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Our book today is that toughest of tough sells, Jaws 2, the novelization of the 1978 sequel to Stephen Spielberg's blockbuster hit Jaws, which in turn was based on Peter Benchley's novel Jaws. It's virtually impossible to convince anybody to even momentarily consider the possibility that Jaws 2 might be as good a movie as Jaws, and even that is a walk in the park compared to getting people to consider the novelization, especially since novelizations already have the stench of derivation heavy upon them (even though a handful in the last century have been quite good). And if that basic concept is a tough sell, how much tougher is the novelization of a movie like Jaws 2, which was legendary in the Hollywood of its day for the script-troubles that plagued it from Day 1? The film's first two scripts were almost entire scrapped, several writers were fired or walked off in high dudgeon, and several potentially fascinating sub-plots were dropped (just as Spielberg dropped the adultery sub-plot from Benchley's novel). The screenplay that was eventually sent to industry vet and champion hack Hank Searls for novelizing was by Howard Sackler and Dorothy Tristan – and since it wasn't the screenplay that eventually got shot for the movie, Searls' book is significantly different from what movie-goers that summer were seeing in the nation's theaters.
The movie, as noted elsewhere, is essentially a mystical drama about a supernatural shark who targets the town of Amity for revenge after the shark of the first movie got blown up. There's no sub-plot: it's just one long delectable shark-rampage. Not so in Searls' novel, set two years after "the Trouble" at Amity, when the town is just trying to get back on its feat after becoming the shark attack capital of the universe. The town's selectmen – led by crass Mayor Larry Vaughan – are hoping a proposed casino will revive Amity's fortunes, although the plan's propensity to draw the 1970s' foremost land-predator – the mafia – has made the plan a sore subject for police chief Martin Brody, hero of "the Trouble" and Amity's sole Good Man.
The Mob wants a piece of the new casino, and the cash-strapped town somewhat sheepishly doesn't want to refuse. Also noted elsewhere: good mafia-writing in fiction is tough to come by – but Searls was a quintessential professional, always delivering smart, well-researched, and quietly plausible goods on time and on word count, and his main mob character here, a fat, shambling capo who's been summering on Amity for three years and enjoys a kind of wary truce with Brody, ends up being very pleasingly three-dimensional, as do most of the character in the book. Even Searls' throwaway scene-descriptions have a kind of sparse beauty:
He looked out across Amity Sound. The sun was setting on his favorite view. The Cape Cod cottages, backed to the waters, had been built in the days when marine views were unimportant, when you always faced your house to the street. The sand on the flats glowed golden, blackened behind the hillocks with speeding shadows. The golden cross on the spire of St. Xavier's, last point in town to see the sun, was getting its good-night kiss.
And throughout, Searls shows the screenplay-ready sharp, natural dialogue that made him a favorite with directors and stars in his now-forgotten heyday. When town selectman Tony Catsoulis offers Brody what might or might not be a carefully-planned bribe, the interplay is quick and rock-steady:
"You quit," Tony agreed quickly, "we'll put in Hendricks as police chief, and I'll hire you."
"As what? A night watchman?"
"Foreman, administrator, manager, you name it. As partner, when you get your general contractor's ticket."
He looked into Tony's eyes. They seemed perfectly sincere. "Thanks," he said, moved. "But I'm afraid not. No experience."
"You make $7,200 now. I'd start you at $15."
"Fifteen what?"
"Fifteen thousand. Eighteen? I don't give a damn."
Brody stared. His heart began to pump. He saw a Kenmore dishwasher, a TV they didn't have to squint at, and Mike at Yale … Well, NYU. He cleared his throat.
Tony shrugged. "You don't steal."
"Is that worth twice what I'm getting?"
"Everybody knows you don't. That's what's worth it."
The mob's presence in Amity is subtle and largely invisible – just as the shark is, this time around. The enormous, marauding beast (in the novel, it's not malevolent, just pregnant and therefore crazed by hunger into taking outlandish risks) is responsible for a good half-dozen disasters and fatalities of one kind or another, but none says "shark" but the last one, so the town (and Brody) are allowed to look the other way and hope for any other explanation in the world. The suspension of revelation is in itself a neat thrill, expertly exploited by our author.
So I recommend it, dammit! I recommend the novelization of Jaws 2, not just because it's the Harry Searls novel you're by far most likely to come across at your local Book Shack, but also in its own right, as a taut, involving novel a good many far more pretentious novelists (Benchley post-Jaws most certainly included) couldn't write if their lives depended on it. If you find a copy, buy it and read it – you'll count it an afternoon well-spent.


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We recently sent out our annual report with our goals for 2017 via email. If you did not receive a report just let us know (firstname.lastname@example.com) and we will send one to you.
We recently received an annual report from Kléber and Juracema in Mozambique. We would like to share that with you so you can join us and them praising God for His continued guidance and direction for the work there.
CHURCHES: Church buildings were completed in 3 other states in Northern Mozambique. Each month the leaders from the churches travel to Mozambique for further training and encouragement.
HOPE HOME: They now have 32 boys and 32 girls who live at Hope Home. Four have received scholarships to study at the college level this year. Now that the boy's dormitory is very close to being completed they have plans to increase the number of boys and girls at Hope Home to 48. They mentioned their gratitude to Vision 360 for providing the funds for the boy's dormitory. We will soon send $4,600.00 to put in doors, windows and electrical installations which will finish this project. Thank you for your faithfulness that made this possible. However, they will need help to maintain this many children and youth. If you would like to sponsor a child for 2017, please contact us.
They shared that 53 children/youth have lived at the home and are now out on their own with greater hope for the future and spiritual guidance for their lives. During this time at the home they not only had their physical needs met, but also learned about Jesus and what it means to follow Him.
