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The American Legion position on the Second Amendment
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I am getting a lot of calls and emails about our position on the various gun control measures Congress is looking at, and the Executive Orders that the President has issued in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings. Rest assured we look at each of them, but I haven't seen us make any specific comments on any of them yet. Largely this is because there are so many it will take some time.
However, I did want you to see what our official position is overall. All of our positions on issues come from the resolution process. This is the resolution that deals with our support of the Second Amendment...
Resolution No. 68: Second Amendment
Origin: Maryland
Submitted by: Convention Committee on National Security
WHEREAS, The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees each law-abiding American citizen the right to keep and bear arms of his or her choice; and
WHEREAS, It is estimated that over 60 million individuals, representing over half of the households in America, have chosen to exercise that right by owning one or more firearms; and
WHEREAS, Gun bans, registration, and licensing of firearms and their owners of has had little or no effect in such urban areas such as New York City, California and Washington D.C. and has not prevented violent criminals from obtaining firearms illegally and committing crimes; and
WHEREAS, The restriction of firearms purchases by law-abiding citizens will create a black market in illegal firearms and incur further governmental costs to enforce such restriction; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, By The American Legion in National Convention assembled in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 28, 29, 30, 2012, That The American Legion reaffirms its recognition that the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees each law-abiding American citizen the right to keep and bear arms; and, be it finally
RESOLVED, That the membership of The American Legion urges our nation's lawmakers to recognize, as part of their oaths of office, that the Second Amendment guarantees law-abiding citizens the right to keep and bear the arms of their choice, as do the millions of American veterans who have fought, and continue to fight, to preserve those rights, hereby advise the Congress of the United States and the Executive Department to cease and desist any and all efforts to restrict these rights by any legislation or order.
That's the resolution. Now, how that applies to each of the initiatives is something I don't know. I assure you that people much smarter than myself are currently looking at it, and as soon as I hear more, I will share it here.
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Maynard Sorensen (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 2:55pm
Gregg Brooks (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 2:56pm
The Second Amendment - Assault Rifles
The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees each law-abiding American citizen the right to keep and bear arms of his or her choice... When this was written, was assault rifles in existence, I don't think so?... Therefore, I agree with the Legions stand (and I'm a member), except I don't believe assault rifles and high capacity magazines and clips have any need for other than our military. Maybe the "of his or her choice" should be re-written.
J.W. Beeson (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 4:00pm
2nd Amendement stand
Gregg----Don't know weather you have given it much thought BUT, in 1776, a Brown Bess Musket, WAS an Assault Rifle, and Sabres were Weapons of Mass Destruction. Apples to Apples. as for the Present time, the NEED for high capacity magazines can be debated forever, but in 1986, in Miami,Fla., 2 criminals, were confronted by FBI agents and Local authorities. As a Result, 2 FBI agents were Killed and other Officers were Wounded. It took 4 or 5 rounds to stop One of the criminals and TWELVE rounds, to stop the other ONE. These DIRECT shots were delivered by TRAINED, SKILLED, Local and Federal Officers, and STILL, it took TWELVE shots to stop JUST ONE MAN. Autopsy reports showed that NEITHER criminal was Drunk OR on Dope and neither was wearing Body Armor. SO MUCH for NEED. IF we Ever LOSE our Constutitional Rights, We'll NEVER get them back. I fully support the Legion, of which I am a Proud Member, as well as the NRA in their efforts to see that America Remains the Land Off The FREE. We dont NEED new Laws. Enforce the ones we have.
Larry Ferguson (not verified)
January 25, 2013 - 12:29pm
assault weapons in 1776. comment by JW Beeson.
I don't know how you came to that conclusion, but I don't think you could load and shoot a brown bess rapidly enough to kill 28 people, or use a sword to do the same for that matter.
Michael F. Wirz (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 4:07pm
Gun Control
At the time the Second Amendment was written, civilians possessed essentially the same small arms as the most powerful military in the world (England). There was also private ownership of artillery pieces, again, of the same quality as the English military. A strict interpretation of the Second Amendment might allow private ownership of virtually any weapon in the government's inventory. What is currently allowed to civilians, even in small arms, is quite inferior to what the government has.
Greg Brooks doesn't think I "need" an "assault weapon" or a high-capacity magazine. I have a semi-automatic rifle (1 shot per trigger pull, the same as my revolver) with an adjustable stock and a bayonet mount. That makes it an "assault weapon." How silly! Limit the capacity of magazines I'm "allowed" to have, and I'll carry more magazines. I can swap magazines in about 1.3 seconds, and I'm not the fastest guy on the block.
Definitions of "assault weapon" aside, I have a RIGHT to my weapon of choice. Who is he to tell me what I "need?" I don't think he "needs" a car any bigger than a 4-cylinder Ford Focus to go to and from work. But it's his RIGHT to have the type of car he wants and can afford.
All these proposed restrictions do is hinder law-abiding citizens. Criminals, by definition, do not obey the law.
"DOOLEE" (not verified)
January 25, 2013 - 12:22am
Ken (not verified)
February 7, 2013 - 3:52pm
legion stand on gun control
At the time the 2nd amedment was written the citizens were the military. Not so today so why do you think it is necessary to have the same weapons as the military. I know you need them to protect yourself from your government. That is such a lame and paranoid excuse it doesn't even deserve a reply
JC (not verified)
February 14, 2013 - 4:18pm
That "lame and paranoid
That "lame and paranoid exscuse" is partly why this country was founded.
R. Myers (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 4:55pm
the dummasses
Mike Johnson (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 5:41pm
Second Amendment
Read the Second Amendment nowhere does it say the right to keep and bear arms of his or her choice.
Mt Johnson (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 5:45pm
MOTHAX on MAC
Read the First Amendment nowhere does it say the right to Free Speech of his or her choice.
Explain to me how you add a limiting factor on one Amendment (that is part of the Bill Of Rights, ie reserved to the people) and yet not on another. Under your Constitutional view, is it okay for Congress to make a law restricting folks to words which do not belittle COngress?
(Written by MOTHAX)
TroyDawg (not verified)
February 8, 2013 - 5:10am
Second Amendment
Nowhere does it say the Government can restrict the type of arms a citizen has but it does state "Shall not be infringed. And I Quote from the United States Constitution "Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." What part of "Shall not be infringed" is not understood?
J W Liles (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 5:49pm
The Constitution
By your reckoning, there is no right to free speech other than standing on a soap box in the city square- since there was no mass communication in 1776- no radio, tv, telephone or internet. Kind of makes you wonder why people use the 'musket' analogy. The 2nd Amendment is absolute and does not allow any restrictions on type or quantity of arms. The assaults on the 2nd started when Democrats fear of armed former slaves took the form of unlawful decrees rubber stamped by a compliant SCOTUS.
Jay Robinson (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 11:12pm
Assault rifleS
Hum, you have no idea what assault rifle is. It is currently against the law for Civilians to have assault rifles. Only the military and law enforcement are allow to have assault rifles. What a lot people take as assault rifles are military look a likes. For example AR-15 are not assault rifles, the are semi-automatics. a base ball bat is assault weapon, and if you don't believe that let beat you over the head with it a few times and then you can tell me any different.
Five round mag or hundred round mag, all it takes is one to end a life. Gun owership is about having fun and enjoying something can do outside like target shooting, hunting and protection. We already have law about killing, but does it stop criminals? Thou shall not kill.....
Greg Sudkamp (not verified)
January 28, 2013 - 2:20pm
Second Amendment
The first amendment guarantees each law-abiding American citizen the right to free speech. When it was written, was the internet in existence, I don't think so? Therefore, I agree with the Legions stand (on the first amendment), except I don't beleive internet and television and telephone and telegraph and radio have any need for any other than our government. Perhaps you should reconsider your argument!
Barbara McGuyer (not verified)
February 14, 2013 - 3:10pm
Assault weapons
Gregg, I agree with you100%. The second amendment was written for Americans to protect themselves, nowhere is it written "weapons of your own choice". Assault weapons and multiple firing clips should be in the hands of military and law enforcement. Yes, criminals will still find a way to get these, but the killings in Columbine, and Sandy hook as well as the other senseless multiple death shootings at schools,theaters and political gatherings, were not committed by criminals.WdNtm
JC (not verified)
February 14, 2013 - 4:38pm
The school shooters were
The school shooters were criminals as soon as they stepped foot on the school grounds with a firearm; so if you want to ride this train you've lost one of three of your arguing points. As for the other two, more people are killed by drivers using cell phones. Nowhere in the Constitution is there a right to a cell phone, and in many states and counties it is illegal to drive while using one. What are your thoughts on outlawing cell phones?
