I'll say a special move: if it is an as-is move, then DP is unlimited in power. Any move that hits it becomes powered up twice, moving against its owner.
From this line I'd thus speculate that it consumes a full SP gauge, which falls in line with the idea of 'exchanging special techniques in duels.' You use your full gauge, I'll use mine, may the best man win. Or that of sorts.
What do you think?
Edit: I write this assuming, that:
->double damage is dealt the moment the opponent's attack hits
->damage is inflicted by a shockwave, straight ahead of the shield (and presumably where the opponent is)
->timeframe for dodging this shockwave is small.
|2013-02-16, 10:53
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Silver Crow's Flight (Aviation) is mentioned, but not his Headbutt.
Cyan Pile's Perforation (the extending jab, I think), but not Lightning Cyan Spike.
Leopard's draining bites, but not her Shape Change. And so forth.
Which is also where I'd like to talk about the paradox of only being able to lose in Timed Duels, when battle in the UNF should allow people to defeat Grandee through superior numbers.
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Moving to experienced spoilers thread...tomorrow morning. My next job is in 3 hours...
|2013-02-21, 00:27
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The size of Duel Avatars varies too much to answer that question literally.
Scarlet Rain appears to be the same height as in real life, Silver Crow seems to be a bit taller than Takumu, who is much taller as Cyan Pile...
Avatars like Sand Duct and Green Grandee are friggin' HUGE, and several are only slightly smaller.
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The "search this thread" function is actually really accurate and useful here, unlike on some sites.
If you type in the words "manga release month", you'll turn up any posts with those words in them; there may be more than you want to see, but they'll be a lot fewer than the total number of posts in a thead. (This case, just seven posts turn up. And one of those is yours. After my post, it will be eight.)
Even just using the single and more specific word "monthly" may turn up fewer results and get closer to the one you want, if it is there at all.
"Monthly" turned up no results at all, and none of the seven results I got on the first search turned up the answer either.
So, I'm pretty confident that no one has addressed that question in this thread yet.
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Virginians voted 57 percent to 43 percent in 2006 to amend their constitution to ban gay marriage and state law prohibits recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states, which the court said infringes on its citizens' fundamental right to marry.
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The 2-1 ruling applies throughout the circuit that also includes West Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas, where the attorneys general split Monday on what they'll do next.
North Carolina's top lawman, Roy Cooper, quickly announced that he will stop defending his state's ban, but a spokesman said South Carolina's attorney general, Alan Wilson, sees no need to change course.
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Defenders of gay marriage bans are likely to ask for a stay pending their next appeal; otherwise, licenses could be issued to Virginia's same-sex couples in 21 days. And once it becomes final, the decision will apply to the entire circuit, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer James Esseks said.
Gay marriage proponents have won more than 20 legal decisions around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act last year. Most are still under appeal. More than 70 cases have been filed in all 31 states that prohibit same-sex marriage. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia allow such marriages.
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The 6th Circuit in Cincinnati will hear arguments Aug. 6 for Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee. The 7th Circuit in Chicago is set for arguments on Aug. 26, and the 9th Circuit in San Francisco for Sept. 8. The 10th Circuit in Denver overturned Utah's ban in June.
The Virginia lawsuit was filed by Timothy Bostic and Tony London of Norfolk, who were denied a marriage license, and Carol Schall and Mary Townley of Chesterfield County. The women were married in California and wanted their marriage recognized in the state where they are raising a 16-year-old daughter.
"Marriage is one of the most fundamental rights — if not the most fundamental right — of all Americans," said plaintiffs' attorney David Boies. "This court has affirmed that our plaintiffs — and all gay and lesbian Virginians — no longer have to live as second-class citizens who are harmed and demeaned every day."
Herring said the decision evoked the notion from a 2003 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which Justice Anthony Kennedy noted the framers of the U.S. Constitution "knew times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress."
The decision by U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen that Virginia's ban violates the U.S. Constitution's equal protection and due-process guarantees was challenged by two circuit court clerks whose duties include issuing marriage licenses. They were supported by the right-wing legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The group said it may ask for a full circuit rehearing, or appeal directly to the Supreme Court.
"Every child deserves a mom and a dad, and the people of Virginia confirmed that at the ballot box when they approved a constitutional amendment that affirmed marriage as a man-woman union," ADF Senior Counsel Byron Babione said.