SCHOOL: The total number of students registered to study at the school for 2017 is 1,123. Two news classrooms have been built with the funds received from registration. They now have 2 classrooms for each grade up through 7th grade. Since there is one group who studies in the morning and another in the afternoon they actually have 4 classrooms of students for each grade. Once again they had to turn away students for lack of space and teachers.
PRAY FOR RAIN! In a recent conversation with Kléber and Juracema they asked us to pray for rain. It has rained very little so far and this is supposed to be the time when the rain falls in abundance. Water for the garden at the mission and for all those in northern Mozambique are being jeopardized by the lack of rain.
GRATITUDE: Kléber and Juracema finished their report with these words: "Our greatest desire is that whatever has been accomplished in Mozambique, in the church, at the school, the children's home and Hope Mission, has been done to bring glory to Jesus. For this reason we thank the churches for their support, whether prayer or financial support and for all you have done. May God continue to renew His grace and mercy in your lives."
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JOHNSON CITY (Nov. 9, 2011) – ETSU head coach Murry Bartow announced Wednesday the signing of two guards to begin the Buccaneers' 2012-13 recruiting class. Bartow said the Buccaneers have received national letters of intent from guards Mario Stramaglia (Birmingham, Ala.) and Lorenzo "Petey" McClain (Mobile, Ala.).
"We're really pleased with these two early signings," Bartow said. "Both Mario and Petey give us very athletic guards that can help our program."
Stramaglia, a 6-foot-1 guard who is entering his senior season at Mountain Brook High School, averaged 18 points and five rebounds a game as a junior, while shooting 41 percent from 3-point range. The 1,000-point scorer has averaged double-figure scoring in each of his previous three high school seasons, and was picked to participate in the Alabama High School Athletic Association's North/South All-Star Game. He was also an All-Metro, All-Area and All-State selection last season.
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McClain, a 6-foot guard who is entering his senior season at Faith Academy, was selected to play in the 2011 Alabama all-star game as well, and has twice led his high school team to the state "Sweet 16." In his high school career, McClain has scored 1,107 points, dished out 513 assists, swiped 288 steals, and grabbed 423 rebounds. A 5A all-state honorable mention as a junior, McClain has career numbers that include a 44 percent shooting percentage and 31 percent 3-point shooting percentage.
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The following are updates on local baseball players at the minor league level.
Ryan Sherriff (Glendale Community College, 2011) starting pitcher, Palm Beach Cardinals: Plenty has gone right throughout the season for the former Glendale Angeleno, who is thriving with the St. Louis Cardinals' class-A Advanced affiliate. Sherriff, a left-hander, was selected the St. Louis Cardinals Minor League Pitcher of the Month for June.
In four June appearances, Sherriff went 3-0 with a 1.98 earned-run average and struck out 14. Sherriff went at least six innings in each of his four starts, yielding two runs or less. He became the second Palm Beach pitcher to pick up the award this season, as Seth Maness earned the accolade in April.
Sherriff (5-1) suffered his first loss Monday. He surrendered four runs (all earned) and seven hits in Palm Beach's 4-0 home loss against the Lakeland Flying Tigers. Sherriff struck out five in seven innings. He faced 29 batters, getting 16 ground outs.
Sherriff, who helped Glendale college advance to the state tournament in 2011, sports a 3.51 ERA in nine starts. He's struck out 27 and allowed 10 walks, 25 runs (22 earned) and 47 hits in 56 1/3 innings.
The Cardinals are 11-13 and in fifth place in the Florida State League's South Division.
Trevor Bell (Crescenta Valley High, 2005) starting pitcher, Salt Lake Bees: After missing nearly two months because of a right-elbow strain, Bell appeared sharper in his most recent outing Saturday. Bell, a former All-Area Baseball Player of the Year, went five innings and allowed one run and three hits in Salt Lake's 4-3 road victory against the Reno Aces on Saturday. Bell, who didn't factor into the decision, threw 44 of his 71 pitches for strikes and faced 18 batters.
The right-hander is 1-5 with a 6.46 earned-run average. In eight appearances, Bell has struck out 15 and walked 18 covering 30 2/3 innings. He's allowed 32 runs (22 earned) and 47 hits.
Salt Lake, the triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, entered Monday's game against the host Colorado Springs Sky Sox at 46-49 and in third place in the Pacific Coast League's Northern Division.
Christian Bergman (St. Francis High, 2006) starting pitcher, Modesto Nuts: The right-hander has won four starts in a row for the Nuts, a class-A advanced affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. Bergman, a former All-Area Baseball Player of the Year and a UC Irvine graduate, struck out seven and allowed four hits in seven innings to help Modesto pick up a 9-0 home victory against the San Jose Giants.
Bergman, who was scheduled to start Monday night against the host Lancaster JetHawks in a California League contest, retired the first 14 batters he faced to improve to 12-5 and lower his earned-run average to 2.91 after turning back San Jose with an 87-pitch performance. He's won eight of his last nine starts and leads the league in victories.
"He is our ace and to start the season he wasn't intended to be," Modesto Manager Lenn Sakata told the Modesto Bee. "But he keeps us in games and he heats it up when he needs to. I can't say enough about what he's done.
"He's a crafty pitcher who battles his butt off and it's not pretty sometimes. He can throw strikes with all his pitches, and that will give us a chance to win every time he goes out there."
Modesto is 14-10 and in second place in the league's North Division.
Fernando Valenzuela, Jr. (St. Francis High, 2000) designated hitter/first baseman, Leones de Yucatan: Valenzuela, who also played at Glendale Community College before transferring to UNLV, had two doubles and drove in a pair of runs Thursday to lead Leones de Yucatan to a 5-3 victory against visiting Olmecas de Tabasco in the second game of a doubleheader. Valenzuela had a two-run double in the sixth inning to give Leones a 5-2 advantage.
