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For all those wandering outside their territory, Touchnote and Samsung are teaming up to let anyone can send free physical postcards to their loved ones using their smartphone and its pics. Samsung is footing the bill with the Touchnote app (Android, Facebook, and online) meaning you can send unlimited postcards of photos you've taken – until August 31st. Send Office Cat your cat-snaps.
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While Office Cat loves mice, his paws make clicking a chore – because of his sweaty pads. Fortunately the Cyclone Edition gaming mouse is here to save the day, with a 6000rpm motor powering a fan that shifts air at 2.6 cubic feet per minute. And with a release date of August and price of US$80 (£50) it's already found its place beneath the ball-with-a-bell-in-it and the catnip on Office Cat's shopping list.
Office Cat is a social animal, so the news that Facebook's adding an offline reading feature has him purring with delight. Soon you'll be able to save all your Facebook updates and stories in your feed with the touch of a button for offline reading later. The update will initially be made available on iOS devices as well as the Facebook website. You'll be able to hit a save button which will send the article to a subfolder inside your favourites across all your platforms.
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Thermaltake Cyclone Edition gaming mouse
Office Cat is a pretty flexible beast, but he has nothing on designer Eyai Melnick's Shavit Electronic Adjustable Superbike. Melnick's concept transforms from an urban bike to a racing steed with its adjustable footpegs, forks, and sub-frame. That means a comfortable upright riding position while negotiating town traffic that hunkers down for a more aerodynamic racing position once you get up to speed. Likelihood it gets built? Office Cat can but dream.
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When food meets tech, great things happen, like this edible coffee cup from Lavazza. Office Cat's a bit of a caffiene fiend, and the combination of an espresso with a pastry shell containing an inner sugar layer to sweeten the drink has him buzzing with anticipation. It's like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for adults.
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Bids due this week for bankrupt railroad in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Parties interested in buying the bankrupt railroad responsible for a disaster that killed 47 people in Canada have until the end of the week to submit bids.
The minimum bid for Maine-based Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railways is $15.7 million, which reflects an initial "stalking horse" bid by Railroad Acquisition Holdings LLC. If additional bids are submitted by Friday's deadline, then there will be a closed-door auction later this month in Portland.
Trustee Robert Keach said the railroad's operations including 480 miles of track in Maine, Vermont and Canada will be sold in a way that allows the rail service to continue.
MM&A filed for bankruptcy after the July derailment in Lac Megantic, Quebec, which was caused after a train with 72 oil tankers began rolling after being left unattended.

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Australia win Tri Nations in style
The much anticipated final between Australia and Great Britain has fizzled with the Kangaroos smashing Great Britain 44-4 in front of a sell out crowd at Elland Road, Leeds.
The game was a seven tries to one rout and the question must be asked, can Great Britain rebuild after such a devastating loss and where does the international game go from here after a highly successful round robin series?
Great Britain were never in the match as the Australians scored at better than a point a minute for the majority of the first half and went to the break with an unbeatable 38-0 lead.
The second half was a scrappy affair with neither side showing a great deal of interest and the Brits would have been happy not to front up for the second forty, such was the dominance and skill of the Australians. At least they kept the second forty to a 6-4 contest but the Australians had taken their foot off the pedal and were already thinking of their trip to Philadelphia for their match against the USA, then back home for a well deserved break after a gruelling regular and representative season both at home and abroad.
Some of the tries and lead up work from the Australians simply had to be seen to be believed, such was the level of skill from the men in green and gold. The second Australian try scored by Anthony Minichiello is one of the best tries ever seen in Rugby League and the lead up work to the try by Shane Webcke, Danny Buderus and Darren Lockyer was nothing short of outstanding. Australia also landed eight goals from eight attempts with Darren Lockyer and Craig Fitzgibbon sharing the kicking duties with a 100% strike rate.
The Australians also made a mockery of the decision to award Great Britain captain Andy Farrell as the world?s best player. He tried hard but was highly ineffective as were most of his countrymen against a defence ready to belt the Brits into submission for the full eighty minutes.
Darren Lockyer and Anthony Minichiello had superb games for the Kangaroos whilst there were not many shining lights for Great Britain with their big name players failing to fire but Martin Gleeson and Danny McGuire never stopped trying, although their efforts were all in vain as the Great Britain team squandered possession and took some terrible options in attack which made them easy pickings for an Australian side hungry to assert their dominance over a cocky Great Britain side who went into the match supremely confident, believing their were deserved favourites against one of the best and most dominant teams to ever grace world sport.
It wasn?t so much an ambush on the part of the Australians rather than a precise surgical strike on an enemy who thought they were at the top of their game. Australian coach Wayne Bennett played his cards beautifully during the week, letting Great Britain hog the limelight and give themselves a high profile build-up that only added insult to injury in the final wash up.
Australia has again shown they are light years ahead of the competition although the Tri Nations overall was a resounding success and for the good of the international game, the concept must be made a regular fixture on the Rugby League calendar and must be showcased both in England and Australia/ New Zealand to give fans of the international game a chance to show their support for the concept.
Australian captain and undisputed world's best player Darren Lockyer won the man of the match award and with age, he continues to improve and will no doubt go down as one of the greatest players to ever play the game.
Scorers: AUSTRALIA KANGAROOS 44 Tries: M Sing, A Minichiello 2, W Tonga 2, D Lockyer, W Mason Goals: Lockyer 6/6, Fitzgibbon 2/2
GREAT BRITAIN LIONS 4 Tries: S Reardon Goals: Farrell 0/1
By the clock: Good morning in Australia, good evening in England and welcome to League Umlimited's coverage of the Tri-Nations Final. Kick off is around ten minutes away. The Teams about to run onto the field.
1st Min: We have Kick Off in the 2004 Tri-Nations Final!!!
2nd Min: Great tackle by Morley and GB have the ball back, as I speak Jamie Peacock knocks on.