The larger question is who deserves the blame, and who will ultimately pay for the crimes of others. The shooter (or driver from above) deserves the blame and will already be moving through the judicial process after their crime is committed. Those that will pay for the crime of the criminal are the law-abiding citizens.
Suppose the firearms (/cell phones) in question are declared illegal. That will immediately turn once law-abiding citizens into criminals just by definition alone. Those not stupid enough to turn their once legal weapons (/cell phones) in to the authorities may be prosecuted as criminals. A black market will form where these newly defined criminals will maintain their weapons (/cell phones), and the government will then have to try to enforce the new legislation which will require money. Where will this money come from? Higher taxes? Once these new criminals are caught, where will they go? Prison? Criminals are already being let out of prison due to overcrowding.
What is the next possible action? Outlawing ammunition (/cell towers)? Now the citizenry cannot use even simple hunting rifles (/internet and a whole list of other things).
Zigsaured (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 3:08pm
2nd Amendment
I hunt with a AR-15 for over 11 years and hear people say "Do you need to hunt with an AR?" or "There are other guns to use then an assault riffle so why this gun?" It is because the government using our tax monies sought the BEST made riffle possible! Firearms companies do not have this R&D cash because they are restricted to the economics of "cost benefit analysis. This is the sweetest deer riffle that I have EVER owned! Yes Sirs I am proud to be an American Legion member!
geb (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 3:35pm
You must be a poor shot if
You must be a poor shot if you need an AR-15 to hunt deer or do you hunt them with dogs and run a whole herd in the snow, tire them out, and then slay them with your big manhood rifle. I hope you don't call yourself a real sportsman.
Clawd Rains (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 4:26pm
john burge (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 5:25pm
Elldogg (not verified)
January 25, 2013 - 2:41pm
Manning (not verified)
January 26, 2013 - 9:25am
geb Jan 24, 2013
You are a real IDIOT.
Daniel Davenport (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 3:22pm
semi-auto weapons
I've been a multi gun owner all my life so it's not the assault weapon that bothers me, it's the amount of ammo that it holds and is able to disperse in seconds. High capacity magazines should be limited to 10 MAX. and even that amount is questionable by many. JMHO
Wayne T Stevenson (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 3:22pm
American Legion position on Gun Control
As a member of the Legion, I support President Obama's efforts to ban assault weapons; ban 30 round clips; and require registration of all gun purchases and their owners. We all have the right to own and drive a car, but thank goodness, for all our safety, you must first be trained and licensed before you can drive on the highway.
jim winkelman (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 6:42pm
Smartest comment that I read
Smartest comment that I read so far
Gary Chenett (not verified)
January 25, 2013 - 8:41pm
Assault Weapons, I served Nam 67/68 Army Tet with Big Red One
Do you support Obama's reducing the wages of current Veterans, Are you aware that because of Obama a E-4 Married is eligible for Food Stamps?
Obama wants to disarm America, he also has not a clue on directing a war.....His goal is to have fools like you in his back pocket with the Constitution of this Country as he writes a new one up
Finally explain to me how Fast and Furious was pulled off and Hillary deserting our Ambassodor was pulled off?
Wake up this Obama guy is not for America he is for himself and his greedy friends. Our constitution was written to not be changed for the same reason we are arguing about it now so that our right could not be taken from us.
You are a traitor if you stand on the same stage as Obama who is doing all he can to terminate Americam
Explain 23 Million unemployed and counting get you hear out of your rear. Our borders are not being protected while he feeds you the Kool Aid.
We hacve earned the right to own any weapon of our choosing just as our criminals and enemy has been allowed to by Obama and our Secretary of State and the entire staff Obama has.........
Terry Negri (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 3:40pm
The American Legion position on the Second Amendment
To Wayne Stevenson: Driving is not a Right, it's a privelage.
Kenneth W. Yoder (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 3:42pm
to keep and bear arms
The constitution has wisely given by the seconed amendment the right to keep and bear arms -if.
It is the public's interpretation of that (if) as interprited by the State Police in Il that restricts me. You see I am a law abiding sitizen who served in the Special Forces and has hunted for over thirty years. I am safe and reliable yet I am restricted by no F.O.I.D. card.
Henry Bman (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 3:46pm
Second amendment
What is the definition of a sportsman? I guess from reading here its hunting birds with an an assault weapon.
No one is or will come after you. Please do not feel paranoid. It really is just in your mind. We have checks and balances in our government. Do you not trust yourself in who you vote for? Take a deep breath step back and see what is being done with weapons.
Jay Robinson (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 11:18pm
Assault Weapon
Gee, I like to see you hunt birds with baseball bat. Yes, baseball bat is a assault weapon. If you do believe me ask someone was almost beaten to death with on.
Dan Hoch (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 4:08pm
Gun Control
I'm sure that in the days of our Founding Fathers no one expected a citizen to kill little children in a one room schoolhouse. Why do these macho men need assault weapons in the first place? I say ban those damn things. We have to start somewhere. I don't want to see my teaching children and little grandchildren getting slaughtered.
Terry McDougal (not verified)
January 25, 2013 - 5:08pm
assault rifles
The sicko who shot all those poor kids didn't even use an assault rifle he had hand guns, the so-called assault rifle was in his car and not used.
Jay Robinson (not verified)
January 25, 2013 - 9:51pm
1) They weren't macho men -
1) They weren't macho men - they were cowards, some even children the selfs.
2) Your just another example of ingnorance, they didn't us assault weapons.
3) if your referring to the common individual, why have a semi auto rifle or pistol. It is the same reason people drive corvettes instead of driving Prius, it is enjoyable, fun.
4) Our founding father never expected that our right to defend ourselfs would of been questioned no matter what type of weapon we choose, baseball bat, a semi-auto, shot gun, slingshot, bow and arrow.
5) This whole issue is that the elite want to be the only ones with any means of defending themselfs. Just ask everone of the anti-gun, gun grabbers if they have body guards with semi-autos or even they carry concealed or not. Just ask I dear you.
6). I have kids and I was mortified by what happened in Connecticut and Colorado. I even cried because I have been to both places and felt the great remorse. It just not right that cowards have to take advanage of our children that are helpless because of laws preventing them from being protected from weak, sick, coward individuals.
7) We have the right and oblgation to protect ourselves, our children and friends. Some just believe that is just not the case.
8). When I was little, second grade, I was taught that you just don't side there and let someone punch you in the face. Fight back. Take the first punch but fight back.
Rick Crawford (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 4:31pm
Gun control vs 2nd amendment
I'm glad to see a lot of Legionaires have a reasonable view of gun control vs. the second amendment. I don't know that I agree with the section of the Legion position re guns "of their choice" if that would include semi-automatic rifles with large capacity clips. Frankly, we have so many guns of all description so easily available, it has become a public health hazard. Our gun death statistics are 4 times what they are in the other first world countries.
John Wood (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 7:32pm
Rick Crawford
True our gun deaths are 4 times those of other 1st world countries but our deaths by automobile are 11 times those of the same countries. Do you condone banning automobiles?
Bob Shafer (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 4:34pm
Assaut Weapons
For those of you that say get rid of the assault weapons I say what's next. Let the camel get his nose under the tent and it's only the beginning, give in inch and a foot will be taken. I don't trust our government and that's the reason for the second amendment. It's not about hunting folks...
John Hinkle (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 4:39pm
Resolution No. 68: Second Amendment
I support the resolution just as iut stands! All of you people need to settle down and look at the facts. The FBI's report on murders says that only 1.5% of murders were from rifles and they make no further break down as to type of rifles. Over 4% was death by hammer. I don't see any of you asking to ban hammers. Had the current laws been obeyed these school shootings would not have happened. So why should honest blaw abiding veterans like my self be denied our right just because some people are acting strictly out of emotion to limit our 2nd amendment rights? Criminla don't obey laws. If criminals attack you or try to break into your home 10 rounds may not be enough! It is not about what tool is used to hunt with.