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Local children entering kindergarten next month will again have an opportunity to celebrate the beginning of their school years with the Kindergarten Kickoff. The fourth annual city-wide celebration is made possible through a unique partnership among the Lincoln Public Schools (LPS), the Lincoln Children's Museum, Lincoln City Libraries and the City of Lincoln.
"Kindergarten is a time of exploration, growth and learning for our children," said Susan Gourley, Superintendent of Lincoln Public Schools. "It is a time of strong partnership between teachers and parents." Gourley believes events such as the annual Kindergarten Kickoff help educate the public about the importance of this first year of school. "This city-wide occasion brings our community together – our children, families, educators and community leaders – to honor a significant milestone in student lives," said Gourley. "This moment underlines the truth that it does indeed take an entire community to support public education."
In the 2005-2006 school year, LPS broke the previous year's record with 2,700 kindergartners, the largest kindergarten class ever. "Research shows that early childhood experiences can have a positive impact on the entire life of a child," said Gourley. "Our community has great pride in its public school system. Lincoln Public Schools takes our responsibility and commitment seriously. We work hard each and every day to meet your expectations and standards for excellence."
All children registered to attend kindergarten in Lincoln this fall were mailed an invitation encouraging them to visit a Lincoln City Library, register for their very own library card and receive a free Kindergarten Kickoff tee shirt. Kindergartners wearing their tee shirts, and their family members, will be admitted free to the Children's Museum, 1420 "P" Street, for one of four scheduled celebrations (see attached schedule) from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, August 7 through Thursday, August 10. At the Lincoln Children's Museum celebrations, all incoming kindergartners will receive a free book, "The Little Engine That Could."
Community leaders, kindergarten teachers and administrators will be in attendance each night at the museum. Gourley and Mayor Coleen J. Seng have been invited to appear at each event. The Mayor has attended every Kindergarten Kickoff celebration at the Children's Museum and said she is looking forward to meeting the City's newest students.
"Kindergarten is a magical time for our children, and this celebration recognizes this big step they are taking in their lives," said Mayor Seng. "The Lincoln Public School system plays an enormous role in the high quality of life we have in this community. The top-notch education we provide for our students has always been one of the biggest drawing cards for corporations and families that are considering a move to Lincoln."
The annual Kindergarten Kickoff celebration continues to grow in popularity. The number of students attending increased from 1,012 in 2004 to 1,129 in 2005. About 4,000 people attended in 2005 compared to 3,460 in 2004.
Those wanting additional information on the Kindergarten Kickoff can call Pat Leach, Lincoln City Libraries, at 441-8565, or visit the City Library Web site at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: library).
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Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng spoke with some of the rank and file employees. They are blaming Apple's global supply chain for all the leaks:
"You've got thousands of people working on manufacturing something who have no vested interest in keeping it secret," one employee said, adding that he believes leaks will continue to increase as Apple ramps up overseas manufacturing operations. "It will be increasingly hard to hide the industrial design we do because we manufacture things overseas. Since we don't do it in the US, it's may be hard to surprise people over anything in the future."
Among those we spoke with, people who consider themselves to be "troops on the ground" (generally those at the engineering level or below) get quite worked up about product leaks. "One of the great things about Apple secrecy is presenting something to the world, and then someone goes and ruins the fun for everyone," an employee told Ars. "It's really f**king rude to everyone who's worked so hard on it."
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By now most of you have seen the infamous Verizon "map for that" attack ads against AT&T. It was only a matter of time before we heard Verizon's response to the lawsuit [Full document PDF link] that AT&T recently slapped them with and respond they did. Verizon's lawyers put their heads together to come up with the following opening line:
blockquote>AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon's "There's A Map For That" advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon's ads are true and the truth hurts.
Ouch, if you continue reading the lengthy document you will find that Verizon does not intend to remove the ads from the air unless it is forced to. They also claim AT&T agrees the map coverage is indeed accurate and before anything progresses both parties need to do some more of their own investigating into the matter.
All of this really isn't necessary, both parties should agree to carry along and spend their time doing something more productive - improving both of their respective networks.


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It's rare that I would ever wish to refer to a package as "insulting," but Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat's pricing really is offensive to the consumer. While both Deadliest Warriors: The Game and Deadliest Warrior: Legends are available on each console's respective digital storefront for $10 or its MSP equivalent apiece (that's $20 combined), the bundle instead retails for $30. It does have the DLC from each game on disc, as well as a selection of never-before-seen weapon variants for its "Legends" cast, but neither that nor the previously unreleased episodes of the Deadliest Warrior television show (ostensibly included on disc) can do much to redeem the two titles or justify their price.
It begins with the game's installation, or lack thereof. On the Xbox 360, at least, slapping in the disc and booting up the game greets the player with a black screen, only for the compilation's two component titles to mystically appear in the Games menu alongside the Ancient Combat option. From there, they may be booted up like any other downloadable game.
Perhaps the larger issue is that Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat fails to bring anything compelling to its gameplay. While there are two different games in the series on this one disc, the core structure of one-on-one melee combat is all but identical between them, offering the same array of low/middle/high attacks, close, middle, and long-ranged weaponry and short, decisive rounds marked by avatars with very low health. The battles are over quickly, perhaps evoking the PlayStation classic Bushido Blade, and limbs and heads may go flying (with generous spurts of blood to accompany them), but neither the original's warrior-versus-warrior lineup, nor the sequel's array of legendary battlefield figures, provides a cautious, unique experience. There are a few three-button combos that will rip through opponents every time, regardless of which fighter you use, and defensive options such as dodging and parrying are easy to forget against a computer that is simply not aggressive at all.
