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Editor's Note: Eric Fromm and Al Cambronne are the authors of Gut It. Cut It. Cook It.: The Deer Hunter's Guide to Processing and Preparing Venison. In their chapter on "Gearing Up and Getting Ready," they write about choosing the right knife for deer hunting. They don't write about choosing a knife that makes just the right statement when it's seen on your belt. Instead, they write about choosing a practical tool that gets the job done. In the same chapter, they describe the knives you'll need back home when it's time to finish the job.
For this guest article, we asked Al to sum up the practical knife-shopping advice he and Eric offer in Gut It. Cut It. Cook It. See if you agree with their conclusions.
Guthooks, Gadgets, and Gimmicks
You may have noticed none of the knives in this photo have a guthook built into the back of the blade. This feature has become quite popular in recent years; we're guessing that more hunting knives are now being sold with guthooks than without them.
In theory, this feature makes it easier for you to slit the abdominal wall and perform certain other field-dressing cuts. It's also meant to reduce the risk that you'll accidentally puncture the internal organs during these steps.
In practice, however, the steps during which a guthook would be helpful are relatively easy; when you're field-dressing a deer, you'll probably spend more of your time on steps during which a guthook actually makes the job harder.
Later, when you're working inside the deer's abdominal cavity, a guthook on the back of the blade would get in your way and make the job more awkward. Plus, guthooks can be awkward to sharpen, and some designs are easily clogged with hair or bits of skin.
For all these reasons, we're not wild about knives with guthooks. But some hunters swear by them; it's all a matter of personal preference. If you like, give one a try.
Or, if you'd just like to experiment with the whole concept, you could try one of the separate tools made just for this purpose. Some even come with replaceable blades that you won't need to sharpen. These inexpensive, utilitarian tools are a lot less exciting than a new knife. But they only weigh a couple ounces, and they offer all the advantages of a guthook with none of the disadvantages. Bring one of these and your knife, and you'll be set.
There's one more small tool that we recommend very highly. Again, it's not expensive or glamorous. But you'll find that it comes in handy when you're field-dressing your deer. It's available from a couple of manufacturers; it's variously known as a "sternum saw" or a "pelvic saw."
These small T-handled saws are specially designed for cutting through the pelvis and sternum without puncturing any adjacent organs. (These are both, however, steps you may want to skip anyway; in our chapter on field-dressing, we explain these choices in more detail.)
The handle of these saws is ergonomically designed for this particular purpose. The blade is short, it's designed to cut on the upward "pull" stroke, and it has a little "bumper" on the end so it won't puncture the bladder, intestine, or any other internal organs. It's the right tool for the job.
A sturdy hunting knife can work OK for cutting the sternum and pelvis, but not great—especially when you're cutting the pelvis. For an older and larger deer, you'll probably need to hold your knife with one hand while you hammer the butt of the knife with your other hand.
This traditional technique is a good way to injure or cut yourself; at the very least, you can count on bruising the heel of your hand. And because the next steps require a little prying and levering, there's always the chance you could break the tip off your knife. (Eric tells me he's done this more than once over the years.)
Another alternative would be to use a small pruning saw that you can fold up and put in your pack. They're perfect for clearing a shooting lane, but not for cutting through a deer's sternum or pelvis. Instead, we recommend that you spend around $15 on one of these specialized tools. For the average hunter, it will last a lifetime.
In outdoor shops and catalogs, you'll see dozens of other gadgets and gimmicks that promise to speed or simplify the whole process of field-dressing, skinning, and butchering. We suggest you save your money.
Instead, use it to buy a good knife, a copy of Gut It. Cut It. Cook It. and the tools you really need. If you still feel like splurging, buy an extra dozen arrows or a few more boxes of ammunition. Then go get in some practice.
The First Rule is… Bring a Knife
And while you're at it… Bring a spare. In the "Gearing Up and Getting Ready" chapter of Gut It. Cut It. Cook It., Eric tells a rather embarrassing story about the first and last time he went hunting and forgot his knife. (Don't worry, this is the short version.)
"I was in a hurry to get in a little bowhunting during that last hour before dark. Time was short. I'd placed my stand a long ways from the road, so I knew I'd better get going. I quick grabbed my gear, locked my truck, and headed down the trail.
But somehow my knife was still back home. I discovered this just after I'd arrowed a nice buck, and just before the sun went down. I took a moment to consider my options. They weren't good.
Then I noticed the arrows still in my quiver. Back then, most broadheads were simpler; I was using a two-bladed design that I'd made sure was razor sharp. If I held the shaft of the arrow just right, and if I carefully avoided the other edge of the broadhead…
It worked. Not great, but better than you might think. Still, I've never forgotten my knife again. Not once. Plus, I always bring a small folding knife as a backup."
The moral of the story: First, always bring a knife. And maybe an extra knife. These days, you can buy a top-quality pocket knife that only weighs a couple ounces. The fact is, you'd never need anything larger.
Second, while a broadhead may not be the perfect tool for the job, small and sharp always beats big and dull. And third, you don't need to cut through the sternum and pelvis when you're field-dressing a deer. In some situations, it's better if you don't. But if you do, there's a tool for that.
The Knives You'll Need Back Home
Back home, you'll need knives for skinning and butchering. We suggest buying two or three knives with relatively thin, flexible blades around 5" long. You'll also want a few shorter knives for more precise trimming work.
For skinning, you'll want a blade with a little curve to it. Specialized skinning knives, however, are much larger and swept back in a more radical curve; that's not something you really need for skinning deer. Your hunting knife or one of your butcher knives will work just fine.
If you're just getting started, you may be able to get by with the knives you already own. With your hunting knife, a fillet knife, and a few paring knives and butcher knives from the kitchen, you may already have everything you need.
Keep Your Knives Sharp
So here's our final shopping advice. Like we said, beauty is as beauty does. If you're on a budget, save that custom knife with the mastodon-ivory handle for later. In fact, before you buy any new knife, consider investing in the gear you'll need to put a new edge on your old knife. Then learn how to use it. If your new whetstones, ceramic rods, or precision fixtures cost more than your old knife did, it's OK.
When you're hunting, and even when you're back home finishing the job, a sharp knife is your most important tool. Apart from that $15 pelvic saw, it's pretty much the only tool you'll need. No saws, no tongs, and no gadgets. But that means a dull knife just won't cut it.
Dull knives make deer disassembly difficult. A sharp knife is also much safer; with a dull knife you'll be pushing harder, and you'll be far more likely to have a mishap.
So keep those knives sharp. In the end, that matters more than which knife you use.
Al Cambronne shares more expert insights in Gut It. Cut It. Cook It.: The Deer Hunter's Guide to Processing and Preparing Venison. Click here to purchase the book for 34% off the cover price.
Click here to read part one in this series.
What do you think about Cambronne's views? Click here to give your take on the forum.


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There's an article in Food and Wine called 7 Reasons Why Tokyo Is the New Paris, and a post that follows up on that on the Wall Street Journal's Japan RealTime blog titled Paris vs. Tokyo: Which Has Better Food and Drink?. As a Tokyo native who currently lives in France (although not in Paris), I thought I have some qualifications for adding my 2 cents on the subject. While the focus of both articles is on which city is "better" for an American tourist who is interested in food to visit, I'll like to expand on that a bit.
I never ran a restaurant myself, so most of my knowledge on this matter is second hand. My mother ran a very successful restaurant in midtown Manhattan called Tsukiji Sushisay. In addition my stepfather was the accountant for several Japanese restaurants in NYC. I did however work the front desk for a few months, and helped out over the years with things like translating legal documents, making brochures, or creating their website. I translated the menu to English, and even taught basic 'sushi-counter customer-service English' to many of the chefs. "I'm sorry, we don't have spicy tuna." is one phrase I remember teaching them.
I also want to note, that I feel OK writing this because the restaurant closed its doors in 2002, and various statutes of limitations or whatever have run out. ^^;
Whiskey first became widely available in Japan (least amongst the wealthy) in the 19th century, mostly in and after the 1870s, although it seems to have been introduced in the 1850s. Whiskey distilling in Japan did not get going until the 20th century though. The establishment of distilleries in Japan was spearheaded by a small group of men who fell in love with whiskey, and wanted to establish distilleries in Japan.