Danny R Mast (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 4:53pm
infantry Vet 76 yr old
It amuses me at the attitudes of todays P C American. as my DD-214 verifies i am a 1st class 30 cal Machine Gunner and as an infantryman i am (was ) pretty good with the B A R and M-1 and my personal weapon the the 19- 11 45. i have 4 guns in my home and they can be loaded and hammer back and will not do anything till i make them do what i want them to do .. passing more laws will not do a thing to keep people safe! changes in people's hearts will do more than all the laws already being broken aka Chicago NY LA name any city and the results are there .. Thank You--The American Legion <><
Andre Coltrin (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 5:11pm
Do not get hung-up on the
Do not get hung-up on the idea that the second Amendment only gives you the right to bear arms for hunting and target practice. The founding fathers would have rolled on the floor laughing at that idea. When the constitution was written most everyone hunted. It was a way of life. As for target practice, it would have been way too expensive, a waste of time and unnecessary because of the constant use of fire arms in those days. As pointed out earlier, it was for protection from an oppressive government and bad guys in general. As for the need for an "assault" weapons and large clips… simple because the bad guy have them. If you want to go up against a home invader or a rioting gang who are armed with heavy fire power and large clips while you carry a single shot 22 be my guest. But I do not think it is one of the brightest of ideas.
Michael Reynolds (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 5:14pm
2nd Amendment
The Legions resolution which states the positon that the guiding leadership has decided is now our official understanding of the 2nd Amendment appears to be stated without input from the membership at large.
If the Legion believes that miltary style weapons which are designed solely to be killing machines have a legitimate use by civilians It is time that I re-examine my membership to the American Legion. This by no means that I am anti-gun, on the contrary my personal gun ownership includes handguns, rifles, shotguns and black powder pistols. All of these weapons are appropriate for hunting, self defense and/or target shooting. The only weapon I own that could or should be considered an "assault rifle" is a Korean War vintage M1 carbine. With a 5 round clip it makes an excellent short range deer or varmin gun. If this rfle is loaded with clips of 10 rounds or greater it becomes an "assault rifle".
I dropped my membership to the NRA years ago due solely to their radical belief that every home should own military style weaponry. If you carefully review Mr. LaPierres's statements, made over many years, he draws no distinction between "assault style " weapons and RPG's, fully automatic machine guns, anti-tank weapons, SAM's and other styles and types of military armament. Possibly You and the Legion feel this is a responsible, logical way to approach the legitimate, civilian use of guns, but I don't.
If thorough background checks, bans on high capacity magazines (clips), increased waiting periods or outright ban on "assault style weapons" is the price I have to pay to better help authorities to weed out those that would misuse their right to "bear arms", so be it. This unreasonable fear that the government is going to send the black helicopters to take away our guns is ridiculous. Not withstanding the immense logistical problems, the entire government and all of the military would have to be complicite. Ridiculous is not adequate to describe such statements. Do you believe that your children or your childrens-children in the military are going to abandon their vow to protect the Constitution or the United States of America? How many of us have fought, bled and died to protect this country, do you truly think the children of today would do less?
I have heard the arguments of Waco and other such called infringements on the rights of Americans. I also remember Oklahoma City and Timothy McVey. If the Legion seriously believes that type of person with such a radical, violent, belief system should be able to procur and use military style weaponry then it is time for the Legion to re-examine its values.
MOTHAX on MAC (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 5:20pm
Mr Reynolds
As you can see from the resolution, it was passed by our Annual Convention. The resolution was passed first by a post, then a Department, and then at the National Level. At each level it received 50%. I'm not sure if you attended that convention, but all those present who were voting delegates voted on that resolution. If anyone wishes to change the position of The American Legion on this position or any other issue, they can follow the same exact manner, by writing up the resolution and passing it at the Post, Department and National levels. Just as some are upset by a national election when they lose, so others are upset by our positions from time to time. But each is based on a vote. Employees and officers don't make the positions anymore that anyone else who is at the post level.
john burge (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 6:19pm
another freedomloving american- NOT!
Diane Feinstein "if i had my way, Mr. and Mrs. America turn 'em all in" (yes Micheal, she actually said that)
fast and furious; the crisis made to get the gun registration foot in the door, which is in effect in 5 States.
It's very concerning to see these 'alleged' Veterans rail against freedom. so what's next all you 'alleged' Vets? infringe on the right to peacefully assemble? or the right to have a different opinion than you?
you people sound like what i imagine all those German Citizens must have sounded like in the thirties and forties that just went along with what hitler and his ilk were bringing about, but after the war claimed ignorance. at least a little justice was all the Allied Commanders forcing them through the camps to see first-hand the atrocities committed by their Govt. and furthered by their own inaction. what will you say when our Govt goes in that direction? i didn't do it? i didn't know? never be foolish enough to think it can't happen here
Stephen (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 7:25pm
Owning a weapon does not a murder make
Sir I resent your implied position that owning a modern fire arm will make me a terrorist or murderer. I am in fact far more likely to defend the innocent, assist the police and keep the peace with my fire arms. Like most veterans here i need not defend my service, honor, or rights under the second amendment. I also affirm the oath I took several times in 26 years of service.
James Swetman (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 7:30pm
John Wood (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 7:37pm
Michael Reynolds
Good bye and good riddence
Brian (not verified)
January 26, 2013 - 3:57pm
To Michael Reynolds
Thank you for bringing up Timothy McVey. It is a great exaple of how gun bans do not prevent violence. It should also be noted the millitary would not need to be complicite. It is easy to get the millitary out of the country (you know, like a war).
J&J (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 5:29pm
Gun Control
All the baloney that they have been coming up with lately is just another gimmick to try to take away your guns.
How will they stop illegal guns from coming here over the border from Mexico and how will they stop illegal guns from another (Eric Holder fast and furious deal) going into Mexico.
Drugs are smuggled into the country along with illegal firearms.
Val Prichodko (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 5:32pm
Guns...what else
Kid killing isn't going to stop until the laws change in this country. For all those that think you got to have your gun, you become indirectly responsible for every kid that gets killed by a gun. It's not someone's elses problem. It's yours. Stop passing the buck. 2nd ammendment intrepretation is wrong. I don't see a well formed malitia.Expect more death. Lots more. how many are going to have to die before you come to your senses? Until the problem is at your own doorstep and someone in your household is killed, you look the other way. How american of you.
Rob Kerman (not verified)
January 24, 2013 - 6:58pm
You don't see a "well armed
You don't see a "well armed militia", because you don't know anything about American history. Jefferson defined such a "militia" as "The people, all the people". Everytime someone gets killed by a car, should all drivers feel indirectly responsible? Of course not! No one in my household will ever be gunned down by a wacko, because we own guns. It's really pretty simple when you man up and stop expecting someone else to take care of you.


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As video killed the radio star, maybe streaming will kill the TV set.
A record 3 percent of U.S. homes are now without a TV. The finding was among the reams of data released by Nielsen in the company's annual Television Audience report.
Even as TV ownership is trending downward, DVR ownership is on the rise (Nielsen calculates 41 percent of U.S. homes will have a DVR in 2012). The number of homes with three or more TV sets is also climbing (to 56 percent). Newer technologies including HDTV are also gaining traction, while outmoded ones like VCRs are declining.
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Ray is in his 14th season as a member of the
Bears coaching staff.
In track, LaForte works primarly with the hurdlers. In his 14 seasons, the hurdlers on both the men's and women's temams have set school record in very hurdling event.
Last season, Adam Scalesse earned All-America status in the 60 meter high hurdles during the indoor season and was an All-American in the 100 high hurdles in the outdoor season. Kyle Coleman was the NEWMAC champion in the 400 hurdles in 2008, 2009 and 2010 while Scalesse was the NEWMAC champion in that event in 2011.
On the women's side, LaForte has coached school record holder Sara Meserve (55 high hurdles) as well as NEWMAC champions Chanel Lee (100 high hurdles/2008) and Alaina Kiskadoon (400 hurdles/2010)
The Bears offense has thrived under LaForte as the Bears won
back-to-back New England Football Conference (NEFC) Bogan Division
Championships in 2006 and 2007 while setting a school-record with
14 straight conference wins.
Under LaForte, the Bears have tied or set 28 school offensive records since 2006 with the fast paced, no huddle style offensive approach. He converted Christian George from a wide receiver to a quarterback and George was named the NEFC Bogan Division Offensive Player of the Year in both 2006 and 2007. He also coached three All-Division quarterbacks in the last four years and coached a pair of record setting wide receivers in Sam England and (most career receptions) and Eric Gerken (most receptions in a single-season).