4th Min: Penalty Goal to Australia through the boot of Darren Lockyer. Australia 2-0.
5th Min: Chance for Great Britain after a banana kick from Sean Long but it just couldn't be picked up by a GB player.
6th Min: Great Try Saving Tackle by Stuart Fielden on Matt Sing.
8th Min: TRY-AUSTRALIA, try to Matt Sing after a knock on by GB up the field and after Australia went on the attack Anthony Minichiello put in a grubber and Sing went over to score. Lockyer converts from the sideline. Australia 8-0.
12th Min: TRY-AUSTRALIA, Anthony Minichiello scores for Australia after some great play by Australia getting them 5 Meters away from the Try-Line. Lockyer good ball to Minichiello and he goes in. Lockyer converts and Australia lead 14-0.
16th Min: TRY-AUSTRALIA, Australia are putting on a show this morning with more great play with it ending with Willie Tonga scoring off a cross field kick from Lockyer. Lockyer converts and Australia lead 20-0.
21st Min: Great defence by Australia after Great Britain were attacking on Australia's line, score remains 20-0 Aus.
23rd Min: TRY-AUSTRALIA, Anthony Minichiello gets his 2nd try under the posts. All to easy and Lockyer Converts. Australia 26-0.
25th Min: TRY-AUSTRALIA, Darren Lockyer scores after he made a break and ran 50m to score another Try. Lockyer converts and Australia lead 32-0.
31st Min: Great Britain putting some good play together and they will get another set of six after a great little grubber kick by Andy Farrell.
33rd Min: Horrible spear tackle by Ryan Bailey on Craig Fitzgibbon, Penalty to Australia.
34th Min: TRY-AUSTRALIA, Willie Tonga goes in for his second try just before he went over the sideline after a great cut-out ball from Lockyer. Fitzgibbon converts and Australia lead 38-0.
Halftime: The score says it all, Australia lead 38-0 at halftime. Australia are just beating Great Britain in all areas of the game. Although on the few times GB have had to attack, they have shown some promise. Second half to come.
41st Min: We have kick off in the 2nd half of the Tri-Nations final.
43rd Min: TRY-AUSTRALIA, Willie Mason joins the party after a grubber kick from Brett Kimmorley sets up the try. Fitzgibbon converts and Australia lead 44-0.
44th Min: TRY-GREAT BRITAIN, Stuart Reardon score Great Britains first after a nice little grubber kick by Danny Mcguire. Farrell misses and it remains 44-4 to Australia.
48th Min: Oh so close to another Try for Great Britain but the last pass to Brian Carney was foward else he was in for Great Britain's second.
53rd Min: GB are playing a bit better, I think that is also because Australia has relaxed a bit. Score remains Australia 44-4.
61st Min: A chance for Great Britain but again it goes over the dead-ball line.
63rd Min: No Try to Terry Newton after he was held up by Brett Kimmorley.
69th Min: Just over 10 mins remaining and it's still 44-4 to Australia.
76th Min: Four minutes left in the Tri-Nations of 2004.
Fulltime: Australia has won the Tri-Nations after a win in the final to Australia with the final score 44-4. Apart from this game it has been a great tournament for International Rugby League.
Australia are off to play a game against the USA on Wednesday at 11.30am ADST, after that the next Rugby League game will be in around 2 months when the WCC takes place on Feb 4. That is it for today, Australia has won 44-4.
Merry Christmas from everyone here at League Unlimited.
----------------------------------------- Leagueunlimited.com players of the match: 3 - D Lockyer (Australia) 2 - A Minichiello (Australia) 1 - W Mason( Australia) -----------------------------------------


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Originally posted by robert_in_bigd
Originally posted by Ward
Get the Al Davis created this league bullcrap out of this thread and tell it to people who believe that. Davis had a hand in the NFL, JUST LIKE OTHER OWNERS OF THE TIME.
To Poet: Yes, I dislike him and I do think Al Davis is 10x the owner and contributor that Jerry is. Al Davis is a football man and Jerry is not. Al played a very important role in creating this league. Just like Joe Namath, Hunt and a few others from the AFL days.
Great news on MS. Thanks for the update guys. Have a great evening.
The Cowboys under Jerry Jones have been everything from Great to Good to Average to Below average. They haven't been the laughing stock of the NFL like the Raiders.
History has it's place, but you cannot discount the relevance of the more recent history over that of the distant history. The game has passed Al Davis by. His FA strategies, his offensive strategies and his coaching hires are pretty clear in that regard.
Going forward into 2007 -- yeah, Jerry has a better shot of figuring it out than Al. Al looks really really bad and just does not seem to have the energy to get it done. I would even bet he may have some mental health issues. He just looks horrible.
Hope Jerry gives Wade, Singletary and Garrett the wheels soon. This would be my dream team for 2007.


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Karen Walker, left, and Anthony Offak help assemble a greenhouse provided by the northwest Ohio chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council at Ida High School in Michigan.
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One school in Toledo and three in Monroe County are getting working greenhouses for educational purposes, thanks to the northwest Ohio chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.
The Toledo school is Central Catholic High School, while those north of the Michigan line are the high schools in the Ida and Airport districts and Sodt Elementary in the Jefferson district.
The kits cost about $2,000 and are assembled with volunteer labor. Once up, a greenhouse has floor space of 10 feet by 12 feet. Its frame is made of aluminum, and instead of glass, it is covered with polycarbonate, according to Karen Walker, who chairs the green schools committee of the Green Building Council chapter.
The national organization, she said, "asks each chapter to reach out to the community and do a project that relates to sustainability." Ms. Walker, an architect, lives in Bedford Township and works at the Collaborative in Toledo, where she specializes in green design.
Strictly speaking, she added, Monroe County is in the Green Building Council's Detroit region, but "when it comes to children, we really don't have borders."
