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Gabe checks out the Last Exorcism that's laster than the Last Exorcism...
I keep saying I'm done with found-footage/mockumentary genre releases. There are too many of them and the really popular ones are so boring. But filmmakers keep making exceptions to the rule forcing me to eat my words. For every one of Paranormal Activity's sequels and rip-offs, there seems to be a [REC] and a Lake Mungo. One of these exceptions was Daniel Stamm's The Last Exorcism, which was especially surprising, because the only thing more played-out than a found footage horror movie is another damn exorcism movie. But Stamm, who had just come off the non-horror mockumentary drama A Necessary Death understood how to best serve Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland's character-centric, rather than scare-centric, screenplay. He also assembled a very good cast, headed by Patrick Fabian as the jaded, but ultimately likable Reverend Cotton Marcus and Ashley Bell as the poor girl that he's called on to exorcise. The Last Exorcism works very well right up until the limp thud of an ending that undermines so much of Stamm and his cast's efforts that it actually left me somewhat cold to the entire film. Still, it was a solid effort and about 90% successful, so I've recommended it a couple times over the last few years.
Unfortunately, while that slapdash climax was just a disappointing ending to an otherwise good movie, it was a harbinger of the quality of The Last Exorcism's unnecessary sequel. Erroneously titled The Last Exorcism Part II (one assumes the producers toyed with the subtitle The Laster Exorcism), this follow-up starts where the last film left off. The formerly possessed Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is found creeping around some poor couple's house and sent to a mental hospital, where, after a bit of comatose non-activity, she 'awakens,' unable to remember any of the horrifying things that happened to her. She's sent to a halfway house for wayward girls, run by a nice gentleman named Frank (Muse Watson). After making friends with the other girls and learning the joys of modern music, Mardi Gras parades, and, tee hee, boys, her world begins to crumble as the demon Abalam starts reappearing in her dreams and his followers start bugging her in the streets.
Like the latest [REC] sequel, The Last Exorcism Part II doesn't try to continue the franchise story with more found footage/mockumentary material. Director Ed Gass-Donnelly had previously directed the generally well-received thriller Small Town Murder Songs, which brought him to the attention of the producers, similarly to the way Stamm's A Necessary Death helped him score the gig on the original film. Free of the found-footage gimmick, Gass-Donnelly is free to craft a mood and story using traditional filmmaking techniques. His scope widescreen frame definitely makes for a good-looking picture with a strong sense of tactile sensation. He also underlines the main character's growing paranoia pretty well, though he often over-spikes the suspense with cheap jump scares. On the other hand, there's also a sense that perhaps Gass-Donnelly is taking the whole thing a little too seriously. Stamm's original film was impeccably paced and not afraid to laugh at itself a bit, but Part II is dead serious and super-dramatic for its entire runtime. Gass-Donnelly attempts to recreate the feeling of something like The Shining with still, repeating, impeccably controlled images. The repetition is meant to instill unease, but it ends up feeling monotonous and the movie itself uneventful for most of its runtime.
The screenplay, co-written by Gass-Donnelly and Damien Chazelle, is sort of interesting from a conceptual standpoint, at least as the film begins, recalling the likes of Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors, Rosemary's Baby, and even a smidge of Exorcist 2. It scores a lot of points early for not simply retelling the same story the first film told, then successfully sets up a warm environment for Nell; an environment we know will go all to hell sooner or later. Things begin to fall apart as the writing team tries to expand the mythology of the original film. About an hour in to the film, a collection of new facts are introduced, including a whole cabal of 'good witches' (for lack of a better term) that are going to help Nell combat her demon. I guess these people were just biding their time, waiting for her world to start falling apart all over again. The second two-thirds of the film plays out like a humourless version of Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, culminating in a 'kitchen sink' style exorcism scene. The extended climax deserves some points for trying so damn hard to surprise us, but ends up being accidentally silly. There are some creepy, smartly unexplained touches sprinkled throughout the story – a nurse nonchalantly clips a lock of then-comatose Nell's hair and puts it in a pouch with a bunch of other hair – and the ending is a better 'downer' than the last film, but it never comes together as a proper movie.
The version I watched for this review is 'unrated' and about five minutes longer than the version released in theaters. I didn't really notice anything that would constitute an R-rating, especially not in terms of the film's violence. If anything, the original PG-13 intent holds the film back, because Nell's sexuality is such an important factor in the story.
Shot digitally with Arri Alexa cameras, The Last Exorcism Part II comes to Blu-ray in full 1080p video, framed at a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Gass-Donnelly and cinematographer Brendan Steacy aim for a clean look in contrast to the original film's dirtier and usually warmer imagery, though oranges, reds, and earth tones still play a pretty important role in the overall palette. There's a weird sheen of artificiality to the digitally composited hues – all the colours are oddly homogenized and slightly de-saturated. This is actually effective within the context of the film and appears very clear here in HD. Contrast levels are set relatively low (blacks are never quite 'all the way' black) and bright, super-plush lighting schemes also blowout some of the details, but the deep focus practices help give the transfer complex natural patterns within a single frame. Foregrounds details are more smoothed over, but not at the risk of overall texture (weird palette aside, its not a plastic-looking film). The gradations are occasionally struck with minor hue impurities and blocking effects (the dark, warmer interiors of the medium's house, for example, display low level noise in the backgrounds), but edge enhancement is minimal.
The lack of faux-documentation style is most obvious in The Last Exorcism Part II's visuals and storytelling, but it's also pretty clear that the sound designers have more freedom to explore weird and usually abstract 'horror' noises. This DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix is defined by wide dynamic ranges between eerie silences and big, booming walls of nondescript sound. Cool touches include the lively sounds of a street fair slowly dulling to aural mud as Nell's focus wanes, the muffled sounds of hotel life bleeding through windows into the stereo/surround channels as the camera pans by them, birds slamming into the windows of a church from all angles, and the buzz of electronic devices trying to communicate with Nell. The exorcism sequence is a booming LFE tester, but it's the final moments that give the mix the most to handle, since the budget clearly wasn't available to convey destruction any other way. Composer Michael Wandmacher's score (he also wrote music for The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, the only movie with a more contradictory title than The Last Exorcism Part II) is an occasionally aggressive, usually vague mix of jump cues and synthesizer-enhanced symphonic scares.