This past season, the Bears set a school-record with 3,661 yards
of total offense, 2,694 passing yards and 24 touchdown passes and
the team was second in the nation with just two fumbles lost. In
2007, the Bears set a NEFC record with 684 yards of total offense
in a single
Ray has a history of mentoring quarterbacks as he worked with Jeff Blake in 1991 at East Carolina the same season Blake finished seventh in the Heisman Trophy voting as the Pirates finished the season ninth in the final AP poll.
At Coast Guard, he coached a pair of quarterbacks, Niles Pierson
(2006) and John Resch (2009) who won the prestigious Gold Helmet
from the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston.
LaForte a 25-year coaching veteran, spent five seasons as the Defensive Coordinator at Ithaca, sharing an office with current Coast Guard head coach Bill George.
While at Ithaca, LaForte coached four first team All-America selections and the Bombers made a trip to the 1994 NCAA Semifinals and won two ECAC Championships (1996, 1998). In 1998, his punt return team led the NCAA in yards per return.
LaForte was also an assistant lacrosse coach at Ithaca for five seasons.
Prior to coaching at Ithaca, LaForte was a graduate assistant at East Carolina from 1991-1993.
Ray, his wife Michelle and children Michael (13), Mason (11) and Madison (6) reside in Quaker Hill.


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Judge: Charge against Mass. woman in phony lawyer case standsBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
June 11. 2013 6:54PM
BRENTWOOD – A judge has rejected a bid to dismiss charges against a woman accused of helping her jailed boyfriend impersonate a public defender by setting up a three-way call to another jail.
Shayna Provencal, 24, of Andover, Mass., is now expected to go on trial the week of June 24 in Rockingham County Superior Court on charges of accomplice to identity fraud.
Her boyfriend, John Bouraphael, 33, of Danville goes to trial on identity fraud charges on June 19 for impersonating public defender Anthony Naro.
Bouraphael is currently serving a state prison sentence on felony drug charges.
Judge N. William Delker agreed with prosecutors that they have enough evidence against Provencal to bring the case to a jury.
He said in a recent one-page order that prosecutors do not have to prove every element of the offense to bring an accomplice charge against Provencal.
"By dialing Attorney Naro's bar number on the phone, she aided Mr. Bouraphael in committing identity fraud," Delker said.
Prosecutors allege Provencal assisted Bouraphael in recording Naro's state bar ID number in the telephone registry at the Merrimack County House of Corrections.
Bouraphael's ruse – which included speaking to corrections officials there – cleared him to speak with another inmate about fellow inmates they used to bully for canteen goods at the Rockingham County jail, according to prosecutors.
Rockingham County Corrections Lt. Dave Consentino reviewed a recording of the outgoing jail call. The matter was then referred to the sheriff's department.
Defense lawyer Patrick Fleming argued in court papers that it was clear that the identity fraud law was not meant to separately criminalize "the posing of another person while being recorded, but rather to criminalize the recording of personal information (things like passwords, PINS, etc.) without consent and with the intent to later use that information for posing as another person."
He added, "If the intent were to criminalize merely being recorded while posing as another person without that person's permission, every comedian who impersonates a celebrity without the celebrity's permission while performing over the Internet or on a CD or on television, is committing identity fraud under New Hampshire law."
Fleming could still ask a judge to reconsider his opinion prior to trial.
Provencal's bid to have her charges dismissed came along with a similar effort by Bouraphael. In his case, Judge Kenneth McHugh likewise decided prosecutors had met their legal burden to move ahead with a trial.
McHugh will decide the verdict in Bouraphael's trial instead of a jury.
Provencal faces up to 7 ½ to 15 years in state prison if she is convicted by a jury.


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I quit, Im not playing this game anymore.Mr. Trump, you should fire me.Wait. Fire me instead.No no, it's my fault ... fire ME!!!ME ME ME I WANNA BE FIRED!!!
Trump: You, the annoying one, youre fired. No, the short annoying one. The rest of you personality disorders Please leave the boardroom so we can disinfect.
Next week: Someone quits. Really. Probably Trump.And damn, were not gonna miss that!
Details. You want details?
Has there ever been a more bizarre episode?Has there ever been a larger contingent of fvcktards?Has there ever been a shorter, more annoying contestant? (Oh wait, Stacey, I couldnt see you there.)Has there ever been a worse location?
Let me address that first. Seaside Heights, Noo Joisey is a travel slum more hideous than anything youll see on The Amazing Race. Roaches wont go there, cops wont go there. But all the worst people in three states go there. They go there to drink, vomit, have sex, vomit some more, have more sex, drink vomit. (Put a comma in there if it makes you feel better.)
Its billed as a family resort, as in the kind of place where sophomore girls are lured for the post-prom de-virginizing. By the time they drive home, theyve started a family. Teenagers and young adults are frequently found copulating on the street, on the beach, under the boardwalk, on the amusement rides, and in all the local bars. Sometimes, they even remember it. Rarely do they remember who or how many. Its Gomorrah with gonorrhea.
And the hotels in Seaside Heights are there for three reasons. A place to procreate and pass out (not necessarily in that order), a place to flush away vomit, and a place to store the cooler full of beer, hard lemonade and rophynal. Guantanamo is nicer, and the sex is probably better.
But this summary isnt about my last vacation. Its about The Apprentice, and how Trumps evil minions came to destroy one of NooJoiseys shining icons.
Our episode begins with The Dipshit. He steps from a helicopter and begins spouting from the enormous blowhole just underneath that titanium hair. He says the show is about making a lot of money. That would be for him, of course. And then he spends 10 minutes recrapping last week. This is why we have a 90-minute episode. The Dipshit wasnt getting enough voice work. Id go through it all for you, but I know you read lasts weeks summary by the talented and amusing Bucky Katt.
If you did, then you might know who these people are. Good for you, because I cant remember their names. Some of them I cant even identify. I dont know Finance Shrew from Marketing Diva, or Repressed Homosexual from Quirky Dresser. I do remember somebody needs a guitar shoved up his ass sideways. One of them has urine-soaked shoes. Theres the Napoleon with the Viking fetish, a black guy with a ticket to the final four and a Kentucky Fried Raj.
Theres two sistahs, but only one of them ends up wandering the street like a disassociative crack whore. I know the other one worked as Appointments Sexretary for Gay American Gov. Jim McGreevey. She finished four years of college, missed her degree on some technicality like unreturned library books, and claims to have street smarts. I guess that means she did a good job selecting male prostitutes.
Anyway, the names are not important. Forgive me if I cant always recall precisely which DAW has critically invasive eyebrows, which one wears the bathmat, and which one wants to puff on Steve Forbes cigar.
Thats why they have credits. Which are now rolling, followed by
Commercials: Is there anything more nightmarish than seeing the seatbelt indicator on your dashboard begin to dance? Brings new meaning to the term idiot light.
Million Dollar Baby is nominated for seven Academy Awards, including one for Hilary Swank, who, despite sporting bodacious oobies, has yet to play someone remotely feminine. Must be the granite jawline
Now theres special cleanser to remove the 37 pounds of makeup you spackled on this morning, because theres no profit margin in plain soap
Neurosurgeons fantasize about science fiction movies during brain surgery. Comforting
The show Medium stars the Arquette sibling who had sex with Nicolas Cage (No, the other one. No, not the guy)
Back to the show, and sexy shots of Manhattan, which looks damn good
from a helicopter at 1500 feet. If you actually visit, you can see grime remaining from the LaGuardia administration. The folks excused from the first boardroom last week are gathered to await the survivors of the first firing. Kentucky Fried Raj (the John Grisham version), who cant keep his tie on straight, is absolutely certain, positively convinced the victim is the unbelievable guitar-assaulting fvckwit, Danny.
Enter Danny.
If you hadnt noticed this last week, Guitarzan Dan is out of his mind. Trump ridiculed his clothes, said he was wacky, called him a disaster. This kind of criticism would have most contestants measuring the height of the balcony rail. But not this brainless twit. Danny interpreted the lambasting as a sign of affection. Like when a girl punches you in the shoulder in the fourth grade. We are meant to pity Danny. He cant recognize affection because he hasnt gotten any since the fourth grade. Hes quirky, hes fun, he is unbelievable!