Miso, soy sauce, bonito flakes...these are the kinds of ingredients you'd expect to be used in Japanese recipes. But there's another ingredient that appears very often, and it's usually just called "sauce" or so-su (ソース). What is this "sauce" anyway?
Kyoto, the former imperial capital, is the top tourist destination in Japan for many good reasons. A lot has been written about this city already, and it's impossible to describe in a few sentences - so I'm not going to try to. Instead, I'll share some of my favorite destinations in a series of pictures and short descriptions -- as postcards if you will. Here's my first postcard from Kyoto.
Kyoto is a city that hits the sweet spot for me in more ways than one. It is dripping with history, has fantastic shops, great art and craft galleries, and so many places to have a wonderful meal. It also has a lot of literal sweet spots. Perhaps because of its history as the seat of the imperial court, where ladies influenced much of the culture, there are many amami dokoro, or places to enjoy a bite of something sweet, both traditional and modern.
Believe it or not, a sequel to The Just Bento Cookbook will be here soon.
What is "noodle harassment" and is it real?
A friend was wondering out loud on Facebook, why the kanji characters for fugu (pufferfish) are 河豚. She was pondering the use of 豚, the second character, which means "pig", but the first character 河 is a mystery too, since it means river - and the fugu that we know and eat today (or get all het up about how dangerous it is, depending on where you are from) is an ocean fish.
Valentine's Day in Japan is rather different.
ChefCuisine is a new method of delivering top restaurant quality meals to the home. It's intriguing...but will it succeed?

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Sheridan Brown: NH is vulnerable to an oil spill and needs some protectionBY SHERIDAN BROWN
March 12. 2014 6:42PM
Today, the New Hampshire Senate has an opportunity to protect our state's natural resources, residents and visitors by supporting Senate Bill 325 to improve oil spill preparedness in New Hampshire.
Crude oil is currently transported from Portland, Maine, to Montreal, Quebec, through a 49-year-old, 24-inch pipeline passing through the towns of Shelburne, Gorham, Randolph, Jefferson and Lancaster. Portland-Montreal Pipe Line Company and Portland Pipe Line Company (PPLC) — subsidiaries of Imperial Oil (Exxon), Shell Oil and Canada's Suncor — own this pipeline and a more than 60-year-old, presently idle, 18-inch pipeline alongside it.
An oil spill anywhere along the pipelines' route would have a devastating impact upon our North Country's communities, environment and economy. The pipeline right-of-way, which roughly parallels U.S. Route 2, has more than 70 stream and wetland crossings, including the Connecticut and Androscoggin rivers.
In July 2010, when a 41-year-old, 30-inch pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy Partners (Enbridge) ruptured near Marshall, Mich., at least 843,000 gallons of diluted bitumen (dilbit, or tar sands crude) flowed into the Kalamazoo River. Cleanup efforts to date have cost nearly $1 billion, and an estimated 180,000 gallons of petroleum remain in river sediment today.
Enbridge has expressed its interest in transporting dilbit from Montreal to Portland, Maine, by reversing flow on PPLC's 18-inch pipeline (as part of its 2008 "Trailbreaker" proposal). Although that proposal was abandoned during the 2009 economic downturn, Enbridge continued to seek approval for the final leg of a project to pipe dilbit from the Alberta tar sands region to Montreal.
Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) granted its approval for the Enbridge project last week, which will soon renew pressure to reverse flow through PPLC's 18-inch pipeline, increasing spill risks in New Hampshire.
Reversing flow changes the hydraulics and pressures within a pipeline, which can cause failures in an aging infrastructure. PPLC — in arguing for lower property tax assessments — has said that the usable life of its pipeline is between 60 and 78 years.
Additionally, dilbit behaves very differently from conventional heavy crude oil when spilled. Once released from a pipe, light hydrocarbons — used to thin bitumen enough to make it flow — evaporate into the air, creating toxic fumes. The heavy bitumen can then sink in water, coating river bottoms, smothering aquatic life, and making cleanup very costly and difficult.
Federal oversight and industry inspection practices have significant weaknesses. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) regulations leave substantial discretion to pipeline operators. For example, industry personnel are left to determine the appropriate resources to position near pipelines for spill response. Meanwhile, PHMSA has just 135 agents tasked with overseeing 2.6 million miles of pipeline.
Worse yet, required inspections by pipeline operators are usually performed by "smart pigs" that the Wall Street Journal reports "are not reliable for finding all serious flaws" (Aug. 16, 2013). These robotic devices, which use various sensors to look for problems, were used for 93 percent of all pipeline inspections in 2012. Exxon sent a smart pig through its 65-year-old Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower, Ark., just one month before it developed a 22-foot split and released 117,600 gallons of crude.
Nonetheless, because of a paucity of resources for spill preparedness, the destiny of New Hampshire's natural resources is currently left in the hands of PHMSA officials and oil industry personnel — a dangerous gamble.
SB 325 would assess a small annual license fee on oil pipeline facilities based upon their capacity (roughly $250,000 for a pipeline transporting about 8 million gallons per day). The revenue, dedicated to the state's Oil Pollution Control Fund, would enable the state Department of Environmental Services to dedicate personnel and equipment to North Country oil spill preparedness and response. Non-pipeline oil importers already pay a license fee.
PPLC representatives downplay the risk of a future spill, citing the absence of a major spill to date. However, small leaks occurred in two PPLC pipe sections in 2003 (within a year after inspection). Additionally, between 2008 and 2013, PPLC received several warning letters and notices from PHMSA requiring procedural deficiencies to be corrected.
Regardless, the past is no predictor of future spill risk — Enbridge's Chief Executive Pat Daniel called his company's spill into the Kalamazoo River "an absolute first." If and when New Hampshire's first major spill comes, let's make sure we've protected our state — not big oil.
Sheridan Brown is a Grantham attorney who serves as NH Audubon's legislative coordinator. He may be reached via www.stbrownlaw.com.


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29 April 2013, Geneva, Switzerland – In cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), UNITAR contributed to the training of staff members of the National Assembly of Nigeria. The tailor-made training responded to the desire to enhance staff's writing skills and to empower them to act as trainers for their colleagues in the National Assembly on the same matter.
The training, which took place from 22 to 26 April 2013 at the IPU Headquarters in Geneva, was based on a collaboration between the IPU, the Nigerian Government, and UNITAR. Through the training, 10 senior parliamentary staff members have been equipped with the skills to produce high quality resolutions, communiqués, memoranda, reports, policy briefs, and other written communications. This communicative and highly interactive training was based on hands-on exercises related to examples relevant to the Nigerian National Assembly context.
In line with the "Training of Trainers" approach of UNITAR, the Nigerian participants were trained to serve as multiplicators for their fellow colleagues at the National Assembly. In this way, a cadre of staff with similar skills will be built by passing on the knowledge acquired during the training.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNITAR will further build on developing this productive cooperation. Moreover, UNITAR will be developing its programme in this field with the creation of a new course on analytical reporting.


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The unique benefit of the Ready-to-Go series is that these activity materials go beyond merely offering ideas. Ready-to-Go resources, instead, provide fully developed activity and event plans.
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Its like offering a baked cake, instead of a cake recipe and ingredients. Or offering a fully-assembled ready-to-use playground set, instead of loose components in a box, with assembly instructions.
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As voters mark their ballots Tuesday on three statewide tax measures, it's worth noting that there are many times and many ways to vote on taxes, and we're about to see a bunch of them. In addition to Propositions 30, 38 and 39, and Measure J for Los Angeles County voters, some residents in or near the Santa Monica Mountains are finding that they live in a special district and could be subject to new parcel taxes to pay for parkland maintenance and acquisition.
But at least that one will be found at the polling place and on election day, where and when voters would expect to find such a measure. Afterward, though, some downtown residents of a specially drawn district will be asked to weigh in -- by mail only -- on a tax to support a downtown streetcar. Soon after that, every county property owner is likely to see a mail-only parcel tax for storm water cleanup. Then in March, Los Angeles city voters could find taxes on their regular city ballots. That might seem comparatively mundane, except for the fact that there could be as many as four of them.