The University of Toledo's LEADERS program also is involved. Each recipient school has teachers enrolled in a LEADERS course of study that will lead to a master's degree in renewable energy, said Joe Perlaky, the executive director of the Maumee Valley Growers, which represents area commercial greenhouses.
The UT program emphasizes math and science training through service projects such as the greenhouses. Mr. Perlaky acts as a liaison between the commercial greenhouse growers and the LEADERS program.
Before the greenhouses were awarded, teachers at the recipient schools had to explain how they would integrate the greenhouse activities with their classroom instruction.
Ida science teacher Scott LaRoy said he planned to use it for long-term projects, such as a study of algae as a model for cell reproduction and biofuels. "Instead of watching our plants die in October, we can extend our projects and the time period," he said.
At Central Catholic, the greenhouse will be used to improve lessons on photosynthesis, teacher Kristi McKinley said.
"We also hope to use it in STEM [science, technology, engineering, and math] research," she explained. "It's preliminary, but we hope to have an actual lab. A student will be putting out plants to do research on monarch butterflies, and she'll have the caterpillars there. We also hope to build a network with community organizations to improve their food pantries."
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SolarCity shares climb after quarterly results
(4:21 PM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Shares of SolarCity Corp. SCTY climbed in the after-hours session Wednesday evening after the renewable energy service company reported a first-quarter revenue that topped Wall Street's estimate. SolarCity reported revenue of $63.6 million, up from $30 million reported the same period a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet expected the company to report revenue of $53 million. The company saw a loss of $24.1 million, or 26 cents a share, compared with a loss of $40.9 million, or 54 cents a share a year ago. The company reported an adjusted loss of 82 cents a share. Analysts polled by FactSet expected the company to report an adjusted loss of 70 cents a share. SolarCity shares have slumped more than 30% since mid-March, following aresults.
21st Century beats estimates, shares rally 5%
(4:18 PM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - 21st Century Fox Inc. FOXA, +0.94% on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $1.05 billion, or 47 cents a share, compared with a profit of $2.85 billion, or $1.22 a share, for the year-earlier period. Revenue rose to $8.22 billion from $7.35 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet on average were expecting the company to post a profit of 35 cents a share on revenue of $7.98 billion. Shares of 21st Century Fox were up 5% after hours.
Tesla shares down on net first-quarter loss of $50 million
(4:18 PM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Tesla Motors, Inc. TSLA, +6.55% reported late Wednesday a fiscal first-quarter net loss of $50 million, or 40 cents a share, compared with break-even per-share results a year ago. Adjusted to exclude one-time items, the electric car-maker earned $17 million, or 12 cents a diluted share, compared with 12 cents a share on profit of $11 million a year earlier. Revenue for the quarter rose to $621 million from $562 million in the first quarter of 2013. Analysts surveyed by FactSet, citing adjusted earnings, had expected the company to earn 8 cents a share on $684 million in sales. The first quarter of 2013 marked Tesla's first profit in its 10-year history, but was followed by a string of losses later in the year. Shares of Tesla fell nearly 6% right after the report, but losses later narrowed. The company said it "slightly exceeded guidance by delivering 6,457 cars while also filling the pipeline of deliveries into Europe and Asia to support growing global demand." Tesla said its adjusted automotive gross margin hit 25.4%.
Green Mountain tops estimates as sales climb 10%
(4:17 PM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Keurig Green Mountain Inc. GMCR said Wednesday it earned $260 million, or $1.03 a share, in its fiscal second quarter, up from $212.1 million, or 87 cents, in the same period a year ago, buoyed by strong coffee sales and cost cuts. Adjusted EPS was $1.08. Sales climbed 10% to $1.103 billion. The FactSet consensus was for EPS of 95 cents on revenue of $1.048 billion. The maker of single-serving coffee brewers said it bought back $700 million of its own shares in the quarter in an accelerated program and has approval to buy back up to $1 billion more in the next two years. Looking ahead, it expects sales to grow in the high single digits in the third quarter to generate EPS of 83 cents to 88 cents. For all of 2014, the company is expecting EPS of $3.63 to $3.73, including the dilutive impact of recent stake purchases by Coca-Cola KO, +1.29% and Lavazza. Shares climbed 5.7% in after-hours trade.
Potbelly posts loss of 1 cent a share
(9:41 AM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Potbelly Corp. PBPB, -0.45% which went public in October, reported late Tuesday a fiscal first-quarter net loss of $301,000, or 1 cent a share, reversing a year-ago profit of $18,000. The Chicago-based soup and sandwich chain said sales for the quarter rose 7.5% to $73.9 million from $68.7 million. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected the company to report break-even results for the quarter on $73.7 million in revenue. The company said it expects net income growth in 2014 of between 25% and 35%.
Corcept shares slide 50% after it halts drug trial
(9:31 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Corcept Therapeutics shares CORT, +4.87% lost half their value in premarket trade Wednesday, after the company said it has halted a trial of a psychotic depression drug because it was unlikely to meet its primary endpoint. The announcement came as Corcept reported a first-quarter loss of $13.9 million, or 14 cents a share, wider than the loss of $12.1 million, or 12 cents a share, posted for the year-earlier period. Revenue rose to $4.4 million from $1.7 million. CEO Joseph Belanoff said the company is making progress with sales of Korlym, a treatment for Cushing's syndrome, a disease afflicting more than 20,000 people in the U.S. Corcept raised its 2014 revenue outlook for the drug to between $25 million and $29 million from a range of $24 million to $28 million.