Deadliest Warrior: Legends, at least, attempts to break up the monotony of its one-note combat with "Generals" mode, which immediately brings the classic board-game of Risk to mind in both presentation and gameplay. Each turn begins with unit placement, shoring up one's forces with "reinforcements" that are influenced by the possession of grouped territories on the map and maintaining control of special, fortified tiles. Unlike Risk, however, combat between two territories is almost fully automated, with the attacker forced to commit the entirety of a garrison to an attack until it proves either successful or unsuccessful, potentially leaving an unlucky player with nothing to counter the opponent's subsequent stream of enemy forces. Further, for most of the game, the fighting engine is completely ignored. Only offenses on fortified territories, which possess a castle, culminate in a "duel" between the two armies' commanders, via a one-on-one fight. This feels like a waste of the mode's potential, which could have showcased a more unique take on the game's core fighting action, if not transforming it into an entirely different experience.
The uninspired gameplay is accompanied by mediocre graphics, which move at a good clip and adequately mimic the combat styles of the warriors the on-screen avatars are attempting to emulate. But there's always something a little off about them, as though they're actors pantomiming a fight scene from a mere description of how it was supposed to look. Strikes lack any sense of power or impact, despite following the proper arcs and having enough speed behind them. This curses everything with a certain weightless quality that carries through even into the title's decapitations and maimings, parts dropping off of the warriors as though they're plastic dolls.
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Democracy is Disdain
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Over the weekend I read Pam Karlan's Foreword in the Harvard Law Review, which is entitled "Democracy and Disdain." Like almost everything Professor Karlan writes, this paper was filled with terrific insights and makes a strong case. Nevertheless, I did come away with a significant doubt.
I would argue (indeed have argued http://www.pointoforder.com/2011/10/15/a-congressional-clerkship-program-or-how-larry-kramer-went-back-in-time-and-stole-my-idea/) that lack of congressional experience colors how judges look at the legislative process. Those whose formative legal experiences were with the executive branch do tend to be dismissive of congressional legal positions and are generally skeptical of the possibility that Congress arrived at any conclusion in a principled way. So, without having read Professor Karlan's article, I can see where she may be coming from.
The Warren court acted out of ideology rather than any love for democratically elected legislatures. The court backed congressional legislation with which it approved over law enacted by state legislatures which it did not.
Before the Roberts affirmation of Obamacare, I might have said the same thing about the Roberts court.
I don't think there's really any cure for the contempt pretty much everybody, except perhaps the members themselves, have for Congress. It's not a problem of perception, it's a problem of reality:
They're contemptible.
Take, for instance, the case of Rep. (Freezer cash) Jefferson. A search of his office turns of bribe money, and the response of his fellow Congressmen was outrage... That a Congressman's office got searched!
The problem appears to be that corruption has become so endemic in Congress that it is the norm, not the exception, and so Congress has become incapable of cleaning it's own house.
This isn't a problem better PR will ever fix. A better reputation for Congress can only result from a better Congress.
The Foreword from prof. Karlan begins with a depiction of the utmost disregard of the opposing barristers. Shame on those nine "Justices" for interruptions midsentence, as if their minds work so much more mercurially than the esteemed presenters!
Karlan believe the sixties were transformatve but the seventies saw Burger's court being defferential to what congress did in the 70s. Which congress is not willing to modernize with respect
to NAMUDNO Chief Justice Roberts' advisory to congress to fix preclearance. Lauguishing upon senate rules and lower chamber conservative lassitude trusting that no action is as good as striking down that section of the VRA, and polity being what it is, it appears a fait accomplis, now in the interim between certiorari and oral argument.
Significantly, the Mansfield rule for "two-track" filibuster was an accommodation to the Dixiecrats, who tried vainly to halt desegregation. But reactionaries of all stripe are working toward a new polity of race in the US, trying to consolidate their losses in the recent national election and morph that into a win in the next election. Hope, even pernicious hope, springs eternal.
I see a world breaking out, one that is atomized by cellphoone technology, everyone as samizdat.
But then we are confined be Justice Tony Kennedy's abjurement to hew to stare decesis. There's some casuistry on both sides of the SCOTUS bench, barristers, and Justices.
As usual, John Lopresti's comment taught me something:
which I Googled, as I was not familiar with it. It brought to mind a discussion on another thread at this Blog on the distinctions between the First Amendment's Speech Clause and the Press Clause. I had read Prof. Sonja West's 2011 article and then the later one by Prof. Eugene Volokh. Volokh's view, based upon his research of original meaning/understanding of the press, concluded that it is press as technology, not press as industry. I pointed out in one of my comments at that thread that current cell phone technology in conjunction with the Internet means that just about anyone with a modern cell phone and current apps has First Amendment press technology in his/her hands. This makes me uncomfortable, what with my concept of the role of the Fourth Estate in my 82 years. I don't have a cell phone, don't want one. But I am not a Luddite. But can the world's problems (let alone those of America) be resolved by modern day "samizdat" with opinion/views changeable in a nano second via cell phones and the Internet?
Iirc Jefferson lost his seat on the Ways and Means Committee (and this before he was convicted of anything), not a small thing for a congresscritter. But more importantly, the Congressional outrage at what they saw as an executive encroachment on their turf is kind of what the Founders hoped would go on in our system (in fact most people think the Congress has been far too supine lately in guarding its own powers).
While the approval rating of "Congress" goes down most people re-elect their Congressperson. I think saying you disapprove of "Congress" has just become some kind of shorthand for saying you don't like "government/politics" and that is a shorthand for saying "they don't do what seems like common sense to me!"