Begin with Tuesday's ballot and Measures HH and MM, parcel taxes that would be imposed by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority.


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The results of the needs assessment allows the training manager to set the training objectives by answering two very basic questions: what needs to be done, and why is it not being done now? Then, it is more likely that an accurate identification of whom, if anyone, needs training and what training is needed. Sometimes training is not the best solution, and it is virtually never the only solution. Some performance gaps can be reduced or eliminated through other management solutions, such as communicating expectations, providing a supportive work environment, and checking job fit. These interventions also are needed if training is to result in sustained new behaviors needed to achieve new performance levels, for an individual, an occupation, or an entire organization.
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Dolphin At Liverpool Sound City Expo 2012
What is Sound City Expo?While the conference discusses the future of the music biz, the Expo is a trade show where you can see it in the flesh, with live demos and masterclasses of the sort of tools that are essential for artists and creatives in 2012. Play with the gear and talk to the people that are shaping the intersection of music, art, business and technology.
Who'll be there?Everyone from design studios to royalty collection agencies, from games companies to creative computing research labs and everything in between. Here's a full list of exhibitors.
Plus of course, you'll be able to talk to people from Dolphin - for advice on something you're thinking of buying, or simply to ask about delivery options! Some of our friends who'll have stands near us include:
- Avid
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- Native Instruments demonstrating the brand new Traktor Kontrol F1
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- Steinberg showcasing their bestselling software, Cubase and brand new CMC Controllers (with some very special offers)
- Yamaha
Where and when is it?At the Liverpool Echo Arena on 18th and 19th May 2012. You can find us at stand C6.
Sounds fab! How can I attend?Sign up to our mailing list to get a voucher in the week before the event for free entry.
But I want to see even more cool gear!Oh yeah, we're supplying all the live stages with Orange amps too, so you know they'll sound great!


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Elma, WA……..Chase Goetz of Snohomish, Wash. continues to pace the Honda USAC Washington Ignite Midget series after winning again Saturday night on "Mid-Season Championship Night" at Grays Harbor Raceway. He led all 25 laps to beat Garrett Thomas, Jeremy Miller, Ariel Biggs and Tyler Anderson. Thomas was the Elma Auto Racing Hall of Fame FAST TIME winner, while Anderson was the Speedmart Hard Charger.
HONDA IGNITE USAC WASHINGTON DIRT MIDGET RACE RESULTS: July 6, 2013 – Elma, Washington – Grays Harbor Raceway – "Mid-Season Championship Night"
TROPHY DASH: (6 Laps) 1. Chase Goetz (#91 Goetz), 2. Garrett Thomas (#14 Thomas), 3. Jeremy Miller (#44 Miller), 4. Ariel Biggs (#11E Emery), 5. Todd Hartman (#21 Hartman), 6. Lee St.Paul (#2 Debakker), 7. Annika Johanson (#27 Johanson), 8. Steve Hughes (#12 Hughes). NT
FEATURE: (25 Laps) 1. Chase Goetz, 2. Garrett Thomas, 3. Jeremy Miller, 4. Ariel Biggs, 5. Tyler Anderson (#66 Anderson), 6. Todd Hartman, 7. Annika Johanson, 8. Steve Hughes, 9. Lee St. Paul. NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Goetz.
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Big Blue hits DataDirect box with spade
Rolls corpse behind hedge, introduces new NetApp lovely
IBM is killing off its DCS9900 disk array OEM'ed from DataDirect Networks, and replacing it with a NetApp Engenio box.
Big Blue has issued a withdrawal announcement to customers which reads:
Effective October 15, 2011, IBM® will withdraw from marketing IBM System Storage® DCS9900 Model CP2 and selected features.
After this date, you can no longer order these products directly from IBM.
For new orders, the customer requested arrival date (CRAD) can be no later than November 18, 2011.
The DCS9900 Withdrawal notice.
Customers have been told: "There is no direct replacement for the DCS9900. However, the IBM System Storage DCS3700 should be considered for highly scalable, data streaming applications in high-performance computing environments."
The DCS3700 is an E-Series array from NetApp, with whom IBM has an OEM relationship based on the NetApp FAS arrays. Now NetApp is extending that relationship and is supplying the Engenio E5400 array, a 4U unit containing 60 2TB AS drives.
The 4U DCS9900 also contained 60 2TB SATA drives; much of a muchness really.
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Chan v. Priority Records, LLC, No. 07-15449, 2008 WL 2447147 (E.D. Mich. June 18, 2008)
Priority Records sued Candy Chan for copyright infringement, claiming she used iMesh to download and trade music files. The record company withdrew the suit when Ms. Chan told them it was her daughter that traded the files. The daughter became a defendant too, but that case was thrown out on a procedural issue.
Ms. Chan tried to recover her attorney's fees in the copyright lawsuit against her, but the court denied the request. So she filed her own lawsuit against Priority Records, its law firm, and Settlement Support Center, alleging abuse of process and violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
The defendants moved to dismiss. The court granted the motion.
It held that Ms. Chan's claims could have — and, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 13(a) should have — been brought as compulsory counterclaims. Ms. Chan had raised these issues (but did not file the counterclaim) in the underlying copyright suit. Most of the allegations in this suit alleged illegal conduct occurring prior to the filing of the underlying copyright suit. And many of the allegations involved only Ms. Chan's daughter, not Ms. Chan herself.


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Meeting of November 20, 2008 – Employment Discrimination Faced by Individuals with Arrest and Conviction Records
Chair Earp and Commissioners of the EEOC, thank you for this opportunity to speak with you on the subject of the growth of criminal background checks in employment. This subject is perhaps the least acknowledged significant employment problem hindering millions of Americans from supporting their families and themselves.
My name is Janet Ginzberg. I am a Senior Staff Attorney in the Employment Unit of Community Legal Services, Inc. (CLS), in Philadelphia, PA. Our unit represents low-income citizens of Philadelphia in a variety of job-related issues, such as discrimination, wage claims, Family Medical Leave, welfare-to-work, disability benefits and barriers to employment. Among these barriers to employment, the most significant one is criminal records. Every year, our office sees hundreds of ex-offenders who are trying hard to obtain or keep employment but whose records–many as old as five, ten, even twenty years–are preventing them from doing so.
The statistics about the growth of the criminal justice system are staggering. Moreover, it is evident that criminal records have a disproportionate impact on racial minorities. Taken together, African-Americans (39%) and Hispanics (18%) comprised a majority of those who had ever been imprisoned as of 2001.1 Almost 17% of adult black males had ever served prison time, a rate twice that of Hispanic males (7.7%) and six times that of white males (2.6%).2 For these reasons, we are extremely grateful that the EEOC has long recognized and sought to ameliorate discrimination against people with criminal records—and that it continues to do so.
I have been asked to speak about two litigation issues: the impact of the El v. SEPTA decision, decided in March of 2007, and disparate impact. I will discuss the El decision first.
Impact of El v. SEPTA
In El v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, 479 F.3d 232 (3d. Cir. 2007), the court found that the plaintiff, who had a 47 year old murder conviction, had not as a factual matter rebutted the transportation authority's criminal record hiring policy for its paratransit subcontractors. Aside from its holding concerning the application of SEPTA's policy to Mr. El and the factual record in the case, the decision was very instructive for the crafting of criminal records policies that will pass muster under Title VII. The Third Circuit thoroughly analyzed the history of Title VII's business necessity defense in disparate impact cases and determined that the standard that it had previously articulated – "that discriminatory hiring policies accurately but not perfectly distinguish between applicants' ability to perform successfully the job in question" – could be adapted to the context of criminal conviction policies.
The court concluded that Title VII requires that criminal record policies "accurately distinguish between applicants that pose an unacceptable level of risk and those that do not." In footnotes describing the application of its test, the court distinguished between applicants who pose "minimal level of risk" and those who do not, making clear that an employer cannot reject persons with criminal records on the grounds that the level of risk cannot be brought down to zero. The El court did not adopt the EEOC Policy Guidance on the Issue of Conviction Records as the standard, indicating that it was not entitled to great deference. The court suggested that while the policy guidance codified the Green decision, it lacked the thorough and persuasive analysis that entitled it to deference. Finally, the El court gave some idea of the nature of the analysis that it expects employers to engage in when constructing criminal record policies. Notably, the court had previously indicated that business necessity case law requires "some level of empirical proof that challenged hiring criteria accurately predicted job performance."