This terse little collection of extras begins with a commentary from Gass-Donnelly and producer Eli Roth. The director informs us that the track was recorded the morning after the film's premiere, which means the participants are a mix of tired and excited. The problem with this track is that Roth is a very big personality. This is usually a good thing for a commentary track, but, in this case, Roth spends a lot of energy praising Gass-Donnelly's efforts, which is sweet, but kind of boring to listen to. Still, both commentators are good speakers and there's a lot of information to absorb here, much of it concerning the film's themes as they compare to the first film. Funnily enough, early in the track, Roth jokes about us 'bloggers' that 'have to listen to the commentary' while trying to figure out why someone would listen to the commentary for a movie they didn't like. Sometimes it's a pleasure, Eli. Usually it's not, but sometimes the filmmakers' really do make me wish I had enjoyed a movie more than I did.
The rest of the extras are brief EPK featurettes made mostly to sell the film, including Nell's Story (2:40, HD) and Shooting in New Orleans (2:20, HD), both featuring interviews with producer Eli Roth (who takes more credit than expected for various story elements) and actress Ashley Bell, and Hair Salon Scare – The Last Exorcism Part II Goes Viral (2:20, HD).
Apparently, the producers of the Last Exorcism movies are trying to establish a brand of films that end very abruptly. In the case of the original film, I believe the intent was one of finality, but, here in the sequel, there's an obvious 'to be continued' vibe, similar to the final minutes of a Resident Evil or Saw movie. In the end, The Last Exorcism Part II is handsomely crafted and features a fine central performance from lead Ashley Bell, but it's sort of a non-entity as a stand-alone feature. It's a pastiche of ideas that might have worked, had they come to a proper fruition. Personally, I kind of hope they don't make anymore of these, because the imaginary implications of the film's final moments are so much more interesting than the franchise's limited budget can possibly deliver upon. That said, I still kind of like the first movie and there's enough in this sequel to make me think the producers might be able to do something special with a third film. This Blu-ray features a very nice transfer, a dynamic DTS-HD MA track, and a fun commentary track.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I liked the first movie better. I found the second movie to be pretty bland and boring (I know Stoker will be better viewing than LAST EXORCISM PART 2.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 18th June 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Director and Producer Commentary, Nell's Story, Shooting in New Orleans, Hair Salon Scare – The Last Exorcism Part II Goes Viral, Trailers, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Cast: Ashley Bell, Julia Garner, Spencer Treat Clark, Muse Watson, Louis Herthum
Genre: Drama and Horror
Length: 89 minutes
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Time: Doors and registration open 6:30pm
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Fine art photography blogs have changed the landscape for sharing and reviewing work. Blogs are more personal and idiosyncratic while attracting a wide audience, and doing so more quickly and inexpensively. Photographers no longer have to wait for a review of a bricks-and-mortar exhibition by a very small group of print publications. The objective of this night is to inform photographers about fine art photography blogging:
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Skolars kick-off their pre-season warm-up games this Sunday when they entertain Pro-Plumb Essex Eels at New River Stadium. This will be the first meeting between the two sides, with the Eels awaiting news of whether they have been admitted to National League 3. After two months of winter training the friendly gives new coaches Marcus Tobin and Alex Smits the first opportunity to see their charges in a competitive environment. It will also give Skolars' fans their first chance to see the club's new signings ahead of their first Arriva Trains Cup game against Doncaster at the end of the month.
Debuting alongside new signings already announced such as Peter Hannan and John Rua will be several players signed this week. Skolars have returned to the student game that is their roots for two of the signings. Tim Butterfield is a 22 year old full-back/winger originally from Castleford, who recently graduated from the University of Central England, having represented England Student and Great Britain Emerging Students. Butterfield appeared for the Skolars in the Conference last season. Andrew Gould was part of last of last season's Student Rugby league champion side Loughborough University and the 22 year old is a versatile centre who can also play in the second row.
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Full details of the 2004 event will be confirmed within the next few months.
The Middlesex 9's is part of the Rugby League 9's Grand Prix, which also involves the York 9's in Northern England and the Lezignan 9's in France. The tournament was won by the Royal Engineers in 2003, after they defeated the hosts, the London Skolars in the final.
The West Indies Rugby League Federation wishes to thank 1895 International for its assistance in helping the organisation gain entry into the tournament.
Whilst Skolars may have finished at the bottom of National League 2 last season, their efforts in their first year as a professional side were recognised by rugby league fans across the nation, when they came joint third in a poll conducted by Rugby League and League Express newspaper to find the club of the year. Skolars shared their position with Super League club Warrington Wolves, with double Super League and Challenge Cup champions Bradford Bulls coming out on top, just ahead of Skolars' NL 2 rivals York City Knights. "This shows how much we achieved last season", commented Skolars' Press Officer, Andrew Jackson, "it's great to realise that supporters of other clubs, especially those in the Super League can see the hard work put in on and off the field last year".
Skolars would like to thank all of you who took part in the poll.
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Friday, February 02, 2007
Comings and Goings
MONDAY JUMPS: Veteran investigative reporter Carl Monday has jumped from NBC affiliate WKYC/3 to CBS affiliate WOIO/19, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Julie Washington this afternoon on the PD's Entertainment blog.
Monday has spent the past few years at WKYC, after an over-two decade long stint at WJW/8 - which was the local CBS affiliate for the bulk of his time on South Marginal Road.
Washington reports that Monday has signed a "multi-year contract" with "19 Action News", and that current investigative reporter Tom Meyer remains aboard at Reserve Square.