King Digital climbs on earnings beat
(8:48 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- King Digital Entertainment KING maker of the popular mobile game Candy Crush, rose 4.2% in premarket trade Wednesday after reporting results that beat estimates. The company's adjusted earnings per share of 61 cents, beating the consensus estimate of 58 cents compiled by FactSet. King reported adjusted revenue of $607.6 million, beating FactSet's estimate of $602 million. Over the past year, the company has seen strong growth. It's adjusted EPS for the year-ago quarter was 20 cents on an adjusted revenue of $206 million. The company went public in February. --Joseph Adinolfi
Mondelez shares rise on restructuring plans
(7:47 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Mondelez International Inc. MDLZ, +0.58% shares rose 4.5% in premarket trade Wednesday after the company announced a major restructuring and reported first-quarter earnings. The company announced two new initiatives, a $3.5 billion corporate restructuring program expected to save $1.5 billion by 2018 and a plan to combine its coffee portfolio with the holdings of Dutch firm D.E Master Blenders 1753, a private company owned by Acorn Holdings, to create the world's largest coffee company, with more than $7 billion in revenue. Mondelez will own 49% of the new company. The company's earnings missed estimates, posting revenue of $8.64 billion vs. a consensus estimate of $8.66 billion. Mondelez reported revenue of $8.74 billion a year ago. Earnings per share came in at 9 cents, down from 30 cents a year ago, and short of a consensus estimate of 34 cents. "The strategic and cost-reduction actions we announced today underscore our determination to become a leaner, more focused and more nimble global snacking powerhouse," said Mondelez Chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld.
UPDATE: AOL misses earnings estimates; revenue up 8%
(7:47 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- AOL Inc. AOL said Wednesday it earned $9.3 million, or 11 cents a share, in the first quarter, down from $35.9 million, or 32 cents a share, in the same period a year ago, pulled down by restructuring charges. Adjusted EPS was 34 cents a share. Revenue grew 8% to $583.3 million, buoyed by growth in global advertising. The FactSet consensus was for earnings of 45 cents a share on revenue of $576 million. The company said its global advertising revenue grew 16%, driven by a 55% rise in revenue from third-party platforms.


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Hi ladies. I have a 3 month old son who has had a lot of bfing problems. We still use a sns, but he's gotten better nursing recently. I have to have a wisdom tooth out next week. They're using IV sedation and will take Vicoprophin afterwards. The surgeon told me I have to pump and dump on the Vicodin and for 24 hours after taking the last dose. I'm terrified of this messing up his feeding or making him reject the breast. He also likes to comfort nurse to sleep. They told me to expect to not nurse for about two days.
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Voice of the State Fair
By: Legacy Staff
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N. Keith Bradley, an auctioneer, announcer, and real estate broker whose supple voice brought crowds to their feet and inspired bidders at farms, country clubs, and county fairs, died July 20 at age 79, according to the news obituary written by Toledo Blade reporter Mark Zaborney.
Bradley was an announcer at the Wood County (Ohio) Fair since 1958 and presided at livestock and other auctions there, Zaborney wrote. For 19 years, fair-goers voted him the county's favorite auctioneer. He was the top auctioneer in 1982 at the Ohio State Fair.
He was the announcer of the annual National Tractor Pulling Championships in Bowling Green (Ohio) since the first event in 1967. His cry, "Full pull!" was often imitated but never duplicated, said Terry Andryc, media coordinator for the championships.
"That was one of the things that fans looked forward to," Mr. Andryc said. "He was a tractor-pull fan and a member, and those words came from the heart." He had a stroke during the 2011 event.
Bradley also announced horse shows throughout the United States for more than 50 years, was in the halls of fame of the Reining Horse Association and the All American Quarter Horse Congress and was a past president of the Northwest Ohio Harness Horse Association, according to Zaborney.
He conducted auctions of all sorts and worked the crowd with the skills of a band leader, his staccato voice urging the bids higher and higher before descending with a final note on the willing buyer, the obit said.
Condolences may be posted on Bradley's Legacy.com Guest Book.


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Over the past 30 years, Jim Cramer noticed the same thing tends to happen at around this time of year — many hedge fund managers continually buy momentum stocks from the start of the fourth quarter through the year's end.
"The growth-oriented fund managers will keep buying their best-performing momentum stocks practically non-stop for the next three months, " Cramer said. "And these guys will pay pretty much any price because they can justify stratospheric valuations based on the earnings in the out-years, meaning how much money these fast growers can make down the road in 2015 or 2016."
In Cramer's experience, anticipating which stocks may be "anointed by Wall Street as winners in the fourth quarter" is typically a winning trade. When he ran a hedge fund, he often bought the stocks he thought might be bought en masse during the last quarter of the year. He put together a list of stocks he thinks are likely to be the biggest winners this fourth quarter.


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Law and the Courts
October 30, 2015
ACE and 37 other higher education associations filed this brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, as the court prepares to take a second look at UT's diversity in admissions policy.
February 4, 2015
Amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding a case that could potentially overturn a 50-year-old patent decision.
November 21, 2014
Submitted by ACE, the Association of Governing Boards and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in support of the NCAA in its appeal of the O'Bannon class-action antitrust lawsuit.
October 21, 2014
Submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, this brief supports the Hotchkiss School in its appeal of a lower court ruling that awarded $41.75 million to the plaintiff for allegedly suffering a tick bite while on a study-abroad...
April 18, 2014
This brief, filed by 22 higher education and accreditation organizations including ACE, was submitted in support of AACSC in this case, which is on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
December 13, 2013
Submitted to the Virginia Supreme Court in support of the University of Virginia in a case dealing with the protection of various documents and emails relating to former U.Va. Professor Michael Mann's climate change research.
October 31, 2013
ACE and a group of 41 higher education associations submitted this brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in the ongoing diversity in admissions case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.
August 30, 2013
Amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Schuette v. the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, urging justices to strike down the state of Michigan's ban on the consideration of race and ethnicity in admissions decisions.
June 4, 2013
Amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the case Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Digital Library, in which the Authors Guild is charging that the digital repository is violating copyright by making some of its members' work...