I want to set him on fire. This guy is supposed to be a marketing genius, and he cant think his way out of a cardboard box. I suspect his marketing firm is responsible for the 4,812 emails Ive seen about enlarging my penis. Not one of them has worked. So Danny, you are a dickhead. I hate you. I hope you burn like magnesium.
The Apprentice summary.
Its morning. Phone rings. Finance Shrew answers, and shes fully dressed in a Cruella deVille pants suit. They are to meet The Dipshit on the street across from his hotel, and reminded they shouldnt be late because hes a busy lil billionaire.
Cut to Donald, interacting with the help. Its not interacting. and its not even acting. Its a sad silly one act play to make DT look like hes actually running a company. Of course the best way to look like serious management is by harassing the manager of the Trump International and threatening her job. While she laughs at his vanity, The Dipshit exits the hotel and crosses the street accompanied by George and Carolyn. (Wheres a speeding taxi when you need one?) And let me say here that despite what we heard last week, about Trump hiring clones, George is ABSOLUTELY NOT a clone. George is a stooge. Carolyn is the clone.
When The Dipshit crosses the street to get to the other side, we are forced to watch a real cloning. The first thing Donald notices, and compliments, is Dannys new suit, complete with button down white shirt, pink tie and lapel pin. Danny gives a smug smile and a thank you. A more complete suck-up has never been accomplished this quickly on national television.
Note to Landru: Its not too soon to call Danny home.


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Pumping up the schools and protecting the middle class are priorities in common between the two candidates for their party's nomination to the Oregon House District 52 seat in the May 15 Primary. The incumbent, Republican Mark Johnson of Hood River, is running unopposed on the Primary ballot.
Marv Hollingsworth and Peter Nordbye are both retired men from the Highway 26 corridor in Clackamas County who have spent a fair amount of time in Hood River County in recent weeks wooing voters.
Nordbye, who lives in Brightwood, was a special education teacher-turned-principal who calls himself "a special educator at heart."
Hollingsworth, from Rhododendron, is a teacher-turned-lawyer who said his experience as a mediator would serve him in the legislature.
Nordbye is running for office for the first time, and he has vowed to accept no campaign contributions over $50 and will take money only from in-district donors.
Hollingsworth, who served in the Legislature in 1971-72, said, "The $50 local contributions cap idea is noble, but it just won't work to take on a guy like Mark Johnson."
Here are two interviews with Hollingsworth and Nordbye, conducted by Editor Kirby Neumann-Rea.
The full articles are at www.hoodrivernews.com.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Large groups of brawling teenagers sparked a stampede at a Louisiana mall that led police to evacuate the shopping center and shut it down early.
More than 200 teens were in the Mall of Louisiana's food court when a large fight broke out just before 6 p.m. Saturday, although it wasn't clear how many were actually fighting.
No injuries were reported. The Advocate (http://bit.ly/XAt96i ) quotes the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's office as saying it plans to charge a number of people.
Witnesses told the newspaper that the trouble started after Instagram users posted an invitation to their followers on social media telling them to come and meet them in person at the mall.
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Rovio acquires Futuremark Games
Rovio Entertainment has made another major move in its 'rapid expansion' effort.
The company has announced the acquisition Shattered Horizon and Unstoppable Gorg developer Futuremark Games Studio.
The studio is a division of benchmarking software firm Futuremark, and has developed for iOS, Mac, and PC.
"They are an incredibly talented and experienced team, and we are thrilled to have them on board," stated Mikael Hed, Rovio Entertainment's CEO. "Rovio's success is founded on the excellence of our team, and Futuremark Games Studio is going to be a superb addition."
The purchase amount was undisclosed, and at the moment it's unclear exactly what the newly acquired team will be doing for the Angry Birds folk.


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Posted 07 March 2012 - 08:09 PM
Also, since I haven't posted an RR yet, I tried to take some pics, albiet from my phone, so they're not the greatest. (My wifes two cameras seemed to be on the fritz)
Last one on the Edmonds-Kingston ferry. Forgot my Damtour card, so had to go back for it making me late for the ferry.
First food pic - clam chowder on the ferry, my usual. Was better than it looks, but had to hurry as crossing seemed quick this time.
From Kingston, headed South on the Kitsap peninsula.
Beginning of Anderson Hill Rd toward Seabeck and Holly.
In Seabeck
Continued to Holly, then cut over to get on Hood Canal southshore where I could join 101 northbound.
Lake Cushman Dam wasn't far from there.
North on 101 to 104 East, crossing the Hood Canal bridge.
Last month we had a couple of nice days and I had taken a similar route (but unfortunately before Damtour started). I stayed north and went through Port Townsend and took the ferry to Whidbey Island then on through Deception Pass before getting back on I-5S home. These pics were of Port Townsend.
Current trip, back to Kingston-Edmonds ferry. Just missed the 3:10 which gave me a chance to get a crepes.
Ham and swiss with mushrooms, peppers, spinach and some other stuff I can't remember. Very tasty.
Ferry inbound - bike is ahead, far right. Time to get home.
Posted 07 March 2012 - 08:32 PM
BigDolma just posted from UAE, lots of sand, desert look.
You, post from the PNW, with beautiful waterways, healthy green trees..
What a difference!
Love this forum for the RR's, so Thank You!
I wouldn't change a fucking thing; I've lived hard, played hard, and I ain't done yet. I've paid some severe penalties along the way, but the rewards have been so much greater; even if for just have participating in the game of life with utmost abandon. It's not who rides the furthest in a day, but rather in a lifetime. CBA member #1, IBA #31845 and very proud of both.
Posted 07 March 2012 - 08:49 PM
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Take the long way home
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Always enjoy your productions G.R.! Nice thing was that I was (technically) working. At least I get paid for being on-call.
Any day riding is better than a day at work! TFS!
hehe, well low miles helps and I had just recently washed it and hadn't rode in the rain much prior to the trip
Nice report...how is it that your bike is so damn clean?
First time through the south peninsula. I imagine it's even nicer in the summer time. This looked like a nice place: Alderbrook Resort
Posted 09 March 2012 - 10:58 AM
Officially in my "routes" folder for future reference. That resort does look pretty inviting
Posted 09 March 2012 - 07:18 PM
First time through the south peninsula. I imagine it's even nicer in the summer time. This looked like a nice place: Alderbrook Resort
Yep, Alderbrook is a pretty swanky place. My niece worked there a couple summers while home from UW. Lots of rich folks frequent the place...including someone from that small software company in Redmond.
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Kansas basketball released its nonconference schedule Friday , and it'll only be natural for fans to talk about three games in particular: the Champions Classic against Michigan State, a home contest against Villanova and a road matchup against Kentucky.
Those will be fun, and they'll likely dominate national sports coverage for the day. But they aren't the reason that KU once again was successful in its nonconference scheduling just like every other year.
The beauty, for the Jayhawks, once again lies in the other teams that round out the slate — ones that are good enough to provide a schedule boost while remaining bad enough to not pose a serious threat of actually winning.
This has been — and continues to be — KU's secret weapon when it comes to NCAA Tournament seeding each year. The NCAA refuses to acknowledge that it can exist in a world without the RPI, so KU's schedule-maker Larry Keating continues to artificially boost the Jayhawks' résumé using completely legal methods.
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KU's early schedule objective is the same every year: Load up on the good teams in bad conferences. Because half of the RPI formula is based on the win-loss record of your opponents, it pays to face teams early that will rack up wins late.
The Jayhawks have plenty of foes that fit the criteria. Vermont should be the pick to win the America East, while Wofford (Southern), South Dakota (Summit) and New Mexico State (WAC) are expected to be top-two teams in their respective leagues.
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The B-2 stealth bomber is the world's most exotic strategic aircraft, a subsonic flying wing meant to be difficult for air defenses to detect—whether by radar or other means—yet capable of carrying nearly the same payload as the massive B-52. It came into service in the late 1990s primarily for use in a potential nuclear war with the Soviet Union, and clearly as a first-strike weapon rather than a retaliatory one. First-strike weapons have destabilizing, not deterrent, effects. It is probably just as well that the stealth bomber was not quite as stealthy as it was meant to be, and was so expensive—at $2.1 billion each—that only 21 were built before Congress refused to pay for more. Nineteen of them are now stationed close to the geographic center of the contiguous United States, in the desolate farmland of central Missouri, at Whiteman Air Force Base.