Sadly, I don't think the Robert's Court dislikes Congress per se, I think the liberals on the court dislike conservative bills Congress passes and the conservatives on the court dislike liberal bills it passes. Here's some interesting research from SCOTUSblog which seeks to measure this tendency:
The Warren Court was a product of the same political generation as the one that controlled Congress. So, it was not too surprising they agreed with them. The Roberts Court majority is more a product of the post-1970s Republican executive.
The Warren Court, however, was more "negative" about certain "democratic institutions." For instance, democratic institutions, including local elections of prosecutors and judges, didn't stop them from making major changes in state criminal justice.
Anyway, Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas all spent time in the executive department while Kennedy is a libertarian sort (his conservative leanings fairly common in that party) that is comfortable with judicial power to overrule legislative action so it is not too surprising that the majority has disdain for Congress.
As noted by the OP, the people distrust Congress too & they indirectly chose these people. Still, the democratic process has its benefits and some respect from the courts is warranted.
Anyway, as Mr. W notes, not sure if there is some consistent disdain. Karlan leans liberal, the majority leans conservative, so you know ...
To break the silence - which can be deafening at times - Linda Greenhouse's Opinionator post "Press Clips" at the NYTimes website discusses the First Amendment's Press Clause: "Do the dual references to speech and press amount to one and the same, or does the amendment place 'the press' in a special position, with rights not accorded to other speakers? The Supreme Court has never fully resolved this question." [Query: is my comment speech or press, or both?] Her post also focuses upon Scotusblog's role as "press," or not.
Out of curiosity, have Sandy and/or Jack views on the distinctions, if any, between the Speech Clause and the Press Clause expressed in their writings?
Greenhouse perpetuates the journalists' annoying conceit that THEY are "the press" referred to in the 1st amendment. When "the press" is no group of speakers at all, but instead refers to printing presses.
The 1st amendment guarantees, to all of us, freedom of speech, and freedom of the printing press. It's not conditioned on who you are, but instead, what you're doing.
If you're printing stuff, the 1st amendment protects you, whether you're the New York Times, or running off a block club newsletter.
Brett reads into the First Amendment "printing" as descriptive of the "press." But how about the "wine"* press? That was popular with some of the Founders/Framers/Ratifiers. There may have been other popular presses in use back then. Some, perhaps many, textualists/originalists take the position that the "Speech Clause" is not limited to oral utterances. So perhaps the kindergardener using printing blocks is covered by the Speech Clause and not the Press Clause.
*Brett may be a teetotaller and may not understand that the wine press produces a product conducive to speech. Of course, wine is not free under the First Amendment, whereas "whine" apparently is.
Brett put forth a quite reasonable argument but "journalists" are not the only ones who disagree as her citation of Justice Stewart (not a journalist) shows.
Legally, "the press" as an institution is not treated the same as anyone out there printing certain. Thus, there are laws protecting members of the media from testifying. An article Shag cited in the past notes the debate over where to draw the line there.
I would apply that broadly and think there probably is some constitutional security warranted there, but don't necessarily think anyone who prints a blog for ten people should get the same treatment in that respect.
At least, it's a complicated issue.
Yes, there are statutes treating journalists differently from other people. Which is quite a different thing from their having a different Constitutional status from everybody else.
If the government selectively favored Catholics over Jews in this way, it would be deemed a violation of the 1A, even if the privilege was statutory.
Are you saying the statutory or policy (as to the federal government in various cases) here is constitutional?
Also, various state courts have determined that such privileges are required by state analogues to the 1A [they aren't only pursuant to statute] and Justice Stewart et. al. would apply the principle to the federal Constitution.
On the earlier thread - now archived - I commented on Prof.Volokh's post-Prof. West article on his conclusion that based on original understanding the Press Clause was based upon press as technology and not press as business. As I noted there, and in an earlier comment on this thread, I grew up with the role of the Fourth Estate and find it difficult accepting press as merely technology. But, as Prof. West pointed out, it is difficult defining the press. And of course anyone can claim to be a journalist. Perhaps the Press Clause, like the Second Amendment, needs a boost.
Toda's NYTimes editoria "Press Freedom at Risk" focuses on the current brouhaha in England on regulating the press to lessen the risks of the likes of certain publications unlawfully invading the lives of people looking for whatever (aka Murdoch). While England may not have a written constitution, it has long recognized rights of speech and press, which Framers/Ratifiers here in her former colonies recognized in structuring the First Amendment's Speech and Press Clauses. As the editorial points out, in England the press is treated more roughly than here, especially on defamation and state secrets. Fortunately, PM Cameron has not bought into the study recommending regulation of the press.
But all this makes it clear that the press, in present day terms at least, is more than technology, as non-corporate people are involved in newsgathering, editing and other decisions, etc, prior to publication that may illuminate the public. Granted, what is published may not always be illuminating and may in fact be harmful to public interests. But here's where Thomas Jefferson comes in:
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
The press is of course today more than newspapers. While the Fourth Estate has not been perfect in America, it has worked well. Just ask politicians.
Shag might appreciate an interesting 2A case out of my neck of the woods:
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By Ibrahim
September 5, 2013
Homemade porn videos, sex toys, erotic stories and sexual connections are the features of Arabian erotica on Twitter.
Beyond their historical role in the Middle East political changes, Twitter and other social media networking sites have created a safe space for a population pulled between loyalty to culture and natural needs to express a collective wild sexuality. Up to now, a discussion about Arab sexuality is often a classical case study of orientalism: The sexually inhibited women and the lewd abusive men were once the ABCs of a course in Middle Eastern sociology.