And, yes, Monday did gain national fame for his expose of a prohibited activity one man was participating in at a local library. The Internet fueled that fire, which eventually burst into white hot heat on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart".
And our priceless Quote of the Month in Washington's piece comes from the mouth of WOIO/WUAB news director Dan Salamone:
Salamone said he looked forward to returning Monday to meaningful investigations, "as opposed to some of the rubbish he's been asked to do the last few years."
Oh, boy. You can't INVENT quotes like that!
Actually, when we heard about Monday's now-infamous Library Pervert Expose, we openly wondered if WKYC stole the idea from a mole at Reserve Square.
Monday won't be on "Action News" for a while. Salamone tells Washington that his new hire's start date is "flexible", and he'll have to wait out a WKYC non-compete...which will keep him off the air through roughly mid-summer.
And here's the funny thing.
We just saw a promo that proclaimed "Carl Monday is back!", but it didn't register to us that we were watching WOIO, and not WKYC. The folks at Reserve Square are gonna have to work on that. We bet some folks our age or older still remember him being at Channel 8...
BASKIN'S EXIT: In the article we linked earlier from the Akron Beacon Journal's George M. Thomas, we grabbed it solely because it had news on WJW/8 sports anchor Tony Rizzo's latest show on Good Karma sports WKNR/850 tomorrow.
We did not note Thomas' report that WKYC/3 weekend sports anchor/reporter Andy Baskin is leaving the station at the end of his contract, which is not being renewed by the local NBC affiliate.
Baskin came to WKYC from FOX Sports Net Ohio, and since showing up at Channel 3, he has also done some duty on FSN Ohio's chief competitor - WKYC-linked SportsTime Ohio...
AND ANOTHER THOMAS TIDBIT: The Beacon Journal sports/media writer notes that the new Cleveland AHL hockey team - the Lake Erie Monsters - should have a pretty easy time finding its way to local TV and radio.
Unlike the team's local predecessor, the Cleveland Barons, the Monsters are owned by the owner of the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers. And as such, cable networks FSN Ohio and SportsTime Ohio are reportedly eager to join in.
FSN Ohio is already the exclusive home of the Cavaliers, and would appear to have the "inside track", and the team's chief operating officer is quoted by Thomas as saying they'd talk to "family members first".
Radio-wise, the Barons - if we recall correctly - logged some radio time on WKNR/850 in its days as a Salem-owned station.
Speculation alert: It wouldn't be a shock to see new WKNR owner Craig Karmazin pick up the radio rights for the team in some fashion. Sister WWGK/1540 "Cleveland's ESPN Radio 1540" may help relieve scheduling for day and weekend games.
The Cavaliers "family" on the radio side would be Clear Channel talk WTAM/1100, the Cavaliers' radio flagship, but it's hard to see WTAM making room for minor league hockey - even for a team owned by the Cavaliers' owner. The station's "all the balls" schedule is already stacked up...
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I remember hearing something a while back that Tom Meyer and Carl Monday didn't get along and that was the main reason Monday left Channel 8.
Could Dick Goddard be coming to Channel 3? There is a banner for the Goddard School on top of one of the channel 3 web pages.
- Ohio Media Watch said...
Umm, let's shoot this one down quickly - no.
The Goddard School is a national chain of private pre-schools, and as far as we know, doesn't have the slightest connection to veteran WJW FOX 8 meterologist Dick Goddard.
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When are you going to have the scoop on the new morning guy on Mix 94.1? He starts Feb. 12th. Source says the rocker is from WONE.
This Baskin thing has been out since early January. I'm surprised it's just dropping in the mainstream media. I hear the other guy is on shaky ground as well. I guess the new ND is heading in a completely different direction outside of course the legend that is Jim Donovan!
Let's talk Lorna Barrett. from what i can tell, she must be freelancing for WEWS. no profile back on the website. Also it must be a sweeps ploy because all of the other fill-ins they have put on weekends with paul kiska just don't have newschops that lorna has! WEWS, if you ever read this hire this woman back! Now Im gonna go there... Tracy Carloss is better than she was when she did the noon news 9years ago, but she has nothing on Lorna, period 5 lacks depth in talent, and could use Lorna's help period. When she was there they constantly won sweeps in any position.
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The SS (short for Schutzstaffel, German for "Protective Squadron") was a major para-military branch of the Nazi party, controlled for the majority of its existence by Heinrich Himmler (who became its leader in 1929). It was noted for its devotion to Adolf Hitler, for its hostility to Jews, for its fanaticism in combat; and especially for its control of the concentration camps and death camps during the Holocaust.
Although the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Nazi Party created the SS in 1925, as Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard (Stabswache or Staff Guard). The SS was originally only a sub-branch of the SA. It was a small exclusive group who only had loyalty to Adolf Hitler, not the Nazi Party, such as the SA. Heinrich Himmler was the fourth leader of the SS, having obtained command in January 1929. He went on to become its longest and most influential leader. By the time he took over, it was made up of only 280 men. By 1933 Himmler had expanded its ranks to 52,000.
Waffen SS
The Waffen-SS (Armed SS) began as Hitler's private army. It started as the SS-Stabswache Berlin, a small bodygruard unit under Josef "Sepp" Dietrich. It was renamed the Sonderkommando Berlin until Himmler renamed it again as the Leibstandarte (Bodyguard Regiment) Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). In September 1934, Adolf Hitler authorized the formation of the military wing of the Nazi Party in the SS; it was called the SS-Verfügungstruppe (Special Use Troops) or SS-VT. There were strict recruitment standards; both physically and racially. By September 1939, there were three SS-VT regiments, along with the Leibstandarte. During the 1939 fighting in Poland, it was reported that the SS-VT units fought bravely but recklessly. The SS-VT units also fought in combat during the invasions of the Low Countries and France in 1940. The performance of the units was of marked improvement on the battlefield, however, off the battlefield several atrocities occurred.[1]
In late 1940, Hitler allowed Himmler to greatly expand the forces and open the ranks to Germanic foreign recruits. Further, the branch was re-named the Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Leibstandarte Division (LSSAH) and SS-VT units already in service were folded into, and became part of, the Waffen-SS. Within 6 months this new SS branch had over 150,000 soldiers. After the invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1941, the Germans were fighting a two-front war. The Waffen-SS became the elite infantry force of the fronts and given separate control over their communications and reports to Hitler's headquarters. By June 1944, the SS had over 800,000 men: Hitler's bodyguard 200,000, the Waffen-SS 594,000, and the SS-Totenkopfverbände (Death's Head units) or (SS-TV), 24,000. However, at the Nuremberg Trials, the entire Schutzstaffel organization was declared a criminal organization and many of its leaders were executed.