The El decision, then, presents several lessons. (1) Employers may refuse to hire some persons with criminal records, despite the racially disparate impact. (2) However, to avoid violating Title VII, they must carefully craft their criminal record exclusionary policies, based on empirical evidence as to whether a person with a criminal record presents more than a minimal risk. In my experience, relatively few employers are crafting criminal record policies with anything approaching this degree of care. To the contrary, absolute bars are more the norm. With smaller employers, these policies are often explicit; with larger, more sophisticated, employers, though they claim to make more individualized assessments, these absolute bars often emerge more as unstated policies or practices.
From the perspective of attorneys who are litigating discrimination cases involving the use of criminal records in employment decisions, the El case highlighted another crucial practical lesson: these cases cannot be won without sufficient expert evidence to address the issue of whether an individual—or a class of individuals being barred by a bright line policy—poses an unacceptable level of risk.
A great deal has changed since the Commission's last policy statements on conviction records were issued twenty years ago. The number of criminal convictions has escalated significantly; criminal background checks have proliferated; and intense employment discrimination against people with criminal records—which in many instances may be racially based—has drastically affected the ability of many to obtain employment. The El decision highlighted certain shortcomings of those twenty-year-old policy statements, and we urge the Commission to update these statements so that they establish fair and reasonable standards for employer consideration of criminal records. A revised guidance that reflects the El decision would greatly enhance the ability of my organization and other advocates to adequately utilize Title VII for the protection of people with criminal records.
Disparate Impact
The issue of disparate impact in Title VII litigation regarding criminal records and employment is a complicated one, and one that was never reached in the El decision. In traditional disparate impact cases, the plaintiff must initially show that a facially neutral policy results in a discriminatory pattern. The plaintiff can meet his or her burden by identifying a particular practice that creates a disparate impact on a protected group through statistical evidence, although the statistical evidence in question must be of a kind and degree sufficient to show that the practice in question has caused the disparate impact. In other words, the plaintiff must show a causal connection between the policy and the racially unequal result.
Once the employee has established a prima facie case, the burden shifts to the employer to show that the employment practice is job-related and consistent with business necessity. A plaintiff can still prevail even if business necessity is demonstrated if there is a less discriminatory alternative practice that the employer has not adopted.
Significantly, because African-Americans and Latinos are more likely than Whites to have criminal records, disparate impact is presumed under the EEOC Guidance on the Issue of Conviction Records. This presumption is a valid and important one, and one that is essential for individuals in the EEOC investigative process. We hope that this presumption will continue in effect in any new guidance issued by the EEOC.
In the event that litigation is ultimately brought, the court will require the plaintiff to provide the necessary evidence sufficient to establish a prima facie case for disparate impact. In the context of criminal records and employment, the plaintiff, through an expert witness, should be able to demonstrate disparate impact by showing:
For purposes of both the investigative process and litigation, it is important to address the general defenses thus far raised by employers regarding this statistical evidence:
First, employers often assert that the proper data source is not the national statistics, but rather their "applicant flow data," or the actual number of people who applied for jobs with them and were turned down because of their convictions. Their position is that assumptions cannot be drawn from national race and conviction statistics about their own hiring practices. However, their position is a specious one. The applicant flow data is often rife with inaccuracies, in part because it fails to capture who is not applying to that particular employer because of the employer's criminal record policy. Moreover, the data is often skewed by false positives arising from people who did not admit to having convictions when first hired by the employer. The national statistics comparing convictions along racial lines provide a more accurate and relevant snapshot of those affected by policies restricting hiring of people with criminal records. This is particularly true with large employers; with a large enough statistical sample, the data will not materially deviate from the national data.
Another common defense put forth by employers to rebut plaintiffs' prima facie cases of disparate impact is known as the "bottom line" defense, which asserts that their hiring policy cannot be having a racially unequal effect because its workforce consists predominantly of African Americans and/or Hispanics, or that their composition is comparable to or better than their representation in the geographic region or labor market. It is important to note that this defense was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in Connecticut v. Teal (457 U.S. 440 (1982)) and should not be considered by the Commission or the courts in disparate impact determinations.
Final Thoughts
In the wake of the El decision and in light of the increasing impact of criminal records on the ability of many people to find work and support themselves and their families, the Commission has a unique and meaningful opportunity to establish updated guidelines and enforce the Title VII legal standards applicable to criminal records. It could further advance these important objectives by providing education to employers about their obligations and limitations under Title VII, as well as to workers about their rights.
Thank you again for your important work and continued support in this area. On behalf of the hundreds of people with criminal records that my organization represents every year, I thank you for the opportunity to speak today.
1 Thomas P. Bonczar, Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001 (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics Aug. 2003), at 3.


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Saturn VUE Green Line - Real World MPG Numbers
No one talks on this site and then there are 15 posts in less than a week. Go figure.
A person feeling they are doing the right thing by being more "Green" is admirable and priceless. A person feeling they are saving a lot of money is not looking at the total cost. -- Kip
I have looked at the costs, will use my numbers and you can be the judge.
Since, I have driven the furthest and gotten the best documented gas mileage of any Saturn Hybrid Vue owner here is my bottom line on my BREAKEVEN point:
Back in December of 2006 Hybrid Vue cost $2250 less that the Regular view.
I received a $650 tax credit on my 2006 income taxes $2250 - $650 = $1600 difference.
In the first two years of operation I have saved $1002.78 in gas. That figure is derived from the fact that the Regular Vue gets 5 mpg less that of the Hybrid Vue.
Source = FuelEconomy.gov 2007 Hybrid Vue 23 City 29 highway 26 avg
2007 Regular 4 cyl Automatic 19 City 25 highway 21 avg
I have taken the 5 mpg difference, computed the savings for each tank and have added up the savings. As of 11/7/2008 my 59,095 miles equates to a savings of $1002.78.
Source - my excel spreadsheet.
$1600 - $1002.78 = $597.22 I still have $597.22 to breakeven. That should occur in the next 14 - 16 months based upon my current driving patterns and gas prices of around $2.50.
Therefore, strickly on a cost/gas basis I breakeven in 3 years and a few months.
However, that does not take into consideration that the resale value of a Hybrid Vue vs a similarly equiped Vue. According to Kelly's Blue Book = my Saturn Hybrid Vue would net in excellent condition $11,670 vs a similarly configured excellent condition 4cyl Vue at $8,655. A difference of $3,015.
Therefore, if I sold my Hybrid Vue tomorrow I would would still be in the hole $597.22 but get $3,015 more. Therefore, I would net $2,417.78. Looking at the big picture I have already reached the breakeven point and continue to increase my value.
In addition, one must also consider the environmental benefits. Using the 5 mgp better figure from Fuel Economy.gov - I have already saved 335.044 gallons of gas.
If down the road the Hybrid will need a new battery I will be well on the positive side of the equation. The cost of a new battery and installation should be offset by my gas/cost and resale value benefits.
Therefore -
#1> BREAKEVEN Point has been reached regardless of if I need a new battery at 100,000 miles or not.
#2> I am up $2,417.78.
#3> I have saved 335.044 gallons in the process.
#4> Not to mention I love driving my Saturn Hybrid Vue.0
"Back in December of 2006 Hybrid Vue cost $2250 less that the Regular view."
Did you mean to say the Hybrid was cheaper, or was that a type-O?
If the Hybrid was cheaper, you would have been ahead with the Hybrid as soon as you drove off the dealer lot. Great deal! :shades:
At present time the Hybrids are $27930 and the gasser 4 cylinders are $23050 MSRP. According to Edmunds.
Tax credits and "dealing" have to also fall into the mix.
Good Post!
Happy Veterans Day. Semper Fi. I spent 6 years in the service.