May 29, 2013
In October 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a lower court ruling in the case Oregon State University (OSU) Student Alliance v. Ray. The lower court had dismissed a complaint brought by a group of students after their...


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It seems to me that TeXLive should be under the LaTeX heading instead. New users will probably search for the "LaTeX" heading first. Also, LaTeX is more general, and can emcompass GUI applications, etc. --Arcanazar 13:32, 7 July 2009 (EDT)
Reply: No. TeXLive provides MUCH MUCH more than just LaTeX! Ever heard of Plain TeX, ConTeXt, metapost, xindy, bibtex, etc? :) --firmicus 03:04, 16 September 2009 (EDT)
Re: TeXLive is much more than LaTeX. Of course I've heard of everything you've mentioned; I'm at a university where these are used all the time. Often, they are referred to as just LaTeX, or LaTeX suite. This may be technically incorrect, but it was the common parlance at my institution. Perhaps it would be best to redirect the LaTeX page to the TeXLive page. --Arcanazar 11:20, 16 September 2009 (EDT)
What if we had an article for *TeX in general, and have keywords such as LaTeX, ConTeXt, bibTeX, &c. redirect to that page? We could include sections explaining what TeX is and giving some background information to explain all of these different programs (in simple terms so a new user could pick it up quickly). The *TeX article could tell how to install TeXLive, how to use it, some recommended methods of editing .tex files (Vim, emacs + AUCTeX, Kile, &c.), and other information. What do you think? --Allamgir 10:05, 2 October 2009 (EDT)
- Right now there exists: a stub article on LaTex, an article on TexLive, as well as a category TexLive (English) and a Howto: TeXLive and CJK.
- I propose the creation of a category "TeX (English)" which contains everything TeX-related. This category would be a sub-category of "Office (English)" and all the TeX-related things linked there are moved to the TeX (English).
- All article and categories in english get "Pagename (English)"
- We may make crosslinking field in each of the major TeX articles (LaTeX (English), BibTeX (English) etc.) making it easier to navigate between the topics.
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- I second this proposal. -- pointone 18:24, 26 January 2010 (EST)
- I third this proposal as someone who a new user. This would be a great idea.


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Ready or not, here they come! Some of our favorite and not so favorite Bravo Housewives are set to bring their drama onto the popular game show – "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire."
Eighteen of the Housewives are set to appear on the show February 22 – 26 as they team up with real-life housewives for a special presentation of "The Real Housewives of Millionaire." Housewives from all four casts – New York, New Jersey, Atlanta and Orange County – will participate.
Andy Cohen, Executive Producer of the Housewives' franchise will sit in via Skype as the expert for the "Ask The Expert" lifeline all week. Not to worry though as the Bravo housewives will not be without any help. They will actually be paired in the hot seat with the contestant housewives to help them answer the trivia questions.
The Housewives that will be teaming up with contestants include New Jersey cast members Caroline, Dina, Jaqueline and Teresa; New York cast members Kelly, LuAnn, Ramona, Alex and Jill; and Atlanta housewife, Kandi. Celebrity questions will then be presented to the contestants by Orange County Housewives Vicki, Lynne, Jeana, Gretchen and Tamra, as well as Danielle from the New Jersey cast and Lisa and Sheree from Atlanta.
Jill Zarin of the NY Housewives talked about her excitement in doing the show – "I'm really excited to be here. I bet I'm the only one who really watches the show on a regular basis. I watch it every day. I TiVo it and watch it at night. I do. And then when I got asked to be on the show, I died. It was like dying and going to heaven."
Dina Manzo of NJ was nervous and hoped to get a lot of pop culture questions. "I've been too busy to get ready, that's why I'm so afraid. I could redecorate the whole set with my eyes shut, but I'm scared to answer these questions. I just hope she has a good sense of humor, my partner," said Dina.


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Editor's Note: Darryl Millis, DVM, is a professor of orthopedic surgery and the director of surgical services in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, a Diplomate of the American College of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation and a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner. Millis is the co-editor of the textbooks Essential Facts of Physiotherapy in Dogs and Cats; Multimodal Management of Osteoarthritis; and Textbook of Small Animal Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation.
DVM: You've said in years past that the veterinary field doesn't pay enough attention to physical rehabilitation practices. Why do you think that is?
DVM: To what do you attribute the increased interest?
Millis: I think more people are identifying the value of a multimodal treatment approach to conditions such as osteoarthritis in dogs. Ten years ago, veterinarians treated arthritis with medication alone, but now there's more widespread recognition of the value of physical rehabilitation and other nonpharmacologic treatment options.
DVM: What would you like to see changed in veterinary training as it relates to rehabilitation medicine?
Millis: It would be helpful to have elective courses, or even part of a required course, in veterinary college curricula that focus on basic rehab techniques. Here at the University of Tennessee, all of our senior-year students on clinical rotation spend some time in physical rehabilitation.
DVM: Which type of patients and conditions are best treated with rehab?
Millis: Dogs with cranial cruciate ligament rupture have been shown to improve with postoperative rehab designed to help them strengthen the tissues surrounding the joint and improve limb use during recovery.
Also, for dogs with neurologic disorders such as disk ruptures or degenerative myelopathy, rehabilitation can be an important part of the treatment plan. People realize that, even for themselves, some postsurgical rehab can enhance recovery, and I think we're making the connection that if it helps us, it can help dogs, too.
One in five dogs has arthritis. They could greatly benefit from rehab techniques, such as slow leash walking, maybe a little jogging, some swimming and other aquatic therapies. Certain physical modalities can also be beneficial in the treatment of arthritis.
Patients with fractures around and in joints also have improved function with rehab. Almost any neuromusculoskeletal disorder can benefit from rehab.
DVM: Are there any cases in which rehab is inappropriate?