Amazon Flex allows drivers to get paid to deliver packages from their own vehicles. But is it a good deal for workers?
I'm sure I looked comical as I staggered down a downtown San Francisco street on a recent weekday, arms full of packages—as I dropped one and bent down to pick it up, another fell, and as I tried to rein that one in, another toppled.
Yet it wasn't funny, not really. There I was, wearing a bright-yellow safety vest and working for Amazon Flex, a program in which the e-commerce giant pays regular people to deliver packages from their own vehicles for $18 to $25 an hour, before expenses. I was racing to make the deliveries before I got a ticket—there are few places for drivers without commercial vehicles to park in downtown San Francisco during the day—and also battling a growing rage as I lugged parcels to offices of tech companies that offered free food and impressive salaries to their employees, who seemed to spend their days ordering stuff online. Technology was allowing these people a good life, but it was just making me stressed and cranky.
In a wide-ranging conversation moderated by Bari Weiss, the controversial psychology professor was pressed for answers by a group quite different than his usual audiences.
In Aspen, Colorado, up a narrow switchback road, high above the picturesque valley, where a house unburdened by close neighbors opens onto a furnished open-air patio, I found Jordan Peterson, arguably the most influential, most controversial, and most improbable intellectual star in North America, earnestly holding forth to several of the very successful locals who were eager to meet him and to ask what project he is up to, exactly, with his relatively newfound fame.
That particular evening, sitting on an outdoor sofa upholstered in white, eschewing caviar hors d'oeuvres and cocktails for water, his back turned to a spectacular view, he was having a quick dinner before an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival. But in general, Peterson is traveling the English-speaking world in order to spread the message of this core conviction: that the way to fix what ails Western societies is a psychological project, targeted at helping individuals to get their lives in order, a sociological project that seeks to improve society through politics, or popular culture, or by focusing on class, racial, or gender identity.
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Evidence that Europe's economic downturn is weighing more heavily on its strongest member, Germany, has convinced more and more experts that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates soon.
The latest downbeat sign came Wednesday from the closely watched Ifo index of German business confidence. It fell to 104.4 points in April from 106.7 in March, more than the modest dip foreseen by market analysts to 106.2. That follows surveys earlier this week indicating Germany's manufacturing sector is contracting.
The Ifo index remains at a high level, and the institute's survey chief, Kai Carstensen, said it only means that "the German economy is taking a breather."
But outside analysts said there was now enough doubt about Europe's economic recovery for the ECB's 23-member governing council to cut its key rate from the record low of 0.75 percent, either at its May 2 meeting or on June 6, when it will have new staff economic projections to help justify any decision.
The ECB's benchmark, called the refinancing rate, is what it charges to lend to banks. Through them, the rate influences a host of other rates that determine how much it costs businesses and consumers to borrow.
Low rates in theory encourage borrowing to spend and invest, stimulating the economy. A rate cut also can push investors toward buying stocks and other assets, both in anticipation of growth and by making interest-yielding investments less attractive.
Investors prepared for such a move by buying heavily into European stocks. Germany's stock index is up 3 percent in two days, France's almost 4.5 percent.
ECB President Mario Draghi said in April that the bank remained "ready to act" in case the economic indicators worsened.
In a sign that support for a rate cut may be growing, the head of the German central bank, which has typically been more reluctant to back rate cuts, said last week that a cut could be warranted if economic indicators worsen. Since his comments, they have.
The strength of the German economy is key to the ECB's rate decisions because of its size — it accounts for 28 percent of the 17-country eurozone's total output. It shrank 0.6 percent in the last three months of 2012.
Germany has been one of the more resilient economies in the eurozone. A slowdown in its economy would make it harder for the region to climb out of recession. The ECB expects the eurozone to contract 0.5 percent for all of this year, with a gradual upturn near year end.
"Resistance to a rate cut will be crumbling," said Christian Schulz, an analyst at Berenberg Bank in London, after the Ifo survey was released.
Analysts at Swiss bank UBS have changed their forecasts and now predict an ECB rate cut on May 2. They had previously expected rates to remain unchanged through the end of next year. Analysts at Royal Bank of Scotland and Nomura also shifted their prediction to a cut to the May meeting.
Other signs of trouble in Europe include unemployment at 12.0 percent, the highest since the euro was introduced in 1999, and auto sales that have fallen for 18 straight months, measured against the same month the year previously.
Analysts say a rate cut might be mostly symbolic and do little to spur lending directly. It could, however, lower the euro's exchange rate, which would help exporters.
Lower rates can push down the euro's exchange rate because they lower the yield on many interest-bearing investments denominated in euros. That reduces demand for the currency.
The ECB has also been looking at unspecified new way to help the economy that go beyond interest rates. Analysts say the ECB might take steps to try to increase bank's willingness to make loans to small and medium size businesses, which provide most of the eurozone's jobs. Ideas that have been floated include loan guarantees from another European Union agency, or permitting banks to bundle loans to small businesses as securities and use them as collateral to get cash loans from the ECB.


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IILs are expected to be under negative selection because of the indels that they cause in coding sequences; therefore, a majority of IILs might be eliminated. Nevertheless, the fixed IILs were still found to comprise an appreciable proportion of intron losses in Solanum and Arabidopsis .
The practice of filtering unreliable alignments may have led to underestimates of the frequencies of IILs in previous studies. If this were the case, a higher proportion of IILs than PILs would have been undetectable when we compared each of the two
genomes with a distantly related species versus when we compared the two
genomes to each other. To test this possibility, we surveyed for the presence of
IL genes in the genome of a rice,
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]. Among the 11 PIL genes and six IIL genes that we surveyed, we found O. sativa orthologs for all 11 PIL genes and only two IIL genes. In principle, when a very low identity is observed between two aligned sequences, it indicates that either a large number of mutations accumulated after divergence or that a low-quality alignment was produced. To maintain accuracy, these alignments are generally discarded. We calculated the identities of the coding sequence alignments of the sites flanking the intron losses. For each intron loss, 45-bp-long regions of coding sequence (not including gaps in the alignments) corresponding to positions on each side of the loss were included in the calculation. Using the first quartile of the identities of all aligned coding sequences that were generated between Solanum and O. sativa (0.53) as the threshold to filter unreliable alignments, one IIL and two PILs in Solanum were discarded. In summary, only one of the six IILs that occurred in Solanum could be detected when comparing its genome to rice. In contrast, nine of the 11 PILs could be detected using the same method. This difference is statistically significant (χ 2 test, P = 0.03). Similar analyses have been carried out on the introns that have been lost from the genome of A. thaliana . Rice and A. thaliana also diverged 163 million years ago [ 18 ]. Among 17 IIL genes and 98 PIL genes that were found in A. thaliana , we found four IILs and 47 PILs when comparing its genome against rice. Thus, a lower frequency of IILs than PILs was observed in A. thaliana when the reference genome was O. sativa (23.5% vs. 45.1%, respectively).
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: the pinnacle of a musical genre that takes heaviness as its principal aesthetic ideal.
an album that Sleep explicitly intended to be "the heaviest thing ever recorded," is a paradigm case of musical heaviness that challenges both the way most of us think and talk about heavy metal as well as the way that philosophers talk philosophically about rock music. In his 1993 essay, "
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," for example, Bruce Baugh asks: "Can there be an aesthetics of rock music?" By this he means: Can there be an aesthetics of rock music as distinct from an aesthetics of classical music? His answer is yes, provided we can dispense with Kantian formalism and embrace the " material " (that is, the visceral, rather than intellectual) elements of rock music— rhythm , notational expressivity , and loudness —as the appropriate evaluative criteria.
Along these lines, we might think of heaviness as a
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rather than cognized. But this view has its critics. For one, we need not think that visceral, non-formal features of music are exclusive to rock. (James Young
, for example, that any of the features of rock music that seem to require a distinct aesthetics of rock music can also be found in classical music.) And second, the formal features of classical music can also be expressive qualities of rock. (Davies rightly
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In contrast to this approach, it seems to me that heaviness is situated somewhere between the material and formal elements of music. What we find in Sleep's Jerusalem is not a singular heavy-making property, but a combination of at least two properties: sonic weight and sonic density .