Soldiers in Waffen SS
The Waffen-SS eventually organized 38 divisions comprising (at one time or another) about 800,000 soldiers; 25% were killed in battle. They were never integrated into the Wehrmacht, and grew to become a de facto fourth branch of the German military. They had a reputation for fanatical loyality, bravery, brutality, mistreatment and killing of prisoners and civilians, and war crimes.[2] In December 1944 on the Western Front during the "Battle of the Bulge" elements of the Leibstandarte Division shot between 86 and 100 Americans prisoners near Malmedy.[3]
Huffman (2005) examines Waffen-SS soldiers and their experiences, actions, and importance during World War II. He explores the Waffen-SS in terms of ideology and indoctrination, everyday life and combat experiences, comradeship, battle front and home front influences, and connections between the " Frontgemeinschaft " (front community) and the " Volksgemeinschaft " (people's community). Huffman focuses on the Waffen-SS junior officers, NCOs, and enlisted men. Waffen-SS soldiers experienced a "totality" of war as a concrete, lived, total experience, and thus the front experiences became normalized to a large extent. They were much better trained than regular army units, with dangerous simulated combat exercise; it was rigorous, realistic and often brutal.[4] Strong comradeship among the troops was important, and helped account for their strong cohesiveness and fighting strength. The Volksgemeinschaft and Frontgemeinschaft and the strong attendant home front and battle front influences were not just words; there was a reality of overall solidarity, and the Volksgemeinschaft and Frontgemeinschaft served for millions of Germans as structures around which to cast their belief systems and actions. The German civilian populace was militarized during the war, and the German military formations, especially the Waffen-SS, were militarized even more so.[5]
Ideology, indoctrination, and combat had significant influences on the mentalities and experiences, as well as the increased fanaticization and radicalization of the soldiers and their subsequent actions, which included a greater propensity to follow orders without question and commit war crimes. Ideology was absorbed and accepted by Waffen-SS soldiers far more readily because of the nature of World War II with all of its racism and savageness. Waffen-SS troops were the most radicalized and politicized troops in the German armed forces and the fanaticized military elite and political soldiers of Nazi Germany.[6]
International units
The Waffen SS recruited soldiers, whether of German background or not, from many different ethnic groups across Europe. About 6,000 Norwegians volunteered; most of them were assigned to divisions that included both Germans and volunteers from other countries, about 2,300 served under the Waffen-SS in a separate national unit, the Norwegian Legion; there were also Danish, Flemish and Dutch units. Some 10,000 Frenchmen served in units the Légion des Volontaires Français (LVF, French Volunteer Legion) and Charlemagne Division of the Waffen-SS. Most volunteered in 1944 and had been members of the Milice Française and other collaborationist groups; they left France with the Germans to avoid reprisals by the Resistance. Knowledge of their fate if they were captured and sent home made them more fanatic. 5500 men served in the Danish Frikorps (Danish Legion), on the Eastern Front.[7]
Bowen (2001) describes volunteers in Waffen-SS units late in the war. Under Allied pressure, Francisco Franco withdrew his earlier support of Nazi Germany to a position of neutrality. He ordered the repatriation of the Blue Division to Spain, a unit that lost 22,000 of 47,000 men in the Stalingrad campaign. However, thousands of Spaniards committed to the Nazis' New World Order remained illegally in Germany, joining Norwegians, Danes, Dutch, and others who chose to fight alongside the Germans to the bitter end. Franco proved unable to persuade these Spaniards to quit a lost cause.[8]
See also
- ↑ Cook and Bender (1994) and McNab (2009)
- ↑ Wegner (1990); McNab (2009)
- ↑ After the war, Colonel Joachim Peiper and 65 other Waffen-SS soldiers were tried, convicted and imprisoned for war crimes; two were hung. James J. Weingartner, Crossroads of Death: The Story of the Malmédy Massacre and Trial (1979)
- ↑ Koethe (1994)
- ↑ Huffman (2005)
- ↑ Huffman (2005); Koethe (1994)
- ↑ Smith et al (1999)
- ↑ Wayne H. Bowen, "The Ghost Battalion: Spaniards in the Waffen-SS, 1944-1945." Historian 2001 63(2): 373-385. Issn: 0018-2370 Fulltext: in Ebsco
- Allen, Michael Thad. The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps 2002 online edition
- Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution. 1991. 352 pp.
- Browder, George C. Hitler's Enforcers: The Gestapo and the SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution (1996) online edition
- Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich (2000)
- Cook, Stan and Roger James Bender. Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler: Uniforms, Organization, & History (1994)
- Dederichs, Mario. Heydrich: The Face of Evil (2006)
- Estes, Kenneth. "A European Anabasis: Western European Volunteers in the Germany Army and SS, 1940-1945" (Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland), 1984
- Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939., 2005. 800 pp.