Since you state you are considering a hybrid. Would I buy a 2008 Hybrid Vue? The answer is no. Saturn has significantly jacked up the price on the 2008 GreenLines. I think the payback is questionable on the 2008s. I also think Saturn has to demonstrate they have fixed the electical harness and battery problems that plagued the 2007s. Read my other posts. I am pretty darn hard on Saturn.
I purchased my 2007 GreenLine using a discount. Also had 0% financing. Very significant discount on the extended warranty. Overall, I got a pretty good deal on the 2007 GreenLine. I like getting 26-28 mpg on the commute. I keep my cars 6-8 yrs. Ask me what I think of the Hybrid Vue in 5-6 yrs.
The question is the price for plug-in hybrids that will be out in 2009-2010? What is hybrid surcharge and what will the payback point be?
Sorry that you feel I am being dishonest about my comparison, but I stand by my evaluation.I really feel crammed into the CRV. It is very uncomfortable for me. Head room, leg room, shoulder room issues. Ergonomics? Usable room?
This will be my last post on the issue.0
Happy veterans day.
I don't feel at all that you are being dishonest. As I said before, it is most likely a Perception is Reality thing. In this case it could have a lot to do with where you are seated in each vehicle and so forth. I apologize for anything that sounded like accusations on my part.
Twelve years ago I bought a new 06 Dodge Ram Pickup. A few months later a friend bought a New 07 model with the same drive train. Of course we had to "test" them. It was pretty much a dead heat 3 times. He later had a fairly expensive "Cat Back" duel exhaust system installed and a K&M intake. His truck sounded good and seemed to have a lot more power, to both of us. Another "Test" resulted in my truck being a little quicker than his, 3 times. The exhaust tones and noisy intake gave the perception of more power. Perception!
Please stick around and participate on the subject.
I'm trying to make an informed decision. Without participation, it will be most difficult.
Thanks for your insight on the 08 Vue
What is/was the problem with wiring and batteries on the Vue?
dmathews3 Posts: 1,739You said 12 years ago you bought a 06 Dodge Ram Pickup. Did I just miss a few years as this is only 08 or at least I thought it was when I woke up. :confuse:0
Apparently the caffeine had not kicked in yet when I wrote that!
Please substitute the 06 and 07 numbers to 96 and 97. :blush:
Typo on my part -
Back in December of 2006 Hybrid Vue cost $2250 MORE that the Regular view. The numbers in my situation follow my logic.
One should run the numbers prior to making a decision. If the Hybrid is substantially more expensive and federal tax credits are considerably less or zero - those are factors to consider in your purchase. Back in 2006 the difference was small. Seems for the 2008 models that gap has widened.
The issue Saturn had with was with a potentially faulty wiring harness. The fix was not intended to impact your hybrid operation one way or the other UNLESS your vehicle is one that has the wiring / alternator issue. To over-simplify, the wiring harness can intermittently mis-communicate with the alternator. The alternator says "I don't know what you're trying to tell me to do, so I won't do anything". That includes charging the batteries. The fix is a more robust harness to alternator interaction via the replacement harness. Again, I am over-simplifying, but hopefully now you get the gist.
I had it replaced in March of 2007. I did not have any problems before or after the installation.0
Saturn let us drive off the lot after we purchased the GreenLine in 2007, when they knew there were problems with the harnesses. Ours went bad in local driving, we had it towed from our house to the dealer. Nice to know they were willing to risk our lives to save themselves the cost of the replacement. Saturn later issued a recall for the harnesses. I was one of the people who filed complaints with the NTSB.
I have not had problems since the electrical harness was replaced. Knock on wood.
I will be taking my 2007 GreenLine in for routine service in December. At that time I will have have the battery examined (batteries were recalled due to voltage imbalance problems about 6 months ago?) when I take it in. The charge/assist seems to be fine at the present.
Have not heard anything about the 2008s, hence my comments about not recommending one until word was out on correction of those problems (harness and battery).0
Are these correct statements?
The "electric" portion of the GL is to allow the gas engine to shut off for a predetermined time at stop signs, red lights and so forth, and the "battery" keeps the AC radio and other accessories operating.
Forward or rearward propulsion of the car is dependent on the gas engine, and the electric motor is never the only source of propulsion..
The purpose of the "electric" motor is to help the gas engine during acceleration , and help in re charging the "battery" while braking.
Are those accurate statements? If not, please explain.
Yes those statements are accurate.
The Saturn Vue Hybrid models 2007 and 2008 are based upon the BAS system - for belt alternator starter.
Basically, BAS is a big motor-generator in place of the vehicle's normal alternator. The big motor can deliver 6.7 horsepower at speed, and 48 pounds-feet of torque the moment it begins to turn, according to Saturn. That's enough to run the gasoline engine by turning the serpentine belt — "fan belt" to old-timers — on the front of the engine.
The Green Line's belt is wider and beefier than normal to handle the extra strain.
Other hybrids link their gasoline and electric powerplants through the transmissions. Those vehicles use sophisticated computer programs and complicated transmissions to blend the gasoline and electric power outputs for smooth operation.
Because the Vue Green Line's gasoline engine is always doing the driving — even when it's being spun by the BAS system — the transmission and powertrain controller can be simpler and cheaper.
The Green Line's gasoline engine often shuts off when the vehicle is stopped longer than a moment, such as at a red light. No need to burn fuel when you're not going anywhere. The Saturn Hybrid can not drive soley on electric. It always needs gasoline to propel the car. The electric is used to assist the car.
The moment you take your foot off the brake, the robust starter-generator turns the belt, which turns the gasoline engine and drives the vehicle for a second or two until the engine's fuel supply is restored and the engine is up to speed.
For my 2007 Saturn Vue Hybrid - the transition at stop lights from the engine running to off to running again is seemless. As for coasting and braking - this charges up the Hybrid battery. Also, when starting out - acceleration will also charge the battery.
Hope that clears up the setup for the Saturn Hybrid Vue. By the way, I just notched another 34+mpg tank. Not bad for November.0
Hi HybridVue,
One funny story. I take our vehicles to the local gas station a block from work for routine stuff like oil changes and inspections. I have taken our automobiles there for 10 years.
When I took my GreenLine in to the station for an oil change they couldn't figure out how it worked because it (engine, BAS, and battery) didn't look like a Toyota Prius or Ford Escape. The GreenLine would't move on the electric motor. They wanted to know why the gas engine kept coming on. Talk about confused mechanics. They had never even heard of a mild hybrid.
I ended up giving a 30 minute course, which included a Q&A session on the BAS system.
It was such a low cost alternative to a 2 stage hybrid when I purchased it in 2007. Better performace than a typical 4 cylinder, with better gas mileage. I sometimes wonder what the future of the BAS concept would have been if Saturn hadn't alienated so many customers following the electrical harness and battery issues.0
To Chmsomm:
That is a good story.
You are absolutely accurate - it is/was a low cost alternative to a 2 stage hybrid back in 2007. With the marginal extra cost over the regular model and improved mpg's - those of us who weathered the recalls, learned to drive it to the fullest, made out very well.
As with the EV some good ideas just never reach their full potential. In the mean time, may you have many more happy miles with your Hybrid Vue. (Mine will pass 60,000 miles on Monday and turn two years old next Month.0
tackepj Posts: 13Great messages recently on this board. Glad everyone has some interesting stories to tell. Our GL has treated us well and we're very happy owners. I'd like to clear up one thing about the BAS operation discussed earlier--it does NOT run the A/C off of the hybrid battery. While in auto-stop mode, the battery operates accessories like the radio, the HVAC blower, lights, etc, including the auxiliary transmission pump and coolant pump in the hybrid electronics system. The A/C compressor is a traditional, belt-driven system that will come to a stop if "eco" mode is selected. Therefore, the air coming from the system will begin to become less cool as you sit in auto-stop mode. I find that it doesn't ever become "warm" and the eco mode is sufficient. However, we live in IN and don't experience horribly hot weather.