Some Twitter posts in Arabic depict an image for the Middle Eastern culture more like Sex and the City with all the actors playing Samantha. Twitter users from the Middle East are generating an unprecedented wild sexual context in Arabic language ... But why Twitter and not another social media networking site like Facebook, for example? The answer might be because Twitter provides a well-developed Arabic interface language, and it offers better privacy guarantees for users to protect their real identity when it comes to a third party (this could be a hilarious joke in the U.S. where every key stroke is shared with President Obama).
On Twitter, stories about the "harems" who are beaten by men seem like stupid jokes, which only Marco Rubio might tell. The real stories on Twitter are told by the "Aunts" a title for a large number of female Twitter users who enjoy treating men like dogs. I followed one A'ma [aunt, a singular for A'mat] with a user name of "Ama N***h"; she happened to have a large number of followers. When she tweeted "Where are my dogs," hundreds of male users who follow her responded shortly by tweeting lots of "woofs." A user by the name of "**** dog" took some time to respond; he tweeted "I arrived late my aunt, woof woof, woof woof, woof woof, woof woof, I must be punished by my aunt, a punishment that humiliates me and insults me."
One could argue that this is no more than a group of women and men who enjoy BDSM; however, the number of Twitter users who engage in this form of aunt-dog relationship is relatively high among Arab Twitter users in the Middle East, which could mark a phenomenon.
Most male users who enjoy being Twitter dogs and most female users who enjoy being Twitter aunts are based in conservative regions such as Kuwait, Dubai or Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Consequently, one may argue they are tired of the strict distribution of traditional roles, and might have developed a sexual frustration and a desire to reverse the roles behind the closed doors or behind Twitter's anonymous accounts.
Twitter also proves that Saudi Arabia is truly "the Kingdom in the closet." Some Saudi women use Twitter to shop sex toys from Twitter users who offer a secure way to purchase all types of whips and other wild sex toys. They shop sex toys and order porn movies as if they were buying makeup.
Perhaps the group that benefits most from the safe zone of Twitter is the LGBT community in the Middle East who use Twitter for dating, connecting and sharing posts or images that express wild sexiness. Hashtags with Arabic keywords about having a boner or being horny float over Twitter embedded in posts with information about location and sexual preference, and an image of the Middle Eastern man's pride -- the X Large Dick. These tweets allow different groups and different users to connect and follow each other creating larger circles of men-with-men sex groups.
In a region where most people blush if they hear the word "sex" in public, sexual education is finding its way through Twitter. Many doctors and NGOs offer consultations in Arabic about sexual health on Twitter to fill a space caused by the lack of proper sexual education in most Arab countries. Whether it is a question about gonorrhea or HIV, several health providers have Twitter profiles to answer questions by Arab men and women who would not dare to ask similar questions in public. Twitter also provides a platform for HIV patients in the Arab world to share and discuss issues related to their life as "persons living with AIDS" as they are described in the Arab world. I was so happy to read posts by HIV+ persons that demonstrate how Twitter can give them a chance to participate with no fear of stigma. Notably, Twitter allows HIV+ persons to connect with each other. For example, I followed a Poz from UAE when he connected with a Poz from Saudi Arabia, and I read their posts exchanging news and supporting each other. I also followed another Poz man from Saudi Arabia as he was looking for an HIV+ woman to marry; he connected with a Kuwaiti Poz woman, and later, they switched to private messaging, so I guess it is going well.
The spiritual tone of the Twitter posts by Poz users is amazing and inspiring; their tweets express a strong connection to faith. Some of their tweets called upon their community not to judge them harshly and to remember that the core of Islam is Mercy: "If you can't accept us, at least act as true Muslims and have mercy upon us," one Twitter user with HIV writes.
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Opinion: Just Say Non to Iran
Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on how France saved the U.S. from a misguided nuclear deal with Tehran--for now. Photo: Getty Images
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I ... I ... I ... opinion Journal half the batter instead I'm Mary Kissel ... the State John Kerry's efforts to forge a nuclear deal with Iran ... fell apart this weekend thanks mostly to ... the French ... I've got editorial page editor Paul GBO here to talk about it all ... cited an editorial saying Viva la France on the top of aren't article page with an editorial page editor with a name like to go on to praise the French lesson on Apple I guess I guess it doesn't happen once in a blue moon I ... might get one IRA prisoner France's briefing ... well they they seem to have ... essentially said the West must drive a harder bargain ... with the ringing sound in particular ... so before we sanctions we have to have ... more from the rain Aeon's ... I in terms of ... reducing the number of centrifuges ... dismantling their plutonium project adds that Iraq says plutonium can be used to make a nuclear weapon as we learned ... North Korea ... as well as the reduction in their ability to enrich uranium which is the other ... nuclear programme it happen ... but there's a debate about just how much they be able to hold its stockpiles of topped with fresh whole they should be able to reach ... the point is ... the French want more than the Americans or the British did ... apparently from the reporting that we have done another served up ... John Kerry said something odd today he's so we're all United in the last two was a man who walked away a ... great which does not comports with the reporting over the week ... why do we carry try to do a deal to allow Tehran to keep some to taper ... well ... look I'm ... going to scare ... the British are also on board here ... foreign Secretary Pedro and for the British was of was a real supporter of this ... I think they feel that so withdraw money coming and as the president of Iraq this is the word Iran this is a historic moment ... in the one and they feel that this stage process ... of an interim report where we ... give them some money to ease sanctions returns for some ... good will gestures on the rain Aeon's Park ... is a way of creating a process that builds trust in overtime will be to a ... much more of a final deal may hope dismantling of the program ... my problem with ideas that were trading ... actual easing of sanctions for promises ... editoral also talked about present Obama is plain that ... if this doesn't go well don't worry we can still crank that sanctions seek and you argue that that's can be politically difficult to do what they did miss reads the what happens in these kinds of deals because once you start the process of unraveling ... sanctions which were member with theory very difficult to put together in the first place over many years ... what you start dismantling the ... US ... it isn't as if you can say All wealthier rains we have some evidence that the rain Aeon's are reneging on their part of the bargain ... order to re impose sanctions ... now with the with the way the article growing ... American and Western councils will be don't know ... if you do that ... they'll start enriching again no fraud are inspectors ... that kind of thing you saw with North Korea ... a couple of times in the last twenty years ... so I think that's not a realistic ... analysis of how the debate with going one shoe on rabble start to unravel the the the sentence ... he keeps going well in the Sonoran evil fronts ... thank goodness for parents ...