- Friedlander, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 (1998)
- Friedlander, Saul. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (2007), the standard history
- Gingerich, Mark. "Waffen-SS Recruitment in the 'Germanic Lands;'" Historian 59 (1997): 815-30;
- Goldin, Milton. "Financing the SS" History Today, (Jun 1998), Vol. 48, Issue 6 full text in Academic Search Premier
- Huffman, Christopher William. "The Waffen-SS Soldier in World War II: Fanaticism, Everyday Life, and the New Military History." PhD dissertation Georgia State U. 2005. 430 pp. DAI 2005 66(6): 2352-A. DA3180700 Fulltext in Proquest
- Koehl, Robert. The Black Corps: The Structure and Power Struggles of the Nazi SS (1983)
- Koethe, Richard D., III. "The Waffen SS." Military Review 1994 74(2): 64-67. Issn: 0026-4148 Fulltext: in Academic Search Premier/Ebsco
- Kren, George M. and Leon H. Rappoport. "The Waffen SS: a Social Psychological Perspective." Armed Forces & Society 1976 3(1): 87-102. Issn: 0095-327x
- Lumans, Valdiso. Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945 (1993)
- Manvell, Roger, and Heinrich Fraenkel. Heinrich Himmler: The SS, Gestapo, His Life and Career (2007)
- McNab, Chris. The SS: 1923–1945 (2009)
- Padfield, Peter. Himmler: Reichsführer-SS. (1990)
- Rempel, Gerhard. Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS (1989) online edition
- Smith, Peter Scharff; Poulsen, Niels Bo; and Christensen, Claus Bundgård. "The Danish Volunteers in the Waffen SS and German Warfare at the Eastern Front." Contemporary European History 1999 8(1): 73-96. Issn: 0960-7773 Fulltext: Cambridge Journals
- Sofsky, Wolfgang. The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp 1997. 356 pp. online edition
- Stein, George H. The Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War, 1939-1945 (1984)
- Syndor Jr., Charles W. Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division 1933-1945 (1977)
- U.S. War Department. Technical Manual, TM-E 30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces (1945) online edition
- Wachsmann, Nikolaus. "Looking into the Abyss: Historians and the Nazi Concentration Camps." European History Quarterly 2006; v 36; pp247+ online
- Wegner, Bernd. The Waffen-SS: Organization, Ideology and Function (1990);


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Sometimes I feel like a short-order cook in my own house. According to my wife, Lisa, it's my own fault, and she is probably right. We are in one of those stereotypical situations with a household of young and fussy eaters, each of whom has strong likes and dislikes.
Ellis, who is 11/2, is by a mile the easiest to feed, if the messiest. Half of anything he's given will end up in his mouth eventually, though sometimes via a trip to the floor or a hand-art session followed by his snuffling it off his tray like a pig onto truffles.
The girls, now 7 and 10, make things tricky, especially at the breakfast-time scramble. Evvy likes her pancakes with chocolate chips; Adelia does not. To one, a grilled cheese seems a fine way to start the day; to the other that idea elicits howls.
Eggs? Well, we have chickens and get five or six eggs a day, and I am afraid the girls are burnt out on them. Cereal? Generally, they won't touch it unless it's one of the sugar-laden varieties, which we do not buy. Crepes are okay with everybody, but a pain in the neck when I am racing the clock to get them to school or camp. I usually have a certain anxiety as getting-up time approaches about what they will deign to eat this day.
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By Ketrell Marshall
January 30, 2013
KEY MATCHUP vs. BULLS
Kemba Walker vs. Tony Parker
Kemba Walker has put the team on his shoulders this season, leading the Bobcats in scoring (17.9), assists (5.8) and steals (1.91), while also averaging 3.5 rebounds in 34.9 minutes. Walker is one of five players in the NBA who leads their team in scoring, assists and steals along with LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kyrie Irving and Goran Dragic. In his last five outings, Walker is averaging 20.6 points, 6.8 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 1.80 steals. He'll need to continue his strong all-around play as he gets ready to go against All-Star point guard Tony Parker and the San Antonio Spurs… Through 47 games Parker has led the Spurs in scoring (20.1) and assists (7.5). Parker has been on an offensive tear in his last five contests, averaging a double-double (24.2 points, 10.0 assists), shooting 56.8 percent from the field and pulling down 3.6 rebounds… Walker's knack of being a terrific on-ball defender could be key in slowing down Parker and leading to a Bobcats victory.
The Bobcats head into San Antonio having split their last two contests. This will also be the second game of a five-game road trip for Charlotte… A fast-paced style of play continues to be effective for the Cats, as they rank fourth in the NBA in fast break points (17.3). The up-tempo style is generated because of the success of Bobcats guard play. Four of the top five scorers for the Cats come from the guard position, Walker (17.9), Ramon Sessions (14.7), Ben Gordon (13.3) and Gerald Henderson (12.7)…The big men continue to protect the paint at an elite rate with 6.54 blocks per contest led by Bismack Biyombo ( 1.71), good enough for fourth in the NBA.
The Spurs have rattled off eight straight wins by an average margin of victory of 9.4 points and rank third in the NBA with 104.4 points per contest… A big reason for the San Antonio's success is their offensive efficiency. The Spurs boast some impressive numbers on the offensive end, ranking first in assists (25.2), second in field goal percentage (.486), sixth in free throws (.785) and sixth in 3-point percentage (.379)… Defensively, the Spurs rank 10th in the league in points allowed (96.3) and rank fifth in steals (8.6) led by Kawhi Leonard (1.82)…San Antonio currently boasts the league's best winning percentage (.766).
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Vin Sylvia: On any given night, the future stars are out in Manchester
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ON A pleasant spring night last May 16, shortstop Xander Bogaerts and starting pitcher Brandon Workman helped the Portland Sea Dogs trounce the host New Hampshire Fisher Cats, 15-4, in an Eastern League game at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. Few in the announced crowd of 4,780 at the NEDD that night could have imagined that 5 ½ months later, Bogaerts and Workman would play key roles in Game 6 as the Red Sox clinched their first championship at Fenway Park in 95 years.