Millis: There has been some discussion of trying to manage cruciate ruptures with rehab only, no surgery. Sometimes that may result in some improvement, but it's really appropriate only for patients for whom surgery would be life-threatening, for example, a dog with a severe cardiac condition that cannot tolerate anesthesia. Those cases could be managed with rehab alone. But veterinarians should be aware that weight-bearing exercises on an unstable stifle joint hasten the progression of arthritis.
That said, nearly every patient with a cruciate rupture could benefit from surgery first to stabilize the joint, and then undergo postoperative rehab.
There are also some dogs that don't allow a therapist to perform treatments or dogs that have severe anxiety. Although we try to work with these patients to make rehabilitation a pleasant experience, if it's too stressful or the dog doesn't tolerate treatment, then we may discontinue rehabilitation in the clinical environment and have the owners do some form of treatment at home.


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I offered 10 predictions for 2012 and didn't do too badly, although I missed the big one (I predicted Obama wouldn't be reelected). This year our friends at NRO invited me to submit four or five predictions for 2013 the week before last, on a few hours' notice. Here is my response:
I don't quite know what happened this past year, but the future is a piece of cake. Looking out to the next year, I clearly foresee:
We will not cheer up in 2013. The conservative funk will continue through the year.
Obamacare will experience "unexpected" glitches as the date of full implementation approaches. None of President Obama's predictions about the beneficial effects of Obamacare will materialize. But that's okay. We don't remember what they were anyway.
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln will win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Daniel Day-Lewis will win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the president. No one will observe that the film destroys the progressive critique of Lincoln first articulated by Richard Hofstadter in The American Political Tradition that virtually all bright high-school students in American-history classes absorb one way or another.
Sales of guns and ammunition will set new records. Despite the current political/media hysteria, rifles will remain among the least likely weapons of choice for murderers, trailing behind (according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports) knives, blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.), and personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.).
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The Jarrow 1mg is a 5 star quality mb12 supplement. When held under the lip for 45-120 minutes the approx absorbtion is 15-25% which means it is equivalent to a 200+-50mcg injection. When you start this with Metafolin if you were low enough to shut down a lot of healing, healing and cell formation will start up and potassium will plunge typically making a person feel really sick. It can even cause death if prolonged. Typically 2000-3000mg of additioanl potassium (potassium gluconate 99mg tablets timnes 20-30 per day in 5 doses or so) are3 needed tpo alleviate low potassium symptoms. Then typicalyy, the body that has started healing and the Metafolin titration typicall becomes adwquate at 2400-3200mcg for those without folate handling polymorphisms, 4000-6000mcg for those with folic acid only paradoxical folate deficiency and 15000mcg or so for those with folinic acid/veggie-folate paradoxical fiolate deficiency. This program usually needs a good assortment of vitamins and minerals to support high speed healing including omega3 oils and excluding glutathione or NAC which cause "detox", which really is an induced severe folate and soon b12. deficiencies.
Hi Fred, so glad I caught you… I read a lot of your comments and most of it makes sense to me and I have a lot of symptoms that ppl here describe. Here is a riddle: My last too B12 tests showed as too high – more than 2000! So First my physician told me to take less of the B vitamin supplement (MegaFoods B complex – which if food based). Second time I tested, I didn't take this – or the Multi Vitamin that I also take – the day before the test, and it showed up as more than 2000 again. I also checked serum folate – came up 17.7, which is normal. Fred, do you have any advise for me, may be you came across a situation like this? My Doc told me to not only stop my B complex, but also a Multi that I am taking. It is a Multi Vit-A-Min by Emerald Labs and has Coenzyme Folic Acid (L-5 Methyl Tetrahydofolate) and B12 as Methylcobalamin, both of which if I understand you correctly are active bioavailable sources.
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Taxing Terry McAuliffe
by L. Brent Bozell III
July 31, 2001
The Democratic Party showed Washington its sense of humor by naming Terry McAuliffe to lead the Democratic National Committee. He hasn't disappointed. He continues making us want to laugh.
Start with the concept that the nation's biggest bloviators for "campaign finance reform" picked as their top dog one of the country's most notorious soft money abusers. Consider that the same party whose congressional investigators are breathing heavily over teapot tempests like Karl Rove's tardy stock sales is led by a man who's seemingly always in the shadows of sleazy schemes like the illegal DNC-Teamsters fundraising swap that killed union boss Ron Carey's career.
Still the laughs keep on coming. You know that the news-challenged dog days of August have arrived early when McAuliffe can get reporters to give serious coverage to his latest goofball theory, namely that Republicans are using tax rebate checks as campaign documents.
The checks carry the words "Tax Relief for America's Workers." McAuliffe calls that a "Republican campaign slogan." Furthermore, he insists, "The Federal government is not the Republican Party's political toy, and checks from the U.S. Treasury should not be used as political props."
Was the news drought so horrendous that supposedly sober news outlets like the Associated Press and the New York Times had to treat McAuliffe's latest dud grenade as newsworthy? Perhaps they first should have checked their own archives for the phrase "Tax Relief for America's Workers." In all of the coverage over the many months of the nearly never-ending Campaign 2000, neither outlet reported the Bush campaign or the Republican Party ever used these words together as a slogan. Look at any national news outlet, from the Washington Times to Newsweek to CNN, and you won't find a single example of these words being used by the GOP. Oops.
That's not to say that the Republicans aren't going to raise Washington rooftops underlining to voters that they were the ones who spurred this lovely little - and it is little - boomerang back to the people who pay Washington's mega-bills for the rest of the country. But in real America the words "Tax Relief for America's Workers" are about as outrageous as Campbell's advertising their product as a can of soup.
How silly McAuliffe's charge is. By his logic, the Republican Party should demand that the name "Social Security" be stricken from everybody's cards and checks, since that was an obvious Franklin Roosevelt political slogan.