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You might have seen Poppy Clementine over on our Children's Gift Guide, but we are thrilled to officially announce this great addition! Poppy Clementine is a baby and children's boutique featuring some of the best designers from America, Europe, and Australia. Check them out for hip, modern children's clothing, toys, gear, etc!
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We love this Navy and White Crib Set! It has a nautical look to it that we are seeing a lot of these days! The throw pillows are a great accessory (not just for the children's room!).
These bright and colorful children's outfits are fun for summer cookouts and parties! We love their sundresses – perfect for the outdoors! Check out Poppy Clementine for more!


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A 25,000-square-foot historic compound in Laguna Beach, Calif., will be auctioned off tomorrow, with a starting bid of $10.5 million.
The property, known as Villa Rockledge, was built by famed California developer Frank Miller in 1918 and later restored by Roger and Sherill Jones in 1973. It has been on and off the market, listed as high as $34.5 million.
The huge compound is composed of a giant 5,000-square-foot house which has 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, as well as six surrounding villas. Altogether the compound has 12 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, access to its own private beach, and parking for 12 cars.


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wp wrote:Keffria: I've found out some crappy stuff Viz has done with Naruto.
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu becomes Art of the Doppleganger. Why can't they just say "Technique: Shadow Clone" like it's supposed to be? Byakugan (literally "white eyes") becomes "evil eye" even though "eye of sight" is a more accurate representation of what it actually does. Gaton: Goukyaku
no Jutsu (I think it means Technique: Great Fireball or Dragon Breath, I forget) becomes "blaze of glory."
Geez, who decides on these horrible localizations? Do they think it sounds cooler?
I've noticed that too. In Shonen Jump, they changed Roronoa Zoro to Roronoa Zolo, so it matches the anime version (which sucks, to keep flaying a dead horse), and then I just picked one of the newer Ranma books, and the Shiryu Shouten Ha, which was at first translated as "Heaven Blast of the Dragon" is now "Heavenly Dragon Acension Wave", and the Happo-Daikarin, which was at first the "Happo-fire Burst" is now the "Ring of Fire". Changing techniques' names around like that is so NOT cool, even if the latter names are closer to the original meaning. They have some wrong people doing the wrong things in the wrong department, if you ask me.


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The Brain Cube
A true brain twister.
- The ultimate brain-bending puzzle cube. Get it?
- Made of Kraton, for a sort of squishy brain feel.
- Comes in neato glass display jar.
Puzzle cubes are a great way to challenge your brain. But what if you took it a step further? What if you made the brain challenge out of a brain - the puzzle cube out of a brain? Well that's what we did, and we call it The Brain Cube.
The Brain Cube is very simply a puzzle cube made out of Kraton, a squishy, brain-like material. The goal is to match all the folds. It's quite tricky, because it's not as easily to spot what goes where (i.e., all red bits go on one side, all blue on another, etc.). You really need to use your brain! Also, it comes in a glass jar with packaging that makes it look like the brain is floating. Because that's what brains do in jars. The Brain Cube is ready to challenge your mind and look awesome sitting on your desk.
The Brain Cube
- A puzzle cube that looks and feels like a brain.
- Line up the folds to solve the puzzle.
- Made of Kraton, a squishy brain-like material.
- Comes in a glass display jar, like brains should, with a neat packaging feature to make it look like the Brain Cube is floating.
- Dimensions:
- Jar: approx. 4.25" x 4.25" x 5.5"
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Reminiscent of the blazing afro sounds you hear on humid Lagos nights; come and encounter the ultimate pan-African experience and dance the night away at our soul'd out party.
As featured on Channel 4's LagosToLondon, Lagos Saturdays promises a night of good vibes, great music and non-stop dancing.
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Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is home to one of Ireland's foremost collections of modern and contemporary art. This book, published in celebration of the opening of the newly extended Gallery, presents 120 of the most outstanding works in the collection. Beautifully reproduced and accompanied by engaging and informative commentaries, they form an impressive chronology of Irish and international art from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Outstanding paintings and sculptures by such Impressionist and Barbizon artists as Camille Corot, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas are explored alongside those of their Irish counterparts Walter Osborne, Frank O'Meara and John Lavery. Continuing into the twentieth century, major works by Maurice de Vlaminck, Henry Moore, Philip Guston and Ellsworth Kelly accompany such Irish masterpieces as the nationalist-inspired canvases of Sean Keating and Maurice McGonigal, and the Modernist works of Jack B. Yeats and Mainie Jellett.
The presence of works by important contemporary Irish artists including Elizabeth Magill, Seán Shanahan and Brian Maguire illustrates the continuing evolution of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane's collection, and the recently donated prestigious paintings by Francis Bacon and Sean Scully are particular highlights of this unique and indispensable reference.