Kip, I admire your efforts in researching cars prior to purchase. That seems to be a lost art anymore, and I feel it's important. In our case, we drive mostly in rural and town situations and only occasionally on the highway. Our total MPG since new, including ALL tanks, is 28.6 mpg. We have seen a low of 24.5 and a high of 34.9, which allowed a 539 mile tank range. This is within the old-method EPA estimates of 27 city / 32 highway, and we're very pleased with this mileage. I should also point out that my wife primarily drives the car, and may be a bit less careful about MPG than I am. She LOVES the car. We have roughly 32,000 miles on it and have had the battery and harness updates done. The car did experience loss of hybrid activity prior to the recall, but the car performed fine (just no assist). Our dealer kindly gave us a rental in spite of its ability to run normally. We have always been pleased with Saturn service. This is our second Saturn.
I should also note that our GL was rear-ended recently and came away amazingly well. The other car was totalled, but the VUE only needed a new rear bumper cover, a little paint work, and a new tailpipe assembly. It's a strong little SUV. In terms of size, I think the CR-V and VUE are pretty close. I've ridden in both. I must honestly say that the CR-V's back seat was superior to the VUE's in comfort, but they had similar room. Fortunately, I rarely sit in the back.
Like chmsomm, we purchased our VUE at a good time, including 0% financing, a Pres. day incentive, and GMS discount. The price was MUCH lower than the 2008 VUE GL. Would I buy a 2008? Honestly, probably not. I prefer the polymer panels, the overall appearance, and better cargo capacity of the 2007. I'm also disappointed that the new model is assembled in Mexico while ours is a domestic product. But the real reason is price. I don't see it as such a good value anymore. That said, I haven't driven a 2008 GL (I have driven a conventional gasser 2008), so it may be better in some esoteric ways.
Good luck with your choice!0
That was a very good and informative post!
Thank You!
This is an email I sent to Saturn:
This is a technical question for someone working with Saturn's Hybrid Vehicles.
I currently own a 2007 Saturn Vue GreenLine. Great gas mileage. 26-28 mpg in my 26 mpg roundtrip commute.
There are currently solar chargers available on the retail market (2-5W) that can be plugged in to cigarette lighters to keep automobile batteries charged. Very inexpensive. $20-30. I was thinking of using one of these when my Vue GreenLine is parked to assist in keeping the battery pack fully charged, and therefore fully available for use in the assist mode.
I have used small portable panels to charge 12v car batteries that I use for powering 12v astronomy equipment during the day (for night time use when I am in the field). They work reasonably well. In other words, they actually do help charge a free-standing car battery during a 8-10 hr day.
1. Would one of these panels work with my Vue GreenLine to charge the existing battery pack during the day?
2. Is the Vue GreenLine electical system compatable for this type of charging?
Isn't the cigarette lighter operated off of the 12V battery and separate from the hybrid battery pack? Just my first impression, but I don't think you'd be able to send any charge to the hybrid battery pack through the cigarette lighter.
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It is a question of how the GreenLine is wired
I don't have the schematics, so I dont know. I don't know where and how the voltage is regulated in the GreenLine.
If current runs to the cigarette lighter when the vehicle is off (eg.cell phone charger) it may work.
Some Prius owners are now using solar panels to help their batteries charge, even if it is limited. Again, I don't kow if they are hardwiring of if it is through the cigarette lighter.0
Certainly it possible to solar charge batteries, but even if there is some physical connection between the hybrid battry system and the cigarette lighter, which I kind of doubt, you'd still have to go backwards through a voltage regulator. Just not sure if they have it set up to do so or not. Sounds more like a hard-wired modification that some Prius owners are using.
There's an interesting video on plug in hybrids on CarSpace
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Oops, forgot to mention the GreenLine doesnt have a 12v battery. Just the battery pack.0
Yes this is a good and cheap and easy way to use less gas, I have one for my 12v battery (yes the Vue has a 12v battery system). It helps get 2 mpg and better per tank. In fact I also am happy with it I am putting together a 36v solar charger for the Hybrid system.
Just be sure you get the ones with the built-in diodes (to prevent back voltages) my Saturn dealer took 2 hrs checking mine to make sure it did not cause the 36v battery pack to fail. They did decide it was OK in the end.
A 4 to 5 watt one is all you need.
Look at this one: http://www.batterystuff.com/solar-chargers/BSSE6W.html
or look around sometimes you can find them on-sale.0
To Greenroger:
Where did you place the solar panel? On the dash or do you have it permanently affixed to your roof?
In addition, do you have it connected to your cigarette lighter when the Hybrid Vue is parked or is it connected all the time?
Also, what Saturn Dealership had the knowledge to know if this would work or not? Mine barely knows its way around the Hybrid.
My concerns would be overcharging the battery, shorting the battery life by constantly charging the battery and voiding the electrical warrantee on the Hybrid Vue due to a modification.
According to the website - "Great for use for larger 12 Volt batteries that are seldom used or in storage, such as with antique cars, boats, RV's or cottages." I question, if the Hybrid is used daily - how much is really gained by recharging the battery? I recharge mine by normal driving.
Otherwise, it sounds interesting.0
I simply mounted the 12v one on the dash with a little bit of velcro tape to hold it in place.
It is connected to cigarette lighter through a radio shack 1 to 3 splitter http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062276&cp=&sr=1&kw=12+vol- t+3&origkw=12+volt+3&parentPage=search
so I can charge my cell phone and GPS or one at a time with the panel unplugged from the lighter.
I leave it plugged in most all the time, at 5 watts it does not have enough power to over charge the 12v battery.
Yes my 12v battery also charges during "normal driving" using the 12v alternator (belt driven from the gas engine) but I had this solar panel that I used for my tractor since it would set for weeks between uses (never damaged it's battery), then I moved and sold the tractor (without the solar charger) and one day plugged it in my hybrid to see what would happen. After 12 tanks of gas I noticed it was getting +2mpg so I unplugged it and it went back down to the same MPG I would usually get about 28mpg. I guess that using the alternator less helps the gas mpg.
Saturn did not help at all with setting up the 12v charger and wanted to charge me for the hybrid cells when they failed, I had to point out to them that the 12v and 36v system were totally separate. They never said anything about "voiding the warranty".
Once I get the 36v system setup it should get even better MPG.
The 36v system will be roof mounted and I will use a Charge Controller to not damage the saturn hybrid pack if I do continue to use it. I am also looking to replace it (last one lasted just 30,000 miles) I would rather use some good gel cells over the ones that saturn used. I am also looking at a 110 charger for the 36v system at some point, I have just been too busy right now to mess with it all.
But with the wife out of the hospital now I may get busy...0
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Wait a minute, are you saying that your hybrid traction battery failed?0
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Oct. 14 Carlos Beltran and David Freese postgame interview
Q. Carlos, this makes in 29 games, 14 home runs in the postseason. Is there something about this time of year or about games like this that bring this out for you?
Q. Carlos, this makes in 29 games, 14 home runs in the postseason. Is there something about this time of year or about games like this that bring this out for you?
CARLOS BELTRAN: Well, you know what, right now I'm just really enjoying myself, honestly. And three opportunities that I've been in the playoffs, I always tell myself to go play the game, don't try to do too much. And right now I'm seeing the ball well. I feel like I have ‑‑ I'm not trying to do too much, good things are happening, I feel good about that.
Q. It's a smaller body of work, David, but it's kind of the same question for you. You had a great postseason last year and what is it about these games that you think the Cardinals rise to and that you rise to?
DAVID FREESE: I think it's the best time of the year. Not every player, not every team gets a chance to be a part of something like this. And that was one thing when I got traded over here, to be a St. Louis Cardinal you get an opportunity to fight for a playoff spot year in and year out. And you've got to bring that focus, you've got to bring that desire.
And honestly, I've been fortunate enough to play with some veterans that you can learn a lot from. And obviously one of them is sitting to my left. He goes about it ‑‑ I'm going to take that with me for the rest of my career.
Q. It's a question for both guys. Because of the way you guys won the last series and jumped out right here, is there an actual tangible momentum thing going for you guys? Is there a bit of a rolling feeling for you guys right now?
CARLOS BELTRAN: You know what, the way I see it is the way we play the game, we have been in this type of situation before during the regular season. We were able to get back in the game. And we fought to tie the game and to win those ballgames.