Sonic weight is materially similar to rhythm (not the formal, measurable quality of tempo but the perceptive quality of timing ) in that its quality is literally felt in the body. Unlike rock music, however, the rhythm of doom metal does not inspire much movement or dancing. Clocking in at a lumbering 96 beats per minute (as compared with the average metal range of 250 to 500), the rhythm of Jerusalem is the perception of slowness. But heaviness is perceived not so much as a physical stimulation as an emotional or psychological weight pressing down on us—that is, as sonic weight . The music tends toward stasis rather than movement, and this resistance is amplified by the simplicity and repetition of the riff.
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Traditionally, the securities and investment industry's political influence efforts were led by stockbrokers, bond dealers and brokerage houses, but as Wall Street itself has evolved -- and likewise Washington's interest in regulating the new frontiers of finance -- the industry's Washington money game is now dominated by the new breed: hedge funds and private investment firms.
This industry has always been an important one in Washington -- both in terms of the campaign dollars it sends to candidates and the money it spends on K Street -- but since 2012 it has become the single largest source of political contributions. In the 2012 cycle, the industry was responsible for $283 million in contributions, the vast majority coming from individuals who work in the industries, rather than corporate PACs. The emergence of wealthy individuals in this industry is hard to ignore: In 1990, the industry's corporate PACs contributed $4 million to candidates and committees, and individuals $8.5 million. The amount from PACs more than tripled by 2012, but the amount from individuals was nearly 22 times greater ($177.9 million).
Despite often having a reputation for being a right-leaning,GOP-friendly grouping, the securities and investment industry only took that turn after a Democratic Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform And Consumer Protection Act in 2010. As recently as 2008, the industry's donations favored Democratic candidates by a margin of 57 percent to 42 percent. In prior cycles the industry's preferred party was almost always the one that was in power, bouncing between the left and right as leadership in Congress switched. In 2010, however, with each party controlling one chamber, the industry leaned towards Republicans, and in 2012 it went hard for Republicans -- with 69 percent of donations going to the right.
Securities and investment is also a driving force in the post-Citizens United outside money game. In 2012, the industry was the largest source of cash for outside groups like super PACs and 527s. The industry accounted for at least $95.1 million in cash for outside groups, with the bulk ($88.2 million) coming from individuals in the industry. These individuals demonstrated an even stronger penchant for conservatives, with 76 percent of their donations going to conservative outside groups.
In terms of lobbying, securities and investment is a force to be reckoned with, although it is not as dominant on that front as in campaign finance. In 2013, the industry ranked eighth in overall spending on federal lobbying, paying K Street $98.3 million. Three of the top five organizations from Wall Street in terms of total spent on lobbying are trade associations -- the Investment Company Institute (the biggest spender in 2013 with $5.4 million), the Securities Industry & Financial Market Association and the Managed Funds Association. FMR (the parent company of Fidelity Investments) round out the top five.
Lobbying overall has been on the decline since 2010, and the securities and investment industry's spending has been in line with the trend. Wall Street hired 809 lobbyists that year; by 2013 it had dropped to 781. The industry's spending on lobbying also peaked in 2010 at $105.6 million and has declined every year since, although the industry's $98.3 million spent in 2013 is higher than the $96.1 million it spent in 2009, shortly before the battle over financial regulation reform began.
-- Russ Choma
Updated June 2014
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New School Helps Autistic Children
Tarice Sims- Kent Moravec used to attend public school. He was in an M.H. class, or multi-handicap, in Aurora, but his parents thought he needed more. The blonde-hair, wide-eyed 9-year-old was first diagnosed as autistic when he was about 2 years old . Soon after, his mother Kim Moravec says he lost his ability to talk.
Kim Moravec- For seven years we've had no verbal communication. He's saying words now since he's been in the school. It's like any child, their first words, and to get it back is just something that I didn't think would happen again.
TS- Last October, Kent was one of seven autistic students who began a new educational journey at the Cleveland Clinic Center For Autism. Parents of moderate to severely autistic children from Northeast Ohio got together to establish the charter school in partnership with The Cleveland Clinic Center. Kim Moravec is active in the schools parent advisory group. She says because of the schools partnership with parents each day her son is sent home with a chart shows how he's doing. Moravec says in the 6 months the schools been open she's seen remarkable changes in her son.
KM- I think I looked at Kent prior to this school as he could be so much but that was it. I didn't look at him in the mind set of my child who is almost 10 could be a productive person in the society. Now I look at it as, hey, he can learn, he might be 9-years-old but he is capable of learning and now I'm looking through my eyes differently at him cause now I'm seeing (pause crying)...he's just not a child with special needs, he's a special child who's going to learn differently, (and) therefore be able to be productive be able to be on his own one day.
TS- The school uses ABA, or Applied Behavior Analysis, to teach their students -- many of whom have limited language skills and have limited social skills. Leslie Sinclair is Program Director for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism. She walks in and out of the densely populated classrooms of the school checking on the progress of her students who are learning tasks like how to count money. She's worked with autistic children for about 20 years. Sinclair emphasizes the use of ABA to reach these kids. She says this approach reinforces positive behavior kids are rewarded when the are able to sit still and concentrate or establish and maintain eye contact. Sinclair says because of limited facilities the school only has about 10 students and is close their capacity of 15. The benefit is, this makes the teacher student ratio very low, allowing the teachers to concentrate on each child individual needs
Leslie Sinclair- She works usually one to one, 2 to 1, and in small group settings out in the classroom and she teaches them functional language skills, augmentative communication, alternative communication um teaching the children to reciprocate with each other and socialize with each other using language.
TS- Such individualized instruction is expensive - $56,000 per student per year. Most of the money comes local school districts and special education funds mandated by Title VI B under the federal assistance program of the Ohio Department of Education. Yesterday the school officially became a non public charter school which grants them access to more dollars. David Varda is Associate Superintendent with the Department.
David Varda- And that money is filtered through the local schools, let's take Cleveland for an example. When they get their allocation for their federal Title VI B money, they will also get an allocation for each one of the non-public schools within there and then the non public schools have a right to use that money on their special Ed students.
TS- Ohio's Special Education schools are looking for more help from the federal government to expand programs. Last Month, U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords, a republican from Vermont, announced he is leading efforts to raise funding within the federal budget by $2.5 billion a year for 6 years. Jeffords says the federal government has come up short of the goal to fund 40% of special education costs. In the meantime since the school can only accommodate ten children, the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism will continue to provide additional services for autistic children who cannot attend the school in the form of consultations, autism diagnosis and extensive outreach programs. In Cleveland, Tarice Sims, 90.3 WCPN.


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Sidney D. Gamble's Photographs
Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, began taking pictures in China during his first trip to the country with his family in 1908. He returnedthree more times between 1917 and 1932 and continued photographing the daily life of Chinese citizens. A sociologist and renowned China scholar, he traveled throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside.
Gamble used a few of the photographs from his extensive collection in his scholarly publications and in slide lectures, but the majority of images were never published or exhibited during his lifetime. The Sidney D. Gamble Photographs digital collection marks the first comprehensive public presentation of this large body of work that includes photographs of Korea, Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco, and Russia.
About 15 years after Gamble's death, his daughter, Catherine Curran, found his nitrate negatives in a closet in the family's home in New York. Stored in beautiful rosewood boxes, the negatives were housed in individual paper sleeves, annotated with typed and handwritten captions. In order to better preserve them, Ms. Curran hired an archivist who transferred the negatives into archival sleeves and transcribed the captions onto typed labels that were affixed to the new sleeves. In addition, Ms. Curran made contact sheets of all the negatives in the order in which they were found. She used these contact prints to create ten photograph albums to serve as a reference for the negative collection.
In 1986, Catherine Curran established the Sidney D. Gamble Foundation for China Studies to provide for preservation and access to the photographs. Dr. Nancy Jervis and Dr. Wang Xing partnered with Ms. Curran to bring the photographs to a worldwide audience. Nancy Jervis served as Vice President and Director of Education at the China Institute in New York City. She worked closely with Ms. Curran to organize two exhibitions of Gamble's photographs at the China Institute. China Between Revolutions: Photographs by Sidney D. Gamble, 1917-1927 was shown in the summer of 1989 and then toured the United States under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). China Fast Forward: Photographs of Daily Life, 1917-2002, which combined Gamble's photographs with modern photographs, was exhibited at the China Institute in 2004.