That isn't to say fans who take in a game at the home of the Toronto Blue Jays' Double-A affiliate aren't aware they're catching glimpses of the future. During every series at the 9-year-old ballpark on the Merrimack River, future major-leaguers are on display — some of them potential MLB All-Stars.
In 2010 alone, 37 players selected for the MLB All-Star Game were Eastern League alumni, and 21 of the 50 players in that year's World Series had played in the EL at some point in their careers.Among the players named to an MLB All-Star team last season were Toronto's Brett Cecil, who played for the Fisher Cats as an up-and-coming pitcher in 2008 and as a rehabbing major-leaguer in 2012, and Jose Bautista, who also played for the Fisher Cats on injury rehab in 2012. All-Stars who had appeared in Manchester as a visiting player ranged from A (the Pirates' Pedro Alvarez) to Z (the Nationals' Jordan Zimmerman), with perennial selections Andrew McCutchen, Joe Mauer, Justin Verlander and David Wright in between.
Few doubt Bogaerts will be a major-league All-Star at some point — and maybe soon — which would have him following in the footsteps of fellow former Sea Dogs Dustin Pedroia, Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz, Hanley Ramirez, Jonathan Papelbon and Justin Masterson.
Plenty of current Eastern Leaguers are on their way, as well. According to MLB.com, no level of the minor leagues has more top-100 prospects than Double-A, and no league at that level has more top-100 prospects than the EL, with 12.
Tops among all those prospects — according to everyone — is the Twins' Byron Buxton, who, had he not injured his wrist during a spring training game last month, would be coming to Manchester with the New Britain Rock Cats for a three-game series beginning Monday.
A 6-foot, 2-inch 190-pound outfielder selected with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2012 MLB draft, Buxton last year hit a combined .334 with 12 home runs, 77 RBIs, 55 stolen bases and a .944 OPS at two levels of Single-A. After next week's series, New Britain is due back in New Hampshire from June 26-29. If Buxton is with the team then, you'll want to see him.
The Fisher Cats and Sea Dogs each have one player among MLB.com's top 100, which includes major-league rookies, such as Bogaerts, in its ranking. New Hampshire's Aaron Sanchez (No. 21) was excellent in the Fishers' season-opener, allowing one hit over six innings in a 6-0 victory at Trenton, while Portland's Henry Owens (No. 52) was even better: a rain-shortened no-hitter with nine strikeouts in a 5-0 win at Reading.
In addition to Owens, who it ranks No. 40, Baseball America has three other Sea Dogs in its top 100: catcher Blake Swihart and second baseman Mookie Betts. They should be in the lineup when Portland makes its first 2014 visit to Manchester, May 23-26.
Other Eastern Leaguers to watch include Yankees catching prospect Gary Sanchez (No. 47 on the MLB.com list), who had a grand slam for Trenton against the Fisher Cats on Sunday, and Dylan Bundy, the 21-year-old flamethrower who pitched for the Orioles in 2012 but missed last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. When he returns to action this year, it's expected to be with Bowie.
So whether you're attending Opening Night at the NEDD, catching a game this weekend, waiting for the Sea Dogs to come to town or holding out for summer weather, take some time to appreciate the caliber of players you're watching. Some of them may be future major-league All-Stars — and you might even see some one or two of them on baseball's biggest stage this October.
Vin Sylvia is a Union Leader Deputy Managing Editor. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @VinSylvia.


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SPEARFISH | Black Hills State University is continuing to make progress on its sustainability practices achieving a ten percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per square foot of campus and increasing recycling to 35 tons. The University has a goal of meeting the carbon neutrality by 2050.
"Our campus has grown over the past few years, but our carbon footprint hasn't," said Katie Greer, BHSU sustainability coordinator. "The 2012 carbon footprint report shows a 9.7 reduction in emissions per square foot of campus building space and a 12.2 percent reduction in emissions per full-time equivalent number of students." During fiscal year 2012, BHSU also recycled more than 35 short tons of materials that would have otherwise been sent to a landfill, Greer said.
BHSU completed its most recent carbon footprint report which showed that emissions as a result of University activity in 2012 totaled 13,279 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. This represents annual greenhouse gas emissions from 2,766 passenger vehicles or 4,973 tons of waste sent to the landfill.
Reporting the University's carbon dioxide emissions is a requirement of the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). BHSU President Kay Schallenkamp signed the President's Climate Commitment in 2007, pledging that the University will work toward carbon neutrality by the year 2050. BHSU was the first South Dakota university to sign ACUPCC, a consortium of hundreds of universities across the nation dedicated to addressing global warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas emission, and to accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to quip society to re-stabilize the earth's climate.
The first step in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality is accounting for the carbon emitted by the University. BHSU records the carbon dioxide emissions in three scopes. The first is from direct emission sources which includes the natural gas used to heat buildings. The second scope is from purchased emissions such as electricity, and the third scope covers several indirect sources of emissions including waste sent to landfills; commuting by faculty, staff and students; paper purchases; waste water; and University-funded travel by air, ground or bus.
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BHSU has completed several sustainable initiatives since joining the ACUPCC including having two LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified buildings. The David B. Miller Yellow Jacket Student Union is gold certified and was the first state building to earn a LEED certification. BHSU has also recently enrolled in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System, known as STARS to help assess progress in meeting sustainability goals.
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I agree that Russ's original is truer to the way the scene looked, and I suspect that is the way I would have photographed it if I had been there. But Slobodan's variant is a much more expressive image, emphasizing the abandonment and sense of desolation of the house. That fact is certainly an important part of the truth, and artistic license certainly permits the artist to emphasize important aspects more than others.So if you want an "accurate," reportorial portrayal of the scene, Russ's original is the one that works for you. Russ himself is man enough to appreciate that multiple possibilities can come from the same "negative."Eric M.
Right, Eric. The most recent performance is the one that's going on the wall. The other two get stored in a flat file -- at least for now.