As a team we feel ‑‑ what I see is just these guys have this mentality of no panicking. And it doesn't matter how far behind in the game, we feel as a team that we're going to be able to come back. They did it last year in the postseason and they did it all year last year. And experiencing my first year with them, that's what I see about the team. It's just we grind. We put good at‑bats and we not give up.
DAVID FREESE: For me, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff, especially when you go series to series. We're all professionals here and you wake up the next day no matter what happened previously and you grind it out. And you take it obviously one pitch at a time, especially in the postseason, how much focus goes into every pitch.
But as far as momentum, I think both teams just battle and you just play it out. And then if it doesn't work out one night you get a good night's sleep and you show up the next day ready to go.
Q. Carlos, you just mentioned that your postseason approach is to stay in control, not put too much pressure on yourself. Was there a veteran maybe in your Astros days who gave you advice on how to handle the postseason?
CARLOS BELTRAN: You know what, when I got traded to the Astros and I got an opportunity to be in the playoffs I was so happy, I never experienced anything like it, to be able to play in meaningful games and try to win a championship. And I was so excited I just saw the guys playing the game and I just told myself, just go out there and have fun. Don't try to do too much. And that's what I told myself. And I went out there and good things happened for me.
It's hard for me to explain this production. I'm just enjoying myself. I don't feel the pressure. I don't feel like I need to do something special. I just feel like I need to go out there and play the game the right way and let things happen.
Q. Carlos, to what extent did the Cardinals' ability to get to the postseason on a regular basis, to what extent did that have an effect on you in choosing to go to St. Louis?
CARLOS BELTRAN: In my case, I always as a ballplayer would love to be in this type of situation where you're playing for a championship. And that was something that I felt was on this off‑season. I wanted to be on a team that gave me that opportunity. And the Cardinals were there. They pursued me and we talk about it and we agreed on terms and I just felt it was the right decision for me to come here and try to help the team win anywhere I could.
Q. Do either of you, what was the feeling in the dugout when the Giants got back in the game at the end of the 4th after you guys had four runs?
CARLOS BELTRAN: We were in the field.
Q. On the field, in the dugout, I don't know.
CARLOS BELTRAN: Well, they're a good team. There's no doubt that the Giants are a good team. They fight. They try to come back in games and that was the specialty, always has been the specialty for them. They wait to the last moment to kind of do something.
But in the four, they came hard. They put good at‑bats, they were able to get on base. And scored four huge runs for them. Lucky enough for us our bullpen came in and did a good job, shut the doors.
DAVID FREESE: I'm thinking about the DC game. They were up 6‑0. We were up 6‑0. And that shows that you've got to keep playing. And I think the last thing the Giants were worrying about were how many runs they had at that point. They just knew they had to chip away. They were trying to hit hard liners. And they started finding gaps. And we were fortunate enough that our bullpen came in and closed the door the rest of the way.
Q. You mentioned the 6‑0. A lot of people were thinking when you got to that score, did anybody mention that at all? What does it mean to you guys that Tim Lincecum is in their bullpen coming in in relief situations like that?
DAVID FREESE: No, I was never a part of a conversation as far as thinking about or talking about the DC game. But I think there's probably people that are thinking about it. I was. I knew that this team, they weren't going anywhere. That crowd was electric. It was on fire in the 4th inning. That's a cool thing to be a part of when it's your home crowd.
We know what kind of guys we've got in our pen and especially how young these guys are. It's amazing the demeanor they have when they go in there. They're unfazed and they pound the zone and get outs. And we're lucky to have them on our side.
CARLOS BELTRAN: I think I was able to have the opportunity to play with Tim last year. Tim is a team player. He is doing what he is called to do. Bochy feels it's better to use him out of the bullpen. And he has done a real good job. Has had good outings for the team. And that's a decision that they are making.


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In some instances, the expression "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" simply doesn'' cut it. This situation requires the utmost sensitivity and a lot of thought to precede any action.
A Hudson Valley bride asks: "I have a real problem. My sister is being incredibly generous by offering, as her gift to us, the photography for our wedding. I know what photography costs and that just makes this more difficult. Here is the problem: When my sister made the offer, I was delighted and immediately went online to check the photographer's Web site. To say the least, I was beside myself. There wasn't one picture that I liked. His style can be best described as hokey. There is a picture of the bride and groom superimposed on champagne glasses. There is one of the bride and groom fooling around in the back of a limo. And most, if not all, the pictures are what I would consider tasteless. I'm much more conservative than my sister is, but I can't imagine this photographer shooting my wedding. What can I do?"
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Sen. Ayotte: Hagel's record, statements make him wrong choice for DefenseBY SEN. KELLY AYOTTE
February 11. 2013 8:07PM
IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTRY expressed optimism after Chuck Hagel's nomination to serve as defense secretary, saying it might lead to practical changes in U.S. policy. His recent confirmation hearing must have given the regime's leaders a glimmer of hope.
Asked during an Armed Services Committee meeting about his views on preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, Sen. Hagel said, "I support the President's strong position on containment."
But that's not where the President stands. In fact, President Obama said last spring that, "Iran's leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment."
And in September, in a vote of 90 to 1, the U.S. Senate explicitly rejected a policy of containment toward a nuclear-capable Iran.
When Sen. Hagel was subsequently given the opportunity to correct himself, he fumbled: "I meant to say that obviously [the President's] position on containment - we don't have a position on containment."
At that point, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) threw the witness a lifeline: "We do have a position on containment, which is that we do not favor containment."
Whether Sen. Hagel was ill-prepared, uninformed or projecting his own views, there's no question that the next defense secretary shouldn't need help stating our policy on one of the most serious national security challenges we face.
But on issue after issue, Sen. Hagel's testimony raised questions about what he knows, what he believes, and what kind of secretary of defense he would be. And in several instances, his views on critical issues fell well outside the mainstream of either party.
For example, although he acknowledged that Iran is a state sponsor of terror, and has in the past admitted that Iran helped kill our troops in Iraq, he defended his vote against designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization because it's part of "an elected legitimate" Iranian government. There is no doubt that peaceful demonstrators who were brutalized and shot at by the Iranian regime during the 2009 Green Movement would disagree - as would the families of U.S. soldiers who were injured or killed by explosives Tehran provided to insurgents in Iraq.
With regard to maintaining America's nuclear deterrent, Sen. Hagel last week backed off a Global Zero report he co-authored just last year putting forth radical recommendations that would gut our nation's nuclear triad. Its recommendations included a 10-year implementation strategy that would eliminate a leg of our nuclear triad by cutting all land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, reduce the number of Trident ballistic missile submarines, slash the size of our nuclear arsenal by 40 percent, and establish a dangerous 24- to 72-hour window in which the U.S. could not respond to a first strike by our enemies - reducing our deterrent and encouraging our adversaries to initiate attacks.
When I asked Sen. Hagel about his report, he said it was "illustrative" and denied that it contained recommendations. Yet, on its first page, he wrote that these "next steps are possible and desirable ..." Sen. Hagel then devoted four pages to arguing why these "next steps" should be implemented.
In light of North Korea's nuclear program and missile tests, as well as Iran's march toward a nuclear-weapons capability, the policy prescriptions Sen. Hagel said were "desirable" in the Global Zero report are inconsistent with the administration's nuclear modernization commitments, undermine our nuclear deterrent, and are simply downright dangerous given the threats we face.
Sen. Hagel also made the illogical statement that the secretary of defense is not a "policy-making position" - revealing a startling lack of understanding about the role of the nation's Pentagon chief.
To the contrary, the secretary of defense is one of the most important and powerful policymakers in the U.S. government - the person the President turns to for guidance on running the nation's defense programs. If the secretary of defense isn't a policymaker, who is?
Sen. Hagel has earned the respect and gratitude of all Americans for his long record of service to our country - including his time in combat in Vietnam.
But the U.S. Senate has a constitutional responsibility to provide advice and consent on the President's nominees. And based on Sen. Hagel's record, his past statements, and his testimony last week, I can't vote to confirm his nomination.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.


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Style # 209273
Can't get enough of colorblock! With a polished cut, playful asymmetric hemline and pop of color at the waist, this bebe dress is perfect for work or play. Glam it up in a pair of metallic pumps and an elongated clutch.