But McAuliffe's charges are also ridiculous on an entirely different level. The Democrats' entire way of political life is defined by creating more and more government benefits, and then milking more and more beneficiaries for votes. Yet here is the leader of the Democratic Party, whose slogan could be "Better Governing Through Creating Dependency," seriously charging - I am assuming he's serious - that another political party is using government checks as a political prop. Democrats ought to be laughed off the stage for suggesting somehow that Republicans are improperly doing something that is the left's political bread and butter.
Reporters are wasting space suggesting that blandly promotional words on a tax refund check are a scandal. And here's the truly astounding point: they're doing it while ignoring a real scandal regarding the tax cut issue.
Isn't it more outrageous that proponents of the tax cut had to fight through an array of liberal groups who take millions of tax dollars and then use them to lobby against tax cuts? A few weeks ago, the Cato Institute released a paper by John Samples, Chris Yablonski, and Ivan Osorio exploring this wretched phenomenon. The trio found that members of the "Fair Taxes for All Coalition," led by People for the American Way and the American Federation for State, County, and Municipal Employees union, received an astounding $618 million in federal grants since 1996.
The Cato report argued that "public subsidies for anti-tax cut advocacy distort democratic processes in two ways: First, they bias the political process toward the recipients of subsidies. Second, they induce demands on government that would not exist without the subsidies." A familiar alphabet of liberal groups from NOW to the NAACP augmented their annual incomes with federal money, and then turned around to deny their subsidizers any tax cut.
Isn't this a wee bit more newsworthy than five words on a tax rebate check? It ought to get more media play than McAuliffe's ludicrous check-slogan charges.
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Overnight Activision Blizzard announced better than expected financial results for the first quarter of 2013, ending March 31, 2013.
The publisher reported GAAP net revenues of $1.32 billion, compared with $1.17 billion for the first quarter of 2012.
World of Warcraft continues to be a major contributor to Activision Blizzard's wealth, which remains the most popular subscription-based MMO with 8.3 million subs. However, this represents a hefty 1.3 million drop over the quarter.
Updated sales for StarCraft 2 Heart of the Swarm weren't offered, with the publisher reiterating two day sales of 1.1 million copies.
Elsewhere it was business as usual for Skylanders Giants and Black Ops 2 which were the No.1 and No.2 best-selling titles in dollars across Europe and North America.
"Our first quarter performance was driven by continued consumer interest in all of our key franchises," said chief executive officer, Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick. "Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm was the #1 PC game for the quarter. Additionally, during the quarter, Blizzard's World of Warcraft remained the #1 subscription-based MMORPG in the world with more than eight million subscribers, although the game saw declines of approximately 1.3 million subscribers, mainly from the East, but in the West as well."
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Word H. Mills papers
Word H. Mills (1864-1933) was a journalist, businessman, and active member of the Socialist Labor Party. The papers of Word H. Mills cover the years 1906 to 1933, and consist of a large scrapbook of clippings of articles Mills wrote as a journalist for the Weekly People, the newspaper of the Socialist Labor Party, as well as other papers; a signed limited edition of Mills's book The Evolution of Society; two drafts of essays concerning socialist movements in Mexico and the economic situation in the United States in 1933; and one portrait photograph of Mills.
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Historical Note
Word H. (Worden Horst) Mills was born on February 18, 1864. Little is known of Mills' early life until 1900, when he first became identified with the socialist movement in Texas. Two years later, his political career began at the socialist convention in Grand Saline, when he was nominated as a candidate for lieutenant governor, but lost the election. Two years later, he ran as the socialist candidate for both governor of Texas and county clerk of Dallas and again was defeated. Later in life, as a member of the Section Baltimore of the Socialist Labor Party, he continued his political interests by both serving on the section's executive committee during the 1920s, and by running for attorney general of Maryland in 1930.
Word H. Mills worked primarily as a newspaper correspondent for the Socialist Labor Party's newspaper, the Weekly People, as well as other newspapers nationwide. His pieces focused on socialist issues, such as labor conditions, the Paris commune, and the socialist movements in Latin America. Mills also opposed the U. S. preparation for and involvement in World War I, as he urged the working class to abolish war.
Besides being a correspondent, Mills translated letters and articles for the Weekly People by individuals such as Lenin, Gorky, and Tolstoy. While reporting on Latin America, Mills provided both Spanish and English accounts on the events there.
Throughout his career, Mills lectured on behalf of the Socialist Labor Party across the country. In 1906, Mills tried to lecture against statehood for Oklahoma, claiming that only the rich and powerful would benefit, but celebrations of the admission to statehood caused the cancellation of his presentation.
Throughout his life, Mills was actively involved in many professional organizations and businesses. By 1923, Mills was the senior member of the Mills Realty Company. In addition, he was connected with a Baltimore survey for the Census Bureau that was credited with an increase in the number of businesses and prosperity, before assisting in a business survey in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1927. He was a member of the Modern Language Association of America, the American Association of Teachers of American, and the founder of the Spanish Section Maryland Academy of Sciences in 1919, as well as serving as the translator for the Baltimore Association of Commerce from 1921 to 1929, and the translator for the Mexican Consulate (Consul Garcia) from 1923 to 1929. Mills also was associated with the Baltimore American's Art Department in 1911, and belonged to the Baltimore Press Club, the Advance Guard of the Associated Boards of Trade of Maryland, the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Labor Party, and the Advertising Club of Baltimore.
Word H. Mills died on December 6, 1933 at the age of sixty-nine.
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The papers of Word H. Mills cover the years 1906 to 1933, and consist of a large scrapbook of clippings of articles Mills wrote as a journalist for the Weekly People, the newspaper of the Socialist Labor Party, as well as other papers; a signed limited edition of Mills's book The Evolution of Society; two drafts of essays concerning socialist movements in Mexico and the economic situation in the United States in 1933; and one portrait photograph of Mills.
Custodial History and Acquisition Information
James A. Knowles gave the papers of Word H. Mills to the University of Maryland Libraries in 1990.