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A new website ingeniously called Fake Internet Girlfriend would like to kindly take $250 of your hard-earned money to make it seem like you have a girlfriend online for one month, kthnxbai. FIG will leave sappy messages on your Facebook wall; send messages to you via Twitter; and even join in on your gaming community, if that's your bag. Oh, and they'll also make two "public" phone calls to you to really drive the sham home. (IE, They'll leave a message with your secretary or assistant.) But when the company holiday party rolls around, better get your excuses ready. Fake Girlfriend does not equal Actress. (Or, you know, Real Girlfriend.)
What could possibly go wrong here?
First off, I just want to say that if someone is really, really desperate to make it seem like they have a girlfriend on the internetz, they don't have to pay around $300 for it. In fact, they could probably do it all for free. Simply set up a fake Facebook profile, Catfish-style; and a bogus Twitter to boot. And voila! Suddenly, you're "in a relationship". (I'm not quite sure how the texting/public phone call thing would work, but I'm just spitballing here.)
And second off -- I think this is a sign that we're spending way too much time online! Perhaps the reason a person looking for a fake girlfriend doesn't have a girlfriend IRL is because they're on Facebook and Twitter too much. Who cares if the virtual world thinks you're in a relationship? What matters most is that you're actually happy in the real, tangible world. You know, the one you're going to die in. (Not trying to be morbid here, just want to drive the message home.) Instead of spending $250 for this silly service, spend that money on a night out on the town, trying to meet someone the old fashioned way: In person.
Or, you know, just create your own fake Facebook page. Chef's choice.
What do you think of Fake Internet Girlfriend?
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LouellaB needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 150 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
We are a computer training, consulting business that has been running for 13 years and need to change our name, hence we need a new logo.
G-CATS Geelong Computer and Training Services
We need a logo for the rebranding of the business, we do everything associated with computers and offer computer training services.
Our existing website is http://www.burmeistersystems.com.au. which is simple but shows exactly what we are about.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Gilberto Nobili is an IT guy, but he doesn't sit in an office like other information technology workers. His workspace skims across San Francisco Bay at 50 miles per hour.
The Java developer and Oracle Team USA crew member is using personal electronics like smartphones and tablets to give his side a high-tech edge in the upcoming America's Cup regatta between the most advanced sailboats ever built.
The tech-savvy 6-foot 3 inch Italian is one of Oracle's muscular grinders. A grinder uses brute strength and athletic conditioning to crank handles furiously on winches that precisely control the tall "wing" sails and other adjustable parts of these complex 72-foot catamarans.
The boats are designed to lift out of the water at high speed and hydrofoil on the dagger boards, which are raised and lowered from each hull.
"We're still testing stuff, deciding which is the faster board and the faster sail. As sailors, we go by feeling but we also need numbers. The final call about what is fastest comes from the numbers," said Nobili, who put his engineering studies on hold 13 years ago for a chance to sail professionally.
After Swedish challenger Artemis Racing suffered a fatal accident in May when its catamaran broke apart and flipped, a top priority for Cup participants has been to strike the best balance between speed and stability. Onboard electronics play a key part.
Advances in technology, including computational fluid dynamics and the ability to process growing amounts of data, have given boat designers advantages they could have only dreamed of in past America's Cups.
Races are set to start in early July to choose which of three teams challenge previous winner Oracle, backed by software billionaire Larry Ellison. Final matches are in September.
Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill depends on real-time information from Nobili and others to optimize the performance of the boats, referred to as AC72s, which many experts believe are too hard to maneuver in San Francisco Bay's heavy winds and rip currents.
Since the Oracle team won the 2010 Cup in Valencia, Spain, it got to call most of the shots for this year's regatta, like its location in San Francisco Bay.
Oracle also created the basic specifications for the AC72s being used in the regatta. Teams do have leeway to use their own technology to customize the boats, estimated to cost about $8 million each.
Challengers Artemis Racing, Italy's Luna Rossa Challenge and Emirates Team New Zealand also use more data and electronics than ever, but on Ellison's team, top technology is a point of pride.
Each AC72 is covered in hundreds of sensors measuring pressure from wind, water and the hydraulics used to control its sails, dagger boards and rudders.
Fiber-optic cables built into the hull and other parts of the boat minutely measure how much different sections flex due to water pressure.
All of that is fed into an onboard computer custom-built with an Intel Atom chip. That computer crunches data and then sends out information to more than 30 Android mobile devices on board, including smartphones strapped to each sailor's arm and tablets strategically placed near winches and other boat controls.
Working with Java, the widely used programming language owned by Oracle, Nobili has customized the team's smartphones and tablets to display different sets of data to help each crew member do his specific job. And out on the bay, he hears about it whenever a teammate's phone or tablet stops working.
He has disabled touch control on the team's smartphones and tablets because splashes from the bay kept being misread as finger touches.
After using Microsoft Windows handheld devices in the 2010 Cup, which Nobili said did not stand up well to the elements, he switched to Android.
"The combination of Android and Java gives me a lot of freedom. I can write code but I'm not limited to any one piece of hardware. I can swap phones whenever I find a new one," said Nobili, one of Oracle's international crew from Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada, Holland, England and the United states.
The team has been using Sony Ericsson smartphones and South Korea's Pantech tablets, devices Nobili describes as tough, but unsophisticated compared with the latest offerings from Samsung Electronics and Apple. Team sponsor TAG Heuer recently sent over Racer Sub Nano luxury smartphones although crew members have yet to adopt them.
"Water resistance, quality of display in the sun, and battery life," Nobili said, describing what he looks for in mobile devices.
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L. A. Cook & Co. was located on the corner of Main and Federal Streets. The business is listed in the 1885 business directory, but not the 1880. Although this card shows women's fashion, by 1902 it seems that they are focusing on men's clothing, and by 1905, men's, boy's and children's clothing are all that are advertised. This trade card is printed in vibrant colors and advertises one of the "Nobbiest" or most fashionable line of goods.
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