- 82% triacetate, 18% polyester
- Center back to hem: 32" (81 cm)
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Rated 2 out of 5 by 1SallyGirl from PRETTY BUT NOT CONVINCING I tried on this dress, althought the material is nice, thick for those who preffer to hide problem areas, the flap in the front, hangs in such an odd place and manner that is just makes the dress look sorta messy. The color combination is great, but not something I would spend my money on.
Date published: 2013-03-22
Rated 3 out of 5 by obubbleteao from Good I bought a size 4 . There was some excess material near the back zipper, and it was oddly shaped in the chest area but the dress had stretch which was great. I just wasn't convinced this was flattering on me so I'm going to have return it.
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'Strike Back' Season 2 finale: Hard Knox life
"Strike Back" wraps up its second Cinemax season Friday with an action- and revelation-packed finale that will have you rewinding to catch all the details. It'll also make you wish for more episodes in a season that seems to have ended too quickly. Despite the exciting action sequences and amazing stunt work, the quieter moments affected me the most. We've long known Damian Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) has a dark past, and that it involved CIA diva Christy Bryant (Stephanie Vogt). He finally confronts her about their work together and about her involvement with Conrad Knox (Charles Dance), who has horrifying plans for his remaining nuclear bombs. Knox, too, reveals his true motivations in the finale, showing his bitterness about European colonialism in Africa and how it changed his life as a child. Still haunted by lost chances to deal once and for all with his wife's killer, Craig Hanson (Shane Taylor), Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) refocuses on Section 20's latest dangerous mission. The Season 2 finale was directed by Bill Eagles and written by Tony Scott. It debuts at 9 p.m. CT Oct. 12 on Cinemax and repeats throughout the weekend. Curt Wagner, RedEye's Show Patrol READ & WATCH: "Strike Back" debrief: How to jump out of a helicopter LOOK: "Strike Back" Ep. 19 photo gallery WATCH: "Strike Back" debrief: How to break some ribs READ: Rhona Mitra wanted to bring authenticity to role READ: Philip Winchester explores dark side of character READ: Director Michael Bassett rocks "Strike Back." Want more? Discuss this article and others on Show Patrol's Facebook page.
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Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez: Benihana Date with Friends!
Justin Bieber and his on-and-off again girlfriend Selena Gomez head out for dinner with friends at Benihana restaurant on Monday (November 19) in Encino, Calif.
Earlier in the night, the 18-year-old singer stepped out for a workout at Equinox gym in red shorts in Los Angeles.
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Justin tweeted earlier, "looking forward to this interview. @oprah growing up in front of everyone is not easy. thanks for taking the time."
On the same day, Selena was spotted exiting a hospital ER room in Los Angeles.
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Friday, March 2, 2007
Looney Tunes Classic Collector Dolls
Here is a really nice set of Looney Tunes "Classic Collector Dolls" that were available exclusively at the now defunct chain of Warner Bros. Studio Stores. The tallest is Bugs who is about 11" and, believe it or not, the smallest is Gossamer who is 6". They are all soft hollow plastic with moveable heads and arms. I believe that the full set is seen above: Bugs, Daffy, Tweety, Sylvester, Tasmanian Devil, Marvin the Martian, Porky Pig and Gossamer. The tags are dated 1994 and they originally sold for $5-$6 each.
They seem to have been inspired by a line of similar dolls made by Dakin in the 1960s and 1970s. Here is a picture of a few of the vintage Dakin dolls (that is Merlin the Magic Mouse's sidekick, Second Banana, at the end).
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Hi Jon,
I'm not sure how many characters were done, but that's definitely not all of them. I actually have (in addition to Gossamer) figures of Rocky and Mugsy and Junyer Bear from the same line. I'd be glad to take photos of them for you.
- March 5, 2007 at 1:28 PM
- Jon Cooke said...
Hi Chris,
Thanks for letting me know. Matthew had told me the other night of Rocky & Mugsy figures in this line, but I never got a chance to update the post. I had no idea they did a Junyer, too. If you could take pictures, I'd really like to see them. You can send them to looneyblog -at- yahoo.com
- March 5, 2007 at 1:59 PM
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STATEN ISLAND, NY – Dr. Alveda King, director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, founder of King for America and the niece of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will be doing interviews this week regarding the dedication of the long-overdue memorial for her uncle in Washington, D.C.
"As people gather in the nation's capital to remember and celebrate the life of my Uncle Martin, it is an opportune moment to declare that were he here today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be standing with those working to stop the violence of abortion against children in the womb and restore them to equal protection under the law," Dr. King said.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial will be dedicated at 11 a.m. Aug. 28 on the National Mall.
In conjunction with the dedication, Dr. King, Priests for Life, and a host of other pro-life organizations will host "Redeem the Dream: The State of the Quality of Life in the 21st Century," from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Family Research Council at 801 G Street The event will include a panel discussion, video presentations and a call to action.
Dr. King is available for interviews Monday, Aug. 22; Thursday, Aug. 25 and Friday, Aug. 26. To arrange an interview, please call Andre Kim at 347-286-7277.
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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EXAM TIME COFFEE/SNACK BREAK! May 9th @ 8:00am
The Christian Legal Society is sponsoring another morning coffee break for all Chicago-Kent students.
That's right . . . . COFFEE & SNACKS (this wont be cafeteria coffee either!)
WHEN: May 9th
WHERE: Front Lobby~8:00 am until everything is gone!
So if you don't have time to grab a cup of coffee before you leave
Come grab a cup of coffee and snack on us!!
New CLS Board Members for 2000/2001
Thank you to everyone who prayerfully considered becoming a member of the CLS leadership boardfor the next school term. Now the moment you've been waiting for . . . here is the Chicago-Kent CLS student chapter leadership board for 2000/2001 :
Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit - (March 10 - June 11)
The Field Museum exhibition is the first time that the Dead Sea Scrolls have been in Chicago since 1949. The exhibition includes portions of 15 different scrolls (five of which have not been seen outside of Israel) and eighty archaeological artifacts from the area where the scrolls were discovered. Rare books and manuscripts from the Newberry Library and The Field Museum, and a torah scroll from the Spertus Museum are also featured.
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Mike Persons hopes others will watch the ultimate moment of his young mixed martial arts career.
Mike Persons hopes others will watch the ultimate moment of his young mixed martial arts career.
The Manteca fighter is one of 28 finalists who qualified for the first round of Ultimate Fighter 17, the reality series which premieres at 8 p.m. today on FX. The series has been filmed, and you'll have to tune in to see how far Persons goes.
"I'll say it was an amazing experience," Persons said. "It was good for me to go through it. I hope people watch the show."
Persons, a 29-year-old who attended Manteca High, went into the show with a pretty good idea of what to expect. He trains with Nick and Nate Diaz at their gym, Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy on South School Street in Lodi. Nate Diaz's career received a major boost when he won Ultimate Fighter 5 in 2007.
Persons, said he discussed the competition with Nate Diaz when he decided to try out. He also talked to his primary coach, Cesar Gracie.
"Cesar told me there would be a tryout and I just wanted to give it a shot," Persons said. "And (Nate) told me what was up with the whole deal. He really helped me."
More than 250 fighters tried to earn a spot on the show, which is dedicated to the 185-pound weight class. In the first episode, 14 "fight-in" bouts will determine who earns a spot in a home in Las Vegas where the competitors will live during their time on the show. The fighters will be split into teams coached by world light-heavyweight champion Jon "Bones" Jones and top contender Chael Sonnen. One fighter will be eliminated each week until the championship finale. The winner will be given a six-figure UFC contract.
Besides Nate Diaz, other well-known fighters who have won The Ultimate Fighter include Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans, Roy Nelson and Matt Serra.
"The quality of guys we have this season is unbelievable," UFC president Dana White said in a statement. "From the fights to get into the house, to every single fight this season, I think the talent is some of the best I've ever seen on this show. We're going to end up with some really good guys in the 185-pound division."
Going into the show, Persons had stopped all three of his opponents, and has a purple belt from Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. He began his pro career in 2011, and his last fight was a third round stoppage of David Villescaz on May 26 last year in Plymouth.
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