Dr. Xing wrote his dissertation on Gamble, "Social gospel, social economics, and the YMCA: Sidney Gamble and Princeton-in-Peking," University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1992. In 1999 he was instrumental in organizing an exhibition of Gamble's photographs entitled Turbulent Years: China Before and After the May Fourth Movement for the National Museum of Chinese History. Dr. Xing later curated an exhibition of Gamble's photographs that traveled to a many Chinese cities from 2000 to 2007 before it was donated to a museum in China. (For a full list of exhibitions based on the Gamble collection, please see the exhibitions link on this site.)
The Sidney D. Gamble Foundation also coordinated publication of Sidney D. Gamble's China, 1917-1932: Photographs of the Land and its People (1988), China Between Revolutions: Photographs by Sidney D. Gamble, 1917-1927 (1989), and Sidney Gamble's China Revisited: Photographs by Sidney D. Gamble from 1917 to 1931 (2004).
The Gamble Collection at Duke University
A review of the exhibit catalog for China Between Revolutions prompted the Duke University Libraries' Visual Materials Archivist to invite Ms. Curran to place Sidney Gamble's photographs in the Libraries' Archive of Documentary Arts. An agreement to bring the Gamble collection to Duke was signed in March 2006.
The Duke Librariescontracted with Chicago Albumen Works in Massachusetts to digitize the highly-flammable nitrate negatives. Digitization of the Gamble collection began in October 2006 and continued through the spring of 2007. In addition to the photographs, Chicago Albumen Works also digitized the typed image labels and used optical character recognition (OCR) to transform the labels into raw text. This text became the foundation for the image captions and geographic headings in the Sidney D. Gamble Photographs digital collection.
Duke Libraries' Digital Collections staff worked to update the geographic names in the labels to Library of Congress Subject Headings format, to add province names to the metadata, and to standardize the descriptions to support searching and browsing. Staff also created an interactive map documenting the places Gamble visited on his journeys, as well as a geographic index and a keyword index in traditional and simplified Chinese characters. Later further Chinese-language translations were added and additional materials were digitized, such as the slides from the 1908 trip, correspondence, and printed items. The Web site will continue to grow and evolve to support research, teaching, and learning.
The photograph captions in the digital collection are based on the handwritten and typed descriptions found on the original negative sleeves and believed to be the work of Sidney Gamble. The captions and photographs may contain language or stereotypes reflecting the cultural perspective of the era. This content is provided as part of the historical record and does not reflect the views of the Duke University Libraries.
Copyright and Permissions
The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Texts and images from this collection may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior permission. Copyright in these images is held byDuke University Libraries and the heirs of Sidney D. Gamble. All rights are reserved, except as specified above. When use is made of these texts and images, it is the responsibility of the user to secure any necessary permissions and to observe the stated access policy, the laws of copyright, and the educational fair use guidelines. For permission from Duke University, please contact the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
The photograph captions are based on the handwritten and typed descriptions found on the original negative sleeves and believed to be the work of Sidney Gamble. The captions and photographs may contain language or stereotypes reflecting the cultural perspective of the era. This content is provided as part of the historical record and does not reflect the views of the Duke University Libraries.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Sidney D. Gamble Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.


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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Turbulence may be key to "fast magnetic reconnection" mystery
A paper published in the journal Nature asserts to have found the key to a long-standing mystery in plasma physics and astrophysics, and it's all about turbulence. Approximately 70 years ago, Hannes Alfven (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1970) showed that magnetic field lines are "frozen" into a perfectly conducting (or ideal) plasma. This result has been a cornerstone for explaining astrophysical and plasma phenomena. One important implication of Alfven's Theorem is that magnetic field lines cannot break and change connections. If magnetic field lines are not able to pass through each other more or less freely, they would form a complicated tangle that would strongly impede plasma motion or even thwart it altogether, leading to a "rubber-like" behavior of the plasma. However, the experimentally observed evolution of near-ideal plasmas in most astrophysical situations is essentially fluid-dynamic, where magnetic field lines break and reconnect over fast time scales.
The phenomenon of "fast magnetic reconnection" of the plasmas has puzzled physicists for decades, because it violates Alfven's Theorem with striking manifestations, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejection. A multidisciplinary team that includes LANL researcher Hussein Aluie of the Computational Physics and Methods group and the Center for Nonlinear Studies reports an alternative explanation, involving turbulence, for the fast magnetic reconnection.
Significance of the research
Fast magnetic reconnection takes place in almost all plasma flows including in star formation and accretion disks, in the solar wind when it interacts with Earth's magnetosphere, and in solar convection – essentially spanning plasma systems at the galactic scales down to those of the Earth. Alfven's frozen-in result should forbid such fast reconnection from taking place in nature or if it did, it would have to be slow over a million-year time-scale rather than the 15-minute events observed in solar flares. This has been a long-standing puzzle in plasma and astrophysics.
Most efforts to explain the phenomenon of fast magnetic reconnection have relied on microscopic plasma processes to account for the violation of magnetic flux conservation. However, the empirical facts suggest that no microscopic process alone can adequately account for the fast time-scales at which reconnection occurs, which seems to take place independent of the microphysical details.
The new research could lead to better understanding of solar flares and ejections of material from the Sun's corona. Such powerful space weather could endanger astronauts, disrupt communications satellites, and lead to massive blackouts of electrical power grids.
Research achievements
Some scientists have suspected that turbulence causes the fast magnetic reconnection phenomenon. Therefore, the interdisciplinary multi-institution research team performed magnetohydrodynamic simulations to replicate what happens to charged particles in a plasma within solar flares. The team relied on expertise in astrophysics, applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, data management, and computer science. They adopted a fundamentally new approach to analyze very large datasets similar to that of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The scientists conducted a state-of-the-art computer simulation, using novel database methods combined with high-performance computing techniques. They concluded that the motion of the magnetic field lines becomes random and Alfven's frozen-in theorem breaks down in the presence of the strong nonlinear flow effects often associated with turbulence. The team suggests that nonlinear flow interactions (or turbulence) alone can explain the phenomenon of fast magnetic reconnection.
The research team
Gregory Eyink of Johns Hopkins University led the multidisciplinary team that included Kalin Kanov, Cristian Lalaescu, Charles Meneveau, Randal Burns, and Alexander Szalay, also of Johns Hopkins University; Kai Burger of Technical University of Munich; Ethan Vishniac of University of Saskatchewan; and Aluie.
Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) through T-CNLS provided partial funding for Aluie's work while at Los Alamos. The research supports the Lab's Global Security mission in Space Situational Awareness and the Information, Science, and Technology science pillar using the Lab's capabilities in numerical modeling, plasma physics, and fluid dynamics.


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And on the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. And it came to pass that all the wine was drunk. And the mother of the bride came to Jesus and said unto the Lord, they have no more wine. And Jesus said unto the servants: "Fill six waterpots with water." And they did so. And when the steward of the feast did taste from the water of the pots, it had become wine. And they knew not whence it had come.But the servants did know, so they applauded loudly in the kitchen. And they said unto the Lord: "How the hell did you do that?" And inquired of him: "Do you do children's parties" And the Lord said:"No." But the servants did press him, saying; "Go on, give us another one!"And so he brought forth a carrot, and said: "Behold this, for it is a carrot." And all about him knew that it was so. For it was orange, with a green top. And he did place a large red cloth over the carrot, and then removed it, and lo, he held in his hand a white rabbit. And all were amazed, and said: "This guy is really good! He should turn professional."And they brought him on a stretcher a man who was sick of the palsy. And they cried unto him: "Maestro, this man is sick of the palsy." And the Lord said: "If I had to spend my whole life on a stretcher, I'd be pretty sick of the palsy, too!" And they were filled with joy. And cried out: "Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer."And there came unto him a woman called Mary, who had seen the Lord and believed, and Jesus said unto her:"Put on a tutu, and lie down in this box." And then took he forth a saw, and cleft her in twain. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But Jesus said: "Oh ye of little faith!" And he threw open the box and lo, Mary was whole. And the crowd went absolutely bananas. And Jesus and Mary took a big bow. And he said unto her: "From now on you shall be known as Trixy, for that is a good name for an assistant."And the people said unto him: "We've never seen anything like this. You shouldn't be wasting your time in a one camel town like Cana. You should beplaying in the big arenas in Jerusalem!" And Jesus did harken to their words. And he did go on to Jerusalem, and he did his full act before the scribes, the Palestines and the Romans.But alas it did not please them in their hearts. In fact, they crucified him.Here endeth the lesson. Amen.
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