The decision falls in line with the changing climate in the 4th Circuit, which had a reputation as one of the nation's most conservative courts. That has changed in the past five years.
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Romneys Sick Joke
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No. 1, declared Mitt Romney in Wednesdays debate, pre-existing conditions are covered under my plan. No, they arent as Mr. Romneys own advisers have conceded in the past, and did again after the debate.
Was Mr. Romney lying? Well, either that or he was making what amounts to a sick joke. Either way, his attempt to deceive voters on this issue was the biggest of many misleading and/or dishonest claims he made over the course of that hour and a half.
Yes, President Obama did a notably bad job of responding. But Ill leave the theater criticism to others and talk instead about the issue that should be at the heart of this election.
So, about that sick joke: What Mr. Romney actually proposes is that Americans with pre-existing conditions who already have health coverage be allowed to keep that coverage even if they lose their job as long as they keep paying the premiums. As it happens, this is already the law of the land. But its not what anyone in real life means by having a health plan that covers pre-existing conditions, because it applies only to those who manage to land a job with health insurance in the first place (and are able to maintain their payments despite losing that job). Did I mention that the number of jobs that come with health insurance has been steadily declining over the past decade?
What Mr. Romney did in the debate, in other words, was, at best, to play a word game with voters, pretending to offer something substantive for the uninsured while actually offering nothing. For all practical purposes, he simply lied about what his policy proposals would do.
How many Americans would be left out in the cold under Mr. Romneys plan? One answer is 89 million. According to the nonpartisan Commonwealth Foundation, thats the number of Americans who lack the continuous coverage that would make them eligible for health insurance under Mr. Romneys empty promises. By the way, thats more than a third of the U.S. population under 65 years old.
Another answer is 45 million, the estimated number of people who would have health insurance if Mr. Obama were re-elected, but would lose it if Mr. Romney were to win.
That estimate reflects two factors.
First, Mr. Romney proposes repealing the Affordable Care Act, which means doing away with all the ways in which that law would help tens of millions of Americans who either have pre-existing conditions or cant afford health insurance for other reasons. Second, Mr. Romney is proposing drastic cuts in Medicaid basically to save money that he could use to cut taxes on the wealthy which would deny essential health care to millions more Americans.
(And, no, despite what he has said, you cant get the care you need just by going to the emergency room.)
Wait, it gets worse. The true number of victims from Mr. Romneys health proposals would be much larger than either of these numbers, for a couple of reasons.
One is that
Medicaid doesnt just provide health care to Americans too young for Medicare; it also pays for nursing care and other necessities for many older Americans.
Also, many Americans have health insurance but live under the continual threat of losing it. Obamacare would eliminate this threat, but Mr. Romney would bring it back and make it worse.
Safety nets dont just help people who actually fall, they make life more secure for everyone who might fall. But Mr. Romney would take that security away, not just on health care but across the board.
What about the claim made by a Romney adviser after the debate that states could step in to guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions? Thats nonsense on many levels. For one thing, Mr. Romney wants to eliminate restrictions on interstate insurance sales, depriving states of regulatory power. Furthermore, if all you do is require that insurance companies cover everyone, healthy people will wait until theyre sick to sign up, leading to sky-high premiums. So you need to couple regulations on insurers with a requirement that everyone have insurance. And, to make that feasible, you have to offer insurance subsidies to lower-income Americans, which have to be paid for at a federal level.
And what you end up with is precisely the health reform President Obama signed into law
One could wish that Mr. Obama had made this point effectively in the debate. He had every right to jump up and say, There you go again: Not only was Mr. Romneys claim fundamentally dishonest, it has already been extensively debunked, and the Romney campaign itself has admitted that its false.
For whatever reason, the president didnt do that, on health care or on anything else. But, as I said,
never mind the theater criticism. The fact is that Mr. Romney tried to mislead the public, and he shouldnt be allowed to get away with it.
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There were some statements by Romney which were directly contradicted by his own statement or positions.
But debates arent about being honest, actually. They're about convincing SWING DUMB UNDECIDED voters to pick them.
Nobody is going to "un-vote" for obama because he lies in a debate. No decided GOP voter is going to drop romey cause he's lies in a debate.
But those SWING voters dont fact check and don't read articles on it. They like what they hear in debates and pick. Both men may lie - anyone who says romney didn't lie just doesn't care.
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