In the end, both recent copies are going up, but not in the same place. My wife locked on to the heavily vignetted version. She gets that one in her office to go with last year's color version with the cows. I get the other one on one of my downstairs walls.
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Battery Park parks conservancy, Wagner Jr. Park, 212-267-9700: June 17-Sunset Singing Circle, friday evenings for young & old, 7-8:30 p.m., free; Through June 25-Art Portfolio developement class for teens, session 1, 4 Saturdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., $12- program fee, $20 materials fee, call for information and to register.
childrens galleries for jewish culture, 515 W. 20th St., 212-924-4500: Weekly-Arts & crafts for children ages 6-12, from mosaics and models to weaving and jewelry, 2-5 p.m., $5 per person; June 19-Arts & crafts, create a crafts project with other kids that relates to one of the current exhibitions, 2-5 p.m., $5.
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gotham comedy club, 34 W. 22nd St., 212-877-6115: Call to enroll your child in an upcoming workshop to improve their routines; Also find out about upcoming Kids N Comedy performances, children perform standup routines, call for reservations & details, 2 p.m., $15 plus one drink min.
south street seaport museum, 12 Fulton St., 212-748-8735: June 19-Family program: Seaport science smarts, learn about the critters of the east river, includes animal feeing at 3 p.m., also includes arts & crafts activity, 1-4 p.m., free with museum admission; Call about family programs and other upcoming childrens events at the Seaport.
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College Hockey: McNicholas, Salvaggio enjoying time with younger KelleherBy ALEX HALL
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 19. 2017 11:31PM
DURHAM -- The top line for the University of New Hampshire men's hockey team might have a slightly new look this year but not much has changed in terms of the unit's production.
Tyler Kelleher, who graduated last spring, Michael McNicholas and Jason Salvaggio logged a combined 142 points (60 goals, 82 assists) skating together as the Wildcats' top line last year.
McNicholas and Salvaggio, both seniors, are back on the UNH's top line this year, skating alongside freshman Charlie Kelleher, who is Tyler's younger brother. Together, they have combined for 14 points (five goals, nine assists) through four games.
McNicholas, who centers the line, and Kelleher are tied with freshman defenseman Benton Maass for the team lead in points (five). Both McNicholas and Charlie Kelleher have tallied one goal and four assists. Salvaggio is tied with Shane Eiserman for the team lead in goals (three) and also has an assist.
McNicholas was named this week's Hockey East player of the week after recording five points (one goal, four assists) in the No. 17 Wildcats' two-game sweep of Colgate last weekend.
"McNicholas is a big part of that," UNH coach Dick Umile said of the top line's early success. "He's the centerman. He can move the puck around. Jason has a great shot. He's a power forward. And we like Charlie Kelleher. He's quick. He's a very smart player. He works at both ends of the ice.
"I'm not going to be critical of Tyler just because he graduated but we haven't lost a lot on that line so far."
Charlie Kelleher called it an honor to skate with Salvaggio and McNicholas. Salvaggio has an unbelievable shot and McNicholas makes unbelievable plays, Charlie Kelleher said.
"He has some skills with the puck that honestly I haven't seen before," Kelleher said of McNicholas. "He knows how to make the right play and when to shoot. And it's awesome playing with him and kind of watching him, being able to learn how he plays because I kind of want to model myself after the way he plays so it's nice to watch every night."
During preseason practices, Umile said Salvaggio and McNicholas enjoyed playing with Kelleher right from the start.
"They liked him right from the beginning so there was good chemistry there right from the beginning," Umile said. "And that's always good when the guys on the line like playing with each other."
Kelleher credited the line's production to the communication he and his linemates have with each other.
"I think we all just kind of know where each other are out there and it's been going well," Kelleher said.
UNH's top line will look to stay productive tonight and Saturday night when the Wildcats (4-0-0) host Colorado College (3-1-0) of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. UNH will play the Tigers tonight at 7 and again Saturday night at 7 at the Whittemore Center.
The Tigers, who have no seniors on their roster, split their season-opening series at the University of Vermont and swept their two-game series with Alaska Anchorage last weekend.
UNH is third in the nation in goals scored per game (4.25) and tied for sixth in scoring defense (1.75 goals per game). The Tigers are tied for 10th in the nation in goals scored per game (3.25) and tied for 16th in scoring defense (2.25 goals per game).
Colorado College scored two power-play goals and two shorthanded goals on its way to defeating the Wildcats, 4-3, last season in Durham. The Wildcats are 14-6-1 overall and 5-2-0 at home all-time against Colorado College.
"They're quick, they're fast, they're very skilled on the power play," Umile said of the Tigers. "We'll get a test this weekend."
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Umile said sophomore forward Patrick Grasso will not play this weekend. Grasso, who logged 33 points (20 goals, 13 assists) last year, is recovering from a shoulder injury and has yet to play this season.
Eiserman and fellow forward Chris Miller will be available this weekend, Umile said. Eiserman, who has not missed a game this season, is dealing with a "knee issue," Umile said.
Miller, a junior from Windham, did not play in UNH's 5-3 victory over Colgate last Saturday. Miller will probably skate alongside sophomores Brendan van Riemsdyk and Liam Blackburn tonight, Umile said.


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Advances in health information technology, such as electronic health records (EHRs) and disease registries, promise new sources of evidence on the effectiveness of health interventions. As these data sources become more readily accessible to investigators, they are likely to supplement or even replace clinical trials data in SRs of
CER. Furthermore, as with other data sources, the potential for bias and confounding will need to be addressed.
The Food and Drug Administration Sentinel Initiative and related activities (e.g., Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership) may be an important new data source for future SRs. When operational, the Sentinel Initiative will be a national, integrated, electronic database built on EHRs and claims records databases for as many as 100 million individuals (HHS, 2010; Platt et al., 2009). Although the principal objective of the system is to detect adverse effects of drugs and other medical products, it may also be useful for SRs of CER questions. A "Mini-Sentinel" pilot is currently under development at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (Platt, 2010) . The system will be a distributed network, meaning that separate data holders will contribute to the network, but the data will never be put into one common repository. Instead, all database holders will convert their data into a common data model and retain control over their own data. This allows a single "program" to be run (e.g., a statistical analysis in SAS) on all the disparate datasets, generating an estimated relative risk (or other measure) from each database. These then can be viewed as a type of meta-analysis.