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Processed by Karen E. Eglinton, July 1990. Revised by Jennie A. Levine, January 2003
Loose newspaper clippings were copied on to archival bond paper and placed in a separate acid-free folder following the scrapbook. In 2003, the scrapbook was removed from its binding and divided into six acid-free folders. Acid-free paper was interleaved with the pages to prevent further deterioration. Paper clips were removed before placing the collection into acid-free folders and into acid-free boxes. The photograph was transferred to the photographic collection.
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The collection is organized as four series:
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Newspaper Clippings, 1906-1933 (0.50 linear feet)
This series consists of one large scrapbook and one folder containing clippings of Mills' articles, which appeared in various newspapers. These materials reflect Mills' service as a member of the Section Baltimore of the Socialist Labor Party, primarily as a correspondent with Latin American countries; he also reported on socialist activities in the Soviet Union and China. In addition, the clippings record Mills' efforts to translate, for the press, works and letters of people such as Lenin, Gorky, and Tolstoy; his professional activities as a lecturer; and his political life. The scrapbook is arranged primarily by subject; loose clippings have been placed in a folder following the scrapbook.
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|Scrapbook, 1906-1933
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|Scrapbook, 1906-1933
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|Scrapbook, 1906-1933
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|Scrapbook, 1906-1933
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|Loose Clippings, 1911, 1932
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Series 2: Monograph, 1927 (1 item)
This series consists of Mills' book entitled The Evolution of Society: From Primitive Savagery to the Industrial Revolution, published by the New York Labor News Company in 1927. This edition is signed by Mills and is the third copy of a limited printing of 100. The series of chapters printed in the book were originally published in 1907 in the newspaper Daily People, under the title "Economic Determinism." Five years later, in 1912, Mills rewrote and amplified them to be republished by the Daily People as the series entitled "Evolution of Society." After further revision, Mills published the collected essays as the above-mentioned book.
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Series 3: Essays, 1933 (2 items)
This series consists of two handwritten drafts of essays. The first pertains to workers' difficulty in finding employment in the United States during the Depression. The second describes the Mexican Regional Confederation of Labor, whose constitution, though based on Marx's idea of class struggle, was not, according to Mills, based the emancipation of labor from the slavery of wages. These essays were written on the backs of letters from Arnold Petersen, National Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party; Martin Carr, of W. & J. Knox Net and Twine Company; and on the back of a bulletin from the Commission on Governmental Efficiency and Economy, located in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Series 4: Photograph, undated (1 item)
Undated portrait photograph of Word H. Mills.
The box inventory for this series is not currently available online. Please refer to the series description above for a broad description of the materials or contact the department for more information.
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Selected Search Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the University of Maryland Libraries' Catalog. Researchers desiring related materials about these topics, names, or places may search the Catalog using these headings.
- Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana -- History -- Sources
- Journalism, Socialist -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Mills, Word H. -- (Worden Horst), -- 1864-1933
- Socialism -- Latin America -- History -- Sources
- Socialism -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Socialist Labor Party -- History -- Sources
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These days the satire rings hollow; so too its hubris. Except for the spats, we really have gone back to 1910, if not earlier. The deregulation of business and the starvation of the public sector have returned us to a landscape where irresponsible capital can again roam freely, purchasing legislatures wholesale and trampling on the public interest at will. The Supreme Court has revived the late-nineteenth-century notion that corporations are people, with all the rights of citizenship that personhood entails (including the ability to convert money into free speech). This is a predictable consequence of Republican power, but what is less predictable, and more puzzling, is that the resurrection of Gilded Age politics has been accompanied throughout the culture by a resurgence of Gilded Age patterns of thought, no more so than with the revival of positivism in popular scientific writing.
More a habit of mind than a rigorous philosophy, positivism depends on the reductionist belief that the entire universe, including all human conduct, can be explained with reference to precisely measurable, deterministic physical processes. (This strain of positivism is not to be confused with that of the French sociologist Auguste Comte.) The decades between the Civil War and World War I were positivism's golden age. Positivists boasted that science was on the brink of producing a total explanation of the nature of things, which would consign all other explanations to the dustbin of mythology. Scientific research was like an Easter egg hunt: once the eggs were gathered the game would be over, the complexities of the cosmos reduced to natural law. Science was the only repository of truth, a sovereign entity floating above the vicissitudes of history and power. Science was science.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi judicial panel rejected on Tuesday a decision to remove one of the country's top judges from his post because of alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's now-dissolved Baath party, an official said.
Last week, Iraq's Justice and Accountability Committee tasked with purging government ranks of officials with ties to Saddam decided to remove judge Medhat al-Mahmoud, who heads the Supreme Federal Court, for his alleged role as an adviser to the late dictator while holding senior judicial posts.
The committee's deputy chief, Bakhtiar Omar al-Qadhi said al-Mahmoud filed an appeal to the cassation panel which didn't find strong evidence of such ties and rejected the dismissal. The panel reviews decisions by al-Qadhi's committee and wields higher authority.
Al-Mahmoud started his carrier in 1960 when he was appointed as an investigative judge. After the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, he was chosen by the Coalition Provisional Authority as a supervisor for the Justice Ministry, and in 2005 he took over both the Supreme Federal Court and the Supreme Judicial Council that oversees courts nationwide.
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The 80-year old judge has long been a part of the country's political wrangling. Critics of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Mailiki, mainly from Sunni minority, consider him an ally to the premier. Many accuse him of helping al-Maliki sideline opponents by issuing arrest warrants against politicians, holding trials that do not guarantee the minimum rights to suspects and issuing interpretations to disputed articles in the constitution in favor of the Shiite-led government.
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He was married to Isabella Taylor in Alnwick , Northhumberland on November 14th 1802
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John Buchan was the father of Isabella Buchan by his first marriage and John, Jane Ann, and Barbara by his second marriage plus one other unnamed child
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