The fact that available data are conducive to pooling is not in itself sufficient reason to conduct a meta-analysis (Fu et al., 2010). The meta-analysis should not be undertaken unless the anticipated results are likely to produce meaningful answers that are useful to patients, clinicians, or other decision makers. For example, if the same outcomes are measured differently in the individual studies and the measures cannot be converted to a common scale, doing a meta-analysis may not be appropriate (Cummings, 2004). This situation may occur in studies comparing the effect of an intervention on a variety of important patient outcomes such as pain, mental health status, or pulmonary function.
Good statistical analyses quantify the amount of variability in the data in order to obtain estimates of the precision with which estimates may be made. Large amounts of variability reduce our confidence that effects are accurately measured. In meta-analysis,
variability arises from three sources—clinical diversity, methodological diversity, and statistical heterogeneity—which should be separately considered in presentation and discussion (Fu et al., 2010). Clinical diversity describes variability in study population characteristics, interventions, and outcome ascertainments. Methodological diversity encompasses variability in study design, conduct, and quality, such as blinding and concealment of allocation. Statistical heterogeneity, relating to the variability in observed treatment effects across studies, may occur because of random chance, but may also arise from real clinical and methodological diversity and bias.
Assessing the amount of variability is fundamental to determining the relevance of the individual studies to the SR's research questions. It is also key to choosing which statistical model to use in the quantitative synthesis. Large amounts of variability may suggest a poorly formulated question or many sources of uncertainty that can influence effects. As noted above, if the individual studies are so diverse in terms of populations, interventions, comparators, outcomes, time lines, and/or settings, summary data will not yield clinically meaningful conclusions about the effect of an intervention for important subgroups of the population (West et al., 2010).
In general, quantifying heterogeneity helps determine whether and how the data may be combined, but specific tests of the presence of heterogeneity can be misleading and should not be used because of their poor statistical properties and because an assumption of complete homogeneity is nearly always unrealistic (Higgins et al., 2003). Graphical representations of among-study variation such as forest plots can be informative ( Figure 4-1 ) (Anzures-Cabrera and Higgins, 2010).
When pooling is feasible, investigators typically use one of two statistical techniques—fixed-effects or random-effects models—to analyze and integrate the data, depending on the extent of heterogeneity. Each model has strengths and limitations. A fixed-effects model assumes that the treatment effect is the same for each study. A random-effects model assumes that some heterogeneity is present and acceptable, and the data can be pooled. Exploring the potential sources of heterogeneity may be more important than a decision about the use of fixed- or random-effects models. Although the committee does not believe that any single statistical technique should be a methodological standard, it is essential that the SR team clearly explain and justify the reasons why it chose the technique actually used.
FIGURE 4-1 Forest plot.
SOURCE: Schriger et al. (2010).
In meta-analyses, the amount of within- and between-study variation determines how precisely study and aggregate treatment effects are estimated. Estimates of effects without accompanying measures of their uncertainty, such as confidence intervals, cannot be correctly interpreted. A forest plot can provide a succinct representation of the size and precision of individual study effects and aggregated effects. When effects are heterogeneous, more than one summary effect may be necessary to fully describe the data. Measures of uncertainty should also be presented for estimates of heterogeneity and for statistics that quantify relationships between treatment effects and sources of heterogeneity.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., right, accompanied by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, speaks during a news conference on the effects of the proposed Republican healthcare legislation on families on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2017.
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Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley, Ron Wyden and other Senate Democrats spent three hoursTuesday nightprotestingthe Republican Party's approach to confirming federal judges — and one Oregon lawyer's nomination in particular.
They're objecting to the nomination of Ryan Bounds to serve on the influential 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and, more broadly, to what they describe as GOP efforts to pack federal courts with extremist jurists.
The Senate has traditionally not proceeded with judicial nominations without the support of a potential judge's home state senators. But Senate Republicans have pushed ahead with Bounds' nomination despite Wyden and Merkley's concerns.
"This deed of putting forward this nomination on this floor tonight changes 100-year tradition of comity in the U.S. Senate, and a recognition that the home state senators have something important to say about the integrity of the individual being put forward," Merkley said as the unusually long session kicked off.
The Oregon senators say they weren't adequately consulted about the Bounds nomination and that the White House pushed the nomination through quickly despite their requests to slow down. And they have raised questions about inflammatory writing Bounds, an assistant U.S. attorney, did while in college at Stanford University and whether Bounds was upfront about those writings later.
Other Senators objected to how Senate Republicans have handled other nominations and to the role groups such as the Federalist Society have played in coming up with lists of potential nominees for the Trump administration.
It's unlikely Senate Democrats can block Bounds' nomination, but they hope to slowit as a form of protest.
"The debate over Ryan Bounds is not a typical debate over a typical nomination," Wyden said. "It is vital the Senate look at this nomination in a broader context, particularly as it relates to what I call the decline of principled bipartisanship here in the Senate."
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Do your 500 "friends" on social networks really know what you will like? How many of your friends' shared links that you click each day are interesting to you? The social graph brings trust and meaning to the web, but often creates information overload from over-sharing. And because real-time updates and feeds emphasize recency over relevance, rare gems often fall through the cracks. This talk will discuss the issues and considerations when designing a personalized discovery engine, one that combines the social, peer and taste graphs to produce relevant, peer-sourced recommendations and serendipitous discovery of new online content. StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp will go over the concepts and mechanisms behind such recommendation systems, and highlight findings from analysis of StumbleUpon's database of over 15 billion personalized stumbles.
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